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Page Two Eee NINETY-THREE PERCENT OF WORKERS’ BELONG 10 INDUSTRIAL UNIONS (Continued from Page One) ization of production in their particu- lar trade or industry. Trade Union Ba thods. proper (R. S. F. S. R.); nearly 2,- districts, 92.7 of All Workers. “To carry out e ‘Gir 5 en “The latest figures show that 92.7| make collective serteioe te ee per cent of all the eligible workers| employer, whether state trusts OF/o? the country are in the unions. help in the private conce: laws. They enforcement of the draft and secure the adoption la- bor legislation. They anize spe- cial funds and traveling aid funds. They encourage the growth of mutual est workers are in the union, namely 1,120,000, but the total number of such workers hired by the individual farmers thruout the country is not definitely known. aid societies among their member-) «ppg highest percentage of organ- ship. They defend t vorkers be-| ization obtains among the art work- fore the various conciliation and ar-|.1s the printing trades and medical bitration boards and lead them in \orkers (comparatively small unions) their disputes with bot te and pri~ vate management. They declare and lead strikes when necessary to achieve their ends. They work with| government and cooperative institu- tions in the construction of houses, ) the organization public health while the commercial workers, paper workers, leather workers and cater- ing and hotel workers all have 95 per cent or over.” The attitude of the trade unions toward the Soviet government is de- scribed in the report as follows: work, playgrounds, = rseries - “The unions have always been | similar institutions. hey send their | lear in their avowal of their deter- | it on the various representative to sit government bodies such as the Com- missariat for Labor, the Commissar- | iat for Health and the Commissariat! for Education. They organize a wide| variety of cultural activities and ernment in industrializing the coun- try and in ‘building up socialism.’ Be- | lieving in the philosophy and prac-| tice of socialism, they naturally sup- ;.|port the government they have cre-| schools, and carry on an extensive/ated and defended with gun in hand.” journalistic and publishing work.} The report is signéd by James H.| They aid and assist the consumers’) Maurer, chairman, John Brophy and| cooperatives, Frank L. Palmer, and by Albert Relation To Industry—Strength. {Coyle, the secretary of the delega-| “In addition to these functions the} tion, Russian unions carry out the same} In the form of a book of about 100! line of routine activity as do progres-|pages, the report is being published | sive, energetic unions in any capi-|and will be ready for distribution in talist country—with this major dis-| |New York at the mass meeting at tinction: they pay much greater at-/Madison Square-Garden next Sunday tention to production arid the devel- | afternoon at 2 o’clock, It will then opment of industry. On this point|/be on sale thruout the country. the interests of the unions and the; The DAILY WORKER will pub- interests of the Soviet. government! jlish the entire report by instalments, are practically identical. | the first instalment to appear in the “The total number of members in| issue of tomorrow, Friday, when the all the twenty-three national unions | ¢4j) report will be released to the is now over 9,827,000, The largest} press. group is industrial; next in line is the group working in government,| publie and trading institutions. Those! following, are in order, transporta-; tion workers, agricultural and forest | workers and those engaged in the building trades. Composition—Percentage Organized. - “In order of affiliated membership, By THOMAS L. DABNEY. the following unions stand at the PHILA., Oct. 19—What sort of heed of the list: 1, Land and forest.| education is best suited to the needs Bourgeoisified School Teacher Strikes Snag In Philadelphia Talk . Civil service nd commercial em- of the w rs? Are the regular fies S. 3. Railroad workers. 4./agencies and concepts of education Metal nsebese: 5. Textile workers.' adapted to the problems of the work- 6. Educational’ workers. 7. Building/ers or are they propaganda agencies workers, The first two have each/of the boss? These are some of the over 1,000,000 members. |questions which the discussion at last “The great majority of the union Sunday’s Forum of the Philadelphia members (7,045,800) live in Russia|Council, American Negro Labor Con- ae RASS ES gress, precipitated. Work Daily for the Daily Worker! The main address of the afternoon BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! READY this city. Her subject was “Educa- jtion for Workers.” The concept of | education as presented by Miss Wat- son was bourgeois to the core, being based on the function of education as | In time for the November outlined by the American Education 7th meetings in ali parts of most of the rganized the country. teachers belong. Ue Some Illusions Punc:ured. Commenting on the speaker’s state. ment that our homes are deteriorat- ing because mothers are frequenting \the theaters and fathers are attend- ing their clubs while the children are |prowling alone about the streets, A. J. Carey pointed out that the aver- ‘age worker has no home; that he A New Boox THE rent out rooms to lodgers thus mak- ing for congestion and social malad- |justment in the homes. Poor home jtife is due to poor economic condi- |tions among the workers. The aver- jage mother does not frequent the |theater; but she works in a factory | and receives such a low wage that | TH 000,000 live in the Ukraine, and much} smaller numbers in the less industrial} Possibly 50 per cent of land and for-| mination to support the Soviet gov-/ was made by Miss Rosa L. Watson, | one of the public school teachers of | ociation, to which unfortunately, | ‘ American | rents a shack, and is often forced to} THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927 |Militant Leader of Pennsylvania Miners Visits |* Soviet | | { | | (Continued from Page One) one hand and with its concessions to workers and peasants on the other. | “The Communist Party therefore energetically opposed Gomez and Ser- rano and gave qualified support to Obregon, at the same time criticizi him and trying to develop independent | political forces of workers and peas- ants, the unions and peasant leagues. Communist Party Acted. “When the counter-revolution broke out the Communist Party was im-| mediate in its call to crush the coun- ter-revolution. “The leaders of the so-called labor party were hesitant and did not give a clear guidance to workers and peas- ants. The influence of the Party grew enormously. “The Communist Party is not yet numerous and strong but it has great influence among the workers and peasants. An influence which grew enormously because of its correct pol- \icies in the present situation. “The influence and circulation of the official organ of the Communist | |Party, ‘The Machete,’ has increased enormously. It is now a mass paper | with about 10,000 circulatio In} 2 country where 85 per cent is illit- | erate and where the price of the paper (10 Mexican cents) is often one-third | jof a day’s wages of a peasant—this | jcireulation is enormous. It is a {greater circulation than that of all jother papers published for workers and peasants put together. Their con- | fidence in what it tells them is un- shakeable because “The Machete” is the only labor paper in Mexico that | is not subsidized. It has several hun- dred workers and peasant. correspon- | dents. The party memberships is | growing rapidly altho it is still | small.” “What is your opinion of the rapid executions and the measures taken to suppress the counter-reyolution?” Riv- iera was asked. ixecutions Necessary. JOHN BROPHY ARMED MASSES BEAT REACTION IN MEXICO; SAYS | DIEGO RIVERA, ON HIS WAY TO SOVIET UNION |ant bands,” he replied, | made to disarm them sometimes -by | tion of military chieftains. |European Chemical and Union | + | | “Are the workers and armed now?” he was asked. | * Workers Armed. | “There aré numerous armed peas- “Armed peas- ants finished the forces of Gomez in Huatuseo, In various parts of the |country are bands of armed peasants whereas in other places an effort is peasants government order, sometimes by ac- There are clashes when disarming is attempted. Peasant bands defeated the clerical- landowning forees in fttempted up- risings during the past year. Groups of armed workers especially miners in Jaliseo defended their villages against clerical rebel bands.” “During the present episode,” asked the DAILY WORKER reporter, “did the workers and peasants make any positive gains—that ig gains in addi- tion to the suppression of counter- revolution?” “The. workers and peasants,” he answered, “have gained much in or- anization and class consciousness and in confidence in their own forces. The government felt more keenly the necessity of seeking worker-peasant |support. The reaction was crushed, counter-revolutionary chiefs killed, reactionary newspaper editors ex- pelled and the forces of the reaction rendered weaker for future attempts.” Dye Trust to Have More ‘Than Billion in Capital PARIS, Oct. 19,-The giant Euro- pean chemical trust, which is being formed by British, French, German and Belgian capitalists, will repre- sent a combined capitalization of more than a billion dollars, it was learned yesterday. The move follows the giant Euro- | distress. ‘Denver Carpinters Lose Five-Day Week at Order | Of President Hutchinson | DENVER, (FP) Oct. 19.—' The | carpenters district council was} stunned upon receipt of an ultima- | tum from _ their: International President William M. Hutchinson | | ordering Denver carpenters to re-| | turn to the old schedule of 5%4| | days a week after, by a majority | of the members, they had de-| manded and won the 5-day week. | Hutchinson rendered the decision | on the basis of an appeal by mem-! bers of a Denver local who had been fined $25 for violation of the 5-day week agreement. To Be Organized in New York Drive By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press). The first round in a campaign to organize the 10,000 employes in the New York offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., opens with Presi- dent Haley Fiske showing signs of Hard hit by the charges of union representatives and prominent society women that his girl employes are getting as little as $12 a week he is feebly countering with the outworn | assertion that the campaign is a “Bol- shevist movement” and the charges are inaccurate, A staff of organizers has under- |taken the drive on the Metropolitan as part of a general moyement of the Bookkeepers’, Stenographers’ and Ac- countants’ Union to unionize the hun- dreds of white collar workers in New York City. Aided by the Women’s Trade Union League, social agencies, liberal policyholders of the company and prominent women the drive is centering around the Metropolitan Tower, second highest office building in the city, where most of the force is employed. “T would like to ask Mr. Fiske how a girl can keep her health on $12 or $15 a week,” said Leonard Bright, president of the union. “Most of the 7,000 girls ang women in the employ of the Metropolitan are getting wages far below the minimum health and decency standards. One of their typ- ists eame to our office looking for a better job. She has been with the company three years. We tested her en a machine and she was a fast, ac- curate typist. They pay her $15 a week.” The union’s drive on the big insur- ance company follows the adoption of a resolution by the American Federa- tion of Labor at Atlantic City to sup- port a general movement to organize the clerical workers of the United States, whose number is iisted at 3,- 500,000. Speeches over WEVD, the labor station, and a mass meeting on Madi- son Square are preliminary steps in the campaign which the union has announced. Daily releases are being given to- the press containing pro- tests by such women as Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Evelyn Preston, Freda Krichwey, Margaret Hatfield and others against the extreme ex- ploitation in the Metropolitan offices. “While the company has not been backward in installing virtually every known device for making its girl and women employes ‘contended’,” Miss Kirchwey said yesterday, “it has failed miserably in supplying them with a living wage. Free lunches, diet kit- chens, medical and dental treatment, annuities starting at 60 years (an age rarely reached in the service of this | tions made by officials of Communist Insurance Workers | plied, “No revolutionary criterién,” he re- “can help but approve of them, pean steel cartel recently formed and | country because of the constant great is a move on the part of European|turn-over in personnel) and other con- capitalists to compete with the Uni-| cession fail to minimize our astonish- YEAIR The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia By J. Louts Encpau. publications to be issued by The Workers Library Pub- lishers. With creetincs to Ameri- can workers on the 10th she cannot afford to attend theaters, | Carey also pointed out that moral} | evils and bad moral ideas are not |due to innate depravity but are the ‘products of a faulty economic and |social system. A. Warreno, Charlotte Jones, and {Rose Carey pointed out during the discussion that all agencies of educa- tion such as schools, the screen, news- papers and churches are the propa- ‘ganda agencies of the ruling class. ‘Another Prohibition Agent Up for Graft COVINGTON, Ky, Ky., October 19.—| |Charged with conspiracy to obstiuct| | because Gomez and Terrano had open relations with and represented the jinterests of foreign oil and mine owners and native and foreign land} owners in their programs genuinely fascist in character, they promised land owners and oil operators to un- do the few achievements that the Mexican workers and peasants have gained thru so many years of pain- ful struggle. “Besides, the suppression of the life of the counter-revolutionary lead- ers signifies the saving of the lives jof millions of workers and peasants, | And every conscious worker and every | lover of progress and freedom must | approve such actions.” ted States. Competition, in part, takes the form of wholesale wage slashes, lengthening of hours and the speed-up methods. The lead in the organization of the trust is being taken by the Interessen Gehmeinschaft (German) ‘and the British chemical interests controlled by Sir Alfred Mond. Bosses Want Apprentices WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 ¢FP) — Skilled labor necessary for Americar industry is not being produced fast jenough, the manufacturing section of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ar- | gues, in @ press announcement of a survey it has made in this field. justice for a consideration of $20,000,| George Griffin, acting deputy prohi-| bition administrator; his son, Claude | Griffin; Richard Mullins and Albert} St. Clair-were indicted by the Federal! Grand Jury here today. The. indictment charged that the| Anniversary of Soviet Rus- sia from Kaveni, presi- dent of the Soviet Union. 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LOCAL OFFICE-— Room 35, 108 East 14th Street, YORKVILLE OF FICh— 354 East 81st Street. The DAILY WORK HIT HARLEM OFFICE— 2119 3rd Avenue, at Ti6th Street. BRONX OFFICE— ment that the Metropolitan pays as low a wage as $12.” Italian Workers Set Up Progressive Labor Hall Hold Big Celebration PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 19. — After ten years of work, sacrifice, and agi- tation the Italian workers of the southern section of Philadelphia have attained their goal, namely, a home for progressive labor elements in that section, at 1208 Tasker St. On Saturday afternoon, October 22nd, at 2.p..m. the. opening ofthe Italian Progressive Institute will be celebrated with a festival that will Jast.for two days. There wil!.be a large bazaar, dancing on Saturday and addresses by well-known speakers. Admission will be free and all work- ers are. cordially invited to attend these opening geremonies. The building which the Italian workers have secured is large and newly renovated, with large and smal! meeting rooms. The main hall is well) adapted for stage performances, and |” will be utilized for lectures, debates, i diseussions and open forums, There will. be provided special attractioi 'S. for the younger, generation, such as gymnasium, games, dancing, ete., while .the children awill be -provided with & modern school where they will Pelag med ae ‘in working’ class sub- ma 2829 3rd Avenue, at 149th Street, BROOKLYN OFFICE— fe ‘fen rivek Str, EH 5 All communications should be ad- | dressed to the Itatian Progressive In- stitute, Busept “Oswaldo, secretary, 1208 Tasker St., Philadelphia. A sips miteanieeteenemenceramiemtemaramcimermeempnentieseneennemseeen came ee ‘MANY AMERICANS © VISIT THE U.S.S.R,. FOR CELEBRATION, Attend Festivities | MOSCOW, Oct. 19.—Nearly 200; workers and intellectuals from the} | Americas will be among the 10,- 000 enthusiasts participating in the | 4° monster celebration of the tenth an-| niversary of the Bolshevik revolution | November 7, according to reserva-{ groups here, The liberal party of Nicaragua,| which was defeated by American | troops working with Diaz, will be) among those represented at the sere | monies, and there will be about thir-! ty from other Latin-Armerican coun- | tries. Mme. Sun Will Attend. The left wing Kuomintang of} China will be represented by Madame} Sun Yat-sen, widow of the first pres- ident of the Chinese republic, and} Eugene Chen, once foreign minister) for the Hankow government, New York, Berlin, Paris and An-| gora are to have exhibits of Soviet | enterprises in industry, art, hygiene | and the drama, | * + | 10,000 Americans Visit. | | MOSCOW, Oct. 19.—At least 10,-| Russia during the season just ended, it was estimated today. Thousands of workers as well as nalists and social students have vis- ited the U. 8. S. R. Nearing Gives Course On Imperialism at the Workers School With the growing danger of an im- perialist war against Soviet Russia, with the clash between the imperial- ist powers increasing day by day, the study of imperialism, its economic basis, and its political workings be- comes more important than ever. The Workers School is helping to meet this need by offering a course in “Eeonomics and Politics of Imperial- ism” Tuesday evenings, with William W. Weinstone as instructor. Course Fundamental. er courses in imperialism to be given at the school, especially for the “Chi- nese Revolution”; “Problems of the Pacific” and “Modern Imperialism.” The “Chinese Revolution” and ‘‘Prob- lems of the Pacific” are six-session courses, offered one after the other on Wednesday evenings, with Earl R. Browder as the instructor. The “Modern Imperialism” course with Seott Nearing as instructor, will be given in the spring term, immediately upon the latter’s return from China where he is now making a first-hand study of the role of imperialism in that country’s life. To Study Lenin. In addition to an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism, the class in “Economics and Politics of Imperialism” will study the political features of imperialism such as the growth of the political power of mon- opoly and finance capital, the chang- ing character of the state, the division of the world by the great powers, the of changing relationships of strength. colonial and national struggles, mili- tarism and imperialist wars. The basic texts will be Lenin’s “Imperial- ism” and “The Last Stage of Capital- ism” and Paylovich’s “The Foudations of Imperialist Policy.” This class will begin Tuesday, Oc- tober 25, at 9.15 p.m. Registration is now going on every afternoon and eve- ning at the office of the Workers School, Room 32, 108 East 14th St., New York City. Indict Four U. S. Dry Officers for Demanding Big Graft of Brewery CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 19. George Griffin, assistant to W. 0. Mays, prohibition administrator for Kentucky and ‘Tennessee, and three other men, all of Mt. Vernon, Ky., were indicted by a federal grand jury at Covington, Ky:, today, on counts alleging obstruction of justice. The .indictments charge. the four | conspired to keep witnesses away from court and demanded $20,000 for carrying out the alleged conspiracy, which was said to have been revealed when the brewery officials refused to Be, « | A. F. of L. Invited to | Visit. Italy; Fascism Knows Its Friends The American Federation of Labor has been invited to serid’a delegation to Italy ty the Fascist League” of North America. The invitation” was ‘teridered “yesterday ‘by Count 'Thaon ‘di Revel, agent of Mussolini in Amer- league. “Revel said the hostility to fascism | is the fault of the Communists and ‘promised the A. FP. of Li ion ‘would receive a warm welcome ‘from Mussolini’s government. Nicaraguan an Liberals to|| | 000 American tourists have visited | scores of educators, engineers, jour-| This course is a rerequisite for oth: | struggle for redivision on the basis; iéa “and president of the fascist | | Money With Their Feet To Feed Their Brains, The Workers School of Chicago | | will give a Hallowe’en Dance on} October 22nd at the Workers Ly- | ceum, 2783 Hirseh Blyd, This is | the first Masquerade dance of the | | season and everyone is advised to | | come-in costume. Original prizes | | will be ‘given to those weriing original garb. 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