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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1929 II I Copyright, 1929, by International, Pailu ialbarker I \ ! I J I J Publishers Co., Inc. Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party The desperate financial condition of the Daily Worker has compelled the omission of some of its most attractive features. Published by the National Daily SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Publishing Association, HAYWOOD’S Worker Bv Mail (in New York only): Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at )s.OO a year $4.50 six months We hope to be able to resume pubMcation of Fred Ellis’ cartoons in the 28-28 Union Square, New York. $2.50 three months All rights rese,~ved. Republica- I I M £ | //' T6 I J § ” York): except by permission. I II Ib9- -8. cable, uaiwukk. Outside of New tion forbidden < Cable\IWOKK* 56.00 a year $3.50 six months next issue. ROBERTrhrvpt MINORxrmrvß EditorTMitnr Address and mail all checks to The of the paper depends upon how much help will be given by rhe DaiJy Workers 2 6-28 Union life the W\l. F. DUNNE Ass. Editor Square, New York, N. Y. workers and friends who are our readers. Gompers Betrayal of the Railway Strikers of What Is “White Civilization” In Africa? Send your contributions QUICK to 1894; Haywood Now a Convinced Already the forces that will drive'European imperialism The DAILYWORKER, Revolutionary Unionist out of the continent of Africa begin to show formidable 26-28 Union Square, strength. The point of greatest friction at present appears to New York. Previous chapters have told of Bill Haywood’s boyhood among the Utah; youth as miner and cowboy in Nevada; mining be in the field ruled over by Great Britain. The government Mormons in at Silver City, Idaho; as an official of the Western Federation of of the Union of Africa is busy proclaiming its mission South Miners; delegate to its convention in 1898; Gompers’ hypocritie treat- to “save white civilization” in that section of Africa. The ment of the Haymarket victims of 1886; their words which so im- South African Labor Party—one of the most reactionary im- pressed Haywood’s life—he asked before his death that his ashes perialist parties in the world, which is not even constructed be buried besides their graves. Now go on reading. upon the basis of a labor party, but is in fact an extremely Working Women Must Fight Jingoes ... By D. HAYWOOD. yellow social-democratic party of the bourgeois politicians Then the food conservation drive. WILLIAM and labor aristocracy—fights tooth and nail for the enslave- By VERA BUCH. Every one remembers the garbage PART XXIV. ment of the masses, and especially of the Negro masses of The mobilization of American wo- Must Not Allow Mobilization for Imperialist pail campaign. How a group of pa- | men in support of the last war triotic dames supposedly visited the revelation of what could be termed nothing less than treasonable labor and peasantry. growing | which the American government con- War, but Fight for Proletarian Revolution home of Hoover then Food Admin- THEaction on the part of Gompers increased the hatred agairjst But the tide of the proletarian and peasant masses of ducted in 1917-1918 has a poignant istrator, to inspect its garbage pail the man, and this hatred extended to the countil of the A. F. of L. when Negroes is surging upward. Already the outlines of future lesson to the working class. It is a extraordinary development in Amer- city and devotion of the women —and behold, it wT as empty!—the we learned the facts about what they had done during the American suppose, It was generally known events can be at least dimly seen. The Negro workei’S in warning to us to realize the import- ica, were thus at once systematically of the United States. .The implication being, I that Railway Union strike in 1894. the Hoover ate got on the train at Indianapolis mining and other industries are becoming bolder and more ance of the women, and to begin mobilized and thrown into action country depends upon the women family up its gar- that when Gompers under the leadership of the Wom- for a large part of the inspiration bage. The empty garbage pail was to go to Chicago he had said: self-reliant in their demands for the sweeping away of the energetically the task of organizing and teaching the working class wom- en’s Committee which got its orders of its life.” held up as the emblem of perfection “I am going to the funeral of the A. R. U.” E> treacherous imperialist system of labor organization which en, so that when war breaks out and inspiration from the U. S. im- And the secretary of war chimes to the A. lerican working class house- A funeral without a corpse would be a strange tries to bar the Negro workers from all unions and even from again, they will be mobilized, not perialist government. in: wife. She was _ apposed to cut out thing. What Gompers meant was that they were the right to organize on any basis. Already there is a very for the support of the imperialists, Thorough Local Organization. “I think there is a certain sig- meat and wheat from her menu and going to kill the American Railway Union and there- In fAfJt nificance. scrimp on her poor table so necessary corpse for the funeral. And considerable organization of Negro industrial workers. Held but for the fight against capitalism These state conferences were con- .when a secretary of already by provide the ¦CQ victory prole- as war says to the women that the as to save the food for the army. this was what they proceeded to do. A conference ’ .JlraL back control, and for the of the stituted permanent groups. There in the past by military police by treacherous i tartan revolution. were organized similar committees success of the United States in On May 5,1917 Secretary Houston of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. was called, conspiracy of trade union bureaucrats and the high-skilled "Women Under Gov’t Control. on a local scale in each county, city, the making of this war is just as of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture and met at the Briggs House in Chicago. In addition white labor aristocracy, and at times by timid, unreliable Systematically, on a national scale, town and village. In the cities, there much in the hands of the women issued a special appeal to the women to the council there were fourteen delegates from the of Rail- leadership, the organization movement among Negro workers an apparatus was created, using the were also ward organizations. When of America as it is in the hands of the cor”try for food conservation affiliated unions, the First Grand Master of the Brotherhood bourgeois women’s or- of the soldiers of our army.” and econc y in the way Trainmen, and the Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Loco- seems now to be assuming powerful proportions. permanent it came down to local groups, mem- home. He ap- ganizations, which reached to the bership no longer based upon On August 2, 1917, the secretary pealed also to the “loyalty” of the motive Firemen. Eugene V. Debs appeared before this conference and was the A strong factor in the change for the better of the last corner of the country and drag- organization, but any individual wo- of the navy declares: working women. He said: asked that they present to the Railroad Managers’ Association proposition as a body, upon emancipation movement can be found in the recent improve- ged in not only the middle class man who could be brought in was “American women have always “Employed women, especially that the strikers return to work at once ready answer of they former positions, or, in the women, but the working women and eligible. Thus there was a possi- been to the call those engaged in the manufacture the condition that be restored to their ment brought about in the Communist Party of Bouth Africa, members this con- workers’ wives as well. Under the bility of getting those who had es- service and have cheerfully under- of food or clothing, also directly event of failure, to call a general strike. Five of for it is an undisputed fact that such a movement at this time gone the untold sacrifices Gompers being one, were appointed draft resolutions. Here direct control and with the full sup- caped membership in the permanent and bur- serve their country and should put ference, to can if places upon proposals: make effective headway only it is guided by a con- port of the federal and state gov- organizations, and of reaching each dens which war them. into their tasks the enthusiasm and are extracts from their They are already making sacri- scious, disciplined proletarian political revolutionary organi- ernment apparatus, this organization and every working woman and work- energy the importance of their The great industrial upheaval now agitating the country has penetrated only the fices and enduring hardships with zation of leadership—i.e., a Communist Pai’ty. The Com- of women not er’s and farmer’s wife. The purpose products warrants.” carefully, calmly fully considered, and a conference of the whole United States, but the a spirit which commands our in- been and • munist Party of South Africa has been very weak. Historical even uniting all these divisions was to see At of the national “that necessary tense admiration.” one first con- Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and the ! colonial possessions.