The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 15, 1928. ‘ Page Thre Communist Party Condemns Treachery of Lewis Machine; Endorses New Unto: TRACE RECORD OF BETRAYALS ENDING WITH FINAL MOVE TO ABANDON JAC Statement Analyzes th Furthering Betrayal Calls Upon Miners to Continue Struggle and Build Ne Continued from Page One {zation was thus seriously crip- pled. John L. Lewis fought the Kan- sas miners in their fight against the Industrial Court, drove their militant officials out of the union and put in his own reactionary of- ficials who agreed to the com- pulsory arbitration clauses of the | Industrial Court of Kansas. He | squandered millions in West Vir- ginia, but never seriously in- tended the organization of the West Virginia miners. He stole the last election of the United Mine Workers of America after the rank and file had overwhelm- ingly defeated John L. Lewis and his reactionary crew and elected the progressive Save the Union slate by an overwhelming major- ity. Lewis advocated a policy of class collaboration, arbitration, industrial peace, ete., based upon capitalist efficiency and mass pro- duction and the elimination of miners from the industry. In the Anthracite he led the strike to a defeat and made an agreement that enforces arbitra- tion and the contract system upon the miners. He refused to consider national action in the coal industry with the result that union miners are always actually working and scabbing on their brothers who The collapse of the strike also exposes the strikebreaking role of the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Green, the president of the American Federation of Labor, is a member and former official of the United Mine Workers of America. The bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. did not raise a finger in behalf of the miners. Not a single act of solidarity was organized by the reactionary officials of the Amer- iean Federation of Labor. At the convention of the A. F. of L., the strike was ignored. Later, capitalist politicians were | YELLOW TRAITORS EXPOSED. The crushing defeat of the United Mine Workers of America is a blow to the whole labor move- ment. It exposes the role of the present administration of the American Federation of Labor as being contrary to the interest of the workers. By its failure to unite with the forces of the min- ers the workers of all other unions, the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. has given great material support to the offensive now be- ing conducted by the open-shop interests. Its action has greatly weakened the unions and strength- ened the fight against them. The general crisis facing the trade unions has been brought nearer by these actions. Faced with the defeat of the bituminous miners’ strike, the destruction of the United Mine Workers of America and with a growing re- bellion among the textile ~vork- SOCIALIST PARTY The socialist party did not sup- port the miners. It lined up with John L. Lewis and his reactionary machine. It did not appear in the picket lines to inspire and help the miners in their difficult struggle against capitalist greed, exploitation and persecution. It fought the left wing which was inspiring militancy in the struggle and heroic resistance to the cap- italists and the reactionary Lewis and his officials. MINERS’ HEROIC FIGHT. ‘Against the workers the capi- | ‘talists act as a united force. The | coal operators used the whole | power of the government of the United States against the miners. Betrayed by the reactionary trade union officials on the one hand, the miners, on the other hand, were brow-beaten by the police, persecuted by the courts, deprived of their most elementary rights by injunctions, raided by constabulary and shot by troops. Caught between the two forces, one of the treachery of Lewis and his officials and the other of the persecution of the capitalist gov- ernment, the miners courageous- ly and stubbornly fighting, were beaten back. Huddled in barracks and tent colonies, starving and COMMUNIST PARTY FOR MINERS. The Workers (Communist) Party gave full support and lead- ership to this left wing and to the brave fighting miners. It fought all the enemies of the miners inside of the union and outside. The Communist Party, always loyal to the miners, is de- serving of the support of each and every miner, The Workers ) Party fought side } i | during the last stages | mand of the left wing. The dis- | John L. Lewis. A. F. OF L, LEADERS STRIKEBREAKERS. | | Every proposal for mobilizing the’ | | to help win the strike, the offi- KSONVILLE SCALE, e Role of Socialists in| w Union happen to he on strike. He hes fastened the reign of the reac- tionary officials upon the union by decreeing that only Ameri- can citizens can hold office, thus disfranchising the large bulk of foreign-born* miners who are not citizens, but who are militant and class-conscious. He has limited the present strike of the bitumin- ous miners to only a few fields. He opposed mass picketing. He refused to take up a fight against the injunction. Lewis squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars in paying big salaries, and did not pay strike relief or provide for relief. Only of the strike did he provide relief and then only after the miners them- selves had organized the Na- tional Miners’ Relief Committee. He gave relief, when he did, only in isolated cases to those who sup- ported the administration. | He made separate agreements | in Illinois and Indiana, thus tak- ing the heart out of the strike and making certain its defeat. Only a general strike tieing up the entire industry could have de- feated the coal aperators. Lewis and the reactionary district offi- cials fought and resisted this de- trict officials bear the responsi- bility for the defeat-equally with | invited by the A. F. of L. bu- | reaucracy into the _ situation. masses of the trade unions for the support of the strikers was ‘re- jected. Faith was put in the cap- italist politicians who demanded | action against the Communists | and not support to the strike. | Instead of busying themselves | | cials of the A. F. of L., William Green, Matthew Woll and others, met with the Bar Association and with the largest open-shop inter- ests in America to plan an anti- strike law against the working class of the United States. ers, needle trade workers, and others against their reactionary strike-breaking union-smashing policies, the Executive Board of the A. F. of L. again calls for the extermination of the rank and file movement in the unions by raising once more the war cry for the ex- termination of the Communists from the unions. The reactionary officials only become militant against the enemies of the ex- ploiters, These tools of the cap- italists in the unions are the most: bitter enemies of the militant class-conscious revolutionary lead- ers of the -vorkers. The battle betwen these enemies | of the workers in the trade unions and the rank and file will cone tinue until the workers will oust the whole reactionary officialdom from ,Green to Lewis and from Woll to Sigman out of the labor movement. AGAINST MINERS. This socialist party, which, dur- ing the days of Debs, hundreds of thousands of miners supported and voted for, has abandoned the class struggle, has united with the blackest reactionaries in the unions against the workers. The socialist party, like John L. Lewis, Green, Woll and Corapany, and the coal operators, is responsible for the miners’ defeat. It should be despised and fought by every mingr. suffering, the privations of the long bitter struggle, the miners, 9) their wives and children, never- theless put up a heroic and mem- orable fight. This fight they carried on against the whole capitalist at- 4 tack under the leadership of the left wing. The left wing inspired the miners to fight on. The left wing organized the mass picket lines. The left wing led them to defy the injunctions. The left wing organized the opposition to Lewis and his reactionary leader- ship. The left wing organized the National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee and provided relief. The left wing defended the miners at each and every step of the long bitter struggle. by side with the miners, raised relief, fought the injunctions, carried on a war against Lewis. It was the best and strongest al- ly of the fighting miners and the left wing. The Communists were fought by Lewis, driven out of the mines, The capitalists raised cries against the Commu- nists in the striking mine fields. Workers (Communist) Party has no interests separate and apart | from the workers, that its objec- tive is to fight all capitalist op- pression and exploitation. Today the capitalists own and control the mines, mills, factories, land, etc. The government is their gov- ernment, representing their strike-breaking rule and bloody dictatorship against the worke: The Workers (Communist) Par. ty is the Party of class struggle, of uncompromising revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of this vicious capitalist rule based upon exploitation and It stands for the rule of the work- oppression, ers, for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government to take over the mines, the factories, the mills, the land, etc., in the interests of the workers and farmers. Every class conscious miner should join | the Workers (Communist) Party, the fighting revolutionary Party of the workers. A FRIEND OF ANDREW MELLON. John L. Lewis, however, be- trayed the miners and led them to defeat. He is a republican. He is a member of the party of | Andrew Mellon, the most vicious opponent of the miners in the present strike. In spite of this fact, Lewis still urges the min- ers to support Mellon and the capitalist forces he the government to crush the min- ers. The American Federation Labor proposes the same policy of supporting capitalist cians, republican and democrats, who will continue to use the gov- ernment as a_ strikebreaker against the striking miners and represents, | the same forces which have used | of | politi- | | workers fighting wage cuts, | fighting for their unions and | fighting for bread and butter for | their wives and children. | The Communists stand for in- | dependent political action. The | Communists want the workers to | fight against the capitalists and | their political parties. The capi- enemies of the workers, The | misleaders of labor who want to continue to sell out the workers, to the capitalist political parties, the Lewises, the Greens, the Wolls, etc, must be driven out of the labor movement affd a mighty party of labor built up. The defeat of the bituminous | | | | miners means a general offensive WORKERS PARTY GETS ON BALLOT ‘Ticket Now Qualified in 11 States Continued from Page One played in order to roll up the tre- |mendous number of signatures re- |auired to place a Party ticket on ‘the ballot in New York. Abraham Jakira, district organ- izer in Pittsburgh, assures the Na- tion Election Campaign Committee |that he will come across with his auota of 3,000 signatures for Penn- sylvania, and there is no doubt but . Benjamin, organizer of District 3, will do likewise. There are thou- sands of miners in Pennsylvania anxious to register a protest against the capitalist parties of the coal barons and to show by voting for the Communist ticket on election day that they have learned through 15 months of a grueling strike that their only hope for the future is in organization under the banner of a revoluticnary political party that talists and their parties are the | against the miners in all districts. | The anthracite, Illinois and In- diana will be the next sections of coal industry to be attacked. Boylens, Cappelinis, Bren- Fishwicks, ete. will not hi nans, save the miners from the attack that will inevitably come and soon as a result of the bitumin- ous betrayal and debacle. The miners must organize this attack that will take place. MUST FIGHT LEWIS BETRAYAL. The April 1st conference was called to oust Lewis and save the | Miners’ Union. It called atten- | tion to the fact that Lewis and his policies were wrecking the United Mine Workers of America. | The wrecking of the union has been completed. The miners must salvage as much of the wreckage as they can and leave nothing to John L. Lewis. The National | Arrangements Committee has i | sued a call for a National Con- vention to miners to build a new | miners’ union. The — National Convention will take place on September 9th in Pittsburgh. In all districts the fight against Lewis and for the miners’ Nation- | al Convention must be carried on | vigorously. All local unions must fight the Lewis betrayal and elect large delegations to the Septem- ber 9th convention. who were driven and forced back to work by the Lewis treachery, throw yourselves into the fight against Lewis and for the build- ing of a new fighting union of the miners. The only way out of the pres- ent deplorable ¢onditions con- fronting the miners is to build a new powerful miners’ union, that will be able to fight the wage cuts, reestablish union conditions, | and defend the miners. To build this union, the Lewis regime must be annihilated and relegated to the scrap-heap. The unorganized fields must be organized! The miners must be welded into a national union under militant class conscious leadership! NO MONEY FOR THE LEWIS MACHINE. | Not one penny from the hard | earned toil of the miners must go to the traitor, Lewis! dues! Don’t pay Don’t pay assessments! to resist | All miners | Do not recognize the Lewis of- ficials! Abolish the check-off that gives the operators the opportunity to collect the money from the min- ers for Lewis so that with the miners’ money he can continue to fight them and betray them! Call district conferences and re- pudiate John L, Lewis, the trai- tor! Long Union! Elect delegates to the Mii | Convention to be held September 9th, to organize the new union! Affiliate your local unions now before the convention takes place! Miners of all districts, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio, Illinois and In- | diana, the Anthracite, Kansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Wyom- ing, the Scuth and Pacific Coast, prepare for the future, prepare to win back the conditions you live the New Miners’ have lost, prepare to regain your | strength! Demonstrate that the 30 years of sacrifice, of war's the coal operators to build union and establish living « tions have not been in vait . your new union into a pow militant mass organization! | your political power for class! Shatter the citadels of the actionaries who are crippling’ trade union movement! Demc strate anew that the fighti militant self-sacrificing spirit the coal diggers is not dead! On the ruins of the Lewis wreckage will rise then a more powerful, a more deteXnined miners’ union, controlled by the rank and file, responsive to its will and needs. Such a union will defeat the operators and blazen the way for the whole trade union movement towards class struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of “the workers. FIGHT FOR A NEW MINE UNION. Miners, fight on! Lead the way! Thé textile workers, needle | trades workers, steel workers, and others will follow to build a | united trade union movement in the United States that will be in- vincible! Mine Leaders Who Are Directing the Plans for a New Union From right to left Pat Toohey, secretary and John J. Watt, chairman of the National Ar. rangements Com- mittee for the new union. At the right is George Voyzey, leader of the Illinois miners. are Pittsburgh Labor to Honor Sacco-Vanzetti PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 14.— The International Labor Defense of Pittsburgh will hold. a meeting*in honor of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti. The meeting will be held on August 26th, Sunday, 2 p. m. daylight saving time, in the Cam- eraphone Theatre, 6202 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. The meeting will be addressedby Joseph Hagliacane in the Itéfan language, while Jack Stachel, the PINTO TELLS OF | PRISON TORTURE Strike Leader Brutally Beaten in Cell Continued from Page One grabbed my right leg; another my left leg while the other two my right and left arms. They held me Aviator Prepares for Conference Continued from Page One reactionary president of District 5, is a final evidence of the utter bankruntcy of the corrupt Lewis machine. The contempt with which the scab coal operators met the pro- posal is the best indication of the necessity for building a new fight- Trans-Atlantic Flight 'n¢ vrion of the coal diggers. PARIS, Aug, 14 (UP).—Dieu- Joining Progressives, Numerous locals of the formor donne Costes, French world flier, U, M. W. A, and miners of unor- hastened preparations today for his | ganized coal fields are severing their proposed non-stop flight across the! relations with the collapsed Lewis Atlantic. Believing that a change in the forces for tho now union, machino and are rallying their Applica- weather would permit a start soon,|tions for chartera and duen cards Costes flew his plane today from are coming to the National Minors Villacoublay to Le Bourget Field, onvention Arrangements Commit- where the longer runway will per- tee, Pittsburgh. mit a take-off with a full fuel load. has for its final aim the overthrow national organizational secretary of in the air and started to beat me. |field. When the Communists worked of the systems which breed unem- ployment, wage-cutting, union- smashing, strikebreakers, _ stool- pigeons, coal and iron policemen and state cossacks. . Big Ohio Vote. One-half the necessary number of signatures required to place the Party ticket on the ballot in Ohio has been secured. As in Pennsyl- vania, the mining population of that state have learned to lok with hate on the capitalist parties that have lined up with the cperators in per- secuting them during the strike. Petitions are in circulation in I- linois, and organizers are active in Indiana and Wisconsin. In Minne- sota, the heart of the farmer-labor movement, the reactionaries in that party are hurling abuse at the Com- munists for putting a ticket in the inside the farmer-labor party, they | were accused as disrupters and trouble-makers. It is hard to please the labor fakers. The socialist | party is about dead in Minnesota; only the Workers Party is holding aloft the banner of the class struggle. The Party ticket will be on the ballot there. The Middle West. In the states of Oklahoma, Ne- braska, Colorado, Utah, Arizona) and Wyoming Workers Party organ- | izers are doing excellent work. Ne- | braska is almost over the top. B.| the Workers (Communist) Party, For about 10 minutes the black. will address the meeting in English. | jack continued to do its work. Most Mexican Priests Jailed “On to Pittsburgh, September 9; build an honest, militant union,” is tho appeal of Watt and Toohey. COMPANIES BAR NEW LEWIS MOVE, Reject Fagan Offer of | On the road to victory is the National Miners’ Convention to build a new Miners’ Union! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE, WORKERS (COM MUNIST) PARTY OF AM ERICA. 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Miller, former Communist as- semblyman in the North Dakota legislature, in placing the ticket on the ballot in that state. Petitions in South. In the states of Tennessee, Ken- tucky, Georgia and Florida Party organizers have been active for sev- eral weeks. Petitions are being cir- culated in Kentucky, and nominat- ing conventions are being arranged in other states. Though the state officials are likely to take advantage of every} technicality to throw the Workers of the blows were aimed at my chest, evidently believing that if I was hit in the fleshly part of my body it would not be so noticeable | and leave as many marks. However, they also hit me on the head, arms When I did not cry out, | they became more angry and hit me |all the harder. | “One of the men shouted |what kind of a s-- of a b | is, he won’t say anything.’ ie | Shortly | after, I was carried back to my cell.” The spirit and fighting determina- tion displayed by Pinto is what| makes it possible for the 30,000 strikers to continue their fight for 17 weeks against the mass terrorism of the mill owners and their flun- for Counter-Revolution | pose of enabling the mine delegates MEXICO CITY, Aug. 14 (UP).— | toric convention. to come to Pittsburgh for the his- | A. WESSON & COs 309 East 14h. N.Y. C. Algonquin 8254 Fourteen persons, including a priest, have been arrested at Tor- reon charged with sedition, a dis- patch to the newspaper Excelsior said today. To Witness the Celebration of | the 11th Anni- | versary of the | NOVEMBER | REVOLUTION of the strikers and their families. 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