The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1926, Page 6

Se Sem Aaa } j THE DAILY WORKER a age s a bi Q ew rive 0 | Itant [a e. Unionism ‘ Published py the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. AG YT i \ re; BR . S29 hie SA AAT Ean) : 1113 W, Washington Bivd., | Phone Monroe 4713 hicago, Lil. ARTICLE IV, | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Ri the public justification of the cam- paign against fighting trade union- | ism, and which cepters on the Com- | | munists, there is a unanimity of ex: | pression in the socialist, capitalist and | official trade union press that can} | spring only from a common policy. | The New Leader, “a weekly journal | Wi the post-office at Chi- | devoted to the interest of the socialist | jand labor movement,” uses a column __' ee |of editorial pace in its December 2 | Advertising rates on application |issue for an attack on the Communist | |Party and the Trade Union Educa- \tional League as the leaders of the jleft wing. Safs the New Leader: It is because ALL THE OTHER SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 (in Chicago only): } By mall (outside of Chicago): iT $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months three months. 2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III, . + Editors J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE \. BERT MILLER .Business Manager mail September 21, 19. , Il, under the act of March 3, 1879. ee Entered as second Preparing a Break with Mexico against the Mexican people is gaining impetus as| the date—Jan. 1—approaches. for the enforcement provisions of the constitution of 1917 relative to oil land ownership. The offensive | GROUPS STOOD TOGETHER Tm the last period there have been the following developments: | against this exotic menace that there | is any union left at all and any | hope of recovering lost ground. | | | | POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS | | | The demand of “Hands Off Mexico” must be made to resound (1) The pastoral letter sent out by all cardinals, archbishops and bishops of the catholic church in the the Mexican government and asserting that “the church is the only | HAT “all the other political and defender” the country could find. : ‘ a firalpe ily fie eerie en (2) The Wall Street inspired manifesto of Diaz, the Nicara-| vow ae Garett LLG ahd guan dictator supported by Uv. the nations of the world to rally against Mexico. | capitalist press does not cool the holy (8) The publication of a letter from President Green of the jardor of the New Leader. It proceeds } American Federation of Labor in the official orgay of the Knights Lan, its depres! what is aj of Columbus, which “warns” the Mexicon labor movement to al MCDA ES sedan ena sro “temperate language” and practice “tolerance,” an obvious slap at) ones of the “Committee for the Pres: | its struggle against catholic feudalism. jervation of the Trade Unions” ‘on ‘ (4) The announcement of the American Petroleum Association | Dec. 21: : that it will not abide by the Mexican oil laws. | Laepta ane poaneyre DE the lteneree When we connect the-above developments with the increasingly | they Hee Side sit Fate, paula | announces that it will hold a na- hostile attitude of the capitalist press and the insulting expressions | tional conference of its shock troops of the state department and its recent secret negotiations with the | in the needle trades in New York big press service for anti-Mexican propaganda, it is apparent that | York City Jan. 1 and 2. Familles of preparations are being made to dramatize the breaking of diplomatic poi Hepdiplraa. aad a oe relations after the first of the year unless Wall Street gets its | legianos brought’ into aie. intensbe demands. | this league and now it is proposed It is probable that if diplomatic relations are discontinued this | to rub salt into the gaping wounds. will be followed by an economic and financial boycott of Mexico (THs, minabireless:jiectenoe of this designed to weaken the nation and lay the ground for an internal | Se we NA te aaa ts movement against the Calles government which would give an €X-| peg forgiveness of their victims. cuse for more open interventjon in Mexico under the guise of “pro-| Instead of this they have the im- tecting American interests.” The seriousness of the situation can no longer be disguised. reat J American labor officialdom supinely allows, ‘the imperialist plot to| Se ee ee ai Pee develop against Mexico without raising voice and in addition slyly | 1 provocative statements "published the Mexican people led by the catholic church in Mexico. bec ere ar ag. 55 In such a situation the burden of supporting the Mexican | inion Diucationns Temata atiae which | pudence to gather at the scene of | their bungling and propose further gives support to American imperialism by its coldness towards the |by the patriotic press against social- Mexican labor movement and its support of the conspiracy against |ists during the war. It is plainly de- masses falls altogether upon the left wing of the labor movement and |ihe New Leader will claim that the | There can be little doubt that the present reaction-|work of hired underworld elements the Communists. ary offensive in the trade unions is inspired partly by the knowledge | was the spontaneous reaction of honest union men. xe two gr a4 PS a rotes gains J that from noms two —_ comes Sh cts ge betrayal of erg HB New Appeal.’ iw jes seaue cee Mexican masses to American imperialism which receives suppor Dec, 18, publishes an article’ by from every sincere worker. Morris Seskind of Jewish Daily For- ward fame, in which he describes the |breaking up of meetings of the left | wing of the Chicago I. L. G. W. by gangsters, police and detective squads |co-operating with labor officialdom, as a magnificent protest of the masses the Communists. Seskind thruout the whole labor movement. The Nuisance of Ignorance Under the title, “The Nuisance of Facts,” the Herald-Ewaminer ) inst of Chicago, one of William Randolph Hearst's rags, crammed tw0 Jays: obvious lies into two short paragraphs and used up two more proving | that the lies were falsehoods. The trade unionists of Chicago are United States denouncing | (Emphasis mine.) | S. marines and gunboats, calling upon | are supported by the bosses and the | the Trade} Introduction. HE purpose of these articles is whose authenticity no one can to show by documentary evidence, impugn, that the campaign against all progressive tendencies in the labor movement which was launched at the A. F, of L. convention in 1923 has entered a new phase in which there is a more open combination than ever before of the trade union officiaidom, the capitalist press, che employers and the government, It will also be shown that the main motives which prompt the in- tensified attack, centering first on the Communists and second on the left wing, are (1) the desire of the capitalists to suppress all struggles which interfere with the development of American imperialist pros- perity and either destroy the trade unions or force them to a general dead level of dociljty, (2) the desire of the trade union officialdom to force on the uniong,a policy which will make of them the docile or- ganizations whichxthe capitalists will accept, (3) the desire of both the capitalists and;their labor agents to drive the Communists out of the unions and destroy their influence in the labor movement because ; carried out under other pretenses and for alleged breaches of union dis- ‘sipline. But this is the first time that the head of the American trade union movement has made the categorical statement that. the trade unions and trade union “positions are closed to Communist workiig men and women. ipan socialist. party’ press and the trade union ‘press are thus to be seen expressing: the same policy which finds tactical expression as fol- lows: 1, An ‘effort to’ picture the Com- munists as’ disruptive, and as in- dividuals who, taking orders from their party, care nothing whatever about the immediate victory of the workers in their daily struggles. 2. An attempt to convince the trade | union membership and the working © opyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) © She did not leave him long in doubt. ‘“Bunny-rabbit,” she said, “you ‘aren't going to be worried about my Appie, are you?”—for thé hurricane that struck the tutoring | business had swept all dignity away, | and Mr. Appleton Laurence was | ie,” except when he was “Apple- sauce,” “I won’t worry unless you tell me |. to’ Bunny answered, “That's 4 dear! You must under- | stand, I’m an actress, that’s the way I earn my living, and I simply they are the most conscious and best organized exponents of fighting unionism who are“trying to rally all workers for struggle on a pro- class at large that Communists are | not workers but interlopers of a mys- | terious kind who wriggle thefr way) have to know all about love, and how can I learn if I don’t prac gram of immediate ‘and necessary demands. Finally, these articles will show that the policy of the trade union officialdom, of which the latest attack on the left wing is a logical re- sult, is based on one, phase, and one phase alone, of American capital- ist development, i, ¢ its present temporary upward swing, and that because of this negiect of other fundamental factors, can bring nothing but disaster to the labor movement. i The more “successful” this policy is, i, e. the more endorsement it receives from the ‘masses now, the more disastrous will be the ulti- The “Communists and the organized left wing therefore are fighting the battle of the whole working class when they resist to the utmost the new offensive of the combined forces of American in the period of imperialism, minor exceptions the whole bloc of trade union officialdom. 4 mate result, capitalism which —<<$_$<$<—_——— munists to come here and demoral- ize the unions the way they did In some of the New York needle trade unions, They have resolved to op- pose them in and cut of the unions, wherever they attempt to come and bring in their demoralizing infiu- ence. NASMUCH as the national headquar- ters of the Workers (Communist) Party is in Chicago, as the Joint Board of the I, L. G..W. in Chicago has a majority of Communists and left wingers elected by the usual trade hundred Communists in the Chicago trade unfons, as avaumber of’ them cre regularly elected delegates to the icago Federation “6f Labor, the zealous Mr. Seskind seems to have violence joverplayed his hand somewhat in try- ing to picture the recent rise of gang- sterism against the militant rank and file in Chicago as an_effort to repel a Communist invasion from New York. HE official trade union press, and the public statements, of prominent trade union officials are even more definite if less vituperative than those of the socialist press, 4) In the American Federationist for December, President.Green, in an edi- torial entitled, “Communists,” de- |livers himself of the following (repub- lished in the A. F, of, ‘press service for Dec, 2): $ Let no union think it, can tolerate Communist propaganda or com- | promise with Communist proposi- determined not to permit the Com- | tions. The difference between trade union procedure, as there are several | include with some —W. F. D. unionists and Communists are as- diverse as the two poles. Commun- ists are unalterably committed to destroy the trade unions. .... They are not interested in building bet- ter industrial conditions. .... They do not wish to co-operate in promot- ing union activities, but only to use the union for their own ends. . « THERE IS ONLY ONE WISE WAY TO HANDLE A COMMUNIST FOUND IN A UNION: MAKE PUB- LIC HIS AFFILIATION AND EX- PEL HIM. IT 1S UNWISE TO PERMIT COM- MUNISTS ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR LEADERSHIP. THEY WILL | LEAD TO DESTRUCTION. The Communist method is toform a nucleus and let this group car- ry on extended activities. (Emphasis mine.) E have here a new principle laid down for the trade’ union move- ment—the principle that Communists per se (by the fact of their belief in the political and economic theories of the Communist Party), are ineligible to both membership and leadership in trade unions irrespective of the fact | that they may be (and generally are) | working at the trade over which the ;union has jurisdiction. | There have been expulsions of Com- ‘munists before this—on both a whole- jsale_and individual basis. A number jot unions have made membership in jthe Communist Party adequate |grounds for expulsions, but for the | most part these expulsions have been Lie number one was to the effect that a French Communist stated that his party had the advantage of a sound theory and the disad-| vantage of being composed largely ofjfogls. This “Communist”—un- Jess he was created in the Examincr’s gold fish room—must be.of the | Morris Gordin type, the stoolpigeon dealt with in Tas Daity Worker a few days ago. Strange variety of fools that will gravitate to a sound | theory. | Lie number two turns the London Daily Herald into a Com- By JOSEPH ZACK. EOPLE nowadays have short mem- ories, and our friends of the For- ward attempt to take advantage of this mnunist paper and upbraids its alleged violent way of handling NEWS. |ract. Whether the cloakmakers won| 1t is quite obvious that the scribbler never read the Herald. It is | or not cannot be determined by enum- | notoriously anti-Communist and handles news as gingerly as @ erating the gains embodied in the new neurotic old lady would handle the tail of a dead rat. refuses to accept paid advertisements from the British Communist | poeple Es pli Soper brad Party tho it accepted a full page advertisement from the coal oper-| creat struggle. ators in the middle of a strike. That’s about the extent of its Com- | munism! |to what preceded this strike. It is but What prejudiced the Herald-Eraminer flunkey who wrote the |tWo years that our “pure and simple” ve pi vainst the London Daily Herald was that pay 's account trade unionist (more simple than editorial against the London Daily Herald was paper’ | pure), Morris Sigman, as. president of of a supper given by Lady Londonderry, wife of the lord who own8 | the international, conceived of a rela- | thousands of acres of land in the north of Treland and a heavy coal | tively radical program, known as the » to boot. Londonderry is one of the most vicious foes of union | “ten commandments.” “ogo i es : ‘ “eat : | 4 fool could seriously think that these i v nh tngiand, . % demands could be won without a bit- Our local defender of aristocracy may have caught the infection ter struggle. Instead of mobilizing smelling around Queen Marie’s entourage while that parasite was all the forces for this struggle, Sig- enjoying the sight of stockyard-pertumed Chicagoans developing pads | ™™ Ee ee on fda on “har eS a oan fe S ‘opponents inside the union, the resu’ on their knees in their effort to proye that they could grovel before | o¢ which Was one of tie bittemeat civil royalty as humbly as any potboy that ever postured behind a king. | wars we ever had in the International If the readers of the Herald-Ewaminer were not mainly composed | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. uf fools, the fellow who finds facts a nuisance might find appropriate | HE “ten commandments” work barking for gip autioneer. | mere camouflage to make the ‘ members believe that the interna- |tional does respond to, their needs jand does weaken the resistance against the expulsion policy. Since the expelling, however, did not make | sufficient headway, Sigman brought in | the governor of the state of New York and referred the ten commandments to a commission appointed by him so as to create the illusion that »some- Senator, PET Paper Interests, Railroads, and Two Governments in Battle Royal Over Natural Resource BANGOR, Me., Dec. 19.—The great-; opposed by the International Paper | Co. Governor Brewster, tho a politi- est amount of undeveloped water power und the largest stretch-of stand- | ©! blab pier! nile be dicgaesl ing timber in the United States form of tig In bringing pressure to bear on the the background of a big battle be-| International to withdraw their oppo- tween political, industrial and railroad | sition, that company has held him up interests, involving Senator Arthur R.|for concessions, including several Gould, who is likely to have to defend | water power bills, which they demand his right to a seat in the senate; Gove| Brewster shall wring from a “some- ernor Ralph O, Brewster, the great | what opposing legislature. International Paper Co,, and rival rail-| ‘This, in turn, arouses the opposition yoad ard power interests, of the Bangor & Aroostock Railway Gould seeks to build a railroad thru | and the Great Northern Paper Co, a stretch of 6,004 square miles of vit-| Involved in the question {s the mat- gin territory, heavily forested, a tract | ter of diverting the headwaters of the the size of the state of Massachu-|gt, John river, in which both Canada eetts. His certificate from the inter-)and the United States-are concerned state commerce commission will ex-|and over which blood hes already pire Dec. 31, This project has been thing was being done to get these de- mands. Meanwhile the fight again the lefts came to a head and the sult was a defeat for Sigman. As a result of this policy the cloakmakers lost two and entered the strug- | gle for these demands under left wing \leadership at a time when the union habe amp was at its lowest ebb, HE) governor's commission brought | L in recommendations that are well |in line with the present policy of the |American Federation of Labor, namely, to get concessions in wages fvom the employers but to give the ‘employers a free hand on the matter jor getting the maximum of produc? tiga out of the workers, which can The Herald |agreement, but must be considered in | | We must refresh our memories as | No one except | were | Since the follo | in the Internationa’ nal leadership of Morris Sigman, Clothing Workers, have come out union, with the aid of policemen the Sigman-Forward-Hiliquit gang The battle is now on. | | lonly be done by giving, the employers |the right of discharge. Those parts lof the commissions’ réeOmmendations ‘that were favorable to the workers, ‘the most important of* which was the limitation* of contractors, was not ac- cepted by the jobbers;and even the recommendation was wo. weak that it was doubtful as to what was really meant by it. The commission ignored | the question of reduction of hours and gave a very slight” e increase. Despite this unfavorable decision of this) commission, whfch was looked upon as a high arbitration board, the right wing continued ‘to cling to its old policy and accepted this unfa- vorable recommendation, The employers, of corse, were not so foolish as not to.wnderstand this stand of the leadership of the inter- national and to stubbornly insist on the right of discharge thus gained and endorsed by the right wing. Despite this endorsement by the right wing leaders of discharge rights, the new leadership rejected the governor's commission recommendations and called a strike, ; A iapresie 72 the right wing brought in the governor onee more as & strikebreaking force, which resulted in the insistence of Governor Smith on what amounted to compulsory ar- bitration, This move was again en- dorsed by the right wing. Still the new leadership, with #H# this pressure trom the inside as an from the most powerful stat roment in io article was written, the reactionary elements dies’ Garment Workers’ Union under the nomi- ham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward, Morris Hiliquit, leader of the socialist. party, and Abraham Beckerman of the Amalgamated wrest control from the left wing. | treacherous crew called a mass meeting of the right wingers and | gangsters and declared themselves against the strike, denouncing the leaders of the New York Joint Board for having called it. Naturally, bureaucracy, the governor of New York, Tammany Hall, the capital- ist press—particularly the New York Times—and the manufacturers. Don’t miss The DAILY WORKER’S daily story ,on the progress of the struggle-—E DITOR. 4 - Did the Cloakmakers Win? and the actual leadership of Abra- openly in an attempt to split the and gangsters, but have failed to In the middle of a strike this have the support of the A. F. of L. the United States, refused to give in to what would have amounted to a surrender of the workers’ demands to a commission this time functioning openly as an arbitration board. The next move against the union was to compel it to surrender by the use of the full force of the state, which re- sulted: in the issuance of the most sweeping injunction ever issued in the history of organized labor in the nee- de industry, and again the right wing demonstrated that it was in covert agreement with this last strikebreal ing move of the governor by the way it sabotaged the mobilization of forces to break down this injunction. {t is plain that during the entire strike the right wing continued to use the state government as @ means of break- ing the strike and it used this method against the left wing in a more vicious form than during the expulsion cam- paign. Because during the strike the issue was decided whether the left wing can be defeated and discredited before the workers or not. The right wing sought to prove that the militant policy of struggle for the workers’ de- mands must be abandoned and the policy of co-operation with the em- ployers (class collaboration), together with all the corruption and deception of the masses, which is the inevitable accompaniament of such a policy, must be continued as a Delicy ot th labor movement, a | the URING the entire duration o: strike the right wing accomps into uniofis by. other thethods than the correct one of working for wages and joining the union for their occupation or industry in the regular mannef. 3. The Communists—and the Com- munist Party—are working for the de- struction of the trade unions instead of trying to. make them effective in- struments of the working class. 4. An effort to deceiye. the work- ers into believing that the. Commun- ists as, a, revolutionary political party are’ more ofa menace, to the trade unions than are the. capitalist. demo- crat and republican, parties. , 5, An effort to.make the trade union membership believe that the Commun- ists alone of all political.groups,form and hold. caucuses: to, decide on what policy and methods..they shall-pursue and use. in the-unions. . In this the phase of the campaign against militant trade unionism men- tioned above,:the official trade. union and socialist press‘-is: receiving the wholehearted support of suck open or- gans of the industrial: and : financial lords as the*New York Times. - {To be continued.) -Read— CLASS COLLABORATION— HOW IT WORKS By Bertram D. Wolfe A brilliant study of the various, methods. by which. the capitalist class | attempts to corrupt the labor move: ment and bribe its most important sections. Specific illustrations are given from the history of the Ameri- can Jabor.moyement...The pamphlet is readable and valuable thruout. 10 cents. see CLASS STRUGGLE vs. | CLASS COLLABORATION By Earl R. Browder A keen study of modern class. col- laboration..schemes,such asthe B. & 0. Plan, Labor Banking and Workers’ Education. An indispensable book for anyone who. is. interested in the modern. deyelopments. in the movement, 10 cents ) their ab Of the governor as a strike- breaker with the sharpest pressure ‘out openly.exposing themselves. | Not only, did they discourage any militant action-of the union to combat the strike-breaking methods of the governor, , but: it was quite: apparent that scabbery was greatly encouraged by them outside of New York, as well as in Naw York itself, a role in which Ninfo and Dubinsky played no small part. It was algo quite evident that the manufacturers were well informed about the union’s plans, which made it possible for, them to hold out-against the union’s demands and. gave. them a tremendous advantage in the settle- ment negotiations, and, thus made the strike sucha prolonged struggle. Every happening in the settlement committee was known to the leaders of the Industrial Council and it was apparent. that the propaganda they labor | they, could bring upon the union with |, tiee?” |bygiWell, that’s all right, dear—" “*Some of the men they give you | in Hollywood are such dubs, it makes you siek, you would as soon be in the arms of a clothing dummy. So I have to tell them how to act, and I have to know how a real gen- tleman behaves—you know what I mean, the highbrows and snobs. Oh, Bunny, it’s the cutest thing you ever saw. He falls down on his | knees, and the tears come into his eyes, and you know, he can recite all the poets by heart. I never saw anything like it. You’d think he was an old Shakespearean actor, And it’s really a great opportunity for me, to cultivate my taste and get refined.” “Well, yes, dear; | little hard on him?” “Oh, rubbish; it won’t hurt him. He'll go off and put it into sonnets— | he’s doing it already, and maybe | he'll get to be famous, and it’d be | great publicity! Don’t you bother | about him, Bunny, and don’t bother | about me; there’s nobody in the world for me but my Bunny-rabbit— | all the rest is just a jo ce.” And she put. her arms abowt him, “I | know what it is to be jealous, dear, | and I wouldn’t cause you that un. | happiness for anything in the world, ‘ Tf you really mind, you can send old Applesauce. packing, and I won't be cross.” Bunny laughed. “I can't do that. I've got to be tutored.” /< Vee told Dad about it, too—lest | he should be having any vicarious | pangs. When Dad heard about the | falling on the knees and the tears | he chuckled.. Bunny would get the | comtents of the tutor’s mind, and ' Vee. would get, the contents of his heart, and they would send him home like a squeezed orange. It ap- pealed to Dad as good business., Back in Paradise, you remember, he was hiring a chemical wizard, paying him six thousand a year, and ; making millions out of him, (Continued tomorrow.) Will Fight Return of Alien Property Until Americans Get ‘Share’ (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Notice has been served upon republican lead- ers in the house by Representative |Fish of New York and others that | there will be strong opposition to the alien property bill which is to be taken up. Thursday, Representative Green of ihe chair. but isn’t it a man of the ‘ways and means\commit- tee, asked for an early consideration of the bill, which attempts to settle the long-standing question of the re- turn of German national’s property seized during the war and payment of claims of American nationals agaifist the German government. The opposition will demand no Ger- man property be returned until ali | American claims are paid in full. of other points places the settlement as one far above the governor's com: mission. recommendations, The fact that the cloakmakers ‘were able to put forth in paid advertisements, etc.,. force such a settlement despite, the was inspired from sources close to the innermost circle of the union. All this was accompanied by a deliberate sabotage of relief sources, in all of which they had the full support and co-operation of the entire A, F. of L. bureaucracy. The distinguishing feature of the right wing's sttike-breaking policy in this strike, which differentiates’ it from the policy pursued by their col- leagues in the furriers 16 that out- wardly, once the strike was declared, they camouflaged their dangerou! strike-breaking policy with an atti- tude of militantly speaking for the which to a consid- made! thelr treachery so much more dangerous" for the union, Even the left wing was, at the beginning, taken in by this appearance’ of a real united front to win the strike. Now that the left wing is exposing their strike- breaking policy in detail they are com- ing out in the-open in the midst of the strike, while over 10,000 workers are still. fighting the jobbers, these circumstances we can e establishment of jon of discharge rights, the recogni- jon of the examiners and a number wh : . great support, covert and open, the manufacturers received from the state government and the right wing, is im- deed as great a victory as could have been achieved. It is true that the cloakmakers suffered a partial defeat on the point of 10 per cent reorgani- zation, but they fought against it and under the left wing leadership will yet defeat the manufacturers on this point if, in the course of the next three years, the right wing is elfmi- nated as a dominant factor in the nee- dle-industry and the various neediea trades internationals are consolidated thru amalgamation into a powerful in- dustrial union covering the entire in- dustry. The partial defeat on the re- organization must be placed sq on the right wing, which, thru governor's commission, brought it into the industry and then connived with all the enemies of the union tof not only this point upon the , makers, but intended to force a settle- ment below the governor's nd sion recommendations upon the ers, In this, no matter what the right feated. trike settlement thus ‘e for the right wing: It the governer's commission and marks the : elimination of the ol of the International La- wing may say, they were definitely de- — <