The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 6

TT Final desperate service to the bosses, as the climax of his and Sig- | Six Page THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU hone a el, MAY 15, 1928 - a . . ce eit ee cr ee THE DAILY WORKER Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai! (in New York o By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.5 i $6.50 per year {3.50 six months $2.50 ‘three months. $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Dalwork” Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. --ROBERT MINOR ..-WM. F. DUNNE at New York, N, ¥,, under 79. Assistant Editor... brterea as second-class mail at the post-office the act of March 3, 13 What Is the “Last Step” in the Needle ‘Trades? The most ominous note that has ever been struck by the agents of reaction in the needle trade unions was struck at Boston in the speech of William Green to the gathering of bureaucrats and fake “delegates” which tries to call itself a convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. In the first place this aggregation of employees and dupes of Sigman with a sprinkling of equally duped followers of the old Schlesinger ma- chine—palmed off as a “convention” of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union—is a monumental fraud. Beaten by the rank and file, the Sigman and Schlesinger of- fice-holder and office-seeking cliques, actually feared to admit the representatives of the membership of the Union, and called upon a heavy force of Boston police to keep the delegates, from entering the hall. In the police-barricaded hall Green told the job gathering, | reaucracy of the} rade union which | embership of the | fake “convention” that the present ruling bu American Federation of Labor will destroy any at any time comes under the control of the m union itself. The language employed by Green in. making will not deceive the workers who know the facts. Hiding behind the expedient of calling the rank and file of the Union by hon- erable names such as “reds,” “Bolsheviks” and “Communists” will not alter the fact that Green declares that the rank and file} g this declaration | (News item.) of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union or any other Union of the A. F. of L. will be thrown out as a body} through the revocation of their charters if they undertake any } program to resist the encroachments of the bosses or elect to of-} fice any persons other than the agents and gunmen of the bosses | which make up the two rival gangs of Green’s henchmen—the | Sigman gang and the Schlesinger gang. | The issue is not in doubt. It is clear cut between Green and the mass of the membership of the great I. L. G. W. As far as support of the membership of the Union is concerned, Green ad- mits his defeat and the defeat of Sigman as well as Schlesinger in the struggle to secure this mass support. He admits that the mil- itant rank and file of the Union “gains control in spite of all we can do.” And then he declares he will destroy the Union as the man’s long record of strike-breaking. Behind doors barricaded by police, and with the delegates outside, Green told the fake “convention” the following: By SCOTT NEARING. When I was a boy we seldom saw guns except in the hands of hunters and of occasional parading soldiers. Today there are guns wherever you | look. The police carry guns. Quite fre- quently these are strapped in holsters and belted on the outside of coats and overcoats. In Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love,” in addition to a big exposed six-shooter, the police wear cartridge belts around the waist A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK By Fred Ellis “William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, at the convention of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, today declared that any union which showed ‘red’ tendencies would have its charter revoked.” Haywood Pays: Tribute to the I.L.D. in Letter: A letter from Wm. Haywood, for-| mer general secretary of the I. W. W., now reported critically ill in Moscow, , has just been received by James P. Cannon, of the International Labor Defense. This letter from “Big Bill,” as he is affectionately known to thousands of workers in this country, to appear in the June issue of the “Labor De- fender,” indicates how closely Hay- wood has followed events in the American labor movement tho in the U. S. S. R., and in failing health for months. His letter expresses keen interest in the strike of the Colorado miners, a sharp criticism of the editorial at- titude of “Industrial Solidarity,” or- gan of the J}. W., W. and pays tribute to the share of the International La- bor Defense in the victory of the re- lease of Greco and Carrillo, in addi- tion. to other matters. In this same letter he speaks also of his particular interest in the ques- tion of labor defense, held since the days of his fighting leadership in the LWW. He hopes for success of his pam- phlet he has written for the I. L. D. on the American frame-up system. This pamphlet, the first he has writ ten since leaving the United States, includes his own experiences in the many now historical struggles, and is soon to be issued by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. 9 DROWN IN MAINE. GREENVILLE, Me., May 14.—Nine person were drowned in Mooshead Lake today whena boat from which they were fishing overturned. Guns-Preparing Youth for Another War highroads gun on hip. jspend the summer learning to fight. | Children are being trained to use Army and navy posters and recru- guns-if high schools, -preparatory schools and colleges. There are girls’ and boys’ rifle teams, regular train- | ing days, rival matches with prizes and rewards. “Learn to shoot,” is a’| generally accepted school motto. | Camps Train for Slaughter, Citizens’ military training camps are advertised by all of the arts known iting stations located in the principal Squares and on prominent corners in all of the leading American cities urge young men to consider military life when they are thinking of lining up a job. Particular appeals are being made to the unemployed to drop civil- ian life and join the military. Daily papers, tabloids and Sunday without its pictures of coast defense tional power against the great rival ‘ guns; new machine guns, anti-air-| empires, it is deliberately training a craft guns; latest naval guns; guns in| generation that will know how to use position; guns roaring a salute or busy | guns,—that will be able to kill effect- in military maneuvers. ‘ively and automatically: These illustrations all cover the| community use of guns, They take| no account of the many bootleggers | gangsters and other professionals who carry and use guns for personal profit. | The ruling class in the United States Kill whom? Are the leaders of the States ruling class stupid? Or have they merely forgotten history? United to the profession from one end of the |supplements abound in pictures furn- United States to another. June, July jished by the marine corps, the navy jand August, 1928, are to be gun-tot- /and the war department, showing the ling months in and about training |latest devices in bombs,* submarines, which controls the police, the schools, military training, the army and the public prints is rushing to arms with all of the haste that it can make. When a threatened owning class arms an exploited working class, training it in the art of mass-mur- lcamps all over the United States. In newspapers, magazines, streetcars and on bill boards citizens are urged to filled with shining brass cartridges. Rural traffic police; county police; state constables patrol the principal “If in the struggle between trade unionists (meaning the reac- tionary bureaucrats) and this destructive force (meaning the mili- tant and progressive majority of the membership), it reaches the point where the latter gains control in spite of all we can do, then the last step will be taken. The charter of the Union will be revoked.” In the face of this criminal declaration of war against trade | unionism and for the destruction of trade unions, the masses of membership of the I. L. G. W. U. are compelled in the name of organized labor to take the most drastic steps for the rebuilding and protection of their Union and their standards of life. If Green really thinks the “last step’ will be his action in trying to destroy the Union, he is mistaken. That the militant fighters of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, in spite of all that Green, Sigman & Co. can do, will rebuild their great Union and not permit it to be de- stroyed and the industry thrown back into an even worse swamp than Sigman and Schlesinger have put it into up to the present time—is known to every man and woman in the New York needle trades. ; The “last step” will not be Green’s step. The last step will be the action of the rank and file of the Union in saving the Union from this crime of Green, Sigman and Schlesinger. The real delegates representing the membership of the Union have already sounded the answering note to Green’s treason by adopting a program and electing the National Organ-| izing Committee of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. A determined drive for the organization of the industry will be undertaken and put through with the heroic courage and skill which have made famous the name of the. fighting needle trades workers. , All to the front line! Militant rank and file, you have beaten Green, Sigman, Schlesinger & Co. in winning the hearts and minds of the membership—now beat them and their friends, the bosses, in the industry and save your brothers and sisters from the slavery of the open shop! Corporations Control Power Five dominant utilities corpora-, Electric Power & Light, American tions swept on in 1927 toward control pour Fa Light, National. Power & Sys i sight, American Gas & Electric and of America’s power and light through | /'® papok Po : 828 changes in ownership of individ-| Southeastern Power & Light. These wai utility corporations. H. S. Raush-|C'Porations, owning a score of other enbush, secretary of the national com- utilities, control 18 per cent of the r +./ national output, mittee on ¢ giant power, is| 7 sittee on Seay iy pouty iy that|_ Insull_group, controlling Common- ‘ i Wealth Edison of Chicago, Northern ve cor} control, Veni! ; Naps 4 he cating HAEE oatyat righ Mlinois Publie Service, Central In- ‘ gia in diana, Central Illinois, Wisconsin een: wpe eee a | Power & Light and a dozen other util- ities, has 11 per cent of the national Raushenbush, co-author of Power) output, Control, emphasizes the need of keep-| Northeastern affiliates, including ing a few key power resources, such | the gigantic Niagara company, ‘the as Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam and | yohawk-Hudson system and New the St, Lawrence, in public hands to England Power, control 9 per cent. measure private rapacity. Utilities | Other hig interests are North Amer. interests are concentrating all their|ican, Standard Gas & Electric, Allied fire on these proposals. Dominant) right & Power, Stone & Webster and interests in the electrical field, says|companies dominant in California, Raushenbush, are: * New Jersey, Philadelphia, the Caro- lectric Bond & Share, controlling! lina Piedmont and elsewhere. | }German-French offensive against the By I. AMTER. | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Despite the antagonisms of the im-| Which was not to be of a peaceful perialist powers, which remain in the character, but ot the form ot ety x i | armed invasion. This unity of the face of the seeming combines and} leading imperialists of Europe— political alliances, which become more! Britain, German and France—is for pronounced: in spite of the peace talk’ the purpose of destroying the Union and palaver, there is one enemy whom of Socialist Soviet Republics and re- they face with a united front of steel.| turning it to capitalist slavery. gas and fire. That is the Soviet} The British government has already Union. | started the offensive: On the basis The bourgeois press has ridiculed) of alleged charges of Irish revolution- ;the Communist International and the! ists having in their possession British Soviet government when these have} banknotes, which are supposed to stated that the imperialists are pre-| haye come “from some Russian insti- jagencies of military destruction. No paring war against the Union of So- vialist Soviet Republics and that they ure doing everything possible to pro- voke the Soviet government into war. The raid on the embassy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in Pek- jing and on the Arcos office in Lén- | don, were presented to the naive world as justified. “Soviet m | “Soviet intrigues” and wha not were |concocted in order to expose malign Russian influence and plots against an “honest” imperialist world. Plots Against Soviet Union. But now the lie is out: Lord Bir- kenhead, British secretary for India member of the British cabinet, went “golfing” in Berlin a few weeks ago. He had splendid plans in which Herr Rechberg, initiator of the Franco- German economic rapprochement, General Hoffman, who engineered the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and Genera] Ludendorff were to play leading parts. There are in the United States 315 companies which sell stock to their employees as part of the “welfare” schemes designed to increase produc- tion, reduce the labor turnovers, pro- vide a palliative for low wages, and above all to strengthen the loyalty of the workers to the company and to capitalism. The National Industrial Conference | Board, a conservative statistical or- | ganization, estimates that about 800,- |000 employees including clerks and minor officials own such stock amounting to more than $1,000,000,- 000. This makes the average invest- ment per employee about “$1250. Only tution,” the British government threatening to break off trade rela. tions with the Union of Socialist Sov- iet’ Republics. Another ‘“Zinoviev” letter! cruisers, airplanes, tanks, and other Conscious that it must fight for the retention of its domestic privileges illustrated supplement is complete lent a deaf ear—but Herr Rechberg is convinced that “in Europe and Asia these interests, like Great Britain’s, can be endangered only by Bolshe- vism, so we shall have to stand shoulder to shoulder with the British sooner or later (meaning the Ger- mans.) I don’t know what the atti- tude of the German government to- ward this question is today. But I know that ultimately Germany must turn westward, away from Moscow.” British Imperialists Lead Plot. When will that be? England is do- |ing everything in her power to con- isummate this triple alliance against the Soviet Union. Sir Austen “Cham- berlain pretends that he:kmows noth: ing about Birkenhead’s “golfing” party. But it is clear from_the fact that he does not disavow Birkenhead Stresemann is reported to have and his actions, he is a silent partner about. three per cent of the workers, clerks; and minor exeeutives in the United States own stock under this “welfare” scheme. Stock, as a rule, is sold to employees on the installment plan, The leading non-union corpora- tions are involved in these schemes. They carry on extensive propaganda to show that capitalism in the United States gives every worker an oppor- tunity to become a capitalist. Bosses Objected. During the recent sensational rises in the stock market, a number of em- ployees began to sell their shares in order to make a small profit. The companies objected to this on the ground that it defeats the object of Photos show some of the leaders in the plot of the capitalist powers Lord Birkenhead approached Herr| Tight are: Baldwin and Churchill, English premier and chancellor of the exchequer respectively; Briand, of Stresemann with the idea of a Britishe France; Stresemann, German foreign minister, and Mussolini, Italian fascist premier and England’s puppet. Leaders in Conspiracy of Capitalist Powers to Attack U.S.S.R. stock ownership plans. The National Industrial Conference Board defines | these objects as the creation of “thrift habits and an enduring ownership in- terest in the progress of the company which employs them,” In order 7 prevent their employees from selling their shares, some com- panies have issued a special class of non-negotiable employee stock or have imposed special restrictions on the stock acquired by employees. Thus class distinctions are introduced into stock ownership. The bulk of in- dustrial shares are in the hands of capitalists who may negotiate shares of profit, and an infinitesimal part is in the hands of Workers who may | to the scheme. It is useless to pre- tend that Birkenhead represents only the die-hard tories in the British cab- inet—Birkenhead, Churchill and Joyn- son-Hicks. In this exploit, he repre- sents the British government, which sees her interests direfully threatened in China and India, War Is No Idle Dream. Does'this mean war? The Com- munist International and the Soviet government this year have pointed out that war is not hypothetically in the air—it is being plotted with all energy. The Soviet Union remains cool, -but prepares for defense. The workers. must not be deluded. Al! talk:'of“community of interests” of “peace” anid of “disarmament” is to blind the workers and to lull them to sleep. The workers must be on guard War is ‘stalking, and if the working to attack the Soviet Union. Left to negotiate in order not to break the new chain binding them to their em- ployers. Some companies even offer bonuses to their employes for holding their stock over a given period of years. It is admitted, however, that no effective way has been found to prevent work- ers from selling their stock on a ris- ing market. As a result some com- panies have established special de- partments which “advise” their em- ployees' on how to sell their stock. at an “advantage.” The National In- dustrial Conference Board, represent- ing the corporation viewpoint, urges that by holding on to their stock ‘ may build up an -“estate der, it is putting into the hands of .its class enemy a means of seizing and for the extension of its interna-| power. . Imperialist Powers Prepare for War on the U.S. S. R. class is not awake, war will be upon us—with the destruction of the Soviet Union as the immediate aim, and the crushing of the entire working class as the ultimate goal. The imperialists are not too prone to embark on this war. They know the temper of the workers raised to rebelliousness by economic and politi- cal oppression. The movement and the vote for the Communists in Po- land; the Communist vote in France; the growth of the minority movement in England; the radicalization of the workers in Czechoslovakia and Ger- many; the unrest in India and Egypt; the growing power of the Communist movement ‘in China; yes even the growing strike movement in the United States—the miners and textile workers—the unemployment and the rising bitterness of the workers— these are factors that the imperial- ists recognize as challenging a suc- cessful attack on the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics. And yet they appear, in the person of Lord Birken- head, to be willing to risk it. This is the challenge of the imperi- : alist powers. Is war coming? It is— * and now is the time to unmask the imperialists and to prepare not only to resist their plans, but to prepare to overthrow their power. In Europe they are inviting civil war; in Asia they are provoking nationalist revo- lutions. In the United States—with South and Central America beginning to defy American hegemony—they are ixstiggting bloody resistance. BE PREPARED, is the watchword, War is coming. Stock Ownership a Scheme of Bosses to Keep Workers Enslaved which will be a bulwark against ad- versity and provide for an old aga free from financial worry.” It also advocates the further extension of stock ownership among 97 per cent of America’s workers who have not yet felt the “benefits” of this “wel- fare” scheme. 3 The futility of these “welfare” schemes has been pointed out even by — so-called conservative a publication as “Commerce and Finance,” a Wall Street organ, which said: “They were spurious in that they were a su tute for an adequate wage, and devised principally to tie the 1 to his job, and were to a great. tent empty forms devoid of sp § d