The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1928, Page 6

Page Six Daily Central Organ Published by National Daily Worker Pt SUBSCRIPTION RATE THE DAILY W ORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1928 FREE JOHN PORTER! By Fred Ellis Expelled “Communists” Take Flying Leap Into the Camp of the Enemy Trifles like that don’t worry Can-| This slanderous article ends with non or Max Eastman, who makes the an incitement to the American | “Militant” against the leadership | | The paper is called “The Militant.” | of the Workers Party, the new paper | It styles itself, official organ of the|begins to print in serial form a| opposition group of the Communist) document called, “The Right Danger} Party of America. It hopes to pub-|in the American Party.” workers to attack the Soviet Union. It reads: “Communist Workers of America! Defend the lives of Trotsky and Radek! | Demand their return to Moscow and Ass'n, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at By Mail (in New York only): ( Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone, $8 a year $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos. Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address “Daitvork” By Mail-(ouuide of New: York): . $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. MIN Geaesmeeeuuae . Edin 3 ROBERT MINOR ii Address and mail all checks to Te Daily Worker, Bek. DUNNE... ...000-% Assistant Editor 26-28 on Square, New York, N. Y. dl “ae ° u PESO eee i: ready the new Chevrolet equipment is suf- s s N hal-| 7°4¢ : ki General Motors Hurl New C | ficient to produce 1,500,000 motor cars in ee lenge at Ford 1929. Ford cannot conceivably reorganize i his plant in time to meet the new and omin- ¥ The cheapening of auto production has been ous challenge and by the time he does suc- * proceeding at an ever-accelerated pace during | ceed in reorganizing it will be easy for Gen- « the past few years. Even the highest grade | eral Motors to throw a still better car upon ¢ limes have been cheapened in price by thou- | the market at a lower price. sands of dollars while the product is superior | One thing is a certainty: Ford cannot hold « to the old models, in spite of the prevailing | out much longer in his struggle against Wall ‘ popular belief to the contrary. | Street. His industry, like the other giant ’ While there has been considerable improve- | concerns of the country must inevitably come 1 ‘ment in the machinery of auto production i under the complete domination of finance ‘ ‘has by no means been comparable to the de- | capital. Either he will voluntarily merge ereased production costs. The chief secret | with his formidable rival or be crushed in | of decreased cost of production lies in the | the competitive war now raging. { rationalization of the industry. In other Every offensive and every defensive move words the burden of the competitive war has between these giants of trustified industry been placed on the auto workers. The terrific | is being paid for by the working class, in un- speed-up produces human wreckage almost as | bearable speed-up, increased exploitation and fast as automobiles in spite of their mass | reduction in standards of living. straight-line production; wages are con- If the official labor movement of the | stantly being cut; hours lengthened; men are | country were dominated by other than the being rapidly replaced by the youth under | most venal agents of capitalism the auto- the pretext of industrial schooling; tens of | mobile industry would have some semblance thousands of women are in the industry and of organization. Instead of organizing the every year sees more of them replacing the | auto workers the American Federation of men who formerly considered auto making | Labor officialdom actually fights in the most | 5 | ne * ns their monopoly. | vicious manner against any attempt of the The appearance on the market of the new | workers to create organizations to fight to 1929 model popular priced car in competition | better their conditions. Particularly glaring with Ford, is the heaviest blow yet delivered | is this treachery in Detroit, where the Detroit Ford by the General, Motors. In this con- | Federation of Labor is merely a part of the - flict of giants in the automobile industry | ‘identical republican machine that is dom- f Ford has been forced from one unfavorable | inated by the Ford interests. | By BERTRAM D. WOLFE position into another. The old model of the | The task of organizing the slaves of the Cannon, Schachtman and Abern General Motors car was so pronounced an im- | motor industry must be one of the major FR CR eased aa provement over the Ford “Model T” (the | drives of the left wing of the labor move- |the Workers Communist) Party, but old “tin lizzie”) that the Ford plants had to | ment. Just as the Communists and the left |their impatience to fight the Party be closed for a year while hundreds of | elements of labor have organized and led | openly will not let them wait. With) millions of dollars were spent on the new | every important strike since 1922 in other pas <von renter model “A,” in an effort to compete with the | industries, so must we strive with every aie attacking the patie and the| same charge. Chevrolet. ounce of energy to organize the auto workers. | Comintern. When Ford started production on the There is in existence an independent union 1928 model he encountered so many diffi- of auto workers, the Auto and Aircraft culties that for the best part of the year | Workers Union. Every auto worker who has every car placed on the market represented a | even the slightest conception of his class |lish twice a month. Cannon is editor.| loss. Meanwhile the 1928 product of Gen- | position should be a member of that union |Abern and Schachtman are Associ-| eral Motors held its position attained during | and work energetically to rally the I jate Editors—three — generals—an : ‘ g ly to rally the hundreds |?“ bs efindee the installation of the new Ford equipment | of thousands of other auto workers into its |°°™Y,,that is all officers. « ; : 0 WS | “Militant” for what? the wonder- as leader in the 4-cylinder line. ranks in order that the wage workers in the Jing worker asks. “For the Rus- Ford, however, anticipated a record- | auto industry may fight both Ford and Gen- |sian Opposition,” answers the main ‘breaking year in 1929 with production be- | eral Motors for living wages, against the |headline—“For the Russian Opposi- yond the 6,000 cars a day now produced. The | speed-up and to shorten the hours of labor, [We ae, Cees eee coming year was expected again to place Ford frauniee Pare be cau ac at the head of the 4-cylinder list. But Gen- | inked G8 Mentesied | eral Motors, a Morgan concern, is out to Editorial Note—The article on page 6 of ive 4 i geen | : é 2 For an international union of ex- crush Ford and at an expenditure of $20,- | yesterday’s Daily Worker, entitled “Stalin pelled and renegade ex-Communists, 000,000 has re-equipped the Chevrolet plants | On Right Deviation,” was by an error not the |is the sense of the first page article | to produce a 6-cylinder motor car at prac- | continuation of Comrade Stalin’s speech, but |he#ded ,“M._ Spector Expelled in tically the same price as the 4-cylinder model. | a statement of the Central C. itt enediy «WS (Seni (OU ree eee ommittee of the | greetings to our fellow fight i " 4 ‘ D, "i s ghter in | The immeasurable resources of Wall Street |-Communist Party of the Soviet Union, en- |the Canadian Communist Party,” | re thrown into the balance against the Ford | titled, “The Central Committee of the Com- |reads the article like a resolution concern which stands alone on its own re- | munist Party of the Soviet Union to All |adopted at a “mass” meeting of sources. Members of the Moscow Organization.” | enna, on ae Sones The appearance of the new 6-cylinder The continuation of Comrade Stalin’s late oor faaite io Ree Chevrolet means that General Motors during speech will appear in to-morrow’s issue of |Pelled from a Communist Party for the coming year will again defeat Ford. Al- | The Daily Worker. | Trotskyism. . For Trotskyism : eee, “Militant” for Trotskyism and A against Leninism, says article after BRITISH WOMEN ON sa ae eel * A iy world program of the Communist *| International adopted at the Sixth Congress just held, is an article by hashes — 7 See ee 2 L, D. Trotsky, being published ser- By A. CHIGEROYV ICH. ; )day. The mill is airy, has many ers in regard to the question of peace |ially. Other Trotskyist. documents A SHORT while ago a delegation | windows and special ventilation, and and war. She was able to ascertain | and even pamphlets are to be pub- of British women visited the So-|the women at work there look strong,|/that “all Russian workers desire|lished if the enterprise finds fin- viet Union. The delegation consisted healthy and contented. They have /peace, but they are prepared to do|ancial support, according to a bold- chiefly of non-party women, women Dig ‘lining-room, where they can eat/everything they can in defense of |type promise which repeats the old sa ie elves pe womeers aed ne Al belie mete at Sree their achievements. |slander that the opposition docu-) active members of the No more War peas e : it ; | i i ‘hor meetings and travelled at the the mothers are at work the children | “°° ade the following state- i can play, and they are also fed. The factories have flat roofs, where the workers can take sun-baths. All this indicates a great future for So- viet Russia and development of its culture.” “I observed,” said Comrade Hogd- son, “what great respect the work- ers everywhere have for the memory of Lenin. Ina peasants’ club, where the ‘October’ film was shown, the appearance of Lenin on the screen east of the respective organizations te which the women belonged. They wanted to get an insight into the life of the Russian women workers, their conditions of labor, their living conditions, the Red Army, etc. The women wanted to learn from them the truth concerning Soviet Russia and its relations to war. Among the delegates there were many pa ts, members of the Labor Party, of vari- ous women’s organizations and of } eo-dperative societies. called forth prolonged applause. | : ‘ji Such popularity has never been en- | Let's Hear! faved vb ieoetahd ‘Mond 3 ) “he: delegation, which travelled |5° y a crowned head in our country. through a number of industrial dis- tricts in the Soviet Union—the Donez basin, the textile districts and Leningrad -— returned to Great Britain deeply impressed. A large crowd of women workers awaited the S S. “Soviet” at the port of Lon- don. In all districts the women workers returning from the Soviet Union have been met with demon- strations without parallel as far as{| size is concerned. Everybody wanted | to hear what the women workers, | In the Mines. who had seen the Soviet Union with! . Williams, a working woman from their own eyes, had to say about it.|the coal mining district of West “One should be proud of the name| Wales spent some time among the woman-Communist,” said one of)miners in the Donez Basin. She them. “We should be ashamed that | states that it is the object of every in comparison with what the work- working woman to consolidate what ws there have done we have ac-|has already been fought for and omplished so little in our country.”|gained. In a year or two the coal In a Mill. miners of the Soviet Union will catch Comparing the situation in Great/ up with the miners of other coun- Britain, Comrade Hogdson of Dun-| tries; they are already better off dee said: than the English miners. She re- “J was in a textile mill; the work- | lated that the whole time she was, at this mill, of whom 75 per/there she endeavored to get an idea, al men, work seven hours si i! the attitude of “T saw the well-known ‘Potemkin’ film; the working women must de- mand that this film be shown in all the districts of Great Britain.” “The sport parade satisfied all who saw the march of the columns of strong, healthy men and women, filled with a love of sport and a determination to strengthen their bodies in order to become stalwart fighters in the ranks of their class.” |sia were possible. 2 AEN SRN Oe BI EE ment in regard to their impressions: “Great Britain has many dark and bloody pages in its history, but aj} |war against the Russian workers would be the darkest of all. After what we have seen, we can say that it would be the worst of crimes to This in spite of the reams of docu- ments published in Pravda and other Party papers in the Soviet Union and in the International Press Cor- respondence in English, German, French and other languages. The main speeches of Trotsky and Zjno- destroy what Soviet Russia. has Viev made at the Soviet Union Party created.” Congress on the eve of their expul- Concerning the position in’ the| Sia" Were translated into English textile concerns of the Soviet Union, another group of textile workers stated its impressions of the Soviet Union. They did not believe that such perfect ventilating devices as there are in the mills of Soviet Rus- i In every report and in every: speech the delegates mentioned .the numerous achieve- ments of Soviet Russia. Red Army. The group which was present at the maneuvers of the Red Army re-| ported as follows: “Tt is not pacifism that brings peace and prosperity but real, con- stant preparation of the working class of the whole world to ward off the attack and the reprisals of the Tyrant Capitalism. We have come to understand that the only guaranty | of peace lies in the overthrow of, the war-mongers and the overthrow | of capitalism, and in this work the | Red Army is the army not only of | the Russian workers but of the| workers of the whole world, It will) defend the working class and its fight throughout the world.” . | They concluded their speeches) with the slogans: “Long live the and published in all our daily papers along with sveeches made by Stalin and Bukharin at the same time. guards of the first workers’ republic of the world!” Tell Fellow-Workers. Many other quotations regarding the experience of the women dele- gates might be made from the speeches of the British women work- ers delivered at various meetings. The delegates are travelling through the whole country, speak- ing at meetings and telling the truth about war and the Soviet Union in all parts of Great Britain. They have already begun the preparation of an exhibition of photographs taken by the delegation members themselves in Soviet Rus- sia, also of: presents received by them from Russian women. These speeches are the sneeches of working women; they are the be- ginning of a great campaign against war, to be carried on among the working women of Great Britain. They are helping to expose the farce presented in Paris, where with one hand the peace treaty was signed and with the other a secret treaty the Russian work- Red Army of the Soviet Union, thefor the geparation of war. Against Soviet Union “Militant” against the Soviet Union is the sense of another front page article. “Trotsky and Radek Seriously Ill,” it is headed, and it picks up the slanderous counter- revolutionary stories that have been published by the Jewish Daily For- ward and the Volkszeitung and the organs of Maslow-Fischer in Ger- |many. According to this story, both Trotsky in Turkestan and Radek in Western Siberia are stricken with malaria and refused medical aid by the bloodthirsty bolsheviks in the most approved rumor-factory fash~ ion. Cannon has received a message from “unquestionably reliable and authentic sources,” that the workers of Moscow are boiling with indigna- tion and the “entire city (is) placarded with appeals.” At the | provision of the best medical aid | in their illness!” munism join with the socialist in becoming the “agitprop” department to prepare propaganda aiding im- perialism to poison the minds of the workers against the Soviet Union! Cannon and 11th Anniversary The “Militant” comes out while our Party is holding meetings to cele- brate the 11th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and to rouse the masses for the defense of the Soviet Union. And Shachtman’s contri- bution is an article “Slogans for To- day,” which contains such sentences | Basin tore aside the veil that con- cealed the bureaucratic corruption (that had seeped into the state, the Thus the renegades from Com-} las “The conspiracy in the Donetz| same time the New York Times car- economic and the Party apparatus.” ries a picture in its rotogravure sec-| The article is full of sneers, inuendos tion of Trotsky in excellent health and insinuations that the leadership seated with wife and secretary in|of the CPSU is degenrated into an his present home. The social-demo-| anti-Communist expression of the cratic Forward and Lore and Can-/interests, not of the working class, non are worse even than the capi- | talist press. but of the kulaks and Nepmen. In “The Russian Opposition and New Englan d Exploiters | By GRACE HUTCHINS. | BOSTON.—While southern cham- bers of commerce are boosting com- | munities of cheap, non-union labor las a paradise for employers, New | England manufactures are not to be |outdone. Meeting at Portland, Me.,| ‘the New England Council adopted | |a three-year sales plan, to cost/ | $900,000, to put the six northeast-| ern states once more on the map. They cannot boast, as southern |open-shoppers do, “Not a labor |union in any manufacturing indus- jtry of the state.” But by bringing [together the power interests of the |six states, organizing an agricul- |tural league and adopting a New | England label—not a union label—| |for all products, the super-boosters |are on the mark, ready set for the |¥ race. Power Companies Lined Up. Learning from southern advertis- ers who have enticed industries to ‘the south by promising cheaper | power service, the council first lined up the General Electric, New Eng- jland Power and other utility com- panies operating in New England. One of the big open-shop manu- facturers interested in the sales plan is Charles Cheney of Cheney Bros., silk manufacturers, South Manchester, Conn. Meeting in his own Cheney-town with 200 others of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ As- sociation, Cheney told them how he resisted the “attractive and very tempting offers” of southern com- munities to move his entire plant to the south. He pledged himself not to move, but to build up in |New England the same favorable conditions now existing south of the Potomac, Cheney Bros. is one of the largest anti-union textile mills in New Eng- |land. No union organizer has ever ‘yet succeeded in getting a toe-hold we in the town of South Manchester, which is entirely owned by the silk company. It is said that the cor- poration even owns the district high school, and rents it to the town for $1 a year. N. England Patriots in South, Too. But Charles Cheney. does not limit his financial investments to his home town: He is director of one of the biggest New York banks. He has interests in the powerful General Silk Corp. alias Klots Throwing Co., which owns mills in six states, including several in Maryland, Virginia and West Vir- ginia. So also the Pacific Mills of Lawr- ence, Mass., will not suffer even if New England industries die. It wns big mills in Columbia and yman, S. C. Its former treasurer, Edwin Farnham Greene, still a @- rector of the company, is now de- voting all his time to his own engi- neering corporation, Lockwood, Greene and Co, This company is profiting from the erection of giant rayon plants in the south. New England may succeed in sell- ing itself. But New England manu- facturers will not keep their finan- cial interests within the boundaries of six states, KILLS FRIEND IN DUEL NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 26 (UP). --A fencing instructor who claims to have been American champion 27 times was paroled in custody of his attorney today pending the outcome of the condition of Fernando Cor- tez, also a fencer, and his friend. FIGHT ANTI-JAPANESE LAW. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26, Japanese in California are fighting the law in this state prohibiting them from having their own hospi- tals. The case will go to the U. S, Supyeme Court, Three Generals with No Army the American Workers,” published last year, I wrote: “The hope of the victory of the working class in such a war lies in the fact that the armies that will be sent against the Soviet Union will consist of workers and that they will defend the workers’ lands against the attack of their own master class. “In this situation, the class-con- scious workers of the big imperial- ist countries must make every effort to rally the workers of the world to the defense of the Soviet Union, to’ deepen their understanding of what the workers of Soviet Russia are ac- complishing, to strengthen their love for the only land the working class ean truly call its own. “In the face of this necessity, where is the opposition leading? “If the Soviet government is not a workers’ government, then the question that the workers of the world will ask themselves is: What reason have we to defend the Sov- iet Union in the forthcoming war? If the Communist Party and the Communist International are not |figthing for the interests of the workers, then what reason have we to follow the leadership of the Com- munist International? “Tf they were successful, if the working class were to believe their slanders, then they would be strengthening the imperialist arm- ies, lessening the possibility of turning the imperialist war into a_ civil war, strengthening the forces preparing to attack Union, and weakening the forces preparing to defend it. Their propa- ganda is more dangerous because it is disguised in the name of Com- munism.” There is nothing new in this re- spect in the propaganda against the Soviet Union, the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union and of America, and the Communist Inter- national. The specifically new fea- ture is the astounding speed with which Cannon has run in a matter the Soviet of a few days thru the whole road | of renegade degeneration into the position of open participant, along with Lore, the Jewish Daily For- ward, and the other organs of the “agitprop department for the pre- paring of war on the Soviet Union.” Unexpected Speed. But this is really not so great a mystery as it seems. Cannon joint this .international union of rene- gades and expelled Communists, not at the beginning of its development when it was still moving slowly away from Communism, cautiousiy, ashamedly, with much camouflage and concealment, but st the end of its degeneration when it lands open- ly, stripped of all Communist pre-| tense, naked and unashamed, in the camp of the plotters of war on the Soviet Union, in the camp of the enemies of the working class, in: the camp of imperialism, the social democracy, and the counter-revolu- tion. © Cannon has never been known for speed. For a long time he has tend- ed in the present direction, But the requirements of Party membership held him back. Now he has been out of the Party but a few days, and already he is travelling with the speed of an express train—has landed in the camp of the open ene- mies. However, the speed is; not the speed of Cannon. It is the speed of a train which he boarded with a flying leap, a train that has tra- velled far already and had five years to get under way. He joined the international opposition of Trotsky, of Fisher and Maslow, of Salutsky, Eastman, Lore, Basky and com. Misleaders in | the American Labor Unions BY WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. Tracing the rise and decline of the progressive movement, we point- ed out the profound consequences flowing out of the ill-fated shop- men’s strike of 1922. The unions were shattered, their federations di: solved, and their generally progres- sive spirit demoralized. It consti- tuted the greatest single defeat ever | suffered by the workers in this coun- try. It was a sort of summing up of all the weaknesses of the rail- road ‘union leadership, its deep-root- ed craft ideology, its personal cor- ruption, is toadying to the railroad companies. Lee was one of the sorry heroes |of this labor catastrophe. When the conflict loomed ahead, with the com- | panies viciously centering their at- tack upon the shop mechanics and the unions of unskilled workers, Lee, in 1921, split the four brotherhoods away from the twelve other organi- zations with which they had been affiliated. This split in the ranks opened the door wide for the em- ployers’ great attack in 1922, Lee defended the split later as follows: (New York Times, Oct. 11, 1922). “This whole business, with all railroad labor unions on one side and all railroads on the other, with the Railroad Labor Board in be- | tween, got too big for any one | or a few men to handle. It was loaded with dynamite for the coun- try as well as fcr ourselves and the exceutivés. No sane govern- ment would permit any faction ur class to paralyze the transporta- tion business of the country and thereby punish the innocent, who | are always in the majority. The only way out was to separate.” President’s Reward. When the inevitable strike came in July, 1922, the four brotherhoods, ich under Lee’s general leader- ship had been bribed with conces- sions by the companies, refused to participate. Then came the ignoble |Grable to the fore. Although tis union, the Maintenance of Way | Workers, had voted 90 per cent for a strike he refused to issue a strike eall. For this treason he was later made a member of the Railroad La- bor Board by President Harding, and his union members got a beggarly two cents per hour reduction of the wage cut. Fitzgerald of the Rail- ‘ay Clerks also managed to keep his men out of the fight, notwith- standing that they were overwhelm- ingly in favor of a strike. And when the train service workers on the Santa Fe, Alton and other roads, irfused with a wonderful spirit of solidarity, began to strike spontan- |ecusly in spite of their feadersé Lee, jin cooperation with the companies forced them back to work. Deserted by their nine fellow rail- road unions, the seven shop unions notwithstanding reactionary leader- ship, fought stubbornly, but they came to a bitter defeat in a welter of Letrayal by their leaders. The loss of their strike, as we have seen, is having a profoundly reactionary effect on the whole labor movement. It constitutes one of the many heavy penalties which the railroad work- ers in particular and the working class in general are continually pay- jing for having capitalist-minded leaders at the head of their trade unions. The Metal Trades. Misleadership has also been de- vastating to the metal workers’ unions. The six principal metal trades organizations (Machinists, Steel Workers, Molders, Pattern Makers, Blacksmiths, Boilermakers) have, according to A. F. of L. 1926 |Teports, only 136,000 members (and | this figure is padded) out of at least 3,000,000 eligible metal workers. These unions, headed by such hope- less reactionaries as Wharton, Tighe, and Wilson, are steadily declining in strength, Steel’s Weak Leadership. A deadly blow was struck against unionism in the metal industry when |the Carnegie Steel Co. defeated the Amalgamated Association of Iron, | Steel and Tin Workers in the Home- |stead strike of 1892. The United States Steel Corporation struck an- |other blow when it crushed the rem- nants of the A. A. in its plants in the |1901 and 1909 strikes. Since then the organization, cursed by a weak and treacherous leadership, has not | been able to recover. It lingers along on the fringe of the steel indust leaving severely alone the U. 'Steel and the big “independents.” |The officials’ policy is one of utter cringing in order to maintain even this anaemic existence. This is a ‘sad come-down for what was once ‘the best organized and most mili- tant trade union in America, * ‘pany, very late. They have tra- |velled far. . . “Militant” against the Workers (Communist) Party. “Militant” against its leadership. “Militant” against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. “Militant” against the Communist International and its leadership. “Militant” against the Workers’ Republic of the Soviet Union. Such is the militancy of his new organ, “The Militant.” To the workers who follow the Communist Party it is interestingvonly to prove once more what was proved in the cases of Lore, Salutsky, Basky, Al- lane, and other renegades from our Party. There is no place outside the Communist Party for one who has once been in it except in the camp of the enemies of the working class. And those three great mili- tants, Cannon, Abern and Shacht- man, with one ood leap, have land- )