The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 3

: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, _ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928 _ age xne back! British Communists Expose Trade Union Congress’ Refusal ‘to Fight Scab Union URGE STRIKE 10, REINSTATE FIRED ARSENAL WORKER Dismissed for Fighting Fnke Union LONDON, Dec. 5.—A_ strong movement has been set in motion by the Communist-led left wing to force an unofficial strike of the en- gineers in the Woolwich Arsenal, which has recently dismissed Percy Glading, a Communist and a strong opponent of the Government Work- ers’ Industrial Union, a scab out- fit, which the arsenal is attempt- ing to force upon its workers. The militants in the arsenal point | out that this industrial union is a| scab company union and that Glad- ing was fired because he opposed | every attempt to form this “union.” Neither the Trade Union Con- gress nor the Amalgamated En- gineering Union, to which Glading belongs, have done anything to pre- vent the development of a govern- ment-controlled “union” in Wool-) wich Arsenal. The result is that| since this bogus trade union was formed it has grown from a mem- bership of some 300 to approxi- mately 1,500 members, Militant workers point out that the Trade Union Congress started’ talist organization in the -world,|likely to affect the profits of the by refusing to defend trade union| representing no less than 18,000| British capitalists, and the various| Will attract both young and old in principles and that it continues by firms in Britain, with a combined| F.B.L. publications contain a proud the anti-religious campaign by or- refusing to fight scab unions, and the question is asked, what next? The militants are determined not} fo allow the matter to drop, de-| tions of separate employers’ organ-|¢@tried on the work of undermin- ers for all these affairs and for the spite the obvious intention of both the Amalgamated leadership and the General Council of the T. U. C.| to'sabotage the strike movement. Fascisti Use Force to Keep Peasants on Land | ROME, Dec. “5—Any peasant at- tempting to leave his land because of his inability to eke out an exi: tence there and come to the city in| search for work will be punished by three months imprisonment of a fine of 2,000 lira, according to Mus- solini’s new bill which was intro- duced in the chamber today and) which that puppet body will pass. The bill is a part of Mussolin “pack to the farm” campaign which! was started ‘when it became evident | that conditions were so bad for the peasants due to extensive exploita-| tion by the landlords and trusts that they could no longer endure their} lot and were threatening to march! upon the city. Worker at Ford Plant) Killed; Safety Lacking DETROIT, Nov. 27 (By Mail).— Paul Kelik, a worker in the High- land Park Ford plant, died today of injuries incurred when a whirling belt slipped from its pullies on a crane and crushed him against a wall late yesterday. Paul Kelik was 40 and leaves a fimly. No device was on the pullies to prevent the belt slipping off. New eaican President Etgariges Co-operation With Wall Street i Provisional President Emilio Portes Gil, on his inauguration in Mexico City, gave assurances of continued co-operation with the imperialistic policies of Wall Street. Photo above shows a scene in th inauguration ceremonies, siege President Calles holding his arm upraised. SHOWS UP FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY That American workers may see something of the forces of British imperialism, we give herewith the facts set forth by the “Australian Worker” on the Federation of Bri- tish Industries (F. B. L.). 25 Billion Dollar Capital. The F.B.J. is the greatest capi- capital of over $25,000,000,000. is sectionalized into 22 industrial groups and controls all the func-| izations on a national scale. It is the greatest consolidation of British imperialist interests | the war, and has been the real pow- er behind the last three Economic} Conferences. It dictates the indus- trial conditions of Britain, and fixes the wages and standard of living of every industrial worker in that country, It extends its opera-| tions outside Britain, and seeks the! exploitation of the whole of the em-) pire in the interests of the British | capitalists. Hardly “Non-Political.” It has no less than 140 direct | représentatives in the British Par- liament. It maintains a Parliamen-| tary Committee and a_ special} | “Liaison Department” to keep in | touch with the British government. To quote its own words: “When the! | general voice of industry on any particular question of national im- portance is expressed by the Fed- eration of British Industries, it is received with due weight by the government.” (F.B.I. Bulletin, Feb- ruary 23, 1920.) The F.B.I. is allied with the Na- tional Alliance of Employers, the British Empire Producers’ Associa- tion, the British Industrial Alliance, | the British Commonwealth Union, the Confederation of Employers’) Associations, and the Association of Chambers of Commerce. Direct Aid of Statg. | Its members are included in all} the government missions sent abroad to secure concessions in re- turn for British loans, they are al- lowed “dirett access on their own! ‘Colorful Parade at Daily-Freiheit Ball The hig Daily Worker-Freiheit | Ball, to be held on the night of Sat- | | urday, Dec. 15, will be the first | combined Soviet costume and color- light ball ever to be held in the United States, according to a recent jannouncement made at the business |effice of the Daily Worker, One of the features of the affair, according to the announcement, will jhe a parade of the 104 nationalities that comprise the Soviet Union. | These will be in native costume. | MORE BARGE CANAL TRAFFIC ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 5.—All! | time tonnage records were broken | jon the Barge Canal this Season, | closing of which for the year was jformally announced today by Com- ioner of Canals Thomas F. Far- A total of 3,087,452 tons were ipped. This represents arf in- crease of 20 per cent or 505,56C tons over the 927"total. 0 rel. {s The Workers (Communist) Party Is the party of the class struggle. Struggle Against Right Danger The newly developing wave of Trotskyism in our Party has awak- ened the membership thoroly to the right wing danger. Discussions are carried on in the Party units based on critical reviews of the past work | of the units and the local Party organizations, and also on the basis of the Central Committee’s state- ment concerning the right danger and Trotskyism. The General Membership Meet- ing of the Anthracite Subdistrict, District 3, Workers Party, held Nov. 29, 1928, passed the following reso- lution by a unanimous vote: “We endorse the expulsion of Cannon, Abern, Shachtman and the other Trotskyites from our Party and pledge our fullhearted support to the Communist International and the Central Executive Committee in its struggle against the right dan- ger and its crassest, open social- democratic manifestation, “This danger, coming at a time when our Party is carrying on its work under difficult objective con- ditions, when the attacks against | our Party and the pressure upon the | workers is becoming stronger every day, must be fought energetically by us. Those who are supporting the Cannon-Lore-Eastman counter- revolutionary, anti-Communist com- bination, shall be expelled from the Party. No tolerance can be per- mitted to the agents of the class- enemy within our ranks. “The membership meeting, after discussing our past activities in the Anthracite, has to point out that here, too, right wing deviations were committed during the past year, such as serious mistakes in united fronts, a hesitation and capitulation before difficulties, insufficient at- tention to build the Party through various forms of struggles, etc., but these right wing mistakes were recognized and corrected with the help of the CEC. “In this difficult period, when our Party is subject to attacks from all sides, it is the duty of every comrade to give full support to the CEC, to build the leadership of the CI by fully accepting its decision, including the part relative to the ‘ American question. Acceptance with reservations or the branding of the CEC as a right wing leadership weakens our Party in its fight against the right danger and Trot- skyism and gives therefore objec- tive support to our enemies.” Street Nucleus 1 of Pittsburgh, Pa., fully endorses the statement of the CEC of our Party on the “Struggle Against Trotskyism and the Right Danger.” “The appeal of the anti-Commu- nist Cannon group to fight the Par- ty and the Communist International in the name of Leninism is nothing but an insult to Leninism and the memory of Comrade Lenin who was the bitterest enemy of Trotskyism and ‘The Pompous Phrases with which Trotsky always defends Op- portunism.’ “We repudiate the statement of some of the comrades that the CEC is a right wing group and that it is therefore just as dangerous to the Party as is the Cannon group. Such an attitude on the part of these comrades is contrary to the CI decision which states that. there are no political differences in the Party serious enough to justify the continuation of the factional strug- gle; such an attitude on the part of these comrades minimizing the danger of Trotskyism in the United States only tends to weaken the struggle against the Cannon-Trot- sky group who are now busy unit- ing all the social democratic anti- Communist renegades in this coun- try for a war against the Party and the Communist International. “We welcome the frank and open self-criticism made by the Polecom in its statement and join in the ap- peal of the CEC to all Party mem- bers to unite on the basis of full acceptance of the decisions of the Sixth World Congress of the Com- munist International and to united- ly struggle against the Cannon- Trotsky anti-Party elements and against the right danger in the Party.” At a meeting of the Russian Buro of the Workers (Communist) Party held November 27, the following motions were carried unanimously: and Trotskyism “{° The Bureau wholeheartedly endorses the stand of the Central Executive Committee in expelling Cannon, Abern and Shachtman for their Trotskyist activities. “2, The Bureau endorses without any reservations the resolution of the CEC on the struggle against Trotskyism and the Right danger and declares that it will do every- thing in its power to carry the line of the Central Executive Commit-) tee, “3. The Bureau calls upon all) comrades to. rally around the Cen- tral Executive Committee on the basis of the acceptance of all the) decisions of the Communist Inter-| national and for a united struggle against Trotskyism ‘and the Right ANEW XMAS IN SOVIET UNIO tion. . Nor are the villages backward in demanding that this ancient Chi tian celebration be done away wi | Thirty-six peasant correspondents, in an open letter to the Moscow viet, want to know and who it is who enjoys “s propaganda on behalf of Christmas trees?” why the pine jtrees are being shipped from Siberia BRIAND PASSES BUCK ON ANGLO- FRENCH ENTENTE Boasts of ‘Tricking US. Ambassador PARIS, Dec. Reviewing the imperialist role of the French gov-| ernment in the chamber of deputies | today, Aristide Briand, foreign minister, tried to evade the numer- ous contracts between France and Britain contained in the naval pact | by stating that no less a person than | | Hugh Gibson, United States ambas- e | for the entente. | Briand declared that during the son had invited the gov {repr resented to come to agreements Laue themselves, which Great Britain and France had already be- gun to do and did accomplish. gttnoneh it was very far from| N by the reactionary chamber open declaration of frantic preparations. ris ith. Intl Bankers Group So- to Get “Claims” Paid) | LONDON, Dec. 5.—The formation uch “We are greatly amazed at this,of an international committee of |shameful thing in Moscow,” t! | write. stores are assisting “clergym rabbis and other bearers of op for the people” by selling them \the foreign settlement Christmas They also call for a relent- trees. less campaign against religion They want to know why) of “safeguarding” xpressed purpose the interest of ‘former Russian owners and carry jon negotiations with the Soviet gor- ernment for the settlements of their claims has been announced in Lon- | don. Leading bankers hey | bankers with the nen, ium and arid | of England, for a vast anti-religious campaign | France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, during the > MOAN 2 ALF OFL.FAKERS BUSY IN MEXICO Labor Agents of Wall St. at CROM Meet MEXICO cry, Dec. 5.—The | | Switzerland and Denmark are in- |cluded in the committee, w! i | under, British auspices and the chair- man of which is Lord Revelstoke. ane the British members are Lionel de Rothschild, one cf the {richest men in the world, and John Rae, of the Westminster Bank of London. Sir Henri Deterding, head lof the Royal Dutch Oil Shell and one of the most vicious enemies of the Soviet Union, is said to have |been the driving force for its for- raation. The bankers in the committee are a Ninth Annual Convention of the| "derstood to have bound them- | Crom (Mexican Regional Labor Con- with” federation) is opened here, delegates from the various Cro” unions in attendance, together with | ternational committee, of the | tically assuring an international at- fraternal representatives British Trade Union Congress the American Federation of Labor. The ancient fakers, James Lord and Joseph Kelly, are the Yankee | delegates, who had the task of lying | “accomplish- | about the wonderful ments” of the A. F. of L. and job of persuading Mexican labor that it should follow Green’s Woll’s example in class collaboration |! |and take Morones, their own faker, as the hero of the hour who will |show them how to help the perialists and native exploiters |der the new scheme recently jmounced by the Mexican president, Portes Gil.» - This they did as best as they could in general terms, dodging danger in our Party.” | At the last regular meeting helt | by Street Nucleus 28 of Chicago,' the following resolution was passed | unanimously, | “We, the members of Street Nu-| cleus 28, pledge our full and un- restricted support of the CEC action against Cannon, Abern and Shacht-| man and completely endorse the} statement of the CEC on the dan- ger of Trotskyism. od “The CEC needs_the support of every Party member for a success- ful, fight against Trotsky and his agents, We pledge this support.” From the Norwalk, Ohio, unit: “We are cognizant of the fact that opportunism in any form, past or present, is counter- -revolutionary | in its true analysis, and we know the part it played in China, Italy,) Germany, Hungary, and wherever the revolutionary situation has been! keen. It has endangered the sta-| bility and achievements of our own Party, the Communist International, and is an indirect attack on the} Soviet Union. Therefore be it re- solved: “That Street Nucleus of Norwalk, Ohio, acquiesces and supports the Central Executive Committee in its decision against right wing and counter-revolutionary tendencies in the Party. We believe the princi- reference to the resistance of |A. F. of L. rank and file left wing, \led by the Trade Union Educational |League, to the B. and O. plan other schemes of the A. F. of bureaucrats to company-unionize trade unions. Naturally, also, the Yankee fakers |side-stepped the attack made at recent A. F. of L. convention Mexican workers emigrating to United States, as well as the attack by the catholic wing of the A. F. L. in previous conventions on M co as nation because of the anti- clerical laws. Agents of U. S. Imperialism. These things-were all matters jsilence on the part of the A. F. L. delegates, who confined their marks to blurbs for the A. F. of L. and the Crom, dashing in a little praise for ex-president Calles, jearrying out the “good will” guise of Yankee imperialism, “Monroe Doctrine of Labor” backstairs intrigue against British also imperialism whose delegates are present in the form of the U. C. representatives. Calles was solicited by the con- vention to accept election |henorary president of the Crom. ples of Lenin cannot be miscon- strued by any true Communist.” milltantly agninst of the bosses, sf es not to take any action in re- wd to claims against the Soviet . | Sovernment independent of the in- thus prac- and) | tempt for the refunding of their “claims,” to be accompanied by an anti-Soviet campaign. In the past the Soviet govern- ment has announced again and again that it would not recognize |the claims of the ex-owners for property expropriated by the rev- olution and that they would not re- pay debts entered into by the czar- list regime. The Soviet Union pol- iey promises to be no different for jthe future. the and im- un- an- The socialist party endo robber League of Nation) Kellogg pence pact and ¢1 illusion that war can be aboll under capitalism. Down with ft traitors to working class! rnments | | | jsador to Belgium, was responsible Geneva disarmament conference Gib-| | | Formed Against USSR | toms. | |petuation of the race, the fact that “Good Will” Greeting to U.S. Imperialism The inaugural message of Emil io Porte: res dent vf Mexico, was in the nature of a ng to American imperialism and a vromise of co-operation. Photo shows Por Gil ae ering his speech. TRY TO DEPORT MILITANT IN CANADA UNIO |Labor Defense Aids | Gilbert, Miner TORONTO, Dec. 5.— The an adian Labor Defense League is on- ducting the fight for Joe Gilbert, r= for the Mine Workers Union at T ns, Ontario, who 0 bail following his ar- Ma at to deport him, ity as a militant 1e fight on the Canadian ors’ effort to keep. the his part in the actionary Lewis 1ada, resulted in the rtation. or Defense is conducting ve campaign for Gilbert. Croat Press Blames an| fact that Kourim, at 28, is probably re war |earning as high a wage as he will | Bri jever get. As a_ protector \ciety, this capitalist judge was up |W against one of its basic contradie- | He dared not summon the employer of Kourim to court and punish him for paying such wages and raise a family. Labor Power Production Falling. As it has been proven that a family must have three children in order to provide merely for per- Kourim, getting exactly the statisa| 2 tical average wage of industrial) \; workers, cannot support them, proves that capitalist exploitation in | the United States is so intensive! that the working class is not repro-| ducing itself according to the norm. | There are numerous other facts | illustrated by this example, but the judge could not solve thi being a capitalist judge so he ended: “I refuse yeu a divorce and im- pose on you three years of birth contro]. *Go home.” Rationalizing Human Production. Incidentally under the Ohio capi- talist laws, probably foreseeing the | time when rationalization will make | a large percentage of workers than | now, unnecessary, allows for doctors | to give information on birth control. | The judge’s decision, however, | has aroused the catholic church, | which is so blindly reactionary that | it cannot see this decision as cay i-| talism’s own “solution” for a prob-| lem that is really insoluble under | capitalism. . OIL PROFITS GUSHING OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 5. | -—Construction of additional stor- | age tanks was started today at the | Indian Territory Illuminating com- | pany’s wildcat gusher, six miles | | southeast of here, as the well con- | tinued flowing from 200 to 210 ca rels of crude oil an hour. 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The proposed suit arose out of a of articles in the Sunday orker, by Horner. |that his workers cannot live upon| / 4 j business to Dominion Government Gibson's meaning that a pact be Belgrade for Shootings | sistance of the government for Bri- Workers Fighting Re-| ie must have rather meant that) KE ZAGREB, Y iiniinan ielctarees yer teekanatty’! 1i some power should come to a satis-| Pee soe Tin the sina tae ¢nt. abtalation cite igious Dope |factory treaty with the United| F.B.I. has been able, since 1921, to States and against some other} successfully sabotage all legislation Continged from Page One probably Britain—Briand | ; proposed in the House of Commons| With the Christmas holidays.” holds that the pact had been| > injaneate The Communist units and cells| communicated to the other powers Be % counter deren and thus was lone with the approval |Sudge, Orders..Cut «in Cortanttea ireposed in tock place in Zana of the United States government. | : i pr 7 ; . a] 7 » Z y fe It record of its successes in this direc-|ganizing lectures and clubs, fest ith the customary tactic of im-| Labor Power | Sunday Worker Yugoslav kingdom yesterday. tion. ities and ice-carnivals, by distrib-|perialist diplomats, Briand denies GHFERLAT Foon Page One | — The néwspapers point oeeaatne Year ‘after year the F.B.I. has|uting free tickets among the work-| ranch is imperialist and Points | could not raise more than one child) LONDON, (By Reports | the government has instructed the ae eee oe Ke fa ee cid ritain, reached |snccessfully. The couple needed a have been publist © press police and gendarmes to.use foree gt ing the trade union movement in| theatres. allies nedice y along that the misleaders acting as the|the slighte vocati Britain, and compelling the workers| The Mpscow Soviet suggests | proof that France is not imperia' al th - ait feng ine cke ate ee tae aa i e om eee = he ea mass "enone eel e since|to carry the burden of trade de-|changing the Christmas holiday istic in its designs. He also pte still was caring a small EoD yen the ouen wales Miner re |pression. This it has done by cut-|from the 25th to the 26th and /statisties proving that the United |salary.’ i fee ibur cectact Mattie eioteee | Dae 4 er outbreaks |ting wages, increasing working| making the whole holiday 2 celebra-| States spent more upon its navy| = fo _ agains ur Horner] | Due to further outbrea | hours, and forcing Mea er crea tion of science anc labor, culminating |than France, a fact which no one| Wikes vie Andee Eset cs Ue aa peoputy Mc yemiane ae brit ff Banh! ie |ard of living than that which pre-|on Jan. 1, when Soviet engineers, |disputes. Briand however failed to} Here the judge conveniently for- militant British mine leadet and paetingtines ee vailed before the trade depression | scientists, physicians and workers mention that France spent more on | |got th&t $24 a week is the average eee pea lay Worker,” organ keeping then cr at- set in.” (F.B.I, Bulletin, November | will start the new year in a collec-|her army than any other European|Wwage of the industrial workers of /of the militant Snes sh workers, | 29, 1921.) tive endeavor of socialist construc-|country and that the budget voted |the United States, and dodged the which are fighting the corrupt and he Put Your Name on This List of GREETINGS! Daily to the 4 orker on its FIFTH BIRTHDAY } THESE NAMES ARE Birthday TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE Edition of the WHICH IS TO APPEAR JANUARY 5, 1928 | ed (