The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1928, Page 2

ing the youth against militarism, NEARING AMONG THE SPEAKERS Kellogg Talks Peace, Prepares for War As labor organizations and work- ers of New York are preparing to demon st the imperialist war danger, at Union Square, Aug- ust 4, at the fourteenth anniversary | of the opening of the last world slaughter during which millions of workers were murdered in the fight for the redivision of the capitalist markets, word comes from Berlin of | the building of a fleet of monster | airplanes in preparation for the| next imperialist war. These planes, | capable of carrying a load of muni-| tions one and a half times their own weight and specially constructed for trans-Oceanic warfare, are being| built to attain a speed of 200 miles a ou! building of the fleet of war| P .@84s being started simultaneous- | ly witht an attack launched against] the so-called anti-war pact of Sec- retary of State Kellogg by German jingoist newspapers. One news- paper published a statement de-} nouncing the treaty as a dishonest gesture, thus openly admitting the ‘war preparations. | Talk “Peace”—Prepare War. As the Kellogg “anti-war” pact is being waved before the eyes of| workers the world over in an effort ract their attention from the perialist conflict, Secretary of War Davis is enroute to the Hawaiian ostensibly to attend the sesquicentennial anniversary of their discovery, but in reality to make a complete study of the military de- fenses on the islands in anticipation of war in the Pacific. Aware of the universal prepara- tions for an armed conflict which will make the last war look like a skirmish, class conscious workers of New York and vicinity will gather) by the thousands in Union Square on Saturd: August 4, to lift their voices in protest against the keeping | of American gunboats in China, the/ slaughter of Nicaraguans by Amer-| ican marines and the plots being hatched by capitalist countries prep- aratory to an attack on the Soviet Union, the first workers’ and farm- ers’ government. The huge demon- stration will resolve itself into a general demonstration against the capitalist military training camps being used to héodwink the workers with fables of patriotism and de- fense against “foreign aggression,” against the presidential candidacies of Hoover and Smith, the puppets of the war mongefs and munition| barons and againgf capitalism itself, | breeder of wai Many Prominent Speakers. | District 2 of the Workers’ Com- munist Party, under whose auspices the demonstration will be held, has arranged for an imposing array of| speakers, including Benjamin Git-| low, Workers’ Party candidate for viee-president; Bob Minor, editor of the Daily Worker; M. J. Olgin, well known Communist editor; Richard B. Moore, organizer of Negro work- ers; Ray Ragozin, in charge of Wom- en’s wo! Ballam, acting District Organizer of the Workers’ (Com- munist) Party; Phil Frankfeld, Dis- trict Organizer of the Young Work- ers’ (Communist) League; Scott Nearing, noted authority on impe- rialism; Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic textile strikers and ac-| tive in the New Bedford strike; Ben| Gold, militant leader of the fur-| riers; Rebecca Grecht, Campaign Manager of the Workers’ (Commu- nist) Party and active in organizing the striking miners; Bert Miller Organization Secretary of the Work- | ers’ Party; D. Benjamin, Director of the Workers’ School, and Paul Crouch, court-martialed from the U. S. Army for his Communist ac- tivities, and now active in organiz-| Workers’ clubs and labor organi-| zations are invited to attend the de- monstration in a body, bringing with them their own banners and slogans ealling for mobilization against the imperialist war danger. GAP WORKERS TO AID YOUTH MEET At a large shop delegates’ confer- ence called by the TUEL section of the Cap & Millinery Workers, last Tuesday night, a representative of the Provisional Committee of the Working Youth Conference ap- peared. He was franted the floor. M. Ti-lfand, of the Plumbers’ Helpers’ Inion, spoke on the purpose and the jmportance of the Working Youth Conference. He was granted the floor. M. raniration which is so keenly felt by the young workers. He wound un by suggesting the holding of shop meetings in all millinery shops where the youth are employed; the Cistribution of the special Working Yorth Conference leafle ing of special youth meetings, ete. At the conclusion of Helfand’s brief appeals a delegate got up and made a motion that the Working Yonth Conference be endorsed. The ‘yrotion carried unanimously amid piAase. Communis | local. Pa rly, Young Wo PORTER THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928 } By M. Pass UNION WRECKERS Pedagog Says STRIKES GROWING WANT INJUNCTION Zaritsky, Socialists Use, Employers Weapon BOSTON, July 27.—This morning | there appeared in the Equity Court, Mr. Zaritsky, the President of the Cloth Hat and Cap Makers Inter- | national, accompanied by his cialist attorneys Bearak and Rower to give cause why an injunction should be issued by the court against | Loeal No, 7 of Boston and its offi- | cers. After, hearing ‘the eloquent plea for the injunction the judge refused to issué a temporary restraining or- der on all the complaints raised in | the plea, but did order that the call- ing of strikes should be discontinued, but at the same time Mr. Bearak was forced to agree that no workers would be taken off their jobs for re- fusing to register with the Zaritsky Further hearing on the case was postponed to August 21. The socialist lawyer Bearak ar- gued that the shop strikes called by Local No. 7 to protect the workers who were thrown off the jobs for refusing to register with the Zarit- sky local, were embarrassing both Zaritsky and the manufacturers who both had signed a new agreement. The bill of complaint asked that the duly elected officials of local 7 should have no right to function as officials of the local, cannot speak in its name, that funds are not to be used for any purpose, that state- ments are not to be issued under the name of Local No. 7, that the local be enjoined from calling shop strikes. In short that the local cease to exist. The effort of the Zaritsky clique to wrest power from the local left wing administration by intimidating workers, by firing them from their s0- |jobs and thus taking away their means of livelihood, his close al- liance with the manufacturers which makes of the Zaritsky local a com- pany union, his secret agreement with the manufacturers of which the members know nothing and his last | act. of seeking the aid of the capi- talist courts in his fight against the membership has aroused deep re sentment in the ranks of the Cap makers. Before the hearings on the in- junction are over many interesting facts will be brought to light. The high handed manner of the Zaritsky clique will be brought out. The membership of the Zaritsky local who have now been tied down with an agreement which they never approved will demand to know the full text of the agreement. What conditions which were won thru hard struggle did Mr. Zaritsky give up in order to win the support of the manufacturers in his struggle against the workers? The member- ship has a right to know. The mem- bership will also want an account- ing from Zaritsky—why he makes use of the most powerful instru- ments against the workers—the in- junctions. ( Daily Worker Agents | of Section 3 to Meet A meting of Daily Worker | Agents of Section 8 will be held | Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock at 101 | West 2Rlh St. This will be one of the most important meetings held up to now. All Daily Worker agents | are urged to attend the meeting, and |to be prompt, because important plans for future activity will be dis- |dussed and mapped out, Karl Marx Is Ternble ‘Red’ NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 27. —Elliat Bates Barber, director of adult education in Danbury, Conn., and considered one of the smart- est men in his town, today ex- posed Karl Marx before the de- partment of adult education at Yale. Marx, Barber said, is the real instigator of the recent criticism of the Daughters of the American Revolution and their much-dis- cussed blacklist of radical speak- ers. “He disparages all true patriot- ,ism of whatever type,” Barber said. “He sneers at 100 per cent patriots, deforms and vilifies our history, great men and American life. “Disrespect to the flag, ridicule of government action and the sol- dier’s uniform are part of the program. “The attack on the D. of A. R. is an instance in point—patriotism is abolished, national defense is weak, pacifism and disarmament follow. Then there is a chance to put over the world revolution, for under these circumstances it has a chance to succeed.” The department of adult educa- tion at Yale has not yet decided what steps to take in the, matter. $100,000 ELECTION DRIVE SPEEDED Sky Is the Limit for Capitalists With the issuance of a fifty-cent assessment stamp for sale to the party membership, the purchase of which is obligatory on every party member, the National Election Cam- paign Committee of the Workers’ (Communist) Party started on the first lap of the drive to raise $100,- 000 for the Communist Campaign Fund. Simultaneously the capitalist parties announced thru their pub- licity departments that there is no truth in the report that their election expenditures would be confined to $3,000,000. The sky is the limit for both parties. Fund is Vital. The campaign assessment stamp is expected to bring several thou- sand dollars immediately into the treasury of the National Election Campaign Committee of the Work- ers’ (Communist) Party. Alexander Trachtenberg, with heaquarters at 43 E, 125th St., New York, is cam- paign fund treasurer, and all. con- tributions should be forwarded to him at that address. The importance of raising a fund for immediate work is the reason for issuing the assessment stamp and the Central Executive Commit- tee of the Party in a letter to the membership stresses the importance of speed in realizing on the sale of those stamps and forwarding the proceeds at once to the campaign treasurer. All districts of the party were given quotas corresponding to the number of members in each district. The allotments are as follows: District 1: 1,000; 2, 4,000; 3, 800; 4, 400; 5, 1,000; 6, 800; 7, 800; 8, 1,800; 9, 1,000; 10, 400; 12, 700; 13, 700; 15, 300, and 200 for the Agri- cultural District. Must Speed Sales. Alexander Trachtenberg, treasure of thé National Election Campaign AT NASH MOTOR Young WorkersLeague Leads Walkouts KENOSHA, Wis., July 27.—The openshop town of Kenosha is begin- |ning to crack. The long fight for | union recognition waged by the Al- len-A hosiery workers stimulated employes of the anti-union Nash | Motor Co. to stage half a dozen walkouts in various departments | since February, led by the Young | Workers (Communist) League. Sen- |timent for an industrial union of auto workers is growing. ~The” building wreckers also as- serted themselves last week and went on strike at the old Allen tan- nery for a 50 per cent wage raise. They picketed’ in spite of police and won their demands, returning to work at 60 cents an hour instead of 40 cents. Committee, said in urging the mem- bership to speed up the sale of the stamps: “The campaign funds of the capi- talist parties this year will surpass all previous treasure chests. For the first time in the history of the United States both parties are on practically even terms in the matter tof campaign funds. Millionaires are flocking daily to the Smith ban- ner, and the head of his national committee is none other than John J. Raskob, the finance chairman of the gigantic automobile trust domi- nated by the House of Morgan, Gen- eral Motors. Wall Street Has Millions. “Hoover will have the millions of other capitalist groups, not the least of which is the Mellon group. This is a millionaire election campaign. Those millions will be used to cor- rupt and befuddle the workers and farmers of the United States be- tween now and November. After then whichever set of capitalists win, the exploitation of the workers and farmers will go on with greater intensity than ever. “Agianst the billions “ Street our drive to raise the $100,- 000 Communist Campaign Fund would be futile but for the fact that our party stands for the interests NEGRO WORKERS RESPOND TO CALL OF COMMUNISTS Harlem Labor «Starts Signature Drive | The Harlem Section of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, with head- | quarters at 143 East 108rd St., in- augurated its drive for signatures to put the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot by calling a special meeting of the section execu- tive committee. Unlike most sec- tion executive committee meetings, | this one lasted only ten minutes, after which each member of the ex- ecutive marched out of the head- quarters armed with petitions, in- delible pencils and Daily Workers and proceeded to finecomb an elec- lion district for signatures. During the week there have been four open-air meetings held in Har- lem on the election campaign, at each of which were sold a goodly portion of the 500 copies of the Workers (Communist) Party Plat- forms which Harlem confidently purchased from the district office. The first report made by M. Mo- reau was a substantial one of 101 signatures for both the local and national petitions. Moreau reported that in one block, in the Negro sec- tion of Harlem, Comrade Williams obtained 30 signatures in an hour. |Negro workers, according to Com- rade Williams, are extremely inter- ested in the Workers (Communist) Party and its platform, and show keen interest in the stand of the Workers Party on lynchings, Jim Crow laws and racial prejudice gen- erally. It begins to look as though Harlem were seriously after the scalp of the Boro Park section, which boasts that one comrade has already col- lected 50 signatures, and is unbeat- able. The rivalry between the vari- ous sections is so keen that there considerable agitation in the dis- trict office to establish a special district prize for the section that hits the highest mark. Boro Park is already preparing its speech of acceptance. WORKERS MEET IN BULGARIA Labor Party Presents Program SOFIA, July 26,—During the present month the first general con- | ference of the Labor Party of Bul- | garia was held in Sofia. The con- ference, taking up the present poli- tical situation, decided: 1. The chief task of the party is to organize the proletarian masses. 2. The party makes a_ strong fight against the present fascist government and against the capi- talist attacks on the Bulgarian proletariat. Denounces “Agrarians.” 8. The party fights against the present leadership of the Bulgarian | National Agricultural. - Workers’ | Union (Agrarians), which does not work for the real needs of the peo- | ple. | | 4. The organization of the “La- bor Block” must be a task of the) | masses. | 5. The Party fights against all, | opportunist tendencies in its ranks | and must remain a pure Marxian| class organization. To Strengthen Unions. 6. The Workers’ Youth Union | zs lof the millions of exploited workers] ‘and farmers, and if we only can) ‘raise enough funds to print litera-) ture and route speakers, so that the message of Communism can be brought home to them, the corrupt- jing money of Wall Street will be iwasted like seed scattered desert.” in a! PHYSICAL and MENTAL RECREATION Co-operative Workers Camp Nitgedaiget | Beacon, N. Y.— ASS PLAYS, mass singing, sports, such as baseball, soccer, Social dancing, campfires, amateur football, tennis, ete. nights, lectures, camp magazine entire summer season. A kindergarten with compe- tent ‘sounselors for children whose parents stay in camp. REGISTER OFFICE: 69 Fifth Ave. | TRAINS LEAVE GRAND NOW for the New Spacious and Airy Bungalows At: 2700 Bronx Park, East (Co-operative Workers Colony) Rates: $17.00 Per Week Tel: Beacon 731 | and other recreations during the Don’t drag any bundles.— You can get everything at mod- erate prices at the camp store. PHONE: Alg. 6900 Years ago Mayor vaudeville connections. Vivid Articles In August Issue Of New Masses 'HREE things particularly are outstanding in the new August issue of the New Masses: “Comrade Juanita,” a story by the noted Greek Communist writer, Petros Pikros; another of Michael Gold’s splendid memoirs of New York’s East Side, and “Inside the Reforma- tory,” by David Gordon. These are fine things—each a worthy feature for a proletarian art magazine and further assurance that now the New Masses is headed in the right direc- tion. But add to these “Million Footed,” a scenario for a workers’ movie by Robert Wolf; a sketch on the Y. M. C. A. by George Jarrboe, other stories, poems, books, reviews and the interesting “Letters From America,” and here is proof that the New Masses is making good in ‘He’s On Circuit for James Walke Now he’s on cirenit for Tanimany and is more often on the road than in New York. disguised as a bull-fighter during a recent junket to Monterey, Calif. becoming a workers’ art magazine. | “In Soviet Russia,” writes the editor, Michael Gold, “everyone is writing. A vast network of workers’ correspondents fill the newspapers with simple, direct ac- counts of the daily life of the workers. “We. are trying to make the New Masses a magazine of a kind of sublimated. workers’ corre- spondence. “If some of this writing proves to be literature, so much the bet- ter. But we are willing to stand and fall by the theory that great art can only rise out of the life that everyone is leading.” 8 * We can agree here. The aim is definite and the contents of this issue are headed that way. But the new policy, writes the editor, is also to make the New Masses “‘non- literary, non-pretentious, non-intel- lectual.” What’s the idea? .“Com- rade Juanita” and Mike Gold’s own story both could easily fit into any of those categories without damage. | Why not? They also happen to be darn good reading. To go a step further, both, and a good deal of the other material, does reflect some phases of the life we lead and at times does it right beautifully. Tammany Now 2 ¥ ey i 2 INVA of New York used to have The picture shows him New Masses, however, seem to have laid down on the job because of hot weather. The poets, also. do not seem especially inspired. More book reviews would perhaps add in- terest. There is also this thing that the New Masses of last year over- did—that insistence to spice every item with just a little sex. I don’t know the answer to that one. The heavy black rules and the tough butcher-paper the magazine is printed on give it a different and attractive appearance. By andlarge, the new editorial policy, and the care and ability to put it into prac- tice, have brought it closer to the life of the worker. There’s no ques- tion about it. It is becoming a magazine of workers’ art. Seeing the new August issue is believing. W. C. ‘Thousands Still | 000,000 clear over the rkers League, In Big Anti-Militarist Demonstration RASKOB FIRM'S. PROFITS TOTAL : OVER $160,000,000 Are Unemployed Net profits of the General Motors ‘Cétporation for the six months ended June 30, including equity in undivided profit of subsidiaries not consolidated, totaled $161,267,974, after all charges, as compared with SL 67,974 in the first half of 19) Big Morgan Concern. This represents a profit of $82,- first half year in 1927. John J. Raskob, until recently the official chairman of the finance committee of the huge Mor- |gan firm, and now, because of his empty gesture in the Tammany Al Smtith campaign, the chairman, is one of the biggest stockholders in the General Motor: Corporation. Thousands Struck Recently. Recently thousands of workers went on strike in Flint, Mich., for better conditions and for a raise in wages that would enable them to live, against this same company which, now declares a_half-year’s profits of over a hundred million dol- lars. But in spite of this, and in spite of the general unemployment situation now existing in the United States, such corporations as the General Motors, which are the big- gest supporters of the reactionary democratic and republican candi- dates in the election campaign, are able tosdeclare such enormous prof- its. Further statements declare that the nets profits for the three months ending June 30 were $91,799,898. | Order a Bundle! 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