The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1928, Page 3

— Losousky Outlines Tasks of Red International of Labor Unions at Cong POINTS TO BLOC OF REFORMISTS AND EMPLOYERS Urges Struggle for, 7- Hour Day (Continued from Page One) for pre-war time and the lower stan- dard of living as basic for the masses of the working class. Abolish 8-Hour Day. “Unemployment in certain coun- tries has become permanent. The eight-hour day has virtually been abolished everywhere, special laws limiting the workers’ right of self- defensé has been introduced, workers of many countries have even been deprived of the right to have their own class and trade union organiza- tions. “In many countries, the capitalists with the aid of the reformists, have introduced compulsory arbitration. The reformist trade unions actually do not differ in any way from the liberal, democratic, Catholic or other trade unions which are existing on Romanticizing Imperialist Aviation above shows two views of C South Pole plane on a test flight Flights like that of Commander Byrd to the South Pole are used to drum up interest in imperialist flying. Photo THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 Page Thres IVESS WILL LEAVE JOB Led Propaganda Attack Against Nicaragua WASHINGTON, March 20 (FP).— Robert E. Olds, under-secretary of| state, and former law partner of Sec-| retary of State Kellogg, will leave the department some time this year. the department announces. Olds/ gained notoriety in November, 1926 { when, in his capacity as an as: stant | | secretary of state, he sought secretly to induce the telegraphic press asso- ciations to picture the Mexican gov- \ernment. as fomenting a Bolshevist |“plot” throughout Latin-America. |. At that time the state department | | was seeking a pretext for its send-} {ng marines to crush out the liberal | revolution in-Nicaragua. Mexico had recognized the liberal government. Olds called in certain press corre- ommander Richard E. Byrd’s | to Grand Mere, Quebec. | | the assumption ‘that there is a com- | mon interest between capital and la-/| bor” The reformist trade unions have been practically amalgamated with the employers’ organizations. Under our own eyes, there has been created a bloe consisting of the employers police, and trade union leaders against striking workers—a united front of employers and reformists Works and mills have established a single system of espionage, with em- ployers and reformists working to-| gether. | Reformists Aid Capital. “The successful onslaught of capi- tal against the standard of living of the working class has become pos-| sible, owing to the assistance on the part of the machinery of the reform- ist trade unions. But at the same time the close cooperation of capital and reformism calls forth attempts at independent action on the part of the working class against capital and against the will of the reformist lead- ers. “This shift on the part of the masses has produced a growth in the ideological influence of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions of all countries, ‘Strikes Become Political. “Economic strikes due to the con- centration of industry are assuming a definite political character. Actual economic conflicts, strikes in various countries, have been caused by a de- sire on the part of the workers to resist capitalist rationalization and the lowering of the standards of liv-| ing of the working class. “The problem of strike strategy on) the part of the revolutionary trade! union movement in capitalist coun- tries is a matter of the greatest im-| portance. To win the masses not! only against the employers but also against the employers but also necessary for the development of the great task of organizing these} masses. i “Not every conflict must neces- sarily result in a strike. A strike must not be called if conditions are unfavorable, if the masses are not prepared for the struggle. We must} avoid loud-sounding phrases unac- companied by action. We must re- member that a strike claims the ut- most straining of all forces and a clear conception of the issues at stake. Cleanse Trade Unions. “To ensure victory in tconomic struggles, we must expel strikebreak- ers, agents of capitalism, from the leading organs of the reformist trade union movement. Without cleansing’ the trade union movement of these elements, the difficulty of winning a victory over the employers becomes much more difficult. “While all capitalist countries are proceeding with a political and eco- nomic ‘attack on the working class and its trade union organizations, the role of the trade unions in the Soviet Union is steadily improving. The so- cialist rationalization of production, which is aimed to increase the .power of the working class, will raise its material and cultural level. Ration- alization in the Soviet Union is defin- itely connected with introduction of the seven-hour day and the better protection of labor, etc. This explains the attraction which the Soviet Union has for workers of all countries, and the growing hatred entertained by the international bourgeoisie for the only workers’ state in the world whose defense is the class duty of every proletarian. “The Amsterdam Internationa! holds first place in all campaigns of the bourgeoisie against the left work- |by one of Gen. MOSCOW, (by mail).—The so-called “Bukharin letter” which has been widely circulated in the American, | branded a forgery in a statement made by Bukharin and published in the SANDINO TROOPS © GATHER IN NORTH MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 20. —Capt. Francis E. Pierce, of the U. S. marine corps, who was wounded Augustino Sandino’s rebel snipers in the northeastern part of the Nueva Segovia district, will recover, it is believed. The bullet passed through his foot. The pilot of the military plane in which Capt. Pierce was on duty as an observer when he was wounded had a narrow escape. U. S. plane struck by rebel bullets since last Friday. The other two planes were fired upon south of El Chipote;.,the. latest attack was 25 miles north of El Chipote. Marine observers report a fresh observation of nationalist troops in the Nueva Segovia region:in the north- ern part of Nicaragua. Building Workers Demand Increase, BOSTON, March 20 (FP).—De- spite opposition by contractors, Bos- ton’s building trades workers are pressing toward wage increases of 12% to 25 cents an hour. Iron work- ers and bricklayers are asking $1.50 |* and other trades $1.37%%. Contracts expire April 1. a | ternational of Labor Unions must be a united front with the rank and file in factories and shops of the reformist trade unions. The problem of creat- ing a single interflational remains in spite of the persistent refusal of the Amsterdam International to pay any attention to the demands and interests of the masses. Unity tactics consist not in correspondence, not in worth- less negotiations, but in the organi- zation of the still unorganized masses. Organizations affiliated with the R. I. L. U. must become mass organizations. The question of unity will be solved by a direct struggle | in the factories and mills for the winning of the confidence of: -the masses. The stronger the revolu- tionary trade union movement, the sooner will we attain unity. Demand 7-Hour Day. “The program of the R. 1. L. u.| amounts to a struggle against the longer working day, for a seven hour ; day as the maximum, for a six hour | day in underground work or in harm- ful industries and for youths unde: eighteen, for a struggle against the lowering of the standards of living, for a raise in real wages, for broad trad in of the unskilled unorganized work- ers in the trade union movement, for a struggle against the fascist, yellow trade unions, against compulsory ar- bitration, against the submission ot conflicts between labor and capital te the bourgeois courts; for a single united front of all workers in a strug- gle against capitalism and the bour- geois state, “This program must gain the ut- most popularity of the broad working masses. The members and friends of Red International of Labor Unions ers and the Soviet Union. All ac- tivity of the Amsterdam International is characterized by the talks at Gen- eva regerding the “utility of social reforms” and the stubborn struggle against the revolutionary wing of the international labor movement. The Amsterdam International is an or- ganic part of the bourgeois capital- ist system, which determines its tac- tics and its polici The basic slogan of the Red In- will be able to resist the blows of the fascist reaction and the white terror when they will be organically tied up with the working masses. Therefore the Congress must inform all orgartizations affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions, that they must penetrate the factoriés and mills, and bore to the very core of the working masses.” A discussion of Losovsky’s report will be held today. Bukharin Exposes New International Forgery spondents and informed them in con- fidence that the department knew that the Mexican government was seeking to create “a Bolshevist hege- }mony” in this hemisphere. A similar fantastic charge was | made in the Hearst newspapers near- ly.a year later. The documents or | which Hearst built up his case, when submitted to experts, were declared forgeries. The state. department. al- ways denied that it had received: or seen these forgeries, yet the depart- ment has never explained the basis French and German press has been — Pravda, The statement follows | full: “Over a year ago I read this same \for; gery in a respectable American] of Olds’ nightmare. magazine. The most amusing part of ithis incredible nonsense is that it was jinvented originally in Germany un- he name of the real author, a Init. ad menshevist named Britan SOVIET OLIC who was, if I am not mistaken, nical ARREST BANDITS pelled from Moscow. “This Britan whom I have had KHARKOV, U. S. S. R., March 20 — Forty-one counter - revolutionary in neither the ‘honor’ nor the ‘pleasure’ of meeting, obviously imagines him- self to be an author, and has con- | chaise. | the Railwa; | filled with the masses. |clusion Hungarian |Brazil and Venezuela | cocted a very mediocre attack upon the bolshevists which differs from the normal menshevist attacks to the extent that Britan deviates from the normal type of menshevist. The venal prostitute boulevarde press of Poin- care and of the Hindenburg Republic bandits have been arrested in border villages as the result of a series of raids by the Ogpu, according to re-| ports received here. The bandits, who are believed to| have established their base in Ru- mania with the knowledge of the Ru- | cember 1927. This was the third | nion democraty, for a drawing | now (obviously in preparation for the coming elections) considers it neces- sary to produce a ‘sensation’ and it therefore accompanies the production of Britan with delighted remarks about the ‘confession of a Commu. nist leader,’ ‘a psychological dccu- ment of the first order’ etc. “Whoever has the least acquaint- jance with our conditions can recog- |nize immediately that those who are joperating With this document of manian authorities, raided numerous villages and terrorized the peasants of the-district. : BRITISH COTTON Sausages) BOSSES RETREAT swindlers and the fools. The posi LONDON, March 20.—As a result lers wish to seek Advantage for| of the successful strike of the cotton themselves from this. forgery and thc] operatives at the Acqueduct Mill at fools believe the swindlers who are] Staylbridge, the Federation of Master leading them by the nose. By the way,| Cotton Spinners has withdrawn its MacDonald has been showing fo:|demand for a lengthening of the years by his personal example thet] working week from 48 to 52% hours. the two categories mentioned may The federation is now seeking to re- very often be’ found united inside/sume conferences with the trade one skin. union. “As far as Britan is concerned he| In spite of the “conciliatory” atti-| is now in a position-to demand pay-| tude adopted by the trade union lead- | ment for his work in at least three|ers, the rank and file of the opera- countries, the United States, France|tives have made it clear that they and Germany, and probably in the} will aceept neither the 12% per cent future in other countries also. Per-|wage cut demanded by the employ: |haps this payment may contribute to!ers nor a longer working week. the protraction of the life of the ‘Socialist Messenger’ and similar pro- ducts, which without some support from the pockets of the bourgeoisie would democratically fade away. “For a long time I paid no-attention to the appearance of this ‘document,’ but when I saw it published again and again amidst great applause! from the bourgeois press representa- | —~ tives, I came to the conclusion res [J | t there must really be more swindilers Why It Occurs— and fools in the world than I had thought. I wanted to communicate How to Fight It | by PARACHUTE FAILS; 1 DEAD. PARIS, March 20.—Marcel Gayet, 40 year old professional parachute jumper, piunged to instant death from the Eiffel tower today while testing a new parachute he had re- cently invented. this conclusion t> my readers.” + Night. Bladder Weakness or Pains || EARL BROWDER ar rayatene | { | perl 7 | 5,000,000 are walk- | _ eo tiel 2? ) | Santal Midy ing the streets today Sold by All Drw | in this land of “pros- | perity.” { OLDS, WHO FAKED © HONOR DEAD LEADERGERMANP PARIS, (By Mail).—On the do March the body of Laendler was cre-! mated in the Cemetery of Pere I The Parisian working c gave the dead leader the last honors. | The Communist Party of ‘ance, | the C. G. T. U., the Paris district of | nén’s Union had appealed | | to the Parisian workers through “L’Humanite” to honor the dead jleader by mass participation in the| |procession from the Lyons railway | station where the body arrived front} Cannes, to the cemetery of Pere} Lachaise. The workers of P: sporided to this appe delegations of the organizations of | the Communist Party, the revolu-| tionary trades unions (C. G. T. U.),| the railwaymen and the Red Aid were present at the station. The Hunga emigrants in Paris appeared in great | numbers. | When the coffin was lifted from| the carriage it was surrounded by a sea of red flags. The station itself and the square before the station was The proces- sion moved slowly through the work- | |ingclass districts of Pere Lachaise. As the procession passed the famous wall of the Federatives the flags and banners were lowered. A tribute was paid to the memory of the victims of the Paris Commune | and of the Hungarian Soviet Re- public. The memorial celebration took place in the Colombarium. A group of Hungarian comrades sang revolutionary songs. French com- rades then spoke in the name of the party and the trades unions. In con-| comrades spoke.! The meeting was concluded by the} singing of revolutionary songs. In Pact to Help Stem “Internal Uprisings” | RIO DE JANIERO, (By Mail) —} A convention concerning “internal po: litical uprisings” signed in Rio de Janiero by the plenipotentiaries of ! Brazil and Venezuela in 1926 wa: finally ratified and promulgated in| Brazil by an executive decree in De-| This convention stipulates that per- | sons or foreos * ‘proposing to instigate | or join” internal uprisings in the other contracting state must be in- terned. Mill Owners Make Enormous Profit! be the refrain of the tune sung nowa- | days by owners of stock in 26 north- | ern textile mills. A survey made b: Ernst & Ernst, accountants, show that these firms turned a 1926 deficit | ed cf $4,200,000 into a 1927 profi bl ip $13,950,000. Only two of the f reported a deficit last year souinst 13 for 1926. Hard times, come again, might well | | Alling Saag? i OLICE MEXICAN “PLOT French Workers Pay Tribute to Laendler| ‘SHOOT PE ASANTS, Imperialist Env yoy WOUNDING MANY | Break Up » Meeting to Protest Taxation LANGEL WELS |—Sev | | | | en twenty t 1,000 peasants. pting to |policemen and } if Bh | te Ls |prevent a bankruptcy le. Using ' : |their sticks freely, the police charged & the crowd, thre: to use ma- ea, chine-guns if the peasants did not disperse. The clash was regarded by many as indicative of the growing unrest among German farmers against over- taxation. REVOLT LOOMS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS LONDON, March 20.—Solomon Is- jland natives are holding large de- Gibson, United States | monstrations demanding the freedom of 150 natives, including chiefs, who or at the Preparatory) seve been jailed in connection with Arms Conference at Geneva, has|\the recent uprisings against the col- refused to comment on the Sov-| lection of the poll-tax, according to a 5 Rai has report received here last night from iet Union’s plans for complete and immediate disarmament. Hugh 8. observer Sydney, Australia. ULSHASFINGER [The Paris | IN TANGIER PIE) Commune | Album PARIS, March 20.—Although not actually participating, the United A . *} tates is “interested” in the interna- A splendid Picton ial 1 conference which opened here ||} record of the “eight afternoon to settle the future ad- 5 : ,” tration of Tangier, Morocco. | bloody days of May. Four powers are represented— | nce, Spain, England and Italy. It 8 ected that the recent Tangier jagreement will be approved; | Spanish officers will be placed in command of the Tangier gendarmes \and that Italy will be permitted to | jhave two commissioners at Tangier. | /Will Study Gorki in Soviet Union Schools | Striking photos of the famous “Women’s Battalion,” the heroic street battles, the ruthless massacre by the bourgeois troops. that REDUCED MOSCOW, (By Mail).—A study of from 50 cents to 25 cents Gorki’s literary works is included in| he middle school curriculum for the ext year, according to a recent de. on of the commissariat for public | ation. | The State Publishing Office is is-| suing che p sc ions of all oF Gorki’s Gorki himself will su- | ise the abridgment of his works. ! 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