The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1927, Page 5

a | | | i fi | | | | } i 2 ) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 18. 1 92 7 An Answer to Mr. Muste’s “Appeal to Youth” By P. FRANKFELD. A. J. MUSTE, liberal-laborite and progressive, has written an g\p- peal to Youth in the July number of Labor Age. The appeal is not so much directed to the youth as much as it is directed and itended for the labor movement to wake up to the possibilities and necessity of organ- izing the young workers and its sub- sequent benefits for the labor move- ment as a whole. {in a general way. the organization of the working youth | is necéssary—but that is, in too gen- | eral a wai Mr. Muste correctly | points out the necessity of infusing “new blood” in the trade unions. He | speaks of church organizations and | their youth auxiliaries, of Boy Scout | movements and student movements. | But these arguments are very super-| ficial. The veal substantial arguments | to present in favor of organizing the | unorganized young worker are: (1)./} He realizes that | latter. It was a similar confusion that made the German social-democrats Propose the same solution for the same problem in’Germany. Mr. Muste correctly understands the bureaucrats aversion for organ+ izing the unorganized youth, but at- tempts to rationalize it by saying: “We are afraid of that thing in young people to which at the present time we usually apply the term Bolshe- vism. That is to say, afraid of their rebeliousness, their willingness to ORGANIZED LABOR—TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES: NEWS AND COMMENT LABOR EDUCATION LABOR AND GOVERNMENT TRADE UNION POLITICS Take Back Members By LELAND OLDS. ' (Federated Press The end of the era of priyate com-| petition in the woolen industry is/ recognized in the organization of co-| ordinating boards to control produc- | tion and di ution for the industry | as a whole the interest of higher| prices. The new order was initiated jat a gathering of 300 executives and| THREE HUNDRED WOOLEN MILL EXECUTIVES BUILD GIANT TRUST TO LIMIT PRODUCT, LIFT PRICE where competition no longer rages within industries, but between indu tries. - The woolen manufactu find that men are buying autos, ra- dios and other nusements in place of clothes women are buying place of woolens. ng to eliminate « themselves in or- ore intensively for They organi competition am der to compete For the self-preservation of the Ame: ican trade union movement it is 1 The very fact that another section | even smash what already exists in Of Textile Union of the labor movement is. becoming aware of the fact that the young workers are not organized, is a real step forward. The fact that Mr. Mus- te, representing a progressive ten- deney, has awakened from the Rip Van Winkle sleep that has embraced the American labor movement on this question, and is attempting to ro’ the rest of it is something to be con gratulated. However, that which the left-wing has always recognized ani made efforts to remedy, and has t an extent sueceeded, may he respon- sfble for the “sudden awakening” for as Mr. Muste himself admits, “The | only semblance of a youth movement having any connection with American labor is in the extreme left wing.” * * * There are something like 11 mil- lions of youth and child workers in the U. S. today. The number of young workers has been steadily increasing in the last two decades, in America. With the growth and development and concentration of industry, and the subsequent simplification of the pro- cesses of production, it was inevitable that the youth should be more and more drawn into the industrial life. Also, with the development of the class struggle in the U. S., in the sense that class lines and divisions were becoming more sharply drawn and permanent, with the opportuni- | ties that existed in America of rising from the ranks of the working-class to that of the petty bourgeoisie hav- ing disappeared, that the youth should become a source of much needed revenue for his family, and a@ source of greater exploitation for the bosses. Especially now, with im- migration practically shut off, with that source of unskilled, unorganized, and exploitable workers no longer ob- tainable, does the boss class turn to the American youth to reinforce the ranks of the unskilled and semi- skilled categories formerly filled by Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, ete, Another important factor making for the increase of youth labor in America is the springing up of new industries with a great division of labor. These industries become prac- tically youth industries, employing mostly young workers. Radio is an example. These facts are mentioned not only for general information, but\for seri- ous considerations to those really in- terested in organizing the unorgan- ized young workers. For these dif- ferent industries and categories of young workers, different methods will haye to be employed in organ- izing them. in. some detail later on. Now as to the article of Mr. Muste. | He seems to realize these facts, but jorder to get at something that seems This will be explaineékcomparison and justification for la-| essary to orgai the youth. Other-| wise the capitalist cla: ill see to. it | | that they continue to be organized in | the Boy § . C. Avs, mili- tary institutions, ican Legion, | |and other strike-breaking and scab For the preservation f jean standard of living: he working youch are being used to eplace adult workers on the jeb for nuch Jess pay and (3). Because the interests of the young workers are | identical with the interests of the | adult worker. This last point bring us to the pro- posal made by Muste for “labor youth leagues.” Mr. Muste states: “It seems to me that we might profitably consider the possibility of developing something in the nature of a trade union or labor youth league. Re- ligious, charitable and political or- |ganizations of all kinds have such auxiliary youth organizations and would not think of carrying on with- out them.” This in brief is the solu- | tion offered by Mr. Muste, and this | solution we have heard before. But | what Mr. Muste fails to see or under- |stand is exactly that ‘last point brought out in the preceding para- graph. The interests of the youth and adult are the same. * * * The fact that the young workers | |are brought into industry, that they | become concentrated in certain indus- tries, brings them into the ranks of | the working class and into the fold of the class struggle. The task of or- ganizing them, not into labor youth leagues, but into actual bona-fide trade unions with equal rights and privileges with adult workers becomes much more simple as a result ef this bringing the young workers into ac- tive participation in the class strug- gle, and can only result in the strengthening of the fighting power of the workers. This fact can be vori- | fiéd by the experiences of the Passaic | workers when they conducted their | great struggle, the youth tremend-| cusly strengthened the fighting power during the strike. | If the working youth is organized | in its own youth league, the opposite will be the effect. The young work- ers will become something separate and apart from the general trade union movement. They will become sert of second class union men. The | sion will be one of age, and not one that is historically or practically necessary, and therefore only artifi- cial. And when Mr. Muste gives re- ligious, charitable and political or-| ganizations’ youth auxiliaries as a| bor youth leagues, we say that he| shows great confusion and misunder- standing between the former and the | BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MEAL Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 75 E. 107th Street New York. Where do we meet to drink and eat? at Sollins’ Dining Room Good Feed! Good Company! Any Hour! Any Day! REAL HOME COOKING 222 E, ldth St. Bet. 2 & 3 Aves. Phone: Stuyvesant 7661. For HEALTH, SATISFACTION COMRADESH RATIONAL VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 1590 Madison Ave. New York University 0775 and Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6765, Phone Stuyvesant 2816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals 302 E. 12th St. meet, New York Advertise your here. union meetings For information write to | Strictly by Appointment Tel. 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The low wages, and long hours of work The | Places. The United Textile Workers! by controlled production fact that the young worker is left un-|i8 organizing the anthracite district | ted distribution. protected, and is at the mercy of the employer. The young workers are passive today, but already we sce de- finite signs of movement in the dir tion of struggle towards bettering their conditions. The elemental forces of work will produce more Bellvilles, Rellaires, Plumbers’ Helpers organi- zations, breaker-boy strikes, etc. The working youth in America, even to- | day, when passive, are not an inert mass. The direct and open sabotage by | the trade union officialdom of this basie necessity for the labor move-| ment, that of organizing the young workers, is objectively cloaked by Mr. Muste behind the slogan of “us old folks are afraid of the young.” Tt is not exactly this kind of fear that makes the bureaucra‘s hesitate, but because of the new militancy that the youth will bring into the trade unions, the new trade unionism: that will sweep out the old fogies whi | have been in office for decades and | |clean the Augean stables of the /108 East 14th St. at 9 a. m. sharp on American labor movement. It is that |Monday to start on construction work. | George |fear which prevents the officialdom | of the A. F. of L, from organizing the youth, and instead William Green,|_ The Workers School Library, 108! @OVERNOR Len Small handed the| Attorney General | president of the A. F. of L. calls on the working youth to go to the C, M. T. C’s. And they are correct, for witness the activities of Pat Toohey, Joe Angelo, and Tony Minerich in the Miners’ Union, Passaic, Gold in the furriers, ete. Their fears are very well founded indeed. All of these difficulties are | CARBONDAL, | Several hundred |at Klotz Throwing § |at work with those |union activities July 17.— ing girl workers < Co. are back harged fi to their | silk workers. ” ‘* * | PORTLAND, Me., July 17.—Weav- Jers at Haskell Silk Mills will con- | tinue to work only two looms though at 1 cent less per yard than formerly. The 125 workers struck when a 2 cent eut and the four-loom system were | announced by the firm. PARTY ACTIVITIES — NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY | Open Air Meeting Tonight. | Third Avenue and 54th Street. Speakers: De Kalb, Gusakoff, Chas. Mitchell and Jean Intrator. | Carpenters. Attention! | All carpenters for The DAILY YORKER Carnival and Fair must re- | Library Opens Tonight. |East 14th St., will be open nightly be- ginning tonight. * * * Sacco-Vanzetti Meet Tonight. | will be held on the left side of Cro- selling agents of woolen and worsted | the profits going to other industries | mills, in New York, following the sug- | Fix Prices. ort without fail at the local office, | \ gestion of President A. D, Whiteside | of the National Credit Office. t “Controlled Production” | “The century old law of unrestric- \ted sup d spasmodic demand,” | said W! >, “has been superseded | d regula-| I be you are the first indu to be seriously affected by this new ‘economic order and that you will be the first to solve it. And in doing that you will make} \this industry the outstanding example jof industrial eff y in America, | one that will show the way to all j other industries in the new order of | coordination.” | The woolen industry is faced with! the same trouble as most other in-| dustries. It can produce more than the country requires th present) | purchasing power. Current consump-| | tion, according to Whiteside, is about | $656,000,000, or about 77.3 per cent} jof the single shift capacity of the in-| jdustry. Consequently if a majorit of the mills figure prices on the ex |pectation of operating fulltime they are unlikely to operate at a profit. The over development of produc. tive capacity has brought a situation The coordinating boards will initi ate a uniform method of f from the loom to the selling price and will r mend to the mil t which will yield The selling age thre most of the mills market the products, expected to mitte ho: ibution is dominated hich industry d financing of ndependent mills. the sales lude Lawrence Co., Deering, ken & Co. and, of course, American Woolen. As pointed out at the mee country is passing into a omic order. vill be characterized y capitalist coor m under the dominant financ From labor’s standpoint it can be met only by a similar coordina development in the trade union ficl /CURRENT EVENTS | (Continued from Page One) | Washington leayes them | rather chilly despite the heat. \ * % * | state treasurer a check for $650,- | 000 which brings to a conclusion aj long and hectic struggle between Len! and his foes involving as scandalous | ministration. This is the story in| | Reconstruction League Tells Cal Clowning No W. investigate the suspicious increases in the price of gasoline ordered by the leading companies in a letter from the People’s | A Sacco-Vanzetti open air meeting | a transaction as ever disgraced an ad-| League. “While the President out in the Reconstruction | {tona Park, Tonight, 8 p. m., by the brief: While Small was state treas-| Black Hills is indulging in political Young Workers League. All workers |urer, he loaned several million dol-| huffoonery more appropriate for a | movement. Be somebody who is go- | |—which paradoxically enuf he pro-| , the youth to use their heads, not fall , i. oP ee should attend. To cap the article, the new Ten| s Commandments are handed down by | Mr. Muste from the Mount. The ten dont’s for the youth, when in the labor youth leagues,. we presume. They are: (1). Don’t be a somebody who is going to do something to the labor | DAILY WORKER Agents. A meeting of DAILY WORKER Agents of Section No. 3 will be held Every unit must be represented. ee oe Educational Meeting. An educational meeting of sub- section 3C will be held Monday July 18th, 6 p. m. at 100 W. 28th Street. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will lecture on the Communists in the election cam- ing to do something in the labor | movement. (2). Don’t get the Messiah or Moses-lead-the-movement-out-of the-wilderness complex; (3). Don’t be in a hurry; (4). Don’t be a ery baby; | ™® : (5). Dante i lar se clever. fellow | Paigns. Sympathizers welcome. who plays the game from the side lines; (6). Don’t be a nut; (7). Don’t play for the limelight all of the time; (8) Play for a chance to do work | Pe Help Wanted! Volunteers wanted for The DAILY WORKER to fold letters and seal en- not a chance to exercise power; (9). | Don’t be afraid of being called names, | and 10). Don’t become a cynic. 7 x Some very good dont’s and sone aaa bea a tA ks very bad ones, Again, however, Mr.|~°-- Bake eer Muste issues ten commandments in| order to make the officials feel se-| cure if ever they decide to organize | the youth. Even when he advices fear-,| lessness in facing a barrage of names First Street or evening at 108 East 14th Street. Help us mail the GUARD George Krim, Attention! George Krim will please get in touch with The DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th St., at once. = * = vides a long enuf list—he forewarns Party Units, Attention! ings and other activities for publica- prey to words, deal with realities and | tion in The DAILY WORKER should not slogans. So even that bold, in-| | velopes. Report during the day at 33} All notices of party affairs, meet- |lars to the meat packers at eight per| Black Prince trying to be King, than cent. He turned the legal two per'for a white president, the law] jeent that the banks paid on state| breakers of the Standard Oil Co. and| funds into the treasury and failed to|the other big gasoline gougers are account for the balance. He has suc-| by conscienceless, if not criminal col-| Monday July 18, 7: p. m. at Section ceeded in evading punishment by the/Jusion running up the price of gaso- headquarters, 100 W. 28th Street.| liberal use of patronage and by the! jine,” writes Benjamin C. Marsh, strength of his political machine. The | executive secretary of the League. ‘check was finally accepted as resti- | “Rach increase in the profiteers’ price tution in full. Had Small stolen a) js usually identical. This is not an (loaf of bread to stop the hunger of/ accident. It, is sufficient evidence for |a child he would certainly go to jail.! you to proceed at once, and effec- This is how justice sees things in a/ tively to break up this combine and | capitalist country. secure the punishment of the multi- | er ts | millionaire Godless church leaders Labor Organizations | guilty of this law-breaking, with re- | spect to a natural resource. Varnishers Meet Tonight. “If you do your duty in this matter, stra Varnich. | these men will be less urgent for in- cpt ithe Eucaiiare Vernlah tervention in Mexico and elsewhere. \Monday evening at 151 Clinton St. People who rob ruthlessly at home feel | ree eae tt a ta a sees encouraged to do so abroad. Don’t be} bar yopicsae casei oak nome e a$ afraid of Charles Evans Hughes nor | | sideration of the agreement with the | the Anti-Saloon Leagde | |employers, and working out demands| * i i POLICIES AND PROGRAMS STRIKES —— INJUNCTIONS THE TRADE UNION PRESS LABOR AND IMPERIALISM Pullman Porters Un Before Board; Wart! Union Recogniffon CHICAGO, (FP) to rub it in on the its n paper retaine) the Chicago Journal Commerce, the railroad mediation board /has opened hearings in ( go on the application of the Brotherhood of Sleepingear Porters to supplant the company union. i that was widely, last by pur= the paper turned d the board in \ al of Commerc w pf d at the brother- d effect of all this e propaga discourage olored porter man employ the majority he over the comy from Employe Representatior Union Appears. Both Pullman and _ Brotherhood representatives appeared before Ed- win Morrow of the mediation bbard and argued the rival m and rights of bonafide versus company-union representation for the men in dis- | putes between the corporation and its jemployes. The hearing adjourned to July 18th. ation board de- nt out in the k. Brother- Morrow for the me | plored the false ne Pullman interest la hood officials state t porters have generally discounted the propaganda, as their long experieiice with the com- mercial press of the country has trained them to be cautious about be- lieving any news appearing in it. Has Majority. The aim of the brotherhood, which now counts a majority of the eligible | woykers in its membership, is stated |by organizer A. Philip Randolph as more wages, better hours, better working conditions, pay for overtime, pay for preparation time, abolition of doubling out, conductor pay for con- ductor work when in charge and, in general, manhood By Overworking Labor, House Organ Warning DETROIT, July 17. (FP)—The new Ford model with gear shift and other rovements, scheduled for the fall, 11 cost much more to produce, but ill sell at only a slightly increased price, if any, says The Ford Worker, the factory paper at the Ford plant. “Ford may reduce the cost by cut- ting wages. This competition will force him to do unless the workers are organized,” ‘the paper declares. | that the union will submit to them. * * * Secial Evening Tonight In Park. Comrade Taft will | gathering in Crotona Park, the Bronx, | Tonight between 8 and 9 p. m. All {comrades are invited to attend. * Amalgamated Meeting ’omorrow. \ | An important meeting of the Amal-' | gamated Section, Trade Union Educa- “ists READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY e100 0101030 The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 83 First. St., SPIESS New York City, | ons rd0n WORRERS \ | || srupio oR oursipE WORK | Patronize Our Friend o4 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organi: (Bstablish: STUDIO 188) Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Meets ist Saturday in the month at 3468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Ask for Union Label Bread. . » ° Patronize Our Advertisers. Have Paid Your Contribution to]aims and purpose of the union not the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? | in a general way, | trepid commandment is rendered in- noctious by the new Moses of the suf- fering youth. Instead of issuing ten command- ments to the working youth that is not yet organized, nay, not even in the youth sections that Muste pro- poses, it would have been more pro- fitable to have suggested ten ways of Proceeding with organization. We will not go into great detail for that would require another article, but rather make some general suggestions and remarks, BS ae In the first place, we must recog- nize the differences in degree of or- ganization in the given industries, For instance, in the light metal and machinery, there is the I. A. of M., which is in a very weakened condi- tion, today. However, an organiza- tion does exist, and in the two above mentioned there are many thousands of young workers employed. It is different in radio, which is some- thing entirely new, and where the first semblances of an organization must be built. In the union, a spe- cial youth organization committee | Should be established. This commit- tee should devise special youth ways and means of attracting the young workers. It should proceed to estab- lish contacts with the young workers in the large shops and factories. It should even proceed to send someone from the union into the very fac- tories to facilitate organization. The young workers in the shop should be encouraged to organize shop com- mittees, either legal or illegal accord- ing to necessity, Usually at first the committee will have to function ille- gally. Special organization meetings ean be called by the union in some special factories, and leaflets can be distributed openly explaining the but actually linked be addressed to the Party News Edi- tor, DAILY WORKER. Keep ‘Up the Sustaining Fund the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? tional League will be held tomorrow, 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street. All Amalgamated workers including shirtmakers must’ rattend. up with the specific conditions in the factory. That is one way. Another way, in those industries which have no unions at all and in which there are many: young workers, some union operating in a general way in the same industry can be made to claim jurisdiction, and then proceed to or- ganize. For instance, biscuit making is an industry by itself and employs thousands of workers. The bakers can be had to start an organization drive. all, the food workers should claim jurisdiction over them. While on the one hand if the offi- cial union functioning the industry can be had to initiate the organiza- tion drive, very well and good. If not, the young workers in those in- dustries must be encouraged and directed in the way of organizing themselves. “Through factory com- mittees, and factory clubs, through the utilization of the shop nuclei ‘of the Workers Party or the Young Workers League if they exist in those factories, through developing the understanding and distire for or- ganization among the ycung work- ers in the shop. In those places where no action can be obtained from Candy making, no union at! this propaganda and activity with ace tual organization if the union does | nothing, in order that this sentiment | should not peter out and the young workers become discouraged and dis-| illusioned. * 1 The plumbers helpers union is an) excellent example of the neglect and disdain with which the bureaucrats treat the youth. Neglected for a long time, left in the lurch in the past,| these young workers finally decided | | to organize themselves which they | did. They went out in a sympathy) strike with the adult plumbers in| Brooklyn, and stuck it out to the last. | | At the same time they took the neces. | sary precaution of making demands | of their own on the bosses, ‘in order) |to better their own working condi- tions, and have succeeded admirably, | | Mr. Muste in this case should diréct | |his appeal to the International offi-| |cials, to admit these young workers | {who are clamouring at the door of | the union. 3 | Now is the time for the fabor | movement in America to wake up to | the tremendous possibilities before it} | It is doubly necessary and imperative | in view of the attacks launched | against it by the employers. The! ! The Outing of the Season Saturday dL Y. Contests Carnival Vaudeville Athletics | Exhibitions | pa 4A tuackteceboere LiF MIDSUMMER For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER PLEASANT BAY PARK Dancing and Fair | |the trade union bureaucrats, to ac- miners, building trades, and needle | tively proceed to organize the young | trades are faced with immediate at-| workers into a union of their own—! tacks on the part of the bosses, and! at the same time trying to get the while in the building trades they may, A. F. of L. to recognize it. Cases|not succeed, they have succeeded in) have occured where as a result of the | the needles trades, and unless the) activities of Young Workers League | Lewis policy is defeated in the| members and propaganda, a strong Miners, will succeeded there too. The| desire for organization was created,| way to meet the offensive of the em-| shop committees formed and then ap- | ployers is to start a counter offensive plication to the bonafide union failed | against them by organizing the tin-| to bring any results whatsoever. organized, and not to forget to in- Therefore the necessity of following clude the youth, the young workers. Y \ Ne ° fl | CO) fl ° | ll | ~ ADMISSION 50c. Combination Ticket—Good for Two Days—T5c. TICKETS ON SALE at 108 East 14th Street, 33 First Street, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop. SATURDAY EVENING, Flower Dance SUNDAY, Open Air Vaudeville ; =o ———10 10 e010 @ i | ry f i] 4 ‘