The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1927, Page 2

/ Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK ad Aiding the Capitalist Offensive Against Labor Fully justifying those who stigmatize it the most venal and corrupt labor bureaucracy on the face of the earth, the report of (Continued from Page 1). i-up per capita, is 2,812,407 Pres. Green Loya a | Angeles Labor Council to the labor movement and with a few passing wishes regarding the organ- ion of the automobile industry, | the report was utterly devoid of even Arthur Pugh ‘Arrives. By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN. LOS ANGELES, Calif—Two fra- ‘In the Town With the Injunction Courts Insanity Rate 5 ; ia ; SEES; ternal delegates have arrived to vep- | oy - re 3 1 increase of 8,500 over last! | 0 ae ( the slightest suggestion of practical | ‘ wai 4 et the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, might a figures; Bub Teentenne oe Tomei Orders Militants Stay application of its pious wishes. Not|tesent the British Trade Union Con. ve been written by any avowed enemy of labor as a con Hion and a quarter from the + a word was mentioned about, the | tess at the American Federation 0 | well have been written by any ; mj apenas 8 million gif 4 quote cen 0 5 t Du aa Convention ightful butchery of Sacco and Van| Labor convention. They are Atthur j tribution to the general offensive that is being waged by the cap- high mark of et : eotetay/ Mok its ying Voi zetti and the campaign of terror|P¥gh, secretary of the British Iron : s . ‘ rison claims, vever, additional e zetl an i lg i aad ceth : italist class against the working class. ; 500,000" membern wht per capita] | LOS ANGELES against the foreign-born workers that | {04 eretaene ae Pepipelnie ia . : nonstrous crime against the working |?) , MS! nh Se a OS ANG aS, ( is g¢ forward under the direction} » hers porns: | _ It did not mention the pe Rea Sali s not paid because of strikes and] | warnings have beet ee Les Tbadling: polideiatiscc® tie, dose cil during the British general class that was perpetrated when the lackeys of imperialism sent oyment. The membership fig-|| ond lonal: labor af tite )strike, and William Sherwood, chief }. p ys ‘. jes P Cone, P J res ar ov § on ions i wate oe) ¥ e ent. \ * pp: wire yr bolts of lightning through the tortured bodies of Sacco and Van ures a= from seer eeadee campaign of expulsion |" Instead of a policy of militaney the |€Xecutive officer of the Britith Na- zetti, but: referred only to its own shameful aid to their ex-|the 106 ae federal | | stituted against 2 report advises a statistieal bureau to) ‘nal Federation of Municipal Work- 3 and trade and federa! fradeuanioniee ia A h into costs of pro-|¢ts’ Unions. They are scheduled to ecutioners, ; . r conduct into costs of pre a Ss. 5 . ‘ 3 ‘ unions directly affiliated to the in the Cantiei:Labt sacttonte nie Site waaer ia address the convention Tuesday or It was utterly silent on the great mass demonstrations in this of DE "hare! are ao arate teas duction, ¥ i » ete., erations, 794 city central bodies, and 742 local department councils, as well as the 4 national departments. The largest unions in the convention are and other countries in behalf of these victims of cl vengeance. It did not mention the vicious offensive now being conducted against labor in order to weaken the working ciass preparatory continued their acti the time the A. F) of ! | tion and its leaders « here. if r to learn whether workers really | Wednesday. t to demand a living wage or George Kappeler, secretary-treas- | le conclusion is that!urer of the Building Trades Union of as unearther by the/Germany; Helmuth Niendorf, ‘editor 366 * Mary Lee Lyons wins high- est honors in studies at George : ais aninlfak’ DisAAwed sa ey ‘i iis t S me . a Delegates to the Siate Federa-| |“experts” prove that the impover-/|of the German Building Trades Jour-| W ashington University, Was o pee pedi a _ or we eee ee the sane with Yona ee oe tion of Labor Coa n which} |jshed bosses are having a hard time nal, and Richard Coppock, secretary | ington, D. C., being only stu- herded into the human slaughter house. _ : 4,000; 5 carDentsies 2 Hi eyes ce hibaab. igatsrweke teerd |the workers ought to agree to re-jof the’ British Building Trades|° gent to make perfect record in It did not once refer to the attacks being wagéd against the 1,420; pabnte ae SA tacks aidaondeadine mi |duce theit standard of living to that) Unions, are fraternal delegates to foreign-born workers in the heavy industries in this country as a| eae se ete) ting an ac-| |of Chinese coolies. who are con the convention. They made an un- entire course. ers On Payroll, h reac-|| All in all, the report might: well| successful effort to secure the Build-| glo-Canadian Telephone. e > ara! drive : vn le . a, re ay ruggle again such reac All in all, ie report mig! well successtul effort to secure the Bu 4 Anglo-Canadian Pp part of the pinay drive Le best down labor. Tnstead the neon nances of the A. F. of L. Sd te ah John Horn, who} |have been presented to any gather-|ing Trades Department of the A. F. LONDON, Oct. 3.—Anglo-Canadian of the executive council joined hands with Secretary of Labor | show a quarter million dollars in the) | a former seab a strike| |ing of capitalists as a contribution|of L. to affiliate with the Building | telephone service was successfully in- James J. Davis of the Mellon-Coolidge administration in an at-| defense fund, out of which sum omy |i. which aueee t workers | |to the general offensive that is being| Trades Federation of the Amsterdarn tack upon the foreign-born workers by demanding further im-|0n¢ strike benefit was paid out to an fg 5 ht 4 ; hey * | obscure local in Illinois, amounting to migration restrictions in harmony with the infamous bill proposed | ten thousand dollars. No major strike were sent to jail | waged against labor in thi International. | | president of the augurated Baldwin, from 10 Downing St., open- ed the service today. Premier Stanley with a. conversation by Johnson, chairman of the immigration committee of the house} or Jock-out was assisted out of this | aes the | a Acacia “Veterans” of Paris ECTS EEG of congre: enormous fund on hand. 22 organ’ Contral Labos @eanci net tha tel ae al 1a cally speaking in favor of the five-day week and the|ers in the field expended the sum ot Be Omcaly speaking ji favor cl te tive ca }$115,000, notably Hughe Frayne in organization of the unorganized the report was totally devoid of New, York receiving $12,000, and E, any practical recommendations as to how these things are to be}, McGrady receiving $7,000. realized. In fact the policy of striving for the shorter work-day York militants may be somewhat fa- in order to offset the effect of constantly improving labor-saving | miliar with the activities for which pi 5 A | Fray: | McGrady received these | devices adopted two years ago at the Atlantic City convention has| i Pec edi i og E 3 a2 ; sums. been thrown overboard and a new contribution to “the higher} Another Step Backwards. strategy,” is put forth. The report recommends the establish- | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3.—The re- | La The terrible battles of Montmarte | Cannon Fodder Display RUSSIAN POETRY ment of elaborate statistical agencies to take inventory of the| port of the Executive Council of the | aten ene 4 threatened that | 8% over. The meornnient bai na Delights Aged Dotard economic conditions of industry in order to ascertain whether the| nae handy of ae ae charters would be taken away| | tied and flung tele aa bi tine An Anthology cost of production, the rate of profit, interest and rent make it ee NickeaevoMsene SELES its from any radical uni whose | |and are now seve! aes tehap- | BERLIN, Oct. 3. re The German 3 iT igeed possible for the employers to reduce hours or raise wages. While | called higher strategy of labor, that| |™embers do not cease their “dis-| |to a “quiet life” of lynching government and its allies among the Chosen and Tran: j ‘. ses Saar ; | pata ‘ hei \ tasteful activity.” \hbaiting in the United States. The|former militarists spared no effort in Bi Babette Deutsch and appearing to be an innocent proposition this is the most poison- | has for its purpose making labor com- . i ‘ pie et apa ‘ s to re-|their attempt to make the 80th birth- By Ba 8 ous thing ever concocted by the loyal lackeys of capitalism at the | pletely subservient to the demands of Certain members active in the} |fiygt contingent of Americans to re- au head of the official labor movement. It is plainly an effort to| the capitalist exploiters. ‘ ‘ Anal: os | Hindenburg, now president of the po e , “s i ge ake | Anti-Strike Proposal. in the recent polit bois dort dcae pl WEOas ooee ethos s arrived appro- | 4 z. ene és . S, \ ae beaohitul beck confuse the workers, to befuddle them with the dirty capitalist | ‘ia’ kaneek Aekeas a aah backwards| | are slated for the head-chopping | | breaking activities, has arr pre" |German Reich, a display of imperial- EAM hd adage yhs j si a Ne a # wah 2 Dare *. CG exhibition, and the distinguished | ely on the President Harding. |ist propaganda. Berlin was draped in fully chosen. collee- illusion that there is such a small margin between what workers | from the decision of the Atlantic City pote day sa ake dase bane oe : ssed them- ting and military bands marched tion of the most receive. in wages and what the employers get in profits that fre-| convention of two years ago, which audience will include all the | The legionnaires expresse I nting and military bands marched ian quently this margin would be completely wiped out if workers |W#5 to follow a program of shorten- were granted even the smallest increase in wages. Every Marx- ist knows that there is a vast and ever-increasing difference be-| tween the time required for the worker to produce the equivalent of what he received in wages, the enormous surplus produced by «im -for the capitalist. The time necessary for the average worker in this country to produce what he rec from two and one-half to three hours. he works for the boss for nothing. The hout any special statistical agency. economic facts, the proposal to create s workers onto the streets. z : P. | demands upon long and carefully pre- €lves IN Wages iS| pared studies of costs of production The balance of the day | and profits. fact can be ascertained Higeting Serr one of ae question ae a | will demands be made and then every Hence, in VIEW Of KBGWD.| has oosdibitity will be GukaCHied hee uch “fact finding” agen- New} ing hours so that the increased pro- ductivity of labor would not throw This pol- icy is reversed by the recommenda- tion of the executive council, which will undoubtedly be passed, to base Only after fully inves- oe | rival Buzzel faction | These rival cliques have © || up their difference: | | however, “eos! Orgies Return to HINDENBURG FETE: cece: U,$,Honking Homs SEIZE COMMUNIST ing the ears of A. F arriving here. | | fore the opening of the conve | | with Green and the executive coun- | Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations and | day of the late Field-Marshall Von, }turn to the scene of their strike- ing labor fakers of the Amer: selves as delighted to be home in|thru the streets all day blaring out labor movement. A promin jafter their boycott by the ench|the former military marches which workers for the murder of Sacco and|were used in the heyday of German Vanzetti. The “veterans” first ex-| militarism to excite the goose-step- | perience on Fr il has convinced | pers. ng can be more} Ags a special treat to the German cials who are anxious to have | |successfully earried on at home than | fa s and reactionaries, a number “peace and harmony” reign for the| |among the French working class. of Gommunists were a d for not next few weeks. || Most of the legionnaires were bring-| approving of the militarist prepara- == *ling back i inj tions, While the | police were arrest. and corrupt labor aristocracy on “gay P; \ing the Communists, their allies the earth, the report of the executive |cealing liquor, such German educators were busy herding | council joins hands. with tle notorious | for whiskey, ete., cock: the school children along the line of | left winger in the Central Labor Coun. cil was offered a, job with a nice | salary attached, to “quit the Com-| munists” and sell out to the offi-| |them that labor-bai tail shake: “hosses’ ties is a mere fake, to be used to prevent workers striking when fi fay hyper ee arises while the “experts” investigate the pusiness to find out whether the wat they demand or reduce their on PN the Herkers alysis it is also a powerful weapon in the hands of the employ- ers and an invaluable aid in the drive against labor. While boasting of an increase in membership of some eight thousand the report also slandered the Communists and declared fore a strike can be approved. This is a flagrant move to erect such complicated machinery that the workers will be bewildered by the ex- te ede nent EN DD Pn MTane 5 annem ended on = ies. Lip-Service to 5-Day Week. The report further states that “the 5-day week is a goal to be aimed at,” but no practical method is suggested labor-haters, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, and the arch-reaction- ary, Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee, and advocates ki kame nto..vrestriction of. While admitting the failure of the chain of labor banks and allied ven- tures controlled by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the report popular among the toys brought back. The “veterans” whose childish love of noise made so great an impression even from the conservative press in England, had bought large supplies of old-fashioned automobile horns which and pocket flasks and decanters were | ramevartee FORA in pleas” cOIMINERE |p they tooted loudly as the boat steamed | for earrying into effect the shorter work-week. That this measure is necessary as a means of endeavoring to overcome some of the unemploy- ment that is becoming acute in many that we have been eliminated from the trade unions. Quite con- veniently the executive council neglected to state that the total increase can be traced to Communist activity in the Passaic strike alone when more than that number of workers were brought into sections of the country and in many the American Federation of Labor. In the Communist activity industries is plain even to the labor in other industries thousands of formerly unorganized workers |lackeys of capitalism here assembled. have been brought into the ranks of organized labor. The in-| There does not appear to be anyone : waite 4 ‘a |here who will have the courage to crease in membership is not due to anything done by the officials 1 Peeled ithe Gareverion Mk WHR “Weick of the bureaucratic machine, but in spite of them and even against \iean labor movement at one time pro- them. In view Communists falls flat. ae : To cap the climax of their report they further assure the im- [ibe Derioning <2 conceal scan by perialist banditti that they will not again go off on a tangent in the wake of some third party as they did in the LaFollette cam- fied is the reactionary clique in con- of the known facts the idiotic attacks against | ceeded to conduct a shorter-hour |campaign by setting aside a day for | all the organized workers, But so petri- does not denounee these palpable jup the North River. sree pe ctek Ae aay | The legionnaires have been much | along this line “|impressed by Mussolini’s recommenda- > s . |tion of Mayor Walker and the “vet- Non-Partisan Policy. jerans” declare that if the “Broadway _ The report also attempts to take | butterfly” will only run for president inventory of the last presidential! of the United States, the American |campaign and explains that the Fed-| fascists will gladly support him, jeration supported the LaFollette third | i party because neither of the two old| i : ‘ Kel parties had “progressive” measures Evicted Miner s Can’t Have Bonds, Says Court in their platforms. It urges the for- mation of “non-partisan political committees” throughout the jurisdic- poe aeae fi (Continued frem Page One) | pwesent’ itself to view in District 5 of tion of the A. F. of L. and declares | that these committees should join | the United Mine Workers’ union if with the Federation in demanding of the two old parties that they “adopt march in order that there might be | an appearance of popular excitement.’ The children were compelled to stand in some eases fo’ rs in the broil- | ricsedihegs vane wenTERS Ta | e-stepped by, together with the: jtroops and police platoons, and the} |final exhibit, the octegenarian presi-+ |dent, who is pre tically in his dotage, had given the promising crop of can-! non-fodder an appraising smile from) his carriage, | Every effort is being made by the | {German imperialists, who hope to re- |cover-the-blood and iron “glories’®of | | the Hohenzollern tyranny, to develop |the Hindenburg legend, the tradition | |of the “old iron hero” who watches over the interests of the German fatherland in the Wilhelmstrasse. The German workers who were eonspicu- cusly absent from the birthday party remember 1914 and understand that the “old iron hero” is safeguarding the interests of the financiers and in. dustrialists, Proletarian POETRY Another New Book of The International Publishers Aviam Yarmolinsky nificant. work of new proletarian of Soviet as well as preceding nem Included there uso an i note on portant touay—this fe hy addition to alone is y worker's library So beautiful a book will also make a splendid gift. Send for it today Cloth $2,25 1 nes POEMS FOR WORKERS A collection of best American working class SACCO-VANZETTE AN OF VERSE DAILY WORKER PUB. Co. 33 First Street, New York, N ABC SERIES All Cloth-Bound A. B.C. of ‘thie Fabs t A : ; the coal operators continue evictions Radiotelegraph to Belgi \ COMMUNISM .. 0 idee : ‘ : at plows sesolutions on the Weetane | progressive platforms and then sup-| rom company-owned horees Nearly) WASHINGTON oc um e EVOLUTION 50 paign in 1924, but will continue the old policy of “rewarding workday will be forthcoming | port the Party whose declaration is|s09 miners! families at Russellton, 14 bert and President Coolidge ox. ART 30 friends and punishing enemies” in the two old parties—that is |“ ai stilton dl the most progressive,” || western Pennsylvania, have been or-| changed radiotelegraph iy this PHYSIOLOGY. a) when they find out who their friends are. As a means toward| ‘True to its role as the meer venal| the crorrsviced Sloe Seat intoldigtely,> “arate their shacks imme-| morning upon the occasion of the in- aunt 4 this end they are to ask the democrats and republicans to insert | : i peny. : rl |auguration of direct radiotelegraphic | GEOLOGY 30 ivé planks’ io tei plat 7 i | caren catia re The Republic Iron & Steel Co., own- | Service between the United States and | BIOLOGY 50 progressive planks in their pla’ forms and then they will propose | ers of the two Russellton mines, have| Belgium. | PHYSICS .... 50 that labor support the most progressive. This indicates that the | told 165 families at one and 155 fam-/ CHEMISTRY 0 bureaucracy will maintain in the future as in the past its alliance jilies at the other mine to pack “P| Chemical Congress at Detroit. bas with the capitalist class through the medium of the two old Bae More (Ce “cumpaay property XO). DUTROTT, Mich, Ost,’ 8--Dele:| The DAILY WORKER none " make room for scab/miners, ates. “rebreaanti 1 wv parties and that the fight for a class party of labor must be car-| === Trucks already are backing up to| branch pie ey Ait rae anit h PUB. CO. ee: pea sp Pthie nite Aisi A | re me vor’ 35 Kirst S a eres ried on in face of this opposition of the bureaucracy. This is, of | AW pf ast Opportunity! jthe shanty front porches and un-|are in Detyoit today to els “eke 33 First St. New York course, no surprise and it would be absurd to imagine these mis- | AX} i * | erable belly-crawlers to take any other stand. The report, taken all in all, should be welcomed even by the| unrelenting foes of labor in the Los Angeles chamber of com- merce, who ought to be convinced that Messrs. Green and Woll| and Morrison and the rest of the menagerie are among their most | loyal and devoted servants. | Wuhan Troops Fall) Chicago A:N.L.C. Local Back Before Peasants Hears President Sketch. Aims; Next Meet Wed. | (Continued from page 1) secret peasant organizations in Chang- chow in the Fukien province are very| CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—At the regular active. The Chinese press declares| meeting of the American Negro that these organizations are under | Labor Congress, held at the Commu- Communist leadership, |nity House, 3201 S. Wabash Ave., e% % eo A. L. Isbell, president of the Chicago To Participate in the JUBILEE TOUR TO SOVIET RUSSIA Registration Closes in a Few Days! Sailing October 14th, 1927, via Cunard liner “Carma- nia” and return Dec. 15th (8 weeks) to London -- Leningrad -- Moscow loading the scanty household effecis | {of those miners who can afford t0| pay rent to date. For the others—| and this group includes the majoriiy |—the sheriff has been notified that | |he will be expected to do his duty jand sell the goods of the unfortunate strikers under the hammer. | Asked what they will do or where | they will go, the miners shrugged | their shoulders and said that they! did not know. They have been out on strike for six months and most of them are behind in their rent that | long. * * * Begin Talk of Separate Peace. DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3,—Ne- gotiations start tomorrow for a sep- arate agreement between the coal op- Seventeenth Annual Clinical Congress. BARCAl AT PPECIAL PRICE? All the Cartoons Printed We offer in this combimation at a special price a collection of nearly 200 selected cartoons—the best work of leading American artists. All are so good, that altho you may have one or two of these books, ee, Nats Sakae ve ur, H three-to give to other work- i Y rators h he Lown: district: of we urge you to get a other wor War Lords Fight Each Other. — | !0¢al, outlined the aims and purposes the peu te aly ‘Distriet. Presidént Bes jare tan) Wal Uke Shem -ovanehody. dogs, > —War clouds broke yates ite waite ie eae Pri Past .J, H. Morris annourices that he has RED CARTOONS OF 1926 th lay v ee z wil » heid et. } pa nm . ij 4 receiv " i ‘ < Hal Chane Tasdth, ‘tench [tO 10D. mJ. G. Wanettoly amend The Tourist Delegation will have a bthseat ie lie Nast Sh it 70 drawings by 17 artists. Now 60 hal nas Tso-lin, Manchurian of the International Union of Station: | th ‘vil f ‘cipatinglp th President John Lewis to proceed with a Feed ee and Feng Tien | ary, and. Operathig almesn itil ee | meeting with Geo. Heaps, Jr, pres- ED CARTOONS OF 1927 x on Yen Shi-shan, governor of the | Mpgity Will address the meeting on | Grand Celebrations and ene ete cane ml Including the work .of:5 pew.artists, y —1.00 a car ho wrk ay # “Trade Unionism.” The public is cor- ‘ 4 ‘ # ie Maticig’s casei castes: ts gone | MME irvited. | Festivals of the 10th Anni- £7 Saath ew thes sige do eis ign lier ANZETTI s : ed the gov- ; Ke “ 4 Saturday, by whic e miner: , 2 D nfs A cla lB adhe Tuan |the Peking-Hankow Railway. Artil- versary of the Russian Re- Towa will work for approximately the : That ist presse 2 ‘oops along the Peking-Suiyuan Rail- | ;,. rifle fir * } j ‘inter rush is 0: ie press, 25 way, without provocation and with a, yg cea was audible to the volution. Entire cost $600, same scale until the. w’ Joining hands with Feng Yu-siang ugainst the Peking government. | Actual fighting began with Feng Tien troops disarming two Shansi regiments near Shi-Chiach-Wang on The Shansi army, untried in war- | fare, numbers sixteen divisions. It is jexpected to combine with Fang’s army now in western Honon. The declaration of war came after = # conference between the leaders of Are You Doing Your Bit for the} the Northern Alliance, the so-called Big Red Bazaar? “Country Pacifying Group.” You Must TELEPHONE A Apply Immediately! World Tourists, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., New York over, and then talk wages with the operators when the latter have no longer so much use for coal. The meeting is to start tomorrow. The Event — The Red Bazaav. . The Time — October 6-7-8-9. | . ‘The Place—Madison Sa. Garden, | LGONQUIN 6990 Operators’ | | Association, to formulate a tempor- . lary truce, like that signed in Illinois | 3 All for Books offered tn and filled in turn as receives $1.50 And we will pay the postage. column on hand All-orders cash