The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 4

Page Tw — Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928 ae } / “Organize Youth Into Unions” ---.1s Conference DELEGATES LAY BASIS OF BROAD YOUTH MOVEMENT Second Meeting to Be Held Soon That hould take steps for the reorganization of the unorgan- ized young workers into the trade unions and for the creation of speci- fic plans to effect this aim, were the conclusions arrived at in a two-day conference on Youth and the Labor Movement held at Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, the last two days of December. A second conference is to be called for New York City in the future. A larger representation is to be secured and the second conference which is to have the cooperation of the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York as well as other labor bodies, will seek to set in mo- tion more definite steps for the or- ganization of the young workers. Countrywide Representation. Over fifty delegates from every part of the country and from a score of trade unions and national bodies journeyed to Brookwood to attend the conference. High in the proceedings were the general testimonies that the officialdom of the organized labor movement was doing nothing to or- ganize the young workers of the country. Delegates from Philadel- phia and New York pointed out that these officials were even putting obstacles in the way of such organiz- ing efforts. The delegates were welcomed by A. U. Muste, director of the Labor College, who began the work of the conference informally by picturing the age old struggle between youth and age. “In every generation,” he said somewhat pathetically, “there is a lack of understanding Youth and Age. This gap has unfor- tunate results in life in general and constitutes a special problem in the labor movement.” European Labor Leads. Franz Longville, a representative of the Belgian labor movement ported that in Europe the workers’ organizations had taken up the pro- blem of organizing the youth. In the discussion which followed it was pointed out that it was not sufficient nierely to organize the young work- “Gis it was necessary to bring them into the actual struggle participated in by the older workers and to in- still in them a loyalty to working class political and economic programs. The question of how to reach the youth was one of the chief themes considered by Tom Tippet, formerly a mifer but now instructor at Brook- wood. Rose Schneiderman, of the Women’s Trade Union League, spoke on the relations of the Women’s Auxiliaries to the organization pro- blem of the workers.’ Miss Schneider- man sought to defend” the labor of- ficialdom against the charge which had been made that it has sabotaged the work. Shows How Officials Hinder. Issue was taken on this point by C. E. Miller, representative of the Amer- jean Association of Plumbers Help- ers who gave facts from the exper- jence of the helpers’ organization to show that the union officials had not only failed in the task of unionizing the young workers but had actually used: methods of open hostility in seeking to sidetrack the efforts of his union. Miller pointed out that from 25 to 89 per cent of workers in various in- dustries are young*men between the ages of 15 and 24. The task of organ- izing these young workers in no sense. be separated from t main task of organizing the unorganized workers throughout the country. The} only“difference, he pointed out, is that special'methods of reaching and hold- ing these workers would have to be worked out. Craft Unionism Inadequate. This view was agreed in by Wm. Schmitt, secretary of the Full Fash- joned Hosiery Union local of Phila at a fair price. your work. between | Let us estimate on —eActive Press Mime OR PORAT & D is FIRST STREET NEW YORK FIGHTS FOR HIS CLASS courage and determination is pitted evictions and coal and iron police. A typical coal miner, fighting for his union, and a living wage. His against union-smashing injunctions, with the problem of the youth, he said, it is necessary to have some- thing more than the pure and simple unionism that fears to deal with any- thing outside the old routine lest a consideration of economic or social or political problems may in some way undermine their old procedure. That such a method of organization would have to be adopted was the further outcome of a report given by David Saposs, labor authority and instructor at Brookwood. He gave a detailed analysis from the experi- ence of the.French labor movement to show that the American unions could very well profit from the exam- ple of their French brothers. The Way to Organize Is to Organize. M. Budish of the headgear workers’ union of New York took a si position and followed with the slo; that the way to organize is to organ- ize. The craft unions were no longer adequate, he pointed out, to the task at hand. Especially is this true when it comes to organize the basic indus- tries. Incidentally Budish “brought down the house” by a characterization of a speech by Spencer Miller, Jr., of the Workers. Education Bureau, who ap- peared to m the point of the con- ference. Budish said that “it is much preferable to hear a speech by a poor labor man than one by a good college professor.” Another high light of the confer- ence was the charge by Bright of the Bookkeepers and Stenographers Union of New York that two high officials of the American Federation of Labor had ordered his local to “lay off” organizing efforts in the recent drive to unionize the Metropo- litan Life Insurance Company. Labor Fakers’ Order Against Organizing. to remember that the Metropolitan had helped the formation of the | Federation, in which Fiske, the pre: ident of the Metropolitan is acti part. Probably Matthew Woll! One of the officials referred to by Bright is generally supposed by the delegates to be Matthew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L. and ac gi president of the National Civi OOD print- Telephone ing of all ORCHARD description 4744 ilar | al A One of these officials cautioned us | Union Labor Life Insurance Com- pany; another of these officials, | Bright charged, advised us to seek jto reach the workers in the Metro- |politan through the National Civ and in which well known union lead-| ers are likewise taking a prominent | Federation, an anti-union organiza- { tion in which the open shop employe jand the labor fakers work out their |class collaboration policies. Delegates at the conference rep-|not even consult Madison’s “Journal | business...:Do the gentlemen mean | resented the Teachers Union in New York City, local 3 of the electrical workers, the millinery workers, the | United Mine Workers, the umbrella workers, the window cleaners, and numerous others. Represented were also several fraternal organizations, | |the labor press and other bodies. It is expected that the second con- | ference will be called shortly at New | York City. | New Hotels to Rise syndicate headed. by Harry Barth, hotel supply man, is planning ja $10,000,000 chain of hotels for those who can pay for hotel rooms in New York and other Eastern states. A dozen hotels already purchased in- jcludes the Ritz Tower in New York City. INFANTS’ HOME ADDITIONS 8 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 3.— New additions have been made to the Yale Psycho-clinic for infants and | young children and infants. An ob- servational aleove with a screen specially adapted for one way vision, segregating the observer from the child’s view, thus allowing it to be- have naturally, is a feature. BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! By A. BIMBA. (Continued from Last Issue.) Mr. Oneal thinks that I sin ve heavily when I say that the master: of Virginia were very glad when they discovered in Negro slavery a new source of labor power, He wants to know how I know how they felt? Then he calls me a “mind-reader.” But unfortunately, Oneal proceeds di- rectly into the same “crime” an reads the minds of our forefathers. He says: “The fact is that the sale of the first slaves in Arriginia (I sup- pose this means Virginia, though Mr. {Oneal is not supposed to commit such a technical crime.——A. B.) was prob- ably accompanied with mixed views jof aversion, anxiety, cur’ |and a hope that Negroes would prove adapted to the tobacco culture of the colony.” There you are, How do you know, Mr. Oneal, that our forefathers |had such mixed feelings? Are you not reading their minds also? The only difference between you and me is that I read their minds cor that is, economically Negro s was advantageous to the ruling class of the colonies and therefore the mas- ters had something to rejoice over— while you are all mixed up when you say that you don’t know what the at- titude of the ruling class was toward slavery. In discussing the Constitutional Convention and quoting the speeches or three most characteristic expres- sions of the delegates at the national convention, by sheer oversight I took, among others, the quotation from Kent, as well as another just pre- vious to that, although they should have followed the second paragraph ta page 56. This is how that error ept into the book. Of course, I do not try to excuse myself of the re- sponsibility by this explanation. An jerror is an error and nobody else but | myself is responsible for it. And if | Mr. Oneal wants to make a big issue |out of it against my book, I say: Go |to it, James, exploit it to your heart’s |content, if you have nothing more erious to do. But what is important to the read- jer this technical error in any Way |changes my characte zation of the ; Corstitutional Convention. I main- |tain that it does not change it—not ja single iota. One after another, | delegates of the convention delivered |almost word for word speeches sim- Call} From Historian to Hysterian linereasing numbers of people. ul tale PRISONER,” by Emil Bern- hard, translated by Alexandei Berkman, and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse is one of those Tolstoyan themes, based on the precept, “Resist not evil with evil.” A certain revolutionist in Tsarist Russia, just before the end of the wor war, decides that “simple things are best and first” (Ghandi’s doctrine of the Satanism of western industrial life) and that the Biblical phrase, “thou shalt not kill” was sity, fear |ers of the book is the question wheth- | meant literally, and should be obeyed. He convinces a large part of the army, is courtmartialed, put in prison in Siberia, and followed as a saint by The success of the military campaign be- ing thus endangered, the Tsar sends General Kamishansky to argue with ilar to that of Kent, in defense of a|him, to’ offer bribes, in vain. Captain trong »national government based on ) property and for the defense of prop- ert One after another they ex- pressed the greatest fear of allowing the masses to exert any influence upon the government. For instance, besides Madison and Dickinson, whom I quote in my book, I find in my cut- out material on the federal conven- | tion the following speeches: Roger |of Kent. Oneal reminds me that Kent | the Constitutional Convention): “The | of various delegates, I quote the ex-|Sherman of Connecticut, declared (as pression of an individual by the name | quoted by Madison in his “Journal of spoke at the New York state conven-| people, he said, immediately, should ,;on the Constitutional Convention. On |tion and not at the national Consti- | jtutional Convention and that Kent} jwas. Mot’even present at the latter. | Oneal makes a big issue of this. And | \I adinit that this is a very serious | error, Kent delivered his speech at | the New York Convention which was | called in 1821 fo amend the state con- | , and not at the na- | | al convention. From this error | | Oneal draws the conclusion that I did | jof the Constitutional Convention.” | Why he makes this charge I do not | know. It seems that he thinks that | it is harder to find Madison’s book | in the library than that of McMaster, which is wrong. Right after the speech of Kent I quote two speeches from Madison’s “Journal.” That should have been enough to convince Oneal that I did not disregard this |very important source of information | the same page of my book I found an- jother technical error which was not noticed by my esteemed critic, that is, the reference after the quotation in the third paragraph, instead of “p. 748” should be “p. 470.” I am sure that Oneal would haye made a great issue of this had he noticed it. But, you see, again we have proof that even he is not immune from errors— at least from technical ones. How did it happen that I quote Kent in my discourse about the na- tional Constitutional Convention? Since my attention was called to this very bad error I consulted the orig- jinal draft of the book, and found that in this chapter I had cut out a few pages of the material dealing with the building of the governments in various states including New ‘York. I had to do it in order to reduce the size of the book. This reduction in the size of the chapter entailed a re- moulding of the entire chapter. And in this process, desiring to have two | have as little to do as may be about the government” (p. 78). Elbridge jerry of Massachusetts, said: “The | evils we experience flow from the | excess of democracy.” He “had been | taught by experience the danger of the leveling spirit” (p. 78). George Mason of Virginia, could stand the | speeches of the other delegates no longer and warned them: “We are, Mr, Chairman, going very far in this to pave the way to hereditary mon- archy? Do they flatter themselves that the people will ever consent to such an innovation? If they do, I venture to tell them, they are mis- taken. The people will never consent” (p. 105), Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, declared that “an election by either branch by the people was to- | tally impracticable” (p. 120). Gouy- erneur Morris, of Pennsylvania, said: | “Give the votes to the people who} have no property and they will sell | them to the rich....The ignorant and the dependent can be as little trusted with the public interest” as a child (p. 469). Alexander Hamilton, of New York, was an outspoken advo- cate of a monarchy. He praised the government of England as “the only government in the world ‘which united public strength with individual secur- ity.” In every community where in- dustry is encouraged, there will be a division of it into the few and the many. Hence, separate interests will arise. There will be debtors and cred- itors, ete. Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many” (p. 182), Hence, Hamilton proposed to give all power to a single individual. “An executive for life has not this motive for forgetting his fi- delity, and will therefore be a safer depository of power” (p. 184). And so on. (To Be Continued.) 3rd | block of | Co-op. Houses Opposite Bronx Park LAA RANA REAR TAN ARTES AUAA SUT EE SSS PENNA EREDAR EROCE TEN ETRE INCINERATOR Carnace APARTMENT 2 BLOCKS OF CO-OPERATIVE HOUSES will soon be built in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony by the UNITED WORKERS COOP. ASS’N Come right now and select an apartment of 2--3--4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms | Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. Tel. Algonquin 6900. Ss ~ LARA LRALAESTA SAN ARATE D UN ER DS RUT Ad | | 4th block of | Co-op. | Houses Abrastov, the prison warden, egged on by his wife who wants to get back to the bright lights in Moscow, tries to flog him into signing a paper ab- juring his views and boosting the war. Abrastov’s wife tries to vamp him into signing. All without result. Trene Polosova is a girl revolution- ist. Berkman & Bernhard treat revo- lution as merely a series of attentats. Irene, arguing with Tverskoy, thumps her breast and exclaims ecstatically, “One bomb, and all is over with the tyrants!” She gives Tverskoy a bomb, but he refuses to use it, even on the warden, relying on universal love in- system. Finally in pity for Captain Abras- tov who is plainly suffering agonies from the contrary stubbornness of his wife on one side and Boris on the other, Tverskoy signs the paper—just like that! Whereupon the captain, doing as any American warden would do, has him beaten to death before he can possibly rescind the signature. But after that the warden, as no warden would do, as wardens do only in Tol- conscience and sets free all the prisoners. : This play is founded on a very ancient theory, the theory of non-re- sistance as a social force, which, enunciated by the various sages of history and legend, By Lao Tze, Bud- dah, Christ, Tolstoy, and Mahatma Ghandi, makes a peculiarly strong ap- peal to slaves, has originated a half- dozen great slave religions, very dis- quieting to the master class of their time, but always sooner or later made to serve the master class, because however heroic its martyrs, and how- ever subversive of older state re- ligions, a theory of non-resistance on the part of the slaves cannot help but leave those who did not care for any- thing else but themselves in control of the situation. And the masters institutionalize the faith, and make it useful to themselves. But the theory has a sure-fire emo- ional appeal in times of trouble and danger—such times as the present. I think that if there were some really great tragic actor to appear, some- body on the same plane as the Ma- hatma, should he turn actor, that we might have a new religion of Tvers- koyanity, or more correctly, Bern- hardism. Nothing like that happened at the Provincetown Playhouse. The actors somehow seemed to fail to make the thing grip. The possibilities \for a tragic genius are very great; |perhaps Harold Johnsrud is not one; perhaps he was uncomfortable in his role as Tverskoy; perhaps his sup- stead to accomplish the end of the} stoyan theory, suffers a revulsion off Provincetown Playhouse First Production of the Season Misses Fire POLORES COSTELLO. Leading lady with John Barry- more in “When A Man Loves,” at the Cameo Theatre this week. porting cast was a little too melo- dramatic—anyway the thing missed fire. : But it’s interesting to see Berkman, the man who shot Frick, pulling this thing on us.—V. S. Broadway Briefs Walter Hampden will revive his production of “Hamlet,” for four per- formances, at the Hampden Theatre beginning this afternoon. The music for #The International,” the New Playwrights’ third produc- tion, by John Howard Lawson, which opens on January 12, has been writ- ten by Edward A. Ziman. The music is symphonic jazz intended to serve as a background for the play and in- dicated the dramatic motif. Butler Davenport is planning to produce Jerome K. Jerome’s “The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” at his playhouse on East 27th St. “Ham- let”? now current at the Davenport Theatre will end its run on January 7. “Oh, Kay!” the George Gershwin weeks’ return engagement at the Century Theatre with Julia Sander- son and Frank Crumit in the. prin- cipal roles. The book of “Oh, Kay!” is by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wode- house, the lyrics are by Ira Gersh- win. Tilly Losch and Harold Kreutzberg, leading dancers of the Max Reinhardt organization, will give-a dance re- cital at the Cosmopolitan Theatre next Sunday afternoon. The program will consist of numbers presented at the Salzburg Festival last summer, including “The Dance of the Master of Ceremonies” from the Reinhardt production of “Turandot.” : Trolley Worker Hurt HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 3.—Out of 50 riders, Otto Bellman, motorman, and Fred Hultgen were those most seriously injured in a collision of two trolley cars here yesterday. } | | Opposite Bronx Park | John Galswerthy’s | IMPERIAL | ERLANGER’S TH 45 fi, W. of Bway Eves. 8:40 BOO Maunees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Winthrop Ames ESCAPE Presents New Play with Leslie Howard The Desert Song with Leonard Ceely and Eddie Buzzell 2nd Year ‘LHBA.,, 40 Bt. W.of B’way ®Qvenings 8:30 Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30 LLIVAN OPERAS ed. & Sat. Nights “MIKADO” Mon, & Fri. Eves., Wed. Matinee “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” ‘Tues., urs, Eves., Sat. Matinee LOLANTHE” , Theatre, 62nd St. CENTURY (ent. Park Weet" Mats. Mon. & Sat. 2:30 THE u way, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 use aaa SEN SPIES DRaAcw. The Theatre Guild presents ——, PORGY A Th. W. 424, E Republic fixie Wea &sat 0 0 Bernard Shaw’s Comedy « DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ‘vn, W. b2d, buys, 3:20 Guild Mats rhurs.asat Henry Miller’s “Grant Mitchell ierigt parte THE BABY CYCLONE Thea.,W.43 St.E 1.8.30 MatineesThurs.&S: Thea.W.44 St.Eyvs,8.30 Mats, ‘Vhurs, & Sat, THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M, COHAN BUILD THE DAILa WoRKER! i. OH, KAY MUSICAL COMEDY ’ Eyes, 8:30. Mats, Winter Garden *yro,, Sar, YS WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § Models National (ys yib0. Mts-Wed.abata:3 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller with Rex Cherryman Max Reinhardt’s Production of “PERIPHERIE” Stan ‘Thea. Columbus Circle Cosmopolitan 7 Sy, enings. 8:15 Mats. Fri. and Sat, at 2:15. H with MUNI WISHNFREND : John Golden "H.W os StMte MUSIC AND CONCERTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 7th, at Sit0 WASHINGTON IRVING H SCHOOL FLONZALEY QUARTET Tickets’ at office People’: Concerts, 32 Union Sa., Symphony nd at desk evening of concert musical comedy, is playing a trey ~=-~ a