The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 6

| Published by National Daily Work L Ass’n., Inc., Daily, Exce Union Square, New Yo . Ytuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Ad wERT MINOR... WM. F. DUNNE.... . Assistant Editor “Good Will” Toward Hoover So deep is the mass hatred of the peoples of Latin-America against the ravenous, in- satiable imperialism of the United States of North America that Hoover’s “good will” tour is marked by heavy concentration of troops in order to shield fury. The Latin-Ame: deceived by the crude hypoc scribes this roving imperialist to “good will.’ Thi e familiar with the his- tory of Yankee frghtfulness in Nicaragua, in Haiti, in Santo Domingo, in the present incitation of the puppet government of Bolivia against Paraguay in order to grab more oil land for the Rockefeller interests. The Latin-Americans know that when San- dino, the heroic defender of the masses of Nicaragua, is branded a bandit by the con- ifiable e not ch de- s one of im from jus temptible lackey of dollar despotism, Cal | Coolidge, it really expresses the contempt in which all Latin-American peoples are held by imperialist Washington, spokesman for the vhole ruling class of this country. In the Argentine republic Hoover and his party of plunderers proceeded through lines | vf armed soldiery, guarding the personifica- on of the new and aggressive turn in Ameri- | \ imperialism from the vengeance of the ses who rallied in thousands to the cry of Sandino” and to demonstrate against __.vynical, defiant and monstrous murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Proceeding from the Argentine to Montevideo, Uruguay, Hoover was met with the usual mobilization of soldiery, while the masses vented their hatred | of American imperialism by acclaiming San- dino and shouting “Viva Sacco-Vanzetti.” All class conscious workers of the United States hail with joy these demonstrations of the Latin-Americans against Hoover who is to become president of the United States on | March 4th next. It is evidence that they are | are of the sinister meaning of the election “s man whose whole life has been one of x imperialist plunderers, who is an at utilizing war, famine and flood in the ist of his class, whose bloody trail ex- | in many | vcuus through many countries climes. They are right in demonstrating inst his tour as a sign of increased ag- gressiveness, as the herald of new slaughters, as a forerunner of an attempt to subdue all Latin-American nations to the position of vassals of American imperialism. These demonstrations are clear indications | of the trend of the development of anti-im- perialist sentiment in Latin-America. time when the oppressed and robbed masses of that part of the world will rise as one against such evidences of “good will,” and -Grive out the despoilers of whole populations. In this fight the peoples of Latin-America will find valiant comrades in the ranks of the hier workers and farmers who suffer under the same blight that is represented by Hoover and the class he has been chosen to serve. Defense For Workers -The International Labor Defense, which is ‘@ non-partisan, workers organization, is ‘carrying on an important task in defending at the present time more than 1500-working class fighters who have been victimized by the capitalist courts. The International La- mor Defense since its formation has appeared f the shield of the workers in strikes and _ (wherever the police, the government and the ‘courts have been willing instruments of the employers in beating, jailing and many times murdering workers. The organization is now defending nearly 700 textile workers before the courts of New Bedford who have already been sentenced to as high as three years imprisonment. The I, L. D. is defending the Cheswick, Pa. work- ers who were arrested a little over a year ago in a Sacco-V. ti meeting and are now facing trial in Pittsburgh. The I. L. D. has prevented the attempt to deport foreign born workers on many occasions, as for example the recent attempt to deport several Cali- fornia foreign born workers. The I, L. D. has been in the forefront of the campaign to free Mooney and Billings and the Centralia prisoners. In its work the International Labor De- fense exposes at all times the fact that in imperialist America there is no “justice” for the working class, that the governmént, the courts, the police and all other such “Ameri- ean” institutions are nothing but agents of the bosses, servants of Wall Street and of the employers. Only in their own organizations, one of which is the International Labor De- fenge can the workers find the strength to fight against the persecution of such capi- talist institutions and to beat back the at- tacks of the master class in the courts of this country. _ At the present time the International La- i bor Defense is conducting a Christmas cam- ign for funds to carry,on its work and to fight for the workers involved in the cases They ' are forebodings for Yankee tyranny of the | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8 a year $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos, By Mail (outside of New York): $6 a 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. It is important at this above. time for all sympathizers with the work of the I. L. D. to support this campaign and to mentioned defeat the attacks of the capitalists courts on 1500 workers by sending funds immediately to the National Office of the International Labor Defense. Fuller’s Land Graft Alvan T. Fuller, governor of Massachusetts, and the blood-streaked monster who carried out Yankee capitalism’s murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, is now exposed as a plain grafter. Boston is to build a subway, and hencé the real estate shar e grabbing all the avail- able land in the vicinity through which they think it will pass, in order to hold it for speculative purposes when the underground railway is completed. It seems that much of this land was grabbed by Fuller and his | cohorts before the plans to build. the subway | were known to the public. Fuller seems to have stolen a march in land grabbing on another republican politician, Malcolm E. Nichols, who is mayor of Boston, Hence the workers are treated to recrimina- tions between the two. Fuller now charges the mayor with incompetency in not building the subway. The mayor, himself, tried to grab some of the land, but when he found | that Fuller had obtained most of it he vetoed DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18. PAPA’S GOT BUSINESS IN BOLIVIA a bill creating the commission that was to have charge of the building of the new sub- way. Fuller, infuriated, immediately in a public speech opened an attack on the mayor. The mayor retorted with considerable heat; charging Fuller with being a “successful speculator” rather than a “studious adminis- trator,” and further charged that Fuller “substituted personal invective for dis- passionate discussion,” and “mistakes slander for argumen’ Such “revelations” are nothing new to workers who are familiar with Fuller’s pro- cedure in the events leading up to the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Fuller replied to the charges of the mayor by trying to imply that his erstwhile supporter was drunk as usual. Says Fuller: “When the mayor tries to make the public believe that I am speculating in land or stocks then the most charitable conclusion that I can come to is that he is in his usual irresponsible condition.” As far as we are concerned we are neutral inthis quarrel. We believe everything that the mayor says about Fuller and it is quite pos- sible that what Fuller says about the mayor | ig true. Both of them are capitalist politi- | cians and neither of them would scorn a | piece of easy graft so long as it was suf- | ficiently involved not to be as obvious as the | bribery of a prohibition agent. The workers of Boston have seen Fuller and his silk hatted associates of the Back Bay aristocracy murder two innocent workingmen | | because they fought for their class, they‘have | workers who picketed Fuller against this | militia break textile strikes and the courts send pickets to jail. In a word, the class character of the state is becoming clear to them. Eventually the workers of. Massachu- | setts as elsewhere, will be able to fully*per- | ceive the means by which the master class holds them in subjection. Then, under the banner of the revolutionary class party of labor, the Workers (Communist) Party, they will dispose of all the assassins and swindlers along with the class they serve. Organize Shoe Workers The shoe workers of Greater New York, numbering from thirty-five to forty thousand workers, constitute a group of horribly ex- ploited workers, at the present time at the complete mercy of the bosses. All the evils of large shops on the one hand and hundreds *of small shops operated by thieving cock- roach bosses on the other affect the men. | women and youth who toil over benches mak- ing shoes. This condition of the shoe workers is due for the most part to the thoroughly con- By ANN STANLEY. HICAGO is famous for its “Rows.” There is the Automobile Row, with its glittering windows displaying the latest cars of all makes; there is Machine Row, with establishment after establishment “Laundry Row” | Speed-Up, Low Wages, Is Workers’ Hell Discrimination Against Negroes in Chicago Factories worker found wanting in “loyalty” ; sence comes at an inopportune time | selling nothing but machinery; there lis Millionaire Row down along the |lake front, with its great stone | mansions, immense gardens, private |swimming pools and swimming | beaches, golf courses. Down Mil- |lionaire Row play the men that | draw their living out of the busi-| |ness profits of Automobile Row, | Machine Row, Publishers Row and,| jof the factor: | incidentally, Laundry Row. lebeudiee oma, to his employer toughest one. Behind the glittering show win-| time. The heaviest work is usually|the doors and partitions that sep-| “Row” will have no more of him, | of a job on her return. The condi-| Probably the Laundry Row is the | are shard: Here no discrimina-| tion is made: between the factory) girty wash. The workers must stand worker and the office worker as far! 4+ their work and the speed-up sys-| as work, hours and wages goes, €X-| tem q 1 jloitedeli | cept that the more militant spirit} “" "~ ~P Oe? ROre soon finds that the) the luckless worker finds herself out) | tions under which the women work! The air is laden with) | steam and the smell of hot soap and} worker has won| In the offices, except that less| and pay for over- steam and stink creeps in through| lent. The bonus in laundry row | might consist of a few extra dollars | for having put in extra time during |the rush, a pretty engraved Christ- | mas card or merely a smiling “Mer- lry Christmas.” ,.To be dismissed after the temporary rush is over is | not unusual. In later years the employers of “Laundry Row” have taken advan- tage of the unemployment crisis and wages have come down, forces have been cut in some cases by a third, and hours have been lengthened to enable the remaining force to get out the same volume of work, The thorn in the side of “Laundry Row” is the existence of the “Team- sters Union”. Every stenographer that works in the bookkeeping de- dows of any of the business “Rows”| given to the Negro men and women arate the offices from the laundry,|Pattment of a laundry concern is jone finds tired overworked sten-) |ographers and typists, clerks put-) - |ting in ten to twelve hours daily| though Chicago |behind the counters and on the machines and furniture, repairing,| ing separate wash rooms and locker) help that manages to hang on to its | sweeping, cleaning, doing heavy and) '0°ms for the Negro workers, (the | job any length of time is the girl | sign over the lavatory door, “For|that puts in the most hours, says to| white womefr only” | disagreeable tasks for twelve to | twenty dollars weekly, according that the laundry employs. | work is also the worst paid. Uiscrimination is made between the Help is hired sparingly and fired at | floor, laborers, shifting heavy boxes,| White and Negro worker by provid-) the least sign of slack work. The This the conditions are usually just as e Al- bad. The hours are long, in rush is a northern city,’ times reaching well into the night. means that the) nothing in regard to the meager- |familiar with the red rages that the boss goes into over paying “out- rageous wages” to these “bums” and having to observe certain regula- tions about hours, ete. Consequently an eagle eye is kept on the workers in the laundry and office for any signs of “unionization.” Any em- ployee taken on, be it a sweeper or head stenographer, has his or her the horse power contained in their lavatory on the other side of the ness of her wages and the heavy- aged bodies. Every “row” has its club where) the members of the Association (an| organization of all the heads of the) ereal disease. The wages here are very low. Ne- | room is badly neglected, dirty and/ ness of her work, and gets along | usually the breeding place of ven-| with the boss. The salaries are | very small. Twelve dollars for the beginner or unskilled worker. Twen- | ty-five dollars is paid only to ex- different enterprises in the Row)|g¥o women will receive as low. as/ceptional workers, those girls that meet to eat, play billiards and dis-/eight and ten dollars for a fifty | are put into more or less respgn- cuss ways and means of getting the} hour’ week. White women fare @ | sible positions, who do work that is largest profits out of the business. | little better. They draw twelve to) equivalent to that of a manager who Enterprises whose heads belong to! this organization invariably work) ighteen dollars for the same lengthy week. Tardiness is pun- : 5 dase their help longer and harder andjished by “docking” the wages; so| seen the mayor's police force club and jail | pay them less than individual enter-| much for every ten or fifteen min-| ward to a bonus as a great majority prises, | earns three to four thousand a year. At Christmas the girls look for- Each Associstion has its| utes of tardiness. Absence because| of small offices give their office em- fiendish murder. They have seen the state |own system of blacklist and a of illness is never paid—if the ab-' ployees a bonus as a Christmas pres- history carefully gone into and ref- erences checked up. The great majority of workers in the laundry industry are young and over 75 percent of them are women; because the work requires no skill or education but only fast fingers, and because the night shift is so convenient for them—mothers of small children often work here in order to piece out the family purse which at best is very thin and dur- ing the unemployment crisis her wages are often the only finances coming into the family budget. Continued In those places where the peas- ants have not yet rebelled, and where the power does not belong to the Soviet, the life of peasants bitterly suffers indescribably. The militar- sts of the Kuomintang’ assumed their rule by way of door to door search, by way of helping gentries |to unite and establishing the army of militia, by way of speculating business, of raising of rent and pro- fit, of demanding old debts, of ex- change of landlords, refusing of loans, and arrest, imprisonment. and’ execution at the whim of landlords, gentries and compradores. In Peh-kiang, in North iRver dis- triet, the peasants have a saying. “When one eats only kangee, he will be diabetic.” This shows that the peasant has not enough riee to eat and too much kangee which is a mixture of water and very little rice. In Dan-See Kiang, (East and West River) there is another say- too much gas!” This shows that the temptible role as agents of the bosses at the oe “Too much potatoes produced head of the alleged unions in the industry. The Boot and Shoe Union is notoriously a company union that always aids the bosses beat down wages, lengthen hours and uphold any objectionable conditions the bosses de- mand. The Protective Union tries to outdo the Boot and Shoe in the contest to deter- mine which shall have the privilege of betray- ing the shoe workers. So bad have conditions become, and 60 many have been the wage cuts and the shop tyranny through the imposition of fines against the workers on the slightest pretext, that there exists a big sentiment for real labor organization. That demand has been peasants have not enough rice and the daily eating of potatoes does not furnish enough substance. All this contributes to make the peasants | desperate and are causes that make revolution in villages inevitable. They can be considered as the graye \diggers for the gentry and landlord | ass. Win Soldiers. Another very remarkable charac- ter of the present peasant struggle is expressed by @the fact that the |soldiers in the militarist armies be- come revolutionized. During the | process of ‘deepening of agrarian revolution the soldiers are sent to the front by the counter-revolution- For instance in the second bom- bardment of the city, of Hai-Fung, in Sept. 1927, one company of the besieging army revolted and joined the peasants. In the second bom- bardment of North River district, the same story of the soldiers’ revolt was repeated in Jan, 1928. Most remarkable was the event of March. General Fung Hsi-sen. sent two divisions of more than three thousand men to surround the An- | Kiang Soviet of the Fifth District. | Cannons fired more than a hundred shot and some hundred fights were waged. The Soviet government re- sisted obstinately and maintained more than one month. The attempt to capture the city ‘resulted in a | fiasco. Just in this moment An-Kiang was cut off from outside relief. They By GRACE HUTCHINS. (Federated Press). The slaughter of Colombia strik- ers, slaving for $1.25 a day, at the behest of the United Fruit Com- pany, calls attention to the vast in- terests owned by the corporation, to be protected by cannon of the Colombian government. Employing over 68,000 workers, the fruit trust has almost a monop- oly of banana imports into the U. S. and England, handles half of the world’s production, and is one of | the five largest producers of sugar | cane in Cuba. It operates 93 steam- ‘ers in the Caribbean trade, for trans- | portation of company products grown mainly on its own planta- tions. x In seven or more countries, all | bordering on the Caribbean Sea, | the United Fruit Co. owns planta- tions and other land, some, of it not met by the organization of the Independent | gry officials to execute the peas-|yet developed. It operates 2,200 Shoe Workers Union, which has started an intensive organizational drive. In Brooklyn, an organizational meeting is being held to- night at Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway. Every shoe worker should attend that meeting N \ ‘ants. But the ‘soldiers. carried out |sabotages with the peasants, with- out any previous agreement. Some commanders and went to the side of the peasants. | miles of railways and tramways and also its own warehouses, wharves | and docks in every principal port of | planning an international air mail and passenger rceute betwea the HUGE PROFITS FOR THE U. S., West Indies, Central and South America. Profits of United Fruit Co. for the first eight months of ' 1928 |amounted to $17,700,000 (before | taxes) or “earnings” of $7.08 per |share. It is no worder ‘that. the stock is rated in Moody’s manual of industrials as A in quality. Cash holdings of the company on Oct. 1, 1928, were $85,000,000. Anticipating that its underpaid workers would strike, the company prepared what it called “storm re- serves,” according to Dow, Jones |and Co. publishers of the Wall St. Journal. In view of these prepara- | tions, Wall St. reports “the strike is not expected to have any large | effect on profits.” Secure in/the power of extensive investments, directors of the United Fruit Co., almost all of Boston, are also directors of other large cor- porations, among them the Interna- tional General Mlectric Co., Interna- tional Telephone and Telegraph, American Telephone and Telegraph, New England Telephone and Tele- ‘graph, Puget Sound Power and Light of them even revolted against their|the region, The corporation is now| Co., Pacific Mills, United Shoe Ma-| |chinery Co. and Nash Motors Co. |.\11 of these are enti-union concerns. got only 50 guns and for each gun 30. shots.. Breaking the surrounding lines of the enemy, the peasants rushed out from the city. The troops were unable to catch them. This of course is partly because of the-braveness and skill of peasants, but on the other hand it is greatly to their good method of propaganda that made the soldiers sympathize with them and carry out sabotages. The soldiers, moreover, when or- lered by the commanders to attack or to fire against the peasants, im- mediately informed the peasants all \about it and asked the peasants to This is true even in the jants on three sides, Work in Armies. The peasants in various places , consciously entered into the counter- revolutionary armies, and the army of militia organized by the landlord class, They could not’ remain at home on account of their defeats in uprisings and the increase of white terror. Many of them went to the mountains and settled there as band- its. Within the counter-révolution- ary armies the propaganda of the | peasants ofteh leads to a catastrophe in the enemies’ camps. They frank- ly declared: “We purposely go to set the counter-revolutionary armies to learn to shoot. We shall bring back their guns to shoot the gen- tries, the tanbows and the land- lords.” 4 After the defeat of the Great Can- ton Uprising, workers and peasants from different districts went in to |the armies, It is often discovered in the reactionary army that sol- idiers bear two emblems, one is red in color and the other white. The latter is, of course, given by the commanders, while the former is prepared by the peasants themselves for the time when they turn against the militarists. From all these facts, we conciude . Misleaders in a the American Labor Unions One of the many graft-infected organizations that might be cited is the Chicago Flat Janitors’ Union. its head, until his death in Feb., 1927, was Wm. F. Quesse, also president of the Building Service Employes’ International Union. Quesse, a very capable organizer, beginning in 1912, built a union of the flat janitors, and undeniably im- proved their hours, wages, and working conditions. But he and his aids feathered their personal nests meanwhile. They had their own sys- tem, consisting of “fining” the land- lords for making their janitors do unauthorized work, for employing non-union building trades workers to do repair work, and for various other violations of the union’s rules. The many fines ranged from $20 to $2,000 each, very little of which réached the union treasury. In 1922 Quesse and nine of his fellow of- ficials were convicted of conspiracy to exort money and they were sen- tenced to prison terms of from one to five years each. Their trials cost the union $250,000. But their re- publican friend, Governor Small, to whose support Quesse was commit- tee, came to their rescue in the nick cf time. He pardoned the iot be- ‘fore they did a day in the peniten- tiary. Quesse left an estate of $200,000 when he died. Unions in this general group are the two locals of the Street Car- men’s Union, with 25,000 members. Division No. 241, dominated by gun- men: who play the company’s game at all times, is but little better as an organization than the Mitten Plan in Philadelphia or the Inter- borough company union in New ‘York. All opposition is slugged under. n 1921, J. E. Rooney, oppo- sition leader, was murderously at- tacked and sent to the hospital for | |16 months. In 1927, Frank Carlson, another opposition leader, was beaten and shot. Men who dare to speak at meetings against the union officials are removed from their jobs the next day. The men know noth- ing about the finances of their union, especially not about the mil- lion dollar carmen’s auditorium, for which they have been paying for 10 years, The officers are all rich. Quinlan, president, receives $7,200 salary; Tabor, secretary-treasurer, $7,200, and Kehoe, recording secre- tary, $6,000. Bowler, custodian of the auditorium, receives $10,000, in addition to his salary as city coun- cilman. The officials of the building trades organizations and the reactionary bureaucrats of the other unions al- lied to them have formed the basis of the Gompers machine in Chicago for a third of a century. Saturated with corruption and bound by a thousand cords to the employers and the capitalist politicians, they ef- fectively block progress in the local labor movement. They oppose every advance, every. improvement in the unions, ideological and organization- al. To them proposals to amalga- mate the unions and to form a labor party are sheer Bolshevism. Their baneful influence is spreading. For |18 years after the defeat of |‘Skinny” Madden in the Chicago |Federation of Labor that body proper was in the hands of the more honest elements, led by John Fitz- patrick. But since Fitzpatrick’s col- lapse and retreat to the right after the Farmer-Labor Party convention of 1923 the ultra-reactionaries, led by Oscar Nelson, have been making greater and greater inroads on the | Federation until now it is almost | entirely within their control. | New York. The foregoing paragraphs on core Kwangtung Peasants Fight Kuomintang Traitors .P:st's Somes tion prevailing in all the larger in- dustrial centers. Possibly conditions sre somewhat worse in Chicago than elsewhere, but not much. The Chi- cago building trades business agents may/be a little quicker on the trig- ger or, because of the greater strength of their unions, somewhat more ruthless in their grafting. But their confreres in the building trades in other cities also let no grass grow under their feet. This is seen from a few examples taken jfrom the New York building trades. that the establishment of the Soviet representative of workers, peasants and soldiers is one of the most im- portant tasks in the present period of the Chinese revolution. | World Proletariat! | Now the Chinese peasants have | finally come to their self-conscious- |ness, consciousness from fighting experience that to revolt in one or several villages or districts or coun- tries is not enough. Only by uniting the city proletariat, by seizing the power of one or several provinces, could they uproot the rule of im- yerialists, bourgeoisie, gentry and landlords, and overthrow the Kuo- riintang. Only in this way could they build up the new Soviet China. After the defeat in the great Can- ton uprising and the recent retreat from Hai Lou-Fong, the working class and peasantry deeply felt that the help of the world ‘proletariat in general and the help of the USSR in particular to the ‘Chinese revolu- tion is of vital importance. Workers, peasants, and soldiers of China, unite to accomplish the demo- cratic dictatorship of workers’ and peasants’ powers! World proletariat, particularly the fatherland of the proletarian clacs, unite in unanimous help to the Chi- nese Revolution! Long live the success of the Chi. nese Revolution! Nevolution} Long live the success of World-