The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1929 Anti-Imperialist Leag ISSUE GALL FOR ALL WORKERS To NAME DELEGATES Minor, Dunn, Pershing Will Speak = ' a a ‘The. All-Amer League has called i conference to fight th« and the new offensive o imperialism, for Saturday, J at 1p. m., at the Labor T 14th St. and Second Ave. Spe will, include Robert Minor, Robert Dunn and George Pershing. The ap- Above Above is a peal issued to all workers previous Farmers Fear Colorado River Will Overflow view of the lower C Great damage to farmers in the Imperial olorado River gnawing at its banks, ed by the overflow. to the conference foll threatening to overflow. “Dear Friend: The s Jieatee ha os 000.<banana workers er against the United Fruit Cc ialist powers to keep out is an-example of the i RPE gy Bia ai exten slave conditions imposed by Fhe aw SOPRA TOU ART Aiietles Sear ‘ of the new o e of American can imperialism. We imperialism. th ading us with cents a day, our low workers went on strike ing the abolition of the system, recognition of the union, in- creased pay, decent housing sanita tion and social insurance. M law was declared. The tia of the puppet Colombian government was called in to crush the strike on tie orders of the American fruit barons. | More than 100 strikers have b killed and 238 injured. The imper- ew world war. between the United i Great Britain for raw als and for control of world is st oy today than ever befor The struggle for supreme control will inevitably lead to an- other world war. “The peed to a k headlong riv ©) ’ statements of g the program of armaments, the declara- the United States will avy second to none,’ Kel- 4 peace pact, trip to Latin America, are gua epare: e announce increased tion that build ‘a logg’s jalist agents of Wall Street have in brutally murdered the strikers Colombia, as they have shot d in cold blood the rebels in Nic: Hoover's ke’ n- gua fighting against imper! tees of the coming imperialist w pression. American ers The .a of hostility against the and our fellow workers in Latir | Soviet Union, indicate the danger of a combined attack of the imperialist powers against the First Workers and Farmers Republic. “It is time for the workers of this country to draw the correct conclu- America have a common enemy—the same employing class that sponsible for the speed-up wage slashing, longer hour: tions, company unions, the militant workers in the coal of Pernsylvania and West Virginia, of wholesale jailing and police club- oe ki eadily growing power of imperial- The menace of imperialist war bing of the New Bedford textile is here. Pacifist speeches are fu- sti tile, The reactionary officialdom of “In Colombia, no less than in| the American Federation of Labor Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Haiti, allies itself with the American Nicaragua, and now in Paraguay | Legion and the American militarists and Bolivia, the Wall Street inter-|in their proposals to establish a ests are out to grab oil, mines, rail- | compulsory draft law and to build a toads, waterways, land—all the re- | gigan The socialist party, sources of these countries, and ruth- | with its pacifist policy, is acting as | the tool of the war mongers by con- fusing the minds of the workers as |to the actual war danger, thus im- yn adattleship. Woover’s excursion |peding the steps toward organized is aj challenge war to Great | resistance against this menace. Ac- Britain and the ther leading im- tion by labor is imperative. * x lessly to exploit the workers. This is the object of so-called ‘good will” trip America 7 Special Anniversary Edition of a Half Million Copies To Be Distributed ORDER YOUR BUNDLE! $10.00 A THOUSAND sions and organize to fight the} < |Membership Meeting of |\Shoe Workers is Called \for Wednesday Night f Workers A general membership meeting 0: the Independent Union of Great | held tomorrow | Shoe New York will be evening at 7:30-in union headquarters, 51 E. Tenth St., according to an announcement issued by the union yesterday. In the letter calling the member- ship the union states: “The latest developments in the |trade and the renewed attacks of the bosses in the form of reductions in wages and other vicious methods |necessitates the mobilization of the |membership of the union in order |to be able to successfully counteract them. We call upon all members of the union to attend this meeting without fail.” STORY OF LIFE WHILE IN ARMY Speaks Friday Night at | Anti-War Meet (Continued from Page One tected this ho: arrested him and put him i> jail in October, 1924. After three months the charges were produced. Pershing knows them by heart. He rattles them off like so many figures: “Grand lar- ceny, assault cad battery, robbery, arson, house-breaking, and insolence on all counts.” Becomes Communist. He was sentenced to five years. t was at Fort Shafter that he met Crouch and Trumbull, both serving long terms for organizing the Com- munist League. It was there that he joined the Communist Leagve. In 1 these three Communist soldicrs were transported to the prison of Alcatraz where they remained until they were released in 1927. In Aveust, 1927, Pershing was re- ‘leased on parole for nine months. He came to S: » Francisco, where he worked at his trade as a printer. Becomes Organizer. No sooner was his parole term | over' than Pershing became active in the fight against American im- perialism and as a member of the Young Workers (Communist) League. As field organizer for the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, speaxing in all the principal cities, his “most intimate cousin,” General Pershing did not gain any in reputation. | George Pershing is now in New York. He will speak at the Irving Plaza meeting Friaay and at a ban- | quet Sunday evening. PERSHING TELLS SANDINO MAKES READY FOR NEW FREEDOM DRIVE Moncada Takes Office; Marines Privileged TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec. 31.—The local newspaper, “El Demo- crata,” publishes a long report say- ing that General Sandino, of the Nicaraguan army of liberation, is on the point of launching a new and greater offensive to drive out the U. S. Marines, which are keeping in power th etraitorous Diaz and will tomorrow see that the equally trait- orous Moncada will take the presi- dency. The paper reports that in expecta- tion of coming clashes, and the fear that U. S. Marines will revenge themselves on the civil population of the district of Segovia, civilians are evacuating their home in that region. Unprecedented Servility. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dee. 31. —Tomorrow, President-elect Mon- cada, so made by grace of the ma- rines sent by Yankee imperialism, will take the presidency from Adolfo Diaz, who was an employe of a Yan- kee firm gefore he took power, and remained during his term a servile lackey of Washington. The most amazing thing agitating local politics is th evote of the Yan- kee dummies acting as members of the Chamber of Deputies to give the | Yankee Marine officers the standing of members of the diplomatic corps. This has excited comment, and among the diplomatic representa- tives of Latia American countries there has been made an unofficial protest of craven servility to which the native lackeys have fallen. “The All-America Anti-Imperial- ist League stands for uncompromis- jing struggle against the forces {which would further enslave the | colonial peoples and workers |throughout the world. To rouse {labor to combat the imperialist war plans in an organized and effective manner, the New York Branch of the League hereby extends the call to the First Labor Conference to fight the war danger and the new offensive of American imperialism on Saturday, Jan. 12, 1229, at 1 p. |m., at the Labor Temple, 14th St. ‘and Second Ave. ‘Scientists Doubt Use of God: Bible Is Poor, Geography; Hayes Sore The last few days of the annual convention of the American Acad-! emy of Science have been rather hard on those who believe in god. Prof. Barnes declared that anthrop- omorphic god does not find any sphere ‘of usefulness any longer in human society, as his peculiar code of morality, the ten commandments, lis open. to serious question. They | should be revised by psychologists, and brought more in line with mod- ern needs. Likewise, said Barnes, the basis of the conventional reli- gions, the “feeling of sin” is now recognized as an evil by the psy- chologists, Prof. G. S. Duncan, speaking be- fore the archaeological meetings of the organization, spent some time | proving that the authors of the Bible had their geography wrong, a rather odd thing for those who speak with divine infallibility. Whenever a prophet didn’t know) where any place was, he said it was in Babylonia, apparently. all) ue Calls Conference to Fight War Danger, Satu Another Vacation ce ps es } LSS. an Judging from the President Coolidge for American imperialism mu Mrs. deed. Above we see him and millionaire exploiter, on whose pa Imperialist President Takes number of vacations he takes, the “labors” of st be strenuous m- Coolidge with Howard E. Coffin, latial estate on Saplee Island, off the Georgia coast, the Coolidges are now vacationing. FEARRANK,FILEIN BUTCHERS’ UNION Hebrew Trades Order's | Unity Parley Broken Spineless officials of the right wing Jewish Butchers’ Union were beaten into submission—when ©: ldered to break off unity negotia- , tions with the Progressive Butcher | Workers’ Union by their higher ups in the United Hebrew Trades. After a vicious expulsion drive begun by the right wing had cul- minated in the secession of a large | section of the membership who then | formed the left wing union, the U. |H. T. union had degenerated in numbers and power severely. They therefore made overtures to the left wing organization for “unity.” Make Unity Demands. | Knowing with whom they were dealing, the left wing put forward unity demands, chief among which| call off their meeting, which they| were demands for total severance of relations with the reactionary | United Hebrew Trades and organ- izational steps, such as elections and committee control which will assure rank and file control. De- moralized, the officials of the right wing union accepted these propos- als at a conference in the Libby Ho- tel recently. The agreement was to call membership meetings of both unions for ratification of the agree- ment. ate the 5” OF THE Dailw orker at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE 34th Street West of 8th Avenue JANUARY SATURDAY 1929 Evening Isadora Duncan Dancers trom Moscow, Soviet Russia IMPRESSIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA (a) (d) Funeral Song for Revolutionary Prison- Warshavianka (Revolutionary Song of ers in Siberia, “ et (1) Labor; (2) ( 4 ° (ce) Trilogy: (1) Labor; (2) Famine (1921- (b), The Blacksmith. 1922); (3) Labor Triumphant. Q Dubinushka (Workman’s Song). (f) Russian Girl-Scout’s Song. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ——————————————— EEE SPEAKERS: JAY LOVESTONE WM. Z. FOSTER BOB MINOR And Others ADMISSION: $1.00; $1.50; $2.00; $2.50. On Sale at The Daily Worker Office, 26 Union Square, New York City. » (c) All Seats Are Reserved. it \New Sovkino Film to Open at New Theatre “Two Days,” the latest Soviet film importation, will be seen by many American workers and thea- goers, according to Symon Gould, rday, Jan. 12 LEWIS GUNMEN BATTLE ABOUT PIG; ONE DEAD GangsterRanBlind Pig, Kept Livestock, Too (By Worker Correspondent) BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Jan. L— Andy Jessick, a Lewis gangster and gunman, was killed last Saturday by a certain Balla, another of the same tribe. Jessick came to Balta’s speakeasy and. demanded some moonshine. alia refused to dea’ with Jessick un- til the latter brought back Balla’s pig, which he had stolen. They got to fighting and Balla shot and Jes- sick, a protege o1 Murphy, former president of Local Union 762, U. M. W. A,, of Vestaburg, Pa. Balla is in jail and Jessick’s fu- neral is being arranged for by Mur- phy.—A. R. Needle Amalgamation | Is Carried Out director of the Film Arts Guild, who will present this latest Russian picture at the newly-constructed | Film Arts Cinema, 52 West 8th St., | when it opens in the middle of Jan- juary. Gould is directing an exten- | sive campaign to make the film widely known. | In the effort to reach the masses of workers the Film Arts Guild ha: | linked up 68 daily newspapers in its advertising and publicity campaign. | Hundreds of thousands of handbills }announcing the film have been printed and hundreds of posters and magazine advertisements are being used to announce the picture and the opening of the new cinema. | “Two Days” will be shown some- time in January and will be the first | picture at the Film rts Cinema. The U. H. T. officialdom, how- ever, heard abou: the agreement and ordered their little “affiliates” to did. Dane The Progre: Friday. ve Butcher Work- | ers’ Union, as part of “build the | union” drive has arranged a con- | cert and dance for Friday night in |the Workers Center, 28 Union | Square, at 8 o’clock. The affair’s proceeds will go into | the union treasury for the prosecu- |tion of the organization drive among the wor in the retail ‘butcher stores. | (Continued from Page One workers and L. Zannelli of the fur dressers. Further recommendations of the committee on rules were the elec- tio nof a Resolutions Committee of 35, Constitution Committee of 9, Education Committee of 35, Officers Report Committee of 35, Organiza- tion Committee of 35 and a Finance Committee of 21. The personnel of these committees were chosen and set to work, Tomorrow morning they are expected to be ready to re- port. Other details of the pro- ceedure and closure rules were also proposed and adopted. In addition to Toohey of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, other speak- ers from labor organizations greeted the convention. A. Markoff greet- ed the delegates in the name of the | Workers School and after the ova- tion that was accorded his organiza- tion had subsided, he told the dele- gates he would leave a resolution so that the convention can formally endorse the school. A spokesman from the Independent Workmen’s Circle and from the Bakery Work- ers also brought hearty greetings, We demand the Immediate recogni+ tion of Soviet Union by .he United | States government! Anniversary HELP The Daily Worker Send in a Greeting THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government f To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week