The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 2

rage iwo 2 More Members of Young HEAD OF SCHOOL Funeral of William D. Haywood, A me CONTINUES DRIVE ON ORGANIZATION Labor Defense Scores Persecutions Continuing ersecttion of the Young Pioneers. Comm chil- dren’ tion neipal i Maguire, of Ligh School 61, yesterday morning suspended Na- than Singer Goldberg, members of Pioneers. The working: , pended wa ese two sued by Working parents persecutic Singer > bring ensi two mili- tant children mak tal of four Young Pionee e been ejected from P. man and B aplan were in- definitely suspended some time ago. Further of the hearing given Eisman on Tuesday before Dr. Wade, ict superintendent of schools Bronx, were re- lan was not Eis- and Jacques Buitenkant, for the New Yor tion of the Inter- national Labor Defense, being present. The I. L. D. has taken charge of the case. Threatened to Call Jingoes. Maguire had previously threat- ened to call in the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to aid him in exterminating the ioneers from the school. At before Dr. Wade, Maguire brought charges that E man and Kaplan disrupted classe: and.were impudent to their teachers. He, however, brought none of. the teachers to back up his assertion. Maguire monopolized the entire hearing and nobody was permitted to speak in defense of the two Pion- eers. He declared his intention of presenting the case before the Board of Education. The New York Section of the In- tefhational Labor Defense, thru its secretary Rose Baron, last night is- sued a statement condemning this so-called hearing as well as the suspension of two more members of the Young Pioneers. The I. L. D. points out that the fake and irrele- vant “evidence” was introduced and that no defense of the two children was permitted. It calls on all work- ers to aid it in its struggle to force the reinstatement of all four chil- dren. We demand ¢ moval of all restr trade unions against th ship of Negro workers and equal opportunity wages, how tons for Negro for employment, nist) Party the whole ra equality for the TS Tay famous ighter. Young Pi At Haywood’s funeral in Moscow O SAE SER Ps workers from all nations and Among the maxy American workers were several Negroes. « HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1928 nee races gathered to do honor to the Delegations from inter- national revolutionary organizations attended, as did representatives of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, of which Haywood was a member. to Chicago, stopping at Pittsburgh, and the Haymarket martyrs will! Cleveland, and Detroit. held November 11. Haywood’s ashes, under guard of honor, are being taken In Chicago a joint memorial for Haywood KNITTERS HOLD PARLEY SUNDAY To Start “Build Union Drive” in City Workers in the shops of’ the knit goods manufacturing industry are chosing from among their number delegates to attend the conference | of shop representatives to be held this Sunday afternoon at 1 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv- ing Place. The purpose of the conference is to organize the forces of the workers in this trade in order to launch a campaign to build a union. Although a union of this trade al- ready exists, the organization is quite weak. The Knit Goods Work- ers Union was formerly affiliated with the A. F. of L. United Textile Workers, but are now joined uv with the left wing National Textile Work- ers Union of America. They intend to carry on this drive till the ma-| jority of the shops in the trade are signed up with the union. At the conference Sunday after- noon, Albert Weisbord, national leader of the new textile union, and, Louis Hyman, chairman of the Na- tional Organization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, will be the principal speakers. Thousands of circulars are being distributed among the workers in the trade to get them to sent repre- sentatives to the conference, which is for the first time expected to be a gathering representative of this hitherto unorganized industry. CHARGES RATE JUGGLIN ALBANY, Nov. 8.—The Public Service Commission will hold a hear- ing in Buffalo on the complaint of the Niagara, Lockport and Ontario Power Co. against the city of James- town. The hearing concerns rates for electricity charges by the city’s | financial lighting system. Cutters League Grows; Plan Active Work in Dressmaking Industry A well attended regular meeting of the Cutters Welfare League was held last night in the headquarters of the National Organization Com- mittee, 16 W. 21st Street. The out- standing question before the meet- ing was the preparation of the work- ers in the industry for the coming general strike in the dress manu- facturing trades. The meeting de- cided to immediately formulate plans on how most efficiently the cutters can help develop the move- ment for the organization of the cutters in the dress trade. “A report made by A. Horowitz, or- ganizer of the League, gave clear evidence of the rapid and steady growth of the League as compared to the growing disintegration in the cutters’ local of the right wing scab union. The Dubinsky clique in con- trol of the Sigman Local 10, workers from the floor testified, must use methods of terror in order to extract dues from its members. This was explained when the worker told of how cutters were actually kidnapped and brought in taxicabs to the right wing office, where dues were forced from_them under threat of being beaten up. A collection was made for the Jewish Communist Daily Freiheit, by the chairman of the Local of the National Organization Committee, M. Cohen. PLAN NEW AIR LINES. PRAGUE, (By Mail).—According to its report to the Czechoslovakian Department of Commerce by the! Ministry of Public Works, that body has planned three new air lines for! 1929, The lines contemplated for 1929 are: Prague-Kralove, Hradec-| Moravaka-Ostrava; Prague-Liberec Brno-Luhacovice, Pitany, Britislava. They will be operated by the Czecho- slovakia State Air Lines. The republican, democratic and socialist parties are the parties of capitalism. |they made the astonishing discovery |, ‘AKILLED IN BIG FACTORY BLAST Many Workers Are Injured Continued from Page One sn adjoining street, but it was not known whether the blast had car- ried them there or whether they had run from the building and fallen. How Workers Were Killed. Patrolman William Gillespie, who arrived at the scene of the disaster soon after the explosion occurind, | described the scene for the United | Press. “When I arrived there were only two badly burned bodies lying on the sidewalk in front of the wrecked factory,” he said. “They appeared to have been blown there, but maybe they had run out of the building, their clothing afire, and then dropped dead on the sidewalk. “There were five other bodies, also badly burned, lying around the factory. I heard one big blast and! then three smaller ones. A gust of flame shot out of the factory, blew | cut all the windows of some of the nearby houses and then’ set the houses afire. Buried Amid Flames. “I saw a man, an employe of the box company, plunge in flames from a second-story window of the fac- tory. As soon as he- landed I man- aged to put out the fire. He was only slightly injured. “When I approached the blazing ruins I heard many cries for help. \I could see badly-burned men strug- gling in the flaming mass of debris. Some of them collapsed and prob- \ably died. Others succeeded in |reaching safety, where we put them jin ambulances and sent them to the hospital.” the petty bourgeolsie. By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. (From “Misleaders of Labor.”) ‘HE “bribery” and “be- trayal” are hard terms to apply to men standing at the heads of the trade unions, but they are neverthe- 88 exact and No milder ex- pressions can chi words just »perly characterize the practices followed by the trade union bureaucrat As a settled policy, they compromise the inter- ests of the workers and in return for this they receive recompense, in one form or another, from the em- ployers. In all countries of the world the conservative trade union leaders constantly follow a policy which sacrifices the i s of the work- ers. But « i betrayal manifest when the aroused masses, through general strikes and upris- ings, threaten to deal capitalism a heavy blow or to ov ‘ow it. Then the feactionary trad nm leaders, who do not believe » revolution but in the gradual reform of capi- talism, rush to the defense of the j employers by paralyzing the at- tacks of the workers against them. This} was the case in Germany in 1919; when the social democrats prevented the revolution. It hap- pened also in the great French strikes of 1920, and in the historic British general strike of 1926. And, now jthe conservative union leaders in these countries are following up thesd acts of treachery by support- ing ‘the League of Nations, the! Dawes Plan, the rationalization of industry, and every other scheme calculated to put capitalism on its| feet again. In these countries also the leaders are being corrupted, not only through political office but by | direct monetary bribery, as witness | the infamous Barmat scandal in| Germany, the recent exposures of | corruption in the Swedish socialist | unions, etc. But nowhere is the be-| trayal of the workers by their lead- | ers more far-reaching and funda-| mental, and nowhere is the bribery | af these leaders more constant, sys- tematic and demoralizing than the United States, in Here the cor-j MISLEADERS OF LABOR {ruption of the union leadership and |doubtedly a stimulation to other la-| capitalist bank. When the Federa- the selling out of the workers has become a regular profession. The Employers’ Bribery. Many are the ways of the em-/ ployers to bribe labor leaders. It may be direct and for cash, which has happened innumerable times. Mulhall (pp. 2626-28 of his testi- mony). recites the following typical incident of a Cleveland strike: “Mulhall: Mr. Volmer (the busi- ness agent of the strikers) ordered the men back into the shop and they went. “Sen. Reed: Did you pay him? “Mulhall: Yes. . . It has been a complete victory for the employ- ers. The labor union made an un- conditional surrender.” Or “consideration” for the em- ployers in handling labor disputes Of the A. F. of L. rather than rela-| may lead to very substantial indus- trial favors, as in the following ca: The Cleveland Citizen of Feb, says: “Secretary John G. Owens (Cleveland Federation of Labor) is now connected with the Joseph La- ronge Co., the leading real estate firm in the city. He has already put through several big deals and is learning his new trade fast.” Or take the case of Thos. Rowe, Pres. of the Flint Glass Workers’ Union in 1916, who is now manager of the American Bottle Manufac- turing Association.of Newark, Ohio. Or the case of G. W. Berger, ex- board member of the Window Glass Workers, who is now a director of |Tespectability for himself in capi-| President of a great union like the the National Window Glass Manu- facturing Co. Or hundreds of others | &t the request of Woodrow Wilson, |sociation should be guilty of trying that might be cited who have re- ceived good jobs from the employ- of the carpenters in the eastern Status of 20 years ago.” ers because of their pliability. Political Returns. The employers’ bribery assumes | many forms. It often leads to poli- tical preferment, as we have point- | ed out in the previous chapter. See | the typical case, for example, of | the conservative Pres, T. J. Duffy | of the National Brotherhood of | Operative Potters. He was given a) post on the Employers’ Liability | Commission of Ohio, at a sal $5,000. bor men to be “reasonable,” as Duffy was, in their dealings with employers. Or the bribery may take the shape of social flattery, as we well exemplified in the case of Gom- pers himself, Was he not lionized and made much of by all the lead- ing statesmen and capitalists? Was he not slobbered over in the press as the greatest’labor leader in the world? Anyone who believes that the oceans of flattery that were poured out upon Gompers by the big politicians and capitalists was not the sweetest music to his ears and did not influence his conduct are unacquainted with the man. The fact that he preferred the lime- light and great power as president tive obscurity in the political posi- tion he might have had did not les- sen the effect upon him of capi- talist praise. And so it is with many reactionary union leaders. They bask and glow in the warmth of friendly capitalist publicity. Capitalist bribery of labor leaders is subtle. Its actual consummation in tangible results may rest far off in the future. Conservative labor members prepare to harvest it by many acts of treason to the work- ers ,that give them the reputatio with the employers of being “relia- their rewards. Thus, for example, Wm. Hutcheson laid up stores of talist opinion when, in Feb., 1918, he arbitrarily called off the strike shipyards without even allowing them to vote upon it. The whole | upper trade union bureaucracy pro- °° &Toups of leaders alone but also fited likewise in the eyes of the | bosses by its stand during the war, they represent. This whether specific individuals imme- diately secured good berths or not in the state apparatus. An Early Betrayal. T. V. Powderly was an early la- ry of bor leader who understood how to done much to undermine and weak- Such a “reward” ig un-|cash working class betrayal in the jen the trade union movement. | ‘The socialist party is a party x tion of Trades (later the A. F. of L.) declared the great general |Strike of 1886 he opposed the move- ment in the K. of L. convention, and when the strike spread in spite lof him, he sent out a secret cir- cular on the eve of the strike ad- vising the Knights to take no part in “This,” says Schilling in “The Life of Albert R. Parkons,” “pre- vented thousands of Knights from participating” and injured the movement profoundly. But Pow- ‘derly was applauded by all the capi- |talists. After being cast off later by the workers he was appointed to a well-paid government position | where he vegetated ‘pleasantly “for jmany years. | Or perhaps the capitalist bribery may work out as in the case of T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board. This man, once a labor leader, has become not only a wholesale political grafter (charges were recently preferred against him) but also a labor union | crusher, Says the Logomotive En- | gineers Journal of him, March, 1925: ‘Andrew Furuseth, the aged but \fiery head of the Seamen’s Union, ‘accuses him of breaking down the conditions of Americans at sea. | Furuseth charges that the. Ship-|' |ble” men. These eventually get Ping Board spent $162,000 in 1919 to break up the Seamen’s Union. . It is amazing that a former | International Longshoremen’s As- |to put sea conditions hack to their Or the corruption may take place, | not by bribing individual leaders, | categories of skilled workers whom is the very | worst form of capitalist bribery, the ‘giving of concessions to favored ‘groups of the labor aristocracy at | the expense of the great masses of | unskilled and unorganized. It has rs Suspended trom B.S. 61 rican Militant Leader, Moscow | British Find | USSR “Plot’’ in So. Atrica Riga correspondents have again taken the opportunity to prejudice public opinion against the Soviet Union and at the same time make | some money by “swiping” a part! of the report of the proceedings at the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, garbling it and giving it as “news.” Accordirig to these Riga. lie-dis- pensers, there is a plan now afoot, to create an independent Negro re-| public in South Africa. This. re-| port is evidently based on that por- tion of the World Congress proceed- | ings in which the colonial situation is discussed and where it is decided to intensify activities among the! Negroes. Rebecca Bunting spoke on Court Battle Over Famous Violin” 000, cen lin Ves full; the South African situation. Discover Communism. For the Riga correspondents this was a good story. Bunting im- mediately became the describer of “the racial war in South Africa” and that the Communists wanted to over- throw the British imperialist govern- the Negro workers. throw every bourgeois government | and create an ‘international Soviet society. Premier Baldwin surely read it for himself in the Interna- tional Press Correspondence. | A Find! Workers’ ‘here are at present practically un-) organized, while the employers are | highly organized in a number of as-| sociations, manufacturing different way. 200 - year -0 violin, valued at $4,- , has become the ter of a legal bat- tle betweenthe Wur- litzer Company and Armand Vescey, leader of a hotel or- chestra. The com- pany claims the vio-. | was stolen from it ten years ago, but Vescey insists he ac- quired the instru- ment in no such Photo shows cey gazing rue- ly at his precious fiddle. \ ‘Stitch-Down, Slipper |Poyntz, Bedacht Will Workers Begin Union Teach History at the! paily Worker yesterday, Drive at Meeting Workers School Soon As part of the general campaign | organize the shoe manufacturing speaker . 7 1 te industry here, the Independent Shoe | “European History Since 1789” at) New | the Workers School on Friday, from | |ment and set up a government of York held a mass meeting last night 8.30 to 9.50 p. m. The first session | 2 z ‘to which all workers in the stitch-| to take place Friday, Nov. 16th. To anyone acquainted with the| down and slipper manufacturing | facts this is not news. The pub-|trades were ‘called. jlically proclaimed purpose of the! was held in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Communist International is to over-| Pourth St. Union of Greater The meeting! The workers in the shoe industry Century. and lee! native Negroes. For the British government, how- the A. F. of L. and even independent | Im- mediately an underhand and secret tone is given it, it is sent to the Reuter News Agency to be broad- Associated ever, this becomes a find. casted and our “own” Press grabs it for America. The British fear both the Soviet At the same time they wish to justify the action of the Scuth African gov- ernment in the suppression of the So the A. P. re- leases the fact that “observers” in Union and the Communists. London regard the dispatch throwing “light” on the speech of | J. Tielman Roos, minister of the! government of the Union of South) Africa, which he made at Johannes- | burg Saturday. f \lines of work. Unions affiliated to shoe unions, reactionary in both categories, have repeatedly betrayed the workers in the industry. Charles S. Zimmerman, leader of the National Organization Commit- tee of the Cloakmakers’ Union, and ‘organizer A. Magliano were the chief speakers. '2 Killed When Boy Pilot Falls From Plane SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 8 (U.P). —Two 18-year-old high school boys were killed today when Leonard O’Keefe was thrown out of an air- |plane he was piloting over San Diego bay and the ship crashed into as | the Russian Revo’ Another history urdays from 2.30 te Bedacht as tempting to today. 23 feet of water. drydock. “New-Fangled Ideas.” _ In this speech Roos attacked what he termed Bolshevist attempts to, put “new-fangled ideas into the| heads of South African natives.” It seems as though the Communist, Party in South Africa is gaining in- fluence among the Negroes, and the British imperialists do not like the “new-fangled ideas.” “As nationalists,” Roos said, “we | shall fight to the utmost any attempt to develop natives along lines which will endanger the white standard of the Union.” A virtual declaration of war against the South African Party ex- ploiting the race prejudice fostered fit t| the water, carrying Marvin Dor- land. | gotten to fasten his safety belt be- fore attempting to stunt the plane. Even had Dorland been capable of piloting the ship he could not have |done so because there were no con- jtrols in his cockpit. | tention of Coronado residents when | | with only one occupant, short time later near the spot where the plane struck the water, but his | companion’s by the British imperialists to main- | found tonight. O'Keefe was believed to have for- The plane first attracted the at- was observed flying upside down Dorland’s body was recovered a body had not been tain their hold! ~ 1 (By United Press.) on the nose during an election night | m argument, John Casidans, 20, and ‘move on, * | Stanley Mathewson, 18, were fined H i \$2 Punch Horse in a | Magistrates Court yesterday. Nose: $10 Fine) Patrolman Creamer, of Traffic F, | testified that he was sitting on the horse and the two men leaned out Charged with punching a horse| of an automobile and struck his and costs each in Flatbush jount when he ordered them to ACTIVE PRESS, Inc. 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY turer will teach industrial revolu- lution. course that, will, |soon begin is: “Critical Periods in Human History,” to be given on Sat- to 4 p. m., with the instructor. aah —— rm | 3 SHIPS RAMMED. NANTES, France, Nov. 8 (U.P).— The French freighter Irene E., at- leave dock without tugs, rammed three other vessels | One ship was crushed and sank in Another, with a gaping hole in its side, was towed to safety by a tug. | |though leaking, made its way to| The third, -al- | Kellogg peace pact and CIRCLE MEETING ARMISTICE DAY |Anti-Imperialists Will Hold Rally November 10th will be utilized by the All-American Anti-Imperialist |League to hold a monster mass | meeting at noon at Columbus Circle |in commemoration of the tenth an- |niversary of Armistice Day. Among |the speakers at, the meeting will be | Robert Minor, editor in chief of the Daily Worker; Harry M. Wicks, |meraber of the editorial, staff of the | Daily Worker, and Harvey O’Con- jnor of the Federated Press, and a |number of others. | In a_ statement issued to the Harriet |Silverman, secretary of the N. Y. jsection of the All-America Anti- ‘Imperialist League denounced the Beat Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Communist |«peace” talk with which the imper- jalists thruout the world are cam- ouflaging their preparations for a new war. | “No less than 240 meetings and |167 sessions of the various coun- Beginning with an analysis of the) ¢ijs, assemblies and commissions of commercial and tions, the course will then proceed to a study of the Economic and Po- litical History of Europe in the 19th The French Revolution,| 1789, Revolutionary Movements: of 1830, 1848, 1870 and 1905, the de- velopment of imperialism and the background of the World War and the preparatory commission on dis- |armament have been held,” she stated, “and the sole fruits of these 407 meetings are a convention on |the trade in arms, which: only | France has ratified, and a protocol prohibiting the use of poison gas in warfare which has been ratified lonly by the Soviet Union, France jand Venezuela. This fact alone shows how colossal has been the | armament. The secretary further called on the workers to rally to the meeting jon Noy. 10, adding that all class conscious workers have long watched the struggle between the powers for | oil, rubber and economic concessions |and had never been deceived by the '“peace” talk of the Kelloggs and others. | Praesens irene s | The socialist party e + robber League of Nations, illusion that war can be abolished under capitalism. Down with these traitors to the working class! 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