The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1929, Page 2

‘ _ Third and Fourth Convention, took energetic measures to correct the ™ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929 cers ot Standard a SEIZED WHEN WE Militarist Demonstration as “BOMB PLOT" IN TRIED TO GIVE QUT, er72ck s Body Arrives Today GASTONIA FAILS (Continued from Page One) ke Shore Limited, destined leveland, where it will again be text huge muitaris. OFFICIAL ORGAN’: for for a = the fy To Open Int’l Seamen’s “ Club in Baltimore te leveland special efforts will to impre war upon the minds of the children thru patriotic r exe; es in Herrick’s honor. The Cleveland school children will be compelled to suspend all study for - five minutes in silence his body is paraded thru the city. ron T. Herrick, notorious labor ', was a bitter foe of the Soviet , and a loyal servant of the f an financial interests. As '/embassador to France he labored long to have J. P. Morgan make the _ United States enter the world war on the side of the Allies, No won- ried to dis- hey then sent | his body on a cruiser. der the French capitalists send home| of Mark Hanna, Ohio gangster and |} Enemy of U. 8. S. R, Both in speech and action, He rick ceaselessly urged war again the Soviet Union. It was in front of his embassy in Paris that the French workers demonstrated f Avent With Dynamite rench workers demonstrated for" vi. Stopped by Guard But Herrick was not there; he had fled from their anger to the sub acro, (Continued from Page One) *—for the front of the store, It was Herrick who saw the pos- sibilities for Amer militarism in exploiting Lindbergh’s flight. Herrick was owner of Her: and Co., in Cleveland, and president of | the Society of Savings in the same! “We have a real first city, one of the largest mutual sav-| committee, primarily ings banks in the country and di-!<nd self-reliant. It was lo rector of the Metropolitan Life In- but I divided it ance Company. He was for ittees, which are years a close friend and associate to function effectively. A col- tion committee of four is in arge of arranging and supervising i Will Win.’ Tt can Nt down the street leading to the mill, Collect at Other Mills. ate relief su apostle of big business, : Loan Shark Is Charged _ With Swindling Negro s- Workers in the South SHREVEPORT, La, (By Mail) —| R. H. Grovendur, of the Chicago | ay ce Co, is charged with| ndling Negro workers while he ted as a loan shark. He is ac-| ed of having exacted interest at the rate of $1.80 a month on a loan of $5 to a Negro woman. He op- extensively among Negro eu ms to open an nen’s Club in Bal- 1710 Tham St. “tated INSURANCE AGENTS STRIKE. | state| MANCHESTER, England, (By Mail).—Insurance agents employed three-story by the London and Manchester As- t on the waterfront. surance Co. here are striking for Y| better conditions and hours, national Seamen's Bh 1,000 SEEK FEW JOBS. men to take aboard LONDON, (By Mail).—An exam- ple of the great unemployment here was seen when 1,000 workers applied for work at one road job in Ber- mondsey. A few men were adver- ONDON, (By Mail).—Over 100 v . ibe tised for by the council. workers have been laid off at the St, Helena Sheet Glass Works due to the introduction of a new labor- saving process. More will be later affected. ARREST JOBLESS. BALTIMORE, Md., (By Mail).—) Police arrested 55 unemployed work- | ers during last week in Baltimore, | as “vagrants,” when the workers} sought aid at the station houses. THREATEN RUBBER STRIKE. LONDON, (By Mail)—Workers at the huge Ferguson Rubber Works + Mitcham have threatened to go on strike if grievances about con- ditions are not satisfied by the com- pary. We have seen above th step in the revolution by ¢ ing class is to raise the pi to the position of ruling win the hattle of democracy: | Marx (Communist Manifesto) the first ‘work- | “Gem,” “Everready” and “Star.” It ngewe a “Grave Charges” Gets Pastor Three Years in Jail and $1,000 Fine PATERSON, N. J., April 12.— collectio Tomorrow, for instance, | they are organizing a squad of about 20 girls to go to South Gastonia, the next mill town, to collect at the mill gates—Wednesday being pay- day; a squad of eight to go to Can- | |nopolis, to collect; and a few to go} Three years in the state prison and jwith @ truck 7 ‘ound to neighboring ‘Y : \farmers. An investigation commit- 2 $1,000 fine was the sentence given |t2e has been formed to investigate here to the Rey, Charles E. Driver, | applications, also a store committee, former pastor of the local Lewis St. | consisting of store manager and six Community Church, for grave clerks. We picked out two or three charges, the precise nature of which|with store experience, and they even police are reluctant to divulge, |really are handling the job well and brought by his 15-year-old daugh- | working like the devil. ter, Mary Virginia, Funds Needed. The girl had run away from home| “In this town a ‘family’ very often | to Brooklyn, N. Y., where she was} means 3 or 4 families, or a family} questioned by a policeman. When) with 12-14 boarders living in a her father was first arrested, he| company shack. One of our store failed to appear in court, but was | commitee, for instance, just told me rearrested in Williamsport, Pa. |that at his house five families, in-} SS | cluding 22 persons, live in six small HUGHES HELPS RAZOR TRUST. rooms, In one room of the house, | PHILADEEPHIA, April 12 (UP). 12 X 12 seven people, three mar-| —Charles Evans Hughes appeared ried couples and one baby, live, today before the U. S. Circuit Court} “So far. we have given out corn of Appeals as counsel for American} meal, flour, Pinto beans, lard, fat- Safety Razor Corporation in aback, homony grits, a few cans of patent infringement litigation) milk for babies. Not all items to against the International Safety | each family. Razor Corporation and the Interna-| “All workers should contribute tional Safety Razor Sales Corpora-| funds to help feed the striking work- tion, ‘ers. Send your donation at once to The American company charged|the Workers International Relief, the two International corporations} Room 604, 1 Union Square, New) with infringement on the names) York City.” Textile strikers are urged to write |in their experiences to the Daily | Worker for its Worker Correspon- dence page, | is trying to keep prices up. The history of all human society, past and present, has heen the history of class strugeles.—Marx, For the New Line of the (C. 1. and C.Y. I. in the Building ot a Mass Communist Youth League and Its Unification Second Installment of Statement Introduced April 5th, by Com- * rades Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak, Which Was Rejected by the National Executive Committee. Wave of Struggles and the De-proletarianization of the League. The participation of the League in these struggles from the top, the poor compositions and organization status of the district organiza- | tion, the lack of district proletarian leadership, the lack of youthful of work and activity, the withdrawal of national forces imme- after the struggle without having built up a local trained lead- d the wrong line towards the working youth generally, is re- for the fact that the League did not assimilate the new recruits ng and deve! ng the traditions of struggle, and by deepen- | ing the youth methods of work. Therefore, one of the greatest failures of the League is the almost instantaneous loss of the new reeruits | with the c tion of the struggle. (Colorado in Feb,, 1928, had five units in the strike region, today we have none; in New Bedford we *Yeeruited 100 new members, today we have a maximum of 25 with enly ten attending recent discussion meetings; in Pittsburgh where we recruited over 100 young miners with only half of these left today; in’ Southern Illinois Where of 100¢young miner recruits approximately 25 remained; and Paterson with very few of the new elements remain- ing in the League.) 4 The culminating and the outstanding characteristics of this situa- tion, which is one of the greatest obstacles to involving the League in mass work, is the poor social composition. (Official figures show: industrial workers 51 per cent in 1927; 43 per cent in 1928; 40 per cent in June, 1928; 44 per cent in December, 1928; and, students 23 per cent in 192' 37 per cent in February, 1928; 87 per cent in De- cember, 1928.) These figures show that despite a radicalization pro- gess amongst the working youth there has actually been a deprole- tarianization process in the League. Furthermore, these figures show that within a period of one year, in which the League has participated in, to an extent, some of the mass struggles, there has been an in- crease of only one per cent industrial workers. Regardless of this, the process of deproletarianization is going on as can be seen in the figures concerning the regions of struggle cited above, Instead of emphasizing that the danger of the deproletarianization process is not over, the line of the NEC is to underestimate this danger as can be seen by the complete absence of this question from the convention thesis. Not until the League realizes this danger and takes the most decisive measures to overcome it will it be able to place itself at the head of the growing struggles of the young workers, Carrying Out CYI Letter a Prerequisite for League Progress. The present national and district leadership has not grown out of | the struggle and therefore does not reflect the social and national com- position of the American working youth, From top to bottom an over- hauling is necessary and decisive measures taken to develop a young American proletarian leadership, which will be representative of the working youth and has its roots in the class struggle. ‘ The foregoing does not bear out the continued contention in the Convention Thesis that today, we are in a period of real beginnings of mass organizations. In spite of some slight progress the present organized strength and mass influence of the League does not reflect the growing discontent and readiness on the part of the young workers to struggle. f ‘ The present situation in the League shows that the past, reflecting Revolutionary Struggle Against Wars and Capitalist Militar- ization, In connection with the struggle against the war danger and our anti-war work we wish to emphasize the following. Since the fourth con- vention we have made headway in breaking all old traditions and conducting work in the armed forces and auxiliary organizations, This is still only in its initial stages and must be given greater attention due to the eminence of war, In the struggle against the war danger we must learn to broaden our anti-war work so that simultaneously with an intensification of work in the forces, we enlarge our general propa- ganda and agitation amongst the broad masses. Especially must we link up the struggle against the war danger—and the actual armed struggles in Nicaragua, Mexico, China, etc., with the everyday strug- gles (against rationalization) in the shops, The League must raise sharply the struggle of the Imperialists against the Soviet Union. At all times the League must popularize the Soviet Union—raising the slogan of the Defense of the Soviet Union—popularizing its achievements and the Red Army as the de- fender of all workers the world over. In our struggle against the Imperialist wars we must mobilize the working and peasant youth of the colonial and semi-colonial countries for support of the revolutionary movement against world imperialism. The League must take definite’steps to cooperate with the Revolution- ary Anti-Imperialist movements in Latin America, Philippines, Haiti, China, ete., against American imperialism. Our struggle against the war danger and for support of the revolutionary movements in the colonies must find its expression in the Leninist slogan “Turn the Im- perialist Wars Into Civil Wars.” “Defeat Your Own Government,” “For the Complete Independence to the Point of’ Separation for the Oppressed Peoples,” and “Defend the U. S. S. R.” Mass Basis for Negro Work and Struggle Against White Chauvinism. Despite the repeated efforts by the CI and YCI to place as one of our major tasks the winning of the Negro youth, little has been achieved. Our Negro work so far has been confined to the drawing in of individual Negro comrades to leading committees without giving them the possibilities of developing Negro work or involving them in general League work. Real systematic work in our everyday activity (shops, unions, clubs, ete.), has been absent. The lack of functioning of the Negro Department of the NEC is symptomatic of the failure of the League, even in its highest committees, to take this serious enough, A prerequisite to successful Negro work is the fight against White Chauvinism. The NEC committed a serious mistake when it did not utilize the Norfolk incident (refusal of white members to attend League unit meetings with Negroes) by taking strict disciplinary measures to the point of expulsion, and conducting an enlightening campaign thruout the League and also amongst the working youth. New Line in Our Economic Trade Union Work. The increasing weight and role of the young workers in industry and their willingness to struggle, places sharply before the League as one of its central tasks, the organization of the Young Workers as a part of the general task of organizing the unorganized. The League must completely break with the attitude expressed in the theory of ‘compel the A. F. of L. and various Local bureaucrats to organize the unorganized youth.” We must recognize that the task of organizing the young workers falls to the Communists and the Left Wing around the new Trade Union Center. The Youth sections in the new Industrial the backward characteristics of the development of the working class youth in the labor movement—the complete isolation and sectarian character of the League—the student and petty bourgeois influence on the League and its leadership, still weigh heavily upon the League today, affecting the outlook of its leadership and sections of the mem- bership. The CYI in the past and especially in the period between the line of the League and prepare it for the new tasks. The Open Letter of the CYI to the League, if carried out, instead of being rejected by the League leadership, would have been the greatest aid in re- | ‘moving the weight of the past, and fitting the League for its tasks | ‘this historical period. Unions must become the organized form and driving force in the or- ganization of the unorganized young workers and bringing them within - the militant Labor movement. In Trade Unions which are not affili- ated with the new Trade Union Center and where the policy of the Left Wing is to carry on a struggle for the organization of the un- organized, vur policy shal} be to agitate for the establishment of youth sections as the means of organizing the unorganized and for mobiliz- ing the young workers in the struggle against the bureaucracy. At no time must we carry on our agitation for organizing youth sections in the non-affiliated unions, under the slogan of ‘compel the bureau- crats to organize the youth’.” (To Be Continued) ala j meine ee Attack, Arrest Marine Wo Tenants Strike Against This This is a common sight in the working class districte of New York City. The living quarters of Negro workers in Harlem overlook roofs cluttered with dirt. ght is kept out by lines of elothes. The story today tells of what some tenants are doing to fight agains the landlords who make this condition possible, Rent Strike Coming Against Vicious Landlord in Harlem (Continued from Page One) 2 them with new tenants who will pay the excessive rent pis asked. With this end in view the landlord has wired the house and put in steam heat, When he put in the steam heat he got a rent raise of $5 which was paid. But after wiring the house he refused to put in the fixtures for the tenants unless they accepted a rent raise of about 80 per cent. Watch the 10. Of the 35 tenants in the tenement, all the old ones have been forced out with the eption of 14. Of these 14, four compromised by agreeing to pay a raise of $10. The remaining ten tenants are all organized in a house committee and are members of the Harlem Ten- ants’ League. The apartments of these ten tenants have not been renovated by the landlord for 10 years. They are forced to have their apartments cleaned themselves and pay for it, They have lived there from 5 to 10 years. They are all workers. Their apartments suffer from al! the evils that go together with the robbery of the landlords who have as running-mates the legislature, | the politicians and the courts, More Than Robbery, The flooring is coming apart, the garbage is thrown down the shaftway, the ceilings and walls are splitting due to the defective plumbing, If the bell were to ring you would think it was a fire alarm, the windows must be propped up on sticks, the garbage can be smelled all over the house, the sinks are as old-fashioned as a spinning-wheel, the bathtub is nothing but a bit of tin coiled over wooden side-boards, For these sties which are called apartments the landlord wants a rent raise of 80 per cent. Labor Faker, Landlord and Boss. Te FERGUSONS at present pay $32 for their four rooms. Mr. Ferguson is a compositor. Due to the chauvinistic and reactionary character of the officialdom of the Typographical Union he is not per- mitted to become a member of that union because he is a Negro, The open-shop printing bosses can therefore, with the help of these reactionary officials, doubly exploit the Negro workers. Ferguson, a compositor, makes $28 a week, “Don’t Live Like Lady.” The landlord wants a raise of $18. He wants to have $50 for this apartment, “We cannot pay that,” said Mrs, Ferguson, “We must live, too, And I have two children and I want to give them a chance,” “You shouldn't want to live like a lady,” said the landlord to Mrs, Ferguson. This landlord is a white woman capitalist. Should not both Negro and white working women throw this class of parasites from power? * * * $20 for Rats, MES: ISAACS pays $30 for her four rooms. She works as a house- keeper from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. for $15 per week. She has two children, Last Christmas they rolled up their sleeves and papered and painted the apartment. The place looks just as bad now because the leaking plumbing rots the walls away. She uses oil for light, as do many of the other tenants, because gas is too expensive, when the coal stove is being used for cooking. The apartment is in such a state and the landlord is such a parasite | that Mrs. Isaacs had to go out to a second-hand store and buy a seat | for the toilet. “Rats gallop in and out in this place like war-horses,” said Mrs. Isaacs. The landlord wants a $20 raise, ee te Pay for Cold Pipes. Te JENKINS live in three rooms for which they pay $26. The apartment is equally as bad, As in the other places, the steam sys- tem installed last year, is a joke. It gives no heat, Hot water is present only in the lease. For the privilege of having cold steam- pipes decorating the rooms the families accept a rent-raise of $5. “We once raised a kick about the letter boxes,” related Jenkins, “The boss fixed them and then charged 50 cents a-piece for the keys, Nobody paid the 50 cents. Everybody broke open their boxes to get their mail.” The landlord wants a raise of $14. $28 8 Landlord Plays Politics. BOUT the same holds true for the other old tenants in the building. The new tenants get along by renting their rooms to lodgers as a result of which there is great overcrowding. Some of the new tenants manage what are known as “buffet apartments,” where women and drinks are sold, to provide for rent, The ten tenants, who have decided to fight it out together with the aid of the Harlem Tenants’ League, have not yet paid the raise, of which they were notified on January 1 and which was to be effective February 1. They have continued paying their old rents, The landlord has not taken the case to court because she is wait- ing for June 1, when the last of the Emergency Rent Laws for the apartments renting at the rate of $10 per room per month or below, expires. Then, she figures, she will be able to get what she wants or dispossess the tenants. In the meantime she is getting her old rent, Tenants Talk Strike. The tenants are thinking: ‘Why should we continue paying her rent? If she wins the case she will throw us out.” The course of action that these tenants are considering is a RENT STRIKE. No rent to this robber landlord! The Harlem Tenants’ League supports them. We will keep you informed of what happens when this rent strike goes into effect, If, during the course of the rent strike the landlord at- tempts to dispossess the tenants, it will be the time to RESIST DISPOSSESSION. Join the Fight. In order for both the rent and dispossession strikes to be effective as many tenants as possible must join the Harlem Tenants’ League and support the tenants not only in this house, but in all others where rent raises and dispossessions are pending. That is the only way tenants can protect themselves against the vicious attacks and robbery of the landlords, They can do it right now. And it will work. Have no pity on these vicious landlords, and we must treat them as robbers. * *. * In the newt article, in Monday's issue of the Daily Worker, Richard Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants’ League, will tell you what the League is and what it is fighting fers They are out to rob us, ee | pencils out. Grab some “2m this Monday, Begir |be offered for the best prizes will vorker cor- ondence letters sent in each | The 1.\2rs must deseribe shop conditions, and must be brief. | These are ine only requirements, | Grammar? Forge: that, Hand- jwriting? That won't unt. We know that workers don’t have time to learn to sling the lingo like col- |lege professors. So don’t let these \things daunt you, and spread this announcement ai | sheps and factories. Better still, ever subseription drive. wie All worker correspondents should get a bundle of Daily Workers — y day, the Daily Worker's correspondence page. correspondents must be the most active leaders in the Daily Worker's |; rkers League Organizer GET OUT THE PENCILS Correspondence Contest Starts Monday , Send in your letters now. The | pri for the first week will be: | For the best letter of the week— A copy of Bill Haywood’s Book. | For the second best letter—A copy of “Automobiles and Labor,” | Robert Dunn’s book on the auto sla For the ‘d best letter—A copy of “Silk and Labor,” in which Grace Hutchins tells ef the slavery that jcaused the recent Tennessee rayon ' strike. a * “g } mong prospective writers in thele i get them to subscribe and to read, Hy The . worker (Forty Are Injured When Suspension Bridge Collapses COTHERSTONE, Eng., (By Mail) —Forty people were injured, many severely, when a suspension bridge near Barnard Castle collapsed while many foot-passengers were on the bridge. The river was low, so that no one was drowned, U. S. 8. R. RADIOS. LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R. (By Mail).—Shortly a radio station is to be dispatched to the town of Ask- habad, which will be installed in the Kara-Kum desert upon the territory of the newly built sulphur works. From Askhabad the radio station will be conveyed to the spot by means of a motor-lorry constructed after the “Renault-Sahara” pattern specially adapted for traction across the sands, At the same time an expedition is being sent to Kara-Kum and Khiva under the guidance of the Academician Fersman to carry out thydrogeological exploration of Kara- Kum and Khiva, The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, ‘ndependent movement of the immense major- ity. —Karl Marx (Communist Mani- testo). SEND G DAY DAILY NAME \Gov’t Admits Nearly Two Million Jobless Workers in England LONDON, (By Mail)—The num- ber of registered unemployed work- ers in England for last week was 1,182,500, which is an increase of 118,000 over the total a year ago this time. This is only the official government figure, estimated as only a part of the true figure. GEOGRAPHICAL EXPEDITION. Mail).—The geological expedition working in the Khiva Tundra on the | Kela peninsula has discovered a new metal which has been named “Fersmanite,” in honor of Academi- cian Fersman, head of the expedie tion. Tt has been established by an- jalysis that this mineral represents a new chemical compound hitherto not encountered in nature, and that it appertains to the monolithic sys- tem of minerals. SOVIET INDUSTRY. oi MOSCOW, U, S..S. R. (By Mail). |—During 1927-28 the municipal en- ‘terprises in the U. S: 8. R. brought {in 284,100,000 roubles, against an ‘oxpenditure of 259,500,000 roubles. REETINGS SPECIAL MAY EDITION OF THE c WORKER Have your name and the names of your shop- mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition, AMOUNT Address COLLECTED AY . [i ; Name .ocsccsccceseosesensssserenseseeeeseeesseeee Peeee ECU SESOOOOST SCOT CO ae