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

HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1928 SENDS APPEAL T) NEGRO DELEGATE TO CONVENTION TO BUILD DAILY IN SEATTLE/CANADA UNIONS WORKERS’ PARTY CONVENTION HERE Asks Aid i 1 in Freeing| Workers Bitter denunciation of the United| government policy in the Philip} eed and an appeal to the American ing class to aid in securing the lom of the workers in these is-/ Tands was made by the Indpendence lommittee of the Philippine Associa- tion of Chicago in a greeting to the delegates to the nominating conven- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party, which has just closed its ses-| sions here. Deceives Philippines. “The leaders of both the republican and the democratic parties, ever since} the imposition of American sover-| eignty on the Philippine workers, have given us promises,” the state- ment declares. “But still no independ- ence has been given. President Cool- idge has placed Colonel Stimson in the place vacated by the death of} Governor Wood. And any sound- minded person who knows the con- temptible and notorious activities of Col. Stimson in Nicaragua will inter- pret Coolidge’s action as a challenge to the Philippine aspiration for inde- pendence. The vetoing of the Philip-| pine plebicite, the conspiracy which is now going on between the rubber, oil, sugar, coal and power imperial- ists, and some of the officials at Washington to grab all the natural resources of the Philippines, all show that the promises given us for free- dom by the American ruling class are no more than damn ligs. . “As long as the United States gov- ernment is im the hands of the re- publican and democratic parties, the Philippines will remain as subjects,” the statement declares further. In greeting the convention of the Workers Party, the Philippine Inde- pendence Committee declares that it was voicing the sentiments of “the Philippines as a whole.” Only Party of Working Class. “Im closing,” the statement reads, “we wish and hope that your conven- tion will succeed in selecting a man as a candidate for the presidency of} the United States who can bring the) American workers back to their right) party, the Workers Party of America. “Long live the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of America, the party of the American working class, and the friend of the oppressed masses! throughout the world.” The message is signed by Anacleto Almenana, chairman, D. Samonte, H.) Caipio, E. Lictawa, F. Soriben and} Se Ge ecru ee (Communist) | NO HALT T0 HUGE US BREAD MERGER After a valloaiie: stay in New York city where he arrived via the | rods to attend the National Nom- inating Convention of The Work- ers (Communist) Party, David A. | Griffin, Negro delegate from the Washington district, is on his way back to Seattle via the rods. On his return to the northwest- ern city, Griffin will take an active part in the organization of The | Warren Act on Parade Is | Held Politics | Declaring that the action of Police Commissioner Warren im first refus-| ing and then/ granting the mem-} orial day permit to} hold a parade in| Queens was purely political and an at- tempt to gain big- ger support for the Smith campaign, the Citizen’s Mem- orial Association Warren, and Republican trickster Club of Queens has refused to ac- cept the last minute permit to hold a memorial parade in Queens, in which the Ku Klux Klan was to have par- ticipated. In refusing it, the associa- tion also delivered a thinly disguised political piece of bombast and declared that Warren’s action was “an insult to the intelligence of this community and an attempt to nullify and rend asunder” the organizations. The Memorial Association also added a proviso to the resolution re- fusing the permit calling for the dis- tribution of warnings to “every civic organization im the United States” against “Tammany Hall or any of its representatives.” If the Ku Klux Klan makes any at- tempt to parade in Queens today it will he stopped by the police, Com- missioner Warren stated yesterday. The arrest of all members of the Klan who attempt to parade was also ordered by ee commissioner. Formation of Gigantic Trust Continues URGE MINERS 10 SHUN BRENNAN Kearny is s Also Called | Cowardly, Useless (By @ Worker Correspondent.) PITTSTON, Pa. (By mail). — want to write to you as I am a mem- ber of Local Union 1703. The situa- | tion in District ‘No. 1 is getting worse than at any time since our Local Un- jon 1703 voted to go back to work under the 30-day proposition of the conciliation board. Most of our mem- bers were forced to go back as we were starved out by the coal company. The conditions are becoming worse in Local Union 1703. Local Union 1703 has a grievance | committee of our men and out of the | four, two are the worst kind of rats you ever saw. As to one of the com- mittee by the name of James Kearney, he is the worst kind of a fakir you could find. He is supposed to be, or he prides himself on being, an intel- ligent man. I would like to ask him | what his standing in union affairs is. For when a progressive miner ap- proaches him to take up a grievance, he plays a hide and seek game and does nothing for the miner and lets | the rest of the committee fight the | ease, I would like to know where he ts money to sport around and get} half of the time as nearly ev- ery night in the week he is full of moonshine. He is absolutely coward- and yellow and does not do any- May at all. At the present time he is on the investigating committee. He also sticks with McGarry. 1! think that the miners should see what | he is doing and kick him out of our local. Especially kick him out ofthe place where he is now. Conditions in District No. 1 are get- | * ting worse. We are having at this time a special convention to see if we | ean clean out the murderous machine of Lewis and Cappellini. I would like to advise the miners not to have any- thing: to do with the type of men like Brennan for Cappelini’s place. Bren- nan was in office at one time, He did no good. Cappelini is absolutely a fakir and a murderer. We must only elect people into office who have a program and who will fight for the interests of the miners and not for themselves as Brennan, Harris, Mc- Garry are doing at this time. —-S. aS ea a ame “Ee WASHINGTON, May 29 (FP). — The optimist Sen. LaFollette intro- duced in the Senate, May 28, a reso- lution directing the Federal Trade Commission to reinstate forthwith the complaint against the Continental Baking Corporation which the Com- jmission, by majority vote, dismissed ie Apr. 2, 1926. In a statement issued when he of- lfered this resolution, the Wisconsin | senator reviewed the history of the ‘case, which revolves around the at- {tempt .of the Ward interests to erect a nationwide bread trust. The Fed- eral Trade Commission majority, with |Commissioners Nugent and Thompson |dissenting, suddenly ordered its coun- sel to drop the complaint, on the {ground that the Department of Jus- |tice had filed suit against thé pro- |posed merger. On the same day the \department of justice had dropped its prosecution, making a compromise in the federal district court under the name of a “consent decree.” “Contrary to the popular notion of |this notorious consent decree,” La- | Follette said, “neither the ment of Justice nor the Federal |Trade Commission has done anything | sufficiently adequate to the situation to allay the just fears that a nation- |wide bread trust is still actually in \the making.” A subcommittee of the senate ju- diciary committee recently reported on this affair, after hearings, holding that the Continental Baking Co. go \off without punishment after violat- | ing the anti-trust law. Newark Wo Workers Will Hold Kun Protest Meet Hundreds of militant workers in | Newark, N. J., will demonstrate at a jmass meeting at the Workers’ Pro- jgressive Center Hall, 93 Mercer St., on Friday, June 1, to protest against |the arrest of Bela Kun and to de- mand the release of the Hungarian Communist leader. Prominent speak- ers will address the mass meeting, | which will be held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense. } LOBBYISTS MAKE TARIFFS WASHINGTON, May 29, —. The inaming of “lobbyists” to the United States tariff commission impaired the confidence of the public in the agen- Depart- ; DAILY WORKER subscription ac- tivity in Seattle and thruout the Northwest. Before setting out for the West, Griffin stopped at the office of the DAILY WORK. to pledge his co- operation in inten: scription drive in W: painted a lively picture of condi-. tions thruout his district. “The Washington district is en- tering one of the most important periods in its history,” Griffin stated.” Under the direction of the TO HOLD STATE CONVENTION OF PARTY JUNE 10 Will Choose Ticket at Workers Center Meet (Continued from page one) have felt the heavy hand of the government in their struggles: junction after injunction has been issued against the furriers, the cloakmakers; the police have been used brutally against the traction workers and capitalist terror has struck heavy blows against the workers of the entire state. Be- hind this terror stand the two po- litical parties of capitalism and their masters, the big industrial and finance intergsts of the country. in- The socialist party has been allied with the union-wreckers of the city and state, with the misleaders of the A. F. of L.—the Greens, the Wolls, in their class-collaboration policies which have meant no organization for the unorganized workers and treachery and disorganization of the organized workers. In New York state, unemployment has mounted steadily and no relief has been given to the hundreds of thou- sands of workers that are jobless. The State Nominating Conven- tion, as part of the national cam- paign, will be the starting point for the mobilization of the New York workers for the 1928 elections. It will organize the workers against the Smith and Tammany Hall ma- chines, against the republican and socialist party. Open struggle against ‘the socialist party as the party of the betrayers of labor which has ceased to be proletarian and has become definitely a party of the small businessmen. Against Thomas and Maurer with their poli- cies of peace and surrender to the bosses! For the struggle of the working class against their exploit- ers! For the organization and strengthening of the working class! For their emancipation from capi- talism! For the establishment of the rule of the workers through a workers’ and farmers’ government! All units of the Party in New York state are urged to elect dele- gates on the basis of one for every twenty-five members or major por- tion thereof. Every unit is entitled to at least one delegate. All working class organizations sympathetic to the program of the class struggle are urged to elect at least two fraternal delegates to this convention and to participate jointly with us in opening the campaign in New York state. To cover the expenses for the State Nominating Convention which gates from up-state New York, every unit is to pay $1 per delegate. A nominal fee of $2 is requested from the organizations sending fraternal delegates. Yours for king clas District Executive Commitee No. 2, Workers (Communist) Party. William W. Weinstone, organizer. District Executive Committee No. 4, Workers (Communist) Party. a campaign for the M. CO Sacer organizer. ; acquiescence. | this latest act of arrogant betrayal is} !sion'to every demand of the bosses. | Instead of discipline being used as an | bosses, the Hillman policy is more \than merely submitting to boss ‘de- | for the bosses at the expense of the selddea: tha Geanbporte ‘ovat ‘dele | workers in the union intends to call sf rte. = new district organizer, Swanson, every effort is being made to push the work of the Party in the mines, on the ships and the harbor front, in the lumber camps and the fruit fields and orchards. “Not the least part of this or- ganization work is the spreading of The DAILY WORKER,” Griffin continued. “It is the hope of the workers in the Washington dis- trict to bring the DAILY WORK- ER to thousands of workers in in- dustries thruout the state who have militant class working class organ.” With this end in view, Griffin assisted in working out special plans for the distribution of The DAILY WORKER in Seattle on the basis of Worker Correspondence. Aceording to the arrangements made yesterday, Griffin will urge workers in various Washington in- dustries to write about conditions on their jobs. Then several hun- dred copies of The DAILY WORK- ER in which the letter appears will be distributed to other workers on hitherto.had no chance to read their the earth. the same job. It is hoped in this FORCE PIECE-WORK ON N.Y. TAILORS Degrading System to Be Granted By Beckerman { (Continued from Page One) bership is so great that Raskcooasl) has to face a powerful opposition be this betrayal even on his own scale wing Joint Board. The method used by Beckerman in| coercing his machine lieutenants to/ | agree to the betrayal was learnt when | the details of the last few days events! were made public. Beckerman, after! receiving the demands of the bosses, told his minor officials that he in- tended to grant them, and would! hand in his resignation, if they re- fused to endorse his action. He actu- ally “stayed: “away ‘from: the~ Joint | Board office for three days. The; threatened loss of their “little Mus- solini” was sufficient to cow them into Resentment Strong The resentment by the workers to reaching fever pitch. The workers point.to ,the fact that all policies of the union have been a steady submis- answer to such a demand made by mands. It is a conscious policy of making the industry more profitable workers. This summarizes the opin- ions of the workers. The organization of progressive mass meetings to mobilize the mem- bership against this sell out, it was |learnt, Although Beckerman’s job| holders agreed to grant piece work to the 12 bosses, the question still must come for sanction to the Joint Board. Attempts to obtain an official state- ment from Hillman on this question jfailed yesterday, He was declared |to be conveniently “out of town.” | STRIKE IN BELFAST. BELGRADE, May 28.—The' trial of Fascist Likes Cal and Jimmy Walker, Too | podisig May 29. — Prince Lud- ovico Potenziani, governor of Rome, on his arrival here yesterday commented very enthusiastically on the reception he had received at the White House by President Coolidge. President Coolidge showed me and my staff a cordiality which astonished even the servants at the White House,” the Prince said. | “They who are best acquainted with his reserve and scantiness of words and gestures were amazed. He talktd to us for more than twenty minutes, and asked us questions about Italy and Mussolini, express- ing the best wishes toward both.” Mayor Walker, another of the re- actionary puppets of big business in the United States, was referred to as a “very old friend.” The prince evidently knows who his and fas- ‘cism’s friends are. TEXTILE STRIKE LEADERS JAILED (Continued from page one) strikers’ children in the picket demon- strations has particularly aroused the ire of the city authorities. At a demonstration yesterday morning in front of the Page mills, the police pulled off the line all members of the Strikers’ Childrens’ Clubs, an organi- zation being built by the Textile Mill Committee. When Murdoch, again leading the demonstration, invited the children back into line the police took |him and a striker named Latern to the police station. As they were be- ing taken away they were enthusias- tically cheered. Not Enough Police. Asked why Murdoch and Beal and only 5 others were arrested out of the many hundreds participating in the picketing of the Hathaway Mills, Police Chief Sam McLeod said: “All persons were equally guilty, but I ers and plasterers of Belfast have gone on strike for a wage increase. ANVILLE, Va., May 29 (FP)— Existing side by side with the company union in the big Danville cotton mills is the sole independent labor union of consequence in any southern cotton manufacturing plant. This is the Southern Loom- fixers’ Association, whose one lodge is in the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills. Its 247 members in- clude 90 to 95 per cent of the loom fixers in the company’s employ. The loomfixers’ local survived the industrial democracy scheme that wrecked the other unions after the war, and this group of craftsmen is cy, the Senate’s special tariff inves- tigating committee reported today. The committee declared a “partial break-down” occurred a year ago in the commission’s activities due to dis- putes, “sometimes personal” between momnbers of the commission. ' proud of its organization. “Our wages run $3 to $7 over the highest weavers,” said Robert Mose- ly, president of the local. “Ten years ago when the weavers were organized, their highest wages were as much as ours.” From another man comes the stor)! of the posting of a 10 per cent wage cut notice four years ago. A committee of loomfixers waited on the boss and said the sign must come down or they would go out. It came down. Wages have fallen somewhat since the war, but not in proportion to the other workers. * * * UT now the loomfixers are un- easy. Employment is slack. Wage cuts are spreading elsewhere. “That cut in New Bedford made us mighty scarey,” said one mechanic. There is talk of joining the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, Tentative negotiations were conducted with the machinists but there is a senti- ment towards the United Textile Workers. _ > Outside of Danville hardly any i didn’t have enough police to arrest all of them.” SINGLE VIRGINIA LOCAL LOOKS AHEAD 247 Denville - Loomfixers Beat Wa Wage Cut, Talk of k of Affiliation southern loomfixers aré “unionized and in a labor dispute the places of the local men might be filled in a few days from nearby North Caro- lina mills, Within the Danville mill the loomfixers are less than 5 per cent of the total employes. * « x HE rest of the 6,200, weavers, spinners, etc., have nothing but the company union. The loomfixers also are nominally in the company union but their real functioning is outside. Slack times bring weakness to an isolated organization. There is speeding up, called “doubling up,” which is not being resisted, ‘“Doub- ling up” means fixing more looms, for the loomfixers, and weaving at more looms, for the weavers. There is more individual production per day, but the piece-rate is reduced. sovsmonin inner ey eevee Sees ilippine Independence Committee Denounces United States Rule in Islands way to interest hundreds of workers in their militant daily. “Tncreasing the DAILY WORK- ER’S circulation is one of the most important activities before the Workers Party in the northwest,” Griffin asserted, “and I am going back to take my full share in it.” “My coming to New York was important,” he said, “but the tasks for which I return to Seattle are no less important. That of spreading the circulation of The DAILY WORKER is not the least among them.” Blazing Debris of Army Plane After Curtiss Field Crash The picture shows flames beginning to consume the wreck of the plane which figured in the latest tragedy of American air militarism. Herbert C. Doyle, army flier, was instantly killed when the airplane dove into MINERS EXPEL LEWIS MACHINE Will Name Own Leaders Today (Continued from page one) the Citizens’ Military Training Camps as training camps for uniformed strikebreakers, Affidavits exposing the election steal by Lewis were exhibited tb the delegates. Telegrams from George Voyzey, newly elected progressive president of the Illinois district, from Davy Jones, president of the Indiana distriet and from Robert Matusek, president of District 5 in Ohio and George Pap- cun, secretary of the anthracite Save- the-Union Committee were read amid thunderous applause. Crows Nest mine, the largest Key- stone Coal Co. mine struck yesterday one hundred per cent. The delegates ealled for renewal of mass picketing and the spreading of the strike. Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, | promised the convention to prosecute police for clubbings and assaults of miners. MILITARY CAN'T STOP MEMORIAL To Hold “Mesting for William Haywood (Continued from page one) he jumped bail after he was convict- ed,” Weinstone said, “Haywood’s war trial was one of the grossest exam- ples of the steam-roller injustice of capitalism,” “Even The Nation, a merely liberal publication, admits this,” Weinstone continued. “In a recent editorial that weekly states, ‘In 1917 the war gave the enemies of the I. W. W. their op- portunity. At a farcical trial Hay- wood and 97 colleagues were convict- ed without a pretense of individual trial. To Haywood it only ado again the reality of the class war’.” Among the prominent leaders of the Workers Party who will speak at the Haywood memorial are Jay Love- stone, national executive secretary of the Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; James P. Cannon, executive secretary of the International Labor Defense, and Herbert Zam, secretary of the Young Stachel, national organizational sec- retary of the Party, will be chairman. Martin Henderson who at the pres- ent time lives in Florida and was a delegate to the National Nominating Convention, and has been a long time friend of Haywood and himself active movement and assisted with Haywood in the big battles that made history for the American labor movement will be one of the leading speakers at the memorial meeting. He’s Still Cashing In if i COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 29—Lind- bergh, imperialist aviator, landed here as the first stop on a surveying trip for the Trans-Continental Airways Corporation, Lindbergh’s new boss. The trip paring at New York and will Chi at Los a haat Workers (Communist) League. Jack. more than thirty years in the labor. INCREASE 15678 DURING ONE YEAR Membership Report for 1927 is 290,282 Canadian gains by the Int. Associa- tion of Machinists and the Brother- hood of Carpenters & Joiners were chiefly responsible for the 15,678 in- crease in the membership of Canadi- an unions reported for 1927 to the Canadian department of labor. The international union group as a whole showed smaller gains. The independ- ent All-Canadian Congress of Labor, including the One Big Union and the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employes, appears as a lusty young rival to the Trades & Labor Congress of Canada, affiliated with the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. Total membership of Canadian la- bor unions in 1927, as reported to the department, was 290,282. This com- - pared with 133, 182 in 1911 when the department began gathering statistics and with 175,799 in 1913, the last pre- war year. In 1919 Canadian trade union membership reached a_ peak with 378,047, But the sharp deflation ‘ of the postwar years brought it down “ to 260,643 in 1924. Since that year the total membership has been slowly rising. The growth of the socalled interna- tional trade union group has not kept pace with the progress of the Canadi- an movement. This group is com- posed of unions centering in the Unit- ed States, chiefly those affiliated with the A. F. of L, and the railroad broth- erhoods. In 1911 these international unions had 119,415 members, or about 90 per cent of all the organized work- ers in Canada. In 1927 their member- ship had increased 51 per cent to 180,755 but this represented only 62 percent of the total membership of Canadian unions. In the interval the number of Canadian trade unionists had increased 118 percent. The Canadian membership reported by leading unions in 1922 and 1927 was: Canadian Union Membership 1922 1927 One Big Union .... 5,800* 19,245 Can. Bro. of RR Empl. 12567 15,670 United Mine Workers. 22,500 15,400 Int. Assn. of Mach. .. 8,400 15,000 Br. of RR Trainmen . 14,093 14,629 Br, of Ry. Carmen ... 11,010 12,967 Br. of Carp. & Joiners 8,326 10,552 Am. Fed. of Musicians 7,152 8,000 Order of RR Tel. .... 6,805 7,984 Amalg. Assn, of St. Ry. Employes ..... 7,500 7,600 Br. of Loc, Firemen .. 7,595 7,062 Maint, of Way Br. ... 10,000 6,763 Bro. of Locom. Eng’s 7,500 6,086 Amalg, Cloth’g W’rk’s 9,750 6,000 Int. Longshorem’s Ass. 2,313 5,000 I. W. W. ore _ 4,400 Int. Typo. Union .... 4,983 4,364 Bricklayers, Masons ie and Plasterers .... 3,771 3,614 HE Order of Ry. Cond. .. 4,402 8,500 ie Bro. of Ry. Clerks .. 3,000 3,164 ‘ Int. Assn. Firefighters 2,000 2,490 a 4,115 2,300 ¢ Bro. of Elect. Workers: * End of 1921—no report for 1922. The Trades & Labor Congress of Canada reports 140,195 affiliated members. Its paidup membership at the end of the year was 114,362, an increase of 11,325 over the previous year. On March 16, 1927, unions not affiliated with the international bodies formed the All-Canadian Congress of Labor which reports an affiliated membership of 46,279. The most im- portant units in this congress are the O. B. U. and the Canadian Brother- hood of Railroad Employes. R. R, Group Largest. Railroad employes form the largest group of organized workers in Canada with 82,822 or 28.5 percent of the to- tal. Public employes, personal service and amusement trades rank second with 32,700 or 11.8 percent of the to- tal. Other groups are building trades 80,751; other transportation and navi- gation trades .25,507; mining and quarrying 25,027; metal trades 22,237; printing and paper making 12,291 and clothing, boots and shoes 11,908. The Milwaukee Leader Aids Imperialists By supporting the “Airplane Model League of America,” the “Milwaukee Leader,? socialist organ, becomes a lackey of Wall Street imperialism. Of the many organizations that are preparing the youth for the next capitalist butchery the “Airplane Model League” occupies a prominent place, They call for the organization of the youth into clubs to study the mechanics of airplanes. In this way they become good material for the vested interests. Among its officers are Commander Byrd, who has before acted as an in- strument for the militarism that is sweeping the country. The purpose of this movement 1s avoyedly to train the youth for the next imperialist war. It is sponsored by the “National Aeronautic Associa- tion” in conjunction ¥ over 50 capi- talist newspapers. It is time that the workers who still remain within the socialist ranks know that the social- ist party no longer represents the workingclass, but lines itself beside the most reactionary meabr.” ‘eins nde coat i