The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 2

* tion policies and corruption of the | ) for his own advantage. % s of La ueross the way from Chicago S the city of Gary, Ind. a belchir swarm of steel mi the command Gary, late preside shop United Sta tion and named in and master. of More than.a quart DAILY “SPECIAL” TO BE UNUSUAL Many Features in 5th Birthday Number (Continued from Page One ico and other countries; from the leaders of the C International; greetings greetings mmunist Communist press of various coun- tries; an unusually elaborate for- eign page; special Workers Corres- pondence; book humor department, features. Send Greetings! But— To make greetings, thousands of them, from the workers and working class organizations of this coun- try must come in at once. The Daily Worker must have this help, not only to issue the special an- reviews; and and all this possible, niversary edition, but to keep alive. Rush your greetings to the business office of the Daily Work- er, 26 Union Square! “TEE ‘DAILY’ FIGHTS FOR Vicious Exploita' bulk of these wo 4 Motors, 24 A Flying ships of gigantic proportions are being built by the German firm of Dornier, Here is a “Super-Whale” equipped with four motors and made to carry a crew of 24 people, n hour. When war comes this plane can be turned into a war transport plane, and the German | | om | imperialists are training aviators irmen to Carry Destruction in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, killed, got 40 or $4 a day and work 10, 11 nd 12 hours, despite the fact that the eight-hour day is supposed to be officially in force. When Judge Gary died he was and a great e Gary was a god-fearing man. When Ju ige Gary died he left more DECEMBER 28, 1 than $12,900,000 in personal prop- erty in New York State alone... . But all is not meek submission among the steel workers of Gary. Rebellion smoulders in the smoke- filled air. The Daily Worker, reach- ing a worker here and there, is passed along to other workers, It} is read, it is pondered over, it be-| fighting banner of the comes the “Long Life to ‘Daily “Long life, to the Daily Worker | and may it continue to f | our class and to free the workers of the whole world.” Other workers in the Gary mill are also preparing to send greet- jings and donations. These ruthlessly jexploited workers appreciate the |way the “Daily” is fighting for steel workers in their struggles against the hellish oppression of their masters. : | Worker Sends Greetings. And so it is not surprising that the fifth anniversary of the Daily | Worker means something—means a great deal to those workers of Gary | who have learned to fight against | their oppressors. One such worker | writes: “I am J. K. (name omitted to protect worker—Ed.), steel work- er of Gary, and I am sending $1 for the fifth birthday of the Daily | Worker. Only the Daily Worker | is the paper that fights for our | class, and for this reason I am sending $1 to greet the Daily Worker on its birthday on Jan. 5. OUR CLASS;” GARY STEEL WORKER SENDS BIRTHDAY DONATION them and their class. | Workers in other industries, the |Daily Worker, which always fights |for you, now needs your help. A |hig batch of birthday greetings and donations will help keep the “Daily” on Red Square and help it grow into 2 mightier weapon of the American workers. Rush those |greetings at once! and airmen for this purpose. Future War | It can fly at 136 The Fight Against Zausnerism in the Painters’ Union (By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE) of painters in New Yo steadily worse. Under th ship of arch corruptionists. number of unorganized continues to grow, the standards won after dec- ades of struggle against the bosses are being continually undermined, unlimited speed-up, unemployment, denial of hard-won union conditions, is the common lot of the masses of painters. The Master Bosse: ‘sociation holds the whip hand over the painters. This condition is the product of the offensive of the bosses against the ynion, and the class collabora- feactionary union leadership. In the painters’ union of New York, this system of class collaboration and corruption has been developed into “a system of BY ndellism— known in the painters’ union as “Zausnerism.” The painters’ election, which takes place next week, for day secretary of the District Council, serves as a lesson to the painters of the city and to the workers in general how to develop a real struggle against Zausnerism. The candidates in the field for day secretary are two re- actionaries, Shapiro (the present secretary) and McNamara. Trained by Zausner. Both candidates are typical bu- veaucrats, representatives of Brin- dellism and Zausnerism in the paint- ers’ union. Shapiro, who is now ramning as an anti-Zausner candi- Gate, was associated with the arch corruptionist, Zausner, for many ye He has gone through the entire school of Zausnerism and is a class collaborationist and corrup- tionist of the purest water. His administration has been wholly against the interests of the work- ers. McNamara is one of the leading lights of the Zausner clique, a bu- reaucrat to whom the ideas of class | struggle are anathema and for whom working with the bosses against the workers is the highest ideal he has achieved in the painters’ union. Between Shapiro and Mc- Namara there is really no funda- mental difference. Both are against the organization of the unorganized, against militant struggle; both are the tools of the bosses to intensify apeed-up and keen the workers in oppression. The fight between them has no practical significance for the workers, The election of either is a victory for the bosses and a de- feat for the workers. Shupiro’s Smoke Screen. japiro is a reactionary who now trying to make the workers bhe- lieve that he has broken with his (past and is attempting to use the "hatred of the workers for Zousner McNamara reactionary and the of the Zausner is an open known candidate cliaue, Shapiro has succeeded in getting endorsements of his candidature from many of the locals through the support of so-called progressives who were associated with the left wing workers and Communists in ousting Zausner from cffice about two years ago. Those so-called pro- eressives, whether or not they are fsoling themselves, are surely de- cetving the workers by declaring that it is necessary to elect Shapiro for, “with Shapiro in office, there are more chances to fight success- fully against Zausnerism and pre- yent the return of Zausner.” Zausner as Scarecrow. By spreading this illusion they are trying to rally the workers be- hind Shapiro. Some well-mentioned left wingers, who are known to the workers for their aggressive fight J are also being fooled by this illu- sion, These so-called progressives are S| appealing to the left wing to main- tain the united front against the _|return of Zausner or a Zausner can- didate to office. This appeal, we must state, has hit the mark despite the fact that the left wing workers ought to know well enough that Shapiro as a candidate is just as dangerous to the interests of the workers as McNamara, The spectre of Zausner has caused some of the left wing to hesitate and has re- sulted in the withdrawal of the left |wing candidate from the electi fight. This action was an absolute mistake. Those workers who believe that there is a difference between Sha- piro and McNamara fail to see the situation. Shapiro may against Zausner, but his entire rec- jord is soaked through and through with Zausnerism. Why United Front. Those left wing workers who re- gard the united front of all pro- gressive forces as a necessity in the Painters’ Union should ask them- selves the fundamental question: “For what was the united front formed?” Was it established to throw one faker out so that another faker could get into office, or was the united front established to clean out Zausnerism and _ Brindellism from the Painters’ Union and estab- lish a real progressive and militant class struggle policies? The fight against grafters and corruption cannot be successful un- less the fight is made against all kinds of grafters and corruptionists and against the policy of class col- laboration from which corruption flows. The building trades unions under the domination of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy are saturated with the policy of working with the bosses instead of struggling against the bosses and are, because of that, the most corrupt unions in the country. Collaboration Corrupts. Corruption grows like weeds in the soil of class-colaboration, Cor- ruption and class-collaboration are twin brothers, The united front of left wingers and progressives must be formed on a program that will wipe out class corruption. But even |such programs are mere scraps of paper if hand in hand with a fight- ling program there do not go men to carry out the | honesty and realiability have been | tested in struggle, and whose record is the best guarantee that the pro- gram will be carried out. The united front of left wingers and progressives must have as spokesman and lead men who are devoted to the masses, left wingers who will fight militantly and ag- gressively for the program. Any other united front becomes in the speak , program, men whose election will only mean the continu- ation of Zausner' Such a faker may make a thousand promises,— but his record shows that he means oppression of the workers. The way to bring the master himself back to direct control of the organization is to elect and keep in office the pupil. The experience of the workers in the Amalgamated | | Clothing Workers brings this out | very clearly. The united front with} fake progressives has meant de- moralization for the workers and has meant the consolidation of the forces of the Beckermans and Hill- nans. The painters themselves cz relate similar experiences. The price which the left wing pays for such unity is too clear to be paid again. Question of Tactics. Occasionally some special situa- tion may dictate the formation of! a bloc with some rather unsure ele- ments who indicate a willingness to struggle but the conditions must be carefully examined and the bloc or- ganized so that he leadership surely in the hands of reliable and tested workers and the bloc contin- ued only as long as it serves the interests of struggle against the bosses. Such conditions however do not exist at the present time in the painters’ union. The writer has pointed out time and again that the chief task of the left wing in the painters’ union under present conditions: is to es- tablish itself clearly in the eyes of the workers as the only real cham- pion of the interests of the masses, and the only force that can really be relied upon under all circum-| stances to carry out a determined struggle against class collaboration. |For that purpose organizationally and ideologically they must differ- entiate themselves from all other} groups. In forming united fronts for specific issues, they must de-| finitely guard against becoming the | tail of the kite of some fake pro- |gressives of which there are only too many before elections, and |where progressive blocs are estab-| lished of which the left wing is a part, the latter must not lose its) identity as a left wing and must} stand out clearly as the leader. This | is the only way by which the bloc} can serve its purpose and lead wid- | er masses into struggle against the! bosses and their agents. The left} wing has not always maintained this | policy in the united fronts. Untenable Position. It has not always understood that | the real basis of the united front is | the masses and that its real pur- pose is to win the masses for strug- gle. The writer has pointed out repeatedly that the united front zainst the Zausner machine was tending to weaken the left wing and place the left wing in a wrong light | before the masses because it was |not developing into an instrument | not be fooled by the slogan that the jand f f’¢ interests of the rank and file long run a means of demoralizing sides the left wing and hinders the mo- | 0f struggle along the entire line of | bilization of the workers, or where |® fight against Zausnerism and it is made with fake progressives |Brindellism and because the left is a means of bolstering up the wan-|Wing was not fighting energetically | ning influence of such fakers. It|enough against the tendency of | tends to dim the clarity of the left |some of those who call themselves | wing and prevents the development | Progressives to utilize the united of a movement of struggle against |front to become mere office-holders the bosses and their agents—the re- | with policies and purposes little di actionaries of all! stripes. ferent from that of the reactionary | officials. Lesson of Experience. | In the painters’ union as a whole| The opinion of some left wingers in New York there have been too|Wa8 so strongly for the continua- many united fronts that have limit-|tion of the united front with tho ed themselves to mere election | Progressive favoring Shapiro struggle and which stopped short |against McNamara that the writer | of fighting the entire battle against ; must admit that even he himself at Brindellism and Zausnerism, Aone time was for at least a short fight against Zausner is not enough,| moment under the impression that | Such fights must be developed along |the time was not appropriate, as |the entire line against Zausnerism | those left wingers claimed, for put- or else they degenerate the left ting up a third left wing indepen- | | wing and disappoint the workers|dent candidate. This only proves with consequent harm to the left|that the left wing has exposed wing and with demoralizativn of the Zausner but did not completely | workers, enouch bring out before the masse Shapiro is a fake progressive. His ithe real issues of struggle—for the | whole policy of fig ments of Zausn 5 Time to Fight Now. ‘The left wing should have pointed out all along that the united front would prove its worth only if it is directed aguinst all agents of Zaus- nerism and that those who fight for class struggle policies must fight against all agents of class collabora- tion and corruption, whatever be their names or their pretenses. The time is ripe now for the left wingers to call upon all workers in the present election to fight against Shapiro and McNamara. They must election of McNamara means the re- turn of Zausner. Both Shapiro and McNamara are flesh of the flesh bone of the bone of Brindellism and Zausnerism. The left wing should point out to | all honest progressive workers, to} the masses as a whole, that the election of Shapiro or McNamara means only further consolidation of |B the reactionaries and the continua-| policies- The so-called progressives who} support Shapiro are helping to| keep enemies of the workers in con- trol of the union, The left wing can} have nothing to do with bureau- erats like Shapiro, who flirt with | the progressives and left wingers} only because they want more time} to consolidate their machine, and to ack the left wing, to expel the! ft wingers and Communists at the | same time they fasten the power of | the bosses on the lives of the work- ers still more securely. In the present election struggle the left wing and the Communists | must fight against Shapiro and McNamara, against Zausnerism and Brindellism. They must use the elections to bring to the masses of workers the program of class strug- gle of the left wing. They must prepare the ground in the election struggle for building up a real pow- erful left wing based upon the con- fidence and support of the mass of rank and file workers. Ever great- er sections of the painters will rally to the banners for such a left wing. Let us not look for sham vic- tories which hamper our develop- ment, Our goal is the consolidation and | strengthening of the left wing as| the leader of the masses, to arouse | the masses for the class struggle, for winning leadership in the unio! in order to revolutionize the unions so that they can be real instruments of the daily fight against unemploy- nent, speed-up, exploitation, imper- ialism, for the interests of the masses, and for the whole fight against the oppressive capitalis: system. The struggle for election to office must have the same gen- eral aim. | Huiswood to Speak on! Negro Problems at the. Bronx Forum Sunday | Otto Huiswood, head of the Negro department of the Workers (Com-| munist) Party, will be the principal! | speaker at the Bronx Open Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave., on Sunday at 8 p. m. The subject under discussion will be “Negro Problems in Indus- try.” “The Negro is becoming a great- | er factor in industry every day,” | states the announcement of the Forum, “both in the North and in the South. In fact he is becoming ‘rationalized.’ Huiswood will take up the various aspects of the Ne- gro’s problems in his talk.” TWO DROWN THROUGH ICE FREEPORT, L. 1., Dec. 27 (UP) Wilson and Arthur Gregarevich. ,9 and 18, risked their lives today to | save their pet collie, All are dead. yA |yesterday. tion of the present beanbag | AGED SLAVED IN DNEIPROSTROY - CENTER WHALEN REGIME OF THE SOVIET UNION (Special to the ‘Daily Worker) {and crops in the vicinity. Besides MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail).|lowering the cost of electricity in —The Council of Labor and Defense | the vicinity from 35 copek per kilo. discussing the estimates of the cost!watt to about one and one-half Wanamaker’sOilyChief Intimidated Workers (Continued from Page One cost at 172,453,000 rubles (about/versts (about 200 miles). $86,221,000) and not to exceed 180,-| ject will be used to drain 2,000,000 973,000 rubles. dessiatin of land thus making pos- The total expenditure for the pro-| sible the cultivation of cotton in the ject, which will change the face of|atea. Agricultural industries, such the territory surrounding Dneipros-|88 beet sugar, one of the most im- troy for a radius of 200 miles, in-|Portant industries in the Ukraine, cluding the construction of bridges| Will be centered in the area. and railroad lines, medical and sani-| When completed, Dnelprostroy tary measures, anti-malaria precau-| will be one of the largest industrial tions on the Samara river, and tech-| centers in the Soviet Union, com- nical assistance and advice is fixed| pletely electrified and competing at 195,973,000 rubles. The technical|with the Donnetz Basin in impor- |assistance and advice from abroad| tance. jalone will cost 6,800,000 rubles, Engineers at Dneiprostroy recall | Dneiprostroy is expected to be| enthusiastically the dictum of elec- It was only after the reporter! working at full force by 1933, work-| trification and point out that with crossed the “Bridge of Progress” (80| ing only partially until then as its| other electric centers posted thruout that the reporter was able to speek | turbines are installed. It will alter|the Soviet Union agriculture will to someone. It was in the .. . de-/the whole face of the surrounding] also be socialized in the near fu- partment (It will not be named, be-| region and create new industries | ture: cause the Wanamaker dicks would| ids ; Teint aearar Me HHL she said, “otherwise some, detective ep cepbcten: dinalig: soatd tons who | Would be snooping around.” And so was willing to talk about the con-| the. renorter held one of the many ditions of the workers, A tell slr girl, dressed primly to conform with the rules of the store, told how hor- ribly they had been rushed ‘uring the pre-Christmas period. Overtime Without Pay. several of the girls he saw working in the store as soon as he entered | They answered questions | willingly enough when I pretended to discuss a purchase, but no sooner did he touch the conditions of their work, their eyes would look beyond apprehensively, and they would go dumb. Invariably a slick nolice dick would be around. They have have done their job of terrorizing the workers here thoroughly, in the best accepted traditions of the open-shop concern. employed such old people. She ex- plained it fully. With few exceptions there is a articles on the counter in his hand, |characteristic peculiar to Wana- to make any passing snooper believe | maker girls that the reporter noticed they were discussing some moment-|while there. They are all forced ous purchase. The reporter asked |through a mold, squeezed dry, forced |her about the wages the girls re-|to assume a prim puritannical cos- |ceived, and only here did she show |tume, and become perfectly “proper.” |the slightest trace of hesitation.|/For Wanamaker’s you must know, Although the store officially | Finally she answered. She hed been|is a “resectable” store, as distin- opened at 9 a. m., all employes were | working at Wanamakers for three|guished from, let us say, Wool- forced during this period to be at/years, and had had her wages raised | worth’s which, incidentally, pays the their posts no later than 7 a. m. and | “many times” until now received $16/same miserable wages. Wana- to work until at late as half-past|a week. Bonus? Sometimes on good | maker's employes are taken fresh cleven and even twelve at night ar-|weeks it amounts to three dollars. | from school, or from the streets, and ranging the wares in attractive piles | Usually about one, or at the most, |immediately shut into a superficial for the petty-bourgeoisie which does | two.” |atmosphere as rigid as a whale-bone its shopping there, and rearranging | vs thes ait e a corset (our natrons first, you know,) them when they ‘are knocked out |,, 1¢ 8s this girl who revealed to) 7 snowed to fade away under the from the days work, late at nicht, |the secret of the pensioned workers, |t,.+den of a wage as low, in some The truck drivers and the whole|tho the reporter had noticed and | cases, as $10 a week, and never ex- delivery department were forced to | wondered at the age workers here|ceeding thirty. The latter of course, work even greater hours and at al/and there, with lined faces and|is only for “old, trusted, and faith- the homes fo the purchasers. their work, slowly and painfully,|their crutches, and sagging bodily “It’s lucky we’re in this corner,”/and he asked her if Wanamakers'from old age. of the Dneipr Hydraulic Electric|copek per kilowatt, it will supply’ | Station (Dneiprostroy), set the total| electric power to a radius of 300) The pro-! BRITISH PLANES ‘RUSHED TO KABUL Heavy Transfers From Irak NEW DELHI, India, Dee. It is reported here that because of the winter weather, King Amamul- lah will remove his government to Kandahar and will launch a strong offensive against the revolting tribes in the spring. Two more British, heavy-powered army planes, capable of carrying two pilots and 20 soldiers, have ar- rived at Karachi, on the India bor- der. It is reported that these will fly to Kabul to aid in the evacua- ‘tion of the foreign legations, | There is very little news from | Kabul and the latest authentic re- | ports indicate that all is quiet. The | steady. stream of reports, scares | and rumors dispatched from here by the British press agents, and the lrush of British planes to “rescue” foreigners from the “rebels” only |adds to the belief that Britain is | engaged in a campaign against the Afghan government, as well as against the sultan of Nedj in Arabia and against the Persians, where .revolts have simultaneously broken out. Harlem Forum Will Expose U. S. Tyranny ‘in Haiti Sunday at 3 9 | The Harlem Educational Forum - | will hear a lecture on “Haiti and the U. S. from 1915 to 1928,” by | Jean G, Lamothe, acting president |of the Haitian Patriotic Union in the U. S., this Sunday afternoon, Dee. 30, at 3 p, m., at 169 W. 183rd | St. | The Haitian Patriotic Union has | as its aim the emancipation of the \greater speed-up, bringing goods to|with stooped shoulders, going about |ful” employes, already putting on) working class in Latin America, and exposes the brutal oppression of American imperialism in Haiti, 5th Anniversary Celeb ration Daily SB Worker MA -HATTAN OPERA HOUSE 34th Street West of 8th Avenue on JANUARY 5, 1 929 ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS From Moscow, Soviet Russia, in program of Rev olutionary Dances—Symphony Orchestra Speakers: JAY LOVESTONE, WM. Z. FOSTER, BOB MINOR and others Admission: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. All Seats Reserved. Onsale at The Daily Worker Office, 26 Union Square, New York. 3 et {3 é ke ‘ __enncagenay