The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1928, Page 2

* Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE.15, 1928 | } / fe “ANAM CEOIRSEE MOELEN ARH BEST ACEC COME NO Twenty-Four Berlin Workers’ Delegations Demand Amnesty Law in Reichstag CONVENTION CALL! BRINGS NEW HOPE TO MINE WORKERS, Rank and File Plan to Build Union Continued from Page One) 1922 was not only of the treasonable a entire labor one the UMWA. In strike the UMWA o strike-breaking part handling of the prese strike situat nee separate agr on cor- rupt politici senate in- vestigation, with the | companies to the u ployed, etc. f betr The gene s been to isolate the stri a and Ohio | and to enable the emp! s to shat- ter the strike force: their lei- sure, thus unde ning the whole miners’ organi of Lewis’ criminal the strike is now in a desperate situation. It faces the greatest miners conti equalled her tematic treachery, whole arrests, and terrorism by the companies, po- lice, etc. 4. Splitting the ranks of the miners. Instead of extending the fighting front of the mine and making the demand for a r mal agreement to cover all miners a central policy of the union, which is now more neces- sary than ever in t face of the £ ng power of t operators, Lewis has systema e program of dividing the against themselves, of narrowing down the fighting front of the uni One phase of this f nolicy split the anth bituminous mine: ments expiring The five-year 2 was a crime a; other phase v } system of signing up some r a given compan} mines were permitted to ope: shop. In the present st 4ewis car- ried this of division still fur- ther by ing a program of dis- trict and individual operator settle- ments. Even ore the strike began he abandoned all fight for the Cen- itive field agreement. In mperatively demanding a ri fought desper- against all efforts to spread the He split the Miners’ Union , isolating the strikers in the of Pennsylvania and o and making the union an easy victim for the open/shop operators. His. whole strike policy has been q erime against the miners. 5. Speed-up agents of the operators Lewis, Cappelini, Fishwick, ete., have become the s slave drivers, of the bos In Il- linois and the anthracite districts they are working hand in hand with the operators to introduce machinery and new driving systems at the expense of the work They disregard gether that the job of union o: $ is to defend the inter of the work- ers at all times, not to become pro- duction exper for the employers. Thus while prosperity comes to the coal operators, conditions grow worse for the min and the union is rap- idly weakening. Lewi d his crowd want to turn the UMWA into prac- tically a company union. 6. Betrayal of the unemployed. The question of unemploym C yment is a life and death matter for the mi to- ers, Never wefe so many of out | of work. Neve unemployment so chronic. T only way even te porary relief ¢ be d is by establishment of the 6-hour y and B-day wee d by the development of a system of government unemploy- ment benefits. 3ut Lewis oppose: these vital proposals. Instead of this, | he joins hands with the employers, demanding that 300,000 miners be forced out of the coal industry. This means they would have to starve in the general army of unemployed, which at present amounts to at least 4,000,000. Lewis also puts forward the employers’ proposal for closing the so-called “uneconomic” mines and for the trustification of the coal in- dustry. This would throw still greater masses into permanent unemploy- ment, hasten the break-up of_the un- ion and strengthen the employers at the expense of the workers. The whole scheme is an open shop plan for the coal industry. John L. Lewis, agent of the operators, is its loudest advocate. Small wonder that recently he was publicly thanked by that big Mogul of the open shoppers, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 7. Abolition of union democracy. Under Lewis’ control the old-time union democracy of.the UMWA has been completely destroyed. Elections are stolen; conventions are packed; the appointive power is autocratically used; everything is done by the crook- ed Lewis machine to prevent rank and file expression, The union is con- trolled by gunmen and _ sluggers closely allied to the coal companies. | districts. To accomplish any real change of leadership and policy in the UMWA by regular demoeratic procedure has become impossible. Union democracy is dead in the UMWA.’ The corrupt * | fightin Imperialism Gets Ready | | Germany, which will be ruled by a coalition government headed by a so- cial-democrat, isn’t letting any grass grow under her feet as far as prepara- tions for the next imperialist war are concerned. Photo shows two residents of Berlin the |which all. German citizens are being u wearing gas masks | taught to-use ax part of the genera ea drill. preparedness” | Communist leader, from being deport- |his immediate and unconditional re- —e (GALL 1S ISSUED TO) Paotest Mita Rivoli jLabor Defense Urges Mass Protest A call has been.issued by the New York section of the International La- bor Defense, 799 Broadway, to all s conscious workers and working organizations to renew their ef- to save Bela Kun, Hungar picking its puppet for president. w everal hundred of them attempted ed to fascist Hungary, and to demand | This. was a strike breaking policy, The result of all this reaction and terrorism has been to disarm the UMWA in the face of the employers’ | attacks ‘and to lead it to’its present | break up. Mistake to Cling te UMWA. lease, The call, signed by Rose Baron, y of the. New York section, states: The trial of Bela Kun, Jeader of |the Hungarian proletarian revolution jof 1919, has been set for June 26th sh Va lin Vienna. It would’ be a* disastrous mistake | | “Only the united pressure of the|for us to cling any longer to the |workers of the world can compel the | MWA ‘as the union of the miners. | inquisitors who will ‘sit in judgment |y ocked:in the death ‘clutch of the| jover Bela Kun—over the whole work-.} is fabtaved He | ingclass—one June 26th to release corrupt Lewis gang and scimeiosaal sal him. They are planning to hand him/the employers’ attacks, it cannot pro-| jover to the Hungarian terrorists so |tect the interests of the miners. To that he may be murdered. Their |depend further on the broken. UMWA plana must be stopped! Workers: organization would be for us working class organizations, act now! jee nee & Fy ates open! Protest, adopt resolutions demanding |to sink deeper ae, leeper into op the immediate and unconditional re-| shop slavery. We must build a ney lease of Bela Kun! Down with inter-|ynion. We must take the situation eae fascism! Bela Kun must be lin hand ourselves and break the con- ae \trol of the Lewis-gang. We must |bureaucracy rules with a Mussolini- like autocracy. Killing of progressivism and militancy. The UMWA was once the most ive union in the labor move- It supported the labor party d to every:forward cause the workers. It was an old enemy f the Gompers gang. Its splendid spirit was well known in the rican labor movement. But the s machine has choked this pro- t. The Lewis program tion” with the employers, s surrender to them. He vhich m ate open has substituted fake “arbitration” |the breakdown of the union by blam-| methods for a real fighting policy. rial unionism, and it gave | pine te Nene se F organize a~new. miners’ union, one of Cappelini and other Lewis agents, |with an honest progressive leadership who have supported the infamous e a i Ta: this: way | contractor system by a murdefous 9nd a fighting policy. In s if reign of terror, are doing their deadly |alone can we organize the unorgan- | work, The Brennans and Boylans, ized, resist wage cuts, bring about |who, while posing as progressives, re- the 6-hour day and 5-day week, re- an 2 Ae ee ae Mies lieve unemployment, and establish a |demoralization.g The anthracite oper- national agreement for all miners. |ators are now preparing to deliver a| Only a new union can shatter the con- |deadly attack against the union, |trol of the Lewis machine. Only with i a Dresent agreement | , new, vigorous, powerful union can wi 2 m shop drive The only possible conclusion to be |" put a halt to the ope : side z drawn from the situation is that the of the operators and re-establish un- ion conditions in the mining industry, and prepare ourselyes for the great struggles ahead in the industry. . |ing it upon overproduetion in the coal|, 1° establish the new Miners’ Union i |UMWA is falling rapidly to pieces. |The Lewis clique try to explain away | Master,” the latest and newest out- | Germany the film was called the Rus- Controlling the union with gangster |industry. But this attempt is useless. methods, the Lewis clique, in spite of | With proper policies the union could the progressive attitude of ‘the rank ;have not only kept its Position in the land file, have put the union on record ee despite ae ne pee i ainst every ressive measure it |!$ cou! lave strengthened itself. pecan Ay fon Thee have rejected |The collapse of the SMWA under the the old-time labor party policy and |@ttacks of the operators and the gov- eed-up agents, the | officially endorsed the reactionary ‘program of supporting candidates on the tickets of the republican and dem- ocratie parties. They have flagrantly discriminated against Negroes and foreign born workers and the youth. They have degenerated the union into ja supporter of the most reactionary elements in the A, F. of L. bureaue- ies They have filled the whole or- |ganization with pessimism and reac- tion. With its program of constant retreat, and with close support from cecal operators, the Lewis gang has systematically warred- against all militancy in the union, ruthelssly ex- pelling hundreds of individuals and locals, the best fighters among the miners, simply because they have jdared to insist upon a progressive, | fighting policy, a real defense of the miners’ interests. 9. Official graft and corruption. The Lewis leaders are a body of self-seekers who have no other aim than to enrich themselves at the ex- pense of the miners. Fabulous sala- , Swollen expense accounts, graft the employers, they use as to this end.- They live in in company houses and The depths of the ” corruption were ed at the last interna- ion where Lewis and Murray used the packed delegations to raise their laries to $12,000 and $9,000 yearly, although the union faced_a life and death cris All through the long, bitter months that the Pennsylvanig and Ohio miners have been starving and striking on a dollat or two a week relief money, these false leaders of labor have been d g their enormous salaries and living on the fat of the land, From such venal, corrupt leaders the miners can only expect treachery and defeat. To get rid of them is the first condi- tion to the establishment of a real union and union conditions in the mining industry, The inevitable result of all these corruptions, betrayals, and wrong pol- jicies by the UMWA leadership is the |present breakdown of the union. No union could survive with such mis- leadership. The UMWA is now rap- idly decaying. Four years ago it con- trolled 70 percent of bituminous coal |production; now it controls hardly 20 percent. And even this small control is being taken away by the present great drive of the operators. In Penn- sylvania and Ohio the strike is in a |most critical position after the 14 months of struggle. In Illinois and | Indiana the Union is falling to pieces; the agreements being signed up are jrank fakes. A similar condition ex- lists in Kansas and other bituminous West Virginia has been lost altogether, even as Colorado, Alabama, Kentutky, ete. Disintegya- tion of union conditions and break- down of the organization also sets in the anthracite districts; the pdlicies ernment is the inevitable, inescapable result of the long record of treachery and reaction of the Lewis machine. Must Build New Union. To rebuild the collapsing UMWA into a powerful and progressive or- ganization is impossible. We must) build a new miners’ union. Experi- ence proves this. It is not possible to | by the Lewis gang, adopt the honest leadership and progressive policies necessary to save it from the destruc- tion to which it is now travelling so rapidly. Democracy is dead in the UMWA. The Lewis officials, tools of the operators and hopelessly reac- jdeath clutch, refusing themselves to undertake measures necessary to re- vive the union, and, with the help of: the operators, blocking every effort of the rank and file to enforce the adoption of such policies, During the |Past two years the masses of miners,\ have the UMWA, dominated as it is} tionary, hang onto the union with aftuUMWA, lis the purpose of the great national | ‘miners’ convention, to be held in Pitts- \burgh, September 9-16. The under- \signed, representing the newly reor- \ganized districts of the UMWA, and ‘the progressive opposition in the oth- er districts, and speaking in the name of the majority of miners, call upon all locals of the UMWA to send.dele- gates to this convention, on the basis of one delegate for each 100 members. We also call upon the unorganized miners to hold conferences gnd send delegates on the same basis, thus helping the work of organizing the \ unorganized. . Time for Action! We must not surrender the rank jand file organization in the UMWA |to the Lewis machine. We must win (the locals, sub-districts and districts fof the new organization and send delegates from them to the Pittsburgh Convention. Only in this way can we ‘Saye. what remains of value in the Only in this way can we jsave unionism in the coal industry. Miners! Now is the time for de- jcisive action. Lewis and his whole trotten machine must go. Build a new |Miners’ Union., Take control of. your floeal unions and swing them into the new organization. Come to the Na- jin the Save-the-Union movement, have demanded and feught for the necessary changes in leadership and 'policy. We have pointed out the dead. ly, ever deepening crisis of the union, nsions, while the miners suffer |We have carried majorities in union | jelections and convention§. We have jheld protest conferences in many dis- |tricts, culminating in the great con- jference of 1125 delegates in Pitts- burgh, Pa., on April ist, 1928. We jhave initiated direct campaigns to or- jganize the unorganized into the |UMWA. We have tried to extend the present strike nationally so that it might be won. But all our struggles to save and rebuild the UMWA have not budged! the corrupt Lewis machine. This} crowd of false leaders, supported by the coal operators, cling autocratical- ly to control of the ye in spite of all rank and file efforts to dislodgé them. Their policies are now more reactionary than ever, They main- tain their control by terrorism and corruption. Our warnings of the dan- gerous position of the union have been ignored, Our efforts to elect an [honest leadership have been defeated | \by wholesale stealing of elections. ‘Shameful packing of the unton con- ventions with false delegates has stripped..the conventions of all rank and file expression. Our efforts to organize the unor- ganized, to spread and win the tuminous strike, have been sabotaged. Our demand for a policy that would build the UMWA into an organiza- tion capable of defending the living standards of ourselves and our fam- ilies has been met by organized cam- \paigns of terrorism by the Lewis forces. Our efforts to develop the UMWA into a fighting organization have been resisted by expulsions from the union and blacklist from the in- dustry. After the April 1st Save-the- Union Conference, many thousands of miners, many of whom have been on strike 14 months, were expelled from ‘| | ers. ment! Convention, Our fight is your fight. || tional Miners’ Convention. k : Greet Strikers. Strikers! We fraternally greet you in: your wonderful struggle for the |Jacksonvitle’ scale and the right to organize in the face of the opposition |of=the combined operators and union { jsleaders. You have been systemat- cally betrayed by the Lewis machine. We muyt~now all unite to unload these false leaders and to build-a ‘real | 'Miners’ Uniot, We call upon workers ‘everywhere to support the Pennsylva- nia-Ohio strike. Send all relief con- tributions to the National Miners’ Re- lief Committee, 611 Penn ‘Ave., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Anthracite miners! Stand _ solidly with the bituminous miners for the hew union. Only such a Union ‘cin abolish the contractor evil and do away with the arbitration-conciliation swindle. Beware of these false lead- ers who advocate the formation of a separate union of the hard coal min- Send delegates to the National’ Miners’ Convention. { Miners of the unorganized districts Now is the time to organize. Lewis. and his corrupt agents have betrayed you time gnd again. But the new Miners’ Union will recognize as its. first task the organization of the un- organized and will undertake this job with all possible vigor. Hold confer- ences and send delegates to the Pitts- burgh Convention. } Workers of the whole labor move- | Support the National Miners’! Our struggle against the reactionar; Lewis machine, which has wrecked our union, is part of your general fight against the whole corrupt A, F. of L. leadership, which has brought the entire labor movement into a deep crisis. i 5 Miners, stand together! Lewis and his whole corrupt. ma- chine must go. Build a new Miners’ Union. Come to the National Miners’ Con- the union and dexied strike relief. ‘4 ‘ vention. - “Waves of. Bunk at AND Photo on léft shows a view of the opening of the republican nominating convention, where big business. is On the right, two farmers carrying a banner of protest. y e-the pawns of a different set of republican fakers, were twice thrown out of the convention hall when to enter. ‘Newest Sovkino-Film ‘Station Master” Op The film version of “The Station put of the Russian Soviet, studio, will have its American premiere at the Camec Theatre tomorrow. The author of the story, Alexander S. Pushkin, is considered as one of the great Russian writ- ers along with Dos- tovieski, Tolstoy, To- hekoy and Gorki. He writes, as do} the others, humanly and with a fine} dramatic power and in the particular piece selected for picturization he dis-| plays this talent conspicuously. Ivan Moskvin, of the Moscow Art Theatre interprets the title -role;-and-| he has been acknowledged both here | and abroad as one of the three great- est actors this generation has pro- duced. 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