The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, ag YORK, i Te AUGUST 30, 1928 TO DEVOTE NEXT 4 DAYS TO WORK OF COMMISSIONS Colonial Committee Is Still in Session ker Special Cable to The Daily W: MOSCOW, Aug. 28—The World Congress of the Communist Inter national kas decided to devote its sessions on Friday, Saturday, Sun- day and Monday to the work of var- jous commissions. The program commission which practically finished its work will present the Communist International program in its final form to the next plenary session of the Congress which will probably be held on Wednesday. The colonial commission is still in session. WORKERS PLAN ASTORIA RALLY To Protect Communist Meeting Tonight The threats of Astoria Tammany- controlled members of fascist or- ganizations to break up any Work- ers (Communist) Party meetings held at the corner of Steinway and Jamaica Aves., has resulted in a mobilization of all class-conscious workers to protect the Communist speaker: A meeting of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will be held tonight at the corner of Steinway and Ja- maica Aves. despite these threats Speakers will include Max Schacht- man, editor of the Labor Defender: Martin Abern, acting secretary of the International Labor Defense; Vera Bush, Donald Burke, H. Blake | ,,, and J. Heder. The Veterans of Foreign Wars have taken courage from the con- vietion of Rebecca Grecht, Commu- nist Campaign Manager, in the First Magistrates Court of Queens last week, and are interpreting it as an official and indirect stamp of ap- proval. That they intend to stop tonight’s meeting of the Workers {Communist) Party is evident from threats overheard at the meeting which they tried to disrupt by throw- ing eggs and water bags The Astoria branch of the Work- ers (Communist) Party calls on al elass-conscious workers to be pres- ent tonight to resist an attempt to break up the meeting and assault the Communist oo jeer oh One Killed in New York Train Crash MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Aug. (UP).—A freight train on a switch too near the northbound main track was struck by an Erie commutation train at 6:40 p.m. today at Goshen, eight miles from here, killing one person and injuring dozens of com- muters who had reached a point within a few miles of their homes. Three cars of the “Orange Coun- ty” were tossed from the tracks, blocking all rail traffic. Injured were brought to Middletown on a special train. MADISON, Wis., Aug. 29 (UP). —Bert Martin, Secretary-Treasurer of the farmer labor party, an- nounced his resignation today and almost simultaneously pledged his support to Herbert Hoover, republi- can presidential nominee. ee Worker Fa aces Starvation e Contrearas and her husband face starvation and eviction from their rooms as a result of the mangling of the hands of the young Porto Rican worker by his machine. They have an eightcen- month old baby. Red Campaign in in < Y. Is Nearing Its End Continued from Page One whose ¢ have been opened to the class character of the Tammany departments of the city,” the dis- trict Party office stated yesterday. Continue Campaign Efforts. With the two major political par- ties hurling accusations at each other to the effect that their actual expenditures on the campaign will far exceed the published limi Workers (Communist) Party tinuing its efforts to raise as money as it possibly can to spread working-class. propaganda among the masses of workers. The Coni- munist Party has no intention of advertising a certain li to its campaign budget and spending double the amount, according to a campaign committee statement. It will spend what it gets, and what it gets will be contributed by workers n the interests of their own class platform, Huge Capitalist Funds. “Tt is a generally accepted fact paign figures shrink mod- blished, and that ac- penditures are enormous, but the use to which the difference is put might prove embarrassing pub- lic information,” the statement said. Whether the workers will be in- iimidated by Tammany bans is an- other matter. The response of workers indicates that not only will tual e they not. but that they will increase their efforts to collect and raise their contri for the Red Campaign Fund WORLD YOUTH CONGRESS OPENS Continued from Page One vian Young Communist Leagues worked well on the occasion of the sit of the British fleet. “The political activity of the youth of the world has also increased considerably, progress has been made in mass work, good trade union work has been accomplished in Ger- Great Britain, France and e Trotzkyist opposition won no nee in the Young Communist rnational. The Chinese Young Communist League has developed in- to a mass organization. The Young Communist League of the Soviet Union has over 2,000,000 members, and works actively in the building up of socialism. Weaknesses, “The weaknesses of the Youth movement, on the other hand, are insufficient organization strength, FURRIERS SQUASH A. F. L. SCABBERY. Philadelphia, Boston Build New Union Continued from Page One charge workers at will. The resolu- tion passed called on the officers not to give away any of the points on the agreement which the workers won through long struggles. The unanimous determination of the membership, however, makes it cer- tain that the employers will be ex- ceedingly wary of a challenge to a struggle. : Se cee Bureaucrats Fail in Boston. BOSTON, Aug. 29.—An excellent exhibition of the impotence of the A. F. of L. in the furriers drive to build a new union, was presented here Tuesdayswhen a meeting called by the chiefs of the Boston Central Labor Union for furriers willing to start a dual Fur Union Local 30, re- sulted in an attendance of exactly four workers, who it later turned out told the A. F. of L. to keep hands off the union. The meeting was scheduled to be held in the office of Zaritsky’s scab capmakers local*and was called by mail. When the four workers got to the place, according to M. Butko- witz, one of them, they found Max Hemlin, a socialist party official waiting for them with Griedjes of the A. F. of L. body. The workers protested against Hemlin’s presence. He was compelled to withdraw. To Greidjes’ proposal that the four workers form a nucleus for the drive to set up an opposition fur union, Butkowitz replied that the furriers want no such thing. He also told the A. F. of L. agent that if he hadn’t gotten the three other workers to come along, not a single worker would have answered his call. the fluctuation of the mecalh figures, an over large proportion of youth from middle-sized and small- scale shops, and insufficient work in sports and other mass organiza- tions. The organizational activities of the Communist Party, unlike the League, are of an objective nature. For instance, the capitalist stabili- zation and persecution, It is also partly of a subjective nature. For instance, the insufficient attention paid to the application of special youth methods. “The solution to these problems is not the depoliticalization of the youth, but on the contrary, an in- crease in political activity.” After the reading of telegrams | and special greetings, the session | was adjourned. | 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 jor the $100,000 {COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND! ‘ae you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot sel even a single dollar or a two-dollar bill for the Communist Campaign? ' _ ® ANSWER BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN THIS NOTICE 43 EAST 125TH STREET “ 5’s, We Need 10’s, singles and twos are just as welcome. Send all Funds to 25’s and 100’s but the tribution to the blank that we sent you and | Just attach your con- 1H | mail it in NOW! | ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treasurer National Election Campaign Committee NEW YORK CITY | tony. PREPARE FOR RED TICKET ENDORSED CUT AWAY FROM BY NEEDLE WORKERS SCOTT NEARING TOUR IN WEST To Stir Up Interest in Local Meets CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. In order to assure the success of the Scott Nearing meetings in Ohio. the district office of the Workers (Com- munist) Party here is sending com- 29 rades to work up local interest in the meetings and to accompany Nearing on his tour in order to make organization capital out of the tour. - The following is the schedule of Nearing’s tour: Martins Ferry, Oct, 14; Zanesville, Oct. 15; Dayton, Oct. 16; Springfield, Oct. 17; Lima, Oct. 18; Mansfield, Oct. 19; East Liver- pool, Oct. 20. There are Party organizations in three of those cities. It is expected that as a result of the Nearing meetings nuclei will be organized at each point. Sadie Van Veen and Lil Borer, the |latter of the Young Workers League, started out on a hitch-hike tour dur- ing which they will cover 25 cities. Here is a list of the cities they will cover. Comrades Van Veen and Borer are together as far as point of Hamilton on Sept. 1: Columbus, Aug. 25; Ur- bana, Aug. 26; Springfield, Aug. 28; Dayton, Aug. 29; Middletown, Aug. 30: Hamilton, Aug. 31. Comrade Sadie Van Veen: Louis- ville, Ky., Sept. 1-4; Covington, Sept. 5; Newport, Sept. 6. Comrade Lil Borer: Cincinnati, Sept. 1-4; Washington Court House, Sept. 5; Lancaster, Sept. 6. Comrades Borer and Van Veen: Logan, Sept. 7; Nelsonville, Sept. 8; Athens, Sept. 10; Gloucester, Sept: 11; Corning, Sept. 12; Crooksville, Sept. 13; Dresden, Sept. 14; Zanes- ville, Sept. 15; Coshocton. Sept. 17; Navarre, Sept. 18; Massillon, Sept. 19; Barberton, Sept. 20. 30 Present at Jersey Speakers’ Conference The second speakers’ conference was held in Newark, at 98 Mercer St., last Sunday, with an attendance of 30 Communist campaigners, rep- resenting nine New Jersey towns, including Paterson. Passaic. Cliff- side. Rayonne. Elizabeth, Newark, Garfield, City. The chief topic of the discussion} was the War Danger, led by A. Gussakoff, district literature agent. The floor discussion which followed was lively, being participated in by several workers present who were not members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. A speakers’ conference will be! held every other Sunday regularly, | with representatives of many New Jersey towns participating. Ar- rangements are being made by the members of the speakers’ bureau for meetings to be held in centers of working-class population throughout New Jersey. HUGE ICEBERG DRIFTING WASHINGTON, —The greatest iceberg on record— five miles long—is drifting south of | the Labrador coast, coast guard headquarters here was advised to- | cutter Marion was or-| day. The dered to note the progress of the gigantic berg. Perth Amboy and Jersey Aug. 29 (UP).| Continual from Page One council of the American Federation of Labor, who remonstrated with the Tammany police authorities of New York City for not being suf- ficiently harsh and brutal in deal-. ing with the striking workers. Mr. Green in his praise of Smith does not speak for the rank and file of labor, especially in New York state where the iron fist of Tammany Hall is known so well. Particularly the needle trades workers have learned to know the meaning of Smithism through bitter experi- ence. They well remember how the Governor’s Commission, working hand in glove with the right wing officials of ‘the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, sought to break the strike of the cloakmakers. “Time and again Tammany Hall has demonstrated its solidarity with the manufacturers and the treach- erous right wing leaders by the ruthless police brutality displayed against peaceful pickets, and by the issuance of numerous injunctions against workers on strike. The rec- ord of the Smith administration and of Tammany Hall speaks louder than the hypocritical catch-phrases of Al Smith. “The city administration under Jimmie Walker or the state admin- istration under Al Smith, the so- called “great friend of labor,” re- fused to give the slightest assist- | ance or relief to the thousands of unemployed who tramped the streets last winter suffering hun- ger and privation. On the contrary, the Tammany Hall police did not hesitate to use their clubs freely whenever the unemployed sought to organize to demand some medium of relief. On the other hand Mr. Smith has cooperated with the traction millionaires in their inhuman ex- ploitation of the traction workers and their attempt to mulct the workers of the city by instituting a seven-cent fare. The workers of ‘New York City may confidently ex- pect that after Election Day they will be blessed with the seven-cent fare and the abolition of the emer- gency rent laws. “Time after time the representa- tives of labor have- stormed the gates of the capitol at Albany in behalf of women and children in industry, the sick, the aged and the large toll of injured workers—only to be rebuffed by both Al Smith and the republican legislature. “In view of these things, which are a matter of record, the masses of the workers of New York state will repudiate the action of those who so basely spoke in their name in behalf of labor’s enemy, Al Smith, and will demand an accounting for this treacherous betrayal.” caer, Pane Eloquently setting forth the re- | peated betrayals of the workers’ in- | terests by the “Socialist” Party, and the assistance in union wrecking rendered to that party by the polit- ical parties of the bosses, the reso- ‘lution adopted declares in part: “We, needle trades workers, cloak- makers, dressmakers, furriers, tail- | ors, cap and millinery workers, as- sembled in mass meeting at Irving Plaza Hall on Wednesday, August 29, action of the National Needle Trades Committee, Trade Union Educa- tional League, which has endorsed the program and the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. “The last few years have been tinual struggle. Union organization | \has been destroyed in large sections | Order a Bundle! Let The DAILY WORKER help you in your Election Campaign Work. Order a bundle to distribute and sell at your open air meetings, in front of factories and at union meetings. | Special price on Daily Worker bundles during election campaign. $8.00 per thousand (regular price $10.00 per thousand). Enclosed find 4. Name ... Street .for........Daily Workers iiaain Kaa cen Ce wholeheartedly approve of the | for us a period of intense and con- | of the industry. A vici system has been established by manufacturers, through which thou- sands of workers are thrown out of employment. Today hundreds, thou- sands of workers are faced with want and actual starvation. One Gang. “These conditions have resulted from the alliance between the manu facturers, the reactionary socialist union officials, who have carried the class collaboration policies of the petty bourgeois socialist party into our union, the A. F. of L. bureau- cracy, all of whom have joined their forces against us. “Fur workers, cloak and dress- makers, cap and millinery workers, have been jailed, framed-up and clubbed, not only by the Tammany Industrial Squad and police and by republican judges, but as well by the socialist union disrupters and gangsters hired and protected by them. Learned by Experience. “We needle trades workers have learned through many sears’ bitter experience that the deniocratic and | republican parties are the parties of the bosses and ready to fight the workers at every step. We remem- ber the Governor’s Commission, ap- pointed by Al Smith, so-calied “peo- ples candidate,” which tried to force |the cloak and dressmakers into sub- mission to the bosses. We know of |the injunctions against the needle trades workers handed out by Tam- many judges, of their anti-labor ac- tivity, not only in our struggles, but in the subway and elevated strikes, etc. We know also that the repub- lican judges have thrown innocent strikers in New York into prison for the crime of fighting for better conditions. We know what the re- publican machine has done in Penn- |sylvania, where political officials | openly co-operated with the coal op- erators to break the strike and de- stroy the union. We know what is happening in Republican New Bed- ford, where the national guard has used bayonets against striking tex- tile workers. “Nor can we support the socialist party. This party has betrayed the needle trades workers as it is be- traying the interests of the entire working class. The socialist party is in fact the party of the needle} trades manufacturers, the party of the petty bourgeoisie. It no longer believes in the class struggle; it fights the progressive movement everywhere, not only in the needle trades, but among the miners and textile workers as well. struggles we have seen it working hand in hand with the bosses and with Tammany Hall, using gang- isters against our best fighters. The needle trades workers throughout | |the country must emphatically re- pudiate the socialist party, betray- ers of labor. Back Workers Party. “The only party which is true to the program of class struggle, the \only anti-capitalist party in Amer- ica, is the Workers (Communist) | Party. resistance against the union-smash- ing, wage-slashing, open-shop drive of the bosses. ¢ “Not only has the Party itself, through its program and support, inspired us to struggle for better conditions, In our! It is the only party calling | upon the-workers to intensify their | but we have found the! SIGMAN, LAUNCH BOSTON LOCAL To Build Union of the Workers, Not Bosses BOSTON, Aug. 29.—A record at- tendance of over 700 cloak and dress- | makers at a mass meeting held here | Tuesday evening unanimously voted | to fight the International clique and| to establish a real Boston cloak and | dressmakers local under the leader- ship of and affiliated to the Na- tional Organization Committee. The meeting was held in the Franklin Union Hall. After listening to a report of the progress made nationally in the drive to establish the new cloak- makers union which was delivered by Louis Hyman, chairman of the, N. 0. C., J. Portnoy, A. Oswaldo and M. Guterson of New York, E. Yanninsky, Sakowitz and Shapiro of Boston, the assembled workers voted to completely disassociate them- selves from the Sigman company | union, Resolution. | The resolution adopted at the) meeting calls for the immediate) carrying out of the following ac-| tions. | First—Severance of all relations with the company union, no dues! payments to that organization, and no recognition to any of its agents. Second—The immediate affilia- tion of all those attending to the) National Organization Committee. Third—The launching of a cam- paign to build the Boston section of |the N. 0. C. by an organization drive of all open shops and shops where no union conditions exist, un- der the leadership of the temporary Local Executive Committee. This | committee was elected at the recent conference of shop delegates. Fourth—A drive be inaugurated to get every one of the Boston workers to pay the voluntary $10 tax, which is used in the organization drive. ies & PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.— Hundreds of Philadelphia cloak and| dressmakers are meeting here to-| night to take up the problem of es- members of the Party in the front ranks of the struggle of the cloak- makers and the furriers against the bosses, the socialist union betray- | ers, and the reactionary A. F. of L. | Endorse Candidates. “We therefore fully endorse Wil- liam Z. Foster for president and |Benjamin Gitlow for vice-president, | candidates of the Workers (Com- ‘munist) Party, and all other state | and local candidates of the Workers | (Communist) Party. “We endorse the formation of a Needle Trades Campaign Commit- tee for the Workers (Communist) Party, and call upon the incoming |Needle Trades Campaign Commit- | tee to hold meetings of the shop chairmen, to conduct open-air meet- | jings and mass meetings in all trades | and to give every possible support | to the Workers (Communist) Party campaign.” Textile Barons of Lowell Brag About Cheap Labor Hire LOWELL, Mass. (FP).—Always darkest before the dawn, chant op- timistic business men of deflated Lowell. As cotton mills close down or move, they leave their shells and workers behind them. And now the Lowell Chamber of Commerce broad- casts for manufacturers to come a- tumbling to take advantage of cheap factory locations and cheaper labor. “There are few cities,” the Cham- ber remarks in dignified tones, “which offer greater opportunities than does Lowell for the establish- ment of new industries at the mini- mum of capital expenditure and | with the maximum of labor supply.” ‘TOBIN BLESSES TAMMANY “AL” |Also Has Kind Word for Hoover (Special to the Daily Worker) ROCHESTER, Aug. 29.—Tam- many Al Smith received another boost from American Federation of Labor officialdom congregated at the convention of the State Federa- tion of Labor when Daniel J. Tobin, Secretary of the A. F. of L., ad- | dressed the convention. Referring to Smith, who through his commission and through organ- ized Tammany gangsterism attempt- ed to break the New York needle trades strikes, Tobin declared: “No man living could have made a clearer exposition of his attitude toward labor than the Democratic candidate.” Referring to Tobin de- clared: Hoover, “As far as labor is concerned we | know nothing seriously wrong with im. He has always expressed sym- pathy with labor, but has never held an elective office of any kind. In the offices that he has held he has rendered splendid unselfish service. He was a millionaire at thirty. He made his money honestly. He is above suspicion from a monetary | standpoint.” tablishing a new cloak and dress- makers union in this city. Joseph Borachivich and Rose Wortis, heads of the National Or- ganization Committee have arrived here from New York to address the meeting. The sentiment of the workers shows that the new local section of the N. 0. C. will be launched with great enthusiasm. Despite the-presence of a Phila- delphia local of the Sigman Inter- national there exists no such thing as union conditions in the Philadel- phia factories. The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHME” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD else IMPROVEMENTS ECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 Bu, Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad te Berkeley Heights, N, BEKKEI-BY. 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