The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 2

National Miners Union Leads West Vi MENBACK UNION STRIKE APPEAL UMWA EXPOSED with Workers MOUNDSVIL"* against an barons to cut company from 58 ¢ and from $5.00 to per day for the day 20 miners em 200 ans ing out on view the w ger pany at Wheeling, W. fused even to speak to the threatened to have them t of his office. E not frighten t was composed who had gone th gles. They prese and informed t strike would contin eut is withdrawn. When one of th had illusions abo ion = wor asked the ‘manager nstitution was cer the manager a remarked that th a scrap of pap his profits.” 1 the miners that they could e ganized might. N. M. U. Fights for Miners. A local of the National Mi Union was organized w the lead in the strike. this mine had previou organized and m: still had illusions Mine Workers ¢ they see that on ) Miners Union really fights for the miners and are determined to fight and win with the N. M “We Will Make Union of Our Choice Win” By BERTHA CRAWFORD (Relief Committee Chairman) Since the first day of April we,| the strikers of the Manville-Jenckes (Loray) mill of Gaston: North Carolina, have been struggling to | better our miserable conditions. We | have had to fight all the law of Gas- | tonia. The mayor of the city works with the bosses. They made a city law that we cou!d not picket. They have done everything to break our | strike. They don’t want to see the working people better their condi- tions. But we don’t intend to have our strike broken until we can win. The more the bosses and their friends | work against us the harder we strikers will work and the more plans we make for our union to win, the union of our choice, and that} union is the National Textile Wo: ers Union. We are going to stick together and we will win. I have worked in the mill for sev- eral years and the work gets harder ] and harder all the time. The stretch- | out system is bad. The low pay is terrible, It is a shame that the workers have to slave like they do} for the sum we get in our pay en- velopes. It is awful to think of mothers having to go to work at 6! o'clock in the morning and work un-| til 6 o’clock in the evening to feed | their children. i * | Think how these children have to} be without theiy mothers care all day and the evening is the only time she can care for them if she does not work nights. The only time she can , care for the children is when she is | ane ]t00-5th Av. Chet. 4477-5124, N.v.C. tired and worn out from the hard -days work. How can a mother bring up her children as she should when | she has too slave all day or night in the mill? MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail). ! —Oscar Peterson, 42, was severely injured in a fall from a roof on a house he was repairing. He is em-| ployed by the Fiswalde and Wilde Co. 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Party Districts Support The Comintern Address Additional statements received from district organizers of the Com- munist Party, members of the Central Committee, Language Bureau | secretaries and editors of Party publications accepting and endorsing the Address of the Communist International to the Communist Party of the United States follow: * * * DECLARATION OF NEW YORK DISTRICT BUREAU. The motion adopted unanimously by the District Bureau, District Two, New York, at its meeting May 24, was as follows: “The District Bureau of District Two fully accepts and endorses the Address to the American Party membership by the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International and undertakes to win the en- tire membership of the Part} in District Two for the support of the Comintern Address, 1 “2. The District Bureau endorses wholeheartedly and solidarizes itself with the unanimous decision of the Political Committee of the Party and pledges itself unconditionally to aid the Political Committee to carry into effect the decisions contained in the Address. “3. The District Committee pledges itself and its membership to defend the Address of the Communist International before the mem- brship against any ideological or other opposition to the Address. “The District Bureau joins with the Central Committee of the Party in calling upon the members of the delegation in Moscow to withdraw all opposition to the Address and to the decisions contained therein and to do all in their power to assist the Communist Interna- tional and the Central Committee of the Party to unify the Party in support of these decisions.” CLEVELAND DISTRICT ENDORSES COMINTERN ADDRESS. District Bureau unanimously accepted and endorsed wholehearted- ly Communist International Address and pledged full support new secretariat. Demands end factionalism, complete unification, fight against Right wing and Trotskyism, organization unorganized, build up Party, complete subordination Comintern. Full resolution for pub- lication in few days.—Israel Amter, District Organizer, Cleveland District. TELEGRAM FROM KANSAS CITY DISTRICT ORGANIZER. I fully endorse Comintern letter to our Party and decisions of Polcom. Will do all possible to mobilize entire membership Kansas Distriet to support this letter and decisions. In my opinion strongest measures must be taken against opponents Comintern Letter and de- cisions. Long live the Communist Party of the United States —Roy Stephens, District Organizer, Kansas City. AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT ORGANIZER TO POPULARIZE DECISION. I am glad to note our Communist International has taken decisive, | final steps to eliminate factionalism in our Communist Party of the | United States, thus making possible a united front of all Communist | forces in the United States, which is necessary in order that our Party may fulfill its historic mission of organizing and leading the American Revolution, I shall do everything possible to carry out the decisions of the | Communist International, to popularize them and to urge the Party | membership to go forward with the work energetically on the basis of | these decisions.—Alfred Knutson, Agricultural Organizer, Bismarck, | ‘SOCIALISTS’ TRY SWINDLE JOBLESS Attempt to Rob Funds from Unemployed (Continued from Page One) or without conductors), operas, (Russian-American Opera Com- | pany), and individual concerts, like | the one of May 26 at the New York Coliseum. It is the last-mentioned one that this is being written about here. Arrange Concerts. A number of unemployed mu- sicians, after getting permission from their minor officials, organized a brass band consisting of several hundred musicians for the purpose of giving concerts, the proceeds for their own benefit. They obtained the New York Coliseum for the pur- pose of giving two concerts there (May 26), The manager of the Col- iseum induced a few members of the committee to appeal for “coopera- tion” to the Joint Action of the So- cialist Party, of which Mr. Gerber is an official. He smelled business, as a good lawyer and petty con- cessionaire, and persuaded the com- mittee of two who hardly understood English to subscribe to an agree- ment which can only be described as shocking. Gerber, thru’ his connections with the Jewish Daily Forward and the New Leader, is able to give a cer‘ain amount of publicity to various ventures, apparently be- cause they cre a “labor activity,” but actually becauc of the rake- | off which Gerber himself gets. The contract called for: “Forty per cent is to be paid to Mr. G. A. Gerber for general pro- motion of the concerts for the after- noon and evening of May 26, 1929. It is also understood and agreed that 50 per cent commission be paid to Mr. Gerber on advance sale of tickets, sold by him thru those groups and organizations with which he is affiliated.” A Real Racket. Some simple arithmetic will show NEW YORK, TUESDA RAYON STRIKERS | ~ FOR NEW STRIKE Realize UTW Treason and Bosses’ Swindle (Continued from Page One) —_| of their own by the management and | |told that their jobs were secure, a |the agreement had been changed, | | without the consent of the strikers, | to bar from work all “undesirable: The word “undesirable” has not been accurately defined by the companies, but officials state that it includes} | all who were active in the strike,| took part in picketing, or were ar-| |rested and charged with violations | of the law. Most Kept Out. | | In addition, the officials stated | that “due to technica] requirements” the strikers would be taken back lonly very slowly, over a course of several weeks, thus giving plenty ‘time for considering each individ ase, and excluding as many of the militants as possible. The trial of the workers arrested} continues. Major Paul E. Devine, | attorney hired by the U. T. W. mis- | | | ileaders to defend the strikers, de-j clared that he “wanted to test the | constitutionality of the injunction decisions before the U. S, supreme court” and demanded the continua- tion of trials, There are still 52) jcases to be heard. | Captain G. B. Ferris, acting ad- | jutant in charge of the state troops |said that no plans have been made |for the withdrawal of the guards-| men and remarked that they were | still on duty under their standing | orders. It was indicated from au- thoritative sources yesterday that the troops would probably remain for a few days “to guard ‘against any reaction or unexpected develop- ments. | | “Unexpected developments” seem {to be clearly on the program, as | soon as the strikers realize the ex- {tent to which they have been swindled by the U, T. W., the bosses and the government agent. A Fake Vote. Six hundred workers who attend- ed the meeting of scabs and a few) discouraged strikers where the sur-| rencor was “accepted” are denounc-| ing the whole fake scheme, and de-| clare that they never voted for it,) as report’! by the officials of the union and of the company. They say that a vote was taken,| with the scabs and a few others vot- ing for the agreement, and that the count was unfair. The machine guns still menace from the mill gates, and militia still line the streets leading to them, The tension is growing. A com-} mittee of strikers has declared that only under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union, leading. the Carolina strikes, can such situations of betrayal and! treachery be avoided. Edward F, McGrady, who appears on the scene as the personal repre- sentative of President William Green of the A, F. I, and William Kelley, the vice-president of the U. T. W. who sold out the strike and gave co order last week for strik- ers to go back to work, admitted today that the “matter is still delicately bala-zed and an ill-ad- vised word from any source might precipitate new dissension,” | | house, Preparing Fascist-Wall Street Flight Photo shows army flyers Roger Q. Williams and Capt. Yancey, with their plane the Green Flash, at Old Orchard, Maine, preparing for the Rome flight, to boost Wall Street and Italian fascist imperial- ism. YOUTH SECTIONS IN SOUTH.GROW (Continued from Page One) |workers is developing to become many of the child laborers have | leaders of the textile workers in the signed up in the chlidren’s section| South. This is a sign that the Na- of the union and have therefore re-| tional Textile Workers’ Union in the duced the percentage of those regis-| South will grow. He who has the tered who went to work before their Youth has the future. i 14th birthday. | The most promising of all is the Of course there are laws prohibit-|Tesponse of the young textile work- ing the employment of children in| €!8 to the organization of the Com- North Carolina below 14 years of|™unist Youth League, A number age, but unless the workers can or-|°f Communist Youth groups in a ganize to win better conditions for| Umber of mills are being organ- themselves and increase their wages |ized. There is no question but that to support their children, child labor | once the young textile workers of will persist. j the South learn the program of the The housing of the textile work-| League they will become one of wate) ers in the South is very bad. These | best sections of the Communist orkars Oliver in conten y aetna Youth League of the United States.| shacks. Very often you find about) - 6 or even 8 people in a three room Trial of Jersey Baker | Organizer on “Libel” | The food of the workers in| Charge Is Postponed | in the North. The investigation —- In spite of all these miserable|izer of Bakers Local 6, Amalga- the South is very bad. The cost of| that is going on in Washington has} JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 27. conditions the workers in the South) mated Food Workers, who is the food in the South is higher than) forcefully brought out this fact. The case of J. K, Muiller, organ- | have been even less organized than charged with “conspiracy” and libel strike at | the fact that many of the workers,|Hendel’s Pastry Shop, 511 Palisade | especially many of the younger ones | Ave., has been postponed until next | the workers in the North. Of-course|in connection with | the were born and raised on farms and|Monday. He is now free on $1,500 in the mountains, And have had no| bail. experiences nor traditions of labor) struggles explains this at least par-|/ing the d tially. The surprising thing is that these young workers have shown such splendid militancy and are standing by their union in spite of the var-| ious methods of struggle against | them used by the bosses and by | which was also published in a local paper, warning of the unsanitary conditions in the Hendel Shop and urging consumers to buy only from union shops. _boss |out, which began about four weeks the government, which is a tool of/ago, was the unbearable unsanitary the mill owners, |conditions. Workers also charged For generations the workers were/|that the foreman in the shop was taught to hate and despise the Ne-|cuffering from a contagious dis- gro masses of the South. The in-| ease, dustrialization of the South that/three weeks before the strike was thtew the white and black workers |cajled, all workers except the fore- side by side in the mills and fac-|yyyn joining, tories that are being built is break- | Marks, a striker, is also free on ing down the sharp devision that) $500 bail, charged with “disorderly existed. This is especially true of| conduct” for picketing before the the young workers. They are the) Hendel shop. Muiller was arrested for arrang- | ribution of a_ i¢aflet, | The immediate cause of the waih- | The shop was organized about | North Dakota. KRUSE TO HELP MOBILIZE CHICAGO FOR COMINTERN. “As member Polcom solidarize myself action Polcom accept in- dorse Comintern Address pledge mobilize Chicago District for. deci- sion—William F. Kruse, District Organizer, Chicago District. mb. he A a sae ONAL Bachts ber’s affiliated organizations”: Fifty ESTHONIAN BUREAU SUPPORTS ADDRESS. {cents he gets immediately for com- I am in complete agreement with the address of. the Communist | mission; 12%% cents goes for ex- International and endorse the decisions of the Polcom. Bureau will | penses; this leaves 37% cents bal- meet Saturday.—Albert Moller, Secretary of the Esthonian Bureau, | ance. Of this Mr. Gerber gets 40 Communist Party. |per cent more for “general promo- BUILD PARTY AS LEADER OF WORKERS. ieahebebi they Aaah at gta! 2 sf sae . more. So that, out of a $1 ticket, “We welcome this definite Address to our Party! Unreservedly, Mr, Gerber would get 65 cents, and we accept and endorse the decision of the Communist International. | 9917 cents for the jobless musicians, | how much money Gerber would get Jout of this little arrangement and how much would be left to the job- less musicians. Take a ticket sell- Jing for $1, sold “thru one of Ger- Completely we disassociate ourselves from the former fractional group- | Just how much would the 500 ings, considering that they deviated from the line of the Communist | 4, 699 musicians get paid for International. their work,—j.-t about a third of what Mr. Gerber hir-elf would “earn.” Due to the vigilance of some of the musicians, the proposition was turned down, and Gerber was un- Through a determined struggle against all deviations from the line of the Communist International we will be able to build the Party | as the leader of the American working class. Long live the Communist Party of the U. S, A. | Long live the Communist International—Section Executive Com- | mittee, Worcester, Mass., District No. 1, Evald Anderson, Section | able to share any of the hard-earned | Organizer, OLGIN SEES DUTY CLEAR FOR PARTY MEMBERS. ‘dollars of the jobless workers. | True to Type. rginia Coal-Diggers in Fight Against Wage Cut MILLOWNERS IN SOUTH FOOLED BY “IGNORANCE” Workers Show They Know Unionization Ly RUSSEL D. KNIGHT. (A Striker) e chamber of commerce branches throughout the south in the past few years have b::- forward- ing to the mill owners of the north and flowery circulars de- zg the oppor for them jin the South, The close proximity | of raw meterials and excellent cli- jmate ai bed. They also in- clude the “ignorance” of the southern te:+ile worker, their “in- ability” of recognizing the signifi- cance of a union, that the people of the south are in general ignorant, They say that the industrial lords of the south with their mills without any molestation on the part of the southern workers. They say that we are not capable of sticking together, and therefore there is no fear of [temo But now these ambitious members of the chamber of commerce are |faced with a situation that has branded thom as liars and falsifiers, | The south in the past has not had | the right kind of leadership. Having | been fooled once by the American | Federation of Labor they are rather reluctant about organization, But now things have taken on an- ether aspect. The National Textile | Workers Union, which is controlled by the workers, has come into the jfield. And now these ignorant southerners are awakening from | their lethargy, and are putting up a real militant fight against these mill owners. And they are going to keep on fighting until they have lifted the cords of bondage and have the right to live as decent human beings, Then victory will be ours. Jones & Laughlin Cuts \Miners’ Pay; Attacks ‘Union; Raises Profit PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 27.—The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora- tion, operating a large number of coal mines in Western Penngylvania, has declared an extra dividend on its stock. This company has been one of the worst union-smashing, | wage-reducing companies in this sec- tion of the country. Workers in the mines of this company have had |their wages reduced several times, |working below the 1917 scale in many instances. In the first quarter of 1929, end- ing March 31, the total profits, after all charges have been deducted, in- | cluding taxes, depreciation and de- | pletion, and after fat salaries had been paid out to the officials, were | $5,254,179.00, This amounted to $7.33 a share compared with a profit of $2,903, 457.00 or $3.28 a share in |the corresponding period last year. | Thus it is seen that the reduction of the wages of the miners resulted in an increase in profits of 100 per cent, The National Miners Union is | calling on all these workers to join land fight ihe wage cut. ment assisting the prosecution of | unity and equality between all the| |arrested strikers by declaring that workers as an important prerequi- | they “resorted to violence.” site for struggle against the bosses. -_ 8 ® The National Textile Workers’ Weisbord Denounces Sell-out. | Union is the only trade union in the “The action of the United Tex- South that organizes the Negro and tile Workers Union officials in the | white workers on an equal footing | |Elizabethton strike constitutes one jin the South. The union is making jof the clearest acts of treachery to | special efforts to win young Negro | the workers that has ever taken! workers into the Youth Section of place,” stated Albert Weisbord, sec-| the union. | retary of the National Textile Work- | The fact that the young textile | workers in the South are amongst | ers’ Union, today. the most exploited, and because the | “The slogan of the A. F. L, in | the Elizabethton strike can be sum-| young workers have shown them- | Selves to be amongst the most mili- Green has already issued a state- ones who best grasp the need for toaS marized as ‘Crawl back on your | bellies’,” he continued, “and it con-| tant workers makes it more impor- trasts most sharply with the policy | tant to further build and extend the jof the N. T. W. U, in the strike it! youth section that was organized by leads in Carolina and other places, |the union in Gastonia in the midst | |where workers are kept fully in-|of this terrific strike. The youth |formed, conduct the strike them-| section is developing special acti selves, and are given leadership that | ties for the young workers. It is means to win, not betray them. | preparing a special program to fight | “The Elizabethton situation should |for the social and economic inter-| the DAILY WorKER, b position to send it Although we send thou- sands daily—it is insuf- ficient to cover the de- Daily Worker ¢ HOUSANDS of workers on strike desire to receive As member of the Central Committee and editor of a mass organ of the Party, the Daily Freiheit, I fully and unreservedly endorse the Comintern Address, and the Polcom decision concerning the Address. It is the duty of every Party member to stand firm behind the Comin- tern decision, to combat most vigorously any opposition to the deci- sion, and to carry out all measures of the Comintern as leading to an absolute termination of factionalism, to a correcting of the Party line and to a building up of a Mass Party in the United States.—Moissaye J. Olgin, New York, . HOFFMAN SUPPORTS COMINTERN ADDRESS. “As a proletarian member of the District Committee of District 2, New York, I accept unreservedly the Comintern’s open Address to the Communist Party of the United States of America on the past bitter factionalism in our Party. I also accept the Polcom’s decisions un- conditionally on this question, Therefore, I ask all Party members to do likewise, Long live the Communist International and the Communist Party of the United States of America.—Albert Hoffman, Harrison, N. J. New} jter’s release are being organized CONVICTS CANTER | Funds are badly needed to pro- despite the fact that he had been|for an appeal. The transcript of te appeal the case, the International| hundred dollars, Al! contributions ers and sympathizers to force ee 113 Dudley St. Room 6, 5 jert Zelms, secretary of the F lJ L L - R § J R Y | England district of the I. L. D. Mass jmeetings end conferences for Can- thruout New England, it is an- nounced. | mote this mass campaign and to (Continued from Page One) finance the legal steps necessary subpoenaed by the defense. \the excluded testimony of defense Simultaneous with the steps taken | witnesses alone will cost several Labor Defense is launching a wide-|should be rushed to New England spread mass movement of all work-|District of the International Labor release of Canter, according to Rob-| Boston, Mass, a ‘ But it is characte of this petty businessman and his party to | interest themselves in all sorts of |predatory enterprises, be it the | Burns Coal Company, stealing stocks | from needle trades workers, framing up strikers and reporting them to | the police or speculating on relief work amorz jobless musicians, Once more these people have | |shown themselves in their true} | colors, and it is certain that those | workers who still have some illu- sions about the socialist party and its leaders will, as a result of this incident, become convinced of its anti-working class character. Sears-Roebuck Co. Jim Crows Negroes; Won’t Sell Houses to Them CHICAGO, (By Mail).—Negroes cannot purchase “ready to build” houses thru Sears-Roebuck, notori- ous anti-union mail order house, the company has announced, The Jim Crow line is drawn against the Ne- groes by orders of the Sears-Roe- buck national headquarters here. Julius Rosenwald, is active in “charities,” thru which he attempts to mislead the workers. Negro misleaders have been aided by him in Negro “charities. Ay 2 ample warning to the working | class in general and the textile | workers in particular of the strike-| breaking role of the A, F. L.” —Just OF THE YEAR OF THE STAFF DAILY WORKER [ Joseph Freeman RED CARTOONS 1929 A_BOOK OF 44 PAGES SHOWING THE BEST CARTOONS Fred Ellis ° Jacob Burck tion By the ry Journalist Edited by SENDER GARLIN Sold at all Party Bookshops or Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq. ests of the young workers. It is de- veloping educational, social and sport activities. Because of these! activities a good group of young) mand. Even these bund- les we will be compelled to discontinue unless aid is forthcoming. The DAILY WoRKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. In addition to re- lief send them the or- gan of class struggle. Off the Press! CARTOONISTS OF THE DAILY WorKER 26 UNION SQUARE NEw York City ¢, Enclosed find §... PRICE $1.00 in various sections of the co Name .. Address .. City VVVVVVVVVY to be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers triker @ ut we are not in a financial untry. REO ma anpreme NIRS, e —m one