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

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA Y, OCTOBER 5, 1927 Wall Street Approves of the A. Fof 1. Convention The big organs of the biggest bosses, like the New York Herald Tribune, are well satisfied with the line laid down by | labor officialdom in its report and speeches in Los Angeles. “ . . the American Federation of Labor . . . will usher in a fresh chapter in the history of organized labor in this country,” says the Herald Tribune editorially. “The executive council of the federation .. . will recommend to the convention a new wage policy . . . which will substitute for the old practice of mak- ing arbitrary demands on the employer, backed by strike threats, the more enlightened method of inviting him to discuss facts and figures over a table, with a view to adjustment.” “This tendency to conservatism has been apparent in the American Federation for years, but the adoption of this new wage policy will for the first time stamp it as official.” The Herald Tribune points out that labor officialdom now controls huge sums of money in union treasuries and various profit-making concerns which they “prefer should remain invested in productive enterprise rather than be dissipated in strike ben- efits.” The Herald Tribune expresses the opinion that “the country should be gratified by this policy of labor officialdom. If for “the country” we read “the capitalists” we will see at once Whom the “tendency to conservatism” has benefited. The A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles has been stage- managed in order to give no offense to business of the biggest kind. From the report of the executive council with its emphasis on “mutual understanding,” to the unseating of William Schnei-| derman, Los Angeles delegate, for “Communist activities” car- ried out with the co-operation of the Los Angeles police depart- ment, the welcoming address by Governor Young of California, the state which has imprisoned Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bill- ings for 11 years for the crime of organizing workers, to the open- ing speech of President William Green wherein he apes Mayor Thompson of Chicago by raising the slogan of “America First” lf r | A. FL. CONVENTION NOTES eaeee eer | | By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. LOS ANGELES, @al., Oct. 4.—A report is current that the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers may apply for’ affiliation to the American Fed- eration of Labor. The parent organization, the United Garment Workers, would undoubtedly oppose such a move. The Amalgamated is four times |the size of the U. G. W. Discussing the report, the “Southern Cali- fornia Labor Press” says, “The very $-=-— <= - ar important subject of eraft versus in-|have five million “fighting militant dustrial unionism may be well venti-| trade’ unionists” in the A. F. of L., lated in the convention of the A. F./altho official figures in the report lof L. If the delegates could be broad |to the convention show only 2,800,- |enough to accomplish such, a desirable |900. “Give me five million more men, lend for the labor movement, it might |and what could we not accomplish.” not be long before the Railroad| He advocated the five-day week as Brotherhoods would make similar ap-|@ means to do away with unemploy-| |plications, thus giving us a united |ment, and claimed increased effici- Hee a al and much-needed new |ency and productivity warranted | blood. The Amalgamated people such a reduction in hours. Jnever seceded from the A. F. of L.,/ Green pointed out the New York \but were thrown out during the war |@arment ‘industry “where we did thewevie days of 1914 under the ery |away with the sweatshop.” He was of ‘reds’ To an outsider the cause silent on the role of the A. F. of L. of the unfortunate split seems to|in breaking down the union condi- lhave been the usual demand for tions in the garment industry. more up-to-date methods by the| He boasted of his early life as a rank and file and a hard boiled re-jminer, but said not one word of what |fusal by the reigning officialdom.” |the A. F. of L. was doing for the |This paper which comments on craft strik g miners. : \vs.. industrial unionism is the organ| Morrison spoke on company unions, jof the local building trades, which |the defense of the primary system, lare constantly in the midst of juris- {injunctions and the yellow dog con- |dictional disputes which arise from |tract as four main problems before eraft divisions and jealousies. {the labor movement. * * * * 8 Green, Morrison Say They “Best Leaders.” their bid for the Speaking at a meeting of thejthe A. F. of L.: Birmingham, Ala- \Central Labor Council, William|bama; Toronto, Canada; St. Peters- | Green assailed “the critics within |burg, Fla.; Miami, Fla.; Lakeland, /our movement who profess to be our | Fla. |friends.” He challenged anybody to |produce a better leadership than the |A. F. of L. had at the present time. * cities have put in next convention of Are The following * * The Union Label Trades Depart- ment heard a pessimistic report on * Legion Defeated in Drive on the Belgian Palace; Fists Fly | BRUSSELS, Oct. 4.—Henry Brech- ner of Philadelphia, who was mauled by the throat by John J. Wicker, trav- el director of the American Legion, when a party of legionnaires tried to “erash” a reception to the mor favored officers and “veterans” at the royal palace in Brusse’ '$ Now won- dering whéther or not one strike- breaker really is as good as another. The fun began when a group of thirty martre, demanded to be allowed to look at the king of the Belgians and were refused admission at the palace gates by Wicker and Edward Reed, secretary of the American embassy in | Belgium, together with the Belgian police and Father Wolfe, the national chaplain of the legion. Brechner, a blustering swaggerer who as a member of the legion has probably never had any difficulty in awing unarmed American workers with his revolver, tried to rush the palace gates but as he sprang for- ward, Wicker unleashed his wrist and caught Brechner by the throat. The uninvited were pushed back, and the palace doors slammed in their faces. Much dissatisfaction has been ex- pressed by’ the legionnaires that they are being left out in the cold while |their officers are being feasted by \the Belgian king and queen and the | wealthy American ex-patriots, who are and pledges American labor to the defense of American institu- | “If we would have to depend for|the progress of the union label cam-| their American dollars in Brussels. tions, the convention proceedings constitute a subservient ac- ceptance of the leadership of the American capitalist class. This may be and undoubtedly is very pleasant to tongues calloused by bootlicking but for the American working class it is a sinister exhibition. It is, for instance, far from accidental when the “defense of American institutions” is the keynote of the convention address of Green. There are more jingoes to the square inch in Los An- geles than anywhere else unless it be Washington, D. C. and it is likewise true that American imperialism is launched upon a career of conquest marked by a sharpening of international antagonisms, militarization, increase in air and naval armament and military adventures in Latin America and the Far East. : ‘ With this monstrous program the A. F. of L. leadership falls in ine. : The satisfaction which the reactionary press expresses with this position is a warning to the working class that heading the labor movement are men who-are its enemies, who are agents of Wall Street in the labor movement, and must be fought as such. “THE BOLSHEVIK PLAGUE HAS BEEN ERADICATED” By WILLTAM SCHNEIDERMAN. | would be tolerated?” So ali tae le: ANGELES has assumed the | papers joined in a chorus to sing appearance of a bankers’ con- | the praises of “conservative and vention. Well-groomed, contented- | constructive” leadership. In due looking individuals step from the | time the city was decorated with train and the Mayor, hastens to | American flags of welcome, but greet them. RepGrters crowd | not until Green made a speech | | | | | | around, with eager questions. The | 4verring his “loyalty to America prosperous-looking gentlemen drive | and American institutions.” to the scabbiest haunt of parasites Not until the press declared, in Los Angeles, the Hotel Alex- | “Labor Leader Says Bolshevik andria. A few minutes later, news- | Plague Eradicated from Uxions,” paper headlines announce to the | did the churches, twenty-four of world, “The Bolshevik Plague Has | them, hear “sermons” by respect- Been Eradicated, Says Labor Head.” | able labor officials who believe in The American Federation of Labor | God and American Institutions. has come to town! But two jarring notes spoil the Next year is a presidential elec- | @PPe@rance of one big happy fam- tion. So a swarm of senators, gov- | U¥- First: local labor leaders have ernors, mayors, and cabinet offi- | Warned Communists to “lay off” cers hurry to Los Angeles to tell | their activity while the big happy “Labor” what good leaders they | family is here to enjoy itself. Local have, “safe, sane and constructive.” | leaders wish to prove to Green and Labor has not yet decided who is | to Uncle Sam that in Los Angeles, the highest bidder to whom it will | t00, “the Bolshevik plague has been Gall tts vot So “the national po- eradicated.” But the Communists Viti m has not yet suffi- | @r¢ not always as obliging as Ia- ciently clarified itself for us to com- | bor officials might wish, much to | | mit ourselves,” declares Green. the latter’s sorrow and discomfort. “Will the Sacco-Vanzetti case be Secondly, the Chamber of Com- discussed at the convention?” | merce has done a shocking thing. Green is asked. “Emphatically not.” It has admitted something Green But union insurance will;'and labor | Will not admit: the existence of banking. Of course labor will have | Class differences. Fawning labor to be more careful in their bank- | leaders begged D. D. McGarry, ing ventures. They could not af- | Chamber of Commerce president, ford to have another exposure | to let bygones be bygones, and wel- such as the Locomotive Engineers | come the A. F. of L. convention. unearthed. But no reason to be- | But McGarry refused to kiss and come discouraged. Banking ex- make up. He bluntly informed them perts would “help” labor. | that his organization considered it Everybody agrees that Green and | “impractical” for him to oblige his associates are fine fellows; | them An honest reactionary, didn’t they declare that “Reds | Joyal to his class. The A. F. of L. would be barred from the conven- | is at a loss how to explain the tion?” Didn’t they say that “no | break in the ranks of the one big soviet or Communistic propaganda | happy family. b "Se PRS : | “This convention will be one of | the most constructive we have ever had.” Meaning that labor leaders will continue to serve their masters as they have done so ably in the past. ‘Spain’s "Dictator Gags ‘Labor Paper That Spoke on de Unions Soviet Russia MADRID, Oct. 4.-—“El Socialista,” organ of the Socialist labor movement in Spain, was recently suppressed for eight days, because it had published Communism an article on the Sacco-Vanzetti exe- Fietion | cution, when Dictator Primo de Rivera Literature |had forbidden publication of any Poetry |news of the protest movement. Art | Capitalist papers violating the de- |eree were not punished. SEND FOR A CATALOGUE | ! Stole $100,000 For “Good Time.” Accused of stealing approximately | $100,000 from the banking company THE DAILY WORKER | which employed her, to sgnander tie BOOK DEPT. money in riotous living, Miss Anna 33 First Street New York, N. Y.|Magovern, 33, held in a jail cell yes- terday, ‘‘was not prepared to explain anything yet,” according to police. Se |leadership on these critics, our move-|paign, and adjourned after re-elect- |ment would starve.” DETECTIVE ASSISTS CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE DENY SEAT TO DELEGATE OF LOS ANGELES OFFICE WORKERS (Continued from Page 1). investment undertakings. |and using everything, even the ra The report advocates more educa- to defeat the bill to construct the/tional activities in the union as a dam. He also denounced corruption|means of arousing interest and de- in Pennsylvania, defended the primary | creasing pessimism. Regarding the law, and declared, amidst cheers from | company unions, without offering any the delegates, “A few men shall not) ajternative course, the report main- ride, booted and spurred, on the backs|taing “the question at issue here is of the millions.” |not one that should be decided by con- On Passaic “Reds.” .,,|flict unless employers force that | Sara Conboy, of the United Textile ene SRDIOS Workers, declared that the relief of| | There is particular resentment against He claimed toJing its officers for the coming year. |the awarding of medals, which were | | given only for distinguished courage | during the recent imperialist butchery, !to officers of the American fascists, many of whom it is reported are now in Europe for the first time. Hoover, Head of U.S. A. ‘Radio Control Talks to ‘International Meeting WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—World- | wide radio problems were put under | the X-ray of foremost scientists from jmany nations here today with the | gathering of the International Radio- telegraph Conference. Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s Ashes Reach England on Way to Rest-in Italy PLYMOUTH, Eng., Oct. 4, — The es of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and half the ashes of Nicola Sacco arrived here from America tode They were brought on the liner Mauretania. Eventually ak ay ij | i | the ashes will ic n to Italy by Vanzetti’s r | vil Barons’ Men Lose j In Mexican War (Continued from Page One) |of staff of the Mexico City garrison, | | who led the mutiny against the gov-| | ernment in the Mexico City garyri-} | son. | Reactionaries Rob. | | Serious fighting between mutineers | jand loyal troops and actions of depre-| |dation by the rebellious troops are | reported in dispatches received here. | The reactionaries are reported to| ‘have sacked the town of Texcoco and | also to have held up an ex $ train | from Vera Cruz and to have robbed! the passengers. A dispatch from Torreon states that fifteen soldiers of the Sixteenth | Cavalry have been killed in fighting | there, and that twenty-nine have been ‘wounded, including Colonel Ibarra} and two loyal captains. The reactionary group, after being} depleted by desertions of those origi nally forced into it, was severely ecu’ up by airplane bombs dropped by the} air fleet flying ahead of the federal | force sent in pursuit, and then scat- | tered by the short fight which re-| stilted when this force caught up witis| it. Serrano for Oil Barons. | General Francisco Serrano, against whom a warrant for treason now} stands, is the catholic and adherent | jof the cause of the great landowners, | ; who during his election campaign of-| fered publicly to “settle with the! United States oil companies,” which! is interpreted as meaning that he placed himself at their disposal in the} quarrel between them and the Mexican state over the right of the companies to dodge taxes. | Serrano is strong at Torreon, but} the mutiny he ordered there resulted in all his forces being disarmed and} captured after a three hours’ battle. | Gomez Loses Vera Cruz. ; iwhy a deaf ea ie Gold Discovery in Philippines Meais No Hope of Freedom MANILA, Oc —Another reason being turned to all proposals for greater self govern- ment, to say nothing of the long premised independence, for the Philip- pine Islands, has become apparent to- dlay, Some time ago a gold strike of con- siderable richness was made in the old mining field around Benguet, 100 miles from Manila. This fact was kept | of the “veterans,” who are reported | thousand loyal troops, is personally | Secret until the Ameri an company , to have found the wines of Brussels | Conducting the campaign against Gen-| could buy up all the stock in corpora- almost as heady as those of Mont-|¢%al Ignacio Alamada, former ehief| tions owning this field, and until the political situation quieted. It is now admitted that during the last two weeks ore valued at $38,- 000,000 has been mined, and that six hundred feet deep in the earth there a body of ore of unknown size, as- ving $600 to the metric ton. The mining properties are protected by heavily armed guards and fortifica- tions, fronted by barbed wire. SOUTHAMPTO)D Y., Oct. 4.— The body of an unidentified man was found on Southampton Beach last night by a coast guardsman. There were no clothes on the body, which apparently had been in the water more than a month. On Soviet Russia Of Sacco and Vanzetti| the Passaic textile workers was | stopped when the “Reds” “were ex-| pelled from Passaic.” | Plans continue for a great gather-| ing of ‘A. F. of L. officials to discuss) miners’ relief Nov. 14, which is a date late enough to mean starvation for the miners still left on strike efter the present partial settlements | being carried out. * * me Deplores Labor Strife. “The labor movement,” declares President Green at the opening of his report, “is an agency thru which the workers may develop a partnership with management in the doing of work itself.” This worker-manage- ment co-operation forms the keynote of the report. He deplores “spectac- ular incidents of strife” that ‘over- shadow the more important events of constructive development.” He mentions the five-day week as, a goal for the labor movement, but | there is not a word as to how it is going to be achieved. He emphasizes, however, among the “ceonstructive” activities of the trade union arbitra- tion standards thru other standard ideas. The report lauds the Conference on} the Elimination of Industrial Waste held in Philadelphia as one of the outstanding achievements of the A. F. of L. in “educational” work. The chief policies in the educational field to be emphasized, it appears, are’ “union co-operation, trade schools, japprentice schools, organizing meth-| |ods, and insurance.” Green claims for the Workers Edu- cation Bureau the credit for winning away the workers of Passaic from Communism and for “trade union- ism.” “While the Passaic develop- ment is a local matter, yet the impli- cations of sthe industrial situation concerned have focussed attention on that ‘district for a considerable period the speed-up, andj class-collaboration of time.” An entire section is devoted to “communistic control.” “We have been successful during the past year in defeating plans of Communists to get control of trade unions. That we have made distinct progress in de- feating the philosophy and the propo- ests of the general welfare of the {workers of our nation as well as of |our national institutions.” Criticize Labor Banks. Two subjects are recommended for | study upon which policies should be |formulated; Old Age Pensions, and | Union Investments, The re-action of |\the A. F. of L, officials to the debacle of the Locomotive Engineers bank- ing enterprise is typical: “The invest- ments of union funds is a serious problem for the labor movement. . . . | Results of labor banking experiment confirm the warnings that the Amer- ican Federation of Labor has repeat- edly made, These banks should have the advice of banking experts. ... Some unions that have financed vari- ous undertakings have involved them- selves in most embarrassing difficul- ties. It would be well to study the causes of failure in labor banks and A number of jurisdictional disputes | Fifty or more countries were repre- ! are mentioned, chiefly in the Building | sented for the purpose of laying the jand Metal Trades, under the Econom-| ground work for international trea- ic section of the report. Follows a} ties, sufficiently strong in regulatory chapter on the “Reorganization of| scope to keep communication out of the International Fur Workers Union.! chaos, sufficiently flexible to assure schemes, raising productivity) “... The Internatiqnal was Fee ganized, new officers elécted, in full! sympathy with. the American, Feder- | policies. The control of the organiza- | tion has been taken from the former’ Communistic officers of the New} York Joint Board.” | The report indicates that last) year’s resolutions to “organize the un-| organized” remains on paper, as no} results were mentioned. Green esti-| mates that 90,000 workers in the| United States are working under the} 40-hour week, not including the Ford! factories, Memorials Not So Good. Memorials such as the Samuel Gompers Foundation, Woodrow Wil-| son Foundation, and the Thomas Jef- ferson Foundation, are not progress- ing very well financially it appears, as another appeal for more active fund-collecting is made to the unions. | The A. F. of L. re-affirms its “non-| partisan” political policy, attacks the} enemies of the primaries, and urges more people to vote, and raise the uneramped development of radio sci- ence. President Coolidge will open the ation of Labor and will support its|/ conference formally this afternoon | with the address of welcome, followed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, slated to be elected president of the international organization. The Soviet Union and Ecuador were excluded from the conference. Policeman Loses Fight. QUINCY, Mass., Oct. 4.—Shooting his way to Freedom from the rear of Phill Brother’s hardware store early stantly killed patrolman Alfred Hol- patrolman John J. Fitzgerald, came running around from the front of the building. Another Honolulu Flight. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The Post Office Department today authorizes the carrying of mail on the flight | Gives Plum Witheut Investigation. | today, a safe cracksman shot and in-| lis, 28, youngest member of the Quincey police. The lone burglar escaped as nents of Communism is in the inter-| about October 13 from San Francisco t ab 50%. TI pt. oF: Pereneke Shayne Lie fy or | to Australia, via Honolulu. L, strongly urges Congress for per- manent relief for the Mississippi| General Arnulfo Gomez, a former} secreary of war for Mexico, but now a hunted outlaw, takes a similar po-| sition to that of Serrano, but up to} the present has been considered a! rival of both Serrano and Obregon. ! Obregon is the popular candidate for | presidency, and will carry tout the policies of the present Calles govern-/ ment in the matter of Mexican oil. Gomez had his headquarters in| Vera Cruz, but so few of the garri- | son there followed him into the field | that the city was undisturbed by the | fighting. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. — The Western Air Express of Los Angeles, which bid 83 cents a pound, today was awarded the contract for carry- ing the air mail from Cheyenne to Pueblo, Via Colorado Springs andj | Denver. | | Postmaster General New said the; company was “thoroughly reliable and |no investigation of it would be re-| | quired.” The contract was awarded | | within an hour after bids were re- | ceived. | | The company operates the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City Air Route. The Place—Madison Sq. Garden. The Event — The Red Bazaar. |The Time — October 6-7-8-9, flood sufferers, and for modification of the Volstead Act. The Executive Council reports to} the convention without recommenda-| tion that the obstacles to affiliation with the Amsterdam International still exist, that is, the per capita tax being too large, and second, the vot- ing rules preventing the American Federation a sufficient voice in for- mulating the policies. Oudegest, the | secretary of the Amsterdam Interna- | tional, suggested a conference to dis- | cuss the questions at issue. The pres- |ence at this convention of representa- | tives of the Building Trades Section | of Amsterdam International, with | British and German delegates, may | have something to do with this propo- | sition, | Kellogg Won't Discuss Relief; Finds Starving Minn. Farmers Improve | | - | WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Secretary | of State Kellogg, back from a long} | vacation in Minnesota, declared that | |“farm conditions in Minnesota are | very much improved.” : He refused to | discuss the political situation in his | | home state, but indicated that he looked upon it hopefully. Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer- Labor, who defeated Kellogg for re- election in 1922 by nearly 90,000 plur- ality, has been talking to Minnesota farmers this summer on the imper- ialism of the republican administra- tion, and on Kellogg’s lawless war against Nicaragua. Shipstead has not found the farmers either prosperous or happy. He is going to run on the Varmer-Labor ticket next year on a platform of farm relief‘ and anti-im- perialism, f Last Opportunity! To Participate in the JUBILEE TOUR TO SOVIET RUSSIA Registration Closes in a Few Days! 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