The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 4

Page Four TH E DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATUR “Organize for General Strike,” Co HAna0uTS Everybody knows the American Marines are in Nicaragua to ensure fair play at the elections and pre- vent the activity of disorderly ele- ments so that the balloting can be conducted with the same serenity noted in American cities for instance Chicago. It is a fact, odd and with- out significance, that American in- vestments in Latin America have jumped from 300 million in 1900 to $5,000,000,000. It is also a remark- able coincidence that there are no in- vestments in Labrador and no marines, ead Goodw } A sure way to gain fame, when normally you wouldn't attract any more attention than a banana peel on Third Avenue, is to hire an air- plane and fly off into some waste place. Above is Miss Zoe Beckley who has just completed a “Good- will” flight to Mexico City. She is| now in the market to endorse over- alls, chewing tobacco or Castoria. A flight of this kind is called a Good-will.flight-on the absurd the- ory that because an airplane of one country flies over another country it is a token of friendship. This might be so ijgairplanes were con- structed to transport olive branches instead of bombs, * The depravity of Fascism can be reassured by what it regards as ad- mirable. “That coward Nobile! The first airship captain who was first to leave his ship “has just been awarded a Papal medal as big as a “smallish soup plate.” ae * * Composite Photo “Oh, _ here?” “That's a composite photo show- ing Norman Thomas on the left ad- | dressing a crowd of one sympathiz- er right on his towr out west.” mama, what happened “What's he ‘mean her?” “That even though the socialist marty has nullified the class strug- gle for the workers they will*never gain complete freedom unless they all get together and vote for munici- pal ownership of croquet lawns and government supervision of horse- shoe throwing.” “Who are all those below?” “The away.” “Well, why doesn’t Norman come home?” “He can't get such big audiences in New York.” Gems of Learning Archbishop of York, referring to the war: “Was it all worth while? Here at this gate let thene be no faltering in wue aisBwer, ‘Yes, a thousand times eM If you were selling poisoned meat or paper shoes yes, a thousand times ‘yes. Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, son of Spanish dictator referring to father: “His duties in Spain are so ardu-, ous that he may never come to America, so he is sending me instead, to show his interest in America, be- cause I am his namesake. ... This year and next there will be great ex- sitions at Seville and Barce- saying to them, I people down "re the people that stayed —M. C. H. ENGINEER DROWNS. ITHACA, N. Y., Aug. 24 (UP). — Prof. John G Pertsch, Jr., 42, a mem- ber of the faculty of the College of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, was drowned in Cayuga Lake, off Taughannock Point. He was seized with cramps while at- mpting to aid Miss Signe Sjoe- fren, an assistant medical advisor of the university, who was in distress 'n deep water. CONDITIONS NOT ONLY TERRIBLE BUT HORRIBLE Must Oust Blumberg , and Colleagues (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— To be successful in an organization campaign, to organize the unorgan- lized, it is necessary to have a cor- rect picture and a correct analysis of the situationin the particular in- dustry on which you intend to con- centrate. To assure the success of the or- ganization drive it also neces- sary to organize the whole member- ship of the union to participate in the drive, not the kind of partici- pation that Mr. Blumberg, Wein- stein and the rest of the corrupt machine want, that is ‘To give out leaflets only,” but the participation of the rank and file members of the union. in the formulation of the policy on how to organize the cloth- ing workers of this city. Not Italian Situation. \ The present misleaders of the Amalgamated have a narrow con- ception of what is actually the sit- uation in this city. The Hillman machine has been telling to the Philadelphia clothing workers, that “Philadelphia is an Italian situa- tion” and many sincere brothers from the Italian local and those of the Jewish locals believed and still believe that Philadelphia is an Ital- ian situation. This analysis misleading for the clothing workers of this city. is is “4 | Being that there are a number of active clothing workers who believe \that the analysis of the Hillman, Weinstein machine is a correct one, I want to prove here the incorrect- ness of it and how misleading this analysis is. In 1922, we had a large number [ of Italians in the Philadelphia cloth- | ing workers’ industry. In 1922 there were no immigration laws prevent- | ing foreign born workers from com- ing to America to fill the industries jas there are today. We must con- sider that the immigration laws | prevailing in America have reduced tremendously the entrance of Ital- ians in the clothing industry in this city. Many Italians that were working in the Philadelphia clothing market | in 1922 have left their work and| changed their trade due to the low- er standard of wages in the cloth- ing industry here. Many others have left the city. This, however, does not mean that we have no Italian clothing work-| jers in the industry here.#Let me |bring you some figures and that| alone will convince you of the in- correctness of the analysis of the| Hillman and Blumberg machine. We have in the city of Philadel- phia 15,000 clothing workers. Sixty- five per cent of whom are’ young workers and fifty per cent of the young workers are American born and the other percentage American- ized so that they hardly read or understand Italian. Fifty per cent of the Philadelphia clothing workers are female workers. 60% American Born. Of the 15,000 clothing workers we can say that 80 per cent are ; Italians, not Italians from Italy but of Italian parentage. Sixty per cent of the 80 per cent are American | born. This very clearly shows that we do not have an Italian situation when we speaking of organizing the Fhiladelphia clothing workers. | The reactionary Hillman, Blum- berg, Weinstein machine has not the slightest intention of organizing the Scandinavian Pionee Pioneers from all over the 1 congress in Berlin. The group a Norway, Sweden and Denmark. unorgan their analys intention. I want to give here some high lights of the so-called organization- al drive carried on by the official- dom of the Amalgamated here. Re- cently Mr. Blumberg came in Phil adelphia to “organize” the clothing workers. Even tho the “campaign” has not been officially called off the clothing workers can rest assured that the campaign is, over. At the begi ing of the campaign before Mr. Blumberg, the dictator, arrived in town, thru the pr of the left wing and progres a Youth Committee was organized by the Joint Board of the A. @. W., othing workers and is is in accord with their ed to organize the unorganized young clothing workers. Soon as this com- mittee started ne work with or- ganizational ults the machine launched an attack. Mr. Weinstein, the manager of the Philadelphia Joint Board, viciously attacked the committee at one of the meetings of the board and declared, “This committee must not organize the young clothing workers but merely study ways and means of organiz. ing them. When the writer of this article reported that we had a group in the Makaransky shop, and some other connections in other shops, it Mr, was considered by Weinstein and the rest of his associates, Lon- don, Licastro, ete., a crime to or- ganize a group in a non-union shop and have connections in other non- union concerns, Their attack did not prevent the committee from continuing its work and few parties and dances were or-| ganized by this committee with the| result that hundreds of young clothing workers attended. Mr. Weinstein, Licastro and the rest of the machine feared these young workers would join the union and| that the youth would have made real headway in the organization of | the unorganized clothing workers, | and smashed the Youth Committee |to prevent the meeting of the Young Workers’ Social Club (or- Pressers Recruit. The Italian pressers also made some headway in ‘recruiting press- ers from gpen shops to come to meetings. When the pressers proved their real intention of willingness to organize, they were abandoned |by the misleader, no meetings were called any more, ete. Thru the activities of the youth and the pressers in this “campaign” some workers were fired by the bosses from Makaransky, Daroff, Middished, etc. The officialdom permitted the manufacturers to con- tinue to terrorize the clothing work- ers. The conditions of the Philadelphia clothing workers are. not terrible, but horrible. Young workers, boys and girls, are working for from $6 to $15 per week and a man with a family to support does not make| DAY, AUGUST 25, 1928. rrespondent Urges rs Arriving in Berlin “SUNNY SOUTH” Workers, ‘Farmers are Crushed (By a@ Worker Correspondent) Some of the chambers of com- merce in the south are inserting large advertisements in various northern papers inducing mill own- ‘ers and other manufacturers to move down south. Inducements are cheap | so-called “Anglo-Saxon labor,” non- unionism and other delights of the open-shoppers. | The various politicians are shout- ing as usual that there is prosperity in the south. Herbert “Starvation” | Hoover is sending his agents thru} the south with the intention of buy- | ing votes. One of his agents, con- gressman W. E. Evans, of Cali- fornia, recently visited Chatanooga, Tenn. According to the Chatanooga | News of Aug. 18, he visited that city | and conferred with the, republican | leaders. Mr. Evans called Hoover | “humanitarian” and other names that sound sweet. Evans said in part, “I find a tremendous sentiment in Tennessee for him (Hoover), and world are coming to the Pioneer bove, are workers’ children from GERMANY SIGNS NANKING PACT SHANGHAI, Aug. 24—The text of the treaty signed by the Nank- ing government and the German government has been made public and the treaty follows the same MEANS POVERTY : NCE a year there has to be a play | about Jewish small businessmen who are very excitable, easily an-| gered, who- splutter, but who have | good hearts. There’s money in it. | “Relations,” mow at the Theatre | Masque, is this year’s. | Being one of a distinct class, | drawn according to blue prints of | previous successes, you cannot ex-| pect to be surprised at anything |, | Edward Clark, producer, author and ‘star of “Relations,” brings into it. He just delivers the goods, and that’s all. It sounds funny enough | to explain the presence of various anti-Semites who come to have their | little joke, it is sentimental enough | to account for the presence of the possessors of the Ghetto inferiority complex, and therefore it should be a sure fire success; why not? All the jokes in it have been tried many times before, on many other audi- ences, and they always «went over | right. Aside from considerable Rotarian propaganda about business men needing to help each other out, and considerable plain boss propaganda | about delivering a fair day’s work) for a fair day’s wage, “Relations” concerns itself with the clash in the | retail millinery business between family loyalty, ingrained into Jew- | Philadelphia Clothing Workers ‘PROSPERITY’ IN Clark’s “Relations” at the Masque Up to Specifications | here. | ganized by the Youth Committee). | lines as that recently signed by the United States government. It i “the most-favorable- nation clauge that is included in the treaty, “In all customs and matters neither of the high contracting parties shall be placed at a disadvantage in the territory of the other as compared with the treatment accorded any other coun- try.” The treaty provides for early ne- gotiations for trade and shipping agreement although the German government had already granted China trade autonomy in 1921. enough to clothe and feed his fam- ily. A general discontent prevails among the clothing workers. The to be organized. These workers | Philadelphia clothing workers want have no confidence in the Hillman, Blumberg, Licastro, Weinstein, Mor- riconi and corrupted misleaders of the ‘workers. Our slogan should be: “Mr. Blumberg, Weinstein, London, Morriconi, Licastro, must go. The union must be lead by the workers themselves and not by the corrupted bureaucratic politicians of the pres- ent machine.” Thé rank and file of the Amalga- mated are interested in the organ- {ization of the clothing workers The corrupt machine is not interested and they must go: An organization drive is neces- sary in Philadelphia. A real organ- ization drive conducted by the rank |and file members of the organiza- |tion. Organization committees of hundreds of rank and file members must be mobilized who should lead the campaign. The dictator, Blum- berg, must go. Jewish and Italian brothers and sisters must be made to participate in the campaign. Italian, Jewish, Poles, and Lith- uanians can be found in the cloth- ing industry of this city, and most of all young American-born ele- ments. With a correct approach, with a correct and militant policy and with a campaign conducted by the membership of the Amalgamat- ed we can feel confident that a suc- cessful general strike can be won. Philadelphia clothing workers, or- ganize. Organize and fight against the corrupted misleaders of the |workers. Organize for a general strike. DOMINICK FLAIANI. A taxi driver would appreciate this copy of The DAILY WORKER. Did You Receive Our Letter ? Did You Answer ? If not yet, tax yourself with one day’s wage and do your share to complete the Fund. A Day’s Wage. ANSWER BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN THIS NOTICE Jor the $100,000 | COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND Are you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot ) WE 10's, 25's, 100s | but the | singles and twos are | | just as welcome. — —® Send all Funds to a single dollar or a two-doflar bill for the Communist Campaign? 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