The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 2

an instrument of struggle for the | 1 nd ustrial TELLS OF FIGHT AGAINST BOSSES AND S, P. FAKERS Calls All Workers to Support Real Union From the Needle Trades Workers Union headquarters of the ’ Industrial ration to the This is the first official statement to be is- y left wing union tion at a five-day come a dec American Jabor movement. fight labor bosses and the bitter struggle of the past rs conducted by the thou- sands of needle trades workers against the bosses and the cor- rupt union bureaucracy; bloody attacks of the bosse: their agents, the right w ficialdom of the needle unions; their attempts to convert the unions into company unions- has forced the cloakmakers, dress- makers and furriers to call a con- vention of elected representatives of all the organized locals through- out the country to organize a new, industrial union. For the first time in the his- tory of the needle trades unions the conservative and destructive system of artificial divisions and separate craft organizations was officially done away with at a his- toric and an enthusiastic rank and file convention of the cloakmak- ers, dressmakers and furvier held in the beginning of Januar: , at the New Star Casino, N ork. At this convention the National Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union of the United States of America was officially anized, The convention did with the system of clique rule, practiced by the reactionary and corrupt right officialdom. The new industrial union was or- ganized on the basis of rank and file leadership (the shop delegate stem). The large number of as- sembled delegates at this conven- tion unanimously condemned and repudiated the treacherous policy of “class-collaboration” practiced by the A. F. of L. and socialist union bureaucrats, and unani- mously. decided that the new in- dustrial union shall carry on its activities on the basis of the class struggle. The convention most emphatically condemned the union- smashing methods of and treach- ery committed by the right wing 0} als against the organized workers in general, and the needle trades workers in particular, and proclaimed the revolutionary slo- gan of the working class—Work- ers of All Countries Unite! ‘The New Industrial Union Instru- ment of Struggle for the Workers. The National Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union was | born in struggle against the bosses and the labor traitors; it was organized so that the dail; struggle of the workers for bet- ter conditions may be conducted in the most effective way. The convention has laid the founda- tion for a new union of workers and has adopted decisions opening new avenues for, widespread or- ganizational activities, The adopted | policies and methods for struggle and for the administration of the union do away with the possibility for en organized clique of a few individuals to become the unre- stricted rulers of the union, as is, the case in the craft unions dom- inated by the A. F. of L. and so- cialist union bureaucrats. The new industrial needle trades union will be ¢onducted in line | with the adopted convention poli- cies, which guarantee that the | | membership alone shall be the ac- | i tual administrators and leaders of the union and shall have complete control over the activities of their | elected officers. The convention | has given the right to the mem- bers to recall the officers who will not serve the interests of the workers loyally or will in any way renounce the fundamental policies approved by the convention. The | convention condemned the destruc- | tive tactics of the right union- | splitters in expelling honest and | active union workers for their po- | litical convictions and for their affiliation with political parties | other than those of the official leadership, The National Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union recognizes and respects the right of every member to his political convictions and affiliations; the industrial union recognizes the workers as a class, regardless of ' their nationality, religion, race,+ | color or political differences. The | new industrial union guarantees | the membership the full and un- | yestricted right to differences of opinion and to criticism of the ac- | fivities of the leadership of the | and | weion, thereby guarantees . 1. U. will be Needle Trades Union Issues” ! They Were in Air 644 Days in the Service of Imperialism DATLY WCRKE The Question Mark broke all endurance flight records by ren and was refueled by pipe-line from another plane. In this way war and the m s attempt to arouse enthusiasm for more and better on Mark Qu PIONEERS A IN MIDDLE WEST By MINNIE LURY (Field Organizer, Dist. 8, Young Workers League) ig ever forw around major task: ‘o win and organize the working youth—and our fight against the war danger.” Important accomplishments in our activity can be registered for the past y Activity in Coal Field: We today have approximately 350 young workers and workingclass students in our ranks, compared to some 240 last year. And one of our basic tasks is to draw these young workers into active participation in th class struggle. We turn to the coal fields where we have actively been engaged in organizing the young miners into our Young Com- munist League; mobilizing the young miners for active support of the Na- tional Miners Union and for a fight against the reactionary, betraying Lewis machine. The task of maintaining our or- ganizers in the coal fields is by no means an easy one. And the condi- tions today in the coal fields are such hat the work must proceed slowly. But even in face of innumerable dif- ficulties, we have built up a small ‘ne nucleus that has already issued three mine bulletins—very effective in rallying the men for a fight on their immediate everyday “kicks.” We have organized some four Young Communist League units and by careful attention we hope to make them real factors in the struggles of the young miners Miners Children Organized. Six active, live, Young Pioneer League units have been organized and the miners children are swiftly being drawn into the daily tasks of aiding their militant fathers in their heroic struggle. for more th s are made spectacular ratic 1? anes, Above, is the crew of tie CTIVE suffer a greater e-cut than even the adult mine ere issued and | distributed effectively by our League t and Pioneer members. Youth Work in Election Campaign. Thruout the dis League energetically participated in the election campaign: distributing thousands of leaflets, holding open air meetings, factory gate meetings, jindoor meetings—bringing the Com- munist platform for the youth before numerous youth organizations, etc. Many young workers were arrested and jailed in the course of this ac- tivity. Many new members were drawn into the League and our Communist youth movement brought before many thousands of old and young workers, who had never heard of us before. A special election campaign tour was made thru the coal fields, to- gether with the Workers (Com- munist) Party organizer. | We are today building up small linitiative groups, whose task is to concentrate the bulk of their activity on a large factory in an attempt to build up a Communist youth nucleus. The St. Louis members have suc- ceeded in building up a club com- posed of young needle trades work- jers. This club will be an important factor in “speeding-up” the organi- zation of the 15,000 needle trades workers, of which women and young workers make up a majority. Kenosha Strike. For the past year a strike has been taking place in W#th® Allen-A |Hosiery Mill, Kenosha, Wis. For months we maintained a youth or- ganizer in the strike, Some import- ant demonstrations were held in con- nection with this strike. Just a few weeks ago, when 29 of the strikers were jailed, the League organized a \picket line before the judge’s home ict, the entire! FRANGE JAILS 2 COMMUNISTS Spaniard, Hungarian in Prison (Red Aid Press Service) PARIS, (By Mail).—The bour-} geois press reports that at the close of a meeting two foreigners were| arrested, one a Spaniard named Canga and the other an Hungarian named Ladislaus Aradi. Both have been turned over to the foreign police and remain in jail. Cango was said to have entered France under a false name, having been banished from France in July. Aradi is said to have had with him a false passport. | Naturally, the French newspapers knew enough to report a “secret meeting” and the “organization of groups of the Third International.” While in France, as the Nissa case showed, fascisti who threaten | fascist workers and are en-| ged in espionage for Mussolini, | are allowed to run around free, a} false pass is enough to extradite Communists and start arrests and trials. The Workers (Communist) Party fights for the enactment of the 40- hour. S-dny week. R, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JA NUARY GREEK DICTATOR ‘Lenin Memorial to Exhibit “TRIES TO STEM “MILITANT. TIDE ‘Laws Directed Openly | Against Workers (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN, (By Mail).—A law directed against the revolutionary |workers’ movement and espécially against the Communist Party, has been introduced into the Greek par- liament by Venizelos, dictator of Greece. In the manner of the Bul- garian state-martial law, it classes |Communists as criminal offenders. | ‘The new law declares punishable: \(1) Propaganda among the youth under 18 years old and among stu- |dents; (2) the distribution of mani- festos or leaflets which call for a | walk-out, “in connection with the in- justice of the bourgeois regime;” (3) the attempt to spread Communist ideas among the women; (4) pres- sure upon the leadership of the trade unions with the purpose of fighting the “conservative elements” in the trade unions; (5) to have knowledge, no matter by what |means, of documents concerning the | \“national interest” of the Greek state, or publishing such documents; (6) resistance to state power, justice or the police during the breaking up of mass demonstrations; (7) the holding of a meeting without per- mission; (8) any connection, no matter for what purpose, between Greek and foreign citizens. This unheard of law has aroused a wide-spread protest. The Greek Red Aid organization has appealed to the workers of all countries to support the fight against this de- cree. U. 8. BEST POISONER. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The U. S. government leads in production of poison gas.of new and unexampled virulency, Major General Fries, head of the army chemical service, told | the house appropriations committee! today. He also stated that the gov- ernment has large stores of gas masks prepared for the next war. We demand the immediate abolt- tt ft Keancy inv: tee tion mployed workers from arrest on charcen of vagrancy. the steel territory. Two small units have been built up and two children’s groups. The young steel workers have been drawn into active partici- pation in all League work. drawn into the struggle against the war danger, | To become better Communists, to lunderstand more thoroly the tasks \before us, we hold district training ;Amkino, the Soviet film agency in 8, 1979, Militant Declaration to Labor Movement | Flag Captured by Sandino | America’s bloody imperialism will) the Wall Street government, have gh first hand evi-| murdered in cold blood Nicaraguan | j |be exposed throu; in ce ragui dence at the Madison Square Gar-| Workers fighting for emancipation | from a despotic; tyrannical and | Saturday evening, Jan, 19, in ma. ¢ \esaheeton with the Tenia Memorial |¢#Pitalistic regime. On behalf of| meeting, Official announcement | Nicaragua's masses, I hereby send was made last night by the arrange- | @n appéal to the working class of ments committee that atthe dem-| your country. . | onstration the banner captured from| “In conclusion, I hope for unquali-| | United States marines in Nicaragua |fied success for the meeting to com- | by General Sandino’s revolutionary |memorate the death of Lenin, lead- forces will be placed on exhibit in|er of the first workers and peas- full view of the thousands who will/ants’ republic, and to emphasize the come to protest against the grow- | imperialistic war danger. ing war danger. (Signed) i “Gustave Machado, | AFGHAN FORCES. READY TO REPEL TRIBES’ DRIVE Mass British Troops ir Indian Passes CALCUTTA, India, Jan. 8— Afghanistan government forces, con ‘fident that they are strong enoug] to repel the insurgents tribesmen are reported to be preparing them selves to defend Kabul from a secon: lattack of the tribesmen. Gustav Machado, representative ‘to Mexico of Nicaragua’s working jclass government, has sent a reply to the Lenin Memorial Committee complying with the request to ship the flag to America. In his reply, | Machado writes: (Communist) Party, and William 7 | “Will ship flag for Lenin Mem-/| Foster, member of the secretariat. |orial meeting in New York. The! An attractive number on.the enter- captured trophy, symbol of Wall|tainment program will be an act in | Street's unscrupulous, unwarranted, |the form of the Soviet sports spec-| {imperialistic and inhuman interven-|tacle. This will be put on by the |tion in Nicaragua’s domestic affairs | Labor Sports Union, Selections will | should arouse every American work- | be rendered by Jascha Fischermann, ler to the full significance of the/|Soviet pianist, and the Freiheit | growing war danger. Gesangs Verein, with all sections “American marines, hired tools of | participating. 5 “Witchcraft” Trial Is Exposing Superstition | Shielded by Mellon Men “Representative of Nicaragua’s Working Class Government.” The principal speakers at the meeting will be Jay Lovestone, ‘executive secretary of the Workers First Soviet Ukraine Picture Starts 3-Day Run Here Tomorrow The first film from Soviet Ukraine} YORK, Pa, Jan. 8—Clayton to be shown in this country will be Hess, brother of the Wilbur Hess presented for a three days’ run be- | Who is on trial along with John Bly- ginning tomorrow at Manhattan Ly-| Meyer and John Curry, in his testi- ceum, 66 E. 4th St. |mony today brot the “witch angle” | The film, ‘Taras Shevchenko,” into the trial of these three for tells the life story of Taras Shev-| murdering Nelson Rehmeyer, He) chenko, the greatest revolutionary | testified that Blymeyer told him poet of the Ukraine. It is a pro-| that they had to go to Rohmeyer and | duction of the All-Ukrainian Photo- | hold him while they cut off his witch | Kino Administration, whose new | lock and buried it eight feet deep in studios at Kiev have acquired con-| back of the Hess chicken house, to siderable fame. | lift a spell Rehmeyer had put on the The film was secured thru the | Hess hens. | The prosecutor fought hard to pre- | vent the use of the word, “witch.” | The Mellon coal and steel machine | which controls this state has en-/| couraged ignorance and superstition, | to keep the farmers and workers divided and occupied with other | things than organization. But the) ruling class here is not anxious to EL RIOE SIR jhave the situation exposed, and it | was arranged at the trial that there DENIED WAGE INCREASE. | should be testimony of murder and CAMDEN, N. J., (By Mail).—/robbery only, without any word of Workers employed by the city have | witchcraft delusions, been informed that no wage in- crease will be granted them this) |, the United States, by the United Ukrainian Toilers’ Organization, under whose management it will be shown in various cities. Besides many highly impressive | episodes from the life of the poet, the film also includes a picturization of his poem, “Caucasus.” mand the immedinte recomnt- Sovtet Unton by he United Our struggle against the wart | schools every year. This training is danger has taken on concrete forms. | not only thru lecture or book, but Spleudid work was done during the ' thru actively engaging every mem- summer months. Members were <r of the school in the “every-day- sent into the Citizen's Military! work.” Some 30 young workers Training Camps. A special Camp | were given such training for a period bulletin was issued ‘and mailed to/o¢ five weeks this last year and have |some 500 boys in the camp. A spe-/ since become some of the most active cial leaflet addressed to the 10,000 young Communists in building our year. Thousands of leaflets, calling upon |in Milwaukee. The police broke it the youth to support the militant up and arrested some of the demon- new miners’ union, pointing out the strators. The next week a picket treacherous betrayal of the Lewis- line of the Pioneers was again or- Fishwick machine in the signing of ganized and a large open air meet- National Guardsmen at Camp Grant ‘was distributed and resulted in the jailing of 17 young workers. Reg- ular distributions take placa at a number of the standing army camps in our district. revolutionary movement. In the short period, because of the splendid anti-militarist work carried on by the group, the open air meetings, factory distributions and Sacco- the new wage agreement and the fact that it is the youth again who On to the Struggle Against the Company Unions and Against Conditions of Slavery. The right wing union bureau- erats of the A. F. of L. and the socialist party are officially united with the bosses against the work- ers. With their aid the bosses have organized and are maintain- ing company unions. With the aid of these company unions the bosses have succeeded in under- mining the unions—to wipe out the 40-hour week, reduce wages to a starvation level and establish piece-work, inside and outside con- tracting, the speed-up system and | general conditions of siavery. All union conditions won by the work- ers of the needle trades through | bitter struggle and sacrifice have deen taken ba¢k by the bosses | with the aid of the company unions, The needle trades work- | ers are now in a desperate state. The great mass of the workers are suffering from unemployment, dire need and starvation. The greatest number of shops in the needle trades are open shops, and in those shops that are officially | connected with the company | unions the conditions of the work- ers are just as unbearable us in | the open shops. The National Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has as | its immediate and most important tasks the organization of all work- | ers ideologically and organization- ally for the struggle for better conditions, the elimination of the company unions, and the organ- ization of the tens of thousands of unorganized workers, including | the Negro workers, to build up a | mighty union of all needle trades | workers. The General Executive Board of the National Trades Workers’ Industrial Union | is instructed by the convention to | make all necessary preparations for the impending strikes in the | | dress and fur industries to secure | better conditions for the workers. | The General Executive Board has already proceeded with its organ- — ization work, thereby working in line with the instructions of the convention for a struggle in be- | | half of the workers’ interests. The National Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union Is En- titled to the Aid and Assistance of the Labor Movement, Needle | ing held. Some inroads have been made in | The National Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is built on an industrial basis and differs in its organizational form as well as in its aims, tasks and objec- | tives from the old unions, which are under the domination of the corrupt right wing’ clique. The new industrial union has raised the banner of the class struggle and seeks to awaken the idealism and aspirations of the fighting working class in their struggle against their common enemy. The bloody attack that the labor traitors together with the bosses have organized against the cloak- makers, dressmakers and furriers has broken the unions and placed the workers at the mercy of the | bosses. The new industrial union is taking up the struggle to free the workers from the exploitation, terror and oppression of the bosses with their company unions, and for union conditions and union control in the shops. The new industrial union calls on the cloakmakers, dressmakers and furriers to immediately join | the union, to unite. with the class- | conscious and fighting workers, | who are conducting an energetic, | fearless and brave struggle | against the enemies of organized workers, and to help the new union in every possible way— morally, financially and thru a union conditions and improve- ments for the workers and their families. Thousands of needle trades workers at a mass meeting in Lincoln Arena have greeted with flaming enthusiasm the establish- | ment of the industrial “union, which awakens new hope and strengthens the faith in the or- | ganized power of the workers, and | is a source of inspiration to the gle against their enemies. industrial union blazes a new trail in the class struggle on the economic and political fields for the American labor movement. The National Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is en- titled to the fullest support of the American workers, The success | of the Needle Trades Workers’ | Union will be the’ success of the entire American labor movement, ¥ Vanzetti demonstration, 41 arrests Some good indoor anti-war meet- | took place and the cases of ten are ings have been held thruout the dis- | ¢j1] pending in court. trict in connection with the Karl 2 5 \Liebknecht memorial and our celeb- Negro, Work. rations of International Youth Day. In th2 Negro field some progress Thousands of leaflets were distribu- can be noted. In Chicago, a unit has ted in connection with these meetings; been built up in the South Side and many new members gained. | (Negro district). The young Negroes Organizing the Children. -are actively engaged in building a A word must be. said on our Chil-| nucleus in the Pullman car shops. A dren’s section. We have today some | unit consisting of 17 young Negroes seven to eight hundred children or-| has been organized in Jacksonville, ganized. To go into the details of | Ill, and thruout the district all units their activity adequately here is im-| are doubling up on efforts to draw possible. Suffice it to say that their|in the Negro youth. growth in membership reflects their} We look forward in 1929 to a real activity, and within the last year|red year of continuing our work of they have doubled their membership. | organizing and winning the working Major attention is being concentrated | youth for the revolutionary move- jon their school work: school papers,|ment and for an ever greater special leaflets, school fights. The \struggle against the militarization of LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING tive participation—in the impend- | ing struggles to win back all | workers in their determined strug- | The | children are also being actively | Every Worker— Sold through all. Workers All Party Units! National Office: 43 East 1 Every Party Member and Sympathizer Lenin Memoria Button Organizations % » NS These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY he youth for another bo: war, ' (Communist Party District 25th Street, New York City DOORS OPEN AT 7 P. M. Garden 49th Street & 8th Ave. Speakers: JAY LOVESTONE WM. Z. FOSTER and Others SOVIET SPORTS SPECTACLE By Labor Sports Union ADMISSION 50c and $1.00 Symphonic Brass Band Sat, Jan.19 Madison Sq. This expected drive of the insur gents is thought to be a desperat concentration of all the strength. It is reported here that the nig attack on Kabul is being planned the insurgents under Batcha Saqua “\the leader of a group of bandits |The attacking troops have heav field pieces in their possessior which they used on their first at tack on Kabul, when especial car |was taken to protect the Britis legation from injury. These cannon were unquestionable provided by th British government of India. The British have virtually isolate: Afghanistan by closing the passe jof Quetta and Peshawar with troop: |thus walling off Afghanistan an |drawing the curtain over the inter |nal situation. | There are now but few foreigner lin the Afghan capital, the Russians |who remained until the last, havin; | |been removed by Soviet planes. An energetic search is now in pro gress for Colonel Lawrence, thi notorious British spy, who special izes in inciting revolts in the east He is known to be somewhere amon; the rebelling tribesmen, and th Afghanistan government has set : price upon his head. ‘Salvationists’ Fight Tomorrow for Treasur: LONDON, Jan. 8—Command: Evangeline Booth spent today “con solidating her position” before go ing to Sunbury for tomorrow’s meet ing of the Salyation Army’s Higt Council. She is a center of the fac tional fight raging over who wil control the “Army’s” vast property jobtained by begging nickels fron \the workers. The question of removing Genera’ | Bramwell Booth, brother of the com |mander, from his autocratic contro jof the “Army” will be considerec [by the Council. “1905”, 1917” | “Insurrection” Revolutionary Progran by the Noted Pianis’ JASCHA FISCHERMANN Freihéit Gesangs Verein |Auspices: Workers [Communist] Party, 26 Union Square