The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1928, Page 3

Page fens ~ Urge World Labor Unity at Conares of Red Trade Union International ‘CHINESE UNIONS FIGHT MILWAUKEE GETS 330000 DRIVE 3. Woo A Afghan King British imperialism having failed British Imperiali FORD PROPOSES i in its attempts at counter-revolu- tionary coups in Afghanistan is at- ee CONFERENCE FOR NEGRO WORKERS Canal Work cot Executive} Bureau of R. I. L. U. (Special Cable to The Datly Worker) MOSCOW, April 2.—A resolution dvafted on the basis of the Losovsky report and introduced by a special editing commission, was unanimously adopted by the fourth world congress of the Red International of Labor Unions. Fotd, Negro representative from he United States, moved that the congress should charge the executive buro of the Red International to cal) a special conference jointly with Ne- regresentatives. The congress s!y adopted this proposi- gro , on behalf of the mandates sion, produced data on the composition of the congress: to- tal delegates, 421; 298 are men anc 28 women; 49 countries are repre- sented; 200 of the delegates who cast a decisive vote are representatives of the Youth Peasants’ International and} Red Sports International. The third congress of the Red International of Trade Unions was attended by 311 delezates, representing 39 countries which shows that the influence of the! Red International in the world laboi movement has been greatly en- hanced since the last congress. Approve Bureau’s Work. The following is the text of the resolution on the executive bureau’s | report made by Lozovsxy: “The fourth congress of the Red International of Trade Unions ap- proves the political line of the or- ganizational work of the executive buro and notes: 1. That the exeeu- tive buro correctly strove during the whole period under review for the establishment of a united front of workers with various tendencies to organize resistance to the capitalist offensive; 2, All of the bureau’s ac- tivities were inspired with a sincere desire to attain unity in the trade union movement nationally and in- ternationally; 3. A cording to the spirit and decisions all Red Interna- tional Congresses have systematically assisted the trade union movement in colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries; 4. The buro was right in helping to organize the Pacific and Latin-American trade union secre- tariats; 5. The buro acted correctly in assisting all affiliated organiza- tions in working out the correct line for the reconstruction of the trade unions; the bureau acted in the spirit of the congress’ decisions demanding that affiliated organizations consoli- date their political influences organi- zationally and build minorities as well as independent unions on the basis of democratic centralization; the bureau was right in demanding that all followers of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions conduct an energetic struggle against expulsions from the reformist trade unions; the bureau at the proper time put the question regarding the tactics of the organizations affiliated with the R I. L. U. before them, and showed up the weak sides and the deficiences in this respect of the affiliated organi- zations. Point Out Defects. “While recognizing the correct policies and practice of the executive bureau, the fourth congress at the same time takes note of a series of defects in the work of the executive bureau and affiliated organizations, particularly in certain countries. especially the insufficiently quick re- action to the events of the day, the) lack of constant instructions to the local organizations and the failure to! render sufficiently regular assistance during strikes, the absence of a per-} manent fund of solidavity, insuffi cient work for the consolidation of | the development of the work of the international propaganda committee. “The fourth congress of the Red International of Labor Unions in- structs the/executive bureau to rem- edy these defects in its work and to devote special attention to the organi- zations affiliated with the Red In ternational of Labor Unions during economic strikes. “The fourth congress invites al! organizations affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions to do everything in their power to strengthen the central apparatus of the Red International of Labor Unions and to delegate responsibie representatives to the executive bur- eau, thereby establishing regular and constant ties between the R, I. L, U. and affiliated organizations.” Plan Clothing Trust Aaron Sapiro, of Ford- Sapiro libel suit fame, announces that he is pre- paring the necessary papers for the consummation of a huge merger in the mens’ clothing industry. It is to include all processes from the preparation of the basic raw materials to their final outlet in thousands of mens’ furnishing stores all over the country. It will be the biggest finan- cial venture in an industry that has t been barely affected by the ent for trustification. mo Sou Chao-Jen Jen Outlines Tests of of Labor INTO “WORKER” {not an entirely new experience for \ (This is the seventh install |Sou-Chao-jen, chairman of the A (in Shanghai, in February. | In spite of the raging white terror, the Red trade Unions sill exist, not openly but secretly: The old Shang- hai General Labor Federation, the Canton Workers Assembly, the Han- kow General Labor Union, the Hunan General Labor Unions, all the in- dustrial unions, and the assemblies in he big cities—all still exist and func- tion, but now in secret. All are in close touch with the center, the All- China Labor Federation, and hold fuli authority over the workers But of course, the technical work is in a very chaotic condition. ‘It is im- possible now to keep a register of members; that is too dangerous. Dues are not paid regularly, because col jleetors are immediately shot w caught. Therefore it is impossible for me to give figures on the present strength of the organizations, which had 2,800,000 members last June. We have been dispersed and reorganized many times in our history, so it is | | | | us. Our immediate task is to strengthen the trade unions organi- zationally. Organization Problem. Our first task is to root our trade unions more deeply in the masses. Any superficiality in this respéct will be a fatal weakness. Formerly we had grown accustomed to legal con- ditions, a fact which has made more difficult the present period; but we are quickly learning how to adjust ourselves. Already we are more de- veloped, and approached our tasks in a more sure businesslike fashion. In Canton the greatest advance has been made in this respect, for there we had more trained, experienced leaders. In Hankow thy trade unions are younger; they began in 1923, but were immediately suppressed, and only worked as mass organs for the six months of our participation in the Wuhan Government; therefore, in Hankow the movement faces more difficulties. Shanghai has had long experience in illegal struggles, like Canton. But everywhere the organi- zation problem is acute. A scend task of our movement is the general creation of self-defense forces, to resist the white terror, to protect the existence of the trade unions, and to prepare for bigger ac- tions which must come. The third most important task is to improve and consolidate our relations with the peasants, who are marching forward in their revolutionary move- ment. The peasant movement eannot gain stable successes without the leadership and assistance of the work- ers, who in turn require the support of the great peasant revolution. Therefore closer connections must be built up; the good working relations that exist in “‘Kwantung must be spread everywhere. Work Among Troops. Fourth, is work among the soldiers. Even at present the work of breaking up the militarist forces is very im- portent. Unless this work is success- ful, the revolution will be in a very difficult position. But this work is not so hard as it seems at first glance; the soldiers have no interest in the objects for which the generals use them, they live lives of the most terrible hardships while the generals roll in luxury, they are mostly land- less peasants or unemployed work- ers who cnly want a jeb. They would all have a better living under a workers’ and peasants’ government, and it is not so hard to show them that this is so. During the Canton rising we tooic | many prisoners from the old armies. | whole troops and regiments; we first disarmed them, then at once sent | propagandists to explain things to ‘them; almost all immediately asked for arms to fight with us against the militarists. We had not a single case of treachery among these forces, even ai the end after we were beaten. This experience shows clearly that the soldiers are not bound to the Koumin- tang or to the generals. We must further carry on the disintegration of the armies. Must Destroy Kuomintang Tools Our fourth task is to finally de- stroy the reactionary tools of the Kuomintang and generals among the workers, the “Unification Commit- tee,” the “Reorganization Commit- tees,” the “Labor Federation,” etc. Finally, our comrades must know hat we not only prepare for the ris- ing, against the militarists, but also we fight daily for the small immediate needs of the workers; any neglect of this basic work of the trade unions would be criminal. We must gather the masses around the most concrete and immediate demands, and from) these move forward to wider actions. ‘At the same time we do not confine ourselves to immediate demands, but| jconstantly propagate the most far- reaching slogans. Neglect of either phase would be treachery. Steam Kills Worker PATERSON, N. J., April 2.--Harry Mazino, 29, a worker at the Pilgrim and Meyer Mill here, was scalded to jseek work ment of the report delivered by | ll China Federation, at the meet-! hing of the Secretariat of the Pan-Pacific Federation of Labor held The concluding installment of the re- port will appear in tomorr ow’s issue of The DAILY W ORKER. ) AMERICA’ AUTHOR SENT TO PRISON “Daily” Must Pay $500. Fine at Once | Jontinued from Page One) until he is 21. All appeals in his be- half were rejected. Gordon’s mother, when informed that he had been confined in Welfare Island, said: “If my son has to go to jail, I am glad that he is going for The DAILY WORKER. I am sure that no jail sentence can break his spirit or that of the thousands of other workers in this country who will rally to the paper all the more in its present crisis,” The ruling of the state court of ap- | peals marks a crucial step in the drive to crush The DAILY WORKER. A federal indictment still in force may result any day in the arrest of Wil- | liam F. Dunne, Bert Miller, J. Louis Engdahl and Alex Bittelman., besides additional heavy fines. If this should fail it is understood that other legal maneuvers will be resorted to at the instigation, as before, of patriotic or- ganizations like the Key Men of America and the Military Order of the World War, in an effort to stifle the militant voice of the American | working class. | Fine Must Be Paid. Meanwhile the $500 fine confirmed by the new state decision must be paid at once. Though for a capitalist newspaper this would be a trifling sum, for The DAILY WORKER, which even in “normal” times is en- gaged in a day to day struggle for its | existence, this $500 fine presents a) serious threat to its life. Tn addition, the paper is now confronted with a $50,000 libel suit instituted by a for- mer labor spy. Workers throughout the country must rush funds.at once to The DAILY WORKER to enable it to continue its fight as the voice of militant labor. Alaska Sends Funds. Far away Alaska has been among the first to show the way. The mem- bers of the Street Nucleus of Juneau, Alaska, have sent 64 to save The DAILY WORKER. How much will other workers give? At this critical period when the Amer- ican working class is being attacked on so many fronts The DAILY WORKER is needed more than ever. Workers are urged to send funds im- mediately by mail, special delivery or wire to 33 First St. The DAILY WORKER must be saved! JOBLESS WORKER HUNGER VICTIM (C Union Sa. Mass Meet of | Unemployed Today | ‘to its aid. {of a subseription is small, SUB CAMPAIGN ‘May Rival " Chicago’s Showing Soon A new and energetic effort is be- jing made by the Milwaukee district o push ahead its activity in the big {national campaign to add 10,000 new {readers to The DAILY WORKER by | May Ist. 0. Zimmerman, The DAILY WORKER agent in the Wisconsin | sub-district, is pushing the drive and Benjamin Sklar, organizer in Milwau- jkee, has thrown the whole . Party | mabhinery im the section behind this work. Milwaukee, which is a sub-district of the Chicago territory is a real aid to the main district which it threatens to rival in the near future if Chicago does not put every ounce of effort behind the campaign. While the Milwaukee district has been somewhat slow in getting into the swing of the campaign, the dis- trict agent promises that from now on, his territory is in the drive to stay and that it is time for the hitherto more active sections o look to heir lead. Particular attention is being fo- cussed upon the May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER. All labor and fraternal organizations should be represented by greetings in their class paper. WARSAW POLICE ATTACK WORKERS |Wound Communist Deputy at Funeral WARSAW, April 2.—The Com- munist Deputy Bittner was seriously wounded and a number of other work- ers injured when a funeral demon- stration for three workers injured in the collapse of a building was at- tacked by the Warsaw police. Police rode into the throng which had | gathered to honor the three workers and scattered them. Te Pilsudski government is taking even more stringent steps against the left wing movement then it did be- fore the elections. PUSH MINERS" SUB-CAMPAICN (Continued from Page One) the corrupt leadership of the United Mine Workers of America, The DAILY WORKER, which is now in the midst of a desperate fight for its own life, cannot bear this tre- mendous expense alone. The militant workers of this country must come They will be aiding the miners, their wives and their children in their great uphill battle. They will ultimately be aiding themselves, for the miners are fighting for the entire American working class. The price but the ing miner cannot be jneasured in moral courage it will give to a strik- | terms of money. Clip the enclosed | coupon and send it in with the proper (Continued from Page One) of hunger and exposure to Bellevue | Hospital. Repeated unsuccessful attempts to ebtain work as a sailor, which was | O’Brien’s trade, had caused him to] in the Bowery agencies. | This proved equally unsuccessful. Organization Goes On. An open air meeting arranged by the New York Council of the. Unem- Several hundred gram presented at the meeting. Two rallies of jobless workers will be held in New York today. A meet- jing of unemployed seamen will be held at 2 p. m. at the International Seamen’s Club, 28 South St. under the auspices of the council. A meet- ing will also be held at 122 Osborne St., Brooklyn at the same hour. A Newark Council of Unemployed | will be organized tomorrow at 52 West St., Newark, at 8 p. m., it was announced yesterday, ? Union Square Rally. Tomorrow the council will hold a open air meeting in Union Square at 2 p.m. The speakers will include Murray Summer, acting secretary of the council; Sylvan A. Pollack, the DAILY WORKER; M. E. Taft, man- ager, Local 41, International Ladies | Garment Workers Union; Albert Finn, Henry Bloom, Tom Foley and A. Zeigler of the council; Harry Yaris, Young Workers (Communist) League of the Committee. Uptown Meet Thursday. On Thursday at 2 p. m. a mass meeting will take place at the Werk- ers Club, 101 W. 27th St. At last night’s meeting the speakers death by steam backing in from a boiler yesterday. e included Summer, Pollack, Louis A. Baum, secretary, Photographic Work- ployed was held last night at 10th) | St. and Second Ave. ( Workers indorsed the council’s pro- and Minnie Luyrie, Women Section —-— }sum. The mages soit your help. | Striking Votes AN anette: | Daily Worker, 38 First St., New York City. I am enclosing herewith ¢ tcr a free subscription to a ‘striking miner. $6.00 months 3.50 months 2.00 months 1.50 months ; 1.00 month | NaMe: vee ccercciticgerccctessceseees Address '52 Years On Job, White ‘Collar Slave is MILWAUKEE, Wis. April 2—| After working 52 years as a clerk for the American Railway Express Co., Charles L. Botsford was decorated with a gold watch and showered with verbal flowers by his beaming em- ployers, and fired. Officially this was ealled “retiring” him, since Botsford has reached the age of 70, but the American Railway Express Co. has not, as far as is known, offered “to support him in the future, and the “retired” worker is now looking for ers the Young "Pioneers: Bloom and Finn of the council and Joseph J. Pad- gug. : Pollack will also address a meet- ing Saturday at 2. p. m. in New Brunswiek, N. J., arranged by the Fired | mM gha ments, paid for with money wrung from underpaid British wirkers. FOR LEFT WING LABOR CENTER: Building to. ‘Quali | Daily,’ Party, S School | | pting to win the King of Af- | | nistan by pompous entertain- (Contin: ied from Page One) stand readers in the new quarters The Workers School, with its 1,000 students, which has been crowded in the headquarters at 108 t 14th MINERS’ CONFERENCE GREAT UNION DRIVE « (Continued from Page bn) a will be arranged immediately after the adjournment of the conference. Plans are being arranged for the advancement and extension of the II- linois strike which involves 100,000 miners. A large meeting has also been planned for the Indiana district. lish sub-committees wherever neces- sary. Joe Licata, recording secretary of | local 1703, Pittston, accused the Cap- | pelini machjne of direct responsibility | tot the murders of the progressive miners in District 1. Licata pointed iut that on the d fore Alex Camp- bell and Peter Reilly were murdered, $10,000 was withdrawn by the Cap-| pelini forces from their bank. The inference was that the money was paid to the Cappelini kille Adopt Slogans. The chief slogans of the cc adopted today were: ional Conference calls for district eonven- tions to drive out the traitors from the union; new tens of thousands of miners must ‘strike for a national agreement; Lewis cuts off relief of | progressive miners; our reply must be to build rank and file relief or- ganizations. ference * * Speakers Denounce Lewis. PITTSBURGH, April + when in 1922 strike he perm Rockefeller concern to Northern West Virginia mines and break the strike in o-her mines. me Treachery. The same policy is being followed now with Illinois mines, the signing of a separate truce W h the very same companies that have mines on strike in other states, Partial settle- ments are the old policy of Ley 10 has refused to learn anything in all his life in the union. COMMUNIST APRIL Carries Wm. Z. Foster's story of one of the great- est battles ever waged by the American work- ers. The first line trench- es of this titanic strug- gle are in the coal fields, under the murderous guns of the Cappelini- Lewis machine and the militia of the coal oper- ators. analyzes the tasks and accomplish- ments of the historic “Save-the-Union” Miners’ Conference now being held in Pittsburgh. Foster You cannot afford to miss this important ar- ticle. The COMMUNIST 43 East 125th St. New York. Unemployed Council of that city. after speaker at the great national miners’ conference t his turn in denouncing the treacherous policies | of John L. Lewis, president of the} United Mine W s, as the confer-| ence got under way. Pat Toohey, one of the leading | young progressives arouse d en- thusiasm by demanding the ous sting of Lewis and hi hole gr who | || were never regul T oohey | demanded the immediate ending o treacherous separate truces and separate agreements by d i John Brophy told of favors done f the Consolidation Coal Co. by Lewis |St., has rented an entire floor in the jnew building and the larger quarters |will take care of the expanding stu- jdent body and activities. The | Work (Comr t) Party, i preparation n, because of the incre its manifold led to seek have been { ‘t he initia made for of the KUOMINTANG BIDS : building but to raise a fund of $30,000 in order to secure \the pure w home and to remodel it to suit is of the i a The cow have al- ady been promise this brand within the LONDON, April 2.— That thea short and inten | Nanking Government fies. agreed to| be made by the orga Organizers of the Save-the-Union the Heged niatin Aner y e a a pee ot # erican Cc. a 4 \ ipating in order to ‘committee will tour the southwest} leitizens for “damages” suffered in| | eeke possible occupancy et ia fields, organize the strike and estab- | the capture of Nanking last year, was oe ’ ning {de ‘finitely learned yesterday. The! ‘The new building will be open for Nanking Government is making a bid | for the support of the United States, | msPection on Saturday and Siaiias After the capture of Nanking by|—P", ‘ aL cere of NOR the Nationalist troops last year,| Ph ‘C.. peels | American and British gunboats| ’°" ons ee |to membe orke | shelled the city, killing several hun-| dred Chinese and destroying a section lof the city (Com- munist) Party $ to all friends o |movement to reir building. | ; Sita TE . tA charge of its will be made NEW FLOOD CONTROL PLAN. |. admission to the jing and will WASHINGTON, April 2. — The|go to the building fund. Arrange- war department today announced | ments for the campaign to r flood | $ ’ be announced y tributa: what it calls a million-dollar control program in the streams of the great Mis: ppi s Me board of s for the new tem. Instead of devoting® itself ex-| home has be d of whieh clusively to the main river bed, as| the executive comm fol- contemplated in the $325,000,000) Ic William W. flood control bill now before con ¥ gress, the army engineers will seek vs $ in the future to govern the Missis- | Fert Miller, k § el, Philip 'sippi discharge through control of| Arenberg, Harry Blake, trustees and | the tributary flow. | Philip Amron, manager. SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning | Noy. 7, 1928, up to and including Nov. 21, 1928. — For information write to Harry Blake, clo. Daily Worker, 33 First Street, New York City. WORKERS of the WORLD UNITE Special May Day Edition Daily Worker 32 Pages; 300,000 Copies . Organizations, Workers, Greet International May Day thru the Daily Worker (Individual Greetings, Minimum) Order a bundle of the special edition for your Organ- ization ($10.00 a thousand) Name Address Amount Send in your greetings by April 20, to save us extra expense. 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