The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 4

— —_ Page S279 Co ROOF MAY FALL ANY MINUTE IK HADDOCK PITS Electrocution Danger Is Great (By a Worker Correspondent) LUZERNE, Pa., (By Mail).—The Haddock Coal Company claims that it runs its mines under the slogan “safety fi This is a joke and they know it very well. First, there is no air at all over the mine, and yet the company forces us to work double shifi When one shift shot their coal, smoke is so big that they must stay out for half of the shift before they can go ahead and unload the coal. The gangway so narrow that the men cannot pass/ thru on the side when the motorman pulls the trip or when the trip stops. The main road should be three feet between the car and the coal, but sometimes is. only a few inches. There should be manholes every 50 feet, but there aren't any. Thus, when the trip passes, and the man is carrying powder, he is in great danger. That’s what the company calls “safety first.” The roof all over the mine is so bad that the miner’s life is not worth 30 cents. He may be killed by rock any minute, and it has so happened many times, in our mine. | The trolley wire should be five feet | from the rails, but in many cases is| not more than’ 8 feet. One might} in Luzer NE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929 a ‘The Perfect Sl | | ) i ave for Bosses Rabots, or mechanical men, do not require food or wages, are thus satisfied with slavery, and hence do not grumble or strike for better conditions. For thes sses are employing technicians to develop this per throw thousands of worke thousands of worker Strike Wave 1 The previous instalments of this article traced the history of the great strikes which recently shook Europe. The causes and the tasks of the Communists were outlined. | The concluding part follows: * * 8 Continued At the very moment that we suc- families to s that they may be enabled tc 3, and force hundreds of arvation. n Europe, and Task of Communists struggle to its highest stage, means to transform it into a political struggle against the dicta- torship of the bourgeousie. In order to, carry out this task successfully, the Communist parties and all Communists in the trade union movement should not forget the close connection which exists be- easily be electrocuted. If you don’t| ceed—after overcoming the most vi- tween the efforts of capital, on the get hurt inside the mine, you stand a chance of getting pneumonia when waiting for the cage. According to the law, they must hoist us up when 5 men are waiting, but sometimes there are 25 or 30 miners waiting for an hour or more, but you cannot get out, because they keep on hoist- ing coal. I could write of many more of our grievances, but this is enough to show how the company does not give a damn for the miners’ lives. They say, profit first, safety fter. We must fight that. —HADDOCK MINER. PRISONERS LAUD MID OF THE LD, Workers Are Urged to . Contribute Continued from Rage One “start up. And things are very dear, f so it is hard to make ends meet. ae Phe three have come home, but my "husband has four more months to serve. And again I thank you for your check and wish you a happier New Year than mine is.” » Mrs. Isabel Meanovich, the wife | of the Zeigler, Ill., miner imprison- ed in the Zeigler frame-up, has the| following to say of the work of the| International Labor Defense: “I am) writing to thank you for the $25) Christmas check and am happy to| Yet you know that my husband has ined home to us from prison | yas glad to find the children} T in good health and cannot the I. L. D. enough for the lp theysent me all the time he “was in prison, and may all the days ‘in the years to come the comrades} >of the I. L. D. will have success in| all the work they try to do in help-| a the working class of people.| “My husband is trying to get work, it is awful hard on account of e frame-up. He is called to go to union meetings and_ will in a few days so this will be Thanking you all again.” ie International Labor Defense Is upon all,workers.and sympa- to continue contributing to| campaign=for funds for these| -war prifon and their de- nts andisto defend the hun- of workerscwho now face sentences for their part in es and other activities on be- of the working ‘class. end funds to the National Office e International Labor Defense, ill Vote on Staging ay Day’ Celébrations ASGOW, Scotland, (By Mail). bitter fight.4s\@xpected between the Council-and its affiliated tions * vate’ off ‘the proposal work on Labor Day, May 1. the past'\the; policy of the ‘was to observe'the first Sun- May 4s Labor Day. If left } workers, as expected, win the entire shipbuilding industry Clyde will be tied up for the | well, Commensurate with the size of olent resistance on the part of the |reformists—in calling a strike, we | are confronted also by a task in two parts, namely the organization of \the leadership and the carrying |through of the struggle to its vic- | torious end. | If this task is an easier one in jcase of the revolutionary trade unions, it will, on the other hand, be especially complicated in case the trade-union apparatus is entirely in the hands of the reformists. In the first case organization of strike committees chosen from the broad masses is likewise necessary; these, together with the revolution- ary trade unions, must lead the strikes. In those cases, however, where we are the minority in the trade unions, strike committees are for us the only forms of organizational strike-lead- ership which offer the greatest guar- antee for correct fighting tactics and prompt resistance to the plans of the reformists to betray or to kill a strike. We must, therefore, struggle for the principle of strike-leddership! through strike committees chosen from the masses, and also for the principle of negotiations between the capitalists and representatives | of the strike committees, for a com- {prehensive accounting by the com- |mittees to the masses, and finally to have the decision for the ending of a strike rest in the hands of the shop meetings of the rank and file. As we have already mentioned, the strike-wave tends to extend to ever more branches of industry, dis- tricts, and countries. The Commun- ist parties are thus confronted with the task of coordinating these strike movements and of taking under ad- visement the organization of a gen- eral strike. At the same time the Comintern} and the Red International of Labor Unions are confronted with the prob- | an international scale. At present, for example, we have economic struggles in the textile industry in France, Germany, Poland, and India. The same may be the case tomorrow in other branches of industry as the strikes, their extension, and the drawing into them of ever greater} masses, there arises with growing | urgency the task referred to by the! Sixth* Congress of the Comintern, | namely the task of bringing the eco- lem of a coordination of strikes on | j one side, to increase the exploitation of the workers by means of capital- ist rationalization, and, on the other side, the anti-labor legislation, the compulsory arbitration reprisals against the labor movement, and finally the preparations for war against the Soviet Union. This con- nection must be emphasized anew in every economic struggle, and politi- cal slogans must also be issued com- mensurate with the extension and sharpening of the strikes. Finally, in connection with the mounting strike-wave, there must also be taken into consideration what the Sixth Congress of the Comintern has to say in regard to the Right danger: “On the basis of the partial stab- ilization of capitalism and directly owing to the influence of Social Democracy, the principal line of deviation from the correct political position observed within the Com- munist Parties is to be found at the -present time towards the Right. This manifests itself in sur- vivals of ‘legalism,’ in an exces- sive obedience to the law, in ‘khyostism’ in relation to the strike movement (dragging at the tail of the movement), in an incorrect attitude towards Social Democracy (for example the resistance that was offered to the decisions of the Ninth Plenum of the E. C. C. I. in France), in inadequate reaction to international events, etc. In view of the existence of relatively strong Social Democratic Parties, these Right deviations are partic- ularly dangerous and the fight against them must be put into the forefront. This implies a system- atic struggle against a conciliato- ry attitude towards Right wing tendencies within the Communist Parties.” In the field of economic struggles the danger of Right deviations is ways t. Today, when we are t of great mass move- is especially great. In view of the intensive strike-waye any Right error, as also any conciliatory attitude toward such errors, is a ‘me, since it may result in the most dire consequences. The whole atten- tion of the Communist Parties must, therefore, be directed toward making sure that in economic struggles the correct line, as indicated in the last congresses of the Comintern and the Red International of Labor Unions, is carried out. Mexico, by Wall Street Order, Gives Puppets Recognition | MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13. — The| relations between Mexico and Nica- | ragua, which were broken off by) the refusal of Mexico to recognize the government of Adolfo Diaz, set up by force as a front for Emiliano | have a shift of presidents, were automatically resumed yesterday when the Mexican president, Portes Gil. replied to an official communi- cation from Moncada, president of Nicaragua by the help of U. S. marines, wishing Gil a Happy New | Year. b | Imperialist Victims Who Were Not Killed Face Trial by Troops BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan, 13.—The national government announces that it will soon issue an order naming the army commanders who are to constitute the military court to “try” by martial law the civilian and left’ wing-group# in the Chamorro, when it became con- banana plantation workers who re- _ Trades—and..Labor Council venient for U. S. imperialism to cently struck against the United Fruit Company. Colombiaa papers accuse the gov- ernment of concealing the butcher- ies of the strikers and say that the figure of 200 killed by troops hides the fact that at least 1,400 men, women and children were massacred {by machine gun fire, while wounded PUBLIC LIBRARY DENIES WORKER BOOK ONUS.SR, Give Him Cook Book by “Mistake” (By a Worker Correspondent) I don’t know whether any other |worker has had the same exprience |I had in public libraries, but any- how this is the experience I had in the public library on Fifth Ave. and |42nd St., New York City. After look- jing in the catalog for the works of |John Reed, I noticed the name of a |book written by him, “Red Russia.” \I asked for it. After waiting a long |while, I was surprised to get a cock- jing book instead. Thinking that per- ‘haps they had made some mistake, they hadn’t it, I asked for a o |hock on the Constitution of Soviet Russia, After waiting for an hour or so, they told me coldly they have jnot got it. I was then convinced |they did not want to give it to me, |for if they did not have it it would |not be in the catalog. The day will |come when public libraries will be MILLING BOSS MAKES WORKERS | 1 One Man Does Work of Three (By a Worker Correspondent) Taik about Robots. The plant of the National Milling | Co, is the largest flour and feed | mill west of Buffalo. The workers of the mill produce 6,000 barrels daily, mestly of soft wheat. In the sacking room of the mill are 16 automatic bag-filling and weighing machines. The capacity of these machines is 200 bags of 98 pounds per hour. The machine auto- matically weighs the flour, fills the sack and shuts off the chute. One man is compelled to tend two of | these machines. He puts the sack | on the chute, takes it off when full | and ties it and ther throws it on a| conveyor belt, where it goes to the warehouse. The operator of the machine must handle 400 bags of |real public libr: ies for the workers | and not a place of propaganda for! the bosses. L, | RACE HATRED ADS BOSSES Aim to Split Ranks of | Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) VESTABURG, Pa., (By Mail).— Neg: 1, achinz bere of !:te has be- come one of ‘ne favorite means of entertainment for the capitalists. The recent lynching of Charles Shepherd was ce of the worst of the crimes of capitalism around here for a long time. Workers, Ne- gro and white, this is a scheme of the capitalist class to keep the workers divided, by splitting our ranks. Let us put an end to this, | and fight solidly together against the bosses for better conditions. —A. J. W. T0 STRESS WAR AT LENIN MEET CommerceBodyReveals Armament Plans { | | Continued from Page One Workers Party of the New York |district further exposes that these |“educational” orders constitute calls for bombs, guns, artillery carriages, airplane sights, army searchlights. ete, While a steamroller for this jteamsters in the New York mail| \ing Co. flour per hour, and with the four separate movements for each bag, makes 1,600 movements an hour. Is he. a :nan or a machine? US.MAIL AIDS ANTL-UNION FIRM Open Shop Trucking | Co. Gets Benefit (By a Worker Correspondent) Very considerable exploitation of | carrying service, which is let out by contract from the government to certain lucky express companies is indicated by the figures of the con- tracts. The government wants non-union drivers for its mail wagons, s0 it makes the contract with the U. S. Trucking Co. and the Ajax Truck- It pays the companies $12 a day per teamster for driving a certain specified type of wagon, “painted olive green” and equipped with inexpensive screens, “roll-up curtains,” a “portable: or folding seat for the carrier” and “locks the same on back and sides.” Good Profit. But the teamsters get $2.50 a day, which leaves the company $9.50 a day profit on one wagon and two horses—pretty good when you re- member that a farmer hires such a team and at least as good a wagon| along with himself for a driver for | $8.50 a day. Union men in the truck driving in- dustry use the same stables as the government’s non-union drivers--~| they have to, to make a living in| present unorganized state of | things in New York. Must Organize. amendment is being made ready, the way is also being cleared to rail- road through the big cruiser bill. That this measure is also a com- | ponent part of the war preparations | | program is signified in the words of Senator Hale, chairman of the Sen- | ate Naval Affairs Committee. Hale, | a leading militarist and faithful | servant of Wall Street, in his ad- vocacy of the measure for fifteen | war cruisers exploded the myth of} the Kellogg “peace” pact and the| hokum about a disarmament confer- ence planned for 1931. Hale said: “T cannot see how the American position which calls for the right to build cruisers of any size and arma- ment up to the treaty limitation can at any future conference on limita- tion of armament be modified with- out giving up all possibility of main- taining a navy equal to that of any country in the world.” The Workers Party is working at top speed on the manifold arrange- ments to make the demonstration in the Garden the greatest of its kind in the city’s annals. The speak- ing program will be interspersed with selections by Jascha Fischer- | In spite of utmost resistance of | the United States government to) having any of its employees, even at | second hand, belong to unions, it | seems the only way out for the other teamsters is to fight for the right of | government mail wagon drivers to| belong to unions. | And there is evidently plenty of chance for an organized group of government drivers to raise their wages, for the companies get that extra $9.50 per man. “You will agree that to promise freedom to the workers and at the anme time to leave the castles, the land, the fsetorfes and all the sources in the hands of the en tajists and land-holders—that this has nothing to do with liberty and equality. We have only one slogan, one watchword: Everyone who works has n right to enjoy the good things of Ii Idlers, pa sites, those who of the toiling prived of these blessings. And our cry ist To the workers—everything to the toilers, everything!” From speech by Lenin at mass meeting in Moscow. Lenin memorial meet- Ken, must be BECOME ROBOTS The telephone operators who care of such large sections of the correspondent. Mines Make Chances of Death or Injury Many Times Greate i Speed-up for Girls Who Slave at Switchboard slave for starvation wages at the huge switchboard of the Southern Cclifornia Telephéne Co. are speeded up to such an extent that they are compelled to use roller skates while at work, because the company forces a few girls to take board. Photo above by a worker Aaron L. Scheinmann, Chairman , of the Board of Directors of the State Bank of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who arrived last Wednesday on the “Mauretania” | with Mr. Valerian I. Mezhlauk, Vice- | President of the Soviet Supreme Economic Council, stated: “The State Bank of the Soviet Union, which is the largest banking institution in the country and ac- counts for over four-fifths of the total financing of Soviet foreign trade by Soviet banks, is vitally in- | terested in the position and ‘in the* development of Soviet-American trade. During my stay in the} United States I expect to meet a number of American leaders. of finance and industry and to discuss with them such possibilities and ar- rangements as would be most bene- | ficial for the development of trade and other economic relations between the Soviet Union and this country. “The State Bank of the U. S. S. R., founded in October, 1921, four | years after the inauguration of the Soviet Government, is a little over seven years old. Originally organ- ized with a capital consisting only of depreciated paper currency the Bank succeeded in accumulating through purchases a_ gold and. platinum reserve valued on January list of this year at 222,921,520 rubles | On December 1, | py. ($114,715,200), Congress Resolution WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—The march of the Monroe Doctrine over the so-called “independent” republics of Latin-America to an extent where they are regarded as parts of the United States, is illustrated anew by a resolution House of Representatives by the chairman of the Committee on Mili- tary Affairs, asking that the U, S. government to admit to the West Point Military Academy, a young citizen of Panama, Bey Arosemena. MENNONITES IN MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, (By Mail)—A million acres of farm and range lands in the Santa Clara Valley in Mexico will be opened soon for col~ onization by Mennonites, religious fanatics. now settled in western Cananda, R.R. WORKER KILLED. | spe Monroe Doctrine Move « Describes Big Growth of the Workers’ Bank in U.S.S.R. 1928, the capital of the Bank was $128,750,000, the surplus $51,472,- 000, and total resources $2,300,788,- 000. “Among the problems of the newly blished State Bank was the crea- of a stable currency and the restoration of foreign and internal credit and banking relations, both at home and abroad, without which the national economy of the country could not have been rebuilt and de- veloped, nor a system of savings created. “These problems are now solved, The country has a sound currency, a normal credit structure, and through its State Bank has re- established its contacts along credit lines with the outside world. “The Soviet state is investing bil- lions of dollars in industry, agricul- ture and transportation. But the t development of the latent po! lities of that great expanse of land, ocevpying one-sixth of the world’s area and inhabited by over 150,000,000 people, calls for the par- ticipation of foreign capital. The Soviet Union needs modern indus- trial technique, skill and capital. Naturally, she therefore looks to the United States, which is abundantly supplied with these requirements, Mr, Sel nmann, who has offices r AUTO. BOSSES’ - TOWN FOSTERS RACE PREJUDICE Negro Barred From Busses (By «@ Worker Correspondent) MUSKEGON, Mich., (By Mail).— On Sunday, Dec. 23, three young | Negro women came to the Greyhound Bus Station at Western Ave, and Terrace St. and boarded the Muske- gon-Ludington bus. The driver curt- ly informed them that he would not carry them, so they were forced to find some other way of reaching their destination. This driver must {have been instructed by the com- |pany to discriminate against Ne- |groes. Perhaps the Greyhound Co. is afraid it will lose the patronage of the white wealthy class if it allows Negroes to ride on its busses In this town Negroes are subject to residential restrictions. It is a capitalist trick to divide the work- ers by creating a “color line.” The Continental Motor Co., in this city, also fosters race hatred, and has kicked all Negroes from its Muske- |gon plant. i) —AUTO WORKER. ASSURE PASSAGE OF WAR BILLS ‘Maneuvers Delay the Voting WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Cool- idge, somewhat impatient at the jtime required to maneuver the cruiser bill and the Kellogg pact into acceptance by the senate, called Senator Curtis and Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, into conference and was agsnred that both war bills would ba passed. | Borah assured Coolidge that the Kellogg pact would be ratified be- |fore the week is over and that the crviser bill would be passed within j)if days. The Kellogg pact has met |some opposition because of the de- ‘sire of those senators representing a certain Wall Street lique to make an explicit amendment to the bill |which would state in no uncertain terms United States control of Latin America. Those vho would accept the pact as is would rather leave that point te be understood impli- citly so ss not to rouse too much opposition from the British imperi- alists. More discussion is necessary on Amtorg Tr: ng Cor- the cruiser bill becquse of the desire 5 Broadway, New York, for even more cruisers and, on the mportant nd, the desire of some semi- journ in the pacifist elements to cloak the war ms in less warlike tone. Te yp" Theatre Guild Productions CAPRICE GUILD the Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St. West of 8th Ave. Barbara 0 ‘Thurs. Win gs Over Euro By Robert Nic MILWAUKEE, (By Mail). While cleaning switches in the Mil- waukee road yards, Joseph Kolar, 58, was decapitated by a coasting | ing, January 19, In Madison Square Garden. mann, numbers by the Freiheit Ge- sangs Verein, and a labor sports spectacle by the Labor Sports Union. The speakers will be Jay Lovestone, William Z, Foster, Ben Gitlow, Tickets are now being sold at headquarters of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, 26 Union Square. BORDEAUX, (By Mail).—A French lighter moored near here explosions occurred, threatening the William W. Weinstone, and others. | SEAMEN’S LIVES THREATENED. caught flame, with a cargo of 80. tons of sulphur aboard. Several | | critical introductions. VOICES OF REVOLT RGR PLEAS ID ' q SERIES of attractively printed books containing the outstanding utterances of pionéer revolutionary leaders, ~~ box car, | with ‘Thursd i K Major HUGENE O'NEILL'S range Interlude ann GOLDEN (Thea. beth RVININGS ONLY AT 6°30 AY PIVIC REPERTORY 145t..th , Eyes. 8: 50c; $1 00; $1.50. Mats, Wed. i BVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, Premiere, ‘On the High Road? and “The Lady from Alfaqueque.’ Tues, Eve, “The Cherry Orchard, Liner \OE 4 ARTHUR HOPRINS jet | 5 cere ae ; z rem &5' NOW game av THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY LILY DAMITA in “FORBIDDEN LOVE” ‘Then, 44 St.W.ofB' way. \SHUBERT vs. 8.30 Mats, Wed. and Saturday WALTER WOOLF | in the ‘rhrilling | Musical Hit The Red Robe with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra 47th Sty | | | Ethel Barrymore Thea. {7 Sy Eys. 8:80; Mats. Wed. and Sat, Chick. 9944 ERLANGER’S TH.W,448t-Bv 3.30 Mats.,Wed.andSat. SEN’ GEO. M. COHAN PRI iTS : By A_E. THOMAS LB 146 W. Sith Ste bun Noon to Midi it Pop Cassa, PLAYHOUSE ular ATH SENSATIONAL WEEK “Lucrecia Borgia” | with Conrad Veldt and cast of 50,000, NOW AT OUR NEW AND LARGE TIIEATRE | |were thrown into rivers or buried alive. | At the time Diaz took power, |Mexico did not wish to recognize |him, as the manner of his electicn| con Garment Girls |violated the accord of Central | nion Recognition American states signed at Washing- bats ton. ‘Sheridan Square Subway Station) Grove Street Theatre ‘Spring 2772-5 Min. trom Brway Singing Jailbirds A New Playwrights Thentre Production directed by EM JO BASSHE. . NO WORKER SHOULD MISS IT! — POPULAR PRICES. lives of members of the lighter crew and harbor workers, Volumes Already Published: I. Maximilien Robespierre; I]. Jean Paw Marat; 111. Ferdinand Lassalle; IV, Karl Liebknecht; V. George Jacques Danton; VI. August Bebel; VII. Wilhelm Liebknecht; Vill. V. 1. Lenin; 1X. Eugene V. Debs; X. C. EB, Ruthenberg. Bound in Boards, 50c each, Order from “The principn! instrument in the i farce in h CABMEN ORGANIZE. BALTIMORE, (By Mail),—Balti- more taxi drivers have begun organi-— zation. They are dissatisfied with wages and conditions. imperialist dixnrmamen: democracy, the masses illus tl abolixhing war without overth' ing imperialism, Among the so- cial democrats, there are two tens dencies on the quent ft disarm= ament, both of whic tendencies of bow (By Mail).—Local| The legitimate president, Sacasa, jon and partial accept- who had set up a government at demands have been won | Puerto Cabezas, was forced to flee! the Tailors and Garment |the country when a large force of | Union after a 12 weeks’|U. S. marines landed and forced “with the Rego Clothiers |Sacasa out, blithely ignoring his| an legitimacy as president according to From theses of | Sixth Communint Internat memorial meeting, Madison Square Gard organized use of force counter - revolution, the svfeguarding of ti mand of the strikers|the Central American pact the * © f th Hutt RKER RAR UB e been won, Sam Elsbury, | United States had initiated. Sacasa’s| “The Party ts strengthened by ot the majority. we fame = PUBLISHERS ine money on nellsgutn. Den the union declares, had |chief general, Moncada, later turned, Purifying, Itxelf of au 35 East 1251TH StreeT. clements."—Lenin, ven! meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Gardems New York Crry. ty tire From speech by Lenin, Lenin mem- -orinl meeting, January 19 heen sabotaged by re-|traitor and is now president, thus’ ials of the union, getting his reward. \