The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGAMIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ by GOVERNMENT Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the net ef March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY | EDITION Publishing Vol. V., No. 194. Published datly except Sunday by The National Daily Worker , 29-28 Union 8q., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSDA’ “AUGUST 16, 1928 “AUTOMOBILE—SYMBOL OF MODERN SLAVERY’—NEW OCTOPUS RISEN TO POWER 9} | ‘*Horseless Carriage | Becomes Vehicle | of Business | | Driving Force to War| By BEN LIFSCHITZ | From the laughable little “horse- | less carriage,” but of the jokes of | the practical and sane, the automo- | bile has in a short generation grown | into an octupus of transportation which helped empires to build their economic greatness. The past fif- teen years in the life of this re-| markable industry has witnessed a | boom development unprecedented in economic history. Vast fortunes have been made lit- erally overnight in furthering its progress. Bankers and finance cap- italists have staged the most dra- matic. battles for its control. Hun- dreds of thousands of workers have been drafted into its service --and slavery. Speed-up, standardization, mechanization the human being—the Belt!—these and a thousand other revolutionary developments have occurred in the | | wi exploitation, BEN LIFSCHITZ | of | short span of its life-time. STEEL STRIKERS its maturity or is it still in the up- pesca | ward stage of development? Upon : Fy | the correct answer to this question | per Stage “capo as arch to Pay-o | depend other, vastly larger, ques- tions of economic perspective. This much may be said: The} Bonanza period of the industry is drawing to a close! Capital, investment in unbelieva- bly enormous amounts has flowed into the industry. The rapidly con- centrating money power is leading to bitter competition between cap- italist combinations not only in the United States but between those at home and abroad. eg In the United States this struggle is most clearly marked in the rivalry between the gigantic Ford and General Motors Company groups. The development of the new model Ford car, accompanied by ihe production of the new model Chevrolet, reflects this conflict. This Continued on Page Three RUMOR WALL ST, LOAN TO JAPAN To Aid Imperialism in Manchuria CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 15.—Turn- | ing their final pay-off by the Cen-| tral Alloy Steel Corporation, against which they are on strike, into a demonstration of mass soli- darity in the face of wage cuts, po- | lice terror and deportation proceed- | ings against many of their number, |500 chippers and grinders of de-| |partments eight and five of the | Canton mill marched from their) | strike meeting to the employment | office in a demonstration which has | brought the officials of the com- pany to understand that they are | facing a determined mass of men. | Absolutely Firm. | With the usual terror of the steel | corporation against its workers on strike closing in on them, the 500 steel workers who walked out of the | Central Alloy Steel Company’s mill | | here one week ago, remain absolute- | ly firm. Not one man has returned to work. | | Empty persuasion and terror |alike have failed to drive back to | the mills the men who have deter- | mined that they must win this walk- |out or face a general reduction of | Wages to levels below which it is | barely possible to subsist. | | Britain. DELEGATES 10 CONGRESS HAIL DRAFT PROGRAM World Communist Meet Praises Document |Hold the 27th Session (Wiireless to The Daily Worker). | MOSCOW, U. S. R. R., Aug. 15.— Further discussion of the draft pro-| gram occupied the twenty-seventh session of the World Congress of the Communist International here yesterday afternoon. -Semard, of France, declared that the draft program utilizes the ex- periences of the last ten years, but) that it must deal more in detail with the role of the social democracy, its attitude toward the Soviet Union and its role in capitalist rationaliza- tion. The formulation of the draft program concerning the hegemony of the proletariat in the revolution must not be weakened as a conces- sion of the peasantry, as Renaud Jean suggests. Such an alteration would oppose the Leninist idea con- cerning the role of the proletariat. In the opinion of the French dele- gation, the draft must deal more in detail with the possibility of build- ing socialism in one country alone. Not “Too Heavy.” Page Arnot, of Great Britain, then declared that the British dele- gation in general approves of the draft which represents a continua- tion of the work of Marx, Engels and Lenin. The draft correctly utilizes the experiences of the Rus- sian Revolution, the speaker de- clared, hence the British delegation is opposed to all criticisms that the draft is “too Russian.” The British Labor Party declares that fascism is impossible in Great If the Communists adopted this idea it would mean an over- estimation of the strength of capi- talism. Fascist tendencies on the part of the British borgeoisie un- doubtedly exist and are commencing to take ideological and organiza- tional forms, The British delegation recom- mends certain improvements in the draft and welcomes the latter as the instrument for the conquest of the workers and their ideological arma- ment in the struggle against capi- talism. National Programs. Sierra, of Italy, then declared that the Communist Parties must elab- Continued on Page Five BUILDING TRADES COUNCILS UNIFIED Move Seen for Greater NEW IN PICKETING GROWS DESPITE TERROR Spies “Back to Work” Talk Fails as Lines Hold Tansey in Scab Move (Special to the Daily Worker.) “FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 15. —Nine more of the striking work- ers here were today sentenced to six months’ imprisonment each, under surety bonds of $1,000. | Venemously attacking the Textile Mills Committee as a “criminal or- ganization” and reviling the lead- ers, Judge Hanify meted out sav- age sentences to the strikers. James Reid, Manuel Rogers, Jesse Cordeiro, Antone Sousa, Jo- | seph Pecheco and Louis Ferrier | got six months and $1,000 each, | and others $1,000 bail for leading the picket line at the American Printing Company on the afternoon of Au- gust 6. Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate | for U. S. senator who will be one of the speakers at an open-air meet- ing in Astoria tonight. Last week's | meeting was broken up by rowdies |of the Veterans of Foreign Wars | who resented revelations on Tum-|° | many Hall corruption made by the | speakers. (Picture by Aprijasky, worker-photographer). COMMUNISTS TO DEFY JINGOES |Astoria Meeting to Be! Held Tonight The right of Communists to spcak * FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 15.— A line of pickets yesterday succeed- ed in getting thru the cordon of po- ‘ ; « lice and conducted a demonstration Ee tartan Fira fo in the! Tam- before the gates of the American |many-Jingo infested Astoria, Long | p, sate C H ae Island, will be tested tonight at 3| Printing Company. House picke jo'clock when a demonstration will|i& Brows despite all the strike- be held at the corner of Jamaica | breaking machinery the mill’ bosses and Steinway Ave. | could mobilize. Last Thursday night, Abe Har- The workers striking for the re- field, Communist candidate for the | ttirn of the ten per cent wage cut Assembly from the first district of | are holding out determinedly de- | Queens; George Padgug and Paul| spite an intense police terror and | Muller were badly beaten following | many other forces trying to crush }an..organizedattack led by mem-)the strike. Kost “ee |bers of the Dwyer Post of the Vet-| Competing strongly with fhe po- jerans of Foreign Wars. ‘Rebecca |jice and Massaehusetts courts in Grecht, state campaign manager of strikebreaking activities is the lat- jthe Workers (Communist) Party, jest act of the officialdom of the was arrested on a framed-up charge | American Federation of Textile Op- of “inciting to riot. She is now eratives. |free in $500 bail. ‘ e Ace were placed under | SUMSCRIPTION RAT Outnide In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. TERNATIONAL FUR UNION LAUNCHED AT MEET Police Seize Fall River Strike Leader WORKERS SHELF ~THE REMAINS OF © AFL UNION” *. |\Drive Is Opened for sit, $25,000 Fund for Organization ease ig Will Call Convention | Holding what the hall keeper termed, the largest crowd that ever filled the building, old Cooper Union last night was crammed while at least 4,000 fur workers enthusias- tically voted endorsement of the resolution of the International Fur Workers United Front Committee | that a new national organization of | fur workers, independent of the A. F. of L. be launched. i Jam Hall. People literally jammed tight every inch of available standing | space, including the large corridors | beyond the doors and many hun- dreds were turned away from a meeting that proved to be one of |the most historic steps in the ex- citing history of that organization. After listening attentively in an almost overpowering heat to speak- ers from nearly every American and Canadian local of the International Fur Workers Union, including speakers from the group which split off from the right wing New York ind James P. Reid, leader of the Fall River Textile Mill Committee following his arrest by the police. Reid was sentenced to serve six months in jail for picket activities, together with Sam Weissman, Bill Seroka and Jack Rubinstein. BATTY'S TACTICS Find Russian FAIL IN STRIKE VObles Frolic 2 in Drug Fes “Obey Cops” Slogan Is cern Flop; Is Pinched 15.—Cocaine, hasheesh, heroine, Joint Council, the assemblage rose as one man for the standing vote asked on the resolution calling for the formation of a new and real In- |ternational union of fur garmént and fur pelt workers. Although more locals are official participants in the new union move- \ment, the time and crowded condi- | tion of the hall permitted speakers only from Local 1, 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 40, 70, 54, 58 and Progressive Bloc of the Joint Council. The interna- tional committee also includes 91, 88, LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Aug.| 58, Toronto.and Winnipeg locals. The entire former International con- tained only several more local | The speakers tonight will be Rob- The workers, however, refuse to be terrorized and are stoically fac- NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 15. oriental debauches ending in a “har-| unions. SHANGHAI, Aug. 15—That the | Under the lead of the Central Al- | Boss Control Japanese government intends to strengthen its hold on Manchuria by increased economic penetration | backed by force, if necessary, was indicated here today by a rumor} that the Japanese government was preparing to float a loan of $30,- 000,000 to the Manchurian govern- ment, part of which is to be floated in New York, probably through J. P. Morgan and Company. Opposition against the proposed Joan, which would employ American money to strengthen the Japanese | position in Manchuria, is being ex- | pressed by Nanking governmet of- ficials. * * TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 15.—Baron Hayashi, envoy of the Japanese gov- ernment to the Manchurian war- lord, informer Premier Tanaka to- day that Chang Hsueh-liang had told him that the Nanking agree- ment was still under consideration, and that there is still a possibility of Manchuria joining the Nanking regime. SEE R.R, STRIKE ONLONG ISLAND Report Men Meeting Secretly Reports that railroad workers in the employ of the Long Island Rail- road, a subsidiary of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, are meeting se- cretly outside the “regular” union meetings are gaining ground here, as threats of a strike are heard with growing frequency along the company’s line. Charges that workers with long terms of service are being dis- charged for minor offenses or on grounds which are little more than a pretext are common. Organizers are reported to be in the field and feeling among the men » high, |loy Steel Mill Committee, the 400 chippers and 100 grinders are work- | ing actively to bring out the men thruout the entire Canton plant. The Mill Committee is rapidly act- | |ing to organize the men. | Following the arrival in Canton | of manager Fairles of the Massillon | plant, whose intention was to per- suade the strikers to go back to the | mills with promises of fifty-five |cents a day and a bonus, the local Continued on Page Three UNN TO DEFEND TAG DAY IN COURT Robert W. Dunn, secretary of the |Committee to Aid the Chinese | |"Trade Unions and J. B. Collings | Woods, treasurer of the same or- | ganization, have been subpoenaed | to appear as witnesses by the De- _ partment of Public Welfare in the case of the fifteen workers who were arrested in Chinatown Sun- day for collecting funds in connec- tion with the campaign for the re- Continued on Page Two MARINES KILL 4 NICARAGUANS MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 15. —Marine patrols clashed with forces of General Sandino again today, killing four and capturing five. The patrol, under Lieutenant Ed- son, which last week retreated after a short engagement, near Espan- olita, is reported on the ofensive again. It was believed the group encoun- Announcement was made yester-| week resulted in the assault on the | of Textile Operatives, day by William J. McSorley, presi- dent of the Building Trades Depart- ment of the American Federation of ers will devote much of their time | President | Labor, of thy completion of plans to the exposure of ‘the graft and) where the for the union of the two building trades councils hitherto functioning in New York City. The dual building trades council) which was the only one actually ef- fective was organized about ten years ago by the notorious Robert P. Brindell, who served a term in| Sing Sing for extortion. The ma- jority of the building trades unions were compelled to affiliate with this organization. The council is known to have been completely dominated by the building trades employers. District Office Issues Appeal to All Members : All members of the Workers (Communist) Party are requested to report at the district office, Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square, between 6 and 6:30 p. m. | today, to participate in special party work, according to a state- ment issued at the district office of the Workers (Communist) Party office yesterday. The work is of utmost import- ance, the statement says, and a satisfactory response is urgent. \for U. 3. senate; Abe Hartfield, Ras | BaGks and long jail sentences meted [becca Grecht, Verne Smith, editor | Ut by judges in the state that mur- of the Labor Unity; P. Frankfeld, dered Sacco and Vanzetti. In ad- acting district organizer of the | ‘ition to this the three textile mills Young Workers League; John Mul- affected by the walk-out have been ler, Donald Burke, and Pete Sha-|>usy employing scores of stool- piro. Max Schachtman, editor of the | Pigeons who are to try to ar a “Labor Defender,” will 12 chair- | back-to-work movement. All thiir man. ig |rumors to the effect that the strij Announcement has ben made in| committee has called off the serif | members of the Dwyer Post that | by the strikers. |the so-called “Americanization” | process will in the future be inten-| tivities of the police, spies and |sified by “free speech parties” of | Massachusetts courts are the offi- a similar nature to that which last | cialdom of the American Federation ‘i " 2 monization of souls” characterize ,—Vividly exposing the impractical- the post revolutionary, as they did jity of the cowardly policies of the) the pre-revolutionary life of Rus- A. F. of L. Textile Coancil in the sian aristocracy, according to revel- textile strike here was the arrest | ations made by the Soviet State G. bof William Batty, council secretary, | P+ U- and a few of his fellow officials for picketing. Batty and his union have |xlways denounced the militant tac- semi-masonic in character, whose of the former aristocracy, transact members, remnants and left-overs @PPlause, Convention Called. The thousands of workers also in- structed the leaders to call a formal convention for the official naming of the new union within not more than 60 days from last night’s meet- The discovery of secret lodges, ing- With thunderous and protracted the spirited meeting greeted the introduction of Ben |the local press by.the Tammanyite | are groundless and are disregarded | “¢o)jow Adding to the strikebreaking ac- €/tics of the Textile Mill Committees €/and called upon their members to police regulations care- fully.” Heretofore permitting the small i 3 ‘ 3 Gold, manager of the left wing, their business in hypothetical Paper! New York Joint Board, whieh 46° and land titles on an imaginary . ; 4 i ss leading the fight for a real workers’ bourse, are among the discoveries. inst th ; ofthe authoritign: union, as against the company union s jof the A. F. of L. and the bosses. Checks drawn on banks which Textile Council lines to picket while ‘i 1 Other speakers were: S. Liebowitz, ceased to exist ten years ago, an they broke up the mass demonstra- et of the Joint Board; H. Sorkin, S. signed obligations payable on the Wexler and J. Winnick of the “Coun- | Communist speakers. | At tonight’s meeting the speak- | |corruption of Tammany Hall in| | Queens and tell Astoria workers the | | truth about Al Smith, the candidate | of the traction interests and the en- | emy of the workers, as well as ex- | |posing the big business and open- |shop program of Hoover. | The democratic assistant district | | attorney of Queens, McClancey, will! be the principal speaker tonight at | the “Americanization” meeting to) be held by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in opposition to the Workers | (Communist) Party meeting. ‘ of will be published in beginning with next whose latest open act of scabbing is the an- nouncement made yesterday by Tansey from Boston, reactionary officials are meeting ‘in conference. Tansey, who while leading a labor Continued on Page Three ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Two pictures of speakers at the anti-war demonstration of the Workers (Communist) Party held ot Union Square, New York City, on August 4, appeared in the Daily Worker of August 10 and | 18 through the courtesy of Peter Aprijasky. Bukharin’s Report the Executive Committee of the | Communist International to the Sixth Congress now in session in Moscow the full official text Saturday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER GITLOW’S SPEECHES RILE THE TEXTILE tions of the T. M. C., the police com- |pletely disregard the “law and or- |der” leadership, as soon as they re- |ceived instructions to smash all |picketing. This new policy of the | mill owners is being carried out be- {cause not one man is breaking away from the 28,000 on strike. “The reactionary union has until now lost considerable membership because of the policy of “lying down before the bosses,” a T. M. C. state- {ment declares, adding, “today’s event merely adds to the proof al- ready presented that militant strug- |gle against the employers is the |best method of winning the strike.” The leaders of the Textile Coun- leil were released on bail of $100 each, and are to be tried tomorrow. ‘Sembol of Anti-USSR | Bloc in Pact Signing PARIS, Aug. 15.—It was an- | nounced here today that the sign- ing of the Kellogg pact will take place in the Quai D’Orsay, where | Wilson’s league protocol was signed by the powers. Many point out that just as the Soviet Union was not present at the signing of the proto- |col, it will also not be present at \the signing of the Kellogg pact, Which is taken as evidence of the continued anti-Soviet bloc. BARONS Addresses in Fall River and New Bedford Rouse Ire of Mill Boss Press The New Bedford and Boston papers have given considerable space to the speeches’ made by Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate for vice-president, at two meetings in New Bedford and Fall River last Sunday. The boss-controlled press took advantage of the opportunity to attack Gitlow and the Communists tered today is part of the force pang defeated the marines last week. (kit Leela under the guise of “impartial” re- ports. Thousands of warkers in the two . 4 textile cities listened intently to Git-|1 low, who spoke under the auspices of the Textile Mills Committee. Commenting on the arrests of hun-| lated to scare the workers away from the picket lines. Rest of Workers Affected. “When the Passaic strike was over, dreds of pickets and the brutality of | most of the cases were thrown out of the police, Gitlow pointed out that the same thing happened in Passaic, court,” Gitlow said, “and it would not be likely that the same practice where pickets were arrested whole-| will be followed in New Bedford. sale. The money and property of “Upon the outcome here in New sympathizers were tied up, and a/ Bedford,” the speaker declared. “de- policy was followed by the operators) pends the wages and working cpndi and their political henchmen calcu-| tions of the rest of the worke¢s in the textile industry thruout the na- tion If this wage cut goes thru, it will continue on down the line. If the workers can stop it and gain their demands, it is going to mean not only a stop to the epidemic of wage-cntting, but renewed fight in other textile eenters to gain im- proved conditions. “Neither the republican nor demo- cratic party leaders dare to interfere Continued from Page One czar’s treasury are other aberra- cil” bloc; M. Langer, Newark; G. tions of the frantic aristocrats, now Perlman, Boston; S. Burt, Philadel- faced with the feat of earning the| phia; M. Stien, Newark, S. Weil and food they eat. L. Brieca, Brooklyn; A. Sotiropolos, “Friends of Anna Virubova and Greek Local 70; and S. Soulounias of |Grigori Rasputin” is reported to the Joint Board, Greek branch. M. have been’ the name of one of the | nelander of Canada, was chairman. jlodges. Another was called the Lows Hyman, Chairman of bart “Blue International” from which all|{o"> sion ce ona but “blue bloods” are excluded, | Union also spoke. $25,000 Fund Drive. At the head of a third stood) , e Ochneff-Lefevre, former confection-| 26° Otner Tesolutions were also [er to the czar, who has since been Wnnimously carried. One was for sent north by’ the authorities, He /#mmching a, drive to raise an, om was addressed as. “Your Majesty | fun faite taled tea Leis ie campaign Louis Fourteenth,” and bine fated | t, organize the open shops, and the to restore not only the Russian aris-| ;_, other was a resolution of protest tocracy but the France of Marie! ,cainst the use of the police indus Antoinette. | trial squad as open assistants of All these lodges are alleged to the right sing in the new terror shave maintained counter-revolution-| campaign started by them, |ary contacts with emigre groups| The chairman also introduced to |outside the Soviet Union. Secret the meeting a worker who had been meetings of the membership were slashed by a right wing thug in an an occasion for “soul harmoniza- attack on a shop that morning. tion.” Meyer Weinstein, the victim, had re- pena Sener fused to go to a meeting of the SPEED-UP HITS right wing and for his refusal was | the thug. held by members of the police squad while being cut up by W. Yacker, Yacker was later are rested on a warrant sworn out. New Union Call. The resolution calling for | formation of the new union di | (By a Worker Correspondent) | “In view of the above facts, | It cannot be said that the speed- the thousands of fur workers up and high pressure of Big Busi- |the elected representatives of 4 ness are overlookin; iste \eals 1, 5, 10 and 15, of Locals 88, tits of the |4, 53, 20, 80, 40 and 91 of the ze. spective: New York, Brooklyn, ’ ark, Philadelphia, Boston, To! . Winnipeg; and the 4 Bloc, formerly of the Joint Couneil, assembled in Cooper Union on Wed- + nesday, August 15, hereby pledge Continued on Page Two ‘ jof labor. True, members of the | printing industry would be horrified \if the world at large should become jaware of their pacific submission \and the open violation of the most sacred oath: “No member shall see another member wronged, etc.” | The aristocracy now are on a level with the menials, but they will stand more abuse than their less fortunate unskilled brothers, Their standing in the community will not let them COOLIDE PRAISES WAR PACT. WAUSAU, Wis., Aug. 15. - dent Coolidge today acclaimed the lower their dignity to question | Kellogg “peace’ ’treaty, soon to be whether they are cattle or human | signed in Paris as “the outstanding — beings. Some on the “inside” ye-|step toward international peace in ceive a pittance for their faithful-4the decade since the Continued on Page Two in 1918,”