The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928 i aataladna zi THE DAILY WORKER Pupliahed by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine Daily, Except Sunday &3 First Street, New York, N. Y- Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ By Mail (in New York only) By Mail (outside of New Yor): §8.0C per vear $4.50 six 1. $6.50 per year 3.50 six months 8°50 three months. ) three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR ..WM. F. DUNNE New York, N. Y., Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork \* eevonua-cigss mail at the post-office at under the act of March 3, 1879. Wall Street Nominates Two | Candidates | “Wall Street is against Hoover.” F With these little words, among a thousand other things, Wall 3treet is nominating Hoover in the republican convention. Several months ago the “open secret” went out—from Hoover's head-| juarters—that “Wall Street considers Hoover unfitted: tempera- mentally to .be president.” But is there anyone so childish as to believe that Wall Street is against Hoover? Unfortunately there are tens of millions who! believe it. This sort of stuff is effective in bewildering and neu-| tralizing the minds of millions of the small capitalist elements as | well as farmers and the most backward elements of the working | rlass. All the time Herbert Hoo’ thoice of the colossus of finan ver was, as he remains, the first | ce-capital—Coolidge’s continuation in office being inexpedient. To doubt that Hoover is t! be to doubt that Coolidge is the “T am satisfied that such a c . meets the approval of our | he candidate of Wall Street would | highest servant of finance-capital. | course (the nomination of Hoover) beloved president,” says Bill But- ler, chairman of the republican national committee. Does anyone think that the chairman of the republican national committee, | who is also the big open-shop boss now trying to starve and stran- | gle the textile workers of Massachusetts, is fighting Wall Street? Andrew W. Mellon, the personal example of the merging of | the highest finance-capital with the government apparatus, has thrown the 79 delegates of Pennsylvania to Hoover.. Is Andy Mel- ‘on fighting Wall Street? Andy Mellon is Wall Street. j The fact that the New York delegation is the scene of a sham | battle with Charles D. Hilles in the role of “holding out” against Hoover, indicates only the same. political strategy of putting Hoover over as a candidate unapproved of Wall Street. The other fact—that thé American Federation of Labor is vegging at the door of the republican convention with proposed ‘planks in the interest of Labor’—together with the outright dorsement of Hoover by sections of the trade union bureau- acy, is but another indication that Hoover is the candidate of Wall Street. The American trade union bureaucracy, which today does not even support the second layers of capitalist society, but gives its support outright to the biggest trusts and banks, to finance-capital, inevitably seeks to support Hoover or Smith. The ureaucracy of the American labor mevement.makes the support f imperialism the center of its creed. ifoover, the gandidate of Wall Street, may not be elected— i yet Wall Street will not be defeated even in this event. For Wali Street has captured both conventions. Finance-capital plays both of the big capitalist parties and wins both games. if it cannot put over Hoover, it can put over Smith with no further disadvantage than a shake-up of personnel in the apparatus of government. When William Green appeals to the two large imperialist, open shop political parties, the gist of his purpose is indicated in his promise, as couched in his own slavish language, that a few dickerings with such treacherous bureaucrats.as himself will tend “to create a feeling of hope and satisfaction among the masses of the people’’—hope in, and satisfaction with, the brutal oligarchy of capital exploiting and ruling over the masses of workers and farmers. xT , i * n cutting wages, undermining ot Never before has the world seen. such complete power in the orking‘conditions and the elimina- hands of so small a group, as is exercised by the potentates whose | ion of thousands of miners from em-(| candidate and alternate candidate are Hoover and. Smith. But] oloyment. We also notice that such never before has there been such clear certainty that this oligar- | u>stitutes as oil, electric power and ; 1 ‘a 4 soke/are narrowing down the mar- chical.power will be de stroyed, nor has ever Benge’ been .80| <<: /tor anthracite eval. clearly visible the generating of forces that will destroy it; For | A New Bituatiha, never before have the masses been so completely in the position } of subjection where there is no way out but the struggle against the capitalist power, centralized in the merger of finance-capital and government. ( i MR. GREEN GOES TO KANSAS CITY And make a monkey of somebody. District 7 Miners Adopt Militant Program ‘samé companies. for, which we are further declare that we do not favor (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) \working in our district, own mines in |the Anthracite Cooperative Associa- WILKES-BARRE, June 12. — The Tri-district Saye-the-Union Commit- tee of the Anthracite has adopted the following program of struggle against the corrupt Lewis machine officialdom and in solidarity with the soft coal miners. To All Local Unions and To All Members of District 7, U. M. W. of A. Greetings: This program is issued to the mem- sers of District 7 to call attention to certain glaring evils and dangerous developments , which threatened the very life of our union. The whole mining industry is in a crisis. In the soft coal fields mines nave produced twice as much coal as ean be absorbed by the market. This aas caused unemployment and suffer- ng for thousands of our members. This situation affects the anthracite industry as well. The anthracite in- dustry is only beginning with these rises while the soft coal industry has | deen going through them for a num- oer of years. site are seeing the introduction of machinery, the speed-up system, by which the coal companies have in- creased production; on the other hand All this presents to our union a new situation whieh must be solved. Instead wf trying to solve the prob- iem our union officials of District 7, Ce en aa Gia C7 pais vorkers-a sue ; armora in ta (ed Oy. ee ennedy. and Mattey, are The d of all mil tant worker and exploited farmers is to sopting the polich ot Jol aa make this election campaign the means of developing and strength-| and the Consolidation Coal Company ening the influence of the revolutionary party of the working class |in the soft coal fields and excluding —the Workers (Communist) Par-| —the only anti-capitalist par ni from the industry they are rying to exclude 250,000 in the bitu- ty. To v Communist, y -and to build the Workers (Com-|*" : id P ; * a . fs ; minous field. munist ipening and drawing into its ranks all of the} Ou; district officials have done courageo conscious workers who can be made to un- agthing to meet the speed-up, the in- derstand its revolutionary program of struggle. ‘-sduction of machinery, the special Fine Militant Carpenter $206 One of the most treacherous tricks , statements regarding working condi- ever played by John Halket, president | tions in the shop. of the New York Building Trades; In charging Alchibigar with vio- Council and his henchman, Sam Wil-(|lating Section 18 all fundamental pining contract system and unem- louyment. a ,Yhe district board, led by Andrew Mattey, did not. see-fit to. mobilize the miners of District 7 in prepara- tion to fight against the coal com- panies who are taking advantage of this situation and are preparing an open shop drive as in the soft coal fields, and who have already proceed- We here in the anthra- | the soft coal region and they have | repudiated the agreement there. Our interests are bound up with the bitu- | minous miners. ~ We must stand by | them 100,per cent. | Repudiate Lewis. | We repudiate the policy of John L. | Lewis and his associates, who have’ carried on the policy of separating | anthracite miners from. bituminous | miners, and who are at the present | time dividing the soft coal miners by | making separate agreements, In do- | ing so they are helping the coal op- erators in destroying our union. Or- ganize the unorganized is our slogan. John L. Lewis refused or has failed to do so. This alone is sufficient proof that John’L. Lewis and his In- ternational Board cannot lead our union, (2) Injunctions against striking miners have been used by the coal joperators through their servants in\ court, which the Lewis machine have helped to put in by their so-called non-partisan policy.. The Lewis ma- chine has refused to carry on the fight against injunctions by mobiliz- ing the masses of strikers on the picket line and by leading the picket lines themselves, and by working for a Labor Party, which would unite the workers to carry on the fight on the political field. The Lewis machine cannot fight against injunctions when here*in our district it has used in: junctions against-the Silver Brook lo- gal, union because the membership wahts to build up and restore our union to the rank*and file. How can he sypport the Labor Party, when he is a member of the party, whose judges and other publie officials use their power to break the soft coal strike? | A Company Device, (8) The Conciliation Board means used by the coal companies in our gistrict to put the grievances of the miners on the shelf and not ‘to solve them, to fool the miners and to postpone action, We pledge ourselves to fight against the Conciliation Board and declare that the only way‘ of settling is a land will fight with them fora better, |broader, and a larger program “cr! tion. Insjead of unjty with the coal operators, chambers of commerce, and lother such organizations of the boss- es, we are in fayor of unity of action and solidarity with all workers in all |trades for common action of the workers. (4) It is a matter of common knowledge that grievances are almost never adjusted by district officials. | Thousands of contract violations, re- | fusals to settle grievances, underpay- ment of mine workers, actual wage cuts, unemployment, is all a part of | the bosses’ offensive against our union | and working conditions, yet our offi- cials do nothing. (5) We want to further state that on the question of the assessment, | that we are opposed to the continual ; assessment of the miners without a/ mandate from the rank and file and state that we prefer and ‘will go on; record to set up a machinery for re- | lief for our striking brothers in ‘the | soft coal district, direct by the rank and file of the anthracite, so that the | soft coal miners may preserve their union and working conditions. Their victory is our victory, as their union | is our union. | Our union is in the greatest danger. | must stand by this program and fight corruption in our union, restore our union once more into the hands of for which the miners in September 10, | 1897 at Lattimer were massacred. | Make ifthe kind of union they want- | ed it to be, 4 | To do this, Lewis, Kennedy, and! Mattey must go. In every local un-} ion, the rank and file element. must } organize to clean out corruption, elect rank and file members to Jocal offices and do the same in the district and in the International. Our position is open and clear. We speak openly to the rank. and file, } jour un mn. |. We pledge if elected, to fight and | werk for the realizing of the follow- | differences is directly between the miners and the coal operators. We NEAR 1921 LOW LEVEL FACTORY EMPLOYMEN ing program. { (1) Six-hour day, five-day week. | Saeewsnne! Sse | Every honest rank and file fighter |ye (2) National agreement for the an- thracite and bituminous miners. No division of forces in our union, (8) No arbitration or conciliation boards in our'!agreement. (4) Enforcement in full of all pro- visions of the present agreement, as te wages and working conditions. * (5) To abolish the special mining contract system. Expelling from the union all contractors and enforce this by strike if necessary. (6) Wipe out all coal company cor- ruption and influence in local unions and_in our district. Reinstate All Members. (7) Reinstate all members and lo- eal unions which were expelled for their fight against the officials in this aistrict and the international. $ (8) Honest elections and democracy in the union. (9) Against the introduction of ma- chinery without the adjustment of the scale which will mean a benefit for the miners and a shortening of work- ing hours. (10) Equalization of work during | the period of upemployment. (11) Against the appointment of} all field workers and for the election of all field workers in the district and interpational. (12) The officers shall the e ‘ only receive verage wage of the miners and moderate expenses. (18) Against any reduction in for its realization, so we can clean out wages, (14) Relief from the rank and filo, direct to the rank and file of the soft our membership and make it a union |¢ gq) striking. regions. (15) Nationalization of mines. (16) Labor Party. (17) No shifting of taxation from the coal*companies onto: the workers. ! (18) Full union wages for miners and all workers injured in and around the. mines. . Full support for families whose chief supporters were killed. For taking care of old miners, who either through old age, miner’s asth- ma or other occupational diseases are urtavle to make their living. All ex- penses_of the above to be borne by the coal‘companies with the union ad- ministrating same. (19) A raise of wages for all young workers in and around the mines to a higher: standard. ~~ Solidarity of Workers. ' (20) Solidarity and ufity with the railroad men’s organization in ouR common fight against the coal and railroad combination, (21) Organization of the unorgan- ized in the non-union bituminous fields, ‘ a (22) Education as to the aims of ~ gon, is the $200 fine recently imposed upon Brother J. Alchibigar of Car- penters Local No. 1164. This case is more than a year old and has been fought out time, and again in the/ local union, District Council and with General President Hutcheson. The case in brief is as follows: ‘Lhis brother was the shop steward fn the Forest Trim Mills in Green- point, Brooklyn. The shop was signed up by the labor officials, but non- “union men were permitted on the job. ‘In some cases wages were increased from 25 46 50 per cent, due to the efforts of Alchibigar. Brother J. Al- .chibigar objected to hiring non-union oom men and the boss tried to bribe him, _ thru offering him money and a better y ala failing to corrupt this union ‘brother, the boss called upon Wilson, the General Shop Agent to help him. bad servile tool of the bosses, Sam filson, induced the local business agent to prefer charges against Al- chibigar for violation of Section 18 of district couneil inst making false rights of a union member were vio- jlated, the charge not making any specifications, as to when, where and at what time such “slanders” were made. If these “slanders” were made at the local meetings then the local should have tried Brother J. E, The trial board should have consisted of five men, but this rule was also vio- \lated. No opportunity was given the union member to challenge the three members of the trial board as \the rules provide. “Czar Johnny” |Halkett was partial, as may be ex- pected. Among other things he de- clared; “The question is not as to conditions ‘in aEae stb, but as to slanderous statements, which you made against the Business Agent,” \ What does this highly paid labor faker care for union conditions in the shops? He is concerned that his henchmen and business agents should not be “slandered.” The charges at the samme time grew out of bad shop conditions against which Brother Al- ae * Z ed with wage cuts in violation of the agreement, undermining working con- ditions and trying to get control of local unions. The Lewis-Kennedy-Mattey machine in our district has concerned itself with only the question of how to get rid of fighters in our union, as in the case of the Silver Brook local in McAdoo, and with threats to take the charters from other local unions which refuse to expel from their ranks members who,fight and stand with the rank and file. Stand With Soft Coal Miners! Immediate and concentrated action based on a program which will restore the union to the membership is needed: a (1) The fate of the union in the anthracite and our district is bound up with the struggle of the bituminous miners who have been so heroically fighting for fifteen months against the open shop and industrial slavery. If the operators succeed in smashing our union in the soft coal field, the anthracite operators will undoubtedly le ageless iotibigat objected to and tried to|Jaunch a desperate onslaught to break re) our union in Districts 1| 7, and 9. The 4 Factory employment turned downward in April after two months in be SE lip nti origi nhaitiinaile By LELAND OLDS CRederated Press). which it managed-to climb about 2 percent above the low point’ of Jandary, labor, brought the level down 5.4 percent below April 1927. Payroll totals fell off 1.4 percent from March to a level 6.9 percent under a year ago. The report-for April shows 70 per-. cent of American factories operating with less than a full normal force and 2B, percent operating part time. Re- duced forces and part time, however, factories. Treating manufacturing industry as a single going concern, it is operating 96 percent fulltime, with, 86 percent normal working force. Near 1921-22 Low Level. Factory employment is now down to within a few points of the low level reached in the 1921-22 depression. It has fallen nearly 16 percent below April 1923 and 27 percent from the high level of April 1920. Between according to the monthly employment report of the U. S. A decrease of 0.5 percent®- are more prevalent among the smaller |R° 1920 factory forces have ween reduced about 2,700,000. “ ~The total distributed to factory workers in wages has fallen 11.3 per- cent below April 1923 and 31.2 pér- cent below April 1920. Although the purchasing power of individual fac- tory wages has risen, there has been no increase in the total purchasing wer of the ih ati dependent on ‘factory wages. ‘actory wages are running $25,000,000 a week legs than ‘in April 1923 and $90,000,000 a week ‘less than in 1920, with April 1927, in every division of the country except the east north cen- ‘tral states, where it was sustained by mobile industry. In New England and the middle Atlantic states em- April 1923 and April 1928 more than 1,250, factory workers have been permanently laid off, Since April ba factory about 10 percent ( A Factory employment fell, compared | Ur district executive board, as their| ah ployment fell 8 percent or more, wage totals are down a labor movement of our member- ship. (23) We condemn the terrorism against our brothers in District 1 . department of leading to the deaths of Alex Camp- ‘bell, Peter Reilly, Thomas Lillis and jthe shooting of Sam Greco and the frame-up of Sam Bonita; we lay these at the door of the special mining con- tract system for which Cappelini and the Lewis machine is responsible. We go on record to support and fight for the freedom of Sam Bonita, Moleski and Mendola, : (24) We declare that we will carry on an yncompromising fight against John L. Lewis and the international executive board’s,policy which is the policy of Kennedy and Mattey and olicies in practice lead to the de- struction of our union, | ‘We stand for progressive measures increased employment in the auto-jand for rank and file expression as|Alabama_ 1,370,000, Illinois 1,270, | tons, “ we believe that it will help in solving the problems of our unions. We ask all local unions and members to s jominations and elections. 2s who subscribe only ne | NDER people who make remarks such as a workers’ government. ihe following by Judge P. L. Lin- coln, of Richmond Center, Wisconsin, will be allowed six months credit at a ‘Sanitarium to recuperate: > “We are heirs and legates to the | best government ever bequeathed to any posterity. We are fortunate to | live in a republic and under a govern- | ment dedicated to, those fundament- |als of human achievement, life, iib- |erty and the pursuit of happiness, when the greatest good to the great- |est number is the guiding star.” In this respect it might be well to tell the story of the capitalist candi- ; date who was asked what he. consid- cred the greatest object of legislation, He replied: “The greatest good to the greatest number.” When .asked what he considered the greatest ) number, he answered “Number 1.” } * * * Alin the Album ) | Even the toughest rooster was once |@ smooth white egg. The above picture taken in 1880 shows Al Smith as a | boy leaning against his father’s knee. In these days Al often leaned up against his father’s knee in a heri- zontal position while’ his righteous parent operated the umbrella, shown left, i«-a decidedly vertical manner: This was because Al gave away the Wananas of a neighboring fruit dealer to the boys of the baseball team in an attempt to become captain. Today there’s nobody to use the umbrella on Al and he’s using the banana tech- nique with the people’s money in an attempt to buy himself into the presi- dency. * * * | Bagged Realtors | { | 1 Twenty-one heirs of the late and Ma” Streeter, squatters above, are suing in Chicago courts for property worth $500,000,000\along the “gold coast” occupied by the richest families of Chicago. The descendants of the squatters are. poor and have about as much chance of getting the return of the property from the wealthy occupants in capitalist courts as a Communist nucleus has of get- ting a column write-up on page one of the New York Times. Cap'n and Ma Streeter were poor and they jlost everything in the capitalist courte. The only difference was that Cap'n Streeter had a lot of fun out of the fight. Life offers a lot worse experi- ences than going out every morniny, when the sun glistens on the dewy grass, and shooting a real \ ‘ate dealer in the pants. That's the way Streeter used to start his day. linois Coal Mining © Falling, Reports Show SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 12 (FP). —Coal like textiles seems to be mov- ing south. The U. bureau of mines at Springfield ces that Ala- bama has pushed Illinois out of 4th place in bituminous coal duction | tor April. Two other southern states, che of iol Kentucky, are also d of Illinois. _ \ April production was West Virginia 9,414,000 tons, ylva- nia 9,250,000, Kentucky 4,720,0 i All large southern production is nonunion and Pennsylyania_bitu- minous now largely nonu in May ave)