The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1927, Page 4

‘THE DAILY WORKER Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1927 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday $3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Bases For Organization” ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New pork): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $8.50 six mont $2.50 three months $2.00 three months - | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. |THE section on organization in the ae report of the A. F. of L. executive council to the Los Angeles conven- tion is featured by a guarded but nevertheless obvious admission that the craft and specialised occupational structure of the American labor ———~= {movement is an _. insurmountable |handicap to the unionization of un- organized basic industries. nd mail and make out checks to Addre: THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. "J. LCUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLDR.... Editors Business Manager at New York, N. ¥., under act of March 3, HE executive council avoids such words as “basic” or “decisive” in referring to the great exploiting en- LENIN SAID: , terprises of American capitalism. It ; prefers the terms “highiy machin- Only Soviet Power Can Be ized” or “mass production” indus- Steadfast tries. Here is a slight flavor of the terminology of the social worker and Only a Soviet power can be steadfast. It alone smart young men from the colleges, can not be overthrown by the most tempestuous “the prawblem solvers,” as Ralph moments of a tempestuous revolution, and it alone Chaplin calls them—who are begin- can secure a permanent and broad development of |ning to find their way into the the revolution, a peaceful struggle of the parties | Sanctums of the reformed labor lead- within the Soviets. Until there is such a power, we |¢"8 and who substitute lacquered cig- shall inevitably have indecision, irresolution. wav- reve Taye, for the | old brown cu: erings, unending “power crises,” the senseless come- ee en ae beIrHity, of phrase dy of ministerial antics, and explosions from right Which was characteristic of Gompers, aad teh has vanished, a if ) AFTER citing the tremendous ad- vances in specialization and ma- chine processes, the executive council | says: “This production technique in| quantity and mass production indus- | The British Laber Party Leadership Meets The Tories Half Way lantity a Re tries requires new kinds of skill AND | Two events of the utmost importance to the British labor/NEW GROUP BASES FOR OR-| movement and which show in clear relief the criminal policy fol- Hani Ze TION, 08 THE WORKERS | lowed by the right wing and reformist leadership, cceurred atl uNnew grain baaeet each | the first session of the Labor Party conference now in Black pool. of the welfare worker phraseology First, the conference approved of the expulsion of the Teach-|and is a patent attempt to avoid ers Labor League on the grounds that it was “under Communist drawing the obvious conclusion from influence.” the facts as outlined—THAT AMAL- i : . a, |GAMATION -OF THR EF Second, the conference witnessed the withdrawal of the civil, UNIONS INTO N service unions, forced out by the Trade Union Act which prohibits pac ee IS ABSOLUTELY NE-| them belonging to or supporting the Labor Party. ‘“Tadustrial Uniowian”? dea slogan | Thus, while the tory government awakens the labor move- that workers in these industries can | ye were ‘ Pris ates a ‘ficial les ship understand and will respond to “One | ment by special suppressive legislation, ae Heise Reteige ¢ UaiOHT” EEO” BuR AEE. Sta also weakens it by expelling militant organizations against which slogan” which’ the sexchutire: tounGl the Trade Union Act is principally directed. would raise if it was really concerned | Every act of the official British labor leadership fits into the about the millions of workers out-| pattern set for it by British imperialism. | STING} INDUSTRIAL | Why the A. Phone, Orchard 1680 Report of Executive Council Admits Tha Bosses Better Service Than Company Unions Give—The Vitality of F. of L. Does Not Organize t A. F. of L. Union Structure Is Obsolete—‘New Group Required—Appeal To Bosses Instead of Workers—Promise Left, Wing Slogans which the official labor leadership} year ago the executive council was ! failed .» organise, the report | instructed by the Detroit convention stresses again and again the neces-|to suspend jurisdictional. questions {sity of the various sections of the|“for the time being” so the work labor movement WATCHING FOR} could be started. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IN-| The executive council now reports DUSTRIES. |that “two conferences have been held T is necessary to quote the sections|@t headquarters” and that “we are which amplify this utterly asinine recommendation in order to show the jlengths to which a corrupt and bank- rupt labor leadership will go to cover |up its failures—and also to avoid of- |fending the big capitalists who own ‘the unorganised basic industries: | _ “If each central labor union had a SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO BE ON THE WATCH FOR NEW INDUS- TRIES... . the movement would be ” |tail upon this campaign |is the sum total of a year’s work in |the second largest industry in Am- | erica. ers read regularly the shop bul- letin issued by the Workers (Com- munist} Party of America and are obviously desirous of having a union, it would seem that even by accident, in a much better position... . NEW)|the various A. F. of L. organisers INDUSTRIES ARE CONSTANTLY) who have been in Detroit this year, DEVELOPING AND IF WOULD) would have organised a few auto- BE WELL IF WE HAD AGENCIES |mobile workers. ON WATCH FOR THESE NEW)| But the executive council has ab-! OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORGAN-|solutely nothing to report. Again we IZATION. ;find the reason for this given by the TILITY can hardly go further. | fficial leadership on Page. 25 of the} What does the experience of the report where it reads: “Phere j . labor movements in all countries There is nothing that the eal teach? What is one of the principle | P@2Y Union can do within a single | lessons of the organization cam-|C™Pany that a trade union can not! paigns headed by William Z, Foster ag AGEOMO EE ae dong, in food packing and steel? It is that | PECTIVEL Yy. i UNION. MANAGE. once the basic industry is organised | MENT COOPERATION 1s| the organization of the dependent in- WocH MORE 7 FUNDAMENTAL | dustries clustered around it takes | AND EFFECTIVE THAN THE EM.| place almost automatically. Hl Pp LO y E Eg ! REPRESENTATION | But in connection again with ers “FO R COOPERATING recommendation that sentinels be on! wrpy THE MANAGEMENT.” | the watch for new industries, the | not in a position to report in de- | This | JN Detroit, where 15,000 Ford work-| © Heidelberg ‘LESLIE HOWARD | n Old “The Student Prince” at | the Astor Is Easy | on the Eyes | ERR Lubitsch, the Teutonic movie |** director is entitled to the thanks ; of film patrons as well as the dough he receives from his employers for the magnificent artistry displayed in “The Student | Prince” now show-! ing at the Astor Theatre. Not even the pulchritude of ; Norma Shearer as} Kathi and the Prince - of - Wales- | like demeanour of Ramon Novarro as her-princely lover, outshine the unseen ditector who has | turned out a picture as free from | | : hokum and idiotic sub-titles as one bed could expect from Hollywood. Lu-| Whe bitsch follows the play “In Old Heidel-| * NORMA SHEARER &" appearing in his own play, Hill,” a bright and amusing berg,” which Richard Mansfield made farce, now on view at the Bijou popular here, in unfolding his sto: | Theatre. The prince with his life-loving and ae ere Pa on Welseewe teenie unconventional tutor goes to Hay Maria Ouspenskaya, formerly of the Heidelberg to study, but chiefly to|Moscow Art Theatre; Reginald Bach, fall in love with the pretty daughter!who was Uncle Dick in “Yellow of the innkeeper who takes the of-| Sands”; C. H. Croker-King, Betty fensive before the prince has time to! Linley, slie Barrie, Junius Mat- put up his guards. In the language | thew: rothingham Lysons and of pugilism he goes down for the/| Berresford Lovett. - count and is happy ever afterwards F between making love to Kathi and Prior to the New York showing drinking beer with his fellow stu-| Chamberlain Brown says that “Im- dents, until he becomes heir to the moral Isabella?” the satirical comedy executive council for the third time| HE A. F. of L. leadership in De-| admits the handicap of the present troit, as elsewhere, has been ap-| structural form by saying: “We-|pealing TO THE BOSSES INSTEAD | should Have a definite responsibility |OF TO THE WORKERS. | for fields that have been left U | GUARDED BECAUSE FALLING |ficialdom, to use the plainest kind of | In the statements quoted, labor of-| WITHOUT THE JURISDICTION | language, IS ACTUALLY OFFER- | )OF EXISTING UNIONS.” {ING TO SCAB ON COMPANY; Amalgamation is the answer but | UNIONS. é | that answer the A. F. of L. leader-| But the bosses prefer their com-| ship will not make. That would be Pa"y unions and the workers cer- “Communism.” tainly will not be inspired by the! 5 ¥ {thought that they will h two | HE executive council prefers de- he) oh ee mabe throne and is compelled to marry for) by Lawton Campbell with Frances business. | Starr in the title role, will open next Not the least interesting part of | Monday at ‘w Haven, warm the cockles of every heart that | ever throbbed to a stein of Muench- | “The Taming of the The LADDER . \ POPULAR PR est seat Shrew” Opens at Garrick $2 oR PRE! thirty male voices, in songs that should ; u| EME wut Bul - a ESS ERIN | the entertainment is the chorus of! —— — ner. It is a good show.—T. J. O’F. i A ¢ a 8 t R Shar |bosses instead of one—capitalists| October 24 moralization of the labor move- plus labor officials—if they accept | im ment and patient waiting for the|this official definition of trade| Lowell Brentano, co-author with) rise of new industries rather than unionism. | Fulton Oursler of “The Spider,” has National Ved -~epen. imperialist aggression against the Sov: fend ein giving medals to the invaders who with the country. re & rship Side the unions and not trying to} Pe dAD © the lori : = ppeonrenighird justify its failure to organise them. | amalgamation and an organization in control of the labor movemen CUE GN ke “ QUT at last we have the official On the contrary, the MacDonald-Thomas-Henderson-Hicks leader- B leddership of the ACcR of Le 6a! ship is actively carrying out in the labor movement the work | record, in a catefully prepared docu-'| which the tories themselves could not do without arousing a storm ment of its own composition, that which they could not quell faced with the centralised and spe-; F ‘ ‘ cialised machine industry of America, | British imperialism waits only until the work of their labor the structural form of the American s i e launching a campaign of still more! Federation of Labor unions—with | ee corepisted pena 4 wna a and the the..exception of the United Mine a Workers and a few other less im-j colonial peoples. es Against this program the Communist Party and the National | progress. : Minority Movement are rallying the British working class. This| Upon what grounds now will labor! accounts for the hostility they meet from the official leadership. | *icialdom justify its war on the left | | wing and its program for amalgama- | “THE work of organization in mass | | production industries is such that | The Great National Hoax Is On Again there must be a new basis of appeal,” The gamblers who manipulate the baseball pools throughout | avs tie étecitive ‘evancil. "The i the country are reaping the last of their season’s harvest as the dustry or the plant must be studied | rs of v i ee 3s “ol ion-|in order to find a basis which would pennant holders of the two national leagues stage the champion- |i would ship series.” The amount .of money that changes hands in the introduce ELEMENTS OF UNITY 3 : i Hee AND JOINT INTEREST.” course of a world series is unknown, but that it is fabulous no ere seeeiv i iie ee saliva cece one doubts. makes the admission that the present Likewise it is equally evident to anyone capable of the slight- |policy and form of the American | est mental effort that the big guns.at the head of the thing know labor movement is practically use-, € s s less in coping with the concrete task precisely how every game will come out. There are people on the | of organization of the millions of un-1 inside of the graft who can tell before the series starts just how] organised workers. |shall have a reliable source from they would not print it. it will end. They are the ones who get the big money. The! others, and the overwhelming majority, who play the pools are ee To nee fhe Cheng pay. it on a false basis. Reading the re-} So rotten is the whole mess that it is necessary to maintain port one receives the impression that an expensive window dressing of professional respectability in | “mass Halo oe wee phe- f é “ozar,” rious f ° ral | d that with the exception | the person of a baseball “czar,” the notorious former federal |nomenon and thé h . 1. 1. » judge, Landis, who is one of the worst labor baiters of the cen- |! automobiles, it applies only to sec-| Ber the way in which the report treats the whole issue of the; organization of the unorganised puts jondary industries, such as_ radio} tury. manufacture, “vacuum cleaners, This so-called sport, like prize-fighting and wrestling | mechanical refrigeration . . . elec- matches, is thoroughly polluted by capitalism, and no intelligent it piles aehtiie Gee: -worker should pay any attention to it beyond being able to blast | tion of the report is placed upon the illusion held by other workers that there is anything fair these lighter industries, while Bey food packing, oil production and re- taBout such performances. 006 a a ‘. * fi , ete). oF fi ter import- . In place of being the dupes of the professional sports, the Bite nie PTS detieied P workers should organize sports in which they can participate in| as if with the deliberate intention masses, thereby developing themselves physically and mentally of diverting the attention of the : joe : (ard ener ray pea so that they will be better able to challenge the power of the wien membership from the fact that Reet Bont . these are old established industries capitalist system on any front and with any weapons they may | geist veh et in their hands. berth. That Diaz is the most incons' Diaz Decorates Marines for Nicaragua Murders maintained in office by American bayonets, is to decorate the to be controlled by the native ¢ ves who were waging a struggle for self-determination of! will be warden. ir own country. political degeneracy. led it against invasion, but here is a case of the head of the | the jailers. In commenting upo airplanes, states that “for the first time in bombs, gattling guns and poison gas exterminated citizens of! tical prisoners in this jail.” portant unions—is a bar to further 4), | tion? i|QNE concrete instance of the President Diaz, the depraved hireling of Wall Street, who is evidenced by the fact that the national prison of Nicaragua is ifty officers and enlisted men who slaughtered a few hundred) with the aid of American marines, and that a marine officer Hence the marines not only maintain the presi- This is surely something new in the way/dent in power so that the interests of Wall Street will be de-| It is not at all an unusual thing for’ fended at all times, but they conduct wholesale murders against heads of governments to decorate its own soldiers who have de- even the slightest attempt at political opposition and now become} drive to build industrial unions in basic industry. What are the practical conse- |quences of this policy in terms of union organization? The executive council itself gives the answer on Page 23° Use of “yellow dog” contracts has not decreased. states have been compelling their} employees to sign contracts not to long to unions as a condition of employment. In other instances we find employers requiring their work- ers to belong to company unions.” in- ability of the present leadership to organise anybody is the automo- bile industry. Almost exactly one * tters F; rom Employers in many} H st y “ . TES, coupled with the officially ad-| toy Dollars.” lick we beh grea mitted obsolete structural form of | this season. jthe A. F. of L. and its affiliated | Mosisare unions, plus the fpar of the influx of! wiiot Cabot, will be Helen Hayes | unorganised workers, plus the earn- | jeading aan? th “Coquette.” "7 est desire to cause the big capitalists | x |no embarrassment, accounts for the |fact that by concealing the loss of |more than 100,000 coal miners, A. F. \of L. officialdom is able to show a “gain” Of only 8441 members over 1926—in a yeay, still reigns. | Organization of the unorganized | and amalgamation are shown by the} |lantie City, on Monday. eter -,_»|to the “cast of “Send No Money,” When “prosperity” | which is now in rehearsal. 3 which is to be produced | | play opens at the Apollo Theatre, At-! Robert Malcolm, George Reynolds and Gerald Johnson have been added | Some of the principal players who “The Trial of Mary D ANN HARDING—RE | The Desert Song ‘The| with Robt, Halliday & Eadie Buzzell 1th Month | CASINO a0 St Bway. 8.30 Mats. Wed. and t. 2.30 | aa x West 44th St., |LITTLE ae Aa | Mats. | ‘Romancing ’Round j With Helen Mackellar & Ralph Morgan W. Wox presents the Motion Picture A. F. of L. report to be slogans that} |express two vital needs of the labor | movement. They are demands that| will not be downed by setting the! police on Communist workers. | ae Our Readers Ukrainian Women Send $32.75 Editor, The DAILY WORKER: “The DAILY. WORKER ‘hall not be°crushed! ~The workers need and which to. learn the news of the world, ‘and such a source is our beloved DAILY WORKER: : a To help maintain this paper we must fight against the efforts which are being made to destroy it. And| to fight we must have financial, sup- port. Knowing this the Ukrainian Working Women’s Organization of Boston, an educational society, while celebrating its fifth anniversary, brought the matter to the attention of the audience, and after a short ex- planation a collection was taken up. The audience was not large, but those that were present gave geén- erously and $32.75 was collected. We} enclose herewith a money order for this amount, and shall try to send another in short time. Long live The DAILY WORKER! omen’s Or- Diaz, and give their act wide publicity in order to warn other’ are prospective cannon-fodder to give the recruiting stations a wide equential figure-head is further onstabulary recently organized Why I Am A Communist, Editor, The DAILY WORKER— I sent the following letter to the New York Times 10 days ago but I wrot it to the Times because I got sick and disgusted hearing about this coun- | try’s prosperity, ete., ete. | This is my letter to the Times: “What Makes Me A Communist? MY SALARY: $22.00 a week for |running an elevator 10 hours a day. Five years faithful and steady work and a $2.00 raise! FUTILE HUNTS: for that “con-/ genial work and better pay”, A FAMILY: A wife in delicate! health, a one year old baby, all. of us in need of medical care, all of us | undernourished. | RENT: $18.00 a month, top floor, | cold tenement house, 8 rooms, gas} heating that freezes in winter. | The | gas bill averages from $5 to $6 and | will support Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis in the modern dress version of iS) The Taming of the Shrew,” which | the Garrick Players will present at) |the Garrick on October 24, includes | Times Sq. |Sympko U N R I S E Directed by F. W. MURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMANN ie Movietone Accompaniment Thea., 42d St. TWICE 0 SS) ED CD 1S A OS OR CR VEO, 3, by The NewPlaywrights Theatre he ‘Theatre Insurgent” THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class warl OPENING OCTOBER 19 with THE BELT An industrial play with an acetylene flame by PAUL SIFTON. Other plays to be selected from IN AMERICA dwards Faragoh INC.,, by John Dos Passos awson, | et By T. J, O’FLAHERTY | ih SESE be and living expenses all have to} e paid out of $22.00 a week wages.” | mr fail Does my boss worry about my abil- ; Tee 1 L. P, officially supported ity to get along on this starvation|.. Me.cDonald, Thomas and the right wage? No! You may starve, there | \'"& Uideeel ly Sh ae Dabo tet so many thousand slaves fe take | ate Sennlon Policy against the your place for less pay! ‘the rulin Communists. Having succeeded here, class pushes us to the reece dex | they next tackled the trade unions pair. No full stomach will ey tor| and accomplished their aim in having food but we must revolt when we are ths. last ..cohvention ots the Sade in despair.—J. N., New York City | union congress vote to withdraw from me the Anglo-Russian trade union com- By z ; | mittee and to threaten the disaffilia- Annual Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial an of local unions that joined the (Continued from Page One} Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Minority Movement. With those ac- At a recent meeting of the Citizens’ | complishments behind him, the “pacif. Protective League of Colombiana! ist” MacDonald is now waging wa County, the enclosed resolutions were | 0M what is left of radicalism in the drafted and the writer was instructed, Labor Party and the clever bw n the prison, a news dispatch | many months there are no poli- | There may not be any for many | pathy /months to come for the simple reason that the armed hooligans | # 4 This performance only shows in what utter contempt the of the Wall Street bandits eliminate the necessity of taking poli- “unfortunate people of Nicaragua are held.by their bloody oppres- tical prisoners by the efficient device of murder. | ‘sors. Diaz not only brazenly defends the interests of Yankee im-) The ing citizens of his own country. This flunkey of Wall Street also! that country gives us only an inkl plight of the Nicaraguans, under the frightfulness Of | serve -perialism, but has the audacity to decorate its gun-men for kill-| Wall Street, is indescribable. The meagre news emanating from | ye ing of the uses to which Amer- | sends decorations to the families ofthe two marines, S. C. Russell | ican armed forces are put in suppressing people who, inhabit} of Finela, Ala., and James S. Glass ath during the engagement that resulted in the frightful laughter of the Nicaraguans. If the families of these deluded Marines who acted as gunmen for Wall Street have the intelli- gence that ought. to.be possessed by ordinary mortals they will xend back the blood-streaked” médals to the loathsome hireling, ) oh | Street. A er of Disputanta, Va., who met territory containing something Wall Street wants. viah This rampant imperialism must be challenged, not alone by! pool, Ohio. the exploited and oppressed populations of the southern repub- lies, but by the workers of this country who, in ever large num-|The Event — The Red Bazaar, bers are being called upon to act as human munitions for Wal]/The Time — October 6-7-8-9, to mai! them to you for printing in| Strategists are now in line for the The DAILY WORKER: |same medicine they helped Mac give “Resolved that the deepest sym-| the Communists. The honest radicals and condolence are extended to| im the 1. L. P. must either join the family and relatives of Sacco and Communist Party or become part of zetti recently murdered by the the reactionary MacDonald machine, officials of Massachusetts, ‘ Paci “Resolved that we henceforth ob- Not fronts ominguure carvan August 28rd of each successive his battle fleet opened up. Japan ar as a memorial day in honor of the death of these two working class inartyrs,” Geo. H. Schepp, (for the Citi- zen’s Protective League) Rast Liver- more formidable battery of big guns in the Mikado’s empire than at the present time. Under the leadership of Thomas W. Lamont, a group of New York bankers are visiting Japan with a view to pulling the country out of the financial crisis precipitated by the earthquake of 1923, In return for their services in floating loans, six American bankers have been decorated by the emperor with vari- The Place—“adison Sa. Garden. al to American commerce was there a}. {ous imperialist orders. Lamont is now in the Second Class Order of the | Rising Sun, while J. P. Morgan is in the First Class Order of the Sacred | Treasure. Tho we know very little jabout Japanese decorations, we have |a suspicion that Morgan’s title ‘tops | the list. Rf | * | * | RCHOES of Teapot Dome are again ! heard in the political valleys as the next -presidential election looms jon the horizon. ’ Messrs. Blackmer {and O'Neill, who are alleged’ to have nowledge of the little black satchel n which Doheny’s $100,000 was con- |veyed to Mr. Fall, have been located jin Europe and may return to take the witness stand against their for- mer pou eetonr They may also know about the herd of cattle Harry Sin- clair walked on to Mr. Fall’s ranch for no reason whatever except that | Harry did not like to: see a good |vanch untenanted. \ * * * ;GINCLAIR and Fall are to stand trial on October 17, for defraud- ‘ing the government. Neither of those gentlemen are worrying, Sin- clair was once found guilty of con- tempt of court, but he continued to enjoy the fresh air, tho courts are very touchy about their dignity. The democrats may expect to make some political capital out of the scandal, but the American yoters are so ac- customed to political scandals. that ‘one more or less means little to them. rani ar Ukr gar sa on cm or NERNRUERMNROMEN ESI