The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928 Page Inree | British Labor Reformists to Continue “Peace” Conference With Lord Mond At the Graves of Karl | TRADES UNION “LEADERS” VOTE FOR SELL-OUT Class Collaboration ‘ Endorsed LONDON, June 27.—-Continuing the discussion of A. J. Cook’s motion to end the conferences on industrial peace between the leaders of the Trade Union Congress and a group of employers headed by Lord Mond, the General Council of Trade Union Congress has put itself definitely on record for class collaboration by de- feating the Cook resolution. The capitalist press here is jubilant over the open endorsement of class collaboration which is implied in the refusal to end the industrial peace conferences. _At the same time the acceptance by the general council of the indust- <. rial committee of labor's report is causing intense resentment among British unionists and corresponding pa The picture shows a delegation of beside the grave: The procession ich marched to the and China, Luxemberg f Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin. tionary leaders inciuded delegations from France, Great Britain, Austria Liebknecht and ‘Rosa. NEW EFFORT 10 SUPPRESS ORGAN | OF COMMUNISTS Machado Asks Mexico to Suppress Machete- } MEXICO: CITY, June 27. + Side- lights on the plan of persecution of workers “which the Machado govern- |ment of Cuba is known to. haye planned against the Cuban workers is reflected here in the demand of |the Cuban government that the Mex- ican authorities take steps to sup- press’ El Machete, the organ of the M an Communist Party. The de- mands have been made through the Cuban embassy in Mexico City and jare based on the statement that the |paper is encouraging unrest among ; Cuban workers. The action of Cuban government {follows the announcement that presi- j|dent Machado had conferred with s cret agents and members of the Cu- ban police foree with a view to be-| Swiss workers standing at attention graves of the two murdered revolu- | satisfaction to the employers’ groups The report calls ment of national industrial counci'| one of whose functions will be to in- vestigate any strike reported to them | before it is declared. The comtil| will consist of representatives from the national federation: of employ- ers’ aSsociations and the federation iB of British industries, together with | labor from coast to coast as: the * the general council WASHINGTON, June 27 (J'?) founder and exponent of tue Kansas I; F Union Congress. director of Herbert Hoover's campaign ee | for the presidency of the United | States. This is to be a battle of publicity. | be bs is perhaps the most effective |; ising expert in the country. He} ont ye the nature of his ri ence and talent, keep a directine hand on the publicity machinery. In other ' | words, he will have Henry J. Alen as one of his closest advisers and con-| idants, | | Just before Hoover and, National Chairman Work selected Allen for this | key-job in the campaign, three big | republican politicians were in confer- | ence with the nominee for the pres dency. They were Sen. Edge of New Jersey who speaks for Standard Oil! and the anti-union manufacturers and jhankers of his state; Sen. Gillett ot | Massachusetts, who speaks for the | = janti-union manufacturers, railroads | NINE WORKERS KILLED jand bankers of New England, and | SAN SALVADOR, June 27.—Nine |especially of Massachusetts, and | workers were killed and several se-|Bascom Slemp, millionaire non-~ union | yerely injured when a railway car|coal operator of Virginia. varrying employees of a railroad ir) Some years ago, when Gov. Guatamala was derailed and fell into | was employing the Kansas state mili- =! ravine. ie to break a coal strike in 1 that State! AXTELL CAP IN HAND AT HOUSTON Silas B. Axtell, ambulance chaser | and enemy of the Soviet Union will be among those with hat in hand, begging for a handout at the demo- eratie convention at Houston. Axtell, together with Capt. George Williams of the Neptune Association, will ask the Tammany-controtled con- vention for the: extension of the right of franchise to all seamen It is not known how many minutes he wiil be granted before being bowed out. art"ats| CHAMPION OF SLAVE COURT AIDS HOOVER 33:%« % ginning a campaign of imprisonment against leading Cuban workers. he Cuban government has also | d the suppression of Cuba Libre which recently carried an attack! policies of the Machado H jenye niente Henry J. Allen of Kansas, | | ndustrial Court—known to orga: ‘ormer Gov. ; d | ‘slave court” of cists determination | FASCIST. KILLER of the Trades!of wages—has been made publicity@—- t y ‘digging coal, it was Hinated that t § [Per ton to \of fuel which w: Asa t of t court law, 200 the small amount | s loaded at the mines. | e operation of his trade union of-| He a ed Calls for Fight |' on Mussolini Terror delivered fie “Doctor” Gets 30 Years | speech WASHINGTO} Louis W. Hoffma: therapist, late jeer ‘ie i 2 = 7 ee is denounced by the New York Sec-| Nasu Feces disiats tout jtion of the International Labor De- Pi sah oa | fense in a statement issued last night for the death of Eleanore M. Lehman, |py Rose Baron, secretary of the sec- 26-year-old typist. jtion. The statement follows: Hoffman récently entered a plea of! ‘“Mussolini’s arrogance and his guilty of second degree murder. ‘The | tempt and hatred for the workers| Lehman girl died from a broken neck |were never better displayed than in! on an operating table in his office on | thé soothing words which he poured March 3 while supposedly undergoing !into the ears of the fascist capitalists | an “adjustment” for a headache. Itj|at their first national congress. {was contended by the prosecution that! “We are witnessing the. eclipse of June 27.— “Dr,” |that the class struggle is disappear- onment by Jus- Allen }Hoffman had deliberately broken the | class struggles,’ purred this murderer | A university is a class institution, By SOL AUERBACH. and its aims and ideals are those of} i, From Previous Issue. éapitalist society. That institution cased ec. fe will not be allowed to foster any erit- H.: . = ical elements. University of Penna. Fires a girl’s neck in an effort to conceal an/ of thousands of Italian workers and | attempted criminal operation. ‘peasants. Mussolini has only recent- EES, \ly illustrated what he means by the! eclipse of class struggles. g 4 eacher ven Jeaders of the Italian Commu- nist- Party have -been sentenced to4 ‘long years of unspeakable torture in | the filthy dungeons of this black-| designs on the carpet to please the |shirted apostle of peace. Thousands. eye and divert the mind. The firs of other militant workers are rotting design that the Public was invited to jin the hell-holes. of the fascist para-| gaze upon was that bit of academic |¢ thoroughness, “it is, incompatible for | a teacher to take a stand, etc... .”| “With the trade unions destroyed’) - jand their militant leaders imprisoned, PRATES OF PEACE xem 4 s The recently by | a For Death of Patient Mussolini before a gathering of fas-| nites apitalists, in which he declared | Situation. self-styled phys sio- ing and utged complete collaboration |has been working here, was invited. erday was sentenc-|between the workers and the bosses | Focal 259 is to ' | eon Ito Lewis, and now as the delegates of | by Thirty- | Local 25¢ in Lattimer. Lattimer | 1; tie ‘HERE are many workers who still have faith in the “higher | and “impartiality” of the universities. Just at this time capitalist society Imperialism At Sea; “Friendshp” Greets Vessel | 4 day out from Southampton, the airplane, “Friendship,” in which Amelia Earhart carried on the plans of U. S. imperialism by once more ree that the Atlantic is passable by airplane, circled over the ship ica.” A photograph snapped on the “America” is shown here. NEW BLOW AIMED|BOSTON REJECTS AT LEWIS’ CROWD SIGMAN MEASURE |District 7 Miners Soft Coal Diggers Aid| ress Union ¥ Vote Down | Yellow Dog Pact | (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | | BOSTON, Mass., HAZLETON, Fa. June 27.—Min- | bership al 46 again made an official de- 50 of Lattimer ials of Dis-|cision, which showed that it intends June 27.—A mem- ae hearing that offi ict 7 are driving away d ates of |to fight the union wrecking clique of | | striking miners sent by District 2 to| the Sigman-Schlesing- |collect funds went on: record at a lo-|er agents in the Bos- {cal meeting to invite a representative |ton local by overwhelmingly rejecting to report on the exact for the second time the Sigman mea- | {sure of “Yellow Dog Contracts,” This | one of the delegates who|medsure, passed at the fake cloak- jmakers’ convention, demands his fare and he/|all those running for offices sign a International and Co, and i rict 2 Killinger, will address this jnists or left wingers. cal unions in District 7. Many local unions in jhave refused to pay District 7 slyly |the soft coal fields arrived, it is gen- [into the minutes of the executive A board, and then calling for a vote on erally expected that réfief will be} tbs Jona) aieubes. ok dei a {forwarded direct to the rank and file bie oig Meade raised by the membership that this jof the »soft coal from the rank and? 1 k df file of District 7. clause be expunged from the minutes. s Niak Shiba Who is-e-candiante-tox The Sigman officials refused to allow : saat in oT this. The minutes as a whole were} | district president on the Save the! then rejected by an almost unanimous ; Union platform, won the first victory) vote, when he was elected as president of! ‘A week or-two apo.a ‘meeting’ of xecutive committees of Bos- {ton cloak and dressmakers’ jalthough composed wholely of right wingers, and called together to dis- cuss organization work, declared by a rge majority sentiment that it was no use talking organization work as maintains the tradition of the strus |gle of 1897 when 17 miners we massacred by state troopers headed by Sheriff Martin. Lattimer gave ‘birth to the union in District 7, years back, and today she is leading the Sete oni a Heche gee ite tong as the militant left wingers were iss ~ eae | not permitted to take part in leading jcoal operators. ithe drive. Vice President Amdur at at time refused to permit this ques- meeting of the Dressmaker |! that | and many other lo-|statement that they are not Commu-| The attempt of the Sigman agents | the asséssment|to force thru this measure was done | maneuvering this question | locats, | NEW TERRORISM HITS ARGENTINE WORKING CLASS Police Seize eve ral in Raids June The of prostesy n two [nights ago whe n Bue no Ay lice | raided the headquarters of the Bak~ jers Union where they allege they “found” a bomb was in full swing |yesterday, with at t ten men \known to be unde | Work organizations and honies {as well as private houses are being | ransacked by the police in their latest jefford to paralyze the labor move- |ment in the Argentine thru the ar- {rest of the militant leaders. | The pretext given for the continued jraids is the search for evidence which | will clear up the explosion of a bomb |at the Italian consulate on May 28. | At the time hundreds of workers | were jailed and examined by the |police in the hope of extorting in- eriminating evidence from some of them. The authorities were after- j wards forced to liberate all arrested j}men as no grounds for prosecution Boe be discovered in any of the cas | it ‘js believed that the present }wave of persecution is connnected {with the numerous strikes which | have broken out in the country with- }in the last six months, especially among the harbor workers whose strikes tied up the ports of Rosario, Santa Fe and Bahia Blanca sueces- sively. MORE MILLINERY | PICKETS HELD Boss Says That Zaritsky | Induced Lockout (Contmu. om ; Pave One) ments to break the Local 43 contract jand sign one with the Laritsky had |recently dissolved I. 43 with a | member hip of 4,000 because of its progressive leadership. The first stens in the attack of this boss was in his dismissals of several workers. A demand by the union for \their reinstatement led to the lock. out of the entire staff of 40 girls. At the shop meeting to which the girls immediately went they unani- mously voted to go out on strike till the boss comes to terms. This decision was immediately followed by organ- ized picket demonstrations, leading {to the heretofore mentioned arrests, | Hand Workers’ Affair. The social club of the Millinery Hand Workers’ Union announces that the tickets for their projected boat ride and banquet at Camp Nitga- daiget, are being sold fast. haS been good enough to throw up some more evidence that runs per- Curiously enough, the professor w rho | murde ed or hunted into exile, with, ances He owes his pow formulated this as the policy of the|the Italian working class driven into | the blood of the Italian wor! ing cl: Sy) fed on|tion to come to a vote, fearing a de- feat, In addition to the union members fectly according to form. In the in- vestigation of the Federal Trade Com-| mission into the activities of a com-| mittee which represents $17,5°0,000,- 000 worth of privately owned public They naively believe that no matter how rotten the rest of the system is the universities are alright and that somehow higher education will solve their problems. But the universities are only some of the many prostitutes that are kept by the same capitalists who exploit and reap profits. Take | the University of Pennsylvania as an) example and see how it works. The department of philosophy re-!| educators in institutions of higher learning are participating in spread- ing propaganda against public own- ership and for private ownership of | publie utilities. These professors in} ceives its orders from the administra- | the pay of the corporations and under | tion, And the administration receives |the cloak of academic learning and fts orders from the Board of Trustees, | impartiality, in a very convineing and | On the board there are the biggest | profe mal style, write textbo capitalists in Philadelphia—presidents |2nd learned researches spreading and vice-presidents of the Reading | propaganda for the capitalists. | R. R., the Pennsylvania R. R., the | “Gifts.” General Electric company, the larg-| Ruggles, dean of the Schoo! of Com-.| est banks in the city, Senator Pepper | iherce of Ohio Siate University, re- their messenger-boy to congress. The | ceived $15,000 annually from the Na- | yeason that the U. of P. puts such big| tional Electrie Light Association. | financial guns on their board is that;The Harvard School of Business Ad- these men contribute large funds to} ministration gets an arnual subsidy the endowment fund. An institution | of $30,000 from the same organiza- like the U. of P. lives by contributions | tion “to produce an adequate textbook from rich men. Do you think that on public utilities corporations, it be- these men will allow their university | ing obvious that such literature bear- to degenerate? Do you think that{ing the imprint of Harvard University } will allow a man on their teach-| Would be quite generally. adopted by staff to talk favorably about the |other institutions.” Professor ;Rich- Soviet Union? Not on your life. They|ard T. Ely’s Institute of Research in) would be fools if they did. To let the| Land Economics and Public Utilities | rkers whom they exploit: in heir gets an-annual gift of $25,000. Towa) lis, railroads, transportation (and THinois high school textbooks are ee, by mortgaging and fins ® ;)svecially prepared by the Utilities! Corporation. * And at our own U. of P.,:-Theodore j Grayson, dean of the night ‘school and } ‘extension school, and* until recently | assistant professor of finance, has been véceiving $250 per lecture from the N..E, L. A. and his own, course? at the university is partly subsidized by the association. When this came desk, who insists on telling about|out in the press the U. of P. said) only -workers’ and peasants’ gov-|nothing about it, He was on the side ent, who persists im telling -ofjof the capitalists, I against them: | of the realities of the present Assistant professor Grayson was pro- | al system they will complain to|moted to a professorship and I was administration, the administration | promoted out. Just exactly what was | talk to the department and the|to be expected. ” department will have to do * * + dirty work. “By no means will| PUT the University of Pennsylvania ee. say the ca) soils “the could not afford to be frank.about heels of our perfect university |it since they had to save their face ine to become rusty or be put|and at least leave some semblance of of commission by the steel bar of |academic freedom. So the university nicious agitators who, crazy fanat-|used the department of philosophy as us on saying what they should|/a carpet to hide the rough floor of the truth about the Sovier . i- _ the ideals and aims of the inter- | ‘| Communist movement would like ide. It would mean the rly death of capitalist society. So as soon as they hear of anyone on téaching staff who misbehaves, will not turn out students to or- to fill pigeonholes in the capital- ~owr =the actual facts. There ave two tender utilities it is found that about fifty |s 'The greater one is that the universi- | ty must remain a class institution, ‘}from the students of the Soviet Un- department at the last moment’s no- | virtual slavery, with the slightest ves- tice was a little too frank. Whether | tige of protest relentlessly stifled and; he realized it or not he had formulat-|with his hands dripping with the! 2 only conditions under which a'blood of Matteotti, Sozzi and hun- ty could exist in the present {dreds of other leaders of the work- | versity, class in-jers, this mad monster talks of: ‘the stitution that it is, can not actually eclipse of class struggles.’ do research work in social problems! “Mussolini does not rule in Italy nor interest its students in matters alone. He is here in’ the that are embarrassing to the boss | States where he has recently opened | It either must abdicate entirely or be- a military sthool and where his | come. an intellectual hermitage. lagenis The “Floor Design.” t The second pretty little design on | he carpet meeting my ¢ my dismissal is so evidently an thought that I so falsely colored and unfortunate after- will say no more We are, however, interested in tne | basic floor design—the design under the carpet. The simplest reality that | somes out of the matter is that there | is no freedom of speech at the U. of P.—-which is not news to many of us. | financed by the capitalists, as long as | our present system of society exists. | 'As sueh, the financial masters are also | the moral and educational masters. ' Students must be cautiously guarded and the faculty must always report | to the confessional cage of finance. | . The process of education must be a twofold one: first the process of | doping. The fumes of bourgeois im- | partiality close the eyes of the stu- dents to the most important issues of | today. The second stage is compara- tively simple—it is easy to fill a doped brain. Organize, Slaves! I sympathize with those faculty men |who are conscious of the conditions and must suffer them. There is one way out—organization. Why don’t you form a union? Students should take their lesson ion-and South America where the stu- dents participate in the revolutionary movement of the world. Apparently, the University of Penn- ‘sylvania made a mistake by putting me on their faculty and the Philadel- phia press made a similar mistake in giving two days’ publicity to a Com- munist. ~ ea are persecuting anti-fascist lthe victims of the fas to the direct aid of the United States! government. “Only the worke: tant s e the wor! At the next meeting of the Joint |Board, comprising all locals, a letter will wage a mili-|was received from the Sigman head- scism. And|quarters in New York ordering the , the strong-|use of the yellow dog contracts. This jhold of American capitalism, which |though not acted on was incorporated helped to establish Mt lini’s rule,!in the Joint Board minutes. It was must join with the workers of the|these minutes which were defeated at United | world in fighting against this mon-|the recent membership meeting of the | dressmakers’ local. It is believed that | he other locals will take similar ac- | tion, Down with government by Demand the release of all st terror!” | strosity. murder! CANNOT BEAT THE STRIKING MINERS! FAMINE and DISEASE MAY-- 7 ee eae iNJUNCTIONS-—-EVICTIONS--POLICE BRUTALITY UNLESS YOU RUSH RELIEF! National Miners’ Relief Week June 25th to July Ist MASS COLLECTION DAYS--SATURDAY AND SUNDAY! NATIONAL MINERS’ RELIEF COMMITTEE 799 BROADWAY (Stuyvesant 8881) who are rapidly buying tickets, work- ers from other trades are buying them. The affair gives promise to be one of the most successful ever arranged by the organization. The steamer Benjamin Odell will take the whole party from the pier at Battery Park on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock, to a big banquet at the camp. After spending several hours there the jparty will go back to New York by | daiget are being sold fast. ROOM 237