The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928 Page Three United States Wreckage OPEN THREATS TO BOGOTA MADE BY STATE DEPT. Charge: British Back) Colombian Move ee WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—An- other shot in the international pe- troleum war yesterday tore open the | terms of the aggressive note of the | American state department to the | government of Colombia dispatched | three days ago, but not made public. | The note is in reply to another from | Bogota and declares that the at-| titude of the Colombia government | surprises the American state depart- | ment and states the American gov- ernment’s determination to follow} up all questions involving the in-| ere Porto Rican Wo: Wh Hundreds of Porto Rican workers and peasants who were killed when the tornado, which re- cently struck their Island, buried them under the ruins of an American-owned building in San Juan, where many were trapped. wreckage of their rkers Died | | | | wretched hovels. Above, the terests of American oil investors in| Colombia. This is taken to mean that the American state department is willing to take extreme measures to ensure its supremacy in the Co- Jombian fields and the ousting of the competitive British interests. Continued from Page One The present diplomatic exchange | will but act as the emancipating in- involves the cancellation by the Co-| strument for the workers from their lombian government in March, 1926,! present position of virtual slavery. of the concession of the Colombian; Greeting the textile delegates in Petroleum Company to the Barco oil | behalf of thousands of coal miners fields. The original cancellation | organized in the new National Min- which was made for a number of ers Union, Ella Reeve (Mother) stated irregularities in operation, | Bloor, veteran working class ieader, was recently endorsed by the pres-|then contrasted the great textile ent Colombian government. ‘Amer- | convention with the great conve ican interests assert that British in- | tion which formed the new union in fluence played an important con-| Pittsburgh two weeks ago. sideration in this decision. | Organized in Blood. To an inquiry of the American’ “The miners organized in blood legation in Bogota made at the in-| and sacrifice,” the speaker declared. stigation of American companies as p jShe told how the convention in to whether or not the American gov- | Pittzsburgh had in reality been split ernment would be permitted to file|by the police into two conventions, a reply to the Colombian snilarse: (cite of which held its sessions in ment, the Bogota government an-| prison. The other met in secret, swer@d that it could not permit the| menaced by the Pittsburgh police American state department to in-/ and the gang terror of the Lewis terfere between it and a private cor-| muchine. poration, | “And when the two conventions The American state department in| compared the results of their elec- its note asserts that its action in re- |tions it was found that they had questing the right to reply is within | chosen: the same men to lead their the scope of international rights | union,” Mother Bloor said. and intimates that it will press these The delegates stood up and rights, adding that it cannat permit | cheered spontaneously when Mother the action of the Bogota government | Bloor finished her speech. to cause it to desist from “protect-| Representatives of workers who ing American interests” wherever| until recently belonged to the A. F. the government deems necessary. | of L. United Textile Workers, dele- Conjecture is rife here as to | gates sent here directly by the mill whether the United States govern-| committees existing in isolated mill ment is prepared to back its note | towns, and men, with a demonstration of power in| workers sent her Carribean waters tho action of this |mittees of strikin; a c ig masses, reiterated nature is regarded’as inevitable if again and again, in English and in the Colombian government per-|an English accented by Portugal, Sy- NATIONAL TEXTILE | UN eee? HORE! PHT AT MEET meeting were adopted with enthusi- astic unanimity by the delegates. | Cheer after cheer resounded thru the hall when the resolution formal- ly launching the new nion «was taken to vote. The official name of the organiation being, the National Tex- tile Workers Union of America. ‘STRIKE LEADERS © TELL OF PLANS \Murdoch, Keller Ready For New Union Continued from Page One |tnem dirty. We have smashed the |U. T. W. in New*Bedford and we i wil smash it in the United States.” | Get Big Ovation. | | Both Murdoch and Keller were ‘enthusiastically received at the his- | toric convention of textile workers, |who are well acquainted with them through previous struggles. When | Keller was asked about the mili- |tancy of the workers in New Bed- | |ford and their fighting spirit, he |said: “Through the struggle that) jthe Textile Mills Committee of New | Bedford have carried on since the | |feel only a new militant union can | |save tem from wage-cuts such as |the last. These now amount to 45 |per cent of wages received seven | years ago. | Traitors to Workers. | “The experience of the textile | workers with the A. F. T. 0. and the U. T. W. before and during this | |strike have proven beyond doubt | | that the officials of the old unions | lare neither capable nor willing to! fight and to carry out the workers’ | wishes. | “The old form of *the old organ- izations is also incapable of fight- | jing for all the workerg and an in | backs and hindrances to organization of the textile workers with the fa-| HEAR WEISBORD : Time Ripe For New Union He Says Continued from Page One inevitable intensification of strug- gle for mere bearable living condi- tions, which the workers will be compelled to go thru. This is so, said Weisbord, because of a “pro- gressive disemployment brought on by the increasing mechanization of | the industry.” | In explanation he presented the amazing picture of American tex- tile manufacture, which while hay- ing constantly increased its factory consumption of horsepower by 24 per cent, the total number of work-/| ers employed in the industry has decreased 5 per cent. This process, he then showed, was still continuing, creating a permanent army of whol- ly unemployed and part-time work- ers which the bosses used to club down the working standards »f the other workers. “In fine cotton goods alone,” Weisbord stated, “the Amer- ican worker forces 73 pounds of cot- ton goods production out of an in- dividual spindle in the same time the British spindle is made to pro- duce 39 pounds.” Thus it was shown thru these and other figures that the textile barons were not only extracting greater profits out of women and young| wage cut during the last 24 weeks | the industry, in spite of an inter- e by the mill com-| the textiie workers of New Bedford | national crisis, but that these in- creasing profits were being wrung) from the workers more and more. | Time for New Union Ripe. | Stacking up side by side the draw- | | showed | conclusion | vorable factors, Weisbord that the unmistakable reached by the comparison is that | the time is ripe for the launchin; of the new union. In_presentin, these facts the following drawback: were enumerated: The growing trustification of textile manufacture; | the mechanization of the production | process; the growing acquisition of | control of the industry by banking | interests; the creation of a perma-| ‘unions, both reactionary, militant, | ; | ANTLCOMMUNIST |2 af Minne pees as Poste Surat to va STRIKERS HERE : fer CAMPAIGN RAGES IN YUGOSLAVIA — 500 Workers Already Arrested ZAGREB, Jugoslavia (By Mail). -~The Yugoslavian government has commenced a furious campaign agairst the Communists and mass arrests are taking place all over the country. The -idea of course is to detract attention from the seri- ous differences which have arisen between the Serbs and the Croats. Wild stories. of “Communists” agents sent to Yugoslavia to per-| petrate acts of terrorism at the in- structions of the Comintern (sic)” are current in the bourgeois press. According to the latest reports over 500 arrests have been made of state in Mexico by provisional p Tellez, Mexican ambassador to the and the campaign is still going on. he naines of the arrested are be-| In the midst of the great strike ing kept secret “in the interests of tne workers in Rosario have waged the police investigation.” In point Ret pangas doe aseueal of fact most of the arrests are not in which the Communist Communists at all, but trade union party of Argentina was active, a officials and radical workers. Sie i iphierciitatio oC : “Sensational Finds.” died, He passed away in the middle “Sensational finds!” have been (¢ August, just before the historical made during the searches every- party convention, where the scat where. The “finds” consist exclu-| +20 revolutionary — forces sively of perfectly legal Communist | united under the banner of the Com- and revolutionary books and other | inst International. With Com- literature. One of the arrested is,| ‘de Cascallares’ death our brother or was, according to the police, “A party lost one great and militant against months, captain in the Hungarian Red |jeader who knew when and how to AIS strike a blow against the bour- The new wave of terror does not | Soni, only hit workers; journalists are |also amongst the casualtie: The Comrade Mario Cascallares was editor of the Spliter “Radnitchkag 34 years old when he died. From Odyeka” has been arrested. The po-|his very youth he was active in his lice refuse to give the reason. The | trade, the Painters Union, and dur- editor of the “Catholic Weekly,” | ing its struggles he always was,an Dragutin Kamber, has been arrested | energetic fighter. He joined the in Serayevo on account of an ar- socialist party and stood in its ranks ticle written concerning the murder | until 1921, fighting against the of Stephan Raditch. The publish- leadership of the social-traitors. ers of the Croat federalist news-| While no hope was left for convert- paper, “Hrvatski List,” has also|ing the socialist party into a class been arrested and will be charged | struggle organization, with a group with high treason. jof other workers, Mario joined the being brutally depressed in New| centralized body, democratically con- England; hours are increased, wages | trolled. The mass character of the cut; bosses receive increasing grants | milf committee will not prevent it of huge tax rebates from the town- | from caring and working for the in- ships; the tariff wall is very high, | terests of the individual crafts, Weis- being 85 percent for woolens and! bord said. worsted and 65 per cent for silks. | Even where wage cuts are appar- ently not being enforced, the pay is being reduced thru clever “‘spe- * The conclusion of his report, reached after the delegates had re- |turned from a recess for dinner, ialization” schemes, reductions by | Weisbord devoted to a detailed dis- i i i i f strike strategy. He| crafts, and reductions by mills. Chief CUSSION © | among these favorable factors, Weis- showed that thoro knowledge of the | bord declared, were the fact that industry must be acquired in order | to conduct mass struggles or even} local struggles. “We must be inti- and. allegedly militant unions have | ately informed as to the trustifi-| lost control, withered or have been | ™®" nee totally annihilated. Examples in-/Cation process, who the controlling | clude’ ‘the I, ‘W. W., the One Big | firms are, the extent to which they | Union movement; the Associated |Mtrel, etc., so that when a strike | Silk Workers; the Amalgamated | is called, our work will be concen- ‘extile Workers Association, and| trated on paralyzing the industry | he decay and company unionization | thru stoppage of the plants of vital of the A. F. of L. United Textile | mill owners, and not to dissipate our Workers Union. Other unions in| fre ble unplanned a pvua i i struggles that are handicapped from the industry have also disappeared. | 1" oon Welukerd’ dela addtig, Rank and File to Control New (“We must know when it becomes nee | imperative and opportune to call for. TELLS OF ROSARIO COMMUNIST LEADER were | ; Note to Colombian Government Opens New Offensive in Oil War secretary right Manuel Both have i Mex resident Calles. At United States. been Communist Party and ranks until his death. stood in its It was his qualitess as organizer, his eloquency as orator and his loy- alty to Communism that made Com- rade Cascallares the leader amongst | the Rosario workers’ movement. During the last general strike and other great and long struggles he vays had been active, standing in the front of the movement. Was Elected Alderman the last municipal elections Comrade Cascallares was elected as alderman on the Communist Party ticket. That pened the first time in the history of this city. Al- though he did not feel well for two months before his death, Mario en- ergetically defended Communist principles and fought for the imme- diate demands of the working class. In Thousands of workers throughout the country mourned his death and the Communist Party of Argentina issued a statement urging the pro- letarians to join the Party and to carry on the relentless revolutionary fight in which Comrade Mario Cas- callares met his death. R. M TO BUILD NEW . - MILITANT UNION |Many Picket Leaders at Convention Continued from Page One y every member of the delega~ s under sentence for strike activit with terms: running from two months to three years and with the millowners, backed by Massachu- justice doing everything in wer to see that the sentences ved. The legations ‘were cross-sec- tions of the whole strike—the ma- jority, unskilled Portuguese workers, i strike, unorganized before the French and ish skilled workers, came over to T. M. ©. disgusted with the yellowness of the U.T.W, and French and British workers elected by U.T.W. members to at- tend the convention as fraterna! dele- gates and report to their members on their return. feilow | Picket Captains Here. All the outstanding picket cap- tains were there, except those left to hold the fort while the delegation was away. Casimeiro Lameiras, twelve times arrested; Marion Bo~ telho, eleven times; Germaine Me- deros, Joe Pacheco and Jesse Troia, under $1,000 bonds to keep the peace in Fall River; then Anton Sameiras, a Portuguese Ben Gold among ora- tors, Joseph Figureido, League or- ganizer. . The strikers’ delegations, massed together in the front seats of the convention pall, not more militant than the delegates from other cen- ters, but, at the moment most tense- ly alive with the struggle they are living through, impressed the whole convention with the eager sincerity with which they took the whole pro- ceedings, listening eagerly to the words of the speakers, spontaneously rising en masse, arms raised in \salpte, to cheer those who especially gripped their imagination COMRADES! Daily Worker-Fretheit Bazaar Is Coming Are Yo —doing your bit for your press —collecting articles —gathering names for the Red Honor Roll —selling tickets The Time Is Short! — Only Two More Weeks After analyzing all the unions he | widespread struggle and when to, sists in its attitude or if the belief ria, Poland, Great Britain, French- that the British petroleum interests Canada, Scotland, that a union with are behind the present move re-|an honest and militant leadership is ceives further confirmation. | vitally needed. | Almost the entire Sunday morning | was occupied by the meetings of REID PREDICTS |committees, on the constitution, re- | solutions, women’s work, youth work, \children’s work and press commit tee. The democratic proceedure which makes this union different in structure from all other old ones as | was demonstrated here. The dele: | gates from the various states di- Labor Veteran i Tells | vided themselves into three or four |dustrial union is now necessary. | ‘of Textile Strike | parts, and every delegate attending | Was assigned service on one or an- Continued from Page One jother of the committees. their efforts to prevent them from| The convention was opened for re- arriving on time. ‘ports and discussion on the resolu- Try to “Fix” Accident | tions which after being worked out “We knew those fellows would do|in discussion at the committees’ everything possible to keep us| from getting out,” he said with his! characteristic drawl. “They had a/0n the side of the mill interests and neat little accident all fixed to, has manage dto squander a treasury make our bus break down. But wef $30,000, not a cent of which was anticipated this and sent our bus| donated for the relief of the New outside the city limits where it) Bedford strikers, waited while our delegates slipped, Betrayers Hold Office out a few at a time in auto-| “Tansey, the president of the mobiles.” |A. F. T. 0., was for eight years a “Jim” Reid is now 56 years old.| Police commissioner, while his son He has been an old-timer so long! is assistant treasurer of one of the that rumors have placed his age mills. Parkes, former president of at 70 or more, but he assurred me| the Weavers Union, is now a mem- that he is not more than 56 or 57| ber of the Massachusetts Industrial at the most. Accident Board and was the first Reid joined his first union, the|to endorse the terror instituted by Weavers’ Progressive Union, in| Chief of Police Feeney against the 1889. A few years later he be- Strikers. came active in the National Union “Then there have been McMahon of Textile Workers in America, the, and Campos who have helped Tan- predecessor of the United Textile sey in his dirty work. president at the Lawrence conven- the nose by these fakers. More tion in 1897. As president of the and more of them are joining the N..U. T. W. Reid sent the first Textile Mill Committees and fol- textile organizer into the South lowing its leadership. Despite the and the first southern union was police terror, our obstacles are organized in Columbus, Ga. in gradually being overcome and the 1898. He has since taken a lead- | revolt of the Fall River mill work- ing part in many textile strikes, ers is growing.” including the famous Lawrence Enthusiastic Over New Union strike of 1912. | Asked what he thought of the Member of Legislature | prospects of the new national tex- Reid also was active on the po- tile union, Reid expressed himself litical field as a member first of with great enthusiasm. “The pros- the socialist labor party and later, pects for one big national union of the socialist party, where he was| in the textile industry have never always identified with .the left been so good,” he said. “Of course wing. In 1912 he was elected to| there will be difficulties, problems, the Rhode Island legislature on the | but gradually we will be able to socialist ticket. build this union into a power in Reid talked of the situation in|/the American labor movement. The Fall River. _story that the textile workers in “Outside of China and India,” he| the South can’t be organized is a said, “the conditions in Fall River|fairy tale invented by the fakers, are the worst in the world. I say | They will come along with a fight- that categorically, taking into con-|ing union just as quickly as the sideration the conditions in the mill| northern workers. But the) Workers, and was elected national workers are no longer being led by! towns of the south. Our obstacles in Fall River have been many. The! combination against the workers| has been unique. The American Federation of ‘Textile Operatives has few members, it wields con- siderable power—on the side of the of “As for the U. T. W., the ‘brains’ of that organization died with Sarah Conboy, the secretary-treas- urer. McMahon and his gang aren't even clever fakers. The United Textile Workers will not have to be killed; it will simply die a natural death by the gradual loss of all its members’ : E |For that reason we gladly welcome | |the formation of a National Textile Workers Union of America as the | only organization that the textile! |workers can look forward to in or- | |der to help them in their struggles | jand in their daily contacts with the | | bosses.” | . Both textile workers’ leaders look | forward to their return to the ex- | |pectant workers of New Bedford | and the launching of a wide-sweep- | jing organization campaign for the | |new union. “The conventién shows,” | | said Murdoch, “that we have taken | |a tremendous step forward in the | | organization of a real textile work- lers union. (That locals of the U. T. | |W. have come with us shows that | | the U. T. W. feels the weight of our | new union. | Plan Big Drive. “When we return to New Bedford | we will have a large mass meeting and carry on an extensive organiza- tion drive. We will release at least» one Portuguese organizer into Rhode Island and Massachusetts. | “We will continue our picket lines {in spite of the police, and we will |smash them if necessary. We do not ! intend to blow out August Vehlo, but we will kick him out of town. Praises I. L. D. and W. I. R. “he most serious situation at present lies in the use of the New | Bedford courts to railroad our lead- ers and TaN militant workers to jail. The International, Labor De+ fense, who has bailed every one of our arrested workers, will continue its work. Thirty thousand dollars will be needed to cope with the sit- uation. We fee! sure that workers all over the country will help. “I feel sure that workers will also support the Workers International Relief, which is the only relief or- ganization in New Bedford which is actually helping the workers in their struggle,” he concluded. FRENCH MIGRATORIES. The total fumber of migrant 1a- borers entering France during June, 1928, amounted to 12,963, which in- cludes 1,499 workers returning to jobs previously held in France after leaves of absence in their own coun- tries. Departures amounted to 4,107, thus leaving a net addition during the month of 8,856 to the country’s 2 | who obtains employment in a com- Left! — ACT NOW! Daily Worker - Freiheit Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square, New York, N. Y. nent army of disemployed; the cor-| had mentioned, their mistakes,wrong | fight locally. We must choose our | ruption of the higher, more skilled tactics and policies, Weisbord de-| time for action and not have our-| stratum of textile craftsmen; the clared that the new union will be| selves forced into it,” he declared. | welfare schemes and company organized on a broad but firm basis | After, Weisbord, in an eloquent cli- | unions. Organization in the south with rank and file control thru the| max ended by announcing to the del- | is hindered by the fact that to the) mill committees who will be the real | egates to proceed to immediate work, | southern backwoodsman and farmer! masters of their organization and|he received an enthusiastic and pro-| ,yet the organization will be a highly | longed ovation. Spread The DAILY WORKER | pany qgillage at a miserable wage, the wage and his village life are decided progressive steps, which has | led to his being docile. The grow- ing proletarianization of these farm- | ing elements are, however, fast lead- ing to his awakening demand for better conditions, which will even nullify the power the employers are wielding thru complete control of the mill villages. Factors Weighed. The factors Weisbord detailed that outweight the other conditions unfavorable to organization work in- clude: Standards of the workers are | JOHN PEPPER \ on AMERICAN NEGRO PROBLEMS In The OCTOBER Issue Communist WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th Strect. New York City. IVE of the best methods of carrying on election work is to see that the DAILY WORKER is placed in the hands of as many workers as possible During the period of the Election Campaign we will sell the DAILY WORKER at $6.00 per thou- sand. No meeting or campaign rally should b¢ without a bundle of DAILY WORKERS. 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