The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929 6,000 British Miners, Lured by Government to Canadian Farm with a Moral - - - VIRTUAL SLAVERY Thousands Duped, Told Once upon a Time there was a Worker who really Was class-conscious and Militant and wanted To fight like hell For the emancipation Of his cla This Worker was employed In a dress factory In New York ‘and Belonged to something That his boss and A skunk called Sigman assured him Was a union. Times became bad and The boss had his own Way with everything, Firing workers right And left, slashing Wages, speeding them Up until they used To sweat and spit Blood all day. Lk The workers went in A body to Sigman and One of his side-kicks Called Schlesinger and Said they thought it Was about time that Something be done About the situation. But Sigman offered Them cigars and said Don’t you worry every Thing will be All right in the End. mM The workers, however, Shouted “Strike!” and In order to placate Them Sigman said all Right. So there was A strike and thousands Walked out, militantly Fighting for union Conditions. But it Didn’t last long Because Sigman got Together with the Bosses and “settled” The strike for a Nice, substantial Consideration, kicking This worker and Several thousands of His fellow-workers In the pants. * This worker is now A member of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, with no Sigmans or Schlesingers To “settle” with Bosses behind his back. * Today this worker Is taking a collection Box to his shop in The Red Tag Day ' Drive that will save . The Daily Worker, | The only English speaking Organ that fights for His interests and the Interests of the Workers all over The world. ’ He is doing now What he should have Done long ago: Raising funds for The Daily Worker, The working class organ That will kick the Sigmans, Schlesingers, Greens, EARN ONLY $10 Dee" Cror*™ BRITISH DEPORT T.U,E,L, GALLS “Work or Starve” OTTAWA, Feb. .——Unabie fs the starvation wages and long {hours meted out to the green har- vest hand lured to Wes by the rosy promises of government officials and steamship agents, 6,876 |’ Brit t h miners returned to England st year out of an original party of 50 shipped to Canada by the British government as part scheme to relieve huge demands upon the “dole” caused by growing unemployment. These figures w revealed by the conservative party leader, Bennett, before the Canadian parliament here yesterda; Within one rionth after the party arrived in Winnipeg, Bennett reports, huge meetings were held, protesting against the callous indifference of {both Canadian and British go to the plight of the we whom they had duped into accepting the “reduced” passage to Canada. | Five hundred leaders of the protest | meeting, styled “malcontents” in the jofficial report, were deported back to England by the Dominion govern- | ment, which feared the spread of the | revolt. | The remainder, largely y and {inexperienced in the ways of the farm, were faced with the choice— work or starve. Forced to compete with the low wages—$10 a month— ‘offered to European peasant work- ters who periodically flood the coun- try in response to glowing reports jon the “golden opportuniti Canada, spread by lying steamship agents in c |minion government, the British min- ers existed till after the harvest } closed in November. | In the bitter zero weather of the of its |Canadian winter, they found they | |were denied relief by the cit; fathers of various western cities, and rather than live on the bread- lines of “thriving” cities they \hegged, borrowed, stole passage money or Wi da passage back to England. | The scandalous failure of tne fake scheme to liquidate unemployment throughout England will not deter | Pritish steamship agents from pro- |moting similar schemes next winter. Such schemes, promoted by the pro- | Canadian Pacific Steamship govern- ments of the colony and “mother | country,” attract thousands of Brit- |ish workers every year. |1921 harvest fraud was carefully | played down by the press of both | countries. The conservative, Ben- |nett, describes the 1928 scheme as | “ill-conceived.” ‘Olgin Will Speak at to | junction with the Do-} Even the | Harlem Forum Tonite | . | Th Negro and three nite workers we arrested for picket- ing the Tip Inn, on E. 14th St., ich recently refused to serve on Photo shows one of carrying a banner. SHOP WORKERS. TO AD “DAILY” Tag Day Collections | Thruout City | S¢Gonteuisd Wren Pace One) n- collect, hundreds of workers| rs | Will take up their revolutionary | sei¢ to be just as reactionary as any task enthusiastically, spread- ing to the same cl: which animates them. | The fight to save the organ of |the working class throughout the | world will be taken up in a mighty shout today, by organized workers and unorga: d, Negro workers and white workers, women and young workers. And when the day ‘is over, every worker must feel that he has made a definite start in the h will cover every street, aff. and workers’ club w and Sunday, the two big | day | Instructions i the different sec for the Tag Da: lowing points, which every worker must observe in order to carry the drive over the top: “See to it that every Party mem- | ber has a ‘Show Your Color’ box |this morning with a bundle of leai- lets. Distribute the leaflets first |and then approach the workers to help the Daily Worker. “Tomorrow and Sunday, see that the section stations are open from early morning until late at night, | where boxes and tags, credentials should be given Party members and sympathizers, “Send out special committees to cover all affairs in your section with | boxes, wherever possible an appeal | should be made for the Daily. ed yesterday to om headquarters include the fol- covered. “Do not fail to visit restaurants, stores, ¢ |Brookiyn Alteration Painters Will Talk | po OT Ean ‘on Tonite of an “Inde- 2 Painters, Paper- JACK JOHNSTONE PARLEY TO Alp FROM CALCUTTA DRESS STRIKERS Sends Letter to Labor Organizations Indian Labor Congress Protests at Action (Continued from Page One) tions, for union organization, for the establishment of the 40-hour 5-day s,/ week, for increased wages, against the right of discharge by the em- ployers, against the terrible tem of speed-up in the industry. These workers have been enduring the most bitter kind of exploitation and oppression. Although the strike is only a week old, it has already met the hearty | response of the workers. The dressmakers are fighting the Continued from Page One , he was later deported. t Genoa by steamer, f sted him at the doc s sent on by rail under A police and he v fascist police guard through Italy te the German frontier. At once ‘upon his arrest in India, the Indian Trade Union Congress addressed by him, da resolution of protest against this persecution by British imperialism and later adopted a resolution to affiliate to the League Against Imperialism, also deciding to postpone the question of affilia- |tion to the reformist Amsterdam in- ternational. battle of all labor. They are fighting against the development of company unionism in their industry which has reduced the standards of the Attacks British Reformis(s. The chairman of the cong % Dand, in opening the first session, |told the congress “not to expect too much or even anything of the British Labor Party, which had shown it- workers. They are fighting to build up a real industrial union for the improvement of their working condi- tions. The dressmakers are conducting their strike in the face of the ex- |treme terror by the police. Mass arrests have already occurred. The police are completely ignoring the rights of the workers to picket and to strike. The police are not only acting at the behest of the sweatshop i feat |employers. The officials of the Cen- jsiz_on the Commission after the/+ 41 Trades and Labor Council have Lahore and Lucknow attacks by) r, i {police on workers demonstrating Spyeelet Mi Maye. Wesker: We He lagainst the commission, one worker |? ” jother party in England where In- |dian interests were concerned.” | A resolution protested against the j action of the two representatives cf |the British Labor Party on the {Simon Commission in continuing to Cap and Millinery Workers Support Dress Strike 100% ‘Thousands and thousands of dress- makers of various nationalities and many races answered the call of. the new and are now out in the struggle against the bosses and their agents, the Sigman-Schlesinger “Forward,” and A. F, of L. bureaucrats. The dressmakers are fighting for the abolition of sweat shop condi- tions, for the organization of the un- j organized, for the forty hour week, for the building up of the needle trades workers Industrial Union, for the abolition of speed up system by abolishing piece work and standards of production, which were brought about by the Sigmans and the Schle- singers. Like open agents of the bosses, these “Socialists,” union bureaucrats, helped to abolish all union conditions achieved by the dressmakers through years of heroic struggle and self sac- rifice. ae The struggle of the dressmakers | is our struggle. The struggle of the) dressmakers against the bosses and their agents must get the full sup- port of every cap and_ millinery; worker. The Zaritsky clique in our union is travelling on the same union smashing road, which has led to the ,enslavement of the dressmakers, The Zaritsky clique in our union has smashed the heroic struggle of the Chicago capmakers against piece- work, and has reduced the militant Boston local to a mere company union. Zaritsky’s application for an injunction against the militant Bos- ton capmakers to the Massachusetts Needle Trades Industrial Union; | Zaritsky, with his clan club of local 24, will pay dearly for their scab work against local 43. The capmakers will have to take up the struggle against the Zarit- sky union breaking machine, just as the cloakmakers, dressmakers and furriers fought against the Sigman and Schlesinger machine, We must unite all cap and millinery workers in a_ struggle against the union | breaking activities in our union. Every cap and millinery worker must realize that a victory for the) ‘ dressmakers is a victory for the rank and file of all unions. Zaritsky is actively supporting the Schlesinger- Forward Company union. It is er | their struggle against yellow forward, with their Tammany therefore the duty of every capmak- | jer to support the dressmakers in| company | ‘unionism, Let no capmaker be mis-| lled by the scab propaganda of the} s, Return to England GOLD TO SPEAK AT BIG PROTEST MEET MONDAY To Hit Police Terror in Dress Strike Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the new Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union and one-of the lead- ers of the big dressmakers’ strike, will be one of the chief speakers at | @ mass meeting to protest the police attacks on the strike, to be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Ir- ving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the New York District of the International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers (Communist) | Party. “genossen” of the Central Trades and Labor Council. Remember that between 12 and 15 thousand workers Other speakers will be Ben Git- low, member of the Secretariat, of \the Workers Party; Norman H. Tal- are on strike. Go on the picket line and see for yourself how the faith- | ful watchdogs of the bosses are split- ting the heads and jailing hundreds |of heroic fighters who are labelled by the yellow Forward as “Commu- nist Seabs.” Every capmaker, every millinery leader must realize that the victory for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union spells a death blow to company unionism. Against the united front of the So- cialist Tammany Hall and A. F. of L. bureaucrats with the bosses, we must unite all workers into one pow- erful united front against the bosses jand all betrayers of labor. Full sup- lentire, assistant national secretary | of the International Labor Defense; H. Sazer, of the Trade Union Edu- cational League; Richard B. Moore, national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress; George | Powers, organizer of the Architec- |tural Iron and Bronze Workers’ | Union and Robert W. Dunn, labor | economist. ‘Organization of Deep- WaterMen Progressing ion N. Y. Waterfront justice, the murderers of Sacco and | a |means to break the dressmakers’ leader, Lajpat, Rai, Vanzetti, will vemain the blackest being killed in| ™ oy | strike. These officials, acting to-} [the Lahore demonstration. | ge. gether with Socialist Party officials, congress reaffirmed its de-| Schlesinger and others, who have page in the history of our union.) |port of the dressmakers struggle, |defeat company unionism, on the! By BLACKIE. ‘The organization of the deep-water Trad Dis te Bill. th ding | TS and are responsible for the mis-} aa ispute : i dy Pa ‘m8 erable’ conditions and disorganiza-| jaan at PAE 2 he tie strike tion of the garment workers, are! age Dd A throughout | acting in the role of strike break- ndia. Many D : ers. They have made their appeal Ran Leman: on the basis that the workers are Other resolutions demanded adult using violence. Every honest work-| jsuffrage laws, an eight-hour diy'er knows that not the strikers but and 44-hour week, minimum wages,|the employers, the police use ter- old age and widows’ and orphans’ rorism against the pickets. pensions, maternity benefit and) We call upon you to give support weekly payment of wages and ato the strike of the dressmakers! | ANTLFASCIST CONGRESS SOON New York Meeting to Send Men to Berlin picket line to victory! men into the Marine Workets’ League is going ahead at a fair gait. Working conditions which have fallen below the pre-war level, re turning the eyes of the seamen JAILED FOR: ing organization in the field which has undertcken the task of organ- izing the unorganized seamen and jmarine workers. | Both the I. W. W. and the A. F. of L. are spurned by the seamen, |the former because of its bad mis- | Indict Underlings Only, | Higher-Ups Immune protest was adopted against— “The employment of police and + The victory of the dressmakers will encourage the workers in all A world congress against fascism, | (Continued from Page One) ‘takes which they “do not correct, to call together representatives of | took $5,000,000 of city money during | and, which led to its failute. ‘The all groups and organizations fight-|the last few years. \latter is rejected for its rotten and “Subways and elevators must be! military forces on almost every im-\ trades and will be an aid in win- [portant occasion of strike or lock-| ning better conditions for all the jout in order to intimidate the strik- \or;ers, will help in organizing the jers into submission, resulting in| ass of unorganized workers in this | many cases of death and grevious city. jcity. injury to unarmed workers.” ing the growing fascist menace all over the world, will meet in the middle of March in Berlin, Germany. The call for this congress is sent {out by the International Committee | We call upon you to protest the) Against Fascism, which has Henri Amsterdam Influence. action of the officials of the Cen-|Barbusse, prominent French writer The influence of the treacherous tral Trades and Labor Council that | 2nd active worker in the labor strug- |native bourgeoisie upon the congress | are assisting the employers in try-|gle, as chairman, |through its right wing, however, | ing to’ break the strike of the dress-| The American representatives to caused certain plain manifestations makers. \the congress will be chosen at the of social reformism and the in-| We ask your organization to help | Conference in New York on Feb, 22, |fluence of its Amsterdam trade’ by sending several delegates to the | Which is being called at the request | union body, First, a decision to send conference in support of the strike|0f the International Committee ja deputation to the “All-Parties’| to be held at Irving Plaza, Saturday, Against Fascism under the auspices: | Convention,” which has accepted | February 23, at 2 p. m. sharp. jof the Provisional Joint Committee. | dominion status for India, such depu- | The victory of the dressmakers This committee is composed of rep- | tation supposedly to put forward de-|led by the Needle Trades Workers | resentatives of the Anti-Fascist Al- mands of the trade unions. Second, | Industrial Union will be a victory liance, the International Labor De- a proposal to organize an “Asiatic |for the whole labor movement of | fense and the Workers International Labor Conference” at Bombay in |New York. Retief. It Spreads. } Police were unusually secretive| degenerate bureaucracy, its craft about their prisoner. ‘division and anti-working class line. Petty Leader. | All this and the seabbing tactics dis- Al Levin, the other arrested man, | played by them in the 1921 strike, pleaded not guilty to an indictment have turned the eyes of the seamen charging an attempt to bribe Har-| to the Marine Workers’ League, the vem, ee % jone and only organization capable After. making his plea, Levin, out-| of organizing them with ’a fighting side the courtroom said, “There will) policy and militant leadership in the be an entirely different face put on fyture Marine Workers’ Union of this affair at the trial. It's nothing|the transport industi more than a publicity stunt. on the a part of Harvey.” | Levin is a laundry manager but/ Tammany Judge, Head was once secretary cf a Democratic) ward club. \of BankWhereWorkers Tammany Makes Deal. Lost Wages, Is Silent Reports of a peace pact between the regular Democratic organization’ ‘Thousands of poor Italian labor- of Queens and the so-called Tam-| os who deposited their savings in many Democrats was confirmed by/the City Trust Co. 109th St. and John Theofel, Democratic leader in! Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of “The | hangers and Decorators Union will Hammer,” will address the Harlem | be discussed at a meeting of Brook- | Workers Forum, 143 E. 103rd St.,;lyn alteration painters at 1731 Pit- April, instead of affiliating with the | Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre-| tariat, which has already united un- | der its leadership the vast mass 0: Yours for the unity of labor, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, Local New York, Second Ave. are still waiting for his office in Long Island City. Fran-| bart of thelr canontys hack; while cis X, Sullivan is chief of the other | complicated and mysterious deals in organization. \directorships go on behind the ‘ough the main fascist men- ace, in its most brutal and open form, comes from Italy, Jugoslavia, | tonight at 8 o'clock on the subject | of “Nation and Class.” Following his talk there will be a period for questions and discus- sions. | kin Ave., Brookiyn, at 8 o’clock to- | night. | | \from speal fraternal organizations will Show Your Color | on FEBRUARY 16th, 17th Report at the Tag Day Stations for the Alteration painters and speakers | Daily Worker Lewises, Wolls, And their pals, the | Downtown, Section 1 Bosses and imperialists And fascists In the pants, And establish a » Working class { Williamsburg, Section 6 690 Myrtle Ave. 56 Manhattan Ave. BATH BEACH MN Dain sa Coney Island, Section 7 760-40th St. Boro Park, 1373 43rd St. ___2901 Mermaid Ave. Brownsville, Section 8 1111 Rutland Road 313 Hinsdale Ave. is AV ate BB So. BROOKLYN 652 Fourth Ave. Long Island, Section 9 Curner Hall, B'way. & 14th Ave. Astoria 60 St. Marks Place Downtown Sections 2, 3_ Workers Center, 26 Union Sq. 101 W. 27th St. Government in the United States. j fice Workers Dance | Harlem, Section 4 143 E. 103rd St. 1800-7th Ave. | 350 E. 81st St. Bronx, Section 5 1330 Wilkins Ave. 2700 Bronx Park East 715 E. 138th St. “BORO PARK, Section 7 760 40th St. gton’s birthday, Feb. 21, at the f New Webster Manor, 125 E. 11th 9 novelties will be presented in performance of the Dorsha cers and a program of cowboy) by Margaret Larkin to guitar | ompaniment, (Other stations will be announced later.) John J. Ballam, Secretary, 26-28 Union Square. all labor unions of countries touch. |ing the Pacific Ocean. An Asiatic} organization has been desired by) the “Gompers of Japan,” the re-| H i formist Suzuki, and a response to Unique Features will such an idea is decidedly not a step Be Presented at Bron forward for Indian labor. | | | . | Joshi, the right wing leader of the Banquet This Sunday | | congress was re-elected secretary,| ; i ji but a left wing nationalist, Jawa-| Together with the installation of harlal Nehru, a young and militant its new executive committee, Section leader, was elected as president of }5 of the Workers (Communist) Par. the Trade Union Congress. ty has arranged a banquet for this PRS SMR TUE NE | Sunday evening, 6 o'clock, a the ‘ ‘ tion headquarters, 1330 Wilkin Gold, Zimmerman Will Ave the Bien: Me Be Speak at the Workers School Forum Sunday Among the features at the ban- quet will be the showing of the great mine strike films, and a mu- sical saw act by one of the mem- Ben Gold, tary-ti fibers of the section, _Righthand. the Neelle ‘Trades Workers’ Indug- | Sender Garlin, of the editorial staff trial Union and Sascha Zimmerman, vice president of the union, will speak at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Square, this Sunday of the Daily Worker, will act as evening, at 8 p. m., on “The Pre: toastmaster. ent Dressmakers’ Strike.” | The workers of New York City'. will have an opportunity to learn | “European History Since the about the issues of the important | French Revolution” will be the title struggle taking place today among | cf the course to be given by Juliet the dressmakers; what the new/Stuart Poyntz at the Workers union in the needle trades stands | School, 26 Union Square, this spring \for, the achievements of the new/term. Its class will be held on union, and the problems before the | Thursday evenings at 5:30 o'clock. needle trades workers. The course will begin with the On Sunday evening, Feb. 24, the study of the French Revolution, and speakers at the Workers School! ecntinue to analyze the Napoleonic Forum will be Sender Garlin and A. eva, the various revolutionary move- B. Magil, both of the Daily Work- ments, the struggle on the part of er staff. Garlin will speak on Germany and Italy for national Poyntz to Give Class in European History and Magil on “Modern Revolution- | ism and the division of (he colonies ary Poetry.” by the European powers, the rise of Sees ORY sR ROS the working class movonents: Aa i ‘the forms it took in the differen Singers, Dancers, at ‘eountries, the important wars, end- Bakers Ball Tonight ing with an analysis of the back- — ‘ground of the World War and the Russian Revolution. All are urged to register av once us the enrollment for this class is Russian and Spanish group songs will form part of the program at the Progressive Bakers’ concert and | ball at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. tonight. Fraternal or- ganizations from Yonkers, New Jer- sey, Jersey City and Paterson will send representatives to the event. Contributors to the program will include Clara Klynkowskaya, Rus- sian singer; Doris Aronson, classic | Street Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. dancer; Irving Klein, tenor; Gendel, | 20th, inttead of the 19th as previous- impressioni: Sam Lipzin (Uncle ly announced, according to a state: Tom) reader, and Jack Rosen, ment issued yesterday by Em Jo pioneer dancers , Basshe, executive directors d be closed to further registration. AIRWAYS, INC. The latest New Playwrights group production, John Dos Passos’ “Air- Rumania, Poland and Lithuania, it | |makes its appearance also in the so-called democratic countries, in- cluding the United States. Not only jdoes the powerful arm of Italian of Itaiian citizens residing here, and direct such anti-working class at- jtacks as the attempted frame-up of | Greco and Carillo, but America en- | Joys its own peculiar forms of this | international dangerous fascist strikebreaking menace. Internationaily, the growth of fas- jcism means the growth of the war |the Soviet Union. Sends Invitation. The Provisional Committee in |America invites all trade unions, | workers clubs, progressive political | | groups, cultural clubs, working class fraternal organizations and all anti- fascist organizations to participate in the conference on Feb. 22 by send- ing representatives to the meeting, |which will be held in the Labor | Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., jat 3 p. m., with the purpose of or- \ganizing anti-fascist agitation in America and choosing delegates to | attend the international congress to be held in Berlin ‘the middle of March. |danger and the growing menace to | Funds are urgently needed to fi- | nonce the delegation to Berlin and Terms of the peace pact were not announced and would not be an- | conferred with Mayor Walker. x fascism reach into this country and |\Banquet of Section 5 control to a great extent the lives | This Sunday Evening The annual banquet of Section 5, Bronx, of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held Sunday evening, Dec. 17, at 6 o’clock at 1830 Wilkins Ave. An elaborate program has | been arranged. | -Sender Gurlin, of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, will act as toastmaster. nounced, Theofel said until he had| drawn shades. The banking busi- ness was shut down last Monday by the state board of examiners, after a casual survey had showed the thing to be a swindle. A certain A. H. Giannini, presi- dent of the Bank of America, was announced by the directors to be the | new president. Then came the. crash, |and Giannini, who is also president {of the Bank of America insists that |he never held office in the City | Trust Co. | But the chairman of the board. of directors is a Tammany politician, Judge Francis L. Mancuso, of gen- eral sessions. He refuses to talk. of COMM THE PROGRAMME the UNIST “Some Bourgeois Literary Critics” | unity, the development of imperial-" York City. ‘quite large and the course will soon | ways, Inc.” will open at the Grove | ‘to carry on anti-fascist agitational | |and organizational work in America. | Direct all inquiries and send all | funds to the Provisional Committee, | /Room 604, 1 Union Square, New | INTERNATIONAL | The first World Programme of the Communist International in its final form. Unanimously adopted by the Sixth World Congress of the Com- munist International held in, Mos- cow. Moskovitz Opens Restaurant | Moskovitz announces the opening | of his new Original Moskovitz | Roumanian Restaurant in his spa- cious headquarters at 219 Second | Ave., between 13th and 14th Sts. \In addition to the excellent food for which Moskovitz has become famous, we have as features the Moskovitz International Entertainers with Mos- | kovitz himself at his cymbalom, and his Little Orchestra. 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