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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
Nothing Can Stop the Miners
Onward March.

The criminal attack of the armed thugs OF
John l.. Lewis, and company detectives, led,
protected and supported by the police OF
Pittsburgh, upon the Convention of the new
Miners Union Sunday will have the effect
of pushing forward the movement OF the
coal miners of this country to the point
where the defeat of Lewis and the coal oper-
ators will be decisive and certain.
Lewis and the scab operators thought they
could brighten the coal miners of this coun-
tryi
Lewis and the scab operators are fools to
think so. The coal miners cannot be beaten.
Lewis thugs and the operators attacked
and made small civil war upon the great
Pittsburgh convention-not lightly and idly,
but because they were compelled to do so
under the conditions from their point of
view. They were compelled to attack with
reckless force and complete disregard for
the formalities of claw precisely because
the coal operators and their flunkey Lewis
know that this convention will effect the or
ganization of the most powerful union in the
western half of the world if it goes through
with it's program. This knowledge forced
Lewis and his bosses to cast aside all pre-
lenses of claw and order" and to try to
crush the movement before it is too late.
The great nationwide. advance of the mine
workers had to be met by Lewis if he was
to function any longer as the operators chief
~lion-smasher. Lewis knows that it means
lis ruin as a parasite upon the backs of the
mine workers if the new national Miners
Union is formed. The operators know that
it is the end of their dream of universal
scab coal industry if the new union is formed
in the hands of real men instead of Lewis
and the Cappelins, Fishwicks and Fagans.
The action of the workers in going for
ward with the formation of the new union
called forth the more extreme act of the
operators their detectives and labor lead
ers.
But the bosses and the scab leaders are
mistaken in one thing. They do not realize
that their desperate action will only result in
calling forth still more courageous and de-
termined actions of the mine workers.
Throughout the United States the enraged
coal miners will give in no uncertain terms
their answer to the new crime of Lewis
More locals of the wrecked United Mine
Workers will be shaken into realizing what
Lewis partnership between capital and la
bor'' is leading to when his henchmen march
between company detectives and city police
to attack the great convention of the Mine
Workers.
Increased support of the New Union will
result.
The thing that Lewis and his bosses do
not understand is that the further the fight
is carried and the more the masses of coal
diggers are stirred up-the more surely the
tide of mass determination to organize the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

running as far as any dominant in
tluence in the party is concerned
Under the caption "Why the Farm
Bloc is Impotent," the N. Y. World
OF June IL, 1928 brings this out
quite clearly in these words, 1.-THE
farmers of the Mississippi Valley
are quite incapable of imposing their
will upon the republican party. :.
1t is an illusion, one of the per-
sistent illusions of American politics,
that the farmers of the Mississippi
Valley are great power in the land.
The simple truth is that the
disaffected region is too weak in
population, in delegates and in cleo
toral vote to dominate the repub-
lican party. e. The control of the
republican party is securely lodged
in the hands of the industrial fac
ton"
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

industry VIII rise ana OVerWnelm the soap
forces trying to stop it.
We do not say that Lewis and the power
full rich coal operators Ibid all of their stuff"
on Sunday. On the contrary, we know that
not only Lewis and a few company detec-
tives and city police, but the whole power
of the State of Pennsylvania, the States of
Ohio, West Virginia, etc. and the whole
power of the capitalist government of the
United States are at the disposal of the scab
coal operators. But we also know that not
even these forces will be enough to keep
the workers from organizing when the fight
proceeds in such way that the workers are
conscious of it's meaning.
The coal operators and their allies, the
Lewis gang and the Pittsburgh police, went
further in this outrageous assault than any
of them had gone before. Not even the
murders that the Lewis gang committed in
Illinois, Eastern Pennsylvania, Western
Pennsylvania and elsewhere were as des-
perate as the actions eliminating on Sun
day. Only Friday night two delegates were
shot down by Lewis agent Immediately
after their election by their local union to
the Convention. Campbell, Reilly and Lillis
died on the streets of Pittston, Pa, shot
down in broad daylight by machine-gun fire
at the hands of Lewis henchmen. Countless
loyal coal miners have been slugged and
jailed at the hands of the Lewis gang be-
fore.
But these desperate deeds and those even
more extreme that may be expected will not
stop the union.
This little civil war" against the coal
F1l1 e
state.
In the past few days both of the big CAPT.
talist political parties and their candidates
have gone through the form of endorsing in
empty words the right of the workers to
organize. But this small military action
against an orderly national convention shows
that the capitalist spokesman lied. Every
power will be used against the workers
when the workers really move to have an
organization controlled by themselves in a
great basic industry. In this case no polit-
ical party except the workers own class
party-the Workers (Communist) Party
will stand by our class. This violent action
against the workers is a forecast of the fact
that American capitalism will go at least
as far as the government of any of the most
reactionary countries of Europe at its worst.
But no power can or will stop the coal
miners.
These are the finest quality of prole-
tarians ever developed in this country.
They will fight on
We are firmly convinced that they will
now launch an even more successful Union
than would have been seen if the foul crew
OF scabs had not attacked the convention.
Workers of America Workers If oil
countries Stand by the mine workers in this
crisis!
On to the New Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

would have US accept. Thirdly, we
carried motion endorsing the
Profintern resolution. Fourthly,
the charge made by Comrade Lo-
sovsky yesterday that the cable to
the Trade Union Educational League
Conference, the Left Wing Confer
ence, caused discomfort in the Cen
trail Committee, is unfounded. AL
though Comrade Foster put his OPP
position to the contents of this wire
yet we published it and long be-
fore we received this advice for the
organization of the unorganized we
adopted the following motion:
Political Committee, November 2,
1927:
"The T. U. E. L. in order to estab-
fish working relations with the I'M
organized masses. shall build up a
special connection with the workers
clubs, shop committees and other
groups in the organized plants and
cities. Into all groups and leading
committees of the T. U. E. L. there
shs.4 be included representative ele-
ments from the unorganized plants
and in the respective industries and
localities"
As to the ridiculous charge of
Losovsky that we have made unity
with the Right Wing in the Ger
man Party, Comrade Losovsky-
people who live in glass houses
should throw no stones" Is your
criticism of the German Right Wing
correct? We endorse it 100 per
cent. Why do you make these
charges without quoting us as you
quoted your case against the Ger
mans?
Was there no criticism of the
Profintern resolution by us? Of
course there was! By whom?
Especially by Comrade Foster about
whom you are 50 silent-in the May
Plenum Trade Union resolution.
Foster criticized it also in an 49,
page letter to Comrade Losovsky.
In July Comrade Foster wrote an
article against the criticism made
by Comrade Losovsky against US.
Comrade Losovsky, without the
slightest basis of fact, has been at
lacking our Party in a most shame
full manner ard charging it with not
doing any work in organizing the
unorganized. Our Party has done
considerable work in this field, de-
spite the slsnderous campaign of
Comrade Losovsky.
myself have some disagreements
with certain features of the Profin-
tern resolution. In this matter
elso want to register a sharp dis
agreement with Comrade Pepper,
who said he agrees with this resolu-
zion of the Profintern 90 per cent.
The comrades might ask, why is
it that Comrade Losovsky is so bit
ter and prejudiced against our
Party? The answer is the follow
ing: For years we, have conducted
q vigorous fight against him to
compel him to revise the program
Of the T. U. E. l.. (the American
Left Wing) which provided for a
long time the exclusion from its
ranks of any worker who did not
accept first of all the proletarian
dictatorship.
When we consider the effort it
took from us to defeat Comrade
Losovsky on this point, there comes
forcefully to our attention the fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
L0vestOne DisseCts us. Empire

that Conrade Losovsky has no right
whatsoever to talk of another COM
rade as a "muddler of two CONT
nents." The weakness of the Profin-
tern is the leadership of Comrade
Losovsky, who has been making
muddle of nearly everything he has
touched.
At the TX Plenum Comrade Lo-
sovsky introduced resolution on
the American trade union question
in which there was not single word
about the need for Communists
working with the existing A. F. of
L. unions. The American delegation
to the TX Plenum introduced a coun-
ter-resolution in which it laid the
greatest emphasis on the organiza-
ton of the unorganized, but at the
same time said it is necessary to
continue and increase the work of
the Communists in the A. F. of L.
Comrade Losovsky fought against
this amendment bitterly, but was
overwhelmingly defeated-in fact,
Comrade Foster refused to vote for
the position of Comrade Losovsky
on the policy to be followed by our
Party in the mining campaign.
Obviously, Comrade Losovsky acts
in fractional, prejudiced manner
against our G. E. c. l am of the
opinion that Comrade Losovsky has
for some time functioned as one of
the primary forces instigating fac
tionalism.
In recent months the Party has
done much work in organizing the
Unorganized. Several thousands of
our Party members have been ex-
PEELED from the trade. unions. Our
Party has developed a vigorous, en-
ergetic strike leadership policy.
What we need is advice and criticism,
and not vilification from Comrade
Losovsky.
Comrades, I want to say that de-
spite the very sharp criticism made
by interruption, the chairman
announcing the end of Comrade
Lovestone's time. One minute
granted to finish.
The Congress should not misjudpe
the situation. Our PARTY will not be
thrown into faction fight despite
the vigorous efforts of our opposi-
ton to camouflage, develop poison
GUS smoke screens and to stampede
our membership into a suicidal fac
ton war. Our Party has fought the
Right danger. We have made a
proposal here for special amend
ment to the theses proposed by
Comrade Bukharin on behalf of the
Russian delegation, to instruct the
American c. E. C. to continue and
intensity its fight against the Right
danger
The Party needs peace. We are
in the midst of big comprehensive
m ming campaign, the election cam
paign and the campaign to organize
he unorganized in a number of in
dustries. There is possibility of
peace because despite all the err
rors, all the hesitation, all the slow
ness of our opposition, they are
more and more coming closer to the
correct line of the Comintern, to the
policy followed by the c. E. G..
Therefore we insist that the opposi-
tion should dissolve its bloc Foster
Cannon). We request that the c. l..
should reject the unfounded charge
of Right Wing levelled against the
G.. f. G. We insist that the c. J.
should once and for all put an end
to the fractional opposition to the
c.. f. c. The American Party re-
Allies the gravity of the situation,
We are prepared to do everything
in our power to maintain the unity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
Defends Bukharin's Thesis at Sixth Communist
World Congress

posed by Foster was rejected. 1t
reads as follows:
THAT the policy of the New York
D. E. G. in giving qualified support
to Panken the S. P candidate for
judge) was incorrect. The Party
should have approached the S. P.
with general proposals for the estab-
ishment of a united front labor
ticket in the New York elections,
based on a minimum program"
The C. E. C. of our Party has been
charged with opportunism by the
opposition because of the wrong step
it took in sending an open letter to
the S. P.
1T is clear from the minutes of
Polcom, Nov. 7, Nov. 25 and Dec 7,
1927, that though the Central Com
mittee as a whole was responsible
for this mistake, yet the opposition
did moro than it's share in having the
Party commit this error. The Party
has repeatedly pointed out the anti
proletarian and pro-capitalist poll
cies of the S. P,
On April 9, before we received the
last letter from the Presidium of
the Comintern, we find the follow
ing motion in the Polcom:
Motion by Mr.. Lovestone:
"That the Party issue a statement
not addressed to the S. P, but an
official statement to the workers on
the S. P. convention"
In the May Plenum Resolution,
our Party elaborated in detail its
sharpened policy against the S. P.
Comrade Bittelman has said here
that he and the opposition as a
whole admit and correct their er-
rors. What he should have said was
that the entire opposition repeat its
errors.
Up to the May Plenum the diff
| ferences in the Party were not
brought up in any sharp way. The
differences that existed were chiefly
between Comrade Bittelman on the
One hand on the trade union ques-
ton, and the majority of the Cen
trail Committee, inclusive of Foster,
on the other hand. A similar rela-
tionship occurred on the proposal of
Comrade Bittelman on political
Strikes in our everyday agitation.
On the very day before the last
Plenum was opened, all comrades
were agreed that no political reso-
lstion was required for the session.
Comrade Cannon and Bittelman even
made motions to this effect. These
motions were unanimously agreed
to. Obviously until very recently
the present opposition in our Party
did not see any Right menace.
l want to say a few words on
Comradc Losovsky. He says we re-
jected the Profintern resolution. He
says we have made a united front
with the Right wing of the German
Party in opposition to the Profin-
tern. Comrade Losovsky's imagin-
alton is working overtime.
What are the facts regarding the
so-called rejection Of the Profintern
resolution? First of all, Comrade
Foster presented the resolution on
trade union work at the May G. E..
c. Plenum which we voted for.
Secondly. tombstone presented an
ultra-factional document as the re-
port of the Profintern Congress
delegation which we rejected and
which not even Comrade Losovsky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
(Continued.)

Are we fighting the right danger?
No one can charge the Central Com
mittee with being guilty of over
caution and conservatism in leading
the Party work The Central Com
mittee has provided for the imme-
date expulsion of any Party mem
Der who refuses to violate an in
junction. In the fight against the
injunction, particularly in the coal
strike, many scores of our members
have been jailed. The same has oc-
Cured in the national picketing and
street demonstrations in which our
Party has participated vigorously
and which have very often been led
by our Party.
Only the other day our Central
Committee was compelled. to repu-
date a proposal by one of the OPP
position leaders in America, Com
rade Swabeck, to refuse to build a
new union in the textile industry
because the reactionary United Tex
tile Workers-the blacklist type of
reactionary union we have-has is
sued statement that it wants to
organize the unorganized. We have
been fighting against the Right
danger in Minnesota. where sup
porters of the opposition said that
the discipline of the labor party is
as high as the discipline OF the
Communist Party, and where these
comrades insisted on supporting the
BOURGEOIS politician, Shipstead, for
the U. S. Senate.
In the anti-imperialist work. we
fought the pacifist errors of Com
rade Gomez, an opposition delegate.
In the mining campaign, we have
fought the Right errors committed
in the anthracite by the opposition
spokesman, Papcun.
And in the question of the pro-
gressives, it was the Central Com
mitt =, which saw to it that where
we made unity with the progress
sives we did not give them the lead
ership.
Our Central Committee very prop
erly sharpened its position towards
the socialist party. Much has been
made here Of the so-called oppor-
tunist attitude of our Party towards
the socialist party.
The minutes of our Political Com
rnittee, December ID, 1927, show
that this outrageous opportunistic
crime (of sending under special cir
cumstances for special confidential
purposes some very reliable COM
rades into the socialist partly
charged against The majority of the
c. E. c. if it is at ali to be consid-
cred an error, was participated in
Fundamentally by our opposition
leaders in an even more aggressive
and ageravating manner than that
proposed by the majority.
Much noise has been made by our
o~ncs'tionists here in reference to
the Panken matter as another OPP
portunistic crime of the Central
Committee. Not only did the sup
porters of the opposition of the New
York District Executive Commit
tee unanimously vote for the policy
in the Panken election, but in the
Polcom meeting of October 81, 1927,
Comrade Foster made a motion
which was typical Of the worst of
opportunistic errors our Party has
committed in its relations TO the So
cialist party. The motion thus pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

reported to be
the victim of a
k i d n a p pi n G
S t u n t during
which he was
tortured with a
hot poker and
hanged by his
thumbs in an eff
fort to extort
100000 from
him. Those who
will doubt the
credibility o f
the story on the
grounds that it
is inconceivable
that a labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
COOK TO BE FREED.

FORTH WORTH, Texas, Sept.
(UP).-Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arc
tic explorer, geologist, physician and
oil promoter, probably will be libef-
ated from his long prison term be-
fore the year is over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

of our Party and to carry on the
tasks such as are confronting us in
developing our work amongst the
Negroes, fighting against imperial
ist war on Nicaragua, organization
of the unorganized. With the HELM
of the Comintern and under the lead
ership of the Comintern, we will
move forward to a united mass
Communist Party in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

CCARCELY h a d Mrs. Florence
" Knapp parked herself comfort
ably in her lowered suite in the
sheriff's home, at Albany, than the
candidate for Encouragement of
Massachusetts addressed an open
letter to Governor Smith demanding
that he take steps to end the notori-
Gus albany baseball pool" which is
reported to have flourished in the
shadow of the capitol. The politi-
cal thieves are certainly rafting
each others skeletons. As mat
ter of fact the pool operated in Hud-
son and not in Albany and only the
blind in New York's officialdom
were unaware of Its location. Those
who did not profit by it were too
busy, getting theirs from some
other source of graft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
Told You So

CHARLES (Whiskers) Hughes has
v been unanimously elected MEM
Der of the World Court which is
sort of scullery to the League Of
Nations. Thousands of one-hundred
per cent Americans hug the delusion
that 1--WE" are not in the League,
but Wall Street knows better. While
not officially in, Charlie will see to
it that Morgan's interests are taken
care of thru the World Court. There
are more ways of hoodwinking the
masses than there are interpreta-
tions of the bible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

WILLIAMS j. LYONS, president
w of the Newark Building Trades
Council and business agent for
Newark Bricklayers' Local No. 8, is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

This is the third instalment of
Comrade Jay Lovestone's speech
at the Sixth World Congress of the
Communist International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

MRS. KNAPP stole tens of thou
AVA sands of dollars, yet she is treat
ed with the consideration given to
Harry Sinclair and Edward L.
Doheny who were able to get away
with a couple of states. Mrs. Knapp
may feel bored before her thirty
day term in her boudoir has ex-
pired, unless big-hearted Al pardons
her in the meantime. But as we
said before had she swiped bottle
of milk for her thirsty poodle dog,
she would now be defending herself
from savage cockroaches in filthy
jail. The moral of this story is,
that robbers who know their onions
should join either the Democratic
or Republican party before starting
out to get rich quick, and then take
care not to be caught at petty lar
ceny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

THE regular and irregular members
of the Daily Worker editorial
staff are not in the habit of passing
taffy to each other, but l must hand
a bouquet to my next column neigh
Dor Fred Ellis for his cartoon show
ing Mrs. Knapp going to ."jail." It
appeared in last Fridays issue. It
says half a dozen columns on capt.
talist miscarriages of justice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10

YOU can always depend on a labor
faker to pick on a fake issue to
fight against with his mouth. A
cur barking at the moon is an ex-
ample of useful endeavor compared
to the antics of a trade union body
bleating against new developments
in the cinema. To expect the New
Jersey State Federation of Labor to
tackle the organization of the I'M
organized industrial workers in that
state would be like expecting the
House of Morgan to come out for
the Communist ticket. The labor
movement in New Jersey is about
the most graft-ridden and spyIrid-
den in the United States and it's Of
ficial leaders have as much in COM
mon with the exploited workers as
fox has with chicken coop.
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leader should be worth so much in
dollars, might read William z. Fos-
ter's, "Misleaders of Labor"
I YONS owns a restaurant in New
IL ark and it is rumored that ram
som fund was collected for him, the
total raised reaching the sum of
$4,000. Lyons is wealthy and
served prison term at Trenton in
1923 for operating a gambling
house. The New Jersey Federation
of Labor recently voted to endorse
Al Smith for president. The con-
vention also distinguished itself by
putting Scanned music" on the I'M
fair list, tho William Green, presi-
dent of the A. F. of L. is upholding
collaboration on the movie
tone at the Roxy Theatre, in Man
haitian.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-07

dent emeritus of tho association. Women will wear period jewelry. So of course they must wear their hair long enough to form 2 fitting frame.
 Long ear rinss bespeak long cropped hair. Evening clothes of the rcbe-de-style type presuppose the possession Of. hair long enough to cover tho ears. And if women wear 1928 editions Of the 1s47 crinolines and furbelows. they will find that the marcel effects makes . happy combination"
 How eyebrows should be dispiay- ed was also disclosed. The faint, elusive line that served as an eye. brow last year must take on a more gallant aspect. Heavier or thicker must be that line. After that comes the artistic tapering. effected by means of tweezer or pencil.
 There is not much similarity in 'hairdressing and barberinE. in Mir. Boch's opinion. and 50 far as he is concerned the hairdresser is far more artistic. Men have their hair cut for comfort" he said. and women havetheir hair bobbed for style. beauty and grace. bobbing the hair is a development of hairdress-. ing and therefore . perquisite of the ladies' hairdresser."