The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 1

| ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week Ny For a Labor Party mday by The Nati Vol. V., No. 293 1. 26-28 Umiow Se. New York. N. ¥. fonal Dally Worker I; NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1928 FISHWICK AND GUNMEN FORCING WINE WAGE CUT Strikes Everywhere in| _ Illinois Fields; Over Contract tr Expose Fakers’ ‘po akers’ Fraud | Bo * The photographer asked her National Miners Union. Growing Rapidly | hungry with no money in the hou | currence in view of the fact tha | By DAN SLINGER. family and Emilio De Bellis only earns $18 a week as a laborer. Above (See.-Treas, Ill. Dist. National Min-| Mrs. Bellis is shown with three of her children. The family live on ers’ Union.) | the sixth floor of a miserable tenement in New York City. BELLEVILLE, Ill., Dec. 10—}—-- ames Bellis smiled. But she doesn’t do much smiling when he children are ! FRUIT STRIKERS CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST TROOPS Wall St. Pupvets Will Use “Tron Hand to | Suffocate Workers” ‘Socialists’ Aid Mendez, Picket Fruit Co. Boats | in New York i“ to smile and so Mrs, Emilio De se to buy food—a not unusual oc- t there are seven children in the | | BOGOTA, Cotombia, Dec. 10.— The workers in the banana planta- tions of the United Fruit Company Harry Fishwick, the president of) District 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, what is left of it, arrived here Friday night with a bodyguard of six gunmen to make a speech in favor of still more wage cuts. He argues that the miners of Illinois must have their wages re-| duced to the same level as that pre- vailing south of the Ohio river, be-) cause “mine owners of Illinois are in competition with those of Ken- tucky” and of course, now that the U. M. W. A. is almost openly ajican Federation of Labor, the Joint company union, it has to look out/ Council. | for the profit of its own operators.| The left wing Joint Board, which Evidently the operators no lon-| jnew that this action was taken two ger feel that the present exposed weeks ago, although it was offi- and discredited U. M. W. A. is as cially.denied, and who made an of. useful as it was in the days of Dis- ficial declaration that such a move trict President Frank Farrington would lead to an inevitable general and the $25,000 a year bribe which| strike, is already in the midst of Farrington got from the Peabody mobilization of the workers in the Coal Co., at least they do not ap-| industry for the struggle. Tomorrow pear to be paying up as well. It night, immediately after work, a big is an open secret that District 12 j1ass meeting will be held in Cooper is bankrupt, and is trying to mort-/ Union, Eighth St. and Fourth Ave., gage the famous Illinois Miners’ where the workers will give an of- uilding, a skyscraper,in Spring-| ¢. 0:01 4, a toe field, for $200,000. ‘The Lewis In- {iia} Xeply to the official admission ternational administration is re- ars ported to be trying to borrow $100,-| 000 of this from District 12. The looting of the miners by way of special assessments is not working out the way it used to, and the last $2 assessment tax had to be reduced to $1 to avoid a mass in-) surrection of the rank and file. Resistance to the Lewis-Fishwick- U. M.-W.Ar-crowd is rising all} over the district. There are strikes| everywhere, especially in Makomis, Te Ouit ma BORIS Beha The reason for this action of the Fishwick tacties in case of a strike 5 are to dissolve the local going on the left wing union while the larger strike, reorganize it, and take over 28sociated” had a fake agreement its treasury. The Nakomis ‘local, | With the right wing scab union, is 1,000 members, lost $3,000 this way, Clear to the workers, The small The miners of Peoria subdistrict|¢mPloyers’ organization, though recently elected a committee to in- acing a weakened Joint Board, was vestigate the stealing of votes in| compelled to live up to most of the | the- referendum election to accept terms of the agreement, while the | the wage cut proposed by Fishwick seab union offered no hindrance to | and the operators, for the whole the larger association’s slashing of | district, on the orders of Lewis. the workers’ standards. FUR RALLY TO REPLY Official announcement was made yesterday by the Fur Trimming Manufacturers Association that it will join with the Associated Fur Manufacturers in granting recogni- was disclosed, the union called a meeting of Joint Board delegates, members of all local executive boards and there drafted a letter to the Trimming Association which de- manded a clear-cut answer, admit- ting or denying their intentions to break off contractural relations with the Joint Board. They did not an- |swer until yesterday, when such a jletter was received by the union, oe tion to the scab union of the *Foint | turers and the A. F. of L. officials | in Magdalene province, Colombia, continue to offer a determined resist- ance to the military forces and are reported to be organizing their ranks in the interior to resist the attack | TOMORROW TO BOSSES of the federal troops under General | Cortes Vargas. j The Colombian government con- tinued ‘today*to follow the dictates of the United Fruit Company and jconcentrated more military forces in jthe banana zone. Vargas char-| acterized the strikers as “a band of | FRUIT STRIKERS | bad men” and declared that they | i * aw | United Front Urged by would be treated as such. Taken to- Anti-Imperialists jgether with the statement of min-! ister of war Rengifo that “the gov- Lue ernment will suffocate this rebellion | Full support to the 30,000 striker on the plantations of the Yankee with an iron hand” it is a certainty 5 n t that the Colombian puppets of U.| | United Fruit Company in Colombia |g, businessmen will fat ap at any-| and a pledge to combat the threat of thing to break the strike and will) the intervention of United States im- give no quarter to the revolutionary perialism in breaking the strike was workers. 1 contained in a statement issued yes-|“ . 0, cote, | terday by the United States section peel ret Texperialintes):| \of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. The statement follows: ‘The “socialists” continue in their | “The present strike of the 30,000 URGE FIGHT FOR policy of finding excuses for the ac- tion of the government and even zone in Colombia which ‘has been their organ, Diaro Nacional, that it | brewing for the last three weeks is Wa the government's duty to pro- not only the result of the workers’ tect foreigners, meaning United struggle against the miserable con- | States capitalists. The complete de- ditions imposed upon them by the jbacle of the “socialists” was further United Fruit Co. @ut also takes the carried out when their central com- |form of an anti-imperialist struggle Mittee today offered to send two lagainst foreign domination and “¢legates to the strike area to urge | | against, the. treacherous. actions of pine workers to give up the struggle | [the national government at home, |®"d submit to the will of the govern-| which plays the role of agent of ment and the fruit company. | American imperialism. In the meantime the strikers are | “These 30,000 workers are strug- putting up a determined resistance The war department, which is very | ASE AOS Se hazy about the information it re- | leases, admitted that the workers BIC CLOAK RALLY had engaged in three battles with { the military, putting up a sturdy | | fight. The revolutionary worker, Machecha, who is reported to be one| of the leaders of the «strike, is said | IN COOPER UNION \to have led an attack against a de-| | Continued on Page Five | Continued on Page Two Wall St. Watchdog a we Alezander P. Moore, Yankee am- bassador to Peru, and watchdog of Wall Street's interests, is now in a hospital in Lima suffering from high fever. He was well enough, however, to join the Peruvian pup- pets in shaking the hand of the bull- dog of imperialism, Hoover, when he came to point guns at the work- ers and peasants. HOOVER TRIES TO BUY CHILE Competes With British Imperialism SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 10.— President-elect Hoover made a bid today for the fascist government of Chile to quit its allegiance to Brit- ish imperialism, which officers its navy, and to become part of the American empire. He left the bat- tleship Delaware at Antofagasta, and travelled overland to the capi- tal of Chile, Santiago. Full military honors were ren- dered him at the capital, and a pro- cession thru the streets arranged for him, with President Carlos When the plot of the manufac. banana workers in the Magdelena Went so far today as declaring in jhanez, the murderer of Chilean workers, the chieftan who ordered the nitrate workers shot down like wild cattle, who sent hundreds of them on Chilean warships to be drowned at sea, and who has made labor unions illegal in his domain, seated by his side, cooly bargaining, and matching the offers of one im- perialism against the other. At Antofagasta the delegates | from Bolivia greeted Hoover. Presi- dent Siles is busy with U. S. busi- ness in his capital at present, being | bosses, who had an agreement. with gling today for the abolition of the to the ‘soldiers sent against them. | engaged in a war upon Paraguay dictated by the interests of Amer- ican mine owners in Bolivia, and ¢ ld not come. However, he ex- pressed his subserviency thru a let- ter to Mr. Hoover thru the head of! the commission, Foreign Minister Palacios, which read as follows: “The minister of foreign relations, Albert Palacios, has been instructed Continued on Page Three ‘Rally Tomorrow Is on oe; JINGOES LABOR U. S. IMPERIALISM TAKES FOR PARAGUAY- BOLIVIAN WAR Guggenheim Puppets’ Tin Interests Call to Arms Communists Oppose Industrialists Become “Patriotic” LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 10.—Feel- ing strong with the strength of mil- lions of dollars of Guggenheim in- vestments impl: ¢ American finan- cial and diplomatic support, the gov- ernment of Bolivia systematically went about preparing its citizens for war against the weaker government of Paraguay today. Jingoism Rages. A broadside of jingoism, un- leashed in the government-controlled press, is keeping the people here in a turmoil of excitement and is backed by carefully organized pa- rades and demonstrations and the inciting speeches of the president and other officials countenanced by the American investors, Patriotic societies yesterday took the lead in assembling large crowds and inciting them to sing national songs in front of the capital build- ings. Demands for President Siles to speak were then opportunely shouted. Announcement was made that the president would interrupt a secret session of congress, which was dis- cussing the war cri and Siles appeared on the balcony, surrounded by cabinet and legislative officials. Duty—To Guggenheim. “The government will do its duty,” Siles said to the excited crow This duty, which is to the Guggenheim mining interests and not to the millions of miserably poor peasants and workers who eke out a wretched existence on the Boli- yian uplands, will certainly be car- ried out by the corrupt Siles group “We want to go to war,”\ the pa- trioteers shouted below the Balcony end the nationalist societies took up the shout. - “If war is really necessary,” re- plied the president, who had just left a secret meeting where w plans were being discussed, “we Continued on Page Five BOSS PRESS RAPS ON HATES: Ia New de New Yor! They have found that there are enough local unions sending in their! Board daily showed signs of greater votes, with seals attached, to show|and greater strength, making that the miners voted 3 to 1 against | stricter demands for enforcing the the wage cut agreement, and that letter of the agreement, and the} the tellers with consent of the dis-|scab union was rapidly sinking into trict board miscounted the votes, to oblivion as new members joined the make it appear that the wage cut|left wing organization, In addition to that the Joint} Pogrom Anniversary | Cooper Union, the big hall at Eighth St. and Fourth Ave., has) | been retained by the left wing Joint | |Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ | Union for a meeting of shop repre- sentatives and active members, to | BIG “DAILY’ LEFT WING UNION PROLETARIAN JUDGES AT | jyoiq pig Silke Meet > BALL SOON | Tonight o- The judges are going to have a) (Special to the Daily Worker) Fred Ellis, PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 10.—The Masses; cartoonist of | he, oN FINAL CITY EDITION nts Ce Price OPEN CONTROL OF MEETING Of LATIN AMERICAN STATES Kellogg as Chairman Appoints Committee to “Investigate” Bolivia-Paraguay War Four Delegates of Governments Owned by Wall St. and One for British Imperialism WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Pan-American Conference on Conciliation and Arbitration met solemnly today, with repre- sentatives of the governments of 19 Latin-American states present, and with unqualified cynicism elected Secretary of immediately took advantage of the situation to lay the basis | for intervention in Paraguay. CHINESE REDS Kellogg’s unfitness to have anything J to do with conciliation and arbitra- tion in South America was attested Communists Active De- spite: Persecution at the very moment he was elected by the hostile demeanor towards each other of the Bolivian and Para- guayan delegates to the conference, The U. S. government acting thru Kellogg and his horde of spies and agents in Latin-American countries SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 10. The ferocious offensive of the Nan- king government ainst the Chi- has just succeeded in proding the nese Communist Party is reflected |American satrapy of Bolivia into in a constantly widening reign of @¢tual war against the Republic of Paraguay, in th> effort to give American mining interests in Bol- ivia a seaport on the Paraguayan River. terror on the eve of the anniversary of the establishment of the Canton Soviet. / ts and executions of those arrested are the order of the day. Kellogg’s Men Busy. The so-called “congress of concilia- tion and arbitration” opened shortly after eleven o'clock, with Kellogg + presiding. His name as chairman was offered by Ambassador Da Amaral, Brazilian delegate. Brazil s one of the countries with enormous in which the strife be- Soldiers’ Nucleus. Following the announcement tha‘ a Communist nucleus has been di covered at the Military Acader Canton, where generals for the king armies are trained, the po descended on the lodgings of stu- } Gents, and made many arr F resources, of the arrested students were imme- *Ween British and American capital diately executed. ia hottest. In spite of the terrible attacks ot one of the representatives of which the nking government has es over whom the shadow of been mi g against the Communist n imperialism lies had the courage to vote against Kellogg, for each of them represents a reaction- Party of China, the Chinese Com- munists, though underground, have been showing so strong# that the a@Ty government, anxious more to Kuomintang war lords are intensi- Preserve its right of exploitation fying their assaults on the Party. over its own people than to save 4 One hundred police agents who ‘hem from’ the rapacity of Wall 4 | were discovered to be Communists Streets \ were arrested shortly after the ex- Kellogg took occasion to propa- ’ gandize for his war treaties, the Kel- loge “peace pacts” by saying: “At no time in history has the movement for these principles ac- ired such strength as at the present moment,” Kellogg said. here is a real popular clamor for agreements renouncing war as an in- strument of national policy, and for the re-establishment of machinery which will assure the pacific settle- ment of international disputes.” ecution of the Canton students, Remembering the terrific s gle of the Communist workers sympathizers in defense of the Can- ton Soviet, the Nanking government has enlarged its garrison to 13,000 val” soldiers. Even so, an elab- system discloses the gov s fear that many of the sol- ave Communists or sympa- re dier: thizer: ores ae Reds Hold the Mountains. Using the Conference. SHANGHAI, Dec. 10.—Reports from Changsha, capital of Hunan province, state that the Communists have succeeded in gaining control of the neighboring mountains The governor of Changsha has It was freely predicted that the Bolivia-Paraguay war would be left untouched, out of defense to the wishes of the instigators of this war, Continued on Page Two hard time picking the winners of| the Daily Worker; William Gropper, In order to save the Joint Coun- in| cil from total extinction, the two as- sociations banded together and will now conclude a fake agreement with the scab union, something which need never be obeyed, they are as- (sured by Matthew Woll, who is the negotiator for the scab union. was accepted. With clear evidence of this Continued on Page Two HALT ANTILWAGE commemorate the ending of two) the costume contest at the big Daily, years since the “socialist” mislead- ad o | ers and their boss allies first began| Worker-Freiheit ball at Madison) the expulsion drive that resulted in| Square Garden Saturday night. And smashing the once powerful union to make sure that reel, proletarian of the workers in the ladies’ gar-| justice is done on all sides a com-) ment manufacturing industry. The| mittee of judges has been selected | meeting will be held this Thursday| Who have qualified by their past cartoonist of the Freiheit; Ben) Gold, manager, Joint Board, Fur- riers’ Union; Louis Hyman, chair- man, National Organization Com-| mittee of the Cloak and Dressmak-| ers’ Union; and Moishe Nadir and David Bergelson, famous Yiddish proletarian writers, both contribu- conspiracy of silence maintained by the capitalist press against the silk strike conducted by the Asso- ciated Silk Workers’ Union, while that strike was led by the left wing strike committee, no longer exists since that strike committee was ex- pelled by the reactionary union REDUCTION RALLY Textile Union Leader, Workers, Barred ' (Special to the Daily Worker) PAWTUCKET, R. L, Dec. 10. —Police Chief McCarthy of Cen- tral Falls, Rhode Island, yester- | day made an attempt to stop the | growing influence of the National Textile Workers’ Union, which is mobilizing the workers here for a fight against the recently en- forced wage cut. He stopped a mass meeting arranged by the union at Conneley Hall at which President Reid was to speak. A large police detail was placed at the hall doors before they were opened and drove away all workers who gathered in a crowd near the hall. Reid outmaneuvered the police by spending the whole day in holding smaller group meetings thruout the town. Sentiment for a strike against the wage cut is extremely intense; Reid reports. 2 Workers Killed/® Hurt in Train Crash DALHART, Tex., Dec 10 (UP). — A southbound passenger train from Denver collided with a northbound freight two miles south of Dalhart, in the Texas Panhandle, today. The two engineers were killed, and two firemen and a brakeman were in- jured. | | At tomorrow night’s meeting in Cooper Union, leaders of the union will bring to the workers a definite plan of action. Proposals of how to offset the new onslaught of the em- ployers will be presented by the un‘on leaders and the members will be called on to take action. The workers’ organization now i stands before a national convention where a national union will be estab- lished aud where amalgamation with the cloak and dressmakers will be realized. In addition to their own concrete \steps toward a general. strike, the merging of strength with the other needle trades union will provide the union with a deadly weapon against | the employers and their lackeys, the | A. F. of L. and socialist traitors, the | mass sentiment holds. And they look forward eagerly to December 29 | when the convention where this will take place will be opened in New York. Model, Pious Youth, Kills Tutor for Slap 10.— SHERIDAN, Mich. Dec. _ After attending Sunday school and being a model child all his life, Jim- my Deakin, 15, finally up and killed his teacher at elementary school, Miss Carter, after nursing a grudge for a slap she had once given him, according to the confession of the devout child today. After his confession, Mrs. Tleea Hinkel, who is sheriff of Montcalm county, said that “the youth was an examplary one. He never smoked and attended Sunday school regu- larly.” a 4) a evening, immediately after work. To Pledge Struggle. At this meeting the pledge to fur- ther struggle against the enemies and betrayers of the cloak and dressmakers will be taken by the meeting in order that a mighty union of needle trades workers be again built, and which will again force the employers to grant union conditions, Leaders of the Joint Board and of the National Organization Com. | mittee will report on the orgapiza-| tional preparations being made for the convention of the union, which begins Dec: 29 in New York. The two other most vital problems be-| fore these workers will also be tak- en up for further discussion and re- ports. These are the contemplated general strike in the dress manufac- turing industry and the amalgama- tion of the cloak and dressmakers’ union with that of the fur workers organization, z Organizational plans foy the pro- posed and ratified merger with the furriers’ union are all but ready to be executed. But leaders of both organizations still intend to clarify the minds of the most backward workers who do not sed the imme- diate gains from such a step. Near- ly every member of the union en- dorses amalgamation but an insig- nificant few think it not advisable at this time. The furriers will hold a national convention at the same time. Need for a general strike in the dress trade is now realized by all. This trade is least organized of the industry and the workers in it, mostly youthful, are suffering the most intense exploitation. service to the workers’ cause to per-! form this important duty in an ade-| quate manner. | Look ’em over: William W. Wein- | stone, district’ organizer of the | Workers (Communist) Party; Rob- ert Minor, editor of the Daily Work- |er; Meilich Epstein, editor of the) Freiheit; H. M. Wicks, editorial writer of the Daily Worker; M. J. Olgin, editor of The Hammer; tors to the Freiheit. Twelve good men and true—the proletarian jury at the big prole-) tarian costume ball. Saturday night’s affair will be the first Soviet ball ever held in this country. Hundreds of costumes of) every conceivable sort will be worn and every one of the 104 national groups that comprise the Soviet Union will be represented. Music? Dun’t esk! leaders. On the contrary, the boss papers now whoop it up for the As- sociated and its officialdom and bellow with rage against the work- ers for joining the fast growing Paterson local of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. Providing an excellent example of this is the Paterson Press-Guardian. Saturday night’s issue of this capi- talist sheet contained two editorials attacking viciously the left wing, Michael Gold, editor of the New HAHN ORGANIZES “NATIONAL TRUST |22 Department Stores Merge in One Chain oe | The initial step in a nation-wide | | merger of retail department stores | extending from coast to coast and, having, according to present plans, a total annual sales volume of more) than $1,000,000,000 annually, has_ been made known in the announce- | ment of the acquisition of 22 depart-| |ment store companies by the Hahn) | Department Stores, Inc. | Largest Retail Trust. | The 22 units just acquired are ex-| { largest system of retail department | stores in the world under central ownership dnd comparing in annual turnover with the largest units of other major industries.+ Following is a list of the 22 stores, Continued on Page Two | | | pected to be the nucleus of the 4; ANOTHER DUPONT MAN AS SENATOR Powder Trust Governor | Appoints Hastings the Communists and the Soviet Union. But with an enthusiasm that only profit-protectors can arouse, the paper lauded the Asso- ciated, its officials and the meeting they are calling tomorrow night. Hold Big Meet. They did not even dare to deride the mass meeting the left wing union is calling at the same time for fear of giving it publicity. Nevertheless, the N. T. W. adher- ents are confident of the attendance at their meeting, which will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, in the large Entre Nous Lyceum, Oliver St., near Main St., across the street from the Majestic Theatre. William Z, Foster, Communist WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 10) (UP).—Judge Daniel O. Hastings of municipal court was appointed to- day by Covernor Robinson to suc- ceed Coleman DuPont. as United States senator. Hastings will serve) until the November 1930 elections, | Party leader and leader of the great 1919 steel strike, will speak on “How when a short term and a long term | ¢) Conduct a Strike.” William W. senator will be chosen. Weinstone, Communist Party lead- er and known to the workers here . : as a speaker at their mass meetings, Senator DuPont resigned a shoré| will also speak on “How to Organ- me ‘ago ostensibly on account of| iz the Unorganized.” While Al- ill health. No politcal observer be-| bert Weisbord, national secretary- lieves this, as senators have never | treasurer of the National Textile resigned for such reasons before. We , + ‘ ; i orkers’ Union, will set forth the The thing for a sick senator to do| sims and policies of the organiza- is simply to stay away from sessions. tion he represtnts. The meeting called by the strike- Help build the Datly, ordered the troops to proceed against the Communists and to set fi the mountain forests in an e burn out the Communist holds. Incaleulable amounts of val- uable timber are being sacrificed in this futile effort, The Changsha authorities are complaining that the armies sent against the worker-peasant forces grodually disintegrate and that un- less they can compel the Commu- s to an open battle, it is not pos- sible to expect success in the cam- paign. A delegation of bourgeois organ- izations from An Hwei recently ar- rivéd in Sharighai, report that the Communists are daily growing more powerful. Unconquerabie Communists. Chiang Kai Shek has replied to the growing strength of the under- ground Communist Party of China by a proclamation promising “the nihilation of the An Hwei Com- munists,” and the reorganization of the An Hwei government. For a war lord who, with the en- tire resources of the Nanking gov- ernment at his disposal, has failed te prevent the offensive of the Com- munist Party of China, despite its illegality, this is promising a good deal. GREET MILITANTS HERE TOMORROW Were Jailed for Rally in Washington The reception tomorrow night for the 22 workers who have just been ased after serving 30 days in a hington jail will rally the work- ers of New York behind the fight to free John Porter, young textile strike leader now serving a two and a half year sentence in Ft. Leaven- worth. The, reception and John Porter protest meeting will be held at 8 p. m. in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., under the auspices of ew York District of the Inter- Labor Defense, the Young (Communist) League and New York branch of the All- i America Anti-Imperialist League. f The I. L, D, last night called upon all its members and all other class- conscious workers to attend the re- ception. The call, issued by Rose Baron, secretary, states: dailed by Jingoes. “Victims of the class war, 22 workers have just finished serving 30-day sentences given them for demonstrating against the imperial- ist war and for the release of John Continued on Page Two Clerical Bandits Blow Up Mexico Passengers MEXICO CITY, Dee. 10.—Several trainmen were seriously injured and a number of passengers wounded when a train from Colima was dynamited and attacked by clerical — rebels between Cofradia and Car- melita, according to dispatches to La Prenza today. Troops from a near- by town finally repelled the rebels. the Lenin's paper, — “Iskei Spark) was the starting the formation of an revolutionary Daily Worke point for a United States. (Phe in the breaking officials of the Associated is advertised as a planned attack jon the left wing. Two socialist party clowns, August Claessens and | Henry Jeager, will perform in a skit where both will pretend to pose jas “strike experts.” . Assault Women's Council Members. When the members of the Wom- en’s Council came to the headquar- Continued on Page Five 6 4 MORE DAYS TO THE BIG DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT SOVIET BALL IN MADI