The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1929, Page 2

q — Two WAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929 HUISWOOD GIVES PARTY REPORT (OW NEGRO WORK, Diseussion on Reports; } Greetings Received (Cont ‘fie Party ‘hese ‘Negro Our failure locals were ontrolled becau nization be- 7 a propaganda sect »vement of action. 's which mu as due to t ~ that very few ANLC were drawn of the into the Party. member First Program. Last. April (1928) our Party for the. first time drew up a pr gram_on Negro work t nearest to fitting the Since then, with the aid and cr ticism of the Comintern, we have orientated ourselves more and more to work among the Negro masses and have begun to take this task seriously. The political campaign of 1928 presented a very favorable opportunity to carry the program of the Party to the Negro masses on a national scale. A very intensive campaign was carried on, particularly in the larger cities, and for the first time Negro workers, in many sec- tions of the country, appeared as candidates on the Communist platform, the platform of class struggle. The importance of this cam- paign can only be properly evalu- ated when we take into consider- ation the fact that never before did a working class party appear openly and boldly as the cham- pion of the Negro masses in its fight for full social equality and against lynching, segregation and all the various forms of abuse and exploitation suffered by the Negro masses. Never before did a-working class party so effec- tively. challenge the ruling class and its political parties and its appression, exploitation and de- gradation of the Negro masses. Not only in the North, but also in the South—the hotbed of xe- | action and race: prejudicewas ouf Propaganda yeffettive, “Jn ‘the dand of the lynching- we de- nounced lynching. The many 's we held, the-thousands of aflets distributed, the special m issue of The Champion, and ithe very effective publicity jainéd, thru the Crusader News jervace, brought our propaganda thousands of Negro workers ho are under the influence of ¢ bourgeoisie, white and black. nd the response on the part of the Negro workers and the in- jre#@@e of cur membership during is period, indicate the possibi- ity of drawing in large numbers nte the Party with systematic 1e (The establishment of one br tivo units in the South with white and Negro members in the same unit, is in itself an achieve- ment. 5) Our main shortcoming in this respect is organizational. We did pot, retain all those who joined, hor ‘did we follow up sufficiently ll*the contacts made. Unless definite organizational steps are taken to keep those newcomers in the Party and to bring ‘back good elements which have drifted out, ur work will have been of little value. Trade Union Work. The trade union work among the Negro workers is the weakest spot in our work. Not the slight- est. attempt has been made to launch a campaign for the organ- ization of the hundreds of thou- inds_of unorganized black work- @ Not only do I take into con- sideration here the question of building new unions among the Negro workers, but also the mat- ter of a campaign against the discrimination practiced in most unions against the Negroes and the absolute refusal of many unions to admit colored workers. In this respect, the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) has entirely neglected its duty. Not even a plan for this most impor- tant activity has been worked out. The TUEL has retreated before anti-Negro policy of the labor ureaucracy of the A. F, of L. spite. of the ‘pledges, made by delegation at the Fourth Con- gress of the RILU and the pro- ‘gram adopted, they have signally failed to launch any campaign to force these unions to let down the. color bar and admit Negro ‘workers. Also no attempt was to include Negro trade ionists in the trade union dele- tion to the Soviet Union. A small beginning is being wade with the attempt to organ- Negro workers and to place on leading committees in new unions (miners, needle des, etc.). artment has been established TUEL with some one in re of the work who will work connection with the Negro Now that a Negro. i vatore Piazza, cab d Thr sig | | some degree of success. y ripped a huge shows n with one end astrid , was cut and bru jrom the Corn le the cab, ed when the g change Bank, wh Cabman Hurt by Falling nota ale which struck New York City ich crashed on his taxi. Photo ANTLFASCIST. CONGRESS TODAY WorldConferencePlans International Flight (Continued f Page One) ist power, but that the Catholic orking masses will not forget ession or r the destruction of |, he peo The former pri bania, Fan Nol hearers ffering from Italy is oppres- a colony and as a he fascist knout. ng Albania as | military base for war against other Balkan states, he said, and above all is maneuvering against the work- and peastnts’ state, the Soviet e 2 Threaten Demonstration. (Wirelees By “Inprecorr”) VIENNA, March 8.—The police have prohibited the anti-fascist demonstration scheduled here for | Sunday, as “dangerous to public or- Energetic. protests have not} yet succeeded in securing the re-! der.” voeation of the prohibition. Bureau of the Profintern, we may expect some improvement in the work in the near future. American Negro Labor Congress. ious existe: From its inception, the policy the effect of s make a real broad mass move- ment of it, It became a little sec- tarian group and to a certain ex- tent a miniature duplicate of the Party. tivities to win the support of the Negro proletariat, which is the only group that could give back- bone to the organization and is the only class which can supply the necessary sinews for a real liberation movement, we restrict- ed ourselves too much to the Ne- gro intellectuals and non-working class elements. The result of this was that we were building on quicksand rather than on bedrock. The Party did not pay sufficient attention to the administration of the Congress, discipline was little enforced,. and the work of the comrades. in charge was not checked, with the result that many grave blunders were com- mitted without any attempt at rectification. In the months an attempt has been made to revive the Congress, and with Prior to this practically all the locals had disappeared. We were in a state of almost complete bankruptcy. Now we have functioning locals in New York with about 30 active members; Chester, Pa., 45 mem- bers; Pittsburgh, 15; Chicago, 70; Kansas City, 20, and we have or- ganized Provisional Commitees in a number of other cities such as Cleveland, Omaha, Denver, Seat- tle, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Oak-. land, Minneapolis, Detroit, Buf- falo, New Haven, Oklahoma City. We held several mass meetings recently, anti-lynching meetings, meetings against police brutality, such as the Whitehurst case in Chicago, the Vestris meeting in New York which was the most successful one. In a few cities we have established educational for-~ ums. We cannot be satisfied with the ANLC in its present form. It is still too much of a propaganda sect. Our main aim must be to build a mass movement based on the industrial workers, particu- larly the organized workers. We must turn more to the shops and factories and in this connection we must establish close relation- ship and cooperate with the TUEL. Our program as it is to- day is hardly suited to reach the masses and the new program which is being prepared will largely correct these shorteom- ings. Some of our comrades in New York as well as elsewhere have had a wrong policy toward ‘the church. Their conception of the extent to which we could utilize the Negro church is based on an underestimation of the role of the church as an instrument of im- perialism. They thought that they could really make a dent in re- ligion by boring from within, The adea of reaching the masses thru the church made them forget the basic task, the work in the fac- Will Give Dance for Benefit of the ‘Daily,’ icine ‘Obrera’ ening, ; March 22, New ‘s will celebrate Work-| Press Night at a dance which will be given as the benefit of the Daily Worker, Negro Champion and “Vida ers’ urged to attend to _|make the dance a demonstration of | ons class solidarity and express upport of the militant labor mith’s Negro Or- provide dance music. y be obtained at the of- the Negro Champion, the Spa Workers Club and the Workers Bookshop, % Union Sq. INDOOR SPORTS _ MEET MARCH 30 |Dance Follows Labor Athletic Events The E; rn District of the Labor Sports Union will hold an indoor gymnastic and jumping meet March 30 in the Finnish Workers Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. The program for the meet is as Spanish Com-, CALL RALLY OF NEEDLE WORKERS Push Dress UnionDrive, | to Plan Fur Strike (Continued from Page One) Dress and Fur Workers Unien will hold a very important session on the vital problems before the orrgan- ization in the continued drive on dress sweatshops and in the plan- ning of the fur strike. The meeting in Cooper U.tion is a meting of members of all crafts and trades. The reactionary officialdom of the scab International Ladies Gar-| Workers having been given! ment their opportunity to levy a ten dol- la’ tax on the workers they control, the Industrial Council, a cloak manu- facturers association, came out with a statement yesterday announcing} that they want “peace” and that they would renew the fake agree- ment with the right wing company union. At a meeting of right wing of- ficials in the Rand School Wednes- day, a little drama was staged. Af- ter several hours of threatening a fake strike, the officials came to the conclusion that to defend their company union, each worker must TAILOR PROTEST DAWES EXPERTS | bel TODAY AGREE ON PLAN ATIRVING PLAZA TO GYP GERMANY Organize to Smash the YoungRamsThruBank | Hillman Machine and Sales Trust (Continued from Page One) PARIS, March 8.—Unanimity of tion. The circular declares, in part; |°Pinion among the creditors was “Tailors! Smash the Hillman ma-|Teached today by reparations ex- chine! perts, it was understood, on a plan of organizing a bank for interna- tional settlement of German war “The Hillman terror machine has foreed the workers into submission |to the bosses and their agents in the |Cebts. Germany opposes the bank junion. Beckerman, who became the |and sales trust, but will not be heed- manager of the Joint Board at the |°% i eens point of the bloody knife sunk into| Germany was understood to have the backs of the workers, established | ade a tentative offer of an initial ja bloody terror and wiped out every annuity payment, but Chairman shadow of union conditions in the Owen D. Young was reported to shops. But now Beckerman is out! have pigeon-holed it temporarily, Beckerman had to go, just as those | Preferring that the experts complete who took his place and are trying the organization of the international |to continue his regime of terror and |bank before considering Germany's hetrayals against the workers, will | er. have to go! The bank, under the proposed plan, “The apostle of all grafters and | Would create a commercial section servants of the bosses in the Amal. |t0 stimulate trade, handle German) gamated, Mr. Sydney Speed-up Hill- ideliveries in kind, bolster exports, |and permit the stabilization of ex-| ;man, imported the fascist gang | leader of Chicago, Mr. Risman, to |changes. finish the job of destroying the union,| It would seli produce collected | started by Beckerman. But today |from Germany in such a way as to the workers will not stand for it.|seve the allies as much as possible Today the tailors will follow the ex- |Tather than nee Mentos off the German debt. ample of struggle against all be- trayers, the example of the fighting makers, cloakmakers and fur- jers, “The terror against the tailors | must be smashed. The conference | of shop representatives, the deter- | niination of the shop delegates to organize for struggle was the first | blow into the demoralized machine | of Hillman and company. Sarai oe | Women’ Sek hed s re “The Hillman machine can tem- | | porarily sueceed with the aid of the boss to throw one or another active fighter out of the shop, but this action will affect the struggie only in a manner of adding oil to the fire. The Amalgamated member- ship, under the leadership of the Shop Dedegate Conference, will |break the Hillman-Risman terror |* International Women’s Day, when| the working women all over the world will be mobilized to combat imperialist preparations for war, will be celebrated at a huge mass meeting on Sunday, March 17, 2:30 p. m., at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. The meeting will form part of a WILL MEET HERE pursued was too narrow and had | Instead of concentrating our ac-. ei {come across with ten dollars a head | to prepare a “fund” for the mythical | strike in the cloak industry. 2. ri-jumping event, stand In the period just prior to this jump, standing broad jump, meeting. the employers’ association! ip-jump. had ¢ ‘ized the right wing union tanding broad jump. for “powerlessness in counteracting pparatus performances: hor-|the orga parallel bars, |the left wing Needle Trades Indus-) ial Union.” This referred to the unionization of over 400 dress manu- | al bar, 2 styles; Junior Events. mping event, standing standing broad jump, union in the dressmakers strike, | The bosses, while bemoaning the) successes of the left wing union, at the same time displayed extreme j will be dancing to the tunes of a/petulance toward their puppets in | good orchestra. |the socialist company union. They) All entries for this meet should | urged their socialist agents to more} | be sent to Leo Heiskaninen, 764} strenuous efforts in fighting the 4th St., Brooklyn. ‘left. wing. b RAGES * | The Schlesinger gang will now The schedule of games in the | probably hail the manufacturers Metropolitan Workers Soccer} |“desire for peace” announcement as| | League for | Tarr: follows: \a victory for the clique of corrup- tet ee ticnists, but they will go to tke Argentine S. C. vs. Martians 8. C./bosses nevertheless and arrange | Rob Roy F - C. va, Fordham 8. C. that they force their employes to Wacsaage Wp ay Ipay the fake strike tax of $10 each. | seta ss see aarti ahr oe re- Ae e E «.., cent taxes levi at gang have Freiheit S. C. vs. Prospect Unity. |never been paid, this one too will| Falcon A. C.—By. “C” Division. fhe seanieg the workers. Scandinavian Workers vs. Harlem | 10 "aye won | Progressive. Cooperative S. C. C. 2.—Standing broad jump. . After the athletic events there Scandin- eement “skirmish” pi the fact that the employers still demand the legalization of piece | work, a sweat shop system which | ears Workers 8. C. vs. Spar- jalready exists in the right wing | Red Star S. C—By. |shops, but still needs ‘official legal- | ization. ‘Robert Dunn to Sepik on Auto Speed-up Bronx Forum Sunday vs. Workers s. [eee mecca ae rete The relation of the automobile in- \dustry to war and the effects of mass production the workers, will be treated by | Robert W, Dunn, executive secre- |Dunn in his lecture. tary of the Labor Research Associa- mn and author of “Labor and Auto- jmobiles,” will discuss “Speed-up in | {the Motor Industry” before the | Bronx Workers Forum, 1330 Wilkins | Ave. near Freeman St. Station, Bronx, at 8 o'clock’ tomorrow eve- | ning. A Powerful Drama of War Prisoners In Siberia! tories, shops, mills, and other places of employment. Our recent experiences with meetings in the churches ought to be adequate proof that we must intensify our agitation against the church, to break down the stranglehold it has on the Negro masses, and not to go to the churches to win these masses. Sone able film of SURPRISES! THE WORKERS CENTER, | facturing shops by the left wing) important phase of | is} | on the wages, | health and working conditions of Daily ato 12% Pp | Coming Shortly: MOSCOW TODAY: A r | tactics, “Members of the Amalgamated! Men’s Clothing Workers, Children’s Clothing Workers, Shirtmakers. Rally to the mass protests and dem- onstration meeting against the Hill- igressing ;man terror and for the reinstate- | izational inroads made by/ ment of Anna Fox—Saturday, March | 9, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Ir-! ving Pl. The following speakers | will address the meeting: Louis Hy- | man, Ben Gold, Ben Gitlow, S. Zim- merman, Anna Fox, S. Liptzin, L. |Nelson, Nino Siracusa. Come in ‘mass to this meeting! Hillman’s |terror machine must be broken. We must deal a death blow! Organize under the banner,of the Shop Dele- |gates Conference! With united ranks of the workers to victory! ‘Nadir Presents Big Program at the Civic Repertory Tomorrow | A program of unusual interest will be presented by Moishe Nadir, noted Yiddish writer and contributor to the Jewish Communist Freiheit, at the Civic Repertory Theatre to- |morrow evening. Steamship Tickets on All Lines and All Classes; Booking to All Parts of the World; Money Transmission. ROUND TRIP TICKETS AT || Rep ucrp Rates? \]| (\USTAVE EISNE Authorized Steamship Ticket Agent 1133 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. (Corner 26th Street) TELEPHONE: CHELSEA 5080. SELECTED AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST FILMS OF 1928 BY THE CRITICS OF EUROPE! ‘Homecoming’ Produced by ERICH POMMER who created “The Last Laugh”; “Caligari”, Variety” uild cinema E. rk the Red Capital at work and play. NEW IDEAS! at 26-28 UNION SQUARE PROCEEDS 10 SAVE THE DAILY WORKER!! UNDER THE AUSPICES OF SECTION 1, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY AND DOWNTOWN SECTION YOUNG WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE FUN! FROLIC! DANCE! campaign being conducted by the Women’s Department of the Work- ers (Communist) Party to organize women workers and working class housewives. The campaign is pro- in conjunction with the ‘building of the new revolutionary labor unions and many working wo- jmen are being organized. Women are replacing men even in the basic industries, the Women’s Department points out. They are exploited especially in the war in- dustries and in the event of war im- perialists will seek to utilize them to take the place of men. Every effort must therefore be made, women Communists state, to organize the women shoulder to shoulder with the men workers to fight the imperialist war prepara- tions. The progra a at Central Opera | House will include many speakers of | national working class prominence. | \gles of working women through his- | tory, will be featured. Read ing | Reading and studying if your eyes are in good con- dition is a pleasure. If, jj however, they are defective Food Carnival an Dance SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH, AT 8 P. M. or strained, it is drudgery. A pair of rest glasses will relieve the strain and | keep good eyes well, | OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 4. M. Formerly Polen Miller Optical Co. OPTOMETRISTS — OPTICIANS 1690 Lexington Ave. Corner 106th 8t., N. ¥, C. . SURPRISES! ADMISSION 50c Building the Revolutionary Grgan of the Working Class at the Same ‘Time! A mass pageant, based on the strug- | Clerical Reactionary | | Gen. Antonio Villareal, who led the reactionary agrarian-clerical troops in the capture of Monterey. It is said that he is regarded as possible candidate for president by those backing the revolt. PLOT TO FRAME ORGANIZER FAILS SP Fakers Fa Fail to ‘Get’ Grocery Union Head | | Manufactured evidence, which the! | officialdom of the United Hebrew) | Trades brought to the Tenth Magis- sede Court in Brooklyn, in an at- mpt to frame up David Vacker, Dairy Clerks’ Union, was thrown out of court as insufficient, and the union organizer was freed. Coming back to life after a per- |iod of inactivity, the U, H. T. again began a campaign to harm the Gro- jcery Clerks’ Union, which had split away from that reactionary “so- | clalist” organization. Scabs and thugs were hired by them to “pick- et” a union store where union mem- | bers are employed at 773 New Lots jAv .» Brooklyn. | When they saw that the working class patrons continued to do busi- posted in the window), and when the their usual frame-up tactics, and anested the organizer, | assaulted. IF YOU INTEND TO BUY id erg ha STOR New York, N. pred of the Grocery, Fruit and | ness there (a clipping of the news| story in the Daily Worker, telling} [the truth to the workers had been} union men employed continued to ignore the thugs outside the store, the U. H. T. officialdom stooped to claiming | that their picketing thugs had been mger as Admiralty Breathes “Menace; Boasts of Revolts Crushed SAY PLANES ARE CHEAP TOOL T0 KILL “NATIVES” ‘Great Singapore Base Ready for Action LONDON, March 8.—Though the 1929 budget for the British navy is $7,500,000 less than last year, the reduction is only apparent and tem+ porary, states W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, today. The dropping of a few obsolete cruisers, which were costing too much, and the enormous expendi- tures for constructing the Singa- pore naval base and which do not all appear on the naval budget. account \for the lesser demand, he says. |More money will have to be spent to keep up tle base next year, he said. e Planes. In opposition to the United States | fifteen cruiser bill, England concen- |trates on her airplanes, but there |will also be three new cruisers, one \flotilla leader, eight destroyers, six | submarines and one net layer. Bri- ‘tain’s total defense bill this year will be $563,050,000—exclusive of construction work on har and bases which do not show her Sir Samuel Hoare, air minister, told the house of commons today he urged approval of the 1929 total gross air service estimates of $98,- 225,500. Kill Them Cheaply. Sir Samuel cited the value of the air forces to the British empire and pointed to the recent suppression of | tribal uprisings. “It has been calculated that the operations on the Aden frontier in Traq during the tribal troubles jwould have cost the British ex- chequer six miliion sterling (about $30,000,000) under the old condi- ions. It actually cost $8,500 ‘pounds. The air arm is the most economical and the most humane instrument that could have been em- | ployed.” RAID IRISH REPUBLICANS DUBLIN (By Mail)—Civie guards raided the offices of the official or- gan of the Irish republican party, “An Phoblacht” (The Republic), to- day, seizing all the copies on the premises and prohibiting further sale. The reason for the raid was that the issue contained a report of a meeting of the Irish republican army council. RADIOS, PIANOS, PLAYER- PIANOS, PLAYER ROLLS, RECORDS, OR ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BUY AT E at 103 Avenue “A” (Bet, 6-7th Str.) Gigantic Blum Sale Ends Sunday! 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