The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928 “SAY ORGANIZERS ‘Worker RetsniteDaiy HAVE ENTRAINED FOR THE RECION Hitherto Have Stayed in Hotels, Not Mills RODGERS, Jan. 30,—For y months, represen-| announced izers are about eel indus- ng that a task er By JACK PITTSBURGH, Pa., the third time in William Collins, A. F. tative in Pittsburgh. that an army of ¢ to be turned loose on the try with object of unio! mighty dustrial octopus, which has liam Z. Foste of 1919, a st feat for the cause of t tional union r of all the ee in the industry} above their own petty interests. Good Objects. The immedi m of the 3 organizing ca’ according to Collins, is to a king miners coal and steel being twin brothers in the industrial household. { According to reports a “high of. ficial” of the United Mine Workers announced that a squad of interna- tional organizers entrained at Pitts- burgh for Wheeling “to launch a care- folly mapped program of educational and organizational work among the steel workers there.” | Keep Away From Mills. 4 The only time those alleged organ- izers are heard of publicly i they are supposed to be igerearmtn for some destination. Judgi sults so far, they never entrain fo FORGETS SPIES workers has been made so often by the reactio: bureaucrats of the A. F. of L, her the workers nor the stec] magnates any longer Pe was pay any attention to it. An interna- i from Page One) tional organizer fiddled around Gz n, further direct Indiana, for two vears, spent $90,0: een Count Szecheny and did not organize enough stee! he dangerous. ‘ workers to fill tele booth | This occurred as far back as Feb- | f That was two or three years ago. ruary h,- 1926, when Senator ught the circumstances “proving”, that Count ssociated with the Bol- Progressive t unions I point out that if the’ executive coun- , to iit attention of the sep- At this time he showed that the ei] of the F, of L. was ser n agency had received $20,000 for te proposed Henry Fuse, veteran diver of the maintenance department of the Harbor Commissioners, walks the bettom of San Francisco Bay every night after midnight, to test the bases of the ferry boat slips and the ferry building. Dangers from sharks and frequent accidents to the air-lines are among the many risks the divers in San Francisco are forced to take. } ining by re. i} its professed desire to help the min-| ers, it would recommend to the inter-| § K Ace =-national unions effiliated with the| 4 y _| spying on Karolyi and for furnish-| 4 4 Sesticn ered Saas, jing the Sere documents secre by oe bership, which would provide mill lions | as Faas -SEDEE ec a basis for es 4, of dollars a month for the niiners’ of an investigation 4 strike and relief fund instead of the | was iu opiSenatae “Whealne's a paltry $150,000 contributed to date. | usual al. gestures,” and afte: & A Face-Saving Stunt. | the ¢ ation of obvious irs com- matter to department. And from Montana has} section of the pub-| i protest, and helped | TUE ‘the crudeness of the for-| In the opinion of well-informed) trade unionists in this city, those mys- | terious «: and goings of the phantom of organizers are intended as ag stunts on the | © part of the arent rats who are fid-|, dling in swell hotels and living on, _ swell salaries while the trade union} edifice is burning down around them. he clear once we see how closely the | Under pressure of the Progressive | American erialist government is | elements in the trade unions and in}bound up with the Horthy regime | particular because of the activities of | with strong economic ties. the “Save the Union Committee” of What an Honest Investigation Would | the United Mine Workers of Amer-} Mean! fea, the reactionaries are forced to} An honest inv tigation® would make a bluff at carrying out pro-|have proven that the Hongariau| Why things happened in this way. | grams adopted at previous confer-| White Terror maintains a forgery The rank and file is getting | mill and spy system in America— The | utilizing it to frame up workers both phere ences, restive and demanding mn. (Continued on Page Four) at-home: As a result re- ween the Hungarian} ernment and the government of | expected to deliver the keynote ad- | official machine of the United Textile | the organizers in their work. | bring about stabilization in the in- | dustry and boasted of the fact that | asserted publicly that the: Electrical REFORMISTS GIVE “JOBLESS NO AID AT PHILA. MEET Only Militant Speech (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.—A con-| | ference on “How to Organize the Un-| | organized” opened here yesterday jafternoon at the Labor Institute, | | under the joint auspices of the Labor | College of Philadelphia and the Cen- | tral Labor Union. The first session | was opened by Israel Mufson, secre- |tary of the labor college, who dis- j cussed briefly the proportions of the k of organizing the millions of un-} | org ganized workers, and intréduced |the chairman of the session, Joseph Richie, representative of the Amer-| |ican Federation of Labor. Richie in- |troduced Joseph White, organizer of |the United Textile Workers of Amer-| lica, as the first speaker, who was dress of the conference. Worries About Employers. White, one of the favorites of the Workers’ Union, devoted most of his time to lecturing workers on their} “duty” to the employers. “No worker | should ever forget that he ewes some- thing to the boss; a good day’s work for his wages,” declared White. While he offered no solution for the organi- zation of the unorganized problem, he did mention the fact that wage cuts | in the industry, such as are now of frequent occurrence, sometimes aided | In dis- cussing unemployment he said that those workers who do good work are entitled to jobs and that those who are just holding jobs and not con- tributing a fair day’s work to indus- try should get out and make room for other who can do a good day’s work, No one arose to refute such dirty sermonizing and point to the fact that such a policy aided the employ- ers in their efforts to select only the most efficient slaves. White offered | no suggestions regarding the future of the discarded workers in industry. “Stabilizing Industry.” Louis Fowler, business agent of Electrical Workers’ Union No. 98, | warned the workers that they were spending money too fast, that the war prosperity had made them ex- cessively extravagant, and that they must realize that such conditions can- |not continue forever favorable to them and that henceforth they must prac- tice thrift and abjure extravagant living. He declared that it was es- sential for the unions to strive to a few days ago one of the biggest electrical contractors in Philadelphia Workers’ Union was the most effec- tive force for stabilization in the in dustry. Discussing the introduction | of “giant power” Fowler said that| |the international president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is a member of the federal giant power commission and that he is contribut- ing as best he can to the solution of |the problems arising out of the in- troduction of super-power systems throughout the country. He also boasted of the educational policies of the union which devotes much time to teaching its members how to splice cables.for transmission of high volt- | Tone eas ! ‘Plumbers Helper Makes | Federation of Labor and prominent PAT of L. Burea seaside.” Makes Another Threat to Organize Steel Workers ‘These Men Help Split Devcon: Ranks Senator James A. Reed, ofe Missouri, decides to “also run.” He can’t believe that the democratic sachems will find Al Smith a bet- | ter plum-giver than Reed when convention time draws near, and he’s At the left, Samuel W. Fordyce, chairman of the democratic state committee of Missouri and in charge of the Reed boom. “At the right, Lee Meriwether, its vice- willing to split the party if they do. } | chairman, LEADERS NOT TO FICHT WAGE CUTS Federal “Investigation | Asked Instead | FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 30. — Disregarding ihe fighting sentiment | evident among the tens of thousands | of workers here who have suffered | cuts in the past few weeks, the lead- | ers of the United Textile Workers of | America have decided that their most | aggressive step will be to pass a pro- vest reSolution and to call for a feder- al investigation. Ata meeting held in this city un- der the auspices of the Central Labor Union, Thomas F, McMahon, presi- dent of the United Textile Workers, Charles Reed, American Federation of Labor representative in Massachu-)| set.s, and others, all stated that they most_ emphatically do not see the necessity for a wage cut. In proposing a resolution asking for a federal investigation they did net answer the queries asked as to the purpose or the value of such a move in face of the fact that the re- duction becomes effective today. It seems now as if the Fall River Textile Council had temporarily suc- ceeded in overriding the protests of its affiliated locals. But competent observers point oui that the workers’ | organizations that do exist embrace , only the more skilled operatives. The | protest of the unorganized may as yet precipitate a strike. The Stevens Manufacturing Com- pany is still comple.ely tied up by the |strike of the weayers, who went out when they were told to operate 3 looms instead of two. GANTRY LEAVES HOME. PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 30.—Mys- tery today surrounds the almost si multaneous disappearances of the Rey. Luther Latham Holmes, 45, former assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church here, and Miss Katherine Dc Brulye, 20, former choir singer in the same church. He dropped from sight Thursday leaving his wife behind him, route for Boston to stay with rela- penniless it is said. She is now en- tives. Holmes is being sought by the police on a charge of desertion. regard them as reactionary, said Miss Christenson. She concluded by urging a@ special women’s department of the A. F. of L. In the discussion, Vice President Phillips of the Pennsylvania State member of Typographical Union No. 2, declared that there must be unity \ age. }of labor’s forces, “The speculative LABOR BANKS ARE PART OF SYSTEM ‘Big Exploiters Glad to See Them Catch Savings | By LELAND OLDS A compilation by the department of economics of Prince:on university shows 82 labor banks in October, 1927, compared with 83 in July, 1924, while their total resources now stand at $117,436,344. Labor banks started as‘a race of pig- mies in a world of capitalist banking giants and they have survived by serv- | ing the purposes of the community of ‘giants and operacing along strictly capitalist lines. The giants continue to grow bigger and more powerful at a rate which dwarfs the growth of the labor banks. Between Dec. 81, 1926 and the same date 1927 the re- sources of the National Ci.y Rank of New York increased from $1,394,389,- | 890 to $1,682,802,851, a gain of $288,- | 412,961. The mere expansion of this great Rockefeller-Kuhn-Loeb bank in a sin- gle year was more than double the en- tire resources of the country’s 82 labor banks. Bankers Knew. In 1924, when liberal economists were hailing the rapid growth of la- bor banking as a feature of a peace- ful revolution which would let labor into the ranks of power, Pres. Charles H. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York welcomed the develop- ment as an aid to the whole banking business. Mitchell’s statement indi- cated that labor banking fit.ed in well with the plans of the dominant finan- ciers, by breaking down class lines between workers and owners, by spreading the idea that bankers are not parasites and by getting the work- ers inio the habit of using commercial banks, thus providing a basis for fur- ther expansion of credit. Get the Cash. Prior to the development of labor banking, one of the unsolved problems of the bankers had been to get the worker’s weekly balance of unspent wages into the banks where it could \intended as a kind of sop to the dis- FULLER TRIES 10 REAP REWARD FOR MURDER OF SACCO Curtis Boom Seems to Be Trick of Hooverites BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 30.—For the first time in American historv. a man is definitely running for president on |his record as a killer. The chief and only argument fer the governor of Massachusetts. the man who deserted his post for a joy ride in Eurone when the most destructive flood in history struck eastern Massachusetts, is the fact that hey issued the orders that sent Saceo and Vanzetti to their death, This endears him to the heart of the banker and big indnstrial srouns. and assures finances for his campaign. Representative A. Platt Andrew who first announced Fuller’s candi- daey continues to tour about the st-te and reneat his praises of the gover- nor. Fuiley’s backers hope for the vice-presidency if they cannot get the presidential nomination. Curtis Noise Starts. Kansas diners in Washington, New York and Topeka will extol the merits of Senator Charles Curtis for the nomination. Theodore Roosevelt is to speak at Topeka, Gov. Ben S. Paulen has been selected to speak at the New York celebration, and the can- didate himself will be the principal guest at the dinner in Washington, D.C. Senator Arthur Capper (R) of Kansas issued a Statement today praising his colleague. A Hoover Trick? The boosting of Curtis seems to be gruntled farmer groups in whose name Senator Nye day before yester- day threatened a split in the party. But the big eastern centers are Hooverizing, and it is said that as soon as it seems too late for the Nye crowd to do much effective splitting, Curtis’ boom will fizzle out, and Hoover get his votes. serve te increase reserves against commercial loans. Wage earners mis- rusted the banks and refused either to receive their wages in checks or to’ use a checking account for the pay- ment of their bills. The stocking or ginger jar or some other hiding place at home contained the family work- ing capital until it was spent. The establishment of labor banks, and especially the accompanying prop- aganda, has gone far to break down this barrier of mistrust. For every wage dollar available to the labor banks there are probably 10 going to swell the reserves of the capitalist banks serving as one basis for the ex- traordinary expansion of their re- A Gesture to Weaken Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist who died in exile at Men- tone, France, Saturday, wanted te ‘overthrow King Alphonso of Spain and establish a Spanish Republic. Ibanez wrote such jin- goistic pro-Ally novels during the war that it was charged that he was in the pay of the Allies. He did not favor a workers’ republic, despite the fact that he made overtures to Spanish labor for support in his attempts to set up a bourgeois republic, OFFICIALS MOVE TO END STRIKES (Continued from Page One) failed to eliminate strikes which have, on the contrary, increased. The law has had the effect,—some say that was the purpose of the act—of pre- venting labor from securing the ad- vantage of its bargaining power in times of rising wage levels, but has enabled the employers. to secure downward revisions of wages in times of declining standards. As a preparation to the attempt te put through similar legislation in the United States, considerable propa- ganda, it is stated, is being sent out to the labor press in favor of such a proposal. It is pointed out that during the past few months an intensive cam- paign extending to practically every labor. paper, has been conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation advising the adoption of an arbitration law. It now appears that the officials of the labor movem:nt have been in league. with propaganda. The cooperation of Matthew Woll and the labor officialdom with the open shop interests for the purpose of putting over a non-strike law is being interpreted as most significant. Opinion, however, is almost uniform that the present deepening economic erisis may render «ach a law impos- sible of enfore-ment, inasmuch as all employers would immediately seek wage awards thus leading to the dis- sources, erediting of the act. New Playwrights’ Theatre Producti: American $2. Get a copy for your Mbrary from the JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP 106 UNIVERSITY PLACE Other New Playwrights’ Productions in Print LOUD SPEAKER By John Howard Lawson TWO HUNDRED PAGES OF WORKINGCLASS ACTION THE BELT Speed-up System JUST PUBLISHED $2.00 each. lon of Paul Sifton’s Satire of the 00 NEW YORK CITY EARTH By Em Jo Basche ite United States- would have been| d. Furthermore, the work of ff d railroading innocent n would have become Women in Industry. | thinkers, the philosophic thinkers, and “Women are forced to enter indus-! the practical people in the labor try because men’s wages are not high| movement must “be brought together. enough to support their families,”|'That is possible by following the pro- said Edith Christenson, secretary of| gram of the A. F. of L. to increase 3 Chicago Left Wing Forces more difficult in. Hungary, while the tetZn of tefvor at-present aids Wall Boss to Sign: imitate Anes 1erican government chose aan the-other course! “Senator Wheeler’s ee nee aes aaa Waring feeble protest served its purpose and Sp with the left wing Chicago Joint |hen-died down.” The American gov- Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ ernment continued to give active sup- Wnion. This in spite of t i ot the port to the Horthy government in ee eee Hungary---and to Morris Sigman, t of the Dy " on of its white terror methods asi 4 United States. And the latest Ks the | io” once more bring the bs) . frame- -up issue before the American ‘ rters, because, in covering up, Th on anno ae - sheie nounces that the Doc Kellogg and Count Szechenyi con- Moree Dees ear and the Berg and’ -idored it advisable not to risk fur- up with the union, due to the pressure hina J aeitvesde ane Mel id uP ie of the workers, who informed the (ie Ki iis pki ch ch ie eae bosses that if they signed up with “Ton “gency. completely n by expellin, e its eyes to the} men’s Trade Union League. Women and girls present. special problems to the trade union organizer that are not.encountered among the men——the attitude that many take that they are cnly temporarily in industry, a false se of loyalty to employers for all real or imaginary favors, pre- sented certain difficulties. She also emphasized the fact that in tries employing Negro women work- ers the employers can easily prevent dice. In many of the unions that em- workers think the Jewish women workers who are active in the unions the Sigman union they would walk out. { Many more cloak and dress firms are about to renew their contracts as soon as they expire, the Joint Board said. POLITICIANS UNGRATEFUL |! CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Now that bombers have threatencd to blow up the home of Mayor Thompson, police are attempting to break up criminal gangs used by both old parties in Chi-' @ago elections. They raided today a} saloon said to have been the head- quarters of a bomb trust. | MANY UNKNOWN DEAD. One hundred seventy-one unidenti- | fied dead during the year 1927 were} either buried in Potter's Field or sent | to medical colleges for experimental | purposes, according to banter of Public Welfare Coler. ested in the fate of millions of \ 2 “He Didn't Cross the Ocean in the Steerage Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz-Caffron, new minister from Germany to the United States, who recently arrived, is not inter- German workers whose lives are * being crushed out by the infamous Dawes Plan, the Philadelphia branch of the Wo-| indus-| unionization by fostering racial preju-| sloy women in industry the gentile; duction in order that it may be ‘ible to pay more wages and to reduce hours. Ths program is broad enough to unite all forces in the la- bor movement. Basically the problem is“one of education.” Edward L. Rodgers, also represent- ing Typographical Union No. 2, spoke of, organizing women in industry, pointing out. that his union always encouraged the organization of wo- men. He also spoke of women’s aux- iliaries as instruments for organizing “the purchasing power of organized labor by demanding the union label | on goods because it is the purchasing power that controls.” Young Workers’ Problems. “The officials of the unions have been euilty of nelactine the young workers in industry,” said Clarence Miller, of the Plumbers’ Helpers of | New York. Describing in detail how) young workers were forced to work | for one-third the wages of journey- men, Miller said the fact that these} young workers were not organized was a source .of weakness to the whole labor movement, as in times of strike the employers depend upon the unor- ganized youngsters to help break strikes. He described how his or- ganization had organized the plumbers’ helpers and how they went out on strike with the union in New York He urged special conferences of the youth in industry in order to over- come this defect and as a practical step in organizing the unorganized. 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