The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1929, Page 3

‘§ i} Page Three Huge Intl Youth Day Demonstra MASS ARRESTS OF YOUTH IN SHANGHAL, CHINA Kuomintang Executes More Toilers MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 3— Great demonstrations are being held to Celebrate International Youth Day in all the cities and towns of the Soviet Unions. In Moscow over 200,000 young workers took part in a great demon- stration, including thousands of armed and uniformed young work- ers, who voiced their determination to defend the Soviet Union from imperialist attacks. The demonstrations were partici- pated in by young workers, peas- ints, Red Army soldiers, Red sea- men and students. The demonstrators called on the working youth of all nations to par- ticipate in demonstrations for Inter- national Youth Day. Huge demon- strations are being planned for this Friday in Berlin, Paris, Prague, Lon- don, and other European capitals. Arrests of young workers by the scores have taken place, in an at- tempt by the imperialist govern- | ments to stamp out the Youth Day | demonstrations in advance. ney Waa SHANGHAI, Sept. 3—Mass ar- rests, both in the city of Shanghai and in the International Settlement are being made in an effort to stamp out the International Youth Day demonstration planned fov Fri- day. The imperialist officials in the settlement work hand in hand with the Kuomintang, by arresting and handing over the militant Chinese young workers found in the settle- ment. Five young workers were summarily executed by the Kuom- intang last Saturday, and several more since. Despite the terror, the working youth are proceeding with their pians to make the Youth Day demonstration one of the largest workers’ demonstrations yet seen in Shanghai. The demonstration will be turned into a showing of solidarity with the Soviet Union workers. BRITAIN, U. S., IN ‘UNDERSTANDING Told by MacDonald; His Gov’t Builds Ships GENEVA, Sept. 8—Both en- meshed in a race for world hege- mony, Great Britain and the United States have nevertheless reached an agreement on 17 of the 20 points raised during the Dawes-MacDon- ald conversations, Labor Premier MacDonald told the League of Na- tional Nations today. The expected “understanding,” naturally, does not alter the decay- ing British Empire's hunger for light eruisers to police her rebel- lious territory or the United States’ determination to proceed with the building of heavy battleships to guard her more geographically com- pact sphere of conquest. Yet the truce can be used as a powerful force against rivals in Eu- | rope, who are building far too many submarines to suit the leading im- perialist powers. What the “pact” will actually : acl mean was obviously sensed by Eu-| ropean delegates, whose fears were not allayed by MacDonald’s~ over- anxiety to assure them the new caucus would not be used against them, “Anglo-American negotia- tions are in no -ay a conspiracy against other nations,” he said. His significant silence on the Snowden stand at the Hague was understood by the French to mean the rupture of the boasted entente cordiale while at the same time he threw down the gaunlet to Italy. Yearns for Peace. “In the eyes of the whole world, the nations have lifted up their hands and taken a solemn oath that so far as they are concerned, the ought of war and preparation for war No longer entered their national se,” MacDonald declared ora- torically. Virtually as he delivered similar “peace” phrases, the admiralty de- partment of the British government had leads issued authorized con- struction of two slooops of the 1929 program. Normally, the building of the sloops would have begun next year. The government, taking the customary view that ships are more powerful arguments than diplomatic phrases, seeks to hide the real rea- son for the rushed building by elaiming “the unemployment situa- tion” to be responsible. Cie oer | WARSAW, Sept. 3. — France strengthened her European alliances against Britain and her possible aide, the U. S. A., when her rep- resentatives reaffirmed the Polish alliance, 5 DROWN IN ROWBOAT WAUKEGAN, IIL, Sept. 3—Five young men in an overloaded row- boat, drowned yesterday when their , craft shipped water and sank. None of the five could swim. It was five hours later that the first body was extricaled from the sticky mud and iad to shore, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 tions in Soviet Union; 200,00 Photo shows a boatload of Jewish workers arriving in Palestin Arriving to Be Enslaved by ‘Anglo-Jewish Capitalists : e (port of Haifa), fooled by the Zionist tools of imperialism and unknowing of the fate that awaits them—to be forced to slave for the Anglo-Jewish capitalists under slave conditions. These are the workers who will consolidate with the Arab workers in a mutual fight to exterminate the imperialists who enslave them. (Continued) Preparing Strike Action. “The general strike is an extreme- ly powerful weapon, which the trade union from using,” states correctly the Trade Union Resolution of the All- India Workers’ and Peasants’ Party Conference of last year. However, in the propaganda for and prepara- tion of the general strike the left wing should formulate clear-cut de- mands and thoroughly explain to the masses that the general strike is a political strike— a revolutionary mass struggle. The leadership of the general strike must be entirely in the hands of the militant work- ers and the left wing, and no re- formist leaders (from Joshi to J. Nehru) should be admitted in the leadership of the strike. The central as well as the local strike committees must not attract jbut rather eject all vacillating ele- ments from their ranks, The strike leadership should not lose initiative position. The strike committees and the striking masses must not accept or believe the empty promises |of the British imperialist govern- }ment or its agents. Finally, in con- nection with the general strike prop- aganda and preparations the left wing must remind and explain to jthe masses the treackorous actions and role of the British reformists, the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress in the gen- eral strike of England, 1926. The practice of electing large strike committees by the striking workers and their active participa- tion in the conduct of the strikes as, for example, is being done by the Girni Kamgar, should be further en- couraged, and large strike support committees of non-striking workers organized. The strike support com- mittees should not limit themselves movement must not shrink| and should not drift into defensive | ion unity and industrial unionism the left wing should emphasize that the unification should be based strictly upon working class bas: and fight against reformism. The recent amalgamation of the Jute Workers’ Union of Bauria and the Jute Workers’ Union of Bengal, as well as the amalgamation of the two competing or parallel unions on the Great India Railway, is highly commendable in deed. Special at- tention should be paid without fail | to the transport workers. It is par- ticularly necessary to make timely | preparations for the maturing rail- |way workers’ strike. It must be |brought clearly before the masses |that while at the present time the capitalists have centered the atack ‘upon the textile workers, that, sub- sequently, the onslaught will be made upon the transport workers. Workers’ Democracy. The old bureaucratic system of ap- pointing functionaries, delegates, and other officials in the trade un- ions, should be done away with and | Substituted by workers’ democracy |—a systm of election from and by |the rank and file. It is of para- mount importance that the bour- geois intellectuals and politicians, occupying leading positions in the trade unions should be thrown over- board and in their stead militant workers elected. In addition to that the center of gravity of the trade unions should be transferred to the factories, that the so-called resi- dential branches of the trade un- ions (branches organized where the workers live but not where they work) should be reorganized upon |shop and factory basis, and inter- | woven with the factory committees and shop delegate conferences. Tasks of the Left Wing in India jests of the United Kingdom or Bri- tish impericlism, ruthlessly perse- cuting and aiming to destroy the revolutionary independence . move- ment of India. The so-called Labor government will trarple upon the sentiments and rights of the colo- nial peoples. It will, likewise, crush strikes as well as smash left wing trade unions, etc. | At the same time the fight against participation in the “Asiatic Labor Conference” is one of the left wing’s immediate tasks. Simultaneously the popularization of the program jand aims of the R. I. L. U. (Red ‘International of Labor Unions) and |the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec- retariat should be the order of the day, and immediate affiliation to |the R. I. L. U. and the P. P. T. U. S. fought more energetically than ever before, An educational campaign based upon the decisions of the Fourth Congress of the R. I. L. U. should be launched, the leading cadres of |the left wing increased and elevated lideologically. We shcald stress the lnecessity for the establishing of workers’ s *-ols, a left wing press, ‘and the rublication of pamphlets, written |workers. In a word, a systematic and energetic training of workers |for leadership is extremely essential. | It goes without saying that the left wing cannot co-ordinate its ac- |tivities and expand without having |a consolidated organization and an |authoritative center, Hence, the |pressing need for an all-embracing |left trade union conference. It is \imperative, therefore, that the Girni |Kamgar Union Exccutive should un- dertake to call a preliminary con- ference composed of representatives However, the organization of new |of the largest left wing trade un- |unions, etc., does not exclude, but | ions to work out a plan for an all- rather calls for more intensified| embracing left wing trade union only to the collection of funds, but, Propaganda and organizational ac- also it must make wide propaganda, | tivities of the left wing within the arrange meetings and mass demon-| reformist trade unions. The left strations for the support and en- | Wingers must formulate strike and couragement of the strikers, etc, | other demands for the rank and file The strike commitee as well as the|and foster the fight for workers’ strike support committees should|democracy within the reformist strive for contact with the peasants | trade unions. The left wing should, |in order to obtain food supplies as|above all, win over the masses. Nor |well as to draw the peasants into/does this mean that the left wing |the revolutionary struggle. |should give up the fight within the The defense groups already form-| All-India Trade Union Congress. On |ed should be extended. Care against|the contrary, our comrades should \conference, namely, a conference embracing the reperesentatives of all the left wing trade unions, mi- |norities and factory committees and shop delegates. It is advisable that the all-embracing left wing trade |union conference should be preceded |by conferences locally and industri- ally. EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF TYE R. I. L. U. Moscow, June 12, 1929. (The End.) | the selections of the guards. Organize the Unorganized. No effort should be spared in or- ganizing the unorgenized, especially in the key industrie: Steps should be taken to orga:’ the young workers, and the women workers in the trade unions on an equal footing with adult and male work- ers. on the importance of organizing trade unions for agricultural labor- ers and plantation workers. The organization of factory com- mittees and shop-delegate confer- ences should be stressed more de- terminedly than hitherto. The fac- tory committees and the shop dele- gate conferences should be co-ordi- nated and united under centralized leadership. The left wing control of the factory committees and shop delegate conferences will accelerate the development of the every-day struggles as well as the struggles of a political nature. It will also create a broad and favorable basis for the growth of the left wing trade unions. The already existin; left wing trade unions, like the Girni Kamgar Union, though having developed from an organization of 500 to 65,- 000 within a short space of time should nevertheless be futher ex- panded and consolidated organiza- tionally and ideologically. A drive for increased membership of all left wing trade unions should be carried on systematically and ener. getically. The left wing, particula ly during strikes and other mass ac- tivities, should strive strenuously to crystallize its influence into definite organization. New unions should be set up where none exist, or where it is im- possible to use the old unions be- cause of complete reactionary con- trol, It is also important that in all industrial towns Trade Councils should be established. At the same time the amalgamation of scattered or parallel trade unions into indus- trial unions under militant leader- ship must be pressed forward. How- ever, in the campaign for trade un- | provocateurs should be exercised in| make timely preparations for the No less stress should be laid| coming Annual Congress and should | take up a much sterner attitude to-| Hoelz, German Leader wards the social-reformists (M. Jo- of Workers. Welcomed shi, Bakhale & Co.) and national-| ~~ b4 7 By Leningrad Workers | ist-reformists (J. Nehru, Bose, Cha-| |man, Lal, ete.), than was the case | | at the Annual Congress last year. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Ger- | Without delay the left wing} man revolutionary Max Hoelz has | should launch a systematic and per- | arrived in Leningrad where he was sistent ideological campaign against welcomed by a delegation of the |social-reformism. The treacherous | Leningrad workers. In his speech |character of social-reformism must | at the docks Hoelz declared that he |be exposed at every turn and occa-|had come to the Soviet Union at Vaion: Not less persistently and the invitation of the workers of the |sharply the left wing should criti-| factory which bore his name. In the lcize the nationalist-reformists, like evening a great meeting took place |J. Nehru, Bose, etc. as the expo-/in the “Max Hoelz” factory. nents of the interests of the nation- Ak te ea alist bourgeoisie within the labor) | movement, as absolutely unfit and | unreliable elemen’s to lead the la- Czech Govt. Suppresses ed Ja-|Press of the Workers bor movemert. In \.is camy=sn| | we must not limit ourselves just | PRAGUE, (By Mail).—One of the |to ideological criticism, but must sew papers of the Communist Party also expose the reformist leaders of Czecho-Slovakia which had not before the 1.asses by concrete facts. peen forbidden yet, the ‘Svoboda” | The united front proposals by the (Freedom) of Kladno has been jleft wing should be always directed | warned by the district court of Klad- |to the rank and file of the reform-/no that if it continues’ to offend jist unions, in order to build up @lagainst the “Defence of the Re- |solid united front from the bottom. | publis Act” it would be prohibited. | Upon such a u:.od front basis @ This action of the court is based on |nation-wide campaign sainst class | the fact that issues of the “Svoboda” | collaboration, the’ “Trades Disputes |have been already seized four times | Bill,” the “Public Safety Bill,” as | at different times and places. |well as against the Whitley Com-| The campaign of extermination |mission, and against the mass ar-| waged by the Czech bourgeoisie jrests must b> immediately intensi-| against the revolutionary working fied. |class movement is growing more in- Expose Reformists. |tense from day to da | The campaign against class col- |aboration and reformism should be linterlocked with a sharp attack against the Ramsay MacDonald government, against th: General FEARS POLICE, KILLS SELF. HEWLETT, L. L, Sept. 3.—-Fear of the possible consequences of a police summons for driving an auto with- Congress, the Amsterdam Interna- tional, the Geneva “Labor Office,” jand the “Asiatic Labor Conference” ‘scheme. It is of paramount impor- |tance to persuade the working | masses and peasants of India that | no illusions should be entertained in |regard to the MacDonald cabinet. | Ramsay MacDonald & Co. will at all ‘iimes serve and preserve the inter- Council of the British Trade Union | out a license is thought to have caused Henry Weiland, 17, of 223 Gilbert Street, Inwood, to commit suicide here last night. The boy was found dead from gas in the home ‘of Edward J. Durr of 280 Old Mill Road, Hewlett, which he had been watching while the Durr | family were out. | The summons was issued yester- day. specially for the Indian} jof the great conference scheduled | | | INDUSTRY AT THE: CLEVELAND MEET Arrange and Report on Organization Drives | (Continued from Page One) travelled all the way from San Fran- cisco, California, to speak for the hundred odd agricultural workers that have been driven by capitalist exploitation into a union, and eager | to discuss the problems of the agri- | cultural workers with farmer: from other sections of the country. Miller exposed the Hoover “Farm Relief” program, pointing out that the farmer, provided he had enough money to get the support of the trusts (Hoover calls them “coopera- tives”) in the first place, would merely be selling himself to the bankers. “The proletarian farmer is like | any other proletarian, He sells his | labor. The only way he can better his condition is to organize and fight.” Miller pointed out that the agricultural worker has no protec- tion whatsoever if the boss held back his wages or refused to pay him. He rehearsed the well - known story of the trek from the farm to the factory—from the factory to the scrap heap. The farm workers would crganize and fight—that was why they were here—but in their fight they must have the support | of the industrial workers — “The | agricuitural proletariat and the in- dustrial proletariat must stand side | by side,” said Miller. Loggers’ Voice. From far off Aberdeen, Washing- ton, came representatives of the} lumber workers. Delegate Pitkin, the loggers reporter, said they were | here “for two purposes; to get help, and to give help.” He told of the low wages—$2.75 to $3.25 per day in the saw mills and the lumber camps, of the filthy bunk houses in which the loggers had to live, of the speed-up ,and the blacklist that awaited all workers who have not for their main object in life the ac- cumulation of money for the bosses. “Many of the loggers of the north- west have had to change their names so many times they couldn’t tell you their right name if you asked them.” He demanded a strong industrial union, and told how one strike in Aberdeen was successful only a few months ago. A foundation for the new union was there, he said. All the loggers wanted was help and guidance. The men are ready for struggle.” In the last months there have been two spontaneous strikes in the saw-mills of Aberdeen.” All Speed-Up Worse. An interesting commentary on the extension of the speed-up and on rationalization in American indus- try was had in the fact that almost every reporter claimed that the speed-up and rationalization was worse in his industry than in any other. | | Murdoch on the South. Southern Organizer Bill Murdoch of the National Textile Workers Union told of the conferences held in the South the past weeks, and for Charlotte on October 12 and 13. He told of the enthusiasm with which the Southern workers hailed the new left wing union. And then, “This convention won’t have done its job unless it send representatives of all unions into the South.” One hundred and four hours a week is the lot of some of the Southern tex- tile workers, Murdoch said. “The | workers of th2 South are in revolt, ready to join our union. It don’t matter a damn to the workers in the South if the leader is a Bolshevik.” Murdoch made definite sugges- tions and proposals: “We must guard against bureaucracy—and it can creep out in our union as well as in any other, Hew to the line of the R. I. L. U. and let the chips fall where they may... . More con- fidence in the workers. Develop the young workers. Get the leaders in the rank and file. To the textile organizers must be added organizers from all the other industries—from the mines, from steel, from trans- port, to fight alongside of the tex- tile organizers . They won’t detract, they will add. They will make it possible for us to ‘mobilize the work- ers of the entire south, to break open the Gastonia prison doors.” Miners Turn South. Pat Toohey of the.miners an- swered Murdoch. The big slogan raised by the miners was, “On into the South.” Rank and file squads were to be organized, to go into Kentucky, Tennessee, West Va., and the other coal fields of the South. Toohey told the tale of rational- ization in his industry, how Indiana in 1928 produced more coal with an average of sixteen thousand miners employed than it had in 1927 with twenty-five thousand. It was the same story in all the fields, he told the convention, Homes were being boarded up. No place to live, no place to work, nothing to eat. To meet the situation the Miners’ Con- ference had elected a committee on rationalization and unemployment— to carefully study and analyze the situation and then decide how best to meet the bosses’ offensive. Very important was the point that the coal miners had definitely decided to amalgamate with the metal miners, and later on in the day a metal | ers Day. miner was elected to the executtve Photo shows highest ranking Japanese naval officers, who are counted on by imperialist powers as important cogs in plan to attack the Soviet Union. committee of the National Union. Miners All Races in Metal. Andrew Overgard reported for the metal industries. His conference had been a large one, with Chinese steel workers from the coast, colored steel workers from Indiana and Pennsyl- yania, women workers from West Virginia, Chicago, Cleveland and the Ohio Valley, and almost every big steel corporation in the country rep- resented. A National Metal Trades Committee had been elected, and from it a National Executive Bureau chosen. The bureau, meeting as often as jossible, was to assist in the setting up and supervising of district metal trades groups which in turn were to be responsible for the development of shop committees in the strategic plants (by coloniza- tion, if necessary), and the getting out of the shop bulletins. He stressed the importance of making concrete demands as the best way to | interest the rank and file of the workers in the shop committee and draw them into the T. U. U. L., a national conference to be called within four to six months. George Mink of the marine work- ers reported on the progress toward the new industrial union. A dele- gate was at the convention, he sai who had been elected in the stoke- hole of the labor-hating Dollar Line when off the coast of China. Shoe Workers. Fred Biedenknap told of the prog- ress of the Independent Shoe Work- ers Union. Five thousand seven hundred workers and 48 organized shops is the record of that union to date. Auto Conference Soon. Phil Raymond of the auto work- ers went over with a bang. Tisher body strikes, Ford strike, Chevrolet, Pontiac—all these showed the grow- ing militancy of the auto workers. He announced a national confercnce of the auto workers to be heid in Detroit February 1, 1930. John Ottis reported on electrical manufacturing. , Adams reported on printing, with a program for the amalgamation of all the printing trades unions. M. Rosen of the building trades appeared with a program for the amalgamation of the 22 building trades and structural workers’ union. Police Fail to Halt Big Czech Communist Anti-Reformist Meet PRAGUE, (By Mail).—Despite police prohibition, a counter-demon- stration of the revolutionary work- ers took place in I’arlsbad against the social democratic Reichs Work- A large force of police at- tempted to break up the demonstra- tion with the usual brutal means. Despite all the efforts of the police a procession of 1,500 workers carry- ing red flags marched through the streets. Even with reinforcements police were unable to break up the demonstration in consequence of the determined attitude of the workers. The demonstration dispersed of its own accord. In the afternoon a tre- mendous workers mass meeting took place in the Park Hall. The demon- stration of the social democrats was much less impressive and the at- tendance was much poorer. 28 SEAMEN DIE IN ISLAND TYPHOON 0 March in Moscow HEIMWEHR IN” - AUSTRIA PLANS ~ AN ARMED COUP Mild Opposition From Social Democrats While the so- ls proved the defenders of the fascisti, the work- ers of Vienna yesterday fought furi- ously against the provocations of the Meimwehr, hich, through its armed demonstrations, is planning a coup to seize the government. Collisions occurred between the workers and the fascisti ye after a Heimwehr mee ten. The intereference of the social democratic misleaders and city offi- cials prevented the workers from storming the quarters of the fas- cists The daily armed demonstrations of the Heimwehr in Vienna, together with the luke-warm opposition of- fered them by the social democratic leaders, leads to the conclusion that the coming attempt by the Heim- wehr to seize the government may Ships, Crops, Homes | te participated in by some social - rey democratic leaders at least. Ground to Bits Chancellor Seipel, the clerical MANILA, P. I., Sept. 3—Twen- | fascist, y sterday stated that the ty-eight eeencn were ipelieend to Heimwehr will serve an important have perished when the vortex of| Place in “restoring Austria to its a typhoon struck the little inter. £°Pmer power,” and similar state- island steamer Mayon, which was ments and propaganda is flooding rushing under forced draf: io the the country. comparative safety of Regay Guli ee in Caramines Sur province, and Czech Workers Errect ground the freighter to bits. Only |nine members of the crew of 37 were rescued. The typhoon, which filled the air with an ominous voar and the skies a greenish yellow, swirled up from the South Seas witn ed today and struck’ tke with devasiatirg force. After doing untold damage te snail shipping and docks along the coast, the storm rushed inland and pre- cipitated its thunderous torrents over the countryside to obliterate crops and houses on the island of Cebu, the province of Rizal and other parts of the islands. | Electric power lines were snapped like threads. Government offices and schools were closed, several plants were idle and shipping was tied up; so completely shattered were all wire lines that only the meagrest reports of the damage were available at a late hour today, although it is known that the work- lers and peasants bore the brunt of the suffering. | Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! | turned | Barricade in Boronova and Battle Clericals PRAGUE (By Mail).—The Boron- ova local branch of the Communist -! Party of Czecho-Slovakia organized a meeting. Adherents of the cleri- eal party attempted to disturb the celebration. A clash ensued in which the police interfered taking the part of the clericals against the Communists who had been attacked 'by the latter. The workers, well re- |membering the happenings in Boron- ova in the fall of 1928 defended themselves against the police even to the length of using firearms, The police returned the fire. Bourgeois papers report that about fifty work- ers erected a barricade and success- fully resisted the police. Only when considerable police reinforce- ments arrived from Huse did the defenders abandon the barricade. Our own age, the bourgeois age, im dintinguished by this—that it | has simplificd class antagonisms. 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