The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY Mexican Public Utility Federation Calls General Walk-Out a MUNICIPALITY | GIVEN TIME TO GRANT DEMANDS Member Unions Must Be Recognized MEXICO CITY, Sept. 36.—Ex- treme tension continues today to exist between the Federation of | can-ruled Island are kent just abi Municipal Public Utility Workers, American corporations or the ric who have threatened to strike within ten days, and the municipal- | ity. | The federation is demanding the | recognition of its component unions, | ten in number, and has declared that it will bring out every municipal mnblic utility worker in the capital if its demands are not satisfied within the time limit set by the union. Rank and File Behind Strike. Further demands of the federa- tion call for immediate reinstate- ment of members of the organiza- | tion discharged for affiliation with | : ; the Public Utility Unions. the convention which formed the The leaders state that the rank| National Textile Workers’ Union and file are determinedly behind the | listened intently and took in every by the imperialists to fill. By SOL AUERBACH. All the textile workers present at move to force the reinstatement of | Word of the proceedings as one man, | these men and are ready for strike |it was their own union that they action if. the municipality does not | Were forming, and it is the organi- act immediately. zation in which they have concen- Governmeitneate Strike: trated all their hopes for their fu- The Glove on U.S. Im perialism’s from the misery of thousands with every wall it blew down, with every hovel it unroofed. can imperialism is dispatching its gloved-hand organization, tha Red Crosa, to try to blot out of the mind of the Porto Ricans by immediate relief, the knowledge that U. S. greed causes their misery and that the Red Cross is also a capitalist institution which loyally serves its master in whatever post “it is called FCAT - Mailed Fist Thousands of Porto Rican peasants and workers on the plantations and the factories of the Ameri- ove, and not always just above, the starvation level, as slaves of the h Porto Ricans whom they tolerate. The great tornado, while it brought death, destruction and disease to hundredsof the poverty-stricken Porto Ricans, tore the mask Now Ameri- MOST ENTHUSIASTIC COMMUNISTS FILE TEXTILE CONVENTION COLORADO TICKET Mine Misleaders Aid Reactionaries were renewéd and given new by this gathering, and Jim Reid mounted the platform amidst a storm of applause. He had a news- paper in his hand and he held it up for the convention to see. It was the Daily Worker, and across the top, staring out over the audience like an emblazoned legion, roared: NEW TEXTILE UNION FORMED. Jim (Reid, good-naturedly called Continued from Page Cne vicious as ever. The trade union bureaucracy of Colorado as in the rest of the WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 192 ot ' vagy Three “T Expect You to Be POT ET VIENNA WORKERS AWAIT FASCISTS | DESPITE GOV'T. | Call Rail Strike; Will Seize Depots (WwW 8 to the Daily Worker.) VIE . Sent. 30—The Com- munist Partv of Austria issued an appeal to the workers of Austria calling upon them to demonstrate in V na-neustadt on October 7 de- spite the decree issued by the gov- ernment prohibiting the demonstra- tion. The sappeal also calls uvon railway workers to strike, thus pre. venting the fascist demonstration beforehand, and calls upon the work- ers to occupy all railroad stations. the Loyal to Wall St.” Fascist Army. The fasci anization of Aus- tria, the Home Defense Corps, an- nounced about a month ago that they would rally their followers to a huge provocative demonstration ir Vienna-neustadt, an industrial suburb of Vienna, on October 7. Every presidential year the candjdates of both capitalist parties The reports as to the size of the) get a sudden attack of good-feltowship. Workers, whom they have fascist army—they will be armed— never seen before and whom they never want to see again, are pressed vary from an estimate of from into service to provide the capitalist vress with pictures of the can- 16,000 to 60,000. The odject of the, didate shaking hands with the rank and file, Above, Al Smith, Wall demonstration was to provoke the| Street's democratic candidate, shakes hands with the engineer who social-democrats into capitulation | The population of Mexico City is | tre well-being. looking with apprehension on a strike of its public utility workers and it is believed tnat substantial | public pressure will be brought to} bear on the officials to force a set- | tlement in favor of the federation. Officials high in the government are quoted as stating that they re-| gard any strike at this period of | national tension, due to the political | situation, as nearly crucial. PHILA. FURRIERS DRIVE OUT SCABS McGrady Gang Given the Gate (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— The militancy and solidarity of the | furriers in Philadelphia has broken} the understanding between the so- | called International Fur Workers’! Union of the Rorward-W Grady scab clique and the bosses | and succeeded in driving the chief} scab agent, McGrady, and his cor-| rupt American Federation of Labor| cohorts out of Philadelphia. The agreement between the fur workers and the bosses expired Sept. 15. So,Mr. McGrady and the other} representatives of the A. F. of L.| came to Philadelphia and told the} bosses that the Furriers’ Local 53) was no longer a branch of the In. ternational of the A. F. of L. and that this local was being conducted) by Communists. | “In Bosses’ Interest.” | s | If you have ever seen anyone who has come to his own, if you have ever seen battlers taking a moments | rest to plan future offensives, if you have ever seen anyone remembering his struggles of the past and enthu- siastically girding himself for the struggles of today and tomorrow, then you will understand the intent and pointed interest of the strikers of Fall River and New Bedford, and the other textile workers, who out of past experiences, felt at one with the strikers. United Creation. Fall River, New Bedford, Passai:, Lawrence are names that only had to be mentioned at this convention to instill a feeling of united struggle and fortified determination. What could have been more symp- tomatic of the united feeling against the old misleaders, of a fighting will to take matters in their own hands, than the remarks made by working delegates from the, floor; or the mounting enthusiasm of the nom- inations; or the acceptance of the constitution. When that portion of the constitution of the workers’ own <t-Me.| a8 read, which provides that, the | union officials shall receive no more pay than the average wage of a skilled worker in the’ industry, the convention burst out into applause. When the, democratic organization of the new textile union was de- scribed the grey heads of Portugese workers nodded gravely in full ap- preciation. Youth Leads On. Under the chairmanship of a seventeen year old strike leader of convention set itself to the election of its first officers. Figuerido, mills, 40 per cent of all textile work- \for the next order of business, the election for the first vice-president. Again from the ranks of the work- ers, who knew their leaders—all on a par, all leaders who had shown them the way in struggle—BEAL, MURDOCH, WEISMAN, DEAK, |WEISBORD, DAWSON, LAMEI- RAS, KELLER, SAMEIRAS. These names rank out like a refrain. The workers knew that they were their men, it did not matter which one of them was elected, anyone would do—for those names did not refer to individuals as much as to the spirit and purpose of the textile workers struggle, which as being in- corporated into the new union. And finally when Deak was elected, by a unanimous consent, the convention again burst into applause. All Symbol of Struggle. The same occurred when nomina- tions were called for second and |third vice-presidents. Again the same names rang out, names all grouped together and foremost in the minds of the militant textile workers, for these names repre- sented militancy, fight, bravery, class solidarity. ;to the assembled workers which of these, for all of them were active \in the strike regions. When Ellen +Dawson and Murdoch were finally unanimously elected second and third vice-president, the convention again burst into applause. Ready For Organization. oer Jim Reid now opened nominations for secretary-treasurer of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. |New Bedford, Joe Figuerido, the WEISBORD, WEISBORD, WEIS- BORD and tremendous applause and cheers. it was not necessary to |symbol of the youth in the textile take the nomination to a vote. Sunday night and Monday morn- It did not matter | | LER. And when Weisbord arose to! Figuerido withdrew, as if in re- for working people than capitalism. Since when is it a crime for Americans to think independently, for themselves? How dare these) no better than the czar and hi! crowd in Russia and will have to be | treated the same way in time if they don’t behave. fi To throw working people out of the union because of their political | or economic opinions is to take away | their means of living and is as crim-) inal as cold blooded murder. Let} |them beware lest they carry) against them the charge of murder-| ‘ing families of working men. | | Only bums would throw worker: | out of a union and a job for their \honest opinions. They may live in gilded palaces and receive princely | \salaries and grafts, but they are, | plain American bums and will have United States is working hand in| glove with the employing classes. After the slaughter of the workers at the Columbine mine, the reac- tionary labor leaders, instead of de- nouncing the Rocky Mountain Fuel | Company that hired the gunmen to shoot down the workers and -the state government for calling out the state militia to protect the strike- breakers, turned on the workers who militant fighting for higher wages, and better conditions and the right to organize into a union. were Joining hands with the capital- ists and their government the labor leaders denounced the radicals and offered to cooperate with the coal operators. Since then the owners of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Com- pany have permitted the United Mine Workers of America to or- ganize the employes of that corpor- jation and the leaders of the U. M. W. of A. and the state and city | federation of labor are helping Miss Josephine Roche, who has gained | control of the company to market |her blood-stained coal in the state |of Colorado. The reactionary labor | leaders have pledged themselves not to resort to the strike weapon but! to base their relations with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company on |the fallacious. theory that the in- terests of the workers and employ- ers are identical. Against this class-collaboration the Workers (Communist) Party is carrying on a vigorous propaganda campaign. Thé Communists took an active part in the recent strike thru- out the coal fields of Colorado and many members of the Party were arrested, tried and convicted for their activities by the coal-owned judges of the state. In this election campaign the Workers (Communist) Party will raise the issue of the organization ‘of the unorganized, the fight against | wage cuts and unemployment, against the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., against the employer- owned government of the state, against the capitalist system in gen- eral. William Z. Foster, presidential candidate on the Communist ticket, leader of the great steel strike and on the tenants’ protection measures | and as a general warning to the| workers who had ranged themselves with the Communist labor leaders. The social-democrats immediately iried to compromise with the fas- cist organization, going as far as to meet them in secret conference in an attempt to avoid the demon- stration, which, if it takes place, will certainly be a bloody attack upon the workers. These confer- ences failing, the social-democrats, at their congress in Vienna, capitu- lated entirely on the question of the tenants’ protection, declaring them- selves for a rise in rents. Communist Party Takes Lead. No sooner was it evident that the social-democrats would go to any) extreme in order to appease the fascists than the Communist Party issued an appeal to the workers calling for a huge counter-demon- stration of the workers to prevent the fascist mobilization. For pub- lishing this appeal the Rote Fahne, official organ of the) Communist Party of Austria, was confiscated and its editor, Erwin Zucker, was arrested. The latest appeal, reported above, is the answer of the Communist | The social-economic branch includes courses on cooperatives, trade union | administrative-eonomic Party to the decree of the govern- | ment, instigated by the social-demo- crats, which prohibited the demon- | stration of the workers for Octo- ber 7, undar the newly organized Workers Defense. It is also reported that Hungarian | of evening courses are calculated to’ troops will gather on the Austrian- Hungarian frontier on October 7, in| order to back the fascist demon-)| stratim, if necessary, and to pre-| vent the spreading of ‘“distur-' bances.” Hugarian Police to Murder Red Soldier (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN (By Mail).—According to the bombastic reports of the po- lice, printed in large type on the front pages of the bourgeois press, “A much sought after terrorist” has been captured.’ Upon closer exam- | ination it turns out that the man, | Johann Kristofoletti, is alleged to have fought with the revolutionary | troops in 1919. More than that is, unknown. | He is not charged with any par- ticular crime and “terrorism” does not come into question. His sole of- fense is that he was a member of the Red Army with tens of thou- fands of others. Since 1919 he has brought his special train to Butte, Mont., during Smith's election junket. western WORKERS UNIVERSITIES IN THE SOVIET UNION WORSE SS. universities began to spring up about three years ago. At present there are forty of them in Soviet Russia proper with 12,000 students. The major part of the workers’ universities were or- ganized in connection with regular universities which have at their dis- posal competent lecturers, buildings and laboratories. The students are between 25 and 35 years of age. Most of them are skilled workers whose ambition is not to obtain a diploma but to get thoroughly ac- quainted with the entire process of production from a theoretical stand- point and to become competent man- agers of the establishments in which they are working. The workers’ universities are divi- ded into two branches—the social- economic and the technical branch. work and activities, while the technical branch embraces engineering, nical, chemical and other courses. The studies which are in the form be completed within two to three Minor Music By HENRY REICH, JR. Those who read Reich’s occasional contributions to The DAILY WORKER will welcome this collec- tion of poems by one of the few brilliant, American poets who sing to Labor. $1.00 Workers Library . Publishers 43 East 125th Street electrotech- years. Figures for twenty-eight out of the forty workers’ univers- ities in Soveit Russia proper show that during the current year 8,145 applications for admission have been made. Only 4,772 of the applicants could be accommodated. With re- gard to the social Positjon of the students figures collected in thirty. one universities show that 81.1 per cent were manual workers, while 14 per cent were office employees, Who wins when you read your bosses’ paper? t Capital in Ten Days: US. GOVERNMENT FEARS PANAMA- BRITISH TREATY LondonSnugglesCloser , to Canal ‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20. Reserve shrouds the state depart- ment’s opinion of the commercial treaty just concluded between the governments of Panama and Great Brita'n, and no statement on the it agreement has been forthcoming to- )- day. From unofficial, but informed sources, it has been learned, how- ever, that the department is watch- ing developments in Panama with the closest interest. Stipulate Term#® Terms of the treaty, which sub- ,. Panama but may.be extended soon to include the majority of the Brit- ish imperial member governments, stipulate that the treaty shall not , be applied to the Canal Zone, “neither shall his Britannic majesty invoke stipulations regarding the }most favored nation in the treaty with reference to stipulations un- , dertaken, or which later may be un- dertaken, between the United States : construction, maintenance op- * eration, sanitation or protection of the Panama Canal.’ In spite of its careful wording, the document is causing apprehen- sion in American diplomatic circles, which are scrutinizing every diplo- matic approach of the British gov- ernment to the Panaman and Colom- bian governments. John Bull's Hidden Hand. Charges that the British govern- ment is the hidden hand in anti- American petroleum decrees recently issued by the Bogota government for that Great Britain, through private corporations, is obtaining large con- cessions in northwestern Colombia frontier. The importance of such conces- sions to the British government in event of war are the subject of an- xious but discreet comment by the state department. COMRADES! Are You . have been frequently asserted, et have helped to lend color to reports s near as possible to the Panama) Daily Worker-Fretheit Bazaar Is Coming —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 Left! — ACT NOW! Daily Worker - Freiheit Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square, New York, N. Y. leaders crush free thought. They are| the personification of revolt in the United States against the capitalist class and -their labor lieutenarits, with delight that “the death sen- will speak in Denver, on October 27.i tence is certain.” taken no part whatever in political | life. The bourgeois press announces 4 New York City ONE DAY'S WAGE for the should not sign an agreement with/a fashion that knows that some- fields of struggle, backboned by an ternational. He promised the bosses | tion of officers to the National Tex-|in the realization that they had interests of the industry generally | hearts of the striking workers, their National Textile Workers’ Union. ciated Fur Manufacturers, Inc., sent, And in an unsophisticated and local was a left organization and|ter—all that was necessary was to Tell the plutocrat leaders of trade The socialist Forward as usual acquainted with. Simultaneously, | Standing members who happen to vent a new agreement. | not -yet sure of the power of their) fur workers had their say, and| decline the nomination in favor of ing by stopping work and attending vention broke out in clamorous ap- demanded that the bosses imme-| workers. Co., and that all the union condi-| way, Reid, mounted the platform, general strike would be declared. askec permission to close the con- American Federation of Labor if Daily Worker Speaks. the scab clique of McGrady opened |of violence against honest workers. | munist Party, but I hope that your riers not to be “misled by Commu-|for by the agreement. regard this agreement as a big vic-| Coming presidential election. This) resentment and started to mobilize cent attended. | : 99) workers in their shops they would| outcome. Missman, the former right Bourgeois Army | ment. |ference for the successful handling] PARIS (By Mail).—The Paris | | ognition of Furriers’ Local 53 of the | carried. | McGrady told the bosses that they | ers, in a simple and direct way, in ing the textile workers left for the such a union, but should sign up| thing is to be done, said, “Our next organization that was carefully and only with the so-called furriers’ in-| order of business calls for the elec-| intelligently planned, feeling strong all kinds of concessions, these to be tile Workers Union.” These simple| created, by united effort, a concrete in the new agreement ‘in the best| words must have gone to the very nucleus for a strong and militant and of the bosses especially.” \ fighting hopes were actually taking From New York City the Asso-| form. ss Letter to Editor warnings to the Philadelphia bosses simple way the textile workers made) i not to sign with Local 53 as this nominations. Procedure did not mat- Editor, Daily Worker: was united with those planning to|call out the names nearest to them, unionism to beware before deciding build a new Furriers’ International. the names that they were so well to throw out of their untons good did its stuff, and tried its best thru|from all parts of the floor, but in a| believe that Communism is better its columns and elsewhere to pre-|Testrained fashion as if they were) & | voices, kers called, WEISBORD, Crowd To Meeting. ener an at . BEAL, MURDOCH, REID, KEL-!| However, the rank and file of the| promptly at four o'clock last Tues-| Jim Reid, the veteran textile fighter day answered the call to a meet-| from the days of the ’80’s, the con- 100 per cent. plause, sensing as one the best tra- At this meeting the fur workers / dition in the ranks of the textile diately come to an agreement with) Militant Tradition Leads. Local 53 and not with McGrady and; In his simple and almost gentle tions asked for be conceded by the/ and in the modest way that appeals bosses. If this were not done, @|to the hearts of the masses, Reid Seah Clique Opens Office. | vention. He could not however stop Hearing this the bosses asked the! the prolonged applause. they could supply them with fur, workers as well as concessions. So! spect to the traditions of old that | to answer for their organized acts an office in Philadelphia, issued) work and equal division of work I am not a member of the Com- leaflets with an appeal to the fur-| during the season are also provided i 2 | |leaders will poll a million votes for nists,” but instead to enroll in Mc-| The fur workers in Philadelphia| Workers (Communist) Party at the Grady’s so-called union. a ¢ Bit went Instead of enrolling, the furriers tory and the ratification meeting | ©" lone if'you go at-it right. | were aroused to greater anger aud held Thursday night was 100 per! —ELIZABETH PATTERSON, for the struggle. The bosses soon | Even the rank and filers of the| “Down With the saw that if they wanted any fur right wing are satisfied with this! have to meet the demands of Local| wing chairman of the union, intro- | at ‘ 53 and finally reached an agree-|duced a totion thanking the con- (Red Aid Press Service) Recognize Union. | of the negotiations. The motion was|Penal Court has sentenced a Com- The agreement provides for rec-| unanimously and enthusiastically | munist to three months’ imprison- | “ new Furriers’ Union and for no in-| Sam Burt, the business manager roent £or having: ai rere | terference of any kind from the so-' of the local, gave the agreement for | With Hie, boukweuts aryl ah He, called furriers’ international. The ratification to the workers, who ac- funeral — procession of Marshal | agreement will extend until June 1,/ cepted it with jubiliation. |Fayolle. The charge was cne of 3931. A 40-hour week, 11 months) mines RABIN, [insulting the, army.” | : H 43 East 125th Street GREAT COMMUNIST ELECTION CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTE, TO THE $100,000 CAMPAIGN FUND Send your contribution to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, NEW YORK CITY National Election Campaign Committee ° TOURS TO SOVIET RUSSIA | WORLD TOURISTS GO - Sth AVE. NY.C.- Dae INC PHONE -ALG. G9OC