The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1928, Page 1

sera ~» “attacked-the cowardice and ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck ‘ ; For a Labor Party d-clans matter at the Post Office at New Vork. N. ¥.. under the NATIONAL EDITION Published Vol. V., No. 283 fly except Sanday by The National 1): Publisbing Association. Inc. 26-28 Union Sa. New York, N. Y. » Worker EW 29, TRY TO FRAME UP MINER YORK, THURSD MEXICAN COMMUNIST ~ DEPUTY URGES FIGHT ON U. S. IMPERIALISM tapes Resenatve WORKERS PARTY PLEDGES AID T0 eee eee MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28 HailMexicoCommunist Herman Laborde, Communist Demonstration member in the Mexican Cham- ‘The following cable was yester- ber of Deputies today issued a day sent by the Central Committee ates) : “ of the Workers (Communist) Party ringing call for solidarity of all yr jp enerica to the Central Commit- Latin-Americans with Sandino tee of the Communist Party of in his fight against American | Mexico: imperialism, Amidst wild dis- 7) Central Committee, Communist order, in which many cheered, party of Mexico: but in which conservative deputies tried to stop him, Laborde waved before the, chamber a U. S. flag captured by the Nicaraguan army of indepen- dence led by General Augusto San- dino, and‘declared that union with Sandino in his fight “represented | the possibility of a united struggle against a common enemy.” Waves Captured Flag In the name of the class con- scious and militant workers, work- ing farmers and the oppressed | Negro masses in the United States that follow the leadership of our Party in the struggle against United States imperialism, we congratulate you on the splendid demonstration of Comrade Her- man Laborde, membe rof the Cen- tral Committee of your Party, in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies against the sharpening offensive of United States imperialism upon | the peoples of Latin America sig- nalized by Hoover’s present trip. The Mexican petty bourgeoisie and the labor reactionaries of the CROM have abandoned the fight “against United Statés impérialism and are compromising with Wall Street at the expense of the work- ers and peasants of Mexico. While the wokresr and peasants of Nica- ragua are still putting up-a brave resistance against the complete crushing of Nicaraguan national independence by United States im- perialism, Nicaraguan liberals and conservatives alike are selling Nicaragua to Wall Street. The infamous -conyention of the American Federation of Labor now in session in New Orleans urging a big navy, demanding the exclu- sion from the United States of Latin American workers and peas- ants and the renegade socialist party which advocates the Kellogg Peace Pact and the League of Na- tions, are not the true spokesmen Laborde declared Hoover’s jour- ney was a move by the U. S. in the conflict between British and Amer- | ican imperialism, and means that American imperialism is making a stronger attempt to subjugate Latin America. | The chamber of deputies was in turmoil during the Communist’s | speech. Attempts by reactionaries | to silence him failed, and Laborde ‘ton- ary character of these ceputies. He declared that the Mexican work- ers suspect Hoover's purposes. Deputy Santos, the government spokesman, spoke against Laborde, called him “unpatriotic” and told) him not to seek international com- plications. Marte Gomez, closely affiliated with Portes Gil, the new president, declared that Sandino’s struggle is a lesson to all the world, and caused American imperialism to hesitate over making an attack on Mexico but it was necessary to “disturb good relations with the United States.” He went on to praise U. S. Ambassador Morrow and said that although Mexico must support | Nicaraguan independence, it was | unable to “quixotically oppose over- whelming strength,” and that he| of the working class of the United welcomed Hoover’s visi tto Mexico.| States. The Workers (Communist) All of these hypocritical remarks| Party of America is the only truly were answered by the Communist| Fevolutionary party of the Amer- deputy, who pointed out the danger | ican proletariat. in which not only Mexico, but all It is clear that the only force Latin America lay from imperialist | capable of waging revolutionary aggression. | struggle against United States im- Laborde is a member of the Cen- | Perialism in Latin America and tral Executive Committee of the| for the complete liberation ‘of the Mexican Communist Party, is a| ™asses from the oppression of railroad worker and was one of the| the native and foreign bourgeoisie leaders in the last big railroad} #F¢ the workers and peasants strike, He joined the Communist| nder the leadership of the Com- Party in 1925 and has been very ac-| ™unist Parties of Latin America, tive. In the last elections he was| jointly with the proletarian revolu- sent to the chamber of deputies.| tionary movement in the United His speech is one of a series the| States and all over the world and Mexican Communist Party is plan-| in alliance with the anti-imperial- ning in connection with Hoover’s| ist struggles of the colonial peo- trip to Latin America. ples. AGAIN DODGING | %= VESTRIS GUILT Lamport-Holt Officers Renew Lie on Crew The studied attempt of the Lam- port-Holt Line’s officers surviving from the Vestris sinking, to turn the blame from the company and them- selves to the Negro firemen, con- tinued yesterday with the resump- tion of, the hearing before the U. S. Attorney Tuttle. * The Sixth Engineer, Reginald M. Dickson, repeated, parrot-like, his testimony of the day before, to the effect that Captain Carey had gone to the firemen on deck and “asked” them to go below and “lend a hand.”| ~ They went below, Dieksor said, but] ‘ came up at once by another route. Jt has previous’, b.cn c.tablishe4, however, that when ordered below some of the firemca * 2re countér- ordered by other officers to go to other duties, as it was useless to| refrigerator engineer, tried to deny throw coal into a firebox full of] that Lionel Licorish, Negro firemen water. The officers testifying yes-| who saved 20 lives after leaping for terday apparently desired the fire- Continued on Page Five Workers (Communist) Party of America pledges itself in case of invasion and imperial- ist war against the Latin Amer- to ican workers and_ peasants, fight on the side of the Lai American people, against United States imperialism, to bring about a defeat of the United States gov- ernment, to help lead to victory the undying solidarity of all op- pressed and exploited on the Amer- ican continent. We pledge our full support to the struggles of the Latin Amer- ican peoples against United States imperialism and to intensify our fight for the overthrow of Wall Street's rule in the United States and for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ ~oyernment. CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. men stay below decks and to go a with the ship. Officers Attack Negro Worker Dickson’s fellow officers followed him with similar stories, apparently vy. l-schooled by th e*.cpany luw- yers. One of them, Ernest Smith, | | Wagenknecht’s statement “is “in the SEA LIFE IS A Slaves of the Sea Work, Suffer and Die for Owners Wallowing in U.S. Pulls Strings; These Mtn Do the Dancin & When president-elect Moncada of Nicaragua, “elected” to his post as bell hop of Wall Street at Managua, at the point of U. S. marine bayonets, met president-elect Hoover of the United States, elected also by Wall St., the two conferred on the construction of an inter-ocean canal thru which American battleships, such as the one on which their conference was held, may dash from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the coming war. This is in compliance with the promises Moncada made the United States state department during his visit to Washington, that untder his presidency the canat project would meet no opposition. Emiliano Chamorro, former “presidential” dic- tator, was not reported present at the conference, altho he, too, is known to have similar promises during a similar “visit” to the state department. President Diaz who was also present at the conference on the battleship, has long proved his value as a faithful servant of American imperialism, a loyal signer of the decrees the U. S. mili- tary authorities issue in his name. From left to right, Moncada, Cha- morro and Diaz. : TERROR AGAINST S3ROAD SILK DEP'T MEETS SATURDAY Many Sick But All Are Striker Collapses of Determined Hunger in Street Terrorism surrounding the 22 (Special to the Daily Worker) workers arrested in Washington on Armistice Day after demonstrating for the release of John Porter, mili- tant New Bedford strike leader, were made public last night by Alfred Wagenknecht, executive secretary of the International Labor Defense. PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 28,— Announcement of the date and place jof the membership meeting called \for the striking broad silk workers, |by the Strike Committee was madé ‘iment made public late last night. The meeting will be’ held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in Carpenters form of a letter to John S. Horn- back, demanding that he immediately protest the maltreatment of the pris- | tJa!], 56 Van Houten St. . oners to the government. The work-/ Workers in the broad silk indus- ers are jailed in the Occaquon, Va.,/ try who are members of the Asso- workhouse. : ciated Silk Workers Union will Weakened By Jail. | | gather at this meeting in order to Weakened by their harsh treat-| hold a “forbidden” discussion on the ment in the prison and the hunger | condition of their strike, on the mis- strike, which they were forced to|crable working standards in the so- call immediately after their jailing} — in protest against mistreatment at) the hands of their jailers in Wash-; ington, many of these class war prisoners have become ill. | In spite of the terror practised | against them by their jailers all of the prisoners are unanimous in their | determination to fight on for the liberation of their fellow prisoner, Jchn Porter. | The International Labor Defense | is issuing its demand that the gov- ernment stop the brutal treatment | meted out to the prisoners who have | been slammed into the Occaquon | werkhouse on the charge of violating MEMBERSHIP MEETING \ membership meeting of the Broad Silk Depariment to discuss the strike situation and conditions in settled shops will be held at Carpenters Hail, 56 Van Houten St., Saturday, December 1, at 2 p. m. The meeting is called to enable all members of the Broad Silk De- partment to a free and complete discussion of the situation. Order of Business: Strike situ- atien, condition in settled shops; ; ane attitude of the Textile Workers a parade ordinance ordinarily en-| Union, tailing a five dollar fine. Alena b A Disclosure of the treatment of the fate lance by membership bool prisoners at Occaquon follows on the| heels of similar stories of savage beatings given John Porter, the vic-; tim of boss and jingo hatred in the | New Bedford strike, who is now Continued -n Page Two STRIKE COMMITTEE ASSOCI- ATED SILK WORKERS. called settled shops and on their at- titude toward the assistance offered them by the National Textile Work- ‘ers Union in winning their strike. Night Workers to Attend. The time for this meeting was set for Saturday afternoon, Strike Committee spokesman said, 3 KILLED IN CRASH. PEORIA, Ill, Nov. 28 (U.P).— Three women were killed near here today when a Santa Fe train struck their automobile at a grade cross- | ing. ‘The dead: Mrs. L. M. Johnson, | Mrs. George Elliott and Miss Blanche Smith, all of Knoxville, Ill. Savage Beating, Continued on Page Three |yesterday by, that. body. in a states: the in order to enable the weavers and | other craftsmen working nights to} ‘AY, NOVEMBER ICH ON TWO “BO = NEW TREASURER FIGHT HOOVER TOUR OF A. F. L. WAS 1918 WAR MONGER axreen, ‘Bureaucracy Reelected; Meet | Drags to End Reactionaries Fight ' About Brookwood NEW ORLEA The |American Federation of Labor con- jyention came to a close today. after fa session more than usually un-) interesting. In former conventions, there has usually been at least a pre- tense at the formulation of organ- lizing campaigns, even though the ‘campaigns have of late years in- ‘variably turned out to be more leamouflage for inactivity, giving aj| |few of the upper bureaucracy oi the | A. F. of L. unions a chance to sit on) |imposingly named committees and | spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses and salaries. But not at the 1928 convention. The only reference to the need of the American workers for organiza- tion was in president Green's pre- liminary statement, and Green did |not lift his voice to advocate any idefinite plan for accomplishing \what he then stated the major task jof the A. F. of L. movement to be, |namely, to double the membership of its unions next year. Re-elect Pie Card Artists. | The convention came io an end this afternoon soon after reelecting ‘Green and his whole bureaucracy |The single new name on the list is that of Martin F. Ryan of Kansas City, elected treasurer to supersede Dan Tobin, resigned. Ryan is presi- dent of the Railway Carmen of Continued on Page Three ‘CLARIFY MERGER AT FURRIER MEET EndorseAmalgamation at Union Rally After continuing in session al- most five hours, in a highly inter- esting discussion of the problems they are facing, over a thousand fur workers crowded Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., at a mem- bership meeting of their union, and came to an almost unanimous con- clusion to endorse the convention decisions of the Joint Board, the most important of which was the proposed amalgamation with the left wing Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union. That the discussion was free was evidenced by the fact that a number of unionists expressed disagreement with ‘the plan to amalgamate so quickly, proposing to wait, but when one after another of the rank and { and explained why it is an absolute necessity to amalgamate 4s soon as possible, many of the dissenters at the vote only a small handful reg- istered themselves against immedi- ate amalgamation. To the workers opposing immedi- ate amalgamation, Continued on Page Two (This is the last of a series of ar- |things work out with the LaKollette ticles on the Vestris and the life and |Seamen’s Law, which Andy Furu- toil of marine workers.—Editor’s | seth hailed as the “emancipation” Note.) jact. Hoakum, pure and undefiled. Quail and Parkhurst, Unlimited. Quail wasn’t in, so we went on up to his partner, Mr. Parkhurst, * * o® By HARRISON GEORGE | “Want a shot of booze? Or do As you approach this “prost tute,” you are confronted by police cn all sides, with a regular station tuilt into the street corner. Cops to the right, left, aft and forward. Cops at the door, in the hall, on the INo Organization Plan | file and of the union leaders rose | frankly admitted their error, and | worker after | worker pointed out that the ee jstairs, everywhere. Feels like a po- | 928 Plans of U. S. Imperialism 'Resist War Protest against Hoover's imperialist mission to South Amer- ica. Protest the war preparations of American imperialism. Fight against the effects of capitalist rationalization and for real relief for the unemployed. TO THE WORKERS, EXPLOITED FARMERS, NEGROES AND ALL THOSE OPPRESSED BY AMERICAN CAPITALISM! The ruiing class of the United States is launching a fresh offensive against the peoples of Latin America, particularly against the countries in South America, and against the toiling masses of the United States. This new offensive is signalized by Hoover’s trip to South America. He goes there to prepare for new imperialist inroads into those countries by United States imperialisn§ After him will come United States marines to subdue the resistance of the South American peoples and to crush their national independence. Hoover's trip to South America means the extension of the present United States imperialist regime in Nicaragua to the other Latin American countries. WORLD DOMINATION AIM OF U. S. RULING CLASS. In this new offensive against Latin America, United States im- perialism is preparing to meet by force of arms not only the resistance of the peoples of those countries but also the rivalry of other imperialist powers, such as England, France, Germany, ete. Through the Armistice Day speech by Coolidge, American im- perialism has served notice on those imperialist powers, that it intends to maintain and extend the world domination of the American ruling class. New imperialist war and intensive preparations for war—this is the meaning of Hoover’s trip to South America and Coolidge’s speech on Armistice Day. ‘And in order to back up Hoover's imperialist mission and Coolidge’s speech of war preparations, the Navy Department omes forward with a: program of nicreased naval construction to make the United States navy “second to none.” NEW IMPERIALIST WORLD WAR. American imperialism, starting out on a course of naval competi- tion with British imperialism, is leading inevitably to a new world im- perialist war. Hand in hand with sharpened aggression of United States imperial- ism abroad goes the further intensification of the drive of the Amer- ican capitalists upon the standards of living of the toiling masses in the United States. Both are designed to serve one end—to strengthen the imperialist power and to increase the profits of the American ruling class. “RATIONALIZATION”—AT WORKERS’ EXPENSE. Hoover, the capitalist: president-elect of the United. States, stands not only for imperialist expansion and war, but also for intensive rationalization of American capitalist economy, Hoover stands for higher technical developments of industry at the expense of the workers, for intensive speed-up, wage cuts, open shop, ete. This means for the workers—unemployment, outright starvation wages, premature physical exhaustion, a drive to keep the workers helpless in the face of organized capital. $3,000,000,000 PLAN—AGAINST WORKERS. Hoover’s so-called “employment stabilization” scheme is nothing but a hollow promise. It was made at this time in order to pacify the restlessness of the millions of unemployed and partially employed worker It was made at this time in order to fool and mislead the masses regarding Hoover’s imperialist trip to South America and to the war preparations of the United States government. The workers must not be fooled again by Hoover and the American Federation of Labor reactionaries, who are using Hoover’s scheme to cover up their bankruptcy and to contiue their betrayal of the work- ing class. If the capitalist government should ever build up the three billion dollar fund, called for by Hoover’s scheme, this fund will be used for | more intensified speed-up, further reduction of wages and fresh attacks | upon the ufions. Such a fund would be used primarily to prevent the organization into unions of the millions of workers in the basic in- dustries. CAPITALISM CANNOT CURE UNEMPLOYMENT. There is no cure for unemployment under capitalism. Whatever immediate relief is possible under capitalism, it can be secured by the workers only by persistent and militant organized struggle against capitalism through the trade unions and through independent working class political action. The Workers (Communist) Party of America is fighting for the following partial demands to relief the suffering of the unemployed: PARTIAL DEMANDS FOR UNEMPLOYED. 1. Unemployment insurance. A federal system of unemployment insurance should be established. A federal law must be enacted im- mediately by congress providing for unemployment insurance for all wage-earners without any exceptions or disqualifications. The amount of compensation should be full wages for the entire period of unem- ployment, up to $30 per week. An unemployment insurance fund should ' be created, fifty per cent to be contributed by the employers and fifty per cent by the state. The amount contributed by the state should be raised by special taxes levied against inheritance, high incomes and Continued on Page Three DOG'S LIFE; SHIP AND SHORE! 6MONTHS GIVEN Wealth MILL STRIKER , like “reds” here. The other day an lable seaman showed me a cut lip |and a limp. He was kicked down- | stairs and slugged in this Christian layout for distributing handbills of the Marine Workers’ Progressive League about the Vestris sinking. | —Brushing aside the evidence of 10 | defense witnesses, a jury whose | majority composition is 10 business | men, today sentenced Joseph Cabral, ‘picket leader arrested early in the textile strike, to six months in prison. He was charged with at- eee i NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 28. you want to be shanghaied in a per- fectly legal way, or just plain |shanghaied?” said a sailor to me in the International Seamen’s Club, 28 South St, down on the New York waterfront. “Come with me!” “Down on the street, a few doors north, we climbed narrow and rick- ety stairs at.a sign called “Quail’s Shipping Agency.” On the second floor left there is bootleg liquor for the sailor to buy, and, when he spends his wad, Mr. Quail’s employ- ment office on the floor above will take him before the U. S, Shipping Commissioner on any boat handy and the sailor will wake up and find that he has “signed on.” So and the further up we went the more rickety and vile. A small | room, low ceiling, sheltered 20 or so |men from the sharp chill winds. But what a shelter! All talking jobs. But there “hain’t no jobs,” we were informed by a seaman who appeared to have degenerated into a “runner” for the joint. He eyed my companion’s overcoat, however, and said that he would swap the next job that rolled in for the coat. Then he went to look over the “Prostitute,” which, I hasten to add, is what the seamen cail the very vespectable ‘“Seamen’s Church In- stitute,” half a block away. lice station! Great institution. Big, | storeys high, firepoof, marble, steel, bronze, great lounge and mess hall, | but you eat at the counter standing up. Workers sit down too much. Hundreds of seamen about. Very few chairs. Keep moving. Cops. Nice Piace—But Finky. Over in the corner an employment office. Very fancy, cute little model of ship over it, but it don’t seem to be erupting with activity. Near it you can get a bed for 35 cents a night and a room by your- | Remember Who G fifteen | Upstairs everything hunky-dory. | Pine big reading room. All the an- cient and\ modern capitalist maga- |zines. No Daily Worker. Spies |everywhere. Government men look- ing for dope traders, booze traders (not in the ring). Dicks looking for rouge’s gallery mugs. Stool pigeons of the common or garden variety looking for anything, spe- cially “reds.” Over the door of this and every other room a nice bronze plate, telling the slaves that by the “kindness” of a donation fron this self for 60 cents. You can also get jor that capitalist parasite they “en- your dunnave ~~ meh We? the comforts of this room. | tacking a man. | Ten witnesses testified that Ca- | bral was not at the scene of the al- |leged beating, but the jury ignored this testimony in its decision. Even Cabral’s alleged victim was unable to identify Cabral. The testimony by which the court justified i#s decision was principally evidence given by a prizefighter. Fifteen of the former strikers ar- raigned before Judge Williams on charges of conspiracy were released today on bail fixed at $500 each | The bail was arranged for in New | Bedford by Robert Zelms, secretary ~# the New England section of the ? + Nafonae, Price 3 Cents MB” CHARGES NEW MINE UNION OFFICIAL HELD BY STATE POLICE Arrested at Meeting; Accused of Putting Dynamite at Church ! Attempt to Kill Union Labor Defense Moves to Get Release PITTSTON, Pa., Noy. 28.— |Anthony Minerich, National Board Member of the National Miners Union, is being framed up by the state troopers of Pennsylvania, acting for the coal operators, on a charge of (attempting to blow up with dynamite the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pittston. He has been held incommunicado in Wyom- ing barracks of the state troop- ers since his arrest about 6 p. |m. ’yesterday, just as he was jleaving a successful mass |meeting held despite the orders of |Mayor Gillespie of Pittston, that no |miners’ meetings are to be allowed. The American Civil Liberties co- Joperated with the National Miners |Union in putting through the meet- jing. The International Labor De- \fense, 799 Broadway, New York, will defend Minerich, and their at- torney will apply for habeus corpus tomorrow. The meeting yesterday was not broken up, but as Minerich left Walenchus Hall, where it was held, two state detectives arrested him. They charged him with placing dynamite to blow up the baptist church here, Their story is that 72 sticks of dynamite were found against the wall of the church yes- terday morning, with a fuse at- |tached which was burning and would have set off the blast in an- other minute. St Papers. After Minerich’s arrest, his room was searched, and all papers and pamphlets found there, or which the police said they found there. were carted away. These include all mat- \ter relating to the activities of la- bor anywhere in the world, and pub- lications and letters of the National Miners Union, of which Minerich is a national board member. The police claim this is “seditious.” The police immediately began to circulate the slander that Minerich was in some way connected with the jharmless dynamite explosion at the Butler Collieries, Pittston, about two weeks ago, during the strike of 5,000 miners against the contrac- tor policy of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. Attack On Union. Members of the National Miners’ Union here have no doubt that these two “plants” of dynamite were made by agents provocateurs of the coal operators, perhaps acting in conjunction with the reactionary, Lewis-controlled, “United Mine Workers of America” which is try- ing to become the company union of the coal operators in this anthracite jregion, through contracts involving a check-off. Minerich is particularly hated by the coal companies and the Lewis gang because of his militant record, fighting for more vigor against the lemployers, and against injunctions, |during +” fEveat coal strike, and for his part in the movement of the |progressive miners, first to throw Lewis and his machine out of 7on- trol of the U. W. A., and then |to organize the new National Miners |Union which excludes Lewis and his | misleaders. | Helped Pittston Strike. The Pennsylvania Coal Co. has a particular grudge against him be- cause he came into the strike of the Pittston coal miners at the time where Frank McGarry, leader of the “independent” Pennsylvania Coal | Minérs Union, had declared that the men must go back to work. Min- | erich offered the miners the support of the National Miners Union, and | began to fight Mayor Gillespie’s anti-free speech edict. The strike was ended several days ago, but a new difficulty over the company’s discrimination against several hundred of the most militant miners, began, and it was in this connection that the mass meeting yesterday was held. FIRE KILLS 4 WORKERS CANTON (By Mail).—Fire in Tai Sze Po, Saukwan, took the lives of four workers and injured more. The fire started in a bamboo fae- tory.