The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 2

Are You Working With Might and Main | | for the | New Jersey Union Heads Plan To Cover Up Graft —carrying the slogan of ORGANIZE ,calling for state zonings involving re-|bor to desire in the way of hours,, {of the bosses—they will understand RED BAZAAR in aid of The Daily Worker and the Fretheit October 6-7-8-9. These will be the significant days of the biggest event of the year. Madison Square Garden will be the place for this stupendous expression of proletarian effort and initiative. One hun- dred thousand workers in every important city in the United States will be the army which we will mobilize for this tremendous affair. Every party unit from New York to Seattle, every working class | organization sympathetic with the revolutionary movement, every group of class conscious workers—on the job. Here’s what is needed. NAMES for the Red Honor Roll for the beautiful Souvenir Program. Collect them at one dollar a name. ARTICL for sale: art objects, clothing, shoes, raincoats, | women’s wear, furniture, radios, phonographs, candy, cigars, cigar- ettes, novelties, furs, knitgoods, umbrellas, ete. Send in your bundle. ADS for the Souvenir Program at $75.00 per page. No working class organization should fail to register itself in this manner, by taking all or part of a page. No Workers Party unit should be miss- ing. illustrated | | tors” (Continued from Page One) | ers’ success is necessary to their advancement, both in wages and in the craft in which they may be en- gaged, and vice versa. “Through combined efforts we hope to benefit the industries of the state of New Jersey. The laws | which we have advocated for enact- ment in the legislature have been for the benefit of the general public and in the cause of humanity. “Trusting to have the best wishes and support of the manufacturers, merchants and general public in bringing our efforts to a successful issue, we remain, “NEW JERS. FEDERATION OF | Cash in on “Greetin Hilfers then sent out two | to cash in on the “best wishes /and support of the manufacturers” of | Sctter why it was that Hilfers and Green and Woll tried to betray the Passaic strike and why Matty Woll is |so auxious to drive the Communists and left Wing out of the unions. | The Lessons. | The lessons to be drawn from this | dirty mess as brought out in this con- } | vention are clear. Mere denunciation | | of these traitors to the cause of labor | is not sufficient, It is clear that these | reactionary agents of the trusts will never organize the unorganized work- | ers. This duty must be carried out | by the left wing and the Communists | Pworking within the organized labor |movement. The unorganized workers | | within the basic industries are in a) ,|tremendously strategie position once | they unite into powerful industrial | unions. This is our task. We must} bring these workers into the broad | of the existing labor move- stream ment and thus cut the ground from} the State of New Jersey Donations | | jen thenteeecoe i anieadarans and complimentary advertisements | U"C°" ‘NS = Lapel sae tgp sa were received. New Jersey is notor- Henry F. Hilfers. jiously the paradise of the open-shop- new blood into the A.B. of I. THE UNORGANIZED within the union hall and forcing the labor lieu- tenants of the bosses to either re- spond or stand exposed before, the working class. . * * * The convention held forth no pro- mise to the exploited, unorganized workers @f New Jersey. It was a meeting of representatives of highly skilled craftsmen, as was shown by the great preponderance of delegates from locals of the Carpenters’ union | and from the allied printing and building trades. As the delegates from the molders, bakers, confection- ers and waiters’ unions pointed out, the miscellaneous trades such as the ters, etc., are being wiped out. Democrats Lose Out. The convention early demonstrated | ; that the group led by Arthur A. Quinn, president of the Carpenter: A r No. 65, was in control, and that Hil-| We must bring | fers, the former secretary, was defin-| state, We | itely out. This meant that*the Hague | cigarmakers, machinists, bakers, hat- | |strictions upon factory, business, | Japartment and dwelling districts; | (26) To instruct the jegislative com- | | mittee of the federation to prepare a} ;bill and employ lawyers to protect | rights of workers to organize and| {to make it illegal to issue “Yellow | Dog” agreements; (22) a demand for | higher compensation under the Work- | men’s Compensation Law, and sup-| |port all candidates who promise to! vote for this change. Other resolutions reported included, | | (18) requesting the courts grant hear-/ ing to both sides before is ng in- | junctions. The resolution expressed |the belief that the present practis: {made for “disrespect to the law | k legislature to enforce eight- | ay and minimym wage on pub- | lie works of the state; Resolution 16 | ructs the executive board to ob- tain enforcement of the state law of | 1919 prohibiting the employment of Jaliens on the public work of the| wages and conditions. Quiet on Unorganized. Not one word was said about the: thousands of unorganized exploited | workers of New Jersey in the huge chemical plants, oil refineries, textile! mills, smelter and ore refineries, and{ the tens of thousands of machinists, molders, and sefni-skilled workers in{ the miscellaneous trades such as bakeries, chain and department stores, ete. No program for organizing these workers was even proposed. No mention was made of their condition of labor long hours, unsanitary work places, women and child labor, speed- ing-up and starvation wages. One could only wonder what expense this New Jersey State Federation had for holding a convention, or how it came to speak at all in the name of labor. It was not long before this mstery was cleared up in a most dramatic and illuminating way when Hilfers explained how the Federation got its fund. HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL BAZA AR COMMITTEE 30 Union Square | | | FALL IN LINE TO MAKE THE RED BAZAAR THE BIGGEST | | | | pers. It is the home of some of the must purify the stinking atmosphere | machine of Jersey City which backed | of class collaboration and graft with | Hilfers could not control the Federa- | Program Exhausted. The last four resolutions were! Robt. W. Dunn’s | New York, N. Y. Telephone Stuyvesant 9500 Stalin States Policies of Soviet Union One) Soviet Union and capitalis states, Stalin declared that the co-existance of capita and socia! systems did not prelude the possibility of provi- sional agreements, the most fitting basis of which are imports, exports and lits. Faces Non-Aggression Pacts. “We pursue a Stalin said, “and we are willing to sign, with bourgec stat a mutual pact of non-aggression; we are wil- ling to reach agreements with capi- talist states that will go as far as to completely eliminate standing armies. “The duration of such agreements depends not only upon the Soviet Union, but upon the capitalist states and upon the terms of the agree- ments offered us. We cannot accept conditions of slavery; and we also wish that these agreements have a (Continued from Page polic more or less stable character.” (Ed. Note:—The full text of the conversation between Stalin and the Jabor delegation will be published in of the DAILY RUY THE DAILY WORKER NEWSSTANDS AT THE FROM ENGLAND | \ | France Won't Alter H |ton. | Tariff Unless U § | inghouse Companies have one of their | 5 : The Cen- PARIS, Sept. 15. — The American | of peace,” the reply of the French government, lin-Newark.-Nood to the American request for a reduc-| |tion in the French tariff rates on| | American products, does not com-! . pletely meet the situation, and necessi- | Paterson, N. J. |tates further instructions and nego- tiations. The French reply suggested that ‘negotiations be initiated for drawing |up a new commercial treaty and en- | visaged a partial reduction of the| | new tariff rates as applied to Ameri- jean products. The French xeply was said to in- | dicate that the French government | | felt it would be unable to give Ameri- ean goods imported into France pre- |ferential treatment over goods im-| | ported from countries not having com- ies with France, unless | | mercial trea the United States government were willing to reciprocate to some degree on duties levied against French prod- jucts entering the United States. France Wants Concessions. The French reply offered a reduc- tion of 50 per cent in tariffs upon American products which, the United States embassy pointea out, still |leaves the French rate twice the size of the old minimum. The rate on | American goods is still double that on German imports in a large number of {ers in proportion te its industrial} largest trusts in the country. Fifty per cent of the copper is smelted and} refined here. Standard Oil has onc of its largest refining plants in Bay- onne, N. J. Huge chemical plants operate here. E, I, DuPont DeNe- mours and Co., the powder trust, has large plants in N. J. and in Wilming- | leadership. Fought Organization of Workers. and children to raise their standard the fresh and wholesome air of the |tion wholly for the democratic party | class struggle and militant left wing jof the state. The Hague machine | hoped to make a big issue of the de- |feat of the Federations’ “Increased | Every struggle of the exploited, un- | Compensation Bill” at the hands of a |Jersey to bring about the passage} skilled and unorganized men, women republican legislature last year and | o¢ these bills into law by concentra- | thus tie up the federation to the dem-| ting upon as few as-possible bills -of | The General Electric and West-|f living and better their conditions | ocrats. The only political issue be- and for the right to organize brings |fore the convention was the question }largest plants in Newark. new troops into action not only|of extending the governor’s term ral Baking Co. together with the |against the bosses but also against Ward Baking Co. and the A. & P.| the bosses agents within the labor 1/movement. Let us then not waste Changes Its Duties } | Stores have recently combined and |represent a capital investment great- | forth among the masses and organize | them, for the struggle against eapi- talist exploitation while at the same than the beef trust and second jonly to the U. S. Steel Corporation embassy here announced today that | ond have one of their largest units er *Ninety per cent of silk products are work within the most reactionary unions to rtansform them into soe dyed in the vast establishments at 3 {tant organs of revolutionary struggle The Standard Gas | |Equifment Co. of Jersey City sup-| LSS —— | plies most of the municipal gas com- | ) |panies with its products. The Vic- CONDEMNATION OF | tor Talking Machine Co. has its tre- | mendous plant at Camden, N. J. These vast aggregations of capital | lare notoriously anti-union and un-| | mercifully exploit the unskilled and} | |semi-skilled and unorganized workers | i} of New Jersey. New Jersey has a} BY MORE WORKERS. lower percentage of organized work-| | Up as Opponent of Labor Several more statements about the |population than any other state with | ithe exception of some of the southern | Shown states. ees | Look through the year book of the | N. J. State Federation and you will oe compUmentaey advertisements | American Legion, exposing it as an from all these pombe: | enemy. of the working class and as an | On what basis were these powerful) seent of hate and discord follows. ‘and anti-union trusts willing to sup- | The DAILY WORKER yesterday pub- |ply half of the income to the New|jished the first group of statements. Jersey State Federation of Labor as} Humiliated Negro Soldiers. |an affiliated body of the A. F. of L.?/ By William Pickens, field secretary, | | Only upon the promise expressed or | National Association for the Advance- | implied that'the A. F. of L. would) ment of Colored People: “The Amer- | not only not organize their workers | ican Legion is the demonstration of into unions, but would discourage any|the truth that war does not foster attempt on the part of these workers | tolerance but bigotry; that it does |time or energy in idle words but go | ported favorably on the followin: from three to four years. Adopt- Resolutions. Th ceommittee on resolutions No. 17—to assist the fur workers’ lo- | ors of the state of New Jersey could! cal of Newark to organize the fur pet hearings on injunctions before | dressers; time. we strive with great energy to|Trades and Labor Council in a: ing the 93-year old widow of J. P./| work MacDonald; amendment to the state constitution | would be little left for organized la- (21) join ‘with Paterson t- (3) to endorse the Congress To Be Dragged | Into Power and Light | Superlords’ Competition WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — A sweeping senatorial investigation of the ten-billion-dollar light and power industry will be sought by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, (D) of Montana, as soon as the new sen- ate convenes, it was learned today. This is interpreted as part of ¢he war for contro] between two super- power groups. The proposed inquiry would delve into the financial structure of pub- lic Utilities, the reasons for ex- isting electric-light rates in the United States and the alleged com- binations of various power corpor- ations. Another phase of the in- quiry would be aimed ,at the al- leged political combination of state regulatory bodies through cam- of labor under capitalism. “INTERNAL FIGHTS - products. It is understood that the French re- ply states the United States shotld grant France certain tariff conces- sions in return for French reductions. We have received a new shipment of these valu- able boo for workers attractive editions. Author Loses Sister Overboard. |tragedy of the sea involving Captain | ard E. Dingle, noted writer, and |his sister Mrs. Mary Manning, was, {reported here today in a message , friends received from the captain. | Mrs. Manning, steering Dingle’s schooner yacht Gauntlet through rough seas into Nantucket on Septem- | ber-6, was washed away and drowned | while her brother was below decks, | Paul Crouch, Ex-Soldier Speaks in Clevelaud CLEVELAND, Sept. 15. — Paul | Crouch, who was sentenced to 40 jyears in prison for organizing the |Communist League in Hawaii, will speak in Cleveland on Sunday, Sep- {tember 18 at 7:30 p. m., at the In- | surance 1783. E, —$1.00 ATH OF ATION — In- RUSSIA'S PATH COMMUNISM By G. Zir INERAL STRIKE y R. Palme Dutt AND THE GENERAL Center Building, —05 1ith St., Assembly Room A. | ABO COMMUNISM Crouch was the organizer of the i (Complete edition of two Og 01 i { volumes—cloth bound) league, and together with Bey $1.50 was given a drastic sentence, which \ficaused such consternation thruout the country, that it had to be reduced to three years. The three years ex- pired on June 1, and now Crouch is THE DAILY WORKER | PL B. CO. | touring the country. 33 First Street, New York | Unquestionably every one will be | Wwe psuba lice interested to learn how Crouch, a sol- dier, turned Communist in the army, and carried on his work there. Ad- mission to the meeting, which is un- \der the auspices of the Anti-Militarist Committee, will be 25 and every worker should at- Sole ‘Agent in the U. S. for All British Commu- nist Publications. cents, tend. HY NOT ADVERTISE YY in the DAILY WORKER OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE They Bring Results. Rates Are Reasonable. > APPLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. 33 FIRST STREET Phone Orchard 1680 NEW YORK,N.Y. STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 15. — Aj to organize. In other words the do-| | nations and “complimentary ads” | | were a direct bribe by the powerful | |capitalists to the officials of the A. \their plants. | Raised $100,000. | In is manner former secretary | Hilfers admits that he raised over $100,000 and placed this sum in the coffers of the N. J. State Federation of Labor. There would have been no objection to this pleasant little game | of betraying the interests of the workers for this Judas money, ex-| cept that the dear brother Hilfers | ran a little private graft on his own | account. It was disclosed that Hil-| fers kept a secret bank account with | the Federal Trust Company, where- | las the official depository for the leunds of the Federation was the Lab- {or National Bank of Newark, N. J. | Hilfers couldn't properly account for about $3,100. He made out checks for .over $2500 to himself signed as secretary of the Federation. He| “couldn’t find” the stubs, or cancelled |checks, or vouchers or give any sat- lisfactory statement for the expendi- | iture of these secret funds. He sim-| | ply wept and pointed to his long, long record as a labor “official” and a} \friend of Gomp..s, Woll, Green and | others. Hilfers pltaded that justice | be tempered with mercy and wonder ed why President Quinn and Secre- |tary Reilly could be so foolish as to \raise this issue and throw a monkey | | wrenth into the well oiled machinery | of the Federation and give the wicked | Communists and. left-wingers mater- | ial with which to prove the fole of | Cleveland|these henchmén of the bosses in the perialism. labor movement. But Henry didn’t produce the books—they were simply | | lost. | | Whitewash Hilfers. | The Committee on Officers Reports | brought in a report at the close of | the convention and whitewashed the | whole affair and gave Hilfers a clean bill of health—saying that there are! should be dropped. The Convention gave the Committee on Officers Re- ports a rising vote of thanks for so ably disposing of the matter. The | Federation may “forget it” but the working class will remember the de- | spicable role played by these agents WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? ’ F. of L. to prevent the unionization of | and “organized the legions in Amer- lits best to suppress all the frank ex- no charges against Mr. Hilfers and | the financial and industrial dictator- |that the whole “unfortunate” affair | § paign contributions to political par- not promote democracy but tyranny; | ; B V; | ties and leaders in the states. that it does not create brotherhood but hate. As soon as the white Amer- ican soldiers returned from France| i Doe ee ah French Workers Will Demonstrate on Legion ica, one of its first influences for evil was in segregating and trying to hu- miliate the black soldiers who had stood with the whites side by side in the trenches of war. Since that time the legion has chiefly dogged the steps of liberal thinkers, hounded the life of conscientious teachers, and done (Continued from One) munist Party has addressed the fol- lowing letter to Paul Faure, secretary of the French Communist Party. “The national government has hurl- ed a challenge at the working class of this country by its decision to make September 19th a national holi- day. “Although the world-wide protest against the murder of Sacco and Van- zetti has not quieted down, the na- tional government sees fit to drag into Paris and across France the fas- cist hordes of the American Legion. Exposes Legion. “We all know the role that the legion has played in the United States; about its raids against socialist, syn- dicalist and Communist organizations; about its alacrity to smash strikes, ete, “The Page pression of opinion, to destroy all the liberty and to cow all the courage for which it was supposed to have battled in Europe. “Tf the American Legion did any good by its campaigns abroad, it would certainly negative all that good if it ever succeeded fully in its cam- paigns at home.” . Tool of Big Business. Joseph Freeman, editor, New Masses: “From its igeeption in 1919, the American Legion has been a tool of big business. It has had an un- broken record of political and social reaction, . \fThS légion, or individual posts of it; have demanded intervention in Mexico, the deportation of radicals, the suppression of working class pa- pers. It has fought the Non-Partisan League, expelled one of its own lead- ing members for protesting against he occupation of the Rhine and fought the release of Debs from prison. “Every legion convention has gone on record in favor.of a bigger and better militarism, increased arma- French Communist Party a union of all forces of the working class must be achieved. Suggest United Demonstration. “We propose then that in view of achieving the strength necessary tu answer the provocations of the gov- ernment, we form a united demon- stration, that you! choose the date, the place and the hour. “Receive, Secretary General of the socialist party, our Communist greet- , ha | ings. nents and universal military train-| “Acting Secretary General of the ing in. the interest of American im-|pyench ~ Communist Party. — A Costes.” “Between conventions legion posts have*been busy breaking up working class demonstrations. During 1924 and 1 it was particularly active in breaking up Lenin memorial meet- ings. Leading Fascist Organization. “At one time it shared honors with the Ku Klux Klan as a defender of. protest of French and American work- ers, together with the workers of the rest of the world, against the brutal judicial murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Exposed by French Workers. “The French proletariat recognized and exposed the fascist character of the legion. They remembered its militarist and anti-labor activities and saw in it the symbol and repre- sentative of the reactionary class which dominates the American em- pire. “American workers see “it too, for, while the Bradys take anti-labor speeches at legion conventions and the American Federation of Labor exe- cutive sends greetings to them, class conscious workers brand and oppose the legion for what it is, a fascist tool of American capital.” ship. With the waning of the klan it has taken fitst place among the fascist organizations in this country. “Tts present good-will trip was planned two years ago. The current visit featuring “Black Jack” Pershing and Jimmy Walker, the jazz Prince of Wales of New York, coming at a time when American and French capital ave trying their best to out-maneuver each other in the matter of war debts, tariffs and loans coincides with the thinks that under these circumstances, declared to be questions of legislation ||, of paramount importance to organize labor and the Executive Board was |; instructed to cooperate with all local ||| unions and central bodies in New| NEW BOOK On the Employers’ Offen- sive Against the Trade Unions READY NOW | greatest importance. | The passing of these resolutions | | seemed to exhaust the skilled crafts- men’s program for the amelioration An out- | sider listening to the ‘ proceedings thus far would think that if the work- | The Americani- zation of Labor | issuance; increased compensation for} ae Re Noe linjury; an eight hour day on public, and thé non-employment of |foreignerseon public work that there @With Introduction by Scott Nearing This new LEAGUE ASSEMBLY IS PARALYZED BY and in- eresting book by a well known student of the problem, deals primarily with the offensive of capit: ism against Ar van trade uni since the world war. The various methods, open and secret, used by the employers to prevent unionization of the workers are splendidly described Commission on Arma- 4 ||| THis OPEN sHOoP — LABOR ment Will Not Report || ‘pms “"nuscxner — come ||| PANY “WELFARE” — AMERI- G EVA, Sept. 15.—The paralysis ||| CAN PUA ios? tabi gciooh — PERSONNEL ACTIVITIES — PENSIONS — INSURANCE — STRIKE-BREAKING that gripped the naval conference of | the United States, Britain and Ja-| pan, when the question of arms limi-! tation or parity was up, has extended | to the assembly of the league, and it appears that the as: bly must. ad-| journ with nothing of any consequence achieved except, to be s to indicate Hieve is a mine of most vital information for every worker und u book of great interest. Also by Robt. W. Dunn COMPANY UNIONS —25 the sharpening of int tional an- fe i tagonisms to the point where not On Class-Collaboration : even a semblance of agreement can! STRUGGLE VS. CLASS be reached on this question. \ BORATION | R, Browder 10 There are six commissions at work | at the present moment, but only the! aUEEE ME ee oe third commission, which deals with ||| By B. D. Wolfe —10 the question of disarmament, is of ||| THE WATSON-PARKER LAW importance. The two commis- | By Wm. Z. Foster 15 ons deal respectively with constitu- ||| THB THREAT TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT tional and legal questions and the By W. F. Dunne 5 work of technical organization. The Te fourth commission deals with the budget and questions éf internal ad- | ministration of the league. ‘The fifth with social questions. The sixth with | political questions. The latter com- mission is supposed to deal with the | work accomplished during the prev- | jous year, but it is questionable if it | can devise a plausible expianation for | the break-down of ‘all league projects | sinee the last assembly. To Work on Program. Aristide Briand, the wily French foreign minister, realizes the hope- lessness of the league session and so proposes that the third commission do nothing except try to formulate a program to be presented for consid- eration to the preparatory disarm- ament commission which is scheduled to meet in November. THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street, New York NOTICE Jamboree Tickets must be turned in at once to the Joint Defense Committee, 41 Union Square. Do it now. | | The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti By Vevix FRANKFURTER ERE is all the evi- dence of the tragic case, presented in sim- plé, popular style by a noted lawyer and _ pro- fessor of Harvard. The opponents of La- demned this sane, impar- tial book. It stands as a challenge to reaétion. Read it. vat $1.00 cloth-bound, Hh pp WORKER fight to save o tti the ca Caled ing in the DAILY attracted ,wide- spread attention. These truly inspired drawings. were re- produced thruout the country and in Europe. © one large (9x12) make a beautiful the memory of thg*two brave workers who gave, thoir life for Labor. —.25 eS SR RR DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 First Street, New York The Sacco-Vanzetti Anthology of Verse A collection of inspiring poetry on the case by seyen- teen noted poets. * 25 CENTS Tg