The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1927, Page 3

DELEGATE FROM DISTRICT NO. 7 DESCRIBES PROGRESS! OF PARTY ACTIVITY AMONG MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES R. Baker, No. 7 to the Fifth Party Convention | Qr8anization work is imme of the Workers (Communist) Party. now being held in New York City; has reported great progress’ in the Party’ 's work in Michigan. The Party is meeting- the problems which con-/} front it in this section of the Lake} industrial basin with energy and is|imto the hundreds have been overcoming the obstacles which the situation presents, . Automobile Nuelei Grow. In the most important industry of} Michigan, the automobile industry, the Party has been very successful: in} its work of organizing nucl The automobile workers. are almost’ 100! CONTINUE FIGHT. ON RULING-CLASS, URGES COMINTERN (Continued from Page One) fight for power of working class, are slogans of the day.” “The greeting was received: with en: | thusiasm. Another C, T. Chi, at San Francisco, published in yesterday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER, reporting the action of the American Kuomintang in-endors-| ing the letter of the widow of Sun | ‘Yat-sen, in which she denounces the treason of the right wing and sup-/| ports the workers’ and peasants” rev- | olution. Chi also sent his greetings to the convention. Greeting From Steel Workers. Pullman, Illinois, steel workers greeted the convention in a telegram as follows: “On behalf of the steel workers of Pullman and vicinity, Section No. 2, of the Workers (Communist) Party, Pullman, sending comradely greet- ings: to the Fifth Party, Convention and wishing all success and unity in the Party. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of America:” Bishop Brown Sends Greeting. Another characteristic greeting was received from Bishop and Mrs. William Montgomery Brown as fol- lows: “Greetings to you, the apostles and martyrs of Communism; you who are | the greatest saints and statesmen in| America. More power to the Work-| ers (Communist) Party and The DAILY WORKER. -Free Mooney and Billings with all class war pris- oners. Long live Saceo and Vanzetti. Down with the tyranny that tortured and killed them.” Select Convention Committees. Additional eonvention committees were selected as follows: Political Commission: Majority, Gitlow, Bedacht, Wolfe, Minor, Am- ter, Heikkinen, Lovestone, Knudson, Dinfelt; Opposition: Weinstone, Bit- tleman, Cannon, Foster, Dunne, Browder. Organization Commission: Major- ity, Tallentire, Shklar, Pure, Stachel, Fislerman; Opposition, | Swabeck, Krumbein, Ballam, Abern. The convention will convene this morning at the Irving Plaza Hall LW orkers Part; burst of applause came! with the reading of the telegram from) agate from pisigict PEF cent unorganized and the field for The | Party’ 's success has been very great |to date but it could unquestionably accomplish much more important re- sults provided there were a sufficient |number of organizers to do the work. Nuclei whose membership runs abh- one in several of the big automobi | plants. The effectiveness of t junits can be gauged from the {that their membership increased idly after the reorganization of t Shop Papers Sell by Thoysands. -. Twenty shop papers, with a pai Subscription and a circulation of about 60,000 are appearing regularly an there are others which ma |vegular appearance in many Thru the medium of these papers |Party is placing the daily prob! lef the class struggle effectively fore the workers in the factories. Despite the difficulties which presented by the lack of orga: tion among the automotive wor and the frightful conditions of une ployment i> an industry where thi sands of min are now idle, the Party continues its activities and one b one meets and ves the con |problems which confront it in pr tice. Saceo-Vanzetti Results: Besides its work in the organiz2 tional field the Party in District No. 7 has given special attention to the agitation against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. With the assistance of the International Labor Defense huge | protest meetings and demonstrations | Were organized in District No. 7 and resolutions were sent out, denouncing the execution of the two workers. | Thousands of workers were drawn to ‘the Party thru this agitational work. The militant attitude of the Party and the campaign, the implacable |hatred of the bosses as manifested in the raid on the Party headquarters and the police ferocity during the meeting on Cadillac Square in De- troit all served to put clearly before the masses of workers the struggle between the bosses and labor and our | Party’s function as the leader in th | struggle. | Thru its shop papers and its ‘among the workers in the fact the Party in District No. 7 has been able to tie up its protest work for Saeco and Vanzetti with the daily struggles of all the workers <nd this way to deepen the struggle. In other fields the Party in Dis- | trict. No. 7 is not idle. Arrangements have been made to open a.camip of De- | ri | several hundred acres outside terest in the project among the Party members and the workers. The camp will be ready for use next season and jis expected to accommodate 200 or 300 workers tho it may have to be enlarged in the future, | An Object Lesson. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: I wish to be informed as to which union I should belong. I am working now in an automobile factory. I would Workers Party office in Detroit. I want you and your paper to know that I now belong to the labor cause with my heart and soul, and that the Sacco-Vanzetti case has opened my troit. There is a great amount of in- | also like to know the address’ of the | OPENING + OF WORKERS Nee | PARTY CONVE TION a, aS — < More than 3,000 New Yerk werkers greeted the delegates to the fifth national convention of the Workers (Commnanist) P: Benjamin Gitlow, chairman, is seen FACES SEEN Philips US SHKLAR is New England organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party. of the Party ieee Plaza, Irving Place and ee St. ty Tuesday evening at a mass meeting at Central Opera House, opening the meeting. Ag Sklar Gitlow Third Ave. and 67th St. Sessions of the convention are now being held at WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION Te-G.§, Trachtenberg 3en Gitlow, member Central Executive Committee, presided at Tuesday’s Central Opera House meeting where the delegates were welcomed to New. York. Henry V. Philips is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League. delegation to the convention. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1. Whether former Governor Warren T. | McCray, who was scheduled to re- ‘turn to Indianapolis at noon today, would be called as a witness before |the Marion County Grand Jury now terminating an -exhaustive investiga- tion of Indiana political corruption | was regarded today as nearly as im- portant a question as the jury’s ac- tion. McCray would appear to be the most conclusive witness in regard to the charge that Governor Ed Jackson sought to bribe him with an offer of immunity from prosecution and $10,- and receive the report of the politi- | eyes like I believe it has done to mil- 000 cash in exchange for delivery of cal committee from Jay Lovestone, acting secretary. . ‘lions of unorganized workers. Fred Garcia, HS Mich. \the Marion county proseeutor’s office to the Stephenson-Jackson faction. Carry on the Fight for which Sacco, Vanzetti Gave Their Lives Nicola Sacro The Defense of Class War Prisoners _A Strong, Militant Labor Movement A Labor Party and a Labor Government The Protection of the Foreign Born The Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union Hands Off China The Abolition of All Imperialist Wars The Abolition of the Capitalist System Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them. Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, who murdered Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain The Daily Worker to carry on the fight for which Sacco and Vanzetti died. Answer the capitalist as- sassins with your sup- port of The Daily Worker in its fight FOR ‘ ‘ Bartolomeo Vanzetti ee Here Is My Tribute to The acco, Vv anzetti. Memory of DATLY WORKE R 33 First St, New York,»N, Y. Inclosed you will find dollars as my tribute to memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, and as my_conti.dutio to help the Daily Worker carry on the fight, fpr which they have given their’ Ifves, |; be discussed—a Illustrations and | Another desperate attempt on the) part of ticket brokers to avoid the penalty of getting caught at the! gentle game of bamboozing the pub-| lie will be made at a meeting to be held soon for further discussion of | McBride 50 cent surcharge plan. This meeting was unanimously ap- | proved when eighteen theater own-| ers met at the Hotel Astor Wednes- {day night. The resolution calling for} the meeting was proposed by Arthur | Hammerstein. | Previously Hammerstein © had an- | nounced that unless the brokers as- sented to the McBride pian, the man- agers would establish a ticket agency of their own, The brokers, however, |pleaded for another chance, and ob- | i tained their request for a renewal of negotiations. |relief organizer |prominent speakers. Alexander Trachtenberg is a member of the New York Sketches by K. A. SU Vv ANTO Ex-Governor McCray to Ticket Brokers Oppose | Passaic Labor Defense’ Tell Jury of Bribery McBride Plan; Given a) Meeting Will Listen to 2. \Chance by Managers|“Mother” Bloor Speak | PASSAIC, Sento 1 e A memorial meeting for our two martyred com- | |rades.Sacco and Vanzetti will be held | on Friday, September 2nd, at 7:30 p. m. at the Workers Home, 27 Day- | ton Ave., Passaic, N. J. Ella Reeve | Bloor, well known for her many years of activity in the labor movement, and during the Passaic Textile Strike will address the meet- ing. There will also be many other This tribute to! the two militant workers who have been murdered by American capital- ism is being arranged by the Inter- national Labor De: tion, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS r, (Continued from Page One) because of their political beliefs, but because of the commission of murder. }; This will be the alibi of capitalist apologists as long as the case will long, long time. Millions of workers thruout the world who have not the slightest sympathy with the hare-brained anarchist) theory, that governments of any) kind, workingclass or capitalist, are) tyrannies, rallied to their defense be- | cause they believed in their innocence | and because they believed that they | were immolated on the sacrificial} altar as object lessons to other work- | ers willing to give their lives for the) service of their class. * * LC is regretable, yet to be expected! at this stage, that millions of workers should believe with the capi- talist press and the courts in the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti. Even now after the execution of these two idealists it is very important that their innocence should be established to the satisfaction of those who still believe that a militant worker has the same right before a capitalist court as a member of the ruling class. Tom Mooney escaped execution. by the skin of his teeth because of the world- wide protest against his lesral murder. He ‘is still in jail, tho practically everybody connected with the case, even the trained perjurers, have long since confessed their belief in the innocence of Mooney and his com- rade Israel Weinberg. Cases like that! of Sacco-Vanzetti and Mooney do) more to blast the faith of the masses in the justice of capitalist courts than all the propaganda the Communists | could put out in one hundred years. { * * * HO. somewhat susceptible to the claims of any kind of science ex- cept that of mental healing, this) column is inclined to take issue with Current Events | - | @Sir Arthur Keith on the Darwinian a. | | seduction, By T. J. 0” T. J. OFLAHERTY | theory. We admit prejudice against an individual sporting a “Sir,” “Duke” | or “Lord” before his regular cogno- men, but what we have up our beak for Sir Arthur is his alleged assertion that man has risen from the anthro- poid ape. Perhaps the headline writer did him an injustice, but tho I am not a member of the society for the prévention of cruelty to animals! the ape’s plight has me weeping. * * x HERE are many commendable | things the ape does that his bio- | logical superior should avoid but | does not. Comparatively few apes have been known to «work, except some dissolute scoundrels who have taken to the stage after suffering But they have a good time compared to the average wage slave, who toils all his life and whose worry is lest he may die without having enough money saved to pay the un- dertaker. * * * POE ICEANS, meeting in Atlantic City dropped tears of regret into their beer over the doleful prospect} that faced the undertaking business. | Too many undertakers! Too few corp-| ses! This was the concensus of opinion. This reminds one of John) L., Lew solution for the coal mining problem. We do think that the undertakers are not taking proper advantage of all the breaks, There was a nice little war a few years ago'in which some 70,000 husky American boys were | killed. If the mortigians had ap- pointed a member of the trade to slave for the government in the capacity of patriot for one dollar a year, he might have been able to get a contract for wrapping the dead heroes in wooden ‘boxes, thus helping the undertakers over the compara- tively lean years that were bound to follow the war. lat Too many miners! | | MINERS FIGHT ON AS BOSSES TRY TO SMASH UNION Thousands ‘Starve in Hand Six Month Strike CHICAGO, § -—One of the na- tion’s greatest ind etrial tie-ups, the coal strike of today ente its th month. Except for occas 1 jolence, as efforts made to ion mines into open the public is hardly eat war industry change cle shop operat aware that is being fought. Thousands Out of Work. More than 100,000 men have idle for five months. a standstill, or prac the gr coal produci Mlinois, Indiana:and Ohi Here and there a mine, or group has signed what is called of been Production is tically so, in’ g states of to dig coal un is ended at the Jacksonville wage scale, Such coal, and that produced in non-union mine: in West Virginia and Ken supplied the nation. Bosses Try to Break Union. In the Pittsburgh district desperate attempts are being made to continue open shop operations in mines which formerly. had contracts with the union. Mine operators claim the union has had to tie up $1,000,000 of | its limited funds to cover pending court proceedings. The mine are getting no strike benefits as the pres- ent shutdown is called a suspension and in such cases no payments are made. Union officials point to the com-| pleteness of the. tie-up in the Central | | States as an indication that their men | are unbroken in their ranks. Mine operators likewise are confident, de- claring wages must be low J. This, the United Mine Workers , never will be accepted by them, The dead- | lock is no nearer a solution than it| was when the men quit work on March 31. Thousands Starving. Tens of millions of dollars in w: ages | have been lost. Thousands of miners’ \families are feeling the pinch of their situation. Thousands will be evicted from mine company homes as winter approaches if the strike is not | —= | settled. Their plight will be desper- ate, it is, even now, in some regions. | And yet the battle) goes on its bitter | Walker Lectures on Booze. |, MUNICH, Sept. 1.—Before leaving | |the Bavarian capital tonight for gay | Lido, Mayor Walker of New York, | delivered a witty eulogy on German | efficiency in science, in traffic sys- | tems and in “malt and hop foundries.” | Flight to Rome Delayed. Marooned on her runway in a new} “sea” that was Roosevelt flying field | until the heavy downpour of Wednes- | day night continuing yesterday with- | out a break, brought about the | change, Old Glory, the Hearst New | York-Rome monoplane, is still earth | bound. » Passaic sec-| The Tragic Case of SACCO and VANZETTI In Special Features in the New September Issue of the New Masses HEYWOOD BROUN The noted columnist of “The New York Vorld” writes on “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.” MICHAEL GOLD describes the city of Boston during this most exciting time, JAMES RORTY contributes a poem on Sacco-Vanzetti. ART YOUNG has drawn one of his brilliant cartoons. OTHER FEATURES on varied subjects— drawings, cartoons, ar- ticles and stories by noted writers and art- ists. 25¢e a Copy on Newsstands Subscription $2.00 a Year TO DAILY WORKER READERS A special introductory offer of $1.00 for 5 Menths THE NEW MASS 89 Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y. 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