The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1927, Page 2

Pees nes Aree. Conditi ce THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JU 30, 1927 wos send | New York City is the largest port the world, both in size and -in the extent of shipping entering and lea’ Which are constantly in the public ®ye, and whose arrivals and de- Partures are daily listed in all the Newspapers, the port is crowded with the freighters, the backbone of the industry with the goods necessary for its existence. The aver worker little realizes the importance Very little attention to the condition "ef those men who toil on the ships, ‘the seamen. During the war and the period im- M™mediately following, American ship- Ping was at its height. Great Brit- ain’s shipping was being crippled by the German submarine warfare, and the United States by a tremendous shipbuilding drive was rivalling Eng- Yand as the foremost maritime power. It was during this period that the ‘American seamen were able to de- gmand wages and conditions which made their existence the best com- pared with that of any other seamen in the world. Seamen’s Union Declines. ' However their prosperity was shortlived. In 1921 came the big strike in which the backbone of the Seamen’s organizations was broken. ‘At the present time their organiza- tions are practically powerless. The International Seamen’s Union which at one time was able to dictate its terms to the shipowners is now on its last legs. Ruled over by the re- actionary and bureaucratic Andy Furuseth it has lost every vestige of fighting spirit and consequently the confidence of the seamen who have quit the organization in disgust. No attempt is made to organize the sail- ors and firemen whose conditions are daily becoming more miserable. Wages have been reduced from an average of 85 dollars to 55 dollars per month. Food, never at the best very good, has become as bad as prison fare. Sleeping quarters are crowded and unclean, pay for over- time has practically disappeared. Taking advantage of the weakness of the seamen the ship owners have taken away every concession which was won during the war period. At present unemployment has helped to make the lot of the seamen even more miserable. Walk along South Street, New York’s saltiest thoroughfare and you will find the avenue crowded with seamen thrown | out of work, some of them on the beach for months, and many of them destitute and hungry and on the verge of starvation. ABronzeStatue of KARL MARX A beautiful work, inches high, is now ready. Selling at $5.00 each. SEND FOR ONE TODAY THE DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York. six Special Summer Subscription Offer 2MONTHS This offer is especially suited to those who wish to become acquainted with our paper. Ask your friends and fellow work- ers to try The DAILY _ WORKER. for $1.00 RATES Per year . #ix months Three months . In New York Per year - six months ‘Three months . The DAILY WORKER 1 33 First Street I | New York _ Bnclosed $...... for ... ing daily. Besides the gigantic liners | banana Shipping industry, bringing cargoes ‘from all parts of the world to provide age of New York as a seaport, and pays ions in Port of New York—The Decline of the Seamen’s| Union—Widespread Unemployment—The Slaves. Slaves Of South Street. | It is on this street running along the East River that the infamous docks of the United Fruit Company located. And it is from the hope! and half starved work- \ers that crowd South Street that this company recruits the gangs to un- Toad its ships. Speeding up the |workers by means of the latest machinery and ing them mereci- by me brutal foremen, company reapi profits by the relentless of South Street’s arm: ployed. The United has always taken the lead in figh any attempts at organizing the men and is the first to take ad is tage of their weakness in order to} impose worse conditions. It h ready instituted the two watch jtem for sailors on deck which jequivalent to a twelve hour day | There is no limit to which the ship owners will go in exploiting the sea- men unless there is some organized | force to: stop them. | meeting the attacks of this highly or- |ganized and merciless group of profit seekers by the combined force of all those who man the ships and }unload them on the docks, that the | seamen will be able to demand con- | ditions that will ensure them a de- cent standard of living. is Siege Perils Health (Continued from Page One) | Many springs at Mine No. 2, near Castle Shannon, to which the “water siege” drives the strikers for water, | were posted as dangerous and unpro- tected, with warnings that the water | should be boiled, said Dr. John R. Con- over, county health director. Some person tore down many of the warn- ings, Conover declared. * * Guards Abuse Scabs. :/are being recklessly and heedlessly | It is only by| Coal Company’s Water) NATIONAL POLICY OF CONSERVATION Quit Helping the War-| Makers of Europe | DENVER, June 29.—Senator! Borah, of Idaho, in an address last | nigh to the Twenty-third Annual Con- yention of the International Ad-| Association, urged the} ity for American concentration on domestic problems, the conserva- | tion of our natural resources which debauched by the short-sighted greed | of private owners, and the futility of our “delusive effort to aid Europe.” Waste Of Oil Resources. Borah laid particular emphasis on| the “orgy of production” in the oil) fields and of the shameless waste of | this important resource of the nation in many oil fields which are being} damaged or ruined through careless | or hasty drilling operations. He} pointed out that in a report filed by} |the Federal Oil Board last Septem- ber, the statement is made that the} known oil fields of the United States | hold oil sufficient to supply this} | country for six years, and probably | no longer. | “As the world is now organized,” | |said Borah, “oil is an essential ele- |ment of national power, an indis- pensable factor in national security. Without oil in these days, a nation faces economic vasalage.” He indicated, somewhat cautiously, that the oil interests would have to set their house in order and stop the alarming “saturnalia” of reckless competitive production for profit if | they wished to avoid governmental |control, having previously exposed the | impotence of the government which |had already admitted its inability to control the national brigands. Speaking of the damage caused by the M ssippi flood, amounting to | |approximately $400,000,000 and the | | misery and desolation of the people in | the flood areas, Borah points to the | waste in national wealth, the waste \in “human suffering, discouragement {and the breaking up of the plans of | PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29,—Sav-| age tactics by Pittsburgh Coal Co.’s|@ lifetime,” and concludes that “we; | jeoal and iron police against even|@8 @ people, as a nation, should turn strikebreakers, and bitter exploitation | 0U?. attention to the working out of and discrimination against the Negro | an intelligent and permanent national | miners, inveigled into seabbing is| Program, a national policy” to solve proved by the following letter taken | these problems which involve the wel- | James Pierpont Morgan! New York’s Water Front | BORAH ADVOCATES: News and Views of the Biggest World Port Parades His Property Snapshot of J. Pierpont Mor gan, New York financier, march- ing in a parade on the campus of Harvard University, Cambridge Mass., during commencement ex: ercises. Needle Trade Defense At the concert arranged by the Joint Defense and Relief Committee to take place July 16 in the Coney Island Stadium, 30,000 workers will meet to express their protest against the Sigman-McGrady-Woll clique and to support the striking furriers and the imprisoned needle trades workers. Once more the workers of New York will show the Forward and its gang that they are with the Joint Boards of the Furriers and Cloakmakers Unions. In itself the concert. will be the best of the season. The New from a Negro paper in Pittsburgh. It is written by a resident of that city, | and in part, as follows: Something for Race Miners To Look At. The Pittsburgh Coal Company is doing the same as most corporations do after the strike is well on. They failed to pay the price for mining rock. They will not give you full weight; they will not give you good houses to jive in, and will not let you make over $50.00 a pay for loading coal, unless you work day and night. Lots of men wait from one to three days for a cut after they clean up. Lots of times you get two cars by mine waiting on the man trip and then walk out; lots of times the pit bosses fail to turn in all of your time, and you wait from one to three pay days to get all of your day work. But the company never fails to get ithe blacksmith, doctor fee, relief fund and store bill. I have seen lots of men beg for a little credit for powder |and supplies so they could go into the pit. When the company hires men in another city they tell them they can have full set of tools. When you get on the job they give you one pick, one shovel, lamp, cap, powder and in. No Money In Seabbing. | The boss in the mine gives you a jroom with four to 12 inches of water, }sometimes a driper thrown in—no | pay. Or he gives you a room with two ears of coal by squaring up good and a day or day and a half of rock. Sometimes you lose a car of coal on the road. Cars that will go 5,000 |pounds you. may get 3,900 to 4,300 |pounds. When your rack shows 16 jinches in the center and 13 inches on jthe sides the boss will tell you it is |not enough to measure this time. You 11 a. m.; lots of times you sit in the! dinner bucket and tell you to go on} fare of the nation. | Squirms at Government Control. | But Senator Borah’s humanitarian \impulses begin to squirm a little un- comfortably over the possibility of | government control of the basic in- | dustries. “It is not so easy to deter- mine,” he says, “our course, or what is wise to do as a government, when it comes to dealing with the problems which oil, power and coal present. I venture the opinion, however, that |the extent to which the government |shall take part in these matters will | depend primarily upon those who own |and control these industries. Govern- |ment dominance or control or gov- ernment ownership will depend very | largely, if not wholly, upon the action |and conduct of those who own or are |in, control of these things. If waste {eontinues, and reckless exploitation | prevails, if the people are charged {unreasonable prices, the government | will have no alternative; it will have to go as far as is necessary.” | Senator Borah feels that the great war is responsible for the deflection | of our attention, as a government and as a people, from our domestic prob- {lems to the problems of reconstruc- tion and stabilization which confront Europe. | Helping the Warmakers. | “Under the presegt policies of Europe,” Borah stated, “cancellations of debts and loans will serve but little, if at all, in reconstruction—they seem more in need of great military establishments and a strengthening of the war program; we are not help- | ing the people of Europe but the war- makers of Europe. The present pol- icles do not mean peace, do not mean reconstruction. | “The history of Europe during the ‘last thirty days has in it every ele- ment of strife which preceded the years before the war. The premier of Italy in a public speech declares} York Symphony Orchestra of 100 will participate. * Erno Rappe, interna- tionally known, will conduct. Alexis Kosloff, former, ballet master of the Russian Imperib! Theatre, with his famous ballet, will produce “Prince Igor.” Those who saw: Kosloff at the Stadium last year will surely not miss this opportunity to see him at his tbest. Tickets are $1.00 and $2.00 for reserved seats and can be gotten at the Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittee, 41 Union Square, Room 714. ee 244 Times 25. surrounded by the police and dragged off to court Monday morning. This move on the part of the police had no | effect on the spirit of the workers. |The broken ranks were repaired and | the arrested workers replaced by hun- dreds of other pickets. The trial was | postponed until Wednesday and bail of $25 was fixed for each of the ar- rested workers. This money had to be raised in one day. Such occur- rences take place daily. The police and the right wing traitors are de- termined to exhaust the treasury of the union so that the workers will be compelled to submit. Such a time is, however, far distant. The working masses stand solidly behind the strik- ing furriers and steadily supply the ammunition to help them in their struggle. * $121.00 was collected at a mass meeting of the Passaic Workers Cul- ture Club which was held: Friday. A committee of 8 was elected to con- tinue the work for the Defense Com- mittee. Kaplan of the Cloakmakers and Shapiro of the Furriers were present at this meeting. * * * The Brownsville Youth Culture Center forwarded $32.00 to the Com- * * A whole line of 244 pickets was | that he is on the way to creating an army of 5,000,009 men, to the build- ing of a great navy and to the re- construction of an air force second jtalk to the superintendent and he} will give you a promise, that’s all. | | When you go ta-the office and see the | j Emalieer th he snaps at you like a mad | dog. | After Miners’ Wives. Then too, you have the imported |gunmen, known as Coal and Iron Police in day time and on sight, un- \less a colored woman is willing to |bow to his insults, and you are will- ‘ing to be driven around, Then you j will be sent out of camp. Sometimes | they tell you to get out in two hours, One man knocked a Coal and Iron policeman in the head for insulting his wife. One of our foolish race ||men saved the Coal and Iron police-| ||man by hitting the race miner and in his face. I jknow of a race man who was dis- charged for voicing his sentiments ‘and standing by this man’s home to |see that no more Coal and Iron police insulted this man’s wife. THe super- jsnapping his gun _|intendent told this lady’s husband he would not stand for him hitting a (man like that and he could get his time. The general manager told me that | to none in the world. What are these | things for? | “The break between Great Britain and Russia, the assassination of the Russian minister in Poland, the exe- cutions in Russia, have made Europe, mentally and spiritually, if I may use the terms, an armed camp. Last Sun- day a week the premier of France, at Luneville, delivered a public ad- dress steeped in bitterness and intol- erance. In the fact of such speeches Locarno becomes a flimsy piece of organized hypocrisy. The league con- venes in an atmosphere of dissension and strife.” | Keep Up the Sustaining Fund work, The head Coal and Iron police refu to make any arrests in. this case, the same as he refused in the month of April when a Coal and Iron policeman shot at two men and my- self. In this case one of his shots went through a window and shot a colored lady in the stomach. When formed that it had never been ré- mittee with a promise to make it a $100 before the week is over, The Brownsville Workers Club collected $20.00 for the Furriers at its meeting Friday evening. Branch No. 188 Workmen’s Circle forwarded $80.00 and elected a committee to visit the members of the Branch to collect further funds for the striking Fur- riers. Branch 564 Workmen’s Circle forwarded $8.00. | ie Saul Yellin bought 2 bonds at $10 each, one for himself and the other for his friend. He also sold $10 worth of tickets to the Coney Island Sta-| dium Concert and took another batch. Yellin is a member of the Freiheit Singing Society. Mrs. Nomkin, Mrs. Tabachnik, Sarah Cohen, Clara Kushner of work- ing Class Housewives Council No. 7 were arrested for picketing and were fined $5.00 or two days in jail. The women preferred jail and saved $20 for the defense. é PA . Volunteers Wanted. If you have any leisure time, come into the office of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee, 41 Union if the colored men were that timid/I went to the general, office I was in-| Square, Room 714, inquire for Lena ‘|about their wives it would be better L/to get aitother place for theth to vr ‘ack. ie Margaret owt Boa’ SAGCO-VANZETT EXECUTION PUT | OFF ONE MONTH | \Mass Meeting Sunday | in Philadelphia j praia 2 BOSTON, June 29-—Goy. Alvan T, Fuller today ordered a postponement of the death sentence imposed on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, framed-up Italian radicals, un- til August 10th. At the same time he granted a re- execution for the killing of a bank cashier and who has made a full con- fession that he and several others of the notorious Morelli gang were re- sponsible for the murder for which Sacco and Vanzetti have been con- victed. * * Vanzetti’s Statement Published. Vanzetti’s masterly statement to Gov. Fuller, and the six affidavits Judge Webster Thayer are being dis- tributed in pamphlet form by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee. The pamphlet is entitled “Massachu- setts’ Reputation at Stake!” The affidavits all tell how the judge ranted against the defendants \bastards” was one of the judge’s mild expletives. John Nicholas Beffel, who reported the trial for the Federated Press; Frank P. Sibley, veteran of the Bos- ton Globe; Elisabeth Bernkopf, of the International News Service; Robert | Benchley, of Life magazine; Mrs. Lois B. Rantoul, of the Boston Federation ‘of Churches and George U. Crocker, lvich University Club man, made the | affidavits. Their sworn statements— |now in Fuller’s hands—all serye to show Thayer was too bitterly biased to give the two Italian radicals a fair | trial. | | Philadelphia Protest Sunday. PHILADELPHIA, June 29.—One hundred and sixty organizations rep- resenting nearly 20,000 members are arranging the monster protest open- air demonstration for Sacco and Van- zetti on Sunday which will be pre- ceded. by a parade which will form at Broad and Christian Sts. at 2 o'clock. Among the speakers will be James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsyl- vania Federation of Labor; H. M. Wicks, editor the DAILY WORKER; Norman Thomas, Julfet Stuart Poyntz, Louis Budenz, editor of “Labor Age,” Carlo Tresca, R. Mag- liacano, Carlo Fama, of the North American Anti-fascisti League. oo ee CHICAGO, June 29.—The move- ment to send a national labor dele- gation to Gov. Fuller who will call for the immediate release of Sacco and Vanzetti is taking definite form. At a last meeting of the Chicago Sacco-Vanzetti Conference held Mon- day it was decided to send telegrams to all leading central labor unions in the country urging them to support the movement for the labor delega- tion, and to select delegates to repre- sent them. has informed all its units of the de- cision of the Chicago conference, and has instructed its members to work for early action in the central labor unions. ‘Klan Chances for Radio 'To Broadcast American ‘Propaganda Pretty Slim WASHINGTON, June 29 (FP).— Efforts of the Ku Klux Klan to estab- lish a national radio station in Wash- ington to broadcast “patriotic, protes- tant, American” propaganda are prac- tically doomed to failure. The federal radio commission has told the Fellow- ship Forum, klan organ, that 300 prior applications for wave lengths are on file with little hope for grant- ing any of them. | The Forum has sponsored a cam- paign to raise $46,500 for the station, to operate on 10,000 watts, placing it among the most powerful in the coun- try. Scores of klan chapters have con- tributed to the fund which now totals $17,000. Harbor Workers Win Compensation From U.S. After Struggle WASHINGTON, June 29 (FP).— All navigable areas of the continental United States have been divided into 14 compensation districts for the ad- ministration of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ compensation act. Instructions have been sent to all stevedoring firms and insurance companies on how to comply with the provisions of the law, which becomes effective July 1. For the first time cargo workers are given compensation protection. State laws seeking to protect them have been declared unconstitutional on the that such maritime work comes under federal jurisdiction, Af- ter a long, hard fight, labor forced Congress in the last session to pass a compensation act, Longshoring and stevedoring are oe in bil Tauber haz- ‘ spite to Celestino Madeiros awaiting) i" : |address, and will be promptly attended to. Single copies 3 cents , | The International Labor Defense Appeal to Our Readers! — mane If you are satisfied that th is DAILY WORKER will be of |value to the workers of this country in their struggle with the bosses, we desire to appeal to you for support in securing not only DAILY WORKER in existence. ja large circulation amongst your fellow trade unionists, but also |for financial assistance to render it possible for us to keep The We have started with a six-page paper, and are anxious to see it enlarged to contain all the material which comes to us. This cannot be done under existing circum- | stances, and therefore we are compelled to ask you to come to our assistance. Interest your labor organization in the paper by get- 4 ting them to take regularly a quantity for your members; get |your union to send us a donation, however small; ask your fellow- workers to send us a subscription to the Maintenance Fund—all SCORE BETRAYAL BY TRADE UNION | by. newspapermen and others against | repeated propositions to the Central | atically avoids submitting for the di |eussion of the Anglo-Russian, Com- | mittee the most important questions | in club room, restaurant and railroad | coach during the trial period: “Those } will be acknowledged if forwarde mittee, address: 33 East First St d to the General Managing Com- reet, New York City. Orders for The DAILY WORKER should be sent to the same at the newsstands. Fraternally, L. HOFBAUER. COUNCIL LEADERS WHO INJURED SOVIET UNION WORKERS AND PEASANTS (Continued from Page One) Council of Trade Unions. However, the General Council of; Trade Unions deferring its covoca- tion under various pretexts system- | over which Soviet as well as British} workers are anxious. | Workers of the Soviet Union have | watched with the greatest sympathy the struggle of British workers against their capitalists. On behalf of the. workers of the Soviet Union, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions offered fraternal aid to British workers engaged in the general strike. } Betrayed General Strike. Did the general council take steps to, rally proletarian forces against the attack of capital? No, it did not.) With the assistance and the conniv- ance of the right wing. and “left”) leaders of the general council, the| British workingclass was pressed in the clutches of the police and the Trade Union Act. Did the general council ever take any steps to prevent the attack of British imperialism on the Chinese revolution? No, the general council did not, No Protest on Arcos Raid. Did the general council také any measure to censure Chamberlain’s provocative note to the Soviet govern- ment? Did the general council inter- vene when the Arcos offices were raided in London? Did it call the Anglo-Russian Committee at the time of the Anglo-Soviet rupture?’ No, the general council did nothing of the sort. : The policy of the Genera! Council virtually aimed to wreck the Anglo- Russian Committee and to liquidate it as an organ of British and Soviet workers. Holding the liquidation of the Ang- lo-Russian Committee as harmful to the cause of international labor unity, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions regards the open and veiled attempt of the leaders of the General Council to smash the Anglo- Russian Committe as tantamount to an open betrayal of the class inter- ests of the proletariat and treachery to the workers of the Soviet Union. Sided With White Guards. However, the General , Council’s only political reply to the All-Union Central Council's proposition to call the Anglo-Russian Committee to dis- cuss the most important question for the struggle was a telegram protest- ing against the actions of the work- ers state against white guard spies who waged a campaign of: terrorism against the Soviet Union. The adoption by the General Coun- cil of the resolution condemning the shooting of open enemies of the working class, of terrorists and in- cendiaries who from behind the cor- ners shot the representatives of the proletariat and by terorist methods attempted to restore the old regime, hated by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, is as a matter of fact a direct insult to the workers and peasants of the USSR and means the shameful rallying of the Gen- | bourgeois press. eral Council leaders to the anti-So- viet campaign raised by the venal To say nothing about the danger of war, not to tell the workers about the significance of the Anglo-Soiet rupture, not to pillory Chamberlain's foreign policy while at the same time joining with all the black hundreds on the ques- tion of the so-called “red. terror” is the General’ Council’s general plat- form. Such tactics cannot be con- sidered other than a treacherous at- tempt to smash the Anglo-Russian Committee. In the name of ten million organ- ized workers of the Soviet Union, the All-Union Council of Trade Unions deems it its direct duty to loudly pro- \claim the danger to peace. The coun- cil considers that all of the honest representatives of the British work- ers must ruthlessly brand the crim- inal, bandit and arrogantly provoca- tive policy of Baldwin’s conservative government, Only the blind can fail to see that England is preparing a war against the Soviet Union, entering an agree- |ment with fascist Italy, mobilizing the forces of reaction, enlisting allies and yearning for a Yrepetition of the horrors of intervention, fighting to bring about another blockade of the Soviet Union and ruin the workers and peasants’ state. Must Stop War. The realization of this monstrous scheme to wreck the Chinese revolu- tion and launch a bloody attack against the Soviet: Union must he prevented at all costs. War must be prevented, The proletariat must not be taken unawares. Calls For Strugige. The All-Union Central Council states again that it deems it abso- lutely inadmissible that at such an acute moment the Anglo-Russian Committee should be silent and re- main inactive. The ‘Anglo-Russian Committee must be one of the cen- ters for the mobilization of prole- tarian opinion, and must put forward measures for carrying on the strug- gle against the imperialist onslaught. Placing the entire blame for the policy of sabotaging the Anglo-Ru¢- sian Council on the General Council the All Union Central Council of Trade Unions calls upon all British and Soviet workers to struggle against capital for a defeat of the .forees trying to bring about a new imperialist war. | BAILLO BECK Left home June 23 early morn- | ing and has not returned yet. } | AIL friends are very upset in | case of any accident. Anybody | knowing of his whereabouts please communieate with A. POMERANZ ° | 200 Audubon Ave. Bronx, N. Y. Telephone Wadsworth 9656 TCL PG Coolidge Thinks of Gracing South’s Non- Unionist Celebration WASHINGTON, June 29 (FP). —| President Coolidge has been given an | opportunity to pronounce formal benediction on the south’s anti-union | industrial policy, President John E. | Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers has invited him to attend the Chattanooga Convention October 25, where the so-called Plat- form of American Industry, postu- lated on hostility to all trade unions, will be adopted. i The N. A. M, is strong among the cotton mill owners of the Carolinas and Georgia. The president has taken the invitation under advisement, Modify Injunction in Newark Bakers’ Strike Dabble ye tod iP) la Bie “Peaceful! e ” is perm! in junction against a modified the bak- ers’ and confectionary workers’ local union. 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