The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY Caseig } EW YORK, SATURD. AY, , 192 LABOR REPORTER CONDEMNS PAPER HE ONCE BACKED The to publish ectior de. ceptive ac f the te at for the formation the New Na- ame cur Jeena and New York coasts. “wonder whether I h camp,” w e the socialist paper tember 1 “Workers? edueation is @ part of | the program whereby Soviet Russia pointing ov acies of the ina and vouching the corrections is training her union members for which he thought should “in fair- | active citizenship in a socialized so- aiesa” be made : vrites Robert W. Dunn and Re great aul H. Douglas in a chapter on : the trade union movement in the The “New Le has fe U.S. S. R. in’ “Soviet Russia in the Bernt the c a fact v Second Decade,” published recently. not considered survrising to those) “No country in Europe has such whe the a comprehensive system of work- slender b 1 other ers’ education,” say the authors. party organs of the various militant “In the factory it is the cultural- struggles which the workers are educational sub-committee of the snow carrying on. factory committee with its study | The labor orter declares injcla circles, Red Corners, lec- Substance that account of the! tu schools, libraries, clubs and | convention by the socialist orgen|t ld institutions connected | was more decentive than any to be with cvery production unit in the f you call an officer. Lewis, Murray og zers +) what you call a Communist. {iment defending the attack on the ‘tidentified in the the found even in kept press of the One marvels at the prog- land capitalists.” ress that has been made.” The letter follows in full: Factory Life. To the editors of the New Leader The authors observe that the life Your article on the breaking un jof the Russian worker centers miners’ convention in around his factory. “The factory is rgh last Sunday, Sept. 9th |not looked upon as simply a dirty contains a number of misstate- work-place from whieh ohe escapes ments. In fairness to your read- | 72> Kemenovich and others; and ers, I think vou should publish a i ietion present at the | @ny of them were arrested, in- chiding Minerich, Freeman Thompson and Charles Close Outlies Lewis Gang. (5) Not even Phillip Murray of the United Mine Workers went 80 far in his public utterances as to time and can personal what I say. y vouch for Lie Number One. (1) You say that the miners who came to the hall asking for admission was “estimated at é nearly a thousand.” A hundred claim that the men who came to would probably put the number | break up the meeting had been properly elected to the convention. Yet this is what you make him | appear to say. There is some doubt as to whether all the men who came to break up the meeting | were elected for that purpose. (6) Your account leaves the pression that the Save the U too high. The important point to remember, however, is that all those who came to break up the convention were armed with black- jacks, knives, etc. (2) You state that members of both factions—those attempting to nion meet and those attempting to break up the meeting—were ar- | @toup (inside the hall) were the Yested at the hall. This is in- | 9e8TeSssors. That is a false im- correct. The only ones arres pression. The aggressors were the at that time were members of the | Men outside the hall who at- uSave the Union group. tempted to break in. (3) “None of the officers of the I am backing Norman Thomas for president and hope he gets a big vote. I have made a point for some time of recommending the “New Leader” to people I thought might be interested. Your article just quoted makes me wonder whether I am in the right camp. A more complete denial of the elementary principles of fair play i United Mine Workers was in the fmarch.” That depends on what and Fagan were not there, tho * Murray afterwards issued a state- About minor twenty organi- officials were rowd. : meeting. and Li ives es of f Seamen Endangered When Tail of Hurricane H Hit Seamen's lives were endangere: Photo shows motor la unch ehabnee on bed Island. : PRAISE EDUCATION OF fQp, CLOTHES, WORKERS IN THE U.S.S.R (4) You say that “none of the leaders of the Communists were *present.” That again depends on Most tof the leaders of the Save the was not to be found in any of the othet press accounts I saw, even those appearing in the “kept press” of the capitalists. It makes me hot under the collar. N. Y. Coast | contributions d when tail-end of hurricane which swept Florida, reached the New. | ‘Welcome Mill Youth at , STRIKERS’ NEEDS League Dance Tonight New Bedford Workers SEN in Heroic Fight Continued from Page Gne The Young Workers (Communist) League will welcome the youth sale . ae ers International Relief, the only gates from New Bedford, Fall oring class relief agency in the River, Providence, Passaic, and the New Bedford strike area, calls upon l every worker in America to give, }and give generously, to the 80,000 heroic textile strikers who have been lon strike for the past 23 we “The stories of hardships tha: we hear every day would melt a heart of stone. But we do not appeal on sentimental basis. The New Bed- ford strike is the fight of the en- tire American working class. It can be won if every worker Will dig down deep and do everything he can to help feed these fine, loyal fight- ers until victory is assured. “We ask all workers to take this appeal to heart. It is not simply other textile centers who will be present at the convention of the new Textile Workers’ Union at a dance to be held at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, tonight. at the’ end of the day’s grind. In- stead, it has been remarked that one could spend practically a whole life in a Soviet factory and have one's social and general and cul- tural and artistic demands reason- ably well satisfied by the union.” The remarkable gains made by | another appeal. It is a question of the Russian workers during the inning a strike. Relief will do it. wast decade will be celebrated Send all relief to the Workers In-| throughout the Soviet Union on the | ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, Flevonth Anniversary of the Bol- or 47 William Street, New Bedford, | shevik Revolution, No~ember 7. Mass. | Hundreds of active trade unionists, | —— | swell as writ : : eee cere rr ecteun, coins (Mtoit of thém, 1it tk, behaved, Will | dents from many countries will be vresent at the forthcoming celebra- tion, which is expected to exceeu in magnitude those that hay- -:eceded | it. take advantage of the visit being | atranged by World Tourists, Inc., 69 Fifth Ave. This party will leave on Wednesday, Oct. 17, on the S.S. | |“Mauretania,” which has just cut its | own speed record, making the trip | from Cherbourg to New York in} five days, two hours and thirty- four minutes. | To Witness Celebration. From the United States a large number of persons are expected to arrive to witness the anninrsary. Who deadas New York? Election Campaign Rally To Expose Control of City and State Government by Power, Rail, Traction and Banking Barons. William F, Dunne Candidate for Governor Juliet S. Poyntz Candidate for Attorney General Robert Minor Candidate for U. 8, Senate Fort-Whiteman Candidate for Comptroller SCHIFFRIN CASE AGAIN PUT OFF ] District Attorn ey 5 Stalling for Time Continued fiom Pres One drive to raise funds for legai de- fense expenses to include the widest possible masses of workers The Schiffrin Defense C ittec also announced yesterday they have removed their offices from the Workers Center, to the head- quarters of the Furriers Joint |Board, 22 E. 22nd St. Appeals to workers are being sent out thru the mail, thru anpe to workers, or- ganizations and other methods. All to keep this worker jfrom a long prison term are to be sent to the committee headquarters. Schiffrin was arrested when, after |being suddenly attacked by a group of five armed men sent to knife him by the right wing butchers’ union, he defended his life with a pen- knife. while the assailants were weilding knives. was morta gle. The gang leader oynded in the strug- CLEVELAND. 0., Sept. 20 (UP). -—-Eight persons were injured seri ously and several more were slightly hurt in a collision between a street car anda truck here tonight. ‘Youth Congress Hears Reports on Questions of China and Colonies rom Page Continued One nission on Economic and Trade Union Work. “The work has beer faulty. It is imperative that mem- bers of the Yc union work. th League join trade ade union work in cludes work in nuclei. Mass work is necessary in revolutionary trade nions. Definite slogans and the furtherance’ of youth demands is necessary for trade union work, The on.the war danger must be The work, trade unions and fascisr speaker dealt with youth nomic and trade union theses anc ructions for strike strategy and ional education lutions passed un ously. China wer his declara- the Chin delegation with the criticism of the work of the Chinese Young Com- munist League, and emphasized his own recognition of the deficiencies { Grigoryev reported on the peasant ; ilitarist work,” he s necessary in the rural dis- We must combat fascism anc The peasant youth of The Pinner tion on agreed of a triets. female labor. the colonies must be reached. masses of the peasant youth must join relief organizations with an ‘extensive partial demand program. The peasant resolution was passec unanimous! The nineteenth session of the - lication of Communist “Dpternavionall eg opened here under the aship of Benario, Germany V of the International Chil- dren’s Bureau reported on the of the Young Pioneers Comm Barbe reported for the anti-mili- Young tary section. “It is imperative to combat the social-democratic lead- ers, pacifist illusions and war pre- parations,” he said. “Propaganda in the army and the organization of the masses are necessary. Anti-mili- tarist tactics must, be combined with political and economic demands.” Leo, of Germany, reported for the Organization Commission... Our work has been successful in forming a fac- tory instruction staff,” he said. “We have also been successful in the pub- faetory newspapers.” Agitprop Report. Holmberg of Sweden reported for} the Statute Commission, Auer, of the Young Communist Interna- tional, reporting for the sports com- mission, stressed the development of the bourgeois organizations. Gemin- der, of the Young Communist In- ternational, reported for the Agita- tion and Propaganda Commission. The report included chapters on the program of work among girls work in the rural districts, on illega’ youth leagues, on the importance of workers and peasants correspond- ence. The congress agreed to exchange international information. The con. vovation of the International Agit- prop Conference was called for. All the above theses were passed unan- imously. | hose, Workers “ol New York Will Hold Huge Red ; Rally September 28th Continued from Page Cne junction; prohibition of the use of guards, gunmen, deputy sheriffs, militia, police and special squads in labor struggles; the umrestricted right to organize, to strike and to pieket. These demands, and the ae- tual carrying out of these militant policies in the miners’ strike which was betrayed by the United Mine Workers’ officialdom, throws light on the action of Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Jour- nal. who joined his boss Woll in de- nouncing the Communists. Workers to Crowd Hall. “Despite the desperate attempts of these enemies of labor to dis- credit by slander and lies the only working class movement in the country,” the statement concluded, “the workers of New York, great numbers of whom have personally felt the force of ‘government by in- junction’ as well as that of police elubs and industrial squads’ ‘rubber will crowd Central Opera House next Friday evening at eight o’clock in demonstration of their wholehearted support, not. only of the trade union policies of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, of that Party’s leadership in forming new; militant unions, but as well of the political platform upon which the Red candidates are running. TODA Y—SATURDAY—TODAY Picnic Festival by TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE and JEWISH WORKER UNIVERSITY AN UNUSUAL PROGRAM: 3 P. M.—Freiheit Soccer Team; 5 P. M.—International Red Poets Forum; 6-11 P. M.—Camp Fire, Concert, Ball ULMER PARK yest End B.-M. PIRECTIONS: T. Line to 25th Avenue 4 BIG NIGHTS, EVERYTHING FROM. x THREAD To A SET OF FURNITURE at Ve jae 1,000,000 Articles BIG. NIGHTS Rebecca Grecht State Campaign Manager Philip Frankfeld Young Workers League Wm. W. Weinstone, Chairman | will speak’ on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 8 P. M. at CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street near Third Avenue Sincerely yours, HORACE {+ Union group were at the hall, in- eluding Myersecugh, Toohey, Voy- “TCOR” Concert FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION IN THE SOVIET UNION Town Hall | SA URPAYEVE. 113-129 waar se | EPL. 29th GRAND PROGRAM: oe PECKER and NAUM BLINDER, Violinist ISAAC ROTHBLUM | OSSIP GISSKIN, Cellist ea belated /, he Last Week in UNITY CAMP CHAIELE GRUBER DAVIS. FREIHEIT Admission 25¢ Come in Masses! RUSSIAN TRIO— acts, recitations ZAAR Madison Square Garden ()CTOBER 3%! of the Habima in Jewish, Rusinn folks songs. 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