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Page Two OAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929 ’oliceman, Calle Tamman d Gun Carner for Rum “Runners, is Killed in Battle as WHALEN'S COPS Unions o _ By JOSEPH COHE AS USUAL HIT urgeoisie, in spite of all the high- wn phrases which occur so fre- y in it, is characterized by one Suspect Connection of |common feature: its official op- Ty rae Pee. position to the idea of the class- War With Olvany Job ane, : Be ie olive For a long time, an intensive relonce: driver. ine *|process of organization has been in oe eae “|progress among the employe! aye a i . Countless militant organizations, 7 gaa bearing a purely-bourgeois class- killed yeste haracter, have éome into existence. tween his guns and othtrs of M as usual, shot during the "he work done by these organiz- . ations makes it clear that, as a mat-/| ter of fact, the bourgeoisie is quite convinced of the reality of a class- struggle, The common name by which these employers’ organizations are known is Employers’ Associations. By this me, they have become a powerful factor in American life, thanks to their energetic activity in all phases of the struggle between Capital and S-|Labor. One can hardly find a single trips, ride.” Just be- | woe of the laborer which is not con- fore the attack on Higgins, Maloney, nected in one way or another, with who was sitting in a saloon at 69 the bosses’ association. battle St. and merry gins, owne rum-r h he made terious t St. and Fourth Ave., a block away Te auldecae ae ERB ke had,been hurriedly summoned to the | 04, focus bs eonaubae set | Owlis Head by members of the) oo cons, provocations, @s-} pionage, scabbing, and other “bless- | ings of democracy” of this sort, | with which the worker is so gener- | showered by bourgeois “just-| —all this work is now either car- | tied on directly thru the bosses’ or- ganizations, or indirectly encour- |aged and influenced by their propa- ganda. The shameful part they play in gang, presumably to provide them with. the for the murder of Higgins, tools Shooting Starts. Higgins jumped out of the car after he was seated in it, and the shooting started. Other police arrived, led by Ser- geant McGarty, and also opened fire. f the Bourgeoisie, The Bos , _GZECH WORKERS Association HIT DISRUPTION a SES which employed to designate the workers’ trade organizations. Traitors to Red Unions It is quite probable that in the choice of the name. “Association”; Opposed by Masses there is a hint at democracy. The —— word “Association” signifies a vol- (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) untarily organized group of people.| PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 93.- That freedom and democracy are here only meaningless, sounds (just like all the other fine phrases, un- der whose emblems the bourgeoisie o fond of parading), may be seen irstly from the methods they em- —Representatives of the Red In- ternational of Trade Unions Friday negotiated with the Czech disrupt- evs of the R. I. L, U. and demanded tne reestablishment of the status cuo. They further demanded that a ploy in their fight against the pro- gation be sent to Moscow in or- letariat, and frequently from their der to settle the dispute with the undemocratic relations among them- ed International of Trade Unions. selves, where the demoralizing psy: The disrupters rejected all the con- chology of private ownership de- ditions and also refused to call a} velops to a high degree petty clashes congress declaring that there was of interests. We may call attention not sufficient money in the treas- here to the fact that (1) many asso- ury. At the same time they refused ciations resort to boycotting bosses tie financial assistance of the Red who employ union men, and that (2) International of Trade Unions, members of the associations are fre- whose representati declared that quently coerced by means of dues tie Czech organization had sufficient (taxes) and by other methods. It funds. is worth nothing that (1) officially the associations are opposed to boy- Workers Fight Split. The disrupters obviously intend to cotts, but this opposition applies split away from the Red Interna-| only to boycotts’ carried on by tional. | unions, and (2) their official ob- The Central European Bureau of jection to the unions is that the the R. I. L. U. then issued a sharp latter are undemocratic. appeal to the Czech workers against | eNOTE “With the exception of the disrupters, ents | the primitive communistic society,” |_ The following organizations have (To Be Continued) declared unanimously against the | ee disruptors: the miners, the metal | workers, the glass workers, the al workers, the land workers, the rail- CLERKS’ UNION an overwhelming majority of the clothing workers. Hoover’s Secretary ® | Representative Walter A. New- ton, of Minnesota, who was chosen by Hoover as the third member of his secretariat staff to write his speeches and articles for him. CANNON THUGS BEAT WORKERS Gangsters, Police and Detectives Help (Continued from Page One) waymen, the leather workers and|PTess, there were about a thousand | |workers around the outside of the| hall, with more police, detectives |SOCIALISTS IN NEW FRAME-UP Conduct Vicious. Fight on Butcher Union | | His mother sick and in hospital, Max Lederfine of 59 Monroe St., went to buy his families supply of meat at tue family butcher, B. Stein, whose store is at 124 Monroe St. After leaving the store with the package of provision under his arm, x Dederfine went to the cornor drug store and called up his em- ployer, Steinberg and Sons, 251 W.! 30th St,, to tell them that he would) be compelled to come to work late. On stepping out of the phone booth, he found police and a ci in who pointed him out for arrest. He was arrested and confined in cell all day, being released only after the magis- trate in Essex Market Court com- pelled his friends and relatives to} put up $500 bail for trial later on} charges of “disorderly conduct.” What had happened? Simply this. The gentleman in civilian clothes with the police, was none other than) the “socialist” official of the Uni- ted Hebrew Trades, A. Heller. In an attempt to break up the} Progressive Butcher and Poultry |Workers’ Union, which split away| firom the reactionary U. H. T., the |“socialists” had-called a fake strike against the butcher store at 124} Monroe St. This store had a signed agreement with the Left wing union and a member of that union was en-| Capniakers Will Hold! Openyforum Thursday, to Falk of Convention | FORCE CHINESE PEASANTS INTO ARMIES; WAR ON Fighting Breaks Out in Kiangsi-Honan | “What to expect from the coming. }eonvention of the International Cloth | |Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union,” will be the topic discussed } ‘ ; at an open forum meeting of New York members of, the Capmakers Union, which is being sponsored by the Trade Union Educational League {section in that organization. The jopen forum will be held tomorrow night ct 8 o’clock in Manhattan (Continued from Page One) Lyce=m, 66 E. 4th St. |Peking and Honan in a declaration At this meeting the workers will| that will not be bound by the deci- |be able to hold a free discussion |sior= of the Nanking Kuomintang | (something forbidden at union meet-|congress alleging that the delegates |ings) of the most important ques-|have been improperly chosen. tions before them. | General Yang Sen, at Schang in At the last meeting of the Cap-| Szechuan, has denounced Nanking |makers Union the demand of the|and resumed recruiting for a drive jrank and file that a secret, closed/ along the Yangtse River, Yang is ballot be held on the election of dele-/4 supporter of Wu Pei-fu. gates to the convention, was voted) Tt is considered highly significant down by the followers of the ma-|in the present situation that Ho chine supporting “clubs.” No pro- | Chi-kung, mayor of Peking and sup- tests of the left wing for an oppor-' porter of Peng Yu-hsiang, has left |tunity for the membership to ex-' abruptly for the south allegedly to press their real feelings without roach ‘an understanding between terrorization by the administration | Frankow and General Feng. | ‘here is also constant rumor of {a coalition between General Yen Hei shan, Genera] Pei Chung-hai (Mak- den) and Marshal Chang Tsung |chang, now operating in Shantung It is forecast confidently here that open warfare on a large scale | will ensue within the next two weeks involving all sections of the coun ‘try. | were listened to, PRODUCE PLAY, HARLEM DANCE Champion,’ ‘Daily,’ ‘Vida Obrera’ Benefit “Marching Guns,” a drama of the ‘ |Communist, Be Freed After a few minutes Patrolman Dan- Protests against the disrupters are |2nd capitalist press reporters arriv-|J°¥ing union conditions in the store.| j..< struggle produced by the jat I. L. D. Conference brutal strike-breaking; their various | HOLDS B16 MEET jel Maloney, who, witnesses said, campaigns against the workers; arriving from all over Czechoslo-|ing every few minutes, |, With the announcement of the/Workers Laboratory Theatre, will was involved in the gun fight. as @ | their covert work of gradually de- | vakia. Only one small group around| Inside the hall Cannon’s gang-|fke strike, came the picketing of/he featured at the Champion-Work-| Bitterly condemning the whit fun carrier for one of the gangs, | priving the laborer of his last ele-| i a Hisek in Brunn has declared for the|sters were parked before the plat- |Paid thugs. And when the “picket. | er_Obrera dance at the Imperial terror in Rumania, representatives lay mortally wounded with a bullet mentary right, the right to tight Prepare Organization disrupters, Hlsek was expeled from|form, eager to attack any workc-s 18” proved fruitless, the “socialist” | 4 yattorium, 160 W. 129th St., Fri-/of the 45 branches of the New York wound under his heart. Beside Ma- for few cents more in return for| ae ae the Party: |who might try to denounce the Can- J aders became desperate. They were| day evening, |district of the International Labor loney were Thomas Connell, alleged|}i, hard toil—all this makes the! ampaign, Stri e zi ron crew. The hall manager was |°Ut to frame some one. Heller saw | Negro, white, Chinese and Jap- Defense, at a special conference call bootlegger, with a bullet in the left | posses’ associations a sort of head-| — the first speaker and he made a|the worker go in and out, thought) 0.0 workers will be largely repre- |¢d by the local office, passed a reso- Several hundred food store clerks Wie tinst now. ths anenae ih we rallied to the call of the Retail Gro- are to oppose him effectively! cery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union As an illustration of the import-!and came te overcrowd the McKin- ance which the capitalists attach to}ley Square Casino, 1258 Boston Rd.,| “free-speech-for-all” talk, After him |him a Left wing sympathizer, and a Wobbly spoke, also in the name |began his little role of agent-pro- of free speech, and then the chair-|Yocateur, a role played excellently | ;man tried to introduce Cannon and | |Schachtman who sat on the plat- leg, and Harold Richardson, a clerk, who had innocently walked into the line of fire and received a shot in the left shoulder. Chicago Tactics. sented at Friday’s event, Cyril lution demanding the immediate re Briggs, chairman of the committee |lease of Alexander Dobrogeanu on entertainment and editor of the |Gherea, leader of the Rumanian Negro Champion, reports. “The |Communist Party, and other work- dance will bring white, Negro, Chi- |€7S now in Rumanian jails. Gherea quarters for our enemy—Capital. | MILLINERS OUT IN SHOP STRIKE iby Heller in previous fights. The Left wing union issued a state- tions. In the introduction to his|ynion is about to launch in all exhaustive treatise on the subject,| boroughs of New York, which will! The strect was littered with pis-|the bosses’ associations. we may|at a mass meeting. | form. jment yesterday denouncing such|nese and Japanese workers together |has been on a protest hunger strilc tols. Charles (‘“Vannie”) Higgins, a |quote the words of Professor Clar-| The meeting is the first of-a ; As soon peas isan began |stool pigeon tactics, pledging to de-|on a platform of working class soli-|Since Jan. 26 and he is. reported dy “millionaire bootlegger,” and Paul B tt, one of the greatest ouvie is re ride. | " 0 expound a defense of Trotsky, a|fend the innocent worker and call-|darity,” a statement issued by the |!8- Eckert, of 3315 Dorchester Road, | bourgeois authorities on these ques- |serced “oreateathe Couteen a;| Lammany Bosses Fight worker in the audience shouted,|ing on the working class patrons of |eommittee declares ‘the resolution, passed in the Baltimore, were arrested. | n m liar!” The gangsters rushed for |the store to disregard the fake strike.) John C. Smith’s Negro orchestra |name of the 40,000 members and af- for Power him, and attacked all others who| 5 h will provide dance music. Tickets |filiated organizations of the New seemed to agree with him. During| | This battle marks the spreading of the war between rum-running gangs from Chicago to New York. 3¢ has always been supposed that Tammany men had such control in New York that they were able to assign the gangs to spheres of in- fluence, protect them there and keep:them from fighting. There is some* suspicion that the outbreak of war here coincides in more ways than one with the sudden outbreak of factional fighting inside Tam- many Hall. Professor Bonnett “views with j, alarm” the following facts: “There are more than 5,000,000 organized laborers in the United States*. What is to prevent them from gaining control of the govern- | |ment and the industries of the land, should they decide to carry out such a program! Is there no concentrated power to oppose this movement, once lit started?” But the troubles of the bourgeois | | savant are dissipated as soon as he! discovers the “open sesame,” that | priceless means of salvation, which jhas been created, of, by and for Capital, i.e. the bosses’ association. He goes on to say: | “That an opposing movement of | | this sort exists and is rapidly grow-| ing is one of the facts considered SHOE UNION WINS cee: in the following pages.” (Referring |to his aforementioned book.) Big Firms Sign, Begin | The worthy professor, of course, Drive in Long Island \is here carried a little too far by his) enthusiasm. It is quite clear to any} | Marxist that it is as impossible to/ preserve and perpetuate the existing | order as % is to arrest the mighty, ever-moving mechanism of man’s as it was impossible, for , to perpetuate the slave-| of ancient Rome; or the} But we shall | (Continued from Page One) sented the workers’ demands to the boss and are expecting an answer today. The leaders of the organization drive also made announcement of the fact that the union had made the first inroads into the Long Island shoe manufacturing territory by pulling a 100 per cent strike in the Phillipson and Lockwood fac- tory. All the biggest shoe menufactur- ing plants in the vicinity of New York are located on Long Island and have never been organized hereto- fore. The workers employed in the fit- system | patriarchal system. (have occasion to consider these que tions later. One thing is certaii meanwhile, if only temporarily, the | lemployers’ organizations can and| |do help increase the power of cap-| lital and oppress the laborer. *NOTE: At the time that Bonnett) was concluding his investigation of | the employers’ organizations (circa 1921), the membership of the unions of the American Federation of Labor include workers in all crafts of the An attempt to force the millinery | tempt to lighten the burdens~ borne union, clerks in grocery and dairy|hand sewers, 20 in number, to reg- stores and fruit markets. lister themselves yesterday for mem- A large number of those attend-|bership in the right wing Local 24 ing the meeting were non-union /and thus quit their own union, the workers who signed up with the or-|left wing Local 43, resulted in the ganization, when the call to join was | unanimous walkout of all 20 girls made from the platform. Enthusi-|in the Pilgrim Hat Co. asm ran high for the projected at-|° The decision to go out on strike rather than forsake the fighting union they had helped build thru so much suffering, was reached at a shop meeting held in the head- quarters of their organization. The officers of Local 43 announced \that the fight will receive all the |backing and assistance the union is jane to muster. * by the workers thru unionization of the trade. The workers in these food stores are the victims of ter- rific exploitation, working unlimited hours for seven days a week at miserable pay. Adams Will Discuss Negro Women Tasks, |A sassy wpa |Pl+ has been rented by the Millinery rang ae bas Carer On, [Hand Workers’ Local 43 for a the-} seat ay . ‘1 \atre party for the union member- shore bonnie a a he cdots en ata and sympathizers. Three one-| aa y jact plays, by leaders among the Jew- | 101 W. 27th St. tonight. : eis a | On Monday night Harold Williams eh ee Bel er enecer ae led discussion in which he pointed) out the role of the Negro workers in the class struggle. Ida Dailes will} lead in tomorrow night’s talk. ae 3 The entire capacity of the Jewish} rt Theatre, at 14th St. and Irving}. the cutting crafts will be taken up.| patted Furriers Open Forum. An open forum of all unemployed Needle Trades Cutters |ferriers will be held this afternoon . at 1:30 in the downtown union head- to Hold Special Craft quarters, 16 W. 2ist St. Workers Meeting Thursday Ev e will discuss special problems in their trade, with particular attention to |the general strike in fur industry. ' Announcement of a meeting of cutters in all departments of the| union was made yesterday by the Joint Board of the Needle Tradcs |Workers Industrial Union. Cutters in the fur trade will meet at 16 W. Advertiser wants connection i ‘ with up-state workers who sel! ti i “(together with that of the independ-| ‘ ‘ a (ange ne ting, room, the = ay Cerne bout suena) did indeed come up to/2ist St., national union offices, im- ‘ow-priced land for developing and part of those employed at last-| 5 'hoo,000, However the condition of mediately after work Thursday ew colony. Must be in farming iv walked out on strike against the American proletariat has become | istrict or thereabout, Descrihe the Real Art Shoe Company, after a fight.with the bosses in the shop who demanded that the workers be co-signees of an apvlication for an injunction against the Independent Shoe Workers Union, which is con- ducting the drive. All efforts of the union’s organ- {zation machinery is being concen- trated to make the strike here 100 per cent effective. much worse since, and the number of organized workers has diminished markedly. What, then, should be the attitude ‘of the workers toward the bosses’ ‘associations? Their attitude must be in accordance with that policy, which in the well-known words of Marx, has always been the real |trend of history*—the class-strug- gle. The association of employers, in the broad sense of the word, in- evening, while the cutters in the cloak and dress trades will meet at 8 o’clock, the same day and place. Questions of extreme importance to irroundings in first letter. T. ABER, 280 Bowery, N. Y. C. | | 5 fll AA4A44444444_ Fear ewan od PRESENTS Another strike to be called yes- terday was at the shon of the Kados Shoe Company, 2401 Pacific St.. The walkout occurred at noon yester- day. jclude, besides all the manufacturers’ associations, various other organiza- tions of business men, of which the “Chambers of Commerce” are not |the least important. The word “As- sociation” serves as a generic name in contradiction to the word “union,” ih Tea Despite the failure of complain- ents to show up and press charges against Joe Magliacano, shoe union organizer, the magistrate in Jef- ferson Market Court refused to ww out the case, postponing it for weeks. _ Pravda Fxvoses Anglo- French Military Pacts; Scores Socialist Fakers MOSCOW, (By Mail)—The , da” comments as follows upon exposures of the “Utrecht Dar- in regard to the secret mil- pact between Belgium and \ures should finish them off. “The hypocrisy of the social demo- League of Nations as a factor mak- ling for peace, is also once again ex- | posed. The social democrats contend that the cbligatory registration of all agreements has killed the sys- much value is to be attached to so- cial democratic arguments, Mueller and Vandervelde, two of the most prominent social democrats, will cer- tainly be unable to come to any amicable agreem-nt concerning the contents of the Franco-Belgian mili- tary agreement. “The treacherous social democracy forms an organic part of the sys- tem of secret military combinations which’ gives the present international situation its most characteristic tone. It is generally known that Great dtain and France concluded po- fcal-military agreements follow- wz upon Locarno, the agreements pimed against Germanv. | the Locarno illusions still anywhere, then these expos- mie tistamin | cratic swindle about the role of the | |tem of secret military agreements. | The present revelations show how | ‘ea iA PANS es —AND ON THE “LOOPING the sensational successor 52 West 8th St., bet. 5th & 6th Com. 8: TOURS FROM $385.00 | The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own opinion of the greatest social experi: ment in the History of Mankind ai firet hand. World Tourists Inc. offe: you a choice of tours which will ex actly fit your desires and purse. ttl DTT HN lil an | iy (yi Don’t dream of going to Russia— mechanics make it a reality ! wear and Write immediately to | WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 175-5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. * ° ormeriy ‘Tel. 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No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manofacturer, so far at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, ther he fs set upon by the other portious of the bourgeoisie, the Iandlord, the shop- keeper, the pawnbroker, ete—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of moder: dustry; tke proletariat i and ersential p-oduct. (Communist Manifesto). DETROIT, Mich.-Shubert’s LAFAYETTE THEATRE ISADORA In A Program of Revolutionary Dances TTT Mm Buy your Tickets at Daily Worker Office, 1967 Grand River Avenue; Workers Restaurant, 1343 Ferry E.; Cooperative Store, 14th & McGrow; I. L. D., 3000 Grand River; Russian Workers Cooperative Res- taurants, 2934 Yeamans; Hamtranck and 2718 Germer. DUNCAN DANCERS DIRECT FROM MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. Company of 20 with IRMA DUNCAN Will Dance All Week BEGINNING MARCH 17TH Popular Prices