The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1930, Page 3

i ( acs cf shop councils in the DALY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY to, 195 BRITISH “EFT WING IN Berlin Workers WAGE-CUTS, SPEED-UP | CHALLENGE TO T.U.U.L. Resist Fascist MAKE SUN SHIPYARD AT RED INTERNATIONAL Police Attack CO.WORKERS MILITANT Plenum of Red International of Labor Unions | Examines Work of Many of Its Sections MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—In the morning session of the 22d December Comrade Fos- ter made his closing speech. In the name of his organization he con- demned the action of the revolu- tionary clothing workers union in the United States which accepted the clause for compulsory arbitra- tion, and accepted the challenge of Comrade Horner to take part in a competition with the British min- ority movement. “ He expressed agreement with Comrade Marker concerning the im- portance of the unemployment prob- lem in the United States and the steel, automobile and chemical in- dustries in the United States, where the workers are unorganized. In these industries the commencing or- ganizational form would represent the basis for a trade union. At the motion of the French dele- zation a manifesto to the revolu- tionary unions in China was adopted. The French Unions. Comrade Giton (France) then dealt with the situation and the tasks of the C.G.T.U., the revolu- tionary trade union federation in France, He analyzed the develop- ment of the reformist unions to fas- ism, and pointed out that the situa- ion of the working class was stead- ly deteriorating, as a consequence of which the general strike move- ment was growing and increasing in intensity. He dealt with a number of these strikes and criticized the weaknesses and errors of the revolutionary trade union movement. In particu- lar a struggle was necessary against the anarcho-syndicalist traditions. The last congress of the C.G.T.U. represented a strengthening of the organization. The membership de- sline had been stopped and progress was now being made. Comrade Vitkovski declared that the last congress of the C.G.T.U. i pis been a turning point in the his- tory of the organization. The clear- ing up of the problem of the rela- tions of ti 2 C.T.G.U. with the Com- munist Party had been carried out at the congress and the opportunist and anarcho-syndicalist elements had been defeated. He also criti- sized ‘the weaknesses of the move- ment, in particular the lack of mass preparation for the congress. The danger of a split on the part of the opportunists could only be coun- tered by increased work amongst the masses. Criticism of the C.G.T.U. The French question was dis- cussed in the morning session of the 28d December. Comrade Szer- “Qhan criticized the weaknesses and Mass Protests Force of Colombia Strike } Nicholas Fernandez and Luis Quiros, two of the leaders in the big banana strike in Colombia, last February, of 30,000 workers against the brutal conditions of the Ameri- can owned? plantations, and who were sentenced to prison terms of 10 and B5 years, respectively, have been freed through the efforts of the Co- -ombian International Labor De- fense. Wide mass protest through- Revolutionary . Miners of World Greet Strike (Continued from Page One) ang; we are building a class-con- scious union, regardless of creed, golor, nationality, and on a class- truggle basis. Our union must be yatried out this way if we intend organize the coal miners of this sountry. Our line is correct; we must follow the line or we will fail to build a union that will take care if the miners of this present age. “We call upon all Negro coal diners throughout the United States +o join the National Miners Union, help us win the battle; not only to ye just members and dues payers, \ut to come into full participation @ leadership and help carry out the eta and the constitution that has » been laid down as a correct line for \he minets of this country. If the Negro coal miner wants to receive the benefits—he must join the Na- tional Miners Union and help sus- tain the Negro leadership that is lighting so desperately for the ‘ights and privileges you should en- foy. “There are approximately 60 per sent Negro coal miners in the South- ern coal fields, West Virginia, Ken- tucky, Alabama and Tennessee; part of these miners having been driven there by discrimination prac- ticed in the old United Mine Work- ors of America. Therefore, we must send Negro organisers into that ter- ritory in order to draw them into the National Miners Union, thereby putting a stop to the ptoduction of scab coal.” * ° * More Food Sent. CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—The second truck left Chicago Monday night for the coal strike region. It was Foster Criticizes Incorrect Act of Needle Union; Mistakes of C. G. T. U. Hit Hard errors of the C.G.T.U. and declared | that its manifesto of the 18th No- vember, which contained only eco- | nomic demands was a concession to | | the opportunists. | Comrade Voitkevitch (R.IL.U.) | declared that the membership de-| |eline of the C.G.T.U. had been caused by the fact that the organ- lization had concentrated chiefly | upon agitational and propaganda | work and had paid insufficient at- ‘tention to the organization side of \the struggle. Thousands of easel |ing workers had not been organized | |and brought into the ranks of the} |C.G.T.U. The unorganized workers | |should be won by the formation of | | shop councils. | Comrade Germanetto (Italy) de-| jclared that although the C.G.T.U. | |should prepare for illegality it/ |should nevertheless do everything | |in its power to maintain its legality. | Comrade Losovski declared that |the most important task of the \C.G.T.U, was to repulse the attempts | of the bourgeoisie, the fascists and | \social fascists to force the C.G.T.U. | |into illegality. The organization | | would have to be far more energetic jin its efforts to rid itself of oppor- | tunist and reformist elements. | Comrades Teneve (France), Du-| bois (France), Vassailiev (Soviet | Union), Billoux (France), also) spoke, | Report on Czecho-Slovakia. | After the closing speeches of| Comrades Giton and Vitkovski, Com- rade Zapotocky (Tcheckoslovakia) then delivered the report on the situation of the revolutionary trade unions in Tcheckoslovakia. He de- clared that the attempts of the cap- italists to carry out the rational- ization at the cost of the workers | resulted in an intensification of the jelass struggle, and this intensified | situation was the basis for the dis- ‘ruption of the opportunists. The |break with Hais and his followers had been historically necessary. The revolutionary unions had now 65,000 | members as compared with 105,000 | prior to the split. Hais only had| 15,000 supporters. Progress had| been made recently with the appli- cation of the new R.LL.U. tactic as could be seen in the strike of the Jandworkers. Comrade Gey (Soviet Union) de- clared that the intensification of the class struggle and the break with the reformist opportunists had cleared the way for a real revolu- tionary tactic. Much still remained to be done because the revolutionary unions tended to limit their activ- ities to day to day questions and to neglect international questions; further, the relations with the R. I. L. U. were not sufficiently close. | Release of Leaders out the country forced the ruling class to give these brave working- class leaders their freedom. News of the victory of the workers was sent to the I. L. D. in New York by Elvira Medina, general secretary of the Colombian I. L. D. Fernandez, a Negro worker, and Quiros, were at the head of the tremendous strike in which scores of Colombian workers | were brutally murdered by Yankee- | controlled forces. Workers School Has Many New Courses One of the néw courses of the Workers’ School, which opens Febru- ary 8, is for shop paper editors, eonducted by Gertrude Haessler. Another new course is “Capitalism and American Negroes,” which is to be run as a symposium in charge of Otto Hall, Director of the Negroe Department of the Communist Party of this District. A third new course is “problems of the Revolu- tionary Movement in Latin Amer- ica.” Of exceptional interest to workers is a class conducted by R. Doorping, author of a new pamph- let, “Militarist Wars and Revolu- tion in China,” published this week, who will conduct a class called the Development of Imperialism. In order to secure enrollment in the various classes, workers are urged to register early, at 26 Union Sq. The fee for most courses is $4. English, since it is given’ twice weekly, is $8. loaded with fo collected from Workers in this vicinity, through the Workers’ International Relief. Part of the shipment was a big donation of provisions from Waukegan, Illi- nois, Workers Co-operative. There will be a, W.L.R. member- ship meeting Thursday night, Janu- ary 16, in Peoples Auditorium, where moving pictures of the miners’ strike will be shown, Tag days for miners’ relief will be held in Chicago on January 18 and 19 for the striking coal miners. All sympathetic workers are to re- port to the designated ‘~+ stations and the local headquarters of the W.LR., 23 South Lincoln St., for col- lection boxes and credentials, | |the workers, On Sunday, there were CLASHES IN BERLIN (Wireless by Inpreco BERLIN, Jan. 13,—On Satur Zoergiebel's police provocatively tacked a Communist meeting, ar- | rested 214 men and 40 women. The police fired on and injured some of 3500 Workers There Prepare to Take Offensive | Under TUUL Leadership Yards Working Full Blast Because of Work for Coming Imperialist War collisions near the Liebknecht House | ey ie the headquarters of the Communist, (By @ Worker Correspondent Party, between workers and fas-| CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail). — cists. The fascists fired arms. The | ter putting up with miserable wor police arrived and arrested the | ing conditions and the constant wage workers, slashing campaigns of the bo \ever since the close of the last Wo’ Editorial Note:—Zoergibiel is the | War, the 3,500 workers of the § “socialist” chief of police of Ber- | Shipbuilding and Drydock lin, who became infamous by his {0 this city, are once again P prohibition of parades and bloody | ime to take the offensive, under attack on the Berlin workers last |Jeadership of the T. U. May Day. | against the slave-driving officia : |the most important shipyard on tt pel is kept running at speed- | up to take care of the injured work- “jers who are maimed and crippled through lack of safety devices throughout the plant. During the night shifts, the in- | jured workers are at the tender of a company guard, who id man in the place of Ss required by the State . But such things as do not bother the * * * rge com- are the the: | East Coast. e law | s |a chronic widespread unemployment q in this section of heavy and basi lin ti jindustry, the Sun Shipbuilding and (Continued from Page One) | Drydock Company is working full develop a public construction pro- |blast, night and day, to turn out well equipped freighters and tankers to gram as a means of making work. | Some municipalities are planning insure adequate transportation facil- ities for the government during the|day at the employment office to approaching war. take the place of older men for | The men are forced to slave many| wages. Many hundreds of helpe to spend more this year than last | hours of compulsory overtime every | getting 46 cents an hour, are doing year, but quite a number are ex- | week at the most dangerous and'the work of men who were formerly pecting to spend less... . hardest kind of work, under the) making 68 and 72 cents per hov “The additional work afforded | watchful eyes of company “push will not make much impression | and also under the rule of the com-|in many departments where it is al- upon the supply of unemployed |pany uniformed guards. Accidents) most impossible to work on a piece- labor. . . .” are so frequent that the plant dis-!work basis——Sun Shipyard Worker. After much arduous labor pains the Hoover $3,000,000,000 building program elephant gives birth to a mouse. Sun Ship Slaves Take Great Risks, Make Prospects for the general building | No Living program in all parts of the country | are much worse. The F. W. Dodge Corporation, the leading authority on capitalist building — statistics, makes a survey of the latest con- tracts awarded. Here is what their figures show: In the New England states build- ing construction contracts let in De- cember showed a sharp drop of 34 per cent below the previous month, and a slump of 43 per cent below! r, every de rd has suffered per cent reduc- z compelled to pro- 100 per cent more k than previously. Young, un- led workers are being hired every (By a Worker Correspondent.) vhen they can fight it out on the CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).—In| Picket line and compel the company the Sun Ship Yards, in the bolters’|t® Pay decent wages and establish and reamers’ department, where| better conditions in the plant, The piece work was introduced, the men|™eM are responding quickly to the slave at heart-breaking, dangerous |‘@ll of the newly established Metal work in the bolters-up and can bare-|7*@des Workers League in this sec- ly make a living each week. ‘Tha|tion under the leadership of the T. punch shop is operating on the same| ~* L. P basis, the punch operators having to| Shop committe turn out 5,700 holes per day to make |@nd many new s are being formed mbers are being the rate. BRiveters have been cu Many of the 1928. to 60 per cent on their piece rate: s from all departments will In the Middle Atlantic states |this affects the whole gang, includ. | be present at the conference (Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern|ing the heater boys and holde n. Metal Trades Industrial New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware,| Ship painters, who formerly wielded | Which will be held in thi District of Columbia, and Virginia) there was a drop of 15 per cent below 1928; and a drop of 50 per the red-lead brush, now spray the paint from air-compr This job is extremely unhealth: elect delegates to the district con- {vention which will be held in Phila- \delphia on J , at 39 North Tenth § | below the previous year. cent below November, 1929. For the Pittsburgh dsitrict the re- port shows a drop of 30 per cent} below December, 1928. Central Western states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Southern Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Okla- homa, and Nebraska) show a drop in December, 1929, of 15 per cent The Negro laborers in s departments do the rottenest kind of work, such as cleaning out the huge oil tanks where poisonous gas is al-| ERS SCHOOL. ways present. The burners and weld-| Harrison George, member of the ers were recently cut in wages, and Central Committee of the Commu- the welders rebelled and walked out nist Party and of the Daily Worker of the plant in protest. Practically |staff, will speak on the history of every department, including thelthe I. W. W. at the forum of the pipe-fitters, riggers, ship-fitters, ma-| Workers School, Jan. 19, 8 p.m. chinists, maintenance, bolier-mak George was a member of the I. W. chippers and caulkers, blacksm |W. the days when it was a mili- ete., are working under conditions of |tant organization, and was editor of extreme danger, speedup and low an I. W. W. paper. wages. oo Due to these conditions, a rising CHICAGO ( Organizi militancy is rapidly taking place in tion of rs will be a sub- the shipyard and the workers are/ ject of discussion but not of action looking forward eagerly to the day at the National Negro Labor Con- GEORGE TO SPEAK AT WORK- Other states indicate as great or greater drops. The contrast is especially sharp when we remember the telegrams from the governors of all these states to Hoover. The main note in all 48 of them was: “We will immediately start a big building campaign and_ stimulate all building’ projects. Everything is fine. We are behind you.” SS eae Page Three Unmasking A Company Union This cartoon, drawn by a miner's child, shows the Lewis and | Fishwick cliques, each representing a group of coal operc fight- ing inside of the United Mine Workers of America, with the miners tearing the “union” camouflage off of them and showing them up for what they are. PLANS A STRIKE N.T.W. Issues Call For! Mobilization, Fight (Continued from Paye One) Struggle—A Call to Action,” the {subject matter of which was adopte Piece work has been introduced |by the National Convention held in| and w |Paterson, Dec. 21-22. | It tells of the wage-cuts and speed- up systems in all parts of the textile | indust: The unemployment wave, jpartly a result of the speed-up, | “stretch out” and other rationaliza- tion schemes and party due to gen- eral depression in all industrie 'throws tens of thousands into starva tion and misery. | The leaflet calls for resistance to | the terror in the South, and the at- |tack on the militant union by the A. F. L. It draws a distinction be- tween conferences of the A. F. L, made up of bureaucrats, and those of the N. T. W., where hundre f |worker delegates right from the! mills, attend and work out the plans | of organization. The leaflet ends: | “Resist militantly against nt! Di ist speed-up « day; ev with the capital-| em! Demand the 40-hour week! Demand from the bosses unemployment in- surance and sick benefits! “Fight against child labor! | “Equal pay for equal work for all} young workers! ‘SILK CONFERENCE GASTONIA CASES IN COURT TODAY I. L. D. Pushing Appeal jon 20 Year Conviction! | | The fight for the liberation of the even Gastonia strikers, which has | ince they were arrested in June, was intensified when ntenced to brutal terms ch they w up ta yea starts again in the courts when the record of the case | is presented this morning in Gaston County Court by lawyers for the strik The record, prepared by the la hired by the International La- bor Defense, is given to the court, which in turn hands it over to the prosecution lawyers for disagree- ment. Then it will be printed and presented April 1, before the su- perior court of the state for a hea ing. The I. L. D. is intensifying i fight for the strikers, by means of mass protest meetins over the land, and the raising of funds to fight the case to the United States Supreme Ccurt. wn age, the vourgeots age, uished this—that ft MASS PRESSURE SMASHES FRAME- UP ON SAYLORS Trial of Saul Expected in This Term of Court (Continued from Page One) workers stronger and more power- ful than ever, so that we can meet hard struggles ahead.” Saylors still held on the per- jury charge, and his trial is expected to come up in this term of the court in Mecklinburg County, that is, within a few days. is hated by the southern ,» especially because when, last September, a lynch gang kid- napped him, with Ben Wells and C. M. Lell, took them into the coun- and flogged Wells, Saylors and has since made af- Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia and Major Bulwinkle, counsel for the anville-Jenckes Co., were among ne lynchers. They first placed the perjury charge against him, and then, last Tuesday, when he ap- peared in court prepared to prove the truth of his assertions, they charged him with murder to pre- vent his giving testimony. Saul Trial Soon. George Saul, southern representa- |tive of the I. L. D., is expected to come to trial also within a few days on a variety of charges, “as- ult,” “concealed weapons,” etc., because when he was told of lynch- ers hunting for him to kill him he got a gun for self defense. The Gastonia county grand jury is still going through the bluff they started yesterday, to “investigate” the case of the murder of Ella May by mill owners’ gangsters in Sep- |tember. The workers here know what a fake this “investigation” is, jespecially as Carpenter is in charge of it. “Mother” Ella Reeves Bloor speaks tonight in Odd Fellows Hall, Winston-Salem, N. C. The meeting is in the Negro workers’ section under the combined auspices of the I. L. D., and the Trade Union Unity | League. Other speakers are Elbert Totherow, for the National Textile | Workers’ Union; Sol Harper and |Jeff Neal, Negro T. U. U. L. organ- “Abolition of night work for wo- men and young workers! | ‘Complete class solidarity of Northern and Southern textile work- | ers, white and black! Fight for |the unconditional release of the |seven Gastonia class-war prisoners! ; | “Fight against the misleaders o the A. F. of L. and the U. T. W. the worst traitors of the worke’ interests! “Organize Mill Committees | ACTION in every textile mill! of | |ference to be held here Jan. 26-31 under the auspices of the Sleepin; Car Porters’ Union. The same bunk was fed to the building trades and other workers by Green, Woll, Morrison and Hutchinson of the American Fed- eration of Labor. They do this to stave off the mass revolts of the rank and file who every day feel the growing unemployment. American capitalism cannot draw any inspiration or hope from en- gineer Hoover’s great building pro- gram scheme. It does not exist. On the contrary, the rapid drop in building construction carries with it deeper crisis for the basic indus- tries. Even on the basis of the present curtailed public building programs the leading capitalist organs are kicking about increased taxation. The Journal of Commerce says: “The resultant taxes will remain to overburden large numbers of peo- ple.” This is a demand to cut even further the building programs and at the same time to cut wages in- volved in the already limited build- ing projects, International Labor Defense Membership Meeting Today A report on the National Conven- tion of the International Labor De- fense, recently held in Pittsburgh, will be given at a membership meeting of the New York District of the I. L. D. Wednesday evening, 8 p. m., at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Sympathizers and __ particularly Negro workers are also invited to attend this meeting and learn of the plans for broad mass campaigns in defense of the Gastonia, Shifrin, Fight Imperialist War Preparations! : JOIN THE COMMUNIST * Wednesday, January 22, at7 P.M. Mineola and other class war cases, Presented By New York I.E, D. will also be dis Workers ramatic Council, Workers Dance Group, cussed. The bazaar this year. will Workers Laboratory Theatre, Freiheit Gesangs Ferein, be held from Feb. 26 to March 2 in- clusive at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Speakers at the meeting will be J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- tary of the I. L. D.; Charles Alex- ander, Negro organizer of the I. L. D.; Sam Nesin, district organizer of the I. L. D.; Henry Buckley, member of the Gastonia Labor Jury and one of the delegates to the I. L. D. National Convention; and Gilbert Lewis, business manager of the Liberator, organ of the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress, Labor Sports Union, Ww. 26-28 Union Square Defend the Soviet Union! “THE BELT GOES RED” A MASS PAGEANT 1. R. Chorus and Brass Bana Installation of Communist Recruits PROMINENT SPEAKERS RS Admission Balcony 50c + Orchestra 75¢ Auspices—Communist Party of the USA — District Two and the YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE PARTY! At Madison Sq. Garden SOth Street and Sth Ave. antagonism. ety is splitting two great hostil great and direc ex: bourgeoisie and pro- More. |izers. The audience will be made up mostly of Negro tobacco work- {ers. Tomorrow Bloor will speak in Greenville, S. C. COOPERATIVE RESTAURANT (SERVICE) ‘ CAFETERIA (SELF-SERVICE) will re-open in the next few days-as soon as alterations are completed. Union Sq. Cafeteria {INCORPORATED} 26-28-30 UNION SQ. NEW YORK New York, N. ¥. Read the DAILY WORKER for further information. ee