The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 3

Below is a reproduction of the rush letter sent out by of- ficials of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City to rally the reaction in the new attack to be launched against the left wing tonight. * * * ane I. Exploitation of Americans SOFTA—Bulgaria is a country of! severest White Terror. This terror, {which has now been raging for al-| 'most four years has: had countless fo - NDAY, MARCH 21, 1927 Page Three Manuel Gomez represented the United States Section of the} BLACK BULGARIA an analysis of the present financial imperialism of Wall Street,' —- Due to the British miners’ strike, | {the contrary they are exploited as| proved. But this improvement, of ture of American imperialist capi- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M RN | BRITISH STRIKE © /Speech by Manuel Gomez 'WHITE TERROR IS : wir / | | | | in War on t IS VELVET FOR 1 THE BRUSSELS ANTLINPERIALIST' CONGRESS — STILL. RAGING IN Hurry Up Cali in War on the Lett Wing . | ; ‘CZECH’ OWNERS | Al-America’ Anti-Imperialist League at the Brussels Congress of Oppressed Colonial Peoples and Anti-Imperialists. His speech is Reformists Oppo sed ee cg its roots in the exploitgtion of American and foreign Employers Annull the| Struggle to Help Miners Aa . ’ Working Agreements eourse, expressed itself exclusively | oe ebokhiea ‘ks pee i OFFICERS Represents the Local Unions Affiliated with the An EXECUTIVE COUNCHL Federa eriean of Labor in Greater New York and Vicinity JOSEPH P, RYAN, Pres, JEROME K NG in the increasing profits of the coal | barons. The Czecho-Slovakian mine owners utilised the situation to the fullest extent. This is clear from the following figures cn the Ostrav coal district: Hundred weights In October, 1926, output per man per day was According to contract, output should have Ween ve 3,16 10,78 Excess output of 1 ewt. of coal costs 20 Cz-S. crowns x 3,16 Cz-S. 63,80 Additional wage received by miner for increased production Cz.-S. Overhead expenses 3,16 cwts. 9,42 on 7,38 16,80 Each worker’s shift of 24hours « leaves a net profit of Cz-S. 47 Therefore considering that in Oc- tober 38,449 miners worked, the sur- plus value per day due this increase productivity amounted toe 1,807,103 Cz-8, With 22 shifts per month, gives 39,76,266 Cz-S. Such was the position when the this | To the shame of the American the workers referved to no interest | Working class it must be confessed in the imperialist yentures of Wall |that the American Federation of La-/ Street and Washington—fraught, in- bor has neglected to take a clear-cut | cidentally, with the constant menace jstand in the face of, the brutal ag-| of wars--but they are’ themselves |gression of the United States govern- obliged to engage in desperate encoun- |ment in Nicaragua; Nowhere does | ters with the ruling class. Examples the A, F, of L. come out definitely! are the various great struggles in |for immediate, complete and absolute the coal industry and the present jindependence of the Philippine long-drawn-out strike of the Passaic |Islands and Porto Rico. It supports | textile workers. the Monroe Doctrine in Latin Amer-| Even the masses of heavily ex- | ica, jusijas it furthers the diserimin- | ploited workers whom we) have been jation against Negroes and other op-| considering are of course without | pressed groups in the United States real consciousnes of their objectives. | itself. Most of them are unorganized, while \the organized sections—notably the Tt is necessary for us to take note | miners—are preyed upon by an offi- of these things and to understand the! cialdom which is rotten to the core. {sinister economic relationship which | Nevertheless a militant left wing has underly them, if we are to proceed|sprung up and is spreading through- realistically in the struggle against! out the American Labor ‘movement. | American imperialism; and against |The: conscious left wing is still small imperialism in general. To that! but it is growing steadily and already | struggle, I take it, everyone present it has a number of important suc- | at this congress is irrevocably com-| cesses to its credit. | mitted, | betsy aaa * > os | We of the All-American Anti-Im- You may think I have painted a perialist League, have received our | discouraging picture—a picture | chief support in the United States |which shows American imperialism from the small left wing of the * * * British miners’ strike was at» its| to be resting upon an unshakably se-| workers’ political and trade union height. Nevertheless, the Interna-/cure base at home. But the truth is;movement. It has been a reliable tional General Trade Union and) that, notwithstanding the claims of} support because it is based upon in- Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia | apologists for imperialism in labor’s | terests which are identical with those conducted a stubborn ruggle against increasing productivity of labor in the mining industry, strug- gied against experting blackleg coal to England, demanded wage _in- creases for the miners, etc. Claim- ing that the Czech miners had suf- fered long from unemployment and that they would now at least receive a breathing spell, the reformists in- tentionally disrupted this campaign. Signal For Mine Owners. In vain the Communists warned the workers that a victory of the British mine owners would .be a sig- nal for mine owners in other coun- tries to attack the miners, and -that ‘ranks the term “class collaboration” | of the colonial and semi-colonial peo- |must still be put in quotation marks.| ples oppressed by American imper- | Properly speaking there is no such ialism. It does not limit itself to |thing as class collaboration under! side-issues. It does not hesitate be- | capitalism. Privileged sections of|fore consideration of loyalty to the workers may have temporarily| American capitalism. The national- deserted to the enemy. but the class |ist and national-revolutionary move- i struggle still goes on. _ments in Latin America and the Far- Every day we are confronted with | East can reckon upon it and depend the spectacle of company. unions | upon it, for it will not fail them. breaking down before a critical situ-; We in the United States have no \ation and “institutions which were |such achievements to record as those |ereated for one purpose being con-| described by our comrade of the pow- 'verted into their very opposites. Only | erful Minority Movement of Great jat great expense can the flames of| Britain. The degree of development | discontent be kept down. We are | of the American working class has | Seeing in Great Britain what happens | not made that possible. But-I want this applied no less to Czecho- when imperialism can no longer af- Slovakia. ford to share its loot in: sufficient When the British miners’ strike | Wantities. ended, the situation changed. The in- * i solence of the mine owners increased: Moreover, and. this is something Their incredible provocation, cou-| Which our comrades do not. suffici- pled with a drive on the part of the ently realize, there are great bodies miners to create a united treat, of workers in the United States— forced the reformists at last to agree! miners, steel workers, textile work- to a meeting of representatives of |¢rs, the majorit¥ of the workers in all miners’ trade unions, which in-, machine industry, who are not in the eluded also the Miners’ Section of Privileged position of the American “One Big Union.” pre ray npn 5 itn srg ta Question of Increased Wages. ates renege wre gee bec ee oem This meeting was held on the 6th |Tecéive as high as $75 and $80 a of Decémber, 1926. The reformists| week but you'do not know that the recommended that a demand be put penis dial frdew in the pros- before the government . that they | P® re, ustries, oes not earn more should take up the question with the | theif $20 e¢, 926 0 week. In the tex- P a ‘tile mills of the South cand re- mine owners of increasing MAZES. | civ rR . rasa ve from $8 to $15 a week, and the The reformists limited themselves ~~ Hed just to this resolution. The Miners’ | *¥¢rage Wage wr le com- Section of One Big Union did not|™™, faker & t SS ap. hear, to remind you that it is not so long \since the British workers were even ‘more imperialistic than the privileged ,sections of the Amerigan working \class.are today... The crisis of Bri- 'tish capitalism has revolutionized | formerly imperialistic workers and has made them realize that their | tions of 4he British Empire. Attacked \from the outside and from the in- | side, the whole structure of British imperialism is crumbling. terests are with the oppressed na- {victims from among the Bulgarian workers. : } All the political and economic ;gains won by the Bulgarian workers |in several decades have been swept jaway. . The workers are given up. | wholesale to the violence of the em- ‘Ployers. All collective agreements | regulating labour conditions have | been,.thanks to the White Terror, an- ‘nulled by the employers. Labour ‘conditions are simply dictated by the! employers. | Social legislation has been reduced | ;to ntl. There is no sort of super- vision of the observation of the most ‘elementary rules of hygiene, in the shops, factories, and works. No sort of medical aid for workers and their families exists. Female and child la- jbour is’ exploited unlimitedly. The eight hour day established by law on |June 24th, 1919, is not observed. Work Long Hours. The textile workers in-Slivna and |Gabrovo, the sugar-refinery . workers | jin Gorna Orehovitza, Plovdiva, Russa | and Cayala, the leather workers in| |Gebrovo and Sofia, the miners in| Pernick, Plakalnitza and other state | and private mines, work 9, 10 and| ‘more hours. Bakers, waiters and other workers work 14 and 15 hours. Printers, 9 and 10 hours. The employers are also striving to prolong the Saturday 7 hour day in industrial and other enterprises, to 8 ‘hours. The handicraft workers, sew- ‘ing machinists and shoemakers work, '12 and 14 hours, woodworkers and! metal workers, 10 and 12 hours. Ag- ricultural and forest-workers, 14, 16) and more.. Sunday and holidays are) often not observed as days of vest. | Unemployment continues to increase, ithe number of unemployed exceeding} 120,000, almost one-third of all the workets in Bulgaria. i Appealing Condition. The condition of the unemployed tis appalling. The government af-| ford no help whatever to the unem- ‘ployed’ and is taking no resolute measures to prevent unemployment. ‘The daily press frequently reports instances of suicide among unem- ‘ployed, ‘and seldom come up to 40—60 per cent. of pre-war. Workers actively struggling for the raising of wages in correspond- ence with the cost of living, the re- ‘vival of the 8 hour day and the ob- servation of Jabour legislation, are JAS. J. COSTELLO HENRY .WAXMAN JOHN J. MUNHOLLAND, WM. KOHN JOS. MeDONAGH xr covonuix, see| Central Trades and Labor Council 108 MeDONAG JOHN P, EB. ERICK on of Greater New York and Vicinity P. QUINN N. MARKS, Arms M. FINESTONE JOE BASTL EDW. McCAFFREY CHAS. § NIGEN JAC BRAV Serg't-at TRUSTEES OFFICE OF GeO, STILGENBAURH JOHN P. COUGHLIN, Seeretary FOURTH FLOOR, BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY PHONE: WORTH 1769 THOS. ROCK DANIEL J. JACOB 8. AHEARN JAMES FAGAN WINICK To the Membership of the Central Trades and Labor Council of G.ceater New York and Vicinity IMPORTANT SPECIAL MEETING ‘NOTICE GREETINGS: ' As per the instructions of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and vicinity, at its February meeting where it was voted by unanimous vote that all support be given to the American Federation of Labor in its fight on the communist movement in this city, we are hereby summoning each active member and officer of the Central Trades and Labor Council and officer and officers of the trade union movement to a called meeting, on MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927, at 8:00 P. M., Beethoven Hall, 210 | _ E, Fifth street, New York City. President Green has requested that this notice be sent out and urges each delegate | and representative of the trade union movement of this city to be present in order that we | may form our lines and prepare our forces for the challenge that has been laid down by the Communists who are attacking our movement not only from within but from with- out, < It is unnecessary to urge you to be present as we feel that you will respond to this rapid call, and this means every loyal member of the trade union movement. Fraterna'ly yours, JOSEPH P. RYAN, President. JOHN P. COUGHLIN, Secretary. }in Nassau county is q jose former anti-Semitic | Nassau county is a Ku Klux Klan at 3.30 p. m., I received a telegram (Continued from Page One) . A ts 7 |‘rom President Green instructing me direct the breaking up of the fur- Wages ar incredibly low) riers’ union, intimated that he held -the police department in the palm of hs hand and has its fullest support in ‘anyhing’ he cared to do.” “These bureaucrats do not attempt to hide their union-breaking activi- ties, but even boast of them in public: meetings. Our reply is that even 'should Woll and McGrady be able to control the police department as they boast, the Joint Board of the Furriers | will take definite steps to see to it Today | hounded by the police authorities, that the police department, joined avith the A. F. of L., shall not break the jmillions of British workers extend The strike of the workers in the Dre-| ‘their hands to the revolutionary Chi-| novo coach-building works last year nese nationalist movement and tell was suppressed by the police. ° The the Imperial War Office at London to’ same fate overtook the strike of to-| go to hell. bacco workers in Vratza and Sofia. °@‘S union. Phat “Information.” “The hand of these same bureau- may be seen also in Judge opment. It will be the same in the strike in Sofia last year were also| ‘istrict attorney had stated to our | United States too. Once the op- driven off and beaten by the police, | @wyers that bail would he granted, {pressed peoples realize that modern The workers in the court printeries, JWdee Smith declared that because of imperialism is but a stage—the final striking for the conditions in which ‘ce’tain, inf 4 stage—of capitalism, they will know! they worked up to the 6th of Janu-| "ceived, bail could not be tixed. What | Such is the historical line of devel-| The leather workers who went on S™ith’s denial of bail, Although the’ information’ which he had | |stronghold. Yesterday's papers carry a story of the burning of a fiery cross | in New Hyde Park — a town near Mineola-—where the klan in this way indicated its part in a school row. } Nassau county is filled with the! country estates of millionaires, it is} \the playground of New York City's capitalists, and it is thoroly dominated | | politically by the klan. Judge Smith, ' who sat in court when the fur work-| | ers came for hearing last Friday, was formerly attorney for the Long Is-! jland Railroad and after he became ‘judge he continued to serve in that capacity until, at the time of a ter- rible accident on the road, the supreme court was forced to censure him for representing the Long Island and he} nad to give up the job. Green Enraged. Gold’s letter of March 17th, which must have reached Green on Friday to call the meeting, and see to it that ell the délegates are present, algo that «Jl local union officials and interna- tional presidents who have offices in New York are at the meeting. His telegram also suggested that I get in touch with all the hotels and have the international officers who wre ing New York at the present time, at the meeting.” Tonight’s meeting is the seeond move on the part of the Central Trades leaders in cooperation with President Green to exterminate the militant section of the local move- ment. At the February 17th meet- ing of the council a letter was read ‘rom President Green, demanding the expulsien of the delegates of the In- ternatibnal Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unien and the Furriers’ Union, which was done without giving the 23 ousted delegates a chance to state their case. This was followed with a red beit- agree with such a policy and insisted | Ty, pent pee Se Re. that a single fighting front of a cee of the report of industrial con- that although their surest, most trustworthy allies in the United workers’ organizations should be set ditions in the United States which is| States today are limited to the rela-| up, and that a 20 per cent wage in- i Interna- | tively small left wing of the Amer- crease should be demanded. soon, tp. he pablisted by the Inteyns. if nd This suggestion was turned down! ati by the reformists.. They passed ait bir cawagg resolution asking the government to/ States do not participate in the appoint arbitration’ commission. The! merican standard’ of living.” On representatives of the “One Big, ——~ Union” were firmly against any com- the One Big Union read out a long promise and insisted that on no ac-| declaration containing the following count whatever should the workers | proposals: reject the demand for a 20 per cent} (1) To immediately wage increase, Aji the motions put fighting section (cartel) forward by the One Big Union were| ers’ organizations. rejected by the meeting. The O. B. (2) {This section. to immediately U, agreed to submit to the decisions | take measures to organize a struggle of the meeting in order to preserve | for a 20 per cent wage increase. unitygamong the miners in face of (3) Unity meetings must be held the onslaught of their class enemy. jin the coal districts to organize a All the fears of the Communists} combined movement of all miners’ were realized. The participation of organizations, organize a all min- the government in the settlement of the dispute only encouraged the mine owners in their attack upoit the workers, The negotiations were car- ried out at an official meeting of ‘trade union, representatives and mine owners, held in the Ministry of Public Work on the 7th of January. ‘The mine owners firmly rejected not only the idea of increasing wages by bs 20 per cent, but even to demand of reformists for a single-bonus te workers to the amount of one 's wages. The representative of isfied with the existing condi- This insolent and impudent at- titud’ of the mine owners was due to thé) fact that they reckoned on a Digeussed Qwners’ Answer, y meeting was held on the January ‘where representa- tives of{all miners’ trade unions were present; This meeting diseussed the answer) of the mine owners. The “representatives of the reformist Miners’ Federation reported the _ meeting with the mine owners and recommended that ‘the meeting should decide to put off the struggle . a split inside the miners’ nmr (4) To ¢! the fighting*section (cartel) of the miners’ organizations immediately after its formation to comvene a united conference of all trade union centers. This conference must discuss measures to be under- taken by the whole working class of Czecho-Slovakia to help the miners. Reformists Oppose Struggle. After much discussion, the meet- ing, on the insistence of the reform- ists, rejected the motion cf the O. B. U, and a resolution was passed, stat- ing that the demands of the miners were just, etc.—a struggle for them should be put off for the time being. This marks the end of the first stage in the struggle of the Czecho- Slovakian miners. Judging from the fine fighting spirit of the miners ob- served in many mining districts a further development cf the struggle is to be expected, ey Cleries Riot at Minsk. MINSK, Latvia, March 20,—The militia was called out today to quell a religious riot here between the ad- herents of the old Orthodox church and members of the new “Living Church.” aa Hundreds participated in the fight- ae tional Labor Office of the League ican Labor movement, they will one! ly of the gmembers, were dispersed and every | Millions of workers in the United) labor movement, and the American | attempt to revive them was severely day include the great b working class as a whole. (To Be Continued.) || Airerican Legation | |Peking Honors Chang, | Tool of Imperialism PEKING, March 20,—The Ameri- can Legation gave a dinner in honor ef Marshal Chang Tso Lin, Man- churian war lord, tonight. Chang appeared in an automobile bristling. with machine guns and escorted by. 20 armed guards. Marshal Chang Tso Lin, who openly acts as the tool of foreign imperialists, is the bulwark of re- action in China. ‘The dinner given in his honor by the American Lega- tion is interesting in view of his op- position to the Nationalist move- ment, Soviet Delegation To - Visit Vienna Congress MOSCOW, March 20. — A Soviet delegation, headed by M. Glazournoff, well-known composer and conductor of the Leningrad Conservatoire, will represent Russia at the musical and historical congress at Vienna, March 26th, Igor Gleboff, Ivanoff-Boretzky and M. Yavorsky are among the promi- nent composers and savanis who will attend the Beethoven’ jubilee which will be one of the features of the Congress. hate ‘ WASHINGTON, March 20,—Suit forsannulment of the marriage of Miss Van Rensselaer, society girl, |S Gustavi De Medina, attache’ at the ary of this year were twice arrested by the police. |\\ The revolutionary trade unions, bracing before the Terror (began h of June, 1923) more than 34,000 suppressed by the police. The reformist trade ‘union move- |ment, whose leaders have gone over _Wholesale to the government of White Terror have lost all influence ‘over the workers. Instead of the \dispersed revolutionary trade unions, ‘independent unions have been organ- ‘ized by the workers themselves, These are inereasing and getting stronger both in the struggle againat | ‘the White Terror and against its ‘flunkeys, the reformist leaders, Lithuanian Dictators ing speech by Matthew Woll, a vice- | president of the A. F. of L. who made a violent tirade against Communism and the left wing, among other things referring to The DAILY WORKER, this ‘certain information’ was or who furnished it to him, Judge Smith re- fused to reveal. ij Suspect Right Wing. morning, and probably induced the calling of the special Central Trades | meeting tonight, was written to con- jdemn the vicious campaign “of false “Since, upon our second hearing, Judge Smith not only fixed bail but | er bail ‘in two cases, it seems evid that |the ‘information’ was false and was | doubtless furnished by those same bureaucrats who boast of their con- | trol of qhe police and courts, and who |veeently attempted to poison the at- mosphere against us with framed up charges that we bribed the police dur- ng the last strike. “The Needle Trades Unity Commit- tee, formed by the Joint Boards of Furriers and Cloak and Dressmakers for the defense of these unions against the union-wreckers, has#llecided to be- ;zin an investigation at once to ascer- ‘tain what the ‘certain information’ was and who furnished it to Judge jeven reduced it from the for sata? | NSIT Kill 16 Trad: Unio’ Smith, so that these underhanded } : oe et ie used by the officialdom of | BERLIN—(FP — After suppress. ihe American Pederation of Labor will ging the Communists, the fascist ter-| ot be able to smash the Furriers’ Union,” .The obvious plot of the American Federation of Labor reactionaries in \ror in Lithuania has now turned on ithe Socialists and the trade unions. | Practically all the Socialist leaders “have been sent to concentration attempting to frame-up these fur ‘eamps. Sixteen trade unions have i workers by drawing them into a case been closed down and all trade union; ~*~ lowed to appear, but it consists | Di Rivera Also Censors | Press Advertisements BARCELONA, March 20.—Censor- \ ship jaywas extended to include even spaper advertising, By an order of the civil governor all adver- tising ‘must be submitted t# the au- thorities before publication, and if printed in a foreign langui must be accompanied by a translation. The measure i signed to cover the pos- sibility @f advertising containing poli- tical or social allusions, COPFEYVILLE, Kansas, March 20. -~This town is under martial law, the chief streets in the Negro sectioi lined with pickets from the’ stat wilitia, and the troops are searching al! Negroes “for arms.” Negro citi- zens have filed a strong protest with E. T. Patterson, Major of Cavalry, Kansas National Guard, against the “tin hat’s” perpetual molestation of the Negro population. The military occupation follows .a race riot last night, in which a white mob attempted to storm the city hall, with the avowed purpose of lynching si m Curtis, a , char of mga ia IA 4 newspapers have been suppressed, | | Only one Socialist newspaper is al-/ mainly of white space owing to the jenee ae NEGRO NOW RELEASED propaganda and intrigues” being car- ried on against the fur workers. It| warned Green that no amount of such terrorization would succeed in “break- ing down the courage of the fur work- ers, or their resistance to his efforts to destroy the furriers’ union and undermine the welfare of the work- ers.” Green To Talk. Green himself will be the principal | speaker at tonight's meeting which is to be held at 8 p. m., at Beethoven Hall, 210 East Fifth Street. According to Coughlin, the meet- | ing will be the beginning of the war, ly the American Federation of La-| bor bureaucracy “to eliminate the| Communists from the lecal labor | movement.” | “President Green will v»peak,” as- serted Coughlin, “on the 'atest devel- opments in the Furriers’ Union and the Internationa! Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and what is being planned about dealing with the Com- munists in those unions. “The mecting is heing called on ery short notice. Friday afternoo: NEARLY LYNGHES SED AS INNOCENT they were assaulted. The girls kave since positively stated thaf the man under arrest js not their assailant. also that two others later arrested | are innocent, and all three ave re-! lwased according to a statement in- | sued by Sheriff MeGraff. Had the inob been able to lay hold | of them last night they would un-! doubtedly have heen lynched, | When the mob found that the city | hall was barred to them, and that} sheriff’s deputies would repel them | with tear gas, they showered it with, stones, and broke all the windows. Negron thes gah take sec as “this smudge sheet in which Fos- ter, Ruthenberg and Gold carry on their fight.” The hall at that meeting was crowded with guerrillas and gangsters brot there by the Central n Vrades Union officials, _” Phone, PMERSON 8800, Auto Tops Cushion Work Seat Covers Floor cr fata Radiator Covers Rubber Mats Side Curtains Celluloid or Body Trimmings Glass Windows Union County Auto T ALL, WORK | Auto Top Co. 252 Union St, Near Westfield Ave. ELIZABETH, N, J. Comrades and Fellow Workers: After a yerr’s heroic struggle of the Passaic textile workers, the mill barons were forced to submit to a union in the textile industry of Pas- ec. They are however putting ob- stacles in the way of maintaining such an erganization.. Although the strike is almost over, they are tal the workers back very slowly, the result that thousands*of famities are without means of existence. Their children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters Were sent to jail for long periods because of their activities in the strike. You must come to their rescue. Relief must go on with full - speed! The General Relief Committee, who is maintaining a few food stores in Passaig, appeals to all those who have taken milk coupons to send in their .— money as soon as possible, no matte how much you have collected, ¢ the money immediately to the Gen. — eral Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, — Room 225, also ask for more coupons _ to sell. Moy The cffice is open from 9 a. m, 7p. m shal GENERAL RELIER,