The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1926, Page 4

4 | | tion. Despite this under-cover confer- *) Kalpaxas’ vote was 225 to 88 for ‘the joint board of the Amalgamated, "and the “Mussolini” of the union, News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politica Leer WINS OUT OCAL 54 OF AMALGAMATED _ Rights Rect to Fascist Tactics By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. {Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK—Members of Local 5: Amalgamated (Clothing Workers of America, manifested their complete approval of left wing union adminis- tration. in an election held at the Amalgamated Temple, Arion Place, Brooklyn. Business Agent Kalpokas and Dues Clerk Petronis, both promi- nent left wingers, were overwhelming- vty, re-elected. ‘Before the meeting was held, a cau- jus of the right wing members of the local took place in another room of ‘the Temple, furnished free of charge ‘by right wing Amalgamated officials ‘who control the New York organiza- “yence, and other last minute rallyings reactionaries, members of the union Ceseypd expressed their confidence the militant and progressive ele- “ments who are attempting to rehabili- te the union. Peckerman henchman, B. Krarpus. or Dues Clerk, A. Petronis received 232 votes, while G. Zilinskas, right winger, secured only 66 votes. This election has caused much dis- cussion in union circles here, for it is )a complete vindication of left wing "union forces in the needle trades. Abraham Beckerman, manager of is attempting to regain his former ipisctiee by fascist methods. Beckerman and his cohorts are now e instigators of a movement to do way with democracy in the local by Making the office of business agent an appointive position, instead of an lective one. His attempt to discredit 2 left wing officials of Local 54 re- etr OverWhdlining re-elec- Foreseeing the failure of this illegal Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities: | | Committee for the Preservation of What? By JOSEPH BRAHDY. H have, of course, our trade unions de luxe, composed of about one “million skilled workers, mainly in the railroad brotherhoods and large sections of the printing and building trades unions—with Commu- nists only in small spots. These trade unions seem to be well preserved, with trade union banking, trade union insurance, trade union real estate, trade union scab mines, trade union scab ads; in short, no “Committee for the Preservation of Trade Unions” need apply. But as to the rest of it, it seems a modest program to preserve our trade unions, with four million out of thirty million workers organized. ‘OULD it not be more in keeping with the needs of the moment to have a Committee for the Launching of Trade Unions, for something like the textile union in Passaic, or the Greek workers in the fur industry, only a hundred times more; for some- thing like the A, F. of L, said (said, said, said) it wquld do with the rub- ber workers in Akron and the auto- mobile workers in Detroit. Or let us take the United Textile Workers (outside of Passaic), the United Garment Workers, the Amal- gamated Steel Workers, the metal miners, the food workers in the A. F, of L, The Communists are in these unions only in small numbers; as a matter of fact, there were hardly ever any in them; neither are 95 per cent of the workers of these industries in these unions. UT if we are just hell-bent on pre- serving what about preserving some of the machinists, seamen, rail- way maintenance men, of which the unions lost some 400,000 out of 500,000 in the last few years? Committee for the Preservation of Trade Union Jobs. See, that’s the ticket, the meal ticket; a jumping-off place for the likes of Brindell, Wolinsky, Farring- ton, the New York Federation Bank boys, O’Hara of the electrical work- ers, etc. But you have to have somebody to jump off from. You have to get the workers pickled before you can get yourself preserved; and there is The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit, and the various needle trades joint boards, etc., between you and the preserves. O you remember those little labels on preserves, “Put up in com- pliance with the food laws of the state department?” It seems to be the only kind of preservation attempt- move, he is now ignoring the left wing delegates to the joint board. When complaints are made regarding routine “matters by delegates trom this loca Beckerman-Forward clan now in l of the Amalgamated joint oard, pay absolutely no attention to “tem, and attempt to achieve by in- $i and trickery what they failed to _ vin by franchise. U. S. May Accept—May Not. | WASHINGTON.—The United States sovernment is undecided whether to ‘articipate in the International Eco- omic Conference to be held in Eu- pein May. It will be under the aus- tes of the league of nations, and country has been invited to send gates. _ CLASS lage ata’ aft WORKS. yy BERTRAM D. WOLFE. Red Libra Number Nine, 10 cents.) ~ ‘What role doés the labor buro- play in the labor movement? To explain this role is it suffi- ‘say: “The burocrats are brib- the bosses?” Why? Why does the class-collaboration tion of the leavers find a re- ise in certain sectioas of the rank file? “What is the “aristocracy of la- and what are its relations to su- ition of American Capitalism. is the position of Ameri- in relation to the world it are the sources of the su- of American capitalism? use is made of a portion hg Vs aha in relation to sections of the American class? ov are the effects upon the rkers ‘of this distribution of a por- ae conde among certain ‘ Corruption of e Workers. certain strata of the in the big war profits? Certain sections of the profits thru the aoe She. “enien label | a Sa a aE a QUESTIONS and ANSWERS LENIN CIRCLE ed in this instance—a job, put up in compliance with the foo@ laws. Committee for the Preservation of Communists in the Trade Unions. Because that’s what they really are, There are about one million members in the American labor unions who are Communists to the extent that they vote for the Communist program and for Communist leadership whenever they have an opportunity, And here the committee for the preservation of pickles sings “Holy Moses, what a per capita, nearer my God to thee!” The Communist per capita they want, the Communist captains they don’t want, ND that’s where you are the real fakers. These Shiplacoffs, Beck- ermans, Wolls, regular semi-bolshe- viks, trade union centrists, class for your rection? . 12. How do certain types of “job trusts” enable the organized workers to exploit the unorganized workers? 18. ‘How are groups of workers in certain strategic positions treated so as to turn them against+the masse: of the workers? 14, In what way does the strike breaker receive a share of profits? The straw boss? 15. In what ways does the direct exploitation of some workers by oth ers take place? 16. In what way does the Ameri can labor movement represent an “aristocracy” in regard to the work- ers Of the world ag a whole? 17, What effect has this “aristoc- racy” position on certain special sec- tions of the workers? 18. In what way is the labor buroc- mey reached by the super-profits (“the feathered nest”)? 19. How is the “brain worker” reached by the super-profits? What ig the relation of this to “workers’ education”? 20, What is the role of “trade union capjtalism” in distributing su- ber-profits among certain sections of the workers? i —Will Herberg. (Note: Owing to a printer’s error the name of the book taken up last Week was omitted. It is: Class Col- laboration vs. Class Struggle.) Next Week: The Constitution and Labor Laws of the Soviet Union, Lit: | He Red Library, No, My J struggle pacifists, at most you cap call them per-capita fascists, but not regular ones, What a mess! Let Every Honest Faker on the Com- mittee Resign. Let us treat each other with re- spect. Let us have a committee worthy of the job of cleaning out the Commu- nists, AT the hell do you know about it, what the hell you got—a couple of hundred gangsters, a couple of thousand knives, a couple of mil- lion dollars in your two-by-four banks, a couple of million votes? Phew! Where are your blackshirts, where are your machine guns, how many of you are deputy police commissioners, how many of you pay income tax? Get out! I nominate the <owne on the committee: The editor of the New York Times. The president of the Trust Co, Leader Hall. The president of the Interborough Rapid Transit. The governor’s commission with the governor thrown in, The joint board of the dependent, independent and ~ interdependent Cloaks, etc., Assoclation, Pinkerton, Burns, General Per shing, and the police commissioner of Passaic, Let there be no sabotage about this preservation business; ptt the guys on the job what’s got the tools, and the real good will—no pink per-capita- capitalists, N. B.: And after that; they'll clean you out, too, MINE OWNERS FEEL SECURE AGAINST UNION Can Defeat Strike, Says Engineer WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—(FP)— Should a strike in the bituminous fields take place on April 1, when the present agreement between the mine owners and the United Mine Workers of America expires, the non-union mines will be able to.produce enough coal to meet the emergency and beat the strikers. ’ This is the prediction made by Dr. Henry Mace Payne, consulting engi- neer of the American Mining Con- gress, which represents the employ- ing group, in a review just issued of the mining industry. Enough in Storage. Dr, Payne declares that in the event Empire Olvany from Tammany ME DAILY Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism ‘JUDGE REBUKES POLICEMEN WHO ARREST PICKETS See End of Jailings in Paper Box Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec; 28,—A strong rebuke to a policeman ‘for arresting two paper box strikers and intimidat- ing them in their peaceful picketing was administered by Judge Simpson in the first magistrate court. The two women were dismissed and the police- man was ordered to refrain from dering them off the block.” Ordered to Stop. Anna Fargo, 472 Pearl St. and Martha Walsh, 449 East 146th St., were arrested when picketing in front of Kovner Paper Box Co, at 179 Wooster St., after the policeman told them that there were already four pickets and they would have to go off the block. The girls replied that there were three shops on the street. The cop im- mediately arrested them, while the em- ployers looked on approvingly. See End of Arrests. In court Martha Walsh told the judge that this was the second time she had been arrested for the same reason and when the judge learned from the policeman that they had not done anything besides picketing, he made no mistake about his feeling that the policeman was siding with the employer. The union expressed great satisfaction with the decision and regard it as the beginning of the end of the 300 and more arrests that had been draining the treasury of the union, Union Gets Help. Help for the fight is coming in from all sources. Today’s mail brought a $250 donation from the United Work- ers’ Co-operative Association, Inc., and a $50 donation from, ,the Furriers’ Dressers’ Union, Loans, to meet the immediate needs of the union’s mem- bership were secured, The Furriers’ Joint Board loaned the union one thou- sand dollars to cover the relief, Dona- tions also came from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Local 2163, and Koyners’ young men’s organiza- tion. Toys and gifts for the children of the strikers were given out to all family men and women, .They were sent by the Labor Temple thru Ed- mund B. Chaffee, the director, of a shut down the nonunion mines, which are supposed to have increased in number in recent, years, can pro- duce between eight and nine millions tons of coal a week, against a weekly demand of 10% million tons, In addi- tion, he says, there are 55 to 60 million tons to draw from storage. Cite Scabby Feld. “Western coal fields are practically all working on a co-operative or modi- fied union basis,” Dr, Payne states. Alabama producers have a good sell- ing organization. In Kentucky and Tennessee operators are paying 5 per cent more than the union wage scale. The state licensing law of Illinois has served to prevent any but union mines from operating. Western Pennsyl- vania, once strongly union, is now largély non-union,” Insurance Companies Block Attempt to Get Workers Compensation WASHINGTON— (FP)— Insurance companies of the District of Columbia, who have successfully resisted for many years the enactment of a work- men’s compensation law for the dis- trict to be conducted by the govern- ment, collected in premiums last year $22,319,645 and paid out for damages during the same period only $6,619,- 897, Block Government. They have not only prevented the enactment of a workmen’s compensa- tion act, unless they were given the opportunity of writing the insurance, but theyshave fought every effort made by the local municipal officials to have a modern insurance code, which would have reduced the rates, enacted by congress, Organized labor in Washington, the American Association of Labor Legis- lation, and other bodies have repeat- edly petitioned congress to enact the Fitzgerald bill providing for workers’ insurance, but the insurance lobby here, alded by the insurance compan- jes of the entire nation, have brought the enactment of the Underhill bill, which would continue their profits, Threaten Witness. District Superintendent of Insur- ance T. M. Baldwin, in testifying be- fore a congressional committee sey- eral days ABO, stated that the insur- ane lobby “threatened to get him” he persist his siebrtt: to get a modern ue . Interests Line. Up Against Boulder Dam Bill. WASHINGTON, Dec, 28, — Private power interests, which have been op- posing the Swing-Johnson bill author- izing the building of the world’s big- gest dam on the Colorado River, be- tween the states of Nevada and Ari- zona for more than six years, are pooling their resources for another attack on the bill, which will prevent its enactment during the balance of the short session of congress, Power Teachers in Convention, SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 28, Springfield was filling up today with the vanguard of representatives of more than 440,000 school teachers for the opening tomorrow of the 78rd annual convention of the State Teach- ers’ Association. WORKER GOV, FULLER KEEPS i ‘OPEN MIND’ ON SAGCO AND VANZETTI TRIAL (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 28.—(FP)—Lit- erally “no opinion” is held by Gov. Alvan Fuller of Massachusetts on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the exeécu- tive told reporters upon his return from Europe. He insisted he had an “open mind” on the matter and would take no action on any appeals before him until the courts had finally disposed of the case. He in- dicated "that he would’ then, how- ever, if appealed to by defense counsel, consider the case of the two Italian workers whom labor has proclaimed were wrongly convicted of murder, Fuller said that in Paris a committee of lawyers had spoken to him at length on the case, but that he would not discuss it with them because none could speak English and he regarded it “too delicate” a matter to entrust to an interpreter, UNITED FRONT “) AGAINST ALIEN BILLS FORMING Protest on Degrading Laws Increases NEW YORK, Dec. 28. — In addition to a stream of endorsements of its work by international unions and state and city labor federations, the Coun- cil for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, since. it opened its national office in New York last- month, has been receiving a, number of interest- ing opinions on the various anti-alien bills now before congress, From the People’s Legislative Ser- vice of Washington there has come to the National Council for Protection of Foreign-Born Workers two Vigorous denunciations of the Holaday deporta- tion bill and of the Aswell registra- tion bill. Calls It Pogrom Inciter, Of the Holaday bill this bureau says: “Legislation should be passed to make it forever impossible for any de- partment of our government té court the contempt of enlightened and humane men and women at home and abroad by engaging again in such in- human activities as those described in ‘The Deportation Delirium of 1920,’ by Louis F. Post, formerly assistant secretary of labor. But this bill seeks to put a premium upon such activi- tiles, to increase the incentive to en- gage in them, and to lengthen and strengthen the arms of those who seem to favor the adoption of the po- grom as an American institution, “This bill is ungenerous to the point of mercilessness, and it is so wholly without necessity.” Sees Danger to Labor. This legislative service also sees the Aswell bill in its true colors when it says: “Everything calculated to give the alien the craven consciousness of a cowed convict is painstakingly provid- ed in this un-American Dill. “The bill is full of danger to organ- ized labor, Thousands of aliens are now members of labor unions. Others constitute the human raw material from which the ranks of organized labor must be recruited. If the spirit of these alien workers is broken, to the extent to which it is broken the independent spirit of organized labor will suffer. The passage of this bill would encourage labor’s foes to think that a reduction of the American worker to the status of foot-tied feudal serfdom or Mexican peonage was a}. possibility.” A LETTER FROM THE BISHOP THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. My Dear Comrades: Mrs. Brown and I are handing you a check here- with for $26 for the “Keep The Daily Worker Fund.” We wish that we could make it $25,000, Hoping that you insure the publication ill be successful in raising the funds necessary to The DAILY WORKER another year and so on am, with every good wish for all at its headquarters from both, Very cordially yours, (Bishop) WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN. Meat Market Bakery deliv 4301 8th Avenue CARPETS RUGS 1600 W. 1618 W. 2408 W. 2635 W. 4247 W. Roosevelt Rd. Chicago Avenue North Avenue North Ayenue Madison Street OSCAR I. BARKUN'S 5 STORES BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. 18 made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino. (Workers organized as consumers) Brooklyn, N. 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You are aware how small is the Red Army in comparison with armies of capitalistic countries. Surrounded By Enemies, “Our republic is surrounded on all sides by enemies. The growing so- cialistic instruction in our country calls forth a fnrious hatred on the part of capitalists. In order to secure peaceful labor of the workers and peasants we must have solid armed forces. That is why you must not sever your close contact with the army, even if you leave its ranks. Must Not Forget. “While working in the factory or in the field you must not forget military knowledge acquired by you in the army, and yoh have to spread it by all means amongst other workers. The Red Army is not only an armed guardian of Soviet frontiers, but also a gigantic school for laboring masses of the Socialistic Union of Republics, You leave the ranks now as fully pre- pared Soviet citizens, who understand how working class, together with peas- ants, is leading our country towards socialism, This lays on you enormous responsibility, especially on those who go back <o the villages, Confident of Aid. “While congratula‘ing you with the termination of military service, I, to- gether with all commanders of the Red Army, express my firm belief that, having returned to the factories, | | workshops and villages, you will work in the first ranks of those who com struct our socialistic state and that you will not forget military knowledge acquired by you in the army, and, i€ necessary, will stand at the critica) moment with the whole Red Army in defense of the workers’ and peasants’ republic,” Y. W. L. Member Talks to Inter-College Club At the Intercollegiate Club banquet held ip ‘Chicago Dec, 19 Comradé Lydia Beidel gave a talk on “The Youth Movement.” She declared her | self a member of the Young Workers (Communist) League and pointed out that this was the really effective youth movement in this country. She pointe ed out that the students could not assume leadership of the struggles of the working youth in the industrial centers and on the farms, but can be a welcome ally to the young worker§ in this struggle. Youth to Usher in New Year with Balk NEW YORK CITY.—The “Build the League and Pioneer Campaign” will be celebrated here on New Year's Eve with a concert and ball arranged by the Young Workers’ League and Young Pioneers. The affair takes Place on Friday, Dec, 31, at Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox ave- nue. Tickets in advance, 50 cents;! 75 cents at the door. Section One, Chicago, Meets. 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