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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 ILGWU Sects 1 Fax scists Put Finishing Touches to Local 38 | Ruin; ] Must New To the Editor of the Worke Local 38, I. L. G. W. U., which is supposed to control the high- priced ladies’ garment industry this city, but due to Ameri eration of Labor ta very negligible numbe making shops in tt tion, is at |: pice, from which all other W. U. locais have long ago toppled from into oblivi From. its inception from a few hopeful wobblies, local No. 58 has had its ups and downs with betray als of one brand or another, before and after linking up h the I. L, G. W. U. “radical” section of the A. F. of L. Under Left Wing For a number of years a preten- tious sort of militancy pervaded the activities of this local until 1926, when a real militant group’ emerg- ed out of the chaos and became crystalized under the influence of the Communist Party. Then the he preci- I. L. G. local began showing signs of real | strength, when the membership elected the entire administration from the ranks of the left wing. Organization work among the thou- sands of unorganized workers with | J. S. Poyntz as organizer for the dressmakers, became a fact. The entire membership became active and after one year of Communist organization the lo- cal emergéd strong and had won better conditions for the member- ship. Won Conditions The forty-hour week, increases | in wages and the right to the job/ after one week’s trial were among the conditions won by the union.| But the members lacked foresight 3. | not excepting the | negligible number of right wingers | | Build NTWIU and let - ehembelved be entrapped by |the right wing charlatans whose lon ly object was a sinecure on the union funds. | .At length, after falsely accusing the “lefti of “Union Square” dictatorships and other white lies, the right wing assumed control over the union. Their policy was sup- | posed to be “economy”—they would “squander” money on organi- tion work as did the lefts. And ney certainly kept their promise. Right Wingers Run Local For the last four years the local has lain on its death bed and it won't be long now. Now, after several years of per- secution and browbeating of the jlefts and their sympathizers, the core of the union is becoming weaker day by day. The bosses, being class conscious, are now anxiously waiting, like inheritors at a relatives’ death bed, | for the last breath of the local. Knowing that there’s no resisting pisag! ince the right wing leader- ppressed and smothered militancy of the local by ex- ions, intimidations, ete. the es have now presented demands | to the union for a new agreement | to replace the old, September 15, of next month. A Company Union Now Their demands are as was ex- | pected: discharge, reorganization, and in general, a company union. | The union “leaders” are really not losing a wink of sleep over the im- | pending plunge over the precipice; | for after all they’re not going to starve. They have some money laid by for a rainy day. But what | will the proud, one-time militant membership do about it? Eh? |—A WORKER CORRESPONDENT Insurance Benefits of International Workers’ Order Opportune, Worker Says Newark, N. J. Editor, Daily Worker. The announcement in the Daily Worker concerning the availability of insurance benefits in the Inter- national Workers Order comes, it | seems to me, at an opportune time. T am the victim of a labor-displac- ing. invention which makes it. im- possible for me to ever again pro- cure employment at my trade; in fact, the machine (an electric printer and transmitter) removes the trade forever from the indus- trial field. The only insurance I have ever carried has been in the benefit de- partment of my trade union. There is no longer any reason for retain- ing membership in a trade union representing ‘a trade which has be- come obsolete, except to continue to provide nice salaries for A. F. of L. misleaders—fat fighters of prog- ress. To those unaware of the ex- istence of the I. W. O. the alter- native is to take out a policy in one of the old line insurance companies, or some similar organization, and thus aid in the establishment of a huge fund whieh will inevitably be devoted to the accumulation of more surplus values, which in turn will be used in more firmly fastening on the workers the chains of con- tinued enslavement. I mention my personal experience only because thousands of other workers are in precisely the same predicament. These workers, no doubt, will be glad to join the I. W. O. once the new organization is brough€ to their attention. De: Bristol Faker Well Schooled in Faker-in-Chief Green’s Tactics Bristol, Conn. Daily Worker: Mr. Coles, the delegate of the) affiliated | s: Building Trade Union, with the American Federation of Labor, learned his well ftom Mr. Green, and the rest of the agents of the bosses. Mr. Cole is secretary, and a good grafter and if there are any scabs in the city, he is putting them in the union and at the same time they | can work in the open shcps. As) long as they bring him a gallon of | wine, everything is O. K. business very | When a worker told him to go in Herteone shop and see the union men working in an open shop, he id he could not see anybody and if a worker tries to tell him any- thing else, right away he tries to |expel him, so he will not have any- [body to see what’s going on. We, the young workers of Bristol are getting wise to these fakers and the whole leadership of the A. F. of L., which is an organization fight- jing for the benefit of the bosses in an underground way. —A YOUNG WORKER. \ Atlanta Libera Open Fas Is Afraid cism Too Risky Atlanta, Ga. Dear Comrade and Editor: Am enclosing a clipping from the Atlanta Constitution which carries a more or less interesting effect, These folks. are connected with Em- ory University of this city. These it were who gave to Com- rade Foster an enthusiastic greeting while he spoke here in the interesc of his late presidential campaign— they remember him and love him. Use this in the-Daily Worker if possible. While it is only a luke- warm gesture yet it has an influ ence on this Ku Klux fascist bunch showing them the sentiment of the respectable higher up element—the literati who teach in Asa G. Can- dler’s endowed instution of learning. Sentiment, that’s what we necd here—and it’s coming to us slowly in spite of the recent beginning of American Fascisti organizations. Forward tarch—hurrah for the revolution! —AN UNEMPLOYED, J.LS. Pak a Editorial Note: The clipping re- ferred to is a statement. signed by quite a few bourgeois liberals and intellectuals of Atlanta, Ga, They express fear that a too upen show of capitalist “democratic” fas- ciem would result in redoubled ac- tivity among the workers, and would tear the sooner the mask of “dem- ocracy” from the face of capitalist government. | We quote an excerpt from the | Statement as printed in the Atlanta | Constitution: “The undersigned do not endorse tactics of the Communist Party and | its affiliated organizations. Yet we | believe Communists should be pre- | tected in their constitutional rights | of free speech and free assemblage. “Raids, prosecutions and impris- onments will only give added weight of evidence to th. claim that a “capi- working class. Furthermore policy of repression will exaggerate the im- portance of false ideas, and is likely to open the floodgates for future re- pression of progressive social move- ments. This is an extremely im- portant consideration. If the pre- cedent of repression of new ideas is once established, who can prophesy what good ideas may in the future be repressed merely because they are new? “Finally, it is hoped that our po- lice and judicial officers will, in the future, protect the peace and order of our commonwealth in the spirit of the principles of Jeffersonian we a >) Ke S&S “E’ £a EE Ors. | A. F. of L. in organizing the work- IN BRIEF— |12 Hours Slavery in A.F.L. Food Place New York. Daily Worker, Dear Editor: I was working in an A. F. of apa union house where I had worked 12| hours slavery for the huge amount | of $2.50 per day and $1 for 5 hours | work, This is the general policy of the ers, Join the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, —G. F. GANDHI BARGAINS FOR LITTLE MORE MacDonald Rushes Big Army Against Toilers (Wireless by Imprecorr) LONDON, England, Aug. 14.— All the tribes west of Peshawar have joined the insurrection. The number in the field amounts to 40,000. The British are feverishly rushing reinforcements. eh ees Resume Session Today. BOMBAY, India, Aug. 14.—Ses- sions in the fortress at Poona, where the British government has | authorized the state prisoners: Mo- hondas Gandhi, the two Nehrus, Mrs. Naidu and Vallabhi Patel, all! leaders of the Indian National Con- gress, to assemble and confer with two government agents, will be re-| sumed today, after an adjournment | yesterday. The adjournment was forced by Gandhi’s demanding assurances from the government for certain minor reforms and political places for the nationalists before he would order the salt campaign and the rent and tax boycott to be lifted. The government negotiators are reported very grave over the proba- bility that unless Gandhi is given some apparent victory the so-called | holy man may not be able to influ- ence his followers to quit. The Peshawar district, where armed peasants hold all the coun- try outside of several British mili- tary centers, is reported quieter, but such severe censorship prevails that pitched battles might be fought to- day without news leaking out for some time, The reinforcements rushed to Peshawar by the British include all arms of the service, even tanks and| poison gas, fen ee EES Today in History of the Workers August 15, 1856—James Keir Hardie, organizer of British min- ers and one of founders of Inde- pendent Labor Party, born at Legbrannock. 1892 — Tennessee state troops fired on striking miners at Coal Creek. 1919— New York bricklayers and stone masons struck for $1 an hour and 40-hour, five-day week. 1919— Seven-hour day in British coal mines attacked by employers. 1920—Railway workers of Jam- aica, British West Indies, struck for more pay. |the revolutionary philosophy and | cial Insurance Bill, advocated by the talistic” society is oppressing the | now a wide agitation is going on to} democracy, that they will interpret|U. U. L. as “Unemployment Day”— the laws against insurrection in the|as a day of struggle for the passage light of the more fundamental guar-| by congress of the Workers’ Social antees of the constitutional liberties.) Insurance Bill. DEMAND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL Mass Behind Workers’ Social Insurance Bill (Continued From Page One.) workers, shows how fast starvation is creeping up on the $1,000,000 job- less in the United States. There is only one immediate an- swer for all workers, employed and unemployed. Organize and fight for the passage of the Workers’ So- Communist Party. Relief must be provided to the unemployed—no matter for what cause they are un- employed, whether because of ill- ness, old age or lack of jobs. The Workers’ Social Insurance Bill pro- vides for social insurance for unem- ployed. In all shops and factories | All workers | While the} mobilize for this Bill. must get behind it, bosses spend millions for war prep- arations, workers starve to death or are killed because they take food to keep themselves from starving. | The Workers’ Social Insurance Bill demands that all war funds be im- mediately turned over to the unem- ployed, in the form of unemploy- ment insurance. The Trade Union Unity League, in order to mobilize a mass move- ment of all workers behind this Bill, have set aside September 1st, called by the labor fakers “Labor Day”— but designated this year by the T. HARTFORD JOBLESS LIVE ON GARBAGE DUMP 14, city dumps Plant, River. Hun- children | and Gree on of I HARTFORD, Conn., Aug There are 200 workers in this living on the city garbage below the Colt’s Munitions near the Connecticut dreds of women and —| approval of Hoover the American Ve who fight against there every day to pick up rotten . and spoiled foodstuff to keep them- : selves from starving. es Besides, there are 1700 fami phage living on “Charity.” Many of those : te who get this munificent charity aré forced to go to the garbage dumps in order to get food for themselves and their families. This issue of the Daily Worker contains photo- graphs of these Hartford unem ployed, fishing for food in the gar hage dumps. Among the photographs showing the Hartford jobless on the garbage piles, one shows a 72 year old worker who spent some time in the He was dis- but hospital last winter. charged in the month of March was unable to find work. Not ing any money, he gains his li from the garbage dump. He i that he will probably die on But this is the fate of every unem- garbage heaps. | ployed worker, unless both employed Another picture shows a boy of} and unemployed mobilize for a fight | 14 picking food for his family.|to demand the passage of the When a truckload of garbage is| Workers Social Insurance Bill, unloaded the workers make a rush| which provides for unemployment for it in order to be able to get| insurance for all workers, to be paid first pick at the rotten food. |by the government out of the This sort of thing meets with the ‘bosses’ profits and the war budget, FARMERS AT ND. “AFL. PRINTERS § SCORE By WOLL’S ee ON USSR. ANTI-WAR MEET ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 14.— | Rochester acne Union, Lo- - : cal 15 here has adopted a resolution Communist Election) scoring Matthew Woll for his anti. Campaign on Farms [labor activity and his attempts to | start an imperialist war on the So MINOT, N. D., Aug. 14.—Thes viet Union, The resolution refers anti-war meeting in Williston,| h ‘ North Dakota, while not suffi-|‘ the apparent (only apparent— Ed.) division in policy between Woll | and Green, and says: “Matthew Woll has taken it upon | himself to speak for organized labor | through the American Wage Earn- | Jers’ Protective Conference and the | International Labor News Service, | by means of which through its news | service and syndicated editorials he| fe has carried on a ceaseless campaign At every mention of a tenant and |of intolerance and her esy hunting, poor farmers strike against evic-| directed against all whose economic tions, great response came from the | views and expressed opinions do not | farmers. As the election ratifica-| ooincide with his own.” tion picnic, also an Anti-War dem-| onstration, was to be held 150 | miles from Williston the next day, the speakers drove far into the night, sleeping a few hours in a, hay stack, then on to the big picnic. | Hundreds of farmers travelled many miles, to this demonstration. | At a meeting Monday, of a farm- ers union, where we had been in- | vited to speak on “The Farm Crisis,” the county president of the | Union was “also present” and tried to interest the farmers in a recent | speech he had heard by Legge. No} one paid any attention as he droned on about Legge’s “remedies” but) when the Communist speaker was introduced the men who had been ciently well organized, was remark- able. Hundreds of unemployed workers joined with the poor farm- | ers in their protest. The pamphlets | “Another War Coming” and our} election program, were sold in large numbers, the speakers com- rade Omholt and Bloor, held the) workers’ enthusiastic interest for | hours. WORKERS’ Regular Rates NEW YORK 0 ‘district court here. COOPERATIVE CAMP WOCOLONA WALTON LAKE, MONROE, N.Y Reduced Rate of $17 per week to Members of Trade Union Unity League MUST PRESENT PALD-U! 5, 1930 a i Page Vhree E NTE RNATIONAL EWS 0 How Changsha Was Taken By Com Mi unists Most of the messages concerning he fighting and the activity of the revolutionary troops sent out by Reuter and the Simbunrengo agency from Hankow are untruthful and tendenciou The struggle for Changsha an on the 26th of July. On this day large forces of Red soldiers disguised as civilians penetrated into the town. The next day they gave’a sign to the main which had in the meantime } approached the walls of the town. | The attack commenced. The panic in the town itself was increased by | fact that a section of the gov- ernment troops mutinied and went over to the revolutionaries. body government troops suffered great losses and retired after sharp 1ighting. The governor of Chang- sha and the prominent officials had ulready fled on the 26th. The Red troops marched into the town car- rying Red flags. In a short space | of time the whole town was deco- | rated with Red flags. Large quan- | tities of Communist literature were | distributed. The The imperialist agencies are now | spreading the most unlikely stories concerning the attitude of the revo- lutionary troops in order to prepare the atmosphere for imperialist in- tervention. Imperialist gunboats are at anchor on the Sien-Kiang River, | but owing to the low water the} larger vessels have remained in the Yangtze River. | The American gunboat Guam, the | American torpedo boat Palos, and the Italian gunboat Carlotta are in| the Sien-Kiang. The American ves- | sel Palos has fired on the Red sol-| diers, wounding and killing thirty | men, Strong detachments of Nan-| king troops, with armored trains| and aeroplanes have been dispatch-| ed from Hankow with instructions | to retake Changsha at all costs. The occupation of Nanchang and | Changsha by the revolutionary sol- | diers has made a deep impression ; on the foreign press in China. The | press writes: a storm has broken loose in Changsha which is the best proof for the catastrophic growth and consolidation of the Communist | movement in China, The intentions | of the Communists to turn Hankow into the center of the Communist movement in China may very soon be realized. The initiative is un- doubtedly in the hands of the Com- | munists. The press points out that unless the Nanking government suc- ceeds in suppressing Communism in Hunan and Kiangsi it will lose every shred of authority and in- fluence, HUNGRY, HE STOLE. BOSTON, Mass.—Sentenced to prison because he was hungry and stole a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread, Charles Melia, 28 years old, was held under bonds of $500 in (50 mileg from New York) P MEMBERSHIP BOOK $21 Per Week 8 with $5 Deposit to be made at : 10 BAST 17TH Camu Phone: Monrae sT. so Gramerey 1013 in the harvest fields all day view- ing their burnt out “acreage,” and in cases where crops were better, | facing the price of 65 cents per bushel — these men straightened their tired backs, opened their eyes, and eagerly listened. NEVIN BUS LINES 111 W. 31st (Bet. 6 & 7 Avs. Tel. CHickering 1600 PHILADELPHIA HOURLY EXPRESS SERVICE $3.75 ROUND $900 WAY ATLANTIC CITY ___Direct via Lakewoo: WORKERS’ SOLIDARIT WORKERS’ INTERN RE-ESTABLIS CHICAGO $20.50 LAKE HUNTINGTON ASBURY PARK Baltimore $4.50; Richmond $8.50; Di $4.00 $2.00 Bi CHILDREN'S CAMP AT VAN ETTEN, N.°Y was destroyed by the Ku Klux Klan and police thugs TIONAL RELIEF TODAY HED THE CAMP! It will continue to function as an insti- tution for the advancing working class! Help the W. I. R. rebuild the Van Etten Camp and strengthen other PIPTSBURGH _°S9:50 camps throughout the country. Winger 8380 GIVE YOUR ANSWER AND THEIR STATE! Send in a contribution NOW! Y MOBILIZED BY THE | ternational | states Pravda Points Out the Imperialist War Moves MOSCOW. — Pravda and other, await their solution in the fire of newspapers in the Soviet Union de-| new wars and revolutions. The chief vote important articles to the grow-| contradiction of the present period ing war danger between the impe-|is that between the Soviet Union the threatened | and the capitalist world as a whole. Pravda | The bourgeoisie of many countries |is preparing chiefly for a great war rialist attacks on the powers and U. 8: writes “The past year was a period of | 88ainst the Soviet Union. intensification of all the contradic-| “The anti-Soviet was never so con tions of capitalism, a period of|centrated since 1918, the mobiliza world-wide economic crisis and the} tion of the black international, the intensification of the danger of war. | acquittal of all criminals providing Since the last anti-war demonstra- | their crimes were committed against tion, armaments have increased fe-| the Soviet Union, the insolent pro- verishly. vocations of capitalist politicians “The London naval conference | (the activity of the Fish committee broke down and American imperial-| for instance), the international ism has become more and more ag- | Struggle against Soviet export trade | gressive in its attempts to oust Brit-|—these are the new forms of the ish imperialism from its positions anti-Soviet campaign. et. The danger| “The Communist Parties of all France and Italy| countries will answer the offensive world mar between on the of war thas also increased and both coun-|of capitalism by an offensive tries are arming strenuously.| against the danger of war. The France is building fortresses along | parties have not yet learned to con- the Italian frontier and is arming | solidate their ideological influence Yugoslavia with modern weapons of | organizationally. This also makes war for use against its former ally.| itself felt on the anti-war front. Despite all the attempts of the in-| In the ranks of the Communist Par- social democracy to| ties there is still an opportunist |make light of the war danger, the | underestimation of the danger of | socialist party of Italy has openly | war which threatens to lead to right discussed the coming war between | wing opportunism. The fight against France and Italy and decided to| right wing opportunism and against adopt an attitude of “defense of the | left wing sectarianism which sup- fatherland” against “democratic” | ports it, is not only a good means France. ‘Che contradictions between | to consodilate the Communist Par- the victorious and the defeated|ties, but also a powerful weapon have not been solved and| against the danger of war.” World Crisis Worse, Says Commerce Dept. World economic conditions, as reported by cable dispatches to the U. S. Department of Commerce, continue to show the spreading of the economic crisis. The following is a resume on some of the more im- portant countries: BRAZIL—General business conditions are unsatisfactory. GREAT BRITAIN—British trade conditions in 1930 have been distinctly discouraging with the position in June and July, accentuated by seasonal factors, even more unsatisfactory than during the earlier months. Commodity prices continue to decline. The continued sparse- ness of business is tending to create a widespread loss of confidence. The iron and steel industries show a little evidence of improvement in any sections. Iron and steel exports during the first half of the year were 22 per cent below the volume of the first half of 1929 and aggre- gated the smallest quantity shipped in the first six months period since 1922. ITALY—No change has been recorded in the major factors of the Italian economic situation and the stagnation in industry and commerce for which these are responsible is now somewhat aggravated by the seasonal inertia. The depression which was apparent over the last few months was slightly deepened during July and there are no signs of betterment in the immediate offing. JAPAN—Curtailment in industrial activity continues. is severely depressed and large steamers are being tied up. Paper mills will restrict output 30 per cent. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS—Unemployment is developing. 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