Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. MARCH 9, 1929 “U. S. By Rushes Arms and Ammunition Across Border” (News Item) Fred Ellis MM M Copyright, 1919, by International JBaily iiliJ&nrkpr m M J M J Publishers Co., Inc. Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party

Published by the National Daily SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Worker Publishing Association, By (ln on : HAYWOOD’S Mail New Tork iy) Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at (8.00 a vear ?4.50 six months Square. 26-28 Union New York, ,50 three months All rights reserved. Republican I ) / 1 / \ / N. Y., Telephone, Stuyvesant , , .. I 1696-7-8. Cable: “DAIWORK.” / d N except by permission. M 5b.00a 3. }vircai i?-nfo.i)0 sixr, months lion forbidden f I I $2.00 ______three months ROBERT MINOR Editor Address and mail all checks to Ihe Daily Worker, 26-28 Union SVM. F. DUNNE Ass. Editor Square, New York, N. Y. What a Labor Union Should Be, as Stated by the in Industrial Union Manifesto at the Communists Lead Strikes Birth of the I. W. W. Bombay; Reformists Aid Boss In previous chapters Haywood told his early life as miner, present strike Bombay, of The of ..demonstrations before the mills and cowboy and homesteader in the Old West; of years as member of the. India, mill workers which the Brit- -: parades through the city caused a Miners; of finally being elected to head the gradual closing Western Federation of ish government tried toturn into a i of themills. In a W.F.M.; its battles in Idaho and Colorado; of the conference at. religious war, by use import- week, 150,000 were of the of • j workers out, Chicago in January, 1905 which called a new national labor union ed strikebreakers who were Moham- shutting practically every mill in for I center; the part of the historic manifesto that conference issued medan Pathans, and by constant Bombay. first was given the last instalment. It continues as below. Now go on provocation, was the in not first bat- Mass picketing began from the reading. tle of these workers. (first day. Special efforts were • • * It follows the victorious strike, a ; made to get out the oilers and others year ago, of 150,000 textile workers lon “essential services.” The police By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. in Bombay, which is described in !at first tried prohibit picket- to all PART 55. the following article by the Laboi ing, but had to back down and allow Research Association. | two pickets at each mill, jealousy leads to the attempt to create trade monopolies. * * * j Old union leaders refused at first CRAFTProhibitive initiation fees are established that force men to become (By LRA Service.) ]t oallow the Communists as many scabs against their will. Men whom manliness or circumstances have The strike lasted form April 26 ! j representatives on the joint strike driven from one trade are thereby fined when they seek to transfci to October 6 of last year, and the i | committee as the left wing asked, membership to the union of the new craft. mill owners complained about the I | but finally yielded. Strike demands Craft divisions foster political ignorance among “loss of over 21 million working l i covered wages, hours, discipline, the workers, thus dividing their class at the ballot days t otheindustry.” The workers, joint negotiation for fixing working box as well as in the shop, mine and factory. If however, rejoiced that they blocked ! conditions, restriction of the three- Craft unions may be and have been used to assist I a vicious wage cutting and speed-! loom system, standardization of employers in the establishment of monopolies and the kH up drive. rules, and right of members of the raising of prices. One set of workers is thus used In the beginning of 1928 a group “depressed classes” to work. Most to make harder the conditions of life of another of these '.~Am of large textile mills in Bombay, demands the employers ans- body of workers. dyjl mainly under British control, began i wered evasively, or in the negative. Craft divisions hinder the growth of class consci- introducing new work system which Agreement After 6 Months. ousness of the workers, foster the idea of harmony compelled spinners to operate two! The strike attracted international of interests between employing exploiter and employed of of the sides of a frame instead of one, and support. The workers of Soviet slave. They permit the association the misleaders workers Federation, plans are made for weavers to run three looms instead I Russia contributed $6,300, the In- with the capitalists in the Civic where I permanent of the of two. Along with these changes; ternational Conference of Textile the perpetuation of capitalism and the enslavement went discharge of “superfluous” | Workers $5,000, and the Interna- workers through the wage system. I working class have workers, longer hours for those who 1 Federation of Trade Unions, The Literature of New Russia Previous efforts for the betterment of the tional action. remained, and cuts in wages. $2,500. proven abortive because limited in scope and disconnected in The instalment this other describing Russian the working class can be eradi- Fakers Wouldn’t Lead. An agreement was finally reached first of books life Universal economic evils afflicting article on the new litera- since 1917, there have universal movement. Such a movement A number of small strikes re- to resume work on October 6, nearly Soviet appeared a cated only by a working-class ture discussed its emergence dur- number of imaginative works while separate craft and wage agree- sulted. The leaders so theold line half a year after the start of the Gre&t Variety of Significant Works Reflects revalu- of the working class is impossible ing the storm and stress period ating the past in the light of con- the against other crafts in the same unions, however, N. M. Joshi of the general strike. Wages for the most ments are made favoring employer of the civil wars as an of Vitality Soviet Culture temporary ideas. energies are jurisdiction strug- Bombay Textile Labor Union and part were to be restored to the old 1 effort of New Thus the 17th industry, and while Wasted in fruitless , the writers to express those century peasant revolt is the only personal aggrandizement of union D. R. Mayekar of the “Girni Kam- levels temporarily. A government theme gles which serve to further the | mighty days in away that would of Chapigin’s Razin”; gar Mahamandal,” refused to issue committee of inquiry was appointed “Stenka the officials. vitally influence the masses. Verse not seek to penetrate the inner mean- “Tomorrow” and “The Commissars”; 1825 revolt is portrayed * * * the call to turn the scattered rev- to investigate all questions involved, i in Marich’s ! rather than prose flourished in ing of the events he pictures, con- Tarassov-Rodionow’s “The Northern Lights” and in Tyn- olts into a geheral strike. The mass meeting of 15,000 20,- MOVEMENT fulfill conditions must consist of one great in- j to those first years. Demyan Bedny tenting himself with being merely Lyashko’s novel “The Break” pre- yanov’s “Kyukhla”; the revolution of I to these In March, 1928, a new union, 000 which ratified “ the settlement sought to the masses paradoxical. This won him a tem- sents the psychology of the Commun- 1905 in dustrial union embracing all industries, —providing for craft auto- the Bombay Mill Workers’ Union,! 1 influence Yevdokimov’s “Bells”; pre- enthusiastically cheered the state- with simple agitational poems. porary popularity at a time when ist worker; while Seifulina’s “Viri- revolutionary Moscow in nomy locally, industrial autonomy internationally, and working-class was launched, under Communist ments of the speakers Andrey that this was Vladimir Mayakovsky, leader of literary works dealing with the re- neya” and Gladkov’s “Cement” por- Byelyi’s “The Moscow Crank,” and unity generally. guidance. Its leaders were J. H. only a breathing spell struggle, administra- which the the school, tried to break volution were a novelty. At present tray types of Soviet women. A “Moscow Under the Blow”; per- It must be founded on the class and its general Jhabvala, formerly secretary of the workers to strengthen Futurist the recognition should use completely with bourgeois Soviet readers, regardless of their number of well-written novels deal iod of November, 1917, Ai-tyom tion must be conducted in harmony with the of the irre- old union, of organization tech- in and the heads the ! their and prepare for nique, Alexander Block’s social status, demand more serious with the Soviet youth, notably Ma- Vesyolyi’s “Russia pressible conflict between the capitalist class and the working class. Workers’ and ] still while Bathed in Blood” Peasants’ Party. Mass; greater • organization tasks in the future. famous “The Twelve” was the ef- achievements from their novelists. lashkin’s “The Right Side of the and other works. The historical It should be established as the economic of the work- fort a confused bourgeois intel- Among the intellectuals of the old Moon,” Panteleymon Romanov’s novel is rapidly becoming one of the ing class, without affiliation to any political party. of membership. lectual to grasp the meaning of regime who personally accepted the “Without Flowers”, and Ognyev’s most favored forms of literature in All power should rest in a collective the Revolution. Serge Yessenin, new, but whose works could only “Diary of a Communist Schoolboy”, the U. S. S. R. Local, national and general administration, including union labels, should The Tasks of Winning the one of the outstanding poets of skim the surface of revolutionary which has been translated into Eng- The stabilization of Soviet econo- buttons, badges, transfer cards, initiation fees, and per capita tax, the Imagist group, represented Russia, is Alexis Tolstoy. His lish. my in the past few years has ma- be uniform throughout. the psychology of the backward “Aelita”, “Engineer Garin’s Hyper- The peasantry, also, has its place tured the new writers considerably. All members must hold membership in the local, national or inter- Textile Working Women peasant. The conclusion of the bole” and “Blue Cities” are’ well- in the new Russian literature. One Even their approach to civil war national union covering the industry in which they are employed, but civil wars gave the opportunity planned, plastic and entertaining. of the best writers on village life themes reveals a different perspec- transfers of membership between unions should be universal. His more recent works reveal a lean- was Neverov, whose “City of Bread”, Workingmen bringing union cards from unions foreign By ALBERT WEISBORD. ,5. Vacation with pay for j for more sober reflection and the tive. Thus Fadeyev’s “The Smash- industrial in two ing to the new bourgeoisie created dealing with the famine period in up,” countries should be freely admitted into the organization. months before and two ' development of prose. Outstand- which relates the story of a (Secreatry-Trcasurer of National months af- Ify the NEP (new economic policy, Tashkent, has been translated into The administration should issue a publication representing ter childbirth. ing prose works of the period im- group of “partisan” peasants (guer- general Textile Miners Workers Union since 1921). A writer of a similar English. Fedin’s “Transvaal” in a the entire union and its principles reach all members in ; mediately following the civil tears rilla fighters) in Sibei’ia during the which should America.) 6. Permission for mothers calibre, “Towns manner of with are Furmanov’s “Chapayev,” is Fedin 4 whose and bizarre describes the well- civil war ,is free of every industry at regular intervals. infants to leave : Le- naturalism and From the very beginning our N. their work every J j bedinsky’s “A Week” and Y'ears,” de’al with the civil war, and to-do peasantry. The transition of romanticism. The novel is ripe A central defense fund, to which all members contribute equally, three hours to nurse their Serafi- “Transvaal”—with village T.W’.U. has paid great attention to children.! “The Iron the under the village from the old to the new and realistic and the images cor- should be established and maintained. movich's Stream.” ’ winning textile working 7. Factory nurseries for working : NEP. life is sketched in Karavayev’s “The respond agree set the women. * * to the contents. Fadeyev All workers, therefore, who with the principles herein women with babies and chil- * m * * Os course, this is of primary im- young Bears,” and “The Chestnut-Colored also exemplifies the recent trend of forth, will meet in convention at Chicago the 27th day of June, 1905, dren, to be provided The peace portance to us because without the by the employ- following the civil war Sooner or later Soviet literature Skin”, and in Akulshin’s “Unbound Soviet writers to learn for the purpose of forming an economic organization of the working ers under the administration of the encouraged the technically, women we can win none of our development of the was bound to turn from the civil war Sheaves” and “Village Whispers.” A from the great heritage of the class along the lines marked out in this Manifesto. union, charge past, I struggles. free of to all mothers so-called “Fellow-Travellers,” writ- to the reconstruction period. The strange spectacle of village life is more especially Tolstoy. Adopted at Chicago, January 2,3, and 4, 1905. who work in from In the industry generally over the plant. ers of various types and talents who best known novel reflecting this presented by Klichkov in “The Sweet Os late the futurist poet Maya- * * * 50 per cent of the textile workers 8. Rest rooms in the mill to be were not themselves of the new or- transition is Feodor Gladkov’s “Ce- German” and other works, which are kovsky has been experimenting with provided for the women. der, but who accepted the revolution, ment”. The romanticism which poems in prose rather than novels. long AN the back of the Manifesto was printed a chart classifying the are women and in some of the most I epics as in “Lenin,” and in per- " and were willing to along workers, a requirements an important branches of the industry Already these demands have at- “travel” marked the proletarian literature of Vsevolod Ivanov in “The Secret of sonal lyrics like “It”. have industrial with statement of the for with it. They came Others (rayon, knit goods, silk-throwing, tracted wide sections of the textile from the peas- the first period still clings to this Secrets” has also essayed to portray also attempted epics, notably, Bag- industrial organization of the workers: antry, etc.) women are a predominating women workers. In every local we the intellectuals and the urban book; but this time the problems of the present life of the Russian peas- ritsky in the “Thoughts About Opa- A labor organization to correctly represent the working class must middle things majority. have a women’s committee and classes. These writers lacked the new society are correctly ap- ant. nas,” and Selvinsky in his construct- have two in view. Almost 50 women delegates out everywhere attention is being paid I the active spirit of the revolution proached and lines are projected The life of city outcasts is de- ivist poem “Ulyalyayevshchina.” First—lt must combine the wage workers in such away that it animating the protect of a total of about 150, attended both to attracting the working wo- works of Demyan pointing to socialist construction. A scribed by Leonid Leonov in “The Pasternak, a lyric poet whose “Sister can most successfully fight the battles and the interests of the Byednyi, out national convention. Os our men into our union, and to develop- Mayakovsky, Serafimovitch number of realistic works dealing Thief,” while petty Soviet officials Is My Life” made him famous, has working people of today in their struggle for fewer hours, more wages Lebedinsky. They a small National Executive Committee ing them for actual leadership. and retained with the period of peaceful economic are portrayed in Katayev’s “Em- published a long psychological poem and better conditions. good of 13—3 are women. These 3 women deal of pre-revolutionary pas- growth followed, notably Lyashko’s bezzlers” and Lidin’s “Glotov’s Em- entitled “Spektorsky” Secondly—lt must offer a final solution of the labor problem—an Now that the Passaic strike, the and a histori- are full organizers sivism, being content to portray “The Blast Furnace”, and Lidin’s bezzlement.” | emancipation from strikes, injunctions and bull-pens. now time in the New Bedford strike and cal poem “Lieutenant Schmidt.” Our National Executive has other ; events as they saw them, without “The Ships Are Coming.” Novikov-Priboy has written a num- The best field. strikes have passed into history, the known of the younger * * * a standing women’s sub-committee ; seeking to extract their full social Soviet writers also began to por- ber of splendid stories of life in the poets are Bezymensky, whose book lesson of the role of the working implications. Because many of these THREE secretaries were elected to attend to the distribution of the which is already working out a full j tray the new types of people evolved navy, notably “Stories of the Sea” “The Odor of Life” and other 1 women in the strike has become : verse Manifesto, one for the East, program of work both for the fam- writers had come from classes which by the new society. Excellent por- and “The Divers.” collections articulate the attitudes one for the middle of the country, and indelibly impressed on all of us. enjoyed higher of myself for the West. Two copies ilies (wives, sisters, etc.) of textile i education, their traits are presented in Lebedinsky’s In addition to these and numerous the Communist .youth; and Utkin, hundred thousand of the Manifesto were distributed, was workers and for the women textile Our union fully understands the works show great technical mastery. Zharov and Svetlov. The and there much correspondence and other work This, futurist preparing workers themselves. importance of women workers. With combined with their sincerity, group, headed by Mayakovsky and involved in for the convention that we had decided upon holding Chicago following general Our demands for the working such an attitude and policy we are enabled them to produce works of Brick, has produced talented in the June. There was a response great literary significance. Great Forerunner of New Soviet Literature several to the Manifesto. are follows: sure that we will help give the en- social and poets, including Aseyev and Kirsa- I It was gratifying to see the number of different women as ! trades and industries that 1. Equal pay for equal work. tire working class a most thorough In fact, it was they who laid the nov; while the lyrical school of which took an active interest. j With the at 2. Minimum wage for women. appreciation of the role of the work- ground for a realistic literature, Yessenin was the best representa-! exception of the strike the Standai’d Mill in Colorado Soviet to City, 3. No night work. ing women and to mobilize the wid- which Russia is coming ac- tive has found adherents in Oreshin j and the strike in the Cripple Creek District, the strikes in Colo- 4. Prohibtion of work in heavy est section of the workingdass wo- cept as the most desirable kind at and Nasetkin. i rado had been settled or called off, with a decided gain for the work- stage development. ers in and dangerous occupations. men around our union. this of its The The following works of fiction and the metalliferous industry. After we had returned to the W. “Fellow-Travellers” also wrote their poetry by contemporary Russian F. M. headquarters in Denver, we issued a circular to the workers in mining first books around the civil war writers have been translated into the industry, reminding them that the Cripple Creek strike they just from which had emerged. English and are available in the was still on, and signed by Moyer and myself. Among the best of their novels are United States: • * * Wage Cuts, Speed-Up, Give Vsevolod Ivanov’s “Armored Traiir” 1. Flying Ossip. (International! ANE day about this time I went home a little earlier than usual and and “Colored Winds”; Yakovlev’s Publishers, New York.) A collec- 1 u found the house flooded with a crowd of laughing, romping children. “October”; Babel’s “Red Cavalry” tion of short stories, including Penna R. R. Record tales; I asked my wife what it all meant. She told Profit and “Tales”; Seifulina’s “Virineya” by Boris Pilniak, Vsevolod Ivanov, me: “Dung”; Artyom Vesolyi’s “The “Idon’t know! You’ll and •Seifulina and others. have to ask Henrietta.” By ROBERT W. DUNN. | Even the Railroad Labor Board seven-year-old up Homeland”; Malishkin’s “The Fall of Russian Poetry. Anthology. I could see Henrietta’s red head bobbing and charged company setting 2. An Company unionism, low wages, the with Daira”; Leonid Leonov’s “Badger”, J&., (International Publishers, down among the others in the dining room. When I could attract her up “a system which throttles the New I and sharper exploitation of 240,000 and Boris Pilnyak’s “Leather Jack- York.) A collection of poems from attention called her to me and asked her why all the children were majority and establishes the repre- > employees are reflected in a net in- ets” and “The Naked Jfear.” WmJ Pushkin to the present time, includ- there. sentation of a coerced and subser- “Why,” said, come of more than $82,507,000 re- The last of these works appeared ing verses by Mayakovsky, Yesse- she “it’s a party!” vient minority.” why you ported for the year 1928 by the at a psychological moment. It was nin, Bezymensky, Marienhof, Ilya “Well, didn’t say something about it to your mamma Pennsylvania Railroad, self-styled The Pennsy also company-union- the first novel which set itself the Ertnburg, Blok or to me?” I asked. “Who do you think is running this house?” Alexander and “Well,” “standard railroad of the world.” ized its clerks and tricked its tele- task of reflecting Russia’s social life others. she answered, looking up at me with flashing eyes, “I guess part These profits—the largest in the graphers and maintenance of way in the throes of the civil war. The 3. Azure Cities. (International I’m running of it!” history of the road—represent an in- men into accepting the slave status novel presents the various social Publishers.) A collection of short I looked at her. All at once I saw that she was no longer a baby. crease of $14,347,000 over 1927 which the company calls that of "a strata during the famine period, stories by Alexis Tolstoy, Pilniak, I said: earnings, and are equivalent to happy family.” Company officials portraying peasants, city workers, Pantalaimon Romanov, Lyashko, “Irealize that. But you haven’t made any arrangements to •*- nearly sls profit on each SIOO in- i boast that it is not necessary for intellectuals, and the Communists—- | Babel, and others, tertain all these children.” vested in the company. They were 1 the workers “to resort to a strike in the “people in leather jackets” re- m i 4. Diary of a Communist School- “I couldn’t tell mamma. She can’t keep anything to herself. And in of a 1928 order a square deal.” Russia out of chaos. As '0 besides, it’s a surprise party on her.” made possible, spite to get Having building boy, by Ognyev, (Payson and Clark). , drop in Pennsy’s gross employed wiped out the independent unions might be expected from a work of 5. The City of Bread, by Alexan- “Well,” I said, “let’s go out and get some cakes and candy to feed and speeding up the rest. They fol- ! that could battle for wages and hav- fiction produced by the famine years, der Neverov, (A. A. Knopf). all the guests.” low a period of union-busting and ing stifled the voice of the workers, the chaotic and thb rebellious pre- Ufi 6. Cement, by Feodor Gladkow, After the other children had gone, I called Henrietta and Vcrnie active company-unionization of the the company is now in a position dominate, while the creative and or- (International Publishers). A novel to the couch where their mother was lying. Pennsy workers, directed by Gen- where it can shovel larger and ganizing elements are described in K' m 1^ of the reconstruction period. “This afternoon Henrietta told me she was running part of this eral W. W. Atterbury, an aggres- larger profits into the pockets of a much weaker manner; the Author I|i« 7. Three Plays, by A. A. Luna- house. Now, in that case, you children will have to take part of the sive foe of union labor. absentee owners. > ; was not yet able to compose a whole,; charsky, (E. P. Dutton & Co.). This responsibility. You must keep an account of the money you spend, Unions that suffered most from In January, the road used its “em- 1 which at that time was still unclear volume by the Soviet Commissar of and maybe with four of us running the house we can do it better than the Atterbury onslaught were the ployee representation” to hand !to him. Education contains “Faust and the it has been before.” From that day the children did their share, and federated shop crafts including shop-craft workers a 4-cents-an- The period of the civil war 'and I City,” “The Magi” and “Vasilisa the we talked things over with them.

: peace * blacksmiths, boilermakers, sheet hour increase after unionized work- the days of immediately fol- i Wise.” * • • metal workers, machinists, carmen, ers on the New York Central had lowing it also produced Ilya Eren- 8. The Naked Year, by Boris Pil- electricians and molders. To dcs- ! won a five cent increase through a burg’s novels, notably “Julio Jur» nyak, (Payson & Clark). In the next instalment Haywood tells of the 1905 convention of atroy these unions and set up its 'display of union strength. To pre- nito,” “Trust D. E.’\ “Nikolay Kur- 9. The Communist Undergradu- the W. F. of M.; of the first convention of the. Industrial Workers of own “employee representation” vent agitation among its men the bov” and “Jenny Ney,” the last of Maxim Gorky, who as fur back as the nineties of the last cen- ate. by Ognyev, (Payson & Clark), the World, of which, he. was chairman. Readers should not lose the acheme the Pennsylvania has re- Pennsy was forced to grant the con- which was filmed and shown in New tury; turning towards the workingclass and away from the bourgeois | a continuation of the adventures of opportunity now offered to get Haywood's Book, in regular book form, sorted to. blacklisting, injunctions, cession through its parasitic com- York. These works are perjneated world, sowed the. seeds of the new literature that hus arisen in the Kostja Ryabtzev, the hero of the i for their libraries, free with a yearly subscription, venereal or exten- unfair elections, and terrorization. pany union. with scepticism. The author does) Soviet Union since the Revolution. 1Diary of a Communist Schoolboy. sion to Ihe Daily Worker,