The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 2

Page Two MISERY amu DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 WAKE OF FIRE; ; » BE ies { { locks. Mills and plants were consumed, throwing between 4,000 and +t} 8,000 workers out of work, thus seriously affecting an already bad unemployment situation in Fall River. Workers’ quarters also suffered in the blaze, altho capitalist papers stress the losses of the business men. Textile ‘ns workers fear that the fire will be used as a pretext for further wage cuts. The picture on the left shows the Pocasset mills, The center photo shows what the fire did to’ the business section. Right, the high gale is shown ~ \ whipping the rapidly-spreading flames. Textile Workers Get Further age Cuts as N. Y. Mills Follow New NLZLAN 0 RU oR i a te 3 Rs ‘ YOUNG WORKERS | “S™s cr Ruin” Hedley Improve Television (SOVIET SCHOOL (22 02 Suppers to Hold! SCABS GIVEN $25 | LEAGUE SCORES | METHODS'TO BE EACH TO FIRE AT FICIALS) | MINER CHILDREN FFICIALS) 3 UPSTATE MILLS pee Salis Velie pare ae pare Urge United Front in Bosses of Many States Russian Exposition Ar- .Strikebreakers Seized Fight for Workers Combine in Cut Orgy | ranges Talks Making Get-away The refusal of the City Conventio UTICA, N. Y.,_ Feb. 5.—General | Educational methods used in the (Continued from Page One) of the Young P wage reductions of 10 per cent will Soviet Union will be discussed by Dr. deputies and several rifles, shotguns, : ta be inaugurated in three more local Lucy Wilson, principal of the South pistols and ammunition were found. the Young Workers League to speak textile mills today, it has been an- Philadelphia High School this after- ‘They made no arrests. y regarding the r sity for a united nounced. noon and by Professor George Counts “Conditions are approaching hell in front of M4 ae Be On the heels of an announcement | of Columbia University and Henry our town,” Holzhauser declared. “We tacked in a s d_yester- | made Friday by the Utica Knitting Noel Brailsford, English economist have tried to maintain a neutral at- f\ day by the Yo League, ; Company that wage cuts will be made and author, this evening at the R»s- titude hut we can’t stand for gangs |) District 2, thru its organizer, John in all of its mills, the Oneita Knitting sian Exposition, 119 West 57th Strect. of strange strikebreakers running V Williamson. Mills and the Augusta Knitting Cor- ‘ ‘ There is a move on foot to take| Immediately released after being |amuck, with the coal company police The statement follow: poration declared similar reductions Experiments with television have the Exposition on tour throughout the| arrested for refusal to testify at the hanging back in the rear, approving “We consider the action of the ma-|_ Above is shown Frank Hedley, |on Saturday. succeeded in flashing the photo of |i Jitcq States, All phases of educa-| “whitewash” investigation of the | the rioting. jority of the City Convention of the| president of the I. R. T., one of the | The McLoughlin Textile Corp., and| a" opera singer twenty-five miles Young People’s So t League in refusing the floor to the representa- tive of the Young Workers League t the interests of youth. Endangered, when the trade arp attack from the emplo; exemplified by the United Min s and the build- ing trades unions; when the danger of war becomes more apparent and imminent, as shown by the attack on the independence of Nicaragua, and the feverish preparations for new world wars by the American imperial- ists calls for billions of dollars for armaments. At such a time we con- sider it imperative that all working class youth organizations shall en- gage in joint and united front activi- ties. men responsible for the tyranny by which 10,000 subway workers have been reduced to virtual slavery. Hedley’s latest “public be damned” act is a move to raise the subway fare to 7 cents. Efforts by the Boro of Bronx to obtain an injunction against the fare raise have failed. In an attempt to gain public sym- pathy towards the 7 cents steal, Hedley has made a slight gesture towards raising the I, R. T. work- ers’ wages. all its subsidiaries posted notices to the effect that the wage reduction they have declared for their yarn mills will be effective also in all other branches of employment in the under- wear factories. All these wage cuts ure scheduled to take effect today. Over 100,000 textile workers have already been affected by the wave of wage cuts in the industry as the mill owners in state after state get into swing. New York State has be- gun reducing the workers’ wages only about. a week ago and is declared by competent authorities, to be far from the crest of the wage-slashing wave. while her voice was heard over the radio. SPY NOT THIEF SAYS COURT Jacob Nosowitszky, exposed in The DAILY WORKER both in connection with the Hearst-Mexican forgeries and the Horthy-White Terror frame- ups in Hungary, has been acquitted here on a charge of grand larceny made by his wife. Nosowitsky, who announced in court that his “regular job” was being an international spy, first obtained notoriety as a stool- pigeon during the days of the red raids in this country in 1920. tion, peasant handicrafts, literature. theatre sets, textiles, and bei!liant posters can be seen at the Exposition which opened January 30th and will continue until February 15, in New York. It is conducted under the joint auspices of the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia «and the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Brailsford, who has visited che Soviet Union five times, will speak on “Impressions of the U. S. S. R.” le is planning to tour the country d lecture on progress and reaction in post-war Europe in all the prin- ciple cities. Teapot Dome scandals, E. G. Seu- bert, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, knows something more slippery than oil when it comes to getting thru the fingers of U. S. investigating officials. Cold Kills Old Man JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 5. — Barry Brainard, a 75-year-old recluse, was found frozen to death in a tumble down shack on Railroad Ave., which the old man had inhabited alone for many years. Brainard had been dead at least three days. be able to lead the working class. In gram of destruction of the labor utterances of Admiral Plunkett as Mexico and Canada Workers Greet U.S. Communists at Plenum “John L. Lewis is playing into the Bullets Almost Fatal. “We held a meeting and decided that we could not assume the respon- sibility for keeping the school open, with consequent danger to children if irresponsible non-unionists are al- lowed to go on rampages and shoot up the town.” One of the bullets fired at the schoolhouse passed within a few inches of a child’s head and but for the action of the teachers in shutting the doors to prevent the kids from running out there would be several casualties. Three hundred pupils at- tend the school. Squire O’Rourke declared that Mat- thews, an employe of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, confessed that he and Thomas were brought from Powhatan, Ohio, by H. C. Isa- bel, chief of the company’s commis- sary and that they received $25 each “This action on the part of the lead- (Continued from Page One) place of the fake struggle, we will} movement. The trade union bureau- evidence of the imminence of the| hands of the operators. The miners|for the shooting. The object was to ership of the Young People’ list broke out, but when the wa: acvually take up a real struggle. The only crats react to this only in lining up| danger of imperialist war and the|are beginning to realize that the| terrorize the strikers. O’Rourke said League proves that the o tion came they said ‘too many are fight-|answer to the imperialists is the|with the bosses as shown in their] plans of the Wall Street government] question is ‘Shall we keep our Union, ent the inter that he has the name of the “yellow does not repre: ts of jing’ and that it was no use to stay |answer of Augustino Sandino—the | support of the candidacy of Hoover|for the conquest of weaker peoples. | or shall we keep Lewis?’ dog” who gave the gunmen the the young worke and |out, they must get the workers into |answer of the 50.00 rifle. in New Jersey and of Smith in New| “The socialist party of this coun-| “Lewis must go, or our union is money. ; the call of |.he fight of ‘democracy against auto-| “The Communist parties of all the| York. and file of od front. great common task of especially the |must take up the struggle against|reactionary tool assisting the capi-| Workers (Communist) Party is the|ing more marked. There are people Communist Parties of Canada and|Yankee imperialism, against the|talist class, one working class party, and it is the] who say they doubt the ability of A ° ! “The present needs of the young |the United States.” gringos of Wall Street. i am sure} “The period is one_ingwhich we| only workers’ organization that is|the. American workers to . fight. nnouncing ! workers’ demand from th Mexican Communist Representative. |that you in this plenum of your Cen- ship of the YPSL of the action of the majority of the Ci for their particip: inst the ne offensive tionary leaders. { “Young Workers District No, 2 |next introduced }of the United States. than ever ne The war danger presents the Comrade Arroyo, representative of the Communist Party of Mexico, was nd received an ova- on from the assembled members of |the Central Committee and hundreds of Party guests. ere have always been pleasant relations,” said Comrade Arroyo in conveying the greetings of ihe revo- lutionary. Mexican workers, “between the Communist parties of Mexico and Now it is more ssary to work together big common job we have to functiénaries present as the Americas, just as you in this plenum, tral Committee will accomplish much in making more concrete the plans of struggle, as I hope we will make it more concrete in all the Commu- nist parties of all the Americas.” Weinstone Welcomes for New York District. Wm. W. Weinstone, as district or- ganizer of the district of New York, welcomed the plenum of the Centra Committee. “Events in New York and New Jersey,” said Weinstone, “indicate the necessity to open a counter offensive against the attempts of the capitalist “The socialist party has become a know how the Workers (Communist) Party must take the lead, which we can do,if we know how to organize the workers\in response to new events, The formation’ of in New York of theéouncil of the unemployed is such a step as those necessary to meet the new offensive against the working class. “This plenum of our Party as- sembles at the proper moment tof meet the new set of conditions and to give a program. With still greater unity it will mobilize the Party, I am i for new advances and es which will increase the try,” he said, “is losing all semblance of working class character. Our growing. This is because it follows the leadership of Lenin and the Com- munist International. Party Ineréasing Members. “We can note at this plenum of our Central Committee an increase of 2,000 members since our last con- vention. This makes our Party now larger in membership than it has been at any time since we went into the reorganization of the Party on the basis of shop nuclei. This has been despite objective difficulties. “Our Party realizes the tasks be- fore it. The crisis which faces us is one which puts us all to the test. gone. “Militancy and strikes sare becom- These miners show that the longer they fight the stronger is their ability to fight. The determination of the rank and file to fight is splendid. Mass picketing is beginning. -In Western Pennsylvania the miners are saying: ‘Mass picketing is the only way to smash injunctions.’ “Progressives who formerly con- sidered that if the left wing fought in spite of the bureaucrats, it would be ‘a grave breach of internal ethics,’ have begun to see that if they don’t fight now they will never fight again. They begin to realize that our policy is right in smashing injunctions, mass No. 4 of the WORKERS LIBRARY! A New Pamphlet | movemen gainst the imperialism of Wall|to destroy the jabor organizations.| > o.er and influence of the Party.” | American imperialism knows that it] picketing and building a labor party. by Jay Lovestone | ' was buried Street. Unemployment, reaching four million} “jroniying, on behalf of the Central|is bound for severe trials, and it will] “Nowadays our party speakers are the day o The influence of the Mexican Com- | thruout the country, has affected) Gommitiee to the greetings of the | Unquestionably strike at the revolu-| welcome in the coal fields where they \ scolded the m munist Party is far in excess of its| New York as weil. Bourgeois social] tya;ernal delegates from Mexico and tionary party. When it strikes, we|were not before. They begin to un- Analyzing the political | eg DAILY WORK numbers. agencies are already declaring that} (.noda and to the welcoming specch|Will strike back—not blow for blow,|derstand when we say that the sav- ic bank ty j Alfred Wa “Only in the last seventeen years beads is more severe than that) o¢ the New York district, Jay Love-|but three blows for one. ing of the union lies in the hands of and economic back- vd 0 - the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Min- ers’ Relief Committee, is a son of the dead revolutionist. Over Party Candidate COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 5.—By’a vote of 10. to 1, the Republican State Cen- tral Committee adopted a_ resolu-| tion endorsing U.| S. Sen. Frank B,} Willis, of Ohio, as ort of er| n| ing his f Herbert Hoov for the repub! presidential no nation, Rep. Bur- ton, (R) of Ohio, today urged that Hoover’s name be entered in the Ohio primary election of delegates, oppos- ing Sen. Willis, the “native son” can- didate. “J have made a careful survey of republican preferences in Ohio, and I have concluded that the dominant sentiment is for Hoover,” said Burton. ‘ Frank B. Willis causes split has feudalism in Mexico been in pro- cess of real breaking up. A revolu- tion of the workers is impossible without the peasants, who have prac- tically no land after seventeen years {of struggle. “Ninety-eight per cent of the land \is still in the hands of landlords, and immense plantations are the form of agriculiure. The catholic church is still the big owner of the land thru dummy landowners. Obregon Will Betray. “Now that the government of Mex- ico has moved to the right the fight aave to be reckoned wi.h as an inde- pendent force. The necessity of the Jommunist Party is more than ever clear, and in the second revolution, the revolution of the proletariat, it will be the leader, “Morones, the ‘Gompers’ of Mexico, and his followers, are not in the labor movement for the sake of the labor movement, but to line their own poc- kets. Now that the government of Obregon turns away from them and seeks to destroy the labor movement, Referring to the project of the American Bar Association for a federal anti-strike law, the banquet of capitalist representatives and la- bor bureaucrats at Passaic and the Cooper Union meeting called by the N. Y. State Federation of Labor for the ostensible purpose of securing stone, executive secretary of the Party, said he recalled a similar oc- casion four years ago when fraternal representatives went to Mexico. “These. comrades in Mexico,” said Lovestone, “were told that 10 years prior to that time if someone had come from the United States to speak to the revolutionary Mexican work- legislation against injunctions, Wein- stone said the Cooper Union meeting was in fact, like the other incidents, a treacherous move against labor. It would in fact be a reactionary move against labor and for the candidacy of Al Smith for president. was formerly against the centraliza- tion of government. Now Al Smith speaks for centralization of govern- ment in advocating the four-year term for governor of New York and in the adoption of the ‘short ballot’ and the Baumes law. Al Smith repre- sents more severe attacks on the working class and ‘efficient’ govern- ment and hence the abandonment of the old ‘reform’ movement against Tammany Hall. The big bourgeoisie is satisfied with the new Tammany Morones and his lieutenants will not Hall to carry out completely its pro- ers, he would never leave the country. So intense was the suspicion between the working class movements of the two countries, that they would not have welcomed even a worker. This plenum meets in a new period of ada as ‘the forty-ninth s.ate’ of the United States and Mexico as a colony of the United States. ‘ “We look to the labor movements of those two countries which will struggle with us against the govern- ment of Wall Street. The Workers (Communist) Party of: America will fight tooth and nail, side by side with you, comrades, against the yankee imperialist attempts against the in- dependence of Latin-America and of Canada.” Lovestone “referred to the recent “We have a program, we have a correct analysis and a correct ap- proach to the struggle which will free Mexico from the Morrows and Canada from the Wall. Street exploiters, and which will finally lead not only to the victorious establishment of the work- ers’ Soviet government of this coun- try, but to the federation of Soviet governments of all the Americas, “We will paint both continents red.” Coal Miner Speaks. The assembled members and guests of the Central Commiitee greeted Party is found to be basically cor- rect, The United Mine Workers Union faces the fight for its very life. In the Pittsburgh district the miners have been fighting now for ten months and in other districts they. have been out striking two years. It is now a question of life and death. “The railroads, the coal operators and the Lewis bureaucrats are com- bined in a struggle in which they would destroy the miners’ union in territory where it has been an estab- lished institution for many years. the rank and file. “When Minerich was arrested, it was for quoting Gompers in saying ‘to hell with injunctions.’ A state policeman asked him ‘who the hell is that guy Gompers? I want to see him and he won’t say that again!’ “The workers there are living in ‘piano-box’ barracks, their wives and children are without shoes and are cold and hungry. We must bring them relief. Party Influence. “Our Party must make a showing, and is making a showing. But we strike fields spoke, after which Com- rade Dunne spoke. Comrade Benjamin Gitlow, who just returned from an _ extensive trip across the continent, of conditions as he dustry and in the western cities. speech ended th afternoon sessioW Saturday. Reports of these speeches will ap- pear in tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER, as will the report of the Political Committee which was. de- livered by Comrade Lovestone. bor movement of ground for the 1928 | Presidential election. | $y gAY LOVESTONE 20: WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 E, 125 St. New York » Buckeye State’s | of the Communist Party of Mexico is growing solidarity between the work-|with applause the appearance of a|must redouble that showing. We ibang ie ba more important than Stas The gov- “New Tammany Hall.” ers of all countries, and of these three | Communist coal miner from the strike have a man-size job before us. The - didate for the re-|ermment of Mexico has become| “There is a new Tammany Hall,” | countries,-Mexico, Canada and the}fields of Pennsylvania. The miners’| comrades are being mobilized behind ELECTION publican presiden-|vpeniy the friend of Wali Street and|said Weinstone, “which, instead oi| United States. union is in grave danger of destruc-|the Central Committee and its policy, | - os or tial nomination. — | Ambassador Morrow, and is be-| representing the petty-bourgeoisie as Look to Mexico. |tion, he said. and I know that the Party will not ae eee x koe ng the Mexican revolution. the old ‘tammany [iali did, today] “We look upon Mexico as the| “After two years developments in| be ashamed to Le before the masses WORKE RS WASHINGTON, But the anti-imperialist struggle| represents and expresses the interests| threshold of Latin-America. The the coal industfy,” he said, “the pro-|wih the results. rs , j Feb. ounc.| will continue. The working class wililof finance capital. Tammany Hall| bourgeoisie of this land regard Can-|gram of our Workers (Communist)| Another from the Colorado coal seg Remar ne