The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1927, Page 4

Organi News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics IGKET REFUSES BRIBE OF BOSS; ‘SEATING RESULTS Fresh Violence Occurs in Box Strike } 2 , NEW YORK, Jan. 13. — Violence @sainst workers who can’t be bribed j® Go back or get off the picket line | 28 the order of the day for paper box mployers. The latest violence oc- purred when three gunmen attacked 2 picket on his way home and so in- jured him that he had to be taken to ghe hospital. Worker Spurns Offer. © Max Birnham, 834 Myrtle avenue, rooklyn, was asked by h mployer to stay off the picket line and prom ised that he would receive his chéck Mor wages at home. He was further offered all back pay since the strike wan fourteen week , if he would ret the rest of the workers to break from the ranks of the strikers. He refused to sell out the union, and yes- terday’s bruta) tack by hired guer- sillas was the bosses’ answer. Would Lower Wages. Not content with trying to get work- ers back without a union, and later lowering their wages, when they are unprotected because unorganized, the employers are already trying to re- duce the low wages existing before the strike. One employer, Irving Weissman, sent a letter to his strip- per, asking her to come back for three dollars per week less than she got before the strike. Needless to s his post card reading, “If you can come back to work for $26.50, then it is O. K. If not, phone me,” was ignored by the workers whose wages were $29.50 and was given to Fred aiola, manager of the union, who read it to a mass meeting. Hight arrests on the picket line ‘show that the police are again being relied upon by the bosses. Two girls, Esther Parrish and Lena Fuch of the Unique Paper Box company, 109 pe St., were dismissed in the city gistrata’s court. They were ar- ited wiaile peacefully picketing. This * is the Same company that used gang- sters to beat up the picket. i Mliggers Threaten Workers Giving Out Labor Party Leaflets Two Chicago workers who were at- tempting to awaken their fellows to the necessity for a labor party by dis- tributing the labor party leaflets of the Workers (Communist) Party to workers at the Hart Schaffner and bi . a $ Marx clothing factory here were driv- | > en off the premises by armed sluggers. | The workers were Comrades Kish- © hier and Lemson.. They had gone to the “L” factory of the clothing com- 2 pany at Tripp and Western avenue. When news of the leaflets they were 7 distributing, reached the bosses, the ® siuggers were sent out to threaten hs © Needle Trades Left Wing Has Historic Rally (Continued from page 1) Ineedle trades, by William Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee of the general T. U. E. L. Cable From International. The following cablegram was re- ceived from the Garment Workers’ In- |ternational Propaganda Committee of jthe Red International of Labor Unions: “Garment Workers’ I. P. C. greets Fourth Conference as expresting mil- nee of workers in the needle in- dustry and commends your struggle for unity and amalgamation in face of the splitting policy of the strike- breaking bureaucracy. We welcome your decision to carry on an en- ergetic struggle for the elmination of this treacherous bureaucracy and to build up an effective educational propaganda organization to enlighten the workers, particularly the up- building of your own press organ.” Resolutions on all questions affect- ing the needle industry and the gen- eral labor movement were adopted, }among which was the following: RESOLUTION AGAINST SPLITTING TACTICS OF THE RIGHT WING. | The reactionary leadership of the needle trades unions are splitting and ruining the needle unions, In their |mad determination to force the work- jers who refuse to follow their leader- |ship to accept the speed-up systems jand other conditions demanded by the employers, they are attempting to |break down the opposition by a reck- less policy of suppression and arbi- trary action that is destroying the ‘unions which have been built thru so many years of hard work. The right wing reactionaries have jcombined to carry on this disruptive jattack against the forces of progress jin the unions. They have combined |not only the most reactionary and cor- \rupt elements in the needle industry, but they stand allied with the ultra- reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L. |and the employers to kill the fighting spirit in the unions. Ruinous Policy. In the International Ladies’ Garment | Workers’ Union the policy of the Sig- man administration is absolutely ruinous. Not content with directly co- joperating with the employers to break |\the cloakmakers’ strike, Sigman. has \finished by arbitrarily suspending the New York Joint Board and all its affiliated local unions, without a shadow of justification by the interna- tional constitution or the facts of the situation, In the Amalgamated Clothing Work- Shift Officers in B. R. T. as Result of A. E. King Death CLEVELAND, Jan, 18, — (FP) — New officers elected by the board of |the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, in the shifting of positions en- tailed by the recent death of general secretary-terasurer, A. E. King, are announced by President W. G. Lee. T. R. Dodge, assistant president, be- comes general secretary-treasurer; W. N. Doak, first vice president, be- comes assistant president; and James Murdock, who was for four years Canadian minister of labor un- der the McKinzie King adminisira- tion, is a newly appointed junier vice president. The new officers take over their duties on Feb. 1. + Leninism and America— v . . . @ The Russian Party Discussion— * The VII Enlarged Executive of the Comintern— ’ The Struggle in the Needle Trades— * A Statistical View of the Soviet Economy— 4 More About the Americ " of an Revolution— These are only SOME of the features of the JANUARY LENIN ISSUE the TAWORKERS MONTHLY e NOow— Can YOU Afford to Miss This Issue? ‘ ; as raven) zed Labor—Trade Union Activities © — ers the Hillman administration has) set up a reign of terror. In biceea cities—New York, Chicago, Rochester,’ etc.—it hag almost completely abol- ished democratic procedure. The ad- ministration rules the unwilling rank and file by force. Opponents of the ad- ministration’s policy of more and more concessions to the employers are ruth- lessly terrorized and often expelled from the union and the industry. This reign of terror reaches its highest pitch in New York under the dictator- ship of the fascist Beckerman, Furriers’ Union. In the Furriers’ Union the Schacht- man administration, too weak and isolated from the masses to make even a semblance of an effective fight itself against the left wing, is being assist- ed by all the reactionaries in the needle trades and the A, F. of L. exe- cutive council. Steps are now being taken by these reactionamies to dis- rupt the Furriers’ New York Joint Board. In the Capmakers’ Union, the inter- national officialdom are beginning to follow the same tactics by removals and suspensions, and giving full sup- port to the Sigman, Beckerman’ and the other right wing reactionaries. The reactionaries have formed the so-call- ed committee for the preservation of the trade unions, to throw dissension and demoralization into the ranks of the workers. ‘ Cessation of Terror. Against this splitting policy of the reactionaries the left wing, voicing the sentiments and determination of the overwhelming majority of the workers in all sections of the needle industry, makes emphatic protest. It demands the immediate restoration of demo- cracy in the unions and the cessation of the present right wing terroristic tactics. It categorically insists upon |the withdrawal of Sigman’s out- rageous suspension order and the im- mediate reinstatement of the New York Joint Board, its affiliated locals, and all their duly elected officials. It insists that the expulsion policy be stopped at once, that the destructive attacks against the Furriers’ Joint Board cease, and that the various militants expelled because ‘of their political beliefs and active defense of a fighting policy against the employ- ers be at once reinstated. The left wing calls upon the masses of workers to actively support its fight against the splitting tactics of the right wing and for the complete unification and rejuvenation of the needle trades unions. RAISE FUND FOR Ni. Y. UNION AS SIGMANITES FAIL IN DISRUPTION ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.—Supporters of the Sigman machine in the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, brot a number of gangsters with them to the big mass meeting held here by the St, Louis confer- ence for the relief of the New York cloakmakers and tried to disrupt the meeting. The speaker was Brother Cooper of the joint board of the New York cloakmakers. The right wingers in- terrupted the chairman repeatedly and were adopting a threatening at- titude when they perceived that the whole meeting was against them. After they left the hall, the meeting successfully concluded by the raising of $2,000 towards a loan to the New York union, 16 Chicago Teachers Over 70 Years Old, Are Put On Inactive List Sixteen public school teachers in Chicago are slated for withdrawal from regular service in the school system and given “emeritus” duty in recommendations to the school board by Superintendent McAndrews, The teachers are all 70 years of age, and have served the schools from 26 years to 52 years, I, M. Schodager, principal of Pierce School, held the long record of service, if The state law provides that when a school teacher reaches the age of 74 they must be placed on a pension of $1,500 a year. Fourteen come under this law in 1927, NEW YORK, ATTENTION! CONCERT & BALL THE DAILY WORKER and TYOVAEN TIETON ANTAJA (The Workers’ Daily in Finland) This Saturday, 8 P. M. January 15th Finnish Workers’ Home 764 40th Street, Brooklyn Admission 50c. (THE DAILY WORKER “a 2 Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism 27 MEMBERS OF © LOCAL CAST 150 VOTES FOR LEWIS Sample of Machine Rule in U. M. W. of A. (Special to The Daily Worker) FREELAND, Pa., Jan. 13, — A sample of how the Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers’ Union jer- rymandered the recent elections for International officers is seen in the manner in which the ,vote of Local 1,521 in the Upper Lehigh Valley was cast. e This local has 150 paid up mem- bers on the books. Just prior to the election a meeting was called by the officials of the local who support Lewis. Only 27 members showed up. The chairman recommended that the secretary of the union he instructed | to cast all the ballots of the local members in the international and dis- trict elections. 150 Votes by 37 Men. All of those present being support- ers of the machine, the motion, of course, was carried. This meant that John L. Lewis and his slate was giv- en 150 votes from Local 1,521 with a little better than one-sixth of the members knowing anything about it. Mine Fire Boss Given Fine and Sentence for Blast That Killed Nine WILKES-BARRE, Jan. 13.—Charles Treneary, a mine fire boss employed at No. 7 colliery of Susquehanna Col- lieries Co., received sentence of $500 fine and three months in the county jail for violating mine safety laws the day nine workers were killed in a gas explosion in the mine, The fire boss had pleaded guilty, admitting that he had not made a thoro inspection and that he had not warned the workers of the small per- centage of gas he had detected. Counsel for the fire boss asked mercy, saying there had ‘been no wil- ful intent or malice th fis actions. that the miners had safety lamps and knew conditions, but that the sud- den starting of the inside fan seem- ed to have caused the explosion. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent / Another Shipment Just Arrived of the “COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL” Official Organ of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International, Principal Contents of Vol. Ill. No. 4 of Nov, 30, 1926 COMRADE TROTZKY DEFENDS HIMSELF, Trotzky’s whole career as a rev- olutionary is analyzed in relation to the discussions in the Russian Communist Party. AN ANGEL’S DILEMMA. J. T. Murphy reviews Mr. Nor- man Angell's book, ‘Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road?” SUCCESSES’ OF THE CANTON ARMY. By Tang Ping Tschan. HEROES—SENTIMENTALIZED, Principal Contents of Vol. III, No, 5 of Dec, 15, 1926 BRITAIN’S BALANCE SHEET FOR 1926. By John Pepper. A full and searching analysis of the breakdown of British capital- ism, and of the probabilities ahead. FROM MARXIAN TO MALTHUSIANISM, By B. Smeral, The “Marxist” left wing of the Second International adopt “Birth Control and Emigration” as their main si ! NOTES OF A TRADE. UNIONIST, By A, Losovsky, SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE ON THESE NUMBERS 10¢ EACH, + i Daily Worker Publishing Co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, My | HISTORY OF CP... TRACED IN TALK BY RUTHENBERG Members of Proletarian Party Answered The present attack of the labor bu- reaucracy on the left wing in the la- bor movement has aroused interest in how the Communist Party rose to its present position from a small pro- paganda group. Comrade C. E. Ruth- enberg, executive. secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, in the second lecture of a series of three showed how the Communist Party grew from a propaganda society to a movement with roots imbedded in the mass movement of the workers of America. From Beginning. He traced the formation of the Communist Party and the Communist | Labor Party, and the movement to- ward unity, based on a realization that work in America must aim to- ward participation in the mass move- ments of the workers thru an open party. ers for the maintenance of the under- ground, illegal party as the dominat- ng factor was explained. The dif- ference between a sect and a party of the masses was well brot out, using the proletarian party as an example. P. P. Members Talk. | The lecture was received as an au- thoritative presentation by one who occupied a central position in the de- velopment of the movement. One hour was taken for the lecture, half an hour in answering questions, and then an hour was allowed for discussion, speeches being limited to five min- utes, after which Comrade Ruthen- berg closed the discussion. Three members of the proletarian party en- livened the discussion by making cri- ticism of the Workers Party. These were well answered by Ruthenberg in summing up. The proletarian party members were invited to participate in the mass movements of the workers in a united front with the Workers Party and other working class organiza- tions, instead of confining their ac- tivity entirely to study classes. Next Lecture Saturday Night. The third lecture by Comrade Ruth- enberg, under the auspices of the Workers School, will be held this coming Saturday, Jan. 15, at 8 p. m., instead of Sunday night, since the Liebknecht memorial will take place on Sunday. Northwest Hall, North and Western Aves. Admission 25c. Gary Lenin Memorial - Meeting on January 22 GARY, Ind., Jan. 13. — The Gary Lenin memorial meeting will be held in Turner Hall, 14th and Washington Sts., Saturday, Jan, 22, 8 p. m. The speakers will be Max Bedacht speaking for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party and Nat Kaplan for the Young Workers League. A Young Pioneer will also speak. All Gary workers are invited te at- tend this meeting. There will also be music. Admission is free. The fight of the United Toil-| WITH THEY , CONDUCTED + BY TH By NAT KAPLAN. Article |. HE present events in the senate and house in regards to the Nica- raguan invasion and the enforcement by Mexico of the oil and land laws clearly demonstrates’ the existence of a broad, vague, anti-war, anti-militar- ist, pacifist sentiment among the small bourgeoisie. This is caused primarily by the steady shifting of the burden of taxation and national debt from the shoulders of the big bour- geoisie on to the shoulders of the pet- ty bourgeoisie and the working class. |We must understand this develop- ment and realize how far this petty bourgeoisie opposition will go if we |are not to ride along on the tail of the Borahs, the Wheelers and tha Huddlestons and ourselves become partners in creating pacifist illusions in the minds of the workers. First of all it is perfectly correct to utilize this rift in the ranks of the j bourgeoisie, to goad the small bour- geoisie on to more determined ac- tion against the big bourgeoisie, but the workers must realize from the start that this opposition will not go very far. These gentry in the senate and house will do noth- ing to organize the masses for a strug- gle around the slogans of: Demand that the United States get out of Ni- caragua! No intervention in Mexico! Hands off China! They are twice as {scared of the oppressed masses as |they are of the big bourgeoisie that lis bringing pressure against them. They, will go as far as presenting bills, passing resolutions and making | speeches—but no further. | The Young Workers (Communist) | League has had some experiences with these petty bourgeois pacifists. We entered into united fronts with ‘the petty bourgeois youth for an |honest struggle against capitalist mili- \tarism. These united fronts did not N. Y. Young Workers to Observe Memory of | Liebknecht at Mass Meet | NEW YORK, Jan, 13, — The | Young Workers League of New | York will hold a mass meeting on Sunday, Jan. 16 to commemorate the death of Karl Liebknecht, re- nownes world proletariat champion. and leader of the working-cla youth, The meeting will be held at Styvensant Casino, at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. All young workers are invited to attend and hear of this leader. The meeting will emphasize the de- mand of the Y. W. L. for hands off of Nicaragua and Mexico and for a struggle against militarism, «+ LIEBKNECHT MEETINGS, CHICAGO—Northwest Hall, North Ave, and Western, Jan 16th, 8 p, m. WORKEDS PETTY BOURGEOIS PACIFISM even go as far as we had hoped. On one question the petty bourgeois pa- cifist youth was quite militant, and ag- gressive and that was on how most quickly and effectively to break up these united fronts, to frustrate every effort made by the more radical ele- ments in it to take a single step against capitalist militarism, Thru a few examples we will try to show how petty bourgeois paci- fism only creates illusions in the minds of the workers and perverts the real struggle against capitalist militarism and the danger of new im- perialist wars. For instance there is the Fellow- ship of Reconciliation, a petty bour- geois religious pacifist organization, The main aim of this body is to make its members meek, humble, submis- sive in the present day society of class struggles. Its antt-militarist program consists in its totality of the following nonsense: “Love alone can break the vicious circle of cause and effect that keeps war, exploitation and race discrim- ination with us...” With a program of non-activity, turning the other’ cheek and impo- tence, the Fellowship poses as the “true” anti-militarist organization. In one place in its statement of prin- ciples the Fellowship declares: “The members of the Fe!lowship desire to express their convictions in a spirit of humility, honor, and love and to guard against the dan- ger of controversial methods...” There can be nothing clearer than this as an outright pro-boss policy. “Humility” of the young workers to their exploiters. “Honor” to the boss- es’ government. “Love” for the Wall Street bankers that are rushing us in- to another imperialist war. No “con- troversial methods” against our ex- ploiters, That is¢what the Fellowship’s pacifism consists of. (Continued tomorrow.) Zam, Williamson; Bedacht, speakers. HAMMOND, Ind.—January 16th, Sunday et 10 a. m., Workers Hall, 1059 Wallace Road. GARY—Saturday, Jan. 15 at 3 p. m.,. Co-operative Hall, 215 W. 18th street. CLEVELAND—Br. 2—South Glav Hall, Gammet, speaker. Br. 1, Firei- heit Hall, Gammet, speaker, Jan 16, 4p. m. 3514 B, 116th St. Br. 8, Hun- garian Hall, Amter, Gammet, speak- ers, Jam, 14, 8:30 p. m., 4309 Lorain Ave. DETROIT—January 9th at 2:80 p. m. at So, Slav Hall 18th and Chou- teau Ave., Darcy, speaker. BUFFALO—January 22, 8 p. m, at Workers Forum Hall, 36 West Huron street. Speaker, Sam Essman, WASHINGTON, D. C.—January 14, 8 p. ms at Playhouse, 814 N, St, N. W. Speaker, Darcy. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Factory Newspapers--Communist Shop Organs deeply into the working class masses,sible extent, and the slogan raised of By REBECCA GRECHT. EVERAL months ago there appear- ed an article in the “Detroit Sat- urday Night”, one of the most bitter anti-labor, open shop organs in the United States, calling attention to a new “menace” that had made its ap- pearance in Detroit, threatening the peace and tranquillity of the power- ful automobile barons of that city. This “menace” was none other than the factory newspapers issued by the Workers (Communist) Party groups in the various automobile plants in Detroit—including the Ford Motor Co., Dodge Bros., the Fisher Body Plant, etc. While the American Fed- eration of Labor was contenting itself merely with passing resolutions on the organization of the automobile in- dustry, the above article stated; the Communists, thru their shop papers, were actually spreading the doctrine of organization among thousands of workers. In similar vein the New York “Journal of Commerce”, like- wise an open shop paper devoted to the “American Plan”, recently issued a warning against the Communist “house organs” thru which the Com- munist Party is gaining a foothold in American industries. Thus the significance of Communist factory newspapers is already being recognized by the capitalist enemies of labor, ever quick to discern what- ever in any way threatens their con- trol. Functions of Factory Newspapers. IACTORY newspapers issued under Communist direction are not pecu- liar to the American Communist Par- ty. They are being published today in England, Germany, France, Czecho- Slovakia, and other countries where Communist parties function. They are a form of activity developed especial- ly thru the reorganization of the Com- munist parties into units based on the place of work of the membership in- stead of the territory in which they live. As the aim of reorganization is to build the parties in such a way that their influence may penetrate so factory newspapers serve as one of the chief mediums thru which the influence of Communist groups, or nuclei, in the various factories can be exercised. It is necessary for us in the Ame- rican party to understand clearly the importance of these shop papers, and study ways and means of making them effective. As the name implies, the factory newspaper is intended pri- marily for the workers of a particu- lar plant. It is the organ of the Com- munist factory group, to carry on agi- tation among the factory employes. It is a vehicle for conveying to the workers, in a manner they can read- ily understand, the principles of Com- munism and the program of the Com- munist Party in industry and politics. Basing its contents and methods of approach upon the needs and experi- ences of the factory workers, it aims to break down their apathy, to stir them against capitalist exploitation, to rouse their class consciousness and develop their political judgment, thus drawing them nearer to the Commu- nist movement, Agitation Instrument. TN these respects the factory news- paper, properly organized and ed- ited, can often be a more effective agi- tational instrument than the general party press. Written for the workers of one enterprise, the factory organ can be adapted to their particular mentality and special interests. It is more concrete and specific than the party daily paper, as the latter, de- signed for wide masses of workers, necessarily deals with a broader va- riety of subjects, in a more compre- hensive and complex manner, This does not mean that the factory news- papers can replace the Communist press, which, as a “collective propa- gandist, agitator, and organizer”, is in- dispensable to our party, The shop pa- pers, in fact, bring the workers clos- er to the party organs and increase their circulation, Because of its di- rect appeal, however, the factory newspaper has special value, This must be utilized to the widest pos- “a shop paper in every. factory em- ploying several hundred or more workers where there is a Communist group.” Shop Problems and Economic De- mands. ‘ANY problems are involved in the preparation and publication of factory papers, most important of which is that of contents. The effec- tiveness of the factory newspaper de- pends largely upon what it contains. Upon this question, chiefly, rests the success of the paper and the achieve- ment of its aims. It must be given earnest consideration. The factory newspaper, by its very purposes, must deal primarily with the problems faced by the employes in the shop, approaching the workers thru their economic interests. This is the first principle governing contents. The questions of wages, hours, unm _ employment, organization, etc., constt- tute the fulcrum around which the agi- tation of the Communist factory group turns, Every wrong the work- ers in the shop are subjected to, evéry oppressive condition imposed upon them, great or small, must find a place in the factory newspaper. The workers must be made to under- stand the general system of capitalist exploitation under which they live bf explanation and analysis of the speci- fic conditions of enslavement under which they themselves toil. In every possible way the factory newspaper must demonstrate to the workers that the Communists are not interested merely in theories and in abstractly propagating the final social revoju- tion, but are vitally concerned with the immediate welfare of the work- ers, alive to their every need. (To be continued) GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant’ " 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. es in + .