The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1929, Page 3

t a al psa Rens GLASS SLOGAN IN, BRITISH ELECTION CommunistExpose Role of Labor Party LONDON, May 24.—Under the slogan of “Class Against Class,” the Communist Party of Great Britain is contesting 26 of the 615 seats in the British elections, using the elec- tion campaign to expose the hollow sham of parliamentary democracy and rally workers to the Communi Party and the left wing labor move- ment. Almost all the leading figures in the Labor Party are being opposed! by Communist candidates. Ramsay MacDonald is opposed in his con- stituency by Harry Pollitt, and Simons, of Indian commission no- toriety, is being opposed by an In- dian Communist. x Circulars issued by the Commu- nist Party say that they are funda- mentally opposed to all other par-| ties in the field, who are all British | imperialist parties, and that its fun- damental program is the overthrow of capitalism, the erection of a workers ’and farmers’ dictatorship, and the eventual establishment of a Communist society. The campaign is being used by the Communist Party to ela: the workers on the treacherous role of the labor party officials and the of- ficialdom of the British Trade Union Congress both in its betrayal of the workers at home and in opt ng them abroad in the name of British imperialism. This is the final week preceding the elections which take place May 30. Altogether there are 1,700 can- didates for seats in the house of commons. According to British pro- ceedure the party which command: the greatest number of seats in the commons is called upon to choos cabinet. The cabinet is consid overthrown when it is outvoted on any particular issue, SHOE STRIKERS HIT NEW RACKET Expose Actions of the Company Union Workers meeting at the monthly shop delegates’ conference of the Independent Shoe Workers Union exposed the most recent scheme of the manufacturers associated with the Board of Trade to m money from their workers for strikebreak- ing purposes. Side by side with a drive to or- ganize company unions in most of the shops it was pointed out, is a systematic campaign of exacting tribute from the workers. The most recent example has just been re- vealed in the Dr. A. Posner Shoe Shop, where workers were forced to buy $6 tickets for an outing ar- ranged by the bosses to take place | in July. For the $6 the workers are to get a “free” bus ride and a din- ner—the total cost is probably $1.50, The balance goes into the treasury of the company union and is used against the real union of the workers, the Independent Shoe Workers organization. Fred Biedenkapp, general man- ager of the Independent, declared that the Board of Trade and the Shoe Manufacturers’ ociation have already spent r $100,000 to fight the organizaticn drive of the union, according 1° their own ad- missions. Workers employed in the Board of Trade shops are urged to refuse to support the strikebreaking poli- cies which the bosses pursue through the company unions They are urged to arrange their own outing, and send the proceeds to the shoe | strikers who are now fighting against low wages, long hours and for a worker-controlled union for the entire industry. Sheriff-Strikebreaker Grafts $19,000 in Cal. LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—Act- ing on instructions of the county grand jury, the board of supervisors has made a “formal demand” that Sheriff Charles L. Gillett of Imper- ial County, who was active in break- ing the strike of the melon pickers | here last year, return $19,000 in) county funds, for the grafting of | which he was indicted. “Poppi Be While the Wall Street gov id ’, and to st terans of Ic other ‘oreign V s by selling “poppies, taken ¢ Communists Elected as Mayor, to Town Councii in Strassburg, Alsace (Wireless PARIS, ) Huehe of S$ aused mist town councillor great excitement here. The the ‘ois press demand ent refuse con -phobe” town gov Students of “Fleating University” Charge Bad Conditions on Vessei of unsatisfactory condi- the American “Flo: now in European e been made by a group| students while in Paris, it was| disclosed yesterd They ch at bad food ved aboard the ship and that the sleeping accom- se modations are unbearable. | Dr. Edward Alsworth Ro: Univer jeducation on the Floating Univer-| sity, has cabled that the charges are| untrue, and that they came “from a few of the youngsters who had| never travelled abroad.” indications, observers All point to the fact that the poorer of| the students, who have never be-| fore been abroad and who occupy} the poorer quarters aboard the ship, | are the ones who, hit most by the} bad conditions, ve made the! charges. The directors at present} are doing all in their power to stifle} the entire affair. | 450 Illincis Students Protest Resignation of Official in March URBANA, Ill, May hundred fifty students their classes today and joined in a parade protesting resignation of M.| L, Flaningam, superintendent of city schools. | Flaningam retired from the city] superintendency after seven women! teachers of the Urbana high school] tried to gain support of the firm bloc and some of the other ¢ fied elements. Most of the requests of the bloc for duties on hides, but- ter, corn starches and other pro- ducts were understood to have been granted in the amendments adopted. This assured early passage of the tariff bill through the Senate. 24.—Four} deserted | is- Same Cabinet Remains in Ecuador Elections! A new cabinet of the “liberal” party, as was its predecessor, took power in Ecuador. The only im- portant change is that Gonzalez Zaldumbide, Ecuador’s delegate to Yankee imperialism’s Sixth Pan- American Congress in Cuba and) later ambassador to England, was appointed minister of foreign af- fai The other new ministers are: Tnt Julio E. Moreno; finance, Martinez Merra; education, Dr. Maria Sanchez; war and navy, Car- | los Guerrero; public works, Fuentes | Robles. Among all the classes that con- front the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is really revolu- | tionary—Marx. t nment continues to trade es” Is Scheme to Sidestep Real Aid for Crippled gnore tho. nds o in fire-trap institutions and il Vars aids the government in side hows Tammany Ma. e of. Photo 6,000 BULL tepping real aid for the supposed to be for the veterans’ benefits, and thus DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 235, 1929 Ex-Servicemen of men maimed in the late imperial- them there, the fascist leading the public into yor Walker lending publicity to the ES WORKERS T0 GETTY, U. EL STATEMENT TODAY (Continued from Page One) its immediate program fox the Luilding trades work follows: 1. The immediate formation of job committees, elected by the workers on the job. 2. General strike to enforce the five-day week and i0 per cent increase in wages immediately. General strike i consist of delegates fr committees. Agreement to cover the en- building trades. s violation of al! injune- al insurance against dis: ability and old age, and unemploy- ment fund to be donated by employers and the state, and a ministered by the union. Safety measures to prevent nts to be included in all union agreements, de union safety commit- tees to be elected on each building to consist ef one member from cach craft. This committee is to supervise the enforcement of safety measures. If employers | refuse to submit to prescribed safety measures the job strike shall be resorted to in order to enforce the Trade Union Safety Committee’s demands. Bosses Plan Attack. The statement charges that the recent action of the Building Trades Employcrs’ Association, in ordering « lockout, indicates that the bosses, in conjunction with the building ma- te supply combine, under the leadership of the banks, are preper- ing to launch an attack against the Iding trades wor with the view of destroying unionism and in- stituting the open shop. The T. U. E. L. section warns that if the rank and file of the building t workers remain passive in the face of this conspiracy it will result in the wiping out of wages and what union conditions that still . whicH took many years of struggle to a The Hand of the Banks. Describing the interlocking rela- tionships between the building con- the tractors and banking capital, statement points out the that “the very structures that are being erected, be they office buildings, fac- buildings, or dwellings, are trolled by finance capital.” This means, it is pointed out, that the “Labor Policy” in the building industry is dictated and decided upon by the ruling finance capital- ists of the country. Ex 's Lockout Maneuver. Explaining the recent “granting lof the five-day week and 10 per} cent increase in wages as a man- euver, the statement shows that, in the first place the new arrangement was to go into effect four months later, and secondly, the bosses de- manded that the workers surrender the basic principle of the sympa- thetic strike in order that they might attack one union at a time and thereby demoralize and render impotent, and finally destroy, union- ism in the building industry The T. U. E. L. Section denounces the craven surrender of Broach of the Electrical Workers’ Union and Photo shows the monoplane Gr the Atlantic to Paris, to boost French imperial: Off on First Leg of French Imperi ‘cen Flash just before it left on the fi Did Orchard, Me., from where it will hop off jor Paris, . alist Flight rst leg of its proposed flight across ism. Piloted by Rene Lefevre, it left Roosevelt Ficld for tly or indirectly owned or con- |the vest of the building trades of- ficialdom before the attack of the | bosses. “Tt is no accident,” it de- ‘that the New York Tim of big capital, is in full agree- nt with Broach’s statement.” Boom Declining. fhe bosses fecl that the time is nearing for an effective attack st the building tredes work- ers, the statement s: because “building struction now on the decline and the so-called boom is coming to an end.” s Jobless. Thou Thousands workers of g the streets logk- building ing for jobs because of rationali tion—the introduction of methods which displace labor. If the workers are to resist the proposed attacks of the bosses the ef obstacles in their path must removed: the corrupt labor mis- |leaders. To this end, the rank and file workers are urged to fight for the program of the Building Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. Reactionary Union Structure. Pointing out that the structure of the unions is antiquated and on a reactionary basis, the statement | declares that the officialdom is even more reactionary. They prevent the amalgamation of the craft unions into one strong union in the entire building industry, it is charged. Do Not Organize Unorganized. Nothing has been done to organ- jize the thousands of unorganized building trades workers, in spite of the fact that during the last few | years the practice has grown up 0! doing much of the building work in factories under non-union condi- |tions and merely assembling the different parts of the building. The bureaucrats have also done nothing to fight for necessary safe- |ty measures to prevent accidents in the industry. One thousand work- ers are killed, and 20,000 or more | injured each year in New York State alone, it is pointed out. After giving the immediate pro- gram to be fought for by the build- ing trades workers, the statement concludes with the general program of the Building Trades Section of the T. U. E, L., as follows: | General Program. 1. The seven-hour day and five-day week in order to decrease the demoralizing effect of ration- alization on the workers. 2. Uniform — building | agreements to expire at the same time, in May, and to be ratified | trades by referendum. 3. For social insurance against disability and old age, and unem- ployment fund to be donated by employers and state and to be ad- ministered by the unions. | 4. Mass violations of all in- junctions in labor disputes, strug- | gle against the enacting of anti- | strike laws. 5. Development of job control through job committees and stew- | ards so as to stop the hire and ire system and put an end to the speed-up methods. 6. Reinstatement of all union members expelled or suspended for their opinions, and restoration of revoked charters. 7. No discrimination Negroes or other races, 8. Amalgamation of the build- ing trades upon a ‘departmental basis, along the lines laid down by the 1913 convention of the build- ing trades department of the A. F. of L. This would abolish the ruinous jurisdictional disputes as well as centralize the activities and unify the forces of all build- ing trades workers. 9. Support of a political party composed of and in the interest of labor recognizing the class struggle as a political struggle. 10. The construction workers’ section of the T. U. E. L. will or- ganize, along industrial lines, shops supplying building material, federal, state and municipal Works, engineering construction, altera- tion and maintenance workers and ship building. 11, The youth T. U. E. L. to have a special Youth Department to take care of youth workers, | against Fascists in Latvia Now Renew Terror; Arrest Communist Workers PROTEST BRITISH TERROR IN INDIA U. S. Anti-Imperialists Send Cables RIGA, Latvia, (By Mail).—The ‘bourgeois newspapers again report the arrest of the members of the Central Committee of the Commun- ist Party of Latvia. On the 2nd of May the police raided a house own- cd by a Mrs. Radsin. She herself and everyone present were arrested. Six of the arrested persons are sup- At cutive Anti- a meeting of the itee of t ll-Amer cor Tmperialist 1 U. S. section’ nosed to be members of the C. C. held last nicht, it was decided to Cf the Communist Party. Others ave send a cablegram to the British saiq to be foreigners who have come Union Congress, protesting t the acts of terror and op- pression directed by the British gov- ernment in India against the Indian working class. Another cable will be sent to the All-India Trade Union Congress in Bombay and to the -All- India Workers and Peasants Party, Caleutta, expressing the solidarity of the anti-imperialist forces sinethe U. S. with the liberation movement in India. ! This action is in response to a re- quest just received from the Inter- national secretariat of the League Negro, West India Anti- Imperialists Meet to Latvia in order to “instigate dis- turbances.” The newspapers also report that a secret printing shop also discovered. One or two German papers even reported that “the leaders of the recent Commu- nist disturbances in Berlin have now been arrested in Riga.” was Against Imperialism with headquar- ters in Berlin. The communication from the International League Against Imperialism states that they have received authentic ma- terial regarding the recent arrests of thirty-one prominent trade union and political leaders frgm all parts of India engaged in the emancipa- tion movement there. The offices of all organizations opposed to Brit- ish imperialism and the houses .of hundreds of leaders were searched. The whole campaign of oppression was marked by brutality. An Anti-Imperialist World Con- gress will take place in Paris from July 20 to 31st, in which all of the organizations in India engaged, in conference was called by the the emancipation movement, will Nationa! Office of the All-America send representatives. Delegates from | Anti-Imperialist League, U. S. sec- anti-imperialist organizations: of all tion, as a preliminary to an eastern other countries under the domina- conference of al! anti-imperialist tion of British, American, French elements to be held June 15 in Ir- and other imperialisms will also par- ving Plaza, New York City. ticipate in this International con- A full report of these deporta- gress against imperialism. The All- tions has leaked out, in spite of the America Anti-Imperialist League yigid censorship of the fascist. Ma- plans to send a strong delegation chado regime, which tells of the raid from the United Stat on the living quarters of the Com- a ae munists and their deportation with- out trial. “This is a part of a cam- paign of terrorism against all Anti- Imperialist forces in Cuba and all labor leaders there,” declared Louis Gibarti, international representative of the League Against Imperialism. Similar oppressive measures are be- ing taken in every country under the domination of United States im- perialism, where the masses are growing increasingly rebellious against the tyranny and exploita- ‘tion of the agents of Wall Street and Washington, With the inaugu- ration of Machado. for another six- year distatorship, the persecution of all opponents of imperialism fight- ing for the independence of Cuba jwill be intensified.” Richard B. Moore, representative ‘of the American Negro Labor Con- |gress and president of the Harlem ; Tenants League, spoke of the Amer- |iean Negroes, the victims within the of the John Williams Co., on West | United States of the same persecu- 27th St. Manhattan, and Gainor tion, oppression and exploitation nd Resenbloom, Stagg St., Brook- |that the colonial masses suffer in Police again came to the aid the Caribbean countries under the of the bosses at the latter shop, re- | political and economic domination of peating their action of two days ago | United States imperialists. Moore in arresting two of the pickets “at called for a united front against the this shop. The pickets were later common enemy. discharged because the case against them was so we: | An attempt at intimidation of the |strikers was made yesterday by the The deportation of members of the executive committee of the Cu- ban Communist Party by President Machado, and the oppressive mea- sures taken against the leaders of the liberation movement, were unanimously denounced by all speak- ers at a meeting held last night at the New Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116th St., of representatives of West __ IRON STRIKERS Demonstrations at Big | | Shops Picket demonstrations at large iron shops and interference of the police against the strikers, yester- cay marked the completion of the first week of the general walkout of the iron and bronze workers in Greater New York, under the lead- ership of the Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers Union. Over 3,800 men are now out. The largest demonstrations by the strikers were held before the plants ‘Mill Bosses Convene ere ie taaie) esterday by tip ‘to Plan Unified Action vrand Tron Works, located at 52 zs Tiffany St. Brooklyn. The tim Against Worker Revolt sent a letter to the union and to the | ee police, hinting at an attempt at a| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 24. frame-up, the letter stating that |—A so-called “textile forum” will “We are informed that you took our | be inaugurated in Boston, Sept. 19, worsezs forcibly to your meeting | it was announced at the annual cot- vooms, and that you threatened | ton manufacturers convention, arm,” etc. The strikers of this|Which opened here today. The plant stated that this was a lie, that | “forum” will be organJzed on a \they had willingly come out. | strictly caste basis, the meetings be- | A mass meeting of the strikers | im& for the owners and their various |will be held at Webster Hall at 2|S0rts of slave drivers, divided into |p. m, today, Two large mass meet- | six groups, as follows: overseers | ings were held Thursday at Bo- of carding, overseers of spinning, |kemian Hall, Astoria, and at Laurel | OVerseers of weaving, slashing and | Garden, on 116th St. dressing; master mechanics, over- SEAS seers of cloth room, dyeing and CLOTH MADE FILM. bleaching, agents, managers and su- PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 24.—By perintendents. treating ordinary cloth with a solu-| The strike wave, and united action | tion of salts, acids, glucose and oils,| inthe. matter of wage cuts and the Hochstetter Laboratories here | speed-up will occupy a great deal | have produced a moving picture film | of the attention of the present manu- | material that is non-inflammable,|facturers’ convention and of the and can be washed and ironed, “open forum.” THE WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street | New York City ANNOUNCES— We will henceforth supply all German literature printed abroad. 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Over al is to commence in Rome|5,000 workers the Sowerby before the fascist special tribunal |pjanket fact were cut i0 per against a considerable number of have been revolutionary workers from the Slo-j with the venian town of Goerz. The case is leader one of the usual “conspiracies” in- Textile vented by the fascists in order to \crush the working class. The preliminary proceedings have been going on since August, 1928, |Minois Students Will and have been accompanied by the Fase Vacances Rudal'toreaven andi prataliied! | Return to Classes; to Await Ousting Edict {history of the case is as follows: In tthe night from the 21 to the August, 1928, the fascist spy, V _Strik- torio Kogen, was murdered in Goe: students Kogen was a worker who sold him- es to- self to the fascists for money. He meeting of denounced revolutionary workers to discuss the the fascists and a number of them aningam @@ died They had a protest May 24 chool URBANA ing U voted to urn to day pending a parents Mon resignation of 1] uperintendent quit their stud as a result of the tortures in flicted upon them by the fascists. Still others received long terms of | against. the re Flanin- imprisonment or were sent to the|gam, who was because dreaded deportation islands. A work- | he was alleged ssed sex er, named Luigi Bregnant, deter-| matters too with ‘women mined to put Kogen’s activities to rs an end and fired a shot at him which | 1 through the was fatal. Bregnant himself was | city, their de- shot dead by the police. With this | rision f the ool the matter was actually at an end, | board. but not for the fascists who utilized The the occasion to establish a reign of had be terror in the wo: ig class quarters | and th of Goerz, M orkers were rested and malteated in prison. One of the arrested workers, Theo- dor Ussay, was tortured with parti- cular brutality. A 12-year-old boy was so terribly maltreated that his ar- Misleaders Aim. to Expel Communists |mother went mad. The “evidence” from Barber Union now to be offered against these — lworkers was collected means of _ Reactionary misieaders of the these tortures. Barbers Union have forced thru a resolution in the Bre Local 560, SEES BA? G CRISIS providing that no member of the ATLANTIC CITY, May union shall have the right to be- John W. Pole, U. S. Comptroller of |long to any progressive organiza- the Currency, told the Maryland tion. 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