The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 4

Page Four CHAPIN, HOOVER'S DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932 NEW SEC’Y OF COM MERCE—“AN OLD SONG” BUSINESS 15 GETTING BETTER AMO BETTER BE TTER AND «rs Montreal Workers [MEXICO WRECKS |Mass Demand Made Repudi ate the Amalgamated Out M Revolutionary Union and Party Learn Lessons | |and peasants occuired all over the Committee Calls for Fight for Insurance at the | and Weaknes By J. SCOTT &“ T we need in the present crisis is a firmer conservatism, ‘What we do not want is radical- | ism.” This statement was the cen- tral point in a speech by Sidney | Hilman at a joint banquet of bosses and bureaucrats in the Royal York (Montreal), as the bosses and bu- reaucrats prepare to smash the rank and file revolt and put over the promised wage cut. “The Amalgamated will sign an | agreement in the Montreal clothing market that will encourage busi- | ness. This is no time to strike and | we will supply the necessary work- | ers to carry out this agreement,” | 1s the frank, strikebreaking, wage- cutting policy of Banker Hillman. He assured the Montreal clothing employers that the Amalgamated is a firmly intrenched business institu- tion, with a solid foundation in banks, housing corporations and other business connections. No one can break the Amalgamated, is his boast, as he promises strike break- ers to the S & G Boys Clothing and Friedman Clothing Company, while the workers prepare to strike against the rotten conditions forced | upon them through the class col- | laboration, no-strike policy of the | Amalgamated. | ‘The broad and rapid sweep of the revolt of the rank and file against | the Hillman traltors contains many | achine ses in Situation was taking place until it actually happened. Wrong Theory The result of this underestima- UNION HALL Hunt Communists New Terror Reign MEXICO CITY (By Mail) — wave of being A new terror is let 1 jand their organizations. During | | last month a real hunt for Commu- | |nist Unitarian (R. I. L. U) w the | country. head- Wrecking of Trade Union |quarters by and policemen joccurred frequently during the last days wave of terror is soldiers | This new tion of the growing radicalism and | designated to curb the militancy of willingness of the workers fight, this wrong approach and | series of errors, is that the revolt became an organizational struggle between the Amalgamated and the . C. C. L, based on the wrong theory that the Amalgamated bu- reaucracy must be smashed before the workers can strike against their conditions. These errors carried with them the equally erroneous idea that such a struggle in the in- terest of the workers can be carried out under the leadership of a Cana- dian bureaucracy. This was dema- gogically sugar-coated with the ar- | gument that the A. C. C. L. bureau- cracy is not very strong, that they have no influence among the tailors, that under the trademark of the A. C. C. L. we can carry on @ class struggle in theory and practice, using it as a cloak for and a bridge | to the revolutionary trade union movement. This wrong theory was accepted | by many workers and some of our |own comrades. This wrong theory, which meant the liquidation and not the strengthening of our union, and an abandonment of the united front tactic from below, led to no criticism at all of the betrayals of the A. C. C. L. and even went so far in Toronto, where the A. C. C. lessons, exposes many weaknesses for the Party and the revolutionary trade union movement, not only in Canada but in the United States. While the ideological basis for the revolt was laid by the C. P. and | the Workers Unity League of Can- ada through years of agitation, ‘truggles and sacrifice, yet at the moment of the revolt they were taken completely unawares, and found themselves in isolation, and before they were ready to step into the situation with a program and policy of struggle for bettering the conditions of the workers, which was the real cause of the revolt, the movement had been hooked up again organizationally with reform- ism by affiliation with the All-Can- adian Congress of Labor. . T. I. U. Gives Leadership The Needle Trades Industrial Union of Canada is giving ideologi- cal leadership (the workers ask for this leadership) and the organiza- tional gains are made not by us but by reformism. Why? Enu- merated are the fundamental causes for this contradiction: (1) The feeling among our com- rades and immediate followers that the strongly entrenched Amalgamated bureaucracy can only be fought against and de- feated by a general strike, and that the workers were so terror- ized that a revolt at this time was not possible. (3) Loose, planless disconnected general propaganda substituted for a prepared everyday Jimmy Higgins activity around concrete shop demands and a program of action. (4) Failure to build the Party and the Y. C. L. (5) Failure to draw these work- ers into the general struggle of the workers, for immediate relief, for noncontributory unemployed insurance, against Bennett's star- vation program. (6) Failure to expose reformism. ‘The result of this wrong approach was isolation. The revolt actually took place without the knowledge vf the Party, N. T. L. U. of the W. U. L. The inarticulate, terror-stricken workers suddenly, overnight, became articulate and active They moved very fast. They Tevolted against one bureaucracy and affiliated with another, and came to us to give them policy, program and leadership. It would be a mistake to think that the e- volt was spontaneous. For weeks the revolt was being organized through a number of secret meet- ings held in houses, led by a few workers; some of them undoubtedly had connections with the A. C. C. Lp But we were oblivious to what | L. had already discredited them- | selves, to the discussion of a pro- posal to set up a new independent reformist union. Many of the left wing did not see that for the A. | C. C. L. to organizationally capture the movement is a step back again to reformism and not forward to the revolutionary trade union move- ment; did not see that we cannot successfully substitute class collab- oration by class struggle, by strengthening a weak bureaucracy so as to weaken a strong bureau- cracy in the hopes that both will bee too weak to successfully inter- fere. Must Dissolve Confusion ‘While the errors are being over- ome, a great deal of confusion exists. The left wing has not |} Yearned how to smash the Amal- gamated apparatus, expose the class | collaboration policy of the A. C. c. L., and strike against proposed wage cuts as part of one struggle. ‘The openly announced strike-break- ing policy of Hillman in united front with the employers, plus the united front program of demands and strike action proposed by the N. T. L. U., the broad rank and file union shop and strike committees, which will lead- the struggle against the wage cut, can and will smash the Amal- gamated bureaucracy, draw the workers away from the influence of the A. C. C. L. and into the revo- lutionary trade union movement. Must Defeat Hillman It would be a mistake to think that because the majority of the workers in Montreal have repu- diated the Amalgamated that Hill- man is defeated. He is not. His strength does not depend on the support of the workers; his strength depends on the support of the em- ployers and all their resources will be used to beat the workers back into submission. It is not going to be an easy or a short struggle. However, with a correct propram and militant strike policy a decisive struggle will begin that can build the N. W. I. U. into a mass organi- zation which will be a decisive fac- tor in the clothing industry of Canada. The revolt is taking root in Toronto and Hamilton. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of the United States can be of real assistance by taking full advantage of the repercussion that the Montreal revolt is bound to have among the rank and dle of the Amalgamated in the U. S. A. Keep the Hillman apparatus so busy over there that they won't have any time to spend over here, and the left wing will be better able to defeat the Made-in-Canada bureaucracy, lead the workers in successful Avice struggle. to} setting up of |the workers and peasants as shown during a whole series of strikes. Of these strikes the most import- ant for the number of workers in- volved and for their political sign | ficance were: the strike of the w ers employed by the American Smelting and Refining Company, | that of the South Pacific Railroad |workers, that of the La Imperial (Oil Company) workers and Power Company which controls the street cars in Mexico City. WHISTLING IN THE DARK few workers are taken on for a few weeks’ work the capitalist newspap- ers here have run streamlines re- cently announcing the step as a big event. As a matter of fact, out of 40,000 steel and metal workers in this town, over 30,000 are still unem- ployed, and only the big shops work a few days a week, the | |workers of the Mexican Light and| YOUNGSTOWN, O.—Every time a} | “Gr een Consider Jobless Insurance Canada or U. S. A., It’s the Same Hillman Sell-| against the workers and peasants) But Committee Representing 800 A.F.L. Locals Warns Green’s Plan Is a Wage-Cut Scheme Expense of Employers and the Government New Yt |Maryland A.F.L. | Heads Try to Stem Fight of Unemployed BALTIMORE, Md.—The local, state {labor misleaders, B. F. Broening, J. |V. Anderson and J. P. McCurdy, called on Governor Ritchie and Mayor Jackson to help suppress the discontent among the rank and file in the union. The thousand workers who came to the meeting were “guarded” by an impressive array of | police, stool pigeons, detectives and | ward heelers of the governer. Broening, A. F. of L. misleader, | tried to impress the workers that everything depends on the governor A. F. of L. Com-jof the American Federation of Labor /@nd that the workers cannot hope for Unemployment Insurance, | compelled to announce that the issue |t© get better conditions by trying to ording the action of the Ex- ve Council of the American Federation of Labor on | ment insurance, makes the following | the Committee was organ- ized an. 27, 1982, it has sent ou tthe Workers’ Unemployment In-; surance Bill as a referendum to} 25,000 local unions affiliated to the last A. F. of L. and the Railroad Brother-'| hoods. In almost every large indus- trial city of the country similar com- mittees have been organized; over 800 locals have officially notified the New York A. F. of L. Committee that they have endorsed the Work~- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and go on record condemning the action of the A. F. of L. convention voting against unemployment insur- ance. have taken similar action. Only thréugh the efforts of the New York A. F. of L. Committee for employment insurance was the Ex- unemploy- | ecutive Couneil and Williara Green employed workers in the U.S.A. of compulsory unemployment insur- | ‘ance will be taken up at the very ,next convention which will be held jin Cincinnati on Nov. 21. that the government and the em- ; Ployers contribute to a fund to be} | administered by a workers’ commit- |tee? Positively not! Green claims it may only be necessary for indus- try and the workers to contribute to| the unemployment insurance fund. | This means that the burden of re- |lief when the workers will be thrown |out of work is aimed by the A. F. of L. to fall again on the backs of the workers. Only the membership, through the} j leadership of the rank and file com- Central labor bodies and State | Mittees for unemployment insurance, | Federations of Labor in many cities| will be able to. bring the Workers’ | o¢ Chicago; one by A. A. Heller on Unemployment Insurance Bill to a | peaihy We pledge ourselves to or- | ganize a mass delegation to the com- | Unemployment Insurance by sending | ing American Federation of Labor! | out a referendum on government un-| convention and present our demands in the name of the millions of un- But will | | they present the ‘Workers’ Unemploy- | |ment Insurance Bill, which provides | rely on their own _ organizational strength. The governor's speech jamounted to this, “that he had no time to study the matter and could not make a statement.” |Soviet Russia Today | August Issue Out The August issue of Soviet Russia Today. just: off the press, prints a strring letter from an American worker in the U. S. S. R, telling why every friend of the Soviet Union shoud vote for Foster and Ford. This issue, which is an anti- imperialist issue, contains other in- teresting articles, including one on “Intervention-Myth or Menace,” by | Frederick L. Schuman, professor of political economy at the University | Frontiers of Socialism Not promises, but immediate re- lief for the starving unemployed. Not one unemployed worker or his family without decent housing, food and clothing. Instead of organizing them to controlled United Producers Leagu futile “cooperative” program by whi can be employed.” machinery. Photo shows lumber piled up by the jobless. outfit has workers, instead of horses, pulling ploughs so that “niore F, P. Pictures) fight for Unemployment Insurance and immediate relief at the expense of the employers, the Muste- ie of Tacoma, Wash., is engaged in ich work is done by hand instead of The same Not a “chicken in every pot” SCENES GIVING LIE TO CAPITALIST PRESS TALES ABOUT “WORK RETUR (F. P. Pictures) but some very weak mulligan stew’ was what this aged jobless worker found in his pot as he sampled it in Cleveland’s Hooverville. He is living in a shack, eating vegetable stew and reading prosperity blurbs in newspapers the bankers have tossed away, Socialist Running for Governor of Vermont (By a Worker Correspondent) BARRE, Vt.—Frank Suitor, presi- dent of the Vermont State Federa- tion of Labor, the Socialist candidate for governor, has gone on record as which wages will be further reduced. Davis is to confer with Hoover and with the New Hampshire governor to discuss how to put over this plan. Suitor was formerly mayor of Barre. He was elected because he had promised to remove a local judge who as overseer of the poor was thoroughly disliked by the workers. Suitor of course after his election made no attempt to remove the judge. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker Backs Pay Cut Plan endorsing the Davis plan. The Davis} plan is a stagger system plan by} BUILDING TWO BATTLESHIPS (By a Worker Correspondent) CAMDEN, N J., Aug. 4.—In re- |ponse to appeal to the Daily Worker for information on war production in | the factories, etc., I am informing the | workers that here in Camden, the New York Ship Building Co. is rushing work on two large battle- |sips for the U. S. government. The |most modern machines of destruc- tion are being installed. Th guns are big bore, capable of firing very rapidly. In the forepart of the ships, there aré windows through which one can see through the water for three to five miles. “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet, containing 14th Plenum Resolptions j sae Py Worker Correspondence WALGREEN HUNGER WAR (By a Worker Correspendent) CHICAGO, Ill—Wages of every worker in the 200 Walgreen stores here have been slashed and yet the company gives away a Chevrolet every day. Over half the help in each store have been fired, which more than makes up for the free cars, YELLOW THUGS (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Monday, July 25, A. F. of L. thugs from the Broth- erhood Union beat up some men of the Alteration Painters’ Union who were on the job at 485 Jackson Ave. But the next, day, when six of these gangsters drove up to the place they found about five A. P. U. men guard- Ing tie eee ay rectus yelow dogs Two N. Y. Women Rushed to Hospital Dying of Starvation (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — Two women, Mrs. Rose Gottfried, 29, and Mrs. Marga- ret DeRosia (33), were rushed to Bellevue Hospital last week, where it was found they were suffering from lack of food, not having eaten for several days, Mrs. Gottfried was found with her 8-year old son, Larry, in a hallway. Mrs. |DeRosia was found on a bench, in a park, which had been her bed for two nights. Earlier in the week, she said, her husband had gone to Queens looking for work and had not returned, Earl Browder‘ puts forth a pro- gram in the pamphlet “The Fight for Bread,” one cent. This is Riow- der’s keynote th. Chi- The Fight to Free Imperial Valley Workers Statement of the Central Caminittee of the Communist Party of U.S. A. Mass Pressure Has Won Concessions; Mass Pressure Alone Can-itree Them (Statement by the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of U.S. A ASS pressure has wrung from the hands of the California fruit and. vegetables baronsthree of the eight Imperial Valiey yrison- ers. The gates of San Quentin, where Tom Mooney, betrayed by the leadership of the A. F. of L.’ and Socialist leaders, rotting away, opened to release Frank Spector, Eduardo Herrera and Braulio Orozco. These militant workers were won back for the struggle, after the rulers of Cali- fornia sought with the use of the is vicious Criminal Syndicalism law ! to bury them for 42 years, But Os- car Erickson, Danny itoxas, Carl Sklar, Tetsuji Horiuchi and Law- rence Emery, still remain impris- oned. Mass pressure was intensi The California Board of Terms anq Paroles directed four of the five remaining militants to be re- leased of parole effective July 13, 1932, and Lawrence Emery on Feb- | ruary -18, 1932. This was 9 victory, a victory for the united front led by the International Labor De- fense. But the victory is not com- | plete. These fighters have not been handed back. to their class. Every force for reaction has been mobil- | ized by the imperial Valley land- lords to cheat the workers out of their victory. The parole boar fof California must be forced to carry out its de- cisions in the case. A hundredfold greater mass movement can free the Imperial Valley prisoners whose only “crime” is that they fought for living wages and condi- tions for the ruthlessly exploited Mexican, Filipino, Negro and na- tive melon and lettuce pickers and packers. The parole board relied upon its decision to quell the anger of the masses aroused by the vi- cious. life sentences. Imperial Valley can not be sepa@ rated. from the Mooney case, Scottsboro, Orphan Jones and the other class-war cases. It cannot be separated from the struggles of the American working class. It is a glorious example of international working class solidarity. Part and parcel of the workers’ struggles against the burdens of the crisis it is part an parcel of imperialism’s drive toward war upon the Soviet Union. It is part of the reign of terror to break the resistance of the working class and smash the growing international solidarity. The duplicity of the prison board | in their failure to comply with their own decision to free Erick- son and Roxas, the board’s con- d. | nivance with Deportation Doak to send Horitichi to his death at the hands of the-Japanese imperialists, enly re} evedls-fmore clearly the class character Ofeeepitalism’'s entire le- gal system. he fiction of impare , tiality swith which the bosses seek to-conéeal its true character stands again exposed in the light of their class"interests. Only mass. pressure can“kéep their parole document from.:becoming but another scrap of. paper. The “democracy” of @ ruling--class is again revealed ag demoerecy for the ruling class and slavery for the masses. Only mass pressure can wrest the remaining Imperial Valley prisoners from the bloody hands of those~ who' stand responsible for the millions! of unemployed and for mass starvation. The slaves drivers of California are an insep- Two of ‘the fighters for the bite terly exploited Imperial Valley age ricultural workers. From left to right: Frank Srector, Carl Sklar. arable part of the murderous Hoo- ver-Mellon-Wall Street governs ment whose bloody cossacks so murderously* attacked the Bonus Marchers. The Central Committee directs all of its districts to render most vigorous aid to the IL.D. in its present drive to free the Impee | rial Calley militants. It callg upon all workers—every union, fraternal and progressive organizations. and individuals —to rally behind the LL.D. in its thass fight to snatch the five Imperial Valley militants from the hands of their jailors..., Carry forward the fight for the Imperial Valley workers, for Tom Mooney ..and., Billings, for the Scottsborg boys, and all class-war prisoners’ Vote Commrunist—against capie talist terror! * CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Communist Party, U. S. A. meme The Power of the ‘Daily By HELEN KAY HAT heart hasn’t leaped when he has seen a stranger carrying a copy of the Daily Worker? What worker who knows about the class struggle hasn't thought to himself, ufder these circumstances, “gosh, if I could only see more workers reading the “Daily” instead of the poisonous labor-baiting, union-smashing rags} that devote front-page space to base- ball scores and no space at all to the interests of the working class?” Such reflections, if they occur at. all, are apt to be discouraging. They are apt to lead one to the belief the Daily Worker is insignificant, puny. But I hasten \to add that this 4s an incorrect view. Comrades who hhave had long years of experience in every phase of revolutionary working-class activity know what a powerful educating and organizing force they have in the Daily Worker. They realize that it is merely a mat- ter of increasing the circulation of the Daily to extend its influence and leadership. A “Daily” in the hands of a worker means 3 new recruit in the fight for bread and freedom. Other comrades cart prove that from their experiences. I can prove from my own, . It. was a long, narrow street with tall, ugly tenements. We were a committee to collect signatures for the elections. Into a tenement we went, up to the very last floor, then from door to door, and down the dark, dirty hall, down the steps and onto the next floor, and again from door to door. This block has been a concéntra- tion block. First, we had come here with the Daily Worker. We built up @ route of delivery. We came back with petitions for Unemployment In- surance. Later, we came here for the Freedom of the, Nine Sco:tsboro Be Boys. The workerskknew us. When we asked for their Signatures they id. not hesitate, 1 a had class-conscious worker’s| | Vice-President. mill town. Thousands of workers had cheered Foster and Ford. Come munist candidates for President and Leaflets and the Daily Worker /heralded the meeting, A speaker, ‘talked about the Daily Worker, organizer and voice of the working. Claés. "He appealed for subs, Many subscribed. One worker pointe edly remarked: “I’m giving my last dollar for a sub to the Daily Worker, because Itknow the Daily Worker needs me,° and I need the Daily, Worker,”. om 5 Leaflets were: being distributed at, a factory gate. The workers grabbed our JeaSieton Rotten them and put them into their pockets, tucked away. until ‘they: could have peace away. from the eyes of the “snoopers.” On the "SttéBt car, going home, we heard a worker remark; “Half the leaflet tells is*About the Daily Worker; Td like to Sée a copy of it.”. The next day ‘We Were again there, selling the Daily- ‘Worker. The response waa splendid. Hundreds of copies were sold. On our “signature RED. SUNDAY a worker gave ‘ts some sound adi “Getting ‘the-éighatures is only. the job. Now, you've. got to make them VOTR COMMUNIST!” | “We've""got' the Daily Worker for, that.” Our answer was an effective one. It got‘us a half year sub, Seagal ean We again walked the long, nat street, with jtaugly tenements. ‘We were coliecting..signatures on other side ofthe street. A wife from adross the road saw u She stopped to-speak. i “Did*you send by name in to’ th Daily--Worker for signing the peti tion?” “Yes, We do*that with every that signs our petition, so that can Continue ioaking to him th the Daily" Worke: Tihe,” the woman answ \