The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928. Page Three Colombian | KELLOG DDDGES ) SAGCO, VANZETTI MEET IN PARIS Izvestia Comments on| Peace Pact Promise | | | | Continued from Page One zetti demonstrators who, they al- leged, were planning a, protest when the secretary arrived. Ambassador | Herrick, who also seems to have been | suspected, was not informed and ar-| rived several minutes too late on the | platform. He was in time, however, | to hear one or two of the bolder Americans, who by this time had rec- ognized the secretary, shout. “Vive, M. Kellogg.” Aside from this there was no demonstration as, heavily guarded by police and detectives, the} secretary proceeded to the official | reception. | \ | _ Announcement has been made that | Rete are being taken whereby the |, | multilateral peace treaty will be | opened to signature by forty-four] other powers following its signature | by the original Locarno pact signa-| tories here on Monday. | It is intimated that the govern-| ment of the Soviet Union also may | be invited to sign the treaty, altho| the American government will evade | the appearance of recognizing the| U. 8. S. R. by delegating France to| undertake this negotiation. . ae MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R., Aug. 24—| Commenting on reports that the United States government was will- | ing to consider the signing of the| Kellogg multilateral peace treaty,| the Izvestia today regretted that the | President Calls for War on Trade Unions, Com munists in The Imperialist War Is Looming : COLLECTIONS TO BE MADE TODAY, TOMORROW HERE iCommunists Expose Tammany Alibi Continued from Page One of Wall Street. |didates, Hoover and Smith, will be supported by contributions amount- ing to millions. The Workers (Com- munist) Party, which is the party |of the working class, is determined |to defeat the attempt of Mr. Coler |to prevent the workers from con- ducting an adequate campaign. Would Refuse Permit. | “It comes with ill grace from Mr. Coler, appointee of Tammany Hall,” |the Communist statement continued, |“to issue such an order, after that | organization has accepted the gen- |erous contributions of Mr. DuPont, the gunpowder magnate, Mr. Dohe- ney, the oil bandit, Mr. Kenny, the} contractor who reaps his rich profits from city ogntracts, Mr. Ryan, the | traction millionaire, and Mr. Baruch, | the banker.” | In his letter to Warren, Coler Wall Street’s can-| RED CONGRESS — DISCUSSES THE COLONIAL ISSUE Indian Delegate Tells of British Rule Continued from Page One in-the imperialist camp, as Bennet | “The Bunk Artists of Imperialism Get Busy says. | | Bourgeois democratic revolutions fare the central question for all colon- ies, Pepper continued. The chief Jerrors of the Communist Party of Manifesto GOVERNMENT T0 ABET PETROLEUM IMPERIALISTS More Concessions are Granted BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 24.— Strict and comprehensive legisla- tion against Communism, the Com- munist Party and revolutionary la- bor unions and organizations. and crganization of mixed oil companies that would give greater power to foreign capital were called for in a |China, he said, were, first, that it |failed to notice the development of | the general national into the bour- |geois democratic revolution and, second, that it thought the latter was, |developing into a proletarian revo- | lution. Stalin’s definition of the) bourgeois democratic revolution, he continued, as a unification of the struggle against imperialism and feudal remnants is classical and ap- plies to China, India and all colonial and semi-colonial countries. The cen-! tral Communist task today, Pepper declared, is to fight against im- perialism and the war danger. The | said that he had not received an ap-| bourgeois democratic revolution still plication for a permit from the/| exists in China. Regarding the Can- | Workers Party, but that he would|ton insurrection, he said, I alway manifesto issued today by President Dr. Abadia Mandez and his cab- inet. Legislation against the Commu- nist Party already exists in Colom- bia, but the new manifesto declared the government's intention to de- clare revolutionary labor unions and other revolutionary organizations illegal, and would provide strict pun- ishment for violators. The “mixed” oil companies pro- posed would provide a combine, dom- inated by foreign capital, the main competitors being England and the United States, for the oitation of oil lands, as well as for the re- fining and marketing of the oil and announcement made by assistant sec-| retary of state Castle is oral and un-| official. This excites perplexity and | A poster issued illegally to members of the German arimy aviation corps by the Communist Party of Germgny. The poster is being used in the campaign against the war with which the imperialist powers may be the cause of a number of| supplementary questions, the paper states. | are threatening the Soviet Union. wee ony ireeet tat ee step of| Union of Socialist Soviet Republics le assistant secretary of state —| 4g; ie} ; ao dictated, undoubtedly, by the desire “4 Not Participate in the prelimin- to explain questions arising in rela- | ary discussions — still leaves many tion to the compact’s complicated | difficulties and renders more diffi- Procedure and the fact that the| cult considerations of the fundamen- tal problem, which could only be aided if all questions concerning the rights of States not original signa- tories werd illumined with the neces- sary fullness.” Who Will Organize the Auto Workers? refuse to grant one in any event. Tammany Corruption. | It was pointed out last night that |Coler’s alleged support of “law” is particularly ironic in view of the | well-known fact that the City Lodge | House, among others, on East 25th | St» one of the municipal institutions over which Coler has general super- vision, has for years been a nest of |corruption and general inefficiency. | This was especially revealed during the so-called unemployment surveys last winter when William G. Mc- |Mahon, superintendent of the lodg-| | ing house, fearful of revelations that would undoubtedly be made, refused all access to his books and records. Received No Notice. Communist statement con- The | cluded: r “The Workers (Communist) Party} |disclaims having received any no-| |tice or information from Mr. Coler| lin reference to its city-wide drive |on August 25 and 26 for the pur- pose of raising funds among the |workers for its election campaign. |described it as the greatest histori-| |cal action of the Chinese proletariat | jand never opposed armed insurrec- | tion. | The Colonial Theory. Further speakers wete Remmele, of Germany, and Wolfe, of the United States. Wolfe declared that) the de-colonization theory over- After refusing to accept the proposals of the Soviet Union for complete and immediate disarmament the imperialists got busy con- cocting a “peace” plan, whose only relation to world peace is to cloak the preparations which the powers are making for the next imperialist war. Above, four imperialist diplomats who will sign the Kellogg treaty in Paris August 27th. Frank B. Kellogg, upper left; Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister, upper right; Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, lower left; Gustav Strese- mann, German Foreign Minister, lower right. (This is the seventh in the series of articles on ‘“Automobile—Symbol of the Modern Slavery.” The ar- ticles thus far have given a general picture of the industry, the extent of the mergers, the conditions ameng the workers, etc. The recent Flint strike came in for special consid- eration. Who will organize the auto workers? Every worker should read this most important article.) + eo By BEN LIFSCHITZ The National Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce, an organization of auto manufacturers, is the powerful instrument in the hands of the bosses to promote their interests. On the other hand, we find the work- ers completely unorganized and ab- solutely helpless against such pow- erful combinations as Ford, Gen- eral Motors Corporation and the other giants in the industry. It is | true that the wages of the workers, | up to January, 1927, were relatively) high, but since then there has been | a steady reduction in wages, a/ lengthening of hours and ever-in- | creasing speed-up. This intense ex- | ploitation will affect the workers | much more in the future. Who Will Organize the Auto | Industry? The problem of organizing the workers in the automobile industry is very complicated. It requires a thorough knowledge of the develop- ment of the industry, its constant changes. It requires close exam-| ination of each of these powerful producing machines. There are only a few unions, and all of these, except one, are craft unions. There is the automobile aircraft, Vehicle Workers Union, the machinists, pattern makers, molders, electricians, polishers and a few others. All those unions (with the exception of the A. A. and V. W. U., usually called the Auto ‘Workers Union) represent very small groups. The machinists’ lo- eals include primarily automobile mechanics working in garages and | some tool and die makers from the manufacturing plants. | The central iabor bodies in the guto center are made up chiefly of | the building trade locals. Their leaders are usually connected with | the city and state politicians gof either the democratic or republic: parties, depending upon which polit- ical machine is in control. Some of these officials, as is the case of Frank Wade, president of the Michi- gan Federation of Labor, a prom- jnent republican, have such high re- gard for organized labor that he has built a new home on Third Ave., | Flint, engaging the Modern Hous- | ing Corporation, a General Motors subsidiary, to do the job. This housing corporation employs only non-union labor. Much to his sur- | prise and indignation, he was re-| cently called before the central labor body of Flint by his union to answer charges of misconduct in betraying | union labor and the principles of union labor. He admitted these charges and so heated a discussion arose in the meeting that steam roller methods had to be used by ‘hairman to prevent further ex- ou of the actions of this labor posures taker. Officials’ Sabotage Strugyle. It is, therefore, not surprising that in the last strike the officials of the Central Labor Body of Flint, | | Michigan, not only did not support |the strike, but actually did every- thing possible to binder the strug- gle. When a mass meeting was ar- ranged in the Laber Temple, under |the auspices of the Auto Workers | | Union, they found the door locked jand a sign placed there by officials jof the organization reading that the | auto workers were not to meet there |that night. Even members of the | A. F. of L. were indignant at such | tactics, calculated to obstruct the |and their action in the Flint strike, | now he caps the climax by attempt- doubt that the capitalists in the air-|We have a legal right to approach plane industry have as much fear of | workers for funds in the city-wide| |the threat of William Green to or-| ganize this industry as when the | Planned. The alleged statement of A. F. of L. passed their resolution | Mr. Coler, an agent of gemmeny to organize the automobile industry. | Hall, is an attempt to pursuade the Céxtaiity watckhnot exec’ tis | workers of this city not to contribute eeicteiont of” the CA r bes cae | to the election campaign fund of the igiacielers Mae only Party which speaks in their make real effort to organize the |interests. Time and again Mr. Coler workars in the automobile indus- try.» Their latest betrayals of the | : fy eventing the raising of much- miners, textile and needle workers, | if . needed relief funds for strikers and must convince every class-conscious ling to prohibit workers from con- worker that the A. F. of L. official | tributing funds for an election cam- dom are the enemies of the Ameri-| paign for the Party of their choice. can working class. | “We are confident that instead of Task of Workers Themselves. | discouraging the workers, Mr. house to house drive which we have} | has expressed his class prejudice by} |bile industry. \hesitate to help the leaders of the | Flint trade unions to stab the motor mass meeting of these strikers not | the meeting. organization of automobile workers, ee and they forced the custodians to|, The organization of the workers open up the hall for the workers. jin the automobile industry must ite ddsaleoe no ‘accident that tha |e through the initiative of the Witt’ Waderation “of Labor daeisd a class-conscious workers themselves. pamphlet entitled “Americanism Cereus Communism” in which they |izing the workers in the automobile co-operating with the Flint Federa- | Quy tion of Labor in their campaign See aay mapas a «ae ean ek against Communism. The list in- cludes such open-shop concerns as the DuPont de Nemours and Co. and the General Motors subsidiaries, A. C. Spark Plug and the Buick Motor Company. Scope of the Industry,” is the larg- est manufacturing industry in the | United States, both in the raw ma- |ployed. The most important fea- Ruthless Open-Shoppers. The General Motors Corporation is the most ruthless foe of organized labor in Michigan, and, for that mat- ter, in the United States. Yet the Flint Federation of Labor begs the Buick Motor Company for a few tainted dollars to help fight the|@ million workers employed in the Communists. General Motors has | factories, making motor vehicles, declarer! that it will buy no more|pParts, accessories and tires. The union-mined coal. Yet they do not| most significant fact is that more hesitate to assist the labor fakers|than two-thirds cf thase workers of Flint in their campaign against | 2re located within a radius of about Communism. They know that by | sixty miles. Detroit is the center, attacking the Communists they are | Flint is to the northwest and Toledo attacking the only group that is to the east. making a determined effort to or-| A strike in one of the large auto- ganize the workers in the automo- |mobile plants, properly conducted, Hence they «do not, is bound to have an effect on the workers in the other shops and must result in deepening the «class-con- sciousness of the workers in the {auto industries and lead to further struggles. | such a compact mass of proletarians |concentrated as there are in the | Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland area, which workers in the back. The workers are learning very fast about this crew of labor misleaders. When the Flint Federation of Labor called a Increase of Semi-Skilled. The tendency in the automobile industry is generally in the direc- tifh of less and less skill. That | does not mean that the absolute one of the strikers showed up at It is already almost two years A number of problems are con- | ‘nected with the question of organ- | ‘have noted in the article on “The | |terial used and in the number of | | workers, directly and indirectly em- | |ture of the industry is that nowhere | ‘in the world, not even including the | | Clyde district of Scotland, is there | |contains close to three-quarters of | | since the Detroit Convention of the | A. F. of L. adopted a resolution to | erganize the automobile workers. It is no surprise to us that practically | nothing was done toward organ number of the skilled workers in the automobile industry is diminishing, but that the percentage of the skilled workers in relation to the amount of production is diminish- izing these workers. We may ex. pect even greater betrayals by the | local and national leaders of the | A. F. of L. when a greater and more deep-going awakening takes placé ing. The tendency is also to reduce the number of unskilled known as common laborers. Both tendencies jare) in the direction of increasing {the semi-skilled workers. No mat- among the automobile workers. |ter what you are doing in the in- Against Mass Power. dustry, some slight skill or agility The leaders of the A. F. of L. re-|is required and, as in the case of alize what an organized movement the oil senders, while the amount of hundreds of thousands of auto-|of skill is not high, nevertheless a mobile workers would mean for them | particular form of skill is required and they are not so anxious to build | which takes some time to acquire. something that. will turn against | * them. (Tomorrow's article, which will The leaders of the American in-| conclude the series, will deal with dustries have already learned by|the important problem of the tac- this time to take the statements of |tics and strategy of organizing the the American Federation of Labor auto workers and the necessity of with a ton of salt. We have no building shop committees.) ote |Coler’s statement will serve as an| added stimulus to the workers of} the city of New York to support the campaign fund of the Workers) (Communist) Party in this drive. | “Workers (Communist) Party, District Two—John J. Ballam, Acting District Organizer” Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. 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Y. | page Party Platform, and we will contribute estimates the progressive role of imperialism and leads to an oppor- ; tunist apology for imperialism and|Patticipated in by delegates from weakens the struggle aaginst it.|the colonial Communist Parties and Temporarily, he continued, United from the working class all over States capitalism played a progres-|W0rld continued in the thirty-eighth sive role in Latin-America but only Session of the Sixth Congress of the in order to drive out British im-|COmmunist International, under the perialism, which was the first in the| Chairmanship of Manavar of In- field and allied with the feudal and 4onesia. clerical reaction. When the Ameri-| The following discussed the theses can aim was achieved, he continued, | dealing with the colonial problem: the United States crushed the pro-| Bunting, of South Africa; Raza, of gressive movement it had itself re-| India; Schubin, of the Soviet Union; leased and made an alliance with the| Cardenas, of Columbia; Lominadse, feudal reaction. The petty bour-|of the Soviet Union; Raveto, of Ar- geois theory of unity: of Latin|gentina; Wurm, of the Information America against United States im-| Department of the Communist In- perialism is inacceptable, he said. We | ternational; Masut, of the Young aim at the unification of the revo-| Communist International; Ramirez, lutionary forces in Latin America| of Mexico; Bensaid, of Algeria; and in the United States and the! Shagri, of Persia, and Shenkuang, foundation of a Latin American) of China. workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Re-| Closing Speech on Colonies. Paps (Be Beeline | At the thirty-ninth session of the | A ee | World Congress unger the chairman- | (Wireless to The Daily Worker). | ship of Remele, Sikander, of India, MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 22—/ commenced the closing speech on Discussion of the colonial question,| the colonial debate. The speeches WORKMEN'S SICK & DEATH BENEFIT FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1884 60,000 MEMBERS IN 344 BRANCHES IN THE U.S. A. Assets on December 31, 1927, over.. . $2,830,000 Paid for Sick and Death Benefits, over. - $13,440,000 Benefits in case of Sickness or Accident $6, $9, or $15 per week for first 40 weeks, one-half thereof for an additional 40 weeks, or altogether $360 to $900. Sick Benefits for Women—$9 for first 40 weeks, $4.50 for another 40 weeks, or altogether $540. Death Benefits—in proportion to the age at initiation (Class A and B), $885 at the age of 16 to $405 at the age of 44 Parents can insure their children up to the age of 18 years against death. WORKERS! 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