The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1928, Page 3

i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928. Page Three Tens of Thousands of Germa Lost Fascist Transatlantic Fliers and Their Probable Route TREASON COPIES. OF VORWAERTS ARE HANDED OUT Armament Peril Is BERLIN, Aug. 5.—Tens of thou- sands of German workers, labor or- ganizations, women’s organizations and the Red Front Fighters yester- day participated in the huge demon- stration against the coming perialist war on the anniversary of the 1914 declaration of war. The masses filled the Lustgarten in front | of the.royal palace, where the Ger- man warlords arranged their part of the final act in the precipitation of the struggle between the im- perial 14 years ago. . Around the vast set of workers’ faces upturned to listen to the ad- dresses, battalions of the Red Front | Fighters formed a ring which the) | Berlin police and reserves did not feel inclined to atfack. Duplicate copies of the Vorwaerts, the German social democratic or- gan, containing headlines révealing their betrayal of the German work- ers during the early days of.the war in 1914 were distributed to the masses. | Speakers urged upon the assem-| tants bled workers and sympathizers the| States. Pointed Out | | | | if im-| jing A plane named for Marshall with the latest imperialist fliers to attempt the hop. organization, | | | AFRICA Pilsudski, Polish dictator, has disapp eared into the Atlantic together 600 Athletes Expected | to Enter Labor Sports Union Meet in N. Y.| Six hundred athletes, represent- labor sports organizations throughout the United States, are expected to enter the second annual national track and field meet of |the Labor Sports Union, to be held | in New York City on Aug. 25-26. In 1927, the meet drew 250 labor athletes to Waukegan, III. A special train will bear contes- from the middle-western The meet is open to all danger of a new imperialist war for worker athletes affiliated with the which the capitalist governments of American Athletic Union clubs as the ‘world are feverishly preparing} Well as to all Labor Sports Union at the same time that they attempt | members. to hide their armament race in peace pacts and pacifist sentiment. The treacherous role of the social! democrats and the pacifists $2.39 PER DAY Farm workers in the United in| States receive $2.39 on an average screening the armament prepara-|per day, without board, for their tions of the imperialists was also| work, according to the United States pointed out. ldepartment of agriculture. (Daily Worker Talks No. 3) The Headless Wonder “I Just Work Hard: I Let Al Do My Thinking for Me!” i 3 In the country called You-Es-Ay which, as you know, is but a short distance from here, the most curious sort of custom has been established under which, conveniently enough, the millions of workers who toil there have been entirely reliey | of the strenuous mental labors so taxing to the average worker. There the bosses long ago hit upon the happy device of entrusting the thinking of the people to a small number, later to but one or two. Also, as differing and conflicting ideas are costly to produce, and somewhat dangerous to circulate, a plan was further worked out to standardize these ideas and to produce them on a large scale, on a cheap commodity basis, quite as tin cans or pork and beans are here manufactured. AND, OF COURSE, THE SAME MEN WHO OB- se TAINED A MONOPOLY ON THE PRODUCTION OF TIN CANS AND OTHER COMMODITIES, NATURA- ALLY TOOK OVER THE TASK OF PRODUCING THE COMMODITY-IDEAS. REL * * \ Gradually the heads of the workers in You-Es-Ay, Because of continued disuse, became smaller and smaller, until they disappeared entirely. Yet the workers themselves were the last to suspect this fact, for not having any heads, how could they use them to discover their deficiencies? Their capacity to work was, however, in no way im- paired. They were, in fact, made to work harder than before. Their arms, legs and bodies developed re- markable power and endurance. THE WORKER BECAME A HEADLESS WON- DER! ‘ * * * * * Above is a recent photograph of a headless worker in You-Es-Ay. Beneath is one of the dispensers of the order-made Commodity-Ideas. This particular hokum- shooter, whose name is Alski-Smithovitch, is employed ‘by one of the biggest bosses in You-Es-Ay, called Morganitski. The readers of The DAILY WORKER know about the strange doings in the country called You-Es-Ay. 4 They have met the headless wonder—and they can expose the men paid to do the thinking for the workers. A DAILY WORKER passed along to the workers in You-Es-Ay— A Worker Correspondent from everys shop, mill, mine or factory in that backward country— HOW LONG WOULD IT BE BEFORE A NEW HEAD WOULD BEGIN TO SPROUT ON THE HEADLESS WONDER? (omorrow: Be a Bolshevik!) ONLY 73,200 ITLOW REPLIES TO WM. GREEN |\Takes Up Challenge| | of Labor Fakers Continued from Page One |Party confirms the reports of thc agents of William Green that the Communists are actively engaged helping the textile workers of New | Bedford fight the wage-cutting of- | fensive of the textile barons as they | helped the coal miners defend their | standards of living against the at- tacks of the coal barons headed by Andrew Mellon, with whom John L. | Lewis, the wrecker of the United |Mine Workers of America, is asso- | |ciated in the republican party. “The Workers (Communist) Party considers it one of its main tasks to help organize the unorgan- ized workers, who are left without | help or guidance by the A. F. of L. Lureaucrats, and to reorganize the | existing unions that are being| steadily weakened by the treachery | of Green and his associates. The Communists in the trade unions are slways to be found fighting with and for the workers for a better standard of iiving and in defense of better working conditions, while the ten and twieve-thousand-dollar- a-year labor leaders are hobnobbing with the bosses, in politics and busi- ness, and leaving the workers to the mercy of the empldéyers, New Miners’ Union. “The once-powerful United Mine Workers of America, of which President Green was formerly sec- retary-treasurer, is now destroyed and the rank and file under the lead- ership of progressive fighters are building a new miners’ unicn that will carry on the fighting tradition of the men and women who risked and lost their lives to organize that mighty body of coal diggers which | which was for decades the, back- bone of the American irade union movement. “John L. Lewis, who drew $20,000 in salary and expenses in one year, while the striking soft coal miners |and their dependents were living on a few cents a day, has effec- tively performed the job of destroy- ing the U. M. W. of A. ‘He is sup- porting the republican party in the elections—the party of Teapot) Dome, A. B. Fall, Injunction Daugh- | erty and Strikebreaker Coolidge. The rank and file of the miners are now determined to get rid of Lewis | and his gang and organize under | the leadership of men who believe | that the way to win striker is to| fight and not to beg for favors | from the capitalist politicians. | Communists Not at Atlantic City. | “While 28,000 textile workers are holding the line against a ten per| cent. wage-cut in New Bedford and hundreds of them, including, Com- munists, are being clubbed, ar- | rested and jailed, Green and his} compa.ions are enjoying the cool | breezes at Atlantic City and from their comfortable hotel quarters in- | citing the police and militia of Massachusetts to a more (iscronsy strikebreaking policy. “The central executive commit- | tee of the Workers (Communist) | Party helieves that the time is ripe for the exploited and _ betrayed | members of the American Federa- | tion of Labor to prepare the skids for William Green and his Wall Street lackeys on the executive councils and elsewhere. The dec- laration of war against the Com- munists will be met by the militant rank and file with a counter-offen- sive to clean the unions of the re- actionary officials, who have noth- ing in common with the workers and are living in luxury on salaries and expense accounts tiat bankers might well envy. _ Red Election Campaign. “The Workers — (Communist) Party in the election campaign will carry the Communist message into every state in the Union and will expose the corrupt leaders of the A. F. of L. as the tools of the em- ployers in the trade unions and the agents of American imperialism, who are preparing to lead the masses into +the next imperialist war as they led them into the last. “Had the leaders of the American Federation of Labor shown as much energy in fighting against injunc- tions, against wage-cuts, against | the open-shop drive, against com- pany unions, and for the organiza- |. s a FILIPINO WORKERS ORGANIZED —-- —_____% MANILA, Aug. 5.—There * are 73,200 organized workers in the Philippines, according to the latest available figures, and they are members of 105 trade unions. in three national federations. The total number of workers in the Philip- pines, which has a population of 12,000,000 is 2,857,000. Of these 2,500,000 are employed im agricul- ture, 50,000 in fisheries, 11,000 in forestrysand lumber, 3,000 in min- ing, 118,000 in commerce and trans- portation trades, 12,000 are in gov- ernment employ, and 113,000 in fac- tories and workshops. The indus- tries with the largest number of workers are the Sugar and the tobacco industries with 15,000 and 14,000 workers, respectively. Among the wage earners are 619,000 women, ‘of whom 607,000 are employed in agriculture. The working hours are nine and a half in commerce and the transport trades, and eight hours in the mines and government jobs. EXPLOSION AT DUPONT ANTOFOGASTA, Chile, Aug. 3.| —Five workers, including an Amer- ican named Collins, were reported | killed today in an explosion at a powder plant of the Dupont Com-/ pany, 10 miles from Calama. Com-| munication with Calama is inter- rupted and the complete casualties are not as yet known. tion of the unorganized, they would not be regarded today by millions of American workers as a set of corrupt, lazy, money-grabbing fak- ers, who, while earning the reward of the employers in official posi- tions and the tmoluments that ac- company those positions, have also | corned the contempt of every think- ing worker who is loyal to the class o. which he is a member. “William Green and his associ- ates are meeting in Atlantic City) with the primary purpose of bar- gaining with the republican and democratic ‘parties for their influ- | ence over the trade union vote. It is not known to those corrupt labor leaders that, presidential victories | are on the side of the higgest money bags. They want their share of the swag. And since both parties are about equally flush, the trade union leaders are having a harder time than usual making up their minds. which to ‘support. whether they support Smith let each labor skate play a lone hand, their decision will not have much influence on the working- class vote. They cannot fool all the workers all the time. For Worker-Farmer Government. “The. Workers (Communist) Party calls on American labor to support its candidates, William Z. Qoster and Benjamin Gitlow, on the national ticket and to organize around its program, which declares that the capitalist system must be abolished and a Workers’ and Farm- | ers’ government substituted for the | capitalist governmental apparatus that functions solely in the interests of Wall Street.” The statement is signed by Ben- jamin Gitlow, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. & / Going anywhere Any time Over any Line Tickets over all lines, including Tourist, sold at established rates. Ren-entry Permits, Visaes, good reservations. SERVICES FREE Information about travel to ‘all parts of Europe. Ilus- trated folder on request. -— COME WRITE OR CALL _—— A. WESSON & CO. But | or) Hoover or throw down the bars and | 5,000 WORKERS SARIKE IN BIG BELGIAN TOWN Figures for June Are Largest of Year | BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 5. |—Five thousand workers at the plant of the Fabrique Nationale company at Liege yesterday walked out on strike against what their, leaders declare are unfair clauses in! the mutual insurance plan imposed upon them by the owners of the} Both fliers are members of the Polish fascist officers |corporation, a report from that city | states. Altho the leaders have issued the statement announcing the insurance | clauses as the causes of the strike it is widely known here that the whole insurance scheme, mulcting the workers of a regular portion of their sleneder wages, has_caused in- tense and the probability of a strike at this concern has loomed since the discussion began on the plan. The whole city is reported to be taking a vital interest in events at the Fabrique Nationale. Liege is the largest industrial town in Bel gium, in the heart of the iron and coal district. It rivals Namur as} an armament production center. Owing to its significance the indus-} trial region and its proximity to the German Dutch frontiers, the Bel- gian government is always prepared to take. extraordinary measures in handling strikes in Liege. 2 HAT WORKERS | Co-operating with the right wing bureaucrats in an effort to prevent| the rank and file millinery workers from building a union of their own, police on Thursday arrested two millinery workers, Ida Shorr and Diaho Lenken, for distributing leaf- lets. A The leaflets, issued by the Trade Union Educational League, protest- ed against the union-smashing tac- tics of the right wing. They were being distributed between 36th and 38th Sts., on Sixth Ave., when Police- man Michael McCarty arrested the two workers. The defendants appeared Friday | morning in the Second Magis-| trates Court before Magistrate! the case until next ~ ednesday, the| two workers being released in| $500 bail each. They are being de- presenting the New York Section of| the International Labor Defense. | ¥ 52.5-HOUR WEEK Among 144,762 auto workers in 8 states average full-time weekly hours are 52.5. resentment among the men,/|~ n Workers Mass at Huge Berlin Anti-War Meeting Officers’ Box Seats in Coming Slaughter The picture shows the interior of the new German flying boat, Farman, which will make regular trips between Berlin and Paris. Such planes can be vquickly changed from éommercial to military planes. 30 GUARDSMEN FELLED BY HEAT ANTIWAR MEETS HELD IN U.S.S.R, Lined Up in Hot Sun; |Tchitcherin Comments Officers Fan Selves ERIE, Pa., Aug. Thirty mem- bers of Company E, 112th regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard, fell in a dead faint yester- day while lined up in the ing sun in front of the city hall here as officers and officials of this city and county, carrying fans and at- tired in comfortable suits, reviewed them. The condition of some of the guardsmen is serious, and one is not expected to recover. Almost every other guardsman of the company was ill today. 120,000 Farmers are Homeless After Flood in M&ssissippi Valley WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — Ac- cording to figures recently compiled here, the Mississippi Valley floods of this year have made 120,000 peo- ple homeless and have inundated hundreds of counties. The details were given by Robert E. Bondy, manager of the eastern area, who. returned today from an | Abraham Rosenblut who postponed|inspéction tour through the valley. The economic losses of the farm- ers in the regions where the flood took place have been unusually |fended by Jacques Buitenkant, re-|/heavy. Although there has been no loss of life, on account of the slow rising of the water, which enabled the farmers and their families to reach safety, many of the poor farmers have had their homes”and what other little possessions they had completely wiped out. THE DIARY OF A- [_ COMMUNIST SCHOOLBOY GR ae RD What does a boy of twelve think about in the land where workers rule? This simple diary of a schoolboy in Soviet Russia has puzzled many a wise bourgeois New standards, new ideas, a new critic. life—richer and things seem at first unlikely and fantastic to a dusty brain. But the “Diary” s Price, Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street New York City more creative. Such peaks for itself. $2.50 SOV On Kellogg Pact Continued from Page One tion, and due to overproduction, is in competition for markets with all the western nations. The United States, the editorial says, holds an enmity towards the Soviet Union. The Izvetia, pointing out that the Kellogg anti-war pact allows the im- perialist nations certain spheres in which to carry on war unmolested, points to the Lithuanian-Polish con- “There can be no doubt that the ageressive speeches of the Polish militarists are an expression of the mood reigning in the “governing centres of the great powers.” The very nature of the Soviet Union, which is not an imperialist power, and the need for economic development within its own borders, the Izvsetia declares, “is objective evidence of the sincerity of the oviet peace policy for those who are not convinced by the practical manifestation of this policy.” The Izvestia also'points out that four-fifths of the soldiers in the last ‘war were workers and farmers and for this reason the reports of new destructive inventions can not fright- en the Soviet Union. “ATI ‘these deadly weapons are directed by man, and he, as we have seen, is in the main our own proletarian,” it says. * eo MOSCOW, August 5.—M. Tchit- cherin, Peoples’ ommissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, declared that the Kellogg pact is an instrument against the Soviet Union unless the latter is in- vited. “Tt is not yet too late,” he said. SOVIET EOPORTS SHOW INCREASE REPORT SAYS Fight Insurance Plan In Liege According to cable reports re- ceived today by ‘the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, Soviet exports for European frontiers, 59,000 rubbles, were June across amounting to the largest this year and represent- ed an increase of 19 per cent over May and 40 per cent over June last Imports totaled 72,500,000 the month, also the largest this year with the exception of the month ef May. Small season- al declines in the output for June of products of mining and manufacture year. rubles for were recorded. However, most of the principal Soviet industries showed substantial increases over the production for June 1927. Coal production at 2,602,100 metric tons showed an increase of 9.5 per cent over last year. The petrolewm output, totaling 1,008,400 tone, vained 21 per cent over June 1927. The outnut of steel which amounted to 336,290 tons was 16 per cent greater than in the same month last while the output of pie iron at 272,000 tons showed a gain of 8.5 per cent. The production of cotton cloth amounted to 191,700,000 me- ters, slightly exceeding the June 19- 27 output. On the basis of the out- put for the first nine months of the year the Sovuzzoloto Gold Trust estimates gold production for 1927- 28 at 37.000 kg. for 1926-27, Grain procurements for June re- istered a 30 per cent gain over ‘ay, the procurements of 353,906 tons being also 27 per cent greater than for June last year. Loadings increased from 28.700 cars in May to 30,800 cars in June, a gain of 7 per cent. The wholesale price in- dex for June was 17.7 (1913-100) as compared with 171.5 in May and 174.1 in June, 1927. “The compact has not yet been signed, though its initiators have already finished their parleys. They still have the full possibility of dealing with the Union of Socialist Soviet Aevublics if they really desire to make the compact something be- sides an instrument against Russia Their willingness or un to discuss it with the Union of So- jcialist Soviet Republics will estab- lish what exactly is their aim — peace or preparation for war. Declaring that the Soviet Union would not join in the parleys until it received all documents and data relative to the compact, Tchitcherir continued, “Our Government is ready to par- ticipate in parleys the result of |which depends on their substance But we consider that the possibility of our signing the Kellogg compact is not excluded.” To Witness the Celebration of the 11th Anni- versary of the NOVEMBER REVOLUTION | COST OF THE 1 ENTIRE TOUR $379. $25 First Payment, balance payable in installments. 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