The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1929, Page 6

onaee Six DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1929 Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. ao Daily, ¢ $8.00 a ye three months N 50 six, months three months ar il all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, York y, as: “The Terror” In the East. There fresh reports almost daily of the increasing butcheries of the imperialist “terror” in China and India. It may be taken for granted that these reports are not in the least exaggerated, since many of them come through capital- ist newspaper , and the poison press is always very cent about revealing the crimes of the class for which are soure: it speaks. Indian viceroy, Lord Irwin, British imperialism’s fascist dictator in India, has issued an order over the heads onal legislative bodies, calling for the expulsion of unists. This weapon will certainly be used against y of the left wing trade union and peasant leaders ar- rested in the recent wholesale raids. The British king, and his “labor” party, headed by James Ramsay MacDonald, will find some disease-infested tropical island, to which these re- volutionaries will be sent, if the protest of international labor does not secure their immediate and unconditional release. Otherwise, the bloodlust of Dutch imperialism, venting its rage upon the revolting masses of Indonesia, will have a greatly amplified sequel in the gorging of British imperial- ism’s appetite for the blood of the rising millions of India. British imperialism, aided by the reformist traitors of the Trade Union Congress and the Labor Party, jointly ding on the blood of hundreds of millions, organizing the r of striking workers, keeping the peasantry in slave- ‘s, Will not stop at mass deportations of the best fight- among the Indian industrial workers and peasantry. The rapid development of the left wing trade unions in India rouses the Indian government of hangmen, provocateurs and pogrom-inciters to more bloody acts of oppression. The MacDonald-Baldwin-Lord Irwin regime rages at the sight of 20,000 demonstrators in Caleutta marching under the slogan of “For Soviet India!” on the occasion of the All-India Con- ference of the workers’ and peasants’ party. Using the wholesale slaughter possible with rapid ma- chine gun fire, instead of the single blade of the executioner’s knife, the reaction in Canton, China, is reported to have mas- sacred 1,000 revolutionary workers, including 30 students at the Sun Yat Sen University. Many of these victims were, without doubt, as in India, leaders of the left wing in the trade unions, fighting the treason of the right wing traitors, the exploitation of the employers and the oppression of the government. This is the same anti-labor combination that revolution- labor faces in every country, including the United States, bor here is rapidly learning. very success of the imperialists and their creatures, the native bourgeoisie, in India and China, means a strength- ening of the war preparations against the Soviet Union. Support of the Indian and Chinese revolutionaries must be- come a definite part of the growing preparations for the broad observance of this year’s International May Day, May First, Greater activity is demanded from the Anti-Imperialist League against the growing terror in the East. In this ef- fort the Communist Party of the United States greets the struggle of the British Communist Party, pledging its co- operation to the utmost for struggle against the imperial- isms of the United States and Great Britain. The whole American working class must be aroused in defense of the rising revolutionary wave in the Orient, the growing resistance of Indian and Chinese labor that strength- ens the working class for greater struggles in all countries, that helps to cripple the new imperialist war against the Soviet Union. r Fooling the Farmers Some More. Congress convenes again today and its main task is to fool the farmers some more on the question of relief. The ion is called for the purpose of taking up the question of farm relief and the tariff, in both of-which, the farmers have been led to believe, there is some panacea for their many ills. It can be said with certainty, before a-single word of debate is uttered or vote taken, that any legislation adopted will not in the least benefit the millions of agricultural work- rs, the tenant and mortgage farmers, or share croppers. The great mass of the agrarian population would have Ses received no benefit from the so-called MeNary-Haugen bill,. twice vetoed by Coolidge while president, and bitterly de- nounced by “Silent Cal’ in the best est poans of “Andy” Mel- lon and J. Pierpont Morgan. Even the blunted teeth of the McNary-Haugen legisla- tion have been extracted and the proposed relief bill that goes to congress this week will have, it is said, the approval of the White House, which means Hoover himself. It will be a bill benefitting the food gamblers, exporters, the bankers, great landlords and rich farmers. This fraudulent “relief bill” continues to carry the names of Senator McNary, of Oregon, and Representative Haugen, of Iowa. McNary and Haugen, the champions of the “equalization fee”, have even deserted this much abused child of theirs, some effort being made to offer a “debenture plan” as something “just as good.” Dirt farmers and agricultural workers will reject this brand of “lightning rod” legislation that the Hoover “big busin administration is trying to sell them. That must also mean a complete break with the capitalist political par- ties that urge this fraud. The working farm population in large numbers may well join with the city workers on May First, in International Labor Day Demonstrations, to unmask the capitalist congress that hatches the legislative plots of the great financial interests against them. This exposure will also reveal the hideous features of the “progressives”, from Norris to LaFollette, Jr., and the absolute hostility to the interests of the poor farmers and farm workers of the reform- ist duplicity that parades under the banner of the socialist party and the American Federation of Labor. The injunction, the strike-breaking weapon put in the hands of the exploiters by their own capitalist. courts, must be fought by the mass violations of the workers. To submit to injunctions is to accept the slave conditions offered by the bosses. The fight against injunctions is an important part of the fight against wage slavery. I Ne Ww rker | “COME ON BOYS, I NEED YOU NOW!” Bai Vv Sg o Company Sports Corrupt Youth By FRANK HENDERSON. A recent survey of an industrial | section of the country, which re- flects to a larger or smaller degree the situation in other parts of the United States, brings to light clearly | Speeded-up Industries Use Sperts to Keep the Minds of Young Workers from Struggle the role of sports and sport organi-| zations in this period of intensive | rationalization of industry and mili- tarization of the youth as a part of | the systematic preparations for im perialist war. The increasing im: portance of young workers on the industrial arena and their historical importance to militarism necessi- tates a view from these two angles to show the role of bourgeois sports. Rationalized industries, hell-holes | of capitalism, are drawing in an \inereasing number of young work-) \ers. Statistics show that children enter into industries at a very ten- der age to help in the support of | the family. Youth labor being a | source of cheap labor results in the | | displacement of adults by the young | | workers both boys and girls. This is not only true in the light indus- | tries, but efficiency shake-ups are | shifting young workers into the | heavy basic industries where they are replacing adults in dangerous and injurious work. ago robbed | falls, ete., facing American youth. He stated t labor propaganda has |and Communistie prin were em-|creeping into the public To Club | “poison 1! the duty sports. employers several yea: the workers of thousands of do! by selling stock, the compar iven orders that all worker ployed must join the Booste |and pay a fee of one dollar. Se |towns report that workers been dismissed because they refused to support the Booste panies The purpose of the Boos’ Clubs is to buy athletic grounds and | $ organize “town” sport teams con- ‘trolled by the company. of the He said that a junior baseball league corre- Jing to the American and Na- agues, claimed, ve and must be organized. will block the Communistie ten- n youth, Army Uses Sports as Basis. e role of sports in such mili- ions as the Citizens Camps, R. O, T. id National Guards | There is also the question of the | ilitarization of the youth and it: frelation to sports. The campaign | {cf the American Legion serves as al good example of the use of sport: to block the progressive ideas ant militancy of the youth. Just re- cently, Dan Sowers, a representa- tive of the American Legion, spoke | in Cleveland before the officials of the legion. In the course of his} talk he pointed out the dangers, pit- s lures the oth into these organiza- tions. The posters of the marines, appealing for reeruits into the ser- e, contain large pictures showing vines engaged in sports. Slogans h as “Join the Marines—Go to | Company Sports as Boss Weapon. | With the exploitation of the youth in the industries arises the question of how to keep in check the mili- tancy of the poorly paid young | workers. The militancy of the young | workers expressed in the recent struggles of the workers in the min-| ing, needle trades, and textile indus-| tries is a sword that is hanging over the heads of the employers. To di- | vert the attention of the youth from theiv miserable economic conditions | the employers have introduced vari- ous schemes to create illusions | among the young workers. The most effective scheme is the introduction of company sports and the organi- | zation of industrial athletic. leagues which lure the youth from the class organizations of the workers and hinder the development of class- consciousness. The buying of sport| equipment, donations of grounds, create illusions that the company is actually helping the workers, The company sport instructors and “stars” on the athletic teams are the efficiency exports of the com- pany encouraging loyalty, patriot- ism and class collaboration. In the’ western part of Pennsyl- vania the following is witnessed. The coal barons there are out to crush the fighting spirit of the young coal miners and to prevent the organization of the National Miners Union. During the miners’ |struggle the young workers organ- ized a sports club and affiliated to the Labor Sports Union. To, break up the workers’ sports club the com- |pany has announced the organiza- tion of a company baseball team and all those playing on the L. S. U. \teams will be blacklisted. The com- pany baseball suits carry the name of the coal company whose hired thugs, with the, help of the official police, beat up the militant miners on the picket lines. Many of the young miners, being members of the N. M. U., and not wanting to be blacklisted, have dropped sports to build up the miners’ union. This is an admirable stand of the young coal diggers. Booster Clubs.. In several company-controlled |towns of Pennsylvania the class collaboration schemes of the em- ployers take the form of Booster! ‘Clubs, In Lawrence county this policy is in full swing. The Booster Club idea is usually the joint scheme | of the companies and the business | imen of the town, In Bessemer, a company-controlled town, where the buildings and funds by the company | Union Boys To the tune of “Sonny Boy.” |Crowd around me here, union boys, And lend me your ears, union boys. | You’ve a way of knowing [I've a way of showing What the union means, union boys. Beal sent from Bedford and we know his worth He will make a heaven for us here on earth. | We’ ve all worked for low pay right here in Loray. Ay union will stay, union boys. | Manville Jencks ‘betrays us, but the workers all stand by us, We still have the union, union bo | And when we get our high pay, we will never, never stray From our eight-hour day, union boys. 7}. A Smith will squeal and squeal Painter he will steal and steal. With oar union we will go, union boys. The Gazette is against us, Pershing is with us. Choose of the two, union boys. Smith will grow lonely, want us and us only. With our union we will go union boys. (Same as first verse) So climb up on the ties, union boys. Show up all their lies, union boys, Jencks may lie and.cheat us, but he'll nevey | Until we’ye won our strike, union boys. Written by Kermit Harden, Young Loray striker. Lorav Workers. We work from week end to week end and never lost a day. But when that awful pay day comes, we draw our little pay. ‘Then we go home on pay day night and sit down in our chairs. The merchant raps upon the door, he’s come to get his share. When all*our little debts are paid and nothing left behind, We turn our pockets wrong side out, and not one cent we find. We get up early in the morning, we work al! day real hard, | To buy our little meat, and bread, sugar, tea and lard. Our children they grow up, and have no time to go to school, Almost before they learn to walk, they learn (o spin and spool. Written by Christene Patton, Young Loray Striker. . | Workers, or $23.87 a week, reflects Philippines — Baseball Season All Year.” Another picture shows a circle of marines watching the Hawaiian girls dancing the Hula dance, The military authorities are using all means to draw the youth into the service. Anything from g. the youth to | Ss in Hawaii. The corruption and commercial- ism of the Amateur Athletic Union, exposed by the charges of Ray Bar- kutti, Olympic champion, and_ the importation of Paayo Nurmi from Finland to fill the coffers of this commercial sport crganization re- veal to worker athletes the position of the A. A. U. The role of sports en the industrial field and the use of sports to lure the youth into the ice mean that all class- workers must’ expose and fight against this. The b ig of a workers’ sport movement will counteract the evils of bourgeois sports. To fight against the prep- aration for war the Labor Sports Union must be strengthened and broadened. \Carotina Textile Mills} Give Lowest Pay Next to Tobacco Industry’s WASHINGTON, (LRA).— Aver-| |age wages of cotton goods workers are practically as low as the lowest | | wage industry, tobacco. Workers in |the woolen and worsted goods in- |dustry averaged less in 1927 than | two years before. These facts are revealed by the |U. S. Department of Commerce in \its report of the 1927 census of man- ufactures. While tobacco workers averaged about $814 a year, cotton mill workers averaged $814.61 or about $15.66 a week for 52 weeks. | As North Carolina is now the lead-. ing state in cotton manufacture, its low wage scale is reflected in these figures, North Carolina, with 28 per cent of the country’s cotton mills, em- ploying 95,786 workers or 20.5 per cent of the industry’s total, produced 20 per cent of the cotton goods value. Massachusetts, first in 1925, is now second with 12 per cent of the mills, employing 90,875 or 19 per cent of the workers, and producing 18 per cent of the goods. South Carolina comes third with 75,069 workers and 15 per cent of production. Yearly average for 154,361 woolen and worsted workers was $1,125.37 or $21.64 a week for 52 weeks. This ‘s 9 per cent Jess than in 1925 or a loss of over $22 in average wages. Massachusetts is still the leading state in wool manufactures, Even Dyers Get Little. Dyeing and finishing of textiles reports average wages higher than other textile industries. Yearly average of $1,241.65 for 173,851 i the fact that skilled dyers are paid more than most textile workers and so bring up the average. But the average in this industry is still less \than the general average of $1,297 for all manufacturing industries. Half of Living Wage. For 190,283 knit goods workers the average in 1927 was $988.86 or $19.01 a week for. 52 weeks. The goneral average in the’ tex- tile industry as a whole was $1,040 or just about $20 a week for 52 weeks, This general average for textile workers is less than half the amount estimated as necessaty for the low- est minimum family budget to pro- vide for,a man and wife and three small children, in any one of the in- dustrial centers of the United States. This lowest minimum budget of at BILL least $41 a week still provides for only the barest necessaries Copyright, 1929, by Internationa Publishers Co., Inc. HAYWOOD’S er DOU A Dramatic Appeal to the Workers of the World to Organize as a Class; Again in Europe; an Old Communard All rights rese,ved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission, Haywood has told of his long carcer as a unionist. He became a leader in the Western Federation of Miners in his th, and le es all the most important strikes of that organization, i y Cr ¢ Creek, where the employers used gunnien recklessl, Haywood shot a sheriff in Denver, and operated his union o, in the jail for awhile. He was many times arrested, and in 1905 Borah, as special prosecutor, tried to convict him on a framed up charge of killing Governor Stuenberg with a bomb, After the failure of the frame- up, Haywood spent most of his time organizing and speaking and leading strikes for the I. W. W., which he was a prime mover in organizing. He was expelled from the socic party when the yellow leaders passed the constitutional amendment against direct M. He was writing in the last iss action. He was expelled from the W. F. when the mis 8 got control of that organization. about the Paterson strike. Now go on reading. Tae eee} By WILLIAM D HAYWOOD. FART 86, ea deportation of the striking from Johanne South Africa, took place during the m strike. I then wrote the following greeting: You, O Men of Africa, Greeting! Greeting to you who are on the high s You who have been exiled. You who are on strike. You who are fighting as only noble men can fight. You who are ready to sacrifice your lives for the cause you love. You who have been beaten. You who have been imprisoned. You who are separated from your loved ones. You who grieve for your Comrades who have been murdered, You, O Men of Ireland and of the Empire, Greeting! You who have had your homes invaded. You who have been maltreated. You who have been duped by priests and politicians. You who have been clubbed. You who have been denied the right to organize. You who have been bereaved by death. You who have been evicted from miserable homes. You who have been robbed of your heritage. You, O Men of Europe, Greeting! Slavs, Latirs, Orientals, Teutons and Norsemen. You who have been pitted against each other like beasts in bloody war. You whose comrades have been massacred. You who are conscripts of a monarch’s army. You who are denied voice in a nation’s council. You who give’ the themes of discourse and art. You who build palaces and temples and live in hovels. You whom churches and kings would use as puppets. You who have been lashed with scorn. You whose voices cannot be silenced with threat of bullet or gallons. You, O Men of the Americas, Greeting! You of the East, the West, the North, the South. You who have been driven to take up arms against your oppressors. You who have been hunted like wild animals. You who have been blacklisted. You who have lost your loved ones in disaster. You who have been crippled. You who have had your women violated. You who are living under martial laws. You who have been bullied and browbeaten. | You who have been deported. You who have been in bull pens. You who have been robbed of every civil and constitutional right. You, all Men and Women and Children of Labor. Greet each the other. You who are white, black, brown, red or yellow of s You who have been denied the sunlight of life. You who have been denied knowledge. You who have been denied love. You who have never known independence, You who are wage slaves in the mart You whose drops of blood turn the wheels of all industries. You who fill the warehouses and granaries of the world. You who have made all invention possible. You who, feed, and clothe, and shelter, and succor the peoples of the world. You who have had the resources of the earth and machinery of pro- duction within your grasp. You who are compelled to die of starvation amidst plenty. You can start and stop every wheel. You must rise in revolt against the inhuman master’s control. You must strip the rich of all power, save the strength to work. You must feel that an injury to the least is an injury to all your class. You must know as individuals you cannot avoid the iniquities and tor- tures you have suffered, You, O Men and Women and Children of Labor, you can end forever the wrongs your class has endured, You have but to think within yourselves. You have but to act within your class. You must organize as you work together. Think, Organize, Act Together, Industrial Freedom Will Come to All. t tT MANN, who had been in South Africa, came to the United States about this time on a speaking trip. Fred Merrick, then editor of Justice, published in Pittsburgh, had arranged a kind of patched-up tour for Mann, I think it proved anything but a successful venture. Tom could have had q magnificent speaking tour under the_ auspices of the I. W. W. During the long strike at Paterson I was suffering from ulcera- tion of the stomach, but I never missed attending a meeting and ofte: spoke several times a day. I lost over 80 pounds in weight duri the strike. When the strike was declared off I went with some friends’ to Provincetown, Massachusetts. 4 At the earnest invitation of a friend, I went to Paris. In France I was to take a vacation and a much-needed rest, the first a the kind that I had ever had. We visited the Louvre, the Luxembouy and, most important, Pere Lachaise cemetery—where I fastened button of the I.W.W. on the wall where the Communards were shot. While in’Paris I met all the leading lights of the syndicalist and socialist movement—Jean Longuct, Rosmer, Picrre Monatte. The lat-| ter took me to see Guillaume, who had been secretary of the Inter-| national Workingmen’s Association, I had an interesting talk with. the old man and he promised to give me the complete record of the First International. He said there would be seven volumes of the record. Whether it was printed before the death of Guillaume $ do not know. I never received a copy. * * 4 ie i EY Te=the ‘Hdab destie: Hayjiobd ella Shot *hm: tdtight the’ Brant strikers to “Boo” the scabs and police, and of a speaking tour with Jim Larkin and Jim Connolly, who was afterwards shot by the British imperialists for his leadership in the 1916 insurrection in Dublin. Get a copy of “Bill Haywood’s Book” free by sending in one yearly subscription to the Daily Worker.