The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 2

age av DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURD. 22 AY, DECEMBER VAS MAYORS ASH UP TRUE QUILT OF co?s dunded Youth Tal From Hospital cen he Houston police are guilty of lynching of Robert Powell,:a ng Negro, on the night im- diately precedir ithern paper, ‘le reads in part a “An unprinted story o: of a colored m I cemen of that prior to seems to er men in attendance. yunt of the correspond roping bee smoothed over the authoriti It would not tid nice, they decided, for the rld-to know that Houston police- en violated the very lynch law that sé South has been trying to cover p for years. “A night or so before the conven- jon opened, a policeman and a oung Negro fired shots at one an- ther, Both were hit and taken to hospital, where the policeman ¢ied. vater that night, five of the dead jliceman’s uniformed companions ent to the hospital where the still neonscious Negro had been taken, emoyed and hung him from a bridge ear the outskirts of the city. His ody was cut down the next morn- ag. “That the police» had done it jpread among the higher-ups of the tity. Houston’s mayor, it is said, in -ouston Tolice ALL WORKERS OUT FO Are Guilty of Lynching Negro in Sh I.L.D. TAG DAYS 10DAY By ROSE BARON, ! One thousand one hundred work- are now in jail because of their in the struggles of their ore than half of these— are being tried in New Bed- ford, where the mill barons’ courts are determined to eliminate from the field of activity those that played the most militant roles in the great New Bedford textile strike and at the same time deal a crush- ing blow to the National Textile Workers’ Union, In addition, 25 other New Bedford strike leadegs are indicted on conspiracy charges aced with long 4ail terms, and All Cases Defended by I. L. D. All these 1,100 class war cases are being defended by the Interna- tional Laber Defense, the central perma defense organization of the American working class. In- cluded in these cases is another) , that of 125 miners in trials based on anti- onstrations, at least speech and free press” trials, about 40 deportation cases, the John Porter case, the Kansas criminal synd ism cases, the Los geles raid cases, the Bridgman, | ich., cases, the Shifrin case, the Mineola cases and many others, Also we must not forget that Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings are still in jail after. more than 12} 's and that the eight Centralia| prisoners have already spent nine| years behind the bars. The I. L. D.j is leading the mass movement to} ree free the victims of both these no- torious frame-ups, What are workers doing to help the International Labor Defense tear these 1,100 fighters for the working class out of the clutches of capitalist “justice?? The Christ- mas season is here. Workers are being flooded with all sorts of propaganda of the boss charity or-| ganizations. Give to the Red Cross, zive to the Salvation Army, give to the hundred neediest cases, The aim of all these drives and organ- izations is to blunt the hatred of the workers for their exploiters and | to substitute the miserable, bread- jerumb charity of the bosses for the efforts of the workers to strength- en themselves in the struggles against the capitalist class and its legalistic machinery, Such charity is poison for the workers, Today and tomorrow the. New York district of the International Labor Defense is conducting house- to-house collections for funds to de- fend the New Bedford strikers and the other workers now under attack by the capitalist courts. Workers, give to and for your class! Give| for the defense of the 662 textile strikers, of the 125 miners, give for the release of Tom Mooney and the | Centralia prisoners! Let your Christ- |mas gift be a blow against the. ex- ploiters and oppressors and a blow for your class brothers who are learning the true meaning of the} capitalist “Christmas spirit” and| boss “charity”—in the jails of this | country! | SHIPPING WAR | ANTI-WAR MEET BETWEEN CHILE AND BOLIVIA ON ejoinder Hints Pact With Paraguay (Continued from Page One of Bolivia was made concerning its actions before its note of acceptance. This sta!oment began by saying: “Friendly consultation was madc with the foreign offices of the American countries thru the Chilea representatives in Bolivia, withou the Chilean foreign office being sp: cially addressed. From such attituc it is deduced that the Bolivian go ernment judged it useful to give # opportunity to America (referriz here to both Americas) to define point of highest continental polic, as despite the existing preoccups tions, Bolivia does not forget th traditional American tendency, nor the moral solidarity of the new world.” Vents Criticism, It should be noted at this point that Chile is a member of the League of Nations, and opinion may incline to the view that the words of the Chilean chancellor did not mean to compliment Bolivia, The statement continued in sharper vein disclosing Chile’s displeasure with Bolivia’s refusal of arbitration prior to its note of December 18, which finally accepted arbitration, “Bolivia was not seeking advice with respect to its conduct toward the well-intentioned action. of . the League of Nations and the Wash- ington Conference on ‘Conciliation and Arbitration, as displayed before the armed conflict between the two a dilemma, thought to ask the ad-| ‘ice of four other Texas mayors on | tow to hush up or keep quiet about he police as the lynchers. Only ne reply contained a suggestion ought worthwhile. That is said to ave come from the mayor of Dallas. suggested that any other five men @ pinched and held until after the onvention. “Accordingly, the police of Hous- UPON ENGLAND Control of Cuba Rum combined with private American shipping lines yesterday to strike at British competition in the New ton picked up five local vagrants on | York-to-West Indies passenger trade. fa lynching charge, told them to be- The shipping board assigned the have, and they would later be let) United States liner President Roose- loose, otherwise they would get the | yelt to the Ward Line to male week- limit afterward. One was to write a ly sailings for three months begin- confession. Nothing further was| ning March 5 to meet competition done in reference to the lynching.” | offered by the Cunard liner, Car- This explains the fake trial that | onia, which will go on the same run was held in connection with the | next month, lynching, about two months ago. It! Chairman T. V. O'Conner of the isto, be remembered that five men | shipping board announced the move vere brought to trial for the brutal | after a confercnce here w'th rep- sarder of the wounded Robert’ resentatives of the New York and Powell, but suddenly nothing further | Cuba Mail Line, the Dollar Steam- ‘was done and everything was hushed | ship Company, the Munson Steam- up. The police have shown their | ship Line, the American and Cuban true face in one of the most brutal | Steamship Line, the Panama Mail _erimes on record. | Steamship Company, the Panama- " | Pacific Steamship Company, the | Grace Line and the United Fruit | The United States government Many Nationalities at Red Poets’ Night | Next Friday Eve 4 Many nationalities will be rep- resented at the third annual Inter- national Red Poets Nicht, next Fri- day evening, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The outstanding revolutionary poets in the country are going to read from their own awork in their own languages at this unusual event. English will, of course, be repre- sented by the greatest number of | poets, Among the English language | poets will be Michael Go! Joseph’ Freeman. Robert Wolf, Henry dr., A. B. Magil, Edwin Rolfe, Rorty, Lola Ridge, Adolf Wolff, Herman «Spector, Martin Russak | and David Gordon. | The Yiddish poets will be Moishe Wadir, H: Leivick, Aaron Kurtz and A, Pomerantz. H William Weinberg, contributor to *"Blore,” the Hungarian Communist ¥ daily, will read in Hungarian; H. T. Tsiang in both Chinese and English, D. Burliuk in Russian, J. Sigzorich Yin Jugo-Slavian, other poets will | read in German, Italian and Span- | \Following the poetry readings everybody will join in a dance bac- le to resist thanal. You won’t be it when John C. Smith’s Scopators ber'n to play. "on sale at the busi Daily Worker, Union ‘Ball m Tonight Square. ica Latin Amer in Har! Tonight will be the first ball given by the Spanish Fraction for the benefit of the da Obrera,” the only workingelass paper in the Span- ish languaze to ch the Latin- American workers in this country. It will be held at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Tenox Ave. | There will be exhibitions of the Tango and La Juto in the original eostumes, and as a snecial number there will be the Antillian Group in @ variety of their Intest songs ac- companied with the Antillien instru- ments. Doencing will continue until early morning to the e of John Smiths Mode: > Peowneville Forum to Uear Leibowitz Today ssistant manager of | nrri¢rs Joint Board, will speak | tho is responsible for the pres- | ditions in the Amalramated,” 6 Brownsville Open Forum to- "12 o'clock noon, at 154 Watkins e in FP Company. HITS MISLEADERS U. 8. Board Fights for Demand Class Struggle | to Stop Imperialism | masses, lulling the workers to sleep. “The Kellogg peace pact is in no {way in opposition to the program for the building of fifteen more | cruisers. | “The socialist party and its the- \ories are one of the most sinister |elements in ‘the situation, for they | are carrying out on an international | scale the pacifist propaganda which |demoralizes and fools the workers, jand makes them helpless against | war when it does come. | Robert Minor, editor of the Daily | Worker, in his speech showed that ‘even mere important than the rival- | ries between the imperialist pow- jers, sharper though these are | becoming daily, is the principle an- | tagonism that is dividing the world | into two camps-~-the capitalist pow- ers, on the one hand, and on the other the Union of Socialist Soviet (Continued from Page One | South American countries, the dis- carding of intervention by the Montevideo cofnmission on formal grounds that everyone knew existed and the friendly offers from the | League of Nations and the Wash- | ington Conference. “Bolivia wished to feel out Amer- | ican opinion on the territorial liti- | gation submitted to the good offices | possibility of establishing precedents and forming doctrines regarding the intervention and influence of Gen- eva in American matters and the beginning of the Washington con- ference.” Bolivia’s Rejoinder. This statement has awakened the Bolivian government to the follow- | ing nettled rejoinder to the Chilean | statement, which created a sensa- | tion in all South America; | “By means of the American (of | both Americas) diplomatic repre- | sentatives, the opinion of their for- | eign offices were requested in view |of the two offers of conciliation, | that of the League of Nations and | that of the conference gathered in | Washington. “It Was Natural.” j ican, not a British route.’ | Wants No Restrictions 1G) {4$125,000,000 to the bus! Republics, behind which stand the O'Conner said: “In putting the! international proletariat and the op- vessel in the Havana service, the . shipp'ng board ree“‘irms its stated Tressed colonial peoples. 4 : policy to support at all times the| Minor stressed the basic tactic of interests of private American steam-|the proletariat in capitalist coun- ship lines. The New York-Havana{tries in this situation, the transfor- trade reute is peculiarly an Amer-|!nation of the imperialist war into {a civil war. The struggle must be \intensified against pacifism, which is a screen to hide war prepara- tions and against social-democratic parties, which, in their international struggle against the working cless, have reached the stage of active counter-revolutionary preparations |for war against the Soviet Union. | This includes the campaign against the Trotskyist hangers-on of the social-democrats, The Trot- skyist movement gathers together all elements of pessimism, discour- agement, careerism and loss of faith jin the workers’ cause, all renegades from the Communist Party, all so- cial-democratie “intellectual” weak- | lings on the fringes of the Jabor |movement who in less dangerous times like to call themselves Com- | munists, ADMIPAL SHOUTS FOR HUSE NAVY ‘WhatHellDoWeCare’ (Federated Press) Not merely 15 armored cruisers, but many times 15, were demanded by Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunk- ett in a fire-eating speech before a preparedness dinner of the National Security League in New York. The s“hington agreement of 1921 to | P be limit battleship building was des-|_, Norman Tallentire stated that the cribed as a British-Japanese plot| Kellogg pact is a prelude to the against the United States by Henry | next world war, as the great wave A. Wise Wood, who urged die-ogard |Of Peace propaganda that covered of what Buropeans think about Amer- | “P the preparations for the last ica. “What the hell do we care, World war and ushered it in. The what they think about,” he shouted / "avy league is now demanding that as wildly, Major General Weigel deplored Haldia the Cartel States te develop | niversary of the 1918 armistice, all neval bases against Japan and Brit.; Europe is talking, not about’ the ain in the far Pocific, Mrs, William | !#st world war but about the ‘next * St serti hy: “. | one. Cumuming Stag. asserted that, “free |r. Roviek’ Union’ is {n/-aanper; speech is rerried on to a degree; ° 2 that is annailing in New York City.” | said Tallentire, of a united attack *fovtin W. Littleton, attorney for bed the Mt ity hid for Fall and Sinclair in the oil cases,|{he reason that before the imper- asserted that war is certain and that | ialist powers can settle the fight the United States should have the | among beet they ia settle best and biggest navy afloat. with the Soviet Union, realizing, as ie “i ggoages Minas they do, that a number of nag “War Good for Business.” governments will arise from the General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. | next world war, ‘ army, retired, lapded the program] The Communist Party, under the to build “teen cruisers, with a pos- | lexeenne i be: Corstens Inte sible chance of getting still more in| national, will turn this next wor! the near future, as the “best thing| war into a civil war, bringing the f Bee. ” in a speech before workers and farmers into conflict executive committee of the | with their capitalist rulers and cre- ware Metals and Allied Trades, | ating a number of Soviet Republics. while bancueting at the Hardware New York. committee is a military or- e ation, ereated during the World | forty-seven of the forty-eight states hy the metal manufacturers of | of the Union furn'shed material of fhe United States, and in anticipation of the coming world | pes bnaetiy Sagal een construc- war. ion went for materials. “The provisions of the fifteen} The .-.<ral wound up with an cruisers and cur aircraft carriers | attack on Communism, and also de- cextemplated in the administration’s | nounced govc-ament ant municinn’ navy promrem would contrihute | ownershin as interfering with the iness and |profits of business, than were constructed during any five-year period previously. Today, just one month after the tenth an- | prosperity of the whole land,” Gen- mani War Security Leaguers applauded More cruisers be built in one year | | cral Bullard asserted. He said that| aintained | all sorts to build warships, and said | “The agreement of the League binds all American nations that signed it, associated by a judicial link rather than by a simple friend- ship or moral bond, as it deals with a solemn agreement that creates rights and obligations. Pan-Amer- | icanism, represented in the Wash-| ington conference, interested itself, offering its gocd offices, and it was natural that the American spirit might guide me in determining the most notable way of solution. “Before this dualism, the attitude of Bolivia would be an‘important international “*precedent, and the Bolivian government, anxious to keep American harmony and _ soli- darity, wished. to. understand. the opinion of the other governments of the continent. Such was the scope of the inquiry. It did not deal with! the form of counteraction to Para- | Suayan aggression, but of choosing the way of conciliation. Claims Based on “Defense.” “The use of the right of legiti- mate defense or safeguarding of | sovereignty are not to be questioned, | for even in the record of the Bol- ivian- Paraguayan conference in Buenos Aires, July 12, 1928, signed | by both nations, the following stipu-| lation is found: “Both delegations agree in de-| claring that the dispute will be solved only by peaceful means, ex- cept in case of legitimate defense.’ “Chile, being part of the League! of Nations and member of the Pan-| American Union, could not be ex-! cluded from an inquiry to friendly countries. Such’ was the only scope of the test’ of American opinion.” Secret Accord Rumored. Asked if he thought the incident | indicated a secretaccord between Chile and Paraguay, the Bolivian evaded direct reply by charging to telegraphic mistakes the Chilean | opinion, “upon. a matter in which! a sovereign nation can never permit | her conduct to depend on another | or other nations, however good their | relations may be.” | It is noted here that Bolivia is centralizing all newspapers under | national control and setting up a} system of patriotic teaching in_ schools, ‘ | | AmalgamatedForum at Workers Center Today | . | An open forum of the General | Amalgamated League will be held) | today, 12 o’clock noon, at the Work- | ers Center, 26 Union Square, at! which Joseph Boruchovitch will speak on “What should the mem- | bers of the Amalgamated do in or- | | der to win back their union condi- | ' tions am a 1928 ado y 1 1A Building, the tallest building put up since the Woolworth Tower. It is |in the Grand Central section. It |represents the labor of thousands jof workers to house the officials of | their bosses’ firms. There is a the- latre on the 50th story and on the street floor inter-city busses arrive, drive on to a turn-table, are turned |about and drive out into the street | again. view of the 56-story Chanin LABOR DEFENSE ~ TAGDAY TODAY Will Aid Victims of the Strike Terror | “Give fo: the defense of the New | Bedford strikers!” will be the ap- |posl of hundreds of volunteers who |} today and tomorrow will cover the | entire city in the house-to-house col- |of Argentina, in confronting the | lection drive of the New York dis- | trict of the International Labor De- | fense. | Six hundred and sixty-two strik- ers are being tried in New Bedfori in the largest mass trial in the his- | tory of the American labor move- jment. The I. L, D. Tag Days, as well as the general Christmas cam- paign of the organization, will fur- nish the funds necessary to rescue them from the clutches of the mil! barons’ courts. In addition, the Tag Days and Christmas campaign are being depended on to furnish funds for the defense of many other class ‘war cases, numbering nearly 1,100 in all, that the I. .L. D. is in charge | of. All workers and ‘sympathizers are y Labor’s Toil | ‘DIPLOMATIC ROW ezre2 CONTINUE DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP 22 New Members Join | at Mass Meet | Twenty-two new members were i acquired by the Office Workers | Union Thursday evening as a result | f an enthusiastic meeting held at | he Labor Temple, 14th St. and Sec- | nd Ave. at which Juliet Stuart | ‘oyntz was the principal speaker. | The mass meeting clearly showed | ‘e tremendous’ response of the so- | led white-collar slaves to the or- anization drive: that the Office Yorkers Union has actively spor ved since its formation severe nonths ago, according to I. Jerome rganizer of the union. Workers joined actively in the discussion that followed the speech of Juliet Stuart | Poyntz, bringing up many new ideas for the successful continuance of the organizational drive, which has until now been instrumental in building | |the Office Workers Union from a | small group to the point, where it | hopes soon to be a force among the | thousands of clerical ~workers | throughout’ New York City and | vicinity. Plans for the continuation of the e and for many other mass meet- | ings of the sort were mapped out .the mass meeting. Thursday, h, it was pointed out, is only g OFFICE WORKERS “Ys: zenton Bolivia and Paraguay, which was in- stigated by the Standard Oil Co. in its desire | lands, Freiheit Sports Club of the best players of the club, will clash with the Metropolitan S. C. in an exhibition ame at Thomas Jef- w of Democratic Convention TABULATE POLL IN ELECTIONS OF - FURRIERS UNION Convention Delegates Picked Yesterday (Continued from Page One | who established a dual scab union |in the industry, the left wing Joint | | Board had succeeded in gaining the j adherence of every real local thru- out the country. When the conven- | tion opens nearly all the organized furriers in the country will be rep- resented. Large sections of unor- ganized workers in the fur indus- | try will also be represented. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board and Maurice H. Cohen, its ecretary-treasurer, were elected to represent the Joint Board at its last meeting Tuesday night. A list of the elected candidates oil | 88 issued from the Joint Board |yesterday. Local by local they are: ist of Candidates. Local 1—Max Brownstein, Hyman | Finkel, Sam Liebowitz, Julius Mail- man, Max Pine, Irving Potash, Sam the Spot David Kauffman, American Min- ster to Bolivia, has been acting as Wall Street's agent right on the cene of the imperialist war between to grab the Chaco to Play Three Games ‘Potash, Charles Riger and Jack Ww | Schneider. at Soccer Tomorro Local 5—Benj. Baraz, Aaron The “Freiheit” Sports Club, mem-| Gross, Philip Glantzman, — Max bers of the Labor Sports Union, has | ange, Sam Mencher, Harry Schil- arranged the following games for Jer, Louis Spivak, Louis Tellis, tomorrow: | Harry ‘Trachtenberg, Benj. Wein- stein, George Weissman and Sam Yacker. Local 10—Louis Cohen, Julius Fleiss, Ben Garf, Joseph Hersho- The Freiheit “A” team, composed | one of the first of many such meet-|erson Field, Pennsylvania and Witz, Max Kochinsky, Kassel Miller, ings which will be held in the near |Tjiyonia Aves., Brooklyn, at 12) Abe Moskowitz and Sam Reznik. future, | o'clock. ‘The “Freiheit” “B” team| Local 15—Jacob Cohen, Emma The Office Workers Union has} wil) meet the Falcon S. C. in a regularly scheduled league game at to be held at Webster Manor. 11th | Jasper Oval, 137th St. and Convent | St., between Third and Fourth Aves., | aye, also made arrangements for a ball! {on the eve of Washington’s birth- day, February 21. All sympathetic organizations have been asked not to arrange any conflicting events for that date, in order to co-operate with the young union in its organ- izational and membership campaign. urged to contribute generously to save their courageous fellow-work- | Voluntecrs are war*-1 for the house-to-house canvass. They are asked to report to one of the fol- lowing stations: 60 St. Marks Pl; 101 W. 27th St. (Progressive Cen- ter); 347 E. 72nd St. (Czecho-Slovak Workers Home); 350 E. 81st St. (Hungarian Workers Home); 143 E. 108rd St.; 1800 Seventh Ave. ers. Park East (Bronx Workers Co-op- erative) ; ‘3rd St., Brooklyn; 154 Watkins St., | Brooklyn; 56 Manhattan Ave., | Prooklyn;:227 Brighton Beach Ave., | |) | Brighton Beach, and 2901 Mermaid ! Ave., Coney Island. A QE PAPEETE Greet THE DAILY WORKER ON FIFTH BIRTHDAY SEND IN A DONATION SEND IN A GREETING Baily Sa: Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE. Help ITS Today NEW YORK CITY. Whoare thePoets ‘that will read at Red Poets’ Night? Here are a few: Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman Robert Wolf, James Rorty, Henry Reich, Jr., Langston Hughes, famous Negro Poet, A. B. Magi, Herman Spector, William Weinberg, Adolf Wolff, Martin Russak, Edwin Rolfe, David Gordon, Lola Ridge, Arturo Giovannitti, Moishe Nadir, H, Leivick, H. T. Tsiang, and many others. Which mean: malities will appenr December 28 and read = from their own work. m. The “Freiheit” “C” club crosses legs with the shifty Scandinavian “B” team, at Chelsea Park, 27th St. and 9th Ave., New York City. kickoff is set for 2:30 p, m. "Unity Co-operative); 2700 Bronx | 1330 Wilkins Ave.; 1373 ||) Greenberg, Malvina Liebowitz, Celia Rabinowitz, Lena Rabinowitz, Clara Meltzer, Regina Schrieber and Jo- seph Winogradsky. The kickoff is set for 11 a. The socialist party endorses the robher League of Nations, the fake Kellogg peace pact and creates the flusion that war can be abolished under capitalism. Down with these traitors to the working class! The | Spend Your Winter Vacation at the Cooperative Workers’ Camp Nitgedaiget PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION BEACON, N. Y. — Phone, Beacon 862 | RATES: $17.00 PER WEEK | | OPEN ALL YEAR | CITY PHONE:—ESTABROOK 1400. | Special Program for the New Year Holidays. 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