The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 2

Page T JAIL 25 UNION LEADERS; SEIZE ALL DOCUMENTS AAAIL Pushes Fight Against Arrests -® f the Dutch govern union movement rth the the fol- United All-America the League n of “We have the World t Imperialist that the e word from Java has recently s to break up the trade] ava, the ‘Sari- Indon: of the leaders hi d all union docu- been seized; the main years to be that the or-| had entered into rela- I e Against Im- affiliated in May 1 ) * that this is an attempt trade union move- e more beginn ter the terrible re 6 and 1927.” another evidence of the + attack upon the revolu-| 'y working class organizations, | Hy in the colonies. The U.| S..Section of the AAAIL joins with | this brytal attack by the Dutch gov- | Fifteen Thousand N permit the electrocution of the 16 York Workers converted the huge Imperialists Launch Savage Offensive Aga Gastonia textile strikers and union ea eco and Vanz == aiLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929 inst the Ja “Free the 23 Gastonia Prisoners,’ Demand 15,000 at Sacco Seat ders by the mill bosses’ courts. tti Memorial in Union Square on Thursday into a demonstration of the Part ofthe huge gathering of workers is shown above. Demonstration = . © Bs Fevict ~ determination not to va Workers’ Unions Hurt Swiss ] viators, Lost in Flight to U. S. WA IINGTON, Aug. 25.— The navy department today requested all its vessels on the Atlantic Coast to maintain a lookout for the two miss- Jing Swiss aviators, who were lost while flying in a monoplane to the United States. NEW WARSHIPS IN! PLACE OF JUNKED OBSOLETE CRAFT ‘But Dawes, MacDonald - Still Rant “Peace” | WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Navat Secretary Adams has ordered junk- jing of four second-line cruisers, aking a total of 13 obsolete war 7 NSURE PROFIT ‘Vill u c | mi craft to be scrapped by the navy Tih od department as no longer of use to + Capitalists Fight | the United states in it? war prepara- 5 | tions. Over Senate Rates | Virtually at the same moment as Adams was preparing for newegf] WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—A sum | warships to replace the old, Ambaga)) $40,000,000 was knocked off the|sador Dawes poured forth “state- !house rates in total estimated rev-| ments’” phrases in an effort to con- nue by the senate finance commit-|ceal the rapidly-maturing Anglo- tee—but the new tariff bill provides} American antago! s. “The arbit- for an $89,000,000 increase, mainly} rators of the ultimate fate of this in sugar, metals and farm products,| naval effort will be the respective {schedules which the republican rul-| public sentiments of the naval jers of the finance committee are| powers,” he said pompously at a {directly interested in protecting. | ceremony in honor of the labor im- Increased sugar schedules protect) perialist MacDonald, at Elgin, Seot- | the American beet growing interests | land, today. to the extent of $30,000,000 of the} Meanwhile, MacDonald ts spee@ftng. new rates, thus tightening the bars| his preparations for a visit to the on Cuban, Philippine and Haitian! United States to carry on the British sugar, representatives of which had|Empire’s fight for light cruisers,., fought against the high sugar tariff.) which was one of the reasons for | Resultant privileges to favored in-|the collapse of the Geneva arms | i ; jauseee were assailed by the demo-| parley in 1927. Britain is anxious WHOL A E THIEF aSe a as a AG) n A | coats opposition, which is looking| for light but powerful craft which |after the interests of its own group| are more suitable for world-wide, the Anti-Imperialist Leagues thru-| if +] out the world in protesting agains! ! ernment, and in upholding the right | of the labor and peasant organiza-| tions to form their class organiza-| tions. The League is sending a pro- | test resolution to the Dutch em-| bassy, and is asking its affiliated | and sympathetic organizations to do| the same. | Down with Dutch imperialism! | For the Freedom of the Java Trade | Unions! Statement by the All- America - Anti-Imperialist League | (U S Section). | Mr. J. H, Van Royen, Minister from Holland, Washington, D. C. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League (U. S. Section )informs you herewith that it protests vigorously against the brutal attack of your) government upon the trade union movement of Java, a Dutch colony. We have received information from the World League Against Im- | perialism and for National Inde- pendence that twenty-five leaders of the Java trade union federation— the “Sarikat Kaoem Boeroeh In- donesia” have been arrested, and all union documents seized; that the main charge against them is that this organization affiliated in May 1929 with the World League Against Imperialism. We hold Dutch imperialism re- sponsible for the miserable condi- tions of the working class in Java, where the workday is twelve and fourteen hours, and the daily wage from 35 to 40 cents. According to your government report of 1928, a male worker on the Java sugar plantation received a daily wage of 42% cents, a woman worker 35 cents, and a child 15 to, 20 cents. Officially the working day is 10 hours, but this is violated on all| sides. Oppression and misery is the lot of the Java worker under the} heel of Dutch imperialism. | The trade union federation you) are trying to crush is a real, fight-| ing force for the interests of the op- pressed masses. It raised the slo- an of the 6 hour day, which met with enthusiastic response from the masses of workers, the machinists, the miners, etc. To crush them, and the other revolutionary organiza- tions the Dutch government has in- tuted .a whole string of anti- or laws. ‘our government suppressed with the workers uprising in 1926 which aimed at throwing off the shackles of Dutch imperialism. The ade union movement was again king on great momentum, and the test of the leaders is aimed to ish it. We declare that these ef- t will not succeed. The -ex- ited masses of Java and the other tions of the Dutch East Indies ill know how to rally their forces it the defense of their labor or- izations for the release of their risoned leaders and for the over- ‘ow of Dutch imperialism. “The All-America Anti-Imperialist Deague (U. S. Section) protests rgetically against this brutal at- k of Dutch imperialism against comrades and fellow workers of wa. We demand the immediate jase of the twenty-five im- isoned trade union leaders. We mand the cessation of the attack upon the Java trade union federa- tion—the “Sarikat Kaoem Boeroeh Indonesia”; we demand that the right of the workers and peasants of Java to form their class organi- zations be not interfered with. We support wholeheartedly the struggle of the Java masses of workers and peasants for a radical improvement in their }';ing and working condi- tions, for the complete economic and political independence of Java and the Dutch colonies from Dutch im- perialism, and for genuine national independence. Our protest is not only against Dutch imperialism, but against all the imperialist powers that benefit from the exploitation of the Java | pworking masses, including Amerjean ~ imperialism which imports a large \ Million Dollar Swindler “Parold” in 1925 Branded by U. S. Attorney Tut- tle as an “habitual criminal,” who has defrauded over 4,000 investors out of $1,411,300, Arthur Montgom- ery, ex-convict and head of Hadley & Co, the bucket shop recently | . |basis of his connection with the! workers, many of them class-con- cate het age marines during the last imperialist! scious, but led by social-demc NOTE The Argenta eh of | war, and followers of the renegade C this article gave a resume of an | Soo ae munist, Ludwig Lore (this organ article by William J. McNulty in the Baseball Magazine for Sep- as a tember, entitled “Baseball Cure for Industrial Unrest article describes with the great frankness the efforts of y large companies to keep the work- ers in’sub ion by the organi- zation of factory baseball teams. raided by federal agents in their | ade “drive” against crooked brokers — | By A. MAGIL that is, brokers who swindle other 4 parasites — was held without bail | II, for a further hearing when he was arraigned before U. S. Commis- sioner O’Neill Monday on charges of using the mails to defraud. Montgomery was convicted of stock frauds in 1925 and sent to Atlanta penitentiary for four years and four months, but after serving less, than one-third of his term he a “parole,” over the “protests” of Tuttle and Judge Learned Hand who tried him. Bv+ since under the capi- public till of millions gets off with a sentence of nine months for “con- tempt of court” as in the case of Sinclair, the oil king, while workers who dare to strike against coolie wages, inhuman hours and intolera- ble working conditions are framed up on charges of murder, as in Gas- tonia, it is expected that Montgom- ery will simply be spirited off the scene until the scandal blows over, just as happened four years ago, and will then be turned loose to continue his career. LABOR STIRS IN ECUADOR, PER |Government Jails and Deports Leaders LIMA, PERU, Aug. 25,—At- tempts of other political factions to oust the present Peruvian dictator, Leguia, are being laid at the door of the Communists and workers by the government and its officials espionage section and the official press. At the same time, a number of actual labor leaders are being per- secuted and many of them held without trial in jail or deported to San Lorenzo Island. Fifty are said to be held there at present. Widespread unrest among the workers in the petroleum fields of northern Peru and among the agri- cultural laborers and peasants is making the government uneasy and vicious, Similar conditions are reported among the workers on the banana plantations of Ecuador. MOLDERS MAY STRIKE ROYERSFORD, Pa. (By Mail).— Forty-nine molders of the Floyd- Wells Co. here may strike as a re- sult of the discharge of a union man and the hiring of non-union men. Our own ag urgeois age, More and more, society is splitting ap into two great hostile camps, letariat—-M Or OO Cree part of the rubber exports from the Dutch East Indies. Java Workers and Peasants Against Dutch Imperialism! Down with Dutch Imperialism! Down with American Imperialism —THE ALL-AMERICAN IM- PERIALIST LEAGUE, U. S. Section, William Simons, Na- tional Secretary, James Mo, Far Eastern Dept. bribed his way out and was granted | talist system a bandit who loots the | Long Live the Strugjle of the| F course, MeNulty’s blithe assur- }~ ance that company union base- \ball can effectively gag the mili-| tancy of the American workin: is so much drivel—capitalist sales talk. But that it represents, to- gether with the other company union, “employee welfare” schemes, jan important obstacle to the organ- ization of the workers cannot be jdenied. And it is an obstacle which |is likely to grow in proportions as jmore and more employers are driven by the growing radicalization of the workers to abandon their pure-and- |simple open-shop policy for various | {company union devices. There is jalso the strong possibility that the American Federation of Labor, capi- | / \talism’s devoted handmaiden, may be called upon by the employing, \class to aid it in the introduction of ‘company union baseball and other \sports—if it is not doing so al- | ready. | | Just think over these figures for | a while: More than 3,000,000 work- ers are included in the company sports movement. Only a small per- centage of this number actually eee part in sports, but all of them jabsorb the poison of company | unionism. Sports is also playing an impor- tant role in American capitalism’ | preparations for its next war, par- ticularly in the militarization of the youth. Army recruiting signs fre- quently show soldiers playing base- ball, and baseball forms part of the lregular activities at the Citizens Military Training Camps. Flag | waving is an established institution in professional athletics. And then there is Gene Tunney, “the fight- |ing marine,”—Tunney was “sold” to |the American sporting public on the | throughout the world, bal en we must remember, includes not only | Workers Gymnastic and Sports Al- Boy Scouts Blessed by Bloody Mussolini Mussolini, murderer of thousands of Italian workers and pea- sants, blessing the boy scouts of several nations who visited him after | | the jamboree in England, He knows the scouts will serve fascism | is affiliated to the refo: Lucerne Sports International) the Sportsmanship sponsored by the American Federa- epin are some of the slogans under which cap’ ist ts mas tion of Labor and headed by the acter. Th arch-labor betrayer, Matthew Woll, ame purpose as slogan at present largely a. paper organi- “democracy” “justice” se reference to the capitalist sta them is the entire swamp of on and hypocr |zation, but with A. F, of L. and em- ployer backing it is likely to become sports movement. ae ene judice. nd the buying and s games, boxin UT it is the immense juggernaut of bourgeois sports, with its cally unlimited financial re- pr sources, pounding daily into millions 1. of workers, loyalty to capitalism, nee : 2 oes aj, | War propaganda, Ku Klux Klanism, OSS sports can be effectively | religious bigotry, Negro hatred—the fought in only one way—by whole filthy blood-and-money gospel strengthening and _ popularizing of the master class, this is the real workers’ sports... And boss sports; | enemy that the militant labor sports movement must content with. those sports that are directly intro- and | strong Brotherhood, | this country. ‘tion of the tremendous influence of LO Killed, 36 Injured, a strong reformist base in the labor | little—at times no support from the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Educational League, which organizations should be most directly concerned with promoting a labor sports movement in The left wing press has failed to encourage the labor sports movement and in general there has been a gross underestima- bourgeois sports in poisoning the minds of millions of workers, It is'to be hoped that the organi- jzational and ideological shortcom- |world in the fight against bourgeois | over as they were smashed together | |sports represented by the yellow! and two Americans were among the injured. ings of the Labor Sports Union will be greatly improved with its formal affiliation to the Red Sports Inter- national, which leads the revolu- tionary sports movement of the sports as well as against reformist Lucerne Sports International. The convention of the LSU, which has just been concluded in New York, also further cemented its ties with The-chief weaknesses of the La-|the left wing labor movement by duced into the factory, but also that | hoy Sports Union are: 1, Instead of |clecting delegates to the Trade much athletic capitalist class and serves as a vast |; ee eer : p |is a loose federation of sectional disseminator of bourgeois ideology! and national clubs. 2. The members among the workingelass and as 4 of the LSU resevoir of the most reactionary foreign-born tendencies in the capitalist system. And boss sports includes also the| worke fake amateur organizations such as the Amateur Athletic Union, United States Football Association, United States Lawn Tennis Association, Y. MC. A. and Y. M. H. A. clubs and |, . ry. college athletics. BS Rete it The Labor the |neglected. 5, work sports tirely country, is as yet a small and weak |¢,. organization which has been in exis- into the organization. has been Sports Union, The Labor Sports to two sports: soccer an ack and field, with some work in |basketball. The three chief Ameri-. tence only about three years. But/can mass sports, baseball, boxing during the past year it has made and American football, have been significant, prog gaining about! almost completely neglected. 6. 2,000 new members, and though still 3 | Little or no effort has been made far from a mass organization, it to draw in Negro workers who are is on the road to becoming one. At) victims of the most rabid prejudice present it has not a strong re-|anq persecution in all bourgeois formist sports movement to COM) sports, particularly. in professional tend with. The reformist movement |}. sebafl and boxing. 7. Very little is represented by three chief/ 04% among children, girls and cae A small group in Chicago women, 8. Lack of organic identi- which w: xpelled fr the Labor | eo: A ‘i Buses ented it ene ica eae | Heaton with me general left wing s 7 | ta] : ties and incurable opportunism (this|"°* ™°*°m group has recently been taken under | the wing of the socialist party); the | * #8 IN partial extenuation of the Labor |* Sports Union, it may be said that liance, composed largely of German | practically all these shortcomings are not peculiar to the LSU, but are characteristic of the left wing movement as a whole, Its lack of or- ganic identification with the left wing is perhaps mores the fault of | the left wing than of the LSU. The Labor Sports Union has received off the 10c. i] | rger field of professional) the factory or the factory town and| Union Unity Convention in Cleve- which is supported by the | the trade union as a base, the LSU |land, Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Significant also is the great step forward taken by the LSU by its are predominantly | work in the Gastonia struggle. This workers. Few native) has been really the first effort of » even from the left-wing | the organization to transfer its base | labor movement, have been drawn|to the factory and the trade unions. 3, It is very | The weak numerically, with affiliated | strike in its early stages, organized anizations con:ied almost en-/q baseball team among the members to a few sections of the coun-|of the Youth Section of the Na- 4. The ideological education of | tional Textile Workers Union and greatly |furnished equipment, A Southern LSU entered the Gastonia District has now been formed with movement in this|Ution has devoted itself almost. on. | headquarters in Bessemer City. It| is significant that the secretary of the Southern District, Walter Lloyd, is one of the seven workers whom the mill owners are trying to rail- road to jail on charges of assault | with intent to kill. 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With the continuation of the good work started in Gastonia of linking up the labor sports movement with the actual struggles of the workers and with greater support and encourage- ment from the left wing, the Labor Sports Union should grow in size and influence and become a power- ful fighter against the pernicious in- fluence of bourgeois sports—which means a powerful fighter against American capitalism. CPUSA jot capitalists. It fought particularly | subjugation of her scattered but re- |the action of the senate finance com-| bellious empire. The United States, | mittee which, responding to pressure|on the other hand, will insist on jfrom the U. S. Steel Corporation,} parity in regard to big battleships—, jstruck off the duty on manganese.} since these are the craft for a rela- > |The move is intended to aid the | tively |freer importation of Soviet man-/ tion. ganese, a $5,000,00 contract for Anxious to follow exactly the im- which was recently concluded by the} perialist lead to be given by Mac- Steel Corporation with the U.S. S.R.} Donald, Winston Churchill, at pres- | ea a ent propagandizing for empire in * ture” tour in the U. S. to fit in after In German Train Crash | sacponaic’s DUREN, Germany, Aug. 25. — At | GAS WORKERS STRIKE | least 10 persons were killed and 36) WYOMING, Pa. (By Mail).— injured, 13 of them critically, when | Three hundred gas workers of the* the Paris to Warsaw express was! Spring Brook Water Co., Lacka derailed as it rushed through the | wanna and Wyoming Counties, hav station of Buer this morning, seven | struck for a closed shop and a 48-— |cars leaving the rails and turning | hour working week. 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