The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1928, Page 3

y i 3 \ \ 1 | NR er re THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, INDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928. FASCISTS TURN MOUNTAIN STATE TO ARMED CAMP | | Huge Force of Slaves) Toils for Rome | VIENNA, Aug. 26.—Behind the ™move gto proclaim Achmed Zogu king of Albania lies a whole net- work of Italian intrigue backed by a constant flow of rifles; machine guns and other materials of war from the peninsula to the smaller Balkan State, reports from Tirana reveal. Accounts which, would tend to show that the Italian ramification of all activities in Albania is greater by far than even the wariest of her foreign neighbors dreams have been leaking from that country within | the last few days. } Eighteen million dollars worth of ammunition, rifles and artillery is said to be a conservative estimate | of the war material which Italy has | shipped to Albania in the past 18 months. War equipment to main- tain an army of 300,000 men inthe field is also reported as part of a plan by which it is believed the Ital-| ians hope to consolidate: their inter- ests in the Balkan peninsula. | Plans for building the Albanian army to a force of 100,000, in a na- tion of 800,000, are also contem- plated by Rome and Achmed Zogu. Recruits are constantly being called into service and reservists called back for training. Formerly it is alleged that Ital-| ian ships from such Adriatic ports as Brindisi and Bari, loaded to capacity with arms and ammunition, | used to discharge their explosive | cargo under cover of night in Al- banian ports. Such materials are now being openly brought into the country, where they are carried off by fleets of Italian motor trucks waiting for them at the wharves. The materials are apparently stored with a view to present use against the Jugo-Slavs. It is said that if the Albanian treasury were called upon to pay for a fraction of the war materials which have been imported in the last year and a half that the country would be bankrupt. Scores of Italian army officers are meanwhile training the Albanian army and have been officially | placed in command of Albanian} regiments. All of the more im- portant ‘strategic positions are com- manded by Italians, it is said. Under the direction of the TItal- ians, armies of Mohammetan labor- ers carry out the plans which are made in Rome and accepted in Ti- rana. These labor forces, living like animals on the slim proceeds of what is virtually forced labor, are said to be housed around the powder magazines, of whose contents they are kept in ignorance. The Italians are taking no chances with labor troubles. Meanwhile fresh corps of officers and new shiploads of ammunition | are constantly arriving from Italy. | FIGHTS TO FREE JAILED HUSBAND Continued from Page One she was deliberately ignored by the officials of the organization, it is| reported, and left the hall after a few minutes’ talk with some former friends. One of the local I. W. W.| officials, one Clarke, made it clear | to her that her presence was not * * is known that -the hostility of the local officials of the I. W. W. was due to the fact that Eugene) Barnett and others of the Centralia | prisoners have insisted that the movement for their release be not based on the narrow, sectarian con- ception of some of the I. W. W. spokesmen, but be placed on the broad and effective basis of the in- clusion of such organizations as In- ternational Labor Defense and other labor bodies. Such an attitude on the part of some of the I. W. W. officials, it is declared here, is not aiding but hampering the campaign for the re- Jease of the eight men which is gathering momentum and weight throughout the northwest. WORKERS CANCER DEATH RATE HIGH Continued from Page One tion at all had been taken by the health departments in any city of the United States to publish these stdtistics or to attempt to remedy the ‘situation. It was only recently, when private investigation forced the ‘news of the cancer danger on the front pages of several news- papers, that the health department finally decided to “investigate” and “study” the problem. This study, which has just been published by the department of health, timidly suggests that “‘can- cer may be caused by constant ex- posure to smoke and fumes.” |ers of the skilled crafts engaged in| | tunities for doing organization work, | nal and other organizations offer us Mangled Bodies, Shapeless Steel, Price of the I. R. 7. Greed It ie catimathl that 2,000 men and women returning from work were aboard the I.R.T.-train which jumped an open switch at Times Square last Friday night. Wedged tightly into the cars they had no chance to escape when the final disaster came. The picture shows workers rescuing bodies har- pooned among the ribbons and blades of twisted steel wreckage. The Organization of the Auto Workers. (This is the final article in the| series on “Automobile—Symbol of the Modern Slavery.” What methods and strategy shall be used in the) work or organizing this important branch of industry? What is the part which the Communists and the | Workers (Communist) Party will play in this task?) | ie aaa: By BEN LIFSCHITZ | Generally speaking those workers | who are exploited to a greater de- gree, the unskilled and lower grade of semi-skilled, are the easiest to! reach, and are the first to respond} in times of crisis. | However, this general correct principle must be applied in a real) Leninist way. We must know the specific situation in the automobile industry. We must utilize the sharp dissatisfaction prevalent among the) skilled crafts in the industry. The skilled crafts, the tool and die makers, at the present time earn between 85 cents and $1.10 an hour, which means that on the average makes little more than some work- ers in the production department. It | is true they do not work so hard) but the skilled worker in the metal | industry always feels that he is not! being paid sufficiently especially | when he compares the wages he is| getting to the wages of the skilled) workers in the organized building | trades. Need to Study Conditions. | It is a known fact in the metal} industry that in times of great strikes, such as 1917 and 1919 it was the tool makers who were the backbone of the movement. We, must also pay special attention to! those crafts where the work is par-| ticularly hard on the workers. The} oil tenders and some of the workers of other crafts are worked so hard| that it is not always easy for the company to get men to work on} these jobs. We must, therefore, | concentrate on these crafts using them as starting points, as a wedge to reach the other crafts. We must also bear in mind that some of the unskilled and semi-skilled are very much afraid to lose their jobs be-| cause it is much harder for them to find another job than it is for work- | the key production positions. Language Groups and _ Their Importance. In Detroit and other automobile centers, there are scores of aux- iliary organizations, such as frater- nal societies, cooperatives, athletic | clubs, dramatic societies and the| like which offer splendid oppor- These organizations are composed almost entirely of automobile work- ers, principally foreign born, and) chiefly of Slavic origin. The work- | ers in these organizations suffering | from all the grievances that auto-| mobile workers suffer generally, are responsive to our organization and/ propaganda program. Their frater- , good opportunities for mass contact. |They provide the means for exten-| | sive organization work which can be} carried on under some measure of protection from the employers at- |tacks. We must utilize this field to) | the utmost. | We must carry on an aggressive campaign in these proletarian or- ganizations. Active propaganda | must be carried on for the populari- \zation of the workers demands and \the exposure of the hard conditions in the industry. These organiza- |tions must be utilized for contacts To fight the mighty Wall to build the shop committees and for recruiting union members. Build Shop Committees. We must understand that to or-| ganize a union under the present) conditions in the automobile industry | is a most complicated problem. The industrial plutocrats will not allow any form of workers organization in their shops. They realize that no matter what form the workers’ or- ganizations may take in their shops, they can, especially) when led by Communists, become effective or- gans of class struggle. The spy system in the automobile industry is as thoro as it is in the steel industry. Not only do they have an industrial spy system in the plants but they use a system where- by they get “suckers” to spy for them in the company towns. In Flint, Pontiac and all the other company controlled towns, the com- panies own the whole city govern-| to the mayor. In addition to this,| all the real estate companies in| these company towns are owned and| controlled by the General Motors. | The companies have thus worked | out a system whereby they kill the organization in its embryo. As soon as they are informed, through their) spy system, of any organization| work or even the mood ‘of resistance | on the part of some individual) worker, they fire this worker and thereby kill the possibility of or- ganization. | Work Carefully. We must therefore realize that in order to build a real union, we must protect the more advanced workers who are willing to join the organi- zation in the first stages of its de- velopment. We must therefore lay the basis for skeleton shop commit- tees in as many departments as pos- sible long before the union comes out in open challenge to the powers in the ingustry. This skeleton shop committee must be built up very carefully, using as the first medium of contact the most advanced and class conscious workers in the de- partments. These workers are to make con- tact with those elements in their de- partments who show some indica- tion of class consciousness, and who are dependable. As soon as suffi- cient contact is made in a given de- partment, a meeting should be held of these workers and a départment representative elected. {It lis not advisable, in the first stage of or- ganization development, to call gen- eral meetings of all the workers who have joined the department groups. It would be dangerous be- cause of the possibility of the spy coming in and breaking up the or- ganization. The representatives of these de- partment groups should meet reg- ularly to discuss the conditions and the grievances in the shops, thereby establishing a real medium of con- tact which will later enable the workers, when they are ready for action, to establish a functioning or- ganization in the shop. Simultane- ous with building up of these skeleton shop committees, it is necessary to carry on open agitation and propa- ganda at the factory gates. Shop | papers must also become the real living expression of the grievances of the workers in the various de- partments and shops. We must utilize every resistance on the part of the workers to broaden the class struggle, we must always point out to the workers that there is a fight all along the line. $100,000 Street Powers with their billions. Send your contribution at once to the National Election Campaign Committee, 48 East 125th Street, New York City. Alexander Trachtenberg, Treasurer. If they are to resist the wage cuts, | INDUSTRIAL OCTOPUS stop the increasing speed-up and im- prove their conditions they must realize the general character of the struggle, must tie themselves up with the automobile workers in the United States. The Role of the Parity. In the organiation campaign, the burden of leadership and general work will fall upon our Party com-| rades. The Party must be the driv- ing force in the whole movement. This must be realized clearly and the proper conclusions drawn. There is no other organized group that can go through with an aggressive or- ganizing campaign. The local pro- gressive trade unionists are de- moralized by the misleadership of such men as Batt”and Martel. The socialists are practically non- existant. socialist party was conspicuous by its absence in the recent Flint strike. The socialist party is generally’ de- funct in Michigan. are few and demorslized with syn- dicalist illusions. Our Party repre- sents the only firm and decisive body capable of carrying out such a | ment from the Justiée of the Peace, task. The Communist Party is the leading force that must take the initiative and form the backbone of building up the resistance of the workers. It must crystalize the feel- ings of the workers and help them build a mass organization in order to fight successfully these gigantic combinations of American capi- talism. (END.) Save this copy of the Daily for one of the 40,000 traction workers. It is no accident that the) The I. W. W.) CUBA IMPORTANT “sve 222 ELEMENT IN U. S. MILITARY PLANS | Air Route AwardsMake | | Island Focal Point HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 26—A Cuba, bound hand and foot to Amer- ican air predominance, has’ been en- visaged and welcomed here follow- jing the awards of important mail jearrying contracts to the Pan- | American Airways Incorporated. The Pan-Anierican is owned by American investors and is contem- | plating the purchase of equipment |valued at millions of dollars and comprising six new planes. Each of these planes will be equipped with three 400-horsepower motors and can carry 1,000 pounds of freight and twelve passengers. |The corporation has already called |for bids for twenty and more pas- | senger planes. The contracts at present awarded \call for service between the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico and Pan- lama. This places the Island of |Cuba in an enviable position as a commercial air focus and makes it an important unit in the American defenses in event of war. As the air key to the widely separated depen- dencies of the United States in the Caribbean Sea, Cuba now contem- plates a future which will place her in the front rank as strategic ele- |ment in American military plans. YOUNG WORKER JAILED 9 TIMES \Kenosha Youth Has | Militant Record Continued from Page One Party and to become members of |the Party. Suddenly, an automobile packed full of khaki-uniformed police, drew up to the spot where the meet- ing was being held. Without any preliminary warning, the police forcibly plowed their way through \the crowd of workers, |seized Herman and placed him under arrest, just as several motor- ran’ their machines through the crowd of listeners. to the police ‘station in the big po- | With $18,000,000 in Munitions for Albania, Italy Prepares Balkan War and screaming men one of the ILR Friday night expre struction on which the train hurtle sed himself as “Terrible and deplorable as this comfort in the split in half, ye of the structure is endid subway y one supnort safe.” Continued. from Page One jduction. Soviet unemployment | caused by lack of means of produc- | y |tion. There is no over production In the U.S. S. R., but a 2 in pro- | duction coupled with a in con- sumption. No er exists in the Soviet economic system, only partial difficulties. With intensification of | agriculture a fivefold harvest is pos- | sible. Agriculture has difficulties but no crisis. Grain purchasing diffi- culties have been overcome. dustrial production is more expensive in the Soviet Union than in the highly developed capitalist countries | because many maehine are old, many trained workers were lost in the cival wars and the degree exploita- tion is no so high. Export is smaller than before the war because the workers and peasants now consume more. The grain export will grow in the future. With the export also import will grow. Unemployment was largely caused |by temporary causes. Only ten per | cent of the unemployed are trained lice car, the workers, who knew |him well, booed the police. Catcalls, cries of “dirty scabs in unform” roughly | and “let Herman go,” were hurled | ficiently strong to carry out success- {at the defenders of big-business. The young militant was held in cycle police arrived and brutally |the county jail incommunicado for | ternational proletariat arrives. |several hours, until the local branch of the International Labor As Herman was being driven off | Defense came to his aid and bailed | Leninism.” him out. so BAZAAR anu DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT Madison ord for Interborough REPORT SHOWS USSR — INDUSTRIALP ROGRESS In-| Square Garden Conference of Labor and Fraternal Organizations Tuesday, August 28 at 8% M., at Manhattan Lyceum 66 E. 4th St. Elect Your Delegates Now days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, — Ath, 5th, 6th, 7th — October Every City in America, Every Labor and Fraternal Organization to Have a Booth burn bway disasters, Mayor Wa gratified by the solid’subway con- d killing a still uncertain number. 8,” the Mayor said, find some construction where a train would | workers. The Donetz process showed technical deficiencies, but the first generation of revolutionary techni- jcians is now entering industry. De- spite culties in the Soviet Union, production is increasing at an un- exampled speed. The five-year plan provides for an 120 per cent increase in industrial | production. This means production | will be increased 144 per cent, agri- culture to 40 per cent. Real wages will be increased. The only | danger for the proletarian dictator- | ship is the possibility, even the prob- |ability of a capitalist attack. The problem before this congress is how to prevent this attack, or if unpre- | ventable how to turn it into a vic- torious proletarian revolution in the | capitalist countries, At the 42 session yesterday after- noon the situation and problems of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union was discussed; the roots of the Trotzkist ideology in class rela- tions in the Soviet Union and the objéctive situation internationally were taken up. Manuilski then polemised against Trotzky’s ideas. He said that “the opposition in the whole world is de- feated. The Leninist party is suf- jfully all the tasks of socialist con- jstruction until assistance from in- The | Communist Party knows that there |is not a path more to the left than Manuilski was ap- | plauded. Interesting-- Comfortable Reasonable Via— LONDON COPENHAGEN HELSINGFORS MINSK WARSAW BERLIN PARIS Sails: October 17 SS. “Mauretania” (Timed to witness the celebration of the 11th Anniversary of the November Revolution.) $375 COMPLETE TOUR World Tourists INCORPORATED (Agents for Travel Buro of the Soviet Government.) 69 Fifth Av. New York Telephone Algonquin 6900