The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 2

Md 2 -~ @ uw mR tA ho Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 Poor Workers Mulcted to Provide Funds Squandered in Sewer Graft THE Laee yo IN THE ART ood DEATH RIGHTEOUS 6,0, PLANS ATTACK ON TAMMANY Inquiry ~ May Small Job Holders E Atandreas of small Tammany job | first to fall by when “holders will he the the political wayside quiry into the n 000.000 sewer graft | der way in Queens soon. This is now zenerally on all sides as one of the the cleaning” whic prelude to the invest huge swindle, of w Connolly, borough pre: Queens, was the princinal Steuer Camoflace Max D. Steuer, one of the highest priced and slickest lawyers in New York City will attempt find legal justification for the “ etions” of | Connolly. Former District Attorney | Emory R. Buckner, who has been ap- | pointed by Ju Seudder to dig up | the actual details o will represent the republican party in its campaign of se against their erring Tammany breth- ren. As plans for the hearing in the Long Island Court House are per- fected. those in the great danger of being pointed out as the c tors in the municipal rc hunting for goats upon wh en the blame for the present em rassing situation. Realty Grab. Queens realtors, who ha ing tiny building lots to «m: suburbanites, are being b stoned for “encouraging” the p eruption, in which they hav ed and abetted by the repub! righteousness y are h to been: sell laried ia ers whe see in the present s jon an excellent Sheen auty to dislodge Tammany which for so Iong has| reigned supreme in the borough of | Queens. Homes Go Down Sewer Pitiable instances are being point. ed out how workers who built homes fn Qucens have been mulcted of th savings by the progressively increas. ing system of sewer taxes and other assessments which Connolly and his Joyal lieutenants had perfected to an Fins Y exact science. Another recent reve- ewthe mines, and « the huge piles of slack from which a| miner mav pick a ln~n of conl only | an | of terrible imnort | aay “enormous cost of sewage lation” is the fact that many indivi tals have not received notices of as. sessments for many years. This was done, it is declared, to conceal the improve- ments after the Tammany politicians had “fixed” their contracts with the few concerns which had a_ virtual monopoly on the piping used there. Al’s Cleverness Fails. Despite the nv cal acuteness to have been shoyn by Gov. A! Sm in appointing as chief investigator Judge Scudder, 2 democrat whe ceived the approval of the Citizens Union, the revelations concerning the graft scandal are expected to be so| 4 sensational that much _ spade-work done in anticipation of Smith’s presi dential nomination will be lost. it is | mournfully admitted by loyal Tam- | manyites. Rosses Den a Thev Can Evict Miners by Jan. 1 (Continue? fre Pags One® ators, hecked hy federal court de. cisions, hy Governor etend hie onal and iron 1 end with what e sunrort of they claim on the Crolidre adr ally starvine 2 an >. are liter- million men, women and children to rofia death. “TF they don’t Hke thev can leave. the way This is a free country,” } ane of the onerators’ publ pat it to the writer. The Worst In History. Probably at no time ar American hictnry heen such deliberate the enrrendor, the sta fetrns of the worker dustry. Relief dvibhies in pernies nlare in thare Inhor has Ine ty foznn the nlen tion or n 2 whole in- ¢omes jn nareele, Faod comes in Mandy. TE there is not to he enacted fm tha Penn ni heeptiful in sn nels and the gaunt gallows frames of stil] mora in anita of pt the price of a jail sentence, Airericon tracedy ta the lahor movement, core in thoneands, ton and food by the carload. Counting Children’s Ribs. Some of these families have been firhting the open shop for three years. They are worn and hungry. money’ must | he coai oneraters know that if-re- lief does not come soon and on a huge » seale, that victory is theirs. Counting the ribs of ragged, starv- ing miners’ children as they show more plainly the lack of food, and ealeulating the length of time the “fathers can stand thes sights without asking for work at slave wages, is the principle occupation and pleasure ‘of the coal operators in Pennsylvania these days. Doom in- f the gigantic steal, | ef ac- | fast- | Mothine | ir clothing by the | cently. o With The last Sikorsky airplane bomber, which is said to be far “superior” to thé old type of this machine, was tested at Curtiss Field re- Photo at left shows new type of bomber, and photo at right shows the plane in full flight. for its war program, the United States, together with the rest of the imperialistic countries, is adding the latest bombing plane models to poison gas sculpt in beens for the next world slaughter. sarmament” chatter as a cloak RIOT GUNS FROWN AT COLO, MINERS (Continued joo Page One) oe raid on vn e hall is taken to mean feller concern inten essions to the strik as will disregard any finding of the industrial commission with which declare that the Col ado Fuel and Iron Company issued structions for the raid. * 4 By WINIFRED R. MOOERS COLO., Dec. % Committee of in line with | DI State e the to ck of the to wor! men field will ‘return | ination @ men to be paid the the time of stril | be retroac turn to work. recognize the pit committee elec the miners to ¢ i Third-—operators i d by tions, such committee not to be elected until at least five days after the strikers return to work. Fourth -operators to use influence to secute | the release of all men jailed for par- ticipation in the strike. The presentation of the miners’ case will probably be concluded today and the hearing adjourned over the holi- days until Tuesday. The operators announce that they are not parties to the hearing and will not answer the strikers, except to de- j fend specific charges. | Pe aes attorney Henderson for the 1. W. who recently f. jon to quash indict d courts and ie dis s ordered to draft new | Some of these men are out on b | Oth will be pe eee ng outcom FINALLY START HUNT FOR DAY a When the Army and Navy de- partments declined to cooperate in the | search for the missing aeroplane, Pawn. in which Mrs, son and he raf Frances Gray- crew hoped to reach Grace Mrs. Brice G ed a $500 check the navigator of her husband, plane, used th to search for h the day, forced by public was in the search, that the fovernment re-} sented the woman’s flight, for, if a oman could n as much, it depreciate Lindbergh’s feat, ing his value as a “hero” opaganda flights as the jin their attack on the f money to hire a plane |, National Young Workers’ Committee (Statement Issued by National Com- maittee of the Young Workers League America) The National Executive Committee repeatedly condemned the Op- n to the Leninist Central Com- ttee of the Communist Party of the soviet Union from the time when in 24 Trotsky attempted the revision m along the lines of yisim. It condemned specifically he Zinoviev opposition group at the ime of its official appearance at the X of the C. P. S. U. pment of the Op- up of all anti- in the C. P. S. U. of Trotsky and has Rejects Trotskyism. The N. E. C. has repeatedly re- ected ths anti-Bolshevik line of in its old and newer s, declaring it to be a Menshevist } ntion from Leninism, dangerous co the ideology of thé proletarian vanguard and to the maintenance of he proletarian dictatorship. The development of the Opposition d the extension of the Trotskyist, i-Leninist program to cover the range of international and domestie-Soviet problems have brought out more clearly than ever the dangerous essentially Menshevik’ nature of the ideology and platform of the Opposition. Welcome Repudiation. The N. E. C. is therefore glad to see that the program of Trotskyism has been most decisively rejected by the overwhelming majority of the Bolshevik workers of the Soviet Union and with practical unanimity by the whole Communist International. The complete bankruptcy of the Op- position is all the more evident when we consider that in not a single Com- |munist Youth organization through- | out the world has it received any sup- port. This in spite of the fact that Trotsky has always made special ef- forts to win the youth, setting up |false doctrines of “young versus old” to accomplish: this purpose, and in spite of the fact that Vuyovitch, who is now the right hand of Trotsky, was Secretary of the Y. C. I. for a num- ber of years. Desperate Factionalism. In the last period of time the fac- mal extremities to which the Op- tion le: i ie most unbearab! ing deliberately to undermine i ‘arty ameng the t » Oppositien h: ond Par on, have set up 2 ing cen- up and connecti maintains with r Ds pelled groups in ot amed a om - anti-§ ~ Et the Opposition is attempting y the Comintern and weaken internati onal | revolutionary Hits Opposition | movement, | Danger to Communism. | The activities of the Opposition at the present time, when the Soviet Union is again attacked by all the im- perialist powers on so many fronts, constitutes objective support to these attacks and increases the danger of a war against the Soviet Union. The Young Workers League has set for itself as one of the main tasks in the immediate period the struggle against the war danger thru railying the masses of th: ers to the d and this ta: it will carry on against the obstructions of the opposition. The anti-Varly actions of the Op- position lead reached their climax upon the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, when Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek and the rest, instead of joining in the official Soviet and Parity demonstrations, attempted to utilize the occasion for staging anti-Par demonstrations and for arousing non- Party workers against the Party, with the result that these demonstrations of the Opposition soon assumed a directly anti-Soviet character. Cendemn Vuyovich. The N. E. C. unanimously approved the, _ disciplinary measures taken ‘agaimgt Vuyovich at the time when he enjleavored' to make use of his po- sition as Secretary of the Y. C. I. to organize the Opposition within the Y. C. 1, and to convert the Y. C. I. into an instrument for fighting the Com- intern. N. E. C. now supports whole- heartedly the steps taken to discipline, by expulsion from the Party, those leaders of the Opposition who have engaged not only in anti-Party, but also in anti-Soviet activities. The N. E. C. calls for the expulsion from the Party of all elements following in the footsteps of these disrupters. The Opposition Isclates. The policy of the opposition would result in isolating the Communist Youth organizations from the masses of the young workers at a time when it is especially necessary, and when all the Leagues are endeavoring, to establish the closest contact with the young workers in the shops and fac- jtories and to mobilize them in the \fight for the Soviet Union. For the revolutionary youth, it is especially important to learn the principles and traditions of the Len- inist Party and of proletarian dis- The N. E. C. calls upon the @ League to defend the line of the the young workers, to study and He t involved in order tc the Leninist ideology of its own ranks and confirm its under. tanding of the basic principles o Bolshevism. = Rally to the Defense of the Sovic U DONATIONS TO THE DAILY. The Workers’ Party units in Pater- New Jersey, have contributed to The DAILY WORKER, part of the proceeds of the Tenth Anni- versary Celebration. The Ladies Auxiliary of Superior, Wise, has donated $88.75 to The DATLY WORKER. | LINDY’S RIVAL In their Sikorsky amphibian plane, shown above being gassed up before flight, Mrs. Frances Grayson, her pilot and navigator, hopped off Friday for Newfoundland, planning to continue flight to Norway. Since its getaway plane has not been sighted and is believed to have been forced down at sea, A radio signal said to have been received from the plane was found By be false. 7 American young work- | g: nse of the Soviet Union, |< AMBITIOUS PLAN TO TRAIN LEADERS The New National Training School course to be held in New York under the auspices of the Workers’ School, will made in the direction of training lead- jing party functionaries. Every district is sending one of its | outstanding comrades for further de- velopment. It is hoped that out of | the courses will come new district or- ers, agitprop directors, and leading party officials. The courses present a theoretical and practical development for these comrades and show a marked em- phasis upon the special meeting of American problems by the methods of Marxism-Leninism. Best Instructors The instructors are the best that the Workers’ School affords for the rious special subjects that are be- ing announced. The list of courses and instructors is as follows: 1 Three times a week for three months. In- structor, Bertram D. Wolfe. 2. American Political Problems. Twice a sk for three months. Instructor, Jay Lovestone. Course in Union’sm. 5.. Theory and practice of Trade Unionism and Special Trade Union Problems. Twice a week for three months. Wm. Z. Foster. 4. Party Organization, Theory and Practice. Three times a week for three months. Jack Stachel. 5. History of the International Labor Movement. Three times a week for one month. Alexander Bittelman. 6. History of the American Labor Movement and of the Party. Three time a week for two months. Bedacht. 7. Marxian Economics and Ad-| vanced Marxian Keonomies. Twice a week for three months. H. M. Wicks. | Research Methods. 8. Methods of Research. Six hours only. Alexander Trachtenberg. 9. Methods of teaching in workers’ classes. Six hours only. D. Benjamin (Assistant director of the Workers’ School). , 10. Public Speaking. One night a week for three months. Carl Brodsky. 11. Workers Correspondence. One ight a week for three months. Art! nields (Director cf the New York tranch of the Federated Press). In addition to the above courses, here will be a few special lectures om outstanding problems before tho Party, and it is hoped that all stu- lents will be given the opportunity o attend the Plenum of the C. E. € ‘ the Party, which will be held a fev ys before the mee iz ts the cours< Labor Defense Gives Money to Colo. Miners (Continued from Page One) conduct the defense fight jointly with the I. W. W. Defense Committee in Colorado and appeals to all members and friends of the International Labor Defense to help in the carrying out of this obligation, First New Dangers. “The Rockefcler and allied mining interests in Colorado which have al- ready taken the lives of a number of strikers and which are undertaking to deprive the miners and their lead- ers of the last semblance of legal right, will not hesitate to go further if they are permitted to move in the dark, without any effective resistance, The atmosphere in Colorado is charg- ed with the danger of new repres- sions and frame-ups against which the organized and conscious workers must be on their guard and) organize their resistance in advance.” . * Aged Worker } Killed Francis J. Neville, former gateman of the Long, Island Railroad, was found dead at'the crossing at Fourth St., Bayside, Queens, killed by a train owned by the company for whom he aes many years. He was 70 years planned by the Workers’ Party, | be the most ambitious effort ever | History of the United States and | Max | ‘SHIPSTEAD, BY VOTE, DESERTS LABOR PARTY Supports “Senate Ma-; chine on Organization WASHINGTON, D, C., Dee. 26.— Henrik Shipstead, farmer-labor sen- ator from Minnesota, is reported by the press to have voted with the re- | publican regulars in the senate on the |question of organizing the senate for this session. In doing so, Senator Shipstead has taken another step away from the farmer-labor move- ment which he is supposed to repre- sent, but does not represent, and is moving in the direction of the re- publican party. ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.— |The recent injunctions against sev- * Jeral trade unions, particularly the in- | junctions against the coal miners in [Renney anie is the subject of an edi- ‘torial in “Labor” of Dec. 3. “Labor” attacks the courts of Penn- sylvania as “a product of the gang jrule of Pennsylvania.” “Labor” char- acterizes the political machine which {dominates the courts and the govern- ment Pennsylvania, as gangs which lare anced by the big business of | that state, by the coal barons and the steel barons and the banks and the Pennsylvania Railroad and above all the Mellon family. “Labor” also states that it is in the power of the workers to change this |present situation, The editorial pro- \eeeds to say: “Pennsylvania is one of the most highly industrialized states f the union. Probably three-fourths jot its voters are either wage earners or intimately dependent on wage earners, If they will organize to use their political power, no machine can stand against them.” Aficr such a clear-cut statement that the workers must organize to use their political power, one would jexpect just as clear-cut a proposal or an appeal to the workers to proceed to organize labor parties in their lo- jcalities, and a national labor party to oppose the political machines of the employing class. But the editorial never reached that conclusion, which is the only possible one from the given situation. The remedy vaguely suggested by “Labor” is the old dis- credited game of capturing the pri- | maries of the capitalist parties. Even in the days of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (CPPA) this idea of the workers try- ing to capture the primaries of the capitalist parties proved to be futile and ineffective. This is particularly | . the case today, when there is no la- j bor organization in the field to or- ;ganize such a capture of the pri- maries. The feeling is steadily penetrating the ranks of labor, that the next step in the political progress of the Amer- ican working class is independent working class political action. Trade | unionists and workers generally are lheginning to realize that the only | way for the workers to use Political | Power is to organize it into a party of their own, which is a labor party. TEST MARRIAGE FITNESS. PARIS, Dec. 26.—All French men and women contemplating marriage will first have to undergo medical examination, if the proposal just laid fdas the Chamber of Deputies is se |REACHES "SOUTH IN ROWBOAT | y-seven year old Charles Seilitz “aie left Far Rockaway two months ago in a rowboat headed for Florida, has reached Beaufort, N. C., accord. ue to information. received by his wife. (CHICAGO CARMEN RESENT TRICKERY ; MAY STRIKE YET Arbitration Merely Plot to Let Boss Prepare (Continued from Page One) in case the nward should not be ac- ble to the men and secondly to ive as little as possible, advance pub- licity to th in order to have less di s in slipping it over. It Was Pnt Over. Tt will be recalled that shortly af- ter the men formulated their demands, last surmmer, and decided by a. vote of 100 te 1 to empower their officials to call a strike to enforce these de- mands, the dispnte was submitted to arbitration without ony strike action having been taken. This decisicn was prrived at in the following manner: at one of the regular meetings of the street carmens’ union the officials proposed arbitration and asked all those opposed to such action to stand up. Naturally, knowing that stand- ing un in this case would mean the immediate dismissal from service, op- position eonld hardly be exnected. Drags for Months. While the matter then dragged for months the rank and file pressure fi- nally became so strong thet on Dee. 5th the joint nnion exeentive hoards of the two divisions, surface and ele- vated lines, decided to ask their ‘n- ternational office for strike sanction. President Mahon arrived in Chicege, several conferences were held with city and traction officials; nothing re- sulting but a promise to proceed with arbitration. But the pressure was again staved off. New Arbitrators. The arhitrators formerly selected were dismissed and in their place se- lected Alderman Oscar Nelson, to rep resent the union and Guy Richard- son, general manager of the surface lines, to represent the company. The two were to meet, negotiate and in case of failure to agree they were jointly to select a third member of the hoard. whose decisions then were to be binding. Threaten Progressives. The ficht meanwhile carried on by the progressives for no other settle- ment except on the basis of the full demands being met had both the union officials and the company wor- ried. An injunction against the ac- tivities of the progressives was men- tioned and Judge Wilkerson of old in- junction fame, now the appointed re- ceiver for the surface lines, declared his readiness to grant such injune- tion. Flow. Progressives Active. The progressives have continued | their activities. In leaflets widely | distributed, signed by Frank Carlson, secretary of the Progressive Commit- tee, they call upon the men to fight the companies and watch their lead- ers. They condemn the long delay |and point to the overwhelming strike vote of the men last summer and |warn that the arbitration scheme is |a trap to prevent the men obtaining their full demands. The men are ad- monished not to be bullied by In- junction Judge Wilkerson. “He broke the railroad shopmen’s union.” the cireulars say. “Lon’t let him break ours.” Point Ont Profits. The circulars further point to the fabulous vrofits made by the com- panies while the men are speeded-up to the very limit and are fully en- titled to their demands. Tersely, sen- tence after sentence, the grievances of fhe men and their demands are stated, winding up by saying: “We must compel our officials to fi¢ht, for our full demands or get out of office .We repeat: No Compromise.” attractive cloth bound edition. CIVIL WAR IN NATIONALIST CHINA—Earl R. Browder.—An uc- count by an eye-witness who was a member of the International Di egation visiting China, Be. CHINA AND AMERICAN IMPE- b varat I POLICY—LEarl R. Brow- er. 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