The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1926, Page 5

| Service into an inspiring meeting of a/ RAS BL THEABAILY WORKER : 7 as DEBS MEETING GIVES PORTERS FIGHTING URGE “Company Union Must Go,” Is Slogan By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—‘The com- Pany union must go!” These words, repeated by every speaker at the Eu- gene V. Debs Memorial meeting, held by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in St. Luke’s hall, turned the — fighting labor union,—as Gene Debs A himself would have wished it, Tributes to the great friend of the Nogro race and the leader of thous- + ands of American workers were min- gled with attacks upon the vieious “employee representation plan” of the Pullman Company, and in his name the hundreds of Pullman porters pres- ent were urged to refuse to vote in the ‘Plan’ elections and so,abolish it. Panken Speaks. “Debs would say to us, ‘ Don’t |mourn! Be heartened!” declared Judge Jacob Panken, socialist candidate for governor of New York, in a stirring tribute. “He has gone to meet the souls of the world’s greatest thinkers and martyrs—he is with John Brown, with Garrison, with Karl Marx,” Judge Panken denounced the com- pany union is “an agent of the bosses, designed to serve their purposes and to fool the workers.” -Randolph Back. The Brotherhood welcomed its gen- eral organizer, A. Philip Randolph, af- ter an absence of several weeks on @ speaker tour of the west. It was Or- ganizer Randolph who officially de- ;clared war on the Employee Repre- |Sentation Plan. “You can’t be a good ‘Brotherhood man and vote: for the ‘plan,’” he declared. “The ideals of the Brothehrhood are opposed abso- lutely to the ideals of the company lunion, The Brotherhood is the only ‘refuge of the Pullman Porter. This ‘is a fighting organization, and we | must fight to destroy that octopus, the | employee representative plan,” Tells A. C. W. Fight, Joseph Schlossberg, secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, spoke of the fight of that organization for better_conditions. He too, con- demned the company union and ad- vised the porters to give it a death’ ‘blow. “The captains if industry have thought they would arrange a better labor union for you than you could arrange for yourselves, and so they have, except that it-is better for the company and worse for you,” he said. “Remember that anything that is handed down to you from above can be taken away from you. Your em- ployers respect but one thing and that thing is power. If you show your power you can gain your own union and all your demands.” Get $10,000 in Je NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 5.—Four bandits today looted the jewelry store ot Cohen Brothers in Brooklyn and escaped with $10,000 worth of jewelry. Two employes, James O'Neil, manag- er, and Henry Bailey, clerk, were held up, bound and gagged. 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY CONTE 0 JANUARY 13 1927 First, “Left Wing Unionism” by information, new writers, workers’ magazine, PRIZES TO BE OFFERED NEXT WEEK. Three very splendid prizes will be given for stories sent in by worker eorrespondents between now and next Thursday that are considered the best examples of worker cokrespondence of the week. stories, workers Here are the prizes: lam Z. Foster advises every trade union rebel to read for ite valuable Second, “Flying Osip,” short stories by nine of Russia's. leading Third, The. Workers Monthly, a six-months’ subscription to the best Send in those D. J. Saposs. A new book that Will- Bishop Brown Gets Ideas Published in \ Capitalistic Press By L. P. RINDAL, | (Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, Noy. 5.—A report jto the Los Angeles Evening World |from Gallion, Qhio, reads, in part, as | follows: 2 |. “The prize, if such there be, for mental vigor,-energy and courage to |persist in the face of adverse criti- |cism for men: who have passed the three score and ten mark, should be awarded to. Bishop Mohtgomery Brown, gray-haired ‘heretic,’ who. cel- ebrated his 71st birthday this month by announcing that he ‘wanted to be tried for something.’ Prosecution Lengthens Life. “I do not, suppose it makes much difference for what i am tried, but I want to be tried for something,’ he said. ‘I was almost dead when the Protestant Episcopal Church brought me to trial for heresy, and look at me now, I have lived more in the past five years than I did in the pre- vious 65. If I could only manage to be brought to trial for my Communism I think I might live to be as old as Methusaleh.’” Communists Without Knowing It. The bishop, in his mild-mannered ways, pointed out that Communism is as natural as evolution, sunrise, sum- mer and winter. His views on war, heresy, jails, police and crimes, etc., were all drawn into the discussion, and so was the case with the present system of capitalist government. | Brown “liked to do something” to change the “minds of the people and overthrow the obsolete methods now in use.” Therefore he wants a “trial for my Communism” in order to prove that Americans are Communists with- out knowing it. “Do you suppose that I could get ‘myself tried for pushing the govern- ment over?” asked America’s for’ most “heretic.” Bishop Brown’s ideas are not news to readers of The DAILY WORKER, but there is encouragement in know- ing that reading of this kind gets into the hands of people less informed. MARX ON PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP Between the capitalist and the Communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transfor- mation of the one into the other. Accordingly there will be a politi- “eal transition period whose state cannot be other than the revolution- ary dictatorship of the proletariat. (Gotha Programme.) KARL MARX. Denver Assembly to Sponsor Showing of | “The Passaic Strike” (By a Worker Correspondent.) DENVER, Colo., Noy. 6.—At the last | meeting of the Denver Trades and La-| bor Assembly, “Mother” Bloor, repre- | senting the textfle strikers of Pas-| saic, was given the floor for a short | talk. She gave a short historical sketch | of the Passaic strike and said that in | order for the struggle to be carried | on, the union people thruout the coun- try must furnish the funds, One of the big things she is do- ing is arranging to have the film of the Passaic strike shown thruout the country to the trade unionists and their friends. At the conclusion of her remarks the delegates applauded her very enthusiastically and voted to have the film shown under the’ aus-| pices of the Denver Trades Assembly. A committee of five members was elected to take charge of having the picture shown in the near future. | “Mother” Bloor has been Speaking be- | fore a number of the larger unions of Denver during the past week in the interest of the Passaic strikers and has been received everywhere with great enthusiasm. : San Quentin Prisoner Talks Before Branch of I. L. D. in Angeles By GRAY STONE. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5.—A number } of comrades of the Tom Moéney branch of the International Labor De- fense held an enthusiastic meeting last Monday. Decision was reached to reorganize the branch and begin &® membership drive to add new-blood and spirit to this branch, An open meeting for sympathizers and all interested in the I, L. D, work will be held Thursday evening, Nov. 11, at the Needle Trades Hall, 224 South Spring street. Fellow Worker P. Mellman, who has just completed |his three and a half year term at San Quentin “under the criminal syndical- ist law, will speak at this meeting on “Conditions in San Quentin.” Mell- man has also signed his application to this branch of the I. L. D. and is very enthusiastic about the work. The regular order of business has been worked out by the committee in charge and will be presented for ap- proval at the meeting. Let every Eng- lish-speaking worker attend this meet- ing and thereby help our comrades in the jail. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use POLICE,PROTECT SCABSIN STRIKE OF BOX WORKERS Pickets Atrested in New York Fight NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Three auto- mobiles followed scab paper box de- livery wagons up Broadway and Sixth avenue yesterday afternoon, calling the attention of passersby to the cops riding on each wagon protecting the property of the employers. Signs displayed from the picketing cars read: “Note police protection for property. The~box workers demand equal protection for life.” “See the strikebreaker on the wagon, breaks standards. He is protected. Striking box wokers raise standards. They are beaten!” lice prevent every effort to unionize the strikebreakers.” “The police pro- tect property. How about the work- ers’ standards?” Pickets Arrested, A crowd gathered at every crossing where the delfvefy wagons and pick- eting automobilés were held up by the traffic. All went well until one of the cars entered the paper box dis- trict on Wooster street, when the pick- ets in the car were promptly arrested by the police and taken to the Mercer street police station, charged with dis- orderly conduct, Workers Released. Four cases were dismissed by Judge George W. Simpson in the first magis- trate’s court. Josephine Chieves, Law- rence Zito and Fanny Trupin had been arrested on charges of disorderly con- duct while picketing on Wooster street. Louis Felici had been framed up on a burglary charge and released jon $5,000 bail. Wiliam Karlin, attor- ney for/the union, appeared in their behalf and obtained their uncondi- tional release, Boss Arrested, Too. In another case a boss, as well as a worker, was involved. Mr. Stanley of the Maryland Paper Box Co., 146 Avenue D, assaulted Paul Deitch, a striker, early yésterday morning and cut his right hand so badly with a stiletto knife that five stitches had to be taken in it. Both were arrested and taken to the Fifth street police station, the picket being charged with attempted assaul}.and the boss with felonious assault. and carrying dan- gerous weapons, namely the stilletto and a revolver. Because the cop in-| sisted on pressifig’ charges against the | boss the judge dismissed both cases. Gleb-Fined. Three girl wé¥8 arrested in Brook- lyn for violating.the injunction which the Specialty Paper Box Co. has against the unions. The girls were dis- tributing circulaétein front of the shop. Two of them were dismissed and the third fined $10. The most influeiitial shop in Brook- lyn settled with the union, the Model Paper Box Co., 330 gMilrose street. This makes twenty shops that have settled since the strike began. Government Surplus Mounts, Tax Cut Is Predicted by Madden A tax slash of from $300,000,000 te $400,000,000 governing 1927 incomes and effective in-1298 was predicted here today by Representative Mad- ft. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s ses den, republican, chairman of the house appropriations committee. He | “Watch the po- | | | death, | IL, D. DEBS MEET IN LOS ANGELES ON NOVEMBER 12 S. P. Attempts to Hurt Other Groups LOS ANGELES, Noy. 6—-The In- South Broadway. Robert G. Whitta- ker will preside, Prominent labor speakers are scheduled to speak, Local I. L, D, had originally planned to arrange a Debs memorial meeting together with the socialist party of Los Angeles. For this purpose a com- mittee was appointed to call upon this organization and present the request for joint auspices, On Monday noon our committee ‘vis- ited the Forward office, where a meet- ing of the arrangements committee for the socialist party was taking Place. There our delegates learned that the Debs memorial meeting was already scheduled, by the socialists, for November 14, S. P. Would Hurt Icor. A delegation from the Icor had also called on this committee with the plea to postpone the Debs memorial meeting for another date, in view of the fact ‘that their organization has been working for the past three months arranging a concert that will raise money to purchase tractors for the Jewish colonies in Russia. This affair has been long scheduled for No- vember 14, the same date now sched- uled by the socialists for the Debs memorial meeting. -In spite of the earnest pleas by the Icor delegates to change the date for the Debs meeting so as not to bring to naught all the efforts and money spent by the Icor for their concert, the committee has flatly refused, altho admitting that with the exception of paying a de- posit on the hall they have not yet begun to advertise their meeting. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Leav- itt, had suggested to the Icor dele- gates with a cynical sneer that their organization can easily postpone the concert for another date. 1. L, D, Withdraws, The I, L, D, committee had then is- sued a statement that {t withdraws jits request for joint arrangement of |the Debs meeting with the socialists, as it will not participate in the crime of consciously injurying a workers’ or- ganization that had spent energy and money to arrange a benefit for a worthy cause, Get Clear Date. In the opinion of the committee, it [is much easier for the socialists to postpone for another date the Debs memorial meeting than for the Icor to postpone their concert. The 1. u. D. will endeavor to arrange a Debs | memorial meeting under a date that will not do injury to any organization and where all the elements that loved | | Debs and cherish his memory will be able to gather and honor him upon his Joliet Inmates Fight, Prisoner Near Death JOLIET, Ul., Nov. 5.—Adam Klein is believed to be dying in the prison hospital ffom a fractured skull fol lowing an altercation over a paint brush with Ernest Wilcox, another convict here today. “So this is Mr. Ross!” Page Five ANEW NOVEL Upon Sinclair (Wopyrigat, 193, by Upton Sinciair) Her “‘speakie” was a queer little high ternational Labor Defense, Local Los |treble. ‘Papa has told me so much about you!” (Papa was Mr. Angeles, ie arranging a big Debs Roscoe.) “I’m so glad to have you here, and do make yourself memorial meeting Friday, November {at home. Do whatever you please, for this is liberty hall.” Bunny 12, 8 p; m., at the Music Art Hall, 233 | recalled the caption—but was it from “Hearts of Steel,” or from “Phe Maid of the Manor?” : “And here is Harve,” the mistress of the manor was saying “Oh, Harve, come here, this is Bunny Ross; Harvey Manning. It’s the first time Mr. Ross has been here, and please be nice to him so he’ll come back, He’s going to college-and reads a lot and knows everything, and we're to seem so ignorant and frivol- ous!” Harvey Manning was coming in through one of the French windows which took the place of the stations of the cross in this pace; cathedral. he talked slowly also, a dry sort of drawl—having never He was walking slowly, and did not increase his had to hurry, because he came of one of the old families of the state. He ‘had. a queer, ugly face, with a great many wrinkles, and Bunny never was clear whether he was old or young. “Hello, Ross,” he said, “pleased-to-meecher. I got an uncl ethat’s spend- ing a hundred thousand dollars to put you in jail.” “Ts that so?” said Bunny, a trifle startled. “Sure thing! the pinks are worse than the reds, he says. about He’s nuts on this red-hunting business, and I've been, worried you.” “Never mind,” said Bunny, perceiving that this was a “josh,” such as helps to make life tolerable for idle men, young and old. “Dad will spend two hundred thousand and get me out again.” “Come to think of it, I guess Verne would chip in—wouldn’t he, Annabelle?” “None of my guests ever stay in jail,” replied the star, “They phone to Papa and he phones to the chief of police, who lets them out right away.” She said this without smiling; and Harvey Manning remark- ed, “You see, Ross, Annabelle has a literal mind.” Iv Yes, that was the truth about this bright luminary of the screen, as Bunny came ‘to observe it; she had a literal mind. All the poetry and romance the public imagined about her—that wags in the public’s eye, so to say. All that Annabelle had to con- tribute was 'a youthful figure and a pliable face; the highly paid directors did the rest. She produced pictures as a matter of busi- ness, and her talk was of production costs, and percentages on foreign sales, just as if it had been an oil well. That was why she got along with Vernon Roscoe, who also had a literal, mind. A primrose by the river’s brim a yellow primrose was to him, and to Annabelle it was a decoration for an interior,” or a back- ground on “location.” There was a certain grim honesty about this, as Bunny dis- covered ;it' was Annabelle’s desire to be an actress rather than a mistress. “By Jees,” Verne would proclaim to* his guests, “it’s cost me eight million dollars to make a movie queen out of this baby.” And the thrity year old baby had the dream that some day she would achieve a masterpiece,.that would earn this eight million and vindicate her honor. Meantime, she paid installments by taking care of Verne—so publicly that it was quite touching, and rei specta) the oil means Hee according to the strictest bourgeois standards. If @ver had the idea that in taking to his bosom a movie star he was going to lead a wild and roystering life, he had ma@#@ a! for he was the most hen-pecked of all “putter and egg men.” “Now, Papa,” Annabelle would say, “you’ve had enough to drink. Put that down.” sembled in would “Well, you stop before you start tonight. She would say it before a company as- hye gjaddest rags for a dinner party; and Verne “My God, baby, I ain’t got started yet!” prote: Remember what Doctor Wilkins says about your liver.” Verne would bluster, “To hell with livers!” and the answer would got to be, “Now, Papa, you told me to make you obey! Have I make you ashamed before all this company?” “Well, Papa, you know you'll be ashamed if I tell what you said to me the last time you were drunk,” J Verne paused, with his glass half way in the-air, trying to remember; and the company burst into clamor, “‘Oh, tell us! Tell us!” (To be continued.) STRIKE STRATEGY By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER ARTICLE VIII OrGanizine THE Unorcanizmp HE most fundamental phases of our strike strategy re- late to the mass of workers now unorganized. Great battles will be waged by these workers in the future, as a vesult of and in the process of which they will be mobilized into labor unions. This will have the most profound ef- fects upon the trade union movement. It will proletarian- ize and revolutionize it. It will shift its leadership rad- ically to the left, It will transfer ‘the center of gravity of the movement from the skilled trades and light indus- tries to the-unskilled and semi-skilled in the key and basic industries. Hence the whole question of the organization of the unorganized is of the most vital concern in the development of our strike strategy.** The left wing must consciously and aggressively take up the task of organizing the unorganized, which is the major work now confronting the labor movement. There is no other group in the unions other than the left wing that has the understanding and initiative to do this basic work. The right wing, which represents the interests of the skilled workers, is opposed. to the organizing of the unorganized unskilled masses, and the so-called “progres- sives,” although they do lip service to the necessity of or- wanization, are too spineless and wavering to really do any- thing about it except under the general leadership and Stimulus of the militant left wing. A Forerunner or Barriz The lett wing must carry on this work in the keenest * yealization that organizing campaigns are the preliminary | phases of strikes, Such campaigns in American industry under present ¢onditiong are not only in themselves more “tin “Organize the Unorganized,” published by any suacan gag-areviors eonnsote win tae tctustenton en te ® 4 t “ the organization dey Ao. ad Ae: e of the or less open fights against the employers, but they are also efforts of the workers to mobilize their forces and to secure advantageous strategic positions for the bigger strike bat- tles that loom certainly ahead. Employers in the big industries will not permit their workers to peacefully organize and then negotiate trade union agreements. They will and do fight all along the line, against the organization of the unions, and against conceding their demands. Hence, when the left wing em- barks on organization campaigns in the big" industries, whether under the auspices of the A. F. of L. or independent unions, it must carry on its organization work as part of: its strike strategy based on the strikes that are just ahead. How anp Wuen vo Srruxe ; Before going into a major organizing campaign, whielx means, if it is successful, an eventual hard-fought strike, the left wing strategists must first make a careful survey of (1) the state of the industry, () the strength and dis- position of the enemy’s forces, and (3) the general political situation. In short, they have to make a complete Marxian analysis of the whole problem. This is fundamental. It has to do with the vital strategical questions of how to hit the enemy at his’ weakest point, and at the time when he i: least able to stand the blow. 5 (1) It is of real importance to the success of striked that they be waged at periods of the greatest industrial ac- tivity. This means that we must always know accurately the state of production and the prospects for the immedi- ate future, It is the policy of the employers, when they foresee unavoidable strikes, to force them to take place in the slack seasons. Their policy in this respect is embodied in the agreement in the bituminous coal fields, which the employers have arranged to end in April, when the demand for coal is light and when they can best stand a strike. By the same token, the employers try to force premature strikes in organizing campaigns during slack periods by terrorizing and discharging their workers. : The left wing strike strategists must know how to deteat such tactics and to make strikes occur in the buggy)” seasons. They must learn how to speed their o1 izing campaigns, by the adoption of drastic measures of stimulation, When this is necessary to catch the busy 4 son; or to slow themgdown in order to avoid the struggle at an inopportune time. Often the latter policy demands the greatest courage from the leaders and ‘the greatest sacrifices from the workers who are harrassed and victim- ized by the employers. But the left wing strategists must try to carry it through. They must avoid fighting at the inopportune time. In this they cannot always succeed. Often the employers, in spite of all, will foree the workers intoxuntimely struggles. (2) The workers must know exactly with whom they are fighting. This involves a close study of the employers’ organizations, including the degree of trustification, of the given industry, the relation of the’various companies to , each other and to outside combinations, the financial con- dition of the companies, etc. This study will enable the working class strike strategists to gauge the strength of the enemy, to know where and when is the best place to hit him, and to learn, in the course of a strike, whether he is being seriously weakened or not. In organizing campaigns and strikes the workers must carry out many flank attacks against the big capitalist combinations ofthe industry by the organization of the independents, ete., but they must also know when and how to deliver the real thrust at the heart of the opposition. The employers are careful to protect themselves against such deadly thrusts by splitting up the workers’ army and making it waste its forces in isolated engagements, a policy in which they are helped by the craft and localist concep- tions of the reagtionary craft union leaders, Conserving Lasor’s Forces In the steel campaign of 1918-19, for example, the Cambria Steel Company, working no doubt in close under- standing with the United States Steel Corporation, tried to force a strike in its big Johnstown plants by ruthlessly discharging some 3,000 of its workers for belonging to the unions. The workers, 22,000 strong, under local leadership (which later proved to be permeated with Company agents) voted almost unanimously for a strike.. But the national leadership knew that a strike in Johnstown must fail and that it would ruin the whole na- tional campaign. We realized farther that the real enemy to be defeated was the United States Steel Corporation and that the battleground had to be in its mills all over the country. Therefore, we refused to take up the gage of battle offered us at Johnstown. We ordered the Johnstown work- ers to take the company’s blow, to hold their ground at all costs for a few months until we could mobilize the steel workers nationally, who were then rapidly organizing. : This they did heroically ina most difficult situation and’ in the facé of the bitterest opposition from the com- pany. Thus we avoided thigy threatened serious breach in our ranks, and we were enabled, shortly afterward, to throw our whole army in one grand offensive against our real enemy, the United States Steel Corporation. ne Timinc THE Brow . ~ (3) The working class strike strategist must always bear in mind the existing or prospective general and local political situations. They are often decisive in strikes, In general forward movements of the working ‘class, when the workers are in a deep-going state of political foment and in an expanding opposition to the employers, the left wing must be keen to take advantage of the ‘fdvorable situation by militantly pushing its organizing campaigns and strike movements. Often national election periods present favorable oppor- tunities that must not be neglected. At these times the em- ployers are seeking to mobilize the masses of workers, through various types and shades of political misledders, into voting them full control of the government. Therefore, the slogan, being to soft-soap the workers, the capitalist politicians seek to sldugh off the rough edges of the class struggle by slackening somewhat in the state pressure against the workers. Movements culminating in such periods, if aggressively handled, have relatively favorable fighting chances, On the other hand, after the elections are over when the politicians no longer have the immediate thought of asking the masses for their votes, the capitalists are especially ruthless against striking workers, There are many complex features of the | varying political situations that an intelligent strike strat- egy must take cognizance of and utilize to further the work- ers’ striidgles against capitalism. Here I barely indicate the problem. Baines a (To be continued) fase: ey. ‘ :