The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1928, Page 2

TEXAS MAYORS RUSH UP TRUE GUILT OF COPS Wounded Youth Taken From Hospital The Houston police are guilty of the lynching of Robert Powell, young Negro, on the night im- niédiately preceding the democratic national convention in Houston, ac- cording to an article printed in a southern paper, “Variety.” The ar- ticle reads in part as follows: “An unprinted story of the lynch- ing of a colored man in Houston by policemen of that city, just prior to the democratic convention, seems to have been known by all the news- paper men in attendance. It was on! account of the correspondents that the roping bee was smoothed over by the authorities. It would not sound nice, they decided, for the world to know that Houston police- men violated the very lynch law that | the South has been trying to cover up for years. “4 night or so before the conven- tion opened, a policeman and a) young Negro fired shots at one an- other. Both were hit and taken to a hospital, where the policeman ¢ied. Later that night, five of the dead policeman’s uniformed companions went to the hospital where the still | unconscious Negro had been taken, | removed and hung him from a bridge near the‘ outskirts of the city. His! body was cut down the next morn-| ing. | “That the police had don it spread among the higher-ups of the | city. Houston’s mayor, it is said, in| a dilemma, thought to ask the ad-/| vice of four other Texas mayors on | a Police re Guilty of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, Lyn ALL WORKERS OUT FOR | I.L.D. TAG DAYS TODAY) By ROSE BARON. One thousand one hundred work- ers are now in jail because of their activity in the struggles of their cla: More than half of these— 662—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 leaders e indicted on conspiracy charges id faced with long jail terms. All Cases Defended by I. L. D. All these 1,100 class war cases are being defended by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the central permanent defense organization of the American working class. cluded in these cases is another mass trial, that of 125 miners in Pittsburgh, trials based on anti- imperialist demonstrations, at least 80 “free speech and free press” trials, about 40 deportation cases, the John Porter case, the Kansas criminal syndicalism cases, the Los Angeles raid cases, the Bridgman, Mich., 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 years and that the eight Centralia prisoners have already spent nine years behind the bars. The I. L. D. is leading the mass movement to In-| free the victims of both these 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, give to the Salvation Army, give to the hundred neediest cases. The aim of all these drives and drgan- | izations is to blunt the hatred of | the workers for their exploiters and| | to substitute the miserable, bread- | crumb charity of the bosses for the | efforts of the workers to strength-| jen 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! 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 Fees 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 how to hush up or keep quiet about | the police as the lynchers. Only | one reply contained a suggestion | thought worthwhile. That is said to have come from the mayor of Dallas. Control of Cuba Rum It suggested that any other five men be pinched and held until after the| combined with private’ American coaention. | shipping lines yesterday to strike “Accordingly, the police of Hous-| at British competition in the New ton picked up five local vagrants on | York-to-West Indies passenger trade. a 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/ velt to the Ward Line to make 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 is to be remembered that five men shipping board announced the move were brought to trial for the brutal| efter a conference here with rep- murder 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 “lunson Steam- up. The police have shown their | ship Line, the American and Cuban The United States government “true face in one of the most brutal Steamship Line, the Panama Mail ‘ crimes on record. | Steamship Company, the Panama- (oS Me AS Pacific Steamship Company, the Many Nationalities Rote and the United Fruit at Red Poets’ Night | ee oe “In putting the 5 vessel in the Havana service, the Next Friday Eve) stinp-g board ree‘tirms its stated aS 4 | policy to support at all times the Many nationalities will be rep-| interests of private American steam- resented at the third annual Inter- ship lines. national Red Poets Night, next Fri-| trade rcate is peculiarly an Amer- day evening, at Manhattan Lyceum, | ican, not a British route." 66 E. Fourth St. The outstanding | revolutionary poets in the country | ae are going to read from thei own| LN | t work in their own languages at this | van) E unusual event. - | English will, of course, be repre- | WRF NAVY 8 ih wa poets will be Michsel Gold, Joseph Freeman, Robert Wolf, Henry Reich, eae Ir, A. B, Magil, Edwin Rolfe, James} Wants No Restrictions Rorty, Lola’ Ridge, Adolf Wolff,| “Vy 7 Herman Spector, Martin Russal | ‘WhatHellDoWeCare and David Gordon. A, Pomerantz. William Weinberg, contributor to “Elore,” the Hungarian Com daily, will read in Hungaria Tsiang in both Chinese and D. Burl'uk in Russian, J. FOR (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| v gton agreement of 1921 to| t battleship building was des-} sented by the greatest number of | poets. Among the English language The Yiddish poets will be Moishe | Nadir, H. Leivick, Aaron Kurtz and limi in Jugo-Slavian, other p leribad:- ana. Betinhe: ot | read in Gorman, Italian and Span-|C™ 0s. ihe United Statee by Henry | ish. ne Be adi « Wise Wood, who urged dis:cgard Following the poetry , readings |.¢ what Europeens think about Amer- everybody will join in a dance ba chanal ica. “What the hell do we care) what they think about,” he shouted) as Security Leaguers applauded wildly. Major General. Weigel deplored | the Washington treaty provision for- bidding the United States to develop | naval bases against Japan and Brit- ain in the far Pacific. Mrs. William! Cumming Story asserted that “free ‘i z speech is carried on to a degree Tonight will be the first ball given {hat is appalling in New York City.”’| by the Spanish Fraction for the | »ry+tin Ww. Littleton, attorney for benefit of the “Vida Obrera,” the Fal) and Sinclair in the oil cases, only workingelass paper in the Span-| asserted that war is certain and that | ish language to reach the Latin-|the United States should have the. Absieiéan: workers in this constry.| tect and bleeast dave afloat, It will be held at the New Harlem| "eee Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. | There will be exhibitions of the| . You won’t be able to resist it when John C. Smith’s Negro Syi Tickets are | office of the | Latin America Ball in Harlem Tonight | “War Good for Business.” General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S.} The New York-Havana| Tango and La Juto in the original costumes, and as a special number there will be the Antillian Group in a variety of their latest songs ac-| companied with the Antillian instru- ents. Dancing will continue until marly morning to the music of John miths Modern Jazz orchestra. Rrownsville Forum to Hear Leibowitz Today S. Liebowitz, assistant manager of | the Furriers Joint Board, will speak on “Who is responsible for the pres- ent conditions in the Amalgamated,” at the Browgsville Open Forum to- | day, 12 o’clock noon, at 154 Watkins ~ U | while bancueting at the Hardware army, retired, lauded the program to build “teen cruisers, with a pos- sible chence of getting still more in the near future, as the “best thing f ess” in a speech before the executive committee of the Hardware Metals and Allied Trades, Clvh, New York, This committee is a military or- anization, erect: 1 during the World War by the metal manufacturers of the United States, and maintained in anticipation of the coming world war. “The provisions of the fifteen | to Stop Imperialism (Continued from Page One 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, 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, |and makes them helpless against war when it does come. ‘ Robert Minor, editor of the ‘Daily Worker, in his speech showed that even more important than the rival- ries between the imperialist pow- ers, 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 Republics, behind which stand the international proletariat and the op- Pressed colonial peoples. Minor stressed the basic tactic of | the proletariat in capitalist coun- tries in this situation, the transfor- mation 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 class, have reached the stage of active | counter-revolutionary preparations \for war against the Soviet Union. This includes the campaign legainst 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 in the workers’ cause, all renegades |from the Communist Party, all so- cial-demoeratic “intellectual” weak- lings on the fringes of the labor movement who in less dangerous times like to call themselves Com- munists, Norman Tallentire stated that the Kellogg pact is a prelude to the next world war, as the great wave of peace propaganda that covered up the preparations for the last world war and ushered it in. The navy league is now demanding that mote cruisers be built in one year than were constructed during any five-year period previously. Today, just one month after the tenth an- niversary of the 1918 armistice, all Europe is talking, not about the last world war but about the next one. The Soviet Union is in danger, said Tallentire, of a united attack |by the world capitalist powers, for the reason that before the imper- | jialist powers can settle the fight among themselves they must settle with the Soviet Union, realizin; they do, that a number of Soviet governments will arise from the next world war. The Communist Party, under the leadership of the Communist Inter- national, will turn this next world war into a civil war, bringing the workers and farmers into conflict with their capitalist rulers and cre- ating a number of Soviet Republics. prosperity of the whole land,” Gen- cral Bullard asserted. He said that forty-seven of the forty-eight states of the Union furrished mateiial of all sorts to build warships, and said that half the cost of such construc- tion went for materials. The ....ral wound up with an erut var ‘omplated in ¢ navy prorram aircraft carriers | drministretion’s | wonld contribute | c attack on’ Communism, and also de- nounced gove ment ar! muricine! ownershin as interfering with the $125.090.000 to the business and | profits of business, ho-| Give | UPON ENGLAND HITS MISLEADERS U. 8. Board Fights for Demand Class Struggle | “The socialist party and its the- | NDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1928 == ching Negro in Shadow of Democratic Convention DIPLOMATIC ROW Scared by Labor's Toi! BETWEEN CHILE | = um AND BOLIVIA ON ‘Rejoinder Hints Pact With Paraguay (Continued from Page One of Bolivia was made concerning its act'o»s before its note of acceptance. This statement began by saying: “Friendly consultation was made with the foreign offices of the | American countries thru the Chilean | representatives in Bolivia, without | the Chilean foreign office being spe- | cially addressed. From such attitude \it is deduced that the Bolivian gov-| | ernment judged it useful to give an | opportunity to America (referring | here to both Americas) to define a | point of highest continental policy, jas despite the existing preoccupa- | tions, Bolivia does not forget the | traditional American tendency, nor the moral solidarity of the new) world.” | Vents Criticism. A view of the 56-story Chanin | Building, the tallest building put up It should be noted at this point| since the Woolworth Tower. | it is |that Chile is a member of thelin the Grond Central section. It League of Nations, and opinion may | represents the labor of thousands | incline to the view that the words | workers to house the officials of mean to compliment Bolivia. The|atre on the 50th story and on the | statement continued in sharper vein| street floor inter-city busses arrive, | disclosing Chile’s displeasure with| drive on to « turn-table, are turned | Bolivia's refusal of arbitration prior! about and drive out into the street to its note of December 18, which | ggain, finally accepted arbitration. “Bolivia was not seeking advice | with respect to its conduct evar | ABOR DEFENSE 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 South American countries, the dis-| carding of intervention by the| Montevideo commission 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 | entire city in the house-to-house col- of Argentina, in confronting the! lection drive of the New York dis- possibility of establishing precedents | tzict of the International Labor De- and forming doctrines regarding the | fense. intervention and influence of Gen-| Six hundred and sixty-two strik- eva in American matters and the| ers are being tried in New Bedfori | beginning of the Washington con- in the largest mass trial in the hi- | ference.” tory of the American labor move- Bolivia’s Rejoinder. jment. The I. L. D. Tag Days, as This statement has awakened the well as the general Christmas cam- Bolivian government to the follow-| naign of the organization, ing nettled rejoinder to the Chilean|nish the funds necessary t 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 war cases, numbering nearly 1,100 lof the two offers of conciliation, | in all, that the I. L, D. is in charge that of the League of Nations and| of. that of the conference gathered in| All workers and sympathizers are Will Aid Victims of the Strike Terror “Give for the defense of the New Bedford strikers!” will be the ap- peal of hundreds of volunteers who today and tomorrow will cover the rescue barons’ courts. In addition, the Tag Days and Christmas campaign are being depended on to furnish funds for the defense of many other class e of the Chilean chancellor did not | their bosses’ firms. There is a the-| TAG DAY TODAY ‘OFFICE WORKERS CONTINUE DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP at Mass Meet Twenty-two new members were nequired by the Office Workers Union Thursday evening as a result of an enthusiastic meeting held at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Sec- ond Ave., which Juliet Stuart Poyntz was the principal speaker. The mass meeting clearly showed al 22 New Members Join) War cent on he St TABUL ATE POLL " WELECTIONGOF | 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 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- n the Spo a aa the tremendous response of the so- | called white-collar slaves to the or- | ganization drive that the Office | Workers Union has actively spon- sored since its formation several months ago, according to I. Jerome, organizer 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 jsmall 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} | drive and for many other mass meet- | |ings of the sort were mapped out | jat the mass meeting Thursday, | which, it was pointed out, is only | lone of the first of many such meet- jings which will be held in the near | future. The Office Workers Union has |also made arrangements for a ball | |to be held at Webster Manor, 11th | ganized workers in the fur’ indus- try will also be represented. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board and Maurice H. Cohen, its secretary-treasurer, were elected to represent the Joint Board at its last meeting Tuesday night. A list of the elected candidategeme was issued from the Joint Board yesterday. Local by local they, are: List of Candidates. Local 1—Max Brownstein, Hyman Finkel, Sam Liebowitz, Juliwg) Mail- man, Max Pine, Irving Potash, Sam |Potash, Charles Riger amd Jack David Kauffman, American Min- ister to Bolivia, has been acting as Wall Street's agent right on the scene of the imperialist war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which was in- stigated by the Standard Oil Co. in its desire to grab the Chaco oil lands. Freiheit Sports Club to Play Three Games | | Schneider. aes ~ meer © CTO TE OW |. Tegel 6 Baul, | Beamer Aare The “Freiheit” Sports Club, mem-|Gt0ss, Philip Glantzman, Max bers of the Labor Sports Union, has | ange, Sam Mencher, Harry Schil- arranged the following games for ler, Louis Spivak, Louis Tellis, tomorrow: Harry Trachtenberg, Benj. . Wein- The Freiheit “A” team, composed | stein, George Weissman and Sam of the best players of the club, will | Yacker. clash with the Metropolitan S, ©, in| Local 10—Louis Cohen, Juliu§ an exhibition ame at Thomas Jef-| Fleiss, Ben Garf, Joseph Hersho-\ erson Field, Pennsylvania and|Witz, Max Kochinsky, Kassel Miller, * Livonia Aves. Brooklyn, at 12/Abe Moskowitz and Sam Reznik. i o'clock. The “Freiheit” “B” team| Local 15—Jacob Cohen, Emma \ will meet the Falcon S. C. in a|Greenberg, Malvina Liebowitz, Celia regularly scheduled league game at| Rabinowitz, Lena Rabinowitz, Clara Jasper Oval, 137th St. and Convent | Meltzer, Regina Schrieber and Jo- ill fur- them from the clutches of the mill | | St., between Third and Fourth Aves., jon the eve of Washington's birth- |day, February 21. All sympathetic organizations have been asked not} jto arrange any conflicting events | ifor that date, in order to co-operate | Ave. The kickoff is set for 11 a.| m, The “Freiheit” “C” club crosses | legs with the shifty Scandinavian “B” team, at Chelsea Park, 27th St. and 9th Ave., New York City. The | kickoff is set for 2:30 p. m. seph Winogradsky. The socialist party endorses the robber Lengue of Nations, the fake Kellogg peace pact and creates the abolished pitalism. Down with these e working cinsst under traitors to with the young union in its organ- izational and membership campaign. | |urged to contribute generously to |} | save their courageous fellow-work- | |} ers, Voluntecrs are wart-1 for the| ]} | house-to-house canvass. They are| || |asked to report to one of the fol- | lowing stations: 60 St. Marks PI.; | 101 W. 27th St. (Progressive Cen- ter); 847 E. 72nd St. (Czecho-Slovak Workers Home); 350 E. 81st St./ (Hungarian Workers Home); 143 |B. 108rd St.; 1800 Seventh Ave. ) (Unity Co-operative); 2700 Bronx |Park East (Bronx Workers Co-op- jerative); 1330 Wilkins Ave.; 1373 | 43rd St., Brooklyn; 154 Watkins St., | Brooklyn; 56 Manhattan Ave. | P-oo'lyn; 227 Brighton Beach Ave., ponents Beach, and 2901 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island. BEACON, N.Y. — 6 RATES: $17.00 Washington. “It Was Natural.” “The agreement of the League Spend Your Winter Vacation at the Cooperative Workers’ Camp Nitgedaiget PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION OPEN ALL YEAR CITY PHONE:—ESTABROOK 1400. Special Program for the New Year Holidays. Phone, Beacon 862 PER WEEK 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 ja solemn agreement that creates | rights and obligations. Pan-Amer- | icanism, represented in the Wash- ington conference, interested itself, offering its good 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- guayan aggression, but of choosing} the way of conciliation. j Claims Based on “Defense.” “The use of the right of legiti- mate defense or safeguarding of sovereignty are uot to be questicned, 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- Greet ON 26-28 UNION SQUARE. FIFTH BIRTHDAY SEND IN A DONATION SEND IN A GREETING Baihy Mt: Worker Help DAILY WORKER ITS | and Stalin .. Bolshevism—Stalin ... Today NEW YORK CITY. Aelia linens 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 secret accord between Chile and Paraguay, the Bolivian evaded direct reply by charging to} telegraphic mistakes the Chilean opinion, “upon a matter in which @ sovereign nation can never permit her conduct to depend on another or other nations, however good their relations may be.” Who are thePocts 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. Magil, Herman Spector, WORKERS LIBRARY PAMPHLETS Order from Workers Library Publishers 35 East 125th Street, New York City Every worker should have all of these pamphlets in his library for reference: Leninism vs. Trotskyism—Zinoviev, Kamenev American Negro Problems—John Pepper... America Prepares the Next War—Jay Lovestone 10c Platform of the Class Struggle... Building Up Socialism—N. Bukharin Wrecking the Labor Banks—William Z. Foster....25¢ Lenin, the Great Strategist—Losovsky... WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS rs dia fw eenertern cess ~25¢ 15¢ It is noted here that Bolivia is centralizing all newspapers under) national control and setting up a system of patriotic teaching schools. in| 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 Bortchovitch will speak on “What should the mem- bers of the Amalgamated do in or- der to win back their union condi- tions?” / 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 means that t