The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1929, Page 2

Page Two Progre WILL ANSWER FAKE MOVES OF LABOR BETRAYER Call on Membership to Mobilize Faced with aianemieenin which they know to be sympathetic to the progressives they had expelled, and | which gives evidence of refusing to be used as a catsnaw in furthering the’ ends of the officialdom, Business Agent Weintraub, of the Cleaners and Dyers Union, recently made the fake maneuver of calling a member- ship meeting for the purpose of “re- considering” the expulsion of the progressives. That meeting is to be held tonight. That the maneuver of Weintraub was hypocritical and merely a “man- euver” and not an honest step to- ward the reinstatement of the mem- bers illegally expelled last January, is proven by the t that all the other gangster officials of the union spoke against it, including all the executive board members. Conclu- sive proof, however, was offered by traub himself, who went around ing all the -shops, instructing ic followers to come to tonight's meéting and vote down the proposal for reinstatement. The progressives take this man- euver to be a confession of bank- ruptey by the officialdom, and, not afraid that the membership will de- cidé against reinstatement, are do- ing their utmost to rally the true membership. Hundreds of leaflets put out by the Progressive Group, exposing the bureaucrats are cir- culated among the members to rally theny to the meeting. Tn part the appeal of the Prozres- sive Group declares: “The policies of the officials have brought the union to ruin. The of- ficials have lost the confidence of the members and their splitting tac- tics broke the solidarity of the werk- ers, the result of which we feel in the ‘shops. “Now the situation in the in- dustry, the approach of the new agreement, the general dissatisfac- tion of the members and their re- fusal to support the officialdom in their move to once more hand over the union to the bosses has forced | them to consider the pressure of the members. “Sister and Brothers: This is a eritical turn in the union. Every one of you who has the welfare of the union at heart must be present at the special meeting tonight and make it as demonstrative as the meeting held following the illegal expulsions of Jan. 1928. “Do not permit yourselves to be tricked by the clique. “Remove terrorism freedom of speech. “Vote for the unconditional instatement of all bers of the Progressive Group at a special membership meeting.” Officer’s Négligence Kills 3 Navy Seamen and demand re- BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. 20. —The death of three seamen and two officers of the U. S. navy re- sulted here when the ranking offi- cer caused a naval gig carrying him to crash into a barge. The seamen were Earl D. Tibbets of Haverhill, ssive W expelled mem-, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JA JARY 21, 1929 a orkers in Clean nN Urge to Attend Meeting Tonignt Mrs. O, O. Hammond, pri son of Oklahoma. te She is said to moment in which to sign bills. with corruption and impeached hin out of their chambers. |Impeached Governor, Spook Chasing Advisor secretary of Governor Henry John- be the head of an “occult” ring of Rosicrucians who are trusted by Johnson to tell him the fateful The legislature has just charged him m for using the militia to run them Hall Johnson Choir Works by Day and In an interview given to a Daily Worker reporter recently, Hall Johnson, organizer and leader of the Hall Johnson Negro Choir, said that most of the members of his group are workers, who devote their spare time to the study and per- formance of the songs of their peo- ple. Some of them are students in music conservatories, but most of them, says Johnson, “work every day but sing at night. Our present group especially is a pretty hard-| working bunch, I don’t think there are any of them who do singing ex- clusively.” This popular choir sang twice at the summer Stadium Concerts and are expected to be on the programs | again this summer. At the concert given by them at the Golden Thea- tre, the house was sold out and many turned away, and upon popu- lar request, another concert is to be given on February 3 at the Gallo |Theatre, 254 W. 54th St. at 8:30 p. m. Johnson says that he believes the reason the spirituals were so popu- lar as a mass expression was be- ‘cause this was the only thing the yslaves could do without interfer- jence from their masters, and be- {cause many of the spirituals, while ‘having a religious form, are ac- |tually an expression of the miser- lable lives of the slaves. The American Negro Labor Con-}| gress and the Negro Champion have secured these singers as a part of a splendid program at their Harlem Revels, to take place to- morrow evening at Renaissance Casino, 138th St. and 7th Ave. The program also includes Elizabeth Welsh, of the cast of “Blackbirds,” a Negro revue which has been run- ning on Broadway for more than a year; Doris Rheubottom, singer at Toronto Carpenters Push Officials Alon& to Make Better Deal TORONTO, Canada, Jan. 20.— Pressure of the membership in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners here is forcing the offi- cials to take a stronger stand in Sings at Nigh |the Alhambra Theatre; and Paul and Thelma Meeres, tango dancers. The Vernon Andrade Orchestra will provide the music for dancing. All workers, Negro and white, are invited to attend, The Workers Book Shop, 26 Union Square; New Masses, 39 Union Square; Tattler, 2396 Seventh Ave.; and Negro Champion, 169 W. 133rd St., still | have some tickets for sale, so hurry /up and get yours, Any organization wishing to have a box should immediately make reservations by telephone, Harlem 5643. Just a few boxes are left. SOVIET FARMER HAS FULL LIFE Albert Rhys Williams Tells of Struggle “Last winter I saw by the Volga a tractor entering a village. Eyes that had never seen an engine grew |big with wonder, gazing at the strange, clanking, many-whecled monster,” said Albert Rhys Williams jlecturing under the auspices of the Society For Cultural Relations with Soviet Russia, last night at the |Martin Beck Theatre, “T don’t what you to picture a place of harmony and peace and quiet order,” he continued. “On the contrary, there are deep conflicts and clashes of mind, currents and undercurrents between the older generation and the new, between the old patriarchial family that wants to keen the woman in the home and j the the newer concept of freedom ‘and liberty, with tens of thousands lof women delegates. Because the old hard-fist usurious trading pea- sant and the poorer middle pea- santry, between the traditional, |superstitious minded and those who ‘accept the new views of the uni-) verse, between the bearded and the | beardless.” Williams has been for five years in the U. S. S. R. on this trip and will return. He is not # Commu- nist, but his study of the agricul- tural conditions in the U. S, S. R. ers and Dyers Unio 15,000 PLEDGE “FIGHT ON WAR AT. BIG LENIN. MEET \Pledge Fight Against Imperialist War Continued from Page One States, Hail the revolutionary move- ree © of the workers and farmers. Hail the Workers (Communist) Party! Let us conduct our struggle for the defeat of imperialism and for winning the entire world for | the working class.” Opening his} | address, Gitlow said: | Fighting Imperialist War. “The period of successful revolu- tion gave us Lenin, the outstanding leader of the working class. When he died the workers’ movement did | not stand still, but marched forward. | Following the teachings of Lenin, | |the workers all over the world are mobilizing to fight imperialism and the capitalist ruling powers. Today, we are approaching a new imperial- ist world war. The only force in America fighting against this war | is the Workers (Communist) Party. | “American imperialism is trying | |to extend its rule and dominance | jover the world. At this time the | militant workers of the United | States declare to the workers of | | Mexico and Latin-America that we | jstand with them in their struggle and will do everything possible to bring about solidarity to the end that the government of Wall Street |be ended and that the workers and | | peasants come into control not only | jin Latin-America, but also in the | United States.” Touching on the murder of Mella, e said: Will Avenge Mella Murder. “We, American workers, regret the great loss, But we declare to ihe Wali Street imperialists that the assassination of Mella does not | ‘bring an end to the revolutiondry movement in Cuba. Together with the Cuban workers, we will avenge the murder of Mella.” Foster, who was the last speaker was interrupted from time to time | by applause, cheering and the) stamping of feet. He said: See ya “On this, the fifth anniversary of . } the death of Lenin, we meet to re- \Grain Purchases From dedicate ourselves to the principles | ; i he taught, to the Workers (Commu- |Peasants in the Soviet niet) Party and to the Communist; Union Show Increase International. We find gigantic | tasks confronting us. The world is aflame with preparations for a new | war, a war between imperialist pow- peasants for the month of Dee. 1928, ers and a war against the Soviet amounted to 1,010,000 metric tons, Union. Never in the history of the nearly dcuble the procurements for world were such tremendous war |p. 4997 preparations made as at present. ay eeiiy ‘ ‘UE Labor Imperialists. Total purchases of grain by offi- “We see fake representatives of |cial procuring agencies for the six ‘labor, the bureaucratic leaders of |months ending Dec. 31, 1928, accord- \the American Federation, of Labor, jing to cable reports received by the |Amtorg Corporation, |falling in line with the imperialists, jtrying to break up the natural re- ne : sistance of the working class. They | amounted to 5,791,000 metric tons, have turned the trade unions into an increase of 23.4 per cent over the sections of virtual machines for war. | purchases for the same period in the “The Workers (Communist) Party | »,eceding year. and the Communist International are | _____ -- |organizing the masses of the world. |demonstration by repr |As the war develops, the workers Latin-American countries in protest of this country and the workers of |cf the murder of Julio Mella. Led ‘other nations will use the strategy | by Cecilio Mella, brother of the slain ‘taught by, the great leader, Lenin. |Cuban Communist leader, the dele- | They will declare war against the |gates marched through the aisles of limperialist governments and shatter the great Garden and onto the plat- | them.” form. Mella carried a red banner. ; worker organizing American y view 0, Mella. Belo er i Purchases of grain from Soviet | | | | Trading entatives of g condemned imperialism iheit crorus on it, New York Workers at Lenin Memorial in “Garden” Above:.Part of huge crowd massed in Madison Square Garden to commemorate the anniversary of Lenin's death, to pledge themselves to fight the war danger and gain fresh enthusiasm for the task of and denounced the murder of New Masses Will Hold Spring Carnival Mar. 1 The New Masses is getting ready for its spring carnival which will take place on Friday, March Ist, at Webster*Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The spring carnival promises to be even! more’ successful than the Winter Ball last December. Groups of work- ers are urged to buy their tickets early and come in costumes. New Masses artists and writers will greet the spring with song and dance and gay costumes. Novel at- tractions will be announced soon. JACKSONVILLE, (By Mail).— John Wright, a Negro worker, was convicted of second degree murder ‘on a charge that could not be sub- stantiated by the evidence. | “International,” in which the audi- ence joined. Soviet Music. An outstanding feature of the meeting was the recital by Jascha Fischermann, noted Soviet pianist. d “1905,” “1917" and other usic. Canadian Eskimo Sick, Dying; the Government Gives Them Banners McPHERSON, Canada, Jan, 20. —Ten per cent of the Eskimo popu- lation in the McKenzie River valley died during the influenza epidemic last year, according to reports here. The Canadian government keeps these people in a state of practical destitution by its game laws and general interference with tribal life, without any compensa- ting advantage of medical service or otherwise. The school system provided for a people who, according to all ob- servers are unusually eager to learn, is confined to the “Three R’s” and to copious instructions in loyalty to the king—and to the fur traders who exovloit them. cine, the missionaries sent in here provide the Eskimo with union jacks which they are encouraged to fly on their fishing boats. COMPETE FOR MARKET. Instead of medi- | LEFT WING POLLS 150 IN ELECTIONS IN WAITER UNION Local 1 Members Show Militancy The left wing got 150 votes, but as a reaction against the past year’s ‘misleadership of fake progressives, Local 1 Waiters’ and Waitresses, A. - F. of L., has put into office an al- most complete right wing ticket, ac- cording to announcement of the an- nual election results this week, Wm, |Lehman, former secretary and no- torious for Tammany Hall politics, was again placed in power, backed up by a right wing executive board and business agents. Nearly 2,000 votes were cast. Rifkin Vote Smallest. Louis Rifkin, leader of the “pinks,” who were misnamed as “progres- sives” and “left wingers,” got the smallest vote of any of his party, some 500 votes. Rubinfelt, known as, a socialist, and who earns his living not by waiting on table but by sell- ing insurance, was defeated less con- spicuously as secretary. Finkelstein, ‘who has become part of the office furniture as assistant secretary, and who was supported by both old par- ties, was swept out by an independ- ent candidate, Gottesman, running on a “square deal” platform opposed to both leading groups. The only organized fight against both the Lehman and Rubinfelt-Rif- kin groups came from the progres- sive rank and file. In conjunction with the “Idlers,” an organization of the unemployed, this group ran a complete slate for the executive board on the basis of real left wing issues. Over 150 votes were secured by these militants. Form New Canadian Paper Pulp Monopoly SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont., Jan. 20 (U.P).—Reports of a giant merg- er of Canadian pulp and paper cor- porations aimed toward price “sta- bilization” and controlled output in |the newsprint field gained headway today when G. R. Gray, vice pres- ident of the Abitibi Pulp & Paper Company intimated that “there might be something in it.” “Mergers and talk of mergers in all sorts of industries are popular today,” he went on. The Abitibi Company was pivot unit in a paper merger 15 months ago which brought $178,000,000 in |assets under one management and | gave the new corporation vast paper | resources and mills at Smooth Rock Falls, Iroquois Falls, Sturgeon Falls, Espanola, Soo. and Fort William in Ontario; Winipeg, In- {manittba; Ste. Anne and Murray | Bay in Quebec. ‘Air Fueled Army Plane Trains for War Flight TUCSON, Ariz. Jan. 20—The army plane Question Mark and its convoying refueling plane Janded at | Tucson at 4 p. m. today on the first ‘lap of its San Diego to Washington | trip. The value to militarism of the re- fueling invention is that it will make long-distance bombing flights pos- sible. The present test is, therefore, Mass; Herbert D. McDowell, of their negotiations with the General hes made him very sympathetic. It was the task of the Workers|The Young Pioneers of America,, The entertainment program: was, WINTER GARDEN, Fla., (By |?ather more important to U. S, im- Jacksonville, Fla.; and Fred W.|Contractors Association of the| His lecture was accompanied by a|Party, Foster said, to Jead the |several hundred strong, also paraded concluded with a labor sports - Mail) —The Dutch Potash Export Perialism than the endurance test Sweinberg, of West Orange, N.J. Builders’ Exchange. motion picture, showing peasant life | masses in the building of industrial through the auditorium and then tacle by the Labor Sports Union. An Company, by a series of experiments | Started New Years day. The officer in command was the Contractors are refusing to in the Volga region, in Ukraine, | unions in the United States. He was | gave revolutionary yells. robatic act and pyramids were |that proved to be of good advertis-| that of with FIRE THREATENS CHILDREN. MANITOWOC, Wis., (By Mail).— cheered when he recounted the or-| The last procession vw ganization of the new miners’, tex-|the Freheit Gesangs Ve captain of the Ninth Destroyer Squadron. His name was Griswold, presented by the Kisatoverit Ath- letic Club, There was a mass drill negotiate an agreement for 1929.|and is Uzbekistan. ling value, has succeeded in winning Officials of the union openly say} It was aided by two appearances | over a large part of the fertilizer | and he was one of the staff officers that they are trying to “hold the |of Nina Tarasova, singing the first|tilc and needle trades workers’ |250 members participating. Five in which the Vesa and Kisatoverit market here and has become a keen|Fire breaking out in the school house given swanky soft jobs during most membership in check” and get them|time folk songs of the peasants of | unions. |numbers were offered by the revolu- Athletic Clubs participated and aj|competitor of American chemical/in the village of Quarry, near here of his career. ‘to accept conditions proposed. the U.S. S. R. wy | The evening was opened with ajtionary chorus. beginning with the | sham sickle drill by the Vesa Club. concerns. \threatened 85 children. All, were safe -. STATEMENT OF THE N 1.—fhe National Executive Com- mittee Buro wholeheartedly and un- letter of the Communist Youth In- ternational to the American Young Workers (Communist) League, be- nomic analyses of the situation in the-United States of America is cor- rectoand that a correct estimate is given-of the League activity and the exigting internal situation of the Yoaing Workers (Communist) Lemgue of America. This letter of therGY¥I, similar to past resolutions, is very timely, and provides the cor- reetybasis of orientating the League membership to an understanding of theswbesent changing situation and thednew tasks facing them. &s¢-The NEC Buro transmits this lettemiof the CYI to the function- avieynlower units and the entire membership for the purpose of a there «study, discussion and under- standing ot the correct line contain- ed>therein. The NEC Buro particu- larlycalls to the attention of the sk e: } @ result of the maturing of the contradictions and as a result he growing outer contradictions, jeularly between the United 1s a sg hy ata Mtg its 8 Yeservediy accepts and endorses the! lieving that the political and eco-_ membership the following analyses. ain tasks given to the Amer-_ | economic system but because of their | peculiar status these intensified mis- eries and sufferings are even further accentuated. As a result of this wor- sening of their situation we see deep- going changes in the sentiments and moods of the working youth in the |United States, so much so, that we can definitely say that we have en- tered a new period. The changing | | status of the American young work- ers is thus summarized by the Execu- \tive Committee of the CYI | “Therefore one -is justified in | saying, that rationalization and its | effects, far from improving the | position of the working youth have | made it considerably worse. This worsening is so considerable that it activizes the “American young workers, who politically were up till now completely apathetic,” as was pointed out by the CYI in 1926. The worsening of the position of the working youth, which became more noticeable only last year (1927), enabled us to declare: ‘We cannot say that the working youth of America is an almost inert mass’ (from: the CYI letter to American YCL, 1927); and now when the worsening of the young workers’ conditions is becoming more evident to the largest part of the working youth, we can say today: the working youth is no more the most backward part of the American proletariat and is oie result of the growing contradictions is the war danger—on the one hand between the imperialist powers ithemselves, between the imperialist powers and the colonial peoples, and also unitedly against the viet Union. This places before us as our two basic taske—“to win and organ- ize the working youth, and to fight against war.” .—Recognizing the correctness of the CYI analyses, and seeing at hand the growing offensive on the eco- nomic standards of the young work- \ers, and the gigantic militarization process being developed daily, we idefinitely recognize that the YWCL ‘has before it great possibilities for ‘organizing and developing our League as a mass organization, based on the young industrial workers. The wrong tendency to “over-estimate ithe strength of the opponents and | (to over-estimate) the inertia exist- ing among the young workers,” cre- lates a tendency today to fail to ‘understand the present new period —consideration of the young work- ers as an inert mass—and is respon- 8 for the fact that the League minimizes the tempo of the strug- gle and fails to see the favorable op- ‘portunities offered for building the League. This is exampled best by the poor recruiting qualities of the (from 23 per cent students in 1927|Panken and Berak maneuver— to 87 per cent in 1928—Zam’s report | vision of application of the 9th in Moscow). |Plenum decisions by Pepper betw 4.—The 5th Congress of the CYI |Europe and America—lack of cri has laid down the general line of \cism of Brophy and Co.—open: letter activity on the world scale. Further, to S. P.—lateness and hesitancy to the CYI states, “One cannot make call National Miners’ Left. Wing an exception for the United States Conference—lateness in the entrance in regards to the general tactical into the mining campaign—resist- tasks of the CYI.” For us it is im- ance to RILU decisions to build new portant that we understand that |unions—and refusal to endorse RILU thruout the world today the contra- resolution on. America—proposal to dictions arising out of the partial exclude class struggle clause from stabilization, which lead to new wars, Miners’ Union constitution—uncriti and the definite radicalization of the cal attitude and shielding actions to- working . masses—coupled with a wards Right wingers in needle trades state apparatus, as stated specifical- ‘tain leading position in anti-imperi- ly and definitely by the Communist alist work—Ed.)—incorrect attitude International and the CYI make the towards Labor Party, as expressed “Right danger the main danger for the Communist movement,” and specifically states, “The Right dan- ger is the main danger in the Amer- ican Party.” This Right danger in the American Party is due to the wrong analysis contained in the po- litical line of the May Plenum thesis of the Party which contended: a) a line must be drawn between the maturing inner contradictions of Europe as distinct from the United States of America; b) that United States imperialism will come out of the present situation strengthened; c) failure to recog- nize the growing radicalization process and limiting this radicali- |Wolfe, Amter and others in the Daily Worker, by Raymond in Detroit, etc., failure to build new Miners’, Union, lack of preparation and haphazard building of New Textile Union and \the Right mistakes in the election campaign, California mistakes, etc. | 5.—Trotskyism is a petty-bour- |geois, social-democratic deviation which has developed into a counter- revolutionary force. Trotskyism, while attacking Leninism from the “ultra-Left,” merges with the ex- treme Right wing--the open oppor- tunists—and both travel the road of social democracy. As Lenin stated, “Trotskyism is a system of Right deeds covered with Left phrases.” The NEC must. stand unitedly for the intensification of the ideological against ‘Trotekyiam and the , merging of social-democracy and the —appointment of Nearing (to a cer- p, by Bedacht in the Young Worker and |skyism,—at the same time always lalert to and conducting an aggres-| ive critical campaign and “vigorous | joint struggle ‘against Right tenden- cies, especially the Right errors of the Party ‘Executive.” (From Polit- Resolution, 5th Congress, CYI.) 6.—The NEC ‘declares its accept- ance of the line and decisions of the 6th Congress of the Comintern. The \NEC emphasizes that this line and \these directives are applicable to our | American Party. The NEC under-| tands the ‘decision on the American Party to be that the Comintern is “The direct cause of the renew- ed factional struggle in the Execu- tive of the League is the revival of the struggle in the American Party. The American League made progress in regards to unity, and | the successes in its work corre- spond exactly with this period. But this unity was marred by the vneritical attitude of the Execu- tive of the League to the Right errors of the Party. The NEC actually condoned and shared the Right errors of the Party by its tacit agreement with them.” Thes NEC declares that the fac-| ‘supporting neither group in the;tional struggle in the League must |the Party or any section of it. The arty against the other and calls cease and calls upon the membership| NEC recognizes as a weakness in E. C. MINORITY ON LETTER OF THE COMMUNIST YOUTH INTERNATIONAL { We must also understand that the|letarian membership in the League; Outstanding of;these mistakes are: tion elimination of .Cannon’s Trot- | preters of the policy of the Com- | intern in regards to the American | question. Any uncritical attitude - | towards the Party groupings. will necessarily bring about the revival and intensification of unprincipled group striving. in the League, which is the main hindrance in its development.” © The NEC categorically declares |that the League must not be tied up \fractionally with any of the Party groups and must maintain at all \times a critical attitude towards all |Party groups and. be especially alert and critical to the Right errors of ‘upon the membership to carry into and leadership to unite on the basis |the past, as pointed out by the cyl, ‘effect the ‘decisions of the Comintern of the CYI line of unity, which|the “absence of real Party leadership Congress. | The Central Committee of the) ‘Party, instead of heeding the de-| ‘cisions of the CI, gontinues to con-) ‘duct its activities on the basis of its | ‘incorrect analysis of the political and | ‘economic situation and interprets the | CI decision as an endorsement of its Majority group as against the Mi- nority group in the Party. The League will support the Party ener-| getically in all its activities, but re-| _serves the right given it by the CI! ‘and the CYI to criticize all mistakes | f the Party from whichever source they come. The NEC rejects the idea | of giving ungonditional uncritical | £1pport to either group in the Party. | .7—The CYI has declared that, | “factional struggle is the main char acteristic. which distinguishes your! League from all other sections of the CYI.” Further, the letter of the CYI states: “The general basis of the group strife is the political and organi- zational weakness of the YCL, es- pecially its unsatisfactory social and national composition. There- fore one of the chief means of overcoming factional strife is de- lopment of the League’s activ- ity; i.e, overcoming the existing defects and weak points of the. League, which are the result of the objective position as well as its errors”; and further, “The CYI proposes to its Amer- iean section not only to take up a critical attitude to’the individual groupings and their mistakes, which is already partly done by the Minority, but to break decisive- ly and finally all fractional con- nections and come out in the inner- Party questions as a united whole, becoming one of the best inter- 5 iin regard to the YCL,. which was | ‘frequently substituted by factional, |leadership. a | “The YCL must be under genera! control of the CC of the Party and not of the control of individual fac- tions of the Party,” and will rectify his from now on. Instead of accept- ing the line of the CYI for unity the Zam group continues its uncritical lattitude to the Party. While forced ‘to pay lip service to certain glaring ‘errors in its statement, it ignores ‘the basic mistake of analysis com- mitted by the Polcom, and the Zam \group even publicly declares its un- ‘reserved endorsement of the Party | Majority for the future in the ‘past. This uncritical attitude is best ‘demonstrated in the actions of the |NEC Majority in joining el |CEC Majority in fighting of the CYI, which means of the CI hi ,