The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1927, Page 2

% & + Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1927 : NL Lovestone Summarizes Discussion of | Suspect in Murder Case Disappears His Report for the NOTE: Following his report to the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party for the political committee, there was a lengthy discussion among the delegates. Jay Lovestone, the re- porter for the committee, then as fol- summarized the discussion (Continued from last issue.) The Unorganized. It doesn’t mean that when I speak the B. of L. E nd their impor- e that I neglect the unorganized tile workers, the unorganized rub- ber workers, forgetting the de-unionized miners. Comrades, to make such charges is what we call a slip of the tongue, which occurs in the pre-convention periods and during the convention, but won’t occur after that. In reference to the organization of the unorganized: The comrades of the former Opposition want more elarity. They say there has been in- sufficient emphasis on this question. | What did I say and what has been/ the policy of our Party? Real organ-/| ization of the unorganized came for| the first time in the history of our} Party, following the policy which I} presented here not as an individual | policy, but as a policy adopted after very serious differences and divisions | with the comrades of the former Op- position. I refer you to the Decem- ber, 1925, plenum when the comrades of the majority of this convention proposed the organization of the tex- tile workers in Passaic and the com- rades of the Opposition told us not to be dual unionists, to “keep off the grass,” so to say, the “grass” of the United Textile Workers. I don’t want to be a historian, but 1 will remind Comrade Ballam of the bitter disputes we had in the Decem- ber plenum until we arrived at the correct policy of organizing the un- qrganized. Who Shall Organize Them? What did I say? Comrade Zack ays we are wasting our time. In Zack’s opinion we propose that we shall go first to the bureaucrats and < them to organize the unorgan- ized workers, and if they don’t o ganize them, we will take a chance We say nothing of the sort. We know very well the bureaucracy is opposed to the organization of the unorgan- But the fact that we know it, ean that the workers in the or am acy, know it. We base our s on the objective conditions. important factor of the ob- the masses following the If you cannot see this, nection of bureaucrats. Ps try to help you in this respect and the Party along with the Comintern, will help you as has been done in the past. What about this? Are we going to the bureaucracy? We go to the unions which exist and ask them to try to organize the unorganized. Comrades, Cqammunists must have a_ certain amount of self-confidence, but Com- munists must never have conceit, Communists must nevgr see them- selves as above the rest of the work- kers, as gods leading them. The problem of organizing the unorgan- ized is not a simple problem. And I say again, do you consider (with all respect, with all appreciation for the 12,000 Communists organized into our Party) that 12,000 Communists alone could organize twenty million work- ers in the United States in the face ef the opposition of the organized trade union movement, in the face of the lethargy at certain times of the unorganized masses, in the face of the capitalist reactionary govern- ment, the most powerful reactionary government in the world? Communists in Forefront. What is the role of the Commun- ists? The Communists must be the lightning-rod, the driviug forge; but the Communists cannot be and will not be the only force working for the organization of the unorganized, We must be the leaders. We must be the inspirers. We mvst give the policy, the position, but we cannot have a monopoly, and our objective is to get | into the campaign to organize the unorganized as broad a section of the working class as possible. And if you say that means basing your- self on the organized workers and neglecting the unorganized, that is a fallacy. Will Put You. in the Ranks The souvenir journal for the FREIABIT and DAILY WORKER will Political Committee { Our policy is—i) We believe that the unorganized working masses in this Gountry form a tremendous reser- voir for militancy, in the trade union movement, in the whole class strug-| gle. 2) We believe that not until an | appreciable extent of these unorgan-| ized masses are drawn into the or-| ganized working class, the organiza- tions of the working class, that not| until then will we have the real sound basis for a Communist Party in the trade unions. I point out to you, not mechanically, not dogmatically, the significance of the development of the new unionism in England—to the development of the labor party at| certain stages in England and the} lack of the development of the labor | |party at another stage in England. | | Are we mechanical? We try to {utilize the existing organizations for | | organizing the unorganized. After | \they refuse and don’t go along, do| |we say that because Woll and Green| |are opposed to organization of the | unorganized, that we will wait until {they are in favor of it? Communists | Given Long Terms (Continued from Page One) | French imperialism in the Chinese | Revolution. Marty, when thrown into jail, was | deprived of all ordinary rights ac-} corded” to political prisoners and _ placed among the common criminals | ‘until the united and furious action | lof the French workers forced the | |reactionary government to restore | him his political prisoner’s rights. | Marty bacame famous as the leader of the Black Sea mutiny when, as | petty-officer on a French battleship | in the Black Sea fleet he led a re-| fusal by the French seamen to bom- | bard defenseless Russian towns. | Flays Government From Dock. \ Jacques Duclos, another of the} condemned Communists, received his | sentence with a broad smile. The} 4 French Communists / | prohibition, has tired of the wet-dry issue as material for a national cam- | See Dry Issue Out WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (F.P.). Senator Jim Reed, of Missou emocratic presidential aspirant and one of the most bitter-tongued foes of paign. He has declared in a press interview that the Democratic party ought not to permit itself to be split over this issue in the 1928 conyention. He sees “no reason why the Demo- crats should make it paramount.” | By this declaration Reed places himself in the same class with Sena- Republicans Think — | Smith Is Opponents charges against him were practically |to. Joe Robinson, of Arkansas, an- identical with those concocted against | other hopeful candidate, who. insists Marty. As the pompous French | that the Democratic party must ig- court brought in its verdict, Duclos | nore the wet-dry fight next year and stepped forward and, in a ringing | center its fire on the protective tariff veice, assailed the corrupt French | and Republican bureaucracy. . The class judges and judicial system. | Robinson-Reed strategy is thought to Using his condemnation as an object | be based on the assumption that Al lesson, with which to drive home to the French workers the facts of their can never be the tail, can never come in at the end. We have our own policies, as Communists, but take in-| to consideration all the objective fac- | tors, no matter how objectionable. You do not keep the workers out of these unions because they are resort- ing to class-collaboration, because oppression, and addressing himself to the French workingclass from, the rostrum where his sentence of imprisonment had just been handed down, Duclos called upon the French workers to defend themselves against the crimes of capitalism and urged the French soldiers and sailors to they are reactionary, because they are controlled by fakers. We say \precisely because these unions are | black, because they are backward, we must get these unorganized work- ers into the main stream of the or- ganized labor movement so as to Willis Beach, whose friendship resulted in a warrant for accessory Lilliendahl and Beach sat tight while the Negroes of the state were pursued by mobs as a result of the now admittedly false story of the lady that it was two colored men who killed her husband. refuse to lend their aid to the im- perialists who are planning a new war and are threatening the Soviet Union. His clear, courageous ad- dress spoken on such an occasion, electrified the court and a profound for Mrs. Lilliendahl seems to have to the crime of murder. Both Mrs. bring a new spirit, a spirit of mili- |tancy into that stream. The comrades say we underesti- mate the organization of the unor- ganized. Comrades, the history of the Party, the activities of the Party will show that in the past two years we have not done anything of the kind On the contrary, we have achieved {some substantial results here. Our Differences. | J want to say a few words about |. E Mass, Westinghouse Comp. Factories Are Workers’ Slave-Pens (By Worker Correspondent) | differences. I want to correct, for the | T SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. benefit of Comrade Cannon, especial- | 2b- The factory of the Westinghouse |ly since we believe in unity, what|Mfg. Co., is one of the largest in Lenin said about differences. I think|Springficld. Various electric motors, Comrade Cannon stayed out of the | fans, radios, etc. are manufactured jroom when I spoke about unity. I|there It is also the home of the |think it would do us all good to con-|/atgest broadcasting station in New silence followed the final words of his indictment. Comrades Cachin, Doriot, Semard, | Thorez, Raynaud and many others are still being held in the Paris jails. Twenty-one workers have been sen- tenced to a total of 359 months im- prisonment, six comrades in the so- called “espionage case” to 196 months, nine sailors to 485 months, Inine soldiers to 618 months, and | twelve reservists to 196 months in the |course of the latest offensive of the terrified French bourgeoisie against the workers. The sentences quoted do not include the enormous total of fines imposed. The vicious ‘Poinearé- Brian-Painlevé government, \ which represents the big financiers, is de- termined to crush the French work- Seeking New Record e workers controlled by the} conditions is the subjective re- | mrade Zack, I say the Party must! sider what Lenin said. Comrade| Lenin said for the benefit of all of | us: “Without debate, conflict, d | agreements, differences of opinion, no | movement is possible, not even a labor movement.” I fear that unwill- ingly, most likely unwillingly and I will. say positively unwillingly, Com- rade Cannon allowed too many of his | remarks to degenerate into a spirit |of quarrels and insults. I propose that this convention shouid not con- |sider either the veiled threats, the | eoyliad, inferred threats that Com- }vade Cannon made. Comrade Can- non will, as well as all of us after |this convention, follow a different | policy, in deed and in word, than he} has followed here. But Comrade Cannon has touched a vital point. He accused the majority of following a policy of smothering differences. That is a serious accusa- tion. I think to an extent the major- ity and the former Opposition are guilty of this. lerror and I pledge myself, with all | the comrades associated with me, that |we will not allow that to happen | again. But what does the history of our} | Party show? Has our Party suffered |mostly or more from smothering, or from magnifying differences? Our |Party is strewn with wreckage of some of its very valuable sections | which have dropped out, which have {been crippled, made less effective and efficient for Communism, because we have magnified differences. The solu- tion’ is: and in your anxiety not to smother | differences, don’t magnify differences, (To Be Continued). ‘Lots of Money for War) |And Tax Reduction but Little for Child Bureau WASHINGTON, (FP) Sept. 28.— Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the | Children’s Bureau in the U. S. De- | partment of Labor, warns the coun- | try that the administration of the in- faney and maternity act will be made impossible unless Comptroller Gen- eral McCarl shall quickiy reverse his ruling which has held up payment of 22,000 of federal child welfare pay- }ments to Montana, Louisiana and | Tennessee. McCarl has suspended ac- tion while considering a new ruling, after first upholding the decision of a| subordinate that the money could be} taken for payment of debts of these istates to the federal treasury. The state of Montana has prepared a protest against the ruling, on the ground that money allotted for éentain “thawaands. af maternity and infancy work cannot be names of friends and | seized as an offset for any other debt sympathizers of our movement. Will you be one of them |0Wed the United States. At the same whose name will appear in the jtime the Department of Labor, souvenir journal? Only a few days are left in which you can do this, Do not postpone it. Sat- uftday, October 1 is the last day. Send $1.00 tn today, together with your name to the FREIHEIT and DAILY WORKER Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square, New York City RSNA... \through its acting solicitor, has pro- \tested that McCar! violated the law. j Yet McCarl, as comptroller of all jfederal expenditures, remains sole |judge of his own acts until Congress | shall reduce his authority. | Miss Abbott points out that the jfederal share of state highway funds ean likewise be seized, if this ruling stands. I have admitted that | don’t smother differences, | Englane, WBZ (which the workers interpret to mean Wages Below Zero). Regularly Laid Off. Mosl of the work, especially in the manufacture of radios and fans, is seasonal. During the height of the season about 4,000 hands are em- ployed in this factory. The work usually lasts a few months and then the general lay-off comes, leaving only the workers needed to fill the regular orders. Practically all work is so called standard time (piece) work. Jobs are given out to be done by a group of |workers. This group system, the |\most_ efficient speed-up system | known, has been introduced here only | recently. | Ingenious Speed-Up. | Each group of workers is under | supervision of a line of men. When |the work is given over to the group, it is figured out by the company at {standard time of 40-50 cents per hour, to be completed in so many hours. The object of this group system is to make each group mem- ber watch the other to make them work hard in order to finish the given | job in a shorter period. If the work lis finished in the time set by the company they get 5 cents over their set rate, and if it is finished sooner, than the time left over, whatever the rate for it may be, is divided by the group, thus making each individual’s pay higher. Working in this manner the workers are encouraged and forced to speed each other in order to produce more and thus make more pay. The company benefits by such speed up, for when it sees that it takes the workers much less time to finish the job, then the next job given will be most assuredly figured out so that the time allowance will be less. The workers will have to speed all the more in order to make bigger pay. To get the same production at cheaper labor, the company is grad- ually laying off men in different de- partments and hiring more and more women workers for the same jobs. The women’s standard time wage is 25 cents per hour or about 55 per cents of men’s wages. Women Slaves. The time for the jobs is figured so low for the women workers that they work over their 48 hours per week in order to make $15-16 the highest pay drawn by women, In many instances, where power is not needed to work, they start working about 10 minutes before starting time morning and noon, Where men and women work to- as much work as the women do, thus |driving them to work almost beyond | human power. There is a sick and injury relief or- | ganization, organized by the com- pany, which is kept up by the work- jers themselves, it is compulsory for each employee to pay monthly dues according to the wages received, some Conditions Frightful. The ground floors of the buildings jare of concrete, which is very detri- mental to the health of the workers. Those working for any length of time, contract eczema,, rheumatism and fal- ’ | Paying as much as $1.50 per month. | Bert Acosta, hero of Byrd transatlantic flight, will try to | break endurance records Fokker: Wniversal plane. ' Cinr@rnational Newsreel) in len arches, from the dampness and! chill of the conerete, In some of the departments, like! automatics and other machines, where oil is required for cutting metal, the odoris very stagnant. The oil should be changed ever so often, but they usually keep on adding more without changing the old, so the air of the room becomes foul. Going thru those departments the stench takés the breath away. It becomes a wonder how those working within can’stand it. * Slavery For Small Pay. Another plant.-of this company, producing government radios, is lo- cated, in the Chicopee Falls suburb of Springfield. - The . workers there are even worse exploited. Taking the advantage of the’ unemployment. in Springfield,’ which is» estimated at about 20,000, they get a lot of cheap labor, The workers~in the Westinghouse plants are foreed to work overtime for straight pay. Those working on night shifts work 41% hours per night, or 57% hours per week, for straight pay. . There is no union among the work- ers in any of the factories of this company. Sunday, to Protest All Anti-Alien Legislation PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28, —/A meeting will be held this Sunday at Garden Hall, Seventh and Morris Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. This mass meeting which will be addressed by Francis Fisher Kane, former United States district attorney; John A. Philips, vice president Pennsylvania State | Federation of Labor, and A. Ramug- lia, well known labor organizer and speaker, is but one of many such meetings held under the auspices of | the various local Councils for the | Protection of Foreign Born Workers. The councils everywhere are working jin close co-operation, and under the ;Zeneral supervision of the National Mass Meeting in Phila. | ingclass by any possible means, and it is believed that the sentences of Marty and his comrades merely rep- resent the first wave of official ter- rorism. Are You Keeping Busy for the Bazaar? Smith is the only Democratic candi- date who can benefit by a “wringing wet” attitude. Western Democrats will discuss the high cost of living and the gradual loss of states’ rights. Republican politicians in Washing- ton now look upon the Democratic race as virtually decided in favor of Smith. Find 28 Spies in Staff of Near East Relief in Armenian Soviet State WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Twenty- eight members of the native staff of the American Near East Relief or-; ganization:in the Soviet Republic of Armenia are under arrest by the Sov- iet government pending an investiga- tion into alleged anti-government pro- | paganda in the territory, national } headquarters here was advised today. No American citizens have been ar- rested. i The incident will not hamper the } work of the relief organization, which | maintains a native staff in Armenia | a ee Mme. Rachele Mussolini, who has gained- much newspaper notoriety re- cently by having her fourth child. She is pictured here, comfortably dressed; -and growing rather round- faced from the good food and com- fortable circumstances into which Mussolini’s betrayal of the workers has placed his family. The Event — The Red Bazaar. The Time — October 6-7-8-9. The Place—Madison Sq. Garden. On Soviet Russia of more than 1,000 persons. Financier Orders Marriage Stopped.) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 28.—Two| youngsters from Boston, both of them in police cells, plan to be mar- | vied in Detroit this week despite the’ indignant angry protests of the girl’s father. Roland Colby, 21, is the boy. The; girl is Dorothy Richardson, 18. The protesting father is Edwin M. Rich- ardson, Boston business man, who ‘is hurrying to this city to prevent the marriage. He will arrive today. } 69 FIFTH AVENUE EXTRAORDINARY SOVIET RUSSIA To witness the Celebrations and Gala Festivals of the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, sails Oc- tober 14th, 1927, via Cunard liner “Carmania” to London, Leningrad, Moscow. 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