The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1928, Page 2

Page Two “ONLY THE ‘DAILY’ FIGHTS FOR OUR CLASS;” On the shores of Lake Michig aeross the way from Chicago, rises the city of Gar » a belching at of steel 1 command o late swat the Gary shop tion and namec and mast pres ited More than a quarter of a million DAILY “SPECIAL” TO BE UNUSUAL | Many Features in 5th Birthday Number (Continue P One ment, and many ot Send Greetings! But— To greetings, possible, thousands of them, and working class organizations of this coun- try must come in at once. The Daily Worker must have this help, make all this from the workers —” ~ workers, representir n the n slaves of Corp., livir wned wned pany s, un- not only to issue the special an- niversary edition, but to keep alive. Rush your greetings to the business office of the Daily Work- er, 26 Union Square! \ Fly “Super-Whale’ imperialists are training aviators g ships of gigantic pr equipped with four motors and made to carry a crew of 24 people, miles an hour. When war comes this plane can be turned into a war transport plane, and the German DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, 1 in their struggles the hellish oppression of masters, $4 workers han $12,900,000 in persor spite erty in New York State al ik day is| But all is not meek submission force.!among the steel workers of Gary. 1 prop. {steel aga their n day icially in Worker Sends Greetings. When Judge died he was |Rebellion smoulders in the smoke-| nq so it is not surprising that eulogized in t ss, pulpit and filled air. The Daily Worker, teach-| 146 fifth anniversary of the Daily chools. Judge a great ing a worker here and there, is Worker imeandy something. nieahack n, Judge Gary was a good man,! passed wlong to other workers, It | z =f ‘ great deal to those workers of Gary who have learned to fight again: |their oppressors, One such worker Judge Gary was a god-fearing man. |is read, it is pondered over, it be- When Judge Gary died he left more /comes the fighting banner of the SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928 writes: | “Tam 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 dass, and for this reason 1 am sending $1 to greet the Daily Worker on its birthday on Jan. 5. | “Long Life to “Daily?” “Long life to the Daily Worker and may it continue to fight for our class and to free the workers of the whole world.” Other workers in the Gary mills are also preparing to send greet- ings and donations. These ruthlessly exploited workers appreciate the way the “Daily” is fighting for | greetings GARY STEEL WORKER SENDS BIRTHDAY DONATION them and their class, Workers in other industries Daily Worker, which always fights Yor you, now needs your help. A hig batch of birthday greetings and donations will help keep the “Daily cn Red Square and help it grow into a mightier weapon of the American workers. Rush — those s at once! ~ \AGED SLAVED IN WHALEN REGIME | Wanamaker’sOilyChief Intimidated Workers (Continued from Page One ure War veral of the girls he saw working in the store as soon as he entered terday. 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 dumb. Invariably a slick police dick would be around. They have have done their job of terrorizing the workers here thoroughly, in the best concern. It was only after the reporter crossed the “Bridge of Progress” (so that the reporter was able to spesk to someone. It.was in the... de- partment (It will not be named, be- cause the Wanamaker dicks would immediately discover her identity and fire her) that the Daily Work- er reporter finally found one who portions are being built by the German firm of Dornier. Here is a It can fly at 126 and airmen for this purpose. The Fight Against Zausnerism in the Painters’ Union (By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE) The conditions of the thousands of painters in New York City grow steadily worse. Under the leader- ship of arch corruptionists, the number of unorganized continues to grow, the standards won after dec- les 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 Bosses’ As- sociation holds p hand over the painters. This condition is the product of the offensive of the bo: against the union, and the class collabora- tion policies and corruption of the reactionary union leadership. In the painters’ union of New York, this system of class collaboration and corruption has been developed into a system of Brindellism— known in the painters’-union as “Zausneri The painters’ election, which takes place next week, for day secretary ef 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 Both candidates are typical bu- reaucrats, esentatives of Brin- Zausner. dellism and Zausnerism in the paint- ers’ union. Shapi who is now running anti-Zausner candi- Gate, was a: ted with the arch corruptionist, usner, for many years, He has g through the Zausnerism and is ionist and corrup- est water. His been wholly s of the work- entire school of a class collabor: tionist of the pi edministration } against the inter ers. McNamara 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 Me- 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 speed-up and keen the workers in oppression. The fight between them has no practical significance for the is workers. The election of either a victory for the bosses and a feat for the workers. Shupiro’s Smoke Screen. Shapiro is a reactionary who is now trying to make the workers be- lieve that he has broken with his past and is attempting to use the hatred of the workers for Zausner for his own advant McNamara is an open reactionary and the known candidate of the Zausner clique. Shapiro has succeeded in getting endorsements of h 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- pressives, whether or not they are fooling themselves, are surely de- ceiving the workers by declaring that it is necessary to elect Shapiro, for, “with Shapiro in office, there are more chances to fight succe: fully against Zausnerism and pre- vent 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 orkers for their aggressive gt the interests of the rank and 4 are also being fooled by this illu- | These so-called progressives are appealing to the left wing to main- tain the united front against the return of Z; er cr 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 Zaus: has caused some of the left wing to hesitate and has re- sulted in the withdrawal of the left wing candidate from the election |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- ord 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 w: the united front formed?” Was 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- ing program there do not go men to carry out the program, men whose honesty and realiability have been tested in struggle, and whose record the best guarantee that the pro- am will be carried out. The united front of left wingers and progressives must have as pokesman and leaders 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 long run a means of demoralizing the left wing and hinders the mo- bilization of the workers, or where it is made with fake progressives is a means of bolstering up the wan- ning influence of such fakers. It tends to dim the clarity of the left wing and prevents the development of a movement of struggle against the bosses and their agents—the re- actionaries of all stripes Lesson of Experience. In the painters’ union as a whole in New York there have been too many united fronts that have limit- ed themselves to mere election struggle and which stopped short of fighting the entire battle against Brindellism and Zausnerism. | fight ag: A ainst Zausner is not enough. Such fights must be developed along the entire line against Zausnerism jor else they degenerate wing and disappoint the workers with consequent harm to the left wing and with demoralization of the workers. Shapiro is a fake progressive. His speak , it established to} the left | was willing to talk about the con- ditions of the workers. A tall skinnv girl, dressed primly to conform with the rules of the store, told how hor- P ribly they had been rushed uring clection will only mean the continu- | whole policy of fight against all ele-|the pre-Christmas period. ation of Zausnerism. Such a faker |ments of Zausnerism. ST EME may make a thousand promises,— Time to Fight Now. vertime Without Pay. but his record shows that he means! ‘The left wing should have pointed| Although’ the store officially opened at 9 a. m., all employes were forced during this period to be at their posts no later than 7 a. m. and to work until at late as half-past eleven and even twelve at night ar- ranging the wares in attractive piles for the petty-bourgeoisie which does its shopping there, and rearranging them when they are knocked out from the days work, late at night. The truck drivers and the whole delivery department were forced to work even greater hours and at a greater speed-up, bringing goods to the homes fo the purchasers. jout 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 precent election to fight against Shapiro and McNamara. They must not be fooled by the slogan that the election of McNamara means the re- | turn of Zausner, Both Shapiio and McNamara are flesh of the flesh and bone of the bone of Brindellism 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- mans, The painters themselves can | relate similar experiences, The price which the left wing pays for such unity is too clear to be paid again. apprehensively, and they would go| accepted traditions of the open-shop | DNEIPROSTROY - CENTER OF THE SOVIET UNION | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail). —The Council of Labor and Defense ‘discussing the estimates of the cost of the Dneipr Hydraulic Electric Station (Dneiprostroy), set the total cost at 172,453,000 rubles (about $86,221,000) and not to exceed 180,- 973,000 rubles. The total expenditure for the pro- ject, which will change the face of the territory surrounding Dneipros- troy for a radius of 200 miles, in- cluding the construction of bridges and railroad lines, medical and sani- tary measures, anti-malaria precau- tions on the Samara river, and tech- nical assistance and advice is fixed at 195,973,000 rubles. The technical assistance and advice from abroad alone will cost 6,800,000 rubles. Dneiprostroy is expected to be | working at full force by 1933, work- ing only partially until then as its turbines are installed. It will alter the whole face of the surrounding region and create new industries jand crops in the vicinity. Besides |lowering the cost of electricity in the vicinity from 35 copek per kilo- watt to about one and one-half copek per kilowatt, it will supply) clectrie power to a radius of 300| versts (about 200 miles). The pro- ject will be used to drain 2,000,000 dessiatin of land thus making pos- sible the cultivation of cotton in the area, Agricultural industries, such as beet sugar, one of the most im- portant industries in the Ukraine, will be centered in the area. When completed, Dnelprostroy will be one of the largest industrial centers in the Soviet Union, com- pletely electrified and competing with the Donnetz Basin in impor- tance. | Engineers at Dneiprostroy recall ‘enthusiastically the dictum of elec- trification and point out that with other electric centers posted thruout the Soviet Union agriculture will also be socialized in the near fu- | ture: she said, “otherwise some detective would be snooping around.” And so the reporter held one of the many articles on the counter in his hand, to make any passing snooper believe they were discussing some moment- lous purchase. The reporter asked |her about the wages the girls re- ceived, and’ only here did she show jthe slightest trace of hesitation. Finally she answered. She had been |working at Wanamakers for three | years, and had had her wages raised |\“many times” until now received $16 la week. Bonus? Sometimes on good | weeks it amounts to three dollars. | Usually about one, or at the most, |two.” | It was this girl who revealed to |the secret of the pensioned workers, |tho the reporter had noticed and jwondered at the age workers here {and there, with lined faces and with stooped shoulders, going about |their work, slowly and painfully, f — jempleyed such old people. She ex- | plained it fully. With few exceptions there is a |characteristic peculiar to Wana- maker girls that the reporter noticed while there. They are all forced through a mold, squeezed dry, forced to assume a prim puritannical cos- tume, and become perfectly “proper.” For Wanamaker’s you must know, is a “respectable” store, as distin- guished from, let us say, Wool- worth’s which, incidentally, pays the same miserable wages. Wana- maker’s employes are taken fresh from school, or from the streets, and immediately shut into a superficial atmosphere as rigid as a whale-bone | corset (our natrons first, you know,) end allowed to fade away under tke burden of a wage as low, in some cases, as $10 a week, and never ex- cecding thirty. The latter of course, is only for “old, trusted, and faith- ful” employes, already putting cn their crutches, and sagging bodily “It’s lucky we're in this corner,”iand he asked her if Wanamakers ‘from old age. | Questi ties. b / Holset a 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 the reactionaries and the continua- tion of the present union-wrecking 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- crats like Shapiro, who flirt with the progressives and left wingers only because they want more time to consolidate their machine, and to attack the left wing, to expel the left wingers and Communists at the same time they fasten the power of the bosses on the lives of the work- Occasionally! some special sitaa- 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 is 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 |mot exist at the present time in the painters’ union. The writer has pointed out time jand 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 |ers still more securely. be relied upon under ail circum-| In the present election struggle | stances to carry out a determined | the left wing and the Communists | struggle against class collaboration. | must fight against Shapiro and| For that purpose organizationally | McNamara, against Zausnerism and land ideologically they must differ-|Brindellism. They must use the entiate themselves from all other | elections to bring to the masses of groups. In forming united fronts| workers the program of class strug- for specific issues, they must de-| mle of the left wing. They must | finitely guard against becoming the| prepare the ground in the election tail of the kite of some fake pro-| struggle for building up a real pow- gressives of which there are only| erful left wing based upon the con- too many before elections, and/| fidence and support of the mass of where progressive blocs are estab-| rank and file workers. Ever great- lished of which the left wing is a er sections of the painters will rally part, the latter must not lose its|to the banners for such a left wing, identity as a left wing and must| ; ’ atand aut clearly ae thb leader’ This |e” Sh haceae cae tee is the only way by which the bloc | Tes * ~, |ment, can serve its purpose and lead wid-| 0" oy Pant er masses into struggle against the ur goal is the consolidation and bosses and their agents. The left|Sttengthening of the left wing as wing has not always maintained this ae leader sf the masses, to arouse policy in the united fronts, the masses for the class struggle, Untensble Postion. for winning leadership in the unions se : lin order to revolutionize the unions | It has not always understood that | so that they can be real instruments | the real basis of the united front is | of the daily fight against unemploy- the masses and that its real pur-| ment, speed-up, exploitation, imper- | pose is to win the masses for strug-|ialism, for the interests of the gle. The writer has pointed out/ masses, and for the whole fight vepeatediy that the united front| against the oppressive capitalist against the Zausner machine was| system. The struggle for’ election tending to weaken the left wing and | to office must have the same gen- place the left wing in a wrong light | eral aim. |Lefore the masses because it was |not developing into an instrument of struggle along the entire line of a fight against Zauszerism and rindellism and because the left wing was not fighting energetically enough against the tendency of | some of those who call themselves | |progressives to utilize the united |front to become mere office-holders with policies and purposes little dif- ferent from that of the reactionary | officials. | |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- was so strongly for the continua-| try.” | tion of the united front with those| “The Negro is becoming a great- progressives favoring Shapiro @ factor in industry every day,” | against McNamara that the writer | States the announcement of the} inust admit that even he himself at|Forum, “both in the North and in | one time was for at least a short | the South. In fact he is becoming | moment under the impression that | ‘rationalized,’ Huiswood will take the time was not appropriate, as UP the various aspects of the Ne- those left wingers claimed, for put- | 8's problems in his talk.” ting up a third left wing indepen- era TEED RENIN dent candidate. This only proves that the left wing has exposed Zausner but did not completely enough bring out before the masses | \the real issues of struggle—for the | ange thei The opinion of some left wingers TWO DROWN THROUGH ICE FREEPORT, L. 1, Dec. 27 (UP). | ~-Wilson and Arthur Gregarevich, Kked their lives today to pet collie. All are dead, Daily OF 8TH AVENUE on BRITISH PLANES RUSHED TO KABUL Take Heavy Transfers From Irak NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 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 rush 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. 27. Harlem Forum Will Expose U. 8. Tyranny in Haiti Sunday at 3 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 working class in Latin America, and exposes the brutal oppression of American imperialism in Haiti. 5th Anniversary Celebration Worker MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE 34TH STREET WcTt JANUARY 5, 1929 ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS From Moscow, Soviet Russia, in program of Revoluticnary Dances—Symphony Orchestra eee Speakers: JAY LOVESTONE, WM. Z. FOSTER, BOB MINOR and others Admission: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. All SeatsReserved. Onsale at The Daily Worker Office, 26 Union Square, New York. .