The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 1

IMPERIALISTS ATTACK CHINESE WORKER-PEASANT ARMY THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 115. Publishing Asgeciation, Inc, 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker __Batered as secona THE DAILY WORKER. jane inatter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 197%. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 38 MILITANT FUR WORKERS MUST SERVE JAIL TERMS Aid Relief For New Bedford Strikers MUST SERVE FULL), 1927 SENTENCES IS COURT ORDER 29 of the Defendants Are Women Fifty-eight fur workers—29 men ‘and an equal number of women—late yesterday were imprisoned on Wel- fare Island to complete sentences meted out to them during the New York fur strike of 1927. This follows a decision of the Court of Appeals just rendered. Yes- terday the 58 workers surrendered themselves at Part 1, Court of Spe- cial Sessions. All of the workers, who were round- ed up on charges of disorderly con- duct, had already served nine days of their sentences at the time of their arrest. The women had been sentenc- ed to 10 days, leaving one day to serve. The men, who were sentenced to 15 days, still have six to serve. One fur worker, Lena Gautman, who was given 30 days for expressing dis- approval of the judge’s decision, will have to spend 21 more days in prison. Ten other fur workers} arrested at the same time, who have not yet ap- peared, have been asked to report to the office of the Joint Board. In the strike in which these work- ers were arrested the officials of the American Federation of Labor joined with the right wing administration of the international furriers’ union, the employers and the Tammany Hall’s police force in a campaign to destroy | the workers’ organization as well as| the union conditions,in tAe shops. This decision is not only inflicting hardship on the supporters of fam- ilies by compelling them to serve at Welfare Island, but is forcing many of those who have finally found jobs to, lose them. A curious coincident is that this decision comes during new developments in the struggles of the fur workers to maintain their union against the onslaught of the combi- nation of bureaucrats and employers. (Continued on Page Two) THRONGS 70 HEAR OF KUN'S ARREST Communist’s Release to Be Demanded Thousands of workers of New York City and vicinity will gather in Union Square Saturday at 1 p, m.-to pro- test against the contemplated murder of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, and to demand his immediate and unconditional release. The mass meeting is called by the New York section of the International Labor De- fense, 799 Broadway. In an appeal to the workers of New York, Rose Baron, secretary of the New York section, points out the sig- nificance of the arrest of Kun by the Austrian government and his threat- ened extradition to Fascist Hungary, and calls upon all class-conscious workers to join in preventing the mur- der of Kun. The mass meeting will be addressed by many prominent speakers from three platforms. Among them will be Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers’ (Communist) Party; James P, Cannon, national secretary of the International Labor Defense; William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, Workers’ Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER; Carlo Tresca, Nicola Napoli; Richard B. Moore; Robert W. Dunn; Louis Hyman; S. Liebowitz; Anthony Bimba; Louis Koves; Gustav Mayer; Antonio Wechsler; Emmery Balint, S, Biederman, and Hugo Gellert. Unemployed Rally at Union Square Today A rally of unemployed workers will ‘be held at 2 p. m. today in Union Square at the Lincoln monument un- der the auspices of the New York Council of Unemployed, it was an- nounced last night. The spaakers will include John Di Santo, secretary of the Council, and Sylvan A. Pol- lack, of The DAILY WORKER. An important meeting of the execu- tive committee of the Council will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m, at 101 E. id4th St. All executive committee ae gobers have been urged to be pres- ent Ann W. Craton, at right abdve, is in charge of the re- lief work carried on for the New Bedford textile strikers by the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief. Lau- dovina Rogers, her- self a striker pressed into serv- tce as @ secretary to the organization is standing at Ann Craton’s left. The strike relief is be- ing brought to hun- dreds of the tex- tile strikers who have been organ- ized by the Textile Mill Committees, the officials of the Textile Council having refused to call for picketing. CITY-WIDE OPPOSITION TO FARE STEAL GROWS Organized opposition on a city-wide scala leading to a mass refusal to pay the increased fare sought by the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany is being foreshadowed here as motion during the past ten days under ® the leadership of the Workers (Com- jmunist) Party which has been stag- ing open air mass meetings in every part of the city. Reports from these meatings are uniform that the workers and riders of the city are aroused to the point of fare riots and mass demonstra- tions. Independent investigations eon- ductad by The DAILY WORKER aong the riders of the subways indi- cate that the maneuvers and ges- tures of the city and state officials have not. gone unnoticed by the strap hangers. It is evident that the work- ers see through the moves and are holding these officials responsible. Charge Walker Made $287,000. Confirming the charges made many times in The DAILY WORKER, that Tammany Hall was responsible for the seven cent fare steal, former Mayor John F. Hylan yesterday indi- cated that Mayor Walker had made an income of over $287,000 in 1927 from his holdings in I. R. T. stock. Hylan issued a second series of ques- tions yesterday, in which he asked Walker the following questions: “Ts it not true that you admitted under oath your 1927 income was $287,000 or over? If you did not make this $287,000 out of I. R. T. stock, will you tell “the Public how JAPANESE TROOPS LAND AT SWATOW Attack Worker-Peasant Guards in City> (Speeial to The Daily Worker) VANCOUVER, B. C., May 15.— Japanese marines who were landed at Swatow several days ago when worker-peasant troops gained control of the city clashed with Red Guards. according to a cable received here by the Canadian Morning News, left wing Chinese newspaper. The result of the fight has not been reported. The workers and peasants have gained new victories in the Tsung- shan district where they took pos- session of the strategically important (Continued on Page Five) a result of protest activities set in you did make it, your salary as mayor being only $25,000 a year? “You also said you have not been ina night club in over two years. To refresh your memory as to the night clubs which you visited within the last two years, were you not at Roger (Continued on Page Five) SEE SPREAD OF TEXTILE STRIKE Ranks Solid After Month of Fight on Cut NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 15.— The 30,000 striking textile operatives here, engaged in a fight against the ten per cent wage slash, ure fulfilling their role as the leaders of the tre- mendous struggles in store for the hundreds of thousands of mill work- ers, with a unanimous determination seldom equaled in American labor history. Complete Solidarity. Not since the beginning of the strike just a month ago tomorrow, has a single worker participating in the original walk-out broken ranks and returned to work, despite the fact that a number of mill owners have tried to coerce many strikers to start the looms running again. Indications that the strike will be far more bitterly and openly fought can be easily observed by the opinions expressed in the local, as well as na- tional capitalist newspapers. They frankly state that the successful ter- mination of the New Bedford strike would be the signal for the rapid spread of a general strike movement (Continued on Page Two) HOLD GRAFTER’S CHAUFFEUR. Harold Truet, chauffeur for Maurice E. Connolly, deposed Borough President of Queens, who resigned un- der fire as a result of the sewer graft scandal in that borough, was held in $1,000 bail by the grand jury on a charge of using a city automobile without permission. Connolly brot the charges against the chauffeur. HAYWOOD FIGHTS DEATH Has Relapse - After Rally Against Illness’ MOSCOW, May 15.—William D. Haywood, former Chicago leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. is putting up an amazing battle against death. Just as it appeared that he could not recover from a severe attack of heart weakness he rallied and dis- played a reserve strength that aston- ished the doctors of the Kremlin Hos- pital. Before his latest attack Haywood had been removed from the hospital to the Lux Hotel, where he made his home. He had been suffering from a complication of diseases, chief of! which were heart weakness and dia- betes. The diabetes symptoms yielded to insulin treatment and Haywood seemed to be on the road to recovery when he suffered a heart relapse. The Kremlin Hospital doctors con- sidered sending the patient to Nacesta a north Caucasian sulphur springs re- sort, for special treatment but it was decided that his heart was too weak to stand the strain of the trip. Hope was expressed that careful treatment and rigid diet during the spring and summer months would benefit Haywood to such an extent that he could be taken to Nacesta in the autumn, Haywood is receiving the best medi- eal treatment that Moscow affords Dr. Limcher, his personal physician, said that the American was receiving the same treatment that would be given to a high official of the Soviet government. DELEGATES 10 EXPOSE SIGMAN CONVENTION’ Militant Workers To Plan Action To begin the campaign of inten- sified struggle for the rebuilding of the union mapped out by the Na- tional Conference of the progressive delegates to the convention of Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, a series of simultaneous mass meetings will be held tonight at 6 o’elock in Cooper Union, 8th St. and 4th Ave., Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., and severa] other halls. The cloak and dressmakers in New York will tonight hear, from the mili- tant delegates they sent to the con- vention city, Boston, how the reac- tionary socialist cliques in control of their International union, refused to allow their elected representatives to participate in the convention, and us- ing the police force of Boston as their guards against any possible voicing of protest against the wrecking of the cloakmakers’ union. These mass meetings will also be the first step to be taken by the lock- ed out delegates, in carrying out the program of action they adopted at the National Conference held while the union wrecking cliques of Sigman and Schlesinger were.grappling with each other for control of the wreck of a once strong International. This conference was held in the Hotel Brewster and ended last Saturday, when the bulk of the delegates re- turned to New York. The fake convention of the right wing delegates representing only} their own union-destroying clique are| still struggling bitterly against each other in Boston. This despite the lat- est efforts of the chief of the socialist party, Morris Hillquit, who came to (Continued on Page Two) WORTIS TO SPEAK AT WOMEN’S MEET Hold Big: Conference on Saturday The heroic struggle of women in the needle.trades who. were the first to organize a union of 30,000 women in spite of the greatest obstacles, will be reviewed by Rose Wortis for the benefit of delegates attending the conference next Saturday to or- ganize the New York Working Wom- en’s Federation. The conference which is to take place at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th-St.-and Irving Place, at-2 p. m. is arousing widespread interest among ‘women workers in unorganized shops and factories as well as among wom- en in the ranks of organized labor. “Dressmakers have always been in the forefront of the struggle against sweatshop conditions, starvation wages and the employers’ idea of what a union should be,” stated Wor- (Continued on Page Two) —_—__—— Young Worker — er Hundreds of workers will greet David Gordon (above), who has been released after serving one month of a 3 year sentence for writing the poem, “America.” Miners, Sympathizers, Get 20 Days Left to right above, are Joe Horsky, a railroad man, Mary Pospisil, housewife, violation of the injunction against mass picketing. The miners and sympathizers with the mine strike and Tony Cigagno and Andy Blahovec, militant supporters of the Save-the-Union movement | who have been sentenced to 20 days apiece in the Cadiz, Ohio, jail for | their sympathizers were sentenced by the notorious injunction and eviction judge, Benson W. Hough. SPEED UP NAT’L BISCUIT CO.; ‘BELT’ IS DOUBLED (By a Worker Correspondent.) If you were working at the National Biscuit Company your ears would be filled with complaints against the speed-up system. One worker iss doing HILLMAN DITCHES FORTY-HOUR WEEK Claims “Great Strides” in Convention Report CINCINNATI, O., May 15.—Com- plete verification of the general pre- diction that the eighth biennial con- vention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union will not take one pro- gressive measure to defend the union membership from the steadily sharp- ening attacks of the employers, was obtained in the “keynote speech,” de- livered by President Sidney Hillman at the first day’s session held yester- day. Summed up in a few words, Hill- man’s verbal symphony expressed complete satisfaction with the “won- derful strides made by the Amalga- mated,” and a hope for further strides with the aid of housing, fi- nancial and insurance schemes and better cooperation with the manufac- turers for the stabilization of the in- dustry. Union Makes “Strides.” The Rochester and Chicago agree- ments, recently renewed for three years, were brought forward by Hill- man as brilliant examples of the union’s “strides.” This in spite of the fact that the 40-hour week was not obtained, as had been done in the other needle trades unions, and de- spite the fact that it could have been obtained, as was proven when two open-shop employers voluntarily granted the shorter week while secret negotiations with the bosses of the two markets was going on. Although Hillman’s address touched upon the 40-hour week, which is ad- Aplin on Page Two) the work of three and getting out {more work, For instance, in the Ninth Avenue plant, the speed of the conveyers that carry the loaded pans to the wrapping tables has been doubled. Three years ago the carriers made a turn in 5 minutes. Now they go around in 2% minutes. The belt at the wrapping table is increased in speed to keep up with the work coming from the ovens. The foremen and forewomen, known as “whites” because they wear white uniforms, stand near the wrap- ping table and keep calling to us, urg- ing us on to speed up, get out the work, faster, faster. We must not talk to any of the workers down the line. We must pay attention only to “the belt.” The | speed, the intense heat and the driv- | ing of the straw bosses add to the misery of working like automatons before the belt. If only we were per- mitted to exchange places for a while | so that we would not be doing the (Continued on epee ant Hae. Two) URGE PROMPT AID FOR “RED CENTER” Weinstone A Addressing | All Party Units Pointing out the necessity of im- | mediately raising all possible funds | for the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, William W. Weinstone, organ- izer of District 2, Workers (Commu- nist) Party and secretary of the Cen- | ter, yesterday made public a letter which is being sent to all Workers | Party units in District 2. The letter | states: “Dear comrades: “Officially our campaign closes to- (Continued on Page Two) on Page Two) EET GORDON TONIGHT ‘Communist Party Leaders Will Speak Released after serving one month, York Reformatory for writing a poem “America” in The DAILY WORKER, David Gordon, 19-year-old member of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League will be welcomed to- night by hundreds of New York workers at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. Gordon will tell of his experiences in the reformatory and during his trial before the judges of the’ Court of Special Sessions. In a short time he will return to the University of) National Wisconsin to which he had won a scholarship for literary promise after! he had been sentenced to the reforma- tory and while his case was being ap- pealed. (Communist) Party and the League lof a three-year sentence in the New) will speak, tonight, tracing the his- tory of the campaign to throttle the} central organ of the Party by a series of state and federal indictments against its editors. Among those who will welcome Gordon on behalf of the Party and} League are Bertram D. Wolfe, na- tional agitprop director; William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party; Robert | Minow editor of The DAILY WORK- ER; Alex Bittelman; Herbert Zam, Secretary of the Young Workers’ League, and Philip Frank- feld, member of the District Executive Committee of the League, and Mich- ael Gold, editor of the New Masses. The welcome had erroneously been Prominent leaders of the Workers| announced for tomorrow evening. \ ‘West Virginia ‘Hold ld Pittsburgh Election Conference Sunday Call Big Cloak Meetings to Rebuild Union OHIO T0 ) NAME CANDIDATES AT MEET SUNDAY State Convention Saturday (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, May 15.—Delegates to the State Nominating Convention. of the Workers (Communist) Party will be elected at a conference that will be held’by the Pittsburgh district, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at 35 Miller Street, The State Nominating Convention will be held in Phila- | delphia Thursday, May 24, and will elect delegates to the National Nom- | inating Convention at New York. All Workers Party units of Western and Central Pennsylvania are called upon to send delegates to Sunday's conference, * . Ohio Convention Sunday. CLEVELAND, 0., May 15.—The Ohio State Nominati ¢ Convention of, the Workers (Commt jist) Party will be held here Sunday at 10 a. m at Jates Hall, 6006 St. Clair Avenue, In the afternoon, at 8 o’clock, the opening rally of the campaign will take place at Gardina Hall, 6021 St. Clair Avenue at which the state can- didates will speak. The nuclei have elected delegates to the convention from all over the state, and a large number of fraternal and other working class organizations are sending fraternal delegates. One of the features of the convention will beg a report on the miners’ strike (Continued on Page Two) CROUCH, SANDINO SPEAK THURSDAY 'General’s Brother at the Brooklyn Meeting | Paul Crouch, the American soldier |who agitated in the Hawaiian army, \barracks against American imparial< ism, is to occupy the same platform las Socrates Sandino, brother of the (Nicaraguan general resisting United |States marine invasion, at @ mass jmeeting in Brooklyn Thursday. The |meeting, under the auspices of the | All-America Anti-Imperialist League, will take place at 8 p. m., in Royal Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave. near | Broadway. Manuel Gomez, U. S. secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, will preside. Interest in the meeting is strength. ened by the fact that Crouch has just returned from an extended visit to Soviet Russia. This will be hig fixst appearance at a |; | sim n. Crouch, who was an American sole jdier stationed at the colonial posses- sion of Hawaii, attractetd world-wida attention when he was arrested end court-martialed for his activities im organizing the Hawaiian Communist League. Among his fellow soldiers and among the Filipino laborers in the Hawaiian Islands the League es~ tablished its first base. Crouch! served more than two years in tha Alcatraz Military Prison. Will Present Drama _ for Miners’ Relief “The Village Youth,” a one act play in Yiddish, will be given by the Dorohitcher Dramatic Society at the Ukrainian Theatre, on 6th St., be- | tween Second and Third Aves., next Saturday evening. The proceeds of the performance to be donated to the relief of the striking miners. . ‘The Dorohitcher Dramatic Society, recently affiliated with the National Miners’ Relief Committee, has re- hearsed “The Village Youth” for three weeks and added many talented act- ors to its cast for this performance. The play is under the age of A. Sandrofi, — a