The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1928, Page 2

~ dollars am, ‘age Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1yzs New Bedfo ORGANIZER TELLS FRAME-UP PLANS OF MILL BARONS Activities of Workers Grow Despite Terror By CLARINA MICHELSON. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec —New Bedford continues to show that it is a boss-owned town. The {5 workers who were arrested last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were | kept in the House of Correction over four days, although it would only have taken five minutes to have them brought into court to have bail set by the judge. These workers are in the group of 25 who were indicted on a “con- spirac charge—‘“conspiracy” to parade without a permit and “con- spiracy” to disturb the ped This move on the part of the courts is obviously an attempt to “get” the most ac’ union work All of the local New Bedford organizers are included in this framed-up con- spiracy charge, except two, Fred Beal and. William Murdoch. The only reason they were: also not in- dicted as “conspirers” was because they were in jail at the time be- cause of their strike activities. Taken by Force. District Attorney Crossley an- nounced last week that he would like all the 25 indicted workers to appear in the New Bedford Superior Court, on Tuesday, Nov. 27. He was very much annoyed when Henry Hoffman, the International Labor Defense lawyer in charge of the cases, stated that none of the workers would voluntarily appear in court, and that if the district attor- ney wanted them, he would have to go after them. This resulted in 15 being arrested by local police on bench warrants. They were taken in at the New Bedford local office of the National Textile Workers’ Union at 49 William St., at a mass meeting, and from their homes. They were booked at the Central Police Station and then transferred to the House of Correction. The ten who have not yet been located and served with extradition papers to appear in the New Bedford court as “conspirers” are Albert Weis- bord, Frederick Biedenkapp, Paul Crouch, Ellen Dawson, Elsie Pultur, Germaine Madeiros, Nathan Kay, Elizabeth Donnely, Jackson W. Wales and Joseph M. Cabral. Heavy Bail. So far we have taken care of all the New Bedford cases. Almost $400,000 in bail has been put up and about three-quarters of a million in prosperity tied up in freeing from jail arrested textile strikers. Every cent has come from local sympathizers; not a nickel from outside or from professional bondsmen. The International Labor Defense, during the strike, built up a strong local organization, first under the direction of Abe Pizer, now organ- izer for the National Textile Work- ers’ Union in Fall River, and now under Antone Samieras, one of the active textile strikers. ‘ There are over 500 members in the Portuguese and English branches and almost 200 in the Polish. While the 15 workers on the “con- spitacy” charge are spending day! in the House of Correction, away from their union jobs, awaiting the court’s pleasure to have them brought in to have bail set, another ease is going ahead full blast in the same court house under the same Judge Williams. This is the case of the former treasurer and collector of Westport, Mass., Charles H. Gifford, on trial for lareeny of $43,066.40. Gifford says his wife knows how the mi ig money was spent and Mrs. Gifford says she laid it on the table, and wasn’t it # coincidence, someone came in just then and the money disappeared, she can’t imagine how it happened. “Daily” Reporter Barred. While Judge Williams is upstairs listening to the strange disappear- ance of taxpayers’ money to the tune of over $43,000, the case of Patrick Cabral, of 74 County St., is being tried downstairs under Judge John Gibbs. Cabral was a striker. Someone was beaten up on Oct. 9 and Cabral was arrested on the charge of “assault with intent to kill.” This obviously framed-up charge was later changed to “as- sault.” The man assaulted, inci- dentally, went to work as usual the next day. The case is now going on. Cabral is being defended by Henry Hoffman, the I. L, D. law- r. The New Bedford Hotel on Pleas- ant St., patronized by mill owne traveling salesmen and the like. as- sures strangers with big signs that they are welcome to the city and that every courtesy will be extended them. This courtesy is not extended by the court house. The representa- tive of the Daily Worker was ex- cluded from the trial of Cabral on orn being too spite of the fact S were permitted jes are being carried active work- 1 meeting on in apite of ers being in ja is held each night here are mass meetings every Sunday. A shop paper, “The Red ndle,” gotten out by the Young Workers League unit in the Acushnet Mill has just heen distributed to all the workers. Plans are being made to get shop) papers out at the other mills. Two rd Textile Union The “Prosperity.” es [ae Again Breadlines have made their appearance in New York City again. Lines of starving workers, only a fraction of the huge army of the unemployed, are once more waiting for hours in the bitter cold for the bowls of slop that missionary hope that they will continue to sing halle Photo shows unemployed workers being fed. societies hand out to them in the jah to the capitalist god. | AGAINST TROTSKYISM § | AND RIGHT DANGER Returns from various units whieh have acted on the Central Executive Committee statement regarding the expulsion of Cannon, Abern and Schachtman and the right danger in our party indicate that the com- rades in the district have been thoroughly aroused by the attempt to attack and spit the Party of the renegades now congre- staining 1. The returns for Section 8 (Brownsville), a thoroughly tarian territory, are as follow: ternational Branch 1, for the C, statement 23, with reservations 7, opposed 3; International Branch 2, for Section Resolution supporting C. E. ©. and D. E. C. statement 17, for a minority resolution 5; Fac- tory District Unit for Section reso- lution 15, with reservations 8, ab- The following resolution was Section 5 (Bronx) sends in the following returns: Branch 1 Lower Bronx, 17 for the C. E. C. statement, 13 abstaining; Branch 2, for the C. E. C. statement 19, abstaining 2; Branch 3, for the C. E. C. statement 12, for a minority resolution contain- ing certain reservations 12; Branch 4, for the C E. C. statement 37, ab- staining 9; Branch 5, for the C. C. statement 27, abstaining 14; Branch 6, for the C. E. C. 33, voting for a minority resolution containing certain reservations 39. The section executive had voted previously this matter,. 12 being for the C. statement and 2 abstaining. The first returns from Section 6 are from Shop Nucleus No. 1 which voted unanimously with all 12 mem- bers present for the C. E. C. state- ment, with a resolution reading in part as follows: “We congratulate the C. E. C. on its Bolshevist watch- fulness of the interests of the pro- letariat and of the party. We in- dorse without any reservations the actions of the C. in expelling Cannon, Schachtman, Abeyn and their associates from the ranks of our Party. We demand from the opposition to leave the slippery path ” in accepting Com- The Sectien Executive Committee of Section 7, South Brooklyn, voted on the C. E. C. and D. E. C. resolu- n as follows: For — Minkin, Schwartzberg, Gencharko, Mitchell, Gorbaty, Kakounin, Maki, Berlinsky, Desarso, and Safron (alternate). F. the resolution with reservations Chalupski, Scherer, Weitz. Alter- nate A. Scherer. The following resoltuion was adopted at a special meeting of the Section Executive Committee of Sec- tion Four (Harlem and Yorkville) of the Workers (Communist) Party, called for the purpose of discussing the declaration of the C. E. C. on the struggle against Trotskyism and th> right danger. The meeting was attended by all but two members of school bulletins have been given out in the two junior high schools, the Roosevelt on Brock Ave., and the Normandin, on Tarkin Hill Road. These children played an active part in the strike. In this enlightened state of Massachusetts corporal punishment is legal, and month the school heads report to the superintendent of schools how many children have been hit that month. Women Meet. The Women’s League, under the of local women who were in the strike, has frequent ings. Weekly classes in Eng- are conducted. Large groups of Pioneers meet each vw Every Saturday night dances are held in the north and south ends of town. On Thanksgiving evening there were two special dances. One of the strikers’ kids who said she was going to the dance was asked what she had to be thankfuf for, if any- thing. “Sure,” she said, “Thanks- giving’s all right. We've got the union.” Fred Beal,) organizer of the N. T. W. Union} in New Bedford, who is running fo¥ mayor on the Work- ers (Communist) Party platform is conducting a lively campaign Daily noon meetings are held at the mills. Two big rallies will be held Sunday, December 2nd, at the Com- ique Theatre and at Monte Pio Hall. Maria Correia, textile striker, is also on the Workers Party ticket, running for common council. Thom- as Corrigan, a painter, is candidate for alderman, _ off, every | ‘it the Section Executive Committee, all Unit Organizers and the representa- tives of the two Y. W. L. branches in’the section. “Section Four Executive Commit- tee whole heartedly endorses the policies and statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Party) on the expulsion of Cannon, Abern, and Shachtman from the Party be- cause of their Trotskyist activities, We call upon every member of the section to give fall support to the Central Executive Committee, to help eliminate the danger of Trot- .|skyism from our Party, to unitedly fight to build and strengthen our Party in support of the Comintern and to fight every attempt of any member to introduce Trotskyism or factionalism into the section. We pledge our full support to help carry out unreservedly all decisions of the Comintern and the C. E. C. “We ask all comrades to under- stand that Cannon, Abern and Shachtman, because of their anti- Party activities, are enemies of the Party and should be treated as such.” The vote on the resolution follows: For—Nemser, Lloyd, Paivio, Hirsh- man, Hagen, Briggs, Dungee, Mark- Moreau, Thompson, Lamport and Gerson (YWL) Maslow (Unit 2) Burtan (Unit 3), Ginsbert and Reemar. Refused to vote: Miletti, Italian Unit Organizer. Voting against: Reiss, Braverman and Fish- man. CITLOW EXPOSES AFL CONVENTION Tells Forum of Its Re- actionary Role and lockouts, the rest for salaries, ete. The viewpoint of the labor bureau- crats, Gitlow showed was based upon preparations for the next war. Green’s opening speech indignantly disputed with the manufacturers’ association the claim to greater pa- sm. McNutt, of the American Legion, urged the passage of a uni- versal draft law, Colonel Ross, of- ficially there from the U. S. army, asked for support for the war pre- parations the army and government were engaged in, ahd Secretary of Labor Davis requested industrial compliance through rationalization, peace in industry, and full support of the strikebreaking president. nist were in evidence at all times, Gitlow said. The USSR was this time attacked somewhat indirectly, by repudiation of Professor Dewey for his endorsement of* the Soviet regime. The socialists supported the fakers 100 per cent. The National Executive Committee of the Social- ist Party, meeting after the conven- tion, showed its complete support of all the actions of the A. F. of L. misleaders, urging friendly relations with them. CravingRum,Ex-Grand Duke Will Tour U. S.. Talk of “Spirituality” Complaining a little because he has been in the habit of drinking a lot of a wine which he is afraid he ean’t get in America, ex-Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, eou- sin and brother-in-law of the late ezar of Russia, landed in New York Saturday and gave an interview to the reporters, in which he repeated for the ten thousandth time during the last ten years that “The Bol- sheviki are tottering in Russia.” The present theory of the ex-Duke is that a “new leader will arise from the intellectual classes,” and that a “spiritual revolution” will bring back the capitalists and landlords to the country in which the workers and peasants overthrew them. The Grand Duke added his part to the quarrel over the pretendef, ‘Grand Duchess Anastasia,” raging among the earistocrats who fled the workers of Russia, by contra- dicting his rich American niece, Mrs. William B. Leeds, former Princess Xenia. The Duke is going to pick up a litt Mobilizes io Fight Attempt to Jail Leaders WILL CUT WAGES NEW SCHEMES TO W RING BRITISH TEXTILE OF WORKERS 19 L4AS7 CENT FROM MINER prep yp is ON; WAGE CUT SEEN } Trade Union Misleaders BOOST GRAFTERS “Socialist” Milwaukee CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec. 2./bathhouse paid. Although educa- —In West Virginia hustling mine tion is supposed to be free in most operators are unloading more of the | communities, at the Nellis mine em- | burden of the company town oh the ployes find part of their wages | miner. In former years, the opera-| checked off for the company union | tor who picked out a hillside miles devoted to paying school expenses. from the nearest settlement as a/| This eases the tax burden and makes pe * ¢ Continued from Page One i Scene of Maneuver it house his miners. Wis., (By Mail).! Today, boasts Charles W. Con- the or, general superintendent of the | Nellis mine of the American Roll- ling Mill Company, the miners them- MILWAUKEE, —A wages ploy: reduction in of the lowest paid county em- sweeping s in the salaries of those hold-|town buildings. ing high-salaried political jobs, will|thing I have ever seen,” he boasts, soon be made, in this socialist-con-| 2+ gives the men a chance to take |and it gets away from the paternal- listie idea.” recommendation of a Chicago firm) uf so-called efficiency experts. boos trolled county, as a result of the Checkoff Dues. | Mine workers are forced to be- The Chicago firm, the Griffen-|long to the Armeo Association, a hagen Co, calling itself “payroll|Company union in which the mine surveyors,” will cut down the wages| manager and bosses are directors. of clerks by $25 a month and coun-|One dollar is checked off each ty laborers and other non-office| month from the miner's wage as workers will also suffer consider-| dues, and the company adds an equal able slashes, the amount of which| #™mount. has not been made public. | From this fund a church has Among those to get a boost in been built and the attendant at the | mine site had to build a town to American Rolling Mill stock jump on | Wall Street by increasing profits. No Baths. Aid Huge Trust | LONDON, Dec. 2.—The British To operators, the miner’s shack eotton employers are now carrying is as much of the mine as the tip- ple itself. Each house must “pro- jon their plan of rationalization at full speed. James Rushton, a lead- » in order to provide for | selves are being forced to pay for duce” so many tons of coal a day.| ey of the Barnoldswick Weavers’ “It’s the finest One big operation has attained a) Association, and of the Cotton high figure of 16 tons a day for Workers’ Minority Movement de- & each four-room house. This is at- tained by cramming the coal miner’s his own family. The average is 13 tons of coal for each shack. Four rooms, each 13 feet square, scribes the speed-up thus: “The bosses are forming a huge |shack with boarders, in addition to trust to control output and prices, Speeding up machinery, and using inferior grades of cotton, attempt- ing .to reduce wages and lengthen- are enough.’ A miner, his wife, two ing the working week. Ten months, or three children and at least one ago, when the employers put for-| in the typical four-room house. boarder—sometimes a rélative—live ward their demand for a 121-2 por cent reduction in wages and for a “Negroes,” the mine architect says, 52-hour week, due to some slight| internal differences amongst their “as a rule are satisfied with smaller houses and‘ are not “so particular about a yard.” salaries are such political office-| ED aR holders as the county hospital .su BOSSES A F L ‘ gia Da kez } perintendent; head of the civil serv- ice commission; the entire list of assistant district attorneys; the cor- poration counsel, and the manager «2 county institutions, who gets $6,000 a year and a dwelling and maintenance for a family of 12 nea members. The latter is reeommend- ed for an increase to $12,000 a Combination will Find year. Workers Ready | Continued from Page One | Board. And the employers, faced with being compelled to give in to union conditions if the left wing re- | gained. control of the industry, read- =| | iy assented to the Joint Council. The plan then was to get the smaller association, which was in contrac- | tural relations with the Joint board, to come in on the fight. Workers Will Fight. Subways Make Huge Net Profit After more than a whole week of Continued from Page One | secret conferences the plot was an increase of 76,700,000 over the] finally hatched. In a statement to number carried the previous year. the press, Ben Gold, manager of the Of this total, 2,921,200,000 were | Joint Board, announced that al- carried by rapid transit and surface | though he has as yet received no lines, 112,500,000 by the Hudson | official communication of the de- tubes, 86,100,000 by bus companies | cision of the small association to reporting to the commission, and| break its contract the union is in- epproximately 97,750,000 by munici- | formed of the planned offensive and pal bus lines. | that mobilization of the workers for And the nickels which these work-| q struggle is already under way. ers had to throw into the little boxes | The bosses are soon to see who is at the turnstiles amounted in cold | the real power in the situation, they profits to a net $2,701,000, says the | und the impotent A. F. of L. offi- Transit Commission. On the sub- cials or the fur workers and their ways, which are most used, the yepresentative—the Joint Board, profits were $8,832,000, and that Gold declared, adding that the union would have been the figure for the j: develcping a strength sufficient stockholders to play with, over and enough to be able to teach anew'the ebove all manner of padded ex- tosson given the manufacturers in pense accounts and with everything | the general strike of 1926. imaginable charged to operating ex- , Can't Pay Thugs. penses, had not the managers, in| at the scab union of the so- their desire to make a clean-cut | iatist party and the Matt Wolls monopoly of the thing, taken on|;. on the point of evaporating into some bad paying concerns, espe- thin air, is proven by the fact that lly the elevated railways of Man-|;h6i. agents and hired gangste hattan, which cut down the profit 52 no longer seen in the fut mar- on the whole to the nearly three |}... They have even lost the power million figure. ‘ sire P aN aoe Naa to have the employers force their The Transit Commission reported | eters to pay dues to the scab | MORE “DAILY” READERS, GOAL To Reach Masses in New Campaign Continued from Page One election campaign showed that a real effort in suth a distribution resulted in a big improvement in sales there- after in that section. Regular fac- tory gate distribution, and the same at union meetings, etc., would have similar results. With 125 Foreign language workers clubs in thi8 city, and numerous sympathetic unions, cooperatives, Workmen’s Circle and :Freiheit Singing Society branches, a large number of Daily Worker agents were needed to visit their meétings to get greetings for the fifth anniversary editions, as well as personal greetings from the in-| dividuals present. The busiiess of- fice staff which has started this work, was unable to carry it through alone. The fifth annivetsary edition of The Daily Worker, Harty Fox, cam- paign manager, told the agerits, would be a 500,000, 32-page issue, half of which would contain greet- ings from Communist atid left wing ‘organizations all over the world, and the remainder special feature ar- ticles, and items of great interest re- lating to the past five years strug- gle of the Daily Worker, as well as many articles on the labor, “so- cialist,” Negro and ¢apitalist press in this country, and the interna- tional Communist press. Mourn Death of Stukas, Member of Workers Party also that companies, in stating their case to the courts, included in the ur of legitimate operating ex- penges $1,374,311 spent in fighting unionization on the roads, and pre- council, thus being left without the “wherewithal” for the hiring of un- cerworld thugs. The same degeneration has also developed in the ranks of the right Lithuanian workers in Brooklyn are mourning the death of V. Stu- kas, a member of the Workers (Communist) Party, Section 6, le money lecturing on “spiritual-) venting a strike of the meh, who wanted to raise their miserably low wages. wing union in the cloak and dress- making industry. They, too, joined the bosses in a last effort to stem the tide of the masses, who were joining the left wing union. Their attempt, too, was uncoveréd before it could be put into effect and is now collapsing. Both the fur workers and the workers in the ladies’ garment in- dustry are to hold national con- | ventions to establish independent | unions. At the close of these con- ventions, which will take place sim- ultaneously, complete amalgamation will be affected. This is a primary Mail). — Soviet | factor forecasting defeat to the new | left wing SOVIET AVIATION AIDING PEASANTS Carries Out Important Scientific Work MOSCOW,. (By civil aviation, in addition to trans-| offensives against the porting passengers and goods, is needle trades unions. doing important scientific work. In 1927-28 Dobrolet carried out exper- imental work in aerial photography, SS i . and it photographed 27,000. kilo-,, WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Fatali-| meters: This work has been in-the ties in 77 large cities in auto acci-| interest of the mapping of little dents numbered 7,226 for the year known regions, land utilization, for-|Mded Nov. 30. This was a gain sstry, industrial eonstruetion, and|f nearly 1,000 over the previous for statistical purposes. Much im-| Year. portant work has been done in the extermination of crop and forest pests, AUTO ACCIDENTS INCREASE The Workers (Communiaty Party | ‘fights for the enactment of the 40- hour, 5-day week. Sea ‘ JANUARY 5, 1929 WILL BE FIVE YEARS OF THE COMING OUT OF THE | DAILY WORKER CITIES ARE URGED TO BEGIN MAKING ARRANGE- MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW. Roro Hall Nucleus in Brooklyn, who passed away at 3 p. m. Saturday. We had been ill only one day and was operated on for appendicitis Friday. Stukas was well known aniong the Lithuanian Workers in Brooklyn and was very active in the vecent élection campaign. The funeral will be held frem his late home, 215 Sand St., Brooklyn; on Tuesday, Mise —— er ibu | organization, their attack was not | followed up. But now, with their [ea peaeoney and the | trade union misleaders cooperating with the employers, they find them- ‘selves in a position to make new demands on the workers.” | Attempts were made to introduce | the 6 a. m. start at individual mills, but these attempts failed due to the | vigilance and fight of the Commu- nist weavers and the Cotton Work- ea" Minority movement. | The bosses are again attempting to get wage reduetions, and they | succeeded: in the Hebden Bridge | Mills with the assistance of trade union officials, whom the Commu- | nists and Minority Movement are | fighting. SERMAN | EATHEP WORKERS STRIKE ‘Demand Pay Increase | Piece Work Abolished BERLIN, Dee. 2.—Protesting against piece-work in the big Alse Repair Shops, hundred leather workers yesterday streamed | out of the factory in a walk-out that is expécted to have a profotnd ef- fect upon the entire leather indus- iry throughout the country. | Besides their demand that piece- work be abolished, the workers also ‘insist upon an increase in wage. | They point out that it has been « _ consistent policy of the leather fac- | tory owners to cut down on wav? land increase production it |piants and state that they axe de | termined to stop the practice by their strike. Leaders of the strike report tha° the men are enthusiastic and the‘ there is an excellent prospeet for a ; Successful struggle against the leather bosses. Davis Asks Stricter Immigration Statutes WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Secre |tary of Labor Davis today asked | that the session of congress start- jing tomorrow pass stricter immi- | gration legislation to nullify the | effect of recent federal court deci- sions now up on appeal before the U. S. 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