The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 2

Seamen, BLAME COMPA GREED A i rh Condemn Attempt to Make Crew Goats Whe was to blam ation, adopted meeting tion by Ch samen’s * slugging own if {neceksa servant zod ‘and + mem- hipowners’ m fof the Ma: lLearue at *men’s Clu City, prote: (the utter disregard for human life, amotinting to 1 r the profit: abhing nd Holt , Line the Vestris dis: Yr. Company Government Guilty responsibility for the steamship gov ent inspect- departure. in sending out the SOS nti] too late. in order to save salvage fees, the unseaworthy n of the shin, the fact that allowed to sail with a coal wonld not close, the rot- ten and insufficiently esuinned life- boats, the cz in’s comnlete mis- manarement of the ahandonment of the ship. the testimony of the pas- sengers and the crew the withhold- ing of the r ssages exchanged between the steamship company and the cantain—all bear witness to the fact that the guilt for this murder of over one hundred men, women and children lies at the door of the profit-hungry steamship company. “We protest against the dastard- ly attempt by the company and the press to place the chief blame for the loss of life upon the crew, e! pecially upon the Negro membe We declare that the crew acted like herdes and did all they could to save the lives of others. We condemn the cowardly attitude of the offi- cials of the N. Y. Central Trades and Labor Council in blaming the men instead of the company “This meeting declares that the ovly way in which such disasters ean be prevented in the future is by the organized strength of the seamen, exerted thru a militant union. Only thru organization will men be able to improve their and have some control * their own lives. The Marine 3’ Progressive League is la--- besis for such a union, The Workers’ Prog e calls upon al! seamen coffin-shi ganize against 0 {} the Marine Workers’ Progressive +) League.” ariem Meet Blames Lamport & Holt Greed Continued from Page One the stokehold get out. It was barely } in time. Bauxill tried to get in lifeboat No. 4, but it wouldn’t work, 2o he was ordered to leap into the sea: where, many hours later, ke was picked up by the Wyoming. The audience vigorously applauded the’ condemnation voiced by the speakers against the company, and were unanimous in blaming the Laipport-Holt Line and the govern- mefit inspectors for the murders. Enthusiastic approval was given to thei) proposal to defend the crew against any frame-up. tl “George Mink of the Seamen’s #1 Club, 28 South St., spoke on organ- SOUR ee tee eo ti ization, showwing the need for a @ union for seamen, both Negro and ® white. Robert Minor, editor of the & Dafly Worker, and others, spoke on thé) Vestris disaster, charging the Lamport-Holt line with the murder of 111 people and defending the Nefro firemen against the govern meht frame-up. A good collection was taken up to aid the crew. rp ITALIAN BIRTHS DECREASE ROME, Nov. 21 UP).—The gov- ernment reported 929,435 | Italy during the of 1728, compared wit vhe €erresponding period la HAI first oes ossec onsets MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail). —At the thirteenth annivers ) celebration of the Moscow Art The- ie atre, recently held in Moscow, Pis- i éator, one of the visiting revolution- # sry artists, spoke as follows: 1 “f have not seen a single produc- Rett © ton of Stanislavsky’s. But from f conversations with Russian people } and Russian artists close to the} # Russian, theatre | appreciate the * ous importance which the me of Stanislavsky wields in Rus- i in the whole world. He al- was and remains even today novator, in spite of his seventy Because his unflagging for the real, characteristic of uralism,’ compels him to fol- development of actual ‘life. —— e THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBEK zz, 1925 in Mass Meeting, De The six soldi Privates A Self. and | ngs to e. mand Six Hurled to Death in Militarist Air Crash Seo] hopeless tangle of the giant army biplane which crashed at Brooks Field, San Antonio, kill- W. Hardesty, N. Villaroel, C. W. Harris, H. W. Gauldin, D. McClusky The two officers in the plane, Lieut. Harvey Dyer, pilot, and Serg. F. J. Siebenaler, laying that heroism for which army officers are noted, escaped in parachutes, teav the under- MINERS AND W.1.R. WILL WIL FIGHT SCAB FORM RELIEF AGENCY At a recent meeting of the na-) movement of the employers, efforts tional committee of tha National|tc company unionize the existing ‘ are Miners Relief Committee, a resolu-| trade unions, the vicious opposition) Printers’ Local 261 to tion was passed, favoring a perman-|of the bosses against the organiza-| . * ent strike relief organization. The|tion of the unorganized workers in Rally Unionists statement issued jointly by this com-| LS SOVIE mittee and the Workers International Relief follows: “During the period of the miners’ strike hundreds of sympathetic or- ganizations and many thousands of workers collaborated in the work of collecting relief and agitating in be- half of the struggle of the miners through broad city miners’ relief committees. Permanent Miners Relief “The National Miners Relief Com- mittees in the various cities (200 of such committees were organized, | city central committees, language, | Negro, women’s, children’s and youth, are now concluding their work for miners’ relief, and constitut- ing them into permanent relief com- mittees is most advisable. “During the entire period of the miners’ strike’ the Workers Interna- tional Relief co-operated in the re- lief work by placing at the disposal of the National Miners Relief Com- mittee its organizational relief ma- chinery and by instructing its dis- trict, local and branch secretaries to give full co-operation to the Miners’ relief drive. “The aims and purposes of the Workers International Relief, which 3 a permanent workers’ relief or- zanization, were laid before the Na- many industries, will result in many | struggles on the part of the work- ers to maintain and increase their living standards. “The Workers International Relief and the National Miners Relief Com- mittee call upon all workers and workers organizations to build the} W. I. R. so that it may become a} powerful weapon in assisting .the| workers in winning their struggles | against the imperialist exploiters.” (Signed) Alfred Wagenknecht Relief Director National Miners Relief Committee | (Signed) F.G. Biedenkapp .. .. .. National Secrétary Workers Internat’l Relief HIVES IN WEST Rivers Begin toRecede; | | Great Farm Losses KANSAS CITY, Nov. 21.—Rivers |of the southwest were receding rap- |idly today and forecasts of contin- FLOODS TAKE 30 tional Miners Relief Committee meet-| ued fair weather and rising tem-| ng and the resolution p ‘d calls upon all affiliations to make them- selves integral parts of the W. I. R. Two Organizations to Merge “The Workers International Relief and the National Miners Relief Com- mittee now jointly call upon all city miners’ relief committees to merge with the W. I. R. in all cities where a local of the latter organization exists. Where this is not the case, the miners’ relief committees are re- quested to constitute themselves lo- cals of the W. I. R. | “Speeding up the workers in the | shops, cuts in wages, the open shop |Weisbord Will Teach | Course on “Problems | of Union Structure” | Albert Weisbord, secretary-treas- Jurer of the National Textile Work- | ers Union, will give a course of four lectures for active union members on “Problems in Union Structure” on Saturday afternoons at 5 p. m., beginning Saturday, Nov. 24. The lectures will mark the open- ing of the headquarters of the New local of the National orkers Union at 147 Sixth corner 16th St., and the classes d there. All union mem- to att York City local is one « ve locals of the National Tex- tile Wor Union which have opened head g the last are in Pat- River and two week Pas: T THE ATRE Piscator, German Director, Enthusiastic “Of course I have different views on art insofar as I am half the age and insofar as I have lived my for- ative years during the horrors of war, revolutionary excitement and the reaction which followed it, which temporarily destroyed our bold hopes, But this period of de- cline has strengthened rather than weakened our love for the revolu- tion, which was so palpably near and which has left behind a con- sciousness of its absolute necessity, | We are fighting for the realization lof the revolution. Not until its final victory will be achieved will |we have the basis and the condi- |tions essential for the development of art. Russia has these conditions, and we envy our more fortunate eee é | perature indicated relief from dis- |astrous floods of last week. Only in sections of Missouri, |where the Missouri River still was belching the overflow waters of its |tributaries, did conditions remain above normal. The situation there, however, was not considered grave. | Butler, Mo., five days, had restored railroad ser- vice today and the first mail since | Friday was brought to that town. | Crippled train service was being restored rapidly in Kansas and Mis- souri and train officials declared the crisis of the worst tie-up in history |in this section has been reached. | The death toll of the floods re- |mained at thirty. nitgoods Union to | Feet Membership Meet The election of executive board members of the Knitgoods Local, of the N. Y. district of the National| !a7@, isolated for almost | .|from Upton Continued from Page One a dav. at a wage very much be- low the union scale. 1) Nunve Mondo does not carry the union label. T! Nuovo Mondo is the same newspaner which has always pointed to unionism as the great- est gain of the working class and has again and again declared that any attempt to war on unionism is a reactionary manifestation. Il Nuovo Mondo has always maintained that in case of a strike any attempt to execute struck work is a criminal act against the strikers. Tl Nuovo Mondo has always preached that whoever takes the places of men on strike whether union men or not deserves the hatred and contempt of the whole working class. And now? What an outcome! Betrays Working Class. | The leaders of the Il Nuovo Mondo have betrayed the work- ing class and have denied their workers as workers and union men any right whatsoever. Now they stand for the open shop movement. Smash the union, that is the slogan of the Il Nuovo Mondo, so- cialist labor daily. Smash the union, that is also the slogan of the foes of labor! What is the difference! Fellow unionists, put your shoul- ders to the wheel and all together, let us smash the open shop move- ment! THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. 0. SCHETINNI, Pres.; V. UCCEL- LANI, Vice Pres.; VZARELLI, Fin. See’y.; A. RENZI, Ree. Sec'y.; F. DEVOTI, Organizer. {'cene From “Singing | Jailbirds” Features | Welcome to Gropper | The exciting courtroom scene | Sinclair’s “Singing | Jailbirds” will be one of the many lfeatures of the Freiheit welcome Executive at ‘Saturday evening in honor of Wil: |‘iam Gropper, famous proletarian artist, who has just returned from the Soviet Union. The affair will be held at Irving Irving Place and 15th St. Textile Workers Union, will take| Other features will include a pro- place tonight at 7:30, This will be/&tam by the Jailbird Choir of the the first meeting in the new head-|0¢W Playwrights Theatre and Mau- cuarters at 247 Sixth Ave. (corner ‘icotts, the only Jewish Marionettes. | 16th St. tion of 0! Room 9. Resides the elec-|Gropper himself will draw cartoons. icers, the future program | Among the speakers will be Robert of action will be discussed and a| Minor, editor of the Daily Worker; report given by District Organizer |Melach Epstein, editor of the Frei. Sarah Chernow. “Some of the small bosseé have | shown signs of fear,” said Say Lindbergh Can’t alr Organizer Chernow, “and even talk of moving out of New York because ef our organization campaign. But this doesn’t scare us. We are not going to confine ourselves to build- ing up a knitgoods workers union in New York. Wa will fight the bosses any place they go.” Labor Snorts Game and Dance Saturday | A basketball game, to be followed by a dance, has been arranged by the Labor Sports Union for Satur- day evening, Nov. 24, at the Fin- nish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. The baskethal! game will begin at 7 p.m. and the dance at 8:30. The entire affair has been prepared by |the Kisatoverit A. C. | LIGHTS GUIDE AIRMEN PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 21.— jA huge electrically illuminated di- irection sign for aviators, said to be clearly visible from an altitude of |6,000 feet, has been installed on the |roof of the South Philadelphia works lof the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Comzany. |heit; Michael Gold and M, J. Olgin. Decide Which Morrow ‘Daughter to Marry | Miss Elizabeth Morrow, 25-year- ele daughter of Dwight W. Morrow,’ iScott Nearing ambassador to’ Mexico, refused to comment yesterday on reports pub- lished here that either she or her younger sister would marry Colonel |Charles A. Lindbergh. The report, printed in a New |York paper, quoted an unnamed |“friend of the Morrows” as saying | Lindbergh was having difficulty in chocsing between the daughters. \‘the Morrow family recently denied \there was an engagement. Require Workers to Furnish Own Bedding | TACOMA, Wash. (By Mail).— Centractors for Tacoma’s Cushman power project require the workers to furnish their own bedding, This is another loss of one of the de- nands won by the I. W. W. when that organization was militant. ‘The Workers (Commantat) Party fight» for the organization of the ed workers. LACK OF UNION MAKES SEAMEN'S DANGER GREAT |Vestris Case Is Good Example Continued from Page One Union), but by a militant union big enough to take in every worker in the whole industry, is necessary to jeall a halt on ‘coffin-ships.” At present the sailors are prac- |tically unorganized, the LS.U. is a jrotten, drifting hulk and the I.W.W. ‘union,” the Marine Transport Work- Jers is but a shadow, made so, not by the sailors, but hy what the sea- jmen themselves eall “freakish tac- tics” and impossible policies. | Unions Gone On the Rocks | “Once the I. S. U. had 115,000 |members,? said George Mink, head of the Marine Workers Progressive League which is organized in many |ports. “Now the I. S. U. itself ad- piaits it has only 8,000, But it wasn’t \any credit to the leadership that the \I. S. U. had 115,000 members in 1921. You see the government organ- ized them to help win the war for ‘democracy.’ | “Old Andy Furuseth, head of the| I. S. U., washanging around the) |lobbies at Washington trying to get| | congress to pass LaFollette’s bill, |which Andy thought was the only} |thing tha’ would emancipate the| seamen. Andy, who believed in 100 |per cent Americanism, was tickled |to death to help the government and} |the ship owners to whip the Kaiser. | End of Ship Bosses’ Disregard of Workers Lives COUSIN OF JINGO “GEN. PERSHING _DEFIESFASCISTS Exposes Hoover Trip on Speaking Tour Efforts have already been startee in a number of cities to prevent | George Pershing, cousin of the no- torious jingo, General John Per~ shing, from speaking on the tour | which he is conducting under the |auspices of the All-America Anti- \Imperialist League. The youne militant, who was for- merly a soldier in Hawaii and who is now devoting himself entirely to the working class, is exposing on Teacher “Bducates” Children With Hose | | Mildred Rice, a physical culture instructor in a school at Frank- lin Square, L. 1., was in the habit of using a rubber hose to im- press her instruction on certain children. As a result she now faces charges by two children, Dorothy Strigham, left, and Philip Smith, right, who declare the teacher beat them with the hose. — Nominate Aaron Saenz| Negro Workers Put as Mexican President; Russian Czarist to Villareal May Run Too, Rout in Verbal Tilt the working clas posing on | is tour the Hoover imperialist’ MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21 (UP).—| While distributing the Negro | junket to Central and South Amer- cs Gov. Aaron Saenz, of Nuevo Leon,|Champion, militant Negro organ, to ica and is also talking on American officially accepted the Nauounl hie, vatibhe-nbwadeateta of Haxléns, imperialism in the colleges. Revolutionary Party nomination for . nr Gen ct Saginaw, Mich., where he is constitutional president tonight. |Harold Williams, a Negro worker,| 4 cinted to speak oon, the au The acceptance is subject to rati-|and several other workers encoun- |thorities have already indicated that fication of the party at its conven-| tered a Russian czarist in the flesh./they would refuse to allow him to tion in January. At 533 Lenox Ave., as a combined | speak. Pershing is, however, de- { Saenz promised that his platform |igar store and news stiand, the pro-| termined to go through with his | would contain the most advanced |Ptietor emphatically told Williams | scheduled talk. | policies of the Revolutionary Party |that he would not carry the Negro| is itinerary will also include ; as advocated by the late president-|Champion on his stand because it/ Grand Rapids, Mich.; Toledo. Ohio; elect Obregon. Mexico will elect a constitutional president late in 1929, at the end of the term of president- elect Portes Gil. Portes Gil will take office December 1. Another candidate probably will be General Antonio Villarreal, who was a Communist organ. He re- ferred to the last issue previous to election day, which had as a head- line, “Vote Communist.” He stated that he had come to this country |from Russia and that all Bolshe- |vists were thieves, because they, at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Wilming- ton, Del.; Baltimore, Washington, D. C., and New York City. The dates wil! be announced later. Brokers Shiver When was granted amnesty today by the | the time of the revolution (he being “War Babies” | | “When the allies went to war in| }1914 and the American capitalists |~ went into the scramble for war profits. clear up to 1919 the U. S. Shipping Board established factories | ‘to manufacture sailors,’ school ships to train land lubbers which was |the port and which the starboard side of a boat, and so on. A lot| lof these ‘graduates were pretty |much as ignorant when they went in as when they came out, and the {real sailors call them ‘war babies.’| The reason was that men were \Selling Wave Hits the Stock Market Prices The stock exchange got a hit government. He may become the | fairly rich), had confiscated all his Anti-Reelectionist Party candidate. | property and wealth, “If I had my way,” said he, “I would hang every one of them.” | the ships,’ which is boloney, as the} «what kind of . | Wobblies ought to know but don't.|communiet Party,” he chested, ee |dumpy yesterday when some of the Erdlla were cloted and Us pers tea (ake nich & etatemeut athe Dally) |e ee sae off. Rat the men Yoel eae cage |Wosket made) in ifatsrence 4o):the | runes eon, a a eee Wee Whe matitnsl hecdguarter. But| Verns, disaster that the Negro|fc mertet wild since Hoover was EY e national : ‘ ; s . Andy tiad/k-falee Tenbstand it tumned| ve", 0s) ese enum the fant sa x «| that they saved themselves instead ‘ sal thee be ee the national office of shel the -witte favinites?”| The wave of selling caused a still in Boston. Williams replied: “You're on your | Shiver to go down the spines of 4 ae men hoe ye a hat ts last legs now, kere in Harlem, and | speculators, some of hres least, L re Vee ‘en aaeans you should be ashamed of yourself, 8nd prices broke in a selling mar- and wi 5 scarce and shipping heavy. So they |sent the ‘war babies’ down to the| \I. S. U. hall and lined them -up as| union men. The torpedo danger, faced| ‘at sea with these ‘war babies,’ made} the old timers scornful of them and| darned particular what kind of a boat they sailed on. Seamen Rebel | “But up to 1919 Andy Furuseth| | was still signing agreements on the) |two-watch system, which means twelve hours a day, and peddling ‘patriotism,’ ‘efficiency’ and so on to jthe seamen. The I. S. U. bought |$100,000 in Liberty bonds. But in} |1919 the men got sick of the two-| | watch system and Andy’s guff, and| \threatened to strike. The shipping} trust granted the three-watch (eight| hour) system in 24 hours without a \ strike. “But Furuseth never believed in jletting the men organize solidly. He kept the west coast sailors playing| against the east and Gulf seamen.| Once an east coast sailor died on the west coast and Furuseth would {not even bury him! Owners Attack | “When depression set in about | |1921, and the I. S. U. agreement ex-| pired, the shipping trust saw its| chance. With mechanization of the| industry and the help of the ‘war| babies’ it figured it would break the union’s only source of strength by! putting the real seamen of the old) school, the militants, on the beach, | \jobless, blacklist them and _start| ‘Americanization.’ That’s what they} \eall the open shop. “The shipping companies refused declared by the men, much to Furu- seth’s disgust. He hastened to sell out the strike although the.seamen | were 100 per cent solid and the ships | were tied up. Andy’s ‘business agent’ |cliques squandered the big treasury with faked expenses, while the men went without any relief, sleeping on the floors of union halls and fight- ing scabs and police. Some went to jail for picketing without any de- fense help from the union and some of them are yet in the Maine peni- | tentiary. Strike On the Job “Boloney” “Andy finally surrendered and said the men should ‘take the strike to | cag *, *, to renew the contract and strike was |‘i8 out with a program of organiza-| r ti ivi ings \ket. General Electric fell 8 points, f posed rank and file rule captured) #)(o" living from the earnings of | cinally closed only 1% below the | 20.000 members from the T. S- J-lour publication because’ it rene (STE Cn ee over . 4 “ nd Interi - ‘ ages the Negroes to organize. As| Threshing ai . Wobblies Bungle the Job ji iol vester broke 12 and 13 points from “go far so good. But there was|*07 88 the Negro is sufficiently or- ; |ganized, you and your kind will be | the start. sete eat ati ee W. put to work, instead of being petty-| There is fear on the. exchange Wa way. ot, banding i |that this may mean a crash, if not 1923 the Marine Transport Workers | bourgeois storekeepers. i I EERE now, then later. The market is i ee ites LF eae a strike for! PITTSBURGH, (By Mail)—The|vcrried over a big increase in i‘ Of political prisoners, $1 |Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph was|brokers’ loans. But, hopeful, as it of political prisoners, $100 a month and other demands the men didn’t fully understand or thought were utopian. f “Even at this, a few companies} offered to sign agreements, but the IW. W. has a holy horror of agree- ments ‘on principle,’ and the men couldn’t see what they were fighting for. So the strike just collapsed and the seamen left the I. W. W. dis- gusted. Since then the men are un- organized and drifting at the mercy of the ship owners. No union, no struggle; no struggle, no good con- ditions. Thousands “On the Beach” We learned from the lips of ‘sea- men themselves that rationalization, the method of eliminating men with machinery is just as far advanced | on the sea as it is in the Detroit auto factories. At the Seamen’s club, | 28 South St., they tell you the story of thousands of seamen ‘on the_ beach’ without a job, of ships that once carried 52 men cut to 40, and the three-watch system being chal-| lenged. Most of the lines to Latin, America have forced the two-watch | system on the men. “Now the Marine Workers’ Prog-| lrvessive League,” said its secretary; | | forced to reinstate four drivers with | usual, they say perhaps yesterday |pay for lost time following a strike| means only a lull in an upward of 75 drivers. ‘market. } 1 irst Soviet} ostume Ball) at Madison Sq.} |tion and men who have learned from | \the mistakes of both the I. S. U. and) \the I. W. W. are laying the basis | for a new seamen’s union which will} jnot be divided into nine different) lerafts like the I. S. U. and the I. L.| |A., but will take in all men in the) jindustry and fight rationalization’ |with organization.” | | What rationalization is, and what it is doing on the sea and to the’ |seamen will be told in the articles | \appearing tomorrow. | We demand the Immediate aboti- | thon gt all vagrancy laws; protec- on &t ‘unemployed workers from | arrest on charges of vagrancy. Hehehe eho bbb ebb 4 DOLLAR D AND IMPER IRVING PLAZA, 1 will lecture on ROLE OF AMERICAN THURSDAY EVE., NOVEMBER 22 at IPLOMACY THE IALISM 5th St. & Irving Pl. | — Garden PARADE OF 104 NATIONALITIES COMPRISING THE SOVIET UNION IN NATIVE COSTUMES ADMISSION 1.00 in advance; $1.25 at door. Now on Sale at the Daily Worker Office, 26-28 Union Square, N. Y. Auspices: Daily Worker and Freiheit Saturday Evening ecember 15th