The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1928, Page 6

age sia THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. | Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Datwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): 00 per year $4.50 six mucaths $6.50 per year 2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Addross snd mati out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. SS Entered as second-class mail at the post-office the act of March 3, 1 -..ROBERT MINOR Assistant Editor. -WM. F. DUNNE at New York, N. Y., 879 VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Party of the Class Struggle! Fer the Workers! Against the Capitalists! Campaign Funds There-are indications that campaign funds this year will be bigger and busier than ever. This country is richer than it was four years ago. That is, the rich are richer and the poor are poorer. The individual worker is producing more wealth than be- fore, and his portion of it is less than ever. Several new million- aires have been created by the aeronautie industry. Prohibition is more remunerative than ever. The capitalist groups behind each party will throw in their coin into a great gamble. Special favors may mean millions in additional profits. An humble garbage contract in New York surreptitiously let to a friend of the administration with a bid netted the favored one over a mil- lion. If a million can be made out of a heap of dung, what could! not be gotten out of a contract to feed the army and navy? Yes, hundreds of millions will be spent by the democrats and republicans in the coming contest. It will be used to befuddle the masses and to corrupt them. It will be used to purchase votes on election day. It will be used to purchase corrupt leaders of foreign-born communities, who are base enough to barter their influence with their people for a mess of pottage. The Workers (Communist) Party, on the other hand, though} standing for the interests of the millions of wage-earners and ex- ploited farmers is out to raise only $100,000. If the workers and farmers were class conscious, this sum could be made $100,000,000. Some day they will be and then there wil! be no more need of raising campaign funds to contest the elections with the parties of Wall Street. There won’t be any parties of Wall Street. But sufficient unto this day are the duties thereof. The Workers (Communist) Party must raise that $100,000 to help put its national and state tickets on the ballot in every possible} state in the union. This is the biggest campaign the Party has ever undertaken. Tons of literature must be printed. Hundreds of speakers will be routed. The whole Party will be mobilized to bring the message of Communism into every corner of the country, to organize the workers for the struggle against capitalism, and, in doing that, to expose the republican and democratic parties as Wall Street’s puppets and the socialist party as a betrayer of the interests of the working class. Let’s have that $100,000. Those Ambulance - Chasers Big Business’s complete control over the machinery of gov- ernment in the United States is again indicated by the recent “ambulance chasing” investigation in New York. After having punished several lawyers, doctors and policemen involved in fleec- ing the worker by instigating suits in which the worker receives | less than fifty percent of the damages recovered by the lawyers, | the big corporations announce that damage and negligence suits have decreased about 50 percent since the inquiry began. This is exactly what the New York courts wanted to accom-, plish by its inquiry. The entire investigation was begun and, overseered by the big corporations of the country in an attempt, to throttle suits of ¢his nature—suits in which the worker de- mands reimbursement for the loss of limb and even life in indus- trial accidents. But the worker should not be fooled by the announcement! that these suits have decreased by 50 percent. They should not! think it is a victory for them. On the contrary, this move, which! will save millions of dollars yearly for the big corporations, is! really a slap in the face of workers whose lives are imperilled daily in industrial plants. It is an act of legal intimidation against the| worker. | The punishment of a few corrupt lawyers, doctors and police-| men who prey upon the worker by taking more than half the “recompense” for lost flesh and blood, should not blind the worker to the fact that the authorities, in fighting “ambulance-chasers,” are trying to beat injured workers out of all instead of only half of such damage-money. Such are “reforms” that come from above. i Textile Strikers Determined {Reprinted From July Labor Defender) With a spray of lilac in each picket’s buttonhole and the’ longest picket lines since the strike began, New, Bedford strikers answered the bosses’ move to open the mills, and the mills did not open. Portuguese workers | remembered that flowers have always ben the symbol of victory for their armies, so lilacs picked in the country yesterday were handed out today when the pickets first came on the line. At least 2,000 strikers at the south| Lines of pickets from different mills at the south end marched on to a great meeting on Sauliner’s lot, singing to the tune of John Brown’s Body: The men all stick together and the boys are fighting fine, The women and the girls are all right on the picket line, No scabs, no threats can stop us when we all march out .on line, In One Big Textile Union. The young song and cheer leader. Elizabeth Donelley, is out on the pic- ket line again. She is tireless in | Phone, Stuyvesant 1696. $3.50 six months/| under | end and 3,000 or more at the north end picketed or watched at the gates of the Hathaway, Page, Nonquit and other mills. As the long line of pic-| kets, marching two by two, moved up) and down past the big red brick build- ings, police watched silently and) crowds of other strikers across the| street stood unmoving for an hour anda half. Green picket cards of the Textile Mills Committees entitling the holders to food at the relief sta- tions were punched by members of the New Bedford committee. Chil- dren in the line got their cards punched before hurrying on to school. Pe URN EHS NO mobilizing the singing brigades of children, grown ups and young work- ers. Antonio Adao, speaking in Por- tuguese, keeps the strikers laughing and applauding. He is a former I. W. W. man and led 5,000 Portuguese strikers once before, William, T. Murdoch, whose sen- tence to 90 days for “disturbing the peace” is appealed to a higher court goes back and forth with Fred Beal from north to south end speaking at the hall and then at Sauliner’s lot. Ann Craton of the Workers Interna- tional Relief visits relief stations and holds the fort at headquarters, i, an MOSCOW.—Conferences, plenums| and meetings of the Inter-| national Committees for Propa- ganda and Action were com- menced immediately after the con- clusion of the Fourth Red Labor Union International Congress. Their ractivities were to study and take up in a concrete fashion those questions and problems outlined by the Fourth Congress as a basis for the trade union movement during the next few years. Below we give a brief survey of the work of these conferences, plenum sand meetings of the Inter- national Committees for Propaganda and Action. * * * WOODWORKERS’ PLENUM A marked veering to the right on the part of the reformists has been observed of late (Switzerland, Bel- gium, Poland, Germany and France), while arrests are on the increase (Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Latvia). Trade unior{ activities in England, Norway, Italy and in the Balkans have been undermined. . In those countries where the wood- working trades are experiencing a depression, wages are being lowered and hours lengthened. The curtail- ment of production is causing unem- ployment in countries like Czecho- Slovakia, France, the Balkans and Hungary. In Germany, where gen- eral business conditions are relatively more favorable, the workers in the woodworking trades have to contend with the ever increasing pressure of the employers. ies In view of this situation the plenum stressed in its resolutions the neces- sity of intensifying and defining all class contradictions, to prepare the masses for the coming struggles, to reinforce the fight for unity and strengthen our political influences by penetrating the reformist unions, by putting up revolutionary candidates at elections and by combating the expulsion of revolutionary elements urges the necessity of transforming the factory committees into genuine proletarian organizations, to organ- ize them where they do not exist, to By C. MILLER District Organizer, Young Workers (Communist) League of Philadelphia The Young Workers League at the present time is engaged in the task of entrenching itself among the masses of the young workers. At this time more than ever before must we take concrete organizational mea- sures to build our nuclei in the fac- tories. In accordance with this a series of shop nuclei organization conferences are being held through- out the country. In our district the conference will take place on Sunday, July.15. The agenda for this conference will be: 1. Report of the district organizer on situation in the district in connec- tion with shop activity. 2. Reports of the delegates from the factories and mines. 8. Concrete tasks in each factory. Wide Representation The following will attend this con- ference: Unit organizers, unit indus- trial organizers, comrades working in large factories, young miners, repre- sentatives of the party) shop and mine nuclei, representatives of the District Executive Committee and a representative of the National Ex- ecutive Committee, , The possibilities of building the league in this district are great. We find here the following industries: Anthracite coal, textile in Philadel- phia (the largest textile city in the country with over 80,000 workers) steel, including the Bethlehem Steel mill in Baltimore, in which the party from the unions, etc. Outlining or- ganizational measures the plenum set up a single Woodwerkers Inter- national and to enhance the activities of the I. C. P. and A., etc. The same questions and decisions were examined from the point of view of their practical application in various countries 4 BUILDING WORKERS PLENUM Noting the general strengthening and growth of the building workers’ movement, on one. hand, and existing defects and shortcomings in, trade union activities, on the other, the plenum in the main recognized the necessity of putting greater energy into the work, and of enhancing same. The defects observed, which the plenum considers must be eradi- cated at all costs, are: The weak connections of the I. Ca P. and A. with the various countries, the poor supply of information, the weak re- action to events and inadequate pub- licity activities. Outline Tasks The basic tasks outlined by the Building Workers Plenum are: To direct all activities to achieve the united front, to organize the unor- ganized workers, to set up organized and centralized leaderships in all the minorities, to reinforce the factory committees, to extend activities among the unemployed, to enhance cultural educational work and to set up mutual aid funds. Examining the position of build- ing workers in various countries, the plenum in’ its resolution drew up ways and means and instructions on realizing in a practical fashion the decisions of the Fourth Congress in accordance with the conditions ob- taining in each given country,. as, for example, in the United Staten, France, Jugoslavia, Holland and Czecho-Slovakia. TRANSPORT WORKERS PLENUM Sizing up the present position of the transport workers, the plenum considered that capital’s attack on them has increased in all countries. Their position is becoming increas- ingly worse. The 12 and 13-hour day ing down, standards are being low- ered and these measures are receiving the active support of the reformists. Meanwhile, however, the influence of the I. C. P. and A. is growing. At the Fourth Conference the I ©. P. and A. registered that the number of countries with which it had connec- tions had grown from 15 to 43. Espe- cially has its influence grown in the Far East. In view of the situation at the present moment, the plenum urged first of all that the struggle against the reformists be increased, to strug- gle for trade and union unity, for better labor conditions and to raise the living standards of the transport workers. The following were out- lined by the plenum as basic de- mands: The 7-hour day, social in- surance at expense of employers, supply of special working clothes, workers to be engaged through the trade union organizations, etc. It has been recognized necessary likewise to conduct a campaign to increase wages, to abrogate laws prohibiting strikes and the right of coalition, to got the factory committees or corre- sponding organizations recognized and to get equal rights for colored and white workers. Having discussed a whole series of organizational questions, the plenum vecognized the necessity of establish- ing ® single Transport Workers In- ternational and committees of friend- ship and fraternity, and of enhancing organizational‘and agitational activi- ties of the unions. Furthermore, the establishment of opposition groups in the reformist unions was also consid- ered essential, A struggle must be waged against the expulsion of left wing elements, to set up Transport Committees of Action, control points and International Clubs which will serve as organizational bases for the transport workers’ struggle. It was also considered necessary to reinforce the press. MUNICIPAL WORKERS MEETING This meeting was held to make preparations for the conference and its convention in Germany. The ie being introduced. Wages are com-Jagenda drawn up for this conference has a shop nucleus; rubber industry has recently organized a unit, be- sides a large manufacturing industry In Philadelphia and vicinity alone there are about 10 per cent of all the Miers engaged in manufactur- in Trenton, N. J., where the league ing in the whole country. The conditions of the young work- ers in this district are very bad. In the silk industry in the anthracite} the young girls receive as low as 10 By MYRTLE DE MONTIS, Not only is there real danger to the working people through the exploita- tion of little children of the poor as is carried on through the juvenile courts under Dr. William Healy in Massachusetts, and of the helpless shell-shocked veterans under Dr. Wil- liam A, White, head of the national asylum called St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C.—these two men being prime-movers of the Lunacy Trust of America—but also in the new-fangled “Mental Hygiene” laws being passed in many different states because of the teachings of these ex- perts, which are pernicious. This is Dr. Ralph Hamill, president of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene, sptaking to the representa- tives of large industrial and com- mercial enterprise whom I quote: “If the mental ‘health of the work- er is normal he functions efficiently and falls into the category of con- tented employes. “T¢ his mental heaith is impaired his efficiency suffers and the employe develops a complex and _ becomes grouchy, or suspicious, over-bearing The “Mental Hygiene” Bun and over-sensitive; he worries, day dreams, loses the power to concen- trate and becomes a burden to in- dustry” Dr. Hamill said. But you don’t find the learned doctor discover- ing any fault in industrial conditions, do you? He continues “Why does a worker kick? or suffer other forms of men- tal and emotional disturbances that cause many losses of millions of dol- lars annually?” So if you kick. you’re just simply cookoo, that’s all! It is to'be noted that where “Mental Hygiene” flourishes the strongest is in the New England industrial cen- ters, and that there are more un- fortunate victims locked up in the wretchedness of asylums there than anywhere else in America, Workers, beware of the Lunacy Trust! It comes hand-in-hand with industrial exploitation. It grabs little children for child labor to compete with adult labor. It waxes fat on the plight of our gassed and shell-shocked soldiers, and now through the laws it is passing everywhere it can grab you € you are dissatisfied and kick about the conditions under. which you are forced to work! New Bedford textile barons, unable to break the picket lines, conspire with employers, strike-breaking agents and “labor leaders”—and call it a “Conference.” Tasks of Red Labor International can be summarized as follows: ports from the locals, I. P. C. report, crganizational questions (connec- tions, publicity activities, organiza- tion of minorities), the question of unity and attitude to Amsterdam. NEEDLE WORKERS’ MEETING The characteristic feature of the present moment is the fact that most of the gains that the needle workers won during the last few years are being filched from them, thanks to the increased onslaught of the cap- italists, and the treacherous policy of the reformist leaders. In their struggle against the workers these leaders are either utilizing the policy of mass expulsion of left wing ele- ments from the unions, like in Ger- many, or are uniting with the police, as in America! This meeting, therefore, urged the following vital tasks: To recruit new members for the unions, efforts to be made first of all among the un- organized workers to achieve this. To get control of the strike move- ment, to sct up strike committees and factory committees and local trade union branches at the enterprises. By carrying out concrete tasks to struggle for the united front. As women are mostly employed in the needle trades, the necessity was rec- ognized of including in the general program demands to defend the in- terests of women workers—equal pay for female and male labor, preg- nant women to receive 8 weeks’ leave previous to and after confine- ment, etc. To enhance organizational activities among the unorganized, to reinforce publicity activities, to set up firmer connections between the I. C. P. and A. and the locals and to increase the I. C. P. and A. funds! The keynote of the Food Workers’ meeting was to exchange informa- tion. Eighteen delegates from the Fourth Congress attended this meet- ing. The question of the union’s af- filiation to the International Food Workers’ Federation was discussed. Organizational questions of a purely internal character were likewise taken up. ~ (To Be Continued.) Re- Building the Young Workers League in the Factories and 15 cents per hour. This is no exaggeration. The girls here, in or- der to make several dollars per week. are forced to work 10 and 11 hours per day. In other industries the con- ditions are not much better. In the anthracite where the Lewis- Cappelini machine and now the Bren- nen machine are engaged in the pro- cess of wrecking the standards of the workers, the young miners have their part to play. It will be up to the Young Workers (Communist) League to mobilize the young miners to re- sist the joint attack of the bosses and union bureaucrats. Thru the organi- zation of mine nuclei we are in the best position to mobilize these young ‘miners. This conference will have as its aim to take concrete measures for the building of the shop nuclei. This task must be connected with some concrete form of activity if we are to be really successful. In the city of Philadelphia the league is taking the initiative to or- ganize a working youth conference. This working youth conference un- like the one called by Brookwood Col- lege is expected to take active meas- ure in establishing a machinery for the unionization of the young work- ers. In the work for this conference it will be the league that will have to take the initiative. The shop nucleus conference will help to mobilize the league for this work in the factories. Similarly in the anthracite where a called. At this. conference we will also working youth conference is being|’ HANGOWTS Struggle for existence of the Amere ican capitalist class is vividly pre« sented by the announcement that the Postum Company, Inc., makers of the famous hay and molasses drink which is supposed to taste like coffee, has just declared a dividend worth $300,- 000,000. * * * America is a free country, Any- body who is industrious can enter | business and work his way up to the |top. The Taggart Corporation has just been organized on a $25,000,000 basis to manufacture paper. Any worker who wants to get out of the jranks of the proletariat and is will- ling to work hard can compete with the Taggart Company on a fair basis \if he happens to have $25,000,000 in the bank. * How surprised the British leisure classes will be when they wake up !some morning and find they have a Workers govérnment is suggested by the fact that when John Hennessey appeared before them to play tennis fot the Davis cup in a pair of striped flannel trousers they were unutter- ably shocked. A few years ago an- other American player tried to take the same advantage over his British cpponent at Eastborne and was re- quired by the South England cham- pionship committee to change into white trousers before the match went on, * * * Cal Coolidge says he is undecided as to what-he will do when he retires from office. It has been suggested he get job as standing before a cigar store as an Indian, breaking in hobby horses or testing arm chairs. ae oe * * * Workers who for any reason have a slight lack of confidence regarding American courts should be reassured on hearing that Judge Allesandroni, who last March absentmindedly sen~ tenced Irving Cohen to a term of 34 years, yesterday admitted his mistake and freed the man. * * * A picture of sport under capitalism is painted in the following words of Charley Paddock regarding the Olym- pic Games of 1924: “It was suggested that the American who drew the inside lane that day, the moment that he was set, should start running. The rest of us would know what to expect and could save ourselves. But Abrahams, the Englishman, in. or- der to protect himself would have to go, too, expending his energy. Of course if the first American was not called ‘back he would undoubt- edly win. But if he did not get away with it, then the next Ameri- ean would try, and the next, until each American would have started twice, while Abrahams would haye had to start hard eight times, In that many chances it was very probable that one American would get away. But if no one did, it would not make any difference, be« cause Abrahams would be so worn out from his eight trials that an American would win anyway.” Why didn’t they just let him ran in a pair of rubber boots and be sportsmanlike? * The real horror of a trans-Atlantic airplane flight is at last revealed. Miss Earhart during her trip lived on Horlicks Malted Milk. * * * Yale University has received $1,000,000 from Abraham E. Fitkin, public utilities magnate, None of it, will be used’ to teach workers the class struggle. * * Harry F. Sinclair, central grafter in the Teapot Dome corrupt political- financial orgy, is slated to appear again before an investigating commit- tee on charges of being involved in shady transactions in the Salt Creek Oil Fields. There are two morals to this: the first is, that America’s so-called “in- vestigating committees” aren’t worth a plugged nickel, insofar as real in- vestigation goes. The second is that (in these glorious U. S. of A.) you can’t keep a good grafter from rising to the top of the financial world. Mine Women Fashion Silken Relief Banner (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) RENTON, Pa., July 4.—The strik- ing miners’ wives are gathered in front of the Renton barracks, plan- ning a silken banner which they will embroider and send to the Detroit, Michigan, branch of the National Miners’ Relief Committee. It will be awarded to the organization affil- iated with the committee that col- lects the most funds for relief pur- poses in a special campaign Detroit is planning for the near future. Mass meetings, house to house collections and tag days are being considered, Complete plans will be announced soon. According to Mrs. Anna M tke Renton women have ‘eden te use red silk as the background and | embroider the letters in gold. lla have to answer how we will mobilize the young workers in the factories for the relief of the miners, for the support of the Communist candidates in the election campaign, and for the other campaigns of the league. Above all the struggle against the war danger and for the defense of the So- viet Union must be brought into the factories. ¥ This conference will have to lay the basis for the actual building of nuclei and for the bringing of the dif- ferent campaigns into the fs les. This conference is a step in the process to “Make the Factory the bd mci Fortress of Communism es 8 t F