The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928 Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. | Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): B. (outside of New York): $8.0€ per year $4.50 six rucnths $6.50 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ....ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE | Phone, Orchard 1680 | | “Dalwork” | | | | | ) a a SE en eee Rntered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under | the act of March 3, 1879. Communist Youth Anniversary Every worker will celebrate together with the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, the sixth anniversary of its organiza- tion. In the six years of its existence, the League has amply | demonstrated that a powerful mass movement of the young work- | ers is essential to the working class for a successful struggle) against capitalism, and that the Young Workers (Communist) League is capable of leading such a movement. There are many workers in this country, among them many readers of this paper, who have children who are young workers, or who are in school. These children are not revolutionary, are not class conscious. Many times they are even against the work- ing class. This is due to the fact that the worker-parents do not give their children a working class upbringing, and they believe what they are taught in school against the workers. This bad policy comes from the mistaken notion of many workers that children must have nothing to do with politics. This is wrong because it means that the children get an anti-working class edu- cation. The workers must give their children a real, working class education, so that the children will be with them in the struggle. | The place to get this education is the Young Workers (Com-| munist) League or, if the children are under 14 years of age, the | Young Pioneers. Here they will get a working class education, | not out of books, nor by listening to dry lectures, but from being | on the fighting line fighting for the workers. The Young Work- ers (Communist) League makes a proletarian soldier out of the young worker. It organizes the young workers for the class struggle. It wins the youth for the proletarian revolution. The place of every young worker is in the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League. In the United States the workers’ come from every country, and speak every language under the sun. They are divided into | # hundred different nationalities. They are fooled in a thousand ” different ways. They are oppressed and persecuted. Their chil- dren, however, are Americans. They all speak English. They all! work together. To them the bars of nationality and language do | not exist. They unite all the workers from the different coun- | tries with the American workers. They are being drawn more and more into industry as immigration slows down. They are therefore an immediate important factor in the struggles of the workers, and they must be won for the workers. The Young By Fred Ellis Paterson Silk Workers Demand a Strike “Foots run in where angels fear to tread,” was the retort to a statement of the Paterson Chamber of Com- merce, written by the strike commit- tee of the Patersen silk strikers in the famous struggle of 1924. This Paterson chamber composed of bankers, business men, labor-baiting silk bosses, “shyster” doctors and lawyers, has a reputation among the silk workers of Paterson as a mere adjunct of the mill owners, who do not want other industries established in Paterson, for fear that they will absorh some of the unemployed army which is a weapon in the hands of the silk bosses tc beat down wages, introduce long hours, discriminate against union workers and fight or- gznization of labor, of any kind. Professor On Hand. This body was the centrai figure |in a “Conference on Industrial Rela- tions in Paterson,” held under the auspices of the Workers Education Bureau of America, whose field or- ganizer is “Professor” Paul W. Ful- Workers (Communist) League is most active, whether it is the | coal fields of Pennsylvania or Colorado, or the textile mills of | Passaic or New Bedford. The League is really the leader of the young workers in all their struggles. In its years of existence, | the League has made itself known as a good fighter for the work- | ing class. The Young Workers (Communist) League is the only working class youth organization that organizes the young work- | ers in a revolutionary struggle against capitalist wars and mil- itarism. It has shown that it really deserves the help of every worker, young and old. Every worker! Support the Young Workers (Communist) League. Every young worker join the Young Workers (Com- munist) League. Every working class organization, help the League to establish itself! This will be the best anniversary greeting for our young and energetic brother fighter—the Young Workers (Communist) League of America. Young |Miners Fight By ALBERT GLOTZER. The present struggle in the miners’ | which t for Union eve Save-the-Union movement | s to oust the fake adminis- | recognizes that without the | the present fight union waged against the corrupt of- ficialdom united with the operate must utilize every available force in fully carry out the fight. The struggle of the miners | their program. y effort is being for a militant organization is not an|made to draw the young miners into ‘isolated one, but must be linked up|the movement such as calling meet- with the fight of the rest the |ings of the young miners, and electing workers in this country to be organ- ommittees of the Save-the-Union ized and those fighting to maintain, of young miners whose ‘a militant organization. A defeat for to rally the young miners the miners will result in a policy to |behind the fight. { destroy any traces of workingclass licy thruout the state. organization in the rest the |These committees have the problems country. It is therefore incumbent |of getting the young miners to at- the rest of the workers of this|tend the meetings of the Save-the-| ‘country to support to the utmost the |Union Committee, coming out to the| present fight in the miners’ union. picket lines, attend their local union i Mobilize Young Miners. meetings and taking their places in This must also be the policy of the union as real union members. | ‘miners themselves. They must utilize | every force to win their fight to save the union. In Illinois where the young © | miners who comprise almost thirty |1 onference will rally the young | per cent of the total miners in Dis-|miners behind the general fight of trict 12, the Save-the-Union Commit- the Save-the-Union Committee and tee has already taken steps to take up the special problems of the | mobilize these young miners. young miners, solving such problems The policy of the United Mine |®5 fighting against discrimination of de the ranks within the union; to tivity and making them an integral f up the young miners from the | part of the organization. These neces- iit miners. Never before were sary steps will go a long way in aid- s ever taken to interest the young |ing the fight of the Save-the-Union 4iners in the union, to seek ways and miners in hey cannot su of ittee it is This is the of The best way to involve the young in the struggle would be the ig of a Young Miners Conference. | mine ler, a former minister, and at present “working very hard for a living” and in the “interest” of the workers, or- ganizing conferences which have for \a greater trumpets and with the blessings of the Revererd Dr. Fuller, the “Labor Chautauqua” was opened. But to no avail. Neither the blessings of Dr. Fuller nor the hypocritical speaches of pres- ident McMahon of the U. T. W., who blamed the workers for the miserable plight they are in, helped the meet- ings. “Labor Chautauqua” was even fiasco than “education weck” in Passaic, which was sub- sidized hy the bosses there. Imedi- ately thereafter Mr. Fuller dropped out of the picture, and thus the lick- spittles of the bosses gave way to the movement of the 8-hour day con- ference. 8-Hour Day Conference. The 8-hour day conference was originally organized by the Associat- ed Silk Workers. The United Textile Workers locals of Paterson, the Trades Council and other labor and fraternal organizations were invited to participate. This outfit con- demned the movement because the A. S. W. is a dual organization. This was the signal for the U. T. W. locals not to participate. The Horizontal | Warpers’ Union was the only local of the U, T. W. which realized that ; with a week of “Labor Chautauqua” in the fall of last year. |chinery textile manufacturing their objective the elimination of all | something must be done immediately lebor troubles through the pet schemes 'to stem the tide of long hours, speed f the A. F. of L. ta?“ Y ani vi ‘ y ee ae fae ot acre Ae one (aps wage cuts and unemployment, apical g rs aS bo 'y, | Therefore, it went along with the As- the Workers Education Bureau of sociated in its attempt to organize America, is an adjunct of the Amer- |2 movement to restore the 8-hour day ican Federation of Labor and iis |to the Paterson silk workers. As the Farticularly nursed by the United conference went on it brought pres- Textile Workers of America, which|sure to bear upon the other U. T. W. leva freight. Tie ponlenan, cont ducted a labor-education week in Pas- Mother Jones Calls “Daily” Best Paper saic, fully subsidized hy such friends I am writing you a few lines of labor as Forstman & TJoffman, Botany. asking that you see that I get The DAILY WORKER regularly. I would rather go without my break- fast than without that paper. It \is the best Labor Paper in the jeountry. It gives me just thé in- formation I want. Today is my 98th birthday. It fas been a stormy journey but I have-enjoyed it. I wish I was bet- ter able to continue my work but Iam not well and unable to do anything. Enclosed you will find one dol- Jar which I am sending to you to help defray your court expenses, I wish it was one hundred dollars instead of one as I would send it just as cheerfully. —MOTHER JONES. | Being enthused over the “wonderful results” of Passaic, Fuller then shift- ed his ‘education” te Paterson and encowed the “iaboring people” there Planned By Fakers. - There was no accident about this “Labor Chautauqua” which was well planned by the labor fakers and had for its objective the undermining of the movement of the Associated Silk Workers to revive the 8-hour day con- ference. In the trade ccuncil of Pat- erson arguments far and accusation against inviting the Associated Silk Workers to participate in. “Labor Chautauqua” came fast and furious. It was finally decided to have noth- ing to do with a dval and cvtcast or- ganization. With long articles in the local press ennouncing the “Labor Chautauqua,” with great fanfare, of cas | has had greater aggregate sales, By SCOTT NEARING. RITISH CAPITALISM rests back} on the textile industry. Even be-} fore the intreduction of power ma-; was one of the basic British industries. | For more than a century after steam was harnessed to textile manufactur. ing, power spindles and looms gave the British manufacturer and trader a virtual monopoly in the world’s markets. Practically four-fifths of the Brit-! ish cotton industry is built upon the} export trade, and one-fourth of ali British exports are manufactured cot- ton goods, Cotton Is King. Capitalism has had its full chance in the British cotton industry. No other capitalist Industry in the world has enjoyed so leng a history of ma- ure of capitalism as a system may be judged in terms of the success or failure of the British cotton industry. What has happened to British cot- ton? In pre-war days the British cot- ton manufactures were the largest (single. factor in the Eastern trade. In the nine years since the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the British have ton trade in the east. In 1913, 86 per- cent of the cotton yarn used in Brit- ish India came from Britain. In 1926, 81 per cent. In 1913 out of three cot- ton ‘piece gocds sold in China, two came from Britain, In 1926 three pieces out of every four came from Japan. Failure of the British cotton in- dustry is due to two simple facts: the export of British-made textile Committee and will at the same time poy to get the young miners to ‘ unite all the forces in one common a the union meetings. y how- ‘struggle. Ja wider merket. ee no other chine production, No other has had| machinery to Britain’s competitors in ancrit rtomaceesece uate Ee lost approximately half of their cot-| locals and the Central Trades Coun- cil to change their policies and help this movement in its final achieve- ment. The conference was accord- ingly reorganized and the A. F. of L. took charge of it. This was a deci- sive victory for the movement. A. F. L. “Policy.” The 8-hour day conference, in the hands of the A. F. of L., embarked upon a policy of “go easy.” All dur- ing the winter months it did nothing. The workers, on the other hand, see- ing no tangible action coming forth from that body turned a deaf ear to all its campaigns. However, the con- ference reached its climax at the fa- mous mass meeting, held in February, to which the workers turned out in mass, ready for action. Mr. McMa- hon, being one of the principal speak- ers, made statements which were af- terwards interpreted by the workers to mean that insofar as the U, T. W. is concerned they are far from being in favor of a movement which would lead to a general strike. The work- ers understood then, as they under- stand now, that the only way to re- store the 8-hour day is through the means of a general strike. When the “easy” methods failed to restore the 8-hour day the 8-hour day conference passed a motion that “the only meth- od by which the 8-hour day can be re- established is through a_ general strike.” This movement was sponsored by jthe Warpers’ local of the U. T. Ww. and the Associated Silk Workers. The motion was referred back to the re- spective locals for endorsement. This was too much for the labor fakers of the A. F. of L. of Paterson. That workers in general. voted 2 to 1 in favor of a general strike. The Warpers’ local of the U. strike provided the other U. T. W. locals support this movement whole- heartedly. Some of the other locals of the U. T. W. voted against a gen- eral strike, others did not vote at all; the Loomfixers and Twisters’ local voted against a general strike at the present time. This, however, did not kill the movement for a general strike nor did it undermine the sentiment of the workers, in general, for such movement. On the contrary, it is here in spite of the A. F. of L, leader- ship. If only sufficient leadership can be mustered by the workers a general strike could take place in Paterson within a month’s time, be- cause conditions in the silk mills of Paterson are beyond endurance, Unity of Workers. Along with this general strike territories during. the world war. | The result? | Depression Results. | Depression in the British textile | industry; temporary relief during the | War-prosperity period; then the long | years of unemployment following the Peace Treaty of 1919, with speeding up and wage reductions. iy What is the remedy? | The British textile manufacturers ore answering with a fresh attack on | the standards of living of the British textile workers: “How else can we compete with Asiatic labor?” the bos- ses demand, More than a century of phenomenal “success”; profits running into bil- lions; technical progress without end; decades of virtual world monopoly, and at the end notices served on the masses of British textile workers that motion opened up lively discussions | in all the locals and among the silk | The Associated | T. W. voted in favor of a general | existing Paterson silk unions was raised by the 8-hour day conference and a unity conference between the U. T. W. locals and the Associated took place at the Alexander Hamil- ton Hotel of Paterson, on May 10, 1928. Mr. A. J. Muste of Brookwood Labor College was invited to officiate as the impartial chairman. At that unity conference the delegates of the Associated presented a united clear cut statement of facts and proposals for unity, while the U. T. W. dele- gates had nothing to offer except to make speeches and to invite the As- sociated to rejoin the U. T. W. When the proposal was made to elect a com- mittee of twelve, six from the Asso- ciated and six from the U. T. W. delegates, Mr. Hayes, the most hated and despised man among his own crowd, objected to the selection of a committee of six frem the present delegation of the U. T. W. for fear that Mr. Green, who was a delegate from the Warpers’ local and who openly spoke for industrial unionism and had quite a few sympathizers with him, would slip in in this com- mittee of six. This open unity con- ference clearly indicated that the U. T. W. leaders are fakers and that they negotiated with the Associated inot because they want to have it in its ranks but because they want to reduce its strength to a minimum |power so that the workers will have |no organization in the coming strug- gle which is looming ahead.‘ Proof of that is the conference which was or- ganized by Mr. Fuller on Industrial Relations in Paterson, held on Satur- day and Sunday, May 19, 20, 1928. Associated Does Not Participate. Mr. Kluger, of the bosses, having been invited by “Professor” Fuller, said, “Let the manufacturers alone to work out their own problems.” Mr. Barr, another, representative of the manufacturers, told the story that he went to Pennsylvania to request the silk manufacturers there to introduce the 8-hour day and one shift. To that they replied, “Clean your own house first.” Mr. Waks, labor lawyer, de- livered a lecture to Mr. Fuller on the necessity of a general strike to bet- ter the working conditions. Mr. Waks, though a visitor was given the floor, but the conference was quite sur- prised to hear such philosophy ex- pounded by a lawyer. What will be the answer from the workers to this fake scheme? If the Associated will not give its answer through the undertaking of a vigor- ous campaign to organize the unor- ganized silk workers surely other forces will come forth and will give the cotton industry; the manufacture! they must accept wage outs helog! eqonomak the proper answer to the labor fakers ®| movement the cry of unity among the which will sweep them off their feet. Textile Industry Shows Capitalism Has Outlived Day In| of cotton textile machinery and its) levels that yield them a bare subsis- a sense, therefore, the success or fail-| widespread installation in non-British| tence. What better opportunity could an ;economic system demand than that enjoyed for a century by the British textile industry? What sharper con- trast could be found than the im- mense profits of cotton shareholders and the subsistence wages of the British textile worker? What more absurd system of economy could be imagined than one in which increasing efficiency in the machinery of pro- duction is accompanied by the con- sistent lowering of the workers’ liv- ing standards? What additional ex- perience will be required to convince the British textile workers that cap- italism has outlived its day in the tex- tile industry and that the textile worker must lose no time in joining bis fellows in other industries, clear- ing the ground of capitalist wreck- age and building the structure of a labor controlled system of world | Basilica, pao eh abate HANdO“TS A large piece of stone fell in the street in Rome and narrowly | missed chipping a few pieces off the |heads of two uniformed fascists and a priest. Investigation showed that the stone fell from the foot of a statue of an angel on St. Peter's Mussolini is understood to be sifting a rumor that the angel \kicked the stone down and efforts to learn the sculptor’s name are being made by fascist detectives. Musso- lini is also reported to have ordered an iron umbrella to carry in the next parade, * * The socialist party has been hard, hit by the coal strike. It’s something | terrible the way Morris Hillquit’s shares in the Burns Coal Co. have fallen, eee the playboy Strind- berg did not build up his reputa- tion on whimsicality there is one droll spot in his drama, “The Fath- er,” which dragged into its seventh day here recently at the Belmont Theatre and surrendered. In the play mother tickles father with the remark that no husband can be real positive that he is the undeniable father of his wife’s offspring. Ac- cidents do happen you know. This and that. So he can’t be just sure. The father, instead of answering casually that no wife can really de- termine accurately the extent of her husband’s parenthood, flies into a rage, lies on the floor whispering to the $4.40 seats that he wants to die, and generally prepares for madness in Act 3. His irritation leads him into an analysis of all womankind whom he identifies as the enemy. His mother was his first betrayer, he narrates. It was she who withheld nourishment in early youth and caused him to grow up into the undegsized weakling which he now is, But real charm is thrust into the scene by the fact that Robert Whittier, who plays the part of the father, looks like Zybysko, the wrestler, and weighs 180 pounds if he weighs an ounce. * * * * * “Pay Day” at Daily Modernistic conception of a scene in the office of The Daily Worker. Drawing shows the peculiar form of ecstacy aroused upon the busi- ness manager’s chronic announce- ment: “Comrades, there will be no wages for the next week or two. I know you will appreciate my real- istic approach to the problem.” * * * PAUNCHY PAYTRIOTS. They sent him to the trenches, Oh, they knew their business well! They, who used upholstered benches, Sent the poor nut into hell, Singing, “Glory, hallalujah!” And, “Thy praise, almighty God!” They, whose slimy tact could do ya Even out of graveyard sod. The trip across was so-so; The food was full of Woe; One night he lost his big toe In, a battle with the mice. So he sailed across the ocean That on army ads he’d seen; Had his stomach set in motion By a ptomaine-poisoned bean. He lost a leg the first fight, Also half of his left hand; Was told by doc that gangrene might Also get his right. Then “it” burnt both his eyes out And gas got half his nose, 4 The good foot was attacked by gouty All because some white, starched clothes rah!” When they sent him to the trenches With sqme patriotic “Blah, blah” Sitting on upholstered benches. —E. R. * * * Morris Sigman, president of the Ins ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers* Union, was showered with bouqueta of bright red flowers at his private convention in Boston, Had the rank and file been present the bouquets Back at home had shouted “rah,’ “SR es eee SE RR EEE * EA SSI RNIN |