The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 6

Published by the Comprodaily New York Ci and mail all chec’ Square Page Six NATIONAL MINERS UNION to the Daily Worker, 2 Publishing Co. Ine, @aily, except Sunday, Y. Telephone Stuyvesant '1696-7-8. Cable: at 26-28 Union 1 “DAIWORK.” 28 Union Square, New York, N. ¥. ESTABLISHES BASE IN ANTHRACITE 1, in Hazelton n of the ent, repr region, 2 united front ¢ There we nandoa a consolida and file m September. ing was made ir ruggle in Septem- of tt mobilizing the m ber under the banner N The report of the , and the repc nd hraci the conditions with r ; and ance of rooting n every colliery well re the throughout ant e was very ceived by the delegates. The delegates spoke on the conditions in their own collieries, reported on the wage cuts, speed-up, acute unemployment, and general worsening of conditions that were prevalent everywhere. The < ates exposed the role of the U.M.W.A ney of the o anthracite—th the McCrone group. Lovestone Monkey-Wrenches. % he Lovestone rene- hracite, led by Vrethich ded to throw Their d to cau 1 time + m.” They tool From the very sta ZS. presént the tion prog: the floor as often as they could to spek, and as long as they could speak. They ented re: lutions on: (1) Calling on the conference to endorse the “labor party;” (2) calling on thi conference to ‘unite’ with their “Provisional un employment cou and arrange a joint meet ing in Pittston; (3) other resolutions that were acceptable a 7 the conference. turned into the resolutions committee but wers introduced after the resolut committee re- ported and the conference had endorsed: (a) a resolution on the terror campaign against workers’ organizations and the arrests of Fos ter, Minor, Carr, Powers, Dalton, Brady, ete and which called for building up of the Inter- national Labor Defense; (b) resolution endor: ing the Communist Party and its candidat: as the only workers’ political organization; (: resolutions on sending across a delegate to t! R.LL.U., ete. The discussion that developed completely ¢: posed the completely opportunistic line policy of these disrupters and splitters. Wh the resolutions of the resolutions committ were adopted by the overwhelming bulk the delegates—not even Vretarich daring oppose some of them—yet after a thorou: discussion the Lovestoneites’ labor party reso lution, we found that the vote was overwhelm ingly against it—even some of the rank anc file workers who are misled by Vretarich vote: against this resolution of the’ The vote was 44 to about 12. were not The “amendment” which they offered on the unemployment conference resolution was sim- ilarly voted down. Exposed As Enemies. During the debates, as a result of the ob- truetionist policy of Borich, Vretarich, etc., me young miner delegate from “Hazelton got ip and stated: “you people referring to Vretarich, Borich, are acting here like agents f Lewis.” This brought a storm of applause om the bulk of the delegates. The great majority of the delegates favored he N.M.U. program as against the “minority” rogram of the splitters. The confusionists sre permitted te sent their program— and its line of confusion, opportunism, and tacit support of the Fishwick outfit was exposed > the miners. All in all, the discussions and debates clarified the matters, and the delegates registered a decisive ideological and political defeat of these disrupters. In the discussions that took place, many of the newer and younger elements took an active part in the fight against the Gitlow-Hapgood-Fishwick agents. Nominations for the R.I.L.U. Congress took place. < rank and file miners were chosen as candidates. The role and purpose of the R.L.L.U.—as the international revolutionary trade union center as against Amsterdam was made clear to the delegates. Executive Elected. An executive committee of 15 was elected. Bodich, Vretarich, and some of their lesser sup- porters were decisively licked by the conference, and not elected to the District Board. This conference marked on organizational défeat for the renegades as well. The N.M.U. now proceed to estab- lish its loose committees of action into locals of the N.M.U.; and its locals into broader and better functioning organizations in the mines. The N.M.U. must pick up the daily issues of the ma: of miners, and lead them in their struggles. Right now—one of the biggest campaigns of the N.M.U. is the struggle to organize the unemployed miners for a fight for “Work or Wages.” The N.M.U. must organize scores of secret and open mass meetings wherever favorable conditions exist for such meetings. To simply rest content with “secret” meetings would mean ual capitulation to the terror of the opera- s, and would mean in effect the acceptance f the position of semi and actual illegality fer the N.M.U. United Front Committees of Action must be organized in the collieries that will embrace all workers—members of the U M. W. A.—unorganized, and N.M.U. members The main task is the actual organizational preparation for the Sept. 1 strike. Otherwise— Lewis will put across his. sellout agreement; and the miners will be shackled for another five years to come. Win U. M. W. Locals, The district board of the N.M.U. will have to meet and function, and be established as th: real leader of the anthracite miners. The sharp- est fight must be conducted against McCrone Horan-Howells, etc. as well as against the Git- low-Hapgood-Vretarich outfit. The elements eathered around Daly from the Lattimer Mines Local are insignificant, and do not represent much of a danger at this time. The N.M.U. will have to take up seriously the work of breaking through and capturing ‘he local unions of the U.M.W.A. This worl nas been seriously underestimated and neglect 1 until now. The work within the fascist- ficial U.M.W.A. must proceed, and we must win the honest rank and file away from the corrupt Lewis company agents. This can be fone, as is already shown by experience. The holding of the N.M.U. conference in the very heart of the anthracite, with a powerful machine of fakirs, with their thugs and gun- men, ete. was certainly an achievement—but only a step that needs to be followed up. “Socialists” Ask for Wage Cuts for the Workers Pe social-fascist trade union bureaucrats o G ny are cooperating with the bosse to jate a nation-wide wage-cutting cam- paign. This was indicated in a Berlin dis- patch to the New York Times of June 4. The wage cut, it w tated, will affect well over 3,000,000 worke: Germany, like the rest of the capitalis world, is in the throes of an acute economi erisis, and the social-fascist bloodsuckers, whc are themselves well taken care of by bloatec salaries, have offered to help the bosses shift the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the German workers. Even the boss class writer of the “Times’ dispatch is surprised at “the frankness with which the leaders of organized labor announce their acquiescence in lower wage scales.” Of course these reactionary “leaders” cannot at- tempt to pull off a wage-cut without sugar- coating the brutal fact with meaningless phrases about the “other price levels sinking in conformity With the wage cuts.” Even the capitalist press, however, cannot suppress a sarcastic smirk about this hypo- critical hokum of “painless wage reductions.” This is the very phrase with which the June 5th issue of the “Journal of Commerce” sar- eastically heads an editorial on the German wage cuts. This Wall Street paper is very skeptical about the ability of the reactionary misleaders to pull off their raw deal on the workers without stirring the latter to revolt. And it openly admits that “a program of uni- versal wage reduction carefully paralleled by corresponding price reduction is practically impossible.” That wage cuts are not really wage cuts, the Journal of Commerce says, is a naive idea. But it is precisely this “naive” idea that the social-democratic trade union “lead- ers” want the workers to believe. i In the present crisis in Germany, it is of course unthinkable to these prostituted social- fascist curs that the bosses should eut down their swollen profits. Their first thoughts are not for the workers they hypocritically elaim to represent but for their real masters, the German bosses. The system of wage- slavery, unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, robber wars and profits must be maintained at all costs and above all at the expense of he German working class! This is the role f the “socialist” misleaders. In this, however, the German social-fascists are but doing what their “socialist” breed is doing in every other capitalist country. In England, these same social-fascists of the Second International, who are now shooting down Indian workers and peasants in ‘their struggle to throw off the yoke of British im- perialism, offered “to take” a wage cut for three thousand striking wool workers in Brad- ford. The workers, however, hurled this at- tempt into their parasitic faces. All over the capitalist world, the bosses are using the crisis to develop a systematic at- tack on the wages of those workers that are not already out on the street. In this attack the “socialists” act as the “saviors of capi- talism” and as the open agents of the bosses. It is to this Second International breed to which the “socialists” of America belong. It is this that they ask the workers to support. But the American workers, like their fellow workers abroad, are recognizing these wolves in sheep’s clothing. In the sharp class battles confronting the workers, only the program and the leadership of the Communist Parties and the revolutionary trade unions can or will serve their class interests. The Tremendously Revolution- ary Trotskyites! By ANDREW OMHOLT. | en Trotskyites are entering the politigal. campaign in North Dakota. True to their colors, they are bidding for a place on the re- publican party ticket in the June primaries. A. C. Miller, expelled from the Communis' Party, and the only Trotskyite and member of the so-called “Communist League” in North Dakota, is circulating petitions to get on the en a perenne marae OY -_ “Walk to hell, you damn parasite!” i the U.S. A. - a ETT ager By mafl everywhere: One year $6; six months two months $1; excepting Boroughs of 4 Machsttan and Bronx, New York City, and foreign. which are: One year $8; six months $4.50 te ed Serger The Pioneers and the “Young Pioneer” By FRANK BAILY. INCE the establishment of the Young Pion- eers, they have become a vital thing in the life of the American left wing movement. Then its main purpose was to bring the work- ers’ children closer to the workers and to bring them in their battles. Now the Pioneers are even more important because they are much more in number than before and they participate in all of the affairs of the revolu- tionary workers, tag days, picket lines, mass meetings and organize and fight for the conr- ditions of the workers’ children in the schools, on the public playgrounds, ete. The Youn Pioneers also tell the workers’ children the real truth about the capitalist schools and the bunk taught in them. Importance Liti!e Felt. Despite this importance ©. the Young Pion eers to the left wing movement, the member of the Party and Young Communist League do not fully realize its importance. In the past the Pioneers have been forced to shift mainly for themselves. This has had a de- grading effect upom the organization and it has suffered because of this. There are 2 large number of Party members who hav children the age of Pioneers and who kee; them out of the organization because of thei: personal beliefs. Some give the reason tha they do not think the Pioneers the perfect organization for workers’ children. If thc Young Pioneers is not the fit organization for the children of these Party members then let these comrades send their children in to fix the defects in the organization. Others say that they want their children to get a chance to think for themselves what side of the question-to take. For a child of a revolutionary worker there is only one course to take. That of the workers. In the schools the ‘workers’ children attend, there are so many bourgeois influences acting upon the child to make him go against himself, againsi the workers. If the worker wants to have his child go against himself he only has to leave him to the influence of the capitalist schools. On the contrary, if the worker wants his child to be with him he must send him to a reve lutionary children’s organization, which show republican party ballot as a candidate fo State Representative. This counter revolutionist and enemy of t! working class is trying to get the support « the farmers and workers by slandering th Workers and Farmers Government of the S: viet Union and lying about the Communist Pa: ty of the U.S.A, This stool-pigeon of the capitalist clas butted in on one of our Communist open ai: meetings at Williston, wanting to debate Com rade Ella Reeve Bloor on his statement tha’ “because the Communist International did noi follow the program” of the traitor ‘Trotsky, the workers and farmers of the world suffered “a great defeat.” Comrade Bloor showed him up for what he is, trying to crawl on the bandwagon of the republican party, the party of Andy Mellon and Hoover, a traitor to the workers and farm- ers. He was completely smashed. The crowd jeer- ed him and voted unanimously for the motion put by Comrade Bloor, that he, Miller, was a traitor to the working class. At this open air meeting we signed up fi! teen new members in the Communist Party. As a candidate for Congress on the Co) mmunist Party ticket, I am receiving anonymou letters signed “Imanut,” coming from Plenty wood, Montana, where a nest of Trotskyitc are flirting with capitalist politicians and try- ing to get some capitalist bandwagon, ‘only 35 cents. vay that small price and they should, to keep | ’ children the correct course to Pioneers of America. he worke t Get Support. organization the members of Communist Party, Young Communist ue and all port it as much as possible. Support it finan- sally and politically. Help make the Young Pioneers a mass political organization of workers’ children in the United States. The Young Pioneers has for its official or- gan the “Young Pioneer.” mes out monthly, brings to the workers’ ldren, among whom it circulates, the mes- sage of the Young Pioneers. It acts as its ss organizer in places where the Pioneers smselves cannot reach. The “Young Pion- ’ teaches the children to stick with their narents, the workers, and not be lured by the nloody fangs of capitalism. The “Young Pioneer” fights the propaganda given the vorkers’ children in the schools, sports clubs, playgrounds, ete., by the bosses, “Young Pioneer” Vital Organ. The re wor “Young Pioneer” is as important to * children as the “Daily Worker” to the American workers. Yet the Party nembers weren’t interested when the paper lidn’t come out for a few months. There wasn’t even a mention among the comrades about what was causing the hold-up of the paper. They didn’t realize the price to the Young Pioneers when they couldn’t have a paper to voice their opinions to the other workers’ children, The reason for the hold-up was the lack of funds to put out the paper. Must Support “Young Pioneer.” Now the “Young Pioneer” must be put on ts feet if the American revolutionary workers want to have their children with them instead of against them. The Young Pioneers loses much of its effectiveness if it hasn’t a voice: with which it can speak to the workers ildren, The adult revolutionary workers must sur sort the campaign of the “Young Pioneer” for subs and money, When they are approache: oy Pioneers for financial support they mus ve as much as possible to start the voic: f the revolutionary workers’ children goin; nce more, Left wing organizations mus \lso support the “Young Pioneer.” If the; lo, the Young Pioneers will be able to hel hem better in return, by having a large nembership to fight the battles of the worl rs with. Every adult worker who has a chil: ‘ust subscribe to the Young Pioneer, th: orice of which has been reduced from 5 to % cents a copy to be able to reach all of the vorkers’ children, A yearly subscription is Every worker can afford to the “Young Pioneer” going and enable it to ight the capitalist children’s magazines, the “Roys’ Life,” and the like. Push the “Young Pioneer”! ‘ Put the drive over the top! X Expulsion of Harry Pelham Company Spy By action of the District Control Commis sion of District 7 (Detroit), Harry Pelham, of Pontiae, Michigan, has been expelled from the Party as a company spy. As a worker in a shop, he succeeded in be coming a functionary of the Party and of i} Suto Workers’ Union before he was caug); and exposed, His age is about 45 years; height--about 57"; weight—about 145 pounds; eyes—gray ‘and shifty; complexion ~fair, He speaks good its sympathizers must sup- | This paper, which | RED ARMY AND NAVY SEND GREETINGS TO R. IL. U. “The men, command and political in- structors of the 101st Syzran Rifles on this First of May, the Holiday of Labor, send the warmest regards of Red Army soldiers through the Red International of Labor Unions to the working class of the world. “We rank and file and commanders of the 10ist Rifles hope to have the powerful sup- port of the world proletariat in any future conflict with imperialism, which is making such intensive preparations today for war against the U. S. S. R. “The salvation of the international ing class lies in the destruction of capitalism. “It is our one hope that in any future clash with the proletariat world capitalism will bring about its own undoing. “Forward to the World Social Revolution! “Up the revolution’s organizer—the Com- munist International! “On behalf of the presidium of the First of May Meeting of the 101st Syzran Rifles. (Adopted unanimously.)” | Signed: Grigorovich, Commander and Commissar, 101st Syzran Rifles. work- “On this day that is the token of the fra- ternal solidarity of the working class, the its militant strength and reviews its revolu- tionary for the crew of the cruiser “Prof- intern” sends its militant Labor Day greet- ings to the leader and organizer of the inter- on which the world proletariat demonstrates | national revolutionary trade union movement —the Red International of Labor Unions, The Red navy men of the cruiser that bears the glorious name of the RILU ask you on this First of May to extend their heartiest greet- ings as fighters for the Red Navy to the toilers of the world organized under the ban- ner of the Red International of Labor Unions. Through the Executive of the RILU we want to assure the working class and all the op- pressed peoples of the world that our hearts are in our jobs and that we are firmly pre- pared to obey the will of the international revolutionary proletariat at any time. Stand- ing guard on the borders of the USSR we are prepared at any moment whatever to per- form our fighting duties on behalf of the workers. “To you workers of the West, and you op- pressed peoples of the East, we would say: Remember that in your great struggle against the world of the oppressors and parasites that make up the capitalist class, we Red Navy men of the ‘Profintern’ will always be with you. “Three cheers for the First of May, the day that s the yearly demonstration of the worke solidarity throughout the world. “Up the RILU! “Oppressed Toilers of the World, Forward to Struggle and Victory over your Capitalist Oppressors. “Presidium of the First of May Meeting on Board the cruiser ‘Profintern.’” By JOE HARRIS. (Section 5, New York.) o EVER has the Central Committee of the Party given a more concrete and corre analysis of the situation and tasks con the Party. Now the rest is up to the units. Unit 5 has accepted the following tasks, and calls upon all other Units to do the same if given the right cooperation by their Section Executive cannot carry out these tasks. and exceed them. Our Unit has already been rrying on some of these tas! and with ne cooperation from the S.E.C. x to the fact that the Section was bi with the Units on the discussion of the Thesis, and reorge tion. If all Units would adopt these tasks the comrades can very easily at a mass Party we would be, and full of life. Factory gate meets: (a) Two factory gate meets to be held every week. One of these to be held together with see (b) (c) Every housewife rade must particip tory gate meet every week. Open Air Meets. The Unit will hold three open-air meeis every week. Every comrade in the Unit must par- ticipate in at least one of the meetings every week. Daily Worker. 2) The Unit will buy 175 Daily W every week, and shall sell or distribute them. The Unit will get 50 new subs for the Daily. Trade Union Unity League. >) The Unit shall immediately 2:k all com- (b) Tasks to Help Build a Mass Communist Party rades for a T,U.U.L. book and those who have not yet joinel the T.U.U.L. will be given application cards to fill out at once. The Units will get 100 new members into the T.U.U.L. in the membership cam- paign. The Unit shall get 25 subs for Labor Unity. Membership Meetings. The Unit will start all meetings at 8 p. m. and no meeting shall takes more than three hours, unless voted on by the members. There shall take place in the Unit dis- cussions not less than twice every month. Discipline. All comrades pledge to help maintain order at all meetings and to fully carry out the tas! assigned to them. Shop Work. The Unit will establish one shop or fac- tory nucleus, also a shop paper. Functionaries. The Unit will refer to the Section two comrades who shall be capable to carry on Section or District functions. New Members. The Unit will enroll 50 new members into the Party, and all new members shall be accounted for. Literature. The Unit shall increase the sales of litera- ture, and discussion shall be raised in the Unit on books and pamphlets. All this the Unit will carry out by Election Day and pledges to exceed these tasks. A wall paper showing how the Unit is pro- ceeding with these tasks, and all comrades who fail to carry out the tasks assigned to them will be listed. (b) (c) (a) (b) (a) (a) (a) Communist Party of Uruguay Clears Its Ranks By JORGE PAZ. HE Communist Party of U stern struggle against opportunism, a fight arising from the open letter of the Communist International last November, has liquidated the fast vestiges of the incurable Right Wingers who tried to undermine the very foundation of the Party. The tasks of the Communist Party of Uru- euay have been multiplied by its having control f a trade union center of more than 30,000 members, the General Confederation of Labor. Class conflicts have taken on grand proportions nd in recent months there has been strike fter strike, beginning with elementary de- iands that quickly assumed political char- reter. ~ Our brother Party of Uruguay had four par- mentary deputies. The Central Committee resented to this parliamentary group, a draft sw for them to propese in the capitalist par- ament, a resolution concerning legislation 0° he eight-hour day. One of the deputies, San lartin, refused to speak for the Gentral Com- nittee policy on this resolution, pretending ‘o ind in it a deviation of “anarchist dialectics.” ‘Ie tried to resign from the Party and was oxpelled. Another of the four deputies, Juan Greco, expressed his solidarity with San Mav- tin, and was also expelled. after a guay, Uruguay, like all countries of the world, specially the colonial and semi-colonial lands, is facing great battles characteristic of the third post-war period in which we live. Duriny: the recent months the situation in Uruguay has been marked by a wave of open. revolu- .tionary strikes (meat packing, building, shoe AS} ete.), mostly of clearly political character. These have shown that the class struggle sharpens daily in Uruguay and that these strikes are but the first skirmishes of the battles the Uruguayan proletariat is entering. Facing this real situation, the vanguard h—also knows French, German, Hun »vian and South Slavie. All workers’’ organizations ‘ast this company spy. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. Ae are watn | party of the workers had to place itself at the head of the masses, employed and unemployed of city and country, to direct the approaching struggles and to lead the masses toward the seizure of power and the establishment of a worker and peasant government. Our brother Party of Uruguay in order to begin this task of mass leadership, had to liquidate the social-democratic remnants and the opportunism that had long been shown in its ranks. It had to liquidate the vacillation and passivity of petty-bourgeois penetration in some of its most outstanding leaders. Recently, Juan Greco, who knew the trad union movement very well and was able tc serve the Party in this sense, accused the Par- ty of “sectarianism.” Being the Party’s par- liamentary representative and having to pre- sent to the Central Committee the speech which he would later deliver in parliament concern- ing the eight-hour question, Greco refused to do so, not attending the meetings called for this purpose. He was removed first from editorship of the Party paper “La Justicia,” and then from the Party, Greco committed the worst treason at joining with San Martin; at rejecting the Party’s poli- tical line, the revolutionary trade Union tac- ties that the Party was applying to the work- crs’ movement; at sabotaging the trade union work of the Party in the time in which the struggle was taking an aggressive class char- acter, at the moment in which more than ev he had to show his political conviction. Hi betrayal was one of elemental policy. Greco, who developed in the first and secon portwar period of capitalism, betrayed the movement in the third. We were good friends, very warm friends. This friendship, however, was never connected with the political posi- tion each oceupied. Working at the same time in the youth movement, and in the trade union movement of Argentina, we acquired a fviendship which, above our differences within the Party, we conserved, but which some five months ago was definitely concluded. Only a short time ago we said a deserved farewell to Com. Jose Carlos Maristegui of Peru. He died physically. Now we bury the votten political cadaver of Greco and wish no more to be molested by the opportunists who try to interfere with the forward march of our work in the ranks of the Communist In- |