The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 2

Page ‘Two "7" Bf, see. HAYWOOD’S BOOK Greeted by Lenin in the Workers Republic; Welcomed by the Masses; Kuznetz; opr; Haywood’s Death blic: All rights tion’ forbidden except by pe Haywood has described, in a rapidly moving narrative, his pei sonal part > of a century of class struggles, and his boy hood. of child slavery in the Old West of the Rocky Mountoins be- fore that. He told how he became class conscious and a tho sand incidents of and orgdnization, frame-up and heroi feat and the last chapter he told how, as a refugee, he boarded a ship for the first Workers’ Republic, n a quarte lit pliticn victory pe 8 By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD NE of the stewards, who recognized me, was an I.W.W., and we were able to get better fare than is usually served to steerage pas- | sengers. We traveled cemeteries, trench wire entanglements. At Riga we were loaded into box cars. The train was guarded by Latvian soldiers until we reached the border. As we crossed the Russian line, there was a mighty burst of cheers and singing of the “Inter- national.” The train moved along like a red flame. Red bunting, red banners, and red kerchiefs were flying to the breeze. When we landed in the ancient city of Moscow, now again the capital of Russia, we were met at the station with automobiles and driven at once to the hotel. Michael Borodin asked me if I would like to go to the Kremlin to meet Lenin. I was. suffering from diabetes and very tired after the long trip, and I told him I first needed a rest. Some days later an interview was arranged for me with Comrade Lenin. It is not my purpose to describe here his personality or our meeting. I will just mention one phase of our conversation before closing this book. I asked Comrade Lenin “if the indust are run and administered by the workers? His reply was: “Yes, Comrade Haywood, that is Communism.” * * * (Publisher's Note: Haywood’s death on May 18, 1928, prevented him from completing his memoirs, The publishers therefore requested a friend and co-worker of Haywood to write « short account of the latter's sojourn in Soviet Russia. It is printed below.) Riga through battle-scarred country, marked with deserted fortifications and endless miles of barbed s of the Soviet Republic * EADERS of “Bill. Haywood’s Book” will have learned from his own narrative that he was seriously ill before he left America. Undoubtedly his illness either arose from or was made worse by his imprisonment. All who knew him after his release noted his state of ill health. While in New York before his departure, he was very sick and constantly under. a doctor’s care. While he improved con- siderably after he arrived in the Soviet Union, as time went on his health gradually declined. This interfered greatly with the writing of his book and prevented him from writing additional chapters in which he planned to tell of his life and work in Soviet Russia. Haywood was welcomed by the Russian masses and by the leaders of the Communist Party as befitted an old fighter of Labor’s strug- gles. He was received everywhere with eager acclaim and decorated as a Revolutionary Hero with a medal which he wore with pride and which lay upon his breast when he at last reposed in death. He regarded himself as a political refugee, “pending the revolu- tion in America,” and carefully followed every development in the American labor movement with great interest. He wrote articles for the vress, and Moscow papers called. upon him repeatedly for his opinion of the meaning of American events. His room, in a com- fortable Moscow hotel, was a center of attraction for all American workers visiting Moscéw, ‘with whom he would discuss their prob- Jems and spend hours of comradely conviviality, often until the early Russian dawn began to appear over the gilded domes of the ancient city. Haywood’s room was also a center for the children who romped about the corridor near his door, and often a young one would be found spending an afternoon with “Bolshoi Bill,” regaled with dainties and with stories in Russian, which he learned but never mastered. He married a Russian office worker and lived calmly in Moscow, often | much amused to read accounts of American papers of his “persecution by the Reds” and “flight across snowy steppes” to Turkey. Always a man of action, he wished to take a hand in the recon- struction of industry shattered by war and counter-revolution, and in 1921, shortly after his arrival, he participated in the Organizing Com- mittee of the Kuznetz Colony. This project had as its aim the re- | opening and operation of industry in the Kuznetz Basin, about a | thousand miles east of the Urals near the city of Tomsk. This area holds enormous coal deposits, and the Soviet Government turned over this district, the mines and deserted chemical plant, the only chemical plant in Siberia, to the autonomous Kuznetz Colony, which brought in American skilled labor, imported tractors for its farms and re- opened the plant and the mines. Haywood took a place on the Man- agement Board in 1922 and spent several months in the colony, later returning to Moscow where he worked at the colony’s office until late in 1923. In the general reorganization of Soviet industry, the gov- ernment took over the administration of the Kuznetz area in 1925. Stee ne AYWOOD felt very deeply the persecution of labor men in the United States, and following his connection with “Kuzbas,” began a* period of activity with the “MOPR,” the Russian section of the International Organization for the Relief of Revolutionary Fighters with which the International Labor Defense in America is affiliated, He made several speaking trips through the Soviet Union for this or- ganization, spreading the stories of Mooney and Billings, the Cen- tralia victims, the I.W.W. and other criminal-syndicalist law pris- oners. While, as a refugee, he maintained his affiliation with the,Amer- | ican Communist Party, and his interest in the American labor move- ment never waned, he was ever ready to boast, almost as of a personal accomplishment, of the advance of Soviet economy, pointing out to visitors the busy cooperative and government stores, the humming factories and new buildings, and contrasting this with the famine and ruin which he saw on his arriyal. as he always did to any worker, to followers of Trotsky in the latter’s conflict with the Russian Communist Party, some of these old fellow workers of his in the American I.W.W. who were prone to conclude from some bureaucratic abuse that Russia was “going back to capi- falism,” and at the end would remind them of the greater issue of the of socialist economy contending against world imperialism and scoldingly tell them they had lived too long in the Soviet Union and should “go back where they came from” to get a fresh taste of capi- talism. Not long before he died he transferred to the Russian Com- | munist Party. | 5 wae Wnts 3 i March, 1928, Haywood was preparing to attend the Fourth Con- | ' gress of the Red International of Labor Unions, as he had done on | pfevious occasions, He was regretting that the opening session was | to take. place on March 17, as he was assigned by the Communist | Party to speak that night in commemoration. of the Paris Commune, when both of these activities had to be put aside. He was overcome | by a paralytic stroke the night of March 16, and was taken to the Kremlin hospital, where he received the best care by eminent phy- sicians. .. His wonderful vitality and the treatment given him enabled him | to return to his home, as he wished, after about three weeks. But he was obviously weak, though able to walk about: His mind was \ itr busy with the labor movement. He received many of the | | } R.LL.U. congress delegates who were still- in the city, and discussed the problems of the congress. But: suddenly he was again taken ill, and although removed at once to the Kremlin hospital, passed away on May 18, 1928. His funeral was attended by the whole group of American workers in Moscow, delegations from the Russian Communist Party and the various international’ organizations, as well as personal friends. ‘lowers, were piled high over his coffin, which was taken to a cre- torium as he had desired, Wis ashes, as he had directed, were | ivided into two parts. One was buried under the Kremlin wall at great demonstration in the Red Square. The other half of Hay- ’s ashes lies, by hic request, in Waldheim cemetery, Chicago, near | graves-of the Haymarket victims, whose story ‘so profoundly in- | THE END, : a che alain.) mati | interest in the explosion away from accordingly and the difference re- | jstarted by the International Labor tion” to protect Canadian business | | AC VIGTIMS TURNER BETRAYS OF BLAST DIE MILL WORKERS: Militarists Exploit the British Lockout Threat Cleveland Tragedy | Withdrawn by Bosses CLEVELAND, MANCHESTER, England. May 19 im of the Clev The dispute which caused a lock- 19.—Another land Clinic ex- a plosion in which hundreds of pa- cut of over 150,000 workers to be ients, doctors volunteer work- tened in the Lancashire cotton died in agony because of the spinning trade was “settled” yester- nal negligence of the clinic au- the rities who are now “investigat- ” the cause of the explosion died Two others who breathed the dly gas became s ly ill. The fumes which killed the vic- of the explosion were pro- nounced by chemical militarists to sun ay by misleaders of Textile Union. but the cardroom workers’ executive committed m the Oldham Town | all «snd considered “new propo- The mayor of Oldham was moned to the conference and the | ‘eement announced. | The Federation of ‘Master Cotton tims be more deadly than any gas mix-. last the world war. “We don’t kn ne combina- Spinners issued notices instructing ion was yet or General Harry that the lockout notices be wat | ist, chief of the Chemical drawn. Arrangements were made Warfare Service of the U. S. Army |to resume work Monday. | declared. His technical interest in| It was understood the new agree- | e used in the deadly combination, whose sec- ment provided that the cardroom | ret is ing sought by in- operatives at the Alma Mills, around | vestigators even as they are engagea| whom the dispute centered, shall re- on an alleged “preventive study,” 1s turn to work on condition that if on | already suggesting to him and other | “investigation” within a month of | chemical warfare officials new and re ng work it is shown that their | more efficient methods of mass earnings are not equal to what is} slaughter for’use in the next war. |provided in the universal list of Official’ maneuvers to steer public | prices, their wages shall be amended ity negligence which made its re-| funded. sults so fearful was made by Gil-| The reactionary head of the Tex-| christ in his suggestive comment. tile Union is Ben Turner, who led | “T really believe the people who died|in the betrayal of the general strike | here must be regarded as sacrifices |in Grea ritain in 1926. He has to experience rather than as vie-|constantiy stated he opposed all| tims of negligence,” he stated. The , and was for “friendly con- | stricken rela’ of the “sacrifices ciliation” with the mill bosses. | to experience”—an experience valu-| The general lockout was threat- | able to the war department in its/ened by the bosses if the several scientific into “satisfac-, hundred strikers in the Oldham mill The mili populations by gas—got whatever |tant elements refused to kow-t consolation they could from an “oi-| before the bos Turner, hewever, | ficial” day of mourning. Thirty-stx|Sseld the mill workers out. | victims were buried today, some of them fram Akron and Elyr Mustard gas, as used extensively in the world war, is a gas of this type. Released by a swiftly flyins airplane, it could spread deatn throughout the area. A whole metropolis could be destroyed be- cause of the persistent quality of the gas which, heavier than air, is : + shat able to penetrate all buildings. Canadian Parties Split) Such horrors, which the rival, Over Bill; Want Votes powers plan to introduce extensively | in the impending clash, can easily) WASHINGTO May reach the most distant countries.|bying for the purpose of obtaining The time of American “exceptions” early passage of the tariff revision to European military conflicts has bill continues. Republicans do not long passed. The technique of the look for the passage of the bill be- trans-Atlantic flights—the recently |fore the end of August. They fear, abandoned “Graf” trip is one of a however, that the measure may not chain—is being developed to the reach the White House before the point where bombing planes carry- fall. ing far more deadly gases than| Interests of “overworked” mem- those which murdered the Clevelanc bers of the house were expressed by victims will be considered only Speaker Longworth, who calculated casual militarist adventures in the| that it would take the Senate Finance Committee a month to re-revise the Hawley tariff revision bill and at least another month for Senate de- bate on the report of the Senate} Committee. He accordingly _sug- gested an armistice under which the House would take a two months’| vacation. The Senate would take a 80-day recess, he suggested. | | Secret meetings between various groups in the House over attempts | 3 to Back ‘to settle differences over the Haw- research tory” means of destroying whole |did not return to work. | | | SEEK RESPITEON TARIFF MEASURE 19.—Lob- | next war. DRIVE FOR FUNDS TO FREE SHIFRIN Urge Worker I. L. D. Campaign ley bill continue in the meantime. | The provosed bill is bitterly de-| Z i nounced by the Conservative Party A vigorous campaign has been jn Canada, which demands “retalia- Defens2 to raise a-fund of $10,000 \interests. Their hostility is con-| to defend William Shifrin, militant demned by the “liberal” King gov-| worker, who has been framed on a ernment group, which under the plea | Lockout notices had been posted, | |“Blues” are toda |cvlated to work up the WAYLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 Religious Rites s ne | These fakers look very wierd dress is part of a religion work much Ws ceremony in S sf Used to like Ku Kluxe WAR MANEUVERS PLAY ‘RED’ SCARE Imperialists Mobilizing Their Forces WRIGHT FI », Day May 19.—After an anno that the “Red Army” had bi feated in the lz mobilization for impei staged by the Unite department—which w in an unmistakably i ner the capital: gained an advantag The “Blue Arm: have its ba the “Reds” are in control of Colum- bus, thé “strategic city” of the prov- ince being attacked by the “bl blooded 100 per it Americ: The war maneuvers have been cal F public opinion not only for impe ialist war but for class war against the Soviet Union and against the working class. While the thousands of soldiers are being made to go through drills, ma: loads, the capitalist p: up the thing for all it is worth. At the same time, publicity for the imperialist navy does not lag far behind, Staff correspondents of the Ohio papers are writing pub- y stories for the graduaticn ex- ercises at Annapolis, play picturesquely as possible, represent- ing the army of “cameramen” as op- posed to the ,” with other sweet turns such as this one. BRITISH WOOLEN WORKERS STRIKE \Wide Walkout Against Wage Cuts Looms BRADFORD, May 19.—A has been declared in 28 woolen r employing 2,500 workers agains 10 per cent wage cut, followir refusal of the mill owners to recail find .; would be impossible, because they Su charge cf second degree murder for of “viewing the situation with having defended himself inst imity” peal sain the cut. aving defended himself against an /equanimity” ard “furthering our i 9 3e attack by six knife-wielding thugs. interests in our own way,” seeks| The workers in 24 Calder Valley conciliation with American business |™ills and in four mills in Bradford A recent conference, at which 80 working class organizations were represented, made plans for mob- ilizing every section of the working class in a mass campaign that will force the capitalist courts to release Shifrin, whose indictment was se- cured at the demand of the corrupt Jewish Daily Forward—“socialist” United Hebrew Trades clique. Shif- vin’s case is expected to come up shortly and it is announced that $1,000 is needed within a few days in order to prepare the defense. One thousand dollars was pledged at the. Shifrin defense conference. The Retail Grocery, Fruit, Butcher and Dairy Workers Union has al- . ‘ready contributed $75, the councils koard the Statue of Liberty ferry- He would listen courteousls, |g¢ the United Council of Working oat. Women have given $50 and the mil- linery workers $25. Plans made at the conference call for tag days on June 15 and 16 and }a mid-summer bali and swimming | carnival to be held July 20 at Wash- ington Baths, 21st St. and Board- walk, Coney Island. The Labor Sports Union will take part in this carnival. The International Labor Defense urges all workers and’ working class organizations to start collecting funds for the defense of Shifrin at once, as only a determined fight can save him, All contributions should be sent to the I, L, D. national of- fice, 80 E. 11th St., Room 402, An far ax Iam concerned, 1 can't ann discovered the ex- and political economts economic physiology of I have added as a new e following proposi- , it the existence of classes ix bound up with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class struggle | sarily to the dict proletariat: 3) that t! Prepare for the big struggles that are coming by building the Communist Party, tia oa interests with which most of their |#8Teed to go on ke rather than group is connected. jaccept the wage cut. The issue is believed to be a pos- Following the posting of notices sible source of difference with|>y the owners of the Greenholme which both parties will seek to get Mills and the Parkside Mills’ in votes in the next general election|Bradford of a 7 and one-half per 18 months ahead. cent wage cut, to be effective May | EEE SN 24, the workers in those plants KILLED BY POVERTY agreed to go on strike at that date Unable to face the problems of against the cut. Abcut 900 workers married life on the meager pay of ;#re effected in these m an infantry Private, Charles B.| This is part of a general wage Canto, 27, of the 16th Infantry of ;reduction throughout the woolen in- the regular army, shot and killed his jdustry and if the mill own insist wife and fatally wounded himself on reduction’ a general strike at. the Battery yesterday morning. |throughout the industry may fol- Ironically enough, Canto pulled the low. gun which ended his troubles on) WORKER'S WIFE SUES SEA BRIGHT, N. J., May 19.— Canto had enlisted in the army John J. Quinn, attorney, said today when he was 17. he had filed for Mrs. Edward. Sher- jidan a suit for $100,000 damages LOCKOUT THREATENED against P, Sanford Ross, wealthy LONDON, May 19.—Silesiantex- Kumson and New York clubman. ‘tile mill owners have decided to close | An automobile driven by Ross re- their plants on May 25, due to the cently knocked down and killed Mrs. failure to reach an agreement on Sheridan’s husband, who was work- wages, an Exchange telegraph dis- |ing at a gasoline filling station. patch from Berlin said today. | a For a Six-Hour Day for Under- The Communist Party is the po- | ground Work, in Dangerous Occu- litical leader of the working class. —Stalin. 18! Haviein Tenant GN PLANT BLAST Tells of Evils In Her House (By a Tenant.) The people who live in Harlem are mixed nationalities of all coun- ’ |tries and the landlord benefits by. To I+ Ave. le 2 1664 Park name in the I live my -box letter-boxes, but The bells be called not es in the wall. holes nd if we would hear a bell ring v the building. Dumbwaiter-Closets. The dumbwaiter shafts are in the throw all gar- The smell is We have so many ants and mice that when you prepare your food it gets its share Mic2 are everywhere. re to have one or more e the closet and dumb- It is supposed to be a high-classed . We have steam and a bath- The bathroom was formerly a clothes closet, so there is no win- ‘dow, and you can’t get into the .thtub through the width but in a corner through the length. Having no window in a room like this, you n imagine how healthy the apart- | men is for human beings. Lot of Children. My apartment is:on the third floor, three rooms facing the rear, no sul e, for which I pay $42 per month. When I ask the landlord to fix something for me he says that I am not paying enough rent and if I don’t like it I can move, sinee he can always get more rent from a Spanish family. |. Most of the people who live here ave very low paid workers and the men do not make enough per week to support a family, so the wife also bas to go to work, and, no matter | how many children she has, she st leave them to shift for them- The children, not having a s€ guiding hand near. them, use the | t abu most always in some accident, due to the neighborhood congestion. There ere very few real healthy young- sters, for they are cooped up in 1 for so many hours and when y get home they must shift for themselves, and make their own lunch, with the result that seven out of ten of the children in Harlem are |undernourished. LENA RAY. Graf Zeppelin May Try to Cross Ocean Again Second Week in June TOULON, France, May 19.—The gible Graf Zenpelin probably be repaired sufficiently to per- |W ‘mit it to return to its home hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, next Sunday, according to officers of the ship, which is at the Cuers aero- arome awaiting arrival of new parts. | The dirigible may start for Amer- jiea again about the second week in | June. FLIER MISSING SYDNEY, Australia, May 19.— |The aviator, Moir Owen, on a pro- jected flight from England to Aus- tralia, was missing tonight and con- pations, and for the Youth Under ciderable fear- was felt for his | | safety, } ! j we the ld think that there is a fire in e language and are al- | but they are anather e, Spain, used by the catholic church to befog the ave not rung for a number of years | | \Getting Them Ready for the Slaughter of Workers in the Coming War POLE COMMUNIST JAILED, {S HIDDEN Austrian Police Seize ‘§ Hungarian Workers | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., May 19.— The Communist, Paschin, may have been murdered. Anna Karpova,. & citizen of the Soviet Union, who has: just arrived in this city from Ger- many has notified the International |Red Aid that she was arrested. in Latfia, near Riga, along with Pa-. schin, Karpova was held five days and then sent to the Soviet Union fron tier under escort of Latvian police: Paschin was taken to Duenaburg to meet the Polish secret agents and all traces of him have been lost, It is feared he was murdered or ille- gally extradited to Poland. ile Sytat Wegally Jail Hungarians. VIENNA, Austria, May 19.—The; Austrian police, acting in coopera- tion with the notorious Hungarian: police chief Schweinitzer, have ar- rested eight Hungarian workers here, held them illegally in. prison, and violated Austrian law by letting Schweinitzer examine all their let- ers and documents. The Austrian law demands the sealing of documents found on ac- cused prisoners until their trial takes place. Admit No Case. The Austrian police admit the prisoners if guilty of anything are ty of workers’ fos. The en KILLS 1, HURTS 2 Powder Explosion in Winchester Co. NEW HAV Con! May 19.— A gunpowd=r explosion in the guilty only of false registration, primer division of the Winchester which is a trivial offense, calling for Repeating Arms Company plant 48 hours imprisonment. The bour- here today fatally injured. one gois press is trying, orsien a f ‘, eb er create a second Bela Kun affair. worker and seriously injured two Kyun was held for months, threatened with deportation to Hungary, which would have meant death, and finally, because of the determined opposi- tion of the workers to that proce- pital and Fred Hoeger, foreman, dure, was deported to the Soviet was in a less serious condition at | Union. the same hospital. y died shortly after John Coogan was reported 2p. m. in a critical condition at Grace Hos- Make every factory our fortress. Organize shop nuclei. Issue shop papers. 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