The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DA / YORK TURDAY, ARY 18, 1928 Worker Correspondent Calls for Labor Party; Studebaker Lays Off Men DULUTH JOBLESS WHOSE UNEMPLOYED? LABOR DEFENSE DISGUSTED WITH BOSS POLITICS 4 housands Idle While Factories Close By ROBERT MITCHELL. There can be no more illuminating evidence of the utter degeneracy of the labor officialdom in our trade unions than the fact that when Thursday evening a delegation of un- employed workers appeared at the Central Trades hey were met by a reception of ur formed policemen and the industri squad. Whose Unemployed Are They? The chief theme about which the iseussion centered when debate was forced -on the floor was: Unemployed Are Thes are to survive. Ion?” The preliminary attacks upon Minn. Steel Co. Lays Off 2,000. he delegation by the ruling cline Since early in the fall, workers|in the labor body were made on the have been laid off by the thousand. |basis that the unemployed not The Minnesota Steel Plant, which is ly good union men because they a real slave-pen for the workers, laid| have not availed themselves of the off about 2,000 men out of the 6,000] opportunity to become organized.” regularly employed. The last word in betrayal was given The F. A. Patrick clothing factory,|in the view expressed by William situated at 29th Ave. West and Su-| Kohn, president of the Upholsterers’ perior St., is another open shop out- International: fit. Since the strike of 1924, when} “I am not one to be frightened by over 150 men and women organizea|a delegation of men. If necessary I a union and demanded recognition and} will call a spade a spade. These peo- lost the strike only after a long|ple are not union men at all but are struggle, the employers have lowered | just trying to capitalize their suffer- the wages of their workers about 35/ing. We don’t have to get excited per cent. Many workers are employ-| about this. The problem is not so ed only part time during the year|serious and very few of our union and their wages are so low that many {men are out of work. These men are of them are getting desperate and | unfit and inefficient.” are leaving town in hope of finding 70 Per Cent Jobless. work elsewhere. Some workers in the} A few minutes later a number of shop work one or two days a week, and rumors are that the factory will shut down for a period of two or three months. Boys Leaving Schools. (By a Worker Correspondent). DULUTH, Minn., (By Mail). — The workers who slave in the factories an¢ shops of this city are beginning t wake up to the + that “someth must be done if the labor organ tions and especially the few unio: to conditions in their unions. of the construction workers stated that 40 per cent of his men were un- jemployed; another delegate reported i i .|50 per cent; a third stated that in This same hopeless situation. ae linie unifon fully. 70 eer oe vails in other shops, and the city is| oe iste full of men and women looking for)” ~ work. Especially is it noticeable among the youth, many of whom have had to leave school to get a job. Now, when the winter is on, when it’s 20 below, these unemployed workers are hit the hardest. Thou- sands of families are in a desperate condition without money to pay rent without warm clothing and very little food for their children. Turn on Politicians. Order Attack. It was in the face of these admis- sions, in the knowledge that back in the unions which they have so long misrepresented, which they have fail- ed to organize and in which they have attempted to snuff out every spark of militancy, that these Tammany labor bureaucrats raised the issue of “Whose Unemployed?” In the pres- ence of the apparent suffering of . more than two hundred starving For the last eight years the eM-| workers, witnesses to the need of Joyers, together with the chamber!hundreds of thousands of others, ree of this city, have been working people many hopes. The voters of omme: the and have been urged to vote re- these labor betrayers, as the situation on the floor began to pass from their control, called upon the police and S May i their traditional comnanions-in-in- heen: and. ie sate.” Now — famy, the industrial squad, to beat up rs are disillusioned and disgus' ~| the protesting workers. h their “ ndly bosses” and Practically the whole meeting was pporting politicians. The Wien the h are beginning to look g that will help them to get out of this desperate situation. These working men and women are being driven to understand that the workers must ss and h hich | 8S silenced. change which e ‘ No Concern of Theirs. causes them to s e | | Ten days earlier at the unemploy- | z ; ing, called by Industrial occupied with the issue. towa: into the gallery, a motion was imme- diatly passed approving of an unem- nlovment “plan” which hed been hur- riedly drawn up that day. Debate ffer For 2 Labor Party in 1928! on| and Labor Council} the Central Trades delegates testified | Ryan | delegation first appeared and filed| New York Labor ‘Leaders’ Attack Jobless | this “program.” | Jobless Force Debate. | In the nervous atmosphere created by the pressure of the unemployed workers whom the labor officials did not dare put out, no one knew quite | what to do. An attempt was made to continue with the “regular business.” | But the repeated insistence of the | jobless workers that their delegation be heard finally precipitated a new de- bate. It was then that delegate Kohn made his attack, Abraham Lefkowitz, delegate of the teachers’ union, arose to offer two feeble sentences of “doubt.” Nothing more came from this “instructor” who as much as anyone is aware of the real need of unemployment relief and of what kind of program is nec- essary. The “socialists,” delegates from the unions which they say they are trying to save for the working |class, sat there without a word ex- |cept in the case of some to join with |their companion labor fakers. “Some of Ours.” When finally the debate was taken jup again a few of the conservative) | delegates, who had apparently real- jized suddenly that some of those pres- | ent as one of them expressed it. | “might be some of our own men,” took up the issue of unemployment. Then the real seriousness of the problem came to light. Delegate Ryan made an “attack” on the city for not employing union men on the |subway construction work and charged |that the cave-in which had resulted| lin the death of two workers would | {never have happened if his men were | employed instead of walking the/| streets by the thousands. Another delegate delivered a “fiery” speech in which he charged that the city was permitting the employment of scabs in subway work who were being under- paid between $4 and $5 per day in some cases. “Organize the Unorganized!” _As the debate developed the situa- tion began to pass out of the hands of Chairman Munholland. Suddenly the workers in the gallery displayed a number of signs which read: “We want work, not talk”; “Organize the unorganized”; “Equal distribution of work”; “No speed-up.” _ tion was rushed through approving} _ BEATS FASCISTI IN DEPORTATION 'Wins a Second Victory for Anti-Fascisti By NICOLA NAPOLI Pietro Bencich, an Italian anti-fas- cist, will not be deported, but the war- ran: of arrest and the bond executed in his behalf, will be cancelled. This decision is another victory ob- |tained by the International Labor De- jfense and of the anti-fascists and Italian political exiles in America, and ,a defeat for the Fascist League of | North America, Coun: Thaon De Rev- jel, the detective Caso, the fascist con- |suls, and for the New York Bomb | Squad which has been operating as a | tool of Mussolini in hounding and per- |secuting Italian exiles. Fascisti Cause Arrest. On November 3rd, 1927, Bencich, together with two o.her Italian work- ers, Bernardo Godina and Kassutta, was arrested by the Bomb Squad. The arrest was instigated and urged by the New York fascisti. Charged with having shot a fascist in February, 1922, Bencich was kept in the Ray- mond Street Jail, Brooklyn, for some time without bail, later released on $5,000 bail provided by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Italian Consul as Spy. All attempts by the fascisti to get Bencich to Italy, have proved unsuc- cessful. Mussolini sent five fascisti to America on the “Conte Biancam- ano” to testify in court against Ben- cich. The I.alian Consul of New York denounced Bencich before the Immigration officials accusing him of having been in Italy a year and a half ago. This was later proved false, as Bencich deserted his ship “Armida” on March 24, 1924, and has since then remained in New York, thus being non-deportable according to a previ- ous ruling in the Lo Russo case. I. L. D. Won Both Cases. The Bencich victory is linked with the one obtained recently for Lo Rus- so, ano.her anti-fascist, whose case established the legal right of any de-; serting sailor (and there are thous- | ands of them in this country) who has | resided in the United States consecu- tively for thtee years, to remain here. In the constant clamor which was kept up by the workers in the gal leries and their Supporters on th floor could be heard the slo, 1 gans: “Or- ganize the unorganived,” “Take off! the $500 admission fees into your unions.” . Finally in a panic thi . be | meeting was adjourned. | Not the attack by the police on the | workers, vile as this was having been instigated by their “leaders,” not even the unexpected defeat of the labor bureaucrats on their own field, is the | important lesson of this meeting. The/| Miners Slave; Back Breaking Toil for Wives wages, their wives still have the to wash the clothes with. the tumble down shack as a wash After the miners slave for fifteen or twenty years for meager same old back breaking washboard The above photo shows a miner’s wife in Pennsylvania at work on the family clothes, using the back yard of room. AUTOMOBILE SHOP PUTS WORKERS ON DETROIT STREETS Expose Arnold Alumi- num Company (By a Worker Correspendent). DETROIT, (By Mail). — Between 100 and 120 die and pressmen have been laid off at the Studebaker Auto Plant No. 3, as a result of the intro- duction of new machines with which two men can now produce as much as forty men produced previously, This is the latest addition to the *housands upon thousands of unem- >loyed auto workers who are tramp= ing the streets of Detroit. AUTOMOBILE WORKER. DEMAND RIGHT OF UKRAINIAN RELIEF NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 17.—A res- olution has been forwarded to the Polish Ministry of the Interior by the members of the Peasants’ and Workers’ Committee of this city, composed of over 150 Ukrainian res- idents, protesting against thé action of the Polish government in refusing to allow the committee to carry on relief work on behalf of thousands of workers and peasants in Galicia and Bukowina who have recently suf- fered severely as a result of a flood. The letter accuses the Polish govy- ernment of having refused the work- ers and peasants “the right to fight starvation.” WON'T PASS ANTI- INJUNCTION BILL Most | turers. This statement was made in a speech delivered to the New York Claim Association, at the Yale Club. Militant union leaders here believe that there is no need for the employ- ers to worry too greatly over the passage of these bills. They declare that the American Federation of La- bor chiefs are merely wasting their time by lobbying for these measures, important property rights, would be disayed ie passage of the| yards on Exchange Place and Wash- | present anti-injunction measures now| ington St., Jersey City. | before congress, and the New York| | state legislature, is the decided opin-| get 54% cents an hour. In 1921 we ion of James A. Emory, counsel of | were getting 64 cents an hour but | the National Association of Manufac-| the bosses reduced us by 10 cents New Jersey Penn. R. R. Firemen Exploited. (By a Worker Correspondent). JERSEY CITY, (By Mail)—I am stationary fireman for the Penn- vania R. R. I work in the railroad % * By: I work 7 days a week for 9 hours a day. I an hour. We went on strike in the big general railroad strike. We lost the strike and the union, which the stationary firemen had, broke up. I work in the powerhouse. I have to watch the boilers, tend the fires, shovel coal all day, and also act as a general handyman, doing mason’s work and many other jobs. —PENN. R. R. FIREMAN. Do Not Undermine Your Health with all sorts of chemically- doped and impoverished foodstuffs We deliver to your door the MOST NOURISHING, UN- PROCESSED and UNADUL- TERATED foods at moderate prices. Send $1 for Box of Assorted Samples. 1928 Catalog free on request. WHAT GOOD NEWS! Annual Inventory Sale 20% Discount on all Books 20 (Including International Publishers’ Titles) FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY. JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOKSHOP 106 UNIVERSITY PLACE, NEW YORK CITY. No Mail or C. O. D, Orders. OPENING NEW At this time when the election cam-| Commissioner Hamilton at the in- i - : : a ar a mportance of Thursday’: hi paign is drawing near, the Duluth] stance of Al. Smith, the president of| aes tsday’s develop- | ate workers’ must organize’ and suppor’ | the Meee York Seite Poteet | ents lie in the evidence of how much. | Health Foods Distributors BARGAIN BASEMENT a-part a party which will of the toil- | bor, John Sullivan, had stated that | in our organized labor movement we have not found it necessary to become | power can be obtained by the workers and the left wing if they will con- | 1 WEST NORWOOD, N. J. Tel. Closter 211. NEW YORK OFFICE: ing mass a Labor|} Party. A strong. united, militant La-| concerned about unemployment.” But bor Party in 1928, this should be the| only a few days thereafter, the labor workers’ answer to the labor-baiting | officials had not only found it neces- tactics of the Garry’s, Patricks’ and | sary to become eonperned®) but had the rest of the capitalists who ex-|eyen drawn up a “program.” ploit the working men, women and] The utter degeneracy of these labor children of Duluth. officials so completely revealed in On to a United Labor ticket in 1928! | their raising of the issue, “Whose Un- —S. P. |employed” was no less fully disclosed | * by their unintentional revelation in| the course of the nervons debate: | z BS New ¥ ork | “Whose Program?” | | “I want to say,” one of the fat| tinue to fight on concrete and im- Bie | mediate issues, by forcing those issues before the labor movement, ’ 247 Washington Street Phone Barclay 0799. (indorsed by Milo Hastings.) BROKEN LOTS ODD SIZES == SALE SUITS Now Unions and Sympathetic Delegations * (By a Worker Correspondent) | hoys on the committee to draw up an Jewelry Correspondent Mistaken | unemployment _ resolution The letter published in the Mon-| “that this plan is favored by the day, Feb. 13th, issue of the DAILY |T talked with Jimmie Walk WORKER, from a correspondent in| afternoon and. this is the plan we oe, cesta sere trade, con-| worked out.” ements which are incorrect. i To say that the “New York leaders « aed ap Sane: seabbed: on Newark strikers” in the ec ee an ene nn eae OF 1921 strike is absolutely Scan | setting up a sort of unemployment To the best of our knowledge it bureau such as was in operati i was Helfers, then secretary of the | 122% The great advantage of th New Jersey Federation of Labor, who|"e™Ployment bureau,” Chair was responsible for calling off the Munholland argued in a long talk, “i strike after secretly making a very that we will centralize efforts to fin¢ bad agreement with the Newark work. The unemployed will not hay: bosses. The men felt he had sold|t? wear out shoe leather and pay them out and many dropped out of | fare looking for jobs.” Inci the union in disgust. However the| it was disclosed that Tamm New York leaders were opposed to|Wwould provide a job for the “unem- this settlement, and were barred | ployed” John Sullivan py placing him from the meeting where the agree-|at the head of the new bureau. In the presence of the j ment was forced over on the men, by Ns Melfers. The only New York leader| dreds of starving workers a resolu- “ho was present, was admitted under » promise that he would not speak. Lately the Newark union has be- ‘m to get back on its feet. —ABE RUBIN, CHAS. 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