The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1928, Page 2

a me te em ee mmo Page Two Determined DELEGATES FROM ALL OVER U. S, ARRIVE HOURLY Many Come From the Open-Shop Territory PITTSBURGH, Saat 9. Kansas miners’ del ts way in well of the auto car: The egation has forced orn Fords, the first country, Min lanne! ntion, which will new miners’ union, a fighting, in corruvtible orga ation of the rank = on a national e to win a living wage and decent con ditions in the industry. Other dele gations are arriving hourly the anthracite, Central Per vania. Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia, and other field A hundred and gat from the Pittsburgh ict are in ‘town. You see these rugged work- ers around on the streets and in the offices of the Convention Arrange- ments Committee; they are men that hunger and the 17 months’ struggle against operators and police and state troopers and the star and the gangsters, ation policy of Inter. national President Lewis a his minions have not been ie to break. The advance guard arrived Saturday from McDonald, from Avella, from Harwick, from the Portage section and other towns scattered about the district. From Open-Shop Territory. Tom Wray and his brother dele. gates come from the territory of the Pittst Coal Co., which has locked out its miners since 1925, and whose op op policy, they 2. port, was recognized a few weeks ago by Lewis when he calmly with- drew pickets from those mines. The Indiana delegation had a little road trouble. The first cars, which contained among others Mother Bloor, active organizer for the Save-the-Union Movement in In- diana, and one of the only three women members of the old United Mine Workers of America, also some active Negro delegat ere stalled at Englewood, Ghio. Mother Bloor and some of the others came on by train, and the whole caravan came on into Pittsburgh in time for the convention. Ready to Walk. “If the tires had given out,” Thomas S. Wakefield, white-haired delegate in the Kansas group, said of his caravan, “we would’ve walked! You see, the locals back in Kansas are waiting for charters from the new union, and we promised to bring them back. The Kansas dis- trict has been shot to pieces ever since Lewis threw out our officers and put in a ‘provisional’ set, and whenever we put a progressive on the slate to oppose them at election time, they just cross the name off.” Wakefield was a member of the Knights of Labor and helped to or- ganize the United Mine Workers of America. Now that he has seen it wrecked by the Lewis gang he is helping to organize another union. “ale has proved himself a good union man. New Locals. =» Wakefield told of the organiza- Stion of new union Iccals in some itowns, where they only await their fcharters to begin to take every- Sthing over, and of the refusal of the iLewis local officials to permit any | meetings of their few remaining lo- teals for fear that if they ever meet ithey will join the new union. $ The Lewis district administration shas signed up the state on the 1917 fscale, much under the Jacksonville iscale, but even so, the mines do not joven as they were expected to on 2Sept. 1. The Kansas delegation ithinks that this is because the op- _ serators are not certain that the re- tionary district president, Skahan, thas anything to sell to them that he #will be able to deliver Threaten Blacklist. Dan Coffee, district board mem- ther for the old union, appeared at Emeetings of two locals in Arma, ‘Kansas, the center of the coal in- idustry there, and in the course of ‘his argument with the boys of 46 and 3930 pleaded with them not to join the new union. “because the United Mine Workers terribly cweak in Kansas.” Another tactic of the machine Kansas is tha blacklist. An open threat to blacklist any-miner who went with the new union was made at the U. M. W. A. district conven- tion during the last week of August by district officials on the platform in TIONS AND ADS TRAIN PUT ‘YOUR ARTICLES, DONA- AND RUSH TO THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE | 30 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK —— Tammany Authorities Refuse to Seek Murderers of shows Thomas Grims (left) who lantic City under ( eme right), Pe Miners in grafters, illing because D’Olier ken extremely suspicious circumstan ces; THE DAILY Y7ORKER, NI'W YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928 x | ney the l district attorney stil was with John ter ( ELECTRICIANS STRIKE BEN GOLD BACKS. Old F livve refused to seek the “too much” about their grafting activities. M. Phillips, sewer-pipe king, wher Francis Philli from a rece’ ‘or who has been doing “business” ae ion engineer, was murdered by men higher-up Photo he died in At »8, his son and heir to millions, nt grand jury hearing with his with some { iN PEEADELP ETS FA. Ta (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.—De- spite the opposition to a fight for the 40 hour week on the part of the union officials who brought in the head of the Contractors Association to “convine workers against striking for 1 98 of the electric Philadel- voted o go on strike meeting last Tuesday. The re- the s demand, workers of 519 to 6 ning shops, including those of the out-of-town contractors and 5 local contractors settled at once with the union The issue was over the question of the 40 hour week. Last May the union carried a resolution going on record a 40 hour week, for the same pay that the workers received for the 44 hour week. Nothing v done during the summer months as the electrical workers worked only bd a week the last few years, during the summer. for Members Insistent. At the close of the summer the electricians were faced with a 54 day week wit! h the same pay as for the 5 day week. The union member- ship insisted on putting through its demand for the 40 hour week. They demanded a 5 day week and $1.25 an hour. The contractors claimed that they were in favor of the 40 hour week through their representative W. B. Panghorn, head of the Contractors Association, a former member of Local 98 who was invited by the of- ficials to speak at the meeting when there—but the miners refused to be terrorized, They do not believe the | Kansas machine has any sting left. “T don’t believe the gentlemen,” said Wakefield when he was told that all the progr would be expelled, “but 1 wish they would kick out the two or three that are left. They'll find themselves in good company.” Fat Salaries. This Lewis district convention, Wakefield believes, started a move to return to the officials’ exorbitant salaries which the miners of Kan- sas had begun to cut down. The delegates were hoodwinked or bull- dozed into creating a special fund under the direct charge of the dis- trict officials, which will surely be used to provide them with a softer living. At present the reactionary offi- cials in District 14 of the U. M. W. A. (Kansas) are living on the loot they collert from the few miners who were signed up before the strike, mostly strip miners, steam shovel men, etc. One of these men announces that out of his last check of $114, the company checkedoff Lewis officials $15 in so-called and district assess- strip miner with 96 was held up in the for dues, special ments, a check Another of The id have » three or four times as large, the delegates here said, if it were not for the expense of transporting delegates to Pittsburgh. As it is, the locals which could not send their own men will be represented by those from other locals. * the strike vote was taken. However, he claimed that the time. was not “ripe.” The . membership whelmingly rejected:the proposal fo the contractors Workers Must Fight. The workers are confident of win- ning. With the Association split, and with the out of town contrac- tors conceding to the demand of the workers, it is only a matter of days, in their opinion, to the settlement of the s No strike-breakers havé been brought in, and the strike is being conducted according to the best theory and practice of the A’ F. of peace in industry.” This was evidenced’ by the’ calling in of the head of the Contractors Association, the worst enemy: of the union; tq confuse and terrorize the workers. Otherwise, the proposals of the contractors would never have gotten 65 yotes. WILL DESCRIBE MINE STRUGGLE Watt to Tell of Miners’ Convention Continued from Page One over- ke, the Shop Delegates Conference for Miners’ be the occasion of New York and vicinity not only to sup- port the Union, but also to relief activity in behalf of the thousands of miners and their families whom the long 17-months’ strike has left in a con- dition verging on starvation. A number of leaders of working struggles will be among the speakers. They will give a graphic account of the desperate fight of the miners against starva- tion, eviction, police brutality and betrayal and will bring a message of solidarity with the needle trades workers, the striking textile work- ers and the whole of the progres- sive labor movement. The mass meeting is expected to be the start- ing point for a new campaign among the workers of New York for all possible support to the heroic miners and to their efforts to build a new and powerful union under a militant rank-and-file leadership. U. S. Bankers Have Further Hold on Peru LIMA, Peru, Sept. 9.—City reve- nues have been pledged by the Peruvian government as a security for the loan of $7,500,000 for pub- lic works whieh has been arranged by a New York syndicate, headed by F. H. Rollins and Company. The first part of the loan, total- ing $3,000,000 will be used to re- fund the city debt. The bonds will bear 6% per cent interest and will mature in 86 years. Relief, will for rallying the workers new Miners’ intensify other class ON A FAST |s iz Calls for Support of Conference Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of the Furriers Union, in a statement issued Saturday, calls for the most energetic support to the efforts of the voung workers to or- ganize themselves. “The Work which will t and 30, d g Youth Conference held September 29 the greatest sup- port on the of every ¢ conscious worker in the furriers trade,” Ben Gold said. “The young workers generally are not organ- ized; but we found at the time of the e, that those young furriers in the union were most ac. tive and militant on the picket line, in getting- out scab shops, and in battling for the rights of the work- ers.” “It is most impor Gold, “for the ent militant labor movement to See these exploited young workers trying to do some- thing for themselves and to become organized. At this time when we are building our new strong, powerful union in the furriers trade, every furrier must see to it that the young workers in the trade are or ganized into union. As a step in that direction, young workers in the shops mvst be sent as delegates to the Working Youth Conference where they will hear the message of militant unionism. “All support to the young work- ers. All support to the Working Youth Conference.” iers stri rtant.” continued Mohegan Colony Aids Mine, Textile Strikers The Mohegan Colony has raised during the summer $175 for the s textile workers in New Bedford and Fall River and $148.50 for the mine: Various affairs and two one-act plays were given in the building of ihe Mohegan Modern Co-operative Association, at which collections were later taken up for relief pur- poses. The response to these ef- forts was very good on the part of those located in the colony. | A member of the Executive Com- | mittee of the Youth Conference for | Miners and Textile Relief helped to jarrange these affairs and brought |the money to the Youth Conference \to be forwarded to Pittsburgh and New Bedford, respectively. Besides the money already raised, money will still be forthcoming for relief. 38 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 9 (UP).—Three men were probably fatally when their plane crashed here today at Richards Air- port and then burst into flames as it touched the ground. 3 SHIPS FOUNDER. SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 9 (UP). -—-Three steamships were reported in a dangerous condition not far from Magallanes tonight. Daily Worker-Freiheit B injured | . Markoff leading the discussion. FUNDS TO RED ELECTION DRIVE | Food Workers Hold Big Dinner Rally At a Red Rananet hel! night by the Progressive Group of Local 302, Delicatessen Co men’s Union at the United Work- evs’ Co-operative Restaurant, 2731 White Plains Ave., the Bronx, $150 was raised for the Workers (Com- munist) Party Election Campaign. Of this amount $100 was collectéd from the food workers present by Rebecca Grecht, campaign manager of District 2 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and $50 was netted above the expenses of the banquet. Labor Editor Speaks. ps Paul Yuditch, labor editor of the “Preiheit,” Jewish Communist daily, spoke on the exploitation of the food workers and the bitter strug- gle the progressive workers in the food industries are waging against the misleaders of their unions, and against the socialist party leaders| of the United Hebrew Trades. Rebecca Grecht, candidate for as- sembly on the red ticket from the fifth Bronx assembly district, spoke on the role of the republican and demoeratic parties as the instru- ments of big business and on the labor-betraying role played by the socialist party, which has openly) repudiated the class struggle and is definitely the instrument .of the petty bourgeoisie. Meeting Is Enthusiastic. The spirit and enthusiasm of the food workers present were exceed- ingly high. Those present repre- sented all branches of the food in- dustry, including waiters, and the speeches of Paul Yuditch and Re- becca Grecht were received with prolonged applause by them. Especi- ally did enthusiasm run high when Rebecea Grecht spoke on the plat- form of the Workers (Communist) Party in the election campaign, and tied up the industrial and economic demands of the workers with their political affiliation. Among those ~ who contributed were M. Berkowitz. I. Himmelfarb, I. Dreazin, M. Zimmerman, M. Chorover, I. Ruditch, M Budesky, A. Bederson, Fox, Miller and Gor- don. This banquet marks the opening of an intensive election campaign among the fond workers, leading up to the Food Workers’ Election Mass Meeting which will be held at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St.. on Sept. 21 at 8 p. m. Prominent Communist speakers will be present. aie aia * "Workers’ Camps Contribute. Camp Unitv, through the Work- ers (Communist) Party unit there. has contributed to the Red Election Campaign the sum of $36, through the sale of Vote Communist stamps and buttons, $11.95 as a donation apart from the sale of buttons and stamps, and has also donated $11.95 to the general expense fund of Dis- trict 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party, is was announced yesterday. As a result of a visit to Camp Nitgedaiget of Arvid Osol, repre-} senting District 2 of the Workers} (Communist) Party, $104.66 was collected from among the workers there for the propagation of the Communist platform in the election campaign. This was part of the) Red Week activities which were held during the weeks of August 19th to September 8rd. Trumbenick Gives $25. The initial donation made by the workers of Camp Trumbenick -was | $20. Beside this $4 worth of Vote Communist stamps and buttons were sold among the vacationing workers. | At all these camps funds were} raised for workers’ causes thruout| the entire season. among those who benefited being the striking miners | Lof Pennsylvania and Ohio, the New} England striking textile workers and the Chinese trade unions. Camp Wocolona, it was learned. has raised during the season over three hundred and fifty dollars for) various causes, the‘amount of $164} being raised during Red Weeks for the Red Election Campaign. Harlem Speakers’ Class | All members of the Section 4 speakers’ class are required to at- tend the session to be held Tuesday: evening, 143 East 143rd St. The Kellogg peace pact will be the sub- ject of discussion with Comrade Tammany Hall Holds The arrival of the Italian vessel Augustus, the world’s largest | was the occasion for another official weleome by the | motor liner, Out Hand to Fascists Tammany city administration to representatives of Mussol’ni’s mur- der regime. Photo showa Grover Whalen, Mayor Walker's staff hand-shaker, grecting Capt. Francesco Tarabotta, skipper on the Augustus, consul. With them is Commander Emanuel Grozzi, local Italian THE YELLOW TRADE UNIONS IN CHINA Wherever the counter-revolution- | aries do not succeed in breaking up | the labor movement, they strive to corrupt the revolutionary unions. In some cases the old name of the union is retained, but hirelings are put into the leading positions as for instance, in Hupeh and Kwangtung, while in| other cases the name of the union is changed and the unions themselves | are converted into heterogeneous or- ganizations united by inter-union committees, or into unions differ- entiated according to craft (the United Union of Shanghai, the Unit- ed Unidhs in other Provinces, etc.) Thus is the centralization of the forces of the working class being destroyed. The yellow trade unions now ex-| isting in China may be divided into two groups: those which existed be- fore the coup d’etat of Chiang Kai Shek, and those formed by the Kuo Ming Tang since that event. , Canton Unions. To the first type of yellow unions belong the Kwantung Labor Federa- tion and the Mechanic’s Union of Canton. These unions have embraced and are embracing several thousands of organized workers in China, hav- ing but insignificant groups outside) of Canton. Both these organizations rely upon the aristocracy of labor or upon the existing guilds and coun- trymen’s organizations like the Kwantung Federation af Labor. Owing to their connections with the merchants and compradores of Can- ton, these unions have always been outspokenly reactionary, taking an active part in the struggle against! the revolutionary trade unions. Thus, in the crushing of the Canton revolt in December 1927, aymed detach- ments of the Mechanics’ Union aided the government troops in the fight against the revolutionary workers. The yellow trade unions formed by the Kuo Ming Tang government after the Chiang Kai Shek stroke, represent organizations of the semi-; fascist type. These reactionary. unions, with the help of the troops, | have suppressed the revolutionary trade unions in Shanghai, Wuhan, Canton and elsewhere, having killed the revolutionary leaders and the militant members of the trade unions. At the head of the yellow-- jor as the Kuo Ming Tang leaders called them, “reorganized”—trade unions were placed the agents of the generals who had nothing in common with the working class. Compulsory Arbitration. The aim of the yellow trade unions is tg substitute compulsory arbitra- tion for strikes, but in reality they do not carry out even this. In the majority of cases they act as the simple agents of the bourgeoisie, ig- noring entirely the demands and in-| terests of the workers. Only in such] cases when it is a fight against a, foreign manufacturer, particularly where the native bourgeoisie ‘is not! firmly tied up with the imperi | the yellow trade unions sometimes | wage a fight against foreign capital. | Such was the case during the strikes of the printers in the Japanese print-| ing shops in Shanghai, during the strike of domestic servants in for-| eign families at Fushow, and so on.| At the same time the reactionary | trade unions do their utmost to sup-| press every movement of the rank) arid file. Thus, in August 1927, the yellow “Joint Committee” of the Shanghai trade unions disbanded the, Council of Chairmen of the Factory | Nuclei, and in June 1928, it dissolved | the union of employees of second- hand merchandise shops for having declared a strike on its own initia-— tive. In some cases strikers were! arrested by squads from the yellow trade unions and handed over to the police. Workers Indignant. Such flagrant reactionary work of the yellow trade unions has natur- ally aroused tremendous indignation among the workers. The latter have. _committees is now being practiced. | ers of the yellow trade unions by assassinating them. This has caused the boufgeoisie to decide upon a new reform of the trade union movement and to create in Shanghai the so- called “Workers’ Federation,” an or- ganization which resembles the trade unions of the reformist type. The new Federation, composed of | Chiang Kai-Shek adherents and con- nected with the commercial and in-! dustrial bourgeoisie, immediately: on -being formed, began to fight the old rival organization, the “Joint Com- mittee,” consists of the Kwangsi group. This rivalry strongly under- mines the position of yellow organ-| izations. Fascist Methods. What .are the elements of the workers ranged behind these yellow trade unions? Firstly, the aristoc- racy of labor, the masters and fore- men, the highly skilled and well paid workers, who hope to gain by striking a bargain with the bour- geoisie; secondly, the backward mass semi-lumpen-proletariat which was already previously under the influ- ence of the native bourgeoisie and has served it in various semi-bandit organizations; thirdly, the workers of those localities where there were previously no trade unions at all and to whom the existing yellow organ- izations constitute a considerable step in advance as compared with! their past position. The fascist methods of the Kuo- mintang are carried out through the yellow trade unions and are accompanied by white terror in regard to the revolutionary work- ers and the revolutionary movement in China. Nevertheless, it is equally certain that the yellow trade unions! will not succeed in capturing the labor movement. The revolutionary | spirit of the Chinese proletariat and| its living and working conditions | serve as the best guarantee against) this menace. The first revival in the| revolutionary movement will spell) the doom of the yellow trade unions. | Underground Work. The revolutionary trade unions| are carrying on their work under-| ground. In Shanghai these under: ground unions still unite 50,00/ workers. In Canton the Red Trade Unions have three to four thousand | members, and there are two or three thousand members in Hankow and other parts of China. The Nl members of these unions penetrate | into the yellow unions for the re-| cruiting of workers. In order to} guarantee the conquest of the| masses in China, the system of shop| This movement will have great results. The Chinese working class has fighting experience, which has been gained during several years; it has a firm basis, which can never be destroyed by the white terror, de- spite the whole series of defeats of the working class. All over China the peasant movement is growing stronger day by day. Everywhere) peasants are seizing the lands, driv-) ing the landlords away, and form- ing their village councils. This is) of colossal help to the city prole- tariat, and in the end the working) class will win out. | Appeal for Aid. The Chinese working class is wag- ing a stubborn and difficult strug- gle. It relies upon the help of the! international proletariat, for the struggle of the Chinese workers is) tt the same time the struggle of workers. The Chinese working class appeal to the international working class with the following} slogans, “Down with the blue and white flag (of the Kuomintang),| the flag of white terror! Down) with the Kuomintang. We will set up a government of the Workers! and Peasants.” ! Fellow workers! Help the Chi- nese proletariat to victory in La undoubtedly | answered the treachery of the lead-, great common cause! rs Make Way to Pittsburgh to Build New Union VARIED PROGRAM BEING PLANNED FOR YOUTH DAY To Hold Mass Meet in Irving Plaza The Young Workers (Communist) Teague of New York has arranged a whole series of activities in con- nection with the International Youth Day celebration, which will begin today and wind up Sept. 16. Beginning Monday night, the League will hold many open-air meetings throughout the city. The subject will be “International Youth Day and. the American Young Workers.” Dozgps of youth clubs will be visited Wuring the week by members of the League. All Work- ers Party units will be visited this week and a discussion on the role of the Communist Youth League ar} the Young P’oneers will be lead I League speakers, Friday, September 14, a joint mass meeting of the Party and the League will take place in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Rlace. The program, as announced by the committee in charge, will be an all-youth program. The New York revolutionary labor movement will hear for the first time the Youth Chorus, which, singing in English, will render the Interna- tional, the Young Guardsman and Red Cavalry. The graduation of 20 Young Pioneers into the ranks of the League will be held. J. J. Bal- lam. acting district organizer of the Party, is scheduled to speak at the meetin: Carl Winters will act as chairman; Frankfeld, acting district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League; Comrede Welsh, candidate of the Wowkerm Party in the Twenty-first Assemb) ) District, and in charge~ of Neel work in the Y. W. L.. District 2} Comrade Yusem, N. E. C. repre- sentative. and a Young Pioneer, will speak. Sarah Menzer, League mem- ber, will render a number of violin selections. The program will wind up with a young workers sport club per- formance. Tickets sell for 35 cents each and this will include a free three months’ subscription to the Young Worker. Wall Street ‘AI’ to Go on Tour in Car of Big Contractor ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 9 (UP).— A special train of eleven cars will’ leave New York a week from to- day, carrying Governor Alfred E. Smith westward for a two weel speaking tour. Besides the governor the trai will carry a corps of clerical assis ‘ance, friends and f@ heavy con- Sifnment of baggage. Thirty-six reporters will make the trip, in ad- dition to camera and movie men who will record the campaign in picture. The governor and his party will travel in the private car St. Nocho- las, owned by William F. Kenny, close personnal friend of the can- didate. An observation car also will be provided for their use. Issue Instructions for Red Election Campaign Workers in District 2 All Workers (Commmunist) Par- ty speakers, section election cam- paign directors and committee members are requested, by the dis- trict agitprop to carefully read the announcements of open air meet- ings appearing in the Daily Worker every day. Election campaign directors ¢ also requested to send in complet! reports of meetings in their sectioi to the district agitprop, 26-28 Union Square. U.S. S. R. to Consider Further Plans for Jewish Colonization MOSCOW, Sept. 9.—All organi- zations here devoted to the coloniza- tion of unemployed Jews on the land in Siberia and Southern Ukraine will hold a conference on December 1 at which they will present their plans for common discussion to the Com- zet, the government department for Jewish colonization states. azaar Special Children; Hats, Furs, Jewelry, BARGAINS Objects, Cameras, Raincoats, Over- coats, Furniture, Knitgoods, Books, Shirts, Toys—All at Half Price. Do Not Buy Now. Wait for the Bazaar October 4, 5, 6 and 7. Caps, Dresses, Art Jewelry Repairing,