The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 2

WILL DENOUNCE BALBO VISIT AT be J i You Fascist Murderer Is Feted by Reaction ( j Page One of Jar evening luncheon by the nex quet and | Among quet ar to f Judg: Prof. Gatti-Casazza an ers om the Met Fiorello La Gardia candidate and Messrs. Car bui actionaries. Mancu Cosen The pro @rs of the st against this 0 of reaction. Their meeting Thursday night will be ad- dressed by William W. Weinstone district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Par Norman Tal- lentire, assistant secretary of the International Labor Defense; Carlo Tresca, of the Anti-Fascist Alliance and Il Martello (suppressed by the ost office for attacking the bloody Balbo); Vanni Montana, of Il Lav- @ratore, and T. De Dazio, the Anti-Fascist Alliance, chairman of the meeting. f of Women’s Federation to See “Singing Jailbirds” at Provincetown Today York work- the Pro- acdougal a n Sinclair’s “Singing Jailbird The proceeds of the performance will go to the New York Workitig Women’s Fed- eration “Singing Jailbirds” to a large theatre 3 > New Playwrights, produ of the play, announce, and women who wish to see the play while it is still being offered at popular prices are urged to attend tonight's performance. Those who have not secured their tickets through the federation may make reservations by calling Wat- kins 0588 up to six, o'clock. Tickets may be had at the box office of the ~theatre. Several hundred New ing women will gather vineetown Playhouse, 1 tonight to be moved lime party of tke clans straggle. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928 Soviet Officials Come S85 NT CONVENTION Sums Up Struggles of Past Years Continued from Page One the strike, the great struggle was won, gaining substantial victories for the workers. eimann, president of tate Bank, and Valery vice-president of the Sov- » Economie Council, have for their ng delayed of visas. the discus- mpteted nents trip to Americ y illness and re be The prestige that accrued to the militant left wing leadership for the victory, which was achieved through 8 belie here sions might lead to construction of the use of new (to the American la- big Russo-American automobile fac- | bor movement) tactics such as in- to: in Soviet terr y with a ca- junction violation en masse, etc., pacity production of 100,000 auto- mobiles yearly. was the signal for a new desire to destroy such leadership by the bu- reaucrats, Then followed the new attack of the union-wreckers. This time the frank and public assistance of the American Federation of Labor was obtained to reinforce the already formidable alliance of the social and bosses, Police terror was brought against the workers. Blood flowed in the New York streets as the workers resisted. to Give Inter-Racial Dance This Evening The Inter-Racial Dance arranged he upper Harlem unit of the ng Workers (Communist) will be held tonight, begin- g early in tho evening, at the| rial Auditorium, 160 W. 129th} Workers Fight On. The festivities will continue un- But the workers persisted, fight- til dawn on Sunday, with John C./ ing for their organization with the Smith’s Modern Jazz Orchestra sup- most inspiring heroism and tenacity. plying the jaz For two years this went on. Police The dance is part of the campaign |terror, terror by hired underworld the unit is waging for complete so-|thugs, the company union, existing cial and economic equality for the |through the aid of the employers, Negro workers: |fought the workers with the most ae |inhuman ferocit: During all this time the left wing fought for unity among the work- ers. Fearing Negro Labor, Birmingham Bans Film of Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the International early in 1928. The left wing, representing the New BIRMINGH la, Dee. 28/7 (CNS).—This city, in a state which | York tens of thousands, and—by has hundreds of Ku Klux Klan |"0W—many more thousands of ad- iynchings and whippings to its |herents from other localities, came to the convention with the demand for a united union controlled by the rank and file, The right wing refused to admit not only the left wing to confer- ) many that last year, 84 were recorded in one county alone, has barred the showing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in movie form. The ruling class of business men and white planters fear that it would en ge rebellions on the part of the innumerable Negro workers held in peonage and serfdom in this state. The legal excuse given is that “it might excite hatred.” try permission (keeping them out with the aid of the Boston police force) of groups of impartial ele- ments organized in the industry. Launch N. 0, C. Not daunted by the action of the traitors and prepared beforehand FIGHT FOR PENSION. SANTA CLARA, Cuba, (By with a well formulated policy of ac- Mail).—Sugar workers here are tion, the left wing elements, com- fighting for a pension after 20) prising expelled unions in New York ye of servi |and elsewhere, bona fide locals from out of New York, impartial” ele- The Workers (Communiat) Party is Then came the Boston convention | ences on unity, but even refused en- | {ments rebuffed by the police guard for the amalgamation, \Bronx Forum Hears | Huiswood Sunday on Problems of Negroes “Negro Proble: will be the subject discussed by Otto Huiswood, head of the Negro de- partment of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, at the Bronx n Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave,, on Sun- day at 8 p. m. “In view of the fact that the Ne- *ro is becoming a greater factor in industry every day and forms the nost exploited section of the Amer- ican working class, it is important for revolutionary workers to con- ider the situation very closely,” the Forum announces. at the right wing meeting—all went into independent session at the Brewster Hotel in Boston and |launched the National Organization Committee for the formation of a real cloak and dressmakers’ union. | They were later joined by even some right wing delegates, who, unable to endure the cynical disregard of the | workers’ suffering, left the right wing and affiliated with the N. 0. C. With the accumulated discredit and hatred of two years of struggle which had attached itself to Sig- man, the right wing chose Benjamin Schlesinger, at that time less odor- ous, but more hypocritical, to take the helm of the fight against the | workers. Thereafter, that pogrom leader issued fake peace manifestos reriodically, but failed to damage \the stubborn fighting power of the workers. From the Boston convention, the N. 0. C. went out to build a na- tional organization and in a short time, comparatively, succeeded in establishing self-supporting units all over the country, some of which even contributed money to the strug- gle in New York, Amalgamation. During the whole fight the N. 0. C. and the National Executive Com- mittee of the Furriers Union, which had gone through a similar strug- gle for an identical period of time. aimed at the amalgamation of both organizations, Joint committees of defense and offense were estab-| lished and functioned. This brings the report down to the present period, It now tells of the decision to call a convention simultaneously with the convention of the Furriers Union, which had jalso gained adherence from locals jthroughout the nation and Canada. The report contains the corre- |spondence between the two organ- izations, in which amalgamation is | planned for the conventions. Thru- jout this period, mass meetings from | gigantic rallies to almost daily open \forums prepared the membership The. mem- in Industry” LLD.HAILS THE STH BIRTHDAY OF THE “DAILY” |15,000 Actors Jobless in New York, Weekly Stage Paper Reveals Fifteen thousand actors in New York City alone are unemployed and seeking vainly for jobs here, an ticle in Variety, weekly stage per- |iodical, in last week’s issue, re- vealed. Of these, 10,000 are those |representing the legitimate stage, Calls on Members to and 5,000 vaudeville performers. This situation, said to be unprece- e reetings Send Gr eet § dented in the Hailing the Fifth Anniversary of |in New York City, is taxing all the the Daily Worker, the New York |Tesources of the District of the International Labor | tions, according to Variety. The Defense last night issued a state-| Actors’ Fund is being besieged by |ment calling upon all its members | Countless appeals for financial aid. to pay a tribute to the paper that} With overdue board bills, many fights for them and help keep it |0f the unemployed actors, most of alive by sending greetings for its/ whom are mags-scene and ensem- special anniversary edition. The| ble-scene workers corresponding to/| statement, signed by Rose Baron, | Clerks in Woolworth stores in their | secretary, declares: | Salaries and positions, have been | “The New York District of the| forced by the unprecedented unem- International Labor Defense hails| Ployment, situation to seek tempo- the Fifth Anniversary of the Daily | oor be dies ping? Br winter Worker as a significant event in the| Cd by getting jobs in Broadway life of the American workers. The|°"4 Fifth Avenue stores. Daily Worker is the only English] language paper that fights for the| German Workers Saved vorkers d defends thi inst | workers and defends them agains‘ From Pay by Machine the attacks of the capitalist courts. | As such it has been a tower of| istrength to the International Labor | SENFTENBERG, Germany, (FP | Defense from the first day that the |By Mail)—The brown coal in-| | I. L. D. was founded. | dustry is a triumph of efficiency. A “In every case that we have | huge fabrik (factory) which would |handled, in every mass campaign |Tdinarily employ several hundred that we have conducted the Daily | Workers, under old conditions, em- Worker has served to bring our mes- | Ploys now only about 46, Machinery | sage to the workers and to rally | does it all. | them behind the I. L.D. The Sacco- | Daily output of briquettes is about Vanzetti case, the Greeo-Carrille | 3600 tons, New machinery is wip- |case, the movements to free Mooney | ing out man labor. Men are now jand Billings, the fight against the) used to brush the coal dust from the efforts of the New Bedford mill| machines, and to oil them. Every- owners’ courts to railroad to jail 662 | thing else does itself. militant strikers—all these and| A new ash-system, replacing the many more outstanding struggles of |old car transfer system by pipes, the American workers have found| eliminates three more men. A hew the Daily Worker their constant| oiling device will reduce the Fabrik champion, | force still further. “It is because of the part that the} Daily Worker is playing in our struggles that the Fifth Anniversary) TWO HARBORS, Minn. (By Mail) | of this great proletarian paper |—The body of an unidentified man | should be a personal celebration fo: dressed in worker’s clothes was every member of the International found near Port Wing Saturday. Labor Defense. The best tribute an} és las |I. L, D. member can pay is to help keep the Daily Worker alive and fighting.” FIND WORKER'S BODY The Workers (Com ty Party Sights for the enactment ef the 46- hour, 5-day week. bers responded enthusiastically. ; | Both unions issued convention litera- ture, signed jointly by the leaders }of both organizations. shop delegate system. There is to be a transitional period, however. Under a heading, conclusion, the report calls on the convention to dis- ‘ A cuss the recommendations of the re- Urges Building Union. |port on all the problems before it The report nears conclusion with | and calls on them to begin building |an itemized statement of the appor- | the new union. : |tionment. of delegations to the vari-| The report is signed by Louis Hy- lous centers and plunges into a dis- an, chairman of the National Or- | cussion of the structure of the new |'ganization Committee, and by Rose | . Fear Continued Spread istory of the stage | etors’ organiza: | GRAVE-DIGGERS STRIKE. MEXICO CITY, (By Mail).— |Digging cf graves was suspended Jin the cemstery at Tacubaya, a |Mexico City suburb, when union| | excavators went on strike. |The Freiheit Sport Club to Play Many Soccer Games Sunday The “Freiheit” Sport Club soccer teams will play this Sunday, Dec. 80, at the following fields: \of Influenza as Jersey) “Freiheit” “A” vs. Red Star “A” | at ‘Thomas Jefferson field, Livonia Reports 219 New Cases ina Pennsylvania Aves. Brooklyn; | TRENTON, N. J., Dec, 28 (iP) Kick off at 12:80 p,m. Freiheit -|“B” vs, Harlem Progressive S. C, |The state department of health to- | at Thomas Jefferson Field Bias: day announced that 219 cases of in- yania and Livonia Aves. Brooklyas fluenza were reported from all sec- k off at 10 a. m. Ri ihelt age tions of the state for the week end- ys. Red Star “B” at Gentral Park ing December 22, as compared with Playground lawn, 64th St West; 1 for the corresponding week in kick off at 3 p.m ee 1927. Seventy-eight cases were re- AR ported Monday, 46 on Wednesday, After these soccer games all the and 142 cases yesterday. | players will come down to the club Due to lack of agreement among |?00mS, 230 East 5th St. N. Y. C. physicians as to what is to be called| ‘© the dance which the Freiheit influenza, the report continues, the, SPort Club has arranged. We will disease is more widespread than ap-j Ve @ regular band of music to en- pears from the record. It recom-| ¢ttain the comrades. Comrades and mends that doctors take the definj-| friends are invited to come, The tion as given in the state sanitary | nce Will start at 8 p. m. Sunday, edi, Dec. 30. While the prevalent form of the| disease is less severe than that of the 1918 epidemic, according to the / arty NegroCommittee teport, it may increase in serious- | ness as the disease becomes more | In Conference Jan, 25 widespread. | The Negro District Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party is \ealling a conference for Jan, 25, | 1929, at 8 o'clock at the Workers | Center, 26-28 Union Square. Negro workers, those interested in Negro work, Negro section and | sub-section directors, and unit Ne- | gro organizers are requested to at- jtend this conference. Executers Show Gary Exploited $16,416,145 RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 28 (UP). —The gross estate of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of tho Board of the United States steel hee napa te to $16,416,145, ac- EOS ain, cording to the appraisal filed by | VERS SEEK INC executors and fade: public here to. | JOINERS SEEK INCREASE * * * LONDON (By Mail).—Joiners Gary was an undeviating enemy | and carpenters employed in ship- of unionism, an advocate of open yards are seeking an increase of shop and 12 hour day, ‘three shillings a week. POEMS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION By H. T. TSIANG (Former Editor of “The Chinese Guide in America”) WHAT UPTON SINCLAIR SAYS: This is a voice to which the white world, the so-called ci World, will have to listen more end more ae’ time passes; Tala ner mean to this particular young Chinese poet, but to the movement which he voices, The exploited races of the world are awakening pd demanding the rights of human heings. Here is a ¢ Chinese student whom the American authorities sought to deport and deliver to the executioner's axe at home. What he has written is not perfect Me DHEA ee eb POIGR oe ee ting peal the lot of the under-dog. | “°°! piieee ss ized Shina, pro (Signed) UPTON SINCLAIR. The poem “Carian Caetee ts thie hack te ph e x hank te bout G00 Hines I never appeared before. It is as vivid as n movie, Wh: sand has ju read it, Revolution, you will feel as sc you aia parsespated in the Cain 25e A COPY; 5 FOR $1.C0 Send Your Subscription to the Author Box 465 T. C. Columbia University, New York City union, which will be built on the | Wortis, its secretary. Celebrate the 5™ Anniversary OF THE Special Anniversary Edition of a Half Million To Be Distributed Copies ORDER YOUR (a) ers in Siberia, BUNDLE! $10.00 A THOUSAND eS gto aily 52: Worker at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE 34th Street West of 8th Avenue 1929 rom Moscow, Funeral Song for Revolutionary Prison- The Blacksmith. Dubinushka (Workman’s Song). SYMPHONY JANUARY SATURDAY Evening Isadora Duncan Dancers Soviet Russia IMPRESSIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA (d) Warshavianka (Revolutionary Song of 1905) (e) Trilogy: (1) Labor; (2) Famine (1921- 1922); (3) Labor Triumphant. (f) Russian Girl-Scout’s Song. ORCHESTRA -SPEAKERS: JAY LOVESTONE BOB MINOR ADMISSION: $1.00; $1.50; $2.00; $2.50. 26 Union Square, New York City. WM. Z. FOSTER And Others On Sale at The Daily Worker Office, All Seats Are Reserved. HELP The Daily Worker Send in a Greeting THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government, To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week