The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1927, Page 1

ACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! ALY Wo THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 167. THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 36.00 per year. Entered a3 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥.. u ider the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927 Current Events By T. J. O’Fiamenry, FTER much crying of “strike” t officials of the Amalgamated A @ociation of Street and Electric Rai!- way Employes crawled into their holes and left the thousands of work ers who man the local transportati system completely at the mercy of Frank Hedley and his aids. Those fakers now claim that the upshot of the strike talk is a union victory. The companies did not surrender one i to the men. The company union is recognized by the union officials but the company has not recognized the Amalgamated. * AST year this same set of union of- ficials sabotaged the strike led by Walsh, Lavin and other militants. The workers, tho given no substantial support by the officials of the trade union movement put up a real battle and compelled the company to spend over a million dollars to break it, Tammany policemen seconded the ef- forts of hired gangsters in beating the strikers. But our Tammany la- bor leaders did not have a word of criticism to make. * * T was quite evident from the be- ginning that the Amalgamated of- ficials did not mean business in or- ganizing the transit employes of this city. It is a heavy undertaking. To accomplish the task it would have been necessary to mobilize the entire labor movement behind the drive. But not a bit of preparation was made. The reactionary union officials were bluffing and the company knew it. Frank Hedley could ignore them with impunity. He even refused to con- fer with them at the mayor’s invita- tion. They took everything Hedley felt like hurling at them and swal- lowed their humiliation, if they are capable of experiencing humiliation. = 'HIS does not mean to imply that the labor fakers are bashful boys or shrinking violets. It means that * . . ARE KIDNAPED BY THE RIGHT WING Gangsters Take Local 9 By Storm Kidnaping the 28 workers of the | Max Lerner cloak shop, 40 West 22nd | yesterday afternoon, 20 right ng gangsters forced the workers to; go with them to the International of- fices and register. } Twenty-six of them were held pri- soners all day in the International of- | fice while the gangsters compelled two of the workers to go back to the boss and make him give the right wingers $200 for back “dues.” | The Max Lerner workers are sup-| porters of the left wing, therefore the | i} 1 | i method used by the thugs is a testi- 4~ monia! of new tactics on their part to terrify the workers, * Another right wing assault upon! the cloakmakers’ union took place | late yesterday afternoon when the| supporters of Morris Sigman broke | the lock and took possession of the | office of Local 9 located at 67 Lex-| ington Ave. { While the International Bank, right | wing institution, bought the building last week, they had no legal right to! use that method to obtain possession. FUR DYERS 60 ON STRIKE; ASK AID OF JOINT BOARD Right Wingers Throw Away July Raises 8 GLOAKMAKERS 10 24KE-THE PLACE OF MEN KER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ONLY 13 DAYS LEFT TO AUGUST 10 LABOR MUST ACT! FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents Drawn by Fred Eis TRACTION WORKERS MAY STRIKE YET; COMPANY DENIES RIGHT 10 UNION Tammany Leaders Hail Agreement Which Makes Possible A Ten-cent Fare LOGAL LABOR LEADERS WORKED WITH TAMMANY TO BREAK TRANSIT ORGANIZATION DRIVE AND BooST DREYFUS TO COME HERE SUBWAY FARES, SAYS WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 'Framed-up Radicals Growing Weaker From The same policies and tactics em-| unions have been used to demoralize) the campaign for the organization of} forces of the traction workers with- | ployed to disrupt the needle trades} out securing a single worthwhile con- cession. In our opinion, the official leader- |the traction workers. They have been |ship of the local labor movement is The Workers (Communist) Party regards the outcome of the strike as |a tragedy for the traction workers, a | victory for the traction barons and |further proof of the duplicity of of- Christian charity and for dealing characterized the tractio: terday. motormen if they repent by goi spite of the fact that Coleman Amalgamated Association, have presented a bedraggled picture of of newspapermen in the lobby of All pictures of a bright and glowing? political deal faded out of the pic- ture when the A. F. of L. leaders un- der the poor generalship of Hugh Frayne received a trimming at the} hands of Mayor Walker and James L. Quackenbush, counsel for the I. R. T. Of course the traction workers were betrayed. James H. Coleman, organizer for the Amalgamated Association, said, “If the I. R. T. persists in its atti- tude we’ll go right down to the mayor and tell him about it.” This weak- kneed statement is sharply in con- trast with Coleman’s statement to the traction workers at Tuesday night’s meeting when he announced, “This one of the greatest victories ever won by the street car men in New York.” Early yesterday the Amalgamated officials declared that “the strike has been averted, not called off.” This followed a hasty conference at the IN FIGHT FOR iveness with a dash of double- n strike situation until late yes- The I. R. T. Brotherhord will “forgive” the discharged ng back to the brotherhood. In and Shea, paid officials of the claimed a sweeping victory, they abject woe as they faced a group the Continental Hotel yesterday. union headquarters. Messrs. Coleman, Shea and Frayne were in conference at which it was decided that they would call on the |mayor and have the situation “ironed jout.” More “Threats.” Quackenbush’s statement that with the exception of the reinstatement of the thirteen discharged motormen, the situation remains as before has left the Amalgamated officials “holding the bag.” They said that unless Mayor Walker rectified the “misun- derstanding” they would go ahead with the strike. In the meantime Quackenbush played a game of hide and seek with both the mayor who tried to get in touch with him yesterday, and with the reporters who tried to get him to make a statement. Later in the day (Continued on Page Two) TO AID SACCO, VANZETTI Long Hun ger Strike PARIS, July 27.—Major Alfred Dreyfus, himself the victim of a they are in cahoots with Tammany notorious frame-up by reactionaries, has accepted an invitation \used by the same official elements|cooperating with certain Tammany ficial labor leadership. political machine and are more con- cerned with playing for personal ends than organizing the workers. It was quite evident from the moment strikebreaker Frayne entered the situation that a sell-out was in con- templation. This lad was fresh from} a scabbing job on the Furriers’ Union and appeared to be in good form for another of a similar nature. ote ane T is not surprising that the workers should lose all confidence in the ,reactionary leaders of the A. F. of iL. They are part and parcel of the capitalist system. They have a heavy stake in it. They have fat bank accounts and live lives of ease. A change of system would bring them as much discomfort as it would to the capitalists. Let the workers toil | for forty or fifty cents an hour, ‘The| fakers should worry. * * F the A. F. of L. bureaucrats have put forward a serious effort to or- ganize workers into trade unions within the past few years, they have kept it a dark secret. The only ef- forts made in that direction have) been by radicals. Thousands of te: tile slaves fought for one whole y under the leadership of Communists} while the A. F. of L. officialdom} ‘ | . busied itself fighting the strike in- stead of fighting for the strikers. The! job of organizing the unorganized is the task of the militants. There should be thousands of active, capable! trade unionists thruout the American! Federation of Labor who are capable) of doing this job. ™ * ” 'HE papers tell of Nicaraguans be- ing slaughtered by United States troops with as little concern as if they were reporting the casualty list of a mosquito hunt. Of course the Nicaraguans are “bandits” and “out- laws.” Our nice little marines would never hurt a good Nicaraguan. But bandits and outlaws! Particularly bandits and outlaws that believe 16 4 ; iQVPEN and abject surrender to the! | Nicaragua should belong to Nicara- 0 traction barons and to Tammany | i The big objective has been accomplished—the strike has been called | | | off, guans. * * * Cor made in this column re- cently on the action of the Friends of Irish Freedom in praising Gibson for upholding American traditions against British wiles in the verbal slugging match at Geneva, drew acid reply from a member of that organ- ization. I stated quite correctly that there was not a peep out of the big political leaders of the Clan-Na-Gael the parent body of the Friends of Irish Freedom—during the period in which this country was engaged in war with Germany. As a matter of fgct members of this organization were advised by their officers to fight for British and American imperial- ism. It is true that to take another course would mean imprisonment, but they were “revolutionists” and if their savage attacks on John Bull from a safe distance could be taken (Continued on Page Three) Spirited picketing of the Stein Fur id Dyeing Co., 509 Fast 75th St., will be continued this morning. The workers | went on strike Tuesday, unable any | longer to work under the terrible con-. ditions that confronted them. A committee of 20 workers repre- | senting the shop came to the office of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union on Monday and asked for assistance in organizing the shop, the function of the International of- ficials to organize the dyeing shops, the Joint Board promised to help. 200 Workers. More than 200 workers are em- | which have smashed: unionism-in the} Halfleaders;and to some*extent with! the traction barons, to put over an/ garment and fur industries. | The so-called settlement of the trac-| increase in fare. We believe that the tion workers’ grievances, on the basis | tragic outcome of the dispute was in- Although it is | ployed in the shop, which is the larg- est dye shop in Manhattan. A meeting of the strikers will be. held tonight, at 347 East 72nd St, of which the strike was called off, is! no settlement at all. It has already} been repudiated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and was in fact repudiated by the I. R. T., while | ; the traction workers were meeting in) | the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Demoralize Organization Drive. It seems clear that the Amalga | | mated Association officials, Hugh! | Frayne, representing the American} \ Federation of Labor, and the Central} Labor Council leaders, have been guil-| ization campaign and disbanding the! 125 where the committee appointed by | the joint board will be present.. A communication has been set to Local of Newark asking for its assist- ance in the struggle. The demands of the workers are the 40-hour week; increase in wages and recognition of the union. Working Conditions. The working conditions of the shop are unusually bad. The workers have to toil 49 hours a week for wages averaging $20 to $25 weekly under the most unsanitary conditions. Dur- ing the rush season they have to be: in the shop seven days a week, put- ting in 70 to 80 hours weekly, asa Serta WORKER Carnival and Fair. The DAILY WORKER affair? Women’s Wear Statement. Proof of the contention of the New York Joint Board that the problem, of getting July increases for the workers is being utterly ignored by | the right wing International union, | (Continued on Page Five) The Trail of Strikebreaking “Labor Leaders” - Runs from Needle Trades to Traction the fight against the Open Shoppers. evitable unless the traction workers, by means of rank and file organiza- tion, developed new instruments of struggle which could not be controlled either by the traction companies or by incompetent and self-seeking la- bor officials. Fake Settlement. We believe further that the local labor leaders have never had the in- tention of going thru with a traction strike but that it was planned to have Mayor Walker “settle” it at the pro- | ty of demoralizing the traction organ-| per moment to reap the greatest pos-|of an effective union, free from com- sible publicity values. Follow the Six Thousand Six thousand workers crowded Pleasant Bay Park, New York, last Sunday at The DAILY The reason is very clear. The turned out to the Daily Worker carnival, responded to the call for support for the only paper. which is fighting militantly, the cause of the workers, the fight against the War Patriots, and The six thousand workers responded to the call for help in the fight to defend our daily paper against the attacks of these enemies. We want workers all over the country to respond as willingly and as enthusiastically as the SIX THOUSAND. The GUARD THE DAILY WORKER CERTIFICATES pushed with energy to build the defense fund for the trial which will soon take place in the Federal Court, and to follow the lead of New York’s SIX THOUSAND. Hall, and acceptance of the company | “brotherhood” of the I. R. T. as the jequal of the Amalgamated Associa-| tion by officials of the Amalgamated} themselves, were the features of the} | ® —Mayor James Walker. This settlement in no way opens | be an |meeting of traction workers in the| sh mobilised. | Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Tuesday | | night where labor officialdom suc-| | | ceeded in calling off a strike which) | gave every promise of victory. | | Everybody Won But the Workers. \ The traction workers got nothing. | The traction barons got the strike! called off. | Mayor Walker got the opportunity to pose as a public benefactor. The Amalgamated Association of- ficials, Hugh Frayne and a galaxy! The meeting was a tragic farce. of lesser lights got the opportunity | It was organized deliberately, not to appear as yes-men for Tammany, only to call off the strike, in support Hall. | of which traction workers were quit- The I. R. T. was publicly repudiat-| ting hourly, but to kill every vestige ing the “settlement” at the exact|of rebellion and militancy that might moment the traction workers were| survive the demoralizing effect of being told they had won a victory.|the surrender. We have agreed not to discriminate against the I. R. T. “brother- hood” and you men will have to continue to Belong to it. * —Patrick J. Shea, Vice President of the Amalgamated | Association of Street and Electrical Railway Em- ployes, in reply to a question from a traction worker | at the Brooklyn meeting Tuesday night. | the doors to the Amalgamated. There has been no agreement of any kind with the Amalgamated. If | the Amalgamated interferes with the I. R. T. Brotherhood there will | | immediate renewal of hostil s and strikebreakers will be —James L. Quackenbush, General Counsel for the In- | terborough Rapid Transit Company. | ‘ oe Flanked by a battery of minor local leaders, with influential officials of the Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil conspicuous by their absence, Coleman and Shea of the Amalga- mated Association shouted paeans of victory in which the rest of the choir joined. | | such capable and competent officials To Aid Traction Workers. | The Workers (Communist) Party | lintends to continue to give all assis- tance possible to the traction workers | in their efforts to defeat the com-| |pany union, abolish the “yellow dog” contract and secure decent wages and working conditions. (work in the traction industry are in-| Its members who | |structed to continue the work for or- ganization of the traction workers. The incompetency and cowardice of the official labor leadership leaves the | {company union supreme in the field) for the present but we are confident | that even this surrender will not pre-| |vent for very long the establishment \pany control, in the industry. | six thousand workers who should be But officialdom was frightened. No yote was taken on the recom- mendation of the committee until tor- rents of hoarse-voiced oratory had been let loose—the main theme of which was that the traction workers were to be congratulated for having | Such brave and able leaders, for liv- | ing in a city whose chief magistrate was such a friend of the workers and | for having behind them in their fight as those who were on the platform. Putting It Over. Some of this oratory was disgust- ing, some of it was dangerous and some of it was just fully. The news- | papermen of the capitalist press were | wise to the whole miserable plot and | allowed none of their cynicism to ap- pear when solemnly interviewing , puffy-face marionettes who were de- | ceiving some 26,000 traction workers. | “Constitutional rights,” “the word | of His Honor, the Mayor,” “a step at | a time,” “sacred duty to the public,” | “proving . our responsibility,” “40 (Continued on Page Two) ct |inet ministers. to go to America to aid in the fight for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. ; Dreyfus, who served four years in the French penal colony of Devil’s Island as the result of a militarist and anti-Semitic frame-up in the nineties, and who was later exonerated, will head la committee being organized by the newspaper L’Oeuvre and which will include Louis Loucheur and Louis Malvy, former cab- * * . Furriers’ Locals Hold | Meetings Tonight For Arrange Mass Meetings. BOSTON, July 27.—With the trans- fer of Sacco and Vanzetti to the death house scheduled for Monday, mass meetings of protest all over the world are being arranged by the Sacco Van- zetti Defense Committee. Governor Fuller, it was learned this afternoon, paid a surprise visit to Action on Jaly Raise | General membership meeting of | the four locals affiliated with the | Joint Board ef the Furriers’ Union The |Celestinos Madeiros, who confessed to Never was there such a turnout for a DAILY WORKER affair. | This remarkable crowd turned out in spite of the fact, that just the night before most of the comrades were up until one and two in the morning at the Joint Defense Concert, in spite of the fact that they had given considerable money for admission and the collection. Why did we have this remarkable response? Why did six thousand workers turn out for Sacco and Vanzetti in Charlestown) | will be held tonight, 8 p.m. prison last evening. Prison officials | | Subject of the July raises will be admitted that Fuller had visited the | taken up, also the question of re- framed-up radicals. It was also un-} | ducing the strike assessment and derstood that Fuller had talked to| | hearing a report of the recent peace negotiations. Local 1 will meet in Royal Hall; Local 5 in Stuyvesant Casino; Local 10 in Stuyvesant Casino and Local the crime for which Sacco and Van- zetti have been sentenced to die on August 10th. Sacco, Vanzetti Weaker. 15 in Astoria Hall. Sacco and Vanzetti are growing] @ weaker and weaker after their ‘one PHIANG hunger strike. Despite reports from imprisonment coupled with their fast) has told on them considerably, accord. ‘ yer. | The reports of the committee ap-| OVER NEW TARIFF case will be rendered before the end of the week, it is understood. The SHANGHAI, China, July 27—Chi- by the committee was one of the chief | well in ‘China by killing labor lead- reasons for the declaration of a hun-| +s but when he tries to take his A meeting will be held on the Bos-| himself in trouble. A meeting of ton Common Sunday under the aus-| American business men yesterday Committee. Demonstrations in other| ton, against the new taxes of the cities in the United States and in| government at Nanking. protest against the threatened execu-| ers “are actually going ahead with- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti. friends are attempting to send Ro- main Rolland and Henri Barbusse, AND U. $ the prison physician, their seven-year | . ; ing to William Thompson, their law- | pointed by Fuller to investigate the secret and unfair hearings conducted | ang Kai-shek has served imperialism ger strike by Sacco and Vanzetti. | pay for a good day’s work, he finds pices of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense| cabled a stout protest to Washing- Europe will be held simultaneously to; They object that the Nanking rul- A cablegram from Paris states that well-known authors, and M. Torres, a out negotiation, to raise tariff taxes, on the assumption ‘that China has autonomy in this matter. The busi- ness men are all for opposing the new taxation, and enforcing the old “uni-lateral” treaties. noted lawyer, to this country to aid in the struggle for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. Nanking May Fall. Reports continue that Nanking is in danger of capture by the armies of New York Protest. the Hankow government. Five mass meetings will be held in| In an interview yesterday at Han- New York City on Friday by Sacco-| kow with foreign press representa- Vanzetti sympathizers. The meetings tives, General Tang Shin-tse, now will be held under the auspices of the dictator oF ty Wales fovea i y i announce 1s In Spin camels aaa ay sa aa Nanking at the earliest opportunity, Thousand In Boston and insisted that Feng Yu-hsiang | would cooperate. BOSTON, July 27.—On Sunday,| jt js known that neither Feng, July 24th, on the Boston Common, the tang nor Chang is at present push- Workers Party held a demonstration | ing the northern expedition. Ap- which was attended by over 1,000! parently the unifying of China de- people. The meeting was addressed | pends, as far as these war lords are by Earl Browder of New York, by| concerned, on bargains and treaties, Harry Canter, H. Riley, and Jack) among themselves, to be broken at (Continued on Page Five) ‘short notice x