The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1927, Page 2

PAD dyes as nnaeserann # nen NEGRO ORGANIZER FINDS BRUSSELS CONGRESS HELPS Colored Labor of World Takes Counsel Together THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927 Jersey’s Lobby Ridden |Legislature Listened ‘To Boss, Not Workers | (By Federated Press.) NEWARK, N. J., (FP). — Labor fared badly indeed at New Jersey's jlast legislative session. None of the tion of labor passed. Night work for women continues; |organized painters are still without an enacted health code; compensation | bills sponsored by the state federa- | Riff War Breaks | Out Anew; French, | Spanish Beaten | PARIS, April 4.—Rebelling against the repressive policy of the Spanish protectorate, Riff tribesmen of the Shinhaja group are again in arms. remains inadequate; and the state’s; Ten days ago Shereef Khamlighi (By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press.) NEW YORK, April 4, (FP).—Or- dren fom Philadelphia in their berry and vegetable fields and canneries. ganized labor’s aid in completing unionizing Negro workers and in pro- moting inter-racia} solidarity is to be sought as a result of the Brussels conference of oppressed peoples. Richard Moore, who - represented the Universal Negro Assn., Inc., and the American Negro Labor Congress at the world gather- ing in Belgium, will tour eastern in- Improvement dustrial centers to promote this cam- | paign. At Big Conference. Sev een great trade union organ- ent delegates to the Brus- izations sls meeting. The chief or- ganizations represented the an Federation of Labor; Gen- eral Labor Federation of South Af- rica; General Federation of Unified Labor, France; Miners Federation of Great Britain; cil; General Federation Canton, China; of Garment Work Federation of Teachers. All workers will be forced down to colonial standards unless organized labor in Europe and the United States make a united effort to main- tain decent labor conditions, speakers at the congress declared. Moore found this the most significant lesson labor were of Labor, International London Labor Coun- | Belgium Federation | Slightly Greater Allowance, | Hugh Re’ state federation sec- retary, attacks Senator Stevens of j Monmouth county bor bill to increase compensation payments from $17 to $20 per week. Greater allowances were provided for | loss.of arm, hand, thumb and fore- finger. Representatives of certain |manufacturers joined unionists in |conference with state labor commis- sioner Andrew McBride to draw up this bill in place of a more drastic one first proposed by labor. Lobbyists against the labor bills came from the state’s big open shop manufactur Agents from the brass factories and from Western El- ectric were particularly active against the bill to ban women’s night work, Western Electric has estab- lished a new plant at Kearny, in ad- dition to its others in New Jersey where girls and young women are worked day and night, Textile Mills Lobby. Passaic textile manufacturers and the big laundries were the first op-|- ponents’ of the bill against women’s | night work when it passed without a | penalty clause in 1923. The bill lost in the present session was to add pen- jalties for violation to make it en- | forceable. | Katherine Wiley, Consumers Leag- blocking the la- | of the conference for American work- | U® Secretary, aided the fight for the ers, ; women workers’ and to ban out-of- Negroes of Africa There. state children from farm and cannery Pigg ages c {work during their school sessions. Negro delegates from south and} senate leaders frankly told her that central African organizations and| they would not bring out the child from Caribbean Islands met with|japor pill because it would raise Moore at Brussels to plan measures for the national and economic eman- cipation of their race in all parts of the world, A World Alliance Against Imperialism was formed by the con- ference, which drew delegates from north African countries, Egypt, Syr- a, Latin American countries, Dute! East Indies, India, Indo-China, Korea and China. The present Chinese Na- tionalist struggle gave a strong im- petus to the conference work toward unity and freedom of peoples. Over 30 Chinese delegates, from union, strike and Nationalist organizations attended. | ptices’ of” strawberries, cranberries, farmers can go on exploiting chil-| revolted and other tribes immediately |rose. The Spanish garrison believing | their position untenable, crossed into \the French, while the insurgents | drove a contingent of native troops from Sok Tnin. These successes caused other tribes to revolt. | Wipe Out Column. | The Spanish district commander, |Major Ostariz, reoccupied Bab Slib, | but the convoy following him was at- | tacked and captured. Returning to support his convoy, Ostariz’s column |was ambushed and Ostariz and three | officers killed. About 400 of the sur- precarious position at Adnam, Other Spanish troops attempted | unsuccessfully to reoccupy Bab Slib, |tho relief columns from the Spanish main force at Amiadi are reported to be advancing. This is the first revolt since the surrender of Abd-el Krim and the |disarming of the tribes, and the | French and Spanish authorities are conferring at Rabat and Tetuan. The French outposts have been reen- forced. * * Po (From L’Humanité.) Spanish Reversal. The Riff is entirely pacified. So much so, that a few weeks ago | the Spanish troops suffered a bloody | reverse near Chechaouen. So much so that on March 14 a column of French troops were mas- | sacred east of Ouezza, losing all their | officers and a sixtieth of its men. | Here is how it happened accordifg to the official version: Evacuate Position. For several months the frontier district east of Ouezza, inhabited by | tribes of the Beni Mestara and Beni Falghoun, has been “ravaged” by a vivors are reported to be holding a} | By ROBERT MITCHELL By such methods as have already been described the Interborough man- aged to maintain a kind of “peace” among the exploited traction workers from 1917 until 1926, The workers will tell you that there | was no strike during these ten years. Ask Pat Connolly or James L. Quackenbush, however, and “they will maintain that there was a sfrike in 1919. clares that the 1919° strike was won by the men; the only strike which the |Interborough workers ever won, he declared in 1926, | How is it possible that “Rough} | Stuff” Quackenbush, ill-famed Inter-| borough attorney and “Strike-Break- er” Pay Connolly, president of the} reptile company union are both anx-| ious to claim the existence of a strike in 1919? Stranger still, how is it| possible that they should insist that \it had been a successful strike ? | | The Fake Strike. | | The answer is simple: In 1919 the | | Interborough staged a little increased | |fare party. The city was then cruel | jto the Interborough’s campaign for jan additional stipend of 5e per ride. Accordingly, the company decided to | Stage a dramatic act of increased fare enforcement, What is more dramatic than a strike? So the men “struck.” The| men knew that the order from Paddy |Connolly to strike was a fake move! | from which they as workers had noth- | jing to gain. Among other evidences | was the fact that the “strike” was jcalled by Pat Connolly without con-| sulting the men. The strike call was made over the company wires and |there were no strike breakers, Un- jheard of condition in the Interbor-| ough. j Now men are not over-anxious to | Organize Traction Workers ARTICLE XIV.—THE 1926 STRIKE—THE FIRST WARNING. | LEADERS fake strike call, Some of them were fined as much as $25. Others only $5. Some were threatened with dis- missal from the company if the fines were not paid. Some actually were fined although the company had a hard time of it between trying to pro- tect its “loyal” employees and at the same time maintain the prestige of the brotherhood. If you have never heard of a company firing men for refusing to strike against it, you In fact Mr. Quackenbush de- | Should learn more about the Interbor- ough methods. “Arbitration.” The strike lasted about two and one half days, It was settled by “ar- bitration.” There were no demands, no strike meetings, no settlement, The Brotherhood did everything pos- sible to control its men and later to discipline them. It did not, however, suspend any one from the company union, You can’t be expelled from a company union. The company union continued to grow and increase its strange hold on the workers. When the Interborough found it impossible to obtain an in- crease in fare, it decided to make a reduction in wages. Accordingly the company union stepped into the breach, Paddy Connolly carried back to the men the proposition of a 10% reduction in pay. This happened in 1921 when the cost of living had risen to such an extent that the men were on the subsistence level. New Way to Vote. Naturally the men objected. A “vote” on the question was ordered. The proposal was overwhelmingly de- feated, So Paddy went. back to the men and begged them to reconsider, On his part, he likewise reconsidered —the method of conducting the elec- tion, Another vote was ordered. This time the company won, The men took a 10% reduction in pay to keep the | walk out on fake strikes. So some of jcompany from “bankruptcy.” By |the workers tried to remain at work./ 1923 the men could no longer endure | They were fired for not striking. Men ithe starvation wages. A threatened |who reported at the shops and ter-| strike was averted by a return of 5%. {minals for work were chased home.!In this way the Interborough brand Others were suspended. It was some | of industrial “peace” was maintained strike! If you had attended one of until 1926. |the company union meetings shortly! Long years of success with the 4 rea ” ‘ a } asparagus, ete. Several thousand | band of brigands.” Curiously enough, | Philadelphia children under 16 are} dy be: n |} brought into the state yearly in| On® of our partisans, ba oo Ma |spring and fall when Jersey young. to evacuate the village Moulay.Am- | sters are kept in classes by a “fairly . ‘i nnmail? “ey “| muniaué, has become untenable. wall enforced” school law. It wae iad diet the -eedmeuniech Bills prepared for the state confer-| oF the Aoudiar sector decided to go ence of painters by the Workers |+¢, the aid of his subordinate to pun- Health Bureau to provide protection | isn the “brigands.” It was in the against lead, benzol and wood alcohol | eourse of this operation that a fight were lost. in this legislature. | the oecasion, and the troops of Com- mandant Bourguignon, about 300 men __| strong and guided by mounted scouts. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Is Your Life Insured? M4 | The fight must have been very se- jvere since Bourguignon’s column |was completely routed, losing its | chief, two lieutenants, and leaving a | sixtieth of its men dead on the field. | Lie About Situation Of course, the bourgeois press de- took place between the Riffians, qual- | \ified as_“brigands” by the needs of | |afterwards you would have had the| company union bred a sort of cate- these so-called “brigands” compelled | pleasure of witnessing a trial of some |lessness on the part of the Interbor-| pi of the “seabs,” so-called who did not ough. Occasionally a man other than | Tespond suitable to Paddy Connolly’s| the desired type of company tool was ‘Waiters Are Mulcted! \For “Breakage”; Urges | Organization Fight, (Worker Correspondent) | “If I want to charge it to you I can, | }and all the lawyers in the world) couldn’t stop nie.’ it 3 | | That's what Mr. Kemp, proprietor | |of the Fifth Avenue Restaurant, 200! The New York District expects Fifth avenue, told me yesterday when | sand of the Ruthenberg pamphlets in |I went to collect the portion of my | back wages which he had been keep- | ing for “breakage” and which he would have continued to keep had not | William Karlin, lawyer of 291 Broad- | vane, whose position, says the com-| Start the Ruthenberg The these pamphlets. The pamphlet is Fifty Thousand Ruthenberg Pamphlets In New York City In April Ruthenberg pamphlet-—THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, WHAT IT STANDS FOR AND WHY WORKERS SHOULD JOIN—will be the basic pamphlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every nucleus must collect fifty cents per member for which they | will buy 20 pamphlets, and every member will either sell or distribute | ceeds from the sales is to be used to buy more pamphlets. {nies the importance of this event, | | “simply the success of ambushed | bandits,” it says, “this event can not | Then Read the way, compelled him to come across. Expert at “Charging.” Mrs. Schwartz, manager of the res- STARTLING EXPOSE in any way influence the loyalty of | taurant, uses all the means in her | our tribesmen: it will have no politi-| power to withhold five dollars from | cal repercussion in the Riff.” Lies! | the weekly wages paid to waiters. * Why did Col, Huot, commandant of | She compels waiters to do work that | |the Ouezzan district. depart in haste | they are not supposed to do, and if} The pamphlets are to be secured from the District Office, 108 East 14th Street, New York, N. Y. * Will Not Be Forgotten. Shop Nucleus 1, Detroit—“The pass- ing of C. E. Ruthenberg was a-severe loss to the American and International Communist. movement. Ruthenberg of INSURANCE TRUST Do You Know That 40,000,000 workers pay tribute to the in- surance trust? That “mutual’ weekly payment companies fraudulently hold BILLIONS belonging to the public? That the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Han- cock and Colonial swindle millions and millions from the insuring public? That high government officials are involved? That the whole “industrial” life insurance business is alive with graft and corruption? BE SURE TO READ IT! Beginning Monday, April 11th the : | in DAILY WORKER On All Newsstands in New York and Vicinity. ASK F Subscription Rates Outside of New York In New York The DAILY WORKER 33 FIRST ST. Don’t Believe the Read the Truth In The DAILY WORKER. the | Aoudiar? Why did General de Cham- | brun leave precipitately for Ouezzan | from Fez? | Once again they are lying about | events in the Riff. | There is fighting in the Riff, that’s | a fact. Soldiers have been killed, that’s a | fact. ‘Horthy White Terror | Prosecutes 52 More News from Hungary is more and more alarming. The Nepszava, a socialist paper, | announces that Socialist workers and be sent before a court ;martial. Fifty-two arrests have been made in the Szanto “plot.” 10 or 12 com- jrades are to appear before'the blood tribunal which can only pass sen- tences of death, The government papers have al- ready designated the victims at the head of whom are found the Commun- \ist Szanto, the chief of the Socialist Labor Party, Vagi, Normai and Sze- renyi. The government is taking action un- | der the shelter of a furious campaign \by the paid press which is demand- ing pitiless gxeoutions. | | | (From L’Humanité.) | Ferdinand Again Near Death, | BELGRADE, April 4.—King Ferd- | inand’s condition is again critical, as he has suffered a relapse and it is OR £T! eo « $6.00 - $8.00 6 Mo. $3.50 $4.50 3 Mo. $2.00 $2.50 | according to a private message re- ecived from Bucharest tonight. « Nurses Organize. WILKES-BARRE Pa. mba uate nurses have organized to pro- mote the 12-hour instead of 24-hour shift. Nurses will reject 24-hour duty except in emergency cases, $1 a day more is asked for 24-hour ser- vice and the rate on maternity and contagious cases will be $6 for 12- hour duty. The $50 weekly rate for alcoholic and mental cases is un- changed. The nurses’ registry will |be established by the new associa- tion, NEW YORK Lies About China. | with troops for the reenforcement of | an accident occurs she charges them | the Communists recently arrested will | |again feared that he is near death, | | Was one of the bravest, most miilli- |tant leader of the working c¢lass in |New York Bakers Open Big Membership Drive | i * * 4 | A plea for the organization of New | « . ” | York food workers was voiced by! Saly. Trae Working . Clete: Party | speakers at an enthusiastic meeting | waukee, Wis.—“The death of Com- | held by the bakers of Local 3y of the! yade Ruthenburg is a great loss to Amalgamated Food Workers at the! the labor movement in the United {Labor Temple yesterday afternoon.| States, He was a sincere and cour- | The organization of huge baking ageous fighter for the workers’ cause. trusts with their labor-smashing poli-| “The sorrowful loss of the able cies makes a strong organization of | leader should strengthen the ranks ef bakers more necessary than ever. J. | the only true working class party in | Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY | America, | WORKER, Ludwig Lore, editor of the! “Long live the ‘Workers (Commun. | Volkzeitung, and A. Gund, organizer ist) Party of America,’” for the local were among the speak- | * bd * ers who stressed the need for a} * ia ¥ strong food workers’ union, | Youngstown, Ohio Workers Party :The Amalgamated Feod Workers’) and V. W. L.—‘With deep regret we Union is conducting a large member-| learn. of the death-of Comrade C. FE. ship drive. It invites every food work-| Ruthenberg, executive secretary of er in the city to attend its meetings | 0ur Party. Words cannot convey to and participate in the fight for better | YoU the vast personal loss we feel in conditions for New York food work-| his passing for Comrade Ruthenberg ers. | was well known to the steel workers ‘in Mahoning valley as a_ fearless champion of the oppressed and his | visits here always stimulated us to battle more aggressively for our li- beration from the enslavement of cap- italism.” work will be forgotten in Defroit, Michigan.” Al Helps the Legion. | Albany, N, Y.—Gov. Smith today! transmitted to Postmaster General | Harry S. New a copy of a resolution | adopted at the recent session of the | \legislature asking the issuance of ‘one hundred million postage stamps | |to commemorate the first flying of the. stars and stripes over old F't.| Stanwix, in August, 1777. Hl The governor said he was sending | the resolution at the request of the | American Legion and the Boy Scouts | of the Rome and Utica Council, Party has lost its foremost leader staunchest fighter. This loss can workers joining the Party that he Fill out the application below the Workers (Communist) Party ai rade Ruthenberg. File Anti-Trust Brief. | WASHINGTON April 4.—The gov- ernment’s brief in its anti-trust sujt against the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), the Texas Company, us the Gasoline Products Company and| Name ....-.+5++ 46 other oil refining companies for ‘Address alleged pooling of gasoline cracking processes will be filed at Indianapolis} Qcenpation ...........000++ tomorrow, Taking of testimony was completed last. December. I want to become a member of America. The memory of his life and | Workmens Circle, Branch 484, Mil- | “LET'S FIGHT ON’—Become a Ruthenbers Member In the loss. of Comrade Ruthenberg the Workers (Communist) Mail this application to Workers Party, 108 E. 14th St.. New York City. * National Office, 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il, }Read The Daily Worker Every Day} ..... elected as délegate to the general committee, This was a great blunder, Wanted a Raise. | Every year the delegates for each | \local made a pretence of sending in} demands to the general committee for an increase in pay. This was sup- | posed to protect them with their men. Just as regularly the general com-| mittee took up the matter and found | that no increase was possible that) year, The vote would be taken to) remain “as is” for another year. It became clear, however, that as | | July 1st of 1926 approached, the day |when a new agreement was to take | effect, that the motormen and switch- | {men’s local would not again concede} to the existing agreement. | Several months earlier a strike had, been narrowly averted by the com-| abide by a new schedule which the} Interborough tried to put over on} them, Got Their Orders. On June 30th, 1926, at 10 A. M. the general committee delegates from all the locals were summoned before Mr. Hedley at his office. This meeting was illegal even for a company union inasmuch as the discussion over the question of wage increase could not |be held in the presence of the officers lof the company and at the company | office. Always before the regular meeting of each year the Interborough is care- \ful to summon the delegates of each group of workers separately in order to make sure that they would vote \right. From such a procedure in this/ case the Interborough already knew} jin advance how the motormen’s dele- | gates would vote. The company union |machine was accordingly prepared) for the attack. Mr, Hedley spoke as usual: The company was poor; the poor compa- |ny was so poor that it couldn’t be any | poorer, He was sure the men wouldn’t | ask for more pay. They had been) good, loyal servants and deserved |more money. They would certainly | \get it if there was a possible way. ) Now if an increase in fare could be secured. .... But Lavin, Bark, Phelan and Walsh |did not vote “as is”! (To Bé Continued.) Drive By Distributing | to distribute at least a hundred thou- this drive. to be sold at 5 cents and the pro- + Polish Bureau Bureau, W. P.—‘Death has taken from the ranks of the Communist movement Comrade Charles E, Ruth- | jenberg, general secretary of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party and member | of the Executive Committee of the | Communist International. | “The death of Comrade Ruthenberg is not only a loss to the American proletariat and the Communist Inter- national, but to the fighting prolefar- | iat the world over. Comrade Ruthen- | berg was known to the Polish work- lers. It was he who inaugurated the \campaign for the protection of the foreign born workers which rallied large masses of Polish workers. It | was our Comrade Ruthenberg who at innumerable meetings raised his voice in defense of the working class of Poland and protested against the wholesale murders and jailings of workers because of their fight for bread and freedom. He did this be- cause he wa# an Internationalist!” * * * Sub-district One of District East- | ern, Ohio—“We regret the death of | | C. BE. Ruthenberg very much and real- | ize the loss to the revolutionary move- |ment of the world. We pledge our | support to the CHC and carry on the | work more enthusiastically than ever to make up our loss, “Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg and his militant struggle was known to the proletariat of Ohio. Then we will con- | tinfle our struggle in the spirit of our great leader, C. FE. Ruthenberg.” and the American working class its only be overcome by many militant built. ‘and mail in, Become a member of ind carry forward the work of Com- the Workers (Communist) Party PHO O eee eee en eer eeeeereeeeerereenes +++» Union affiliation ............, eee eee CeCe eer eC ee eer ere er eT LABOR Are High Salaried Agents of | American } Imperialism READ THIS \ NEW BOOKLET EXPOSING i REACTIONARY | TRADE UNION | BUREAUCRATS | pany when the motormen refused to} * r | Labor — Lieutenants of American _ Imperialism | i A New Pamphlet by JAY LOVESTONE Here is the evi- dence of the despi- cable role of reac- | tionary leadership in American trade } unions: The methods lead- | ing the trade un- ions into the hands of rampant Amer- ican Imperialism. The high salaries and “expense | money” of trade union leaders. Here are facts in A BOOK FOR EVERY WORKER A BOOK FOR EVERY TRADE UNIONIST 10 cents BUY MORE than one copy to give the men in your / shop. 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