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.