The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1927, Page 1

(coeeiintieetegeeenrneritenicenesoeespetreinensasinnainoet THE DAILY WORKER VIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 200. SUBSCRIPTION RA'TES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. PARIS LABOR PROTEST GROWS AS LEGION ARRIVES = ea * THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1927 LOVESTONE POINTS OUT GROWTH OF STATE POWER IN U. S GALLS CAL COOLIDGE “STRIKEBREAKER-IN-CHIEF” Pointing out that there has been a tremendous growth of | state power, that, “the government bureaucracy is continuing to) grow apace,” Jay Lovestone, reporting for the political committee, | reviewed the political situation in the United States at the Fifth) National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party now be-! ing held at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. | “The presidential power is greater than ever before in the history of} this country,” said Lovestone. “The president occupies the office of strike-| breaker-in-chief. No head of any capitalist country in the world has as| much power as the president of the American ruling class.” | Lovestone’s report will be published in full from day to day in The DAILY WORKER. The discussion of the report that continued Friday night and Saturday will be published in part. The first installment of the report | taking up the questions of the economic situation, the political situation and) the labor movement is as follows: REPORT OF THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE By JAY LOVESTONE. 'HE importance of the present mo-, ment for the American working class can only be estimated properly when we think of the dominant role that American imperialism plays to- day in world affairs. For us Com- munists who are striving to become the leaders of the American prole- tariat, it is therefore especially im- portant to examine the objective con- ditions, to recount the co: ete steps which we have taken for the de- velopment in fhe United States of a mass Communist Party which will lead the American workers towards the establishment of proletarian rule. We must estimate the factors de- termining the Party activities, the States over the similar period in the| previous year. | Fourthly, there is a growth of the | rentier. class. | Fifth, there is a general industrial- ization process in the United States, particularly in the South. Bee it would not be dialectic—we | would not be scientific, we would | not be Marxian, if we merely saw one/ phase of the process of capitalist de-| velopment and function in America. | Unless we examined the contradic- | {tions of American capitalism, we are ‘unable to understand the objective conditions under which our Party is working. Briefly, the outstanding | contradictions in American capitalism today are the following: shortcomings of the Party, the errors | of the Party. What lessons are we! to draw? What are our tasks. What | are our perspectives? Let me esti-| mate first the factors determining the | Party activities today. Here we will deal with the economic factors, the) political situation and the conditions | of the labor movement! | First, over-development of certain industries, second, a severe and acute crisis in agriculture. The migration of the rural masses to the urban centres is continuing. The income of the farming masses in this country has decreased 42 per cent, in the last six years. Third, there are credit difficulties. The Economic Situation. The whole system of installment iB reference to the economic factors, | buying, tho momentarily it is a force permit me to sketch very briefly| for protracting the present period of the outstanding features of the pre- | so-called prosperity, nevertheless it sent situation. I will merely name|has in it another force—a contradic- them and the comrades need no time tory force at work. This means that for analysis here. |when economic . conditions become First, there is a tremendous ac-|worse, that this installment buying cumulation of capitalism. becomes a source of the greatest Second, a great concentration .of danger, the utmost explosive force ownership and centralization of /for a crisis. operation in industry as well as in| Fourthly, a derangement in certain finance. When we speak of mergers, jindustries like oil, coal and textiles. we only have to think of the recent |Fifthly, trustification, the develop- announcement of the proposed merger | ment of cartels in European industry of the Du Pont Corporation, the Gen- lis an inereasing challenge to Ameri- eral Motors and the U. S. Steel Cor-|can imperialism. Sixth, the tariff poration. jbarrier. America maintains a high The third characteristic of the pres-|tariff. As we become a capital ex- ent economic situation is an increas- | porting country, and as America in- ing export of capital. Without going | creases its strategic position in this into any figures, permit me to say|field, these tends to develop a situa- that the first six months of 1927 in-|tion’ where the tariff becomes an dicate a considerable increase in the|acute problem in the sense that the export of capital from the United! (Continued on Page Two) FOSTER REPORTS ON CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT THE TRADE UNIONS ‘HE Sunday morning session of the national (Communist) Party ‘was given entirel ey William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Committee of the ‘arty. Foster reviewed first the present and recent conditions which affect the trade union movement and the development of the left wing. There has been relatively steady® - - "RACER fo HL NS employment, said Foster. The gen-| Well as surrendering to the capitalist eral passivity has given the back-|POlitical parties, ground for the spread of reformist; The general surrender of the bu- illusions, propagated by the employers Yeaucracy to the capitalist class is and their agents, the labor bodies, Summed up in what the bureaucrats to the effect that the workers can/Class “the higher strategy of labor.” attain a certain “liberation” under the | General Tasks of the Party. capitalist system, or even can “buy, Our general task, said Foster, is the the industries.” It seems to be a revolutionizing of the trade unions, question at present whether company and this must never be forgotten. unionism is now losing favor with) There is a tendency for some, in the employers, relative to the process the | detail work of the everyday struggle, employers are using, of “company-|to overlook this, and this must be unionizing” the existing trade unions, |@voided—we must never lose sight of Under the Watson-Parker law the|our ultimate goal, said Foster. We} railroad companies have to show this/ must build our Party and win the| preference in a number of cases. jleadership of the workers. We must’ War on Left Wing Sharpens. Pee the workers to the struggle “he offensive against the left wing, pence Naperinism. is aid Foster, is sharpening. The gov-| Dey sion the Left Wing i ernment is now increasingly aggres-| Don’t forget, said the speaker, the| sive in this offensive, and in this re- | fundamental task of building the left spect, the Sacco-Vanzetti case is the Wing. We must democratize and latest striking example. The struggle Purge the unions of corrupt leader- in the needle trades is evidence of the | Ship. most acute development of the war Comrade Foster called attention to; against the left wing. In this attack|the revolutionary effect upon the the trade-union bureaucrats act as the | trade union movement to be expected agents of the capitalist class in tak-|from the organization of the unor- ing the lead. | ganized workers, which is the broad The trade union bureaucrats are | highway to the winning of the masses. not only going along with the “com- | This is the task of the left wing, pany-unionizing” of the unions, but| which must lead in the work. A they lead in this also. They lead for | united front in this work can be made the bourgeoisie in the attacks on the|with the progressives, but the or- Soviet Union and in the imperialist | ganization of the unorganized must intrigues against Latin America, and|be done in the face of the opposition ermport the militerization program as! (Continued on Page Three) t convention of the Workers 'y to the report on trade union _| was told that the job had been given | Tabor Party in U. S. '25,000 Workers Out of Jobs in Baltimore, Is Report of Bosses There | BALTIMORE, Sept. 3 (FP)— Employers. estimate that 25,000 workers are jobless in Baltimore) this month. The figure, sponsored) | | | |by the Association of Commerce, does not include those partially employed. “A surplus exists almost with- out exception in every industry,” the association declares. “This condition, however, is not peculiar to Baltimore as it seems to pre- vail throughout the eastern part) of the United States. \q The building .and construction| industry is particularly hard hit with activity at about 50 per cent} of normal. There is no doubt, say) Baltimore contractors, that the} city and the whole country are} badly overbuilt. END SWEATSHOPS, AIM OF MADISON $1. GARDEN MEET Cloak and Dressmakers to Rebuild Union What are characterized by the workers as “unbearable” conditions in the cloak and dress shops of this city have led to the calling of a mass meeting of all cloak and dressmakers in Madison Square Garden next Sat- urday, 2 p. m. The call for this meeting is issued by Louis Hyman, manager, and Julius Portnoy, secretary, of the Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union; and according to the anneuncement, this will mark the beginning of a drive to overcome the present deplorable conditions by ending the strife which has been weakening the union for the past two seasons. “Ever since Morris Sigman, presi- dent of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, began his sys- tematic expulsion policy the standards in our industry have been | steadily falling,” says Louis Hyman. Sweatshop Returning. “Sweatshop conditions such as ex- isted previous to 1910, once more pre- vail in this city. There are more than 800 non-union shops in the gar- ment center, where people are work- ing 50 and 60 hours a week—instead of 44 hours as prescribed by the union agreement; where they work Sundays and holidays, and for all this receive $25 and $30 less than they did when the shorter work week was in force. “As a result, even in union shops the standards have been destroyed and wages reduced so that the most (Continued on Page Five) After Starving Three Days Jobless Worker Faints at Passing Food After not eating for three days, Maurice Jones, 28, of 188 Park Row, collapsed yesterday in the Bronx after he found out he arrived too late to get a job. Walking all the way uptown, he to a man who beat him by travelling on the subway. Returning, he said he passed three restaurants in suc» cession. He managed to pass the first one, but he got dizzy from hunger when he passed the second. As he started to pass the third, the fumes of steaming coffee and frying hamburger made his head swim and he fell. He was taken to the Highbridge police station. From there he was sent to Welfare lin Mathew Woll Attacks —+ The narrow elementary craft unionist line pursued by the re- actionary officialdom of the American Federal of Labor was| clearly brought out in a Labor| Day message issued here by Mathew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L. and acting presi- dent of the National Civic Federa-| tion, in which he attacks political action on the part of American labor. “American labor has\found from experience that the greatest and most permanent progress is at- tributable to economic and indus- trial action rather than the play} of political forces,” he said. ~@ First Sacco and Va can never be satisfied. Its inherent lust for the life blood stilled until the beast is finally destroyed. In the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, the capitalist class blood im the latest epoch of its mad career of ruthlessn the eléctric chair. press, the unions and the labor movement as a whole. even greater determination and self-sacrifice. and expression, will stand THE DAILY WORKER. Sacco and Vanzetti had we fought harder against the treach the Socialist Party, who betrayed them. full strength of the working class. throw all our forces info the fight. Let us, therefore, this again will it succeed in taking from us our champions. Published Daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First . nzetti—Next the Phd Daily Worker—Then Trade Unions | Fin PREPARED Savage beasts devour their prey and for a time are sated. But the beast of capitalism against the working class. two loyal spokesmen for the cause of labor have been silenced by the scorching flames of Next will come an attempt to destroy the weapons of the workers, their zetti will inspire thousands upon thousands of other workers to carry on the fight, with The fact that THE DAILY WORKER staff is called to appear before the Federal Court, tomorrow, indicates full well that the capitalist class is aware of this danger, and that it means to deal its next decisive blow against abor’s most powerful spokesman. Let the case of Sacco and Vanzetti be a lesson to all workers. GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND, and teach the capitalist class of America, that never | FINAL CITY | | EDITION Price 3 Cents N. Street, New York, a g T i i y 1m bel ay re i of the proletariat will never be FOR SEPTEMBER 19 Qa Head of §& Committ acco-Vanzetti Departed of America has drawn the first These , PARIS, Se reply of the But the murder of Sacco and Van- Frenct r nsolent inva- by 1,800 members of the , sas ; ce n Legion was made At the head of the movement, giving it voice aos light disclosed the teen that all the billboards in Paris and every inch of available space had been |plastered with posters and placards {calling on French labor to meet “this | provocation of the Am an Legion We could have saved as it should be wered,” by a re= erous Greens and Wolls against fusal to work immediate cause We could have saved them had we mobilized the aad indig of the eee time be fully on our guard and in which the Amecieal Let us gather our dollars, quarters and dimes into the to participate on September 19. 1,800 Legionnaires are rived today. The former workers, are nd all French at the arrival peer AMERICAN LEGION TOOL OF BIE | BUSINESS, SAYS PAUL CROUCH EDITOR'S NOTE.—Paul Crouch, a newspaperman, is a former sergeant in the intelligence service of the U.S. army in Hawaii. He was courtmartialed and sentenced to 40 years at hard labor in 1925 for organizing a league of Communist youth. After serving three years in the military “Rock o’ Hell of Frisco Bay,” his sentence was commuted and he was released, Crouch is now on a tour of the United States for the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. French ex- American sent the American that the vor of the etti and ris shall trict for of the Amer soldier Legionn: American veteran avorkers. The} Legion stood str USSR WORKERS IN the feelings of French workers every- where. = L’Humanité do the remember Sacc Greets British Labor | Meeting at Edinburgh! Leads Workers. The excitement among the masses of French workers is at fever pitch (Special to Daily Worker) By PAUL CROUCH. 2 4 MOSCOW, USSR, Sept. 4.—The It was in the name of ex-szrvice men that the fascisti of Italy were extcaGiiitviity dlondin of tcee Central organized. The American Legion is the fascisti of the United States,| Council of cb gas Uitons ct ahh and uses the name of ex-service men in the interest of capitalism to crush| | ¢- nae :: oS aie pars Ey A " | | Soviet Union which took place F the aspirations of the working class. In reality, the American Legion| eae ; 4 2 ‘ " i songh Ff “f .| |day concerned itself with the qu Tepresent*}of)‘the soldiers but the financial interests which sacrificed n of the Angho-Rugsian Commit- thousands of lives so that Morgan and gang might make greater profits. ee. 5 Dominated by Officers. | Any real organization of ex-service men must be composed almost |entirely of former enlisted men and must defend their interests, but the |Ameriean Legion is led and controlled by former officers—members of the exploiting class, and the natural enemies of“the private soldiers. The American Legion was created and financed by big business for the pur- pose of using former soldiers who escaped with their lives from the last | war to enslave the workers and make Arnerica safe for the next imperi- | alist slaughter. | Why is it possible for former soldiers to be led into the American | Legion, an organization fighting their own interests? | the propaganda supported by all the wealth of American capitalism. The the American Legion the only large social group for for such petty advantages they join in ignorance of i aims. In the meantime, former army officers continue to control the Legion in the interest of capitalism. Convention a Threat to European Workers. ea The American Legion convention in France is intended as a demon- stration of the power of American imperialism—a warning to the workers of Europe who aspire to freedom from the financial domination of Wall Street. x-service men and The workers of France are not to be fooled by false masks and they of the working class. All intelligent American workers and former sol- diers applaud the action of French workers in objecting to the disgrace of their country by the presence of an American fascist convention. We hope the French workers will give the American Legion—the fascisti of the United States—the sort of “welcome” it really deserves. PUGH, REFORMIST RIGHT WING OF BRITISH LEADER, CAP UNION RULES DELEGATE TO AFL OUT MILITANTS Helped Betray General Won't Allow Workers. Strike Last Year Arthur Pugh, who as president of | to Choose Officers of the leaders in the betrayal of the |ST¢SSive candidates The real cause is! | | united efforts of big business and its tool, the government, have made| real and sinister | see in the American Legion the symbol of the brutal system which mur-/| dered Sacco and Vanzetti because of their unselfish devotion to the cause | | Afraid to allow the membership of the Trades Union Council, was one | the Capmakers’ Union to vote for pro- in the coming The plenum listened to the report of Secretary Dogadov, who pointed }out that the Cotncil had received an | invitation from the Trade Union Con- gress at Edinburgh. The delegation elected by the Council cannot appear | |at the Congress, however, in view |of the refusal of the British authori- | |ties to grant the delegates visas. The Central Counkii of Trade || Unions of the USSR was therefore compelled to confine its brotherly participation in the Congress to a telegraphic communication. Fought With British Miners. The text of the message was |unanimously agreed upon by mem- jbers of the Central Council. It | salutes the English working class now suffering under the blows of the reaction and declares that the workers of the Soviet Union watched with strained attention the struggles {of the English proletariat during the past year. With the British miners the work- ing class of the Soviet Union lived |through the horror of the defeat which followed the betrayal of the | general strike and which was the re- {sult of both the treason of May 12th and a further sabotage of the heroic | Struggle of the miners. Reformist Sabotage. The new galley slave bill will now | become a law as the result of the |defeat of the miners and the con- |scious and deliberate sabotage of the struggle against this law on the part of the liberal leaders of the Labor |Party and the reformist leaders of the General Council snatches away |the achievements attained by the | British working class in a century and is a sweeping victory of the con- servative government not only over |the workers of England, but also over the workers of all the world. The defeat of the miners and the chartering of strikebreakers has set \free the hands of the government, the bankers and mine-owners for a British general strike last year, will | election for organizers, the right wing! cruel war against China and prepara- sail for New York on tHe Lancastria | @dministration has ruled the militant/tion for a war against off the ballot. on September 10. He will be one of | candida elementary rights o the two British fraternal delegates to| IRgnoz''’, the American Federation of Labor! the » convention at Los Angeles. |they desire right wingers are al-| which have fallen on the Clearly indicating how earnestly lowing ‘ their own supporters to! the British workex British reformist leaders are advocat-|Temain on the ballot. |sage to.the Con ing class collaboration i's a: substi-| HH. Sazer, L. Cohen, and Jacob! to trust in th tute for class. struggle, Pugh in an interview with < reporter for the New York World declared: Advocates Class Collaboration. “American producers seem to have grasped the idea that a healthy state of indsutry and the retention of a good home market mean the maintain- ing of the purchasing power of the people--a power which is opposed to a wage-cutting policy. Then, too, there appears to be a new spirit in America regarding the relation of the human factor in industry to the pen | ital invested; the principle of the men in industry using capital as a vehicle (Continued on Page Three) ,of the union: Letter to Executive Board. Locals 1, 2, 8, 17, 27 and 40, to th ‘effect that it requires a majority vot of a local in order that a membe: ganizer in our union. “It is against the elementary rule: of parliamentary procedure that ceive a majority of votes from ( Gontinued on Page Five) p to vote for whom) Schogol, victims of the right wing | English censorship, have sent the following and 1 letter to the general executive board “We, the undersigned, herewith sub- mit our appeal from the decision of may be a nominee for office of or- the Soviet | Union. f Faith in Workers. “Notwithstanding all hen these letariat. ipline of the | working ifested in jthe nine da neral strike. These nine .days the world model | for Glass solid rity and iron prole- jtarian discipline, whereas the 10th j|day showed the tragic position of © ithe working class headed such e r d by traitors as Thomas and a {men like Hicks and Pu » whe jnow working with the leaders o | Labor Party to develop illusions in S}the minds of workers about a parlia- a mentary government being able to nominee for office should have to re-| solve all the problems of the work-| aling class. (Continued on Page Three) glish | t Jand the government utilize this feeling i blame for all ex in which Amer- ican Legionnai may become ine | volved on the activities of the French and (Commun L’Human- De Rgle. ogains |the hordes ‘of the Legion” and the workers are rallying to the support j of France’s fighting labor daily. French officialdom, which began an inquisition and terror immediately |after the Sacco and Vanzetti demon- strations with their police violence and the workers’ res ce had afforded |them an excuse, are still sending hun- | dreds of worke nd their leaders out of the country either as foreign ref« ugees being deported’ from on framed-up charges. The latest ar- rests and deportations are those of | Artemio Re ry of one of the Sacco Vanzetti committees, and two F en who were dis- tributing pamphlets denouncing the American Legion. Rochini has been escorted to the Italian frontier and delivered into the hands of his en- the fascist terrorists. It is pected that he will be jailed or exiled to one of the fascist island hell- holes where political victims are ine carcerated before being murdered. Thousands Deported. Eight thousand five hundred works ers or their leaders have been de- ported from France to date. The whole of the French secret police and uniformed officers peing marshalled for this work and the French author ities are using the persecution as an example of the inadequacy of the present force to the demands of the terrorism and are clamoring for ene OPERATORS BACK TERROR CAMPAIGN STRINERS DECLARE PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4.—Officials f the United Mine Workers have t filed a wer to an applica- an ction made by the h Terminal Coal Corpora. tion for sburg! Constant Terrorism. ive and ng of the coal and ice employed by the coal come striking miners,” ion ges that the hired f the corporation continuously nitting acts of terrorism against striking miners. It also declares t workers are being arrested on slightest provocation and sub- ed to third degree methods hy the ompany police, Hearing Friday. Next Friday is the day set for the hearing on the coa] barons’ applica tion for an injunction against the | union. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT. THE NEWSSTANDS atti