The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. 4 %.\\) Page 4 ee ~ 4 RESIS DASA Ss a a : AS oa il == rker nily © Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party CAMPAI Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday | 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: By Mail (in New Yc $8 per year $4.50 six SUBSCRIPTION RATES nly) 0 three months $6.00 per year “Daiwork” By Mail (outside of New York): $2 three months $3.50 six months Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | mail ——___ Address and —__ out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, Editor. - ROBERT New York, MINOR ...WM. F. DUNNE Entered as se i-¢ e at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. | baa £4 El For the Workers! Mathew Woll and That “Shiplead of Gold.” Mathew Woll will be noted in history for his attainments as the theoretic abor breaking from wit in the 1 Not that Matty is hims brazen strikebreaker than Berry, or John Lewis, or E that would be saying too much. Woll is the theoretician; he is the soute with a philosopl of his Lewis’ program is carried out on the streets of a mining town by firing machine-gun s of striking mine ybody of the pen He hands down to posterity the philosophy of such actions in imperishable bullets into the hearts - workers, Woll is the t and ink. newspaper statements. A second phase of Mr. Woil in the art of class struggle against the work- » ing class is his marvelous capacity for dis- Whenever a mass of workers, goaded to desperation by being sold out to Woll mashed, their mem- reets or framed up and sent to prison by the open actions of “union” officials of the Woll gang—whenever under such conditions. ~ swats Mr. Woll in the eye, tells him to go to hell, and builds up a new union where the Woll gang destroyed the old,—then Mr. Woll “Money appar- ently has come from Russia in large quanti- ties to finance this work,’ says Mr. Woll, picking himself up and brushing off his $150 covering gold. scab-herding employers associates, their union bers shot down on the by 4 a mass of workers sees, not stars, but gold! suit. Let us glance at the latest statement of this little Knight of the Garter of American capitalism, about “money from Russia.” the first place, there is no such country as Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, a conquest of the greatest “strike” of all history, a revolutionary con- “Russia.” There is the quest of the wor Fatherland of all worke For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER A | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! a more adroi Major t of the whole earth. In the second place, there would be nothing more in the nature of the international solid- VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! of strike- movement. or Ge Green— But Matty ur Where rade. attainment and his rights; he has been too long separated by a | deep bureaucratic gulf from the working | class, its ways of thought and its motives; he confuses their motives with his own. But we can tell Mr. Woll that the severe beating that he and Lewis and Green and Sigman and Kaufman are getting is due to the determination of the workers in certain sections of industry that their labor move- ment shall not be destroyed. Nor can Matty scare these workers with the cry of “dual unionism.” workers in several great industries are out to organize their class, and the dirty strike- breaking tactics of preserving a shell of semi- company unionism as a dog-in-the-manger to prevent the real organization of the work- ers, is not going to keep them from action. We notice that Woll’s latest appeal against the Communists is no longer to the workers, but to a section of employers. what he calls “the changed attitude” of the Communists (which is merely the consistent application of long-established Communist principles to a present situation), Mr. Woll said to the capitalist press: The militant Speaking of chusetts electric chair. | REMEMBER SACCO AND VANZETTI! By LOUIS HYMAN. The Sigman-Schlesinger clique and “The Forward” are shouting themselves hoarse that we have formed a Communist opposition | scab union at the order of Moscow, where a policy of establishing oppo- | sition unions was decided upon. This would lead one to believe that up | till now “The Forward” clique had recognized us as a regularly con- “We welcome the changed attitude, because now we will know which AMERICAN EMPLOY- ERS are willing to countenance Moscow con- trolled labor organizations, financed by Soviet Russia and formed for the specific purpose of | stituted labor union. It is a known \fact, however, that immediately jafter Sigman had issued his edict | expelling the locals and the Joint furthering the In would say. the Socialist hundreds have wrecked. His frantic plea is: Moscow scheme of world revolu- tion and dictatorship.” So the appeal is to “American employers” against the Communists. provement; it is the beginning of a recog- nition that he cannot successfully appeal to the workers. The workers in the mine fields, in the textile mills and in the needle trades are rapidly learning that the Workers (Com- munist Party is their one everlasting and fearless friend and leader, and some of them are even learning to “take to their bosoms | the doctrines of Communism,” as Mr. Woll | whether it has any bearing on the|submitted to these unprecedented | everyone that not we but they are Mr. Woll’s statement is a wild appeal to open-shop employers to come to his rescue against the Communists and the of thousands of workers whose unions he and Green and Lewis and Sigman This is some im- Board, representing 80 per cent of |the membership, we were labelled by the Forward as the Communist |scab union of 21st Street and Sig- | man with a few henchmen proceeded to organize opposition locals, which the Forward proclaimed as the real union. Now, when even those ele- ments that originally sided with | Sigman are coming over to the ders from Moscow” must be} dragged by the clique, regardless of | situation or not. An examination of the facts will | ized an opposition scab union. Worse Conditions. | Since 1910 the Schlesinger-Sig- | “arity of the working class, if the Russian workers were to send money to the workers in strikes or other struggles against the em- ployers in capitalist countri vof the British general strike and coal strike, the trade unions of the Soviet Republics d help their British is not possible except in the most extreme cas the workers of the Soviet Union have t great necessity to put every pos into the construction of socialist industry within the, country they have conquered. send millions of dollars to fellow workers. True, th While Mr. Woll lies when he sa the Union of Socialist So used in the struggles in w trades workers, the miners Batty’s and Binns’ and and the textile workers have rubbed his and Sigman’s and McMahon’s Lewis’ noses in the dirt,—nevertheless there would be no objection in principle if the free working class of the Union of Socialist Soviet In the case “We will now find out how our ‘open shop’ employers with alleged American and patriotic war cries will take to their bosoms the doctrines of Communism and the machinations of Commu- |man-Forward clique has lorded it |and held sole sway over our union. | Thanks to its policies of treachery | |and corruption the cloak and dress © nists.” id ories because factorie e ble kopeck ys money fro Republics sh the needle m and government.” Republics were to send to the workers in any other country financial help to win their for beating you. struggles. But it didn’t happen. The trouble with Mr. Woll’s mind is a too f "ready way of attributing all ions to mo- | nist, tives connected with the receipt of money—a | your latest scream. subjective judgment. Mr. Woll does not understand why workers fight for their , gold. ear Since the “doctrines of Communism” in- clude the confiscation of the mills, mines and from the employers, Mr. means that the “open-shop employers” to whom he appeals cannot bosoms the Communist program.” What Woll is really getting at is that the employers are going to be beaten by the workers unless the employers call in Mr. Woll’s gang to help them. He tells the open-shop eraployers: “take to their “And the public (meaning the capitalist class) | will learn the great service rendered by Ameri- can labor (meaning the ‘labor’ bureaucracy) to our people (meaning the capitalist class) and the Well, Mr. Woll, you ought to understand that these actions of yours are motive enough We think that it may be the licking you are getting from the fur workers under the leadership of the Commu- 3en Gold, among others, that inspired It must have been Ben Gold, not Soviet jindustry was broken up into frag- | ments. In place of the large inside | shops innumerable contracting and | sub-contracting shops have sprung into existence, where the workers are compelled to slave long hours for a starvation wage. The condi- tions of the workers grew steadily. worse from season to season and from year to year. | In order to appease the hungry | and dissatisfied workers the clique | has presented demands to the boss- es which it never seriously intended to put into effect. It called’ fake | strikes and fake stoppages during which millions of dollars were saaundered. After every strike and after every stoppage, “The For- ward” loudly proclaimed that “Gen- osse” Schlesinger and “Genosse” Sigman had defeated the bosses and secured a great victory for the workers. Thru such continual “vic- tories” the union was led to bank- ruptcy and the workers to a state of pauperism. Create Jobs. The “machine” in power was in- terested in but one thing—to create ever new jobs for its henchmen and increase their own salaries; to | maintain a, staff of officials end Woll * There is no better way to start a not hesitate to spend a nickel on column right than to tell a story A sympathizer, who does as much newspaper free-lancing as he can find a market for, walked into this department a few days ago with a yarn that deserves to be enshrined in the pages of revolutionary his- tory. While travelling uptown on the 3rd Ave. “L” he noticed a sign Stretched across the front of the Republican Club on the corner of 22nd and the avenue. It called pub- lie attention to the two candidates of the G. O. P., Hoover and Curtis. Our friend noticed that the Kansas ‘boy’s name was spelled with two oo (Strange interlude). Two * informant, Cae being a news- | Was the young man aware that Mr. their typewriters are clicking mu- the members elected the progres- Curtis was a United States senator|sically, which makes things more sive and left wing elements. from Kansas and one of the out-|pleasant for our readers and the} is wide awake and did {standing politicians in the republi-, publicity department. the chance of getting a story. He hopped off the train and ambled into | the Hoover headquarters. Approach- ing a young man who was holding down the club room, the news- seeker asked if the officers of the club were aware that the name of the vice presidential candidate was spelled with one s i ad of with two, What could he learn about Mr. Curtis? , “Dat’s right,” replied the young Pro Bono Publican, “de name is spelt right. Dat’s de guy that owns de field where Guggenheim and Lindhoig park their airplanes.” * * * deeper into this mine of information. can party? question as Gene Oscar Wilde. “No,” job. and Guggenheim park * 8 * Our campaign managers aré now| getting down to business in real] Up until now they were so busy organizing for the collection Astonished at the novelty of the of signatures that they did not have/ P juno reply, our friend proceeded to dig| time to let the national office know) the clique lost control of the largest | unions, earnest. much of their activities. GN CORNES The young man ap- peared to be as irritated at this Tunney when asked by a reporter if he reads he growled, “Curtiss is too big a man to have a I tell you dat he is de guy that owns de field where Lindboig their air- planes. He used to be an Indian ‘when he was a boy, but he is no In- dian any more. He is a republican.” ‘ hirelings in order to build up a cor- rupt machine thru which to per- petuate themselves in power. Mil- lions of dollars were extorted from the workers in dues and taxes to/| maintain this retinue. . The dissatisfied members could find no opportunity for expressing | their opinion, The organs of the. clique, “The Forward” and “The | Justice’ were merelst the mouth- pieces of the bureaucracy. To criti- cize an official in any other paper was considered a heinous crime for | which members were expelled from | the union. ! | The corruption and degeneracy of | the clique reached such criminal | proportions that it engendered bit-| ter resentment on the part of the} | mass of the membership; so that, | in pressive measures and their fraudu- lent practises in stealing elections, | But now and most important, locals, where | | | “Expel” Membership. | Haying lost control of the most’ ‘not only as concerns the women ‘workers, but in relation to the en-| Ts It the National Organization Committee or Sigman-Schlesinger-Forward Clique On August 22 the workers in all countries commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of Saceo and Vanzetti in the Massa- By Fred Ellis The lessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti case must be brought home to the working class. Only by the overthrow of capitalism itself can the exploitation of the working class and the murder of its finest members be ended. The United States, the most powerful capitalist system in the world, is the land of the electric chair for the workers, Powerful as this system is, it can be overthrown. Whose Are the “Scab” Unions ? important locals, the officials of the | International, who are not elected by the members but at conventions by delegates from fake locals and by excluding the legally elected delegates from the large locals, suc- | ceeded in electing themselves to the | highest offices of the International, | pefpetuating themselves in power| against the wishes of the member- ship and using their official posi- tions to expel the representatives Garment Workers’ Union, and now they have the audacity to claim that we have formed an opposition union under another name and that our union is the scab union. In connec- | tion with this, one recalls the story of the policeman, who after slug- ging a man unconscious with a/| heavy! club, later arrested him for obstructing the sidewalk. The Forward Clique. | If it is true that we are the scab | have brought untold suffering to} the tens of thousands of cloak and | dressmakers, call us an opposition | scab union and get themselves blue | in the face shouting Sulkises and scab agents at us. But their hys- | terical cries will fall on deaf ears | and will not mislead anyone. The} meeting at the Stadium, attended by | more than fifteen thousand work- | ers, had demonstrated that thru | bluffs and terror they cannot force | the workers to belong to their com- | pany: union. . | Their fairy tales that the cloak-| |makers and dressmakers do not} come to our meetings, that the cloak | and dressmakers are with them, are elected by the workers, and even the union and they the real union, the|Tecognized even by themselves as workers themselves. In this manner, thru an autocratic edict, it was pos- | | sible for a handful of jobholders to| They label us -“Sulkises” (Sulkis jexpel 90 per cent of the member-|was a famous scab agent in the ship from the union. This small | group of jobholders maintain that | and scab agents, but all the cloak- Joint Board and the bankruptcy’ of | they are the union and that the tens| makers know that Sulkis had the the clique is becoming more evident, | of thousands of members are of no | full support of the bosses and now the much abused bugaboo of “or-| account and must submit to their|the Sigman-Schlesinger clique are dictates. However, the workers have never | and‘ scandalous acts of the clique, | and have demonstrated before the | | prove beyond a doubt that it is not/entire world that they. will never Tising such a hue and cry about |we, but the clique that has organ-| recognize these self-crowned offi-|°PP0Sition unions (and in their es- cials and will insist on their right | to elect leaders in whom they can place their confidence. | Their Allies. | The International clique, together | with “The Forward,” held this pro- test of the membership in contempt National years ago, at a time when , | | the International was a real work-| members decide on the struggle was | ers’ union and not a company union, | actuated by the knowledge that las it is now. And what bout our through democratic, and formed opposition locals nad an opposition Joint Board. With the aid of the bosses, elements of the underworld, the police, courts and methods of terrorism they tried to force the members to recognize their scab locals and scab Joint Board. They have even taken out | injunctions against the Joint Board of Chicago and against the New | York locals, representing thousands of members, prohibiting us from | using the name of the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, while they, a handful of jobholders, | together with “The Forward” clique, | proclaimed themselves as the Inter- | national. The clique has formed an opposi- tion union, has taken out injunc- | tions prohibiting us from calling ourselves the International Ladies’ WOMEN WORKERS AND | ELECTIONS OF 1928 By REBECCA GRECHT (Continued.) The Workers (Communist) Party | must regard as one of its most im- | portant tasks in the coming ele tions the campaign to win the allegi- ance of the workingclass women, | who constitute a potential and actual | political force of tremendous sig-) nificance in the revolutionary move- | ment. Our Party must expose the! capitalist parties and the meaning of their present election manoeuvres | tire working class of which avomen | are a part. We must expose also| the treachery of the petty-bourgeois socialist party, which in its national | platform has not a single word to| say about the working women, All possible support must be rallied for the Communist program spite of their autocratic and sup- and Communist candidates among) working women. women workers in organized and} unorganized shops and in trade) and among workingclass)| housewives and mothers in every city. Throughout the coun- try every left wing progressive or- ganization must mobilize its women members, wives of its male| | getting this same support. For this _who were opponents of the Forward | who maintain themselves with the ‘in the support of the Workers bosses would surely not have forced their workers to go to their union. annals of the cloakmakers’ union) reason alone it should be clear to the Sulkises and scab agents. This same gang, which is now timation an opposition union is synonymous with a scab union) has nevertheless time and again formed | such union when it served their own interests. Is it not a well-| known fact that Sigman formed an opposition union against the Inter- shameful lies, for had they really believed their own statements they would not have refused to accept | our challenge to submit the issues of the struggle to a referendum vote under the supervision of an impartial committee. Are not their statements, to the effect that they are fighting against a Communist dictatorship which we supposedly | want to foist on the union, the) greatest swindle since they them- | selves have refused and are afraid | to submit the matter to the mem-| bers when we, who are supposed to | be the Communist dictators, have demanded it and have fought for it all along? If they were really fighting against the Communist dic- tatorship and democracy they would | not oppose a democratic and legal manner of electing officers under | the supervision of an impartial com- mittee. Their refusal to let the constitutional | \Told You So ‘ERE are several angles to this business of “outlawing” war—aq business in which our good mat Kellogg is directing,—that shoul/ be taken note of by husky young men whose physiques are entitled ta favorable consideration by draft board doctors when the next “war to end war” breaks out. Practically all the liberals and pacifists have swallowed the Kellogg treaty with- out a grimace. Perhaps, because it is pre-war stuff—pre the next war, Radicals however are not accustomed to take the anti-war maneuvers of the imperialists seriously, except in the light of war preparations. * Mie Ho’ can any intelligent and honest person believe that a country that is now at war with Nicaragua for no reason in the world except that the workers and peasants of Nicaragua insist on defending them- selves against Wall Street exploita- | tion, honestly aim to abolish war asf a means of settling international disputes? Yet the papers are de+ luged with hokum in favor of this fake treaty. Norman Thomas the socialist and Adolph Ochs the multi- millionaire owner of the New York Times are supporting Kellogg’s war maneuver under the guise of peace btn ttiked ‘E truth is that this Kellogg treaty is a maneuver against the League of Nations which is right now in England’s vest pocket. And be. ing @ maneuver against the league it is a maneuver against England. Several straws show which way the winds of the next war are blowing, For instance, Kellogg is said to be Preparing an arbitration pact with Egypt. The British foreign office has raised its monocle and looked severely in the general direction of Washington. What are the Ameri- can blighters up to? Fawncy deal.0 ing with a country which is unde1y the “protection” Country! The British are jolly wel) willing to look after Egyptian in- terests, that is the interests of Britain’s capitalists in Egypt. * of the Ace HIS is rather queer business fo1 Mr. Kellogg to engage in if he is So anxious to avoid war. Would Mr, Kellogg look with an unconcerned eye on the intrusion of the British government into the affairs of Ni aragua which the American govern. ment is willing to chaperon with marines? It would seem to an inno- cent bystander that these t-vo ém- perialist powers are poaching or each other and I would not be a bit surprised to see American news- papers that uphold the rape of Nie. Mothe1'- aragua protest against the rape oj © Egypt by the British. en IT IS also reported that Kellogg in- tends to pay a visit to Irelan¢e after he signs the anti-war pact ir Paris. If the present plans carry thru “Nervous Nellie” will be trans- ported to the Free State on a United States naval vessel. Why this sud- den regard for Ireland on the part of a man, who while ambassador tc the Court of Saint James, outdid the most extreme tory jingo in his ex. pressed admiration for the Britisk Empire? Because a _pro-Unite¢ States Ireland in the almost in- evitable war between Great Britain and the United States would be ¢ convenient landing place for Ameri- can submarines and a base of opera- tions against England. The pacifists saintly Mr. Shiplacoff? Was he not | and legal methods they could never should read the news more carefully the manager of an opposition union | (the Amalgamated)? And is it not common knowledge that the United Hebrew Trades with the aid of “The Forward” formed an_ opposition union last year against the Grocery Clerks’ Union for the sole reason that the said union had sent in dele- gates to the United Hebrew Trades clique? | Friends of the Bosses. | These most discredited elements, support of the bosses, the courts and injunctions, who have betrayed the last strike of the cloakmakers, who have broken the union and members for the Communist elec- tion campaign. | So, also, must the United Coun- cils of Working Women, and in New York, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, the Working Women’s Federations, be drawn into the movement to make the working women more effective participants in the struggle against capitalism—a struggle which can express itself in the elections only (Communist) Party. To vote for capitalist candidates means, for the women workers, to vote for long hours, starvation wages, the continuation of the ex- ploitation and oppression of the working class. To vote for the Communist stand- ard bearers means to support the immediate fight for adequate pro- tection and better conditions for More than that—it means to sup- port the struggle for the abolition of the capitalist system. For only a Communist society can lift the double burden of housekeeping and factory work from the woman of the working class, and give her full freedom and equality, remain in the union because the membership will never elect insur. ance and real estate agents as their leaders, Mass Movement. | We are not building a Commun-| ist Union, as “The Forward” would | have it, but a union of all cloak} and dressmakers, regardless of their | opinions, race or color. In the shop | the boss does not make distinctions | between workers who are left or right, socialist or Communist, Jews | or Italians; there are no privileged | individuals there; they are all! equally exploited by the boss. In) the same way, if the union is to be strong enough to curb the bosses’ appetite for profits and improve the | conditions of the workers, the union | cannot make any discriminative | laws against any worker of the | trade, irrespective of his political | opinions party affiliations. Ex- ception and _ persecution laws) against one part of the membership mean discriminaticn against all members. A leadership which is truly repre- sentative of the members, does not have to employ the terroristic meth- ods employed by the Sigman-Schles- inger clique. The discriminative laws and pogroms, thru which the Sigman-Schlesinger clique strove to maintain. itself in power, are an open confession of their total de- moralization as labor leaders, and thru it they have sown the seeds of their own destruction. The great mass of the cloak and dressmakers pay no heed to the In- ternational clique which hurls sations of “Sulkises” and ‘ab agents” at us in its despair. The workers know that we are building a union which will give the mem- bers the fullest possibilities and fullest rights to express their opin- ion and exercise their control over it. They know that we are building a union of cloak and dressmakers which will not be controlled by a clique, where the cloak and dress- unless they wish to be wilfully blind a ile N THE by-elections in Aberdeen, Scotland, the Communist candi- date ran ahead of the Liberals. A Laborite won by a large majority, This is the first time that the Com- munist Party of Great Britain ran a candidate in opposition to the of- ficial Labor Party ticket. The British Labor Party is saturated with imperialism. The leaders of the parliamentary labor party are al- ways invited to royal functions. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking in Canada last week declared that the British Labor Party is not a class party but a party of intellectuals. * A NEW YORK tabloid got nicely taken in, it appears on the “Sia- mese Twins” story. It was reported that one of the girls was in love and wished to be surgically separated from her sister so that she could marry. Bernarr MacFadden, the big muscle and mush man im- mediately called his Graphic staff together and got his art editor to have them pose for composographs of the twins, the surgeons, the nurses and the surgical instruments. It now develops that the whole busi- ness was a clever publicity stunt and some press agent is laughing quietly and contemplating his share of the contract money, the twins be- ing showered with offers to appear in vaudeville. * (OMAS LAMONT, just to show that there are still a few left in Wall Street who have not come out for Al Smith, threw his boodle into Herbert Hoover’s campaign chest. Lamont voted for John D. Davis in 1924, but this time he will cast his ballot for Herbert. This is ad- ditional proof that the republican and democratic parties are as closely allied economically as the Siamese twins. ad * * caer