The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1927, Page 3

| y THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927 SAXONY METAL / Speech by Manuel Gomez WORKERS DEFEAT , TO THE BRUSSELS ANTI-IMPERIALIST CONGRESS Manuel Gomez represented the United States Section of the BOSSES IN STRIKE Labor Turning Against + workers. Law Socialists Favor mee By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. | BERLIN—(FP)—The strike pf the metal workers in Saxony for the 8-hour day and against the arbitra- tion awatd, which for a time threat- ened to involve the whole German labor movement, ended in victory for the workers. 6,000 metal workers in Leipsic struck against the employers’ demand for a 52-hour week. The em- ployers locked out 160,000 metal workers in Saxony and called in a government arbitrator who awarded a 53-hour week. When the powerful Metal Workers union and labor throughout the country showed fight, the employers backed down and yielded the 8-hour day. Against Arbitration. Aside from that question, the ar- bitration of labor disputes came in for review again. In conformity with the spirit of social peace accepted by the Social-Democrats since the war, a law was passed in 1922 with their approval, providing for arbitra- tion which could be made compulsory | ¢ a u under certain conditions. Poorly or- invading the city of Panama, — ganized workers in small scale indus-;| Yet we are only at the beginning of tries benefited by the arbitration; our work. Our program for the fu-| which secured them higher wages. ture is synthesized in the resolutions But recent experience of the larger | Which the United States delegation, organizations, notably the Metal | Jointly with the delegations from the Wofkers union, has turned German Various Latin Amercan countries, will labor against arbitration. |lay before this congress. It is a pro-| Bosses Sue Unions. gram not merely of organization, nor | Many of the awards have been de- ¢ven of organization and propaganda, clared compulsory. Often the work-| but. of concrete actions against im- ers went on strike and their repre-| Perialism. sentative was fined thousands of dol-| The most powerful movements, lars, which had to be paid by the | Which American imperialism has thus unions. Employers are now tryin; |far raised against itself are in the to get even larger sums by suing the | ations which it oppresses and men- national unions directly. {aces with new oppressions. Co-oper- Particularly disastrous was the ation with these movements is the experience of the metal workers in| SUpreme test of any anti-imperialist last year’s shipbuilding dispute. The | ™ovement in the United States. arbitrator raised the hours from 8 to te copay 9 and his decision was declared bind-| 1 am sorry that the Philippine de- | ing. The Metal Workers union did/ legate, who I know is on the way not feel strong enough to carry on an/here, has not yet arrived. In the illegal strike at the time and gave in. | Philippine Islands wHere there is a When the employers association | mighty, practically unanimous, move- demanded that the minister of labor} ment for independence from the| declare the arbitration award in the| United States, the leaders have a Leipsic case as binding, he refused.} tendency to base their policy on the} Labor declared that its very exit: assumption that the U. S. govern-! ence was challenged and it was evi-|ment will grant them independence qent that it would not give in as in| voluntarily. That is a vain assump- the case of the shipyard workers. ‘!tion. The dollar empire is not giving | PART Il. ANTL-IMPERIALISM | IN AMERICA Considering the difficulties of the present situation, our accomplish- ments in America are far from negli- gible. We have established clo: | working contact with the most active nationalist and national revolution- ary elements throughout Latin Amer- ,ica,. The United States Section of the All-American Anti-Imperialist | League is linked up with national sec- tions established in eleven Latin- American countries. In the United States itself we have systematically |vaised the question of imperialism in the trade unions y-ET ETH ET E On a continental scale we have par- ticipated in a rather long series of; activities, ranging from successful demonstrations against sugar trust | persecutions in Cuba to distribution of leaflets among the U. S. soldiers eh make mise: 1 /Al-America Anti-Imperialist League at the Bru | Oppressed Colonial Peoples and Anti-Imperialists. jan analysis of the present financial imperialis tend shows its roots in the exploitation of American and foreign | everywhere, sels Congress of flis speech is m of Wall Street, * anything away at this stage of its career, Instead of looking to Washington for emancipation the Philippine movement would do ‘well to cast its eyes toward Revolutionary Canton, only 620 miles away. And in the United States trustworthy allies can be found only by trying to make con- tact with the dynamic factors ofthe American class struggle. It may be more pleasant for Philippine leaders to associate with “influentional” poli- ticians and college professors (whose influence, when it is a reality, is usu- ally turned against the Filipino cause) than with radicals, left wing trade unionists and Communists. It ‘certainly allows one to keep on being respectable. But respectability for representatives of a colonial country, means submission to the standards, conditions, conventions and legality of imperialism. It can be purchased only at the price of effective ac- céptance of imperialism. If any of the nationalist movements represent- ed here should become respectable in the home country of imperialism it will be dead. I think I voice the spirit of this |congress when I say that our friends are not to be ught among the friends of imperialist capitalism. The fundamental basis of our strategy must be, in the words of the present point on our agenda: co-operation be- tween the national liberation ' move- |ment in oppressed countries and the labor and anti-imperialist movements in the imperialist countries. This is true for the struggle against can imperialism and _ imperialism The End, Bandit Gang Robs Train ®"™" In Mexico MEXICO CITY, March 21.—Ban- dits und®r the leadership of General | Gallegos held up and looted an inter- | national train from Laredo vicinity of Rincon, Guanajuato according to dispatches to the in the State, War Department today. The attack took : place Saturday night. stories of the significance and impor- jtance of the robbery are being circu- lated. “GERMAN BOSSES" SOCIAL BUDGET HITS LABOR at 36 marks a year. At the same time the pensions of higher govern-| | ment. officials and retired generals. |ranges from 1,500 to (Continued from Page One) shall see to what extent the bour- geoisie intends to fulfill these obli. | ineatél gations in the coming year. For prac- | £ r " tical agsistance to the naemployed,| ,Some idea of the social character, I. e. principally for the organization | °f the budget for 1927 as a whole) of municipal work the budget assign- Pa thagh grnghcltgee ge gees od: In ayer el moa. marke, | The state while expending 450,000,000 , 1926 100 ” ” |marks on 2,000,000 unemployed and 1927 50 id PF | 8,500,000 incapacitated workers, wid- | a ie | ows and orphans, intends to spend) The same tendency to diminish s0- ' about 900,000,000 marks in 1927 on. cial obligations is shown in regard) to unemployed doles. While in 1926; 206,000 marks were assigned for this | purpose, in the current budget the sum is cut down to 200 million marks. | police. Bosses Fee) Strong. ance law will reduce the amount of in the country.” The capitalists have unemployed doles. made a united front for the carrying An interesting comparison may be out of their programs, in the newly| made between the increase in unem-|formed government bourgeois bloc. ployment and the sum assigned for | Thanks to the reformists the workers | the unemployed:- are not yet in-a position to oppose | Number the capitalists with their own united! of Un-, front but the increased influence of | Assigned = 1925 employed the opposition in the trade unions the yesolution of the building work- Practical help to unemployed j Shows that the united front of the | ers’ congress to struggle for the 100 mill., January....... 1,585,529 Workers is ‘not far distant. better working conditions for adoles- In Unemployment doles 120 In the Building Industry. (cents, Peplov at the meeting in Ham-| wi; Palos ie esis 260,000 The employers in the building m- burg already referred to speaks in Total 220 mill., Septem- dustry, desirous of insuring unim- favor of four years apprenticeship, ber . ++ 286,000 | peded “rationalised” exploitation of |i. ©. the prolongation of the period, December - 1,057,000 | the building workers, addressed the, of unpaid exploitation of adoles-, 1926 ‘central executive of the building | cents. Practical help to unemployed jtrades union with a proposal to) The revolutionary | opposition is | 100 mill., January ....... 1,484,931 , Open up negotiations on the estab- °Arrying on a resolute struggle with ; In unemployment doles 260. lishment of “civil peace” in the build-| these methods of “class collabora-| co-operation. between capital and | ee eee eee 2,056,807 | ing industry for 1927. ght d Total 360 mill., Novem- ‘have been expected the reformist beneficient to the employers, The ber 1,308,708 | leaders of the unions who are ardent reformists respond to this struggle, Railroad, in an address at the an- ber + 1,463,000 ie \ hg ‘with the employers immediately | ctical help to unemployed ployers. The executive of the build-! ers’ union began to negotiate sec: | retly with the employers, Not only the building masses knew very little of the course of these negotiations, but even the majority of local ex-| ecutives of the union knew practically | ‘nothing of them. Only quite re- leently fragmentary information has began to leak out in the press. On) 5Q mill, January ........1,950,000 200 nvill., Total 250 mill, } Thus’ we see that, in spite of the fact that unemployment this year has already \reached the highest figures for last \vear and is twice as high as unemployment for 1925, the sum set aside for unemployment relief in the Profit By Overtime. As regards the regulation of work- ing hours, the employers “agreed to vides the employers with full liberty to profit by overtime to an unlimited extent. question of contract work. The em ployers have recently been waging a campaign for the builders’ labor productivity. German builders, a few hundred thousand soldiers and be compared with their ° American organizations |colleagues, and work “lazily and neg-| against the white terror and fascism. y The chairman of the cen-: The German capitalists feel hig buy aang Peplov, was allowed po Pipe ae eae Hi white boy : iminu- | Selves strong enough to proceed to confirm the employers’ opinion at ain the Balkans and other countries.” Wet Gebione tate rte cae ee | the cutting down even of those mini- meeting of the active union workers its secretary is Dr. Bruno Schonfeld. employment insurance law will be ™m social expenditures which they in Hamburg, thus showing that on|Well known men, including esiemet ready by April.” This explanation Were forced to make in the name of this question also the reformists are| Rolland, Henry Barbusse, George * | “the pteservation of peace and quiet making complete concessions to the | Landsbury, Forel and Golscheid, have oie ial sedi ole mtd Betts 1 4 ie t enlisted their service with the com- ligently employers’ demands. Important Question. The question of apprenticeship is one of great importance for the builders. According to the data of the chief statistical department. more than 37,000 apprentices are employed in the building industry. In spite of against the exponents of the oppo: agreed to this proposal of the em- tion and continue their) negotiations| day. “T! with the capitalists. Taken together this is a character- istic example of reformist practice, Making Hero of Marine Found Drowned WASHINGTON, March 21.—Sergt. Exaggerated |” current year is 110 million less than that spent last year and 30 millions | the 17th and 18th of January the so- | James RB. W. Montague, of the marine ‘called “small commission for con- ¢°'P%: died in Shanghai on March 18, Nehed at 72 more than the sums assigned for un- cludi { ing civil peace for the build + tne Ae none ; | season of 1927” met in Berlin, The Low Pensions For Workers. Beet igh discussed questions of ‘The government subsidies for the wages, rs, contract work, and ap- fue phottated, widows; and orphans prenticeship. The omployers de- will be preserved at last year’s low, manded the cration of a “central ar- level of rates set aside for this sec- bitration court” to deal with all qués- do in complete beggary. ‘The govern-| set, up, open conflicts, (strikes cade | retorted, 20 Soibe, wil Aged bo be. cept this proposal Fi tion of the population, living as they tions of wages. If such @ court is ie ment supplementary jons wapacitated and was estab. | fee marks and for orphans! Ay from coneussion of the brain as a | result of a blow of a sharp instru- iment, Col, ©, 8. Hill today informed | ‘the navy department, He died in the ‘tine of duty and not as a result of his own misconduct, Hill reported, ‘Earlier reports stated Montague, who |lived tn Richmond, Va., was found THE Italy Is Secretly Landing Her Troops In. Albania, (Continued from Page One) autumn a plot by Italian agents to the on French soil and Says that it is not at all impos- should now raid on to rive Mussolini Starting Campaign tigate a 6 panish rove nspi ent against sible that fascist be preparing an Jugo-Sleviu in ord a ehance to seize Albania. Eveh the ever-cautious calls attention to the tools Albanian grade and says thet it is char by one-sidedness * Italy Will Arm. GENEVA, March 21. of Nations preparato: conference struck a nag today. Italy interposed what apepared to he a barrier. “Because of her ge tion Ttaly’s armaments an not tinental nation,” Marina, Italian delegate, who appar ently referred to France. * Duce Ready to Rob. It is universally’ believed here that to conauer Albania, and tho the preesnt crisis may be passed, another will soon arise. Ttaly would have a shadow of right to invade the country if the government under the Mussolini is determined of Albania requested treaty of Tirana. Italy’s obedient vassal, it, lies the danger of war. Tirana. Le 8 Liberals Oppose War. LONDON, March 21.—It is taken 1S for granted here that the Tory gov- Ameri-/imment is engaged in another dan- by Italy, is to be helped bully Serbia, and detach ia from the influence of France. |gerons international intrigue, which England’s new ally Albania “Powder Keg.” The Westminister Gazette, gnokes- I Mussolini's the powers of her |charges against Jugo-Slavia a “clever rick,” and contfliues to warn that Al- prove the powder keg a Euro- pean war was stressed in dispatches The Jugo- vy government is known to have al emigres from Bosnia would be less likely to {man of the liberals, calls notification of bania may {which ag: may explode from all sources tonight. moved Albanian poli | Albanian frontier | the where they into ief. Liberals in Europe Organize to Combat White Terrorism 7,000 marks a/take the Washington Agreement as) VIENNA, March. (By Mail).—A |a basis, which, as is well known, pro- new organization has been formed ‘here with the avowed purpose of en- listing the strength of the interna- tional proletariat to fight against the The reformists go still’ further to encroachment of fascism in the Bal- |the social’ expenditure of the state. meet the employers’ demands on the jana and other countries. committee is endeavoring to institut® news service to be sent to all prin- raising of the/cipal centers on this earth and thus The io give exvellent information and re- they claim, cannot search material to newspapers and battling who are The new organization name | mittee. Cop Acts as Censor of Play. Charged |eency,” the author, producers a }members of the cast of “The Vi {gin Man” went on trial here, yester- day. Green and B. & 0. Prexy {Hit It Up Big; Swap Kind Words at Dinner “One thing stands in the way of As might tion,” the results of which are only labor” said Daniel F. Willard, pres- ' ident of the Baltimore and Ohio | supporters of “business co-operation” | by numerous repressive measures, nual banquet of railroad labor edi- tors in Washington, D.C. last Fri- is the militant atti- tude of some labor leaders and | organizations.” Turning with a smile of satisfac- tion in the direction of William Green, who was supping a demi- tasse at the speakers’ table, Mr. ' Willard continued, “And IT am pleased to say that tle present | leader of the American Federation of Labor is not of that type.” Willard’s remarks touched on ‘the | new area of good feeling between managements and workers.” He | declared that there must be unions _ tant type. | In reply to Mr. Willard, speak- ing for the labor editors, Mr. Ar- thur Keep of the Railway Tele- graphers Journal, praised “the DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS spirational Claimed “Germania” arning which “The London Times” delivered to Bel- The League y disarmament hical posi- be ‘inefrior to those of any other con declared General De President , Ahment Zogu, of Albania, will request {such intervention whenever Mussolini i decides for tim to do so. But if Jugo- Slavia meekly permitted the estab- lishment of an Italian outpost in Al- lania, she would be practically giv- ing up her independence, and therein Jugo-Slavia |has never consented to the treaty of The new with giving a theatrical | performance “offensive to moral de- Page Three SAPIRO ATTACKED DURING FORD'S RAID ON JEWS “Don’t Snicker,” Says Editor, “Recall Marines” !s Demand of College | Students to Coolidge | A demand for the immediate re- moval of United Sta marines from Nicaragua is contained in a petition, signed by 1,200 Columbia University students, which is to be forwarded to President Coolidge to- day The petitibn, which wa by J. Romaine Bradley students, says in part: culated the (Continued from Page One) send it back. I imagine we can place it. “Since the presence of Ame treops and warships in Nicare is the attempt of a strong n to interfere in the internal aff. of F, aroused the resentment Latin-America ag st our country, we, the under- si 1 students of Columbia Uni- “Very truly yours, Dearborn Publishing “The pany. “8. me Com WwW, Roland, Editorial Depart- Le Ford's Men Object. With the letter in evidence and bee tenga . versity, protest t this in- read to the fifty-fifty jury of men frinzement of the sev mn rights and women, William H. Gallagher, nd liberties of Nicaragua by th Sapiro’s chief counsel, sought to! ‘queston Cameron. Instantly the Ford attorneys loosened a flood of obj tions and Iederal Judge Fred S. Re mond excluded the jury to hear th arguments. “T will prove that th were inspired by malice in the heart of Henry Ford against Aaron Sa piro,” said Gallagher. “I will fix ge- sponsibility on him in thet way./ T will prove malice against Willian) J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn|In- dependent, by the very articles than- selves, a United States. We urge the with- drawal of An nm marines from N yuan territory and the fair and amicable seitlement of all dif- ferences existing between the two countries.” : articles id Organize New Branch Of Anti-Imperialists In Boston Conference (By Worker Correspondent.) “I will show there was a conspiracy & “Hands Off China, Mexico and between Ford and his publication! Nicaragua Committee” organ- and when there is a conspiracy, ized in Boston, at a conference of every defendant is liable for all dam-| workers from many nations, and will age done by the conspiracy.” become branch ofthe “All Amer- Discuss Damages. ica Anti-lmperialist League.” Hanley contended that The meeting was called to order punitive damages, malice must be by Justo F. de Lemos of Spain, Or- proved against the Ford pub! ion. ganizing Secretary, who sent out the “You can’t proye that malice by invitations and F. T. Douglas, mem- the state of mind shown in publica-i ber of the Kuomintang party, out- tions previous to the libels,” Hanley lined the history and aggressions of added, “punitive damages cannot be’ United States imp lism. Comrade assessed against a defendant where de Lemos who recently addressed a no malice is shown.” lar; gathering at the new Inter- Gallagher declared that wealth had national Hall, on the subject, also some influence in the libel case. He spoke on thee’Growth and Spread of said the jury would have to consider! American Imperialism.” Ford's wealth in rendering a verdict. An executive committee was elec- Henry’s Mouthpiece. ted at the c ace and the next “The Ford publication w meeting set ch 19, at 32 to obtain simply for jthe mouthpiece of Henry Ford and Bol street, Boston. |the instrument of his private will,” Those present at the conference Gallagher declared. “Everything he were Y. W. Ying, T. D. Huan, T. Z. is guilty of, he is guilty of. We have a right to prove he was actuated by malice.” J Gallagher got Henry Ford’s great wealth. Clever legal maneuvering by Ford's counsel, earlier in the day,’ ‘prevented at least temporarily, the introduction into the case ofthe files of the Dearborn Independent, to show Ford’s anti-semitic fanaticism. Hide Files. Attorneys for the auto king objec- ted to placing in evidence the files of the Dearborn Independent. They |declared the Ford publication co-de- fendant in the libel suit, would be | jeopardized if the files were admitted to evidence. A copy of every issue of the Dear- born Independent was subpoenaed by Sapiro to prove that Ford’s attacks on him were due to the auto king’s hatred for Jews. The issues sub- poenaed included copies of all Ford} |attacks on the Jewish race. Lo, C. F. Yee and L. C. King of China, Manuel Lowang ofthe Phil- ippine Islands; Theodore G. Fett of England; A. Angeles of Mexico, Lola Rustin of Brazil; A. Schlan of the Workers (Communist) Party, Sidney Bloomfield of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. J. de Lemos of § , Me. and Mrs. F. D. Douglas of the Kuomin- in a few shots at Swartz, and Professor Dana of Bos- ton. Baldwin ¢ Into England. YEW YORK (FP) Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, has been allowed to enter England for a two weeks’ stay. Baldwin was at first denied a British visa because he attended the Brus- sels conference of oppressed peoples where British and American imperi- alism were attacked. ‘Sinclair Jeers at Attempt to Jail Him j= ———- * WASHINGTON (FP).—Confident that so long as he controls $100,000,- |000 of oil properties he cannot be | jailed, Harry Sinclair has laughed, in public at least, at his own conviction by a jury on charges of contempt of | the Senate. He is liable to a sen-! tence of from one to twelve months! in jail. He is spending a fortune onj| lawyers who will appeal the case to the Federal Supreme Court. They! {are confident of long delay. Sinclair’s appeal rests on his law-| lyers’ claim that the Senate com- mittee investigating the oil lease frauds in 1924 had no right to ques- tién him as to his dealings in the Teapot Dome affair. The Federal ‘Supreme Court recently decided that, | in the Mal Daugherty case, the Sen- ate must be presumed to be within | \its legal rights in making any in-| | vestigation into the handling of fed- eral business, A BRONZE MEDALLION LENIN A beautiful tribute our great leader— to For your home or c¢lub- rooms— Size 5x5 inches — sent postpaid to all parts of the country for PER TOSSED Ee ey $1.00 eee ere nl PS Cae eee Daily Worker Pub. Co. 33. First Street NEW YORK ol 200 Killed by Autos In 60 Days. ALBANY, N. Y., March 21.—Auto- mobiles snuffed out 210 lives in New | York state in the first iwo months of ,the present year, the Motor Vehicle Bureau announced today. This was an’ inerease of 20 for the same period last | | year, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. FAIRY TALL. PHILA, WORKERS HOLD HANDS OFF CHINA MEETING To March Down Broad Street Sunday ->HILAT A meet- list in- been ar- in Philadelphia March 27th, at 2 eeting will be in the huge or Institute Hall, 810 Locust St. ling tt ass meeting the iintang, W. s (Communist) :.¥ Vorkers’ (Com- H y whose joint ting is being held, e and American f Philadelphia in a demon- Je which will march Broad Streets to the will rally workers 0: ion and p i The hall parade takes place at 1 William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Ad- van of Colored Peoples, Albert Weisbord, leader and organizer of the Passaic textile strike, P. T. Lau, recentl) na, Pe. 6 Ho, of the Philadelphia Kuomintang who will speak jn Chi- nese, and Irving Green of the Young Workers’ (Commvnist) League com- prise the list of speakers. Alex Bail of the Workers (Communist) Party will preside. The meeting, in combination with the parade, is expected to be a mighty demonstration that the work- crs of Philadelphia are vigorously cpposed to any interference in the affairs of China. All workers and Students are ufged to attend. Ad- mission is free. Ordinary Mechanic Proves He Invented Victor Enclosed Horn WASHINGTON, M . 21. — Tie claims of John Bailey Browning; a former mechanic, that he is the true inventor of the modern enclosed horn victrola cabinet, were upheld today by the Supreme Court. Lower courts also held Browning the true invent and the Victor Talking Machine Company appealed. It was the denial of this appeal by the court today that establishes Browning as the inventor. The Victor Co., like most big cor- porations, fails to pay for many of the inventions it makes use of. tang party, and M.-Gerloz, J. D, Read The. 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