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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-15
Business Men Bunced for Years

ested in. Funny thing, but he
simply couldn't. If you doubt.
my word, look at the record,
Davis has compiled with the
enthusiastic assistance Of the
daily papers and a former
beerwagon driver.
And again we come to the
punch-board crisis.
: 1t was terrible! Charles
couldn't, stand to. have it
around SO one day he swooped.
down on the. business places
where the offensive boards
were harbored and confiseated
them all. It was a brilliant at
tack duly featured, with:
elaborate: eulogies of, Chawles,
in all our daily papers. Once.
more had Davis proved : has
worth to his employers! It was.
almost time for the monthly
check and Longboy-g took no
chances
+ Were l a, profane man /,
u would say: that it is a dam
shame that this runt~has been,
: able to bamboozle so many2of=
the brightest men, incur city,
but as / am not profane except:
upon nonrare occasions, I~sim=
! ply submit that.
= If the gentlemen who have
: been paying Charles Davis sal
airy all these years will check
back on that buckoo'se record,
they will find as: every one ex-
cept themselves KNOWS, that
: he has done nothing - except
cash his check.
Davis KNEW PSI Hennepin
Avenue was running for hisat-
tentioir was called to it and
Mr.. GuilfoId offered to pilot
Davis man into that place. But
Charles was a canny cuss. He
didn't want to be shown and
2 for the next few days he was
busy running down a gum ma
chine proprietor.
No, no, Charlie, you won't
start any SANDER or libel suit.
If you ever do, you'll be the
"sickest sister in the choir
and that means some sick right
/, now, il you know what l mean.
When a few weeks ago the
Beaufort hotel was raided and
a score of fellows who were
students of the great Ameli-
can game" were arrested,
Charles again broke through
the front pages of the daily
press and press-agented his
proves to an astonished world
but Charles, if you took no
. tiee, didn't raid 818 Hennepin
Avenue! Not a chance in the
2 world! ~
That joint was protected"
!. It was also the hangout of the
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-15

The Brunskill. way -. but it
don't weigh" much.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
PARIS LABOR PROTEST GROWS AS LEGION ARRIVES
First Sacco and Vanzetti-Next the
Daily Worker-Then Trade Unions

for
life of the
sined until the S des
the murder
of
the a Of
stand
The fact that THE DAILY WORKER Court
o
Vanet lesson o al
acco and an had fought harder against the eacheu Greens and VOLS against
tul the working
GUARD THE DAILY
again viii it in taking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
AMERICAN LEGION TOOL OF BIG
BUSINESS, SAYS PAUL CROUCH

EDITORS NOTE.-Paul Crouch, a IS
intelligence
courtmartaed and labor
of Communist
in the military Rock He'll of Frisco Bay his
committed and released
States for the Al-Amerca Ant-Imperaist League.
By PAUL CROUCH.
organized The Legion States
and the of the capitalism
the aspirations of the working reality
the soldiers but the financial which
thousands OF that Morgan might make
Dominated by Officers
Any of be
entirely enlisted
American led controlled by
the exploiting class and the natural soldiers The
American Legion created financed
soldiers the
enave the workers and make America the
alst slaughter
Why is it possible for former soldiers led
organization fighting their
the propaganda supported by all the wealth of
the only large group and
for such petty advantages they its real
officers
Legion in the interest capitalism.
Convention Threat European Workers.
The American Legion
straton of the American Imperialism
Europe who freedom the financial
Street.
The workers
the American
dered Sacco Vanzet because their
of the working All
ders applaud the action of French Directing
American
We hope the French will
fascist of the United Staehe of welcome really
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
PUGH, REFORMIST
BRITISH LEADER,
DELEGATE TO AFL
Helped Betray General
Strike Last Year

Arthur Pugh, who as president of
the Trades Union Council, was one
of the leaders in the betrayal of the
British general strike last year, will
sail for New York on the Lancashire
on September 10. He will be one of
the two British fraternal delegates to
the American Federation of Labor
convention at Los Angeles.
Clearly indicating how earnestly
British reformist leaders are advocat-
ing class collaboration as a substi-
tute for class struggle, Pugh in an
interview with reporter for the New
York World declared:
Advocates Class Collaboration.
American producers seem to have
grasped the idea that a healthy state
of indsutry and the retention of d
good home market mean the maintain
ing of the purchasing power of the
people--a power which is opposed to
a wage-cutting policy. Then, too,
there appears to be new spirit in
America regarding the relation Of the
human factor in industry to the cap
ital invested; the principle of the men
in industry using capital as vehicle
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
After Starving Three
Days Jobless Worker
Faints at Passing Food

After not eating for three days,
Maurice Jones, %, of 1873 Park Row,
collapsed yesterday in the Bronx
after he found out he arrived too
late to get a job.
Walking all the way uptown, he
was told that the job had been given
to man who beat him by travelling
on the subway. Returning, he said
he passed three restaurants in sue
cession.
He managed to pass the first one,
but he got dizzy from hunger when
he passed the second.
AS he started to pass the third,
the fumes of steaming coffee and
frying hamburger made his head
swim and he fell. He was taken
to the Highbridge police station.
From there he was sent to Welfare
Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
END SWEATSHOPS,
AIM OF MADISON
SO. GARDEN MEET
Cloak and Dressmakers
to Rebuild Union

What are characterized by the
workers as "unbearable" conditions
in the cloak and dress shops of this
city have led to the calling of mass
meeting of all cloak and dressmakers
in Madison Square Garden next Sat-
urday, 2 p. nl.-
The call for this meeting is issued
by Louis Hyman, manager, and julius
Portnoy, secretary, of the Joint Board
Cloak and Dressmakers' Union; and
according to the announcement, this
viii mark the beginning of drive
to overcome the present deplorable
conditions by ending the strife which
has been weakening the union for the
past two seasons.
ever since Morris Sigman, presi-
dent of the international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, began his sys-
tematic expulsion policy the standards
in our industry have been steadily
falling" says Louis Hyman.
Sweatshop Returning.
"Sweatshop conditions such as ex-
listed previous to 1910, once more pre-
vail in this city. There are more
than 300 non-union shops in the gar
ment center, where people are work
ing so and so hours a week-instead
of Al hours as prescribed by the union
agreement; where they work Sundays
and holidays, and for all this receive
$25 and $50 less than they did when
the shorter work week was in force.
GAS a result, even in union shops
the standards have been destroyed
and wages reduced so that the most
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
$4,000 Workers Out Of
Jobs in Baltimore, Is
Report Of Bosses There

BALTIMORE, Sept. 3 (FP)-
Employers estimate that $4,000
workers are jobless in Baltimore
this month. The figure, sponsored
by the Association of Commerce,
does not include those partially
employed.
"a surplus exists almost with
out exception in every industry"
the association declares. This
condition, however, is not peculiar
to Baltimore as it seems to pre-
vail throughout the eastern part
of the United States.
The building and construction
industry is particularly hard hit
with activity at about so per cent
of normal. There is no doubt, say
Baltimore contractors, that the
city and the whole country are
badly overbuilt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
REPORT OF THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE

States over the similar period in the
previous year.
Fourthly, there is growth of the
RENTER class.
Fifth, there is a general Industrial
ization process in the United States,
particularly in the South.
OUT it would not be dialectic-we
" would not be scientific, we would
not be MARKHAM, if we merely saw one
phase of the process of capitalist de-
velopment and function in America.
Unless we examined the contradic-
tons of American capitalism, we are
unable to understand the objective
conditions under which our Party is
working. Briefly, the outstanding
contradictions in American capitalism
today are the following:
First, over-development of certain
industries, second, a severe and acute
crisis in agriculture. The migration
of the rural masses to the urban
centres is continuing. The income
of the farming masses in this country
has decreased AZ per cent in the last
SIX years.
Third, there are credit difficulties.
The whole system of installment
buying, tho momentarily it is force
for protracting the present period of
so-called prosperity, nevertheless it
has in it another force-a contradic-
tory force at work. This means that
when economic conditions become
worse, that this installment buying
becomes source of the greatest
danger, the utmost explosive force
for a crisis.
Fourthly, arrangement in certain
industries like oil, coal and textiles.
Filthy, justification, the develop
ment of cartels in European industry
is an increasing challenge to Ameri-
can imperialism. Sixth, the tariff
barrier. America maintains a high
tariff. AS we become capital ex-
porting country, and as America in
creases its strategic position in this
field, these tends to develop a situa-
ton where the tariff becomes an
acute problem in the sense that the
Continued or Page TOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
Bv JAY TOMBSTONE.

THE Importance of the present mo-
msnt for the American working
class can only be estimated properly
when we think of the dominant role
that American imperialism plays to-
day in world affairs. For US Com
munists who are striving to become
the leaders of the American prole-
tariat, it is therefore especially i'm
portant to examine the objective con-
ditions, to recount the concrete steps
which we have taken for the de-
velopment in ahe United States of a
mass Communist Party which will
lead the American workers towards
the establishment of proletarian rule.
We must estimate the factors de-
termining the Party activities, the
shortcomings of the Party, the errors
of the Party. What lessons are we
to draw? What are our tasks. What
are our perspectives? Let me esti-
mate first the factors determining the
Party activities today. Here we will
deal with the economic factors, the
political situation and the conditions
of the labor movement!
The Economic Situation.
in reference to the economic factors,
permit me to sketch very briefly
the outstanding features of the pre-
sent situation. l will merely name
them and the comrades need no time
for analysis here.
First, there is tremendous ac-
emulation of capitalism.
Second, great concentration of
ownership and Capitalization Of
operation in industry as we'll as in
finance. When we speak of mergers,
we only have to think of the recent
announcement of the proposed merger
of the Du Pont Corporation, the Cen
eral Motors and the U. S. Steel Cor
poration.
The third characteristic of the pres
ent economic situation is an increas-
ing export of capital. Without going
into any figures, permit me to say
that the first six months of 1927 in
dictate a considerable increase in the
export of capital from the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05

mere mas Deen relatively steady
employment, said Foster. The gen.
eral passivity has given the back
ground for the spread of reformist
illusions, propagated by the employers
and their agents, the labor bodies,
to the effect that the workers can
attain certain Liberation" under the
capitalist system, or even can "buy
the industries" 1t seems to be a
question at present whether company
unionism is now losing favor with
employers, relative to the process the
employers are using, of company
unionizing" the existing trade unions.
Under the Watson-Parler law the
railroad companies have to show this
preference in number of cases.
War on Left Wing Sharpens.
he offensive against the left wing,
aid Foster, is sharpening. The gov
eminent is now increasingly aggres-
sive in this offensive, and in this re-
spect, the Sacco-Vanzetti case is the
latest striking example. The struggle
in the needle trades is evidence of the
most acute development of the war
against the left wing. In this attack
the trade-union bureaucrats act as the
agents of the capitalist class in TAX
ing the lead.
The trade union bureaucrats are
not only going along with the com
pany-unionizing" of the unions, but
they lead in this also. They lead for
the bourgeoisie in the attacks on the
Soviet Union and in the imperialist
intrigues against Latin America, and
cunport the authorization program as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05

we'll as surrendering to the capitalist
political parties.
The general surrender of the bu-
reaucracy to the capitalist class is
summed up in what the bureaucrats
class the higher strategy of labor"
General Tasks of the Party.
Our general task, said Foster. is the
revolutionizing of the trade unions.
and this must never be forgotten.
There is a tendency for some, in the
detail work of the everyday struggle,
to overlook this, and this must be
avoided-we must never lose sight of
our ultimate goal, said Foster. We
must build our Party and win the
leadership of the workers. We must
win all the workers to the struggle
against Imperialism.
Develop the Left Wing
Don't forget, said the speaker, the
fundamental task of building the left
wing. We must democratize and
purge the unions of corrupt leader
ship.
Comrade Foster called attention to
the revolutionary effect upon the
trade union movement to be expected
from the organization of the unor-
ganized workers, which is the broad
highway to the winning of the masses.
This is the task of the left wing,
which must lead in the work. A
united front in this work can be made
with the progressives, but the or
ganization of the unorganized must
be done in the face of the opposition
Continued on, Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
LOvESTONE POINTS OUT GROWTH OF
STATE POWER IN u. S.; CALLS CAL.
COOLIDGE "STRIKEBREAKER CHIEF.

Pointing that there has been tremendous growth of
power that th bureaucracy continuing
grow apace Jay LOvestone reporting for the political committee
reviewed the political situation the United States the Fifth
National Convention of the Workers Communist) Party be-
ing held Irving Plaza Hail. Irving Place and 18th ST.
THE presidential before history
this
OF rican
LOvestone will be published full from The
WORKER The
published
the move is as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
RIGHT WING OF
CAP union RULES
OUT MILITANTS
Won't Allow Workers
to Choose Officers

Afraid to allow the membership of
the Capmakers' Union to vote for pro-
gressive candidates in the coming
election for organizers, the right wing
administration has ruled the militant
candidates off the ballot.
Ignori'/. lie elementary rights of
the ma 20. hip to vote for whom
they dcsi!e, the right wingers are al
lowing only their own supporters to
remain on the ballot.
II. SAFER, L. Cohen, and Jacob
Schogol. victims of the right wing
censorship, have sent the following
letter to the general executive board
of the union:
Letter to Executive Board.
eve, the undersigned, herewith sub
nit our appeal from the decision of
Locals /, 2, 8, II, 27 and 40, to the
effect that it requires a majority vote
of local in order that a member
may be nominee for office Of or
ganizer in our union. ....
at is against the elementary rules
of parliamentary procedure that a
nominee for office should have to re-
ceive a majority of votes from a
Continued on Pare Fiuel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
USSR WORKERS IN
MESSAGE TO tue
hit REFORMISTs
Greets British Labor
Meeting at Edinburgh
Especial to Daily Workerl


MOSCOW, USSR, Sept. 4.-The
extraordinary plenum of the Central
Council Of Labor Unions of the
Soviet Union which took place Fri
day concerned itself with the ques-
ton Of the Anebp-Russian Commit
! tee.
The plenum listened to the report
of Secretary Dogadov, who pointed
out that the Council had received an
invitation from the Trade Union Con-
gress at Edinburgh. The delegation
elected by the Council cannot appear
at the Congress, however, in view
of the refusal of the British authori-
ties to grant the delegates visas.
The Central Council of Trade
Unions of the USSR was therefore
compelled to confine it's brotherly
participation in the Congress to a
telegraphic communication.
Fought With British Miners.
The text of the message was
unanimously agreed upon by mem
bers of the Central Council. 1t
salutes the English working class
now suffering under the blows of
the reaction and declares that the
workers of the Soviet Union watched
with strained attention the struggles
of the English proletariat during the
past year.
With the British miners the work
ing class of the Soviet Union lived
through the horror of the defeat
which followed the betrayal of the
general strike and which was the re-
suit of both the treason of May 18th
and a further sabotage of the heroic
struggle of the miners.
Reformist Sabotage.
The new galley slave bill will now
become law as the result Of the
defeat of the miners and the con-
scious and deliberate sabotage of the
struggle against this law on the part
of the liberal leaders of the Labor
Party and the reformist leaders of
the General Council snatches away
the achievements attained by the
British working class in a century
and is a sweeping victory of the con-
sentative government not only over
the workers of England, but also
over the workers of all the world
The defeat Of the miners and the
chartering Of strikebreakers has set
free the hands of the government,
the bankers and mine-owners for a
cruel war against China and prepara-
ton for war against the Soviet
Union.
Faith in Workers.
Notwithstanding all these blows
which have fallen on the heads of
the British workers" says the mes
sage to the Congress, eve continue
to trust in the creative powers Of the
English proletariat. The strength
and the discipline of the English
working class manifested itself in
the nine days general strike. These
nine days gave the world model
for class solidarity and iron prole-
tartan discipline, whereas the 10th
day showed the tragic position Of
the working class headed by such
traitors as Thomas and assisted by
men like Hicks and Purcell, who are
now working with the leaders Of the
Labor Party to develop illusions in
the minds of workers about parlia-
mentary government being able to
solve all the problems of the work
ing class.
CONTINUED on Pc0e Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
Mathew Won Attacks
Labor Party in U. 5.

The narrow elementary craft
unionist line pursued by the re-
dictionary officialdom of the
American Federal of Labor was
clearly brought out in Labor
Day message issued here by
Mathew Vol, vice-president of
the A. F. of l.. and acting presi-
dent Of the National Civic Fedora
ton, in which he attacks political
action on the part of American
labor.
American labor has found from
experience that the greatest and
most permanent progress is at
tributable to economic and indus
trial action rather than the play
of political forces" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
PROTEST AGAINST
LEGION PREPARED
FOR September 10
Head of SaccO-Vanzetti
Committee Departed

PARIS, Sept. 3.-The reply of the
French workers to the insolent inva-
sion of Paris by 1880 members of the
Fascist American Legion was made
clear when daylight disclosed the fact
that all the biIlboards in Paris and
every inch of available space had been
plastered with posters and placards
calling on French labor to meet this
provocatiOn of the American Legion
as it should be answered" by a re-
fusal to work. The immediate cause
of the indignation of the French
workers is the announcement of a
grand parade in which the American
LGgionnaires are to participate on
September 10. 1900 Legionnaires ar
rived today.
The former poilus, and all French
workers, are incensed at the arrival
Of the Americans. The French ex-
soldiers realize that the American
Legionnaires do not represent the
American veterans or the American
workers. They remember that the
Legion stood strongly in favor of the
murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and
they are determined that Paris shall
not be made red light district for
the amusements of these labor-bait-
ers whose coming is an outrage to
the feelings of French workers every
where.
L'Humanite Leads Workers.
The excitement among the nasses
of French workers is at fever pitch
and the government is seeking to
utilize this feeling in an effort to pin
blame for all excuses in which Amer
lean Legionnaires may become in
volved on the activities Of the French
workers and Communists. Human
tie is still leaaipg the struggle. against
the hordes of the Legion and ths
workers are rallying to the support
of Frances fighting labor daily.
French officialdom, which began an
inquisition and terror Immediately
after the Sacco and Vanzetti demon
strations with their police violence and
the workers resistance had afforded
them an excuse, are still sending hum
dreds of workers and their leaders out
of the country either as foreign ref
ugees being deported from France or
on framed-up charges. The latest ar
rests and deportations are those Of
Artemio Rochini, secretary of one Of
the Sacco and Vanzetti committees,
and two Frenchmen who were dis
tributing pamphlets denouncing the
American Legion. Rochini has been
escorted to the Italian frontier and
delivered into the hands of his en-
emies, the fascist terrorists. 1t ia
expected that he will be jailed or
exiIed to one of the fascist island hell
holes where political victims are in
carcerated before being murdered.
Thousands DepOrted.
Eight thousand five hundred work.
ers or their leaders have been de-
ported from France to date. The
whole of the French secret police and
uniformed officers is being marshalled
for this work and the French author
tiles are using the persecution as an
example of the inadequacy of the
present force to the demands of the
terrorism and are clamoring for en-
largements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
OP orators BACK
Terror CAMP AICN
DECLARE

PITTSBURGH, Sept. Officials
of the United Mine Workers have
just filed an answer to an applica-
ton for an injunction made by the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corpora
ton.
Constant Terrorism.
Attacking the aggressive and
overbearing manner Of the coal and
iron police employed by the coal COM
pany against the striking miners"
the union charges that the hired
thugs of the corporation continuously
acts of terrorism against
the striking miners. It also declares
that workers are being arrested on
the slightest provocation and sub
iected to third degree methods by the
police.
Hearing Friday.
Next Friday is the day set for tho
hearing on the coal barons' applica-
ton for an injunction against the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
FOSTER REPORTS ON CONDITIONS
THAT Affect The TRADE UNIONS

THE U
(Communist Party entirely rnon
work by William T. Foster secretary of the
Party Foster reviewed first the conditions which
the trade union movement and the DEVELOPMENT wing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
Hearing Friday.

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEWSSTANDs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05

THE DAILY WORKER ZIG HTS,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZER
FOR THE 4O-HoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY