The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 7

} | | j | | | i] / | _ that he will not... in any strike of employers’ employes.” t “Quit Capitalist Parties! Join Communists! On to Workers, Fa tion of the children of the working class is to implant in their mind early as possible a feeling of awe towards capitalist society. Education fs class education in this country Higher education is too expensive for the children of the working class, Primary education is tio conducted in the spirit of jingoism and religious prejudice. According to official statis- ties, in 1920 only 73 per cent of the, pupils reached the sixth and only 58| per cent the eight grade. In_ other words, almost half of the children did not even graduate from the elementary school. The schools are overcrowded. Anti-evolution laws prevent the teaching of natural! Science in many states. In the South! Jim Crow education prevails. The! famous “acadamic” freedom is only} a legend. Under capitalism, education is al monopoly of the master class. Only; a Communist society will break this| monopoly and will abolish the class{jetarian homes. Death has a bigger| character of education, transforming | it into social education, making ity compulsory, universal and equal. } Demands. { 1, Compulsory abolition by law of! child’ labor under the age of 16, and| state maintenance of all children’ at| present employed. Abolition of un-} derground work, night work, over- time, and work in dangerous occupa- tions, for all young workers. . Six-! hour’ working day for all young workers between the ages of 16 and 18. 2.. A $20 minimum wage for young Workers. 3. Establishment of workschools in faetories for the training of young workers in industry. These work schools should be modeled on the work schools in the Soviet: Union, should be under the control of the young} workers belonging to trade unions and workers’ factory committees. Young workers to receive full wages while attending work school. 4, Immediate utilization of schools} as feeding centers for children of un- employed workers, whether of school | age or below it. These stations should be under labor-parent control. Free clothing and free medical treatment by the schools for the children of the} unemployed. 5, Every young person 18 years of age or over must be given the right? to vote. Old enough to work— old enough to vote. 6. In schools at present: (a). Free “YELLOW DOG” IS FORCED ON MINER Signs Away All Rights to Operator PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 25. ~ Promises to work under inhuman con- ditions are being signed by non-union miners ‘who have been lured into eastern Ohio to work in mines which are attempting to reopen on a non- union basis. The promises are employment agreements, known to the union miners as the “Yellow Dog Contract.” A typical “Yellow Dog Contract’ i that entered into by W. R. Coffman with the Wheeling and Lake Erie! Coal Mining for employment as a! machine helper at the Dillon number one mine near Dillonvale, Ohio. i Speed-Up. Coffman’s contract brought to the! office of the National Miners’ Relief Committee extracts a promise from} the “employe” as he is designated in} the contract to “work faithfully and! a efficiently for the employer while this’ agreement is in force. Pig “The employe shall be paid at the rate prescribed in the Employer's Wage Scale hereto attached” is the first stipulation made by the contract. Coffman, working at the mine for two months to date, has seen no printed wage scale. Inquiries from guards bring him equally little infor- mation. Covered with neat legalistic word- ing, the “catch” in the agreement! reads: “Employer shall operate said mine during the term of this agree- ment, whenever, in its judgement said mine can be operated at a profit and shall make use of the employe’s ser- vices hereunder to the fullest @xtent possible consistent with the econom- igal operation of said mine. _Em- ployer guarantees employe hereunder at least $50 each thirty days. . . .” The employer also makes “sacri- fices” as is demonstrated by the fol-| lowing clause in the agreement. “The employer agrees that it will not operate its said mine as a closed union shop during the term of its agree- ment with employe and that it will not enter into any agreement with! any union affiliated or conneeted with the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ” It doesn’t do for a miner to remem- ber the phrase civil liberties once he has signed a “Yellow Dog Contract,” says Coffman. The miners who breathe a word about unionism in the hearing of any company stool pleeon will find himself discharged and perhaps beaten and arrested for violation of the clause in his contract which reads: “The employe agrees make any effort! .. . tesbring about the unionizing of employes of said mine or any other mine . . . and that he will not at any time, foment, advocate, or take part, s and equal education from the elemen-| yearly to erect houses for wage-earn-| he buys for his wages forces him to 8} tary schools through the universities, over- «6C) (b) Immediate relief from crowding by building new school: Abolition of religious and Jingoist in- struction; abolition of Jim Crow education, (c) No discrimination against teachers on account of “sub- itical opinions; right of hers to organize. Housing. Nothing brings out into bolder re: lief “equality” under capitalist con- ditions than the matter of housing, The members of the master c dwell in the swellest apartments, in the most luxurious places. They mo- bilize the clean, broad streets of the “respectable” residential sections. The workers are segregated into the most disagreeable unsanitary sections of the crowded cities. Congested tenements, miserable slums are the main quarters for pro- toll in the workingclass sections, especially among the children. Rent is unbearably high for workers. On the average the worker is compzlled to spend more than 25 per cent of his} of | | wages on rent. According to the law of social justice in capitalist society, the higher the income the lower’ rela- tively the rent. The government—federal, state and municipal governments alike—are do- ing nothing to relieve the housing shortage and to reduce the high rents, Building speculators do not construct homes for the workers, because the poorly-paid wage-earner is not able to pay the high rent demanded. Scores of thousands of workers are forced to live in lightless rooms without ade- quate plumbing and heating, with in- sufficient ventilation and water sup- ply. In striking contrast to the criminal attitude of the American capitali government towards the housing situ- ation are the measures of the Work- ers’ Government of the Soviet Union. The Workers’ Government of the Sov- jet Union nationalized all* dwellings of the capitalists to the workers. It turned over all the palaces and villas of the capitalists to the workers. It lowered the rent for wage-earners so much that unskilled workers pay only a nominal rent. The building of homes for workers is an essential part. of the whole constructive pro- gram of the Soviet Government, which spends hundreds of millions Suit of Radium Victims To Come Up On Monday The case of the five women poison- ed while working in the plant of the United States Radium Corporation will be given a hearing at the Orange. N. J. Chancery Court on Monday. The women contend that they were poison- ed because they followed instruetions to point in their mouths the brushes with which they painted the dials of watches, and have brought suit for an aggregate of $1,250,000. Physicians give them less than a year to live. LINES HOLD FAST AT MUTTON MINE Mass Picketing Grows Stronger (Special ta The Daily Worker) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0., May 2 The largest mine operating under the Jacksonville scale in eastern Ohio is on strike as a result of mass picket- ing condueted under the leadership of the Save-the-Union Committee since April 16. The Mutton Hollow mine of the Shadyside Coal Company near St. Clairsville, scene of a mass demon- stration April 21, which resulted in the arrest of 77 pickets, including 51 women, has been closed down since Wednesday, May 25. Forced to Act. The strike was called by sub-dis- trict officials after miners of the Mutton Hollow pits had dropped their tools to join the strike of their union brothers who had been picketing the mine which was working by separate agreement. Fol'owing the strikebreaking poli- ‘cies of the Fishwick-Lewis machine in Ilinois, the sub-district officers of the union asked that the mine own- ers re-employ' diggers who had gone) out at the call of the Save-the-Union-| When the mine owners refused ists. to take back “any man who had left the mi ciols were compelled to call the re- mainder of the Mutton Hollow em- ployes out on strike. Mass Picketing Grows. Mass picketing at the workings has intensified since the victory scored by the Save-the-Union forces on Wed nesday. New vigor is evident on the picket lines which have been held be- fore the mine in an effort to forestall any attempt of the bosses to bring in seabs. “We've won one victory,” exclaimed Mrs. John Barto, one of the women who spent three days in the St. Clairs- ville Jail as a result of the April 21 demonstration. ahead to win our big vietory against the coal operators.” j ers. Demands. 1. Municipal fixing of low rents) for workers. Rent for wese=eme| should not amount to more than 10 per cent of their wages. 2. Municipally built houses should} ented to the workers without | be profit. ; 3. Tax exemption for all houses} j} rented to wage-earners. | 4. Immediate enactment of state| laws providing for the abolition of} the right of eviction of landlords} against wage-earner tenants, | 5. Compulsory: repair by the land-! lords of all workingclass homes in bad | ; condition. 6. Immediate establishnient _by| muncipalities of homes to shelter the unemployed. 7. Municipal aid to workers’ build-| ing co-operatives. | Prohibition. i Prohibition, as it is “enforced” and| violated in this country is one of the} most outstanding examples of capital-| ist corruption and hypocrisy. The Workers (Communist) Party takes the following stand on the pro- hibition issue. Prohibition was introduced in the interests of the manufacturers. As the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Journal put it: “We believe there is no question of greater importance to| American manufacturers, the great} employers of labor, than prohibition.” The prohibition of the consumption of liquor decreases the needs of the workers, and thus tends to decrease the price of his labor power. The in- treduetion of prehibition was part and parcel of the big rationalization cam- paign of the employing class. It makes the worker more efficient, more adaptable to the machinery. It is the link in the chain of the general) ‘speed-up. The enforcement of pro- hibition is a typical class measure. Rich people are exempt from its en- forcement. Its whole burden falls jupon the proletarian elements. Prohibition embodies in the most classic. manner the basic views of the employers toward the workers. The worker gives his life not only during the working hours but all day and! all the time to the capitalist. Eating, jdrinking and sleeping, the worker serves only one sole purpose: the maintenance of his labor power for the capitalists. The very fact that {ment and the Volstead Act, is the | utilized against the labor movement }demagogy. It is not an issue between sell his labor power again. It does concern the capitalist how the worker eats and drinks. If the worker spends his wages for liquor, if he gets drunk Sunday night, if he is not fit for work Monday morning—that does not constitute a violation of the interests of the worker but it constitutes high crime against capital—it amounts to a defraudation of the labor power which belongs to the capitalists. These and none other are the Views of the capitalists concerning the private life of the workers. Prohibi- tion is nothing but the realization of these views. On the other hand, the driving force behind the movement against the enforcement of prohibition, for the repeal of the Kighteenth Amend- powerful alcohol capital which still has tremendous vested interests in the beverage industry. The “enforcement” of prohibition created a huge governmental machine | of prosecutors, spies, provocateurs| and courts. This machine tends to in- crease the power of the capitalist gov- ernment and is a virtual part of its strikebreaking apparatus. The lack of enforcement of capital- ist prohibition has created a powerful bootlegging industry with a capital of hundreds of million dollars. The hazards of this industry are compen- sated by extremely high profits. An elaborate system of an underground capitalist world is hiding itself under the surface of respectble capitalist so- ciety. It has its own spies, provoca- teurs and gunmen, who are often against striking workers. The com- bination of the twin brothers, eapital-} ist prohibition enforcement and eapi-| talist bootlegging, has created an un- heard of amount of corruption, crime and hypocrisy. | The stand of the republican and! democratic parties on the prohibition issue is a model example of capitalist the two parties but rather one within both. Very often from wet throats issue dry voices, The playing up of prohibition as a major political issue| serves only one purpose. It covers up| the lack of any real difference be-! tween the capitalist parties, and dis-} tracts the attention of the workers from the real major class issues of the toiling masses. Especially shame. the worker consumes the food which YOUNG MINERS 10 HOLD CONFERENCE Prepare for Big Meet at Belleville, June 9 BELLEVILLE, 0., May 21 (By Mail).—A conference of all youth delegates attending the special dis- trict convention of the United Mine Workers of America, District 12, was held during the second day of the pro- ceedings. Over twenty delegates from every part of the state took part in the con- ference. Recognizing that the young miners were not sufficiently drawn into the struggle to oust the corrupt officialdom in the union, the youth delegates took up the question of mo- bilizing the young miners thruout the state in some organized manner. To Hold Enlarged Meet. The conference went unanimously on record for the holding of an en- larged conference embracing Belle- ville and the surrounding territory. Organizers were selected to immedi- ately go back into their localities and begin to work for the conference. Methods adopted for this work was the organization of young miners’| groups in the local unions, confer-| ence committees, and mass meetings called to rally the young miners be- hind the conference. The date for the conference has been set for June 9th to be held in Belleville, Ti]., at ten o’clock in the morning. Already Local 705 in O’¥al lon has endorsed the young miners’ conference and has elected two dele- gates, The conference has also been endorsed by Local 803, Orient, IN. Important Role. Gerry Allard, secretary of the pro- e hecause cf anti-Lewis de- monstrations,” the sub-district offi- “Now we're going visional committee, in making his’ re- port for the convention showed how the youth in the coal mining industry have never been considered in the union activity. He pointed out how | necessary the youth is in the industry and how it plays an ever greater role in the affairs of the union, mak- ing all the more necessary for the progressive forces to win over the young workers and draw them into the struggle. | Little Augie’s Aide Also Slain by Rivals Louis Fabrizio, chief aide of ex- Little Auguie, notorious gangster, who was killed last October, has also been shot. Little Augie, as well as his lieutenant Louis Fabrizio are well re- membered by the needle trades work- ers here for their activity as sluggers assisting the bosses and the right wing in breaking the strikes of the garment workers here. Fabrizio was shot during the early hours yesterday morning while fixing By A. GUSAKOFF. It is quite some time since the lit- erature squads were organized. They helped the Party greatly in stimu- lating literature sales and literature distribution. They helped to put the “Communist” the news-stands, and in making open-air meetings as on well as indoor meetings, a real suc- cess as far as the distribution of lit- Jerature is concerned. They helped to ‘activize a number of comrades, who never before paid any attention to this particular field of work. In fact, this work was considered by many of. secondary importance. A Responsible Task Today, there are still many short- comings, which greatly hinder our work. These shorteomings must be pointed out and corrected. One of the worst short-comings is the fact |that many, or it can be said, a great | majority of the members of the lit- erature squads do not yet under- stand that their work is important Party work; that by coming to meeting at the Madison Square Gar-| den or other places to sell literature, they are functioning as @ committee which is assigned this specific task. as any other important task is assigned them by the Party. How- ever, we see the reverse. Comrades who are members of the literature talist \ be ses 7 | Only the full realization of the entire| which work with irresistible force to| ful is the position of the Socialist’ program of the Communist Party can) break up the whole system. ymers’ Rule!” Page Seven Party of America on the prohibition] bring about the emancipation of the) anarchy created by the enforeement, because “further per-) working class. The Communist Party| ship of the means of + sistence in this tragic farce threatens! has the following aims: a complete breakdown of law and order.” Many members of the employ-| ing class also, who favor prohibition! from the point of view of capitalist] efficiency, are against strict enforce ment, because they realize its impos sibility under present conditions and! likewise are concerned lest the faith of the masses in “law and order” be} shaken, _ Alcoholism is one of the most ter-! tice of the Communist Interna- rible sociat diseases of capitalist so-) 4i,,4)- ! ciety. Alcoholism is caused by capi- 4 ae | talism itself. Insecurity of life, the whe ahd of mane rule; | monotony of standardized factory S CONGUERE OF DOHUCES” DORE. work, the low cultural level of the masses and desperate poverty are the reasons for this social disease. Only a Communist society can cure aleoholism by elevting the cultural level of the} masses, by diversifying labor, by put-| ting an end to insecurity of life, and by eradicating poverty. The struggle against alcoholism is a part of the general struggle against capitalism Only the overthrow of capitalism will sweep away the despicable bootleg- ging industry and the equally des: able, corrupt, hypocritical capital prohibition enforcement. Demands: 1. The Workers (Communist) | Party favor the repeal of the Volstead| Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. | 2. Dissolution of the federal and state prohibition enforcement appar- atus, 3. Energetic propaganda against| alcoholism as one of the most malig-| nant social diseases under capitalism | | Forward to a Workers’ and Farmers’ | Government. This is the platform of the class struggle. These are the demands the Workers (Communist) Party puts forward in the present presidential election campaign. But none of these demands, and not even the total of these demands, exhaust the program| of the Communist Party. We cal!| upon the workers to rally around the Communist Party in a_ relentless} struggle for these, demands which realized, would tect the toiling| masses against most harmful ef-| fects of trugtfled capitalism. But even the realMation of all these de-| mands would not liberate the work- ingelass from the double yoke of capi- exploitation and oppression. | {down as visitors ready to take in the program of the meeting as any work- er, not as members of the Party. And much time is spent looking for them in the hall. This is a shortcoming which must be corrected immediate- ly. Comrades who have certai work to perform at meetings must understand that the Party must be taken into consideration «first, and when thru, they may enjoy the pro- gram, The comrades of the litera- ture squad must remember that the literature committee depends upon their cooperation, and of course is left helpless if comrades do not re- port, or if they accept some other work at that meeting. System Necessary Another shortcoming which must be overcome is the fact that our literature agents, as well as the members of the literature squads, have not yet developed a systematic way or organizing their work. It has been pointed out many times} that the literature agent of each unit} is the captain of his squad. He is! responsible for the work of his squad to the section literature agent and | for the work of his unit in this field | of activity. But we are confronted | cades. | perialist powers limiting the expan- The formation of the proletariat into a class; The organization of the toiling masses in an independent political party which combats all capitalist parties; The representation of the most general international interests of the workingclass as a whole as ex- pressed in the principles and prac- by the workingclass. American imperialism ig very pow-| erful. Capitalism in this country is still gn its upward grade, but it is; becoming more and more part and! parcel of world capitalism, which on the whole has entered into the last! declining stage of its development. United States imperialism will not be able to bribe broad sections of the workingelass for many more years./ It is not the sole workshop in the world as Great Britain was for de- There are other mighty im- sion of United States imperialism, competing with it on every front. The menace of new impe: ist wars. is, looming up ever bigger on the hori- zon. The very existence of the Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, which freed one-sixth of the earth from! capitalist influence and expansion, is again a limitation to the growth of United States imperialism. The forces of the proletarian revolution are tath- ering in other countries, too. The! more, than three million votes of the Communist Party of Germany, the/ over one million votes of the Com-! munist Party of France, the election, vietories of the Communist Party of Poland, which, though driven under-| ground, was able to rally the majority of the Polish workingclass—are as) many indices of the growth of the| legions of the workingclass revolu-| tion. H The struggle for liberation of the! oppressed peoples of Asia, and the| growing resistance of the suffering peoples of Latin America constitute | another limitation to the upward de-} munist) Part: velopment of United States imperial-} ism. There are inherent contradic-| tions within American imperialism which benefits not only the litera- ture department, but the Party as a whole, we must depend upon the help of the section literature - agents. This means that there is not enoug initiative in the units and that the literature agents are not yet on th begin to take their work seriously, develop more initiative, watch over their squads, see that they are on the job, and that more comrades are |drawn into literature work. Espe- jcially now in the summer months approaching, when many open-air meetings in the various parts of the city will be held, it will be necessary to cover all of these meetings with literature. We must emphasize the importance of the literature squads working more systematically than ever before. with a situation where many mem-! bers of the literature squads are| much more responsible than the lit-} erature agents. | We also know that whenever it| squads either accept other . Party| in Honor of the of TONIGHT at are $1.50 per plate, and his automobile on 2nd St. and Ave. B, RED WELCOME FEST Arranged by the Party Members of District 2 National Nominating Convention Workers (Communist) Party of America to be held WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 Union Square Reservations must be made in advance. 14th Street and 26-28 Union Square. is necessary to mobilize the comrades} work at the meetings or merely come for a large mecting, the success of | Delegates to the the at 8P.M. the Tickets are on sale at 108 East May 26th Stations for DOWN TOWN “ICOR" Office, 7! Broadway. Workers Club, 35 E, 2nd St. HARLEM Em. 108rd St. y Co-operative, 1800 — 7th BRONX United Co-op. Assn., 2700 Bronx Park ional Workers Co- op., 2771 Williamsbridge Rd. Yiddishe Heim Geselshaft Co- operative, 8451 Giles Pl. Bronx “ICOR" Branch, 1460 Boston Rd. Workers Club, 1472 Boston Rd Sholem Aleichem School, 2075 Clinton Ave, ADMISSION $1.00. The! e Literature Squads and Their Functions job. This of course must be re- medied. The unit literature agents must! “ICOR” TAG DAYS For Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia TODAY Friends of the Jewish Colonization movement in Soviet Russia are urged to contribute their part and act as volunteers during these tag days. and at all Nonpartisan Workers Children’s Schools, TONIGHT _PEOPLE’S “Tcor” Banquet In Celebration of the National “ICOR” Week WEBSTER HALL, 119 E. ilth St. Big Demonstration for Jewish Colonization » in Soviet Russia. Many Prominent Speakers. RICH LITERARY AND MUSICAL PROGRAM, sults inevitably in murder tition, crises and war Th character of American cay ciety must lead without fa wars. The sharpening c within American capi arouse gigantic forces t strong enough to overthrow alliance of the 17 million i tria workers, the 10 million Negr the 7 million exploited tenant ers and agricultural worke i stitute a powerful bloc which ‘able to crush the present dictators of the bosses. The upheavél of these exploited ‘and oppressed masses, who will estat lish a workers’ and farmers’ goverr ment, will organize their own stat apparatus in the form of worker councils and will break the monopo! of the capitalists over the means « production, A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern ment of the United States will ex- propriate all large-scale industries, railroads, super-power plants, meat- packing plants, grain elevator com- bines. It will nationalize all large land estates, and will hand them over to the mortgaged and tenant farmers and agricultural workers. It will na- tionalize all banks and commercial in=_ stitutions. A Workers and Farme Government of the United States will free all American colonies immediate- ly, will grant the right of full self- determination to all Latin-American ~ ' peoples, will realize full social equal- ity) for Negroes. It will disarm the master class and will arm the work- ing masses. Forward to a Workers’ and Farm- © ers’ Government! Forward by means of relentless class struggle. The Work (Communist) Party is the party of the class struggle. It is the deadly enemy of capitalist society. It fights for the complete unity of the working class, for the united strug- gle of native-born, foreign-born, and Negro warkers against the common enemy: trustified capital. The Workers (Communist) Party jealls upon all workers and exploited farmers to leave the old capitalist parties. Workers and exploited farmers, vote for and join the Workers (Com- Rally around the platform of the class struggle! Down withAapitalist rule! Forward to a Workers’ and Farm- ’ Government. 200 ATTEND BIG SAVEUNION MEET WHEELING, W. Va., (By Mail) — The calling of a mass meeting at May- nard, Ohio on Mon by the sub- ldistrict officials to distract the mem- |bers from a “Save the Union” meet- jing failed completely. Only six “loyal” imembers were present to hear Davis, International organizer, speak. Not far from the Polish Hall where the six “loyal” members of the union sat and listened to the speech of |Davis, the S. U. C. held their meet- ling and over 200 rank and file miners jattended. This shows clearly that the rank and file is with the S. U. C. and that they know that the “sweet sounding phrases” of the sub-district officials are nothing more than promises which will not be carried out, and 27th Volunteers: LOWER BRONX 138th St w IAMSBURGH 29 Graham Ave. 715 EB BROWNSVILLE Arbeiter Yougent Center, 122 Osborn St Workers Soc Youth Club, 118 Bristol CONEY 2901 Mermaid Ave BRIGHTON BAGH 217 Brighton Beae z AND