The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 2

? } } Unemp CHARITY TRUST SHOWN AS NEST OF REACTION Banker-Fascists Hold Principal Jobs (By Federated Press) CHICAGO, Ju’ ugh ¢ $300,000,000 of private funds are Now invested and held for charity nd education in Chicago, the class for whom the money was given has nothing to say about how it is to be spent. No represe 2s of labor ‘sit on the boards that hand out the alms, tinker with the health or shape the character of the beneficiaries. Autocracy. The Chicago Community Trust tarries this autocracy over charity administration a step further. It is a charity of charities, soliciting con- trol over charity funds and seeking authority to change the object for which they were originally given. The giver himself is eventually dis- franchised by a clause in a sug- gested form of bequest reading: “When in the judgment of the Chicago Community Trust the need for this charity shall cease the Money may be devoted by the Chicago Community Trust to any of the purposes of said trust,” Organized in 1915 the trust now controls over $3,000,000 and has in sight millions more through wills that have not yet gone through the probate mill. Its five directors are an interesting group. The chairman is Clifford W. Barnes, long associ- ated with the committee of fifteen fand other silk stocking snoopers lumped by the Chicago Federation of Labor as “employer racketeering outfits.” The vice chairman is Ber- mard A. Eckhart, whose reluctant revelations of Liberty bond dealings with Fred Upham, Chicago bond peddler, for Will Hays of the G. 0. P., were the feature of the Teapot Dome hearings in Chicago last spring. A third is President E. J. Buffing- ton of the Illinois Steel Company, the steel trust subsidiary. Buffing- ton is the man who tried hard, but unsuccessfully, to make his workers show joy and reverence for Queen Marie of Rumania when she in- spected the plant. Charles S. Cut- ting, the fourth, is a former judge of the probate court, where billions are handled annually. The fifth is Abel Davis, a banker, who had am- bitions to head the IMlinois national guard and was receiver for a time of the American Co-operative So- city, the notorious Harrison Parker enterprise. Also Mr. Dawes. Not content with such an array, an advisory council has been set up almost exclusively of bankers. One Jooks in vain for aliberal or pro- social spirit among them. Naturally labor men are not wanted there in an advisory cap acity. The advisers include Dawes, the banker-fascist; Charles H. Markham of the unfriendly Illi- nois Central; James A. Patten, grain gambler and open-shop buc- caneer, who was also caught with the Sinclair Liberty bonds; and chiefs of the First National Bank, Tilinois Merchants Trust Company, Continental and Commercial Na- tional Bank, State Bank of Chicago, National Bank of the Republic, "Northern Trust Company, Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Union Trust Company, Chicago Trust Com- ‘pany, Central Trust Company, Noel State Bank and thé Bank of | America. » The Chicago Communty Trust is 78 device to perpetuate control of ‘charity funds in reactionary hands. '“As Secretary Frank Loomis says, without realizing what he is saying: “The Community Trust works in co-operation with and has the en- »<dorsement of the strongest financial institutions in the community. Thus it secures conservative management of the principal of any fund and ef- fective use of the income from year to year forever, whatever changes in institutions and methods may come. Tory Bankers to Safe- guard German ‘Rights’ LONDON, July 19 (UP),—Great Britain’s readiness to examine any proposal for a final settlement of all Germany's reparations obliga tions was announced in the house of commons yesterday by Winston Churchill, chancellor of the ex- chequer. Any proposal for fixation of the total sum of Germany’s liabilities, Churchill said, would be examined, provided it was framed so as to safeguard British rights and inter- ests. Under the Dawes plan, it is Stipulated merely that Germany shall pay annual installments of ‘Teparations for an indefinite period of time. Appoint New Ministers SUPERIOR, Wis., July 18.— President Coolidge today appointed Warren D. Robbins as Minister to Salvadore and H. F. Arthur Schoen. feld as Minister to Bulgaria. ds Jefferson Caffery, rv- recently Vice President Charles G.| lof black and THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928 Millions Flock to Beaches to loyed Workers Have Nothing to Say About Use of to the Islanc COMMUNISTS s who spend their days in poor ventilated, unsanitary factories, under of the speed-up, suffer most from the summer heat. beaches, where overcrowding makes bathing difficult. Abov Some of them succeed in escaping on Sunda Escape From Sweltering Heat the constant Ie. e is a typical scene at Coney DENOUNCE LYNCHINGS Workers, Black and White, Must Resist All Exploiters Continued from Page One most arduous and disagreeable tasks. Capitalist Politicians Will Never Stop Lynching. The political servants of the im- perialist oppressors will never abol- ish lynching. The Cole Bleases and the Heflins, Tillmans, openly support lynch- ing. The Coolidges and the Hoovers) and the Smiths either silently sup- port lynching or speak hypocritical words, but never take action against the lynchers. The parties of big and small business, the parties which represent the interests which fatten upon the system of violent enslave- ment and repression of the Negro and white workers, will never abol- ish lynching. The republican and democratic parties have held the power of gov: ernment between them. During all this time nothing has ever been done to punish lynchers, while thousands white workers have been done to death. Both republi- cans and demo united to defeat the Dyer anti-lynching bill, which in spite of its many defects would have provided some legal basis for proceeding against the lynchers. The Democratic Party of Lynching The democratic party is the party of the solid South, the party of the business men and the plantation owners who live upon the labor and subjection of the black and white workers. Not a single Negro dele- gate was seated in the democratic convention, and a Jim-Crow cage was provided for Negro visitors. Al Smith and Jimmy Walker by many acts have openly shown their com- | plete acceptance of the whole nefari- to Bulgaria and Mexico | Robbins, now Counselor at Rome, |the reactionary officialdom of ous system of race oppression and class exploitation and have proved their thorough subservience to big business. They have received the seal of approval of the Bleases as well as of the Raskovs, of the Southern lynchocrats as. well as of the Northern financiers. Tammeny Hall stands solidly with the Southern democrats for disfranchisement, segregation, peonage and lynching. for the enslavement and exploitation the Glasses and the| cialist party. The socialist party| continues to support him in his be- trayal of the interests of the Negro workers to the capitalists and lynch- ers. In the South, the socialist party refuses to admit Negroes into its ranks and holds meetings at which the practices of Negro segregation are strictly enforced. Only the Working Class Can| Abolish Lynching. The brutal and atrocious treat-| ment of the Negro masses, of which | lynching, cold-blooded and horrible, | is an expression, is a characteristic of United States imperialism which suppresses with bayonet and gun} the peoples of Haiti, Latin America. and the Philippines and erushes with murderous cruelty every attempt o the colonial and semi-colonial peo- ples, to free themselves from the op- pression and exploitation of their imperialist masters. Only the victorious party of the workers can abolish lynching. Only a workers’ and farmers’ government | can overthrow the whole vile system of lynching and exploitation. It was the revolutionary Communist Party which abolished lynching and pogroms in Russia. It will be the revolutionary Workers (Communist) Party of America that will abolish) lynching in America in the same} way. The Workers (Communist) |Party stands forth as the champion of the black and white masses of , America. The Republican Party’s Betrayal and Lynching. The republican party is the party of big business, of the bankers and financial magnates who have only one. use for the Negroes—to keer | them in violent subjection, in order | to wring wealth out of their toil. The republican party used the Negroes to win control of the gov- ernment for the capitalists, from the chattel slave holders. But as soon as the capitalists succeeded in es- tablishing their system of wage slavery and exploitation, the Re- publican party betrayed the Negroes and delivered them up to the slave drivers and lynchers. Hoover, the republican candidate for president is the faithful servant of the im- perialist oppressors. He has main- tained segregation in his depart- ment, and condoned the peonage and abuse of thousands of Negroes dur ing the Mississippi flood disaster The republican party openly rebuffs the Negro by segregating their dele- gates at its national convention in Kansas. The few empty and hollow words which the republicans give tc the Negroes in their platform should deceive no one. Its record of be- trayal and repression proves it also to be the party of Jim-Crowism and disfranchisement, peonage and lynching, the party of the wealthy tyrants who grind huge profits out of the black and white workers and farmers of this country. Socialist Party Now Openly Treacherous. The socialist party is treacherous It openly declared upon taking of- fice in Reading, Pennsylvania, that it would maintain capitalist law and order. Its empty: gesture of the Berger anti-lynching bill means nothing. Besides this bill fails in the most important essential, the right of self-defense for the Negro masses. ‘Vhe socialist leaders of the Pull- man Porters have lined up with Wil- liam Green, President of the A. F of L. They have betrayed the in terests of the Pullman Porters. They have accepted the policy of segre- workers advocated by Green, trade unions. Randolph has openly ERASE | gation and non-organization of black|conditiéns for Negro workers and and | white workers. Equal pay for equal the| work for black and white workers. ed and Schoenfeld, Counselor at | declared for Smith, the candidate of|calls upon the Negro and white) tico City, succeeds Charles §.|the democrats, the party of the| workers to fight against the lynch-| transferred to | southern lynchers. He has not even|ing system, to vote against the |been rebuked or censured by the so-|lynching system by voting against of the oppressed Negro masses Twenty-four Negro delegates sat in| the National Nominating Conven-)| tion of the Workers Party, partici-| pated on all important committees and helped to draft a program of action for the oppressed masses of America, black and white. Only the) Workers Party supports the Negro masses in their struggle against the s)stem of lynching and race oppres- sién. Only this party unites black and white workers in militant strug- gle against the system of imperialist oppression, of which lynching is an outgrowth. Only this party cham- pions the Negro masses in their right of self-defense and only this! party fights with them against mob! violence and terrorism. The Workers Party Fights Lynching System. The Communist Party considers it as its historic duty to unite all workers regardless of their color. against the common enemy, against the master class. The Negro race must understand that capitalisrr means racial oppression, and com- munism means social equality. The following are the demands of the Workers (Communist) Party for which it will fight with all its vigor and determination. It calls) upon the workers and poor farmers. black and white, to organize their might to put these demands into| effect. 1, A Federal law against lynch-| ing, and the protection of the Negro) masses in their right of self-defense 2. Abolition of the whole system of race discrimination. Full racial political and social equality for the Negro race. j 8. Abolition of all laws which) result in segregation of Negroes.| Abolition of all Jim-Crow laws. The | law shall forbid all discrimination | against Negroes in selling or renting | houses. | 4. Abolition of all laws which disfranchise the Negroes. 5. Abolition of laws forbidding intermarriage of persons of differ- ent races, 6. Abolition of all laws and pub- lie administration measures which prohibit, or in practice prevent, Ne- gro children or youth from attend- ing general public schools or uni- versities. 7. Full and equal admittance of Negroes to all railway station wait- ing rooms, trains, restaurants, hotels | and theatres. 8. Abolition of discriminatory practices in courts against Negroes No discrimination in jury service. 9. Abolition of the convict lease system and of the chain gang. 10. Abolition of all Jim-Grow dis- tinctions in the army, navy and civi! service. 11. Immediate removal of all re- strictions in all trade unions against the membership of Negro workers 12. Equal opportunities for em- ployment, wages, hours and working the The Workers (Communist) Party | Governor Hartley the following: | Port this action.” the parties which uphold that sys- tem, by supporting the only party which can and does fight against the system of lynching and oppres sion, Unite against the lynchers and exploiters! | Organize for the abolition of the system of lynching and exploitation! Vote Communist! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America! —Central Executive Committee, | Workers (Communist) Party of America. -ASK LIBERTY FOR LW. W. PRISONERS Washington Governor) Protests are pouring in on Gover- nor Rolland H. Hartley at Olympia, |. Washington and H. B. Clausen at Walla Walla, Wash., in a demand by labor everywhere for the uncondi-| tional release of the Centralia pris- oners, now serving their eighth year in prison for daring to protect their union headquarters and lives from the attacks of the American Legion vandals on Armistice Day.| 1919. T's attack also resulted in the horrible murder by theg.egionnaires of Wesley Everest. | The national office of Interna-/ tional Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th) St., New York, through assistant | national secretary Martin Abern.| today gave out a number of the pro- tests which have been sent to the| governor. Among them is the fol-| lowing telegram by Frank L.| Palmer, former editor of the Colo-| rado Labor Advocate and author of | the book, “The Labor Spy.” His tele- gram to Governor Hartley declared: Demand Pardon. “As an American Legionnaire| trying to forget the war hysteria, I strongly urge unconditional pardon for the Centralia labor prisoners.” Edward S. Smith, a prominent lib- | eral of Columbus, Ohio, has wired “T am thoroughly familiar with the circumstances surrounding -the Centralia case and have for a long) time believed the verdict a miscar- riage of justice. I, therefore, re- spectfully urge executive clemency} in the form of an unconditional par- don in the case of, the eight mem- bers of the Industrial Workers of the World. Many friends also sup- Writes to I. L. D. In a letter to the International Labor Defense, Smith states: “Surely the Centralia victims have been imprisoned long enough for the crime of loyalty to working class principles.” He offers best wishes to the International Labor Defense in its campaign for the release of | the Centralia prisoners. International Labor Defense urges workers and labor organizations | everywhere to write to Governor | Roland H. Hartley at Olympia Wash., asking for the release of| the Centralia prisoners. | TANGIER RULERS FORM NEW PACT PARIS, July 19.—A slight altera-| tion of the Tangiers agreement of 1923 which made Tangiers a pro-| tectorate under France, England Spain and Italy was finished today| at the French Foreign Office. Rep- resentatives of the four European powers participated although there was no representative present from Tangiers. Some minor changes were made which gave the fascist governments of Spain and Italy more power in the city council, in this way ap- peasing the Italians, who have em- barked on an extended imperialistéc policy in Northern Africa and the Adriatic. The fascists were given the right fo appoint officials to the Tangier municipal council] and another ad. NINE STRIKERS JAILED IN MILL POLICE ATTACK Pinto, Leader, Defends Woman Against Cop Continued from Page One of straw bosses rode out of the mills. Picket Leaders Jailed. When the picket leaders insisted on their right to picket, they were immediately: arrested. When Louisa Moura, a striker, ran up to Sergeant McCarthy and demanded the release of her husband John, the police thug seized her by the throat and began choking her. ’ Augustus Gonsalves Pinto, leader of the Textile Workers Union of the T. M. C., leaped from the police wagon he was shoved into when arrested a few minutes before, and forced McCarthy to release his hold | on the woman despite the police thug’s threat’ to shoot. The woman striker later fainted in the police car. U. T. W. Pickets Join. Pickets on the line of the United Textile Workers Union, on seeing) the attack on the woman and Pinto’s | subsequent act, rushed in to the de-| fense of the Textile Mills Commit- tees workers. Horace A. Riviere. U. T. W. organizer and leader of the Textile Council picket line, tried to stop his members from joining in the defense against the police on- slaught. His shouted orders to his followers that they keep marching) in his line was defiantly ignored as | the U. T. W. members pushed him) aside and ran in. 3 The brutal attack of the police | has aroused a tremendous storm of | indignation among the ranks of the) strikers of all nationalities. When) reports of the attack went around | the city, thousands of workers came | to the union offices to prepare a far larger picket demonstration, which | materialized this morning in front) of the same Kilburn Miii, | As Pinto went marching by the| headquarters of the U. T. W. at the) head of a large picket line this morn- ing after being bailed out last night, he was enthusiastically cheered by the members of the latter union. A rousing reception greeted him when | he came to the mills to take his} place at the head of the line. The discomfiture of the U. T. W. official join in cheering Pinto, who has be- All nine arrested were bailed out by the International Labor Defense attorney when they were arraigned | in court last night. The charges| against them were disturbing the peace, obstructing police and as-| saults on police. | Alphonso Lamieras, Portuguese) speaker at the T. M. C. strike meet-| ings, was also arrested with Pinto. The others are: Jose De Rosa,| Caeser Almeida, Louisa Moura, John | ieras and John Cordiera. peared on the picket line this morn- ) SHOP STRIKES Bosses Lockout Girls on Zaritsky Advice Strikes were declared against the firms of Perlmuter and Blumen- feld, 80 W. 38th St., and J. Ander- son, 65 W. 89th St., by the Mil- linery Hand Workers’ Union Local 43 when the employers accepted the advice of International President Zaritsky to force the millinery girl workers into open shop conditions. Zaritsky, it has been shown, has been carrying on a vicious cam- paign to destroy this local of 4,000 workers beeause their leadership has a militant left wing policy. This move of the two employers, it is known, followed the advice by | Zaritsky to the manufacturers’ as- | sociation to declare open shop for all unionized millinery hand work- | ers. Goes the Limit. In order to obtain the aid of the manufacturers in his fight against ‘the milliners, Zaritsky has put over a sell-out on the members of the Millinery Union Local 24, which is right wing controlled. This local has not had any con- tractural relations with any recog- nized group of organized employers, having hihterto compelled the bosses to sign individual agreements. Now, however, Zaritsky, it was learned, voluntarily went to the employers and offered union recognition for their organization if they would help him to break the millinery lo- cal, Help Men, Because of the girl milliners be- ing organized in their militant lo- cal, they had given great aid to the men members of Local 24 in maintaining their union standards. Local 43 now calls upon the Local 24 members to combat the sell-out of their own interests thru the “col- lective agreement” and thru Zarit- sky’s intention of destroying Loc; ministrator and magistrate. 43, ‘ heading the other picket line was) . 5 he | complete when he saw his workers |T- C. like this sample of military | come the hero of the hour among} all the strikers. | H | ee |prepared for capitalist wars at Fort | | Adams alone in the C. M. T. C. this ment is negotiated. | MILLINERS CALL Slain hw Rullat af Clerical ated by a religious fanatic who is + Alvaro Uoregon, president-elect of Mexico, was assassin believed to have been an agent of the counter-revolutionary catholic faction. Above is a photo of Gen. Obregon (left) with President Calles (right), taken shortly before the assassination, WORKERS DON’T LIKE U, S. ARMY: ‘No More Camp For! Me,’ Says Recruit © | FORT ADAMS, R. I, July 19.— “When ! get through this month, no more C, M. T. C. Yor me.” This was the opinion expressed to me by one of the young workers who came} here for a “vacation.” Compared to the regular soldiers, those in the Citizens Military Tratn- ing Camps’ have an easy life. They have far more drill and consequently less pick and shovel work. Every effort is made to give them as much | training as possible during the month in camp. The regular sol- diers here have been moved out of | their barracks and are living in tents—six soldiers to the tent, their quarters being turned over to the C, M. T. C. in their efforts to make | them come back next summer for | more training. Few Like Military Life | In spite of this, few im the C. M. life. They are called out of bed by | the bugle at 5:45 in the morning and are kept busy until late in the eve- ning. I spoke with one of the young workers attending the C. M. T. C. here. He was on “K. P.” (kitchen police) at the time. “Work here is no joke, believe me,” he said. He stated that when on “K. P,” one) works from early in the morning until late at night, serubbing the | floor, washing dishes under a boss, etc., with hardly a minute’s rest, and at no time during the day is anyone permitted to go to his quar- Mouta, Joe Alneida, Casmiro Lam-| tar All ap-| 900 at Fort Adams Nine hundred workers are being | year. From a capitalist military viewpoint, the money spent on the Cc. M. T..C. is a valuable invest- ment, unless the day comes when these young workers will realize the role of the armed forces and use| their military knowledge against | \the bosses. I was surprised to see ;the amount of drill which has been ‘forced into the young workers in a period of 10 days. They are being given instruction in the use of rifles | in addition to “close-order” drill. | Of greatest importance is the re- | actionary propaganda at the camp, | the effort to poison the minds of the young workers with patriotism | and make them submissive tools of | | the masters. Religious Dope | Religion is used as a part of their) patriotic propaganda, and every | Sunday the young workers here are required to attend church services. | |If they cannot attend a church of their “own” denomination, they are taken to a church in Newport. The regular soldiers here have to take care of*the new cannen fod- der, and complain of the excessive |work. Also, they say that discipline | is very harsh and that the most ex-| treme sentences are given for any | trivial cause. 3 DROWNED IN AUTO. GREENUP, Ky., July 19 (UP).— Ed Moore, 54, his wife and their daughter Zuna, 15, were drowned today when their automobile plunged over a ferry float into the Ohio River at Fullerton. The bodies of Mrs. Moore and the daughter were recovered, MINERS ASSAIL LEWIS’ SELLOUT Operatofs Confirm) New Betrayal Continued from Page One method of formulating their pre-| ; | viously agreed upon program of | strikebreaking, it is understood, the Grew decided to work out an am- biguous resolution using the phrases “wage agreements,” “mutually sat- | isfactory basis,” “existing wage | schedules” and a “referendum ‘vote of the respective districts.” None | of the Lewis ‘gang, however, ex- pects that the miners wiil be de- ceived by the form of the strike-| breaking order. | The resolution follows: “Resolved: | “1. That the officers of the re- spective districts comprising the | central competitive field and the cutlying bituminous districts be au-| thorized to enter into wage negotia-| tions with their respective opera-| tors on a basis mutually satisfac- tory. “2. That district representatives and the officers of the national union shall co-operate in the execu- | tion of this policy. “3. That all district organiza- tions be authorized to permit any | coal company or any mine to em- ploy all the men it may require for) maintenance, repairs, development, | construction or production of coal, | providing, however, that such com- pan} agrees with the district to pay| the existing wage schedules and carry out the existing agreement temporarily until a district agree-| “4. That any agreement hapetict ated under this policy shall be sub-| mitted for ratification to a district | convention or a referendum vote of the respective districts.” LENINISM JOSEPH STALIN A masterly exposition of “Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolu- tion.” $2.50 WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS, 39 B. 125th St. NEW YORK. 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IN NEW RACKET: Join to Force Furriers to Pay Dues Continued from Page One “dues” and “back dues” the workers were ordered to work¢ By the time the industrial squad came back with Yacker, Master had gone to swear out a warrant for Yacker’s arrest.’ Usuai Result Despite the fact that Yacker is a “gentleman with a standing” in po- Kice records, the magistrate of Jef- ferson Market Court allowed him to go on a small bond, and, in spite of Master exhibiting his injuries, the judge allowed the charge to be registered as “simple assault.” If the workers taken to the Coun- cil by the police are found to have no money in their possession, the » employed is called up and told to send over a check covering the en- tire amount demanded before they would free his workers. A movement is now afoot, it is learned, among workers and em- ployers as well, to compel the Coun- cil to return the innumerable checks ebtained through this racketeering game, the proceeds of which is divided up, This elaborate system of extor- tion was launched in so brazen a manner only recently, because the fake union of the right wing and the A. F. of L. is rapidly disintegrat- ing, due to the drive of the left wing Joint Board to rebuild a clean union in the industry. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning ihe campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in the various. states. ° Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. 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