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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Plumbers Helpers Ask
The Plumbers to Assist
Entrance Into A. F. L.

An appeal to all greater New York
members of the United Association
Of Plumbers and Steamfitters has
been issued by the American Asso-
citation of Plumbers Helpers urging
the plumbers to take action in their
locals so that the plumbers helpers
may be brought into the American
Federation of Labor as quickly as
possible.
Helpers Get Little.
Calling attention to the fact that
the wage of plumbers helpers is 81
day, while other helpers in the
building trades of New York receive
from So to $11. the appeal states:
eve (the plumbers helpers) were
the only unorganized workers in the
building trades. As a result we did
not have any protection that union
offers. The employers took advan-
tage of this by giving us low wages,
making us do all kinds of work, work
all kinds of hours and imposed upon
US in many other ways that you
know of.
Fight For Union.
1--WE are now organized in the
American Association of Plumbers
Helpers and are fighting to become
a union, and a. part of the organized
American labor movement thru af-
filiation with the United Association
of Plumbers and Steamfitters."
There have been many unsuccess-
full attempts in the past to organize
this group of workers, but now they
have a vigorous organization which
voted Unanimously to go on strike
with tl, plumbers Of Brooklyn, as
soon as III became clear that strike
was eminent there.
Want To Enter United.
The American Association of
Plumbers Helpers is now calling
upon the members of the plumbers
union to make arrangements to adj
nit them into the United Associa-
ton.
Remember" say the helpers,
when we get better conditions, it
will mean raising the standard of
the whole trade.
Brother plumbers, we ask you
again are you going to keep quiet or
are you going to fight with us to
help us get into the United Associa-
tion?"
The American Association Of
Plumbers Helpers has already organ
lied large proportion Of the work.
ers in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
HOW THE UNITED FRONT OF LABOR HATING CAPITALISTS
AND HIGH SALARED UNION OFFICIALS WORKS

the deeds which made the trade
union movement of the United States,
They fraternize with the heads of
corporations whose thugs have dubbed
and murdered workers fighting for
unionism. They have made an UNI
holy pact with tyrants and they urge
the workers to hold up their hands
for the manacles. The handouts on
Ben Gold and his fellow workers
symbolic the shackles the Greens and
VOLS would put upon the limbs of
American labor.
1T is not enough, however, to eX-
press horror and disgust at the
revolving spectacle of the heads Of
the American Labor movement, try
ing, with the full cooperation of the
bosses to jail workers who have won
strikes. 1t must be understood that
cooperation in the courtroom springs
logically out of cooperation with the
bosses in industry, that it is the
theory of efficiency unionism carried
to its logical practical conclusion, that
it comes natural to labor officials
who are part of the machinery of the
political parties of American I'M
periahsm.
1T is this damnable theory and these
damnable practices that the Com
munists and the left wing oppose
with all their might.
Ii the rank and file Of labor in
America doubts that the Wolls and
Greens are leading the labor move
ment to disgraceful disaster let them
know that Ben Gold and ten other
workers, manaeled in the Mineola
courtroom as the prosecutor builds his
case on statements of the heads of
the trade union movement, are not on
trial.
Ben Gold and his fellow workers
are not on trial.
It is the right to strike that is on
trial, it is the right to organize unions
free from capitalist control that is on
trial, it is the solidarity of workers
against the stoolpigeons Of the Civic
Federation of capitalist government
that is on trial.
The Civic Federation-the instru-
ment of the capitalists-or the Amer
lean Federation of Labor-the instru-
ment of the workers-that is the
issue in Mineola courtroom.
1T is likewiseethe issue in the whole
American hbor movement. The
outcome of the Mineola trial is i'm
portant but it is not decisive. The
question will be decided in the unions,
in the shops and actories-whereve
the shameless policy and tactics of
the Civic Federation labor agents
runs counter to the interests of the
workers.
The MineoIa. trial with the Civic
Federation in united front with the
officials of the American Federation
of Labor for the purpose of failing
workers who win strikes is proof for
every honest worker that the Com
munists and the left wing are fighting
to save the trade union movement of
America from the clutches of the
capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Boo Fascism.

Boo Fascism.
Going east to Second Avenue they
reached the headquarters of the
Fascist Soldiers Legion at 18th Street
and Second Avenue. Then cheers for
Sacco and Vanzetti were here inter-
mingled with boos for Mussolini.
Marching down Second Avenue, the
workers displayed copies of The
DAILY WORKER, The Frieheit, The
II Lavoratore and the II Martello.
Several red flags gave the procession
a more impressive appearance.
Brutally Beaten.
When they reached First Street
near The DAILY WORKER office,
they We're attacked by police, many of
the workers being dubbed most
severely. Reforming their lines they
marched to Rutgers Square where
they booed the Jewish Daily Forward
for its lack of support to the after
moons meeting. They then continued
their march thru the east side, sing
ing the International, The Red Flag
and other working class songs.
When they again reached First
Street and Second Avenue, they were
dubbed by the police and their lines
broken. 1t is quite significant that
on two occasions when the workers
wanted to show their approval of The
DAILY WORKER, they were brutaily
beaten.
Arrest Worker.
Once again they started to march
northward at Second Avenue and 7th
Street. Patrolman Thomas Hall tore
small picture of Vanzetti off the
hat of Samuel Fasconia, one of the
workers. When Fasconia objected,
Hall started to hit him with his club.
When the other workers protested,
the reserves were called who again
beat up the workers. After marching
for a few more blocks the parade
ended; it was one of the most dynamic
militant workingclass demonstrations
staged in a long time.
When brot to night court, Fasconia
was held without bail charged with
disorderly conduct.
Latin-American Workers Ask Release
The Venezuelan Labor Union,
representing organized Latin-Amer-
lean workers in the United States,
last night sent the following tele-
grams to Gov. Alvan T. Fuller Of
Massachusetts:
1--WE most vigorously condemn the
sentence pronounced upon our fellow
workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartol-
omeo Nanzetti. Every step in the
trial has been taken In a hysterical
atmosphere poisoned by prejudice
against them because of their defiant
radicalism. In the name of common
justice we call upon you for their
pardon or for an unbiased trial"
WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST
DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Page One)
and trots along into the vessel with
it. They sing as they work and keep
at it from sunrise until shutdown for
a few cents day. This is the kind
of labor that the capitalist likes. 1t
takes it on the neck with a song. But
the Chinese are singing a different
song now.
n WEIR twenty thousand people gath
cred in Union Square last Saturday
afternoon to show their solidarity
with Sacco and Vanzetti. 1t was a
spirited demonstration. There is no
doubt in the minds of the American
workingclass that their fellow work
crs are not guilty of the crimes
charged against them. They are de-
termined that they shall be saved
from the electric chair. The Union
Square meeting was a fine testimony
to the spirit of unity in the workers
when it is called forth by a heart
touching appeal The action Of the
socialist party in trying to run a
little show of their own hoping to
gain a little publicity at the expense
Of two doomed workers shows that
they are stupid as we'll as false to
the workingclass movement.
D ETWEEN now and July 10th, the
y day set for the execution Of Sacco
and Yanzetti, the workers of this
country must redouble their efforts
to demonstrate to the powers that be
in Massachusetts that there are mill
ions of people within the borders Of
the United States that will consider
the execution of those two workers
plain and unqualified murder. And
we must not be satisfied with COM
mutation Of sentence. We must make
it clear that they shall not rust for
the rest Of their lives in prison cell.
They must be freed, because they are
innocent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
~ 3 O O K S "
VAN LOON LAMENTs OVER INTOLERANCE.

TOLERANCE,
Hendck Van Loon has fit volume
amenon of the intolerance mankind thru the In it he
different individuals who have either affJ or hem affected Nv noer
He takes historical the Greeks; Th,
christianity from its BIRTH thru the Inqtn Renaissance
Erasmus Rabelai the sns ong Armnu
Bruno spn0za Frederick the Great ya Lessg Paine and host
Years. where he makes his exit burst of rhetorical prophecy
intolerance shall be myth like the capves
ing Of widows, the blind worship of the printed page
Il" take ten thousand
But will come and it will follow close the first victory
which history shall have record the triumph of his
Fear of what? Of whom? say
the old mystic Unexpectedly
world of white light but into enlightened bess
pec feared himself that explanation
effect of the bOmbast prophetic finale, did
The good point of the volume parallels the good viii Duran
the lives teachings Of the great men Of history gives
skechy idea of each Even this attempted
the clarity create argn of names
as said h i s the f 'of bof fs get clear idea Of But
with tbs svsn on the other hand many and gigantic He writes
is reality vgazaon Therefore he achieves only
He the usual fear of change complex that
81 says reforms just for
change might that other light by the Of which the
the tolerant guild have been the habit examining
world If that does not successful always
society forbearan community less
beset by ugness greed and hatred gained
Another fundamental fy the
ddua than the discussing Erasmus he praises
P ay B s all ri great e man. was friend of systems He
In ending might call attention the fact that
grovel the ground
@ THAR rogn1zGq and what the Communist movement of today
of the pned kind Nothing by tolerance
matter definitely decide which course the
accomplished thru the final conscious step that
has the process of That what Len
trying do And that what Loon in his
EDWIN RoLFE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26

lock on the door. One day sitting at
the table after waiting about an hour
and a half for dinner. Mr.. Toirtel,
the manager, went over to the cook
and said to him, give them soup and
get rid of them
Facts On Employment.
when we found out that Mr.. Adler,
the head manager wanted to fire some
of the workers without any reason and
hire new help, so we called a meeting
and decided if any of the workers
were fired we would all refuse to
work. In spite of us, he fired two
men and didn't want to listen to rea-
son. When we asked him to give
them another chance, he Immediately
called for the sheriff: and the sheriff
took them over to Pawling. When |
asked Mr.. Adler do you call this So
cialism? he answered, do you want to
get a couple of bullets, or knock
stones On the road to Poughkeepsie.
Then he threatened US, that we will
get paid in New York if we don't go
back to work, knowing that we were
broke and we would have to wait un-
til the end of the month for our pay,
so we had to go back to work. That
kept on until Tuesday July Goth.
Back to New York.
"Then he told US to go into the Of
flee to get our checks and ordered to
pack up our grips and go back to
New York Immediately. Knowing
that he had to deal with an organized
group, so he hired new men on top
of US. When we told him that is rather
late now and we will go next morn
ing, he answered, No, you must go
right away so we were forced to
leave the camp very late at night.
eve challenge Mr.. Adler to deny
these facts.
eve call this fascism whether the
clique Of the Workmens Circle likes
it or not"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
WORKMEN'S CIRCLE CAMP AT PAWLING N Y, COMPELS
ITS SLAVES TO Toll UNDER ROTTEN CONDITIONS

How the right wing controlled
Workmens Circle camp at Pawling,
New York, mistreats the workers who
are employed there, are wildly de-
scribed by Henry Bloom in the fol-
lowing letter to The DAILY
WORKER.
Henry Luffiner and Ben Fucker
man, also employed at the same camp
sign the letter as testimonial of its
truthfulness. 1t tells how the right
wingers acted towards the workers,
going to the extent of threatning to
call the police when the workers OBJ
jected to the working conditions.
The letter reads as follows:
LAS one of those wno goes every
summer to work in hotels or camps,
knowing the exploitation and over
work which I have to do. l read in
the Jewish Daily Forward that the
Workmen's Circle opened camp in
Pawling, N. Y, this seemed a new
camp.
81 Immediately applied for job at
the general office of the Workmen's
Circle. / was sent over to Mr.. Gill
bier and he hired me to work in the
Workmen's Circle Camp. I i'm
mediately accepted this job and on
July 1, 1927 I started out for the job
at Pawling, N. Y.
GAS l am radically inclined my
thought was the Workmen's Circle
motto is, 'one for all and all for one,'
and also stands for human rights.
Coming there | found it to be entirely
different.
"For instance, the first day after
finishing a hard days work, they
treated us like working men ought
to be treated. After the second days
hard work they took us out from the
bungalow where we slept the first
night and put us in house where it
isn't fit for cattle to live, because
there wasn't any water, lavatory,
lights; beds, mattresses, or either
blankets. Some were forced to sleep
on the floor for two nights where
mosquitoes almost ate us up alive.
We were told that it was to be only
for one night. The next night the
committee of the Workmens' Circle
Camp brought blankets, beds, and
mattresses. One man of the COM
mittee which / am sorry don't know
his name told us that it is for the
guests. So we had to sleep another
night on the floor. After the 4th Of
July when the rush was over then
they gave us blankets, beds, and
mattresses.
Facts On Food.
eve were given portions of food
which they give for the children.
When we protested they said, "that's
all you get" Then we were forced
to help ourselves when nobody was
looking.
''This kept on day by day until they
found out, so they took the food
and put it in the icebox and put a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
The Hot Dog Battle.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, July 25.-
Clarence barrow, Samuel Untermyer
and Charles Evans Hughes may take
up the legal battle to defend the hon
or of the hot dog.
Stephen R j. Roach, the attorney
who is backing "Joe, the hot dog
man" of Scarsdale against the recent
ly-passed city ordinance prohibiting
the sale of roasted frankfurters in
Scarsdale's streets, told reporters here
today that Adolf Gobel, Inc, of Brook
Ign is ready to call barrow, Inter
myer and Hughes, if necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
Film Company Union Exposed.

Company Union" is what Pau
Dullwell, assistant secretary of Act
ors Equity Assn. calls the Motion Pic
ture Academy of Arts and Sciences
He charges it is subsidized and con-
trolled by the producers. Douglas
Fairbanks became president of this
organization on it's formation last
mid-May, just before 1919 wage cuts
were announced in the film studios.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
Results Of The PIenary Session Of the
Executive Committee Of the
Communist International
Speech by N. l. Bucharin.)

der that these slogans may not exist
on paper only, but become working
slogans leading to corresponding po-
litical results.
2. The Central Slogans in the Fight
Against War Danger and War.
This is the first problem discussed
by the Plenum, in it's connection with
the preparation for war. The second
problem is the question of the leading
slogan for the Communist Party at the
present juncture, under the present
given circumstances. An interesting
discussion arose sight the question
appears perfectly simple, but the
course of the discussion showed it to
be more complicated, under existing
conditions, than in the situation OBJ
tanning before the outbreak of the i'm
perialist war We have to deal with
series of unique situations. First of
all, actual war has not yet broken out
in Europe, nor has it even actually
broken out against the Soviet Union;
the main fact is the attack upon the
Soviet Union. The Soviet Union rep
resents factor of extraordinary po-
litical importance, and upon its flag
the slogan of peace is written.
Let US recall to our memories the
manner in which the Bolshevik dealt
with the question of central slogan
at the beginning of the imperialist
war, and what differences of opinion
existed at that time. The differences
Iof opinion dividing the Bolsheviki
from all other ideologies were here
very far-reaching indeed. Those of
our opponents tending most to the
Left" including Comrade Trotzky,
advanced the slogan of peace as the
central unifying slogan, whilst our
party and its Central Committee were
opposed to the slogan of peace, as
central slogan, substituting for this
the slogan of civil war, the slogan of
! the metamorphosis of imperialist war
into civil war. Here the Party did
not advance this slogan as one run
ming parallel to the slogan of peace,
not as a slogan compatible with the
slogan of peace, but as a slogan ex-
Guiding the slogan of peace. AT that
time we contended against all our
opponents, including the group "Our
Word" headed by Comrade Trotzky.
They advanced the slogan of peace.
We advanced the slogan of peace, the
slogan of civil war. We regarded
this slogan of civil war as the NIGH
test weapon in the fight against paci-
fist illusions, including those .illu-
sions prevalent in the cleft" groups,
and claiming to represent "revolu-
tionary internationalist" standpoint.
Can we, in the present situation,
refrain from a recognition of the
slogan of peace, at time when the
Soviet Republics, the state organiza-
tions of the proletariat, are u Tending
this watchword with their utmost
powers, at a time when this watch
word actually represents the real and
vital interests of this greatest and
most important stronghold of the in
ternational proletarian movement?
And finally, it must not be forgotten
that war has not yet broken out in
Europe, that an armed attack has not
yet been actually made on the Soviet
Union, although preparations are be-
ing made for it with feverish ene-a y.
Ito Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
Boston School Marms Get No Raise

BOSTON, July 25, (FP).-No gen
eral salary increase will be given Bos-
ton school teachers next term, the
school committee announces A num-
Der Of individuals, howevor, will get
higher rates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
give la COmmune!" Is the
Growing Cry of Increasing
Ranks of Worlds Workers
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

"WOrkngmens Paris" wrote Karl Marx in his
brilliant Civil War in France" with its Com
mune will be forever celebrated the glorious
harbnger of a new society. Its martyrs
shrined in the great heart of the working class.
History has already nailed its exterminatOrs to
that eternal pill yry from which all the prayers of
their priests will not avail to redeem them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Worlds Shameful Neglect of Aviation
BY III. G.. WELLS.

game hunting. And 1t fair to make
wait for favorable day and good machine.
But those sporting days past. 1t is one
thing to get killed in "A hopeful and daring ex-
pertinent on the edge of things unknown, and
quite another to be drowned smashed or
roasted to death omnibus route because
a certain number of able but restricted gentle
in control of the business have-with all
sorts of excellent excuses for doing so-sent
one off in overworked, perfunctorily in
spected or overloaded machine. l have seen
enough Of European flying services not to wish
to any more Of them until the whole thing
is under entirely new management"
X
Nearly every one of the series of horrible &C.
cidents that have so powerfully retarded the
expansion of European passenger air travel
was a foretellable disaster. Sooner or later
these tragedies were inevitable under current
conditions. / have crossed the Channel at
about 1000 feet with both engines popping
away dsnnally and got to Lympne by miracle,
and the only thing that astonished me when at
last one of these things Topped into the water
that was drowned. Hardly more
than half of the passenger flights l have made
go through according to schedule. and I sup
pose have spent almost many hours at lie
Bourget and Lympne and Amsterdam and
Prague-and Heaven knows which is the least
attractive promenade!-wating about for ma
chimes that did not turn up could not be put
right, as I have in the air. / do not complain
of delays due to bad weather.
What has most wasted my time and endan-
gered my life, in my attempts to be upto-
date traveller has been that there were not
enough machines and pilots to run the service
properly and safely. Never in any case of
forced landing have / known fresh machine
appear to take on the passengers-only last
month l that twelve dismal passengers
were landed in the wilderness of Puckeridge in
Kent to get to London by train at God knows
what hour of the evenng-and only at Prague
have I ever observed a number of reserve ma
chimes having reasonable rest and overhaul.
Now am not rejecting here on the personal
capacity and honesty of any of the people con-
cerned with the European air services I live
quite outside the feuds and competitions am
billions and dsappointments of that queer
world. Whenever state such facts as these
plain and simple and easily verifiable about
the European air services. the air press be-
comes extremely heated and defensivey rude
about it--but the facts remain facts. For 10
years Europe has been potterng dangerously
and ineffectively. with this glorious possibility
of air transport about the globe, and it seems
no nearer to it's realization today than it was in
1919. And the reason for this, I submit is be.
cause the Old World cannot produce a financial
and administrative organization of a sufficient
largeness. power and scope to handle the thing
effectively.
1t needs only common knowledge and a few