The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 7

y ver THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, I9z8 By JAY LOVESTONE. . ‘One of the most important events in the life of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party and an occasion of basic importance for the entire American labor movement, is the coming full meeting of the Cen.ral Executive Committee of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. This Plenum is of in- finitely more importance than most of the full meetings of the Central Executive Commitiee meetings held to date. The country is face to face with a Severe economic recession. 'The sta- tistics of the employers’ agencies and the government do not give the real picture of the dreadful condi.ions to vhich millions of workers are now subject. In America there are no un- Labor Houses and Big Contractors’ checking its losses today resulting from the tornado-like storm that swept through the southern part of the state late yesterday. One person, A. R. Krugerj'a sales- man, is known to have been killed. Property damage is estimated at close to a million dollars, The freak storm cut across the Ken- tucky line and carried destruction into the interior of that state. A score of persons were reported injured in the Louisville district. No fatalities oc- curred, but property damage was high. Poor construction of workers’ homes and publie buildings built by contrac- tors suffered most. Diamonds and Whisky WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.— Fifty million dollars worth of diamonds is annually smuggled into New York port by an international smuggling ring, as well as liquor and other commodities, Assistant Secre- tary Seymour Lowman of the treas- ury reports. . Lowman had denied Rep. Fiorello LaGuardia’s charges regarding the wholesale import of liquor under the protection of cancelled customs stamps. Because LaGuardia persisted in giving considerable publicity to his evidence, Lowman was forced to in- vestigate. NoAmnesty forWorkers The amnesty for military prisoners which has been announced with great pomp in Bucharest does not effect the status of any imprisoned work- ers or peasants, reports from the Ru- manian capital state. Many of the Rumanian political prisoners are peas- ants who have been jailed for at- tempting to take over pertions of un- tilled land. Others are workers and peasants who have resisted the gov- ernment’s terror in the provinces, THEY STILL SMUGGLE. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of liquor was seized aboard the trawler Standard Coaster in the Ar- thur Kill yesterday by a coast guard patrol boat. Profits: Cause Storm Wreckage | CINCINNATI, Jan. 20.—Ohio was| employment statistics. We can only conjecture at the real extent of un- employment. But the situacion is ap- parently so acute, that even the con- servative Boston Central Labor Union is compelled to admit that there are, in the city of Boston, at least 50,000 unemployed in addition to the nor- mally unemployed mass of workers. Chicago has longer bread lines than at any time since 1913. ‘New York lodging houses are more crowded than ever before. The primary question to be dealt |with at this Plenum of the Central Committee will be the economic reces- ;sion in the country and the tagks | growing out of it for the workers. Crisis Demands Action. The severe crisis in the trade unions, the challenge of the big capi- Must Build By A. JAKIRA. “So long and to the extent that I can speak for the government of the United States, I will use the power of the government to pre- vent the labor unions of the country from destroying the open shop.” * * * 'HESE were the words of Attorney General Daugherty when he ap- plied for an injunction against the Railroad Shopmen in 1922. Daugherty outlined the policy of the United States government towards organ- ized labor and the Open Shop. This policy remains in force to this day. One xeed not point to Colorado where all modern methods of warfare are used by the government against the striking miners, where miners are slaughtered like cattle, just because they would not submit to slave wages and working conditions. State Helps Employers Out As in Colorado, the government is openly and brazenly taking the side of the opextitors in the bituminous war in Pennsylvania and Ohio. We will let ex-Governor Pinchot, who was until recently himself part of this governmental machinery, expose the role of the government in this strike. At the A. F. of L. Conference in Pittsburgh on Nov. 14, Pinchot had the following to say on this subject: “There has been little attempt by the government in the United States to harrass employers in labor disputes, but there has been much bludgeoning of labor. . In strikes and suspensions in the mines before my time, the State took the side of the employer as a matter of course.” Sheriffs As Agents of Open Shoppers The present bituminous strike, or rather lockout, was declared on April ist. While the representatives of the Miners’ Union were still sitting with the coal operators at the round table in sunny Florida negotiating a new agreement, the sheriffs of Alleghany and Washington countries, with the full knowledge of the coal operators and under their direct orders, were busy posting proclamations prohibit- ing union mass meetings near the mines and stopping all ‘mass picket- ing. Sheriff Abbot of Washington County, it is worth while noticing, was elected to office on the Republi- can ticket as a “friend of labor.” Phil Murray, Vice President of the Greetings from The Slovak | - Workers Society TURN YOUR EYES TO THE CENT {talists to the very right of trade unions, even of craft unions, to exist, will be among the main problems dealt with by the Central Committee in its deliberations. The ques.ion of labor party will re- ceive most thorough consideration. For some months, the party has been laying the basis for an energetic cam- | paign for a Labor Party or,at least a United Labor Ticket in 1928. Re- ports of the field organizers will be forthcoming and a discussion will be held on a very concrete basis. Every | District in the country will be repre- sented at thie Plenum. The Party’s |participation in the 1928 elections | will be carefully prepared. | The problem of the increasing war American imperialism against the Nicaraguan masses struggling for freedom from the:clutches of Wall Street, the sinister plans being laid by the imperialist gang to destroy the revolutionary movement in China and to fasten upon the Chinese peo- ple a regime of militarists and imper- ialists serving as agents of big busi- ness will be dealt with in a most thorogoing manner by the reporters at the Plenum. Unions Main Question. will be the central question examined by the comrades from the field and the Political Committee. The repott ‘danger, the murderous assault of | Page Seven-- imperialism, and such basic problems confronting the workers as the pres- ent economic recession, the tasks of building a Labor Party, the bes: methods of fighting the war danger and liquidating the illusions of paci- fism, the question of the united front in relation to such organizations as the Socialist Parcy, the I. W. W., and labor organizations in general, as well as the development of the Party’s ac- tivities among the Negro masses and |the women workers. The Youth problem will be reported |the Young Lrague. Workers (Communist) A special feature of the delibera- of the Political Committee will deal | tions of the Central Committee meet- |tremendous at length with the role of American! ing will be a detailed report on the'the Party. RAL COMMITTEE MEETING s:ruggle of the Trotskyist Opposition tu the policies of the Communist In- ternational and the Communist Party |of the Soviet Union, policies whic have been endorsed unanimously by | the Central Executive Committee of | the Workers Par-y. Special Conference. | At the conclusion of the Plenum, | there will be held a special conference lon organization and agitprop work. |Heré the practical activities of the |Party will be discussed in detail and plans laid for intensification of Party Naturally, the trade union question | on at length by the representacive of | work. | Since the convention, the Party has gained over 1,000 new member This is especially welcome in the face of difficulties confronting It is interesting to note Labor Party to Fight Sintke-Breaking Government United Mine Workers of America, in a speech at the A. F. of L. Confer- ence in Pittsburgh, had the following to say about the State Police and the coal strike: “State policemen are manning every strike-breaking mine in Western Pennsylvania, and the same is true of Central Pennsyl- vania. Many of them live in Com- pany houses and ride around in the automobiles of the superintendents. They ride their horses among women and children, they arrest people and hale them before local magistrates, testify against them and do everything that is doné by strike breakers to hamper the mine workers’ organization.” Considering that Murray is one of the most reactionary labor leaders in this country, his remarks need nc further comment by us. It is worth while adding that the hordes of the state police, better known as the Pennsylvania Cossacks, invaded not only the organized fields of Western and Central Pennsylvania, but they also marched into the unorganized fields of Fayette County to sound a warning to the coke miners that no sympathetic strike will be tolerated. The “Yellow Dogs” , Even a more striking illustration of the role of the government as a union-breaking agency in the present coal struggle is the institution of the Coal and Iron Police, better known as the “yellow dogs.” They receive their authority from the governor of the state, but are being paid by and are directly responsible to the coal opera- tors. They are the private army of the employers, authorized by the gov- ernment and used in a most brutal manner against the workers. The Courts—Tools of the Coal Operators. The role, of the judicial branch of our government in this great indus- trial dispute is best illustrated by the sweeping injunctions issued against the union men, both in Western and Central Pennsylvania. The injunction of Federal Judge Schoonmaker is a model of class jus- tice in America. This injunction prac- tically outlaws the United Mine Workers of America. It goes a:step further. It even restrains the Na- tional Surety Company from supply- ing bonds to the various miners who ® Instructions for | Lenin Meetings| To all Lenin Memorial Arrange- ments Committees, To all district organizers, city or- ganizers, etc.: All comrades responsible for the arrangements and “conduct: of. the Lenin memorial meetings thruout the country will please note the following decisions of the National Organization Department: 1. At all Lenin memorial meetings the principle speaker must make the appeal for mem- bership. The Lenin memorial meeting is a starting point for the Lenin Memorial and Rathen- berg Memorial Membership and DAILY WORKER Drive that will last from Lenin Memorial to Ruthenberg Memorial, March 2nd. The appeal must be made on the basis of the activity of our Party in various campaigns. Every ef- fort must be made to see to it that the appeal is well organized in advance, the application cards are distributed, and that they are col- lected before the end of the meet- ing. Special emphasis must be given to the fact that all those who are unemployed or on strike will be admitted without any initiation fee. 2. DAILY WORKER DRIVE. There must be at least one of the speakers or an additional comrade who is not on the regu- lar list of speakers who shall make an appeal for The DAILY WORKER as part of the general drive for The DAILY WORKER and take up an appeal for sub- scriptions. The Central Executive Commit- tee expects all comrades to coop- erate in carrying out’ the above tasks. ORGANIZATION DEPT. 2 ® are being daily dragged into couri. The injunction issued recently by Judge J. M. Langham of Indiana |County, Pennsylvania, to the Clear- |field Coal Corporation even prohibits the display of signs warning the strike breakers that a strike is on. |It prohibits the miners to sing or to gather outside the church. | The courts are assisting the opera- tors in evicting the miners and serve jas a.shield to protect the crimes of |the deputy sheriffs, the yelmw dogs {and state police. | Labor Party Must Be the Answer | Governor Fisher himself is a direc- |tor of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal | Corporation. | The Pittsburgh Coal Company, the leader in the present war against the ‘United Mine Workers, is controlled |by the Mellon interests, who also con- {trol the government of this country. One is not surprised, therefore, that ‘the present bituminous coal strike has again demonstrated that the govern- ment, both executive and judicial, lo- ‘eal, state and federal, is on the side of the employers and is against the | workers. | The only answer the ‘workers can give to this question is to build a , party of their own and completely and decisively repudiate the old parties. ‘The policy of the A. F. of L. in “re- warding the friends and punishing the enemies of labor” only plays into the hands of the Open Shoppers and must |be repudiated. Sheriff Abbot of \ Washington County, who was elected on the Republican ticket as one of the numerous “friends of labor” was the first one to issue the order Jagainst the miners. Governor Pinchot, another “friend of labor” did nothing to abolish the “Yellow Dog” institu- tion. According to Pinchot himself. during his regime “the state kept in the middle of the road” doing nothing ; to protect the interests of the work- ers, while the operators were still al- lowed to keep their army of private gunmen and thugs. Workers Learning. In several mining communities the | workers have learned a lesson. They finally realized that their good Re- publican heads were being clubbed during the coal struggle by good Re- publican state policemen and they were being jailed and ordered evicted You Still Have a Chance to Transfer Your Money toa Cooperative Institution, Without Any Loss of Dividends are being paid | i i { | | | Guaranteed dividends $250.000.20 SECURED BY THE SECOND MORTGAGE ON THIS Dividends Are Being Paid From the First of January. G% ONO ANE Subsidiary of the United Workers Cooperative Association Office: 69 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 14th St. TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 Gold Bonds $500 $300 $100 Gold Bonds are being sold on installments and the smallest st day of deposit. from the first day of deposit. NEW YORK, N. Y. a Second Block of Dwellings of the Cooperative Workers Colony, (Bronx Park East, | at Allerton Avenue Sta, Bronx, N. Y.) by good Republican judges. In thi communities the Party received a high vote, in 1 nstances higher than the vote y re- ceived by either one ut the old par- ies, despite the sabotage of the labor officials. These instances, while still isolated, must be made general. A Labor Party must be built as a first step towards mobilizing the workers against strike-breaking bos- ses’ government. Evidence Before Grand Jury of Blacklist by Poughkeepsie Bosses POUGKHKEEPSIRE, N. Y., Jan. 20. ~-The investigation of the “Labor blacklist” said sto be maintained by the Manufacturers Association has been started by the Grand Jury. A workman, Frank Gonzales, the association were occupied by District Attorney Allen S. Reynolds who has taken possession of the records, or what is left of them. The mayor in his campaign speeches promised in- vestigation. CAMDEN, Jan. 20, — Five dwell- ings in the foreign workers’ section of this city were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin yesterday. Work- jers’ families were forced to flee half dressed and two small I:alian child ren were overcome by smoke. Pabor| mayor and his sister Mrs. Harry S.! Bock were among the first to appear | before the jury. The offices of the! ) that the Socialist Party, at the same ne, has been losing the few mem-~ ers it once pretended to have. The: gain of new membership is growing | every month, The dues payments for. this month are now much higher tham at mon.h since reorganization, a spi e the fact that the unemployment situation is weighing down heavily) upon our Party ranks. The Party, already has practically as many mem- s it did on the eve of the Tré-~ tion. In :he Workers Clubs, ch the Party’s influence is de- cisive, we now have from two to three times as many members as we previst ously had in the Party = as a whole, _, = Members of the Party in goody standing will be admitted to the ses= sions of the Cen.ral Committee. : |Chicago Forum Calls °% Bosses Feudal; Sees ¢ Fascist America Soon CHICAGO, Jan. 20. (FP).—Serf= |dom of labor with feudal overlordship, by the employer is the main trend int industrial relations. today, it was lagreed by two of. the three speakers’ Jat the Chicago Forum Jan. 15. a" John Frey, secretary of the A. Be of L. metal trades department, dew clared that unless labor is conceded® |the right to organize freely, and this: |does not seem to be the case, the ems. |ployer will become the unquestioned jruler over the workers. ’ | Harry G. Clarke, a Cleveland indus# |triel engineer representing the capiv talists, contributed nothing to the diss: cussion except the abstract argument; jabout rights. : It appeared from the discussion and’ questions that industrial democracy is- |hardly considered among even. the, |dreams of present day America, but that some sort of employer fascism: will prevail in this country before long. < False Arrest Charged % NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 20. —Rather than pay a poll tax of $1.65 sey months ago De Witt Sellic off Avon. |went to jail. After 5 hours of prison® |life Sellick decided to pay and wast jreleased. 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