The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 3

rat k= rs, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929 ~ MNKING OF HULK O THRU MOTIONS Escape Death, Seamen | May Be Gypped Even the customary whitewashing “investigation” will be dispensed with ease in the case of the 56-year- old German freighter Quinmistan, which, en route from Norfolk, Va., to Genoa, where it was scheduled to junked, sprung a leaf in the port le last Sunday night, forcing the @rew to take to the lifeboats after a fire had been built on the fore- castle head in the vain hope that a | passing vessel would sight the sink- | ing tub. The men were picked up by the President Harrison on Wednesday nd arrived there Saturday. Captain ietsch, who was in command of the fiulk, denied that the Quinmistan ‘was unseaworthy, as he was expected to do, altho it was learned that the former master, Theodore Weisa, left the ship at Norfolk, refusing to chance the voyage to Genoa, which the greedy ship-owners insisted on having made, willfuily endangering the lives of the crew for the sake of a few more dollars of profit. The cfficers of the rotten tub will go thru the motions of a “hearing” at the German consulate this morn- ing, which is being held simply for settling the question of compensation for the 26 seamen. whom the owner& are adverse to paying in full, it is understood. The officers are stay- ing at the Belmont Hotel, the men having been herded into the Sea- men’s Church Institute, notorious “holy” flop-house. CALL MEET OF N.Y. TAILORS To Mobilize Against Hillmanism Delegates representing the rank and file ‘members of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers Union will attend the shon delegate conference to be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at 11 a.m., at Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd Ave. and 9th St., where plans for an extensive campaign against the Sidney Hillman machine of the un- fon will be taken up. “Now in the height of the season,” a statement issued yesterday by the Trade Union Educational League of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Union points out, “great masses of workers are unemployed, many work part time and even those who work full weeks are forced to work for starvation wages. The bosses are utilizing the present chaoitic con- ditions for further attacks on the) standard of the workers. A reduc- tion of $8 to $10 a week was forced on the workers of Williami P. Gold- man shop and others. All this takes place in the busy season and with pulpits? Did not Mussolini permit|than the the help of the company union.” The conference call states that the workers will be mobilized to fight for the 40-hour, 5-day week; week work; reinstatement of all expelled members, rank and file control of the labor bureau; real amalgama- tion; one union in the needle indus- try; abolition of the principle of hire and fire and unemployment in- surance to be paid immediately to all unemployed and partially unem- ployed workers. POLICE ‘PROTECT’ FASCISTPILERIMS Fear Workers, Sneak to Ship in Taxis (Continued from Page One) to protect the fascist delegates (who left on the S. S. Vulcania at mid- night Saturday) from the working class demonstrators. For two days previous to its de- parture, the ship was under heavy guard, while on the night of sailing the vicinity resembled an armed camp. A solid cordon of police were lined up in front of the Vulcania and prevented everyone except those able to exhibit passports from cross- ing the street. The Sons of Italy, instead of marching to the ship in a body, sneaked to the pier singly | in taxicabs which deposited them at the foot of the gangplank. Among the delegates, mostly petty Italian business men, were some workers, who confided to representa- tives of the Alliance that they had taken advantage of the “pilgrimage” in order to visit their families in Ttaly and because Mussolini had publicity for war aviation. Serving the Purposes of Imperialism Women participants in air derby now going on—a stunt to boost imperialist war plans by getting Issue Instructions to! \Workers Quizzed by Laber Dep’t Spies| - | The New York District of the| International Labor Defense has issued the following instructions to workers in reference to the in- timidation campaign now being} carried on by. Department of La- bor agents in shops and factories: Give no information concerning yourself, your family or anyone] else. Refuse to answer all qu tions and do not even give your] name. In doing this, you are| | | within your legal rights. | If arrested for picketing or any| other reason, do not answer ques- | | tiens until an attorney sees you. | Do not be frightened when the| | | Department of Labor agent tries} | | to threaten you. Simply stand up| | | for your rights. || If you want further advice on| | | this matter, come to the office of the New York I. L. D., 799 Broad- way, Room 422, between 9 a. m./ and 7 p. m. | VEEDLE TRADES Fascism and the Vatican [0 OPEN DRIvE / By G. A. (Rome) HE outsider who wishes to | study the development o: Italian fascism on the basis of orig- inal documents and the irrefutable actions of fascism, but who knows only of the first half of the history of fascism, must shake his head with incredulity when he reads. the reports of the reestablishment of the temporal power of the Vatican by the Italian fascist government. Is not the pesent “dictator” of fascist Italy te same Mussolini who de- manded in the original program of the fascists “the expropriation of the property of the religious orders and the abolition of the episcopal benefices which are the privileges of the few?” Was it not Mussolini who agitated for years in the col- umns of the “Popolo d’Italia,” the central organ of the fascists, for the abolition of the privileges of the catholic church, for the separation of church and state, for the aboli- tion of the property rights of the religious orders? Was it not Mus- solini and the fascists who smashed the Popolari party (Catholic Peo- ple’s Party) which stood under the wing of the Vatican and the clergy and drove its leader, the priest Don Sturzo, out of the country? Was it not Mussolini and the fascists who dissolved the catholic trade unions which had no less than 1,200,- 000 members, who suppressed the 4,000 catholic cooperatives, who jof the agrarian interests. Howev: |the greatest hindrance to the un cation of Italy was the Vatican state from Bologna to Ravenna. The Pope allied himself with the ruling class of agrarians against the bourgeois ‘,| That is the significance of the great concessions which the fascist government has made in the name f which was at its greatest, stretc’sing|of industrial and finance capital to the agrarian and clerical interests. The concessions are intended to win allies in th ecountryside. This is the Organize Campaign ‘ Throughout Country | (Continued from Page One) which closed last night at the na- tional headquarters of the union, 16 |revolution, and it took decades of explanation of the apparently con-| West 21st St. | bloody fighting to break the military power of the allied reaction. The taking of Rome achieved the unification of Italy and the first;Chvrch, organization which ambraced} on conditions in the industry given great stage in the development of the Italian bourgeois revolution was concluded. The military and political victory of the revolution did not, ; howeve mean that the industrial bourgeoisie was the actual ruler of the country. For this its economic |basis was too narrow. First of all Italian industry was, and remained |for many decades, small and middle- scale industry and was able to de- velop only slowly in consequence of the lack of raw material and capital. |Large scale industry began to de- yelop seriously only at the turn of the new century. Secondly, the ter- ritorial basis of Italian industry was limited almost exclusively to north- ern Italy, whereas, the South,’ and |partly also the centre of Italy re- |mained, as has already been said, definitely agravian. The struggle be- tween the industrial bourgeoisie on the one hand and the agrarians al-| lied with the clericals on the other, continued in different forms and with great bitterness. This fact has stamped itself indelibly upon Italian destroyed the 3,000 catholic mutual | political life, and explains the fact aid societies in the villages and who that the whole of the Italian bour- dissolved all catholic youth organ-| geoisie and all its political parties, izations, declaring that the Italian| the conservatives and the liberals, tradictory policy of fascism towards the church. The political and trade union mass organizations of the pety-hourgeois and even proletarian masses, were smashed by the fas- cists just as the “red” anizations were destroyed. The obstinate priests iwho were the chief officials of these| organizations and who attempted to | |defend them against the fascists, not from any immediate material consi- }derations, but because the activity of the priests in these organizations | bound the “faithful” more strongiy to the church, were compellsd te Sieody just as were the workers, jewallow castor oil or were beaten though of course, the persecutions against the catholics were hardly comparable to the wave of exter-! jminating terror which swept down upon the workers. Catholic priests |were sent to the notorious deporta- tion islands and housed in barracks together with criminals, just as were the socialists, Communists and liber- al and democratic politicians. As compensation the fascist gov- ernment has offered the vatican and the catholic clergy the fulfilment of all their wishes upon the religious jfield. Of course, that is a concession jat all, for the interests of the cath- |olic church in Italy and the Italian | Attended by executive board mem- bers from all sections of the country, the meeting heard extensive reports | by Louis Hyman, president, and Ben |Gold, secretary-treasurer of the union. Reports on the industry in their respective sections were given by Joseph Boruchowitz, manager, New York Joint Board of the union; S. Hart of Philadelphia; S. Cohen, | Chicago; H. Koretz, Boston; A. Lev- | inson, Baltimore, and Ida Rothstein, | Newark. Destroyed 40-Hour Week. “The employers and their company | union,” says a statement issued by | the General Executive Board, “have | | succeeded in destroying the 40-hour | week, in introducing piece work and | slave driving speed-up methods, in| greatly reducing the wage standards | of 1926, and generally destroying the conditions won by the workers thru the left wing unions in the 1926 fur | and cloak strike. The condition of | the men’s tailors are even more de- |plorable. The terror and slavery | prevailing there have lead to the re- cent revolts of the tailors in New| |York, Philadelphia, Boston and | Rochester.” | Offensive Is Planned. | The G. E. B. adopted carefully | hworked out plans to check the em- | | fascism, in other words in the spirit} youth must not be educated in a religious spirit but in the spirit of of militarism and chauvinism? Did |not Mussolini and the fascists burn down dozens of rectories and demol- ish altars because priests refused to | make fascist propaganda from the |his blackshirts to beat up priests and even bishops on the open streets, some of them being killed outright, as for instance the Archdeacon Don Minzoni? Mussolini is still holding |a great number of catholic priests | and politicians on the terrible depor- tation islafits, for instance, the well- known theologian Bevilacqua, Caon Rolandi of Savona, Gori from Udine, | the Archdeacon Gaspero from Tar- cento, Concina from Pordenone, Co- lin from Spilimbergo, Moiano from Como, the 73-year-old Archdeacon Solizzo from Gemona, the priest Miani from Como, Galbiati from In- veruno, the catholic deputy Gavaz-| zoni from Bergamo, Merizzi from |Sondrio, Tupini from Rome and many, many others. Mussolini causes every sermon in every church, leven in lonely districts, to be con- |trolled by blackshirts and Carabi- nieri whose duty it is to make a) | written report concerning the tone| of such sermone to the fascist auth-| | orities. | The puzzled puzzled no longer, it is one and the same Mussolini, and the whole situ- ation which appears so contradictory and confused, is in reality not at all extraordinary. It can easily be un- derstood in relation to the history of the Italian bourgeoisie in the last century. | Since the 20th of September, 1870, |the Pope has been the voluntary “Prisoner of the Vatican.” On the 20th of September, 1870, the troops of the Italian bourgeoisie, entered Rome under the command of the | head to the House of Savoy and the | temporal power of the Papacy was | solemnly declared to be abolished for \all time. Historically considered, the troops which entered Rome were the troops of the North Italian bour- geoisie, In the first half of the | nineteenth century Italian industry commenced to develop in northezu |Italy whilst southern and even cen- pormised exemption from service in tral Italy to a certain extent, have the arniy to the “pilgrims.” Under | remained preponderatingly agrarian fascist law, a citizen must put two | districts down to the present day. years in the armed forces, and even | The numerous petty states in central if he emigrates to and becomes a/and southern Italy which existed in citizen of another country, he can the second half of the last century, be seized upon returning to Italy | were the bulwarks of the agrarian and forced to serve his term. The | interests. The rising class of bour- worker delegates expressed them-|geois industrialists, ete., demanded selves as strongly opposed to fas-|the unification of Italy, partly in cism, saying that the officials in|order to satisfy their immediate charge are breaking up the Sons o: | economic interests (each of the pet- Italy in their attempts to convert | ty states had and exercised the right it into a fascist organization. to impose customs, etc., and this | was very damaging to the develop- Build Up the United Front. of | ment of northern Italian industry the Working Class From the Bot- | and commerce) and partly in order| tom Up—at the Enterprises! | to smash these powerful bulwarks ’ the democrats and the radicals, were very definitely anti-clerical and re- | mained so up to the victory of fas- |cism, | The victory of fascism brought a decisive alteration in this situation. | Historically considered the victory of fascism in Italy represents more temporary and bloody sup- sion of the working class, it rep- nts the completion of the bour- geoiis revolution, a completion long {delayed and accomplished under {extraordinary circumstances, i. e., in |the period of the proletarian revolu- jtion. The victory of fascism repre- sented the unlimited dominance of \the Italian bourgeoisie, industrial and finance capital. The historical reactionary opponents of the bour- geoisie, the agrarians and their cler ical allies were finally defeated and the victorious bourgeoisie in position to make its old enemies far- reaching concessions without dangering its own victory. jother hand, the bourgeoisie is com- |pelled to make such concessions be- | cause the completion of its own rev- jolution falls in a period when the | working class and the peasants tend- |ing towards the workers, have them- selves put forward the question of power. The concessions are neces- sary in order to form a united front of the possessing, classes against the pr | Yr en- consider need be/ threatening danger of the proleta-|of the Riso \vian revolution, | fascist bourgeoisie are identical. In| ployers’ offensive and to mobilize { jits struggle against the working| the needle trades workers to meet class the fascist bourgeoisie cannot) the attacks of the employers and the and does not wish to abandon the| company unions in the trade. It also On the J old and effective opium of religion. The careful and wary vatican hesit. ated for a long time. The victory of the bourgeoisie did not seem cer- tain enough, further, the vatican was subjected to pressure from _be- low on thé part of the petty-bour-| geoiis and proletarian masses of the “faithful” which felt keenly the op- | Pression of the fascists, whereby the lower priests acted as the chan- nels along which this pressure was communicated to the higher priest- hood and the vatican. The first re- treat of the vatican in the face of fascism was greeted with a storm of indignation from the lower priest- hood. Even such a highly disciplined religious society as the Jesuits was, and still is, split into two parts with regard to fascism, one section being | nd the other pro-fascist. a well-known fact that the emely powerful Cardinal Gas- pari, the cardinal-secretary of the vatican, belongs to the anti-fascist tendency in the catholic church, However, the power of the victor,| edly permitted themselves to be har-| the that is in this case the victorious bourgeoisie, is and always has been irresistible for the church. The vic- torious fascist bourgeoisie has now trodden the rgimento ‘and permitied the resuscitation of | decided to broaden the Shop Chair- | men’s Council and give it more power and to organize a mass de- fense corps to meet the terror of the gangsters of the employers and the right wing. It was voted to levy a fifty cent tax on all members of the union for the defense of the Gastonia workers and conduct a campaign for their release in all needle trades shops. Three members of the G. E. B. were elected as delegates to the Cleveland conference. | | Phe working ¢lass canant simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield {t for ite own purpone....Thin ne Commune (Parix Commune) breaks the modern state power.—Marx. | ae the papal state, although within modest limits. The pope therefore no longer sees any reason without it since 1870. | In the interests of the Italian workers and peasants who misguid-! Lindbergh and a New Bomber of Workers Lindbergh, Wall Street's pet flyer, imperialist propagandist, in a new war plane which will bomb the workers in the coming imperialist war, Latin American Briefs By ALBERT MOREAU. What is the reason for the presence of an “unofficial” commission, headed by General Dawes in the Dominican Republic in the spring of the year? After the repeated American marine interventions and the successful establishment of Vasquez dictatorship and the loans ad vanced by Wall Street bank the Dominican Republic has faced a series of terrific financial crises since 1924 coming to a climax in 1929. It is necessary now to put the national budget of this colony on a sound basis. : It is interesting to note the composition of the commission. Besides General Dawes we have the president of the Radio Corporation of America, a vice-president of the Indiana Radio Corporation Company, several Chicago bankers. This commission, after a stay of 21 submitted to President Vasquez a 200-page report. The two saliant points in this report can be summarized as follows: (1) “It is the experience of the world that public utilities are more efficiently administered and more economically operated by pri- vate interests than government operation (emphasis mine.)” Followipg this report, we receive news that the Southern Cities Utili- ties System, an American concern, completed arrangements to buy and operate the electric system of Puerto Plata, a principal port of the republic. The water systems of Santiago, the second largest city of the republic and the San Pedro de Macoris electric system were acquired by the Dominican Company, another imperialist concern. (2) “To create a new Department of War and Marine.” President Vasquez has applied this part of the report—with Dawes’s consent— by giving it a more popular modern title: National Defense. What is the purpose of this? Simply that the American government is to keep and maintain the marine base and military forces in Santo Domingo at the expense of the workers and peasants of that colony. The growing social unrest resulting from the American-owned na- tional wealth is being worsened by the constant immigration of starv- ing peasants from Haiti, It takes the form of an antagonism between the Dominican Mestizos and the Black Haitians. Haitian workers whose standard of living has been very much reduced since the American occupation of Haiti, are “imported” in the Dominican Republic and forced to toil for lower wages and thus bring into submission the Dominican workers. In order to effectively carry on this policy, American imperialism instigates racial hatred and diverts the workers away from the class struggle. The burden of the national deficit and the enormous capital required to maintain a marine base is undoubtedly weighing upon all workers irrespective of their color, The reformist Cron: under the direct influence of Mr. Green helps the government to subdue the masses, making it a treason to strike against the deplorable conditions which are in existence. Following the same policy of the A. F. of L. the Black Haitian workers are kept out of the unions. In spite of this intense exploitation and oppression the revolu- tionary workers and peasants of Santo Domingo have formed a militant trade union center affiliated with the Latin-American Confederation of Labor, The program of this trade union center calls upon the black, mestizo and white workers to enter the ranks of this organization and wage a struggle against the common enemy: American imperialism. CONTINUE QUIZZ iter,Sies.atet OF SHOE WORKERS. Attended by More Than 2,000 Workers Here Zimmerman Jailed for Opposing Questions More than 2,000 workers attend- ed the third national field meet of the Labor Sports Union yesterday (Continued from Page One) fore Magistrate Earl Smith on a charge of interfering with an offi- at Flushing, L. I. Worker-athletes from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, cer in registering aliens he had his trial postponed until tomorrow. Massachusetts, and Jacques Buitenkant, representing the union and the International Labor all states east of Chicago participated in the meet. Running, jumping and all other field events were hotly participated in. A full report of the results will appear in tomorrow’s issue. ___Page Fhree x <= [BRAZIL WORKERS INSACCOMEET SCORE MURDER Enter Election Drive; Unrest on West Coast DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. | ige Sacco and Vanzetti f worl in front tre today was ho posted t but did not at- numbers tak- ting arund it, | tack, on account of {ing part in | The meeting | pices the Bra | America elves the m the aus- an section of Anti-Imperialist of All League. the ng lasted and the audience p ly and with cheers a r Eee the murder tt Spea! for two hours, d unanimous- ution con- 1 Massachu- s of these two workers, and jnouncing American perialism |which will not stop at any number of such murders, to prepare for an imperialist war to enslave Latin Am: de- Sines unced that the Party would place in the field in the coming elections a can- didate against Washington Luis, tg government party’s man, and the present incumbent in the presidency. a. LIMA, Peru, Aug. Govern- ment newspapers print an evidently inspired sto’ attempting to link up the growing anti-imperialist move- ment here, which recently resulted jin the arrest of 62 members of op- position parties, with “a Communist center in 9a or Mexico.” The article points out truthfully enough, that Communists are lead- ers in a series of strike movements, and anti-governmental uprisings ex- tending from the banana plantations of Colombia down the west coast to Chili, In all of these countries, the governments assume a steadily more and more subservient role to the big American business interests |that have established themselves in |mining, transportation, banking and fruit growing. Workers demands for better wages and working con- ditions are answered with troops and shootings. The underground Communist Parties grow rapidly. SHELVE TARIFF IF LOSERS QUARREL | WASHINGTON, Aug. Ac- tion on the tariff will be delayed another year should obstructionist tactics be used by those opposing the | new rates, it was threatened by high republican councils yesterday. Their spokesmen are anxious to |push ahead with Hoover “disarma- ment” measures to insure United |States preparation for the coming imperialist clash and to rush thru the Hoover enforcement plan for use largely against workers active in labor organizations. | The senate finance committee re- ceived protests on tariff changes from business groups operating m: y along the Canadian border. These groups resent revisions in the bill which increase from $100 to 200 the value of personal property brought into the United States tax free by Americans returning from other countries. Under this scheme Americans buyers have only to ‘board a street car or cross the ferry at many points to get goods cheaper in Canada and thus rob the mer- chants of a chance to swell their profits, 25. Defense, appeared as counsel. Visiting Many Factories. For the last few days Tammany Hall police and U. S. Department of Labor agents have been visiting shoe factories that have agreements with Independent Shoe Workers’ nessed before the chariot of the Union and demanding that the work- jclericals in the post war years, in|¢€rs, who are union members, an- | the interests of their class-conscious-|SWer questions as to where they jness and a recognition of their real, were born, when they entered the Try the Famous Jersey Maid most glorious traditions interests, the reconciliation between country and whether they are citi- into the dust the pope and the fascist bourgeoisie| zens. A special note on the ques- ‘must be welcomed! | ty Raymond Street Jail Prisoners Near Rebellion Against Brutality | The Raymond Street Prison, New York, where prisoners, unable to stand brutality, overcrowding and poor food, were on the verge of rebellion in the last few days. A huge guard was (" the prison, The official responsible for conditions in the prison is shown in inset, 1 cround tionnaire inquires as to whether the worker’s @hildren are members of the Young Pioneers or Young Work-! ers’ League. Advised Workers. When the Shoe Union was in- formed that the police and govern- ment agents were quizzing the work- ers of the Palter shop, Zimmerman was sent to advise the workers not to answer the questions, On Zimmerman’s arrival, he found six uniformed policemen going from bench to bench with the question- naires. Zimmerman then stated that it was within the workers’ rights to refuse to answer. The police seeing the effect this statement had on the workers, changed their tactics and left the work room and had the workers enter the employer's office in groups of four and five to be questioned. Zimmerman also en- tered the office and continued to warn the workers to refuse to an- swer the questions. Captain Brady threatened Zimmerman with vio- lence, stating that he would have him clubbed. When the union repre- sentative ignored the Tammany po- lice official, he bodily threw Zim- merman out of the office. The union representative then took a position outside of the office and started to again counsel the work- ers, The police then ordered his ar- rest on a charge of disorderly con- duct, which was changed to inter- fering with an officer, when he was| brought to the 20th St. Police Sta-| tion. 4 ! tions. Its workers JERSEY MAID Tel. Williamsburg 1590 Ice Cream Only Union-Made Ice Cream in the East ee Used Exclusively by Workers Cooperatives and at Workers Entertainments, HE JERSEY MADE ICE CREAM is made under the supervision of a famous Russian ice cream expert; with the best ingredients; under the most sanitary condi- are all UNION men. ICE CREAM CO. 777 KENT AVENUE BROOKLYN, N, Y.