The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 3

ee OE oh ATS BRITISH WORKERS | SEND GREETINGS Form New Left Wing Needle Union Greeting their brother organiza- tion from across the sea, the newly organized left wing United Garment Workers Union in England writes to the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union in this country. The let- ter was received by Ben Gold, na- tional secretary of the needle union here. The communication is signed by Sam Elsbury, leader of the new British union. The letter states: Norton House, 3-4 North Folgate Bishopgate London, E, I. “Gen. Sec.-Treas. bi et a “16 W. 21st Street, New York, U. S. A. ‘The United Clothing Workers | Trade Union of Great Britain ex- tends fraternal greetings to brother organization, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of the U.S. A. “The splendid work being done by the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union on behalf of American needle workers has been watched | with the closest attention and sym- pathy and, particularly, its success- ful fight against the yellow leaders of the company unions in the in- dustry and the sham “socialist” press. { i | its | “We extend our cordial congratu- | lations on the magnificent victory achieved by you in the recent New) York dressmakers’ strike comes as a hearty encouragement to our own struggle on behalf of the British needle worker. “Suffering as we do from most of the curses of the industry which afflict you, reactionary yellow offi- cialdom, company unionism, and other adjuncts of the Clothing boss which | | workers in New York alone contrib: power, we hail your recent victory | with a full recognition of all that it implies. “Militant class-conscious unionism, you have proved to be the only hope of the oppressed needleworker as is seing proved, also, on this side. We Photo shows the Aniti-Fascist York y. The slogans read ingclas “Down With Fase Will Not Forget the Murder | cism Makes a Prison out of Italy for the Workers! Doi Win, Facism? ALLIANCE OFM NORTH AMERICA) Alliance divisi m of Bastone So the giant ” “Down With the “Down With 2 May Day Par Reade ~FASCIST” Fis E tionaries. and the Yaqui leader, cupicio the only two of i ance who have not either rder or surrendered. ith small bands of e Yaqui hills and a long time. CZECH LABOR IN Have Been J Active in Many Big Strikes By GUSTAV PIKAL. On this May Day the Czechoslovak workers in the United States par- ticipate in all struggles of the Amer- ican working class. During the last coal miners’ str the Czechoslovak uted considerable sums of dollars for the support of strikers and their families. Big collections of clothes, underwear and shoes were sent to Pennsylvania coal mine regions. Czechoslovakian working sections of other cities all over the country answered the call for help for the strikers with the feeling of sym- | pathy and solidarity. On many other occasions the extend to you our hearty offer of co- | operation in the international strug- gle of the needle workers until com- plete victory is won. “Down with company unionism! “Up with the militant needle unions! “Up toward a Needle Workers In- ternational! “On behalf of the G, E. B., “SAM ELSBURY.” GIBSON OPPOSES WAR STOCK CNT For Motion to Change It to “Publicity” \ GENEVA, Mey 3.—Count de Mas- igli, speaking for the French dele- sation, announced today their sup- port of the American position for giving “publicity” to the hoarding of war stocks and their opposition to the Soviet proposal for directly limiting armaments: Immediately following this nouncement Nicolas Politis, an- of Greece, introduced a resolution de-; claring that publicity . coi the only means of limi which agreement is now possible. Litvinov Blocks Trick. | they have to The powers tried to put the ques- | tion to a vote immediately, Maxim Litvinov stated the dissat- isfaction of the Soviet delegation with this evasion of the real ques- tion. He demanded that measures be adopted for actual limitation and declared that “publicity” means nothing insofar as actual limiting cf armaments is concerned. Politis then withdrew his resolu- tion and delivered a speech in which he attempted to make a case against vi their insistence on | ¢ ¢ eee eect, eee | scious work, and this year they will their point of view. After Politis had withdrawn his resolution, Gibson, for the Ameri- can delegation, demanded permis- sion to re-introduce it. He will probably do so in the morning. His purpose is to force a vote. f Socialist” Ministers in Germany Sore Over the Moscow May 1 Parade BERLIN, May 3.—The German foreign office today gave way to a childish exhibition of baffled rage and sent a note to the Soviet Union government against the ridicule of German cabinet ministers in the Moscow May Day parade. One float in the parade showed an armored warship, manned by persons imper- gonating Chancellor Mueller, two other cabinet members and the so- cial democrat chief of the Berlin police, among others. The float was inscribed: “Eighty millions for a battleship but not one cent for child feeding, and bullets for the unem- ployed.” RELIGIOUS WRANGLE WASHINGTON, May 3 (UP).— lalled to order twice yesterday by Vice-President Curtis, Senator Hef- lin, democrat, Alabama, is prepar- ing to make another speech on Ro- man Catholics, Women Workers! Take Up the fmplacable Class Struggle Shoul- der to Shouider With the Revolu- Mionary Workers! but | Czechoslovak workers lived up to the traditions of their fellow work- | ers in their native land, where there | exists a big Communist Party, in| act the second largest in the world. Czechoslovak workers in the U. S. always take an active part in all fights against the capitalist class. They have built up workers organ- izations in many American indus- trial centers; in New have OBRANA (Defense), a weekly ae in the Czech (Bohemian) language; in Chicago they own a daily, ROVNOST LUDU (Equality of People), printed in the Slovak language. Next year the weekly OBRANA will celebrate its twentieth annivers- ary. The former weekly, ROVNOST worker York they} “Down with Fascism” Slogan UNITED STATES ’ Prominent in i in Mav lav Day March 020 workers in New York the Anti- ist Alliance of America. M gans. A huge bearing the in- scription, “Down with scism! Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America” led the division. Adorned | with red ribbons, the work |ing in this division, sang man} volutionary songs and cheered along the line of march. There was not a single i in the whole parade who would not have cheerfully assented to the slo- gans borne by this group. “Down th Mussolini, the Strikebreaker,” read one of them. “Down with the City on| the workers in the | May Day was the battalion led by| ment who was murdered by the fas-| . North | cists. | re- ail Mexico, will be May °. They are W. L. les; Pete Stanley » and R. H, Polk Yankee Escadrille in forces. The three r of the “yebel” n of Matteoti,” read another. | Matteoti was the representative of Italian parlia- the are charged with con- volutionists. CHURCH-GIL PACT: | SEEN AS LIKELY § \‘Rebellion’ Dwindles to Guerilla War WASHINGTON, May 3.—That | attempts will now be made to re- |concile the Catholic Church in M border to the r Against Fas Class Will Not the Murder of Gastone ’ blazed another placard. Sozzi murdered in his cell, after in- bable torture by the Italian isti and then secretly buried. aoe lo} an read “Fase “all on Out of Italy for m. Struggle epresenied the ation of the re- volution wo s to con-| tinue the ruggle agzinst fas + in Italy and in other countries to a final vict wide det Lenin’s Great Book Is a Pageant of the Revolution Long awaited, the two volumes of V. I. Lenin’s “The Revolution of 1917,” were greeted eagerly upon their appearance last week. They were hailed as an event of the most enduring importance by workers eager to ‘absorb the precious experi- ences and vital analyses of the great leader of the revolution. “The Revolution of 1917 is among the most significant of Lenin’s writ- ings,” International . Publishers stated when they issued the two fine eid books that, constitute the class - conscious what the Russian lume. “Every knows LUDU, became a daily after a split! Revolution means to him and his in the Czechoslovak workers move-| class; daily | importance of those eight short stolen| Months from March to November, ment ‘in 1924. Then the Spravedinost (Justice), was from the workers by the reformists | {? and traitors of the working class, much as the Volkszeiting was stolen | from German workers. Both the Czech weekly and the Slovak daily have scores of workers’ correspondents in different parts of the country. These correspondents inform the readers about the con- ditions. in shops, factories, mines and on farms. They are a big help to the editors, who are able, honest he understands the colossal 1917. He does not have to be told at those months which began with the overthrow of tsarism and ended with the dictatorship of the prole- tariat have more than a mere histor- ical interest to him, that their re- sults and.their lessons are of the most immediate, practical signifi- | cance.’ and spirited ‘comrades from rank and file. Never taking a backward step fight against the poisonous lies about Soviet Russia, with which the capitalist and re- formists have taken the devoted servants’ part in the capitalistic op- pression of the workers. Class con- scious workers must fight not only the capitalists, but also the enemies from the inside, “socialists,” reform- ists and other enemies of working class. The largest colonies of Czecho- slovak workers occupy sections of Chicago, New York and Cleveland and other big American cities. They are busy in all lines of class con- again rally on May Day, the revolu- tionary holiday of the militant work- ers, to the defense of proletariat in this country, in the Soviet Union, and throughout the world. U. S. S. R. Buys Plans of Baldwin Locomotives | from war, and famine and poverty. MOSCOW, May 3.—It is an- nounced that a few days ago the Commissariat of Communications of the U.S.S.R. signed a technical aid) agreement with the Baldwin Loco-| motive Works of America. The Baldwin Co. has agreed to furnish blue prints of locomotive, ear and repair shops as well as of big freight cars, freight locomotives and other technical appliances. The agreement also provides for en exchange of engineering forces. Another agreement with the same company was signed by the Amtorg Trading Corporation providing for the supply of equipment and rolling stock of the Soviet railways under extensive credit terms. UNEMPLOYMENT SACRAMENTO, Cal. (By Mail)— The great destruction of fruit crops by frost has resulted in unemploy- ment for thousands of workers en- gaged in making box boards for the fruit. FINANCIAL TROUBLE. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 3. (UP).—The rediscount rate of the National Bank of Rumania was aaised today to nine per cent, | Reveals Lenin’s Method. Those who have already read the volume are categorical in their in- sistance that it.is indispensible not only for an understanding of Lenin’s own role in the Revolution but the very Revolution itself. Nothing, they affirm, has so well revealed Lenin’s method of thought and ac- tion, his supreme generalship and his greatness as a_ revolutionary teacher. “The fire and passion, the ver, genius of the Revolution are e bodied in these pages,” one ardent reader stated. “Lenin reacted to the most subtle changes in the develop- ment of the Revolution; he laid bare its gigantic structure and class pro- cesses; and what is more, he re- corded every one of its phases in language that burned from a molten passion, and words that spoke with a simplicity and penetration illumi- nating. every part of its inner mech- anism,” Pageant of Revolution. “It is so real; you see the Revo- lution moving across the pages; you feel the energy that hammered out an historical epdch vibrating in these articles, speeches, reports and resolutions; you are electrified with a revolutionary intensity, an uncom- promising purpose, an_ invincible spirit. A heart that understands ‘so deeply the suffering of the masses Thoughts that burrowed deep in the class realities. ico with the P Gil governm \¥ ed in tatement issued shop Leopoldo Ruiz which was caueilintoty in tone and clearly | aimed to give Ambassador Morrow | a pretext for making the U. S. gov-| ernment the arbitrator in the situa- tion. the clear, analytic eye of the Marx-/"""The archbishop, who left Mexico ist, the revolutionary general seeing Shen the. Situation iheeamker’ too far and fighting close.—That ; Wye . eam Om tore eisivirm” vmtatedi tna, che: ehinecl Lenin in this volume!” ve ee ® and her ministers are prepared to When the March Revolution broke co-operate with President Portes out in Russia, Lenin was an exile in | Gil.” | Zurich. With the first. telegraphic | + * * news of the upheaval, he began to} MEXICO CITY, May 3.—The Short words; simple All-Russian Congress of sentences beating with the fever of Deputies from May 17 to June 10,| about the struggles of the Ameri- revolutionary life; and through it all | 1917, are two of the larger items in|can working class. write letters, draft resolutions, form- ulate programs, develop tacties and | participate in conferences which continued through his return to Rus- sia, where he finally guided the pro- letariat to victory in November. An analysis of the class compo- sition and role of the Soviets in the Revolution, of the Kerensky Govern- ment and the various strata of the peasantry, of the correct tactics of the Bolshevik Party, of a thousand and one problems which arose in the i course of the Revolution and which| At the same time General Olachea had to be solved, animate the vol- occupied the border town of Nogales, | ume with the reality of the Revolu- Sonora, with many troops. Recruit- tion itself. ing for irregular federal troops to Contents of Book One. fight the “rebels” has been ordered The first book, covering the period | stopped in all but four states. These | from the beginning of the March)are the states of Jalisco, Guana-| Revolution to the early part of May, jyato, Colima and Michocan, where | includes Lenin’s reports, resolutions the religious guerillas have strong and speeches in connection with the ‘ity Conference of the "mbers. 1-Democrati the historic All-Rus complete collapse of the reactionary insurrection was announced here to- | ‘day at Chapultepec Castle. General | Almazan, with 9,500 men entered | Agua Prieta and proclaimed the es-| tablishment of federal authority. | He will remain in this area in order to completely demolish the guerilla | bands which have been formed by religious fanatics from the scattered ranks of defeated soldiers. The Amsterdam I ational is Splitting the Trades Union Move- Part; 2) Conference of the Bolshevik Part; and materials relating to the re ment. Long Live a Single Mili- sion of the party program. tant Class Trade Union Interna- Among the outstanding items tional! ‘ the “Letters fri far” which be- gin Ww an analysis of the first : fl tage of the Revolution, discuss the this book. Simple articles written from day to day for the Pravda; polemics that talk to the workers and mold the policy of the Bolshevik Party, in short, a documentary mine | of the principles and practice of Marxism, the book is provided with illuminating explanatory notes, and contains appendices for the volume as a whole, including biographical notes historical documents, a cal-| endar of events and a chronology of Lenin’s life during that period all of which not only give the reader an historical background and con- tribute to the understanding of the course of events, but also make the relation of the proletariat to the bourgeois Kerensky Government, take up the question of a proletarian militia and the conditions for secur- ing peace, and conclude with a dis cussion of the problems of the rey- olutionary proletarian organization of the state. Another important study is the one on the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution, which deals with the specific problems facing the Russian proletariat. The first book also contains Len- in’s speeches on the peasant question, the political situation and the prob- lems a: ng out.of the war. It con- volume one of the most valuable cludes with Lenin’s drafts of a new contributions to the study of the party program which are of partic-| Russian Revolution and its great ular historic importance, and con- | strategist and tactician, tains extensive explanatory notes. | The American werking class can- Book Two. jnot ignore the lessons of the Rus- Book two continues Lenin’s arti-|sian Revolution, but these lessons | cles, letters and speeches to the! demand to be studied, And we may | middle of July. Lenin’s draft reso- | | be certain that Lenin’s “Revolution | lution and speech on the agrarian | \of 1917” will be studied and re- question in connection with the first | studied by every class-conscious Peasant | worker who is seriously concerned Photo shows members of the senate judiciary committee who have been “weighing” the eligibility of Andrew Mellon, one of the richest men in the word, to retain his post as secretary-treasurer under the law forbidding public officials to engage in lucrativ> enterprises. Necdless to say, a committee including such faithful servants of capitalism as Senators Ovsrman, Walsh, Waterman, Hastings and Steiwer will never find the millionaire Mellon ineligible, Pretending to Discuss Mellon’s Eligibility to Retain Treasury Post WORE NEW ORS, SATU DAY, MAY piring to take planes across the| . se. 1929 | Page Thi ree | ~ FORMEAKE UNION IN BUENOS AIRES \Nothing in Preamble | About Class Struggle | BUENOS AIRES, (By Mail).— “Confederacion Obrera | The socialist | Argentina” with f 100,000 dues pay ing members, mai mong the rail- waymen, and the syndicalist “Union Sindical Argentina,” with about 15,- 000 members in all trades, together with the Feder fied trade union federation. s for the new federation, ssed in the preamble, was pted by socialist and syndical Photo shows Street government of 33 destroyc e cru: rs ilors landing on arrival of Atlantic fleet of Wall the Hudson River. and three delegates against the one di | senting vote of the Communist dele- |gate of the “Polygraphic Federa- tion.” The armed dicplay consists battleships, One) under the militant of the National Textile Union,” the atement n We honor the organizers who first responded to the call to action at great personal risk and who are furnishing an example of leadership We pledge un- (Continued from Pag Oi hting lead- oY the ne’ 1 support for the southern textile workers for the spreading of, their kes and for ae victory against their ene- ¢ mill owners, the city forces and the reformist f the U. T. W. and 1. and the party——now 1 the fight to r ng conditions, nd increased pay pledge our aid hours in the sho the com: g struggle of the fur- riers and clockmakers, sure of the vietory the combined forces of the capita state, the bosses and the company union of Dubin- sky & Co. “We hail the striking cafeteria workers—whose militant defiance of thé injunction and the armed thugs on the picket line is an in- spiration to the exploited food workers throughout the country, who are now beginning to organ- ize to establish one powerful in- dustrial union of all food workers in all branches of the industry. “We note with pride the suc- cesses of the new shce workers union under Left wing and Com- munist leadership and look for- ward to a successful outcome of the movement to organize the new national shoe and leather workers industrial union, which shall unite the shoe workers in their strug- gles against speed-up, wage cuts and fine systems and which will destroy the company union—the | Boot and Shoe Workers Union of the A. F, of L. and the reformist Protective Union. “We erect the new National Miners Union—which carries for- ward the best fighting traditions of the miners of America—born in struggle against the mine own- ers and the worst gang of traitors and gunmen that ever infested the labor movement—the Lewis ma- chine. Under the leadership of the new Miners Union the coal miners will again form the revo- lutionary backbone of the labor movement, and we pledge to them every aid in organizing the unor- ganized and in re-establishing trade union conditions in the coal fields. Greet W. I. R. “We greet the Workers Inter- national Relief, the commissary of fighting armies of the prole- tariat—aiding the workers to con- tinue their battles and to renew their struggles—-giving susten- ance to the workers on the basis of the class struggle—mobilizing | the whole working class to sus- tain their comrades in the class war trenches—developing the soii- darity of the. exploited masses. We pledge ourselves to build and strengthen the W. I. R. here in New York and everywhere. “We hail the International La- bor Defense—the shield and buck- ler of the working class—ward- ing off the blows of the capitalist enemy—defender of the flower of the working class army—giving aid and comfort to class war prisoners and to their families. Build it strong and build it big— so that the Saccos and Vanzettis, the Mooneys and Billings of the future may be snatched from the electric chairs and the jails of the vicious enemies of the workers— so that the capitalist frame-up system may be smashed by the organized might of the working class. Cleveland Convention. “We hail the coming conven- tion of the Trades Union Educa- tional League—the Trade Union Unity Convention at Cleveland, O., on June 1 and 2. We look forward with hope and joy to the establishing there of the new trade union center for all class struggle organizations and which shall unite all the new unions, the revolutionary minorities in the old unions, and all movements for organizing the unorganized through shop commit es under * 20,000 Pledge to Back USSR; si Support the Tex tile Mill Strike Communist for Class Struggle, to sign the preamble because it did not contain a declaration of the class struggle, and be e the Commu- nist proposal to call a united con- gress of all federations was rejected. The omission of any reference to | the s gle seems to be a con- ce: m of the syndicalists to the socialists who are for class collab- oration and favor government medi- Bnetareis single direction of the T. U. E, L., the American section of the tional of Labor Unions, this convention as the ystallization of the new revolu- tionary labor movement in the U. workers of India revolutionary to them struggle of the now developir to proportions—ve extend our Communist greetings—we pledge them our aid and will or- ganize mass demonstrations of protest against the white terror graph of the preamble worded as follows: “In order to maintain per- | petually the organic unity and har- mony among the members, the cen- tral labor federation, which will be formed by the union of the COA and the USA, will be independent | ation in s . The syndicalists ob- Ss. tained in return from the socialists “We call the atention of the | the incorporation of the anti-politi- workers everywhere to the heroic | cal clause, which 1s the first para- of the Anglo-Ind overnment | of all political parties and ideologi- which is using persecutions, re- | cal groups.” and m™ mu to | stem of represen- Through the sy: ati Jopted for conventions the s will be reduced to a very role in this organization, which probably will join the Am- sterdam International. the growing revolutior movement in India. “We call the Army ef the Chi the heroic struggle ¢ worker: i impe: ntion of the nese Ww orkers and f the Chinese gainst the tools, the SOUND FILM AGREEMENT Kour nationalist MOSCOW (By Mail).—The Soviet government, and pledge our revo- film company, “Mejrabpomfilm,” solidarity with the |snd the German “Prometous” stock kers and peasants of Mexico, | company have entered into an agree- Nicaragua, Philippines, Haiti, |ment with the British Photo Tone Latin-America and all colonial |for the joint production and presen- peoples in our comr struggle |tation of a series of pictures and |for the supply of sound apparatus Hail Socialist Soviet Uni |to the cinema houses of Moscow ay OU MANE land Leningrad. The talking ma- “We greet the revolutionary workers and peasants of the U. S. S. R., the leaders of the world proletarian revolutionary hosts. We hail with pride their success- ful efforts to build up a socialist | economy in the Soviet Union. The | rapid progress of industrializ: tion, under the leadership and di- rection of the Communist P: y of the Soviet Union, on the b of its correct program, guaran- tees to the workers of the world world imperialism. chines are expected to be installed in the picture houses of Moscow and Leningrad by the middle of next the stability and power of our | Socialist fatherland. “The revolutionary workers of New York City pledge themselves | to lay down their lives, if need | be, in defense of the U. S. S, R. against an attack upon it by the bourgeoisie.” Splendid WORKERS! 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