The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929 Guarantee CONVENTION IS GIVEN REPORT OF WAR DANGER) Bedacht Tells of New Imperialist Plans Trust, Harriman and Lehman Organize $200,000,000 Plane Holding Co. DO YOUR STUF ’ HERBIE By Gropper MINE MISERY IS. INDESCRIBABLE, TOOHEY REPORTS ‘Calls All to Aid W.LR.| Relief for Sufferers | | (Continued from Page One) upon all workers who realize the| Fascist in Disgrace TO FORM TRUST IN AIRPLANES FOR NEXT WAR Bankers, Shipping and Factory Heads in It | Organization of a $200,000,000 cre working class, break up the ef the worke tions for a mil the stronghold of the international working class, against the Soviet Union. | Party Must Prepare. | the | The primary before y is the aration of organization n cf the we A to fight against this war The ideological: prepara- of our Party must consist t of all in making the whole Party conscious that we are not only expecting a new world war, but that we are in the first and preparatory phases of the war. Next we must cleanse our Party of sall influences of pacifist and bourgeois illusions and must guard against opportunist and right er- rors as the most detrimental to the campaign against the war. The mobilization of the masses of the working class of the United States. | The mobilization of the masses | of the working class of the United | States against the coming war must | be carried on with a clear under- standing of the fact that the only effective mobilization against impe- rialist war is the mobilization for | the class war. The only force to} defeat the imperialist war is the defeat of imperialism itself thru the proletarian revolution. All the work | of our Party, therefore, must have { as its immediate aim the winning of the working masses for more} militant struggle against the cap- italists and the utilization of these struggles for the development amongst these workers of class consciousness and readiness for rev- | olutionary struggles. | DRESS STRIKER Must Rectify Past Errors. In the past our Party has made Sena the error of understanding the war | danger by failing to understand the | immediacy of this danger. This mis- | Scab Union Heads Act ‘solidarity of labor against all bosses | and their agents to come to the aid, jof the miners.” Miners have lived for over two} years in wooden barracks and tents erected in most cases in swampy land. Through the cold winter months their families have lived in these wooden dugouts, deluged by rain and snow. Actual starvation | rules in the mine fields. In Indiana |the miners have been on rations for |three years. The schools are closed down because the miners’ children cannot go to school due to the lack | of clothes and food. Disease runs |rife, with almost no medical aid javailable, Toohey told of the great unem- ployment in the mine fields, due to the greed of the operators, the in- | troduction of machinery, the com-| petition between the various fields, | lete. The operators take advantage | |of these conditions to pay starvation | |wages to those workers who are| |“Iucky” enough to find work. Since | |the war there has been a steady unemployment of from 30 to 35 per | jeent, or about 250,000 miners: In addition the operators have blacklisted thousands of workers active in strikes. Those who work are not better off. The basic wage | has fallen from $7.50 per day to |from $2 to $3. The miners are no longer paid per ton, the checkweigh- man-has been done away with. The miners now load tons of coal-on a ear for less that they formerly re-| ceived for loading one ton. | | “If a miner does get a job, he} | poet himself out of it in six} |months due to the overproduction Presented by the Workers’ Labora- TRY TO FRAME UP Militarist Clique Still Rules SILK “UNION” Manchuna, Speeds War Plans | MUKDEN, Manchuria, (By Mail). provinces of China as well, is itus-| Against whom is Manchuria pre-/| trated by the fact that though pom- | paring for war, and what imperialist pous emissaries from Nanking are power is backing the Manchurian! bringing official seals and symbols \in the industry,” he said. In thousands of cases miners find | that after two weeks labor in a coal | mine they have nothing left. on | which to live. Due to the system, of company stores, which include; groceries, clothes and drugs, the! amount owing to the company taken off the wages. HEAD RESIGNS Rumors Slate Him for Umberto Nobile, who tried to win a snow covered empire full of min- erals for fascism by throwing a cross given him by the pope from the dirigible Italia. Nobile wrecked his ship, irritated fascism by giv- ing the R. ship Krassin the duty of rescuing the starving crew, part of whom were left to die when hopped to safety. The court con- hopped to saf ety. The court con- siders him guilty, but there is more than a suspicion that they do it to divert attention from an- other fascist officer, Captain Zap- pi, who seems to have robbed his companions of clothing and eaten Dr. Malmgren. LL.D, BAZAAR OPENS TONIGHT Class War I Play and | Chorus on Program (Continued from Page One) American working class. Tonight’s program is in charge of | the Slavie workers who are cooper- | ating in the bazaar and the evening | has been entitled Slavic Night. Fol- lowing Tallentire’s i Senet the clea etroductory an [dent of the Roosevelt Steamship Co.; a play of the class struggle will tory Theatre. The play, which deals} |holding company to take over ma- jority stocks in aviation and aire plane manufacturing enterprises was announced here yesterday. A | group of powerful New York banks, headed by the Guarantee Trust Co., jrecently participating in a power- |ful bankers’ merger, and the own- jers of various shipping and general contracting companies, are back of the organization. The particular airplane factories to be acquired by the new concern are not announced yet, but. there have been many rumors that sales jare already negotiated, which will form a monopoly of airplane con- struction, to take advantage of the |tremendous possibilities for profit- ‘eering opened by the approach of a |new world war. Harriman Chairman. Officers of the new corporation will include W. A. Harriman, of Har- \riman & Co., Inc., as chairman of the board of directors; Robert Leh- ;man, of Lehman Bros., chairman of |the executive committee; Graham |B. Grosvenor, president, and H. George R. Hann, vice chairman ‘of the executive committee. Officials of transportation com- | panies who will be on the directorate |of the new corporation are: L. W. Baldwin, president of the Missouri Pacific Railway; R. Stanley Dollar, vice-president of the Dollar Steam- ship Line; Edward P. Farley, chair- man of the executive committee of |the American-Hawaiian Steamship |Co.; John M. Franklin, vice-presi- John L. Lancaster, president of the Texas and Pacific Railway Co.; J..S. with the struggle in the West Vir- | Pyeatt, president of the Denver and ba Louis A. De Santes, rected the production. The second part of For instance |combined Lyra and Aida Choruses here are the actual earnings of a|of 100 who will sing revolutionary |list are the Guaranty Trust Co., W. ‘inia coal fields, is called “March- Guns,” id ‘itt b . pe ais: He Salsa cheng ay, | Finance Committee of the Union Pa- .e progam is Will have as its chief feature the} | Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., and C. B. Seger, chairman of the eifie Railroad Co. Big Bankers. |. Among the banks and banking |firms represented on the directorate take must be recognized and recti- fied by immediate mobilization. The war does not begin with the decla- ration 0: war and with the begin- ning ¢f hostilities, the-war begins | with the physical =and=ideological | preparations for it. Only if these | preparations are made does the de-| claration of war and the beginning | of hostilities become a possibility. | The same applies to our anti-war | work. We cannot meet the exigen- | cies arising out of the entering of | the country and the government in- to an actual state of war if we) do not prepare for these exigencies right now. This preparation must have the form of a thorough mobil- | ization of the Party and the use of | the Party machinery and of the Party’s influence for the mobiliza- tion of the working masses for the | class struggle. The problems and proposals for | the solution of these problems are } dealt with more in detail in the draft resolution on the War Danger | submitted by the CEC to the con- vention and published in the Dai Worker of February 11. Coe) es Due to an error in the press room of the Convention hall a section of } Jay Lovestone’s opening speech on | the tasks of the Party was omitted. | It follows the paragraph in the Daily | Worker which ends with the words: (Tremendous applause). This sec- tion of the speech follows: “Since the last convention there have been written a number of the ist. pages in the history of our $35 in organizing the unorgan- ized. But only a beginning. Num- erous tasks are confronting us on other fields, and these must not bs neglected. At this moment, when there are developing, first and fore- most because of the world situation, | sharpening contradictions even in| the powerful American imperialism, our-Party will respond to these op- portunities and mobilize the masses for struggle. Under these condi- tions, where so small a section of the workers are organized and where the organized movement is primarily under the control of the trade union aristocracy, where we haye a trade union bureaucracy that is a model of social reformism for the bourgeoisie of the world, the struggle against social reformism must be especially sharp. “Our Party is committed to a campaign of merciless exposure and destruction of the A. F. of L. bu-| reaucracy and for annihilation of its influence on the working class of this country. “We in the United States have a socialist party which has been trans- formed into an out and out bour- geois party in many ways, in all ‘ways involving the interests of the working class, It is no wonder that Mr. Villard of the Nation, in speak- ing at the New Leader dinner said that “in some ways everyone of us is a socialist, even Mr. Morgan.” Laughter.) f “The growing unrest, the develop- ing radicalization, the intense inter- national situation, lay before our P special tasks, special duties. want to emphasize these duties fy as Provocateurs (Continued from Page One) ready to act in the role of provocar teurs for the police. ‘she worker, John Succarrello, is held on 2 charge of felonious assault, and the union will arrange for his defense. * * * Accoraing to an employers’ trede journal, the Industrial Council, an employers’ organization having “re- lations” with the right wing scab union, end the scab union chief, Schlesinger, are beginning the melo- dramatic - issuing “of = statements which are expected to end with the legalizing of piece-work in the shops ruled over by the scab union. First there was a proposal froin the bosses. for the legalization of piece-work, then came a refusal by Schlesinger. Then counter-state- ments were issued, each in turn get- ting more and nore tame. Thelegal- ation of piece-work will only be the signal for a slash of wages in those shops, as the piece-work sys- |tem is already installed, though not | “legally.” and tasks as such duties and tasks that this convention will have to examine and that this convention will have to take the necessary steps f-r their execution by the entire Party, An energetic fight against | the-Right danger as the main dan- ger of the Party; thorough work against the imperialist war danger, a vigorous campaign to make~ our Party a real party among the Negro masses; a real campaign to org..- ize the unorganized; a struggle of a merciless character against coun- ter-revolutionary Trotskyism, which has raised-its -head and which has become a menace in more ways than one to our Party. ~- Our Party as an organized sec- tion of the Comintern has. properly the duty of evaluating not only its own problems, but the problems of th> other sections of the Comintern. The problems of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia are prob- lems of the CI and,’ therefore, problems of the American section of the CI. The problems of the Com- munist Party of Germany are the problems of the Comintern, and, therefore, are our problems. The same story holds true for our Party in relation to the other sections. Our Party has taken cognizance of the sharp struggle waged by the C. C, of the Communist Party of Germany against the Right danger in the CP of Germany. In this strug- gle our Party stands four-square, 190 per cent behind the CC in its vigorous fight against the right- wing opportunists and against the conciliators. Likewise in the strug- gle against the Right danger in the CP of the SU, our Party stands with the CC of the CPSU and its Bol- ehevist leadership. (Tremendous appl: *->.) “In the examination of some of these tasks we must work thorough- ly in a cpirit of Bolshevik self- criticism, | dictator, Chang Hsueh-liang in these preparations? While Chang has raised the so-called “nationalist” flag of Nanking, and a great deal \of lub-dubbery is going on over the “ehange” in the government. result- ing from Wanking’s “victory,” there is no other change than in the flag, latest. developments indicate. Though in Nanking’s futile demo- bilization program, the 250,000 troops which Manchuria had last June should be reduced to 180,000, the fact of the matter is that the army has been increased to 450,000 men, and that the great Mukden ar- |senal, with 12,000 workers, is run- ning day and night on war material. | The ridiculous “control” Nanking |has over Manchuria, and the other |of power to be given Chang by |Nanking under the “nationalist” jcommittee form of government, the |fact remains that though the Nank- ling flag flies over Mukden, it flies jover prisons containing nationalist | |agitators, though some have been} | freed, but only to be deported. | Also, strategic places south of) Manchurian territory are being occu-} pied by Manchurian troops, between | Mukden and Peking. Though thejbe seer: in the way the capitalist | “Even when they do work, they supposed “committee system” come/ press hereabouts has handled the Starve,” Toohey said. | with the Nanking agents, the old re-| actionaries remain in power just the|any explanation, the papers which |! die a slow and painful death work- | | same, and refuse to part with a cent |used to bury union and strike news ing in a mine, when I can go out) |of their taxes to Nanking. The-sec- ond militarist power’ in the’ province! swaken to’ the resignation of Hoel-|and die a quick and more cheerful lis General | Kirin. Chang Tso-hsiang of | CHEERS, SONG AT RED CONVENTION LovestoneGets Rousing Reception (Continued from Page One) jwas a red-lettered sign, “Sixth Na- |tional Convention of the rkers Communist Party.” Visitors crgwded together in the rear of the hall, on the balcony, in the aisles, eagerly awaited the opening of the Conven- tion, ~ |. The entrance of. Jay Lovestone, |Executive Secretary of the Party, |was the signal for a gust of cheers |which soon burst into a tornado of | welcoming applause. As one the hall ‘rose to its feet and the red- ribbons \stretching from the chandelier to | the balconies quivered with the force jof the ovation. The “International” lrose spontaneously from the hall and was sung with real gusto and ifeeling. The Pioneers yelled for all \they were worth, the League fol- \lowed and then again “Solidarity” {was roared. Gitlow, Bedacht, Minor, Foster, | Stachel and others monuted the plat- form. Lovestone firally found the oppor- tunity to say: “In the name of the Central Exe- cutive Committee I open the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party.” The Convention was opened. One hundred and four representatives of |revolutionary workers from all the Convention. vention reported that they recom- mended Lovestone as chairman of the session, the hall again rose as a man and burst into the singing of the “International.” The following greetings were rea: to the Convention: “The Secretariat of the South American Bureau of the Commu- nist International greets the Con- vention and awaita a resolution reinforcing the eommon action against impertalism. (Signed) CODAVILLA.” parts of the country were ready to take’ up the immediate business of When the Presidium of the Con- SHOE UNION IN ~ BIG MASS RALLY | To Extend Successful | Organization Drive | —_—— | A mass meeting of all organized | |and unorganized workers in the shoe |manufacturing industry will he held ithis Thursday evening by the Inde- |pendent Shoe Workers’ Uuion in Lorraine Hall, 799 Broadway, Frook- lyn, at 8 o'clock. | In addition to the rationally| known speakers, leaders of the mili-| tant labor movement here, the union| cfficers will deliver a full report of the brillient organizaticn drive the union has been carrying on with, jsuch remarkable success during tte! past few weeks. : Only three weeks have passed since the organization swunz into | the drive that has already resulted, in a gain in union membership of | several thousand and what is more important, the signing up of about a score of large shoe factories by the union, Nearly all of these plants were signed up, with attendant raises in wages, and other union conditions, after strikes lasting anywhere from | a few days to a few weeks had been called. In not a single instance did any of these strikes end in anything but |an outright victory for the workers. carrie’ on by the union is by no means vver. It has not even reached its peak as the extensive prepara- tions now under way for its exten- sion show. This mass meeting is ex- pected to serve as a medium for extending the campaign into other sections of Brooklyn. Meanwhile the strike being car- ried on against the Franklin Shoe Company is being prosecuted with the fullest vigor. This firm had re- fused to renew the agreement when the workers demanded an increase in wages. Three or four more shops are to be called out on strike in a day or two, unionization of the City Hall Job (Continucd from Page One) for some time past, that. the self- styled progressive and _ militant Hoelscher is slated for a_ soft cushion job, which the capitalist politicians in the local democratic city administration are expected to kand him. : Substantiation of this rumor can news of his resignation. Without “end Hoelscher news” suddenlv seho~ ard seare teads and editor- ials lauding Hoelscher’s “services and record” pour forth generously. In the editorials Hoelscher is praised for his “sanity,” for his friendliness to industry and for the Viciousness of his attack and expul- | sion of the left wingers from the Aesociated. A clear-cut demonstration of the seabbery of the Associated was given recently when the six strike- | breakers entering the R. and K. Silk Company flaunted the membership | books in the Associated in the faces of the picketing strikers, who are members of the N. T. W. and are fighting against the nine and ten. hour day. For such actions the resigned miner of the Pittsburgh Terminal|and folk songs in Lithuanian. Fol-| A. Harriman & Co., Inc., Lehman Coal Corporation. At the end of lowing this, everybody will join in| Bros., Jessup & Lamont, Charles D. the first two weeks John earned | dancing, with musie furnished by a|Barney & Co., Hal!~arten & Co., $.96, at-the end of the second two-|professional jazz orchestra. | Stone & Webster, Inc., Hitt, Farwell week period ‘he received 22.91, at; Tomorrow night will be Finnish | & Co., and Pynchon. & Co, i Big the end of the third 39.48, at the | Night with an interesting musical,) Qn the board are Major General jend of the fourth 22.49, This was) athletic ard dance program. Mason T. Patrick, former chief of all taken away by the operators to| ‘Tickets for the big bazaar should | the Air Service, U. S. A.; Sherman pay off debts owing to the company |be bought in advance to avoid the|M. Fairchild, president of the Fair- |stores even before it got into the| rush at the door. They are on sale|child Aviation Corp., and James A. hands of the miner.’ ‘Toohey has/ at the office of the I. L. D., 799|Richardson, president of the West- | with him many such pay whe they | Broadway, Room 422. ern Canada Airways, Ltd. LAST 3 DAYS! == Sovict Film Epic of Proletarian Heroism! | As one miner put it, “Why should | [into the open fields and sunshine | death?” | Toohey also described a_ virtual |state of military siege which exists! in all coal camps. Certain death} {awaits organizers in many mininz | camps. It is necessary to form min- ers’ committees underground, for | fear of losing one’s job or being | beaten up and shipped out of the! territory. The miners’ mail is in-| terfered with and they are allowed? none of the liberties that even a} worker in the city may enjoy. | “Lewis was worried . about get-| ting into Hoover’s cabinet. We are) worried about organizing a strong) \national union of the coal miners.” | | In closing Toohey emphasized the | eed for immediate relief in the coal | ‘fields and appealed to all class-/ conscious workers to support the 52 W. EIGHTH ST. 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