The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1927 Page Three Current Events sion |first cl politici The |hankering for a | (Cont One) mployers will insist of indole (Continued from Page One hearted jury on her second tria! ns or Lieutenants of E The trade union les ad of minister who tried to uplift her was|a gaudily accoutred garret there to| 0° (TALS UnION Teaders, i 2 the cause of her downfalt and said| recite selected poems by Omar|(2U¥ine the workers to resist this | minister is now occupying a cell. I) Khayam. ha oar if Og alone gsy akc sae have been told that the fundamental- | ewe re Ned ti Sen footer Siar ee pn the empl s to reduce the worker ists are going to put on a drive to/ PE that as it may the serious side of of life and employment, to get all their boys out of the prisons} life must be given attention and Fs ‘cig Watubtiael’ ana tical ~ before Christmas. They may succeed|here we shall pick up sword and]. oa Pence J es 4 BY ease Ora ae P organizations, and to confuse their unless the sheriffs who receive 65 eld to defend our secretary of La- yea ay es 4 be understanding. are demonsira- cents a day for feeding them rai! nes J. Davis, who was: gro: | 3 | ting resented by a hington | ; 5 pondent in a story that pic Davis in the role of seems, that a natur » what they are employers a howl. It would not be good poli to throw a big army of unemployed the Iabor market in the middle of * * * OSE who believe that Greenwich | lage only famous for its ing to equip the workers to for citizenship of s = r conditions and against who admitted membe ever night life should be in front of the| the F t Alliance of North Amer- rt a ee skilled Methodist Episcopal church on 4th|i¢a. Davis was alleged to have en- ; cae gb biiseriant | Rivest hetween’ GHH Avenue and’ dorsed’ the action’ of the federal of-| YOrsts, they do nothing: to organize Washington Park, yesterday after-|ficial and went on to say that the aia et ie iti of noon about f p.,m. The Rev. Mr,|$overnment would investigate the 5 0@ and u ‘a 20a Ns Sores Ross, pastor of the church, was as t movement and suggested de- avae Pte hee een a ? t unions into medern indust portation for immigrants who had busy as a bawdy picture salesman on i ands SPR CC es, ieee ai east 14th Street) with a cop in the| taken the oath of loyalty to the « aoe They reject Beene offing. It appears that as soon as|cist government of Italy. He even 4 a aac diainesee Ro ie ie: the reverend gentleman finished his| Went so far as to put the fascists on “20S” the employers cut the unio 3 bs iene te : to pieces as th iow destrc homily he darted to the front door me level with the Commun the United Mine Wo es ce and shook every hand that passed by ad to. the Washington dis- The heads of the unions have be ‘ ‘ rae patch. % eae st er et him, stopping now and then to take | F ‘ S Fe come auxiliaries of the emplo: to the name and address of a prospec- Be speed up the workers in indt tive steady customer who had ju HIS 5 enough to make every hes are rapidly aband nie he beén introduced to his joint. |“ Moose in the Loyal Order bellow strike in theory and practice and are ae ae his guts out. We do not know what Cultivating among the workers the HE dominie was smiling like a re-|¢tually happened, whether Davis in’ dangerous illusion that the w: formed democrat and bobbing like|°"¢ °f his alleged periods of com~' the Jack. Dempsey in his seventh round parative irresponsibility gave out t! encounter with Tunney. His raiment |lesed. interview and was repr ye op|manded by the Italian ambassador, toilers to improve ec “cooperation” ( 3 employers. The to) the 3altimore and Ohio} was not cut out of the same block of |, 7 ,, A Plan, new wage policy, and roient fable workers. ges 4 m > in the goods and I could a vision of a ie cee Solids a by le estes schemes, come from the b: Bieta SS | ei auctor Shope e constructive, militant new suit with an extra pair of pants) ‘pondent invented the alleged inter. CaPitalistic indust ney et-|the onslaughts ofthe employers. The|ize in order to wach fOmeatd ents mirrored jn his eyes as he gave the| Toy However, Davie diemegwed tha Zineers.. They rede te the] 4. Ho ae E.. Weomens less: ee eran een 0 Dunn Cony hands of aged females an extra He Uti gee ee tre benefit of the ¢ id. aré| capable of defending the inte fie, tig hopes squeeze to make them feel that god| .. 4 hy of . ‘ae States is still fatal to the o: and: stains |the seohers| Idiiand Jess af 5 roan in his heaven was depending on them |” ite anes : ds of the v | thei Niven: The Los ‘Angele s for help in his eternal fight with the] CLOWN in Jumo-Slaviacnot a Union Menace. | Vegbla’ SeniRSERonle. tore he aac orene devil who seems to be committed to| | dg arses 08 praia neeete iifuve, ‘by eae bureauer eth ene means bo. ie the policy of permament revolution] . Whaeteg ha the Soveroment but a unionism among their work-| whole labor mover ; yp ay hs OR lL os against the celestial empire. The pla | Ses nperformer—cracked, some jokes stead of combatting this move-| to the deepest erisis in its career. in ete EMU men and the virgins were not given | *) we y an active struggle to es- 4 Brice ee Acti “ f és ah ao Every much attention, possibly on the| * ih the Boe h vigor trade unions, th é oe -ipniepebeiiaag robs soul be ane: theory that the old men had wives| ‘it the government and the circ nion leader: itu The De ma cicranres are. e- | A eo eee and had nothing to say anyho about | %88 ordered to » ve A Swedish pol is : Hits conipatit atte | at once, The labor movement I er, Secretary. financial affairs while the young | adic: t wrote an -ind ent of the Giga aaibnay te riatin) the} must be renovated from top to bot ———.- girls would probably lose their soule | t regime in Italy and he was tae unions ent to the;tom- The program of the Trade) Aj] Movie Cameramen to male patrons of the sinful eafes|2¥0sectted, but the misereant was Jade unl ont bone | Union Educational League points the|s~. "Ov t© VAM , tiahweFely the neiebbds hed, ie | acduitted by a Do our capital- (io) «inion management cooperation "| Way to the development of a militant | iN East Belone to Union a bright sunny day and the Rev. Ro Scribes characterise this ‘conduct 1, tight policies, that the employers | 224 Progressive labor movement. Tue} —= swas surely malting his hay. s Mu solini a terference| in ‘the Wi) discard their ow: campany | aiternative to this program is con-| The International Photogr: phers of Z ¥ ie | affairs of other countri Oh, no! Caine aks Auge wn company | tinued defeat for the unions and the| the Motion Picture Indust! Loe ry s i . | But when the Interna. | UuOns Mind: accept the: “degenerated 4 ecciunment: of a’ still deeper 644, | Nee hae ed ti practi SALLY eyery articulate im-| tional iscues a statement fox the ‘Tade unions. The Watson-Parker i aa . 7 bits am : 644, I. A. T. S. E. has made a lar, writing a novel, excepting those who] some question affecting their in. POT of the union leaders, went far ee a on eae sducational! last month. ; are writing pla Sometimes they | terests, every capitalist JevibeTed towards company unionizing the rai 1 Build the Unione Si | The members of the local include may be seen wandering around ala payroll immediately demands an road unions, with its no-strike, com- | % Oven : ee |many of the most prominent and best yawning subway in the making, dur-| apology from the Soviet Government, PU!S°ry arbitration provisions. | Be s scar a pee } ae See ene On) tae astra ing the noon hour when journ “There i8 a reason,” as a universal “Buying Out Capitalists.” | Newroed id coe oe wet. The attendance of the last who work on a salary basis are on|known yendor of breakfast food used| The employers ,through their vast tb) Ainaleatiate the cratt Ee eee of the local which was held the way to their desks. . They are|to say. Fascism stands for capitalism | publicity systems, spread illusions] jnto industrial unions. [St 18S headquarters, 161 West 44th pleasant fellows, those novelists and and wage © slavery. Communism that American workers are prosper- (c} Clana #He’ unions of their St., nted such an overflow that] littl ae sie td i Tt matters | stands for emancipated labor and the ous, that they can, out of the meagre present. coeragt and reactionary’ - S$ necessary to take immediate tle es it takes them years to write | cooperative commonwealth. savings, actually buy the industries, Jeadership {steps to secure large offices. a novel, Re one There is really more fun} thinking of writing a novel than cither in writing it or living on the} royalties. In fact most of the ings that we succeed in putting the {and ‘that therefore all talk of strug- gle against the employers is out of Head of Negro Unien to the question. The trade union leaders Speak in Los Angeles; are in full step with this insidious vopaganda. ‘Through their trade ndian sign on lose their glamor | Other West Coast Notes union capitalism (labor banks, labor then and bicis ‘ | = investment corporations, trade union * | (By a Worker Correspondent.) (life insurance companies, etc) they LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25.—George propagate and organize around these S. Grant, military secretary of the destructive illusions. The disastrous Los Angeles Division of Pullman Por- Consequences of this whole system ters, announced that general organ-| Were dramatically illustrated by the izer, A. Philip Randolph, would be in|C°llapse of the Brotherhood of Loco- this city to attend the A. F. of L,|™otive Engineers’ financial institu- convention and hold a series of mass | ‘ions in an atmosphere of corruption meetings of Negro workers, as part and graft almost without parallel in of a nation-wide tour he is making. this country, many millions of the “The Pullman Porters,” said Grant, workers’ money being wasted and “are the first Negro Ameticand' to stolen and the entire organization un- organize into a National Labor Union, rahe fa ¥ ialist. P; and so well has the organization work tna ts Han lanes aeest a heen, done that the Pullman Com- their own the general political pro- pany, fighting desperately with its gram, domestic and foreign, of the back to the wall, has refused to me- imperialistic employers. Like the| fae novel was almost finished, Rely ay eyen ry i bosses, they are bitterly opposed to} informed: me, blinking his left eye 4 living qe ai yr eee oe the workers breaking from the two | at a horny-bowled . briar pipe that G es ais ' capital t parties and forming a labor | jutted from his face. I looked at him eorge: Grant, in a recent speech, party. Going cheek by jow! with the| und thot of Conrad, H. M. Tomlinson TT must not be assumed however} that all our village artists live on the quarters they borrow from gul- likle cops to help pay transportation to Pittsburgh or to the dying parent in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Some of them actually work, either to make a living in the here and now or later on thru the medium of a best seller lased on actual experience among that mysterious class of human be- ings known as the proletariat. While strolling along 6th Avenue re- cently—the time was five minutes to 1 p. m.—I met a friend of mine who can write rings around a worm. * * * | at an open forum arranged by the! American Legion, they greet with en- and others who surprised doting Young Workers’ League, outlined a thusias approval every plan for mothers by making good in their old plan he is putting into effect of or- militarizing the work They are | age. But how do those. sluggish|®@izing a Negro-American League, saturated with imperialism. The| a co-operative and educational organ- foreign policy of the U. S. govern-| ation of Negro workers, to help ment is also the policy of the A. F. fight for emancipation. of L. leaders. Their Pan-American a few seconds he was diving into a . * * . Federation of Labor is only an instru- hole in the ground. Excavating for Musicians’ Strixe Off. ment of the American imperialists to a new subway! What splendid| Threats of a strike of 2,500 musi- subjugate the peoples of Latin Amer- | yaaterial for a proletarian novel there|¢ians, stage hands, and motion pic- ia. Their maneuvers in connection must be in the raw bowels of this|ture operators affiliated with the With the Amsterdam International are | big city? Amusement Federation were called Part of the strategy of the employers | |off when the unions signed a three- to enslave Europe. They support the| year agreement with the Theatre World capitalist attempts to crush the Managers Association, involving wage chinese revolution and to overthrow increases of 7!4 per cent to 12% per the Soviet Republit. out dropping cigarette ashes in my|cent, the first year, and additiénal in- Persecute Labor Militants. coffee. Customers being rare so early | creases each following year. In order to break all resistence to | \..in the day she deigned converse with * ie * th program of demoralizing and ‘me and I marvelled at the energy she| 4. F, L. Label Department To Hold SubJugating the workers, the capital- | put into the business of praising Meeting. ists have long carried on a campaign James Joyce, the famous Trish author i i of militant persecution against the of “Ulysses” and other works more} John J. Manning, secretary-treas- oct active and advanced elements in| admired than understood. She was|rer of the Label Trades Department’ the Jabor movement. In this their | also a novelist in the making, but|f the A. F. of L., announces that a most loyal and effective allies are the what a subscription solicitor for The|Union label mass meeting has been trade union leaders. To kill the DAILY WORKER was lost in her!|arranged by his department to be fighting spirit of the unions and to She did not choose to be a politician|held in the Labor Temple of Los An- maintain themselves in power they and is an artist, being contrary like|geles on September 28th. The Label are increasingly stealing elections, most of us. Excellent cartoonists|Trades Department will convene in packing conventions, and generally will insist on being politicians andjthis city at that time. ‘suppressing union democracy. They | geniuses live in the meantime? A whistle blew and the author of a|' k ‘ great novel bid me good-bye and in| them in their * * 'O to dine and was waited on by a smart young lady in gypsy cos- tume who smoked incessantly with- Third General Conference of T.U.EL. Dec. 3. them- | xpel from the unions and blacklist the first ot the from the industries, often h open into political tion, and it sistence of the employers and il industrial and political police, those workers who of the workers which imulate the to fight Ainst r Its against their es . This shame- 2 open to a ars willing }ful policy, ruinous to the unions, for a and more reached its high point in the expulsion ' militant labor mov the of 60,000 workers in the New York; Trade Union Kducation: eedle trades, the splitting of their dual 1 works, W unions, and the bet of their zat trikes. and Must Stop Defe The general result of these ce its g wrong ties of the union istructive forces leader is the preser veak and nent, t Trade l é ted. state of the | move- Led will hold it ment. The employers’ p to ‘ex- e in w Yor ploit the workers to the limit and progres nd left break up their organizations succeed. groups are invited The past years have recorded defeat upon the following { defeat for the unions The lustrial groups, 2 many millions of we Y he x groups, 5 and key industries remain unorg groups, 2 dele- dele- ized. groups, 2 re tra Even in, a period of prospe n leadership has. bee n cause unwi to unite Even the’ existing unions are sis undermined. ..The struc- tur f railroad unionism has been shattered. The miners union is be- ; ing udually torn to piec The th in and out of the needle trades organizat e been! full of discontent plit by traitorous leaders. As a erly exploited. The political factor the trade union move- r adult workers in t amounts to practically nothing. es is less than $30.00 ilure of Bureaucracy. Digester ned are full of collaboration -policy . of sone Se ee bureaucracy has proved itself ut-| ganized, nor will i terly unable to develop an effective | der the present (d) Establish union democracy and| \ cypie| per cent of the members of reduce extravagant official salar- |‘ ies. | —Form a Labor Party. | (a) Break the poisonous alliance} ot the union leaders with capitalist | the, Montana Federation of potiticians and organize the work- « in ers into » party of their own. |Labor in Turmoil Over (b} Develop a legislative program | + ra bes the fe tps clita «| Referendum Elections the workers and make this the cen- 7 A q BUTTE, Mont., Sept. — Mon- vet Be shane boy sono eed organized labor is in turmoil 3.—Aguinst Class Collaboration. aver the referendum election for -offi- (a) Initiate an aggressive polic jcers of the state federation of labor agamst wage cuts, for wage in-iqhe failure of Pres. Steve Ely, him- s, and to shorten the work! solr 9 candidate, to put the name of on the ballot has stirred many The Silver Bow (Butte) cen- local are now working. The union now controls all the cameramen, as- stants and still men im the east. | a riv: Discard the B, & O. Plan and |), nilar “union-management co- aa, q) Se : | tral body is opposing both Ely and Bitte TB industry. stat | Blewett of the Butte streetcar men (c) Reject trade union capitalism | so. state president and separate the labor banks and| ~~ Se i other financial institutions from the unions. 4.—Against Imperialism and the War Danger. (a) Expose the predatory role of American imperialism, combat all forms of militarism, and arouse the workers to the growing war’ HAVANA, Sept. _the danger. | protectorate of the ean capital- (b) . Defend the Chinese and-Rus-| ists, is a prisoners’ camp for the un- sian revolutions against the attacks|happy workers of all races and na- of world capitalism. | tionalities. For the last two or three (c) Affiliate with the workers of | years the capitalist press has been other countries for joint defense of | spréading all kinds of dies about the our common interests and to es- | quantity of jobs which would be tablish world trade union unity. I available in Cuba when construction The Trade Union Educational) on the central highway began. League program leads the way to the | Drunken Americans Boss Cuban | building of a powerful working class | Workers. industrial and political movement. It! The Cuban workers lived till the covers the most vital needs of the la-| unhappy day when it began. The hor movement. It provides the means| job is in the hands: of an American for turning the present disastrous!construction company, Warner, Bross rout of the organized workers into'& Co. The construction started in a victorious offensiv: Storm clouds|the province of Hav: The Amer- are approaching; signs of an in-|ican bosses and foremen who, day dustrial depression multiply. The;an? night, are drunk with whiskey, unions, weak as they are, with their|drive the workers like a herd of ani- present reactionary leadership, are in| mals. increasing danger. The alternative| promised in the capitalist sheets, the to the Trade Union Educational| Cuban workers are getting only $1.60 League program is for them to go} for 10 to 12 hours a day. The Amer- from one disastrous defeat to an-jican slave drivers treat the Cuban other, workers worse than they would treat For a Labor Party. | beasts. They are driven like pack The Trade Union Educational | animal League is not affiliated to any politi- And if, under these unbearable co: cal party. It advocates the labor lai FRICHTFUL AMERICAN EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS CHARACTERIZES ONLY CUBAN CONSTRUCTION JOB (By 8. Kiroff, Worker Correspondent)?immediately discharged. For example, Instead of the eight hour day) ions, a worker gets injured, he is” FAKE “8 LES” A : | =~ = a ri g the past f d theusands ve zr until ; ‘ nent, Jints report. that ( b period of B will re- turn to rule his ¢ (International Newsreel yna- be IWATE AND ASAMA JAPAN'S CRUISERS (:-:: TO VISIT HERE "= (By the traditional h rises ing \ Worker Correspondent). Fe composed of the cruisers Iwate ma. \ y of the Japanese pop tion in New York which is*composed of workers, are not much interested | in their coming, but a ce n ion | of nese, namely: of iness men, bankers, and their running by n the im- ‘reformed most of nt penitential h funds nedus pout 1,500 cadets, officers and | adi 4 lors of the Imperial Japanese Navy, ir Landy ill land in New York on September t tions ath, for “sight seeing” and will re- ” at the ain here until. October 2nd... They | SX""s0sue, AONE eee members of the Training Squad-|0f the more ¢ al obliga- onotenous who have per- that | Abeer |dogs, who me have their offices : jin Wall Street, and their residences |” is ida at Riverside Drive, are all excited and he present holiday ;. neriod are preparing at full speed to welcome | PeT0c- them. The official title of the emer- “Mushroom” Synagogues. {gency committee appointed is called | % the city—on the East Side, “the Japanese Welcome Committee for | Washington Heigh d the the Training Sauadron of the Im- and especially where the Jew- perial Japanese Navy.” ish population is thickest—mevie wedding hall nd soroe Officers to Eat at Astor. | The Welcome Committee has raised * ies * ° eae |$10,000 already from-the Japanese in ye y York for entertainme: 5 w Y ork for the entert inment ex Peesthii net tite jpense. Theatre-going, half a day bite ave | Yankee Stadium to watch Babe Ruth| "5 02; it a couple more homers, etc., are! ines h f 2 las of the plans to show the sailors | fags net even of year this’ prac in the Bron here 2 was most Rev. if fa te * | Carl Stave of the Hunts Point Jewish the ¢ vsyeilea ni genetic ©] Center led the embattled hosts of which is compet ‘or 8! acy | Ras Jaism agains “i lla Pacific @ith < Imperial Japan, | “ticial Judais m against the “preten- der _ | tentia | The main feature of the program is, gain. however, a five dollar banquet at the | Hotel Astor (rank and file sailors are | not invited) when the leading and |royal Japanese citizens in New lare to welcome them officially. Mayor Walker who is on his way L. Angeles k to New York from his trip! jaround Europe where he made his LOS name so notoriously famous by becom-| A unique ing the good friend of Mussolini, and | of organizing un |by forcing Negrces’ ejection from a| being put into e afe, etc., is said to be planning 2 /sterers’ Union of Le }dinner for the officers. 15, whose orga r a Par | series of baseball gar ized between | where those boys come from. Labor Sports Proves HH. Chait. ‘om t challenged ning team man shop, the boss sends a worker to bring something so heavy that he cannot In even lift it. If the worker complains, | friendl he is discharged. If he tries to lift | ized wox it and gets injured, he is discharged | and it is just the same. 1 soon join the union. The central highway is the only construction job in Cuba at present. The workers live a wretched life. Un- employment is rampant, and the workers go hungry, unclothed and un- shed. Even the war prisoners in the late imperialist war were not in worse men Bars Fase 0 sought to utilize the peni- t for their own financial a York Good Way to Organize Upholsterers Sept. 25.— ul method nized workers is by the Uphol- Angeles, Local A s was organ- the various organized shops in the city which aroused great interest among the workers. The win- e Brown-Saltz- a team from a non-union shop, and in a game de- cisively whipped them on the diamond. ’ ani established any unorgan- n-union shop, some of them Naturalization Director Overruled By Officials conditions than are the Cuban work- ers toda: BALTIMORE, M Sept. 25. — Life is so terrible in Cuba that the | Italians present today for admission Spanish immigrants complained and) to citizenship were told by Jesse M. their consulate is sending them back| Thomas of the United States Des to Spain free of charge. A group of | Pattment of Labor and District Diet left the other day. A similar | to in ¢ tion that group is ready to depart on the next membe ti would bar eamer. These workers prefer the them from citi He stated |misery of a life in Spain and the| that he did th own responsi~ tyranny of Primo de Rivera to the j bility without from Washing» | ton. Thomas pr bership in the Fs ted the oath not to foreign poter horror of conditions in “democratic Cuba. As a consequence of their de- parture chiefly Bulgarian and Jago- job, to Slav workers are left on the |slave for the American imper' | and the conditions of these immigrant workers are unbelievable. ae a a TO THE National Bazaar Committee 30 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK, N. Y. inted out that mem- cisti plainly viola- ¢ inue allegiance