The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUAKY i, 1929 with , the Dance! NEGRO FURRIER ATTACKS LIES "OF SOCIALISTS | Lashes Slanders of the) “Forward” Gang Rosemond, Negro furrier Henry | member of the General Executive} e of Lynching ,rerPnis TENN. iJ | | | | ALABAMA G.E.CACTS ON FAILURE [0 HIT © AFL CONVENTION aedior 0 T. U. E. L. Fraction Is | Criticized Continued from Page One to take the initiative to issue a state- 1.—Trotskyism is a petty-bour- geois social-democratic deviation and it has in its latest phase developed into a counter-revolution line and force. 2.—Trotskyism proceeding from Party Pre-Convention Discussion Section f the Minority of the N. E. C. of the Young Workers (Communist) League FOR A BOLSHEVIK STRUGGLE AGAINST THE | RIGHT DANGER AND TROTSKYISM |making Trotskyism and the Right | danger one and the same, not adopt- ling different methods of struggle, \thereby obscuring the Right danger in the Party. The N. E. C,, failing to under- ment. The Polcom even outlined thru tes ‘of fall the line that the 2" opportunist analysis is proposing | are ‘undermining the strength of|the structure of American capital-| stand the need of making special @ series of motions e line Board of the new Needle Trades} Those who don’t know anything about dancing didn’t need to know at the fifth birthday celebration of the Daily Worker last Saturday night. The Isadora Duncan Dancers from Moscow spoke in a language everyone could understand, the language of an art that is blood and bone of the Proletarian Revolution and the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. Ai L No wonder the workers who saw them last Saturday lost their heads. No wonder everybody stood up and cheered and yelled themselves hoarse. The art of the great Isadora Duncan, rooted in the Soviet Union, has come to flower in these workers’ children to produce something more A | lying Workers’ Industrial Union, yester-| wered the slanderous and| statements made by the yel-| low “Forward.” | That right wing boss sheet had ridi-| culed the action of the new left wing Junion in their attitude toward the Negro workers, whose increasing numbers in the needle industry make | | day socialist Jewish F\them play a role of greater impor-| |tance than ever before. The state-| ment says: |_ The article of January 9th of the Forward in which they attack the| | Negro fur workers, was translated| ish friends, This article stated that) |the Negro fur workers were not! |Yepresented at the Amalgamated| convention of the Cloak, Dressmak- ers and Furriers, and the Negro fur workers are sympathetic to that! grafting right wing company union, | so-called the “International.” | My co-workers and I wish to in- |form the readers of the Forward that this article of the Forward is an untruth, as are all the articles that they usually write about the working class. We wish to say that this article is not only a lie, but |also an insult to the Negro workers of the industry. This article of the | Forward’s expresses once more their characteristic prejudice against the Negro workers, to prevent them from becoming members of the mili-| tant left wing unions, the only ones |that demand equal pay and consid- jeration for white and black work- ers, which we know is against the| aims and program of the Forwards} and their associates. | I am under the impression that| those prejudiced go blind at times, | which must have been the case of the reporter of the Forward that did not notice the Negro delegates at the convention. I ask that blind reporter if he, didn't see me at Irving Plaza at 15th St. and Irving Place, where Ij | spoke for one-half hour about the| | conditions of the Negro fur work- | jers since the “International” union! |has been in existence, I also spoke at Lincoln Arena, 63rd St. and 6th Ave., where I re- viewed the crisis that the needle trade workers, black and white, were | facing, which the right wing lead- jership and the Forwards are re-| sponsible for. At the second session of the con- vention which took place at 107th |S MEXICO Scene of hunt, capture and lynch- ing of Charles Shepherd, Negro, in Mississippi by a posse of whites. Shepherd was tied to a pile of logs, buckets of gasoline were poured over him, and the crowd led on by preachers and local business men, set fire to the pyre. Map shows (c) where it is alleged that Shepherd uled a white in a fight; (B) Skelby, ear which Shepherd was captured (A) Lombardy, lynched, where he was SALVADOR LABOR ~ FOR URUAGUAY Latin-American Labor Unity Progresses SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 10—The trade unions of the workers of Sal- vador will probably send a delegate to the constituent congress of the Letin-American Trade Union Con- federation, which congress will be held the 15th of next May at Monte- video, Uruguay. The Provisional Committee, lo- cated in Montevideo, has addressed the Salvadorian unions, extending an invitation to participate in the formation of the confederation, In addition, the Salvadorian unions have received the program elaborated by the Provisional Com- mittee, and extensive and clear ex- position of all problems affecting the proletariat of Latin America. MORGAN MAKES POWER MERGER United Gas, Mohawk Co. Make New Trust Morgan and company announce another of their big mergers. The United Corporation of New Jersey i icies, which is opportunism statement must follow. leftist policies, whic ‘ é covered with left phrases, Trotsk, Rees Pay Berenice ism is a system of “Right deeds cov- prior to the convention, to either mo- a syle dete eins ( oa a bil'=> for the elections of Party and) 8—Cannon’s Trotskyism — whic left wing delegates, or carry on a flows from his pessimistic outlook on campaign against the policies and ac-|the development of the class strug- tivities of the A. F. of L, bureau-/ gle int the United States, the growth cracy. Not a single Party or left of our Party and a capitulation be- wing delegate was present at the fore the difficulties of the growth A. F. of L. convention. This is a of the Party, is opportunism covered result of the complete abandonment With left phrases. Cannonism is an lof work within the A. F. of L.—a/ integral part of Trotskyism in the complete surrender of the masses ‘1|United States, and must be fought the A. F, of L. to the agents of the and uprooted as a petty-bourgeois capitalists in the labor movement—a Social-democratic deviation covered | to me last night by one of my Jew-|by a woman with a shot-gun and|complete surrender of these masses With leftism. to American imperialism. 4.—We endorse the expulsion of The last convention of the A. F.|Cannon, Schachtman and Abern and ~ lof L. openly placed the A. F. of L.|urge that a decisive and energetic in the service of American imperial- ideological and organizational strug- ism in its preparations for war. The gle be carried on against Cannon and last convention wiped out any sem- Trotskyism, and at the same time blance of a class organization. The the Party and League must spare no empty gestures about organizing the energy and make strenuous efforts unorganized was nothing more than in winning the working class ele- |part of a common offensive with the ments who are misled by Trotsky- | government and the entire capital-| ism, as was stated in the Comintern ist class against the new unions, as|cable approving the expulsions of well as an open acknowledgement Cannon, Schachtman and Abern. that our Party has been successful) 5.—The 6th World Congress of in making a good beginning in its the Communist International and the work of organization of the unor-| 5th World Congress of the Commu- ganized. Likewise the talk at the nist Youth International states that convention about going down South! in view of the maturing of the inner to organize unions is directed against and outer contradictions of capital- jthe Communists who have begun/ism as a result of partial stabiliza- ‘work in the South and orientating| tion, which leads to new wars and their policy mainly on the Negro the intensification of the class strug- masses. |gle at home, the merger of the so- The Party, through its policies, has|¢ial democracy and trade union taken the initative and helped in es- bureaucracy with the state apparatus tablishing three important new|and bosses—the failure to see these unions, the National Miners’ Union, | important world changes and the re- the National Textile Workers’ Union| sistance to the new tactics, make jand the National Industrial Union of | the right danger the main danger in Needle Workers. Smaller unions | the sections of the Comintern. |have also been established as among! 6.—The overestimation of the |the Shoe Workers, Butchers, etc. strength and reserve powers |The Party is going forward in the American imperialism, an undere jcampaign to organize the unorgan-| timation of the maturing of the it | ized. Through the formation of shop,ner and outer contradictions which committees, through the conferences! ‘held and being held among the steel | workers, auto workers, etc., we are and the ideological influence of so- taking the first steps in organizing cial reformism on the workers of new unions in these industries. This|the United States. This abandon- work must be intensified and the ment of the struggle against social Party through its factory nuclei, fac-|reformism constitutes a serious ob- tory papers must direct greater at-|stacle in the way of radicalization tention to the organization of the/of the masses. junorganized. This work has been| The Poleom instructs the Trade of |? American imperialism, an underes- | ism, linked up with the changing |cfforts through ideological persua- timation of the depth of the dissat- isfaction and of the extent of the| process of radicalization which is| ‘slowly but surely taking place among | |the large masses of the young and/| {adult workers, the underestimation of the war danger and the existence of pacifism, the failure to apply the} line of the 9th Plenum to the United | States, the perversion of the line} lof the 6th Congress to America, the | failure to orientate the Party and| League to the new situation, the May Plenum thesis, which excludes the United States from the chang- |ing world conditions and underesti- | mation of the radicalization process, the non-acceptance of the Profintern | resolution on the United States, the | condemnation by the Poleom of the C. Y. I. letter which is based on the line of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Internationai, the per- | |sistent right errors and tendencies lof the C. &. C. before the Sixth World Congress and since the Con- | gress, is the basis for the growing \Right danger in the Party and eague. | %--The majority of the National | Executive Comivittee refuses to |carry out the line of the Communist | Youth International that our League must be alive to the existing Right jdanger and fight it, that it should |have a critical attitude toward the | Right mistakes of the C. E. C., and {break factional connections with |Party groupings. | The majority of the National Ex- j ecutive Committee refused to re- et the Poleom statement, which attacks the C. Y, I. letter, because |the letter. calls upon the League to have critical attitude toward Party akes and fight the Right dan- leer. Instead of mobilizing the | League for the political line of the 'C. I. and the C. Y. I. to reorientate the League to the changing condi- |tions in the country and rele of young workers, the N. E. C. sends |out the Poleom attack against the Cc. 1. and C, Y. 1 The N. E. C. statement on the 3. Y. I. letter does not call the at- ention of the League to the activi- zation of the young workers as a| result of the developing changes in |myth of “good conditions” in that E. C./\sion to win working class elements statement on the C. Y. I. letter away from Trotskyism, did not pre- proves that it is not alive to Right | pare the ground for a real struggle danger, ‘The majority of the N. E./ against Trotskyism. The N. E. C, C., by not analyzing the conditions | instead of attempting to unite the which give rise to the Right dan-| [League in a struggle against Trot- ger, by perverting the nature of the | skyism, carries on « factional strug- Right danger and ‘(rotskyism, the against the minority, accuses League membership: cannot under- | them of being Trotskyites, at the stand either danger, nor be in a po-|iime when the minority understands sition to fight either. In violation the nature of Trotskyism and is of the C, Y. I. letter the N. C.| fighting it correctly, The N. BE. C. continues its factional fight against | refused to send out the minority the minority solely because the min- | comrades to speak against Trotsky- rity is alive to the Right danger|ism. The N. E. C., as the C. E. C, d is fighting it. The political line instead of carrying on a real strug- of the National Executive Commit- against Trotskyism, have made tee and the above facts show that i factional issue against the min- , the N. E. C. only talks of a Right jority. danger but is not fighting it. §.-~The League must unite in a 8.—The majority of the N. E. C.| joint struggle against the Right is not carrying on a correct fight |danger and Trotskyism. The League against Trotskyism because it fails |cannot fight Trotskyism if it does te analyze and show the nature of |not fight the Right danger. Nor Trotskyism. It adopted the wrong |can it fight the Right danger if it line of the C. E. C. of the Party, in does not fight correctly Trotskyism. Robert Dunn to Speak |Egyptian Police Find at the Bronx Forum ‘Bolshevist Spy’; Many This Sunday Evening Communists Are Jailed | ‘The Full Garage” will be Robert (Red Aid Press Service) W. Dunn’s topic at the Bronx Open} LONDON (By Mail)—The Lon- Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave., this Sun-|qdon “Times” reports that in Cairo day evening at 8 o'clock. |a certain Eliahu Teper had been ar- Dunn has recently made a special| rested by the police. According to study of the automobile industry | jhe Egyptian police he is “one of and has written a book concerning the cleverest of Bolshevist agents it. He will lift the veil from the|in the Near East.” This is the “legal” grounds given industry. He will show that the| hy the police for the arrest. Sim- garage is just about as full as the|jlay grounds are given for the ar- dinner-pail of pre-war times. rest of numerous Communists in Robert Dunn is the executive sec-| peypt, retary of the Labor Research Asso- ciation and has been active in var- ious phases of labor investigation! for the last ten years. He has writ-) ten authoritative monographs on many of his research findings. world conditions. The N. SINKING £HIP RIGHTED. LONDON, Jan. 10 (U.P). —The British steamship Shwtland which had radioed that it was sinking to- |day, sent a later message saying | that assistance would not be needed. A life boat had been dispatched to the nid of the vessel which had reported its position as 90 miles southeast of Aberdeen. “The funetion of the soviets, the significance of the dictator- ship, ix the organized use of force against counter - revolution, — the safeguarding of the achievements of the revolution in the interests | of the ity and based on the majorit here can be no dual authority in the government. Now the entire nation governs itself.” From speech by Lenin, Lentn mem- -orial meeting, January 19. “Our theory must give an an- swer to the problems that practice | pats to ux."—Lenin, Lenin memor- ial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, | carried on by the CEC and the Party |Committees in the districts directly |with the aid of special CEC represen- |tatives. Neither the Trade Union Department or the TUEL have par- | ticipated in this work to any con- ithe A. F. of L. be initiated, that we Union Department and the Commu- nist fraction in the TUEL to im- mediately carry out the decisions made almost two months ago that a campaign against he policies of t, and Lexington Ave. at noon on/is now buying up the minority stock | iful, stirrin J Heed fe | cc rggtad Seen tirring —_|Monday, Dec. 31, I acted as vice|in the United Gas Improvement Co. an ever before. chairman, I read the numerous of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, a | iE ye 1B greetings, telegrams and other com-|power in politics in Philadelphia, | |munications that were sent to the and the Mohawk Hudson Power Co. | convention from various sympathiz-| There has been much talk recently | jers. Of course as vice chairman I of a gigantic hookup of these com-| | had the privilege of speaking before ‘panies and important Wall Street in- | | and after each speaker. I took part terests hold that this development jin all the discussions and was elect- may presige such a consolidation. | jed also member 6f the Resolution|Heavy trading at rising prices on| | Committee and I am one of the 39 the stock exchange in the shares of | members of the General Executive|companies affected tend to} Board, of the new Industrial Needle strengthen this belief. | Trades Workers’ Union. JAIL 2 MINEOLA CASE VICTIMS Continued from Page One Isadora Duncan is dead. She lives more gloriously than ever in the dancing of these Soviet children. You can see them again! The Daily Worker has arranged three more performances, tomorrow afternoon, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night. The United Corporation will ac-} quire its holdings from the organ- | izers of the American Superpower | Corporation. Associated with J. P. Morgan in the formation of the | United Corporated are Drexel and Co. and Bonbright and Co. The new company with its mon- opoly of power and light in New| Jersey and Pennsylvania, with Mor- | | gan’s millions behind it, will be able | Rockville Center i an ‘to raise rates, but will not raise | Se eee om ate ;wages without a fight from its at | witnesses against them were spies, | t ized Kk detectives, informers, scabs and em- |PTesent Unorganized workers. ‘ployers, and they searched for evi- ie ue And if you were one of the thousands who were turned away last Saturday, you surely won’t miss them now! jto and after the convention of the; The work of the fractions must be |A. F. of L. is nothing more but aj guided constantly and the péticies of siderable extent. The TUEL thus expose the war policies, and the far has played no leading role in the open treachery of the A. F. of L. campaign to organize the unorgan- bureaucrats, that we expose their ized: |empty talk about organizing the In the work within the existing unorganized, that we expose the full unions comprising 8 million workers, | meaning of the endorsement by Mr. the TUEL has done nearly nothing| Green of the unemployment pro- in the last period. Either through | posals of Herbert Hoover, and that policy or through negligence this|this be tied up with our struggles work was completely abandoned. The | against war, for the defense of the Trade Union Department of the! Soviet Union, and the organization Party similarly has done nothing for | of the unorganized. the very same comrades that are at) The Polcom instructs the Trade the head of the Trade Union De- Union Department to begin the build- partment are also conducting the ing up of the Party fractions and work of the TUEL. |the TUEL in all the locals of the The failure to do anything prior| A. F. of L., and other trade unions. reflection of this entire policy of | the Party made known to them s0| abandonment of the masses of the) that the Party policies in the trade | A. F. of L, to the bureaucracy, unions will be carried out. = Such an attitude constitutes a| The Polcom instructs the Trade serious right error because it com-| Union Department to immediately pletely underestimates the role of| call a meeting of the Trade Union social reformism in the U. S. The Committee and work out recommen- failure to carry on a campaign! dations for the carrying out of the against the A. F, of L. bureaucracy, | supplementary decisions on our trade LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING S RS Tomorrow afternoon they dance for the workers’ childen. ~ Let your child see these - wonderful children of the workers’ land. OS Si The last chance to see and hear the Warshavianka, the revolutionary song _ of 1905, with the . Red Flag, caught up and | lttea high despite “defeat after defeat. The last chance to see and hear the ‘swinging rhythm of Dubinushka, the workers’ song, and of Ras, Dwa, Tree, the us song of the 4a childish to attempt to hold “dictated peting for world.” wi dence in the office of the right wing | on 27th St. A. F, of L. Aids Frame-up. “The A. F. of L. bureaucrats aided in the frame-up of these 11) fur workers. Those convicted were Otto Lenhardt, Jack Schneider, Os- car Meiliff, George Weiss, Morris Katz, M. Malkin, Samuel Mencher, Martin Rosenberg and Leo Frank- lin. Bern Gold and Isador Shapiro | were released at the first trial. The | jnine convicted were given sentences of from two and a half to five years, but a higher court gave a stay of sentence, The Superior Court at Albany allowed a motion for a new trial on all of the fur workers except two. These two have now been railroaded to Sing Sing penitentiary. “The International Labor Defense, calls upon all workers and sympa- hizors to rally to the defense of these workers who committed the crime of striking for better condi- tions and of forming a new militant union, Contribute to the campaign of the Internationol Labor Defense for funds to defend these and many other class-war prisoners who are being attacked by the employers, by the capitalist courts and their willing servants, the A. F. of L. bureaucrats.” NO DRY TREATY CHANGE. OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 10 (UP).— The Canadian-United States Smug- gling Conference ended here this a‘ternoon. An official statement was to be issued tonight. The United States delegation, it was reported unofficially, failed to convince the Canadian officials of the desirability of an amendment to the existing smuggling treaty. GREEK RECIME JAILS WORKERS (Red Aid Press Service) ATHENS (By Mail).—At a meet- ing of street car workers the sec- retary of the Saloniki union, Asikis, and Serufinidis, a member of the trade union organization to which the street car union is affiliated, were arrested. In Mytilini two union leaders were arrested and they were bru- tally mistreated in the police sta- tion. In Piraus three functionaries of the railwaymen’s union were ar- rested. In Saloniki four workers were arrested while distributing leaflets. Magil Talks Tonight on Revolutionary Poetry Modern revolutionary poetry will be discussed by A. B. Magil, of the Daily Worker staff, in a talk before the Followers of the Trail, a work- ers’ sports and cultural organiza- tion, tonight, at 8:30 at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The development of revolutionary working class poetry from the early years of the 19th century to the present day will be traced and selec- tions from the work of a nu of poets, including Carl Sandburg, Alexander Blok, Michael Gold and Langstor Hughes, will be read. “Without fonary theory there can be no revolutionary par- ty."—Lenin, Lenin memorial meet- unary 19, in Madinon Square against its war policy, etc. is an| union work recently sent by the underestimation of the war danger| RILU. Every Worker— Every Party Member and Sympathizer Lenin Memorial Button Sold through all Workers (Communist Party District Organizations. ~~ These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” All Party Units! Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City SOVIET SPORTS SPECTACLE By Labor Sports Union Symphonic Brass Band Sat, Jan.19 Madison Sq. DOORS OPEN AT 7 P. M. Garden 49th Street & 8th Ave. Speakers: JAY LOVESTONE WM. Z. FOSTER and Others “1905” “1917” “Insurrection” Revolutionary Pregram by the Noted Pianist JASCHA FISCHERMANN ADMISSION 50c and $1.00 Fretheit Gesangs Verein Auspices: Workers [Communist] Party, 26 Union Square