The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1930, Page 3

ee nn ery at oe SEE ay MCC ET, ll SS DAILY WORKE: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930 a Page Threy CAPITALIST TOOLS | SPLIT FROM ALL-INDIA TRADEUNIONCONGRESS Executive Council Meet at Nagpur Takes Firm Steps to Left and Bourgeois Leaders Split Form New Federation Which Will Get Sup-| port of Indian and Imperialist Capitalists (By the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat) SHANGHAI (By Mail). — The Right Wing bourgeois lawyers and reactionaries who have fastened themselves to the Indian Trade Unions, have now split the All- India Trade Union Congress. The split was well prepared as seen by the tactics of those who seceded; because the Executive Council of the A.I.T.U.C. adopted several resolutions, including affilia- tion to the P.P.T.U.S., that amounted to a break with the past reformist | policy and a repudiation of those advocates of class peace, rationaliza- tion at the expense of the workers, compromise with British imperial- ism, accepting a slave status with- in the Empire in return for a few crumbs from the imperialist table and places in the administrative ma- chine for suppressing the Indian masses. The Executive Council meeting at Nagpur previous to the full Con- gress session indicated the time had come to put an end to a policy which turned the EC meetings into gecberinas for the purpose of allocating each other excursions to Europe, such as happened at the dis- graceful meeting held last April. In addition to agreeing to affiliate to the PPTUS, which was with- drawn as a tactical concession to maintain unity in open Congress, in spite of the disruptive tactics, the EC decided to fight for complete in- dependence for India and for the establishment of a Workers’ Repub- lice; to affiliate to the League Against Imperialism; to recognize the Workers’ Welfare League of India (London). It also refused to attend the Asiatic Labor Conference, rejected attendances at the League of Na- tions International Labor Office conferences which implies rejection of the International Federation of | Trade Unions, decided to boycott the Whitley Commission of Inquiry into labor conditions in India which was set up by the British government; condemned the Nehru Report that} accepted a Dominion Status; and refused to endorse a round table conference as suggested by. the British Labor Government endorsed by the Right wing reactionaries. On all these main issues the dele- gates atthe Nagpur Congress endorsed the Left wing decisions of the EC and thus we hope has wiped out the reformist policy forever within the All-India Trade Union Congress, As in most colonial countries the bourgeois intellectuals have natu- rally seized upon the labor move- ment as a means of obtaining po- litical prestige and jobs, This is only another reflex of the terrible poverty and exploitation of the In- dian masses, who are denied an ele- mentary education, This bourgeois element is com- posed mostly of briefless lawyers or runabouts who exist also from direct exploitation indulged in by their favored parents or relatives, the majority of whom have no real workingclass feeling or conception. However, there are exceptions who honestly strive to serve the workers’ interests and who gradually become imbued with the workingclass spirit. Many of the latter honestly sup- ported the above decisions. But the culprits in the former group, in- cluding N. M, Joshi, B, A., M. L. A., Diwan Chamanlal, M. L. A., 8. C. Joshi, M. L. C., Mr, Fuley M. L. C. V. V. Giri, Shiva Rao, etc., not only left the Congress rather than sub- | mit to workingclass decisions which are truly aimed at their class in- terests, but to demonstrate they re- main loyal supporters of the British imperialists as well as native ex- ploiters they split the All-India T. U. C. and have formed an opposition Federation of Trade Unions. They applied their impressive tactics when they withdrew from Locked Pe Crowd of dressmakers, locked out by the bo: Union, the bosses, .the police and But this picture shows the on the dressmakers to rally to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union a olique in the 1.L,.G. in sight, ward, the organ of the right wing ithe A. I T. U. C. The delegates voted to boycott the Whitley Com- | mission, upon which they were de- termined to take a seat—and the cash that goes with it. The deci- sion upon this question indicates that the Congress held majority votes for a more militant policy. Therefore separating themselves in- to groups, the reactionaries issued manifestoes or made declarations, the enemies were dislodged within the A.LT.U.C. Their manifestoes, all readily printed by the native capitalist and imperialist press, were but the shots of a rear-guard action of those who felt the full weight of the offensive action com- menced at Jharia and renewed with great vigor at Nagpur. The formation of this new cap- italist federation of trade unions is in the nature of Tcativing of their seattered forces and the struggle | will become intense and bitter. But the A.LT.U.C. has the masses on its side, for the enemy has nothing to offer even those it has been able to retain. In fact, if it were not for the use the British imperialists and their lackeys are certain to make of it, in an attempt to prevent the de- velopment of the A.LT.U.C., it is doubtful whether it could be taken as a serious menace. But knowing that this capitalixt federation of trade unions will have support, it becomes therefore a very serious British imperialist fortress that must, and we hope will soon be put out of action. There are some waverings and hesitancy already in evidence about continuing the offensive. This is The retreat had at last began and | 3 DETROIT MEETS FISHT ATTACKS "ON UNEMPLOYED (To Rally Workers for Struggle (Continued from Page One) the same charges with bail fixed at $7500 each, and five others are still | held on smaller charges. The bosses and their government jare in panic ovér the successes achieved by the Communist Party, the TUUL and the Auto Workers’ Union in organizing the employed and unemployed workers in Pontiac, Detroit, and other cities in Michi gan, and are trying to stop the ri | most brutal terror and the illegal- ization and suppression of the Com- | munist Party and the other class organizations of the workers. | The workers of Detroit and of | the entire country must realize the threat of the capitalist class and |rally to the support and defense of their class organizations. | Admission to all meetings is 10 | cents and unemployed free. Workers of Detroit, attend these meetings and bring your shopmates | with you. ~ #8 U. S. and the World Crisis. | In the present crisis, with over | 6,000,000 unemployed in the United is the sharpening of the world crisis |as the crash in the United States in- tensifies, The Federation of British Indus- tries, an organization of the leading exploiters in Great Britain, recently admitted that the crisis in the United States is deepening the crisis jin that country. Over 2,000,000 reg- istered unemployed walk the streets jin Great Britain, with the slimy “la- | bor” party aiding the bosses in try- jing to cheat the workers out of the {starvation doles, How deeply the crisis in the United States is upsetting world \capitalism and deepening the crisis ing struggles of the workers by the | |States, the most significant feature | very dangerous. But if the policy |in other countries is expressed in a which seems to have been fully|csble dispatch from London to the adopted by S. V. Deshpande, in con-| New York Times (Feb. 3, 1930), ducting the affairs of the fighting | which says in part: mill workers’ union, the Girni Kam-| gar Union, is followed by him now | og he has become the general secretary | fo! of the All-India Trade Union Con- “British trade activities overseas nnot fail to be checked, at least r a time, by the disorganization | which the Wall Street collapse has gress, it is sure to carry much in- 2 Fy A | occasioned in markets for raw ma- fluence throughout the entire labor |teyials whose producers are normal- Leenened both nationally and in-/jy among England’s best customers RRS CB REY tor finished goods, “It is also felt that increased American exporters is likely to be felt.” Byers Released; Starts pressure on the export markets by | Organizing for Union (Continued from Page One) He served five days of it. His sen. tence of 20 days, “for insulting the flag,” which is what New Bedford bosses’ courts call preference for the Soviet Govern- ment, is being appealed, When Byers was sentenced, 12 other workers got 80 days in jail and $15 fines, which means extra time in jail. They are all appealing, and are out on bonds of $300 and $400 each, being provided by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Exploited in Jail. Byers reports that the prisoners are forced to work seven hours a day, making expensive chairs for the boss class to rest in, while they speed-up and cut evages of mill workers. The prisoners ave also jsubjected to the cruel and unusual punishment of having to listen to a | preacher every Sunday, on penalty of losing their meals that day if | they don’t. The meals are bad, but the preach- jing is poison. Byers reports mill local meetings of the N.T.W. are going on every night, and that the textile workers are actively preparing for the great unemployment demonstration to be held February 26. On February 22 jalso, comes the district convention of the N.T.W., and its organization campaign is going on full force. NO MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN DETROIT, SUNDAY. DETROIT, Feb. 5.—There will be no membership meeting on Sunday in Detroit as previously announced. BRIGGS AUT SPEEDS selves Som (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND.—On the seventh of January the bosses of the Briggs Body sent the workers home and told them to come on Thursday. When Thursday came around they \This kept up until two weeks had passed, when the plant opened up again. Now the workers are working 5, |6 and 7 hours a day, union hours, but without union pay. The workers in my department (By a Worker Correspondent) ELDORADO, ILL.—The men in |the mines that didn’t answer the jstrike call are in very low spirits. They know that their conditions are |slave conditions and some even | worse. The most rotten thing that ever died was the U.M.W.A, which long ago was a fighting organization of the miners before Lewis and Fish- wick got hold of it. They diserim- inated against the Negro workers. (By « Worker Correspondent) BERKELEY, CAL. (By Mail).— As you know that all the Barbers lare being licensed in mostly every state. We are being bound and shackled each one to his respective state. when conditions or health will force jhim to locate in another state. has a barber law staring him in the \face. The inspectors and examiners themselves could not answer the |questions, if they hadn’t memorized them beforehand. No, a drag or a pull by some influential friend is your only chance, In introducing the Law at the junions, they promise us better con- | “Elevate the trade to a pro- | ditions. fession,” is the slogan. Make us LAYS OFF MANY AND Workers Starting to Think and Ask Them-| Workers Sent Home, Told to Come Thursday; Then Told to Come Next Monday told them to come next Monday. | A Striker Appeals A. F. L. Aids in Shackling Barbers by Law 0 BODY UP OTHERS e Quesijons are only making a few dollars a |day, while at the same time the | bosses are letting a few of the flun- keys earn more than the other work. ers in order to keep the other work- ers thinking that they are not work- ing hard enough. At the same time the bosses tell us that we will have’ a lot of work and plenty of over-| —BRIGGS WORKER. deputies last Octobe for Aid to Miners They discriminated against the| young workers. Only the National | Miners Union and the Communist | Party is breaking down this dis-| crimination that kept us workers | divided. | Would appeal again to the work- ers all over the country to keep sending in clothes and money for | circulation in the South, said about | the striking miners of Illinois fight- | Williath Green’s speech here to a ing for all workers and against the | group of business and professonal bosses. | men: —ILLINOIS STRIKER. | “The policies he advocated might have come with propriety from the | president of the American Bankers’ Association or the head of any feel that we are no longer members | 8°°UP of business or professional | Jof the working class but men of | "ty. inight be taken for the pres- | profession, making another division ' |of the working class, The last raise in prices resulted {in many dropping out of the union (By a Worker Correspondent) | The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, the paper which claims the largess What chance has a worker | He | and consequently we find more cut | rate shops than ever before in the history of the Barbers Union. They | | may deny it, but our eyes tell us so. | | Now they advocate another raise in | prices, which will mean another drop | lin union membership. Yes, the A. F. of L. is fostering ; \the very thing they claim to be) fighting, open shop conditions. Yours for a National Barber's | Union (under the leadership of the |Communist party). | —A UNION BARBER. in the first two weeks of January, a |substantial increase over December That the crisis of world capitalism | when 16 per cent were out of work. Iso will sharpen the rupture of |The figure for January is the high- merican capitalism -is likewise re-|est-~percentage of unemployment flected in cables from Europe. A'since the Federation begam collect- |dispatch from Rome to the New |ing statistics in 1927. (It can be “The feeling is that visible Euro- pean conditions prove the existence |of uneasiness in business circles | which is not removed.” | React Again on U. 8. Business. “This, it is thought, is bound to {affect American recovery from the {recent Wall Street crash, nothwith- standing the immense resources of the United States... . The trend of | opinion here is that business depres- |sion in America will not end im- | mediately.” Thus, the fundamental conditions |producing mass unemployment are | becoming worse and will grow worse |in the futur | The latest reports on workless |toilers comes from a souree hardly | distinguishable from the U, S, im- perialist department of labor, name- | ly, the American Federation of La- | bor, in a statement issued by the bootlicker, Green, While Davis of the Department of Labor finds it | convenient to lie by the wholesale, | Green cannot tell the 700,000 unem- | ployed in the ranks of the A, F. of L. that things are “jake.” Proof That Hoover Lied. Reports flock in from the locals that unemployment is rife every- where, and he merely tones down the reports. Here are the words of the “toned down” A, F, of L, statement: “Unemployment increased in January. The figures show 19 per cent of union members unemployed his announced | York Times (Feb. 3, 1930) states: | added that the unemployment in the Imperialists in Big Navy Scramble (Continued from Page One) | worn-out hulks so that their navies | will be in better fighting trim for |the next world war. (By « Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, ORE.—There are seven 100 per cent American gentle- men who have offered their services |to this State of fish, apples and hot air, You see, the governor’s seat is going to be declared vacant in the near future. Being that I have to work for a living, I am naturally interested in who is going to make more laws for the oppression and exploitation of myself and my fellow workers. Imagine my pleasure when reading |one of our yellow sheets the other day, I find that the “American Separation of Labor” is going to see that the slave gets good represent tion at this forthcoming election. lures and le dx WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE - FROM THE SHOPS ibid saab cia Southern mill worker's family. The Memphis, Saari Neh Ua ee papers hailed William Green as a friend, wecording wren cor Jare beginning to ask themselves respondent. Green's latest act of treackery—this ti to the South- rgehngl i 5 ern workers—was a disavowal of the Marion mill strikers, and a some questiene, vindication of the massacre of Marton strikers by the mill bosses’ ‘Membhis, Tenn. Bosses Know Their Man --- William Green ilent of a bank, the president of a railroad, a United States senator or a great ation lawyer.” The Press-Scimitar, local Scrips Howard afternoon paper, also said: “In a crowd Green probably would be taken for a professional man.” Green’s speech in the Auditorium was attended by about 500 whites in the orchestra and three Negroes (joined later by a fourth) in the balcony. The capitalist p: knows the bosses’ man. —H corpc B. DAVIS. Oregon A. F. L. Fat Boys Scramble for Political Plumbs | voters is to be harmonized and cen- and cohesive to men, meas- tral as an active force and influence 2 islation. At this early date it is not possi- ble to say to whom these labor fakirs are going to offer their re- ward, in past performances the re- ward has been given to their brother grafters, so according to Hoyle, the | slickest grafter will receive the sup- port of (organized labor) as per- sonified by the “American Federa- tion of Labor Fakirs.” Workers of the West, don’t be fooled and mis- led by these rats, remember the Centralia Victims, Mooney and Bill- ings and the rest of the class war prisoners who are rotting in the {capitalist jails, they have made no} Labor Fakir Ben. T. Osborne,|move to get our Comrades out of 700 MINERS IN. ‘WEST VIRGINIA _ DEFY TROOPERS Illinois Miners Armed | Guard at Relief Store (Continued from Page One) their hatred for the United Mine Workers, both the Lewis and Fish- |wick gangs, is stronger than ever. | Feeling for the National Miners’ | Union is strong and the miners are ready to follow its leadership. | Lucky To Work 1 Day. | “Rationalization, speed-up, the displacement of men by machinery, are still going strong in the Illinois mine field. Unemployed workers who have not been definitely black- listed must get up early every morning and report at the mine. They are lucky if they get a full day’s work once in a long while. “Conditions of semi-starvation prevail throughout the field, but they are worst in Saline County. The miners and their families live in dismal, unheated, unpainted, leaky shacks. Practically their sole food is gravy and bread; coffee is seldom seen. Though the WIR has supplied tons of clothing, it is far from enough. When our Taylorville station opened, the miners’ wives had to bring their children on sleds because they had no shoes. Pel- lagra, the disease of starvation, has appeared in Saline County and is likely to spread unless checked. | “The Workers International Re- lief is continuing its activities in | southern Illinois and the workers look upon it as a weapon in their struggle. Four relief stations are now open: at Eldorado, Saline Coun- ty; Christopher, Franklin County; Taylorville, Christian County; and Jeisyville, Christian County. An armed guard is on constant duty at the Taylorville station to protect it from attacks by the sheriff and United Mine Workers thugs.” ‘ + * New York, Philadelphia Active. | New York and Philadelphia are swinging into action in the cam- paign to raise relief for the striking and victimized Illinois miners. A successful house to house collection was recently held in Philadelphia and on Monday, Feb. 10, a confer- ence of working class organizations | will be held to mobilize a broad re- lief campaign. The New York local of the Work- ers International Relief has ar- ranged tag days Saturday and Sun- |day, Feb. 8 and 9. On Feb. 20 a conference of representatives of | militant organizations will be held under the uspices of the W.I.R. to broaden the relief campaign in N.Y, Bi 8,000 Strike in Belgium, (Wireless by Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, Feb. 5.—Eight thou- 'a. F. of L. is even higher than in {the sharp crisis of 1921.)” Where Is That “Remedy?” “The highest percentage of unem- ployment is in the building trades, where 88 per cent were unemployed.” (Where is Hooyer’s $3,000,000,000 |building program remedy?) A United Press dispatch states |that Baldwin speaking at a Con- |servative Unionist meeting at the | | Coloseum “assailed what he termed | ‘the ‘secrecy’ of the Laborites in their | | international policy, especially dure What is the A. F. of L. program jing negotiations with Russia and inj} in the present severe unemployment | the naval conference,” |situation? Precisely that of the} Not that Baldwin disagrees with |bosses: No organization, no strikes, | the imperialist policies of the “la- no fight for relief. Slimier still are | bor” government, but he wants more | the attempts of Green and his co-| information on the progress of the | jhorts to keep the workers from de- | war plans against the U.S.S.R. manding relief from the capitalist states ind the bosses with their — Ne ae | Expressing the fact that there are “State executive secretary of the ” issued Misrepresentation of Labor, | the following statement to the cap- | italists mouth pieces, “On Sunday, Feb. 9, Union Labor will set up a Workers’ Legislative and Political | League through which _ political | activity of that segment of the| the stinking dungeons, avoid them | as you would a leper. Join the T.U.U.L. and help get, rid of these finks and strike break- ers. Visit the Workers Center Hall at 68 Third St., Room 2, Portland, y--PORTLAND WORKER. Tailor Bosses Know Own “TU (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The business agent who had promised to deliver’ the goods, as he expressed himself becoming public charges. far charity from union families are rare.” Green wants the workers to shut up a say nothing \ hile starving to death. He does not want to em- barrass his friends, the imperialists. jobless workers can have nothing. jelsc but the deepest scorn and anger. The unemployed will rally to the councils being established by the Trade Union Unity League. Jobless and employed workers will unite in a mighty demonstration for full- wage relief on February 26, Out Dressmakers Show How They the capitalist pres: Workers reading the Communist Morning F’ 8, gathered at 36th St. and Eighth Ave. Feel by the Papers They Read A in ¢ The International Ladies Garment Workers is trying to call this move towards company unionizing a strike for better conditions. ‘reiheit, which exposes the company union conspiracy and calls gel it a real strike, There is not one Jewish Daily For- Appeals | For Green’s program the 6,000,000 | swollen profits, Says the A. F.of L.|sharp rivalries and dif’erencos| at a mecting held recently, in order document: among the imperialist powers at the | to organize the unorganized of the “By helping members to ride over [EORdon race-for-armament confer- | custom tailoring branch, has sue- this fiffienlt time of dncmlegment, [eres and that the capitalist papera | ceeded in fooling the workers. | wi : vom, |i the U. S. are filed with lies con-| In a certain contracting shop unions keep many -housands from | (...ing the meet, the Financial and | which i upposed to be the larges ; Commercial Chronicle, mouthpiece of Wall Street says: (Feb. 1, 1930). “Although the pronouncements thus made were very general in na- jin that trale and the most difficult to organize, the said agent stated |that he has his own method of get- | ting this shop into the union, and ture, they foreshadowed serious dif- | once he gets that shop the boss will ferences and these developed with | help him keep it unionized. He cer-| more or less definiteness when dis- tainly achieved his aim in betraying cussion of the agenda was begun. | the poor tailors who are toiling un- The leading delegates of the U. S.,|der the most miserable conditions Britain, France, Italy and Japan,and for the lowest wages. gathered on several occasions at the| When a committee came into the official residence of the Prime Min-| ahoye mentioned shop to call the ister, 10 Downing St., but they were | tailors to a meeting the boss re- continually hampered in their ef-| sisted and called for the police, forts to write the agenda by the con- | thinking that this was the Amalga-} flicting views entertained. More than |mated Clothing Workers with the 200 press correspondents are in Lon- | same spirit as of the years 1917-18, don for the express purpose of re-/ hut he immediately convinced him- porting the conference, and in the | self that it was a company union absence of any elaborate official and that he has nothing to lose. On| statements, some highly colored dis-| the contrary he has much to gain by| patches were sent out.” \the “union.” The Chronicle fails to mention} ‘The boss |that all “official reports” are writ-| against the | ten by paid writers hired by the im-/| perialist governments to give out jonly such information as they want to for popular consumption, who fought bitterly “union” is now very content and is urging his employes \to pay dues, because he feels that} this is his union. He takes advant- age of this and demands the quality Today Is Anniversary 2 Workers Killed | of Seatile Strike As Cable Breaks) (Continued from Page One) | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 5.— mittee was for three days nearly a| Two workers were killed instantly dictator in the city. Not a wheel | today when they fell 22 stories from turned, gas, water and lighting were | the Alamonal Bank Building to the permitted only at the command of | Street. the committee to hospitals, ete. Those murdered by the bosses’ The working population was en-|¢arelessness were A. J. Smith and thusiastie for the strike, and wanted | Milton Sadler. Workers who saw ‘o go further. Mayor Ole Hanson | the accident said a platform on ond the employers were cast into a which Smith and Sadler had been vanic, Hanson ms?» money for | Standing collapsed when a cable rears afterwards writing books on broke, the “red revolution in Seattle,” io a considerable extent of the strike | However, the A.F.L. union bureau-| machinery. One A.F.L, _ skilled \eracy, which was not then as com- | tyslos union after another was al- pletely exposed as at present, had | lowed to go back, and the will to b> 1 rusted by the workers. It was | firht of the masses gradually beaten in control of the union offices, and | down by successive act of treachery. the ACW As Their of work which compelled the tailors sand textile workers of the Renaix district struck on Monday again, be- cause the owners reduced wages of | certain categories of workers, al- | though previously granting an agree- | ment for a five per cent wage raise. | The Communists are fighting the re- formists for leadership. | ee | Beware... saz Bladder ed lives out. Consequent- ly they are forced to toil the same Catarrh— Sd long hours from 60 to 70 hours a week in order to earn a very poor, Burning Passages... Painful living. Elimination and Night Rising The tail cannot always be) These warnings may indicate the fooled and betrayed. They will soon) presence of a serious ailment which be urged to against their trait- May, effect your entire bodily health. against the United Garment Work- | For nearly half'a century thas Ber | ers and join the T.U.U.L. in order | prescribed by doctors for rapid relief. to build a powerful union whic will serve the interests of the tail- ors instead of the bosses. By EARL h Santal Midy' | ewrewvwwwew At ane RDA OUT OF A JOB! BROWDER of the problem of UNEM- Ae invaluable analysis PLOYMENT. The author destroys, by means of facts and Marxist-Leninist deduction, all illusions cre- ated by the hypocritic efforts of the Hoover-A.F.L.- socialist combines to cure this evil, now facing millions of workers in this country. Not a REMEDY—but a program of STRUGGLE! FIVE CENTS Help toSpread It Among Your Shop Mates Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th Street New York City SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON ORDERS IN QUANTITY LOTS ial