The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 1

‘ Li ( | { | DELEGATES FROM ARGENTINA LASH AMERICAN POLICY Green’s Brass Band Can’t Stop Workers’ Shout for Labor Party at A. F. L. Meet \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY HE DAILY WORKER. Batered as secund-cines sauces vilice at New York, N. ¥. wo inder the act of March 3, 1579, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 30. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 Fitst Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents MEXICO, CANADA WORKERS GREET U.S. COMMUNISTS Voice First Protest on U. Street Invasions Hughes Openly Champions Intervention; Mexico Forced to Jo HAVANA, Feb. 5.—The first protest that the Pan-American Congress has heard against Uni ragua and Haiti came yesterday attacked the proposition spon- sored by the United States dele-: gation that “intervention is in certain cases justifiable.” The Argentine delegation, rep- resenting a government largely independent of United States in- fluence, supported the code drawn up by the Santiago commission of jurists declaring that “no state may inter- vene in the internal affairs of an- other.” The attack on United States policy arose in the Committee of Pub- lic International Law in the discussion of the code. Altho no direct reference was made to the United States, the speech of Dr. Pueyrredon, head of the Argen-| tine delegation, was believed to be aimed against United States interven- tion in Nicaragua. The Argentine stand was supported by Mexico and} Salvador. Charles Evans Hughes, chairman of the United States delegation, who openly championed the “right” of in- servention, was supported by delegates from a number of Latin-American states, whose governments are strong- ty influenced by the United States: ~ The question was referred for set- tlement to a sub-committee, headed by Hughes. Other delegations rep- vesented on the sub-committee are those of Argentina, Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica and Chile. OPEN SHOPPERS, S$, P, SUPPORT THE ANTI-LABOR MOVE Say: “Only Communists Oppose Law” A further development in the cam- paign being conducted by the Amer- ican Bar Association to put over a national anii-strike law, was the an- nouncement Saturday by Attorney Julius Henry Cohen, in charge of the campaign, that a number of organ- izations had come out in support of the “formula.” Among those supporting Cohen’s | move were Ivy Lee, speaking for the Rockefeller inierests. “Poison Ivy Lee, as he is popularly known, is the} author of the Interborough company union. Another group is the Nation al Manufacturers, the most power- ful anti-labor body in the country. The National Industrial Conference Board, the “fact-finding” agency of the employers, the Building Trades Employers’ Association, now in the process of worxing out a program to wreck the local building trades unions, the United Typothetae, the open shop printers, organization which headed the 1920 open shop drive, and a number of other such labor hating groups are listed. Socialists Also Cohen announced that another group supporting the move was the social- ist party with Jacob Panken as its spokesman. . On the other side opposed to the (Continued on Page Five) as | | . 8. Justification of Wall) in Argentina ted States intervention in Nica- when the Argentine delegation OFFICIALS SEEK TO STIFLE RANK AND FILE DEMAND Workers Break Thru Staged Program Cheers for a labor party, the jeer- ing and booing of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, the crashing of a- brass band—used by Green to drownout the voices of the workers—these were the features of a mass meeting called by officials of the A. F. of L. for the ostensible purpose of “fighting” in- junctions, at Cooper Union yesterday afternoon, at which Green ~utilized every resource at his command to prevent any rank and file expression from being heard, oy. yoTheGagg’s: All Heres, 25) f Bedides “Green, the other speakers who participated in the partly tragic, partly farcical injunction ~ “drive” were William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em- ployes, Andrew Furuseth, president of | the New York State Federation of | Labor, Joseph P. Ryan, president of | the Central Trades and Labor Council, and many other labor officials. Be- sides a number of representatives of church and state in the persons of Tammany and republican politicians jand the members of the catholic and | protestant hierarchies. Cheer For Labor Party. The height of the rank and file re- sentment at what they manifestly re- garded as verbal camouflage on the part of all the speakers, was reached when Green announced that he would | fight the injunction by appearing at the chambers of the legislatures, At this. point a young woman worker arose and shouted: “No, no, we want a labor party.” Instantly the hall was Lin a frenzied uproar. For fully eight minutes cheering, shouting and stamping of feet continued in spite of (Continued on Page Five) CLOAKMAKERS TO MEET AFTER WORK | Big Reception Held for Released Prisoners An announcement calling upon all the active cloak and dressmakers to attend a meeting tonight at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. has been made by the New York Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union. The meeting is to be held immedi- ately after work, and will draw up plans for work that will answer-e! fectively the fake organization cam- paigns that President Sigman _§is again announcing. The leaders-of-the Joint Board will be present to make the reports on the present situation. in the, union. Welcome Released Workers, Nicaragua Invasion Protest on Thursday The invasion of Nicaragua by United States Marines will be protest- ed at a mass meeting Thursday eve- ning at Hopkinson Mansion, 428 Hop- kinson Mansion, Brooklyn, under the Joseph Pearlman and Anton Rom- archuk were the guests of honor at a reception arranged for them by the Joint Defense Committee at. New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. last Friday evening. The large hall was crowded with needle trades work- ers anxious to parlicipate in the wel- come accorded the two workers re- auspices of the Brownsville subsec- tion, Workers (Communist) Party. The speakers will be Bertram D. Wolfe, director, Workers’ School; Her- bert Zam,.executive secretary, Young Workers (Communist) League, and Ray Ragozin, Teachers’ Union. * Charles Reis, of the Brooklyn section executive committee, will preside. cently released from Sing Sing after serving more than a year of their 18-month sentence, because of strike activity. They had been pardoned ‘by the parole commission after overwhelm- ing evidence of their innocence had (Continued on Page Five) DECIDE 10 JOIN WITH N. Y. COUNCIL OF UNEMPLOYED Weisbord Main Speaker at Big Rrally PASSAIC, Feb. 5.—Passaic police, true to tradition, Saturday*afternoon broke up a demonstration of unem- ployed workers who were marching in orderly fashion to a conference of the officials of the American Fed- eration of Labor being held at Moose flome, on Main Ave. The unemployed workers had just left a large meeting addressed by Al- bett Weisbord, leader of last year’s Passaic textile strike, when about a dozen plainclothes men of the police department broke into the line of marchers and proceeded to tear up signs and banners carried by the workers. The line reformed and con- tinued on its way to Moose Home at which the A. F. of L. conference was in-session. There again the detectives, now augmented by a force of uni- formed policemen and state guards to a total of about forty officers, broke up the demonstration and shunted the marchers down side streets. “This Is New Jersey.” A reporter for The DAILY WORK- ER who sought te gain admission into the “hall, was treated with similar -consideration. “This is New Jersey,” me do bank to New York’ wher n. -“Go-back to York where you belong.” Over a thousand unemployed work- ers of Passaic and vicinity crowded into International Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave. in one of the most spirited meetings held here since the memorable events of the 1926 Passaic strike, and proceeded to organize themselves into a permanent body of action for the relief of the 20,000 jobless workers of Passaic. Enthusiasm at the—meeting rose to its greatest height when Weisbord was introduced. Previously scores of workers, toil-worn men, stooped and wrinkled women, prematurely old, and children hardly above kindergarten age, had crowded about him to wring the hand of the popular leader who for them ‘symbolizes the struggle against the oppression of the mill barons. The crowd burst into the strains of “Solidarity Forever” as he began. (Continued on Page Four) Shop Chairmen of Iron Workers Meet Tuesday A meeting of all the shop chairmen of the Architectural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union will be held tomorrow evening at the office of the union, 7 E. 15th St., at 7:30 p: m. In addition to a general report on the trade situation a special re- port will be made on the strike the union is conducting at the Gorman Iron Works, according to an an- nouncement by its secretary, A. ltys- enfeld. All-shop chairmen are requested to be present with a report from their shops. Plans will also be discussed for future activities, in view of the campaign’ begun by the employers to loek out union workers and employ non-union men. | } | |The strikebreakers, under the direc- Workers (Communist) Party Leaders Outline Tasks for American Labor Jay Lovestone, recommendations of the Political Party Committeg to the Plenum of e mn Foster (center), member of the Secretariat of the Party, outlined trade union tasks for the Central Com- mittee. William W. Weinstone is a member of the Political Committee and New York district organizer. He welcomed the Plenum. executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party (left), reported unanimous the Central Committee. William Z. SCABS GET $25 TC SHOOT CHILDREN ‘Strikebreakers Seized Making Get-Away By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 5.—Hampton Matthews and John Thomas, two of the criminal scabs arrested for firing into the miners’ barracks at Brough- ton have admitted that they received $25 each for committing their crime. tion of the coal and iron police, fired on the miners’ barracks and the pub- lic school on February 2nd. President Ralph Holtzhauser, of the school board, has ordered the school closed and wired Governor Fisher that ix would. not be reopened until some guarantee that the lives of the chil- dren would not be jeopardized came from the governor. Squire J. M. O’Rourke called the “red neck squire” because of his sym- pathy with the strikers secured con- fessions from the two scabs, 0’Rourke wired the confession to Governor Fisher and Senator Hiram Johnson. Arrested on Getaway. Matthews was arrested at Bruce- town, while awaiting a train to make his getaway. He is held in $5,000 bail. Thomas is being sought by the pelice. The company house in which the | seabs are quartered was searched by | (Continued on Page Two) | The Burial Business The high cost of burials-“has been attacked by an advisory com- mittee on burial survey, after a two year investigation financed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. “Excessive emotionalism”: on~ the part of the families of the dead and the “disorganized and wasteful” con- ditions in the burial business were cited as two principle reasons for the high cost. SOCIALISTS BROADCAST WAR TALK Radio WEVD Lauds U.S. Seizure of Nicaragua Ex-Marine on An ex-marine, chairman of the Americanism Committee of the American Legion, was allowed to use the socialist-controlled radio station WEVD in support of the present war by the United States government against the Nicaragu- an people. This broadcasting station, owned by the Debs Memorial Fund Committee, cleared the road for the speaker, J. R. O’Brien, when Horace G. Knowles, scheduled to answer the ex-marine, withdrew claiming he had not been given a suf- It had originally been announced that Knowles would take the side against intervention in debating “Are We Right ficient time allotment. or Wrong in Nicaragua?” O’Brien, a m marines landed station was to ing class.” vention of 1909 twelve years and orderly to ex-president Taft! and Wilson, denounced those who had “organized a cry of imperialism when the United States occupation of Haiti by American forces. other statement made over this socialist party revolutions in Nicaragua were started “by small- town rebels who live on the backs of the work- The speaker participated actively in the inter- Tell of Growing Prestige of “Daily” Among Workers The campaign to build The DAILY WORKER is making headway thru- | out the United States. This was the opinion among those now attending the Plenum of the Workers (Communist) Party at Irving Plaza; 15th St. and Irving Place, A large number active-® ly participating in building the “Daily” told of the growing prestige of the paper. Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chi- cago and Denver were among the cities mentioned where an energetic drive is being conducted to increase the circulation of the only English language national labor paper in the United States. Despité the long and} bitter struggle in the Pennsylvania, | Ohio and Colorado coal fields and the} impoverishment of the thousands of miners now on strike, the interest in| The DAILY WORKER, it is reported, | is greater than ever. The DAILY WORKER must be spread among the unorganized and unemployed workers during the pres- ent campaign which is being conduct- ed jointly with the drive of the Work- ers (Communist) Party for 5,000 new members, they declared. Conditions in Pittsburgh and the adjoining industrial cities were touched upon by others. They said that workers everywhere are becom- ing convinced that they can depend on no other paper in the United States to be their spokesman in their day-to-day struggles with the bosses. NEGRO PROTEST MEET TOMORROW The second conference of student, labor and civic organizations to pro- test against the racial discrimination | against Negro students at New York | University will be held tomorrow at | |the Abyssynian Church, W. 138th St. and Seventh Ave., at 8:30 p.m. A first conference was held Jan. 23 at Utopia Hall, 170 W. 130th St. The Negro students at the univer- sity have been refused admission to the physical training course and the school dormitory, it was brot out at the first conference, A mass meeting to protest against the Jim-Crowism will be held Thurs- day, Feb. 24, at 8 p. m. at St. Marks M. E. Church, 138th St. and Edge- combe Ave., it was announced yester- day. It is believed that William Pickens, field secretary, National As- sociation for the Advancement of Col- ored People will be one of the speak- ers. Religious Prejudice a Factor In Appointment of Teachers Passaic Police Break Up Huge Meeting of Jobless PLAN FIGHT ON U.S, IMPERIALISMAS ALL-AMERICA AIM Lovestone, Foster Give Program of Struggle Coal Miner Tells Plenum of Big Strike The plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party of America at its open- ing session Saturday afternoon at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, listened to the report of the Political Committee of the Party, delivered by Jay Lovestone, executive secretary, on “The Present Situation and the Tasks of the Party.” Immediately followed the report on the situation in the trade unions and the tasks of the Party in | the unions, delivered by Wm. Z. | Fosver. Foreign Delegates Attend. Delegates attending the session in a fraternal capacity brot greetings | from the Communist Parties of Mex- ico and Canada, respectively. William Z. Foster as chairman of the first sitting, called the plenum to order, saying: “American capitalism finds itself in grave difficulties. Three million workers are walking the streets of this country as unemployed. This plenary. session of the Central, Com- mittee of our.Party meets ata time when capital is delivering an offen- sive, attacking the wages, and living | standards of the workers. But these |attacks are not falling upon a work- j ing class which is unresponsive to at- | tack. “We find everywhere an increasing resistance on the part of the workers. Discontent is wide-spread, and the re- | sistance is found among the unorgan- ized as well as the unionized. There is a mood for struggle which demon- strates a rising spirit of the working class. It is absolutely imperative to organize the hitherto demoralized workers, betrayed by their leaders of the official bureaucracy. “This will call for the utmost unity in our Party in order to be able to take advantage of every situation. I believe the Party will be equal to the task, “The Political Commitiee has been able to come before the Party with a unanimous thesis analyzing the present situation correctly and funda- mentally, and putting before us @ correct plan of action.” Canada Representative Reports. Morris Spector, representative of the Communist Party of Canada, brot the greetings of the revolutionary workers of Canada, saying that the |condition of the Dominion usually fol- |lowed about two years behind the }corresponding conditions in the United States, but that in the case of industrial decline, the following was Despite the fact that there is serious unemployment among New York more rapid than in the case of a rise. college-prepared teachers, Fredericka Belknap, appointment director of New | York University, in her annual report to Chancellor Elmer E. Brown, has |tor, has the character of leaving announced that there are not enough , teachers to fill the demands made’ upon her office. She declared that religion was an important factor which kept her from recommending ‘candidates available. The age of ap- plicants and geographical location of schools are also difficulties that stand | in the way of placing teachers, ac-} cording to the director. “This has led to a serious condition ember of the Marine Corps for in Nicaragua,” and lauded the An- the effect that the numberless in Nicaragua. recommend qualified candidates for many worthwhile positions,” she said. Simultaneously, reports came from teachers throughout the west stress- ing the growing unemployment in their ranks. This is especially true of southern California, where it is re- ported that thousands of instructors are jobless. ae, ae Urges Foreign Teachers. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Feb. 5.— Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College, urged the passage of an amendment to the immigration laws to permit foreign teachers to enter this country in larger numbers in an address before a meeting of 400 Vassar alumnae at the Biltmore yes- terday. MacCracken declared that this measure would facilitate the entrance of the best-qualified teachers, and would not promote unemployment among teachers to any noticeable ex- tent, according to the college presi- dent. BREAD TRUSTS FIGHT BILL. TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 5.—A bill introduced in the State Legislature by Assemblyman McDermott providing for the sale of bread by weight is meefing with opposition from the large baking companies. “Prosperity” in Canada, said Spec- : P a |. |many thousands of workers in a con- *for it has been impossible for us to dition of acute destitution, while $20 per week is the average weekly wage for Canadian workers in Canada. The real proletarian receives about 26 cents per hour. “The Trades and Labor Congress,” | he said, “is dominated by reaction- aries who put themselves on against recognition of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, against any association of their name with the cause of saving Sacco and Van- zetti, and who consider their chief function to be to keep their orienta- tion to Geneva. “The British imperialists have in Canada a propagandist of the eton- omic unity of the British Empire. The bourgeoisie of Canada is doing everything to prepare for the coming war between Great Britain and the United States. It has all the auto- nomy and as much national status as it dares to have, McKenzie King and other leading bourgeois politicians are lining up with the British bour- geoisie against the American bour- geoisie. They broke off diplomatic relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics when the British government did. “The trade union bureaucrats in 1913 declared for a general strike in case of war, and reaffirmed this a few months before the world war (Continued on Page Two)