The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 2

Page Two New York’s Water Front News and Views of the Biggest World Port “HERE YOU DOGS, FIGHT FOR THESE,” SAYS UNITED) FRUIT BOSS, DISTRIBUTING JOBS A few days ago an incident took{ting his slicker on to keep himself place in front of Pier 15 of the United | from getting wet. Fruit Company, which was in keep-| He also tried to throw a wra) ing with the usual brutal handling around himself, but the official said of workers on these docks, sneeringly, “What difference does it The men get the jobs on the dock) make if you get wet?” thru a system of checks. These, This little speech is indicative of checks are handed out to a milling | the regard with which the company mob of workers every morning. It is|/handles its workers. They are no quite a feat to get them as there are|more to be considered than the always fewer checks than men. ground upon which the officialdom of “Scramble, Dogs.” the company walks. In fact they are This particular morning the fore-|far more downtrodden. man distributed checks as usual and | Company Is Against Organization. then after he had gone in he came | Organization on the fruit docks is out again with a few more checks|null and void. The United Fruit which he flung into the gutter. “Here|Company realizes that if the men] you dogs, fight for these,” he said,; were to awaken to the elementary Then he stood by and watched the|need of organizing into a body they workers scramble in the filth for the| would demand higher wages than the chance of making three dollars or| miserable fifty-five cents an hour} so for a day’s tiring labor carrying| which they are now getting; demand bananas. | better working conditions than the This is not at all unusual on these|workhouse in which they are now docks, The men are treated much/|forced to slave; time off at noon to) worse than the average worker all|eat and all the other fundamental around. rights which these workers who make They have to wait all morning ov| the millions of profits for the United afternoon for a few hours’ work. | Fruit Company need. Then they gét fifteen minutes less| > eanvhow, | ies ORE ery \State Insurance Dep't There is al a huge crowd out-/ Rushes to Aid Big Four side of the docks and the company is enabled to pick the men and di-! vide them against themselves. Thus they never take on asl many! men as are really needed on a job/ but pick out a minimum. These men} they work at top speed. The men} (Continued from Page One) acts which are supported by facts . :which are in violation of the Jaw or géod insurance prac- tices, I should be glad to have you submit same to me.” BOR AY REVOLUTIONAY WORDS AND PREDATORY DEEDS OF REFORMISTS By 7.2. PC. jarmy, but for the Chinese counter T is characteristic feature of Re-|Tevolutionists to crush it, Verkehrs- formism that the more highfalutin’ | bund not only concoals the truth from in speech, the more predatory it is in action. ‘At the last international) Pression of the seeolueiae of the congress of the Amsterdam Interna- | Hamburg seamen, it contributes to tional in 1924 a resolution was cax-| thé transportation of armaments bd tied for an embargo on the transpor- | the British imperialists and the Chi- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY ®, the workers, but by its deliberate aup- | - |attitude towards the great liberation } |to prevent the outbreak of a war realize that any disobedience means getting fired immediately and so they} do anything that they are. told to} do—even very often double the) amount of work. There are always plenty of men waiting outside to replace those of their fellows who are too weak to} stand the strain or who are not quite | obedient enough to the foremen and | their lieutenants, the breaker-outs. | The men very often work nine and| ten hours a day, without eating. They | get fired if they are caught eatin at the stand or anywhere else. The| work is a constant grind from the} conveyor which delivers the bananas | out of the hold, to the freight cars} or else they must be carried to the| trucks and stacked up there. There} is no time to-stop or even rest for| a moment without having the fore-| n at you. Rain or-shine, the work | seeps up and the men often get} drenched to the skin without stop-| ping. Why Not Get Wet. | One day, not so long ‘ago, one of the men saw a company official put-/} | ELE e ehhh bee Put Some Power In In an open letter to Mr. Beha we submitted 16 charges which were} either contrary to the law or “good insurance practice.” As yet Mr. Beha has not replied. He is away in Vir- ginia. Deputy Apologizes. In his absence, Daniel F. Gordon, | second deputy superintendent took it upon himself to reply to one of the charges which read: “On pages 490-491 of your re- port to the New York Legisla- ture, the Prudential Life is re- ported to have paid $221,254.71 to the Association of Life Insur- ance Presidents. This item was entered under the heading of dis- bursements. On page 504 of the same official document under the heading of “partial list of sal- aries, compensation. and emolu- ments, ete.,” this same item ap- pears again, but this time it is recorded as $24,998.44.” (Daily Worker, May 2). Mr. Gordon devotes two typewritten pages to explain this obvious piece of account juggling. As the letter ‘is more or less technical we will only \the mess of pottage of ‘more work’ tation of armaments as a means to " militarists. prevent war. Among other things in this resolutionxit was declared to be) the duty of every-worker to wage “a determined fight against war by| stopping the manufacture of arms| and ammunition, as well ag the trans-/ portation of war materials.” Fairly | definitely put, so it would appear.| Hence the conclusion would seem to| follow that now, when British impe-| rialism is trying to stifle the national movement in China, the Amsterdam Tnternational should at least call up- on its affiliated bodies to carry out the resolution adonted in 1924. Nev-} ertheless the English reformists con-| tented themselves 1 a. protest | which scared nobody, ilst Thomas and MacDonald: even Yapplauded the sending of aj oe ales pd troops to China, dem@M&ding that these | be increased, Acts and Deeds, The International Federation of! Transport Workers (I. T. F.) in its struggle of the Chinese people, has fully revealed the contradictory and lying nature of the reformist position. At the January plenary meeting the ITF Executive adopted a resolution on this question, in which “an appeal | is made to all affiliated bodies to} watch attentively the course of the} events, and to do everything possible which will strengthen international capitalism, and weaken the world’s proletariat.” 2 | The reformist Federation is afraid | to declare straight and definite, as it} was done by thé Transport Workers International Propaganda Committee (T. I. P. C.): “Not a single soldier to China, not a single cartridge, not a single gun, not a single airplane!” It is afraid, because the leaders of the various affiliated national organiza- tions are once again, as during the strike of the English coal miners, ready and willing to swop the inter- national solidarity of the workers for connection with the transportation of munitions to China. Everybody knows that in the world’s freight market there is to be observed a cautious offering of ton- nage owing to anticipated Jarge de- mands from Great Britain for the purpose of carrying military supplies to China. This is also taken into account by | the xeformists, who are apparently ready to lend a helping hand in this, in spite of all their resolutions, both |to the imperialist government of Bri- tain and to the counter-revolutionary generals in China. Pass Information Along. The German Verkehrsbund has al- quote the last few sentences which read: “This error was discovered somé | ready shown its hand. So far we | know only a aye this one. We take | this occasion to urge once again the months ago, but of course the report | need for all transport workers to in- had already been printed and sent| form their union of all cases of load- out. Thé error was that of a clerk | ing and transportation of armaments in the department in preparing the) to the Chinese militarists, and for all copy for the printer,” | Passed Right Thru. Mr. Gordon does not mention the That Kick! ports are submitted to the Legislature, or that they appear over the signa- jture of the Superintendent of Insur- | ance. | How did this error get by the Leg- islature? How could Mr. Beha have been so lax as to let his associates in the upper and lower houses see so |inexcuseable an “error”? Are all the activities of the Department of In- surance characterized by the same laxness and inefficiency? Does the Department assume that all reports do not matter? Or has*Mr. Beha got his eye on a soft job with the “Big | Four” when his term of office i3 over? Tt is a well-known fact that pre- vious superintendents have been \“taken care of” by insurance com- Don’t waste your energy in idle. protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY WORKER and you want. to fight — strike your blows where ‘ office. One recalls John S. McCall, they ‘will be most ef- Jr, who is now a director of the New fective. York Life Insurance Company. Sui See Teen » Get Busy, ‘Beha. Kick in With a Sub. It is a week since we submitted our |16 charges against the “Big Four.” Every subscription is a It is about time that Mr. Beha came fact that all official insurance | re-| |panies after the three year term of| striking answer to the enemies of Labor—every jout into the open and replied to our | accusations, | revolutionary unions and oppositional minorities to pass on promptly such \information to the TIPC. On January 27-28 there were loaded |on board the S.S. “Richmers” at Ham- | burg 1,200 cases of rifles and car- tridges for Shanghai. On January | 10th another steamer of the same company, the S. S. “Eta,” loaded in | Germany, was held up at Tsin-Tao, as it carried 2,978 cases of atrplane sup- plies, ayms- and munitions for the commander at Shanghai. Bear in mind that Shanghai was then in the |hands of the counter-revolutionary Chinese armies. For Practical Steps, . How "was such predatory action | looked upon by the German reform- ists, and first of all, by the Vekehrs- bund Jeaders? Did they take practieal steps to prevent the transportation |of arms for the Chinese counter-re- | volutionists and the British imperial- jists? Oh, no, even to the contrary. The Hamburg branch of the Seamen's Section: of Verkehrsbund, at a meet- ing on February 10th, carried a reso- lution containing a pledge to carry no armaments to China. And in the same meeting the question was raised by one of the delegates, why the of-| ficial organ of the Seamen’s Section * | Any evasions and flights of finan- sub is more strength to | cial sophistry will be looked upon as the blows that are dealt | stunts calculated to play the lackey every day by The DAILY to the insurance trust. WORKER. Unless Mr. Beha cannot disprove j ‘ z | our charges he should take such ac- Dow t only kick... .. ‘tion as will result in immediate and Kick in! | drastie change in the present “insur- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ance practices” Outside of In New York | 7 Ih N i - payor, per v4.00 || Vose Will Illustrate Six Mo, 3.50 ‘Six Mo. 4,60 3 Mo. .. 2.00 3 Mo. .. 2.60 Calverton’s Series on Negro Life Struggles A series of articles on “The New Negro,” by, V. F. Calverton, illus- trated by Vose, one of our popular cartoonists, will appear soon in The DAILY WORKER. These ar- ticles will deal with various phases of the life and struggles of the American Negro masses and are | intended to stimulate interest in this important problem of the American labor and revolutionary movement. Watch for them! The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed $ OF se F mos, sub to; Name Street .. —“Schiffahrt”—did not print any |resolutions of the Hamburg seamen containing such pledges. In printing a brief report about | the meeting, “Schiffahrt” goes to ex- |tensive editorial explanations why it did not think it necessary to publish such resolutions. We are editorially | told that the Hamburg seamen were |acting unwisely in adopting resolu- tions not to carry soldiers and mili- tary supplies to China, According to the wise editors of this paper, no | British or French soldiers, ete., would |be embarked at Hamburg, then why bother about resolutions? As to the transportation of war supplies, it is claimed by “Schiffahrt” that there had only been one case of this kind | reported from Hamburg, and that it had been found that the shipment was intended for the Cantonese army, And so the paper arrives at the con- We that there was no need to pub- h the resolutions of Hamburg sea- ,@ n pledging not to transport arma- | ents to China, For the Militarists, Here we have an illustration how! * predatory the high-falutin’ phrases of the reformists about the stopping of the transportaion of armaments, the prevention of war, ete., turn out to be when put to the test in action. In its appeal the Transport Work- ers’ International Propaganda Com- mittee (TIPC) directs the attention of all transport workers to the knot of world events that is being tied up in the Far East. The world may again | be confronted with universal slaugh- ter. It is the duty of every worker, and particularly of every transport worker, for the prevention of this calamity, to demand from his union the adoption of effective measures to stop the supporting of the imperial- ists and the counter-revolutionists. The transport workers should cut off their war supplies. U.S. S. R. Offers Trade To Rest of World (Continued from Page One) tions among the working classes and the absolute. right to strike. 5.—The introduction of real assist- ance for the unemployed, above all, by means which one calls a process of rationalization-increasing taxes on the rich and reducing all forms of ‘un- productive consummation such as militarist functionaries. 6—A decisive warfare against in- creased prices for industrial merchan- dise. War On USSR 7.—The abolishment of all barriers for the passage of surplus popula- tions from one state to another. 8.—The abolishment of systems of protectorates or mandates, the with- drawal of all troops from Colonies and the recognition of the rights af all peoples to political and economic liberty. 9.—The cessation of all military in- tervention in Cina. 10.—The cessation of all forms of political or economic boycott against Soviet Russia‘and the establishment of relations based on the recognition of the inevitable coexistence of two different systems; the Soviet to re- ceive credits to increase her purchas- ing power in exchange for conces- sions; the establishment of technical collaboration; the renouncement of all attempts against the indissoluble| institutions of, the socialist system, | particularly against the monopoly of foreign commerce. 11.—A complete and effective world disarmament, with the complete dis- organization of all armed forces on land and sea, the workers’ organiza- tions and peasants to control the liquidation of all equipments and ing) stallations. Philadelphia Living Newspaper. How can a newspaper. be alive? | This is what Philadelphia workers are asking when they see the advertise- ment of the “Living 5 Paseo and concert to be given on Sunday May 15, by District No. 3 of the Workers Party. Russian comrades who have produced such newspapers them- selves, are not so curious, but they assure us the paper will make a big hit, All the latest news of the town; including the inner secrets of labor unions, the distressing fate of the Sacco-Vanzetti Conference, sensa- tional revelations as to factory con- ditions in “Philly” produced by first- hand witnesses, these things will be revealed by the “newspaper” which lives. It is rutsored also that such celebrities as Albert Weisbord, fresh from a campaign for Commissioner in his old battle-ground of Passaic and Dr. Lau of the local Kuomintang organization will be both seen and heard in person, The mystery will be fully and en- joyably solved on the evening of Spn- day May 15th at 521 York Ave., beginning at 8 o'clock. Marines Crush Liberals! By Coolidge’s Order (Continued from Page One) door of the Caribbean nations, “Once more the ceign of Diaz is imposed upon the ‘free and sovereign sister nation’ of Nicaragua; what he| represents wa all know too well. The next act belongs to the big loans, the banks, the railroads and the otler! concession:\; elections are promised for 1928; they are one year and a half too late; there were elections in 1912 under military océupation; Diaz was unanimously elected, “His succession at the ylections uf 1916 and 1920 was guaranteed; then there was an election in 1924, The Nicaraguan people after nixteen years of practical experience know what to expect from elections at the hands of the overmas all eg! of the goun protesting that moves behind the » indefinite and DB bw Wess pad the screen < ee Adolfo's fone face, | wook of July 10, for the all kdl ‘on ize Dinx, Brain’ aymastor "The glory of teaching the poople be is rae, sie of Nicaragua who they must Miss Donovan recently wos dis- for president is not less envinble, bus] missed from a position which she at baal ote Ke 3 J how to correct their mi royey ey activity in defense the case, The) militai they elected the unwanted men to of- Vv ‘ ite intended not fer the Cantar ew fer bor dchatge rena « re? COMMISSION FORM EXPOSED IN PASSAIC Weisbord UnmasksFake Non-Partisanism By ALBERT WEISBORD. The campaign of the Workers Com- munist Party in the city elections in| Passaic has given a severe blow to the Commission form of government. The Commission form of govern- ment is only ‘another mask used by the capitalists to befog the workers and to raise false issues. The theory) behind the Commission form of gov-| ernment is that the city is a big} corporation, a municipal corporation | which must be managed the same} way that a business corporation is managed. Those who are to be elec- ted are to be elected only on the basis of personal qualifications and individual merit. No political parties or partisan issues are to be injected. Men are to be picked for office cs superintendents are picked by the) boss in a factory. | Conceal Class Struggle. | The result is that the electors are! intrigued into discussing all sorts of fake issues with which the citizens and workers have really very little) concern, The most miserable piffle | is trotted out to the voters as “is-| sues.” There is hidden the fact that | the candidates belong to certain wmajor political parties which have de- finite platforms and principles hos- tile to workers and friendly to em- ployers. There is hidden the fact that} the interests of the workers of one city are closely bound up with the} interests of the rest of the workers throughout the state and fiation. | There is hidden the fact that the) election campaign is only another form of the class struggle. | In the Passaic election, the Com-| munist Party has completely exposed | this sham and fraud. In a municipal | campaign they have raised national issues as well, such as hands of} China, against the Watson Parker Bill menace, against the laws against the foreign-born, and for a Labor Party. The Communist Party has} exposed how the city government is/ under the complete control of the employers, how all of the candidates for commissioner, seemingly fighting each other, are in reality agents of the employers of the city, and how | instead of a bosses’ government there must be a workers’ government. By raising these class issues, the Com- | munist Party has made the individual | issues, raised by the other candidates to fool the workers, look cheap and ridiculous. BMes Infuriated. A further severe blow was handed the commission form of government by the decision of the Supreme court of the state of New Jersey that the Communist candidates because they were bracketed together and one of | them had a name which when placed | alphabetically with the others would | entitle him to be placed first, had to! be placed at the head of the ballot. This decision infuriated the other! capitalist candidates, but they had to! submit. What does this. deeision mean! There is no doubt that this gives an| undoubted advantage to the Com- munist_ cithdidates who are: placed te- gether at the very head of the ballot. But more than that, since the Com- munist Party is more anxious to put forward principles than individuals, it will always be able to find a repre- sentative of its principles whose name will be on the top of the alphabetical list. That means that the Commu- nist Party candidates will always be on the top of the ballot and always have, this advantage. This gives a severe blow to the com- mission form of elections now used, The capitelist theory is to make the election a question of certain indi- viduals. This decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey gives the ad- vantage, not to capitalist individuals, | but to workingclass parties. Will the capitalists stand for this? There is no doubt but what, should | the Communists participate in | further municipal elections so as to | be a real menace to the bosses’ candi- dates, that the law will have to be changed and again thé ‘Commission form of government, .with its fake and hypocrisy, shown up, Sen, Walsh Demands Letters. BOSTON, May 8—In a letter to Miss Mery Donovan, recording secre- tary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, recently, Senator David Walsh informed the committee that by that department in con- nection with the case, The letters were written, the com- mittee hag maintained, by people in Syren miriam aac inamne an, reece Sree en cam serrccm vane jem en Only | fore the opening of the Batsar, and |the defense must have Carjonters, | Electricians and sign painters now. The great quality of merchandise that is being gathered makes it | vitally important that all the booths {should be finished by noon on Wednesday, or the goods will not be placed in time for the opening. | * * * What Kind of a Bazaar. If your lady or gentlemen friend like candy, come to the Bazaar Candy Store and get your supply, There will be three refreshment boothsy.selling cigars, cigarettes and soft drinks, Coco Cola has been ob- tained below the wholesale price and will be on sale at the refreshment booths. i ie . Free Zoolak. Dr. Dadrean & Sons, Company, wil! havea Zoolak (fermented mill) booth at the Bazaar, This company has made a free donation of all the Zoolak that will be sold at the Bazaar.- | Needle Trade Defense a few days are now left be- | How's that? |bocths already assigned does emcenvenrenvencansand * » A Jewelry Store. Branch 648 Workmen's Circle is ar- ranging to have a Jewelry and Nov- elty Store. Quite a lot of beautiful art work, antiques, chinese silver and gold art goods, beads, pins, braceleta and diamond rings have been collected and donated and this store will fur~ nish meny surprises, ~ * » * Other Booths. The Committee of 100 will have a faney work booth, Newark will have a fresh flower booth. The Progres- sive Grocery Clerks will have a Grocery Store, and the White Goods Workets will have a linen store. The International Labor Defense requests that they be given two booths instead of one originally arranged for, { |The United Council of Workingclass Housewives are also dissatisfied, Two not seom enough, and an offer of one additional booth seems to them alto- gether unsatisfactory. ADDITIONAL MAY DAY GREETINGS _ STREET NUCLEUS 8, CHICAGO, ILL. - sends MAY DAY GREETINGS to The DAILY WORKER MAY DAY GREETINGS to The DAILY WORKER ‘ Street Nucleus 28, Section 6 \ CHICAGO, ILL. Peed HUNGARIAN WORKERS HOME 350 EAST 8ist STREET : Bet. First and Second Avenue NEW YORK : OFFICE AND MEETING ROOMS. BILLIARD TABLES ON 1ST FLOOR det foo se te ee i Phone; Lehigh 1281, - Workmen’s Mutual Aim Ass’, Inc, GREETS THE WORKERS: If you want to spend your winter months in a pleasant atmosphore, airy rooms to sleep in and fresit wholesome meals, you will find {t at the CO-OPERATIVE HOUSE 1786 Lexington Ave., cor 111th St. New York. 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