The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1929, Page 3

fe (CAN CITIES A BATTLEFIELD YANKEE AMBASSADOR MORROW PUTS OVER RUBIO AS PRESIDENT "2". Rubio Mouthpiece States Worker-Peasant Bloc |aitsrict. A delegate conference of Page Three 7 —— SHOPS Py the 5! As a Miner Sees the Lewis- Fishwick Scrap tor Cash DAILY WORKER. 'W YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929 _ Polish Miners Get Ready for Strike | WARSAW (By Mail)—The situ- ‘ation in the Polish coal mining dis- | trict is becoming strained. ! BRITISH TROOPS — ‘MUTINY EXPOSED IN PARLIAMENT ME Wiz $23 for 57 Hours of Terrific Speed-up in Chrysler Auto Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) A min- ers’ delegate has rejected the pro- |posed 4 per cent wage increase for 3 per Sent to Prison Admits M. Active Than V list beanie ene e “Labor” Minist (By « Worker Correspondent) headlines both in black and red. | DETROIT (by Mail). —At the ore Active Than Vasconcelists jthe left-wing opposition called for abor” Minister SPRINGETELD, TIL_The latest |Oseat Ameringer, the pie-card artist, |Chrysler Jefferson plant we are - sat ntti ‘ SPRINGFIELD, — St) aditor of the Illinois Mine ses all] |compelled to work long hours. Last ee eee: iene LONDON, Nov. 18.—The “labor” bomb-shell hurled by the Lewis PA aenLe Rehan é and Has de week, after working 57 hours in the A Score Dead as Veil of “Democracy” is Ripped jected by the union 5 eiuede of Macbodaid. wi machine at the Fishwick machine | 71.04 some new talents. Oscar piston department, I received $28 in i eet f IS Mase “crcentiaurva Weed inadesin ocean teallever a amuill eueh Oe of the U. M. W. A. is that the latter ot Gniy writes but also sings, He |Pay. The speed-up in our depart- by Bayonets All Over Mexico | Katowicze, Dombtovo, Bendsin, Sos- | imperialist nakedness by the admis- ake ney aan of union funds calls it speaking, but it is more ment is terrific. |novieze and other places in the coal like singing than speaking. _Last year the company paid a fifty per cent. bonus. This year it sion, foreed upon it, that it had sen- | Both sides claim the support of Lewis clai he has the checks to tenced two soldiers of the Scotch PLA, ang Bek | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18.—Wall Street’s choice for president won prove t | mining district with a view to pre- | in Mexico yesterday, while a condition of martial law prevailed and | venting a strike. Highlanders to penal servitude for : schcta gq Tank and file coal miners, while | pays none at all. One night we have | infantry guarded the U. S. embassy, from where the election campaign | peice eer inating, Yet it still conceals the de- The latest move by Fishwick to |{he miners are burning the local | to work till nine o'clock and then for Ortiz Rubio had been directed. ‘Twenty were killed in this Yankee (Garfy Magcists in ialli® of ce event. | overthrow Lewis is the proposal to charters and rejecting both ma-|the following morning we have to : “invasion” of Morgan’s best diplomat. | A member of MacDonald’s own | call a eonference in Springfield of | chines. If not for the check-off | wait a few hours before we get any- | representatives chasen from all dis- « | tricts and to form a “national coun- cil” to act as the international executive in place of the Lewis ma- chine. Fishwick assures financing thing to do. If you make any com- plaints, you are immediately threat- ith being fired. e got one way of stopping se conditions—by organizing into a strong Auto Workers Union for in auto and body plants. —CHRYSLER WORKER system at this time, both machines would have been long ago in the junk pile. | The National Miners Union is | busy organizing the new locals, get- | mint e eonterence, ting members for those already ot- | | The fight is bitter. Both sides | ganized, and putting all its efforts are collecting all that can be used |to save the miners from destruction for this purpose. Both sides prom- | by the two wrecking machines. ise r after the victory. Fr Farrington, servant of Peabod | pasate sens nk} “It is evident that unless miners | Coal! will throw off both pureaucratic TRY 3) FATTLE Co., is back in the union—Fishwick | machines, the old organization will | New Murder Orgy ZAGREB (By Mail)—The follow- ing new murders committeed by the Serbian police in Macedonia have ‘become known recently: Spas Zlata- | nov from Dabrovo; Christo Dogo- |zanov from Zelnik, 70 years old, |murdered upon the street and left lying, passers-by found him eaten ‘away and mutilated; Gregor Simov party in the House of Commons, learning in some way that the sol- |diers had been sentenced, asked why. Tom Shaw, the “labor” minister of ‘war, announced that it was for mu- tiny “of forces belonging to His Majestiy’s forces garrisoned in the West Indies. This announcement stounded the gentlemen (and ladies) of British imperialism, for never, or at least While the fake fight between Rubio and the so-called “National | Reyolutionary Party” (U. S. imperialism is not afraid of names when | it can use them for its own purposes) and Vasconcelos of the “Anti- Re-eleetion Party” turned into a real clash in some quarters where the Vasconcelosites ressited the seizure by armed followers of Rubio of ; f per cent of polling places throughout the nation, the Vasconcelosists m whole collapsed before the onslaught of Rubistas who wére armed vy the government of Portes Gil and backed up with a tremendous ‘array of milita Only real ivity against the choice of Yankee imperialism was by the Worker and Peasant Bloc, with its candidate, Triana, the lead- ing organ of the Rubio followers, “El Nacional” admitting that the |from Grlyano; Petko Ikovky from hardly ever, have British troops Rie BELed. Saeiesle Wilh thé aul abate | Worker and Peasant Bloc, which had the support of the Communists | llyliovo; Laza Mitzov from Venitza; | mutinied in time of “peace,” but « iN STATEME NT PE EEE ORERTRIAG GEENA thee oe ry eee ade “showed more activity than did the Vasconcelists.” Rubio followers |Mone Dratchov, also from Venitza; | that there was a mutiny in the “de- iY Aeidetetacs POOR ree os [ines the. ater ierer ores 120) WORKERS NOV 5 were scornful of Vasconcesist “opposition,” citing that at Can Luis | Stoyan Todoroff, also from Venitza, | pendable” Scotch Highlanders was 2 ee ee she Nee La \ 1 Potosi they “shamefully hid within the churches.” | and two gardeners from Stip, whose |an added factor that took their Watt N Micreden cal The Illinois Miner flares up big ae =| Cavalry patrols swept through the streets throughout. the capital | Dames are being held secret. at ever esitated | ——— re aah iz “api it, thus playing into the| of the National Min: ers’ Union, and is joining forces | hands of the bosses and fakers. | with other discredited elements to) “Watt has established a personal | fight the N. M. U. office in Hlinois, ‘appointing’ organ- all day, with rifles slung ready. Military bombing planes circled above. | Been ene Infantry detatchments were stationed at most street crossings. Trucks | packed with troops and bristling with bayonets moved through the j \ | Hint at Deportation | breath. | | Proceedings ENGLAND GETS to Defy Union Rules (Continued from Page One) failed. In no part of the republic have genuine elections been held. | the coal operators. This the N. M, there is no appointive power in our | meeting after Mayor of Seattle had streets. Near the polling places, which had been seized by Rubistas jets clans eallmbotation, ft will : ae : || » jects ass ‘ation. “We ates 2 oy- izers fr e district to another *nepiei in the day, and from which Vasconcelists were barred, were vigorously expoxe wrong policies, ea ne ‘he ge saithout the Laowledbe oF concent of |, (Continued from Page One) soldiers stationed to see that Rubio won. Y misleadership, and sharply uproot aa babiega les ia ie oe those districts, despite the fact that | ‘ffic” was made against the 92, Vasconcelos’ party leader issued a statement ‘that “Democracy has | i a Bubeaderatie tendenete The 2nd that we should not fight agains , The police broke up the workers For Mexicans, Vasconcelos is their president,” the latter phrase imply- ing a claim that may become a civil Py war. | % * Oppression Smashing Racial Barriers | preamble of our constitution speaks of very clearly as to the character Antagonism of U. cee she N. A oii aae Great Britain Grows | ur organization shall ever re~ U. cannot accept, Such beliefs are | Union. He is circularizing the locals well known that the asking that all per capita tax be sent are the chief enemy to his ‘home’ office, to ‘support’ his family, although he is the highest wrong. It is coal operator: to be fought if we hope to oust the |telephoned a police captain that | “there are some agitators there and |I fear that they may cause trouble }for the Armistice parade.” In New York the Vasconcelists have issued a leaflet entitled “Civil | fain tealy Glaes conscious. | THE 4 anak . y apnaeee. | ; ‘ } ; ; y_ class conscious. ; aie cna ve paid of all the N, M. U. officers, ‘ ; 3 War?” which asks, “If he is officially defeated will the people respect | 3 eo | National. Miners’ Union categori. | L¢Wis-Fishwick machine who are /PWC ft tie oe artying out |.» Suga of Police was sent to at ‘ i Continued Page One) hes Bo the agents of the operators. Our |¢ven though he was not carrying out) tack wofkers, and acted with uusal paper ballots? Shall the people be denied the right to change their | (Com ned Mie Page One), | BUENOS AIKHS, Nov. 18.—Fur-| cally rejects the policy of class col- | tte agents of the Operators. Owr) it at."2H this tine, {ace pro paeray art acted wate tae governnient by the only means in their power, all others failing?” which, though involving only firing the réceht teciprocal trade | ieteration atid Will pursue a policy |TeNt 1s Against the operators and) Micro Tea ToL, Lewis and [2 gia aking SOVIET SCIENCE TRY TO EVICT WORKERS. (Continued from Page One) hour day and reject the proposal of employees, the whole force in the mill, indicates that neither the south- ern workers nor the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union is succumbing |to the attack of the bosses, and that the following statement on this let- on the contrary, the workers are} been a tendency to exaggerate the agreement between Argentina and British imperialism, directed against United States capitalism, Great Britain has concluded a preferential ta arrangement with Argentina, aimed to facilitate British textile of militant struggle to obtain its The history of the coal miners, as well as the workers of the country, that of incessant struggle between these two classes —the class struggle. Upon the objects. is | wool. the fakers at the same time. tie ratots dk a “ARHERad? fight cannot be separated from the | the operators in an “Anti-Red’ cam- Joh aig emanding the exclusion , Our U cannot agree | Paign by demanding the exe 1 ort Watt proposes that we feep (of all so-called Reds from the N. M. our members inside the U. M. W. A. Mis ance elie Mb groranie unin and make futile efforts to capture | 87@, Strengthen our’ enenvies. M. U. is a union for the miners the N. M. U, would propose such @ Watt ahd preferred charges against meeting up. The workers formed and re- formed their ranks while the police attacked them, singign revolution- ary songs and waving red banner One of those arrested, a 17-year- | ter: |roused to more militant action by | can the U .M. W. U. locals ,to coni- es old girl, has been turned over to § BIG BLOW “ i | E eres ‘ r : recognition of this principle the) iin, (of all creeds, colors, political be-|the Juvenile Delinquent Society by i “The statement issued by the |the unemployment and speed-up tac-) ‘The preferential tariff applies to National Minerss’ Union is organ: | Drmise, ete. instead of breaking iets” who stand on the platform of | the police “ me Highland Park Mill No. 1, supposedly | tics of the employers. : British rayon, artificial silk yarns, °°)"; with the Lewis machine and swing- ty6 bass struggle. - 3 ne signed by the employed, stating that | Negroes, Whites, Unite. land textiles, as well as products of | “°° aa ing 100 per cent to the National | ‘“qyo ss stlevitie. Ci The statement by police officials the workers are satisfied with the 10|, Dunne pointed out that there has| sized artificial silk with cotton ot Rank ard File Controlled | ariners? Union. Only an enemy of J ti8 is why the Belleville Con-| that they were “invevstigating the a 'S are i | mixed artificial silk with cotton or “This can be the only guarantee & e . : vention unanimously condemned citizenship” of those arrested in- the N. T. W. U. calling for an 8 |difficulties caused by race prejudice. [wool. | fe eis that our Union will ever remain an This gives British textile interests i strument of the rank and file and poli him before the National Executive dicates that attempts may be made New Kind of Grain to |hovr day, is nothing more than a/He showed that so far there has | decided advantage over the Amer- eae ee eas the U. M. W. A. No Dealings With Fake isan: to deport some of the workers. manufactured piece of propaganda | been no single case of Tace war, Par- ican textile industry, which hereto- did ander the leadership of the - Progressives ae ; “We must uproot all traces of Artest Los Angeles Workers’ Treble the Crop coming from the office of the com- ticipated in hy workers, in spite of fore occupied a leading position in| did under, tie Wwacersiin tt | “The National Miners’ Union will powis-ism, build a fighting, rank aeen « pany. The overseers: Keeler of the the most strenuous efforts of the the Argentine market. ne SETS Ae EI Sh-| not allow Watt to use the name of MOSCOW, Nov. 18.—A_revolu- ionary scientific discovery is noted | a the Leningrad “Red Star,” which weaving room, Short of the spinning room and Milholland of the card room, threatened those who did not employers to provoke such a strife. | |The mass meetings, particularly the one at Atlanta, contradicted all pre- A decrease of 50 per cent to the | British on imports of these products | is the price the Argentinian capi- wicks. “Our Union follows leaders only as long as those leaders uphold and fight for the principles of ou a Site and file controlled union that will our Union to make any secret deal- 1 able to win for the miners their ings with Howatt, Brophy, Hap-|yights. Our union is moving for- good and other deserters of the min- ward despite all enemies. With the LOS ANGELES, Cal.,. Nov. 18.— “Tf you interfere with my prisoner, I'll smash you —— face,” was the | answer of William Hynes, notorious eports the development by the|sign with discharge. The mill | dictions that the Negroes would not |tal'sts pay for permission to ship igh Bee nee pe ceeraes in their struggles. These dis- | sank and file standing solidly by the |as leader of the “Red Squad” to finsk Botanical Observatory of a|workers are called in the office one Come to such meetings, that if they meat. to England without restric-| Union. The officers ang cace). credited men cannot take the lead- | National Miners Union and its ex-|Leo Gallagher, attorney for the | did, the white workers would leave, } in our Union must carry out the ew kind of grain, neither wheat ‘or rye, but with the virtues of ach. It has the resistance to cold of’ ye, most valuable in the climate of he Soviet Union, yet it has‘also the ull richness of wheat in more than rdinary size of kernel. This new grain, experiments show, ‘ields three tons per hectare (about % acres), which is three times the werage grain yield in the Soviet ‘rowing area. at a time and some who hesitated were told, “You know what it means if you don’t sign.” “Through this trick and threat the firm thinks they have obtained a vic- tory and that the statement will fool the workers. Piercing Smoke Screen. “This action has opened the eyes of the workers of Highland Park and fool halfwits of the bosses’ class. and that if they were actually held, |they would be broken up. The ter- irible economie and political persecu- | tion of the southern working class, Negro and white workers alike, is smashing the racial barriers, and eliminating them much more rapidly ithan had usually been predicted, |more rapidly than is realized in the North. c The economic oppression he char- | The ten and twelve hour day, the $8 and $12 wages paid large num- | tions. | In the past, because of the grow- ling successful penetration of United |States imperialism of the Argentine market, Great Britain placed heavy ‘restrictions on the importation of ‘Argentine meat, which seriously | hampered this important industry. |These restrictions have been re- |moved, -The agreement is frankly jand openly directed against Yankee wishes of the rank and fi “In the fight for these principles, our Union has been-compelled from | time to time to fight against op- portunism, and bureaucratic hang- ers which wrecked the U. M. W. A When this shows its head in out Union, attempting to stop its growth, turn our policies from class | struggle to class collaboration, mis- which can only lead to s |his appointment in 1925, has been a a detent, sub Union will ership of our Union to betray its ceutive bos | interests as Watt wishes. into a fighting organization uphold- “The National Miners’ Union! ing our class principles against will not allow Watt to use the name | splitters, against the bosses, to bring of our Union to make an; t every miner under the standard of dealings with coal companies in or- the N. M. U., and into. the coming der to establish rotten check-o: militant fights for our demands.” tems through the medium of a ¢ vaeereaer weerewn = Big Crowds Meet Beal d, mn the The | pany union, as he tried to do Bicknell, Indiana, and which Executive Board repudiated. and bureaueratically rule our rank |Your immediate release and the set- of the our union will be built | workers arrested in the Twelfth An- niverasry demonstration here. Gallagher had asked to be al- lowed to talk to John Owens, Negro worker, one of those arrested. Owens was held on a charge of “criminal syndicalism,’ which has a 14 year sentence attached. After Gallagher had returned to the auditorium at which the work- fers were celebrating the Twelfth | gnion, This autumn enough of this |all workers throughout the South The a ‘ar- | imperialism. | lead our Union, disregard the voice | National Miners’ Union will not al (Continued from Page One) | Anniversary of the October Revo- bed will be sown to re-sow next |know and are fighting for the 8 hour | acterized as terrific, and growing | Sir Malcolm Robertson, British | of the tank and Tile, violate our iow Watt or any other individual fo’ workers grecting Fred Beal | Jution, a policeman came to him and par the large part of the grain-|day and such statements can only WO" Ginbuseador Gt Buehos Alves, since | 8W* and regulations, and propose 4, juild a machine, seize control, Pledge you e~ery effort to secure {told him that Owens wished to speak to him at the police station. If this is successfully carried |The handful of bosses’ pets who are fi rs vied ay and file Uni as | 1 his clique ting Savage sentences Upon his arrival at the station, pond i i i ‘ormidable competitor of Americe Ne | at, | and file Union, as he and que | © pea t hrough it means approximately |rejected by the union and who say | bers of workers in the textile mills | iiaeeia iat qh Atpeatita It pice fight against them, no matter Who wishes, or to revise our fighting impesed upon you. The National! Gallagher was told that he himself aultiplying the present grain yield |they are satisfied with ten hours a |2f¢ now fairly well known to the eee es who arranged the ve- Proposed them. Our Union must poricies and substitute policies of Workers’ Union will organize | was under arrest, was booked and y three, which will not only end |day and ask for more hours and less | oad members. But Dunne pointed 5 . | remain a fighting, class conscious the South in spite of every obstacle, | finger printed and jailed. he bread problem in the Soviet Jnion, but will create a terrific risis in world capitalist economy, ince it will accentuate to an un- alleled sharpness the agrarian in the grain producing coun- pay have exposed themselves and cannot be used as a smokescreen any longer. “The textile workers of the South and the workers of other industries will not stop fighting until they have to instances of similar economic ex- tortion in other industries of the | South. Instances are the Fulton | Bag and Mill Co., where 3,000 Negro and white employes work for an | average wage of $8 to $9 a week. cent British economic mission to | Avo-'ina which had for its purpose the rooting out of American inter- an ome aT lests. The American capitalists had| Fight Defeatists and Splitters. |made serious inroads into what was| , 7m defense of Cue i ttompts. to previously @ predominant British | jit the N. M. U., the rank and file organization of rank and file min- ers. | surrender and defeat. in spite of the fascist Black Hun- “The N. "refuses to accede dreds, the lynch law courts and to Watt’s demand that all militant Ptison sentences. We hail the work- workers, such as Communists, who ers of the South. Leng live the Na- are building and fighting for the tional Textile Workeis’ Union, the Watt’s Policy Similar to Lewis’ principles of ovr Union, be excluded | militant or anizer of the raillion tex- | Gallagher was charged before | Judge Reed with “interfering with an officer,” pleaded not guilty, and |was released on his own recogniz- ance, ries of capitalism. abolished the stretchout, established |p", Winer ngsmc™ tebacco workers |"“urther intensification of the Belleville. Convention adopted a F153, membership and leadership in| tile workers of America, Signed,| y soluti f problems of | thi h id obtai eg Dey Peeen iguana riner intensification of the) gnanimous resolution condemning - -? Uni John Nahar: Chairman.” | Thus the solution of problems of |the 8 hour day and obtain a wage 4 week deducted by the employers |struggles in the textile industry in ba : m . Nz the National Miners’ Union. 4s : rates a, Soviet economy produces a problem |increase and put a stop to the damn- hy John J. Watt, president of the Na-) “apy. N, W. U. refuses to allow, Tour Fer Union in New England. ‘or imperialist economy. able system of child labor.” “WE'D BE IN BAD SHAPE WITHOUT THE DAILY” SAYS BILL MCGINNIS Railroaded Gastonia Worker Calls on Toilers to Rush Daily-South \ (Continued from Page,One) slaving for the bosses, and how the worker: all over were fighting for us seven in prison. “So I think it’s up to every worker to do his part to gét the Daily orker down South to the mill hands?” And here you've got the appeal of yet another of the Gastonia class war prisoners, that the Daily Worker be rushed South. orkingclass organizations, are you going to answer the appeals of the seven Gastonia class war prisoners of mill workers in every tex- file center of the South that you rush the Daily to them? Adopt a mill village, see to it ceive the Daily Worker every day! that the workers in that village re- Individual workers too, must contribute to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South” and get their organizations to adopt mill villages. * Daily Worker 26 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Tm sending this contribution as an answer to the appeals of Bill Louis McLaughlin, and Red for the mill workers that the Daily Worker be rushed South. McGinnis, Fred Beal, WASte Sis cacdreesbutnavcitcac te ivcetedooccsebvnsbevedbsaeenesooass “Address ..... City . Amount bees FOR ORGA: ‘(name of organization adopt a mill village, and see that the workers there are supplied with the Daily Worker regularly, Address: CHP ANA State isk keeles see e eect ede deed ba enaeeee Amounts Sem enecenceeseeavonresesccncesessencscebsbbehedssbibee sin Hendryx, speaking State .. Pee eee eee NIZATIONS seteteeseeess Wish to to buy stock in the company for {them. Negro workers in tobacco are getting 15 cents per hour. Develop in the Struggle. The National Textile Workers’ cess in developing new forces, dis- covered during the present organ- ization period. Most of the organ- izers now working in the South are local men. They are scattered out in a long line from Atlanta to Danville, Virginia, and their work is increasing in efficiency and re- sults: The board took up seriously the ‘question of a T, U. U. L. Negro organizer, and a general T. U. U. L. organizer for the South, voting to establish them there immediately, to closely co-ordinate the organiza- tion in textile, tobacco, marine ‘transport, Coal, etc. Discussion of the relation between youth and gen- ‘eral textile organization work brought out the fact that though | the young workers have special sec- |tions in the'N. T. W. U., it is im- | possible to sharply separate the work of youth organization and gen- eral adult organization. Youth or- \ganizers are doing general textile union work, as the young workers lo a man’s work in the mills, Little Money in Use. The difficulties of financing or- ganization work in a community where the workers live on a star- little money, usually being paid by checking off their rent and grocery bills in country stores, was dis- cussed. It was evident that dues and initiation fees must be very low in the South, until organized effort itself bring better conditions. Dune told of seeing great stacks of pay envelopes, covering over a year of work, in which seldom are more than a dollar or two in cash was actually paid to worker per week, and often only a few cents. In the face of this heroic struggle by the southern workers and oi- { vation basis, and in fact, see very | the United States will result. The {agreement will be used as a lever by \the American textile bosses to force |wages still lower, tional Miners’ Union, for his at- tempts to split our Union, and re- fusal to accept decisions of the rank | and file convention whieh over- | effort taking shape trhough a con- Lewis and Fishwick, to establish |ference just held in Washington of bureaucratic control over the or-| |105 international union heads with ganization. The policies proposed | William Green and the general coun: | by Watt are similar to those of the cil of the A. F. L,, which plans to fake progressives like Muste, who disrupt or prevent organization of under the cover of radical phrases | the southern workers into their own , stand in the way of real struggle. militant T. U. U. L. unions, par: | and act as a shield to protect the ticularly in the textile industry. | bosses and the labor fakers. | While much of the A. F, L. talk is| ‘The convention unanimously de- | inflated by the self-advertising bu- | nounced these policies of Watt, con- reaucrats who do the talking, still) demning his misleading policies and a real working alliance is being fur- | demanding that he be tried by the ther developed between the mis-/ National Executive Board, and until leaders of labor and the state and | a fifial decision is reached he cease employers’ assocation officials. The all activity in the state of Illinois. entire proceedings of the A. F. L. | since that time Watt has misrepre- conference reeks with it but further | sented this to mean that he has been evidence is in the correspondence yemoved without a trial. This is between MacMahon, president of not go. y the United Textile Workers, and Enemies of the Miners. i the southern textile employers’ as- «rhe differences of the National | sociation, The U. T. W. ruler, once cout ah » District | i executive Board and the District | rebuffed and insulted by the bosses’ Gri at Bidar itl Bach anKed organization when he proposed to C™evance Boa a her evar ea meet them and discuss “stability in| 2° clearly understood by every mem: | the industry and wages,” crawls | ber. Watt's 2 ivities in Illinois back again, With a program for | ting the past six weeks when he recognition of his union, no strikes, | fitst became active after a year’s and co-operation to increase the effi- | 8t@v at his home, doing nothing, ciency of the.employers’ exploitation Were aimed to split the National |More and more the southern press Miners’ Union, and stop its growth. | and the southern managers begin The policies proposed and followed t oregard the U. T. W. and the A. | by Watt in different sections of our F. L. as allies agaitst their work. istrict ean result only in defeat | ers, against workers growing more Nd surrender to both bosses and | radical as the oppression increases, fakers. These polici of Watt were | More decision on the organization examined and decisively repudiated | of the South, and also the organiza- by the rank and file delegation in tion campaigns in steels, autos, ma- Belleville. Watt answered this de-/ tine transport, needle trades, min- cision of the rank and file by trying | ing, and other industries where the | to split the convention. Since the | T. U. U. L, has at organizational Belleville convention he definitely | foothold are expected at the con-| proved by his action that he is an tinued session of the national ex- | | ecutive board of the T. U. U. L.| and the work of Women’s, Youth | (A separate article on the general | and Negto departments of the T. | situation in some of these industries U, U. L. will Lollow.—Editor) { Beal n New England on an or- ganizat tour for the National Textile Workers’ Union, preparatory to the national convention of the National Textile Workers’ Union at Watt to establish another district office and instruct secretaries to send per capita tax to hsi picked “friend” as he asked the Pocohontas meeting, representing the union, the International Labor Defense, both nationally and for the district were John Nahorski, Robert Zelms, J. Louis Engdahl and others. Gets Tremendous Ovation. authority of the District Grievance Board, and conduct independent ac- tivity in our district without giving any account to any authorized elected committee, or to allow him to establish a new district board The ovation given Bes! atathw, tall made up of his personal followers. wae tremsndduk, . Jie beceved “Our Union will fight all such wreathes of flowers from the Polish, policies and bureaucratic methods. Portuguese workers, from the Young no matter who proposes them. Communis: League, the Communist Violates Principles of N. M. U. | party and other o:ganizations. “Watt never functioned as the na-; He spoke in Fall River last night. tional president of the N. U. He speaks in his home town, Lew- He remained at home for many | rence, tonight and will talk in Bos- months, refusing to take up his post ton tomorrow night. to direct the work of the N. M. U.) A resolution was passed at the He has refused to work with the | meeting greeting the secon} annual National Executive Board or our convea‘ion of the National Textile District Board, preferring to follow | Workers’ Union at Paterson, N. P., an individual bureaucratic attitude | Nov. 28, and the fourth national con- and policy. Flaunting the District ef th» International Labor Convention and’ the National Ex- Defense, in Pittsburgh, Dec. 29, 30 ecutive Board, he contends that ‘no and 31. one can tell him what to do.’ Dur- ing the past six weeks his policy has St Louis School Kids | been openly trying to get-control of ~ the N. M. U. or split it. This policy if unchecked leads to the destruc- ticn of our Union. This the rank! and file will now allow, but will fight uncompromisingly. Starve; ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 17.—The St. Louis sehool board admits that it > survey of three schools disclosed “The National Miners Union has 490 underfed kids whose dads, cither lived through intense difficulties to idle or underpaid, were too poor to establish itself. Instead of facing our buy them enough to eat, tasks with the courage and energy Significantly, the number of tub- necessary to sweep aside obstacles crcular children mounts apace with in the path of our union, Watt re-! the number of underfed pupils. tracted and gave up the fight, and Big hosses’ contributions to the now attempts to split the N. M. U.) problem is exemplified in the ease Watts wrong policies have been re- | of a $11.40 a week factory worker, pudiated time and again by our supportise his mother and sisters. Union. He never hesitated to defy Injured 294 off duty for several the laws and constitution of our, days, he veivrned to find his substi- Union, when he did not agree with | tute willing to keep the job for them, Now that the N. M. U. has | $7.50. His boss told him he could developed into a strong organization | have his jo> at the reduced wages, without his help, he is openly trying | which he. refused, es bus dg — INBOSS LEAGUE | i i v1 i feated his misleading 7 ast | Union, one of the unions of the T. | whelmingly defeated | * local. The N. M. U. refuses to al- | 72°) wae | . i U. U.'L,, is handicapped by lack of | ganizers, the Amezivan Federation Policies which play aa, ne ee low Watt even though he is the ae es ; He Faas Buds iil ake PSR HBAS tude pute organizers, but has had good suc-|of Labor comes, with an organized of the operators and their agents. national president, to overrule the| Speakers al ie New | beutor si Makers’ International Union have ugain shown their fondness for the cigar manufacturers at the expense of the workers. This time it’s the putting over of the Cigar Makers’ Co-operative Association, a bass league of independent cigar manu- facturers, packers and jobbers, which was formed by A. P. Bower, under the direction of I. M. Orn- burn, president of the Cigar Mak- ers’ International Union, and the executive board of the International. The new cigar bosses’ association was formed in conformity with ac- tion taken by the 1925 convention of the union’s misleaders, which “di- vected the officials of the union to begin the movement looking to the formation of a co-operative associa- tion.” These are the fakers’ very own words. This action was reaffirmed by the fakers at their 1927 convention, and now the misieaders have carried out | their decision to help form a bosses’ association which would strengthen \the manufacturers in future fights against the men. The union officials are gloating over the fact that “we think this is the first move of this kind to be made by a labor union.” Prelimi- nary plans for the final touches to the new bosses’ league were made at a joint meeting of cigar bosses and union officials in Buffalo on October 12. “The association will enable the © independent cigar manufacturers to conduct business on more efficient lines,” the officials say, ignoring the use the bosses’ league will be put to against the workers in the tuture. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at ihe Enterprises!