The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1928, Page 3

Pua od i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928 Page Three | British Trade Union Reformists Endorse Class Collaboration at the Meeting | GENERAL COUNCIL MAY EXPEL COOK si OPPOSITION Cook Attacks Mond Tian at Session {Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) LONDON, June 26.—The most im- portant questions concerning the Bri- tish labor movement will come up at the meeting of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress this week. The discussion of the future ef Mond’s “class collaboration” tcheme is scheduled to come up for liscussion today. A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Federation, has brought up a motion demanding the immediate dis- tontinuance of all negotiations. vote against continuance of the ne- gotiations was seven, while thirty-two members of the council voted to carry m the negotiations for the class col- faboration scheme. On Thursday the Council will meet with the Executive of the Miners’ union to discuss the accusation of “in. | Hiscipline” which have been made | against Cook because he published a/ pamphlet attacking the Mond scheme. The demand for the removal of Cook from the General Council is be- Ing supported by the reactionary Scottish Executive which has nomin- ated James Welsh. | The conference of Welsh miners! | The | ‘(Worker Delegates to Militant German Reunion | ployes from the “Saxon” The workers shown in the picture are delegates from the Hamm sub. district of the German Communist Party to the huge demonstration recently held under the auspices of the Party in Berlin. and “De Wendel” trusts. dustrial aunetion ton in As estnhalia. They are em- Hamm is an in- at Sports Meet PRAGUE, June 26.—The opened yesterday. Jack Horner, Communist leegr, has been proposed | as ee Prague Re Reformists Plan | Atiac on Communists |; i. € vperative Union| (Snec’a? Ceble to DAILY WORKER.) | -AGUE, June 26.—The reform- | n the Cooperative Union are maung plans for the expulsion of aa cr munist members of the Execu- tive Committee. The unity in the Co- opemtive Union this new move on the part of the re- formists, is endangered by |* police officially announced that it will | | outlaw all Red Day celebrations which jare being planned- by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. alleged to be ba: law of 1867 provic |vation ef public order. Red Day will be held in spite of| the police order, it was announced; The ‘Red Sport celebrations heavily attended yesterday. More than four thousand worker-athletes participated while the events witnessed by 15,000 spectators. were (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) | The’ edict} don the Austrian | 1 ling for the preser- | | PRAGUE RED DAY FELAND VISITS — DESPITE POLICE EASTNICARAGUA 4,000 Worker - Athletes) | Airplane Base Arouses Peons MANAGUA, June 26. — Successes Prague | of the Nicaraguan army of independ- ence under General Augusto Sandino {have caused General Logan Leland, United States ma , to visit the fcommanding the ine corps in Ni coast of th and is traveling via the F Fanama | al. With him are Admiral] D. F. ‘Sellers commanding the |squadron, The recent establishment of a feioal airplane base on the east coast is re- ca were |ported to be causing widespread re- sentment among the Nicaraguan peons who believe that it portends a mption of the marine offensive gainst the forces of General Sandino | after the rainy season. University of Penna. Fires a Teacher By SOL AUERBACH. COME are still naive enongh to be- lieve that the freedom of speech theoretically guaranteed by the Con- stitution of the United States, that serap-heap of worn out ideals, is still existent in this country. That \elief is the central hobby of liberals\\who think that they can attain reformist enés by insisting on their civil liber- t.es. Those of us who know better “rom experiences in strixes and radi- cal activities, are not at all surprised when radicals are put in jail or ex- pelled from unions or bourgeois insti- tutions. It is in the run of things. IT was until a few days ago an instructor in the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most re- actionary universities in this country. In a very polite and genteel way 1 was asked to leave the teaching of the precious young Americans to safer and more staid professors. In the ethics of a university I had com- mitted a crime. This is the story of my crime. Visited U. S. S. R. Last summer I visited -the Soviet Union as a member of the American Student Delegation. On April 6 1 spoke at a public meeting in Phila- delphia, arranged by the Student Delegation, on “The Educational Sys tem and the Student in Sovie Russia.” Ten days later I was calle: to a meeting of the professors of the Philosophy Department. They were very polite and considerate. They asked me if I had spoken at this meeting on Soviet Russia. They wanted to know if I did not think that _ leaflets printed in red ink would not rive the impression that it was a nist meeting. I wanted to know if the professors thought that leaflets printed in green ink would ' be appropriate advertisement for a klu klux klan meeting. They <re- marked that an avowed Communist and agitator had spoken on the same tform as I did. They were very eae about my political views—was connected with any active propa- ford or revolutionary organization? Ww far would I go in my support of Soviet Union, ete. (My views were already well known to them.) ‘Thruout the whole meeting it was very evident that some higher au- horities had ordered this trial, for continually referred to and yoted from a list of typewritten i 8, One of the professors wish- to assert his good faith and give idence of his impartiality repeated in and again: “Auerbach, I want u to understand that we are not re- nath for this; but you are in uble and we want to help you out.” ame professor later said to one the instructors of the department they had come to the meeting ing fight for me, but that I struck es principles and they }student and a_ teacher.) came when one of the professors quoted from the “charges”. a letter that had been sent to me thru special delivery. I had received this letter a few hours before the Soviet Union! meeting on April 6 from Richard! Hill, of Lincoln University, a member | of the Student Delegation, who was | scheduled to speak at the same meet- ing. In this letter he was sorry that he could not speak since “he had been advised that the meeting was not be- ing held under the auspices of the; delegation but under other auspices under which he did not care to speak.” | The University had a copy of this letter. I did not think that the espi- onage system had gone this far. Later I wrote a letter to Hill asking him to explain but he only referred me to William Johnson, president of Lin- coln University who, he said, had ad-} vised him. I wrote to President John- | son on April 26 asking him to ex- plain. I did not expect him to reply | and he did not, Since then I have heard from neither of them. I sup- pose that Hill was forced to write this letter by Johnson if he wanted to get his diploma and then a. copy of the letter was sent to the U. of P. i Universities, unite to save the world from Communism! | “Shut Up or Get Out.” | » get back to the polite conference | with my profe Y was unhealthy for the Un the morals of the students of the department thought that it} would interfere with my teaching. | He thought that a teacher should be | interested in nothing but detached re search, should not allow the practical | problems of today to interfere with) his philosophy. I pointed out to them that I had in no way neglected my | university duties. (In fact, I had been | recommended for my work both as a! But they | ought it “incompatible that aj “eacher should take a publie stand on} an important issue and at the same time retain the critical state of mind necessary for research and teaching.” | A teacher must be intellectually se- cluded, I asked them if they meant that I should shut up or get out. They said yes, I told them that T would not shut up since I thought that what T had to say about the “Soviet Union was. valuable, especially in view of the public ignorance on that subject and the lies that are broadcasted in the capitalist press. They told me not to be hasty, to think it over. They gave me another week to decide al- tho I did not need it. “Activities.” It, breve, gave me a chance to write a letter to Professor Singer, head of the philosophy department, which summed up most of our con- versation. In that letter I insisted on my right to express self pub- licly and that whatever Be activ- ities I was interested in did not fall junder the j ty. T poined owt that there oe } men on our very active in the religious, business and professional world and who “seem to arouse no doubt as to their capac- ity to attain that intellectual seclu- sion. a sors all over the country who were| active in public matters. I also said: “It seems to me that instructors in philosophy should be encouraged ie ve peracid ina and a more in- rned attitude to- the problems of philosophy. of today § trial con uch as imperialism, indus- ict and general social dis- iticism of existing si tions and for the t ra mands i cannot » bat feel that I am being ssed because of my point of view gand my opinions.” The following is the eeived from Professor answer I re- Singer: “My dear Mr. Au The sentiments of your letter of April 28 ere such as from the fir: we had unders y should’ have been glad come to share our view, studies might better serve your end, Jents ours. But on this insist no further. In the end e responsible for the future of the department, and can do no bet- ter than follow our best judgment in the matter of personnel, In not recommending your re- appointment, do not believe us to have withdrawn our personal inter- est in your future, When you quite feel like it, T should be glad to talk over some aspects of that problem —if it is one with you. sry sincerely your: (Signed) Edgar A. I was fired. About a week later Lewis S. Gan- nett, of The Nation, came to Phila- » be, had you that other Singer, Jr.” |delphia to interview Professor Singer. s ger refused to answer questions and avoided all issues. He gave a written statement to Gannett ing that “Mr. Singer had informed My. Gannett that any formal statement of the reasons for a decision must be made from the administrative office.” Some students had learned about it and tried to get Professor Singer’s | He told them to | side of the matter. go to the administration. The admin- istration told them to go to Professor | Singer. They went to one of the local | papers and gave them the story. A/ reporter came to interview me, For two days all the local papers carried the story on the front page. On the second day Prof. Singer is- sued a statement saying that I had been dismissed because of my ivreg- General department who werej That there were pr ofes- | ANTWERP STRIKE TIES UP BELGIAN | FREIGHT TRAFFIC Cabinet Fails to Reach Decision BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 26. The Belgian cabinet went into special session yesterday for consideration of | the situation arising from the strike| of ten thousand longshoremen and stevedores at Antwerp. No decision had been reached by them at a late hour yesterday. * * o® ANTWERP, Belgium, June 26, — With every symptom of drawing in| the seamen in the near future, the strike of ten thousand harbor work- ers continued here yesterday. Virtually the entire traffic of the}: 4>" port, the largest in Belgium, is tied up by the strike. At least fifty ves- unable to load or discharge cargo, while it is estimated that more than 500 freight cars are paralyzed on the tracks in or outside the city yards, | | awaiting discharge. The greatest enthusiasm prevails here Students Died for U. Ss. Air Imperialis af Frank Manznerzo and Stephen Milo took a plane from an. airplane training school hangar recently and attempted to fly. The wreck of the plane which crashed at the Pine Valley Golf Club, at Clementon, N.J., is shown in the picture. KELLOGG “PEACE” (RY TO DYNAMITE - ;Sels are lying at anchor in the Scheldt | STARTS SQUABBLE | MEXICAN TRAIN among the men, their leaders state, and there is complete confidence that | the owners will be forced to accede to the demands of the men, | The strike began when the dockers| loading the British Red Star liner, | Belgenland, walked out owing to a} jrefusal of a small increase. They {were immediately followed the other harbor workers. ORDER MUELLER TO TAKE ACTION | BERLIN, June 26. curt expression of his nounts to a command, foreign min- by ister Stresemann yesterday an- nounced that he wishes Herman Mueller, social democratic chancellor | |designate to end delay and form a ition cabinet immediately. The foreign minister further de- jclared his opposition to the scheme | to revive the Weimar coalition. Mueller intimated that he will fol- low the foreign minister’s instructions to the letter. Give Raises to Better | Paid Court Employes! One hundred and tyenty-eight em- ployes of the Supreme Court in| Brooklyn have been granted salary! increases, effective Jan. 1, 1929, by | 5 the Brooklyn Supreme Court Jus-} tices. The increases are confined entirely {to the better-paid. employes. Sixteen secretaries have been raised from | $5,000 to $6,900 a year; court re-{ rs, from $4,200 to 000; 60} Ss, one group from 000 to) 3,250, Sppihe { $3, group from $4,000 to confidential attend- ants sin $4,250 to $4,500, | inereases were given to the 38) lcourt attendants, who receive from | | $2,700 to $3,000 a year. a | Are Being - Workers’? Co-ep dividends are being day of deposit. on goi nations of $100, $30 Subscribe now, d |make sufficiently clear the | between the proposed compac: | German circles, on the other hand, are ' WORKERS’ SAVING OnE l secured hy the second mortgage of the second block of houses in the Co-opera- tive Workers’ THE GOLD BOND CAMPAIGN | ' WILL BE ENDED IN JULY if CONSUMERS FINANCE CORP. Office: 69 —- 5th AVE., TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. Branch Office: 2700 Bronx Park E. (Co-operative Workers’ Colony) Telephone: Olinyille 8947. ee |Reactionaries in New R. R. Plot MEXICO CITY, June 26.—A sec- |ond disaster was narrowly averted to- Treaty Called Blind to Aid Armament PARIS, June —Quibbling con- tinues here over the wording of the! latest note with which Secretary of}. x aioe’ |State Kellogg is attempting to secure |@2¥ at the scene of the dynamiting French mt to his multilateral | Of a railway passenger train in Quer- While declaring that) a number of points, | etaro, yesterday, when seven persons : were killed, one an American. Is state that it docs not! ‘The train was bound from Mexico und the | City to the United States. The en- | gineer, having been advised of yester- |day’s outrage was proceding slowly | three kilometres south of Bernal when s of dynamite were seen tra They were removed and the train continued without ac- cident. Counter-revolutionists are al- League of Nations. Kellogg, however, maintains that the league covenant does not force nations to go to v it merely pe {mits them, and hence there is no con- |flict between the league and the pro- posed tr Reports from Berlin indicate leged to have placed the charge. that sm j |coal DONETZ PLOTTER RE-ADMITS GUILT Member MOSCOW, U. R., June 26.— | During n of the trial of the used of counter- in the Donetz d engineer | revolutio! fields, the | Skarutto was exan | Skarutto was the ¢ ant director. jot the directorium of the supreme | economic council for the Donetz bas- }in, At the same time, he was a mem= ace red. " \ber of the Moscow group of sabotag- lers. | The engineer at first denied but [late r admitted It. Yesterday e Moscow organization was an organizer. He also maintained direct connec- tions with former mine owners end received money regularly. Skarutto cloaked his sabotage as a member of the Supreme Economic Council. Two days ago Skarutto made a de- tailed statement in writing admitting his guilt which he yesterday with- drew, pretending that the details were invented, The facts, however, are too detailed to have been in- vented. To Increase Sugar Output of U.S.S. R. MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., June 26. — The production of sugar will amount to about 2.25 million tons by the end Jof the 5 years’ industrial plan, ac- cording to the estimate of the Su- preme Council of National Economy jof the USSR. It is planned to en- large 88 works that are in operation, to put 14 idle works into operation land start the construction of 13 new jones, ihe treaty which they under- | vill give an opportunity for all nations to increase their armaments | under the cover of peace moves. 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