The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 1

¢° THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 49-Hour Week Forg’Labor Party ARY ISSUE DA ILY WORKER, J OF THE ANUARY.5 a aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. arch ker 3, 1879. F NATIONAL EDITION Published dafly except Sunday by lishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union he Nation: ily Worker NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents WAR MEASURES FORCE THE VOTE Calls It “Consulting Cal,” in Wireless Messages May Call Extra Session Imperialist Air Route Alveady Under Way WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Wire- less dispatches purporting to come from President-elect Hoover on the pattléship Utah, now nearing Hamp- ton Roads, are being given the pr here thru the navy wireless station. They are couched in language in- tended to obscure the impression that Hoover, a shrewder agent of imperialism, is taking the active di- rection of affairs away from the faltering hands of Coolidge, an in- expert agent: ‘ But Will “Consult” Cal: Hoover, say the dispatches, will recognize that Coolidge is still president, and will “defer to the president’s wishes” on matters of foreign policy and appointments during the rest of Coolidge’s term. Yet, Hoover will “consult” with Coolidge on these matters, as also on war preparations, and especially on aviation. The United States, thru private capital, should start regular air- plane service down the West Coast of South America, Hoover makes it known, As soon thereafter as pos- sible, it is necessary to start the more difficult lines over the Brazil- ian forests, and. down to ‘Argentina. Otherwise, in the opinion of Hoover, itish and French capital wiil get ahead of the U, S., and this impor- tant imperialist factor will not be in American hands. May Be Extra Session. Hoover is expected to plunge into negotiations with Senator and others as soon as he reaches Washington, to assure the passing of the bill for fifteen more cruisers and other war material, and the Kellogg pacts during this session of congress, as soon as the holiday re- cess is over. This requires a cer- tain amount of juggling with and bargaining with those senators who are pushing the fake farm relief bill, and may require Hoover’s promise that he will call a-special session of congress to consider the farm bill, if its proponents agree to let it go over until after the vote ‘on the militarist preparations. ee ee Air Service Starts. Powerful Wall Street interests announce that the existing routes of Pan American Airways, Inc., a sub- sidiary of the Aviation Corporation of the Americas, will be immediate- ly extended, and that a vast reor- ganization and expansion of the company will take place in the first week of January. Air lines will be established to link the West Indies, Central and South America in a 4,000 mile long airway, This line now operates a Miami- Porto Rico run. It will institute a regular twice- daily service to Havana and a tri- weekly service extending beyond Havana through Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo to San Juan, Porto Rico, i a total distance of 1,440 miles. , There is an overpight stop on the Porto Rico run: Jan, 11 a Sikorsky amphibian will open Pan American’s Central Amer- | ican line, with scheduled stops at | Hayana, Belize, British Honduras; Tela, Honduras; Corinto and Man- agua, Nicaragua; Puerto Arenas, , Costa Rica; Panama City, id and Cristobal, in the Zone. There will be over- yt Belize and Managua. Warns é S. of Attack . on Latin Immigration BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 30.— Re payer “ie Prone” we | published an editorial attack- ing the proposal made in the United _ States for extending the quota ar- n ents restricting immigration ; in-Americans, paper declares that such a ire would “undermine Pan- ism.” It also points out as the restriction would have effect on Mexico, the result be to draw a sharp line at the de and break the Western sphere into “two exclusive Borah | 8,000 NEEDLE WOR HOOVER TOBOSS Wall St. Troops Sail for China to Kill Workers | | New York, N. Ys This contingent of 800 American troops leaving for China and other parts of the far east give the lie to the government statement that Wall Street forces are being reduced in China. The transport St. Mihiel is shown leaving the Brooklyn army base last Friday. Wall Street is increasing its forces to be in readiness to slaughter Chinese workers and peasants, who are preparing to oust both the imperialists who oppress them and the Kuomintang which has betrayed them. The Chinese Communist Party will lead in the formation of a Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic in China. BILL HAY WOOD’S BOO a0 7 Did you ever hear of the Moun- tain Meadow Massacre? It was an incident cf the Old West, a slaugh- {ter of men, women and children by \Mormons and Indians, or at least | Indiaus. “Big Bill” Haywood, who \Indiens. “Big Bill”? Haywoo’d, whd was born at Salt Lake City in the) | heart of the Mormon ruled Utah ter- ritory, teils of Mormon practices as he saw them, ; “Bill Haywcod’s Book,” written by | Haywood before his death at Mos- cow last May, will be published ex- | clusively in the Daily Worker, run- | ning as a serial, beginning with the lifty Anniversary Number, Satur- cay, Jan. 5. 4-<The autobicgraphy of Haywood: is me of the most distinctive accom- \plishments of proletarian literature published in recent years. By ar- yangement with the International Publishers Company, the Daily Worker has cbtained exclusive rights fer. serial publication of this in- tensely interesting work. Mayweod’s iife covered a period cf years and was located in such stirring scenes of American capital- |ism’s westward expansion, settle- | ment and industrialization, that his own life story is a reflection of all | principal phases of that develop- | ment. The publishers of the Daily Worker warn all newspapers and |periodicals against republishing, \cither in English or in translation, |any of Haywood’s book as run in |the Daily Worker, with the excep- | tien of not over 200 words, for which credit must be given, This wonderful story of Haywood, courageous and militant leader of | Norwegian labor unions was a step | |the American labor movement, will |toward international labor . union | Porte /appear serially only in the Daily Worker, beginning Jan. 5, in the special Birthday Edition of the |“Daily.” All who wish to get this interesting feature must rush in |their subscription at once. ‘Refuse Unemployment Aid to Miners Who Will Not Take Lower Pay MORELY, England (By Mail).— Unemployment benefit has been re- ef mining families who have been on the verge of starvation for months here. fused by the government to scores |- ELL OF MORMONS ‘SOVIET WORKERS APPROVE UNIONS Resolution Backs Its | Policy | (Wireless. by “Inprecorr”) | MOSCOW, Dec. 28.—\Pravda,” official organ of- the Comniunist Party of the Soviet Union, published today the resolution of the Kighth H Congress of the Soviet Laber Unions [approving the” activity of the Cen- | | tral Council of the Trade Unions. The resolution expressed approval of the support accorded by the Cen- tral Council to the urban industrial- lization policy, approves the | strengthening of the socialist ele- ments in the towns and in the coun- try, the industrialization of argicul- |ture and the consolidation of the |workers’ and peasants’ alliance, | The resolution declares that the | general class interests of the work- crs must be harmonized with the |immediate, everyday economic needs, zs a basis for the function cf the labor unions as a school for Com- | munism. | The resolution approves the inter- |national activity of the Central | Council and expresses the convic- | tion that the Copenhagen agreement between the Soviet, Finnish and | unity. | \Lumber Workers of the |'T.U.E.L. to Hold Dance ‘in Seattle on Jan. 5 | SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 28.—The | Lumber Workers’ Section of the | Trade Union Educational League | will hold a dance and entertainment |at the Finnish Hall, 1239 Washing- | ton St., on Saturday, January 5, be- ginning at 8 o’clock in the evening. A southern Negro orchestra will provide union music, and a play en- titled “A Logger Expresses His Mind” will be presented. The news that Big Bill Haywood’s story of his own ; life will begin serial publication in the special fifth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, to be issued next Saturday, has greitly stimulated interest in this edition, Workers sre sending in and collecting greetings and dona- tions with greater enthusiasm than ever in order to be among those to have their names printed in the same issue in which the autobiography of the greut revolutionary leader will appear. The fifth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker will contain not only the first installment of “Bill Haywood’s Book,” but many other unusual articles and fcatures that will make it the greatest issue of a working class newspaper ever pub- lished in the English language. Ar- ticles on the history cf the Daily Worker, on the role pluyed by the old socialist New York Call, on Latin-America, on the Red Isiterna- GREETINGS-MORE, MORE! Workers Urged to Honor Bill Haywood | press, an interview with Feed Ellis telling of his experiences as a stock- yards worker and a sign-painter, greetings from the Communist Par- ties and the Communist press of the world, drawings by Fred Ellis, Wil- liam Gropper and Jacob Burck, poems, short stories, book reviews —these are only a few of the fea- tures that will be found in this great anniversary edilion, 500,000 copies of which will be distributed through- out the country. Workers and working class organ- izations still have an opportunity to have their greetings included inthe historic edition in which Haywood’s own life story will start publication. Pay a tribute to the immortal Bill Haywood, the mighty fighter for the working class, by sending a greeting and donation to the only paper in the English language that he con- sidered his own. The time is short. Don’t delay. Rush your greetings |tional, on Lenin and the Bolshevik at once to the office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. re sighs Nom IAT SIH RW KELLOGG MONROE DOCTRINE MOVES STILL CONTINUE League of Nations Not Asleep; Briand Warns | It “Keep Watch” Chile Hits Meet Here Bolivia and Chile Growing Friction WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 30.— The so-called “Conference for Con- ciliation and Arbitration of the Pan- American Union,” which might much better be called the Sub-Committee of the U. S. State Department for assisting Wall Street in Latin- America, proceeds more or less calmly in the business of “making peace” openly and making war secretly. The over-trustful Paraguayans, who demobilized upon the naive be- lief that the United States of 1928 is the same United States it was in 1853, when the Paraguayan’s coined a phrase about U. S. “justice,” now find themselves at a disadvantage before Bolivian soldiers which are advancing thru the Chaco region. Kellogg Pulls Wires. in | Juan V. Ramiriz, complained | Bolivia’s action to the U. S. State \Department, without alleging of course, that Kellogg was the one really responsible for Bolivian laggression. He made his complain public. But the Bolivian minister, who called on Kellogg later, observed secrecy on what he and Kellogg talked about; and so did Kellogg. Bolivia’s continued armed advance in violation of its “peace pledge,” only illustrates anew the absurdity of, pacifist illusions that “peace pacts” and treaties will stop im- perialists from making war for even one moment. Chile Practically Withdraws. ‘An important incident the signifi- cance of which has been concealed by the Kellogg controlled conference. | was the arrival Saturday of ofticial notification from the government that Chile would have nothing to do and take no part in any “conciliation commission” set up by the Washington conference. This practically constitutes the withdrawal of Chile from the con- |ference, and is indicative of a sharpening alignment of forces be- [ever American and British im- perialism in Latin-America. * * ® League Not Asleep. PARIS, Dec. 30.—In view of re- d continuance of war moves by | Bolivia, Aristide Briand, acting as president of the Council of the ‘League of Nations, held a long con- ference with M. Patino, Bolivian minister to France, and announced |to the press that the League of Nations is still “paying the closest | attention” to the Bolivia~Paraguay | conflict, In Geneva, the League has just is- |sued a “white book” on the League’s Jactions so far, the principal item of United States that the League would ‘call a special sessi land move its headquarters to Paris, la diplomatic way of warning Wash- ington that European imperialism would fight to protect its interests \in Latin-America. Ose * Chile Opposes Washington. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 30.—The Bolivian government is quite dis- turbed at the semi-official press of Chile, which has been openly com- menting on the subservience of Bolivia to United States bankers and calling attention to the recent loan of $23,000,000 with which |Dillon-Read, Wall Street bankers, consolidated all American loans and control. The paper Chilean paper of over 100 years “El Mureurio,” a to Bolivia, the press of which is in- |timating that Chile is “not interested lin peace,” as the reason “El Mer- \curio” attacks the Washington fake “conciliation” cor.ference. Peru has notified Chile that it adheres to the Gondra accord. First Polish Group of Slaves in Brazil PARA, Brazil (By Mail).—The S. S. Krakus, the first vessel of the new fleet which is to ply between the Polish port of Glynia and Brazil, has arrived here with 600 families of Polish workers, the first contingent of the thousands who will be settle* under slave conditions in Brazil. The Paraguayan charge d’affairs. | of | Chilean) which is the gently-put threat to the | ion of its members | standing, is particularly. irritating | WHALEN’S POLICE MURDER BOY AND COVER UP CRIME Fake War on Criminals by Tammany Police Heads Shown Up Young Worker Victim Young Worker Victim of Tammany y HARRISON GEORGE. Louis Bianea, 4 19 year lod auto mechanic helper, is dead. Shot in ; the back and murdered by Police- man Frank Moran, Who is to blame ? Grover Whalen, who exploited thousands of working class boys and girls at starvation wages in Wana- maker’s store, took office with a boast of “cleaning up the town.” He restores the “strong-arm squad,” is- sues orders to round up all so-called “criminals,” bring ‘em in, so to speak, dead or alive; revives the “work or fight” order of conserip- tion days of the war in a city filled | with unemployed workers—in short ‘tells the police to attack the work- ling class on all fronts and not to be ‘backward about shooting. A Victim of Capitalist Law. | Policeman Frank Moran obeyed -orders in murdering Louis Bianca. If not, why does he still remain on ‘the New York police force? It is ot a question of Moran, but of Whalen, head of a department of \ the capitalist city government of |New York, a small nation in itself, va government, which is ruled by the _ capitalists and whose police depart- ment is the special organ of that class, organized to “keep the work- ers in their places” at long hours, low wages and with no trade union. But let us tell the story of Louis Bianca, whose body lies in a tiny | Harlem apartment, where he lived with his old mother and his sister, in the district where live many Ital- ian workers, exploited by New York | capitalists as he was exploited. Louis was a lad not much over 16 years, interested as lads naturally are, in sports. But he worked in a tailor shop. Used to get and deliver (Continued on Page Five) SINCLAIR SUIT - HAS LOOPHOLES Federal Fraud Charge Only on Companies | WASHINGTON, Dec 30.—Trick-! ery and evasion of the best route by which the looters of the U. S. oil | lands at Salt Creek, Wyoming, might | be brought to task, seem to be em- |bodied in the largest government | | action against Sinclair, as in all| | previous actions, The government now sues in th federal courts of Wilmington, Dela- ware, for a return of $35,000,000 | profits made by Sinclair companies | while they fraudulently held the) | Salt Creek leases, granted them by | ogee of the Interior Fall, but | the bringing of the suit in Delaware | | makes it “impossible,” due to legal |red tape, to charge Fall, Sinclaic or é fraud, because they are not residents of Delaware. The suit is brought | only against the Sinclair Crude Oil | | Purchasing Company and the Mam- |moth Oil Company. | The government complaint coes, however, point out that a fraud and | conspiracy was entered into by Fall, Sinclair and others. The bill in equity of the govern- ment, in addition to charging that approximately 20,000,000 barrels of royalty oil were sold, says: “Fall has also corruptly received from Sinclair as his share of the profits of this conspiracy, cash and Liberty bonds of the face value of at least $269,100, but plaintiff does not know the exact amount of all the profits received by Fall, as his share of the profits of the con- spiracy, and is therefore unable to allege the same,” DISGUISED AS MAN 60 YEARS SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Dec. 80.-—After working in this city as | a painter for 60 years, Charles War- ner, 82, has been discovered to be a woman, She said she assumed the male disguise because she wanted to find work to support her widowed mother, > To Denounce Balbo Visit At Big Meet The New York City and state gov- | ernments are cooperating with the! Italian embassy and consulate and| with Italian business and patriotic organizations to boost the hand of} fascism in the U. S. Mayor Walker and Gov.-elect Roosevelt have be- come honorary patrons on the com- mittee which is welcoming Italo Balbo, fascist aviation minister and murderer of Italian workers, to New A y. arge part of the colony of | Italian politicians, business men, singers, professors, bankers, and the like are on the committee also. Balbo, who is coming to New York WORKER RALLY APPROVES MERGER OF TWO UNIONS ‘irst Sessions of Amalgamated Conventions Begin Today in New Star Casino Launching of the Amalgamated Needle Trade Ss Union Rings Death Knell of Scab Unions About eight thousand cloak, dress and fur workers, in the huge Lincoln Arena, 66th St. a mously voted to endor: yesterday unani- nd Broadwa: se the decisions of their union conventions Jan, 3 and 4, will also be greeted| ——--—————___ _— *to amalgamate. by the militant Italian workers of | this city, who will hold a mass pro- test meeting against this butcher at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irv- ing Place, Thursday, Jan. 3, at 8 p m., under the auspices of the Iv ternational Labor Defense and the Anti-Fascist Alliance of America, Balbo arrives here the afternoon Continued on Page Two GREEN MAY BE SECY OF LABOR Earns Job by Cutting Pay, Supporters Say OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 30.—The Illinois Miner, official or- gan of the Fishwick-Lewis adminis- tration of what is left of the United | Mine Workers of America, Illinois District, is boosting William Green, vresident of the A. F, of L., for sec- retary of labor in Hoover’s cabinet, and boasting that under Green’s ad- ministration in the A. F. of L. the wage cut has been so effective that the scab mines of Kentucky and other southern states are being put out of business. Illinois will be followed by other cuts in Kentucky, but the Illinois Miner s not speak of that. The Illinois Miner is published here in the printing plant the socialist, Oscar Ameringer, who has a 000 a year contract with the linois Miners Union (District 12 of the U. M, W. A.) to put out its weekly official organ for them, un- der a Springfield address. Glad to Cut Wages. In its issue of Dec. 22, the Illinois Miner carries a front page story with the headiine: “Union Scales Driving Scab Mines Dizzy,” in which the boast is made that Illinois miners are working for such low wages under the Fishwick contract dor | The wage cut in| GLOAKDELEGATES DEAE —— WE REPORT Sums Up ‘Struggles of Past Years Brilliantly summing up the his- |tory of the bitter straggles the |eloak and dressmakers have gone through in the last few years, the report of the National Organization Committee of the Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union—60 typewritten pages—drew the logical conclusions from the lessons learned through | bitter experience, and called on the | convention to act on the proposals contained in the report for the for- mation of a new amalgamated needle trades workers organization \in this country. A short semmary of the report delivered last night is hecessary." Tt | follows: The report begins by calling et- tention to the first manifastations of an attack against the progres- sives, made by Sigman when he split into four distinct bodies the single large Local 25. This was in 1920. Embarks on Expulsions. | Sigman followed this up three years later with the first official inauguration of the expulsion policy in the American Federation. Three of the largest locals in the Interna- tional, Locals 2, 9 and 22, were ex- pelied in 1923. After a 16-week struggle, led by a Joint Action Committee, the lefi wing leadership lof the locals had formed and was lable to rally tens of thousands of cloak and dressmakers in the offen- sive against the reactionary, social- ist-led officialdom, the workers’ fight was crowned with victory. | This took the form of an agreement which Sigman and his cohorts were compelled to sign, agreeing to toler- lance as a paramount principle in With tremendous enthusiam the great mass of workers as- sembled in the hall which is generally used as a prize-fight arena, shouted a mighty “aye” when Charles S. Zimmerman, chairman, put to vote the resolution which called for the merging of the two or- ganizations. Thus the official endorsement of the rank and file was obtained. From today on, the convention of the Furriers’ Union .and the conven- tion of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union will go into session, until the final step is taken for the estab- llishment of the new, amalgamated needle trades workers’ organization. The sessions of the convention, which will be opened in New Star | Casino today, will then complete the task of laying foundations for the amalgamated organization, which will be the first step in the strug- gle to build an amalgamated naticn- al industrial union of needle trades workers. Many speakers addressed the big meeting yesterday afternoon. Short spirited speeches every now and then interrupted by outbursts of cheer- ing and applause, showed the inten- sity of the enthusiasm prevailing. The speakers were leaders of the struggle against the right wing and the bosses from all over the coun- ltry. The leader of the Canadi Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, J. Salzberg, recently built, greeted the workers here in behalf or his organization. That the establishment of the amalgamated union hailed the de- struction of the company unions led by the right wing and by the A. F. of L., was predicted by the speakers and was reflected in the resporse of their hearers. But that this will be done only by struggle against these | traitors and their allies the bosses, was recognized, as was shown by the call of the leaders to prepare for the coming strike in the dress- making industry and in the fur trade. These strikes are to be called foisted upon them a month ago, that | the organization. Under this agree- | in order that union conditions, which the non-union miners to the south cannot compete with them. The Il- linois Miner cpenly claims that as a great victory for its own kind of unionism, the company unjonism of the U. M. W. A. under Lewis and while Green led the A. F. of L. Bosses for Green. The cther prominent story onthe front page of the same issue is a reprint of a special article by John Leary, labor editor of the New York World, who says: “Green would be highly acceptable to scme of the most important industrialists in the country,” and reveals that he has also the backing of the bitier reac- tionary, William L, Hutcheson, gen- eral president of the Carpenters é | Union, who was himself seriously | his pipe line company with the | considered fo: the Department of | Labor by President Harding. |ment members of the union were | permitted freedom of political and \trade union opinions. Then came preparations for the | general strike of 1926 for improved \conditions. While this _ historic strike was on, even before it was called, the right wing had been lay- ing plans for breaking it. Followed 24 weeks of the most heroic strug- gle and acute suffering for the masses in New York, and despite the active connivance of the right |wing and their boss allies to break Continued on Page Two | Have you bonght your ticket for | the Daily Worker Fifth Anniver- wary Celebration at Manhattan Opera House on January 5? Tick e re $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50. AIL reserved. Buy tickets now and get the best tm. PARTY “MEMBERS VOTE All Large Cities Thus Far for C. B. C. Returns from membership meetings of the Workers (Communist) Party in the pre-convention discussion of questions now before the Party for settlement show that the vote: is overwhelmingly in sup- port of the Central Executive Committee of the Party. The returns as known to the Daily Worker up to the present time are as follows: City Cc. ELC. Opposition Abstain New York ... » 1153 573 48 Chicago -. ++ 290 178 Seattle .. 1 2 Superior . 1 8 Boston. 14 4 * Pittsburgh 19 3 Philadelphia 44 8 Detroit 62 9 Minneapoli: 9 Buffalo 1 9 New Haven Ww 0 The membership meetings are still going on in the other Districts. The case for the Opposition is presented in every membership meet- ing by a special representative, who has equal time with the Central Committee representative. | were destroyed by the socialist scab union officials, shall be regained, BILLINGS HELPS TEXTILE TRIAL | ‘Gives Allowance Money | to Labor Defense Warren K. Billings has donated his monthly allowance to the Christ- mas Fund of the International La- bor Defense and calls upon all the workers to aid in the defense of the 662 New Bedford textile strikers and the other class war prisoners by aiding the I. L. D, Christmas Cam- paign. The fact that Warren K. Billings, Henry Corbishley and a |number of other class war prisoners donated their meagre allowance to the campaign fund of the I. L. D., which has been extended into the first part of January, is a challenge to all workers and sympathizers who are not behind prison bars. Over Thousand Cases. The I. L, D. is now defending 1,100 class war prisoners before the capi- talist courts, on charges growing out of the strike activity of these work- ers, of their attempt to organize the unorganized workers, and other ac- | tivities on behalf of the working Continued on Page Three |Women Gov’t Workers Seeking Sick Leave WASHINGTON, (By Mail), . launched by the women workers the plant of the bureau of engray \and printing. The women compla against conditions in the plant. ! A |drive to obtain sick-leave has been — \ KERS GREET BIRTH OF NEW UNION’ HUGE CLOAK, DRESS, FUR 4