The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1927, Page 4

eee \ Page Four He opposes injunctions, but he takes ’em as they come. CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WILL HOLD BAZAAR FOR ARRESTED UNIONISTS 1887-——Parsons, CHICAGO, successful the deleg other active we International L: Division Hal the inten: fending the vict “justice” and movement in which the C has always been - were adopte among Oct. eight-hour day in f|Spies, Engel, and their comrades which the International Labor Defense . | will co-operate with the Pioneer Aid and Support Association. Work is al- e adopted for} ready being pushed to send a large or delegation to the Third Annual Conference of the I. L. D. which will 1/be held on the fortieth anniversary of the Haymarket martyrs, in New York City on November 12 and 13. In addition, local Chicago is en- gaged actively in the defense of the {members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of this city, ho were arrested for picketing dur- ng their strike. For this purpose, to- for increas- | the Chicago he twenty with Penn- | miners framed-up i the murdero Sylvania “cossacks Vanzetti protest held in|gether with the need for aiding in Cheswick, Pa., in en, | the defense of the Cheswick cases, and wome! y in- | the coming trial of the Michigan Com- jured. to develop|munist cases, the Chicago local is s to the in-|planning a three-day bazaar-to raise unl the labor moye-}|defense funds. The bazaar, which will 1 to the importance of |be held at Wicker Park Hall, North issue involved }and Robey on December 9, 10 and 11, Arrangements made jis already assured of success by the to observe the fortieth anniversary of | enthusiastic response that has greeted the execution of the pioneers of the | it. with serious dicted miner K. K. K. Injects Itself Minor, Weisbord, Speak Into McAndrew Trial | CHICAGO, 1 dragon of the I At Detroit, Nov. 7 21.—The grand | ux Klan, Realm | —in } DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 21—Arena| | Gardens, the biggest hall in Detroit, i DAILY WOR See eR KER, NEW YORK, SONAR AEERE ATS ORCI OEY ABORT IR De ARONA EL Hin aM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927 The A. F. of L. Leadership and Injunctions By L. JEROME HAVE 1 toward rough such} on Law which | a human| or article | come fo r of mmodit . We have succeeded | 2 concept in law and| n administration that the welfare of is a matter of paramount | glowing terms did Samuel | President of the American of Labor, jubilate upon} ge of the Act which guar- abor for all times immunity n injunetio ng is nc f comme Today, seventeen ye virth of the Clayton A s after the , We see an Labor trans- ricken camp erican Federation of formed into a panicky |Surrounded by a legion of injunc-| |tions. For even while the recent con- | vention at Los A Ss was in sion, a federal jud handed down an the United Mine Workers of | wh is the most deadly of the host jof injunctions that have come before. 2 at Pittsburgh | injunetion against | WHAT has happened? Have the | lawgivers stricken the pro-labor measure from th atute hooks? |Have the courts declared the Clayton }Act unconstitutional? Or did the President of the American Federa- {tion .of Labor perhaps misread the letter of the law? | No—to all these doubtings! In un- mistakable language, the Clayton jAct still stands bold for all to see jand hail. | Verily “the Magna Charta of Am- erican Labor!” “Labor’s Bill of Rights!” “The masterpiece of the A. |F. of L., and the crowning glory of jits president!” | Why then are injunctions still {handed down against the workers? {Why are they on the increase in {number and extent in every corner of the land? Why do they grow more |sinister and insolent from day to lay? | There is only one answer: The | weak and ineffective front presented |by the A. F. of L. leadership in the | workers’ struggle against injunctions |is responsible for the present state | of affairs. The injunction is the capitalist’s }sword drawn against the workers’ By i. Pass, The bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor hold a con- vention in Hollywood, but Mooney and Billings It would not be amiss to say here that I have yet to meet an active trade unionist who does not deplore the necessity of strikes, and who has not in (ountless instances averted | them.” (Emphasis ours) (From An- nual Report to A. F. of L. Conven- tion, December, 1896). Probably the most confessional and truly self-analytical utterance of the venerable spokesman of the A. F. of L. was made in his testimony before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce on bills in connection with the threatened strike of railway em- ployees, August 31, 1916. “I know that strikes are disagree- able, that they ave things that ought to be avoided, and there are no men in all the world who have done more to avoid strikes than these executives of the brotherhood. They are at last driven to the point, not by them- selves, but by their men, the men they represent. They say, “We are going to have the eight hour day.” They have gone farther than I be- lieve their instructions or their cre- dentials warrant them in going, but if they do not stand by their men, IN THE GOLDEN WEST _ | stay in San Quentin, enforce it. In the absence of aggres-| sive initiative on the part of the Am- erican workers, the Clayton Act with its pro-Labor provisions has proved a dead letter. The legal status of the worker is never stronger than his or- ganizational status. Write however clearly the most labor-loving laws into the statute books and, the work- ers’ fists unclenched, the judge dis- pensing these laws will somehow al- ways manage to misread them. Only by the organizational resistance of the workers, by mass violations of injunctions, only by building a strong Labor Party to defend the workers’ political rights, only by driving out of offiee the darlings of the bosses— the labor bureaucrats and électing in their place a militant leadership will the tyranny of the courts be broken. What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. | | nst) Party of America, today es- | }caped a d ME a ate gE IPORIES tet Sedge Areted in” Nae Branches of med of Shia ator Defense for Chicago Martyrs PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 21. —| | Convicted more than a year ago on} ja sedition charge, George Papcun, CHICAGO, Oct. In honor of artyrs of Haymarket who gave their lives on the scaffold of Cook jof Pittsburgh, Communist and) |member of the Workers (Commu-| | County Jail, in Chicago, forty years ago because of their devotion to the eause of labor, an eight-hour day for which they pioneered, the Chicago lo- cal of International Labor Defense is planning to rename a numberof its branches with the names of the heroes of 1877. On November 30, a special meeting of the local’s city central committee will decide which five branches will be named after the five legally as- sassinated martyr Albert Parsons, | August Spies, George Engel, Louis |Lingg and Adolph Fishcher. In ad- |dition, two other branches will be named after Nicola Saceo and Bart- olomeo Vanzetti. Fights Frame-up. In addition to the campaigns for prison sentence when! | Judge S. John Morrow ruled fav-| orably on a motion for arrest of judgment, Papeun was convicted of cireu- | lating alleged seditious literature | and making unpatriotic speeches | among the coal workers and coal! miners of Fayette county. Remus’ Attorneys Get Look at What Dry Files Thay Can WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. —} Certain government files bearing on|the Cheswick miners, the Chicago the relationship between Mrs. Imo-|needle trades workers who are ar- gene Remus, murdered wife of |rested, the Michigan cases, and against the Greces-Carillo frame-up, the Chicago local has begun its win- ter activties with real energy. The affair of the Bulgarian branch is to |be held this month, as is the lecture junder the auspices of the Jewish City leommittee. The Lithuanian city com- |mittee, which now includes represen- the complete records could be ob-|tatives of six branches and 10 affili- tained from those who saw them, |ated organizations totalling 1400 today. |members, is to hold a big entertain- Remus’ attorney is trying to trai] |ment in November. The Italian city down securities worth $1,000,000 of |conimittee, to which is now joined the Remus’ bootleg profits, which he says ,local Anti-Fascist Alliance, will pre- the dead woman, thru a conspiracy ; Sent a moving picture film in No- with Dodge, carried away and con-| vember, and the same month will see cealed. la joint city affair of all the German ‘and Hungarian I. L. D. and affiliated Dies at a Coolidge Speech. | units, as well as a concert of the WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—H. H.|Russian branch: Spayd, 84, a veteran of the Civil War,| Work now is being concentrated on who collapsed | Wednesday during | ending a large delegation to the President Coolidge’s dedication of the|ppird Annual Conference of Inter- rege prey thy Sia here, died to- national Labor Defense to be held s : lin New York City on November 12 land 18, the fortieth anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket mar- tyrs. poceeweceneseeeeee wane Health Simplified George Remus, “Bootleg King” with enemy, Franklin L. Dodge, a ion agent, were opened to- day before a conference of defense attorneys, Dodge, and representatives of the prosecution, Nothing definite as to what the files contained or whether they were GET ONE Ow 14-Karat Gold Emblem Q nd Design) NEWSSTANDS (Actual § of Illinois, one Gail S. Carter, today | 7° : d (5 Se ieee trike. What s iq|if they do not stand by the eight- 5 aba Mieed iw” on the trial of King will be filled to overflowing on the [SFr goer het olen era hour day, depend upon it, the men—| Paper & Bag Makers Union eR OF silty No cult, no school, the good from George. He stated that 25,000,000] afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 6, when | scabbard against the drawn blade of |the rank and file of the men—will Local 107, Brooklyn, N. Y. 20.00 2 all schools. Exposing healing pamphlets would be distributed ac-| the workers of this city meet to cele-|his foe? Yet this is and has always|Telegate them to the limbo of men|Shop Nucleus No. 102, Youngs- Seah: by, tener Sd Sate ior quackery wherever found. Edited ing England of influencing Super-|hrate the victories of the Russian| been the stand of the A. F. of L. offi-|Passé and unrepresentative of the} town, Ohio ..............45 5.20 (b1.50 by G: precticiig physiclsn, experi; itendent of Schools McAndrew in the | Revolution and to demonstrate their |cials in the fight against injunctions. | ilers’ interests, aid instead of these/Fred T. Douglas, Boston Mass. . .1.00 bain Sad boone aie. S's one In beat eauention, Eee conduct of his office under Mayor|“\O uo. A ., | And, lest one might charge these lab. |Comservative men, who have been|Anton Zehnder, Wainwright, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop Living, Box 2, Sta. M, New York. Dever. solidarity in preserving the Soviet |” ' generals with malice or even sus.|@tiven to this point to represent the Ganado Neiwate 64 face sks 4.00 100 University Place a aul EGaeatiphun it Bees McAndrew is being tried by the| Union from attack. picion against the judges by whose| interests and rights of their men,| Dr, Hillinger, Chicago, Ill. ..... 1.00 New York City ple copy free. “With seariy sub Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson adminis-|_ Robert Minor, who has just returned | ands Labor tis hoan Renna and|they will elect leaders who will be| Michael A. Ahtanin, Nuttalburg, In — be 5 or more $1.25 each. | evade babs e erie waits eas tration. McAndrew did his best | from a long stay in Russia, will be the | pape with injunctions, the official | MOT Tesponsive to deal with their bare, We Varo eee: 2.50 sapidineshauecsiee akemnodd FER ee ee on WORE While in office to regimentize the|principal speaker. Albert Weisbord organ of the A. Bt b. ‘Teaves no |¢™Ployers in a way to which I would|Mike Zole, Nuttalburg, W. Va. 2.50| === SS Satna schools, put thru the “platoon sys. also on the list. Music and other grounds for aouhte: Z greatly dislike to give my thought|Paul Larry, Nuttalburg, W. Va. 1.00 tem,” and break the teachers’ union.| bright spots on the program will be Sai sbnata thes fe h the range.” (Emphasis ours). .|J. Malinsky Nuttalburg, W. Va. 1.00 But he doesn’t belong to Thompson’s|furnished by the Finnish Band, the ala eckhd = hs ers of the * * * M. Marraccini, Elizabeth, Pa. ..1.00 erowd, and since Thompson ran on an| Ukrainian Chorus, the Finnish Seeahin: We b na ear a eae TRANSLATE this into plain English, |S. Sirotnik, Youngstown Ohio ..1.00 anti-British tic McAndrew is be-|Athletes and the Pioneer Chorus. te ey fed oe ah des workemivand reads Emil Magocsy Tonawanda, N. Y. 1.00 ing called a “stool-pigeon of King Et Scream E ri oa a5 jumclentlaualy gies MG Den’t put the blame on us, honor-|M. Spoler, N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. 1.00 aeoree ene other than the mayor au eer ILY WORKER lopinion which he bélieves to be cor.|able Senators, for a strike once a D. Weinstein, New York City ..1.00 AT J?PEC IAL PRICEY? rect. We ot agr af se |leap year that we’re powerless to i + 1.00 | |fluenced by sinister motives or under|#nd trusted servants. We've given Sch’ a sere, Ney pore Gy oh A ° ° ° |the domination of corporate influ-|YoU ample proof of it. As officials of Cane, ewe York City ..1.00 | te lence. . .” (American Federationist,|the Unions we’ve done all we could Bo br ew 7 City : -1.00 nin an 0 evism | Ir nniva on erence | March, 1908). "|to ‘keep the lid on the hell that's) 2-9. Bryan, Clifton, Ariz. ......1.00 ) And this « month after the infari.|DeWine among the rawke Lf now |i Ses Teunegows, Obie 2-00 eS : lous Danbury Hatters’ decision! ‘This [nd then we declare a strike, i he- |p Seri ew York Oty Lop With a book by Stali : cause we're drive: v , os Yi i International Labor Defense |was the answer of the A. F. of L. men. Our hearts aren't in the strike,|Comrade Schaffer, Chicago, Ml. 3.00 2 Hoo. vy alin f | officialdom to one of the direst blows jhit at organized labor, to one of the in no wise an aberration from the norma! course pursued by the A. F. | of L. leadership, but that they are | bound up with its general, unaltering You know it. But we can’t always by the highest of all officials, by the oracle of the American Federation of Labor? None but this: that since the lead- B. Gershuk, New York City W. Albert, Afognak, Alaska ....1.00 F. Roch, New York City........ 1.0¢ C. Baner, New York City ... F. Debicky, New York City Ch. Donath, New York City 1.00 | 1.00 1.00 Here is a splendid fascinating account of the * and filled In turn as received. P ne of t our foot di d say, No. We|: Kimbel, Afognak, Alaska ....1.00 IRVING PLAZA HALL most insult iz, as well as injurious, SHA. ba winked ae Atel Seo The | A: Friedolin, Afognak, Alaska ..1.00 great leader—a book on the following differences (15 Irving Place) of all anti-labor injunctions. At a| jon might begin to see a thing or|S: C. Burris, Lakeview, Oregon 5.00 in the Party,—and a book by Stalin pointing out time when all the _Workers were! two, They'd find us a trifle too| lee Holton, Granite City, Ill. ..3.00 the road of the Russian Party. These three at a eae ih eens, isha friendly with vou. (Ana than shat ak vata Roxbury, Mass. 1.00 special rate—send for them today. jital’s throttling hand was clearly|__ } a” - Kershner, S, n7, San Fran- * seen in the decision, the “leaders” of [Men naar? that damned teow of tat |___ cisco, Calis! 8.00 LENIN—His Life and Work : Debor ing od instil into the| sheviks that's after the scalps of all|2mil Geihon, New York City . 1.00 by J. Yaroslavsky 25 indignant hearts of the workers faith of * 1 H. Canale, Nw York City . - 1.00 Ww in the honesty and conscientiousness is Bi oe oo Wath, the At: of Aug. Noll, New York City. -1.00} © LENINISM vs. TROTSKYISM | 2 pice What inspiration to], officiate ¥ et : ‘elationship of |C™ aie New York City ..4.00 by Stalin-Zinoviev-Kamenev —20 j struggle can the workers draw from| yj. st NY with| Avg: Burkhardt, New York City 1.00 ' + such leaders? And what are such| VE With the bosses and THEY with |i’ anhenschmidt, New York BOLSHEVISM—Some Questions Answered |declarations but a carte blanche to| ‘he workers. City - 1.00 by 1. Btalin ayes |injunction judges. _ What inference, workers of Amer-|F, Boche, New York City .. . «1.00 | 2 \ Sti te ica, ie! his oe such state-|Rdward Kramer, New York City 1.00 All for-50 cents WHAT tits Ghd dimfak actions are ments uttered with brazen openness | Jack Lehnerer, New York City 1.00) Add 5 cents for postage. re November 12-13th FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY HAYMARKET MARTYRS All Workers’ Organizations Send Delegates For information write to TERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE National Conference Headquarters 80 East 11th Street Room 402 New York City | policy, is clear to all. The cardinal ers in the A. F. of L, discountenance strikes as a weapon of the workers, J. Zimmerman, New York City. .1.00 f Books offéred in this column on hand i * in limited quantities. All orders can (aig Sire te I. Haslbeck, New York City .....1.00 — = ee 5 [a ur neeas ce Shes officials is and, by their own admission, enter |Ed. Mueller, New York City ....1.00 |= : — ae hay TPS fae | Sain the 5 ra ah vee sat fe RY - into them unwillingly, to obviate the | Rob. Baidrian, New York City ..1.00 | thie cae iebioncnery eat ferries ie inauguration of a militant leadership |L. Lesser, New York City ......1.00 AlD W N F D lien aad Constitution. Gulp. sone —that since these officials would like |G. SchMidt, New York City 1.00 aid are employers and some are employ- jees. It behoves, therefore, both these to see an end to all strikes, they en- ter into strikes with a treacherous T, Ropmann, New York City ...1.00 Em. Knotek, Oak Park, Ill. ...:20.00 ee earn intent. They want the workers to|Tom Limondes, Oak Park, ill. 20-00 About two weeks remain until Election Day, The Wotkers Sahat to cooperate and live in an, |lose their faith in militant action.|Olga Knotek, Oak Park, Tl. ....1.00| (Communist) Party is waging a campaign to enlighten the work- | dlgtarhad Heemenen ne am Gonitare s is the aim, the beautiful ideal of |John Bubin, Oak Park, Ill. .-2.00]/ers on the vital issues that are involved. |himself prefers to put it (American | Federationist, October, 1894): | “The number of strikes that have | been averted by the trades unions |}can never be correctly recorded. . . As ja matter of fact, the greatest victor- \ies of the labor movement are those |which are achieved unheralded and | unknown to the general public. They |are obtained by the unions in confer- ence with the employers or their rep- resentatives in their offices.” (Em- phasis ours). Elsewhere he says: “As a matter of fact, there is no one who has devoted thought to our] movement but who will endeavor by every means within his power to pre-| ¢ , Woll, Lewis, et al. This ideal realized, their sleep will no longer be troubled. With what passion, therefore, can such labor leaders hate injunctions? Of course jthey pass resolutions, rail and make outcries at conventions, buttonhole politicians in lobbies, But to what avail and with what results? Has there been a single significant strike in recent years in which the injunction has not been a feature? Railroads, Mines, Steel, Passaic, Needle Trades, and now again Mines. What is left for the workers to do to break the power of the injunction? One thing above all others: Strike in the face of injunctions. Mass vio- lation will break the back of injunc- vent the iuauguration of strikes, or to take such measures as will bring |their number down to a minimum, y tions. No amount of legislation fav- oring Labor is of any worth unless the strength of Labor is present to Karolina Boubin Oak Park, J. Jomacek, Oak Park, Ill. Straus, Oak Park, Ill. ... S. Cermoll, Oak Park, Til. . K. Jirals, Oak Park, Ill. . James Jedlicka, Oak Park, Ill Jack Kamis, Oak Park, Ill. . I, M. Thomas, Barberton, Ohio 3.00 . 8.00 Los Angeles Young Workers! LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21.—All the young workers and students of Los Angeles will meet Saturday evening, October 29, at the Grand Halloween Ball in the large and beautiful audi- terium of the Cooperative Center (2706 Brooklyn Ave.), arranged by the Young Workers (Communist) League Are you collecting money among your shop-mates for thia fight? What have you been doing to help this work? The Workers (Communist) Party needs your help at once. 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