The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER | shor Leaders Silent on 10-Hour Day Offensive Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 1 eg Phone, Orchard 1680 Address 33 First Street, New York, G Daiwor a "SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $8.50 six months $2.50 three months 0 three months THE DAILY WORK “J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE § BERT MILLER.... at the t of Street, New York, N. Y. and mak R, 33 First pS ae ¢ Entered as seco: lass mail post-offic March 3 Advertising rates on application. - The Herald-Tribune’s Campaign of Lies The principal Coolidge organ of New York, the Herald- Tribune, has adopted a policy of deliberate mendacity against the left wing labor and Communist movement. For this purpose it employs certain low poltroons and debased prostitutes who do not even bother to obtain the slightest degree of information for their fantastic tales. An example of how writers for the reptile press may fill columns of space with plain lies occurred on Wednesday, August $1, when the Herald-Tribune published a romantic tale to the effect that the Communists were holding a secret convention somewhere in Westchester county for the purpose of drawing up “plans for a Soviet revolution in the United States.” The story is further adorned with the declaration that the actual place of meeting is “known only to delegates and department of justice men operating as active members of the Workers Party Me Of course it is ridiculous to assume that the publishers and editors of this reptile sheet will admit that the man who wrote the tale is a plain liar who had not a scintilla of evidence upon which to base it. The story was written only in an effort to. incite the blood-hounds of the various suppressive agencies of the state and national governments against the legal and open convention of the Workers (Communist). Party now being held in this city. Our plans for revolution are public property—open to all. We disdain to conceal our views and the full reports and pro- ceedings of our convention will be przslished openly in the columns of The DAILY WORKER and other Party papers. Such reports are also available for any of the capitalist papers who care honestly | to report the facts, instead of resorting, as did the Herald-Tribune, By V. Q. MONTH ago, articles in the DAILY A day drive planned by the railway] companies, as set forth in the report of the American Rdfway FE: employment.” The writer pointed out then that the Machinists Journal, while shouting “nothing doing,” in- formed the membership that there was no danger of the plan going into |concerned. It pretended ignorance as |to the attitude of President Willard |of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, whose name was ‘signed to the re- port, and who was chairman of the committee which prepared the report. The writer proved by reference to an! |interview recorded in “Labor” of July | 2nd, that Willard defended the report. | But the Machinists Journal, which ap- peared fully a week after this inter- view denied knowledge as to Willard’s attitude. Willard Like the Rest. ILLARD’s signing the report showed that he used the B, & O. Plan to fool the workers into increas- ing production, when the road had a deficit. It showed that«the plan of ;union-management cooperation or | (workereemployer cooperation) was all bunk. The officials of the In ternational Association of Machin: will not admit this, so they are silent | on Willard. If they didn’t know Willard’s at- titude for the July issue of their Journal, they could have found out tn a month’s time. A month passed. The , August issue is out. It continues to preach class collaboration, with ar- ticles on the benefits in apprentice training on the B. & O., and on} Nash’s fake “Golden Rule” plan in the clothing industry. But not an- other word on the threat of the ten hour day. Still no word as to Wil- lard’s attitude. Do They Want More Proof? He AILWAY AGE,” the organ repre- senting the %ailway company | ] | executives, in its issue of July 9th,) boasts of the fact that executives |s WORKER éxposed the ten hour | xecutives, | under the guise of “stabilization of | +d Zalpable lies concocted out of the putrid brain of some mental | friendly to labor made the report. It pervert. |says: “Some branches of organized | labor are apparently suspicious of the suggestion for an elastic working day | recently made by a special committee of the Association of Railway Execu- Judge Panken Flattered by Republicans. Municipal Court Justice Jacob Panken, elected ten years ago |" on the socialist ticket, has proved such a loyal servant of the cap-/| italist class that the republican party, thru Congressman Nathan D. Pearlman, arch-reactionary and -satellite of the Wall Street- Mellon-Coolidge administration, has offered him the republican} nomination. | If Panken were a representative of the working class he would fi ‘. | never have been offered such a nomination. A true representa-| By ESKEL RONN, and MATTI TENHUNEN. MOSKOW, August 31—At the * % * ks si s er insult, | Fifth Co-operative Congress of the setive of the working class would consider such an offer an uu ml o-cderative thasgie nt aerate ves | would deeply resent it and indulge in the most severe self-criti-} cism to learn why the enemy class favors him. But, instead of | recognizing the fact that the offer is an indictment of his record | and evidence of his treachery to the working class, he replies to; were elected as delegates to the Con- gress of the International Co-opera- tive Alliance to be held in Stockholm. Study Soviet Union's Co-op. jtives. It is significant, however, that some executives who have the confi- dence of organized labor to an un- |usual degree, were included among those who made the report.” Willard has not denied this. | Ma interview with Labor proves he defended the report. He played the |role of trying to convince the labor movement that the. plan was not harmful to labor. He was used by the railway executives to sugar-coat ~unaer-| effect, as far as the union men were jthe pill. That is his role in the drive |for the ten hour day, If Willard did }not endorse the report, he had a month to say so. He knew that the ject ee Journal claimed ignorance jas to his stand. He knew that “Rail- | way Age” said that he with others made the report. He has had, plenty of time to explain himself. The Machinists Journal had plenty of time to find out. But their claim of ignor- ance is pretense. They know that Willard was for the report, and they fear to come out with it. The Shop Craft Unions Silent. Not only is the Machinists Journal silent, but the other unions in the shop-crafts on the railroads are similarly silent. All are tied up with, the B. & O. Plan of union-manage- ment cooperation. If they can get away with their |campaign of silence, the operators | Letters From Hapgood Disagrees With Gold. Editor, Daily. Worker: at the vindictive, narrow, and untrue statement of Mike Gold in The DAI- LY WOSKER for August 30th that “Mary Donovan, an obscure spiteful female with a great lust for publicity was responsible” for the ashes of Sacco and Vanzetti not coming. to ew York for the . demonstration In the first place, it was y Donovan at all, but cireum- over which she had no con- trol such as the necessity of getting permits from four states to trans- port ashes, the unwillingness of the committee to take the risk of trans- porting them illegally because of the likelihood of their being taken and DELEGATES TO CONGRESS: OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE ALLIANCE REPORT ON SITUATION | disorder, which we had expected. The ‘fact that they are conducting these stores at a gross profit of 12 per cent |and expenses of from 8 to 9 per cent |edready prove conclusively that there jmust be order and system. In Amer- iea which is highly developed the priv- jate stores are charging 18 to 20 per cent with an expense of from 15 to the republican congressman, Pearlman, in the following favoring and servile manner: “While I appreciate the fact that your offer is a great compli- ment to me and an endorsement of my services on the bench by you personally and the republican organization of the district, I must nevertheless decline.” Sane 5 He explains that his convictions as a socialist and the policy of the socialist party does not permit him to accept the republican nomination. This offer of a republican nomination to the socialist, Pan- ken, symbolizes the complete identity of the socialist leaders with the capitalist class. It is the logical, inevitable result of the anti- labor policy followed by the socialist leaders. In their fight against theleft wing and the rank and file of the labor movement the socialists have become the lackeys of the corrupt labor bureaucracy that in New York is allied with Tam- many Hall. Tammany and the republican machine divide the jobs of judicial lackeys of capitalism among themselves without en- tering into contests at the polls, in order to create the illusion that judges are impartial and not bound to render special favors to their political bosses. The endorsement of Panken by the republicans proves that the exploiters of labor if New York consider this so-called so- cialist a safe and sane servant of their class interests. Tammany and the republican machine may refrain from putting up a candidate against,Panken, the capitalist judge, but he will nevertheless be challenged at the polls by a real repre- sentative of the working class under the banner of the Workers (Communist) Party. “The Common Enemy—American Imperialism” In its telegram of greetings to the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party the Communist Party of | Mexico concludes with the salutation: “Yours for the over- throw of the common enemy—American imperialism.” Therein is symbolized the whole revolutionary struggle on the part of the Latin-American republics, the allies of the work- ing class of the United States. The Southern republics into which Wall Street is investing more and more of its wealth plundered from the workers it exploits are victims of the most brutal, relentless and sinister despotism the world has ever seen—Dollar Imperialism. ; As against the imperialist conspiracy called the Pan-Amer- ican union and its lieutenants in the Pan-American labor organi- zation, the workers of Latin-America must unite with the work- ers of the United States into powerful anti-imperialist organiza- tions that will wage a determined fight against the minions of Wall Street. Under the coordinating revolutionaty leadership of the Communist International the two Communist Parties of the United States and Mexico will eventually lead the exploited masses of both countries to the overthrow of the power of Amer- ican imperialism and the establishment wf the rule of the workers and farmers over both countries, ‘ Gi \ | Desiring to get better acquainted |18 per cent. And one must not lose | with the co-operators in other coun- | sight of the fact that the Russian co- | tries and to learn from their experi-| operators only work 8 hours a day ‘ences, we ‘planned to visit various compared to the 10 hours or more of countries before the congress. So we {the American store-clerk. decided to visit the Swedish co-opere- | Good Reading Room. tives and the Finnish co-operatives | ‘ first, for we knew that they had de- | To find the reasons for the spirit veloped the co-operatives to a high | that prevails among the workers you degree. Then we wanted to visit Sov-| ‘vill find=the answer by looking over iet Russia, and thus’ get a picture of | the club"Fooms attached ‘to-every fac- the two extremes so far as perfection | tory and co-operative store. General of organization, efficiency of manage- | meeting places are provided, with spe- | ment, ete. was concerned. | Highly Developed. | In Sweden and Finland we were not disappointed for we found the highly developed organizations that we expected. For one who comes from America and who has read the reports | that fill the newspapers about the |eonditions in Soviet Russia, who | comes prepared to see chaos and dis- | order, the actual conditions are a sur- prise, very true to us they were a pleasant surprise. Coming from American conditions one cannot of course help but see the differences in the form of architec- ture, the styles of clothing, but what especially attracted our attention was the general appearance of the people. There was not that display of the extreme rich and the extreme poor |that is so prvalent in our country. There seemed to be a standard of life to which all were subjected. We found contented happy people, and the youth one immediately noticed. Their bouy- ance and healthful appearance must to preserve the welfare of the chil- dren and young workers. U. S. S. R. Workers Best Off. We have visited hundreds of fac- {tories in America and must say that thee working conditions, and the clean- liness we found in Soviet Russia is above the average American factory. This no doubt is due to the fact that jall the workers in the industries are | organized, having their union office connected Ww large factory. | Bight-hour work-day, with a vaca- | tion of two to four weeks at full pay, | full pay while sick, are something the | American worker does not even dare |to dream of, be due to the work that is being done! | cial reading rooms,-co-operatiye cor- ners for eo-operative. propaganda, trade union corners, hygenic. corners, and Lenin corners where the govern- ment brings its messages of the de- velopment of the country andthe var- jous tasks to be performed before the workers. The workers are faught to stick together. Their united problems they jointly discuss, To talk organi- zation they do not have to go around sneaking to the homes of their fel- low workers. Is it a wonder. that. the workers are so solidly behind the trade unions, the co-operatives and the state? To really understand the tremen- dousness of, the development of the co-operative movement in Soviet Rus- sia, one cannot do it by simply read- ing their reports and figures, but one must .see the organization in action, to feel the throbbing pulse of this gi- gantic movement. ‘Eleven million heads of families organized in one movement, doing 48 per cent of the business of the entire country, that’s what these Soviet Russian co-opera- tors have done. Such a development in a few years is only possible because through district unions into the Cen- trosoyus, and the close co-operation. that exists between the co-operative movement, the trade unions and the workers state. It is absolutely im- possible for any co-operative move- ment in a capitalistic state to make such strides forward. The development of the country we feel-assured will ‘progress still faster |if the Soviet Russian workers are al- lowed to pursue their work in peace, The Russian worker realizes this for he sees the progress that has been their movement is highly centralized |} will have plenty of time to prepare the ground for their ten hour day | drive. They will initiate a campaign of publicity, and more important, will take steps in the shops to insure the | “successful” introduction of the ten hour day. Silence by the unions aids |the companies in their plan. |The Ten-Hour Day Must Be Fought. HAT is needed is to arouse the la- bor movement as to the reality ‘of the danger. What is need is to jstrengthen the resistance of the junions involved, through amalgama- | tion. What is needed is an immediate | joint campaign of the unions involved for the defense of the 8 hour day. But the shop crafts unions are asleep. Nothing of this is done. On the contrary, the union leaders go farther |along on the road of class collabora- |tion. They attack those of their members who sound the call to arms —-who demand preparation for a war jagainst the introduction of the ten |hour day. The union leaders weaken |the organizations, ideologically and forganizationally, rendering them im- potent, before the companies’ on- | slaught. | Nothing but a well prepared cam- | paign for struggle will defeat the ten hour day. Communist must take the llead. Progressives must fight. The ten hour day must be defeated. destroyed by the capitalist police, and finally “Miss Vanzetti’s illness and desire not to have the ashes go with- I was much surprised and incensed) out her that made it impossible to Yea%s of age. | bring the ashes last Monday. jused in connection with a person like | Mary Donovan, who has given her | entire time and strength without pay hig the Sacco-Vanzetti cause, who lost | her job as state factory inspector be- jeause of her activities in the case, and who on the very day that Mike Gold penned his spiteful lines was sentenced to a year in prisen on! | framed-up charges by representatives | | of the same group who murdered Sac- | jco and Vanzetti, are absolutely in-| jexcusable. I know Mary Donovan) |well because we have worked to-| | gether and fought the police together and I admire her courage and her de- |Yotion to the cause for which she! | fights so ardently. I have never seen) | anyone who was less interested in per- | |sonal publicity or glorythan she is. | | While I would be the last person | in the world to deny anyone the right to criticise policies for the sake of | analyzing mistakes and thereby im- proving tactics, and while I feel that | there are certain policies and errors | for which the Boston Committee can | well be criticized, still I must de-| nounce such untrue and_ vindictive! criticism as that indulged in by Mike Gold. Because it is so obviously un-| true and unfair it convinces no one,| alienates many, and helps to make impossible any attempt at a united front against capitalism which many} of us are working for—Powers Hap- good, New York, Aug. (31, 1927. KARLIN DISOBEYS ORDERS. A sigaificant fact about the Sacco- Vanzetti memorial meeting in Union | Square Tuesday was that William | Karlin, former socialist assemblyman, | spoke from the central platform in defiance: of August Claessens, secre- tary of the local socialist party. As the socialists attempted to sab- otage the protest strike on the. day our comrades were killed, so they tried to keep workers from a memorial meeting even tho it seemed certain that Sacco and Vanzetti’s ashes would be brought there. % Capitalist Press Applauds Claessens. All of the capitalist papers, anxious to gloat over any division in the ranks of labor, anxious to have the masses soon forget martyrs of the class struggle, were informed by Mr. Claes- sens that the socialist party would not pay last respects to the ashes of Sac- co and Vanzetti. Claessens also charged that the} Memorial Committee had not been au- thorized to announce that William Karlin would act as a member of Mrs. Sacco’s guard of honor and_ later speak at the Union Square meeting. | The announcement of William Pick- ens, secretary of the Society for the Advancement of Colored People, that he “thought a representative of the | sociclist party” would speaks was | In the second place, such adjectives | “Adam the Creator” bys the Capeks to be } Seen Here | A report from Prague says that} |New York will see the new play of the brothers Capek, “Adam the Cre- | ator,” some time during the coming |theatrical season. “Adam the Cre-. \ator” deals with humanity, as did th |two plays which made the brothers; © Capek famous, with a type picked) © out here and there to illustrate the | authors’ philosophy. In its symbol-| * \ism and type psychology the play re- sembles the plays of the Robots and jinsects, The motivating idea behind \this latest of Capek products is the| | jereation of a new world by Adam. i Arthur Hopkins is co-author with | ee ‘ ues ae |George Manker Watters of “Burles-' 5 5 ; nee [the ‘shows. business, and which a5] teh: will harsiven for (hon Reheat scheduled to open at the Plymouth| ‘ ; theatre tonight. Mr. Hopkins is both|°f the Joint Defense Committee’ at producer and director of the new pro- duction. Mrs, Thomas Whiffen has been en-| gaged by Joseph Santley for “Just | 4 Fancy,” in which Mr. Stanley is to} —-—-——— Se ~ make his debut as an actor-producer | late in September. This will be Mrs. | Th é L A D D E R Whiffen’s first appearance in musi-| All seats are reduced for the cal comedy, although this “grand old| Cor thekines: Harel art] lady of the stage” has been before | Biway. inee Wednesday. the public since 1865, when she made! her debut in a London pantomime. | Her most recent appearance was as! Mrs. Mossop in ‘Trelawny of the! Wells.” Mrs. Whiffen, is eighty-two Blood Money “comes into the HUDSON to chil brill at the trig- ger's ch."—Eve. Journal. W. 44St. 0. | Mae West is ready to do it again. | jj The e e Little Th ‘The author and star of “Sex” has St., rpc arn Ne written another called “The Wicked avenue. at: 8190 STREET |Age,” which she is planning to show MSD PHURSD AT "2:80 FOLLIES on Broadway. The reformers who| — e = 2 ‘closed up “Sex” are already sniffing. |played here last season, has com- I pleted his second play, It is a comedy- and is titled “Children of ” . | Edwin Justus Mayer, whose bright |drama, and merry play, “The Firebrand” Darkne: leader-style inertia of the present bosses of a once significant party. He represents a seething rebellion ugainst the sabotaging tactics which all but broke the final Sacco-Vanzetti | protest strike and which—in the per- | son of certain members of the Boston committee — prevented Mrs. Sacco | from bringing the ashes of her mar- | tyred husband to Union Square. | The action of three Brooklyn fur- riers’ locals and many cloak and suit shops, heretofore ruled by socialists, | in defying their leaders by striking Aug. 22d, are other evidences of this dissatisfaction. * Class-conscious workers do not long | tolerate those who betray them, whether the Judas is a Claessens or a Green, —Walter Snow, New York. work in the fight against the capital- ist class. - Sorry we cannot send more just now because there are in this com- munity less than twenty poor farm- ers and about ten wage workers, But if in future you want our help just give your order and let us do the rest. Yours for the working class revolu- tionary movement, Vaino Pelta Knew Fighting Daily at Once. Dear Comrade: Just the other day I got hold of a Daily Worker by accident and was instantly interested in it. So I’ve de- cided to send in $2.00 for a three months subscription, for that’s the best I can do just at this time. (Mrs.) Geo. Simko, Masury, O greeted with sneers from capitalist paper yeporters on the porch of the nearby park house. They had seen Claessens! Police Surprised. But when Karlin stepped to the, front of the platform and, standing | beside William W. Weinstone, secre- | tary of the Workers (Communist) | Party, began to speak, the reporters | and police officials on the porch! leaned forward in amazement. The Industrial Squad head, John Broderick, could not believe his eyes at first, and then muttered, “Weil, USACE well.” Violence Brings Violence. Editor, Daily Worker: Dear Comrade: | We can already see some f the jmany lessons which the Sacco and Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced |, tti il to die before their trial by Governor Vanzetti case will teach. It has brot the ‘international workers together Bullet ney gloo! oieoneresy and | sor one cause. It has shown us our by Judge Thayer on the golf links ; . and elsewhere. The evidence is plain, | Potential strength. The judges, edu- The governor’s “respectable” advisory \°2tors and bosses are class conscious, board did not deny it. ;they stand united against the work- "Eha legal ita].(ers.. Let us learn from them and be lege mieder gang Of game! |prepare for the fight. Our cry shoutd . _|be: Sacco and Vanzetti have not died OBaIneL She woniete,< Phew Daye line jin vain!—Susan H. Calkins, Deming, en, arrested and fined peaceful pro-| f . testers against this violence. They |New Mexico. have maltreated all. who dared to pro- i 5 test. The ruthless plutocrats have! Editor, Daily Worker: not learned that violence brings vio-| The yellow press in the United lence. A capitalist victim. States is devoting yards of space to telling the workers in the industrial a at ; centers that the farmers are profi- Poor Michigan Farnicrs and Workers | ers, In the farming sections they Send Aid. |are devoting an equal amount of space Enclosed, please find the money or-|to telling the farmers that it is the der for $101.30 which is the net profsiwirkers in the industrial centers who its from two entertainments held un-|are the profiteers. The money inter- der the auspices of the Community jests have been preaching for forty Club of Dukes Siding, Mich., for the!years that the farmers’ interests and benefit of our paper The DAILY the workers’ are not the same, But WORKER, the fact is that their interests are In return we do not ask nothing exactly the same—N..G. Barnhouse, else but that you continue your great '|Comertown, Mont. ism has declared a war of violence Comparing the co-operative stores, |made in the post few years, and so factories and restaurants of Soviet) it is to be understood why everywhere ussia with the hundreds of co-opera- tives and private similar institutions | confess that they are equal to these. we have ever seen. We found the all descriptions, excellently displayed, clean and the personnel appeared to be courteous and efficient. We visited the large city stores, the small town stores, and the peasants’ stores, and in all we failed to find the chaos and we have seen in America, we must | shelves stocked with merchandise, of | vent, . their the workers confronted us with the plea: “Keep your government from attacking us!” The earnestness of | their plea brought to us what an Some of the stores were the finest| enormous task the co-operators and the workers in general have to pre- imperialist «government from making war on the workers of Soviet Russia, It is the duty of co- operators to arouse the workers in .all countries so that they will stop the onslaught that threatens Soviet Rus- sia today! A uniformed police lieutenant | said, “I did not expect this after the way the socialists kicked Gold off the platform atthe other meeting.” JNION MOVEMENT — 15 LENIN AND THE TRADE By A. Losovsky LENIN—The Great Strategist 5, “Karlin’s only speaking as an in-| dividual, he was not authorized to by | the socialists,” Edward Levinson, of | the “New Leader” explained. Then he | admitted Karlin told him early in the afternoon that he would speak. Karlin, however, was not just | speaking “as an individual.” He rep- resents a large element in the social- ist party who are dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor By A. Losovsky A total of 80 censs worth of books, sent to any single address in the country for , YI 50 CENTS Books offered in this column on-hand NOTE: in Hmited quantities. All orders cash * and filled in turn as received, wee PPP PPP PPP APPR PRADEEP About Leni These four books about the great leader of the revolutionary labor movement should be in every worker's library. Get them all at this special price. , LENIN—His Life and Work. : ~ A brief popular account of the great leader and the principles he fought for. By J. 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