The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1928, Page 6

Page Six 11, 1928 Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. ¥. Cable Add “Daiworl By Mail (in New York $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 th SUBSCRIPTION RA’ y Mail ear only months 50 p k” Phone, Orchard 1680. | (outside of New York): | $3.50 six months $2 three months | Address and mail out checks to >» THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, jan cy. . ROBERT Editor ..WM. F. DUNNE MINOR Editor GEESE Assistant Entered as second-c t York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For the Workers! WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For President BE N For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President AMIN GITLOW American Dictatorship off by referring to the “Dew t mont farmer and the “Oh Shucks” of the Kan- sas rangeman, the challenge of that there is now an “Americ capitalist, liberal and industrial, { 4 taken with a ton of salt; nor “ment of American resources,’ genjus to fulfill. z” Against this, of course, the N @hief organ of the American ruling class, pro- a 4 tests vehemently. It is true that certain sect made a gesture of opposition to of Hoover. ulation were sent to him by the » erators, a fact in striking c Coolidge. pointing out that Hoover is sur PEE, ests. Hoover is not the banke: told because not all of the bankers were for him. No one offers the opposition - to Hoover as an evidence that justified in his choice. No one working masses of the country with the exception of such “workers” as John L. Lewis, arch-wrecker of the ean be taken as one of the signi: the French critic’s thesis thi American dictatorship, capital industrial, that the outstanding ©) this dictatorship find it necess tempts to refute the charge t on certain insignificant diffe: banking groups. The real facts ang that certain “doubts” among ‘about Hoover existed groups interested chiefly in in The highest strata of financ their Hoover. Who is so naive lieve that any candidate on on litical parties can be nominated against the wish of Morgan, Mellon, Baker fellers. One might as well.t Tammany judgeship without the wigwam treasury. None of this is, of course, new to Commu- nists. When foreign critics speak thus openly of the American dictatorship it fear the rising power and op western colossus. Bethlehem Steel Company Cuts Wages (By a Worker Correspondent.) SPARROWS POINT, Md. (By Mail).—Soon another edition of the “Sparrows Point Worker” will be “issued; a shop bulletin edited by the militant steel workers of the Workers (Communist) Party work- ing in the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany located at Sparrows Point, Md. a time when the Bethlehem Steel Company is waging a mighty cam- paign of wage cutting, speed-up and slave driving tactics against these unorganized steel workers. The workers’ interests are com- ly disregarded by the bosses. workers who never dreamed the bosses would exercise sucb ity of organizing into unions. Wage Cuts. "Tne order of the day in the Beth- of many steel workers who “are displaced by modern machines iring less men. In cases where race or who appeared to be replaced byt other bosses who established a remitetion i But it protests too much, | |... capital and various powerful banking intere Rather few telegrams of congrat-| deluge which was poured over the victorious The financial journals are tireless Opinionated, and has a bump on himself. | _ this, of course, the campaign managers of the| great engineer will utilize for their own inter- | The American dictatorship through its Federal Reserve Banking s Our shop bulletin appears just at lute methods see the real color “things and feel the urgent nec- Steel Company are wage cuts ing from ten to fifty per cent ‘top of the already extremely low y New speed-up machinery is introduced in every depart- accompanied by the discharg- men or superintendents have showing signs of being in the “ 4d ly to a group of workers, have {is in practical | earth. ell” of the Ver-|inally on a gold a French critic an dictatorship, ” the New York } will it prevent) yratively which is his | «jegser” things ew York Times, | . orkers agitat agus ion. The ands out ions of finance | P** 10ns 0: inar Ce | ond h ts | the nomination | ocracy is justifi Wall Street op- SS ontrast to the in ullen, sour, | All| ] The week of Miners’ Defens rs’ man we are of the farme: democracy v claims that the are for Hoove co-operating in mine union. It ficant proofs of at there is an} ist, liberal and spokesmen of ary in their at- oO msist merely | rences between | month has mad development of bor movement. the experience Ar the: fight. ts, the banking dustrial capital. e capital know today as to be- e of the old po-| ued support of and the Rocke- ry to obtain a contributing to tween groups a! Amid the multi ers will not be is because they pression of the major task in unit of the Part jother mills as being regular “Sim- on Legree’s.” In some departments where the production level was con- dered a little too low, bosses of jthese departments have been d | ch y bosses who | ar speeding up work ising production. | “Yellow-Dog.” | Just recently in the company |owned city, Sparrows Point, Mary- land, the workers living in t houses were forced to sign new yellow dog contracts with clau: such as—that workers’ families will be evicted if they allow men or women in their houses who are members of a union. Another clause where men or women or members of the family who have ever been evicted from Sparrows Point can- not be allowed in company owned houses to see their friends or it may even be a close relative. No work- er can hold any kind of entertain- ment, social or dance in his house without consulting the company Failure to comply with the clauses of the contract will be eviction with- in five days. These are typical of the many methods that are being conducted by the company to crush every right of the workers, With the distribution of 1500 shop bulletins among the fifteen thou- sand steel workers, we carry to many of them for the first time the message of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party and the Workers Party ticket, nominees. They are espe- ‘ American gold has just stabilized the When the New York Times attempts to laugh | French currency. The Bank of England, nom- itself against extremity through a borrowing arrangement with the Federal Reserve System. The same Federal Reserve System is now en- gaged in a well-calculated policy of retrench- Times fulfills its function but convinces no one. ing credit with the known purpose of depress- M. Bernard Fay, who writes in the Paris| ing prices and wage levels within the country Figaro on the presidential nominee of the re-|jn order to:meet the disparity between farm publican party concludes in substance that the | prices and industrial prices. In this way it “internationalism” of Hoover is a myth; that/ hopes to solve the contradictions between agri- he is a tried and true imperialist and that his| culture and big business. reputed “warm love for Europe” should be| jj this the American dictatorship does fig- ; ; m : | by pressing a button in offices center- him from carrying on “the enormous develop-| ing about Wall and Broad Streets. Nor are the When it becomes necessary to jail a few the thing is done smoothly and with | papers report Reds who violate laws and dem- |less, brazen, drunken with its super-power and unchallenged brutality. But there is also a working class! Miners’ Defense Week Relief Committee, without whose activities the great mine struggle would long since probably have come to a disastrous conclusion, and the International Labor Defense, an organization which has won the right to demand the sup- port and confidence of the working class, are The great mine struggle now in its fifteenth tionably serve as one of the milestones in the mediate success will result from the struggle, will be of the utmost value to them in the*even | greater struggles ahead. imprisonments, fines, 2 are the inevitable accompaniments of the The role of the International Labor De- fense has become increasingly important. The mine struggle must receive the contin- ing up of a spirit of solidarity and sacrifice be- ligation which rests especially on the militants. dividual worker often stands dismayed, but the organized and more advanced sections of work- mands upon them. Support of the Miners’ Defense Week is a ,|mand for organization of the Negro control of the finances of the basis, has been forced to guard neglected. ing against the war in Nica- cops jump, the judge wraps up a sentence, the jail opens, the ied. an American dictatorship, ruth- y 22-29 has been set aside as e Week. The national Miners’ the nationwide drive. le labor history. It will unques- a class conscious American la- No matter what degree of im- the miners have already gained frame-ups, the working class. The build- nd sections of workers is an ob- plicity of calls for relief the in- discouraged by the growing de- which every organization and ty must participate. cially enthusiastic over the de- mands to organize into a real work- ers’ union for our demands. The exploited Negro workers here in sunny Sparrows Point, Maryland j are elated when they see in our bul- letin demands set up for the aboli« tion of Jim Crowism, better wages, | he jconditions and less hours for the Negro workers. They take on new hopes when they run across the de- and white workers into one union. Begin Last Search For Lost Amundsen KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, July 10 (UP).—The last ‘search for Raold Amundsen, discoverer of the South |Pole, who has been missing with five companions since June 18, be- gan today when three ships started a twelve-day cruise of Arctic waters. If no trace of the explorer is found by July 21, it was amounced. he would be definitely given up as lost and rescue efforts abandoned. NEW AIR MAIL ROUTE, WASHINGTON, July 10.—An air mail route may be- established be- tween Louisville, Ky., and Dallas, Texas, with stops at Memphis, Nash- ville, and Little Rock, the Post Office Department announced today. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY GROWTH Formation of a new union of shoe nounced following a series of con- ferences initiated by the Unity Con- ference of shoe workers. The state- ment of policy and plans for the new organization follow: One Union ef Shoe Workers for Greater New York. The conditions of the shoe work- ers of Greater New York have be- come so deplorable that they are be- yond human endurance. Prices and wages have been constantly reduced, while at the same time working hours have increased, The 44-hour week standard is a thing of the dis- tant past. Because of the long hours which at times range as high as 70 and 75 the army of unemployed is steadily increasing. These conditions are the result of the failure to mobilize the 40,000 shoe workers of Greater New York into one powerful union. The work- ers were kept divided by the selfish, reactionary leaders into small petty eraft unions which were concerned only with their narrow interests. Bosses’ Organization. While the workers were engaged in a bitter struggle against the bosses during the year of 1919, the American Shoe Workers’ Protective Union was organized by the bosses. This was a company union which the workers refused to join. Thg work- ers were, however, forced to join or lose their jobs, and gradually began to take an ective part in its affairs. The bosses realizing that they were losing control over their company union, first forced a strike and suc- ceeded in smashing it through the aid of their henchmen and _ stool- pigeons in the union. When the Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive Union made its attempt to or- ganize the trade in Greater New York it achieved some success as long as it relied upon the co-opera- tion of the workers, but when the FitzGerald-Nolan machine began to apply their reactionary policies of struggles against the bosses in which the district council was in- volved, the workers lost confidence Capitalists (Altho the Donetz trial is over, The DAILY WORKER publishes this article on the court proceedings because of the tremendous im- portance of the revelations which clearly indicate the existence of an imperialist sabotage plot. Evi- dence presented at the trial clearly proved that foreign official as well as business firms joined with the former Czarist owners of the Donetz mines in a conspiracy to wreck the coal industry of the Soviet Union.) * * (Speciai Correspondence) Moscow, Juno 21, 1928. The court this week has been én- gaged in investigating the opera- tions of the so-called Kharkov center of the sabotage organization that di- rected the work of economie destruc- tion in the Don Basin. A number of the accused were examined in this connection. Some admitted their guilt entirely, some admitted part of the charges and others strenuously denied them all. But by cross-exam- ination, the evidence of witnesses and * A survey of the route has been or. dered, ! the confronting of the accused with one another, the grim story of how 4 workers, the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New| York and Vicinity, has been an- expulsions ond refused to aid in the! 35 181 ST. ¥ ey and the Protective began to disin- tegrate. K Revoke Charters. The Nolan-FitzGerald machine, fearing their defeat in the Protec- tive, preferred to smash the union by expelling the progressive ele- ments and revoking the charters of the district council and four locals. | Not satisfied with expulsion the} | Nolan-FitzGerald machine resorted | to the injunction, which is the boss- | es’ method ‘n breaking unions in or- | der to completely destroy the dis- | trict council in furthering their rule or ruin pol As a result of this, | the workers of the shops which the | former district council controlled sought protection in the movement | to build a union which would be able | to defend the interests of the work. | ers. Several mass meetings were | held which launched the Associated | | Shoe and Slipper Workers of Grea | er New York | | The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Un-| | ion tried to enter the situation upon | the invitation of a few individuals | who expected that the ger office | | would spend thousands of dollars to organize the shoe trade in New| York, but every shoe worker knows | that the Baine-Lovely machine | which is in control of the Boot and} Shoe Workers’ Union will never fight in the interests of the work- ers. 'The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union in New York has remained | just as small, weak and ineffectual as when it first came here, The shoe | workers keep away from it because | they want an organization whose policy is to carry on a struggle for | the betterment of: conditions instead of betrayal to the bosses. They want a workers’ union instead of a company union controlled by the bosses and their agents, the Baine- Loveley machine. Various groups of! workers com- posed of different crafts began to organize themselves separately, Unity Conference. Such a group which held itself to- gether as an organized body in one shop realized that without the unity | of all organized forces, trade union conditions and standards of the workers cannot be successfully main- \ | tained. This group initiated a call for a unity conference which was! Aided in the Donetz Conspiracy this ‘Kharkov center systematically) sabotaged the development of work | of the Don Basin and inflicted col- ossal damage on the coal industry, was dragged out of them. The principal figure in this stage of the trial was the accused Baranov- sky, who was a leading member of the Kharkov center und who, as he himself stated in concluding his evi- dence, “hoping to be pardoned and enabled to start a new life,” made a clean breast of it. Describes Meetings Baranovsky described the meetings of the organization at which instruc- tions received from the ex-mine own- ers abroad, Russian and foreign, were discussed and plans for carrying them out laid down. In the early period, Baranovsky stated, it suited the plans of the ex-owners abroad to have improvements carried out in the Don Basin. They gave in- structions to the organization ac- cordingly, which the latter carried out. Baranovsky at that time was manager of the Ekaterinov group of mines, and the order came to him. He, accordingly, set to werk to carry it out, but, as he himself Nurtured by the working class, this flower blooms for the delight of class conscious workers. Keep up the nouri: Shoe Workers Form New Union held on May 19th, 1928. The vari- ous shoe workers’ unions and groups responded to the call at which the question of establishing one union for Greater New York was dis- cussed, The first question before the con- ference was to unite all groups into one union in Greater New York. This question was decided by a unanimous vote to get together. The second question was whether’ this organization shall be national or lo- cal. The delegation of the Boot and Shoe Bes Moh Union attempted to convince the conference that the Boot and Shoe is the only national organization. Their attempt was in vain, because the delegates repre- senting the other organizations have shown that the Boot and Shoe is not interested, in organizing’ the unor- ganized. Its policy is one of con- us betrayal of the workers and it is no better than a company un- ion. Although the conference voted to form a local organization they are ready to join a national organ- ization provided the leadership and the policies of such an organization shall be militant and fighting for the interests of the workers and for organizing the unorganized. Important Problems. The question of a national organ- ization was discussed at length. The Shoe Workers’ Protective Union as well as the Boot and Shoe have been onside and-it was plainly proven that neither one has a policy which will protect and organize the shoe work While the Protective had every opportunity of building ‘a strong organization it has instead followed a policy of disruption and betrayal. The Protective is a na- tional union only in name, being practically non-existant except in one city. Thus the question of join- ing any existing national organiza- tion has been voted down and the conference voted to stand by a local organization. The delegation of the Associated Shoe & Slipper Workers of Greater New York pledged their full sup- port, even to the extent of complete- ly fusing with the new union. One Union. Though the Boot and Shoé delega- improved too much, For that he was “cautioned” by the center and ordered to “go slow,” and, as he aid, he soon “rectified his mis- take” and made up for it by com- mitting a number of definite acts of destruction. The method adopted at the Khar- kov center in recent times was de- liberately to delay tha drafting of plans of development. “Prderastina- tion and red tape was developed into a system,” said Baranovsky. Plans were drawn up, “some of them positively fantastic,” and then dis- cussed at length, amended, again discussed> and redyafted, and so without end, and when finally they were sent down to the district man- agers, who were in the plot, “they knew what to do with them.” Anti-Soviet Propaganda Cross-examined by the prosecu- tion, Baranovsky admitted that the aims of the organization were riot purely economic. At the meetings of the Kharkov center they dis- cussed political questions, such as methods of anti-Soviet propaganda, foreign intervention, the internal state of the Communist Party, ete. Stated, he was “too zealous” and Krilenko put it to the accused: By Fred Ellis shment. tion was absent from ‘the second conference held on June second, a more important factor in the trade came in, a group of lasters and wood-heelers, which has recently been formed. After this group was informed of the proceedings of the previous conference, the delegation pledged its full support to the new movement and all indications point towards the direction that one union will bé established in Greater New York. An executive board was chosen to work out the necessary details and the drawing up of a constitution for the newly formed organization. The results of the conference was pre- sented at a general membership meeting held on June 22, at Lor- raine Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y. A name for the new organization was unani- mously choser? at this meeting. The new union is to be known as the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New York & Vicinity. Constructive plans were mapped out, among which was the issuing of new books to begin July 16th and by that date all members of the dif- ferent groups are to pay up their dues. Arrangements for a picnic to raise funds for organization work to be held on July 22 at Hause’s Park & Casino in Astoria, L. I. was re- ported on and received with accla- mation by those comprising the newly formed organization. All Workers Invited. The headauarters of the union will be located temporarily at 51 E. 10th St., N. ¥. C. All shoe workers of Greater New York are invited to call at the office and file applica: tions with the new organization. With united forces, build one un- ion for shoe workers of Greater New York! Stop the bosses from imposing slave conditions in the factories! Build one powerful union to raise wages and improve working condi- tions in every shoe factory in Great- er New York! ‘ Join the Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union of Greater New York! Unity Conference of Shoe Workers of Greater New York, I. Kaplan, chairman. “This organization was a political organization?” “An cconomic-political organiza- tion,” Baranovsky corrected him. “But its ultimate game was the overthrow of the Soviet State?” “Yes,” “Ts it true to say that it was a political counter-revolutionary or- ganization, having contact with for- eign government institutions; that it was a branch of foreign capital- ist state organizations?” “Yes; in the latter period of its existence it became a foreign sub- sidized organization, operating on the territory of the U. S. S. R., for the purpose of definite sabotage in the event of intervention.” Cash From French Ex-Owners The manner in which contact with foreign government organiza- tions was maintained will be inyes- tigated in camera in a day or two. At this hearing Baranovsky stated that sums of money were received from the French ex-owners, who. accused presumed, obtained them from government sources. The ac- cused stated also that sums of Told You So Pee) the sewer grafter, did a good job for Tammany hall when he died of kidney trouble in Atlantic City the other day. There are reports now that those political higher-ups who were involved with Phillips will,go unscathed. Dead men tell no tales. It appears that the christian deity is not always on the side of the good. He seems to take a diabolical pleasure in doing the wicked a favor once in a while. * IFTEEN thousand citizens sur- rounded a catholic church in Brooklyn to see a gangster buried. Thirty-eight flower-laden automo. biles followed him to his grave. A catholic priest said mass for the re- pose of his soul. The gangster had paid for it in advance. This thug, Yale by name, made his living hold- ing up small business men, furnish- ing strikebreakers and in other equally reprehensible ways. But he was generous to churches and the “deserving poor,” the poor who voted for his political patrons on * * | election day in return for a crumb now and then. * * yeaah political patrons are mem. bers of Tammany Hall. Despite the bunk that is peddled in the cap- italist press to the effect that the Tammany of today is not the Tam- many of Boss Tweed or Dick Cro- ker days, that political institution is as closely connected with the un- derworld as ever. It is said that Yale, through this strong arm squad and his philanthropic activities, controlled 80,000 votes which he was able to sell at a good price. * * PREMIER Poincare of France paid tribute to the dove of peace on the Fourth of July. He sincerely hoped that war would be forever banished from the face of the earth. What the honorable gentleman meant is that the bandit powers should be able to settle their dif- ferences without having to resort to war so that they would be able to | fleece their colonial slaves and keep their own workingclass under the iron heel. A few days after July 4, the newspapers carried the story that the French navy had’ just launched the fastest warship afloat. * * * HE British trade union bureau- cracy took a flying leap ahead of even the officialdom of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor in dis-~ carding ‘class warfare and joining | hands with the employers in keep- ling the peace. Henceforth all will | be quiet along the Thames between |eapital and labor, if the British labor fakers can help it. The Gen- eral council of the British Trade Union Congress formed a united front with a committee of British industrialists to review British in- dustry with a view to developing a plan whereby the best interests of industry could be served at the pexpense of the workers of course. * * * * OINCIDENTAL with the an- nouncement of this decision, J. H. Thomas, political secretary of the railwaymen’s union, declared that the railroad workers must be prepared to accept a wage cut. Most of the official labor leaders and | particularly J. H. Thomas are wealthy and care little whether the workers’ standard goes up or down as long as they are permitted to retain their positions which give them prestige in the social world and enables them to mix freely with kings, queens, lords and dukes. But docile though the British workers have been there is a limit to their patienge. There are some interest- ing developments in the British la- bor movement. The Communist Par- ty recently decided to contest the elections against the labor party as well as against the liberal and tory the leadership of MacDonald, Snow. den, Thomas and others, is just a: imperialistic as the tory and liberal! parties. It has gone so far to the right that Maxton, the chairman of the independent labor party, the so. cialist kernel in the Labor Party, is now making open war on Mac- Donald and threatening to split the labor party. In this fight he is joined by A. J. Cook, the secretary of the Miners Federation, who is liable to be ousted from his position by his own reactionary executive backed by the General Council, Som OKahesly firms fcr orders placed with them. The firms mentioned were the Al- gemeine Elektrische _Geselschafty Ejhoff and Knapp, and money was expected from Siemens. This money was transmitted through represen-_ tatives of the firms visiting Russia| vr through members of the organ-| ization on “business visits” to Ger-| many. i It is significant that Prof. Wurms, counsel for the accused German en- gineers, in cross-examining Baran- ovsky, did not seekvto refute the al- legation that money was paid by the German firms to the Russian’ engineers; he strove to show that this was merely a “commercial cus- tom.” ; ie A number of the accused indi- cated by Banaroysky’s evidence were confronted with him. Their ef-— forts to shake his testimony led to “scenes” and. the president had to. | money were obtained in the form of — “oammiasiona” German pull them up. Baranovsky unshaken, parties. The Labor Party, | 4 t