The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 4

Page Four News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politica JOTANY WORKERS PICK DELEGATES TO MEET BOSSES Von’t Go Back in Mills Without a Union PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 6.—“We want union” was the refrain shouted over nd over by 2,000 striking workers of he Botany mills at a meeting held in Mkrainian Hall last night. This meet- ‘ag and a previous one held in the aorning was called by the union as m answer to the Botany Consolidated Hills for their recent wage increase ranted to the strike breakers now vorking in the mills. The spirit hown by the Botany strikers at both hese meetings made it clear that they vere not to be lured back to the mills ‘y wage increases unless they were «complishd by the recognition of the intfon. Long before time for the meeting to tart the hall was packed to the doors. 3y 7:30 there was an overflow spread- ng up and down the sidewalks and treet in front of the hall unable to set in. And this was a meeting not af all the textile strikers in the dis- rict, but of the workers from tke 3otany Consolidated only. At Belmont ?ark in Garfield and Polish Hall in 4odi severa] thousand more strikers rom other mills attended their nightly nass meeting as usual. Shoulder to Shoulder. There were no chairs in Ukrainian dall. The strikers stood the entire dme, packed too tightly together to 29 able to raise their arms. Their yodies may have been cramped but heir spirits were not. Cheer after sheer went up. The crowd on the out- side who could not get in echoed back sheae cheers that arose from the in- side of the hall. The business of the meeting was despatched quickly—the selection of a committee of five striking Botany workers to confer with the manage- ment of the Botany mills, if they can, om the conditions for a settlement of the strike. Frank Giacomini, an ex- ~ Nstrvieo man; Rosa Waigsl, who has worked in the Botany mills for nine years; Steve Wasas; John Ban and Palmira Pivoli were elected unani- | mousy. Back with Union. “If Botany refuses to receive the committee appointed by the strikers,” said James Starr, vice-president of the | United Fextile Workers, at the meet- ing, “the news will go all over the country. “We hope this move may bring to a close the strike in the Botany mills, but we are just as determined to carry on the strike in the Forstmann and Huffmann and other mills as we have been. Gustave Deak, president of the locai union, said: “These increases given Botany virtually restore the wage ;euts of a year ago, and it is our strike which has forced these increases. We are not going to be such suckers as to go back on that alone. We know how long wage increases would last if we went back without a union.” Charge Molders’ Union Official of Cleveland with Embezzling Funds | CLEVELAND, Dec. 6,—Richard A. ledy, secretary of the Cleveland moe of molders’ unions, ha arrested, charged with embez. $3,852 of the union funds. Ken has been in the hospital since 26 with nervous breakdown. Just as he was leaving the hospital he was served with the warrant. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ETHEL AND JOS. '} VAVAK Teachers of Violin and Piano Telephone SUNNYSIDE 8472 Address 1146 MONTROSE AVE., CHICAGO NEW YORK; Important Notice! Classes for Foreigners in English and Fundamentals of Commnu- nism, are given every Wednes- day night from 8—10:30 o'clock, at 1347 ‘Boston Road. All com- rades and sympathizers are {n- Defeat the By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HH DAILY. WORKDR last Satur day exposed the most select gather- ing of strikebreakers ever assembled in this country, Note their names—and don’t forget them—John L. Lewis, president of the ; United Mine Workers of America; | Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers’ Union, | These are all prominent officials of \the trade union movement. They are supposed to build rather than destroy the power of labor. eee ‘T is no light matter to charge the officials of the organised trade union movement with being “strike | breakers.” But they have themselves |put the brand upon their own brows, for all the workers who will to see. Now these labor leaders compound |this individual felony against organ- lized labor by joining in a wholesale conspiracy to thwart the heroic ef- forts of the workers to fight courage- ously against their class enemies and win substantial victories for their own class—the working class. eee |AKE up each case singly, John L. Lewis first. He is most important, because he heads the largest trade union in the American labor move- ment, struggling to organize the work- ers In a great, basic industry. Lewis brings the strength of the powerful bureaucracy he dominates in this union into the conspiracy. In spite of his strikebreaking ac- | tivities, in the Connellsville, Pa., coke strike; in Kansas, where he aided in sending Alex Howat to jail; in Nova | Scotia, where he joined in the jingo jery of “King and Country”; against the militants facing prison, to mention la few instances, nevertheless, Lewis confesses by his actions to the grow- ing strength of the tidal wave of op- | position, crystallized in the Brophy- |Stevenson-Brennan national ticket, |that is rolling up against his regime. |Lewis put over the strikebreaking an- thracite agreement and thought that was a victory for his administration jand its reactionary policies. It may jyet prove his Waterloo. Lewis open- ‘ly admits that the rank and file is {turning against him when he hurries. {to join the secret conspiracy in New York City to consolidate his activities | with those of other “labor Heutenants” \of the capitalist employers, who would rather see labor crushed than militant. Lewis does not want the coal miners to face the bosses with an aggressive program when the present Jackson- ville agreement, for the soft coal fields, expires April 1. He paves the way for another surrender, Watson-Parker.gag and ball and chain, to render the coal miners helpless in their struggles. Lewis thus helps care- fully to prepare for the breaking of the strike even before it is called. This is Lewis, “The Strikebreaker.” + 9-8 EXT comes Morris Sigman, presi- dent of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. This is Sig- man, the “socialist”; Sigman, the handyman of Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily (Socialist) For- ward, who denounces even the bank- ers’ organ, The New York Times, for not being reactionary enough; this is Sigman, the successor of Benjamin Schlesinger, who tries to duplicate the crimes of the latter in serving the | backward-looking officilaldom of the | Anieriean Federation of Labor, rather \than the forward-looking workers in the needle trades. Sigman is an important addition to the conspiracy. He gives it a “social- ist” face in the needle trades, whera the left wing in the American labor movement has a strong foothold, and where the Communist leadership in the New York Joint Board of the -Fur- riers’ Union has just come thru a suc- cessful strike scoring an effective vic- tory. It was under pressure of the social- ist-Forward machine, and with its aid, that Sigman launched his drive, |in the summer of 1925, to smash three |powerful units of the I. L. G, W. U |Locals No, 2, 9 and 22, in New Yor! |City. The courageous fight and the |100 per cent unity of the rank and file against Sigman’s attack saved the {union in the cloakmaking industry. | It was with the well-wishes and sup. port of the Sigman-socialist-Forward- j forces that President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, |injected himself into the Furriers’ |Strike and tried to settle it over the {heads of the striking furtiers fight- ing under the leadership of Ben Gold, heading a militant joint board, This strikebreaking effort resulted in the same miserable failure that met Sig- man's uanion-smashing campaign and the furriers came out of their struggle triumphant. Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities ‘! Strike-Breakers! Maintain the Unions as Fighting Organizations) of the Workers Bee the fight isn’t over, It is here that Matthew Woll, gives much more time to his job as a union- wrecking vice-president of the A. F. of L., than he does to his task as head of the Photo Engravers’ Union, It is Woll who has been directing the so- called “investigation” of the Furriers’ Union in New York City, which is merely a mask for another attack on the left wing. This is the Woll who openly and deliberately sabotaged every effort put forward at the Detroit convention of the A. F. of L., in October, to provide assistance for the Passaic strike. This is the Woll who has attacked Senator William H. Borah for his ef- forts to bring about a satisfactory settlement at Passaic, thus acting as strikebreaker for tha powerful tex- tile mill owners as against every effort to crown the valiant fight of the mill workers with victory. eee HN there is McMahon. He heads the United Textile Workers’ Union, an A. F. of L. organization. What has already been accomplished in Passaic shows what can be done to organize workers in the textile industry. The Passaic accomplishments vividly re- veal the shortcomings and failures of the reactionary A. F. of F, bureau- eracy’s policies. The struggle at Pas- saic had been on for more than half a year before the A. F. of L., thru MecMahon’s union, agreed to enter the situation, but it seems then only to be- tray it. For now the demand is framed in secret, by the N, Y. conspiracy, that the Passaic strike must be defeated, because its victory would bring too much credit to the Communists, Thus McMahon puts on the cloak of strike- breaker. During the A. F. of L. convention, at Detroit, McMahon managed to be different days, that the Passaic strike was up for consideration. He sent no appeal to the gathering. He was re- ported “at his hotel.” He was ab- in the struggle. He would not speak himself. He prevented a spokesman for the erikers, a strike official, who was present in the convention, from speaking. McMahon fittingly com- pletes this quartette of strike-breaking conspirators. eee lie is well for the workers generally, over the whole country, to know /all these facts when the reaction ad- vances with its malicious attack claiming the left wing and the Com- munists are not serving the best in- terests of the organized labor move- ment. Informed workers will not per- mit themselves to be misled or con- fused by any barrage of untruths, no matter how skillfully it 1s laid down by the officialdom. for a eee “Coolldge—the Strikebreaker” in the White House at Washington, on be- half of tf® class for which he rules. will be happy to learn of the strike- breaking, union-smashing conspiracy launched in New York City. He will be overjoyed, a smile lighting up his dumb countenance, voicing the joy of the Morgans, the Butlers, the Schwabs, the Garys, the Peabodys and all the other multi-millionaire “open shop pers.” There is cause for rejoicing, for them. Every attack on the left wing means that the capitalist dictatorship will feel itself a little safer, more com- fortable in its present position, where it is permitted to plunder the work- ers of the wealth they produce. The growth of labor's fighting left wing means the development of a threat to this ruling class power. se HUS the workers generally over the nation are vitally interested in this conspiracy hatched in New York City. It 1s their duty to join In the effort to defeat the foul purposes of the con- spirators. This can only be done by rallying all labor's progressive forces, everywhere, The power of the left wing must grow, to protect all gains already made, to consolidate labor's power, to march forward under the guidance of a militant program, de- manding amalgamation, the organiza- tion of the unorganized, a labor party and the support of all other issues that will help: MAINTAIN THE UNIONS AS FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORKERS! WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs, It 18 broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 30-—The Brevoort Concert Trios Little Joe Warner, Charile White, John Miller, Harry Dream dy Davie, 9:00—Alamo Cafe Orchestra, k 11:00-—Alame @n' nese, 4 [WANT WORKERS absent during all the time, on several | plutely ‘silent on the issues involved | THE DAILY “WORKER Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—tIn junctions | Labor and nperialism CEPRSIETE 70 PURCHASE. JOBS AS SCABS Shoe Concern in N. Y. Tries New Stunt NEW YORK, Dec, 6, —.Benson & Kimler and the Aetna Shoe corpora- tion, located at No, 1 jeton Ave., Brooklyn, N, Y., are trying to sell scab jobs in their concerns at $100 a piece. The amazing part of this thing is that they actually have succéeded in find- ing workers so stupid that they fall for this swindle, Workers Spurn Dupe, Other workers who were formerly employed by the Benson & Kimler concern and who were asked to don- ate a hundred dollars each to the con- cern under the guise of “stock pur- chases” refused to purchase jobs as scabs and are now on strike under the leadership of the Shoe Workers Protective Union. The strike against Benson & Kimler and the Aetna con- cern was called to take effect Thurs- day, morning, The Aetna concern is operated by the cheap, labor hating boss, Benson, and he contends that the Aetna is separate and apart from the Benson- Kimler outfit, This is a hoax because the Aetna is in the same building as the old firm and many of his scabs who have paid for the privilege of scabbing were formerly employed by Benson-Kimler. Furthermore material from the two firms is interchanged, and the boss foreman from Benson- Kimler’s pays the scabs in the Aetna. New Form of Scabbery. Workers thruout New. York are amused at the spectacle of slaves be- coming so degraded that they pay for disturbances the bosses lexpect to pay a higher rate for their scabs during the acute period of ‘strike, but here is a case where the bosses not only degrade ignorant workers to the low level of scabs, but have the brass to ask them to pay for the privilege of scabbing. sh ay Pickets are out and th@ Protective Shoe Workers’ Union has issued a circular to the deluded. workers still in the shops pointing out to them the meaning of their scabbery against the other workers in the industry. Some Workers Recant. Already a,number of workers who placed money at the disposal of the employers who declaredethey wanted to break the union have realized the serious mistakes they made and are now demanding that Benson and his gang, pay back the money deposited. -| drivers. Thruout the shoe district workers everywhere are discussing this new form of confidence game being played by the pair of petty-larceny bosses, ‘The intelligent workers are determ- ined to stop this thing right where it is and say that either Benson & Kimler and the fraudulent Aetna will again come to terms with the union and operate on something other than a scab basis or the auctioneer’s flag will adorn their establishments before the fight is over. Doctors Say Shorter Work-Week Results in’ Better Worker Health SYDNEY, Australia, Dec, 6.—(FP) —Giving evidence before a federal commission which is investjgating a claim for the application of the 44- hour week for all workers on the Aus- tralian continent, several medical men testified that there has been @ general improvement in the health of the workers in New South Wales since the labor government in that state in- privilege of scabbing.. In most labor | troduced the 44-hour week act. Experts from various industries ad- mitted that, generally, there had been | Dec. no reduction in output because of the reduotion of working hours from 48 to 44 per week. This they’ attribute to the fact that there was less fatigue during the shorter working week, Levy $10,000 Bail on Workers Charged With Attacking Scab SBHATTLE, Dec. 6.—Ten thousand dollars bail each was levied against two union teamsters, Edward Fai- mody and John Cole by a local just- ice of the peace when they were brot before him on a charge of sec- ond degree assault. They were ac- cused of attacking non-union drivers for the Lincoln Transter company in a local restaurant in an effort to make them join the union, The Lincoln company claims that its employes are shareholders and not of the same status ag" ordinary Ube 1 The American Worker! Correspond- ent is the worker correspendent’s own ifeoaaibe ‘ \ ’ jdm COACH COMPANY: WOULD DISPLACE STREETGAR LINES WITH THEY {CONDUCTED = BY TH YONKERS NG WORKERS LEAGUE Proposes to Put Fleet of “Problems of Workers’ Children” Is Busses on Street Looking toward a solution of the city’s traction problem, it {s sald that the Chicago Motor Coach Co., headed by “open shop” John Hertz, is consid- ering putting 4,700 busses on'the city’s streets as soon after Feb, Ist as pos- sible, on which date the franchise of the surface lines expire, The coach company has for some time been operating on Chicago's streets without a franchise and with no revenue to the city, altho a heavy coach is about as damaging to the as- Phalt as trucks which are not allowed on the boulevards. The coaches have been running under a certificate of convenience and necessity from the Mlinois commerce commission. The city has disputed this right, and the case is now pending before the Su- preme Court. The number of busses in operation in the city is 415, ac- cording to the last annual report of the operating company. The actual number is probably now larger. It 1s the company’s claim that with 4,700 busses it can carry from 800 to 900 million of passengers a year, The surface lines will come close to the billion fares this year. It is also claimed that busses are capable of taking the place of street cars at one- third of the investment required for the same service by surface lines, This is probably true, if the city is still to furnish its streets and pave- ments free, while the surface lines must lay track and maintain part of the cost of repairs to pavements. The city however expresses confidence that the Supreme Court will rule in its fa- vor, and that the coach company will then have to apply for a franchise and be obliged to turn over to the munici- ality a part of its revenues, But at present’ Mr. Hertz has the city where its hair is short and its asphalt paving bills are long. Passaic Strike Film Makes Workers Want to Aid Relief Work SEATTLE, Dec. 6.—(FP) show- ing of the film “The Passaic Strike” 80 aroused the members of the local Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union that they voted to levy an assessment of 50 cents a member for the benefit of the strikers and their children. The sec- retary was instructed to send on a check for $200 at once without wait- ing to collect the money from the membership. Previous to the showing a letter from William Green, pres!- dent of the American Federation of Labor requesting aid for the strikers had been laid on the table. The film made the members realize the impor- tance of sending a contribution at once. The Longshoremen’s union took up & collection of $15 after they had seen the movie. Other unions are being given an ap. portunity to view this film thru the’ activity of the Seattle Labor College which brought the picture to this city. Historical Scenes in Potemkin Censored by N. Y. Board of Review (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dee. 6.—Close-up shots of the maggott meat which was the immediate provocation of the sailors’ revolt on the battleship Potemkin proved too much for American cen- sors. These scenes and the episode of the mother who carries her little boy slain in the Odessa massacre up the long flight of steps only to be herself shot down by the descending cossacks were clipped from the Rus- sian film version of this historical in- cident, But with these two cuts, which do not materially impair the tremen- dously moving panorama, the picture Potemkin {s making its Broadway de- but at the Biltmore Theatre, West 47th street, New York, beginning 5. Potemkin 1s the film hailed as the greatest yet by Douglas Fairbanks, who saw it in Berlin. Emil Jannings, the German movie star now in Holly- wood, is likewise high in his praises. New York Comrade Is Hit by Truck; Killed NBW. YORK, Dec. 6.—Comrade Ba- bat was killed by a truck near his home at 466 Hast 172nd street, when he tried to cross the street. Comrade Babat was a member of the Workers (Communist) Party, an active mem- ber of the “People's University,” and a member of Branch 417, Working- men’s Circle, He left a wife and two children, Section Meeting In N, Y. NEW YORK, — An important sec- tion membership meeting at which a report of the last. plenum of the Cen- tral Executive Committee will be giv- en by a representative of the District Executive Committee, that was - ent in Chicago will be held ‘oi We nesday, December 8, at bie ood By D. BENJAMIN, Assistant Director, Workers’ School. The Workers’ School of New York City, in offering the course in “Prob- liems of Working Class Children,” is filling a need long felt by the pro- gressive labor moyement of this city and of the entire country. The work- ing youth of this country and the working class children especially have |been completely neglected by the la- |bor movement with the result that }the capitalist class, with its youth and children’s organizations, with its ;schools and movies, has been en- jabled to completely dominate the life jand mind of the next generation of | workers. This, of course, makes for a break in the chain of the developing class consciousness of the work- jers of this country; builds up a future force of strikebreakers and patriots; prevents the growth of a continuous tradition of working class feeling, and renders necessary repetition of work on the part of the progressive workers of the country. The course in “Working Class Chil- dren” began on Monday, Nov. 22, with a talk by Arthur C. Calhoun, one of the instructors of the Workers’ School and also a teacher in Brook- wood Labor College, on “Changing Economic Conditions in the United States and the Changed Status of the Family and Child.” The importance of the family as a productive unit in colonial, free land, unexploited Amer- ica and the great value of a child jas a worker then was brought out. Large families and child labor were universal phenomena in American life |then, With the development of Amer- |ica in the first half of the 1800’s; with the many opportunities beckoning to young as well as old in the free land of the west; the growing factory sys- tems, etc.—the young boy of 14 and 15 could afford to be very independent. Rapidly changing economic condi- tions, tions and methods of production did not make for conservatism and for respect for the institutions of the pre- ceding generation. Ideological inde- |children, as well as economic and po- litical independence, But capitalism developed rapidly and with this development brought into existence forces for the control of working class children as well as for the control of the workers as a whole. Child labor, schools, press, the hard and fast tradi- tions of a consolidated, restrictive capital, the inculcation of respect for authority by the dead hand of capital AGIT-PROP_IN OAKLAND PLANS TWO MUSICALES Will _Give Affairs on * Dec. 5 and 11 OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 6.—The agit- prop department of the Workers (Communist) Party of Alameda coun- ty, Oakland, and Ba@pkeley, has ar- ranged a musicale to be given in Com- rades’ Hall, 1819 10th St., Berkeley, at 7:30 p. m., Sunday, Dec. 5, and in Comrades’ Hall, 20 Flint St., San Fran- cisco, at 8 o'clock Saturday, Dec. 11. George Allen Kelly, Jr., already well-known in the Bay cities for the excellence of past programs is in charge. In the present instance he has brot together a group of musicians whose technique and interpretive abil- ity may well be the envy of profes- sionals, This is especially true of the Double Quartette, a group of solo- ists who bring to the ensemble an equipment that will assure an ovation o their. offering. ¥ The proceeds of the musicale will be devoted to furthering party work in Alameda county. Tickets are 40 cents in advance, and 60 cents at’ the door. ® Weisbord Speaks - in Many Cities Ohio—tota Hall, 716 Jefferson Bee, 8, Majestic Theater, Toledo, Ave., De Detroit, Woodard and Wills. Flint, Dec. 10. | Muskegon, Dec, 11. 4 uarand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 12, Work+ aes Temple, 347 Mt. i end, Dec. 18 and 14 ec. 1 . I, Dec. 16, Mirror Hall, 4 Biviaion St. Vernon Milwau! 1c. 10, Freie Gemeinde. Hall, Eight and Walnut Sts. ey a St. Paul, Minn., Deo, 20, Minneapolis, Deo, 21 Superior, Wis., Dec. 22, } Duluth, Minn., Deo, 23, ey | Novy Mir Masquerade Here Dec, 25. A Russian masquerade for the bene- fit of the Russian Communist weekly Novy Mir, hag been arranged for Sat- urday, Dec. 26, at Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave., near Division street, i oll yierya othe aftaize ob ques: to arrange affairs on ‘that date, <2 haaplyiliiablgs & the rapid increase in inven-| | pendence on the part of working class | New Course at N. Y. Workers’ School accumulated from the past and not interested in/the needs of the present, and future—all these and more Bold back, impede the development and ex- pression of a higher status for inde- pendence of and better conditions for the working class child. To this must be added the fact that the family insti- tution has been thoroly broken up by modern capitalism due to the father and mother going to work in different places, the child either going to work or to school or left to his own re face the working class child and must be solved, This is the main reagon prompting the Workers’ School to offer such a course. It hopes to train a corps of leaders for the children of the work- ers, capable of understanding the afore-mentioned problems, . interested. in applying their energy to the tasks, able to analyze the changes taking place in modern life and their effect on the child and willing to initiate and struggle for\the introduction of a new, a better status for the,~vorking class child, The school is therefore securing the services of experts in various fields of children’s work, individuals who thru experience as well as study are able to throw light on what constitutes present-day children’s problems, the nature of the child and how to deai with it and how to organize and build up a real working class children’s movement. Such well-known authorities as Scott Nearing, who has made a spe- cial study of the child in Soviet Rus- sia; George Kirchwey, one of the heads of the New York School of Social Work, an authority an juvenile courts, reformatories, etc.; Slava Petrovska, who has investigated the problems of the abnormal child; Ernestine Evans, who will speak on |the important question, “What Work- jing class Children Should Read and How They Should Read”; Solon De | Leon, Herbert Zam, Bertram D. Wolfe, D. Benjamin, Sarah Davis, Eva Dorf, |as well as Clarence Miller and Miriam |Gerbert who directed much of the work done for the children of the Pas- saic strikers, This course takes place every Mon- day evening from 7 to 8:45 p.m. The instructor usually presents the sub- ject in one hour, after which qnes- tions and discussion takes place for 40 minutes. Pioneer leaders, teachers, social workers, working class parents especially, should register for this course at the Workers’: School, 108 East 14th street. Greek Fraction Will Entertain Saturday Do not forget to be at Bowen Hal, Hull House, Saturday night, the 11, when the Greek fraction of the Work ers Party will entertain you in great shape, for the joint benefit of the Greek paper, Empros, and The DAILY WORKER. Music, singing, refresh- ments, and @ time that you will long remember, Every friend of either or both of these papers will wish to help our Greek friends in their good effort. to keep alive @ fighting labor press. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to us@ it. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s clasves, CHICAGO DANCE. Enjoy yourself and have a gloriotsly good time at the entertainment ar- ranged for The DAILY WORKER and EMPROS our fighting Greek labor . weekly, The affair takes place at Bowell Hull House, at Halsted and Polk St., at 8 p. m, Saturday Dec. 11 The arrangements are all being made by the Chicago Greek Fraction. A splendid orchestra will furnish the music— there will be singing and the refreshments are fit for the most particular palate. It will only cost you fifty cents for the whole evening of glori- ous pleasure, ' sources on the street. These problems -