The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 3

) | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MON NOVEMBER 5, FOREIGN NEWS SOCIALISTS’ JOIN PILSUDSKI GROUP; PARTY IS SPLIT Communists Are Only’ Opposition Now | WARSAW, Nov. 4.—The annual | convention of the Polish socialist | party at Sosnowiec, in upper Silesia, | sees a destructive split in its leader- ship, the Warsaw organization hav- ing gone over entirely to the ultya-| reactionary Pilsudski. The weeks preceding the conven- as a Japanese capitalism realizes only for the quick transport of goods, port of troops. wages well below the starvation level. And Also for the Movement of Troops Above, Japanese workers AND FEATURES --- BY CABLE , | the importance of good roads not | , but also for the quick trans- who slave on the roads for | NOMINEES IN NEW YORK Polish socialists, fearing that the) Lodz general strike would develop | into a national strike, and thus threaten the very government, they | exerted their influence in the Silesia coal fields, and by confer-} ences with the government, sabo-| taged the general strike, this causing a split among the rank and file. 5 “Socialists” Join Pilsudski. When the Communists, gaining ground in the industrial centers forced the socialists to define their] position clearly, five socialist depu-| ties in the Sejm joined Pilsudski’s| party last week, causing a_ split among the Jeaders themselves. While one conference is going on at Sosnowiec another, that of the split off section, is going on at} Katowitz, ten miles away. At this conference, in true Pilsudski fashion, the socialists are declaring them- selves to be the traditional party, and the “revolutionary” fraction of the party. If the “revolutionary” fraction of the socialist party joined Pilsud- ski, many are thinking who will the less “revolutionary” section ally themselves with? In view of the strengthing of the Pilsudski dictatorship recently by changes in the cabinet, and due to the socialist split, many are fore- casting that the near future will see the Communists as the only effect- ive opposition t6 the Pilsudski regime. LORE IS EXPOSED. AS MEEK TRAITOR “Too Much Fuss About, Sacco-Vanzetti” Continued from Page One the liberal and even some of the capi- talist journals had written fully as strongly as he, who claimed to be a revolutionary labor leader, for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, he heatedly retorted that a least he had not “antagonized the state” as did the Communists. As to his paper, the “Volkzeitung,” bitter enemy of the vanguard of the workingclass and a betrayer of the masses, its treasurer and important obtains some of the funds to support | this yellowy-sheet by exploiting the| labor of young girls and boys at his | engraving shop on Lafayette St.| Nine-hour day, back-breaking work | on tall stools at the presses is given) to young girls and a boy at wages | far below the living level. The rest of the girls who work at sorting, ex- amining, folding, pasting and count- ing papers receive from ten to six- | teen dollars per week for a nine hour @ay. The engravers who are union men, | do piece work so that this “socialist” exploiter loses nothing on them. One woman who has been working there for eight years steadily is now re- ceiving the top-notch sum of sixteen dollars. Her boss confided that a) younger girl who received less money | would be quicker at the work. Once, when a forty year old) ‘woman answered the “girl wanted” | sign, he politely refused her on the) ground that the work would not be suitable for her. She insisted that she needed the job, and showed him up so frankly for the exploiter that he was, that he had her put out. At the noon hour he found the woman outside telling her story to the factory workers of the building. “Do you know, she embarrassed me” this kind-hearted boss told his office force, “and what did I do to her?”) Surely with such men as “leaders” | the reactionary policies of the Volks- | zeitung are inevitable. ne Rumanian Cabinet of Bratianu Forced Out BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nov. 4. —The Bratianu ministry, which re- igned yesterday, will likely be fol- lowed by a cabinet headed by Lulio Maniu, leader of the National Pea- sant Party. Vintilla Bratianu, who with his brother Jon, has plundered the peo- | ple and resources of Rumania’ with | the assistance of its dissolute queen | for many years, made a political | resignation after being asked by the ; regency to either resign or give the powerful Peasants’ Party a share in the cabinet. Bratianu replied by threatening to resign before the stabilization loan by imperialist bankers was finally signed. Fear by the regency of revolu- tionary action by the Peasants’ Party can be seen behind its insist- Continued from Page One of red carnations at the passing candidates; they smiled and waved at her. “Hurrah for Gitlow.” ening cheers. More noise. More excitement. Outside the waiting automobiles took up the cheers and turned it into mechanical klaxon noise. “Long live the Soviet Union.” A tumultous, reverberating roar. And with that the mass swept out into the street. International Played. As Foster and Gitlow were car- ried along into the street, outside the station on 42nd St., a waiting massed brass bands struck up “The International.” Cameramen and re- porters dodged around trying to get a picture or say a word to the Red standard-bearers. “Fall in,” the parade marshal shouted through his megaphone. The lines formed while the band played, the throngs which lined the sidewalk cheering and popping flashlights. Parade One Mile Long. “Comrades—quick march,” Out from the side streets the marching, singing ranks of the unions and sections swung. More and still more slogans: “The Only Working Class Party in America,” “Negro Workers Join Their White Comrades in the Class Struggle,” “Young Pioneers Fight Against Child La- bor,” “Foster and Gitlow, Candi- dates of the Whole Working Class.” And still they came, cheering and singing and carrying their slogans: “American Workers, Greet Foster and Gitlow,” “Celebrate the 1ith Anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion,” “Fight With Sandino Against American Imperialism,” “Workers (Communist) Party Fights for the Negro as Well as for the White Workers,” “Long Live the Soviet Union,” “International Labor De- fense—the Shield of the Workers,” “We Fight for a Workers and Farm- ers Government,” “Down With Lynching,” “We Struggle Against Racial Discrimination,” “Foster and Gitlow, We Greet You.” When’ the bearer of the Red Flag More deaf- |teached 20th St. the last section of |Did you see those who marched? financial backer is one I. Scheff, who | the parade was just swinging out of | 40th St. The parade was one mile ‘| Men’s |long. The sidewalks on both sides of the street were literally jammed with marching, appla ing workers who could not find place in the line. Many Unions in Line. The order in line was as follows: First came a white worker, carrying\| the Red Flag; at his side marched)| a worker carrying the stars and| |stripes, banner of American imper- ialism, as required by law. Between them marched Harry Williams, the Negro campaign manager of the Harlem district. | Then followed one of the brass bands, then the automobile which carried Foster; on the running-| board of this car stood William W. Weinstone, district organizer of the Werkers (Communist) Party. Next in line came another car with Gitlow with four red-scarved Pioneers on the running-boards. Then came the following: Central | Executive Committee, District Ex- ecutive Committee, a bodyguard of workers with red arm-bands, Down- town Manhattan Section, Milliners. Clothing Workers, Food Workers, a brass band, Furriers, Young Workers League, Building Trade Workers, Pioneers, Harlem Workers Party Section, Finnish Sports Organizations, Bakers, Co- operatives, United Council of Women Workers, Williamsburg _ Section, Long Island City Section, South Brooklyn. At 5:15 the Red Flag entered Union Square and for nearly half an hour the marching sections, cheering and singing, came on. As the police ordered each entering sec- tion to break up, they did so, and formed: a solid mass outside of 26 Union Square, the Workers Center. Inside the headquarters of Dis- jtrict 2 the candidates sat down, ex- |hausted and happy. Reporters crowded close to get a statement. | “This is the smashing proof,” | Foster said, “that our Party is a liv- ing, growing force. This remark- | able demonstration by the workers of New York proves that our Party | rightfully calls itself the only| working class party in America.} | | |They were workers; and we are a ‘workers’ party.” LONG DISTANCE FLIE, _TO BOMB MOSCOW By “OUTPOST,” (Weekly Correspondent of the Brit- ish Sunday Worker) LOT of pother and hullabaloo about the Franco-British air agreement. Official denials like leaves in what-is-it. And nobody outside the more gullible newspaper readers believing a word of those denials. Of course there is a Franco-Brit- ish air agreement. Not a signed- sealed-and-delivered one, but a nod- and-a-wink one. These things follow just as log- ically in 1928 as in 1906 from a po- litical entente. War, as Herr von Clausewitz sagely remarked, is the continuation of policy. ®Co-opera- tion in policy implies co-operation in war. And co-operation in war implies co-operation in preparing for war. Far Away. And preparing for war is the job of both British and French air ser- vices. How they are getting on with that job not many people realize, in spite of Hendon displays and “bombings” of London. Nor do they realize that the war they are preparing for is not in the least a defensive one, but an offensive one. They are getting ready to fight, not over or around London, but some- where quite a long way away. Let us look at a few hard facts instead of at politicians’ speeches. In May, 1918, the number of Brit- ish aeroplanes on the western front for the first time exceeded three per 1,000 infantry rifles. These were machines actually “on the strength” of the squadrons, and ex- cludes those in the supply and re- pair depots and the seaplanes in the North Sea. Bombers with the Brit- ish army are included as. well as those of the “Independent Air Vorce” (which was then beginning to raid the Rhine cities). . 2 8 Rifle Strength. ‘ fees the rifle strength of the British army, including territor- jals, but inclusive of the troops of the Indian army, is approximately ence that the party be placed in the javailable 150,000. The number of aeroplanes for immediate active ser- vice, again excluding those in India and the fleet air army, is about 750. In other words, the ratio of aero- planes to rifles has been raised from three per 1,000 rifles in 1918 to five per 1,000 in 1928, This relative ‘progress” does not ky any means tmply that the air force now has (relative to the total army strength) only increased in the ratio of from three to five. Actually the R. A. F. is mainly equippec with machines the “offen- sive power” of which is approxi- mately double those of the war period. Speed Increased. Speed on the average has in- creased during these ten years 20 AMERICA. —United States vs. —The Significance This pamphlet should b worker interested in a cl WORKERS LIBRA 43 East 125th Street THE NEXT WAR 7) JAY LOVESTONE THE UNITED STATES IS PREPARING FOR ANOTHER WAR. WHY? —The role of American Imperialism —The Role of Reformism —The Role of the Communist Party today and the attitude of the Workers (Com- munist) Party toward the coming war. 10 cents BRITISH FORTIFY LATEST ENGINES Guns Guard Straits for Imperialists GIBRALTAR, Nov. 4.—Here, at | the strongest fortification in the) world, whose deadly guns command/ an area thirty miles in radius, all talk of peace sounds like a hollow lie, and the mouths of the guns} speak an altogether different lan-| guage. With the possibility for war al- ways in the offing, the British gov- ernment has quietly proceeded in providing Gibraltar with the latest engines of destruction and making out of it the most powerful naval base in the world, while its states- men speak of “disarmament” and “outlawing” war. 30 Mile Range. It is now possible for the big guns mounted 1,110 feet above the sea, to fire straight into the con- tinent of Africa, fourteen miles away. Its guns sweep the Mediter- ranean for a distance of thirty miles and keep the Seven Seas clear for the British warships. The harbor has been improved un- til now it can safeguard, coal and repair an entire fleet at a time, Safe from torpedo or submarine attack. In addition, a series of great sub- terranean tunnels, moles, fortifica- tions and secret armored chambers have been built. | Gibraltar contains 20,000 Span-| iards, who are carefully watched and spied upon by the British au- thorities. Every now then, when their number beeemes too large, hundreds of workers are shifted by the British from Gibral- tar across the frontier into the! neighboring Spanish town of La Linea de la Concepcion, Visitors | are carefully watched and are per- mitted only at certain times. French Anti-Clericals Aid Missionaries for | Imperialist Service PARIS, Nov. 4.—Prime Minister Briand, supposed “radical” and anti-clerical, has caused a fuss in cabinet circles and his party by a little practical help given to imper- jalism. He introduced into the budget two paragraphs designed to give back to the church properties to al- low them to train missionaries for colonial countries. He contends that the service of the missionaries in Syria, China and Africa justified the help of anti-clericals to the church. Poincare was uncertain, though ready to aid the church, of being attacked by the anti-clerical masses. But he asked the socialist Sarraut, who helped suppress the Syrian struggle for independence, and this good socialist also approved of help to imperialism by way of grants to the church. But the anti-clerical party members are all stirred up about it as a religious issue. eed . per cent for fighters and nearly 60 per cent for light day bombers (the Fairey “Fox” machines which “bombed” London so effectively dur- ing the last maneuvers are the lat- est examples of this type). Heavy “night” bombers have not changed much since the war, but Britain has in this class one outstanding experi- mental machine, the Beardmore “In- flexible,” a giant that weighs over 15 tons, and stretches 158 feet from wing-tip to wing-tip. At least three firms have re- cently submitted “secret” new fighters of a very high speed to the air ministry. Another ma- chine, the Westland “Wizard,” a fighter produced by a branch of the big engineering firm of Pet- ters, Ltd., can exceed 200 miles per hour. This is believed still to be undergoing trials. (Td Be Continued.) PREPARES Great Britain of Peace Pacts e in the hands of every ear analysis of America RY PUBLISHERS New York City AND SILK WORKERS VOTE Pementian wig. 22" 2 WING PROPOSALS Continued from Page One the present situation, Gertrude Mueller declared. It exists because these incompetent officials have not allowed a demonstration of full power by the Associated Silk Work- ers Union, because they are sure the present leadership will do nothing effective, because they have never shown the full solidarity of the en- tire union, because they never pre- pared the strike as they should and because they never attempted to draw out the largést possible num- ber of workers. Failure to demon- strate the solidarity of all union shops and their right wing policy of settling shops before a sufficient number were out on strike to ensure the aggressiveness of the etruggle were other blunders for which the speaker scored the leaders. The speaker then showed how the failure of the officialdem to in- sist on the presence of an organizer ; When a shop settles is also a fatal mistake of the present leadership. “The settlement committee admits that fifty per cent of the settle- ments are fake,” she said, “but all they do is to blame the work: leaving them alone to shift for them- selves. The settlement committee makes no effort to investigate settle- | ments, merely exvecting the workers to make them. The left wing has made repeated attempts to correct the serious mis- takes of the incompetent leadership in the conduct of the strike, but, though the officialdom asserts that many of the left wing proposals have been passed, it has taken weeks to put them into effect. “The leadership always acts too late,” the speaker declared, The left wing proposed #n execu- tive committee to ry out the de- cisions of the strike committee, and j the right wing sahotaged the pro- posal. As a result the machinery for holding the demands which the workers have gained is totally lack- jing. Left Wing Proposals. 1925 vage Thres CORRESPON ONDENTS FROM SPECIAL C , Workers Union, and we must sooner or later join up with this organiza- tion.” The motion “to accept the min- crity report of Gertrude Mueller” was passed overwhelmingly by a show of hands. The chairman, |proposals of the left wing for the|oelscher, refused to accept the sdccessful, militant conduct of the|clear majority which the hands of strike. x the silk workers showed, making a The most important proposals call | gesture of counting them instead. for the placing of all union funds | While this maneuver was being put at the disposal of the strike com-|over, the right wing started a fight mittee for purposes of relief; for |in the hall, and, using this as a pre- the payment of assessments by |text, Holescher arbitrarily declared workers still working in their shops |the meeting adjourned, refusing to as well as for those who have gone |give Gertrude Mueller the floor for | 's after | back to work in settled shops, The proposals emphasized the necessity of broadening the strike to crganize further ranks of the strik- ers, and mentioned the unorganized jaquard workers especially. It fur- ther urged bringing out the rest of the plain goods shops. Right of the organizers of the As- sociated Silk Workers Union to en- ter shops to check up agreements was also stressed in the proposals, as was the necessity of the union’s co-operating with the shop chair- men. Declaring that competent organ- izers are vital to the strike, no mat- ter where they come, the fifth pro- posal called for more militant lead- ers. Aid to the National Textile Workers Union in their organization of the dye workers was also em- phasized by the proposals. Demand for a-mass parade to show the power of the union in Pat- erson was also put forward, the pro- posal calling for the partic all Paterson labor organizations on the issue 6f the eight-hour day. The closing proposals called for the organization of the youth and the women and encouragement to the auxiliary workers, who must ho made to feel that the union is their | union. “The first issue before us is a |strong union in Paterson,” the | speaker asserted, after the reading of the left wing proposals, “not the false issue of whether we shall have |the National Textile Workers Union jor the Associated, which the right | wing leaders are attempting to eject |into the situation. We need to have The speaker then stated the ten the support of the National Textile |the final starement, | So blatant was the betrayal of the | workers’ ex’ ed averwhelming the majority lof the left wing report that even Fred Hoelsher, secretary of the As- | sociated Silk Workers Union, de- |clared the left wing had a clear ma- | jority. |" With this majority supporting them, the left wing announced last night that it intends to push for- ward to carry out its proposals for a successful conclusion of the | strike. COMMUNISTS WIN IN LATVIA POLL Win 5 Seats; Socialists Lose Seven BERLIN, Nov. As a result of the growing strength of the Com- munists in Latvia, the elections of Oct. 7 brought about a considerable defeat for the socialists and. the election of five Communists in the chamber, where in 1925 there were none, During the election campaign the Communists, under the title of Left Laborites, won many of the work ers from the socialist leadership. The electons reduced the number of socialists in the chamber from 33 to 26, and the Juraszewski government Who wins when you read your | bosses’ paper? SEATTLE |. L. D. DEMAND RELEASE OF FRAMED MEN \Stages Demonstration in Coast City (Special to the Daily Worker) OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 4.—The ‘Seattle branch of the International Labor Defense staged a demonstra- tion here in the state capital, pick- ing the capitol building and hing before the offices of the supreme court and the gov= | state ernor, in protest against the con- | tinued imprisonment of the eight workers who have been lying. in | prison since 1919 r being framed-up in the famous I. W. W. case at Centra a. | The banners o: the I. L. D. pickets.” | attention to e fact that ts Mooney and Massachu- § > and Van- barons of Wash- murdering Wesleyr* framing-up his eight practicing the called the after ti, ington, I'verest and same vind s justice in hold= ing the ntralia w in prison, knowing they are innocent of crime.” The workers of tate demand: these workers be released: f Dictator of Spain Consclidates Rule. MADRID, Nov. personal dictatorship, General Primo ~ de Rivera is re. 3 inet. Amon. the die~ tator himself will take over the min- istry of foreign affairs. In line with the scheme f class collaboration = recently worked out with the emy ployers and the socialist labor lead- ers, the labor ster will now be called the Minister of Labor, Cor- porations and Assurance. You're wn the fight » write for The DAILY WORKER, One More Day Left Give and Give at Once - Today - Your Best- Your Most | For the Communist Election Campaign Against Capitalist Terror |OUR PARTY IS THE ONLY PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS. 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