The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE #AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO ‘ SEPTEMBER 5, 1927 GREEN WILL USE RADIO 70 SPREAD Picnic Omitted as May 1 Supplants Labor Day Labor Da 1 the broade: g will place a w Benjamin F th John +] Trades é an Federation, will ac- company Almost s will be held to- t the custom 2s, allowing those ring the proces: with tk f L as a part of t ican labor picture. For few years the New York Cen Trades and Labor held a*picnic eve bor Day at Fort Hamilton. Ac ing, acting sec g to Jerome Keat- ary, no picnie will take place th r as in the past. When asked for the reason, Keating informed the DAILY WORKER that the pienies so it is peeches over the radio be 1 While Labor Day is losing its in- fluence among the workers, May 1, the day of itant labor, is gaining more and n prestige. ore Needle Trade Defense The famous “Sigman Follies, known t t the state of Iowa, and C jeiget where it was eeks ago and made an- oinson § 5: Pleasant rk, Bronx. There will be a z series of other attrac- tions and features which will be an- nounced soon. One of the main at- tractions is the Giant Alex Fox who bends iron bars with his hands. There will be dancing to the music of a famous ja: band. 40 cents. The holder of a 40 cent ticket is privileged to all the attrac- tions. 50 per cent of the procceds will go for the Defence of the im- prisoned cloakmakers and furriers. Newly Born Gift Money to the Defense. Rose Mirsky, Executive Board member of Local 22, gave birth to a baby boy last week. The other exec- utive Board members decided to buy @ present, and collected $8. In the Carry on ned to in the} | ,,; culminate in complete unification on ba: Admission is! GREETINGS TO CONVENTION FROM Greetings from the anthracite coal movement, from the Young Pioneers’ Leag re received and read to the Fifth Conventio munist) Party being held in Irving Pls Street, New York. fields, from the co-operative ue, in addition to many others of the Workers (Com- a Hall, Irving Place and 15th They were as follows: * FROM YOUNG PIONEER LEAGUE. » the vely th acks E nd organizing the oung workers, to fight for freedom. We pledge oursel . s Communist children’s movement under the leader- > of the F and the Communist youth. your direction we will the struggles of the workers’ and farmers’ children until final bosses of th to do a workers, young workers, workers’ children—in the s use of the working class we, pioneers, stand ready! Central Bureau, Young Pioneer League of Am A GREETING AND Wo: rs’ Co-operative ociation extends h Convention the Workers (Commu: sessions of your convention with the N INVITATION. United he its tiest Ve interest, be- i ful only when they unite their movement with the politica al struggles of the working c The United Workers’ Co-operative ciation has within the past few years succeded in building up several tant institutions which we should be pleased to show to the delegates of your convention. We herewith extend a formal invitation to the delegates d their wives to visit our Camp Nitgedaiget on Sunday. We shall provide transport facilities and visit ou operative houses in the Bronx. er contact between the Communist and co-operative movement will be of great benefit to both of them. Long live the International Cl Solidar- ity. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party, the leader of the advanced guard of the American working cla: With fraternal greetings, United Workers’ Co-operative Association, E. Wattenberg, Secretary. * * CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION SED Greetings! cle S GREETING: May your endeavors for Communist unity be crowned with ccess, (Communist) Pa of America, long live the | leader of the world’s proletariat, the Communist International. Workers’ Unity Co-operative Association, New York. * * * -GREETINGS FROM THE ANTHRACITE. Italian Communists of Anthracite meeting in Old Forge send you best | greetings and wishes for successful work. May this convention be another | milestone towards a real mass Communist Party in America. * * * SPARTACUS PIONEERS HEARD FROM. In name of Spartacus Pioneer Group of Chatham, N. J., we greet Fifth National Convention, Workers (Communist) Party. We dedicate our efforts jas pioneers to promote campaign among youth. Spartacus Pioneers, Chatham, N. J. * * GREETINGS FROM RUSSIAN WEEKLY. We greet Fifth National Convention of Workers (Communist) Party and hope progress in unif i y made during last two years will correct policies for mass work, The Party press should be more centralized and the various language organs {as well as our DAILY WORKER should be united into one powerful weapon {for the overthrow of capitalism and victory of the American working class. | Close the ranks. Build the Party. Carry on the fight. Long live our Com- |munist Party. ’ The Novy Mir, Russian Weekly, Editor, T. Kadwannia and Mgr., P. Omelian. jend it was decided to turn this money, mittee acknowledge receipt of the jinto the office of the defence which’ following donations: is the ammunition center of the! $8 from B. Alexander, Brooklyn, N. striking cloakmakers and furriers. Al Y.; $10 from Chmelnicker Br. 246, W. telegram of congratulations was sent | $5 donation from a cloakmaker; stead. from I. L. Peretz Branch 305 W. Call of Workmen Circle Conference | C.; $7.50 from H. Levinson—collec- Answered. | tion at house party of J. Grossfeder; Branch 35, W.C. sent $385 to the/|$20.00 from Hungarian Branch, I. I Joint Defense. $10 was donated from) D.; $4.00 from Samoschter Br. 3 the Branch treasury and the other| W. C. |$25 was raised by a group of pro-| ve members of the branch. Ten Dollars for the Defense. Sarah and Rose Stern lost some money at Camp Kinderland. After $50 in the very near future. {a while they found it, which was un- are any workers’ clubs who have not | expected, so they turned it over to} yet fulfilled their quota they should | the Defense. get busy and send in the balance of The Joint Defense and Relief Com-' their pledge as quickly as possible. $i sent in $50 on account of their $200 pledge. This club has already raised the Fight for which Sacco, Vanzetti Gave Their Lives Nicola Sac:o The Defense of Class War Prisoners Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them. Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, who murdered A] $150 and promises to send the other | If there} | challer |to its « } ft | power. |is continuing to grow apace. | ever LOVESTONE POINTS OUT GROWTH OF Tourists to Soviet ANTHRACITE, CO-OPS, PIONEERS STATE POWER IN U, S.; CALLS CAL Union Will Witness COOLIDGE STRIMEBREAKER -IN- CHIEF One) capitalist (!inance) must lower iff in onier to be able to r ent for their capi ictions in th Seventh, A (Continued from Page ive countries for its and, in the not far , but not least, American im- sm-must be more and more ag- in its policies, more and more brutal, more and more sharply i i ts intern: al rela- because of the increasing com- | petition, because of the arpening of other imperialist powers ation. tor FUE pr immediate economic situation— there is no depression, but the signs of rec on in industry are not only increasing, but are already tangibly obvious to us. The peak of*the pros- perity in this cycle has been p: All official figures and reports dicate that there is a sharper reces- sion in industry already developed than the bankers and economic ex- perts of the bourgeoisie had dared to indicate or even mention months ago. Unemployment today shows a sig- nificant picture. It is only once since August, 1921, that employment has been so low as it is today in such industrial centres as New York and Illinois. General employment in the country today is 18 per cent less than in 1920+ Regarding wages today; the monthly average is 30 per cent less than the monthly average in 1920. Railroads, coal as well as the corn crop—these are some sources of prof- it income:showing sharp trends to- wards worsening. The seasonal fac- fors which some of the bourgeois ex- perts might mention here as re- sponsible are already discounted. Taking all of those into consideration, there is already considerable reces- sion here. Does that ‘mean that we are on the eve of a big depression? It does not mean we are on the eve of a big depression, That does not mean that we will not have a big depression, but ‘we are not in the immediate period of depression. In estimating the immediate economic outlook we must keep in mind that the cause of |the present long period that we have just gone through, the period of pros- perity, the immediate effects of a recession will not be so marked, will not be so sharp as they would have been otherwise. _ The Political Situation. OW the political situation—the political situation in the country is characterised by the following six factors: First, a tréfitendous growth of state The government bureaucracy The presidential power is greater than before in the history of this country. The president Occupies the office of strike-breaker in chief. No The Willianisburg Workers Club|head of any capitalist country in the world has as much power as the president of the American ruling class. Second, the suppressive side of American imperialist is becoming more and more marked and_ visible |to the masses. Third, the complete oneness of big | business and government: in no coun- |try in the world is that so clear as jhere. When Coolidge “chooses” not |to run for a term, no one can say his choice is final until Dwight Morrow, @ | question of tariff. | Morgan’s private adviser visits him. \V n one speaks of such elements in ‘American government as Mellon, Hoever, Dawes, he has the personifi- ion of the oneness of the bour- sie, of the ruling class. ourth, there are divisions among |the American bourgeoisie. Divisions | over such policies regarding relations |to agriculture, relations to other im- |perialist powers, our foreign policy, | participation in world court or join- ing the League of Nations, and the | question over tariff. There is a grow- ling conflict in the ranks of our bour- geoisie as I have pointed out, over the ‘The question of government centralization is a very {important source of division in the h. Here was a case where thy igé of the capitalist class as°a ; not only in relation to the ex- | lengt! The | Ploited workers of this country, but |eight weeks comes the news that a Scenes of Revolt On the heels of the announcement | that the proposed six weeks’ tour to | Soviet Russia has been lengthened to nt economic situation: the 1, faces a major task in being able to _ develop such tactics as will make us its relation to ruling classes of other | Stop of one day will be made in Lon- {nations was involved in various ways.|40n and Helsingfors to enable the He who expected justice or mercy in| tourists to make an extensive sight- any abstract sense and had illusions|S¢eing trip in each city, supervised as to what the ruling class of Ameri-|by World Tourists, Inc., and included ca would do, was not basing his per-|in the cost of the tour. spectives on an analysis of class re-|. By special arrangement, the tour- lations, was not basing his judge sts will have all visa requirements ment on a sound analysis of the ob-|&ttended to by World Tourists, Inc. jective conditions. When we view the Sacco-Vanzetti case, we must view it dialectically. the terro: This is important, for individual ap- plicants for a visa to Soviet Russia have been known to wait months only to have it refused. Sails Oct. 14. Definite arrangements have been We must~hot only see the brutality of the bour- we must see the other side of | adicalizing fortes of the é 5 BaiNiaeete alee The Sacco-| Concluded with the Cunard Line for |Vanzetti case is one of the most| te charter of the commodious, twin- screw liner “Carmania” for the trip yet been developed in the working °9.jondow | Phe scheduled date of cbse un oun | cone ey | the party will proceed to Helsingfors, |then to Leningrad, Moscow and ad- respond to these conditions and mule |G toes Russia the group will bag this protest. by SavelObine % from | he met by special representatives of | poe Lt Ape Sta Ak Ee conscious | the U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Re- | ay utionary sentiment for the de-| lations who wil act as guides and in- Feoenon of the oppressors of the | terpreters thruout its stay in Russia. workers, A ‘ i ‘ i ‘ | This society is arranging in advance Iil.—The Labor Movement. % neve a powerful radicalizing forces that has Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain The Daily Worker to carry on the |ranks of the bourgeoisie; the. petty |bourgeoisie being opposed to govern- {ment centralization and the biggest fil | bourgeoisie being in favor of it in 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 RT Here Is My Tribute to The 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 P The Abolition of All Imperialist Wars The Abolition of the Capitalist System Memory of Sacco, Vanzetti. PIR EET ol «RE LEED DAILY WORKER 38 Pirst St. New York, N, Y, Incloséd you ‘will find dollars as my tribute to memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a& my contr.bdution to help the Dally Worker carry on the fight, for which they have given their lives, Name Address ™@ decisions particularly regarding the The militancs in these organizations 4 | trade unions. |sense not of paying for it but in the |sense of having a powerful govern- ;ment at their beck and call serving as a crusher and oppressor of the | working farmers and masses. The sweep of reaction has never be- fore been as marked and as sharp as \it is today. We might speak of the days of Palmer in 1920 and 1921, and the days of the big strikes. But |never was the system of reaction so dy, as well planned, so. well worked out as it is today. This is proven by the fact that in the last jall visits to children’s colonies and OW the labor movement—in the | last three or four years there has been a change in the composition | of. the trend of the working class. | During the war the trend was for | the development of a homogenous working class in America. Immigra-| tion was shut off. The gap betwéen| the unskilled and semi-skilled work- ers on the one hand and the skilled workers on the other hand was being | decreased. In the last five years the trend has more and more gone the| other Way, particularly in the last! two and a half years. The gap be- tween the skilled and unskilled work- | ers in America has not been decreas- ing but on the contrary ihcreasing. | Never before in the history of this| country has the gap in wages be- tween certain sections of the highly skilled workers and unskilled work- ers been so great as today. Figures can be presented showing this par- |ticularly clearly in such basit indus- tries as the steel industry. Insofar as immigration is concerned, though there are restrictions, there is con- siderable “bootleg” immigration, so- | called, despite the immigration bar-| riers, to such an extent that the Com-| missioner of Immigration Hull says | there are in the U. S. at present two | and one-half million workers who ‘have entered this ‘country in viola- tion of the law. This condition, together with the objective economic conditions which I have given you is responsible for the change for the worse in the trend of development of a labor party. In a certain period of the recent years, the trend has been upward for a labor party—in the last two years the national trend has been down-| |ward. The reason for this is found first in the objective conditions, sec- ‘ond in the change in the trend of the development of the composition of our working class. | ing to the right. ,of the labor movement going to the right we speak first of all of the |organized labor movement. The leadership of the A. F. of L. is not \only bankrupt, but diseased; not only diseased but paralyzing in its effect ‘on the labor movement. Nobody can overestimate the dangerous, harmful effect of this leadership on our working class. Take the miners’ strike. The miners’ union, once it was the backbone of the A. F. of L.— once the most militant, biggest union in the organized labor movement. We have a mine strike today which is paralysis, not a strike. And the sup- posed-to-be leaders of this strike are the ones forcing this paralysis and| inactivity on the workers, Tee the Socialist Party of Amer- ica. It is not a local matter that Mr. Judge Pankin is offered the nomination on the Republican ticket. It is not a local matter that the Re- publican Party felt so sure that Pan- ken would accept that they withdrew their own candidate. The time has come when the bourgeoisie are show- ing full faith, in the open, in the S. P. as it is today. The development of unionism—the increase in that direc- tion tends in some ways to hasten the welding of the bureaucracy with the imperialists. Mr. Green and the |A. B. of L. executive council are oc- ‘cupying in my opinion a cabinet without portfolio in the United States cabinet. Their job is to say yes to what the cabinet does. The \foreign policy of the A. F, of L, is determined by the state department in Washington. | The weakening of the militant sec- company Ir r | advertisements Thirdly the labor movement is go-| ; When we speak | the | two-years there have berm-really no | tions of the working class has had a | big political issues fouglit out in a|most detrimental effect on the un- sharp way, as.in 1924 for instance in| organized as well as the organized ‘the ranks of the ,bourgeoisie. The workers, | general. ideological reaction is wit-| The collapse of the amalgamation |nessed in certain local ways.as in the wave—the tremendous amalgama- enactment of laws in some states re-|tion wave of several years ago has garding theatre performances, as a collapsed. We must keep in mind the struggle between the fundamentalists | liquidation of such organizations as and the others in the church and in'forces for militancy in the labor |recent, United States Supreme Court’ movement «s the I. W. W. and S. P. ,coming in the main to our Party, The whole reaction is given in a and those who have gone to the ‘very vivid, a very lurid pictare in the’ right, even going to the enemies of recent execution of Sacco and Van-|the working class. nursery schools, to factories and{ workers’ clubs, to art galleries and| museums. Where necessary, special | means of transportation are also be-| ing provided. The current offerings | of the Moscow Art Theatre and the| Russian stage in general, as well as the foremost cinemas, will be open to the tourists. Prepare For Celebration. While this tour is being arranged, elaborate preparations are taking place throughout the Soviet Union for a great holiday—the nation-wide celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. All the} cultural, educational and artistic for- ces are combining for a gala jubilee. The history of Soviet Russia from its dynamic birth, through the hectic days of the revolution, will be vividly portrayed in huge floats; decisive events will be relived on the stage; victories celebrated in festival. The cost of the entire tour—from sailing to return—is six hundred dol- lars. This covers all expenses for sight-seeing as well as_ rail and} steamship fares, hotel accomodations, | and meals. | Accomodations for tourists will be taxed to capacity for visiting dele- gations are expected from every coun- try. Each country has been per- mitted to send a quota which is not to be exceeded. The number of Americans are limited to 100, and those interested should write at once for further information to World; Tourists, Inc., at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York. | | —————— ization, trends toward the develop- ment of left mass movements. Pas-| saic may have been a small scale ex-| ample of this, but Passaic was na-/| tionally significant in the sense that | in the very period of reaction, at| the very moment when the A. F. of | vureaucracy was carrying seab | of employers who} were struck, at that very moment, 12,000 textile workers in the face of | the oppression of the employers, the} government and the labor leaders, | struck and fought ih a most heroic | manner. The struggle in the needle | | trades is not a mere struggle for con- | | trol of office between left and right | wing, but comes as a result of the | | economic crisis in the needle trades. The problem is how this crisis shall | be met. Here the left wing stands | jfor a fight in face of betrayal by| | the right wing, no matter what cam- ouflage phrases the latter uses for its surrender to the employers, re the last convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- |gineers. There was no conscious |radtealism at that convention. No- j body dared propose a resolution for Sacco and Vanzetti in thgt conven- tion. That convention, if judged superficially, was a convention dom- inated by labor bankers’ But it is very significant that the man who was elected president, ran under the slogan of “I am a labor leader, not a labor banker.” He who is presi- dent today is not a progressive in the sense that we understand what a progressive is, but compared rela- tively to those who preceded him, he is a sign of the fact that because of objective conditions developing in the conditions of employment and in- vestments in the very Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ ranks, in the very industry in which they are working, the perfection of the ma- chinery which tends to cut down their skill there is a growing basis for de- veloping a conscious radical move- ment, And let no one say of these aristo- crats of labor that they are unim- They are native elements. The locomotive engineers have years of experience in organization and if we could develop them and win them over towards a militant class. strug- gle point of view it would be a big achievement for us because they could give considerable help to the unorganized masses who have had little or much less experience in the class struggle. Take the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the development of our Party. De- spite serious obstacles by the bu- reaucrats, we have been able to be- come the driving force in this mighty portant, zetti. The significance of this exe- | There are also opposite trends. leution need not be dealt with here at There are trends towards radical~ vadicalizing force of our working class. (To Be Continued.) f The, gase asee and anze CARTOONS ..,. THE DAILY WORKER 4, ut "he. Y With introduction by JOSEPH FREEMAN In the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti the cartoons of Ellis appearing in the DAILY WORKER attracted wide- spread attention. These truly Inspired drawings were re- produced thruout the country and in Europe. Collected in one large (9x12) book they make a beautiful tribute to the memory of the two brave who gave their life each CAN © artoon on pages ) ‘OU y page. 25 CENTS Each book has over twenty drawings by Fred Ellis— 1926 With the work of geventeen artists—64 pages. 5 1927 ‘The cartoon book which was attacked by the professional patriots in the case against The DAILY WORKER. —$t DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street, New York By JOSEPH STALIN Leader of the Russian Com- munist Party and a close co-worker of Lenin. W BOLSHEVISM — Some tions Answered Answers to ten questions submitted by the students of the Sverdlov University on the tasks of the Russian Com- munist Party and 'the policy towards the peasantry. Ques- 2b THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM A new edition of a book destined to remain a classic of Communist literature. —35 LENINISM VS. TROTSKYISM (Written in collaboration with Kameney and Zinoviev.) —20 DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street, New York. New Jersey Labor Plans: A Legislative Campaign: NEWARK (FP) Sept. 4.—Henry F., Hilfers of the Essex Trades Council! and Hugh V., Reilly, secretary of the’ New Jersey State Federation of La- bor, are hoping the state labor con- vention when it meets on September 12 will take up an active campaign for improved labor legislation in New Jersey. According to Hilfers the present laws are full of holes and largely nonenforceable. He would propose also a new measure to re- quire a hearing before an injunction can be issued in a labor dispute when no property rights are involved. THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING!