The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 3

. i 4 | ( THE DAILY WORKE ER, NEW Y rORS, SA TURDAY, NO Vv ES BER 17, 1928 BEF Mexican Capitalists . Have Devised Elaborate Scheme of Reforms to Enslave Workers PORTES SILIS AUTHOR OF PLAN TO BIND LABOR ‘All Power in Hands of Capitalists, State MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Nov. 16. —A judicial hierarchy controlled by the large industrialists and finan- ciers and selected and sanctioned by the government is disclosed by a. fuller perusal of the so-called labor reform legislation issued by Presi- dent-elect Emilio Portes Gil yester- day. The actual purpose of this plan is to weave a net of legality around the revolutionary efforts of the Mexican workers. Under an appearance of liberal legislation involving the eight-hour day law, prohibiting child labor, and promising equal wages for men and women workers, such as capitalism eften throws to the workers, the government has placed before the Mexican congress one of the most skilfully constructed codes for en- slavement yet devised. The machinery by which the Mex- ican government is preparing to se- cure the obedience of its workers in- cludes an elaborate system of coun- cils for each ship, for a central labor council and for a national labor council. There is also a supreme labor court. It is sigfificant that the proposed _ legislation specifically states that judges of this court ‘ ‘en- joy the same consideration and emoluments as magistrates of the supreme court.” President’s Appointees. The supreme: labor court will be made up of five magistrates named by the president of the republict Class collaboration between the workers and the capitalists is a fea- ture of the system of councils in the shops projected in the Gil plan. All power, however, is carefully limited to the capitalists. Every industry will have its own economic council, made up of repre- sentatives of employers and em- ployes, which shall cooperate with the industry in the adoption of new methods, maintain order and disci- pline, intervene in differences and safeguard contracts between work- men and employers. This body will also be charged with seeing that the decisions of boards of arbitration and conciliation are strictly complied with. It cannot, | however, intervene in the financia! administration of plants nor meddle with contracts between employers and employed. The proposal further provides that the Central Labor Council” will be charged with study of labor condi- tions, including the cost of living, thus limiting its powers practically to study and investigation. The purposes of workers’ syndi cates is defined with great exacti tude by the plan. It states that A syndicate is composed to make contracts with employers, but these contracts cannot endure for more) than three years nor less than one. Contracts are mutually binding on employe and employers. Municipal, State and National Labor Courts are empowered to enforce contracts. It is further stated that plants may suspend without violating their con- tracts when excess production makes further operation unprofitable or for lack of raw materials or when there are acts of nature, such as epidemics, earthquakes or fires. Public service employes may not declare a strike except on ten days’ notice. If the finding of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration is against the strikers, their contract may be armulled if the employer wishes. Each municipal board of concilia- tion and arbitration will consist of a judge named by the governor of the state, three representatives of the employes. Judges must be Mex- icans by birth. There will be six labor tribunals in various part of the country to enforce the finding of the arbitration boards. SOCIALIST PAPER IMPORTS SCABS Continued from Page One ers would not consent to such a swindle, and told the management 80. Discharged Worker. Looking around for an opportunity to fight the union and break the union laws, the socialist management hit upon the idea of firing the work- er who was formerly suspected of fascist sympathies. When the man was fired the union demanded his reinstatement with pay for lost time, as it is compelled to do accord- ing to its laws. After agreeing to reinstatement, and giving the man a fake check for his back pay amounting to $104.78, the manage- ment ordered the bank to stop the check. When the men, who had been on strike and returned on the set- tlement of the case learned of the swindle against the worker,, they protested and were locked out. Printing Council Slow. The Allied Printing. Trades Coun- cil is slgw to recommend that other crafts refuse to work in the scab shop manned by so-called socialists. They claim that their organizer is out of town and cannot act. Mean- ile the men are sti!] out and have Jury i in Oil Magnate’s s Perjury Trial Photo shows the 12 men and women who constitute the jury in the trial of Col. Robert W. Stewart, who is on trial for perj ‘ury in connection with the so-called oil investigation of the special senate committee. The evidence against Stewart is so complete that these loyal servants of the capitalist class may be compelled to convict one | of their chiefs, provided bribery (already a factor in the trial) doesn’t marke, them change their minds. ATIEMPT TO FRAME UP HEROIC NEGRO SEAMEN DEMONSTRATE AT a perpetrate was indicated in the | behavior of Tuttle: Two days ago he was sympathetic with his wit- Scat Dieers to Defy, Ittston Lerror nesses, all of whom® were passen- Continued Continued from Pane One thn attempt to fasten the blame for the } coe er on the ill-treated, half- starved and persecuted menthers of the crew, both Negro and white. gers on the Vestris. He allowed them to tell their own stories, oc- “som Page One casionally interposing a quiet ques-| there were present McGarry him tion. self, Hogan, his secretary. and| Yesterday, however, when the | Frank Licata, member of the griev- workers: ‘aboard the Vestris ap.|*Mee committee, neared before him, he was a dy Yale Bel) PAE vicious, belligerent prosecutor. He! The gang sought to keep the de put*auestions in a sharp staccato | don, but it is an open |sceret that the two ¢ have voice and paced beside the rail of the witness stand. He became ex- asperated when the workers gave evidence against the company, and subjected each of the workers to a severe cross-examination. come together and that McGarry i selling out not only the strike but also the fight against the contrac- tor system, has been promised an| important job. In addition he has| Lifeboats Leaked. The workers told Tuttle, on ex- amination, that the lifeboats began | ¢ filling with water as soon’as they propaganda against the new Na-| tional Miners’ Union. A news item| undoubtedly inspired by the meet-} ng appeared in one of the local pa-| |pers today stating that already | | Communists from the new union and from New York City are in Pittston to make trouble. sinking Vestris. This testimony, jeoupled with the preyious charges that the lifeboats had been old and rotten, added to the huge pile of evidence against the Lampert” and Holt Company. But Tuttle not out: first, to fight the growing sen- |timent of the coal miners for the | the situation. rin been assigned the task of spreading | This st the part which McGarry is to carry | POLITICIANS IN’ MEXICAN LABOR BRITISH HOUSE IN FIRST STEP UTILIZE PAGTS) TOWARDS UNITY Baldwin Hopes for Call for Workers ” and More U.S. Money | Peasants’ _Assembly | MEXICO CITY, Nov. "7. (By LONDON, Nov. 16.—An attempt) Mail).—The current issue of “El to make internal political use out|Machete,”* organ of the Communist of the Franco-British naval pact and |Party of Mexico, publishes the text bring the commons on record as.de-\of a call issued by a number of la- claring that it endangered the peace |bor organizations as a step toward of Europe and the good relations be- | the convocation of a National Work- tween Britain and the United States |ers’ and Peasants’ Assembly. ‘hese yesterday failed an@ develepéd into| organizations have founded a com- a political attack on Lloyd George, | mittee composed of their representa- who has himself been capitalizing |tives and representatives of those or- ganizations which afterward adhere to the policy of the committee. The entire group will issue the final call convoking the assembly. | As a basis of propaganda for the assembly, the preparatory committee puts forth the following demands: “To fight: “Against employers closing down enterprises and against part time work. f “Against the reduction of wages. and for a progressive increase of wages. ee Tien Lai-huang and D. Starr. velt Field, N. Xs WAR MOVE SEEN | Liberals, laborijes and concerva- | tives are using the pact as an occa- sion for pre-election tiffs, while as far as can be judged from the de- bate in the commons the naval pact itself is in effect tacitly operative, although Baldwin has declared that it no longer exists in “fact.” Answering Lloyd George’scharge that the pact had led the United States*to declare for a policy of ad- ditional cruisers, Baldwin said that relations could be improved by more intimate | contact between American} “for a reduction of the hours of | War Speculations end British financiers. Recalling Jabor in all industries, particularly! Both Western Union and Radio conversations between the heads of |those injurious to vorlerst healt Corporation stock have made re- (Vey ne aoe eras ane “For collective agreements. | ee navences on the New York lof England, which led to the flpw Seftor, Ai salntign of the problem of | rr Rae amie oneieecte: |of American capital into Europe, emer a or i Baldwin declared that if this paliey “For pos n_ of the land by the te one itor: ie al West were resumed relations would im-|peasants; and against all restric <1 Union touched 189 1-2. prove. tions against it. Newcomb Carlton, president of Indications are that the British} “For abolition of the white guards. | \vestern Union, told the Uniter Morgan Bankers Match British Interests Continued from Page One to the Postal Telegraph as well as Western Union intensified the com- ing competition. government will continne its arma- gainst the disarming of the ress exclusively today that “an ef ment consttuction with increasing ort is being made to find a basi speed, > meet the competition” of the es a bhageiiia further, “will | Ptitish merger, although “the ob French Angry. p trade union charac. “‘2¢les of the White Act are fully rsively economic. Tt is abso- “Pptee ated.” \ idden to davelon activities At no time since the invention o that by thei nature may be classi ‘he telegraph and the sub faa walit ble has there been sc he U senate Mie Commuice states that. it h ent and interest in th p ENSEW aruinar “neosrani’y ts 200,090 work Tt con. World communication situatior t Hoover plans to c demns the activities of two indi-, °S, toc naval conference, has s viduals, Rosendo Salazar and Ro- den and spectacular rise f the International Telephone anc Telegraph under the leadership of the young Col. Sosthenes Behn, wh: in a space of less than seven years ran his holdings in the Porto Rican and. Cuban telephone system into the ownership of the Postal Tele- | graph oS ROREREY, 4 the onset Have You Good dod Eyesight ? to an increa: tone. spapers are reviving all the. old bones of international con- tention with the United State: Ifo Sanchez for trying to create ‘an independent trade union group without themselves having any trade union basis. The Committee declares |that anyone who, living outside the | dusting off and refurbishing re trade unions, tries to lead the move- tions, debts, United States’ attitude | ment, can lead it only to delusions | toward the Franco- British. naval ac-|and dangers, |cord ana naval strengths. Therefore the Committee “recom- rc] . 5 mends the abstention” from spch cet me tev e cienity an jn.|WOTE of the: elements they mention | Pre wes Phrases signify an in- ‘in condemnation, and call for unity atable “armaments race: hetween | |of all trade union organizations of merica and Great Britain.” \the country, regardless of other dis- h press fe IN RADIO MERGER “The Spirit of Canton,” like the “Spirit of St. Louis,” be more appropriately named “The f U. Photo shows the plane and the crew, Will Fly, to Imperialist Stamping -Grounds from left to right, Jack Byrne, They will attempt to fly from Roose- to Canton, China, ble, the Pa Cable, and All America Cable as well as numerous ae companies in South Amer- ca, has created a new factor in in- ernational communication that stirred the transmission world. Threatens U. Imper' m. With the announced determina tion of the International Telephone & Telegraph to invade the Pacific | figld with radio, reachimg Honolulu and the Philippines at the start but aiming at China and the Far East generally, and the consolidation of the British radio and cable com- panies into one gigantic all-British | | monopoly, it was logical that the move to consolidate the transmis. sion interests of the Radio Corpora- ion with the Western Union to vhich Carlton refers in his state- rent to the United Press would be 1ost natural for both organizations. We demand the abotition of all laws which disfranchise the Ne- sroes. NEGRO SEAMEN ‘RELATE HORROR OF SUPPRESSION “Black Gang” Told to Get Back Continued from Page One which was impossible. At that time you could see the rolling chocks on portside. “We came on deck but were or. dered below again by the chief but we could nut go below on pistes: of water in the stokehole. Captain at no time gave us any orders. Ones® senger ed the captain what nbout the crew. Carey said, ‘Damn the black s—— of b-—.’ “I saw one colored passenger try ing to get into a boat with his wif€ and child. One of the junior offi cers ordered him out waving a pistol at him. The p: not*2 saved but the officer was. nen and I cut away No. 4 side, and puiled awaxisot ip. We immediately picked up three passengers and the carpenter's te and chief officer. We were ed up Tu morning by ship At no e dit Crew had ‘American Shipper.’ fficers give any orders. to look out for themselves. The Vestris, owned by Lamport & Holt, better known as the Loose & Hungr just ran true to form Sailors getting a morth, sleep ing in vermin-infested berths with- out blankets, proved themselves. heroes. ‘he TROTSKY 4 OPPOSITION 5 Its Significance for American Workers \ BERTRAM HIS BOOKLET discus: By D, WOLFE ——! ses every phase of Trotskyism: its historical roots, its theoretical basis, its international manifestations, etc. \ LARGE SECTION of nalysis of Trotskyism in A ‘astman” to “Trotskyism as this pamphlet is devoted to an America from “the Gossip of a Jewish Issue. take much cognizance of this, pre- ferring to flaunt in the workers’ faces the charge of cowardice, con- jducting the investigation on the vicious premise that the workers hould kave drowned themselves to save the wealthy passengers aboard. British Jingoes Aid. Continued verification of the fact that the capitalist courts intend to | whitewash the official incompetence and criminal negligence and to} frame-up the Negro and white | workers of the crew of the Vestris | was shown when Tuttle read into the record a letter from Sir Harry Armstrong, British consul-; general | ‘here, pledging the “co-operation of the British government in obtaining the facts of the inquiry.” * The British official suggested, on behalf of his government, that an “expert nautical commission” should he appointed to “help federal au- thorities in their investigation.” He! recommended that the commission be made up of two men, one named by Tuttle and the other appointed hy the owners of the Lampert and Holt Line. new union and secondly, to blame} his sell-out of, the strike and the| abandonment of the fight against | the contractor system on the coal diggers, the militants, the left wing and the Communists. He has al- ready been privately instructing his/ the National Union should keep out and thus not bring in the “Red” | issue, Miners, Rise To the Fight! The fight of the anthracite min ers is one fight, against the con- tractor system and the coal barons, against the murderous Lewis-Boy- | lan machine, ‘against the cowardly treacherous trickery of McGarry. They are all of one gang, playing the game of the enemy. Demonstrate your solidarity at the funeral of your fallen comrade who gave his life in your fight! Fifteen thousand miners at the} funeral. Defy the little henchman of the coal barons, Mayor Gillespie. Attend in one mass body. Oust the Boylan-McGarry traitors. Smash the murder machine. , Join your} own real union, the National Min- ers’ Union. FAKERS BR Continued from Page One industries, the double-crossing im- partiality of the faker, Muste, is known to textile workers, Muste has becn very busy in negotiating fer the merging of independent tex- tile unions with the reactionary United Textile Workers Union. Hoelseher’s and Muste’s efforts to affiliate the Associated Silk Work- ers with the U. T. W. only recently failed by the votes of the msmber- ship, Will Expose Muste. Left wing workers are staunchly determined to expgse Muste and his efforts, although they will under no circumstances fail to grasp any honorable attempt to unite the union. The workers’ sentiment on the reinstatement of the strike committee to all its functions as leaders of the strike is unalterable. Left wing spokesmen say that they will demand of Muste an account of whom he represents. They will par- ticularly want to know whether he represents the A. F. of L. United Textile Workers Union. If he rep- resents himself, the left wingers will denand that an outsider whom they will choose attend any “unity conferences.” At the mass meeting this morn- ing, Sophie Strechman, left wing | head of the relief committee, made an official statement. She replied to the strikebreaking statement of the lockout into a strike Hoelscher yesterday, in which he OUGHT INTO SILK STRIKE\ announced that no relief money would be given out if the relief |” head would not turn over the ac- counts, The left winger declared that there will be no relief Satur- day. She would be in Turn Hall then with the account books and to- gether with the relief seekers go} down to the union office to demand the funds from Hoelscher, who stopped the bank from giving any on her signature. She also an- nounced a meeting of the real strike committee in Turn Hall that night. Holezcher Continues Terror. That the officialdom’s attack against the representatives of the majority goes still further was dem- onstrated by Hoelscher when he re- plied to the relief leader. “There will be no strike committee meet- ing -in Turn Hall,” he said, adding, “all those who will continue to fol- low the left wing will not get strike relief of any kind.” The plans of the strike committee, however, will be carried out as announced. A mass meeting of left wing fol- lowers, attended by over 406, yes- terday unanimously passed a reso- lution of condemnation with the de- mand that the strike committee be permitted to function. The resolu- tion also restated the other demands of the left wing. Under left wing leadership, the continued agitation against fake settlements resulted in a new walk- out of the employes of the big Hud- followers to spread the word that | * Many sections of the French press were inclined to express their wish jtntion, that Baldwin had been. more force- !¢o{lows: General Workers Confedera- | fal in responding to Coolidge in his |tion; (CGT); the National Peasan’~” jhouse of commons speech. Lea sue; the Confederation of Trans- pe ee Dh rns nort and Communications; the La- pen Defense Meet bor Confederation of Jalisco; the Worke and Peasants’ League of to Hear Tallentire coshuita; the Labor Federation of T ulipas; and the Confederation CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 16.—The of Workers’ and Peasants’ Trade Chicago International Labor Defense {7»ions of Nayarit. has arranged a meeting which will be addressed by Norman Tallentire, assistant secretary of the I. L. D. 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