The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 5

TRADEUNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE ) *SIVE THE, UNIONS” PLEDGES 10 (Continued from Page SORA of 3a tion” issued to meet the drive of the railroads against the workers in 1922, eyen though ridiculed at the time by the reactionaries in the trade unions had been proven correct, he pointed out. The slogan of “Save The Min- 2rs’ Union” had met with equal deri- on, even calling forth ridicule from European officials of the Internation- al Federation of Trade Unions, the reformist International. It is now ap- parent, he said, that the miners’ union is actually in just such danger as these officials scorned. Stop Surrender Policy. The burning slogan before the labor | movement at the present moment, he ! coneluded is “Save The Trade Uni that unless the present po o render on the part of the labor of. ficialdom to, the bosses was reve 12 a pelicy of militancy and struggle the same fate was in store for the whole labor movement as had oc- curred in the case of the railroad and mine workers, Foster emphasized that it depended upon the wembers of the Trade Union Educationa! League and the left wing to earry out the policy of struggle within the unions and to force a pro- | gram of militancy into the movement, | , as well as to organize the unorgan-| ized, The delegates heard with enthus- | iasm the reading of a cablegram sent to the Red International of Labor | Unions at Moscow with which the T. U. E. L. is affiliated. The message essed the agreement of the con- ference with the program laid out by the R. I. L. U. in a cable Saturday, | and pledged itself to muster around the slogans of Organize the Unorgan- | ized, Stop the War Danger, and For a Labor Party. In his talk on the International sit- uation, Earl Browder referred to the outstanding tasks of the left wing to. unite the labor forces against the wa: danger and for the support of the Chinese Revolution. Must Remedy Disorganization. ‘Wm. F, Dunne, in emphasizing the tasks of the T. U. E. L. as the moti- vating force in the organization of the unorganized, gave a graphie ac- count of the state of unorganization in the various industries in the United States showing how utterly the labor bureaucracy had failed to deal with the task of organizing the workers in the basic industries. Dunne’s analy- sis Showed that in such industries a: steel, packing houses, boots and shoe: S, ; ete., hardly more than 3 per cent ay The Red Star “B” team defeated the workers were organized, __... The remarks of H,. W. Wicks em- phasized the necessity of building a labor party to offset the method of selling out to the old capitalist par- ties which had characterized the A. F. of L. policy of rewarding its ef “Chief among the resolutions was of aa and file representatives, | Smith, Anthony. and Minerich, spoke in detail of the plight the miners’ union found itself in as a result both | of the attacks of the mine bosses and | the fatal policies of John Lewis. Smith pointed out the role which the left wing would have to play if the American labor movement was to be saved from the same fate and called | upon those pri at and the forces repre sented there to get behind the! mine’ strike. The delegates and isitors to the conference responded | by pnlddging over fifteen hundred dol- | lars towards miners’ relief. | Anthony pointed out the role of the oal and iron police in the Pennsyl- vania conflict and reported that cores of Chicago gangsters had been ed into that state, clothed with the uniforms of the police and were} now engaged in their nefarious work. Mure Reactionary Than’ Governor. That John L. is, president of the United Mine Workers, was even} reactionary than Governor isher of Pennsylvania in’ that Lewis! even made the pretense of investigation. of the pol'ce brutalities, was the theme of Min- jerich’s talk. H } ESE | cot | in- | al| roth- | | Ogio, speaking for. the Chi delegation, emphasized the sp’ | international solidarity of the © Japanese and other O ers with their American and comrades , | Telegrams To Mooney & Billings. | In addition to the telegrams sent to Mooney and Billings, the Colorado | prisonerst and the striking miners of | | Ohio and Pennsylvania, pledging the | support of the left wing in every pos- sible way in the task of freeing these | militant workers, the T. U. E. L. con- | ference passed. resolutionssin support | of the striking miners of Ohio and Pegnsylvania. the one in support of the Soviet Union on its completion of ten’ years of workers’ rule, pledging the confer- ence to ¢arry on the struggle against the war danger and for the recogni- tion of the Soviet Union. Another resolution called attention of the American working class to the struggle in defense of class war pris- oners against capitalist justice and in particular pledged its support of the International Labor Defense in its heroic activities in behalf of all op- pressed workers. RED STAR TEAM WINS the Blue Star “B” ‘team yesterday by the s@ere of 3 to 1 in a game of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League played at Parade Grounds, Brooklyn. SAVE CREGO AND CARRILLO, jnight at | o’clock. THE DAILY WORKER, SEE TOE YORK, MONDAY, ECEMDEE 5, 1927, Workers Party Activities NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Party Comrades Attention! The Workers (Communist) Party is making a special drive to place The | DAILY WORKER into the hands of the New York City traction workers. For this purpose two plans require | the ccoperation of every Party com- vade and sympathizer: 1. Pass your copy of The DAILY | WORKER to a traction worker as you enter or heave your train; better still, | buy several copies for such distribu- tion 2. Come in to ‘the local DAILY} WORKER office, 108 E. 14th St., for} free copies of the paper for a dis-| tribution campaign. This is very im- ;portant and as many comrades as possible should report for this first rate revolutionary work. eee Sai Section 1 Functionaries. A meeting of the functionaries of | Section 1 will be held tonight at 8! p.m, at 15 E. 3rd St. years 2F-1D Meet. Norman Silber will talk on “The Present Offensive Against the Trade Unions” at an educational meeting of 2-F, sub-section 1D, which meets to- 33 First Street at 6:30 An important meeting of F. D. 4- SS 2 A, will be held at six o’clock to- night at 101 W. 27th Street. |New I. R..'T. Attack on| Traction Men Planned (Continued from Page One) ment of President Wm. D. Mahon of {the Amalgamated the injunctions might eventually have to be fought by the refusal of workers to heed them, this worker appeared brighter for a moment but finally remarked |that he was waiting for action and that “this dallying while the com- panies are preparing doesn’t “show that the labor leaders mean_busi- ness.” Thus far the Amalgamated officials have failed to take advantage of the numerous offers» »* aid which have come in to them from various local unions of the American Federation of Labor. The announced plan of organ- izing the traction workers through a concerted drive of the whole labor movement has thus far remained on paper only. That the workers are be- coming impatient under this inactivity was clearly in evidence yesterday. * * * Traction Deal. The traction barons’ game of put- ting over on the city their carefully planned traction deal was advanced a step further in the issuance of a writ of mandamus by Supreme Jus- tice Wasservogel which “checks” the city from including in its budget $13,- . Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-i2 A. M, 2-3 P. Daily Except Friday Sunday. 249 BAST 115th STREET Gor. Second Ave. New York. friends and punishing its enemies. Pledge Money For Relief. The miners’ delegation consisting M. | Dr. N. Schwartz | 124 Hast 81st Street - SPECIALIST | for Kidney, Bladder, | Urology, Blood and Skin diseases and Stomach Disorders. X-RAY Examinations for Stones, Tumors and Internal disturbances. Dr. Schwartz will be glad to give you a free consultation. Charges | for examinations and treatment is moderate. | Special X-RAY EXAMINATION $2. HOURS: Daily: 9 A. M: to 7 P. M.| Sunday: 10 A. M, to 12 Noon. Butterfield 8799. lineages Dr. A. 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ASSN Opposite Bronx Park Opposite Bronx Park Come right now and seleet an apartment of 2--3-4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. | 000, 000 in payment for amortization jof a loan for the building of new subways. | Competent observers points to the |fact that it has been the consistent ;game of Tammany Hall working hand ‘in hand with the Traction interests, step by step to raise up barriers to its sponsored subway building policies in order that it may in the end come out safely with its increased fare plan already decided upon by the officials at the City Hall and in Albany. These same observers point out jthat it is the same Justice Wasser- vogel who has under his jurisdiction both the decision on the application for the injunction against the trac- tion union and the other issues pend- ing in this situation, one of which he has already decided in favor of the |traction barons. Further inquiry | ‘elicited the opinion that the decision lin the matier of the application for ‘the injunction against the labor 'movement would in all likelihood go against the union. 'Unsanitary Conditions At Local Prison Told ALBANY, Dec. 4.—“‘The wretched ||sanitary conditions and woeful lack of housing, employment and educa- ; tional facilities,” at Welfare Island is | hit in a report of the state commission | Nicholson, Cecilia D. Patten and Jane Hoey, commissioners, and John F, recent inspection. The report points out that the peni- |tentiary was erected nearly a century ‘ago. That the cells are small, poorly ventilated and without sanitary con- | Veniences, PMS PE BOSTON, Dec. 4. | (FP).—Collee- tions for the striking coal miners in Pennsyivania and Ohio are being ‘| taken at chapel meetings of the typo- graphical union in newspaper and job ! composing rooms. A reunion of militant workers in the New York labor movement will: take place at the coming “Red Ball” being arranged by The DAILY WORKER and “The Freiheit” at the New Madison Square Garden, Satur- day, Dee. 17. This is evident from the fact that a large number of unions, Workers’ Party, and fraternal organizations have already appointed special com. mittees who will be responsible for’ ,of correction, signed by Walter W.. | Tremain, secretary, who conducted a’; “Red Ball” at Madison Square Garden Will Be Reunion for New York Militant Workers | Boston Jury Frees 9 Sympathizers of Sacco and Vanzetti BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 4.—An im- promptu reception was held in the corridor of the Supreme Court when the verdict which acquitted Sacco- Vanzetti sympathizer: Powers Hap- good and Cosmo Carvotta had been }aecused of “disturbing the peace,” at a protest meeting on the Boston Com- | mon. The seven who participated in the \death march, picketing the State House, were also freed. They are |John Dos Passos, John Howard Law- |son, playwrights; Mother Ella Reeve | | Bloor, labor leader; Edna St. Vincent | | Millay, poet; EI len Hayes, former | Wellesly; professor; Catherine Hunt- jington, George Kraska and George L. Teeple. * * John Dos Passos, who was recently | | acquitted by a Boston jury of “oiter- | ,ing,” together with six others because | they picketed the State House on the eve of Sacco and Vanzetti’s murder |said, “I’d rather spend a week in jail |than in a Boston courtroom.” | + spite of an excellent speech made by Arthur Garfield Hays, and an extremely comic outburst by Dis- trict Attorney Doyle,” continued the director of the New Playwrights’ The- “who. was like: all the. district attorneys in crook melodramas, the trial. lasted too long to. be a good | | show. “The verdict of not guilty was a surprise to everybody, particularly to the defendants, as the “aris, after the judges charge to the jury; seemed pretty well stacked against’ them. * “It showed that public opinion in| Boston is changing a little about the Sacco-Vanzetti ‘executions.” John Howard Lawson, who was also acquitted, said, “It seems sufficiently ridiculous in itself to. spend a whole week in a solemn courtroom, arguing about a ‘riot’ and charge of ‘saun- tering and loitering,” when it is patently apparent to any reasoning person that no such thing~occured, but at the end of the week, the two juries disregarded technicalities and | justified the principle that people have a free right to assemble and pro- | test in any cause, popular or un- | popular in spite of whatever learned judges and equally learned cops may have to offer to the contrary.” Howard’s new play, Internat’onal, will be produced at the New Play- wrights Theatre in about a month. atre, Gov. Adams Slips Away| Killer Put in Charge (Continued from Page One) | “Put Them Underground.” Lieut. Davolt, in command at Ley- den mine near Denver has threatened | to “put the college students under- | ground”, if they hold any more meet- ings in the miners’ hall, off of the tompany. property, but near that mine. The students he refers to are those from the state university who have | |been investigating the strike, an were so horrified at the injustices practised on the miners that they joined the picket lines before the | mines, bearing signs, such as, “Not all students are for the operators.” | Get Rid of Witnesses. | Major Ardourel threatens to ar- rest all students speaking for strik- ers, on the charge that they are agita- | tors.” This attempt to frighten the stu- dents from the field is believed to be | \part of a plan to clear away all ob- | servers preparatory to the ei at- tack on the miners. Greater Brutality Soon. The students have refused to be | intimidated so far, ard are holding meetings at Boulder this afternoon to hear a college professor speak and the student’s committee report on findings in the strike situation. The interest of the students» and profes- sors is believed to be the only cheek | now on police brutality equaling ang thing that the state has ever seen, land this is the state of the “fudlow ‘massacre and the Columbine. fpas- | sacre, Legal action for the protection of | the strike leaders is Practically | valuéless; ds soon _as-one group is re- | | i | IL LETTER TO WM. GREEN ON STRIKES, INJUNC CTIONS | miners? v : active in the present dc the guerrillas, the mine guards, are | the mnction. Will you call this ees cs gant piri | doing to the strikers; they are shoot- | victo It seems you are preparing ig ing, maiming and killing peaceful | the und for again Phone Stuyvesant 3316 pickets. Your judges are issuing|frem the front. If sweeping injunctions forbidding my proposition of a John’ Ss Res staurant picketing and even making strike cu would deal eff N- Se unlawful; and, your railroad owners|~ Ro “Te tijd A piace with in mest are conspiring with the operators to|speeckcs are we 202 E. 12t Jew Y, sitash the miners union. The oper-|do anyt 3 Ht St. New York | from their homes, ete.’ | | é CRECO-CARRILLO TRIAL MAY NOT COMMENCE TODAY Suoee Postponement Until To- morrow Indicated |! SECRETARY OF N. Y. FUR UNIOK WRITES OPEN | William Woliner, secretary Joint Board, Furriers Union ha ten an open letter to Wil : | president of the American Federation | Di of Labor taking up several questions | brea of immediate importance to the|str American Labor movement. In the letter, Woliner brings up the | ® question of the miners strike and the injunctions that the Interborough| . The trial of Calogero Greco and Transit Co. is attempting to AGES Donato Carrillo, anti-fascists, charg- against the entire American | C4” be done. vith the murder of two fase Labor movement, ss ee propos Decorat in the Bronx, B doubtedly be of fe morning before Text of Letter. i to the miners. the Bronx Gounty The letter, is part, reads as fol- be postponed until tomar- lows: learned 3 rday. “During recent months I have ask- ed myself more than once why you for t x the pos: al of e post- od work Mario Giletti organi cer, which would had i so quiet about the min eds of thousands of dol the same judge |strike. Iaving paid so much atten- a co ¢ i two. fascists | tion to the strike of only 12,000 fur to the govern- » will go to the | wo why were you so silent about to take t t d it is doubted a strike of over a hundred thousand At one time it even occur- red to me to write you and remind you that the miners are striking in ke or be con- morrow morn= the is believed. found | this country, fearing that perhaps i swer to the gov- you hadn’t noticed it. i J been in the “Your visit to President Cooldige, 1. R. ce July 11, however, has convinced me that you| “I h noticed ‘ 1 2nken into custody |do know about the strike. Indeed I|the miners trou in {on the murder ¢ The fascists was grateful when I saw hot water with the I. R. T killed a i and Nicholas that you have not only taken note of the ex- istance of the strike, but also appe d 1 with you 100 per cent for on of the J. R. T. in many sts were kill- ed for aid to the striking miners. oo, however, you make al group of- Mussolini's > A : : after anott I want to 5 Ptealen ete sae: help you not because I am such a| ce Darrow heads the legal “But I confess I failed to under- pe 1 of yours, but because y that will defend the two stand what you really aimed to ac-|§ , to help the worker framed up workers. ‘The associate complish with your visit to President | |; i made was w 3 ttorney are Newman \Levy~ and i Goalides. Could you expect aid from the. battle front: and: ai- ac Shorr. from Coolidge who is the servant of and Jimmy Walker t Defense Is Active. che ynine owners? Besides that, ; remember that Coolidge was in: nentl in breaking the Boston po. for which he was rewa he prometion to the of: pecial di co-Carri en. organ fense wor | one of the Were you afraid «f 2 This was noth- f, because a proper anized workers | ough to cope committee. as. the Defense League had 1 to coordinate the ‘des Felipe Greco, brother-of two defendants is seere- lo yy New York would ie president. You surely remember |with all the sca Hedly | could The International Labor De- for, after all, -you are. not so|muste But you failed to mobilize in the defense » as not to know what even the the workers and withdraw from the ‘amion, national average worker knows. So what did you expect to accomplish with you visit to the strike breaker president i now you are again “in| confronted with, an in- | of Oe country to help in the work. Jutch”, ar nection. organization throughout’ the According to many peoplé™ the Greco-Carrillo case has many of the of another Saceo-Vanzetti rame-up. It is virtually admitted the fascist government of Ttaly “T can very well imagine you say- | ing to Coolidge: ‘My dear President| ‘ Coolidge, look and see what your|tbi bunch cf mine operators are doing} ag to the peor mine workers, see what| Retreat Again. hat dy you intend to do upout injunction? You are blundering n when you d ye that you e ct to win at least a modification ators are evicting the poor strikers | epedehes declaring thems | with» the workers in order to win| Health Food | theie. support. But the workers wich * commen sense demand more than ‘ip | Vegetarian Restaurant 3] 1600 Madison Ave, PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6846 Knows of Strikebreaking. “Alright, so what if you tell Cool- idge all this, are you discovering any- thing for him? Doesn’t he know all! of this himself? Doesn’t he know | from his own rich experiences how strikes are broken? Can you be so! fies as to expect Coolidge to order believe you wo among the lip ervice poli ent, I have a whole lot alot to say x and failures, but it is : blunder oval of th® mine. companies’ lias from the mines, or, to send protect the pickets? You know that Cooliuge’s troops will slaughter the miners just as they slaughter the Nicaraguans where they are now en- gaged. I cannot understand what u expected from Coolidge. however wise Ww THE COLOR Given lensed, new charges ampearynew: ar- | rests are made, and the prisoners are rushed into the military area where | they are put snped military ayrest | without legal redres A threat was arnde Saturday to ar- rest all leaders’'as fast as they ap- pear, and Colonel Newlon made a sur- vey of jails in “his area to find the eapacity for future prisoners. Everybody is beginning to recog- nize that the mth of constitutional Tights is exploded. the suecess of the coming event. In many cases the organizations have already reserved tickets for a percentage of their membership. in order to be assured that they will be {represented at the annual function held to build and maintain the labor | press. Workers from Newark, ‘Trenton, Philadelphia and other neighboring | Peel A eye: 49th St. and cities are also neve. to attend the ball. i his marines to the imine districts to | anc DAILY WORKER Saturday Evening Madison Sq. Garden Eighth Ave. ———— We Cater to Students of Health Eatweli Vegetarian Restaurant 78 Second Ave., near 4th St. Oniy, strictly VEC ARIAN meals served. No canned foods, or animal fats used. All dishes scientifically prepared. ers strike, the I. R. » needle trades h to demonstrate the I be too big fo: pity the Am workers e you and Well as their chicf ntatives.” 'T. affair Ss ore FOR A FRESH, Be pe: VEGETARIAN MEA! 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