The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 4

ss cinencne ' PARTY This is th of omrade raised in hi ic of the A. L.” in t Feb. issue of “The Co: and in the ed ial same issu article er on the issues concluding 2 Decline n of Ma. comrade istence of does not nec F. of L. ur Piensa Columns Used by Dress Bosses (By a Wor On Wednes t every ew York garment, called by ” Ind On the d tive and fo: the city gave some 1 a strike. Since the strike began up to Monday, Feb. 11, from small news items to large front ‘page: articles, dealing with the dressmakers’ strike; have appeared in even the capital- ist dailies. Yet there was one paper, a for- eign language daily that boasts of being “the first and only Spanish- American newspaper in the United States,” that did not even attempt to publish a single line about the strike. Surely, 15,000 w from one industry going on strike in a single day ought to be some kind of news for any newspaper. Yet, La Prensa, considered by many intellectuals as a “liberal” newspaper, deliberately boycotted the news of the strike. And why? Are we to believe that La Prensa eaters only and is ort by intellectuals, stu merchants and profes Not at and you v agree with the w: that 90 of its readers ar men and women. workers know of the anti-labor char- acter of this paper. Jose Camprubf, the publisher and | founder of La Prensa has never left a stone unturned when it comes to “handing it to the Communists.” Jose M. Torres-Perona, secretary and assistant to the publisher is an- other labor hater. The last time our friend Perona visited Madrid he was almost kissed by His Royal Highness. The king and Dictator Kivera know who are their friends | in America. | And last but not least, we have Alvaro, the Arthur Brisbane of the! Span’sh press and the biggest iunti-| feet. A week does not pass but Al- fect. Av. foes not pass bat Al- varo takes a whack at the Commu- fists. Within the last three years this man has made up scores of re-_ sentatives of the banner-bearers, but | XM co City,! very few of the Italian population | ng them | were interested enough to show up. volutionary plots in Barcelona, ete., and br Bolsheviks. Lying articles about Soviet Russia are a weekly feature | im the news and editoral columns| of the police, and want to know what of this reactionary, Tammany Hail|the police are doing by accepting| eentrolled paper. But the question still arises, why does La Prensa refuse to publish} strike news. Does the insertion of ews dealing with the dress strike affect the paper fi ally ? 1 guess it does. On ‘Tuesday, feb, Voce del Populo” is printed here. 5, about seven firms advertised for| There is no sympathy for the Musso- “nee“le workers in the classified want ads of this paper, and since the rike began the number of these ads ted by dress manufacturers has ineicused by leaps and bounds. By “Monday, Feb. 11, the ads had el- ready reached fifty. Think of it, 50 advertisements, probably from scab oints, wanting the Spanish workers! Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, Fourth scab on their fellow workers in{St., tonight. e needle trades. La Prensa has become a recruit- station for scabs and should he ked to the Latin-American 1 / economic analysi y time of the decline of the A. F. of| RECRUITING SCABS D. ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929 PRE-CONVENTION | ment on it by Comrade Bittelman and other comrades of the Oppo- sition, of struggle of the capitalists against the de unions in this period of industrial actiyjty. A b: tho open shop campaign, it d them out of tified industry into a precarious existence in lighter, competitive industry. Not an era of “prosperity”, but direct sses undergo- F. of L. on a mass scale, in- cluding not only skilled workers but ections of unskilled and semi- ade Pepper’s theory flows di- |; out of the CEC Majority’s which forsees a ong period of “prosperity”, during is, the st unions will grow, more or ituation, will make the 's use the A. F. of %.. more ia the industries against the workers, aud this will be along the lives of y unionization that I he indicated, em- which, the assumption re- 6 forr less as they did in pre-war periods of industrial activity. But this the- many holes in it. To begin upon the usual Here let me dispose of the critic- sm, made by both Majority and Minority, that I challenge the ex- istence of a real base for the revo- lutionary unions by making it con- tingent upon whether or not the old unions will grow. This is direct misrepresentation of my position. For me the basis of the new unions is clear, among the great masses of unskilled and semi-skilled workers which the A. F. of L. mot or- ganize. What I do in my article is to polemize against “the writings and speeches of Comrade Pepper, Lovestone and Weinstone” which, while tipping the hat to the new unions, either directly propose or imply such theories of the rebuild- ing of the A. F. of L. on a mass seale as to leave practically no base whatever for the new unions, I am| is based nation of the CEC major- regarding the strength of Amer- n imperialism. ~ It ignores the ning inner contradictions. It o ignores the whole concrete pro- s of the grafting of the trade onto the organizations of the yers. Finally, it is in conflict the general trend of reformist lopment in this country. jority of C.E.C. e it. The elaborate of bourgeois reformism must be reckoned with. It is the characteristic of the American situation that during the past several years, when the basis| | Bourgeois Reformism Bourgeois reformism was a method} By WILLIAM of the base of the new unions is in- volved when these comrades sponsor conceptions which look forward to Criticism of Comrade Bittelman. Comrade Bittelman sees a some- what different line of trade union development than Comrade Pepper, but also an incorrect line. He does not seem to anticipate the rebuilding of the A. F. of L., with the inclusion of great masses of semi-skilled and unskilled. Nor, on the other hand, does he accept the company-unioni- zation process which I have outlined. What he sees is a “strengthening of the A. F. of L.” (citing the action of the Taylor Society and the growth of the Muste group as examples), apparently in the direction of ex- tending it along lines of craft unions of skilled workers. This theory of a new growth of craft unionism, more or less of tra- ditional type, is based upon a static conception of the role of reformism. It does not see crisis or decline pos- sible with reformist trade unions. Moreover, it has only an abstract conception of the actual process of the grafting of the trade unions on- to the organizations of the capital- ists. It does not see the merging ideologically and organizationally of correct in saying that the question|bourgeois reformism and social re-, We are now entering upon a pro-the basing of the new revolutionary | enough. and Social Reformism DISCUSSION SECTION | But my critics have no groun jfor such heat and self-praise a: \they display. They would d& | well to indulge in some health; - | self-criticism, for they have als Will be to or! made the mistake of failing to cen ter the attack upon the A. F. of I longed period of dual unionism. The ,likewise of our Party, new revolutionary center, the T. U.|ganize the unorganized masses o: B. L., will be based upon the masses unskilled and semi-skilled; but we Bear chi sscitaulied and runaldlied sind (will wlao Ent to Win aivag, thy SE Bhd etn eeu Ay ad . the old unions are based upon the/led and other workers affiliated to|my.. are the aioe ee the inclusion of vast masses of un-|labor aristocracy. But this does not|the-A. F. of L. unions, On the other |hy.6, ibconutly Pte ae mpor skilled and semi-skilled into the A.|imply thet the division of skilled|hand, the A. F. of L. will fight not aaciatt dambecga Bates ithee th ¥. of L. unions. and unskilled between the two cent-jonly to control the skilled workers, | 700 4 x gee Mi fey 2 { ers is exact or that we shall ac-|but also to defeat our efforts to orl ORO 4 ya nda; ait vain quiesce in it. Such ideas lead|ganize the unskilled and to bring|¢ EO took tvs Seriously as apply straight to the abandonment of the |these under its own treacherous in.|i@ to the United States. Doubt old unions to Green and Company. | fluence, Bice . na ..\Jess this was because of the weak , : t nag Hallere ito nee) tle aver leas ce thi Ai By Gf lu ane he BB, We must realize that there will be |lapping struggle means not to under-| 1) liuidadton: of: the’ fab et ing on tendency it does not mean|war to the knife between the two stand the strike-breaking role of the| 1 MU Ea On Ot Mand s rn only that the trade union and social ;centers for control of the masses. | A. F. of L. It leads to quitting the Hasueant HOt “Ch Be setae | and th: democratic party leaders are being| ‘The major task of the T. U, E, L.,|old unions. afaieiliva oh tue ciline: NO, tontce, drawn into the government to facil-| i orga dbelit a ay ee: at aa itate war preparations, which is 8. In Conclusion. leon votormnians at Sound to th bee ee eee ag Ae | Now let me briefly summarize byunions upon the skilled and unskilled, |directed against capitalist reformisn Fey cee eoeenay tHe “Bratt | indicating the strong and wealk|letc. in general. Many documents (in tae idintetea Gatos pando points ‘of my article in “The Com-| As for the criticisms to the effect |cluding the Majority and Minority d bahar Sy aueital "4 n- munist”. In spite of a number of |that I have made the growth of the |theses and my own article now un our oN hay tein Syn hastily written phrases, the article|new unions contingent upon no|der fire) were written around thi: be a ne etc ee laa aed ric is correct in pointing out, among |growth of the old unions, that I do|wrong line. It was another case o the TAtes® Gen can ei Ne Thais other things, the decline of the A./not see the economic base of social| American exceptionalism to the lin: retined aedoe the teenie ve “Ot |B. of L. as an organ of struggle of |reformism, and that I ignore the de-|of the Comintern, Only when th cretized under the formula of the the workers, its crisis as a reformist |cisive role of the Party in the strug-| mistake was pointed out by con See The ratte OF ie rede organization, the incorporation of gle, I have shown in the above that |crete criticism (which I agree with whl ce the resident ee te ayer the A. I’. of L. bureaucracy into the they do not apply. ‘The weak spot|from the Comintern, contained in Soatate. for ithe sedbgnitioh of “the | W8? machine of American imperial-|in the article is its failure to make |a draft of the approaching decision teeta ihleta by big nae bitel: (which ism, the concrete process (company jclear the fact that although there | received several weeks ago, did th Comrade Bittelnak aliat in pice unionization) of the grafting on of |has been such a vast growth of open |comrades make a quick “about face’ PER TEN Sela PP \the reactionary trade unions to the | bourgeois reformism, social reform-|and try more or less futilely to re Ob dis pen eaet on) ay peachy Co™-| omployere’ industrial organizations, |ism, centering in’ the A. F.lorientate themselves to the nev Pal sie cate not the rebuilding ‘the exposure of the fallacies uf the |of L, bureaucracy, remains the|line. They have thereby not only See eae xebuilding of the A. F. of L, on ajmain danger and that we must con-|made new mistakes, which I havc Comrade Bittelman’s theory also mass basis, the surrender of the A.|centrate our main fire against it. criticized in the foregoing, but they tends too mechanically and too com-|F. of L. bureaucracy to bourgeois|/Of course, the article calls for the|have also exhibited a pitiful lacl pletely to separate the unskilled and|reformism and the emergence of a|most relentless struggle against this |of Bolshevik self-criticism by failing skilled in the national union centers, |new fascist-like social reformism,|corrupt leadership, but this is not |to point out their own errors wher |they changed their line. Z. FOSTER. formism into a semi-company union- ism form of social reformism. When} the Comintern speaks of this graft- asis of the corrupted upper strata of the | j he working class was broadest, when} f the cultivation of reformist illusions e was not widespread, when ‘pros- perity” was at greater heights than ever before, that was exactly the L. The employers were able to sub- | RKERS FIRED titute their own direct bourgeois | tems of reformism for traditional, Make $35 in 2 Weeks; ial democratic trade unionism. Work 12 Hours a Dav 2 Ho E (By « Worker Correspondent) It happened here in Cleveland a couple of days ago in one shop, the Cleveland Welding Co., that the slaves started to talk about organ- izing a union, so the company dis- charged the old workers that were laving for the company 20 and 15 girls, do not scab on your fellow |* ‘ workers in the needle trades, but | YC?s- ir thGae sieves aly Be ba 5 ~) leader, the company could not dis-| join the Needle Trades Industrial % -alavi Bees Workers’ Union of America and help ‘hatge those poor slaves. They would our comrades fight for the five- OTSanize today. ; f day forty-hour week and a living) The slaves are working day shift wage and the abolition of the sweac- 10 and 12 hours; piece work; they sh speaking working women and “Broadway Melody”’ Excellent Ape, Bron [op Fare Now at the Astor Theatre simsricscais wins sy eave) = NE of the best “all-talkie” pro-| grams yet to be presented on Broadway is now being shown at| the Astor Theatre. This is “The Broadway Melody,” a Metro talking | picture that deserves the palm. | | | The film program opens with a| short playlet, likewise “all-talkie,” by Kenyon Nicholson. This was di- rected by Lionel Barrymore and is also a Metro product. The scenario is from a playlet included in a book of plays by Nicholson called “Gar- den Varieties” and was shown previ- ously on the speaking stage at the Provincetown Playhouse. An episode near an American rest camp in France during the war it is particu- larly well and realistically acted by | a cast of four in which Robert Ames’ | | during the war, will be shown at the | Burke Theatre on Sunday and Mon- day, February 24 and 25. Mata Hari) has been called by many historians | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO |the most sinister spy of the ea SEE THE REMARKABLE JEANNE GREENE war. A great number of legends SOVIET FILM! | have sprung up around Mata Hari! DAABAAAMDA since her death. Mystic, erotic, LAST DAY! Special Added bei ‘Two Days’ ce . A D ay with? A Wufku-Amkino Production Tolstoy” } an actual and authentic film-record of the famous Russian writer taken in 1908 when he was eighty. ing tides of the Soviet showing “the great world D Revotuttoatt sure in the intimate ax- pects of his daily activities) ACCLAIMED BY | fatalist, she was known as the “Red | f Dancer” and was born in Holland lof Dutch and English parents. | | The principal character is inter-| preted by the famous German act-! § | ress, Matja Sonja. Supporting her Jare Fritz Kertnay and Wolfgant | | Ziltzer. AAALZAAAAALAA Tue Russtan “Last Lavon” A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion between the Whites and the Reds—caught in the chang- | WOLVES ATTACK TRAIN. | | CONSTANTINOPLE, (By Mail) | § ji welves have attacked the ma- comedy by |Tooned Simplon-Orient express, | |snowbound 60 miles from here. In “Kibitzer,” a new Poliana ~ shop system of exploitation. are making—some of them—$30 and $35 in two weeks. Night shift is| working 13 hours, If they work at! aytreeee A day rates, they get 35 cents an hour. One of those intriguing concoctions | Next to this shop is the Midland|/0f Broadway life, but this time in- | Steel Company, paying 35 cents an Stead of the usual hokum and vir-| hour day rate. On_ piece-work tue shining and triumphing through | work is outstanding. | The main feature of the Dill is} L. N., A SPANISH WORKER. MACHINE GUNS 9 hours. Slaves are willing to or-| Probably happens to many young | |Jo Swerling and Edward G. Robin- son, Royale Theatre on Monday. which was ushered in at the leulty. Passengers are being taken | on his estate at Yasnala - ! [Fresh snowfalls added to the diffi b Revorutionary Wrirsns! COMMENCING TOMORROW (Saturday) ti epee MAPS Authentic! Actual! Astounding! NEEDLE TRADES STRIKE BENEFIT! THE SENSATIONAL POLAR DRAMA WHICH SHOOK THE WORLD! “KRASSIN” |those slaves at Midland Steel Co,| the paint and powder of the thea- | A | D FA § C | § Tl ‘are making—some $6, some $2 in trical atmosphere, we see what really | ganize in those two shops, only there are no leaders to organize them. From my point of view, I think it would be a gocd idea to have! some pamphlets printed in English, Hungarian and Slovak, as most of the slaves speak Slovak, and dis- tribute them in front of the factory on Saturday when they go home from work. And it should be printed where they could meet on Sunday, and talk things over—how formed of the memorial and were | ‘2eY Should eRe ee ie | asked to participate. The Italian) Many times I am thinking of those| consul, Mr. Valeriani, called the ex- Poor slaves that are working for the combatants to the memorial. railroad companies, as section hands, | The anti-fascisti were on the job, freight handlers. 2 There must be there being about 200 present, be-/S°me way to organize them into one Italian Workers Picket Blackshirt Affair (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, (By Mail).—On Sunday, February 10, the fascists commemorated the death of General Cadorna at Mayfield Church of this city. All the patriotic Jodges were in- S/ing led by the Anti-Fascist League Union. Those fellows are working of this city. On arrival, they found for 35 cents and 30 cents an hour on the four-corners four cars with for 8 hours a day. They are the machine guns and police. About 50-| Cheapest slaves «n the market, and 60 policemen walked around, guard-| ¥en for this kind of work the em-| ing the church and preventing any- Ployment agency robbers charge $3) thing that might happen. They|@nd $4 for a job. rs searched the lines of anti-fascists; I am going to join the Communist | who were picketing the church, but|Party and help to organize the found no weapons, and they made! workers, no arrests, —M. PB. | Inside the church, during the en-| | tire ceremony, not one blackshirt ap- Landy Speaks at Bronx | peared. This is a sign that in Cleve-/ land the great majority of the Italians are anti-fascist. Valerio Valeriani has already obtained his} 4, Landy will speak on “Amer-| passports to leave the country. ican Theories of the Class Strug- The night before the memorial,| gle” at the Bronx Open Forum, Italian anti-fascist leaflets were dis-| 1330 Wilkins Ave., Sunday evening tributed in the Italian sections of at 8 o'clock. Questions and discus- the city. Hundreds of the popula-| sion will follow his tall. Open Forum Sun, Eve \tions, according to the arrangements | girls who after experiencing “suc- | cess” on the stage in the hinterlands | come to New York to strive for the award, acclaim and prestige that | this city alone gives in eon Splendidly acted by Anita Page and | Bessie Love as a “Sister Act,” Charles King as a song-and-dance | man, with the secondary roles cast to perfection, the production, which was written by Edmund Goulding and directed by Harry Beaumont, hits the bull’s eye squarely in the | center, | | Briefly, the plot concerns itself | with the adventures of the two girls on Broadway via the song factory, | beauty review and wealthy rounder with many fresh turns and twists to the plot that keep one’s interest. Seldom has the lure and glamor of back-stage been reproduced so faith- | fully. The picture is notable too for the complete triumph of Bessie Love, | who registers the hit of her career. | | | Gropper, Lozowick Do ‘Decorations for New Masses Spring Dance William Gropper, Louis Lozowick | and other well-known artists have prepared new artistic decorations | for Webster Hall for the night of | the New Masses Spring Carnival, | next Friday evening. These decora-| committee, will be unlike any ever made before. tion were aroused against fascism and inside the church there were chiefly young boys, a few repre- Tonight The Italian workers protest very vigorously against the interference | |mobilization at the hands of the fascists against the Italian workers, | per cent of whom are American, citizens. In the lodges the fascists meet with no response, in spite of the fact that the fascist paper “La Tickets 75 Cents lini regime in Cleveland. ‘Hold Annual Ball of 'Fretheit Chorus Tonite The annual ball of the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will be given at the Representatives of every section of the working class movement are expected to attend the event. Com- mittees urge workers to obtain their SICEETS (ON SALE ALSO/AT ‘kers for what it is worth. Span- tickets before the last minute rush. x See ee ae ANNUAL BALL OF THE FREIHEIT GESANG VEREIN (THE BALL OF ALL WORKERS) Av MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 E, 4th St. ANTI-IMPERIALISTS ! ! SEE THE NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE PRODUCTION ; “AIRWAYS, INC.” by JOHN DOS PASSOS at the GROVE STREET THEATRE, 22 Grove Street on SUNDAY EVE., February 24 Proceeds to N. Y. Branch All-America Anti Imperialist League, Room 226-799 Broadway, New York City. Tonight! (Hat Check Included) THE WORKERS BOOKSHOP, AT THE BOX OFFICE. THE RESCUE SHIP THE OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH SAVED THE NOBILE CREW! AN UNDYING EXAMPLE OF PROLETARIAN HEROISM! e o. 5.ftix film guild cinema Q) q, «COSA W. EIGHTH ST. Went of Sth Ave. ji Continuous Performance. Popular Prices. Daily 2 to 12 (Box Office Open 1:30 p.m.) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 Direction SYMON GOULD The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Filmed “KRASSIN” Sovkino Production—the Heroic Soviet Rescue of the Nobile Expedition SPECIAL MIDNIGHT PERFORMANCES! Friday and Saturday, February 22nd and 23rd 12 Sharp Midnight FILM GUILD CINEMA 52 WEST 8TH STREP’ (Between 5th and 6th Aves.) Tickets on sale at Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square, and Local New York Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway, New York City. —Room No. 226, Buy Tickets Now! House Sold Out In Advance! (Box Office Opens 11:30 A. M.) PHONE: SPRING 5095 Kelth-Albee CAME 42nd Street and Brondway Best Film Show. In Town D BIG WEEK eda AMERICAN. NEWEST AMKINO PREMIERE PRESENTATION “The [ASH otite CZAR’ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” DIRECTED BY I. A. PROTOZANOV. Based on the famous story by Andreyev, “The Governor.” DAILY WORKER BENEFIT PERFORMANCES Tuurs., Fri, Sat., Eve. 8:30 p. M. FEBRUARY 21st, 22nd & 23rd AAAAAAAAAAAAALA ee NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O'NEILL'S DY NAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs. 8:40 Mat., Thurs., Fri, & Sat, 2:40 Extra Mat, Wash, Birthday SIL-VAKA’S COMEDY CAPRICE SUILD Thea. W. oznd Bt GUI Dives, 8:50 Mats., Wed, Th Sat., 2:40 Extra Mat. Wash, Birthday Wings Over Europe By Hobert Nichols and Maurice Browne ALVIN THEATRE MAAAAAAALAAAA Burke Theatre Presents “The Red D ancer” with MATA HARI SUNDAY AND MONDAY FEBRUARY 24 and 25 BURKE THEATRE White Plains & Burke Aves. Mer. R. Abrams (Bronx) Tel. 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