The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 6

Q — Page Six a ara Daily 223; ‘Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party @Rair <a» Published by National Daily Worker Publishing E Ass’n., Inc., Daily, pt Sunday, at 26-28 %{ Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone, * Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address “Daitvork” ROBERT MINOR....csssceesseeeeeees Editor WM. F. DUNNE... ce 2ecee ee Assistant Editor The Breeder of War “** © Taking its cue from a speech by Coolidge before the aviation congress that opened in Washington on Wednesday, the Scripps- Howard chain of papers, of which the Tele- gram is the New York representative, preaches a sermon on the blessings bestowed upon the world by the airplane which brings the nations closer together. The Telegram writer goes much farther than Coolidge and evolves a new theory of the causes of war as follows: “Jsolation, with its localized interests and prejudices is and always has been the worst breeder of strife. Isolation not only perm people to hate without cause, develop enmities without reason and think of conflict without realizing its cost but closes the door to outside an unboased opinion. Bolivia and Paraguay would not be at war today if left to them- selves.” Without going into the question of the necessity of rewriting the whole history of the world if this theory holds water we will merely apply it to the present conflict be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay and related prob- Jems of imperialism in Latin-America. | It is precisely because of the fact that Bolivia is not isolated from the United States that war is being pr yared. Bolivia’s isola- tion ceased with it- penetration by Yankee imperialism, which finally paved the way for the American banking house of Dillon, Read & Company to take charge of the finances of the government and as- sume direction of its political policies. The cause of the present outbreak is to be ex- plained by the fact that a } and a half ago the Carib oil syndicate discovered oil in A That the insolent a toward its weaker neigh- bor, Paraguay, was deliberately fomented by the agents of the United States government is clear from an examination of the actions | of the representative of yankee despotism, | Charles Evans Hughes, at the Havana con- | ference of the Pan-American union last winter. At that time Hughes put through a policy that neutral countries in Latin-Ameri- | ca be compelled to permit the passage of arms and munitions through their territories to aid “land-locked” eountries engaged in war. The only country: to which such a policy can apply is Bolivia. The action of Hughes at Havana is proof that the conspiracy to in- cite a war between Bolivia and Paraguay was even then being aggressively forwarded in order to annex the newly discovered oil lands to its puppet government in Bolivia. Thus we see what it means to the Latin- ‘American nations to be led out of their isola- tion by American imperialism. routes that Coolidge boasts about are pro- posed not in order to bring the nations closer together in bonds of mutual amity but in order that aces of the flying fleets of Wall Street may hurl concentrated thunderbolts against unarmed workers, precisely as work- ers and peasants of Nicaragua are being bombed from the air in order to subdue the population, and make it possible to per- manently occupy the country so that another canal, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific may be built as a part of the world- wide imperialist program of the ruling class of the United States. The motor roads that Goolidge and his apologists talk so much | about are not for the purpose of enabling “good-will” tourists to take pleasure trips through tropical countries, but in order that motor lorries full of soldiers, with high- power rifles and millions of rounds of muni- tions may rain death and destruction upon the masses with dum-dum bullets, precisely as they have done in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua and as the mercenary soldiery of the government of Colombia is doing today against the strikers of the United Fruit Company. In short the Latin-American nations are brought into ‘closer relations” with the United States in order that whole populations may be enslaved, and their lands pillaged of their natural resources to furnish raw material and fuel for the industries and the navy of the United States. Instead of yankee planes and hard roads being agencies of peace they are agencies of pestilence. The United States government, the execu- tive committee of the imperialist bandits of Wall Street, is desperately striving to subdue Latin-America so its hands will be free for the coming war to challenge the supremacy of its imperialist rival, England. The fabulous stores of raw material to be extracted from Latin-America will guarantee a continuous flow to the United States and the economic and political domination of the Southern re- inished products of United States industry. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 2 By Mail (in New York only): ™ $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos, By Mail (outside of New York): $6 2 year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. Address and mail all checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. $8 a year of American imperialism in Latin-America that it is meeting with ever-increasing re- sistance. Sandino, the heroic defender of his people in Nicaragua, who for a year and a half has kept up a stubborn fight against the invaders, is known and revered in every part He has been of the southern continent. waging a fight for all Latin-America and thousands upon thousands of workers and peasants are coming to realize that the only way to fight against slavery or extermina- tion is to follow Sandino’s example and drive out the imperialists and their agents. The aggressive advance of American im- perialism decrees a common fate for all Latin-America. This decree can only be set aside by common action against the invader of the masses of those countries. In such a struggle they will have the support of the vanguard of the working class in the United States who are also waging a fight for life against the same tyrants. Against the combination of imperialists and servile hirelings at the heads of the puppet governments of Latin-America must be hurled the invincible mass power of the | workers and farmers of the United States in | carious perch atop the bosses shoulder. f | company union. The airplane alliance with the workers and peasants of Latin America! ‘Defy the Fake Move of Green, Woll and Schlesinger December 29th, the day when the left wing cloak and dress makers and the fur garment | and pelt workers intend to open the sessions of two conventions in New York City which will be merged before they are over into one amalgamated needle trades union, rapidly | approaches. To the reactionary union bureaucracy: in the Jewish labor movement, the spectre of a fast approaching Dec. 29 meant the need for mighty efforts in gathering their union- wrecking forces to stem the tide of en- thusiasm growing among the workers in the industry. In the fur industry, the scab union needed but the final push, which the convention would have provided, to shove it off its pre- So the two employers’ associations were united, both will grant a new fake agreement to the A. F. of L. company union, which thus ob- tains brief extension of its lease on life. Benjamin Schlesinger, chief of the cloak- makers company union, on the other hand, was also faced with demoralization of his And he too needed an an- tidote to the developing sentiment for the new left wing union. So, with the yellow forger, the Jewish Forward, as midwife, a “trade program and peace plank” was formea. And the anxious godfathers, William Green and Matthew Woll, recuperating from New Orleans hangovers, recovered sufficiently to greet the Schlesinger offspring. Telegrams of congratulations were sent. But in so far as having an effect on the workers who were intended dupes of the “program” and fake plan, it had none. The offspring was still- | born! The reason Schlesinger, Matt Woll and Bill Green now try to induce the workers they have failed to deliver bound and gagged to the bosses to join the fake union is be- cause they realize that they- are no longer able even to function in the industry as agents of the bosses. The workers are wise to them. Workers in the needle trades know that the Schlesinger offer to let all back into the company union with permission to run for office provided they are qualified by the Schlesinger “constitution,” is a hypocritical | ruse to harm their drive to build the new cates” to scab sweat shop contractors. They know very well that the crux of Schlesinger’s trade program is the establishment of a graft machine for the selling of “union certifi- cates” to scab sweat shop contractors. They will have nothing to do with the dead off- spring of degenerate scab agents! Shop chairmen and active members of the left wing cloak and dressmakers union, meet- ing at an enthusiastic conference in the big Cooper Union auditorium, gave the proper | answer to this latest swindle of the scab fs will assure an expanding market for | ‘0 achieve these ends the gunmen of Wall Street will pile corpses mountain high and reduce thousands of towns to ashes. And this mass butchery, this wholesale extermina- tion of peoples, is what is called, with match- less effrontery, a “good-will” policy! So frightful has been the record thus far s union leaders. Workers in the women’s clothing industry! Kick the scab union off the precipice on which it is swaying! Prepare for the general strike in the dress industry! Build your amalgamated needle trades union! Workers in the fur industry! Smash the rotten hulk of the bosses’ company union! Close your ranks for a fight to control your industry! Prepare to strike against both boss associations and their agents, Matthew Woll and McGrady! Build your amalgamated needle trades union! Needle Trades Workers! Regain your lost union conditions! By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. Te outstanding needs American wocking class are the | development of greater solidarity be- tween the diverse elements, crafts, | races, etc., that compose it, and the | development of greater international | solidarity. | The Workers’ International Relief (W. I. R.) is a splendid instrument |for the developing of these two) |forms of solidarity. | The WIR is an international re-| lief organization cn a class basis, | with a section in the U. S. When the | strikers of New Bedford or of the Pennsylvania Ohio coal fields enter |into a struggle, they find lined up ‘against them the entire power of |the highly centralized capitalist | class, with its | torates, chambers of ecommerce, gi- | gantic monopolies, ete. The WIR | steps into such cases with an appeal 'te the workers throughout the in- dustry in other parts of the country arl in all industries throughout the country to rally to the aid of the strikers and their families with re- lief funds. It is a living realization of the old working class motto, “All for one and one for all.” When the strikes are on a large enough scale, |the WIR calls upon the workers of the entire world for aid. Catastrophes and accidents also have their class aspects. In the Mississippi floods, relief was denied | by the Red Cross and government agencies to the hundreds of thou- sands of Negro workers and poor Negro farmers. This is typical of every catastrophe. It is a brazen lie of great tragic events class differ- Continued As the consequence of their strug- gles against oppression and exploi- tation, which were regarded as viola- tions of the said provisions of the rear, the peasants’ unions were closed and the peasant defense corps disarmed. The slogans such as |“peasant unions are gatherings of | bandits,” “peasants unions opposed the Northern Expedition,” “The peasants’ unions interfere with the administration and judicial of the government,” were issued and pro- pagandized by the left and right wings of the Kuomintang, with one | breath. It is a fagt that violating the or- der of Chiang Kai-shek and the dic- tatorship of Kuomintang, the peas- ants did some times seize the po- [litical power in villages, capture the) |gentries, and landlords, and put to} trial the corrupted and bribed of- \ficials in the headquarters of the reasant unions. Ceremony was not | practiced here, they were sometimes | doomed with capital punishmen‘* | Compradores, gentries, landlords and | bureaucrats cried out with the same tone that “the peasant union is the super-governme have accepted this criticism without scepticism. | It can be seen that even long be-| tries, but shouted the slogan “Back revolutionary action of the peasant, ifore the open rebellion of Li Chi- isen, Chiang Kai-shek, the heads and |the executive members and the sec- lretaries of the branch offices of | Chow moi, Hail lu fong, Hudi Chow jand Nulu, were recognized by the garrison generals as _ criminally guilty, and were ordered to be ar- rested. The peasants’ leader of Nan Su, Comrade Chen Can was beheaded by the district magi:trate, Su Mein and Company Commander Chen Kung Hai (both are royal members of the Kuomintang). The peasants’ leader of Hsi Ki-|urb, etc. of Cluin Lo; under the|their.last moment of life. Having ang, Cheng Pei Chung, was shot) guidance of peasant unions and the seen these and still witnessing these, the sign of the red flag succeeded sey- our class enemies are now disop- landlords and gentries. The week injeral times in sgizing cities and shoot-| pointed, and are saying “So long as4 secretly in cooperation with of the! interlocking direc-| of the bourgeoisie that in the face} The reasents | at DAYLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, | THE CAT TRIES T°? COVER IT UP 1928 What Is the Workers International Relief? jin 1921 as an extortionist and was “Is Living Realization Motto: circumstances. Here again out as the champion cf solidarity of | |the oppressed masses. Just as the| Red Cross and the government agen- | | cies step in on behalf of the master | class, so the WIR steps in on be- | half of the workers and toiling poor. | Every great revolutionary strug-| gle finds the agencies of ‘he im- | | perialists at work bolstering up the | | counter-revolution with aid of funds | and food, with such “charitable” in-| tervention as Hoover exhibited in| the overthrow of the Hungarian) Soviet government. Thus, the rul- ing class gathers its funds for Chi- | nese famine relief, which it uses to aid the militaristic, feudal reaction, the agents of imperialism and their | tools, thereby intensifying the causes of the famine by strengthen- | ling the hand of imperialism and re- action, which preys upon and im-) | poverishes the Chinese masses. The | | WIR steps forward as the shield of the toiling, suffering masses. Achievements of the WIR. It was the WIR that mobilized the moral and financial support of the labc “ing masses of the world at the time of the Russian famine, that came to the support of the German! | masses in 1923, that rallied support Kwangtung Peasants Fight Kuomint New Militarists White Terror Fails to Halt Struggle Against of Old Working Class ‘All for One and One for All’. . . Shield of Toiling, Suffering Masses” ences are forgotten. They come out|for the British General Strike, and theatre associations, more clearly than ever under such| the long miners’ struggle that fol-| movements, radio groups, etc. the | lowed, that helped the victims of the| has established children’s homes for Workers’ International Relief stands | Irish famine in 1925, Out of these|the children of strikers, and sum- and other important international | actic:.s, the WIR grew into th» or-| ganization that it is today. Organ-| ized at first in many countries in| the form of temporary relief bodies for a particular catastrophe or struggle, the conviction soon grew | upon those engaged in the work | that the organization must be rade permanent and powerful and ready for any emergency. It soon became evident that one cannot form pow- erful organizations swiftly enough after catastrophes have occurred or struggles have begun. Our experience in America with} strike relief, with the Mississippi) flood, and the tornado victims, has demonstrated to the American workers that they must build a pow- erful section of the WIR in Amer- ica, to be prepared to help all sec- tions of the American masses in any emergency and to do their working class duty on an international scale as well. As the WIR has grown into a strong and permanent organization abroad, it has gradually extended the scope of its work and the spheres of its influence. It carries cn today a varied cultural activity, of Kuomintang memory of Chen Pai Chun and six |other martyrs was held everywhere by the peasants during November, |1926. In every memorial meeting | the following slogans were shouted: “Down with the three people’s doc- trines which are nothing than three p-inciples against peoples.” “Down with the party of persecutionaries without trial—Kuomintang” (“Party of persecutionaries” in Chinese have |the same pronunciation of Kuo-| | mintang). | | Learn Lesson. | All the past incidents teach the! | peasants the lesson that nothing less than struggles can save them; flee- ing and fearing are not only in vain) |to avoid the persecution but also de-| \moralize their revolutionary spirit. | That is why the peasants who have suffered the slaughter of Li Chi-sin |in 1927, and have undergone the) merciless exploitation of imperial-) ism, neither were disappointed nor) |fled to mountains or to other coun-| jto home to fight against our class| | enemies.” | twenty districts, Hailufeng, Pu-nien, Thow-yuan, Wu-Hua, etc., of Tung kiang; Jen-Hua, Chu-Kiang, Tsing- yuan, Hua-Hsian of Pei Kiang; Hsu- yi, Hua-Heian, Shua-Hsi, Chia-kung | of Nan Lu; Lo huia, Wan Omien, Lin-Hsui, Lien-kou, Jan Hsien, etc., of Ching Yie; Kuang-lien, Lo-Tuing, Yu-nan, Yun-fu, Hsin Hsin, etc., of Millions of peasants of the ten or}their class consciousness and makes Hsi-Kiang; Chuna-san, Poo-an, Kai-| slogan, “Long Live the Communist ing the reactionary elements such as gentries, landlords, etc. Land deeds were burned, farm boundaries de- stroyed, troops disarmed, and food-| stuffs confiscated. f This is what they did after their success. The struggle lasted for sev- eral months until November when) the united front of imperialism,| landlords, gentries and militarists succeeded in crushing the movement temporarily. Immediately followed} the unprecedented white terror which not only as a means to sub- due the revolutionary peasant move- ment, but also as a way vo plunder and to sack people and. to ravage villages, spread from city to village and even to the mountains and fields. Corpses were piled up, blood flow- ed as a red river; villages were deadly silent, without any human beings. There was in actual prac- tice: what they called the “Doctrine of burning mountains, or hair cut- ting.” But it can never uproot the it only heightens their hatred against the ruling class and arouses them recognize and understand the Chinese Communist Party and its program more clearly. The Communist Party of China is fighting steadily fcr the interest of workers and peasants, who even under the threat of capital punish- ment in particularly cruel forms call themselves Communist and shout the | Ping, En-Puig, Canton and its sub- Party,” while they are experiencing ang Traitors By Fred Ellis tending to develop solidarity and) internationalism. It puts out films, publishes working class literature, illustrated papers such as the “Illus- trierte Arbeiter Zeitung,” “Nos Re- gards,” and now is beginning to pub- jish a similar illustrated paper in English. In many sections of the world it is developing working class “Proletfoto” It mer camps. Its cultural activities go far toward letting the workers of one country know how the work- ers of other countries live and suf- fer and struggle. It carries pictures of struggles, of picket lines, of dis- asters, etc., throughout the world. The new wave of strikes in var- ious countries, the leftward swing of the masses under the pressure of rationalization, and war prepara- tions, all require a strengthening of the WIR. It is carrying on an im- portant work for the sake of work- ing class solidarity, for the strength- ening of the forces of the toiling, struggling masses, for the develop- ment of greater internationalism. | We must build a more powerful sec- tion of the Workers International | Relief in the United States. At the Shop Delegate Conference called by local New York, WIR, De- cember 20th at Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave., at 6 p. m., the program will be presented for de- veloping a powerful and permanent American section of Workers Inter- | national Relief. Workers of all trades are urged to attend. there are workers and peasants left, there exist Communists, who disturb peace and order.” Set Up Soviets. About the time of the Great Can- ton Insurrection, the peasants’ struggle in China, under the lead- ership of proletariat and the Com- munist Party turned deeply to a period of agrarian revolution and es- tablishment of Soviet powers in vil- lages. At present, the present organiza- tions in the Pu-Nien, Hwei Lai, Jei Young, Wu Hua, Hai Fang, Lai Fong, Hai Nan, Dao, i.e., in Tunki- ang (East River) and the peasant unions in Wan Nien, Lin Hsui, Ching Tung, Lien Kou, Chen Mei, Jen Hua and Che Kiang districts, have gen- erally confiscated the lands of land- lords. There were established the village Soviet powers which, owing to the conditions which exist objectively and subjectively, makes it impossible for them to keep these powers safe for the time being, especially in the case of city Soviet powers. Notwithstanding all this, the rule of the gentry of Tuo How, landlords and militarists of Kuomintang was badly shaken and could no longer be effective. We firmly believe that in the nearest future the peasants could seize the power over the whole province under the leadership of pro- letariat and its vanguard, the Com- munist Party. In the territory of the Soviet pow- ers, in spite of the pressure of eco- nomic blockade and the military of- fensive of the imperialists, compra- dore and gentry bloc, the peasants continue the partisan warfare, and used the force of Soviets and Red Army, cleared the counter-revolu- tionary forces and enlarged the ter- ritory and influence of the Soviets. The gradual victory of the Soviet economics and the activities of co- ered vhe Shatin nebitie: Hee. Ae | ers’ District Council 1), Shanz | bor leaders.” Misleaders in the American Labor Unions By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Fred (“French”) Mader, formeriy business agent of the Fixture Hang- ers’ Union, was a crony of Tin Murphy’s in many of his deals. Mad- er’s shady activities were multitu- adncus. He had a hand in the “easy money” in the building trades and was connected from timie to time with the saloon business, gambling joints, bootlegging outfits, and other under“crld enterprises. He had a long police record as a crook and a thug. In 1921 Mader did a “stretch” in Joliet penitentiary for extorting money from employers. Upon his re- lease he, in company with Tim Mur- phy and other gunmen, seized the presidency of the Building Trades Council, which he held foc a short time. He wa: an active advecate of the Landis Award. Vinal!y con- demned by his international union, he was fined $5,000 and suspended from membership for five ye: Mader complained of the hardnes of his lot and the ungratefulness of the labor movement, saying (Chi- cago Tribune, May 30, 1923): “If I had devoted my time to the real estate business and not be- come a labor leader I would be worth $500,000 today and not the $100,000 I’ve accumulated. No more labor stuff for me. From now on it is me for the real estate busi- | ness.” Tom Kearney, business agent of the Plumbers’ Union, was a protege of “Skinny” Madden. He also work- ed closely with ‘Si? O’Donnell and put over many of the latter’s big deals. (Report of Illinois Building Investigation Committee, pp. 50-58). Kearney became. president of the Building Trades Council upon the compulsory resignation of O’Donnell. He accepted the Landis Award, but resigned in 1922 when the fight against it grew hot. He was indicted also involved in the Walsh and En- right murder cases. In 1921 Kear- ney was worth $200,000, including a store and apartment house valued at $170,000 (incumbrances $92,020), 272 shares of Balaban and tion picture theatre stock, 350 shares of the Keerney-Dailey Glass Co., and 695 shares of the Ajax Rubber Co. stock. He died in 1924, Peter Shaughnessy, president of the powerful Chicago Bricklaycrs’ Union, is also head of the Wash- ington Construction Co., a firm do- ing man-hole contract building. For many years Shaughnessy, who is one of the dominant forces in his International Union, has used the power of his union, industrially and politically, to direct business into the hands of his company. Thus he has almost succeeded in setting up a local monopoly of this class of work in Chicago. This has led to com- plications. In 1928, when the head of the Board of Local Improvements tried to divert some of this business to the Unign Contracting Co. (one of the officials of which is Arthur Wallace, former bodyguard of the wealthy Lirdelof, head of the Paint- promptly struck the jobs of the ri val company. He is one of the rich- est of Chicago’s many werlthy “la- He also has a jail record for extortion. Michael Artery, business agent of the Metal and Mac-inery Movers’ Union ana a vice-president of the Structural tron W. “; Interna- tional, is one of the bright stars in the constellation of Chicago + Inild- ing trades labor fakers. Avtery has been involved in various extortion trials. He was a specialist in “strike | infurance” and in collecting “fines” | against non-union made machinery before it could be installed. Artery was the man who made the motion in the Building Trades Council to accept the Landis Award. How much the employers paid such lead- ers in order to “put across” this infamous award has never been di- vulged. Like most of corrupt union officials, Artery is in the real estate business. The Chicago Daily News, April 5, 1924, cites him as selling a 24 apartment building to G. Bethke for 170,000. The daily papers of March 1, 1925, announced that Ar- tery had just bought a $210,000 apartment building from Louis Dul- sky, giving in part payment an 18 apartment building valued at $130,- 000. His realty holdings are estim- ated to total at least $500,000. Noth- ing slow about this “proletarian.” To the foregoing corrupt Chicao building trades officials could be added the names of scores of others, many of them’ rich, such as Shields, Curran, Lindelof, Cleary, Brime, Jen- sen, Conro, Tagney, Redding, Walsh, Hahn, Gunther, Sullivan, Knot, Sta- ley, Kane, Hanson, etc. But those cited suffice to paint the picture. There are many honest officials in the building trades and they do much to offset the harm done by ube grafters. But the “burglars,” as they are popularly termed are the typical and dominant element. Theiz evil influence spreads far and wide. Eastern Labor Sports Union in Conference The Eastern District Labor Sports Union on Wednesday held a basket- ball conference, at 347 E, 72nd St. Delegates from the following clubs were represented: Colonial B. C.; Harlem Progressive Youth Club, with girls’ and boys’ divisions; Kisa Toverit, with girls and boys repre-. sented; Vesa, Millinery Union, Lo- cal 43; Freiheit Sport Club; Young Pioneers of America. * The senior and junior boys divi- |immediate difficulties. ' To Be Continued sions. were organized, also girls’ Givisions, oo