The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 2

Page Two OHIO GUARD HALTS RELIEF W S, P, BETRAYER OF. LABOR, WORKERS PARTY CHARGES Seores “Socialist” Con-, vention Here One) tions, police, struggle coal ope the Lewis In this strug: munist) ounce of ganized every hone lining up be movement w! the fight « the 2 social: and lead re lined t st the mir as much or as | goes in the operators. Bec ty opposition movement means Lewis machi the Lewis the coal opera The days are g cialist pa militant Most of thes t today outside the They are either in tt Workers Parts orating with t Save - the - U leads the few party They which | The | union that may alist par- ty and h the pro- gfessives, are doing so against the | st and in| policies of the opposition to the ership. Then examine the record of the so- | cialist party in important | struggle of the we the glor-| ious fight of the m in the nee-} dle trades. s lead-| e been | Here also the masses | ; 1 struggling against offensive sa the employ orted by agen- mong | cies of capitalist government, York. them the governor of New Aifred Smith. Here. i rs, the rank and fil @ reactiona: bureauc: the | mts of the bosses in the union, and | the lea ip of the left wing, | proceeded to fight the employers. And who is that reactionary bur- eaucracy in t needle trades that} fights in alliance with the employers | against the workers? These bureau-( evats are leading members of the so-| eialist party. These “socialist” lead- ers in the r trades, who once upon a time upon the platform of the c who were dif- | ferent from th onaries of the old Gompers are now the y gang in the} of Labor, are e up against American Federat completely merged Here, too, the its leadership are treacherous union and the | employrs. The left and the Communists are leading the workers! against the emplo Lackeys of Capit Field. Proceeding from the record of the] on Political role in the working burning imperialism, th fense of th ber Par Near! their families agonies of une this unemployed army k Y permanently dislocated from industry @ue to basic changes in American @épitalist economy and fundamental @rises in several basic industries. The | fncreasingly sharpening contradictions | ‘of world and America’ ac issues her solution save the! overthrow of the capital and the establishn $ and farmers’ government. \ The Workers (Communist) Party is! educating and orgar the toiling | uch a gov- | ernment. The Socialist Party is fining up behind the ruling class in| favor of the existing capitalist ““demo- | tracy” and against the working class |petty bourgeois opposition to the Re-! democracy of a Soviet System government. | The Workers (Communist) Party, | in cooperation with all the militant, | left wing and progressives, is organ- | izing councils of unemployed. These | organizations are mobilizing the un- employed masses and leading them in} struggle against the employers and @gainst the government for im- mediate unemployment relief. The Socialist Party wages no real struggle against American imperial- ism, as is seen from its position on Wall Street’s war in Nicaragua. The Socialist Party accepts American im- perialism. It only wishes to make the brutalities of American imperialism a little less palpable and obnoxious in order that the masses may be de- ceived more easily. The Socialist Party refusgs to see the war danger and the ‘hevitable rae of ie Fall Seeks “Health” ® & Albert B. Fall, above, is on a “health vacation” in California af- ter deposing for tke oil scandal in- vestigation in El Paso, Texas. Fall is taking this rest “on his physic- ian’s advice.” The tracks seem to be so well oiled this time that Fall is to be permitted to skid right out of the oil inquiry via the Golden West. coming of a new imperialist war with American and English imperialists as the chief contestants. Hence, the Socialist Pariy is trailing behind the petty-bourgeois pacifists refusing to mobilize the masses for a militant struggle against the war danger. Most outrageous and treasonable is the struggle of the Socialist Party against the Soviet Union. Whereas all honest workers throughout the world are uniting their forces to de- fend the Workers Republic against the threatening imperialist attack, the Socialist Party is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Soviet Union despite its hysterical profes- sions to the contrary. On the burning and fundamental issue of independent working class poktieal action, the Socialist Party, 23 a party, and its dominant leader- ship have been and are doing all in tHeir power to sabotage the move- ment for a Labor Party. The Social- ist Party today, even more than in 1923-24, is combatting all efforts to- wards the Party, maneuvering instead to es- tablish itself as a middle class reform party, a so-called opposition third party, whose only funciion can be to strive to save capitalism and per- petuate capitalist exploitation. dustrial Democracy Under Capital- ism Means Industrial Slavery The Socialist Party today stands for a refined and reformed capitalism which would make the subjection of the toiling masses to capitalism even more complete than it is now. This they advertise as industrial demo- eracy established by peaceful, parlia- mentary means as against socialism leading to Communism through the | establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat by the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist rule. In championing indusrial democracy without destroying the rule of the talist class the Socialist Party is ing its support to the schemes of ig Capital and its efficiency ex- s to foist upon the workers a ist exploitation, carry on no strug- » for power and cooperate with the s to increase their profits strengthen the present system erally. Ancther Step Away From Working Class. This national convention of the So- alism are | cialist Party will mark another move | s for which| towards the middle class and away! from the workin re- 2m | cent declaration of the National Com-| mittee of the Socialist ‘Party, every recent statement by Hillquit, Berger, Thomas, ete., point in that direction, The proposals of Hillquit and Ber- ger to build up the Socialist Party organization as a vote-catching ma- chine in elections (by clubs) and to formulate its program in Jine with publican and Democratic parties is before this convention as its main task. The Socialist Party of America has gone the same way as the so-called socialist and social-democratic par- ties of other countries. The ambi- tion of the Socialist Party lead ership is to become the Hendersons, McDon- alds, Vanderveldes, and Loebes of the United States. Henderson and Me- Donald have once been the govern- |ment of England for the Labor Party | struggles. jand have proven to be as loyal to the | DAILY WORKER is the only English | capitalist system as Baldwin or Lloyd | language newspaper that they can George. Vandervelde, leader of the Socialist Party of Belgium, formerly a minis- ter of the Belgian King, 1s doing his utmost to maintain the rule of the capitalists against the rising work- ing class. Loebe, leader of the Ger- man Social-Demeeratic Party, friend < \ <a formation of a Labor} of “ideal” capitalism where | orkers meekly submit to capi-| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. Chicago L PAPERS WILL BE | GIVEN OUT FREE AT SHOP GATES Small Unit Is Example! to Others Hundreds of readers will be added to the lists of The DAILY WORKER nd many of them will become sub-| scribe: the energetic which eet Nucleus Chicago ve thusiasm are carried out in the same pirit. One hundred WORKER will veek in an active effort to build the ireulation of the paper in the shops, actories and union halls within the erritory close to Street Nucleus 9. “We appeal to all Party members to do the same,” says-the report of the Nucleus secretary to the office of The DAILY WORKER. _The work of free distribution is one of the most powerful forces in building the circu- lation of the workers’ press and units of the Workers (Communist) Party are urged to follow the example of the Chicago Nucleus. “We have also elected a DAILY WORKER agent,” Nucleus 9 reports. The agent, who is the secretary treas- urer of a local union, will push the subscription drive in the section. The energy with which this small nucleus is attacking the problem of building the circulation of, their press should be a guide and incentive to all organizations and individuals thruout the United States. The initiative they are taking the work of distributing the paper must be followed by all units of the Workers Party in view of the coming special May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER which will be dis- tributed free in factories, shops and union headquarters in all parts of the country, a Oa EET and collaborator of Noske and Scheid- emann, is pursuing the same ends in Germany. It was very fitting, therefore, that |these traitors, and hangmen of the working class should send greetings to the Party of Hillquit and Berger on the cceasion of its forthcoming convention. The Socialist Party of America, as part of the Second Inter- national, shares equally the crimes of that treacherous organization against the working class. ’ No class-conscious worker will be deceived as to the true nature of the American Socialist Party by some de- clarations of the so-called “lefts” in its ranks. The flirtation of such “So- cialists” as Norman Thomas and his like with left phrases while in deed they support the anti-working class policies of the dominant bureaucracy in the Socialist Party, only proves the real role of these “lefts.” Their role is to cover up the dirty and frankly reactionary deeds of the Socialist Party, thus helping Hillquit and Ber- ger to fool the workers more success- fully. Norman Thomas, one of the likely presidential candidates of the Social- ist Party, is playing this role. His so-called left phrases have nothing to do with the struggles of the working class, but are the result of his being less closely attached to the Socialist Party machine than are such bureau- crats as Hillquit, Berger, ete. In fun- damental questions of the class strug- gle, Norman Thomas is a typical mid- dle class pacifist and. reformer who is foreign and antagonistic to the pro- letarian. class struggle. Break with Capitalist Lackeys. Dis JOBLESS WILL SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928 Revolting disclosures of murder, burning alive, bombings, corruption and malpractice by the Ku Klux Klan were only incidentals in the suit brought to prevent the above ex-Klan members from interfering with the secret order. These gentlemen do not disdelieve in the Klan but they object to some of its officers. ATTEND MAY 1 DEMONSTRATION Will Present Demands for Relief May Day, 1928, coincides with the attempts of the bosses to reduce the wages of the workers, to lengthen the work day, to load new taxes on the shoulders of the workers, From the birth of the First of May as a demonstration of labor solidar- ity, when the general strike for the eight-hour day was called in 1886 in America, unemployment was a great factor and played a decisive role in the formulation of the program. If those who have jobs work less hours, then those who have not will find work, reasoned the workers of that time. And so they decided to work no more than eight hours after May Ast, 1886. At Madison Square Garden on May First,.one of the chief slogans will be | the fight for unemployment insur- ance, and the organization of the unemployed. All workers out for May Day! Demonstrate your solidarity with the unemployed—with all the workers of the world! Large Firm Yields To (Fruit Clerk Strikers (Continued from Page One) agreement with their workers a day after the strike call, and locked out their workers. The settlement of this firm means, that the association will be completely disintegrated in a few days, the strikers are convinced. Jail 4 More Pickets. Four more pickets were arrested while on duty near stores in the Bronx. They were dismissed, how- ever, when brought up in the 8th Dis- trict Magistrate’s Court, | The union is arranging open air meetings outside of the fruit mar- kets, which are mostly in working Cap Joint Board Raps Zaritsky, Union Head (Continued from Page One) sident and his henchmen in the gen- eral board, for attempting to demor- alize the ranks of the strikers, who are conducting a bitter struggle against the piece-work demand of the bosses. Opening the discussion against the decision of Zaritsky, Salzburg pointed out that the reason for his removal from membership in the general ex- ecutive board and from the leadership of the strike, was that he had sent out a letter to all the locals telling of the plans of the right wing official- dom in control of the union to assist the employers in obtaining the piece- work system in spite of the opposition to piece-work by the membership. In the letter he also exposed thc carefully mapped-out campaign of the right wing to begin a fight against the progressives in the union by removing from leadership mili- tants in several locals of the union. He told of a plan to depose Anna David, organizer of Local 52, the best organized local in Chicago, and leaders of other cap and millinery lo- cals in New York and Boston. After the discussion, in which nearly all those present joined in de- nouncing the union wrecking activities of the general board, the vote of con- fidence was overwhelmingly carried. Commonwealth Co-op. Acquires CampAcreage Papers have been signed transfer- ing 350 acres at Monroe, N. Y. to the Commonwealth Co-operative for development as a co-operative camp. The property fronts on Walton Lake, about two and a half miles from the Monroe station. The Commonwealth Co-operative, started by a group of members of the Union of Technical Workers, ‘New York City engineers and architects, will begin at once the building of bungalows, tennis courts, an athletic field, and central recreation buildings, | which will be ready for the formal | opening of the camp Decoration Day. This co-operative camp is the first of a number of ventures planned by the Commonwealth Co-operative, the next contemplated project being the building of an apartment house. The constitution of this organization limits class residential sections. Such strong support was pledged by the assembled ! workers at the open air meetings that | many bosses applied for settlements | immediately, The union announces | that it will make public in a few days | the names of about 45 employers who | have signed contracts with the union. - join in the struggle against rhe capi- talist offensive by unifying and strengthening the forces of labor on the economic and political fields. The Workers (Communist) Party of America will continue to work for a united front with all workers, re- gardless of their political views or The immediate great historic task | of the American working class is to ist class and enter the arena of poli- tical struggle with its own political party. But an important condition to defeat in the labor movement and among the workers those who falsely represent themselves as friends of la- bor, labor leaders, socialists, ete. of America calls upon the workers to The Workers (Communist) Party | affiliations, on a platform of -imme- | diate and real struggle in the inter- break with the parties of the capital- jests of the working class. This policy |who still call themselves the Social-| is dictated by the needs of the work- ing class. It is through such united front struggles that the working for the consummnaticn of this task is }masses of America are coming to | realize the correctness of the Com- munist position, accepting the leade: ship of the Communist Party, and joining its ranks. ee ‘capitalism, and join the Party ot the} ‘Communist Internation, the only true membership to those who “are not exploiters of labor.” THREE FIREMEN HURT. Three firemen were hurt yesterday in a fire that almost destroyed the three upper stories of a five-story building at 142 and 144 Greene St, that unity of the workers against the employers is possible only over the | heads and against the So it Party leadership and the rearvtouary trade union bureaucracy. Join Workers (Communist) Party. Break with the capitalist parties | and join the struggle for a labor party. Rreak with the middle class | reformers, the betrayers of socialism | ist Party, and join the Werkers (Com- munist) Party. Sever your connec- tions with’ the party of the Second International which is trying to save | leader of the working class. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT- It is in such umted front action that the workers cone to understand TER, ‘WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. More than 300 miners in the anthra- cite regions in Pennsylvania have sent in requests that free subscriptions to |The DAILY WORKER be sent to | them, These 200 miners know what the | Daily has meant to them in their They know that The jlook to for unflagging support in their fight against the coal barons and the corrupt Lewis machine. And they represent only a small part of the thousands of striking miners who must have The DAILY WORKER if the fight to save the miners’ union— ‘the backbone of the Amerf€an labor 300 MINERS ASK FOR SUBS F OR ‘DAILY’ Workers Must Help Save Union by Sending Copies of ‘Daily’ movement-—is to be a success. The striking miners and The DAILY WORKER are in the same plight that both cannot afford to pay for the subscriptions because of the attacks upon them by the organized enemies of the working class. Both the striking: miners and The DAILY WORKER are forced to join in ap- vealing to all other class-conscious workers to supply these free subscrip- tions. The coal operators and John L. Lewis hate the striking miners just as they hate. The DAILY WORKER. Answer them with free subscriptions. Fill out the attached coupon and mail ‘it in with the proper sum. Stritine Miner's Free Subscription. Daily Worker, 38 First St., New York City. I am enclosing herewith ¢. res tor a free subscription to a striking miner, ARTISTS PLAN DECORATIONS ON WORKERS CENTER $30,000 Drive for Build-, ing Is Pushed The new Workers’ Center at 26-28 | Union Square will be the most at- tractive working class building in the country, plans now under way, indi-| cate. A number of the leading rev-| olutionary artists in New York, at a! meeting held at the building, outlined ‘lans for decorations that will make the Workers’ Center distinctive. Those_present at the meeting we: Yugo Gellert, Herman Jesser, archi- tect for the Workers’ Cooperatiy Adolf Wolff and W. Runckelbach, a’ of them members of the Art Wor ers’ Cooperative Studio. Others , who | will aid them in their work are Lydia Gibson, M. Pass and Yossel Cutler. | The tentative plans call for a poly-| chrome exterior. The Workers’ Cen-| ter will symbolize hope to every worker, The Presses Go In. The Cooperative Cafeteria on the ground floor will have a frieze show- | ing the evolution of bread from the| seed of grain to the oven, Work on the exterior and interior decorations will start in the early part of next week. Remodeling of the new Workers’ Center started yesterday when work- men began partitioning off the rooms of the Workers School, which, will occupy the entire fifth floor. | Work on the foundation of the press of The DAILY’ WORKER also begar. in the basement. More units are swinging into ac- tivity in the campaign for $30,000 tc finance the new home of the re olutionary movemen. o: tais city an district. Unit 18 1F has collect: $65 in cash and has pledged $150 Unit 2A 3F has collected $21 and each member has made an_ initial pledge of $5, Units Raise Funds. Other units are also collecting funds in an energetic way. The slog- an that has been raised for this cam- paign is “$10 a Member.” Each Workers (Communist) Party member must raise $10 from his own contri- bution and those of friends and sym- pathizers in order that the campiign for $30,000 may be a success. * is stressed by the board of directors of the Workers Center that this will be the only time contributions will be asked for the building as the rents in the future will be sufficient to pay all the expenses, . The high point of the drive will be marked by the banquet Saturday evening, April 17, which will be at- tended by hundreds of militant. work- ers, Throughout the duration of the drive the Workers Center will be open for inspection all day until 10 p.m A meeting of all section, subsection and unit organizers of District 2, Workers Party, will be held Sunday at 11 a. m, in the Workers Center for the purpose of discussing plans for intensifying the drive. All contributions are to be turned in as soon as collected to 26-28 Union Square or 103 E. 14th St. Collection sis, receipt books and tickets for the banquet can also be secured at these places. Talk on Moonay Frame- Up at I. L. D. Branch “The Mooney and Billings Frame- un” will be the subject of a lecture hy Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Photoeranhie Workers inion at a} meeting at the Cooperative Andito-' rium, 2700 BE. Bronx Park, at 8 p, m. Monday, when a new International Labor Defense branch wil! be formed. | A national campaign to free Tom) Mooney and Warren Billings from the | California prison where they, have served 12 years has been started by $6.00 .. +12 months | 3.50. 6 months 200 . 3 months ! 1.50 2 months 1.00 + 1 month Name oececseceecs'e wesc eens ees AddresS ...ssceccecscessees City ae SOUR NGx hive dia ee aie Chama Ana: II OLG, the International Labor Defense. | They were framed up in connection, 2s, i pi its first conuivuciva co the campaign. | TRUE NATURE OF BY UNION LOCAL Penn.-Ohio Committee in Urgent Appeal BELLAIRE, Ohio, April 13.—Re- lief work which has been conducted in Eastern Ohio for the benefit of the destitute children of striking min- ers by the Ohio National Guard will be discontinued on April 25, accord- ing to a statement issued by Adjutant General Frank D. Henderson, who says that contributions to relief have practically ceased. This. relief drive of the National Guard was started several weeks ago as a political move on the part of Governor Dohaney, with the object of gaining favor among the voters | and also to undermine the determina- tion of the miners to fight for a vie- tory in the strike, This fact was pointed out by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief {Committee at the time. Events have | Justified the warning. It was made clear before long that instead of raising money for relief the guardsmen were being used for monstrations' and arresting strike pickets, Stop Relief. The relief work, such as it was, is called off now, it is believed here, because the militant spirit of the min- ers has been on the increase and the progressive forces are sweeping the fossilized leaders out of the union of- fices. a The following report is made by a committee of Local Union 202, Hol- ister, Ohio: “Conditions among the miners now out on strike here are terrible. It is reported one man starved to death this last week, Our benefits are cut down to 75 cents a week, no matter how many you have in. the family. “Our state and national leaders: €o not seems to be doing a thing to ‘help us out, and all we got to do is sit around and starve. “When the Pennsylvania-Ohio Re- lief, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, sent the $2,000 to the committee here at Glouster, there was a big yell out of a lot of them, but now the yell is not so pronounced. In fact they feel they talked too quick. Officials Approve. “Scab mines are working in the valley, some that are supposed to be paying the scale are working but they scheme to get around the scale in | some way. The officials approve of tt. “They tell us the National Guard will stop feeding the children April 25th, but it is reported they will keep a force of men here for military work! i 4 “Some of the ministers have main- tained relief stations for several months. Now they are also closed. So all in all it is a very desolate fu- ture: that faces Hocking Valley, espe- cially around Glouster, Ohio, “(Signed) Committee, Local 202, U. M. W. of A., Hollister, Ohio.” RELEASE HOUSE WRECKER PICKET John Macik, member of Local 95 of the House Wreckers’ Union, on strike against an attempted wage reduction, was yesterday releaséd on $1,000 bail by Magistrate William Allan. Macik, who has been ‘held in the Tombs without bail for nearly a week, is a victim of an attempted frame-up by the bosses in the trade, according to information from union headquar- ters, 15 East 8rd St. Bail was furnished by the union, The strike is going strong, officials of the union report. Although the employers’ association has attempted to break down all relations. with the union, a large number of the largest firms have already signed up. If the association does not come to terms very soon, indications are that it may be broken up due to desertions of large bosses from its ranks, The union is fighting for a num- ‘ber of demands in addition to those contained in last year’s agreement which the bosses have refused to re- new. Fe Police Chief Stole Booze MINEOLA, L, L., April 13,—Poliee Chief Robert Ferris of Floral Park today pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree. He was’ re- manded for sentence Tuesday. Fer- ris and Sergeant George Considine are accused of stealing $3,000 worth with the San Francisco Preparedness of liquor from a resident of Floral Park. : strikebreaking purposes, quelling de-. % RK AS MINERS’ MILITANCY RISES. - trict Street Nucleus Plans Distribution They Told Tales on Klan in Court; Were Members SCHEME EXPOSED