The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1928, Page 2

Open Shoppers Begin Cam] a pe LABOR LEADERS’ ISSUES EULOGY Lauck Peddles Dope to Workers By JOHN L. SHERMAN. ‘Mittenization,” the latest form of aker-employer, class-collaboration, more subtle, dress tractive trappings, than its predeces- | sors, the Watson Parker Law and the | B, & O. Plan, but the same old scheme | for hamstringing the activities of the workers—‘Mittenization” will un-| doubtedly become one of the new) forms of company unionism which la- | bor will have to combat in the near future. W. Jett Lauck, so-called labor econ- omist, and recognized as the mouth- | piece of the A. F. of L. labor bu-| reaucracy, Saturday issued a second | and more detailed eulogy of the re- cent agreement drawn up between the Mitten management of Philadelphia and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employ- | es. In this statement Lauck hails the agreement as one which will usher in a “new era in union management co- operation.” The new plan which President Wm. D. Mahon of the Amalgamated has accepted for his organization provides for the recognition of the street car union on ‘all lines which the Mitten | management may in the future ac- quire. The plan carefully excludes the union from recognition on the Philadelphia lines which Lauck and others have held up as a model of worker-employer relationship. Deliberately Misleads. In eulogizing the new agreement, Lauck deliberately, it is believed, omits the mention of this significant fact and very obviously seeks to give the impression that the plan em-) bodies full union recognition. “From the standpoint of organized labor,” he says, “the only fundamental principle hitherto lacking (in the otherwise perfect Mitten plan—J. L, S.) was that of unionization. This has now been removed by its agreement with the, street railway union.” Lauck says nothing of the attitude of the Mitten employes to the plan. . Why. does this tin-horn propagan- dist, who is well aware of the mis- leading nature of this assertion, nev- ertheless seek to pass it off as fact? The answer is suggested by Lauck himself: “The plan has not only in- sured industrial peace, but has de- veloped’. . . unprecedented produc- tive efficiency of employes.” In an- other place he says: “Operating ef- ficiency and cooperation . . , is with- out parallel in the country.” Speed Up. Speed-up! This is the explanation! The same reason which motivates the B. & O, plan, the beneficient accom- plishments of which are now being | seriously questioned even by those | who were at first its most rabid ex- | ponents. Incidentally, this is the same reason which motivates the company union. Why does Jett Lauck speak so fervently for the speed-up | system? Certain surmises may be} made. In spite of Lauck’s utter servility in making himself a willing mouth- iece for the A. F. of L. propaganda, has for some reason failed to con- neet with the fat payrole of the bu- reaucratie machine. His efforts, it is known, have gone almost unre- warded. It is not unlikely, therefore, that he is now seeking a berth where faithful service will be more greatly appreciated. Recently at | | Spouter For Labor Fakers. | | | | the anti-strike law FASC d up in more at-/| At left is shown the U. S. Brooklyn navy yard following extensive war maneuvers in Guan- tanamo Bay, Cuba, Training ship Newport, shown at right, lies next to the Hatfield, n Campa nasnysai ization” of Traction Workers iy i is destroyer Hatfield, in drydock at $40,000 RAISED FOR FOE. OF DANBURY HATTER: ANBURY, Conn., April facturers associations throughout | the country have raised a fund of over) | $40,000 toward an annuity for! Dietrich E. Loewe, who was respon-| sible for the famous Danbury hatters’ case which resulted in-the impoverish- ment of thousands of union hat| workers. Loewe, who is now 75 years of age, brought the question of establishing an open shop to the United States Supreme Court, where that right was established officially by the highest court of the country, As a result of the verdiet, the homes of all union members were confiscated to satisfy the claims of Loewe. - * * Now Loewe finds his financial con- dition serious, Employers throughout the country have rallied to his assist- ance with voluntary pledges of thou- sands of dollars, in memory of his ne campaign against organized or. ll hearing conducted by the American Bar Association, Lauck testified to the fact that a new era was breaking in the labor movement. Before the war, he said, labor was militant; now it is cooperative. Would Extend Speed-up. In enlarging upon the possibilities of the so-called Mitten agreement, Lauck stresses the fact that it may be extended to the railroads, the coal mining industry, etc. No mention is made in the flood of propaganda which is now being circu- lated to put over “Mittenization” that | the same union officials who are its initial exponents are those who re- eently sold out the Chicago traction ‘employes to the Insull traction inter- ests. Lauck says nothing of the com- plete betrayal of the New York trac- ition workers by the Amalgamated in jas vile a-deal as has ever been put lover by any group of labor crooks. \Nor does he indicate that the same |Morgan open shop interests which |have a record of destroying labor or- \ganization in New York are also in- |terested in the Philadelphia lines, “Mittenization”—another name for eompany unionism! Principessa Mafalda Disaster Laid to IASCIST “order and discipline” was largely responsible for the great loss of life at the foundering of the Italian liner Principessa Ma- falda on October 24, 1927, it is re- vealed in the leading article of the news letter of the International Transport’ Wotkers’ Federation. Over 300 people were drowned in this disaster. The percentage of the members of the érew who lost their lives was about half of the percentage of the passengers who were drowned, the article states. This is the reverse of what has pappened at previous sea disasters. a UN 1926 the Italian government is- sued decrees reversing the priv- ilege of serving as sailors in the merchant marine to fascisti. The fruits of this decree were reaped in the Principessa Mafalda disas- ter. Yet three days after the dis- aster, Edmundo Rossini, the gen- eral secretary of the Federation of Fascist Unions, made a speech praising the “perfect, conscientious y k and rigid discipline of the masses under the fascist regime.” “Of the quality of that discipline the disaster to the Italian liner af- forded a test,” says the news letter. “Papers which have arrived from South America show that the sug- gestion conveyed by the percentage losses of passengers and crew is unfortunately true. The reports of eye-witnesses are unanimous in de- elaring that the officers and crew of Principessa Mafalda, with a very few worthy, exceptions, behaved in a manner quite otherwise than the old honorable tradition of the sea entitles the public to expect. Their first thought was to save their own lives. They crowded into boats and left the ship to her fate. Those who were not in too much of a panic pillaged cabins and snatched jew- elry and other valuables from pas- sengers before they left. There was an insufficient number of men re- maining to attend to the remaining boats, which had to be launched with the aid of inexperienced pas- sengers. MEN Se OTe accident occurred in day- light, the sea was calm, the 2! neea CALL NEW YORK, "N. J. MEETINGS Speakers To Tell of Labor Holiday | A large number of preliminary May Day meetings are to be held in New York and New Jersey today and to- morrow. They follow: Auspices May Day Conference: Tuesday, 2 p. m., Military Park, Newark, N. J. | Speakers: George | Saul, George Padmore, Sylvan Pol- | lack, I. Freiman, Joseph Gaal, I. Mat- | lin, Lottie Blumenthal. Auspices Council of Unemployed: |New York. Speakers: Di Santo, Tuesday, 1 p. m., Union Square, Padgguz, Taft, Powers, Cosgrove, Blake, Sherman, Baum, Huiswood, D. Benjamin. Hartlieb, Richard Moore, (Andrews, -Poberslty; -Lurye, /Sklar,, Stephens, .Ziegler, Foley, Sumner, Blum, Yaris, Lutich, Starr, Pohjan- salo, Callow, Dart. Newark, Tuesday, two demonstra tions, one at 3 p.m. at Military Park. Speakers: Saul, Padmore, S. Pollack, Freiman, Gaal, Mitlin. The other at 8 p. m. at the Workers’ Progressive ‘Center, 93 Mercer St. Speakers: A. Markoff, H. Zam and P. Crouch. Paterson, Tuesday, 8 p. m., Hel- vetia Hall, 56 Van Houten St. Speak- ers: Robert Minor and Ben Lifshitz. Jersey City, Tuesday, 8 p. m, at the Ukrainian Workers’ Home, 16( Mercer St. Speakers: A. Bimba and V. Cibulsky. Bayonne, Tuesday, May 1, 8 p.m., |Jefferson Club, 85-837 E. 28rd St. |Speakers: S. Nessin and M. Paster- nack. Union City and West N. Y., Tues- day, 8p. m., 30th St. and Hudson Blvd. (opposite Columbia Park). Speaker: Bert Miller. Aged Mailman Suicide Joseph Hailey, 67, a retiréd letter carrier, was found hanging in the cellar of his. home, 109-35 181st St. Jamaica, Queens, by his wife, Char~ lotte, early today. Sanienaineiameneiemec od IST SAILORS SAVE OWN NECK Owners’ Negligenc weather was mild, and help arrived early; but in spite of these favor- able circumstances and in spite of the fact that the vessel remained afloat for over four hours, the loss of life was such that the sinking of the Principessa Mafalda will al- ways be ranked among the great sea tragedies. “What is known of the causes of the disaster also throw consider- able light on conditions under the fascist regime. Two months before the last voyage the crew sent a note to the company complaining. that the vessel was not fit for sea until certain urgent ‘repairs had been effected. The company replied that there was nothing wrong with the steamer. “On the fatal voyage the steamer broke down on two occasions. * * * Passengers who were saved complained that the boats were rot- ten and leaky and that the davits were not working properly. It is also known that the boat tackle was in a bad condition, as the ropes broke when three of the boats were being lowered, precipitating their passengers into the sea,” WORKERS 10 JAM MADISON SQUARE! GARDEN MEETING Many Labor Groups to -Attend En Masse (Continued from Page One) with all other militant workers thru- out the United States and the world |! over. “We call upon all shoe workers to} in the demonstration at the} Madison Square Garden at 3 p. m.!!f join Mobilizing Megro Workers The negro workers of New York. especially those of Harlem, Brook- |) lyn, and the railroad yards of Long Island City, are being mobilized for the Madison Square Garden meeting. |! A special leaflet is being distributed |, appealing to the class solidarity of |! the negro workers to join in the de. monstration of international working class solidarity. Free tickets will be distributed to the unemployed negro workers Richard B. Moore, organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, will be one of the speakers at the meet- ing in Madisobn Square Garden. His topic will be: “What May Day Means to the Oppressed Races.” ice Tableaux Scenes The scenes for the miners’ tableaux at the meeting have been announced by the National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, which is putting on the tab- leaux. All aspects of the miners’ life and struggle are included in this To All Organizers and Party Members: The Listrict Office instructs all those having May Day tickets in their possession to turn them in immediately to District Office and settle for all tickets that have been sold, Party members will be held strictly responsible for failure to obey these instructions as the dis- trict must settle for the major part of its financial obligations not later than May 1. ee undertaking. The scenes, as they appear on the program, are as fol- lows: 1. On the way to the mines. 2 Carrying the burden, of. prosperity. 3. After the explosion. 4. Class versus class. 5. The Senatorial White-wash Committee. 6. Lewis Must Go—Save the Union! The final rehearsals for the Red Proletarian Sports number on the May Day program of the Madison Square Garden meeting are perfect- ing the exhibition. Not only will the members be interesting from an athletic standpoint, but they will be truly representative of the pro- letarian struggle. The Bronx Jew- ish Workers Sports Club is sponsor- ing the exhibition, and the program is as follows: 1. Pyramids. sickle. 3, The Soviet Star. Special Exercises Interspersed in these main feature numbers will be various exercises and formations created especially for this May Day meeting. Alex Fox, who was a feature in the Red Revue for the ‘benefit of The DAILY WORKER, is training those participating in thie exhibition, The. other members on the pro- gram of the meeting will also reflect. he. various aspects of the struggle workers, each speaker treat- ring: “a “different. phase. The war danger will be stressed by the youth speaker... Imperialism, unemploy- ment, “the Soviet Union, the present | offensive of capitalism, the role of | the Communists in the struggles of! the American workingclass will be! ree ficed on jobs of this kind. Plan New Bridge to Span Hudson River Above is a view of the architect's drawing of the proposed new bridge over the Hudson River, which will link Washington Heights, New York City, with Fort Lee, New Jersey. The plans, as approved by the port of New York authority, call for a span measuring 3,500 feet with a roadway 253 feet above the water level. cost of construction is $60,000,000, with an additional $15,000,000 jor an extra deck, The lives of several workers are always sacri- The estimated AY DAY MEETING 0 GREET CENTER Celebration by 20,000 Workers Expected (Continued from Page One) Center does not yet belong to the revolutionary movement. The mili- tant workers of this city have until May 15 to raise the required $30,000 and they must redouble their efforts in the drive towards that goal. Work- ers Party units throughout District 2 must see to it that the slogan “$10 a Member” does not become a mere phrase, but is actually fulfilled by each member. All sympathetic or- ganizations must be thoroughly. can- vassed and every worker mobilized to send the drive over the top. * * * Figures prominent in the working- class movement throughout the city continue to voice their approval of the $20,000 drive to establish the Workers’ Center. Robert W. Dunn, author of “Company -Unions” - and “Soviet Trade Unions,” declared yes- terday: “The establishment of the Work- ers’ Center is a gréat workingelass event, the sort of thing that comes once in a lifetime. The establish- ment of this center will mean the building up and strengthening of the militant workingclass of this city, Particularly will the Workers’ School benefit, which will play an even greater role in training workers for the class struggle. And The DAILY | t | them. {pleas of poor badge pins.” -Y. POLICE CONTINUE DRIVE ON TAXI DRIVERS Launching a tirade against taxi drivers who lose their badges or identifi- cation cards, Deputy Police CommissionemNelson Ruttenberg, in the Hack Burial 156 Greenwich St., is continuing the suspension of 100 drivers “i Stas oon until next Wednesday, when final dis- position will be made of their cases. During the period of their suspension the taxi drivers are not permitted to work, “I will not issue new credentials,” Ruttenberg shouted, “so don’t ask for I will not be influenced by This re- ferred to recent complaints of taxi drivers that the pins to which the | badges are attached are of such poor quality-that the badges fall off and become lost. Threatens Drivers, “Those drivers,” Ruttenberg con- tinued, “who lost their badges last year will not get new ones this year under any circumstances.” He con- tinued in this vein for about 10 mi utes in an obvious effort to intimi- date the suspended drivers. In addition to the 100 suspended |taxi drivers, six drivers who were ar- rested April 10 on a charge of shoot- ing craps, also appeared at the Hack Bureau yesterday, The drivers had been kept in a cell six hours at the time of their arrest and then dis- charged at the 57th Street Magis- trates’ Court, after their badges and identification cards had been taken away. They were acquitted of the erap-shooting charge yesterday, but meanwhile the police department’s ution drive on taxi drivers had caused them to lose two weeks’ work. Taxi Companies Back Drive. Herman Nelson, another driver who appeared at the Hack Bureau yester- day, was given a suspended sentence and told that he would lose his badge if he was arrested again, The taxi companies are under- stood to be cooperating with the po- lice in this campaign of persecution and are taking advantage of the sit- uation to crush all efforts at organ- ization on the part of the drivers. WORKER, which is now where no- body can find it, will at last come 2. The hammer and out into the open and wage its bat- tles against capitalism amidst the mass demonstrations of the workers.” Is Workers’ Square. After attending the banquet Fri- day night, Carlo Tresea, editor of Il Martello, said: “For the 20 years that I have been in the fighting lines of the working- class we have always kept in our minds that Union Square is Red Square. But time after time we have had to realize that the police are there always contesting our march forward. The Workers Cen- ser is the heginning of the conquer- ing of Red Square. I hope your organization will go on encircling all |that square with buildings belonging to the workingclass.” Indorsed By Coco Endorsement of the project also came from Francesco Coco, member of the executive committee of the analyzed, as well as special problems | such as those of the working woman, the crisis in the needles trades, the’ struggles of the oppressed races, and, the role of the working class child.) Baseball Only Side-Line - Charles A. Stoneham, president of the New York National League Base- ball Club, was yesterday held liable in two test suits brought by former! customers of ‘his brokerage firm. Stoneham’s brokerage business was declared by the Appelate Division of the Supreme Court to be “a bold and deliberate conspiracy.” The baseball magnate is now being sued by 3800 former customers for sums totalling $1,000,000. Chemical Workers in Germany Get Raise pons BERLIN, April itu. — The wage agreements in the German chemical industry, which were due to expire on March 381, have been extended until March 81, 1929, subject. to cer- tain agreed increases. For the ma- jority of the workers, the increase will be seven pfennigs an hour, while others will gain an increase of 944 per cent, at Be Anti-Fascisti Alliance, who declared: Penn. RR Acquires New Line in Plan for Merger The Pennsylvania R. ... won a long rail merger fight, it was learned yes- terday, when L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson R. R., sold his holdings in the Wabash R. R. and Lehigh Valley to the Pennsyl- vania for $63,000,000. The Pennsyl- vania is now in a position to propose a huge merger with the N. Y. Central and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. Before the sale, Loree had talked of establishing a trunk line for his rail- road with the west. RAILROAD GRABS CITY LAND A charge that the New York Cen- tral Railroad has violated its agree- ment with the city and again laid tracks without authority on city- owned land between 145th St. and 151st St. on Riverside Drive was made at the meeting of the board of esti- “In this time of industrial crisis mate. Workers. % 100,000 Miners on Strike 30,000 Textile Workers on Sirike To Save the Union; For a Victorious Strike; For the Miners’ Control of Their Union; Against the Wage Cut; Against the Speed-up; Against Longer Hours Thousands of requests are being made in every mail for The DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners. requests are already coming in from the striking Textile All expired subscriptions of strikers are still being sent even tho the strikers can not afford to renew their subscriptions. Every day we are sending 4,000 papers to the mine strike area FREE OF CHARGE. We have begun to send The DAILY WORKER into the Textile strike area FREE OF CHARGE. Our Resources Are Limited—We Cannot Afford It Any Longer Help us keep up the work—Help us to increase the circulation Help the Striking Miners—Help the Striking Textile’ Workers Send to the Daily Worker a free subscription to the strikers. Send The DAILY WORKER into the strike areas, Thousands more WANT The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more LIKE The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more NEED The DAILY WORKER. Send a subscription to the Strikers. Hundreds of portine this great undertaking.” ooo, THE DAILY WORKER Enclosed find $.......... to help you send the Daily Worker to the striking areas for ......... months, RATES $6.00 .. ++ 12 months $3.50 6 months $2.00 3 months | $1.60 2 months $1.00 ., 1 month Name .cesssecceerevccsacccssccene — MASS PICKETING TO MEET THREAT OF MILL OWNERS Union Officials Mum as Boss Attack Opeus (Continued from Page One) up that they be not interfered witt by the union. The belief is that the U. T. W. officials will permit the “arbitrator” to concede the lowering of working standards to the bosses, while the bosses will be asked to con tinue recognition of the union. Many workers declare, however, that they will refuse to permit this betrayal and remain out on strike. * * * PAWTUCKET, R. L, April 29— The Ashton Mill of the Lonsdale Com- pany, Lonsdale, R. I., announces that the hours of work will hereafter be increased from 48 to 54, effective to- day. The mill employs 350 workers, who have been working a 3-day week since last November. Many have ex- pressed their intention to refuse to work more than 48 hours a week, Other Lonsdale mills have also in- creased the working hours after long layoffs but are not working on theit arinounced schedules because of the refusal of the employes to obey the order. (Federated Press) Independent research by Federated Press correspondents shows mills luxuriating in profits and practically free of competition, whether from the south or from other New Eng- land textile centers. Against efforts of New Bedford women workers- housewives to make 70 cents buy $1 worth of groceries are indubitable admissions by textile trade journals that mill-stocks are earning 5% to - 10 per. cent on inflated valuations. One company paid $32 dividends for each $100 share. One 22 per cent wage reduction and three 10 per cent cuts, balanced only by a 12% per’ cent increase since 1921, have cut the worker’s dollar to 70 cents not counting prevailing unemployment in the past seven years. Speculation Takes Millions Trade journals also make it plain where extra profits come from. “La- bor extension,” a _ high-sounding phrase to cover speedup, is credited with making labor power go 100 to 200 per cent further than ever be- fore.. Thus mill workers are “‘earn- ing larger profits for their employ- ers,” as Textile World frankly acknowledges. Speculation in mill stocks is an- other way to wring millions from workers’ toil. Clever’ stock manipu- lators who bought Wamsutta at $50 a share and sold a few days later at $72 made $22 on every $100 share handled. “We are sure,” comments American Wool and Cotton Reporter, - “that a careful selection of mil! shares at present prices will pay large profits.” _———————— —————— | and reaction on the part of the capl- talist class and the bureaucracy of the American labor movement, in tha midst of the struggle to save the miners’ union and the struggles of the needle trades workers, District 2 1 of the Workers (Communist) Party has had the courage and strength to enter upon a campaign to buy this large, splendid building on Union ; {Square in the heart of the city. i Shows Workers Militancy i | “This shows the militancy of the ; workers and their great loyalty. , \Despite the great sacrifices they are i called on to make in the daily strug- i gle, I feel certain that they will sue- | ceed in establishing this building as the real center. of the revolutionary workers of New York, giving ex- pression to the aspirations of the workers in the rest of the country as well. I am sure that the militant Italian workers will join with the workers of other nationalities in sup- ee 83 FIRST STREET New York City