The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 5

ine” THE DAKLY WORKER rage Five —-— 4 Wattenberg Speaks on f } M4 i e ee * Aaah Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities Jewish. Colonization |} The Manager’s Corner | » Progress in Russia |} ; erent sonatas é OO Oe | . The story of Jewish colonization in “ ITER T Ip 00. TES » if HBAD- ? : Pade IT IS BETTER TO BE A SOCRATES WITH A q News and Comment ‘SIGMAN TACTICS IN CLOAKMAKERS | Policies and Programs porns Hote Se: ra ACHE, THAN A PERFECTLY HEALTHY PIG,’ said Dr. SHA vis ° s city . AA TINS ; , Labor Education, STRIKE EXPOSED AT CHICAGO MASS ' The Trade Union Press in a report to be delivered by Dr.| Jesse F. Williame of Columbia University at a health conference Labor and Government : Strikes—Injunctions |Elias Wattenberg; who has just re-} held recently. The professor has uttered a profoundly stimulat Trade Union Politics MEETING BY HYMAN OF JOINT BOARD, Labor and Imperialism turned ba sf segesinadeg seh 9 the | ing thought, a thought which will jar some people uncomfort ‘ new colonies. ie report w 18 giv: L ‘ ra lek ably. - Before one of the largest meetings of cloakmakers and garment work: ) "~~ - Se Go ee Mare hag pointed out that the dominant ideas of a given ORGANIZE SACCO- ers in the city of Chicago, gathered to hear the facts on the situation in CHURCHE pic all, 8 at period in society are the ideas of the ruling class of that hia ia ete Seas een erage Sax ane grees bbs pe Was Delegate. | particular period. Society today, for instance, is governed by man, manager of the joint board of the cloakmakers and dressmakers Wattenberg was one of the few! the ide ‘ . sb ieee test od sheet hethe: i e e ideas of the bourgeoisic. This is seen on every hand, wheiher VANZET Il FI G HT Gulbis? Ohana eb eaten valance Ng og lao peas OF SOLUTI fAmerican delegates at the world con-| j¢ b¢ in the movies Tiletatiuks manners, dress or: the thousand i nd oust the left ene it be in the mo » 5 ; 8 the leadership of Sigman, to gain control of the union a gress for furthering Jewish coloniza- unite: tialt enter din tie sot the J wing leadership. Schoenhofen hall was packed for the meeting, 1000 work- ; tion in Soviet Russia, held at Moscow | "@ one elements that enter in the life,of the day, ers being present, . in November. He represented the | The main purpose of the bourgeoisie is to free himsel f and Sigman “Too Busy” to Come. board thru the strike was a decided “Ieor” Holding corporation, an organ- his family from all cares of this material world, to establish @ By DAVE RAPO | Sigman, who was invited by the|Victory, Hyman declared: The conces: | ¢, ae . yy | 2ation having for its alm the creation! life of physical comfort and ease at the expense of someone (Worker Correspondent) |Chicago joint board to. attend and|%#ons won from the bosses were Money Is God-Given, of funds for financial, credit, and other | ise, The more lavish this comfort and case becomes, the more LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 19.— present his side of the case, did not greatly in excess of the recommenda Says Baptist nyse to the Jewish colonists in ostentatious and showy it is, the higher 4¢ the place of the in- With 38 delegates representing 24 |), dt @ wired that he |tn8 made by the governor's commis- Soviet Russia. sii ; ave § , y a et lla creeped eT si if h id, th At the ci in M dividual in bourgeois society. And so the capitalist press, organizations, of which 14 are unions, | wa, “too busy.” sion. Of course, he said, the agree: ‘This is “industrial week” in man At the congress in Moscow repre- f é 7 a Vanzetti conference was hel s ment was not in every way what the |, Repay ¥ | sentatives of the Soviet government which is merely an echo of the votce of the bourgeoisie, caters Sacco- ence was held| The meeting was held despite re- Chicago chupebes. The clergy are : Sunday, Jan. 9, at the Labor Temple: |yeateq attempts of Chicago right wing workers could desire, but taken as a discussing’ mestion “The Church pledged the fullest support of the gov- strongly to the physical and personal wants and whims of ite This enlarged conference was called |pangsters to break it up. An attempt asa it was Pua abit ond thé] ad the. Abbe: Problem” ander ‘ha phan ie ileal thes mand ice hd readers; and, on the other hand, plays doaun the important ele- together by the existing Sacco-Van-|t, have the use of the hall denied|¥°*ers were the wait auspices of the Chicago Church Feder- |” Mintel ripen nase) ment, the broad, social problems, which are of greater im xetti Conference organized by the In-|the joint board was frustrated when Tells of Tactles. ation: and the Mederal C tion thru the settling of large num- : ec ; : i be i ape woe Pederal Connell of the | pors of Jews land, Th kh portance to society. For, in the long run, a newspaper should ternational Labor Defense some time |ing plot was discovered in time; Right| Hyman recalled some of the strategy | Churches of Christ in America Fal Se ee ee ; : ; : ; ago. wing gangsters were present at the |used by the right wing to discredit} The motive of most of the Speeches been going on a large scale during be essentially an organ of society, and should consciously cul The new conference elected neW | meeting, but the meeting was so over-|the left leadership and to bring de-| delivered is that the church and the Mae agate ore tae Shing eg tivate the idea that its readers are first and foremost members officers and atarted wa al acest whelmingly left that they did not |feat of the strike to gain their end.|labor movement should co-operate to Seah and Swiike. Hine sae oe of society, with a definite responsibility to it. The capitalist Peep and pag eta ®|dare make a move toward disruption |At first the right wing, he pointed out, | solve industrial evils. settled, This colotieatl ag arte t} press on the contrary is full of cures, beauty hints, get-rich unions of the city. when the speaking was under way: pretended to be “radical” and pressed Davey Walle rots Cooperation. settled, is lon movemen'! ‘ / ‘ In the report of the past activities | of the conference it came out that many mass meetings, picnics, and open air meetings had been held. Thousands of petitions were for warded by many organizations and individuals to the governor of Massa- chusetts demanding a new. trial for Saceo and Vanzetti. A sum of $477 was collected, of which $300 was sent direct to the Boston Defense Committee. $155.30 spent for halls, advertising, leaflets, etc., and $21.70 was turned over to ‘the new conference. . Among the newly affiliated organ- izations are large local unions of painters, carpenters, machinists, plas- terers, and others; the Anti-Fascisti Alliance, some Mexican workers’ or- ganizations, I. L. D. branches, Work- men’s Circle branches, etc. The conference elected an executive committee of twelve which will meet every Sunday morning at twelve at / Labor Temple. Y A resolution is being prepared to {be sent for endorsement to all local unions and central bodies of the city demanding that the supreme court grant a new trial to Sacco and Van- zettl. “Only the workers can prevent this}: , Judicial murder,” stated Tom Lewis at the conference. SUBSCRIBE TO > "4 {The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. ~ Only 50 Cents a Year. “Exposes 50 Cent Books.” The 50 cent “registration books” be- jing given out by Sigman, who has {told the workers they will be freed from their past dues, isa trick, Hy- man pointed out. The joint board, he gaid, is now in debt for about $700,000 and this meéy wiil have to be paid some time. Sigman’s plan is to have the -workers leave the ranks of the left wing, using the cancelling of back dues as a bait, and when they are once in, assess each member at least $25 to pay the debts. This will amount to as much as the dues, Hyman said. Replies to “Illegal” Charge. Replying to the charge of the Sig- manites that the cloakmakers’ strike was “unconstitutional nd illegal,” Hyman reminded the right wing that all during the strike Sigman was a member of important.committees, and that Sigman’s supporters were on all committees, Strike Was Victory. The agreement gained by the joiht TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 19.—Un Here is another letter from a Rus- sian worker to his comrades In Amer- lea, In which the interesting problem of many nationalities in Russia is discussed. This is one of a series of letters being published by The DAILY WORKER as part of the program of developing closer contact between the workers of the world by means of di- rect worker correspondence, eee De COMRADES: The U.S, S. R. unites a great number of national- ities. All these nationalities in the ezar’s time were crushed by heels of the great Russians, who thought that only they were human beings. The other nationalities were not consid- ered as men, and they were treated accordingly. A weapon for oppressing a nation was the use of ignorance. The czar’s government did not wish even to think about schools in Turkestan or Siberia, One “culture” was allowed; that was religion, industriously planted by the bribed crowd of priests who led the people in the opposite direction to the class struggle. most oppressed were the Jews. They were forbidden to enter the capital towns and the large cities, In the schools they were not admitted. The government and ‘the police did not protest against the persecution which the Jews had to suffer. On the contrary, it is an established fact that the ‘initiators of the pogroms were: the Police and the ministers, % « Czar Used Race Hatred. This enmity of one nationality to- ward another was used by the czar's government as a weapon to fight the revolution. It excited the people against the Jews, thus the czar hoped to detract the attention of the chris- tians from the revolutionary move- ment thru the pogroms of the Jews. The massacre amongst the tribes in the Caucasus was the route by which the czar's government saw a way to escape from the revolution, But the peoples conscientiousness became vic- f and the czar, with his whole / clique, was overthrown, Caused Difficulties, pad the very beginning the Soviet rnment met diffieulti ing with the national question, J to use great efforts to con vince the quarreling peoples that their each against another is ab- _ Even at present the matter is not quite settled. But about this 1 a et tion, is securing the rising of the cul- alities has béen raised, the Soviet government, every nation- ality has books and school books Printed in their own language. most important, every representative of every nationality can obtain a high school education. How could he think ain regions in the boundaries of one government reside several groups of different nationalities. Such an ob- stacle was overcome in the following way. Each of the nationalities was granted autonomy. How They Are Solved. F bat each republic; in each autono- mous district, the official language has to be the language of the re- spective nationality, The books, the newspapers, the schools and govern- ment offices must use the language of the nation to which the republic or the district belongs. But it is impossible to strictly distribute all the nationali- ties in the districts and in the repub- lies accordingly. ‘ For instance, in the Ukraine reside many Jews, Germans and Russians, But here also a solution had been found. While in Ukraine the Ukrain- ian language ‘is the principal language, there are in many Ukrainian towns Jewish courts of justice. The profes- sional unions are using a language according to the majority of their members. S) Raises Culture. ‘O it can be seen that the Soviet sys- tem in settling the,national ques- pow knew were for demands from the bosses which impossible. They sked for these demands to make vic- tory impossible. They attempted to place the strike leaders in such a posi- tion, he said, so that they could not compromise with the bosses in any- thing, and thus prolong the struggle. Sigman Prevented Settlement. At one time during the strike vic- tory was near, Hyman said, but the chicanery of the right wing was such that they egged the bosses on to re- sist the strikers and thus prevented the ending of the strike until it was finally brought to a close. Issues Challenge. Hyman challenged Sigman and his followers to submit the question of leadership in the New York joint board to the membership, as the teft | wing and impartial elements have ad- |vocated. Hyman declared that the left wing was willing to let the rank and file decide whether they should One of the ¢hief speakers brought here is Jerome K. Davis, head of the Yale University social service depart- ment. Speaking at First Unitarian Church, south side, he said that the church’ should approve of and co- operate with the existing system of unions, “There are bad labor leaders in certain unions,” said Davis, “but there is no more reason for rejecting the union system on that account than there would be to reject the public school system because there are bad principals, “In New Haven, where I live, there are women working full time for $9 a week. AnySody with sense knows that’ such wages are unjust and a menace to jgood morals.” “Money God-Given.” Rev. John W. Elliott, director of social education of the American bapt- ist society, speaking at Garfield Park Baptist Church, affords a sample of Other “attacks” on the problem by Union Coal Miners in Four States Face Drastic Wage Cut in April and Western Pennsylvania agree to accept a cut in wages they will face a complete shutdown affecting 50,000 men in this state, It was declared hare operators from the four states gathered for the wage scale con- The operators, it was said, will offer the miners the competitive wage s scale, which Is from 10 to 15 per vent higher than that paid in non-union fields but about 20 per cent less than the scale which expires in April. RUSSIAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT WRITES OF SOVIET NATIONALITIES Afficulties were in this: that in cer-|i tural level of the nationalities, To- wards this direction at, present the Soviet. authorities are aiming their main efforts. In all of the most.remote parts of U. R. R. S, appear schools. Even where the religion forbids the literary education (as do the Giliaks) now schools can be seen, It proves that the cultural level of the small nation- Many Books Now. _ Thanks to the enormous effort of But The above Is the title-head of a shop paper in Germany that Is published |Joe War by the German workers. Worker correspondents contribute the stories and > There are schools for the gypsies as understand the significance of the na- They say that it is unnecessary that every nation has to use its own lan- guage, language must be the Russian lan- 8 the U, 8, S. R, does not matter. the cultural level will be high. be continued in power. the preachers.! “Lifo, time, talents, personality, and money are God- given,” says the reverend, Negro Workers Told Race Problem Really Is Class Struggle he “The race problent is more a prob- coal miners in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois lem of clasd struggle,” William Thémasg told his audience at the Amer- wat, Negro Labor Forum this week. “We need to or- ganize ourselyes as workers,” he emphasized, “to fight our common enemy, the capitalists. For that we have to fight as workers, regardless of color.” Thomas warned the Negro against Congress Open about it in the czar’s time, when the lack of knowledge of the Russian lan- guage tied him to his village? At present there are even in remote places institutes, and in Moscow and Leningrad there are faculties in the universities for the eastern na- tions. We can see now in our univer sities the Samoieds, the Giliaks and others. This was never dreamed by anybody 10 years ago, Thruout the republics there is a close net of schools for the national minorities, Boe not all remnants of the cursed czars time are done away with. For instance, the unkind treatment and persecution by the czar’s govern- ment forced the Jews to reside in the towns and to undertake a trade or small tool shops. The Soviet govern. ment wants to turn them from the trade toward labor, and. therefore is giving them land, hoping to make of them agriculturers. This campaign has had great success, Thousands of the Jews applied for land. The immi- grants are getting land, they are loaned money and all necessary help with which the government is able to attend these newly created peasants. The experiment was a good one, and the Jewish peasants, in their manage- ment, are on the same level as are the Russian peasants, Gypsies Aided. HE nomad gypsies have won also It is well known that, being op- pressed and turned out by everyone, they were forced to beg and to steal. Now they are enjoying autonomy. judice against unions so they would not join. “The ultimate step of amal- samation of unions is amalgamation of races,” he said. An interesting discussion was held. The Open Forum is held every Sunday afternoon, 4 o'clock, at 3518 S. State street. Admission is free, Employe “Qwnership” of Stocks Shown to Be Slight Quantity WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.—Only 4.26 per cent of the stock of the 20 largest corporations that have tried. to sell stock to their employes is owned by these workers, according to a study made by Princeton university. The telephone trust has sold only 5 per cent of its stock to its employes, who have paid in $80,000,000, Garland Fund Takes Over I. W. W. Pres: The American (Garland) Fund for Public Service has come into posses sion of the printing plant of the In- dustrial Workers ‘of the World thru foreclosure of machinery mortgages held by it. This action was taken, a former I. W. W. official states, to best protect the interests of all concerned. N. Y. Int?! Woman’s Day Meeting for March 8th International Woman's Day will be celebrated in Néw York on March 8, 1927, at Central Opera House, 67th Street near 3rd Avenue. There will be an intéresting variety program. Sympathetic organizations are ‘asked not to arrange anything for that day, | WCEL Radio Program | Chicago Federation of Labor radi broadcasting station WCFL ig on th air with regular programs, It i broadcasting on a 491.5 wave lengt) from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La bor Hour, Brevoort Concert Trio; Littl jazel yy accordion; hm; Lucky Wilburs uperior Dramatic Play: lamo Cafe Dance Orchestia nore, iy KOMP MO E17 dado savanmpndnas dt ake nanms well as in the cultural centers, It is true that many who do not tional division begin to criticize it, They say that the common at we have many languages in But With comradely greetings, M. Ivanov. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! mange bosses who stirred their race pre-|° has stirred the deepest interest and ympathy among the Jews all over the world, Women Urged to Make Articles for Bazaar In Chicago, Feb. 25-27 Mrs, Ella Brown, wife of Bishop William Montgomery Brown, has of- fered her ald to put over the $10,000 workers’ carnival bazaar in Chicago. Comrade Brown has written to the committee in charge in Chicago from her home fn Galion, Ohio, offering to sew articles for display and sale at the bazaar. The bazaar will be held at the Ash- land Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren, on Feb. 25, 26 and 27, for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER, the Jewish Daily Freiheit and part of the proceeds will be given to Interna- jtional Labor Defense for its work. Thruout the hall will be distributed a number of booths which will contain |thousands of articles, large and small, and among them will be the handi- work of Comrade Brown, whose offer was accepted promptly by the com- mittee. Women comrades and sympathizers are urged to emulate this example by contributing” articles’ oftheir own handiwork to the bazaar. They are urged to get together in little groups and in this manner co-operate to the benefit of the three working class institutions that will gain from the success of the bazaar, Federal Employment Bureau Reports Many Workers Out of Jobs WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.,— Part time operations are generally in effect in the major industries, reports Francis I. Jones, director general ot the U. S. employment service. Jones, however, predicts that the workers will soon be recalled, adding a Coo- lidgean touch to an otherwise gloomy report, “The automobile factories and ac- cessory plants have laid off thous- ands of employes, maintaining small forces only for inventory purposes,” he reports, continuing, “It is expected that many of these workers would be recalled in January.” He reports a decline in employment in Illinois industries. Metal and ma- chinery plants were noticeably af- fected, he said. Clothing manufac- turers curtailed production. Gebo Miner Die: GEBO, Wyo., Jan. 19.. — William Knowles, member of the United Mine Workers of America, is dead here. Members of the union mourn the leath of this worker. His death was Iue to heart disease and to lung trouble, contracted from working in the mines, He was 35 years old. A wife and two children survive him. Knowles had been a check-weigh- man, but two weeks before his death lost that job in a union election by a few votes, SSS For Your Lenin Library: LENIN AS A MARXIST By N. Bukharin The Present Chairman of the Communist International, This splendid analysis of Lenin and his place in the field of Marxism {s written by N. Bukharin, who is considered one of the leading living Marxists of the present day. The book is not a mere per- sonal tribute to Lenin. It is rather an attempt to analyze Lenin‘s contribution to the principles of Marxism. The book treats the f ing phases of the sub- ject; The Marxism of Lenin; Lenin's ‘heory and ; Problem of Im- perlaliom; Lenin State; Lenin and the Peasantry; Ti tical Prob- lems Awaiting uss eh neline a ad a copy, ate Daily rent lishing Co. On and after January 24, 1927, our iterary Sales Department will be located AAMAS Fee of the Jewish people in Soviet Russia quick stories and the like, cach making its appeal to self-love and the anti-social qualities, If every worker became a Socrates with a headache as @ result of his thought upon the things which count, the real problems which are facing his clasa, then indeed the exploiter would soon find how uncomfortable it is to be a perfectly healthy pig. BERT MILLER. “Singing Jailbirds,” Dramatization of I. W. W. Harbor Strike, Next Production of N. Y. League NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—"Singing Yailbirds," Upton Sinclair's impres- sionistic play of the I. W. W. harbor strike in California, will be the second production of the Workers’ Drama League here. Rehearsals have already begun under the direction of Jasper Deeter, formerly director of the Hedgerow Theater near Philadelphia and now with the Provincetown Play- ers of New York. Ig First Production In U. S. This will be the first production given “Singing Jailbirds” in America, altho it was written several years ago. The Provincetown group was on the verge of producing it at one time. It was produced by laborites in England, where it was received with acclaim. Among the stirring sceneg in Sin- eclair’s play are a series of wobbly mass scenes in which many of the famous wobbly songs are sung. The play will also give the Drama League artists, Hugo Gellert, Louls Lozowick, William Gropper and Lo Hartman, an : opportunity to introduce modern im- " i pressionist scenery, Comrade Julius Lersein Still Playing “Boob.” is sought and is urgently called by The league is still giving occasional| Dorothy Isaacson, 1124 Richmond performances of its first play, Karl] Street, Chicago Ill. Tel. Armitage Wittfogel’s “The Biggest Boob in the 6157. WHITHER RUSSIA? WHAT ARE THE FACTS ABOUT THE SOVIET ECONOMY? How does production in industry compare with i: dustrial production? What is the tempo of development of the Soviet Economy? What is the role of private capital in the Soviet Economy? What is the direction of development of the Soviet Economy? These questions are answered with tables, figures and charts in: World,” a labor farce. The produc tion of the workers was lauded by many New York dailies. ‘The *Biggest Boob” will be given again at the I. W. W. entertainment jand dance of the Marine Transport Workers in Webster Hall, 125 East |1lth street, Friday, Jan. 21. It is the aim of the league to en- courage and produce plays by young American writers. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? 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