The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 1

1 | 4 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week f FINAL CITY EDITION ‘Vol. VL, N NOVEMBER 22, 1929 N. YS 21 egg pg NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York. by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail. $6.00 per venr. Price 3 Cents “NO WAGE INCREASES, NO STRIKES,” A. F. OF L. FASCIST AGREEMENT WITH HOOVER, TRUST HEADS AND BANKERS ore Leninist Understanding, More Leninist Action in the Struggle Against Social- Fascism in Needle Trades! “No task is more important for the class conscious workers than to understand the significance of their own movement and to get to know it accurately.”—Lenin, The will of the working class to struggle against the burdens placed upon it by capitalism makes itself felt first in industry—in the shops and factories. “To understand the significance” of these movements means, in addition to the specialized statistical knowledge of economic factors on which Lenin always insisted, “the knowledge of how to en- courage and develop revolutionary tendencies in the class struggle.” This is the main task of our comrades in the needle trades indus- try. Particularly is it the pressing task of our leading comrades in the dress section of the industry when the I.L.G.W.U. leadership, the agents of the capitalists and the capitalist government in the ranks of the needle trades workers, have prepared elaborate machinery, carrying the mask of struggle on behalf of workers, but actually built for the purpose of smashing all struggles of and for needle trades workers. It is all very well, and of course basically necessary, to denounce the I.L.G.W.U. mobilization as anti-working class in character, planned, promoted and financed by the bosses and their -social-fascist bands. But something more is necessary and so far this something has been almost entirely lacking in the preparation of the masses by our leading needle trades comrades. To the fascist mobilization they have opposed slogans which are of a pacifist and therefore of a social-reformist character. The emphasis has not been on the raising of strike struggle slogans based on a fight against the miserable wages and working conditions in the industry, The emphasis has not been on the mobilization of the rank and file members of the I.L.G.W.U., of the unorganized works who make up the majority in the industry, and of the members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, into mass organs of strug- gle—combat units leading the workers against the united front of bosses, bureaucrats and their government machine This is where the emphasis must be placed. This is what it means “to understand the significance of their own movement and to get to know it accurately.” More than this—it means not only to understand but to be willing and able to act on the basis of this knowledge. Precisely because the bosses and the social-fascists know that the mass_of..workers are ready. to struggle—precisely because they know that lower living standards, the speed-up and unemployment (all char- acteristics of the growing industrial crisis) are the basis of the growing militancy and determination of our class—precisely because they know that in“this period “every spark of discontent among the workers, and still more every actual strike, has the kernel of revolution in it and may be developed to the stage in which it passes into a revolutionary battle’—they are going to unheard of lengths to disarm the masses. The initiative must be wrested from the hands of the social-fascists. This can be done by rank and file committees with militant leadership and a program based primarily on the economic needs of the needle trades workers, Every shop must become a battleground while at the same time the preparation of a broad struggle in the entire industry is carried on. Energy must not be frittered away in isolated shop strikes but these must be made part of a general campaign of struggle. All emphasis, however, niust be on strike struggle for the shops. Revolutionary leadership must be built-in the struggle, broadened inthe struggle, trained in the struggle. In the article in Number 24 of the Communist International, entitled “The Fight Against Oppor- tunism in the Sections of the Comintern,” the following statement, ap- plicable to our Party members in all industries as well as the needle trades, is made: “It is necessary for each small group of Communists in the factories to understand their own political role, to understand that, for the Party, they are by no means mere payers of mem- bership dues and carriers of loads. They must realise that they are the essential links, the representatives of the advance guard among the masses.” FE: This is the line of action for our comrades in the needle trades: Open struggle against all passivity and capitulation to the offensive of the sociaJ-fascists—mobilization of the masses around the daily issues in shop and factory for the defeat of the anti-working class drive and for the building of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union as the weapon of the masses in the sharpening class conflicts. | | STAY ON JOB, AFL ‘of Working Women’s CHIEFS TELL MEN Tonight at 8:30 New York work- ers will join in celebrating the sixth ddvice of officials of Local 63 of the |"orking class organizations, the International Subway Tunnel and | United Council of Working Women. Sag . a lvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Mets Pikeery Anz ics £0, sirike for Ninth St., and promises to be a gala The message of betrayal was| MJ. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, again given to Brooklyn diggers | ang Sylvia Bleeker, representing the - 5 5 Women’s Department of the New struction firm yesterday and repeat-| york District of the Communist ed at a meeting at Harlem Terrace, 2 They will bring greetings to the John McPartlan, union secretary | United Council and point out its “tomorrow” ever since 500 Bronx! gles of the working class for the workers struck two weeks ago, open- | past six years, “Long Island job to “keep the men to the celebration in a body and to Steady.” i bring their banners. Tickets should advocated by McPartlan and other |sale at 50 cents at the Council of- A. F. of L. union officials yesterday fice, 799 Broadway, Room 535. lng * : 5 # Cafeteria Union Drive Strike Today for Union | CommitteeMeetsToday Recognition, 8-Hr. Day A meeting of the Organization) OQ... 1,900 dental laborator: ry D y tive. Committee of the Hotel, | anor will strike today for de- Branch of the Amalgamated Food | ¢ Rt ty t! ae Workers will be held at 7 p. m. to-|\c? cong oh Mba TS Beet ms (ratory Workers’ Union leading the 51st St. walkout. Meetine last night at |To Mark Anniversary \Council Tonight “Wait till you're called,” is the|anniversary of one of the leading fompressed Air Workers’ Union to | The celebration will be held at Stuy- union wage rates and job conditions. | working for the Hart and Early con- | {Pi vill b i 5 104th St. and Third Ave. |Party, will be the chief speakers who has been calling out. the men/splendid work in the leading strug- ly advised his organizer to go to a, All councils are called on to come Sell-out by arbitration was again |be bought in advance. They are on (Continued on Page Two) | e es Denta! Mechanics Call i Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers | mands which include the eight-hour | i b; ital Lab day at union headquarters, 133 W. Mo Nae’. Pesareece: Lenka La ps Discussion will center on progress Tevip* Plow He! '5th St. and Irv- of the drive to unionize especially jive PI ehout 459 workers greeted chain cafeterias, bthe strike call enthusiastically. ' Needle Workers BOSTON MEET OF Will Organize | Thru N. TL. Shop Strikes Instead of ILG Fake Stoppage By WM. Z. FOSTER. The definite policy of the Amer- NEEDLE WORKERS UNION LEADERS FIGHTS BETRAYAL MEET SATURDAY i] | |\Plan to Organize NTIU| Executive Board Will | Issue Call for Big NATIONAL MINER Zabor Juror on Labor Juror on WIM. GREEN PLEDGES HELP Fights the Klan 10 THE OPEN SHOP BOSSES : AGAINST WAGE MOVEMENTS; cose = TO SUPPRESS “CONFLICTS” textile strike leaders by the mill} owners’ eourt, the Jim Crowing of Hoover Drops Three Billion Dollar Plan in the jury, and the need of crganising,| Cr 3 Meeting as Fakers Nid UFFALO, N. Y., Noy. 21.—Sol Harper, Negro worker and member of the Gastonia case labor jury, will speak tonight to a meeting well ad- vertised throughout the Negro worl North and South, Negro and white, | in the unions and industrial leagues | of the Trade Union Unity League. S cussing and adopting policy for any | fake strike that may be carried| through by the company union nad} to, mobilize for an extensive organ- | ization drive to organize the Needle | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 21.— Sixty leaders of the National Min- ers’ Union will meet when the Na- tional Executive Board of the N. |M. U. gathers in this city Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 23-24. Present | will be 23 National Board members from as many districts, and repre- He will also point out the necessity {of Negro and white workers alike supporting the Workers Internation- al Relief, and the International La- | bor Defense. Harper is building or- | Overproduction Admitted as Basic Cause of Depression by Bosses in Washington WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—The greatest openly fascist agreement between the bosses and the American Federation Against the Bosses | ica Federation of Labor and its af- and Fakers Convention filiated unions is to cooperate with) aR ee { gee te ‘ the, CuaPlovers for. the rationalize.) Toilers Fill Auditorium Bosses Aid Fishwick of in ry, fo: ie speed-up | of the workers, and against the de-| . nm . i velopment of militant unionism andj Union Veterans of 25| Enter = . a t Fight struggles amongst them. In carry- ey il ews ing out this employer-inspired pro- Years at Meet gram the A. F. of L. unions are 5 ee rere Sat igs reduced practically to a policy of | , BOSTON, Oye beg a ped company unionism and strike-break- | oak and dressmakers and furrier: ing. The unions have become mera| filled the Ambassador Palace he auxiliaries of the employers for ex-|/@8t night for the purpose of dis- ploiting the workers and checking their revolutionary development. In no industry do the A. F. of L. leaders carry out this policy more oe ea ae othe roual tenden | Trades Industrial Union. This was| sentatives of the District Executive There the “socialist” heads of the| ‘Re ™ost enthusiastic meeting in r<-| Boards of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, priest gee eee oeaarresed| season when few workers are in the |Ohio, West Virginia, and the Anthra- Be pete | aty. cite, the cmuloyer Te sata laa | It was essentially a rank and file} ‘The meeting, one of the most sig- See EEE, Thee cnoatn | meetin. | nificant in the history of the Na-| manufacturers. What the needle story workers confront is a united front of their enemies—the employe: the labor bureaucrats, and the capi After Paul Goldberg, the chair-| tional Miners’ Union, will take & ganization as he goes. He is speak- Jing under joint T. U. U. L. and I. L, D. auspices. Harper’s tour takes him to meet- ings in Niagara Falls tomorrow, Syracuse Sunday, and perhaps an-| of Labor bureaucrats against the working class of this country 'was reached today at Washington under the direct guidance of President Hoover. This is the essence of Hoover’s own state- ment on the pact reached between “capital and labor.” other meeting in Rochester Sunday. | As repeatedly pointed out by the Daily Worker, especially Last Saturday Harper spoke with | since the crash on the Stock Exchange, American capitalism is Fred Beal in Paterson, N. J., and| launching a drive to cut wages, hoping to rescue itself from bean a good meeting in Bing-'Jessening profits at theexpense of the workers. amton Sunday. Binghamton is a} % 5: ‘ u's 5 headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan.| Hoover’s statement opens with a hypocritical declaration he shoe bosses are building the that the employers will not initiate any wage reductions, when | man, explained the purpose of meet- |ing, Koretz, manager of the Boston | lunion, reviewed in most thorough | measures for extending the struggle in Illinois and in the anthracite re-| the catholic workers. The “Endicott Square Deal Association” was or- K., to divide the protestant from | as a matter of fact scores of wage cuts are already under way ‘and in any event such “promis ‘only to deceive. ” are not meant seriously but talist state. In the ladies’ garment section of | the industry this anti-worker com | bination is especially active. Its) aim ise to demolish the militant | Needle Trades Workers.-Industrial Union, and to reduce the workers to) helplessness by rebuilding the com-! pany-unionized LL.G.W.U. Their! N. t VICINITY method for accomplishing this is a} = | (Continued on Page Three) | Hackensack 61 Face gion; it will issue a call for a na-| | tional convention of the union, which | will be held either in Pittsburgh or jin Columbus, Ohio. The conference jwill also consider charges brought |against John J. Watt by the recent | Belleville convention, which passed a resolution demanding that he be |temoved from the presidency of the |N. M. U. (Continued on Page Two) Bosses Rely On Lewis. * ganized .by a Klan boss. Hi r 7 exposed ‘this, and Makes Gienaasl But that the further announcement that the A. F, of L. split the workers. leaders have pledged not “to initiate movements for increase A meeting will be arranged for of wages,” is a definite promise to fight against any wage cuts Harper in Elmira, N. Y., where which the employers are making and will increasingly make. there are many Negro workers. This) And further, the promise by the A. F. of L., scoundrels who town has the La France Fire Engine h failed to betray workers in st le, that they “will Co. the Morrow Plant (auto parts) Never have failed to betray workers in struggle, that they “wi and the American Bridge Co. works. | ive every cooperation to industry in the handling of its prab- |lems,” constitutes the pledge of Green, Woll and company to 'fascistize the trade unions of the A. F. of L. as instruments ‘PLAN TO SPREAD BUILDING STRIKE Deportation WILKES-BARRE, Pa,, Nov. 21.— — i, A brazen and cynical admission from The New York District of the In- | the coal operators as to whom they | ternational Labor Defense is now |depend upon to aid them in their| fighting to secure the release of | Wage-cutting offensive is contained | 61 Spanish and Portuguese work-|in an article in “Black Diamond,” | ers of Hackensack, N, J., who were | the well known trade journal of the} arrested last week in a series of |bosses. “Observer,” an operators’ Cleaners and Service | police raids. The workers are now |analist of mining affairs, writes as MASS MEET WIL HAIL DELEGATES Rally for Convention ‘to break the strikes of unorganized workers and particularly |to direct all fire against the only leader of struggle against wage cuts and for higher wages—the new and revolutionary trade union center, the Trade ion Unity League and the Com- |munist Party, which is recognized as the backbone of the class struggle throughout the country. fF The sanction and seal of the capitalist goyernment in this of N.T.W.U. nefarious bargain at the same time sets the mark upon it as ae jat Ellis Island and are being threatened with deportation to their | “Discriminatory freight rates and | To hail the second annual conven- @ Step and a long step in the fascistization of American “demo- tion of the National eTxtile Work-|cracy,” for as surely as tomorrow's sun will rise, the attacks follows: Workers Meet Sue ‘native countries where they will fall | high labor costs at the mines (An- Plans for suppressing the strike |into the clutches of the fascist |thracite) are handicaps not easily jof the window cleaners and other| spanish and Portuguese Dictator- | overcome, but an earnest effort is | building service workers will be dis- | ships, being made to get relief from the jeussed tonight at a joint meeting) Though the official charge against | Miners’ Union. It is felt that John |of the members of the Window} these woskers is “illegal entry,” | Lewis, now that he has taken his |Cleaners Protective Union, Local 8, jand the Amalgamated Building | Service Workers Industrial Union| jat 7 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum, | |66 E. Fourth St. | | The two unions are now cohduct- | ing a joint drive to organize porters, | floor scrubbers, firemen, elevator operators and other building service | workers into a single industrial {union. The workers of several apartment houses in the Bronx, in- cluding the cooperative houses of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, (Continued on Page Two) | Mock Gastonia Trial! by Section One to Be Held Tomorrow Night Workers will issue their own ver dict on the Gastonia case tomorrow night at Clinton Hall, when the seven Gastonia class war prisoners | will be tried by a workers court. M. J. Olgin, active among the Jewish militant workers, and editor of the Freiheit will be the attorney | for the defense; Robert Minor, ed-| itor of the Daily Worker, will be prosecutor for the working class; | anc Sam Darcy, director of the} workers school, will be presiding judge. Two of the Gastonia class | prisoners will be witnesses. The mock trial is being arranged by Section 1 of the Communist Party. All workers of New York have been | invited to participate in the sar | However, the militant tone of the vank and file at the meeting indi- cated the strikers would be inter- | ested in fighting for the eight-hour} day primarily as workers—unlike President Posner of the union who | declared th eeight-hour day would enable “dental mechanics to spend more time on dental restoration work and thus guard the health of the public.” Posner complained that the Asso- | ciated Dental Laboratories (the boss association) ‘lacked sincerity and served the interests of a small group rather than of the owners at large.” .| Will be heard by 26 workers in} Atlanta Mill Workers Prepare tor Struggle, Need the ‘Daily’ Workers, and Workers’-Groups Must Adopt This Big Textile Center > How acute is the need of the southern mill workers for the Daily | Worker, is strikingly illustrated in the following letter sent the Daily Worker by the National Textile Workers Union organizer in Atlant: ly Worker to send a bundle of the Daily actually they are being victimized initial step backward in the bitumin- in its drive against the foreign- I dent of the Needle Trades Workers’ Cuban Consulate Here the Cuban consulate at 17 Whitehall In Chicago Sunda Y 5 \er, and now 23 workers, including a for their militant labor activities. (Gontinued on Page Thres) The federal government, which is REA Re ay born. Isaac Shorr is the I. L.. D.} § FIGHT \Industrial Union, and a fugitive from | (Continued on Page Two) iets j Chinese, Cuban and American | workers participated in a demonstra~ \ti St. yesterday afternoon. Speakers é |mumber of Chinese, are facing de- Prepare ILD Meet portation, which in’the case of the When the Gastonia prisoners speak responsible for the raids, is co-op- erating with the open-shop concerns attorney in the case. | Another militant worker is also! MACHADO TERROR being detained at Ellis Island, | | Henry Rosemond, Negro vice-presi- | 5 eh Demonstrate Before CLAS jon against the terror of the Ma- HEAR GASTONIA 7 chado government of Cuba, before . told of the recent murder of San- \tiago Brooks, a Cuban Negro work- | Chinese, at least, means death at the | hands ii i- . at the mass metting of welcome in| anils of “tHe Siang Ralstiek ro Chicago, next Sunday, Nov. 24, 3 gime. p. m., at People’s Auditorium, they | Bucetks of water and ice were (Continued on Page Two) danger of 10 years imprisonment charged with sedition for member- ship in the Communist Party. The greeting for the Gastonia prisoners, precedes hy a week the fourth district conference of the International Labor Defense | on Dec. 8, at 10 p. m. in the same! aylitorium at 2457 West Chicago! Ave. In the call to the Chicago district conference the following statement was made: “Since the third nation- al conference of the I.L.D. held in 1927, we were faced with the seri-| ous problem of taking care of hun-| “This is a plea to the Dail dreds of cases which grew out of) here every day. the miners’ strike, the textile strikers, needle trades strikes, and sedition cases. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti left behind it a trai) of persecutions of workers who par- ticipated in the movements and lemonstrated to save these victims | from the clutches of capitalist. just- As if in answer to the appeal of ice--the attempt to railroad to Jail | action of Unit R1, Section 1, with 23 (Continued on Page Two) towns and villages in Georgia want. “However, you can send us thi \ ‘ “I know you can’t afford to send the hundreds of Dailies that the mill workers in Atlanta, Rome, Macon, Forsythe, and the other mill least pass out copics to individual workers an —a rare luxury here, but an absolute necessity! “Would appreciate if you would start sending the Daily at once.” (Continued on Pag~ ~~ ers’ Union, which will be held in Paterson, all textile workers of New York are called to a mass meeting Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, at the Irving Plaza Hall, E. 15th St. and Irving Pl. This meeting, held under the aus- pices of the New York district of | the National Textile Workers’ | Union, will be the rallying point | for the National Convention of the j Union, and for the drive to organ- } ize the 50,000 textile workers in| New York. Workers in silk, knit good, rugs, passementerie, in all the | branches of the textile industry are | suffering from unemployment in} New York, and a vicious system of | wage cuts and speed-up. While | thousands of textile workers are} out of work, or only working part time, others are driven on 12-hour shifts. New York textile workers will voice their protest against this | whole system of rationalization. William McGinnis, Gastonia strike leader, sentenced to 15 years, is just out’ on bail, an’ dwill bring greet- ings from the textile workers of the South. The other speakers at the meeting will be Bill Dunne, Trade Union Unity League repre- sentative, Michelson, New York District Or- ganizer of the union, and Martin Russak, of the National Textile Workers’ Union. upon revolutionary labor by the employers and the A. F. of L. | will be jointly carried out by and with full parficipation of the government. But what the answer of the workers will be— that will be seen as the American working class responds, as it must respond, to worsening conditions by more and bigger recently returned from} the southern strike area; Clarina! strikes and increased radicaliza The fascist agreement given out today by Hoover between the finance capitalists, industrial | | bosses and the A. F. of L. lead- | ers, as a result of the crisis con- | ferences is as follows: | “The President was authorized | by the employers who were pres- | | ent at this morning’s conference to state on their individual be- | | half that they will not initiate | | any movement for wage reduc- | tion, and it was their strong | | recommendation that this attitude | should be pursued by the country as a whole, They considered that aside from #he human considera- | j | tions involved, the consuming | | power of the country will there- by be maintained. | “The President was also au- | thorized by the representatives | of labor to state that in their in- dividual views and as_ their | | strong recommendation to the country as a whole, that no| movements beyond those already in negotiation should be initiated | | | for increase of wages, and that | | every co-operation should be given by labpr to industry in the | handling of its problems. “The purpose of these declara- tions is to give ‘assurance that | conflicts should not oc.ur during | the present situation which will | affect the continuity || and thus maintain | |employment.’ irty or so. With these we can at | read the Daily ourselves this N. T. W. organizer comes the members, in adopting a resolution S FLASH CHARLOTTE, N. C., Noy. 21.— Bond for Saul has heen raised to | $2,000. Saul’s finger print has ~NEW | been taken and this is only one in- dication of a framed charge ex- | pected against him. NOTICE TO CARPENTERS! All Party members who are car- penters are called to an important meeting Saturday,’ November 23, at 2:30 p. m. in the Workers’ Center, | Union Sq-—Secretary Carpenters’ | tion. BULLETIN. Over-production is the basic cause of the present depression aid tire capitalist bosses who met with Hoover., ° ‘The crash in the stock market is only an incident te a long- brewing rupture in the economic Structure of American capitalism, was the gist of the reports which seeped out of the deliberations. That a national wage-slashing campaign was discussed at the meeting is proved by Henry Ford's statement on wages issued at the close gf the conference. While ' talking high wages, Ford is shut- ting down entire plants. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.— Hoover met with big group of labor fakers this afternoon to give | them their roles in helping the big |bosses in trying to smash mass re- sistence on the part of the workers to nation-wide wage cuts which are be- ing put into effect There were present in the White House planning a drastic attack on the standard of living of the work- reen, Morrison and Wall of the American Federation of Labor; T. A. Rickert, John L. Lewis, United Mine Wor United Garment Workers; p sident of the 's of America; William L. Hutcheson, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners of America. Also William J. McSorley, presi- dent of the building trades, depart- ment of the American Federation of Labor; John secretary of the metal trades’ department of the American Federation of Labor; B. M. Jewel, president of the railway emp! ’ department of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, Chicago: A. Johnson, president of the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers Cleveland; Timothy Shea, assistant president. of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- | meft, Cleveland. | Official statements from the White House declare that the mis- leaders of labor were called in-ex- (Continued on Page Two) \