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

“HAVE Y YOU, SENT YOUR BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO THE “DAILY”? ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT; RUSH YOURS NOW! Worker ™: under the act of March 3, Ww YORK, | WEDN SDAY, JANU ARY 2, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Price 3 Cents day by ‘Th 28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW NEEDLE TRADES INDUSTRIAL UNION IS LAUNCHED; FOR CLASS STRUGGLE, ENDORSES POLITICAL ACTION #80 AND KILL,” - BALBO'S ORDER: LABORPROTESTS Mass Meet Tomorrow} | to Denounce Visit | of Fascist cept Publishing Association, Inc., 26-2! Vol. Ve No. 312 DANGER HANGING QVER 2 WORKERS OF BUENOS AIRES! { Million British cepa as 1928 Ends COMPLETE | ORGANIZATION OF BIG UNION; BASE T0 BE SHOP DELEGATE SYSTEM Constitution Adopted at Morning Session After Spirited Discussion | Honors Fascist Killer Frame Up Murder Case Against Two Held on Hoover Trip | Foster and Gitlow Address Convention; Big Ovations BULLETIN. Another short session of the needle trades convention will be to be devoted to the Allege Bomb | Explosion | Old Case Revived To Terrorize Labor BUENOS AIRES, Jan. ‘Statement By Party Given Socialists, Capitalists, | Tammany Honor Him | “Go and kill, | | | Fiorello La Guardia, Congress- man from 20th New York dis- trict, who is now a member of the 1.—The god will choose his | c ee greeting the fascist | held this morning from 9 o’clock until noon, 0 : ve aes Italo Balbo, fascist | Committee greeting t : ning from 9 { : Ba Sissy * Argentine police, whose ability at wae eae in Faenza, in| Palbc, murderer of thousands of | election of officers. Contrary to expectation: the bus Peg a ee eo labor. man 8 eaten |1925, and the slaughter of workers! Italian workers, Jan. 4, in be transacted last night could not be finished in last night's session. Stak i @ preparin ‘to raltoad the | beets ollnyrens slekened vat ae by th , peta ieee one The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union of the eee cael dating the Photo shows British miners at a demonstration. They are jobless. Over a million English miners and {bloody rulers of Italy, until they bu the Soniniises aeithery canaigate Heath sea iou META HESISa: touie Ea TTAEA (a 3 EE Hoover visit here, on the charge of |. their families are reduced to starvation by wage cuts and unemployment attending the “rationalizaten” | thought it wise to call a halt, To-| for congress in 1924, wy nited States of / a was launched ¢ jor the yellow socialist administra- tion of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, | days of convention session at New Star Casino, 107th St. and | Park Ave. Formation of the industrial union of workers in ~the needle industry was com- that followed the breaking of their strike. The best that British capitalism means to do for them is to allow | morrow Balbo will be in New York. the royal family to make speeches calling on workers to contribute from their meagre savings to transport } Tomorrow at 8 p. m. the workers | the “surplus” miners out gy, the coal region, and out of the industry, jof New York will assemble at ial other incidents not connected with the call here of Yankee imperial- ism’s salesman. Since they are to ; |Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving “ sgates repre- be connected with the death of al - ince Pale dchaiice thes cvines Pe f 5 REFUSE T0 SIGN Diced by tne ore eae be! man that occurred montas ago, their | ‘Build New Union b Buildin |Ttalo Balbo, who will also on that senting many thousands of lives are in grave danger. |day be given an honorary reception | cloak, dress and fur workers The “crime” to be laid at the wl Sto ome = DUNCAN DANCERS “Daily” Is Appeal to Workers tut ores 1,00 LYNGHERS U. S, “PROTOCOL” score tou committee welcoming Balbo has on and cloak dle trades workers in Lincoln ional : gamation of the furr now in prison, is that of a bomb | ; ——— MGs Pde Rei o es Tae lit, or supporting it, Mayor Walker, sick gan Ube nes which was found on the steps of a} When the name of the Daily | \Police Commissioner Whalen, vari-! F : : ee as : eh jpnlor es cathedral several months ago. The Een was mentioned at the huge ‘KELL 66 PE D ous industrial and banking capi-/ Tortured, “ek ned at Bolivia-Par aguay War tees Say of ree seal police story is that such a bomb was | TY ‘oupe From US.S.Rto amalgamation mass meeting of nee- |talists, and one Fiorella La Guardia, | Stake, Fleeine Nesro Court Not Accepted pimmrniommer nmr amine icc Witonan dos chivine 1 cone | -Perform for “Daily” republican eongressman from New g Neg policeman was carrying it away it exploded, killing a passerby. The Buenos Aires _ police known to use bombs themselves fre- quently in framing up labor organ- izations, and it is presumed that the | police were taking the bomb in que3-" tion to plant. in a strike then going | on, in order to use as a basis for at- | tacking the strikers. Now, however, with the arrest of Searffo and Iliver, the police a trying to load all the bomb activi- ties of recent years, including this ene of the cathedral, upon the two workers, in order to murder then’ legally. MEET TO FIGHT DANGER OF WAR Minor, Neatie, Dunn, Pershing to Speak George Pershing, field organ: of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, will speak together with Robert Minor, editor of the- Daily | Worker, Scott Nearing, well known | Communist speaker and writer, and Robert W. Dunn, research writer on imperialism, at the anti-war meet- ing of the League Friday night, at} Trving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Trv-} ing Place. Pershing, who is making a coast- to-coast tour for All-America Anti- Imperialist League, will tell of his) experiences in Communist and anti-| imperialist work in the army. He and the other speakers will expose the role of the Wall Street bankers and: their government ‘and | marines in the Latin American and Pacific republics. They will discuss particularly recent events in Colom- bia, and Bolivia and Paraguay. Poverty and Continual; Unemployment Causes’ Woman to Kill Herself: Tired and completely exhausted, at the age of thirty, of a life of starvation and want, Mrs. Charles Giovanni, of 258 Bradford St., Brooklyn, yesterday locked ‘herself in the kitchen of the little impover- | "ecently discovered, to prevent the j ‘HAYWOOD TO TELL STIRRING LABOR HISTORY Intimate Revelations of the Early Battles of ‘the Western Federation of 1 of Miners | ished apartment in which she lived and turned on the gas. A repair- man, coming after neighbors had | reported a “leak,” found her on the | floor, dead. In the letter, which she wrote to | her husband before and after the gas had been turned on, she spoke of long days of living only on bread and coffee; of her few clothes, threadbare and too thin to withstand the rigors of winter cold; of her despair of living through another year such as the past six (during which she had been married) had been. Her husband, Charles Giovanni, told police after the letter had been liseovered that he had been unable are | | “Nothing Tike it!” This is the concensus of opinion | of those who have seen the Isadora | Duncan dancers from the famous | Isadora Duncan School in Moscow. And several thousand workers ar going to say the:same after Satur- |day night when the famous dance | troupe will appear at the celebra- | tion of the fifth anniversary of the | Daily Worker at-Manhattan Opera House, 34th St., west of Eighth | Ave Irma Duncan, who has in- herjted not merely the name, but all of the great traditions of the in- |comparable Isadora, will herself ap- pear together with 20 prize pupils of the Duncan school. The program that |sented at the Daily Worker an versary will be thoroly appropriate in every way to the*occasion. It is entitled: Impression “of Revolution- jary Russia, and gives thru the pat- terns of the dance a remarkable im- ressionistic panorama of pre-revo- and _ post-revolutionary The program will consist of | six numbers:-Funeral Song for Revo- lutionary Prisoners in Siberia; The Blacksmith; Dubinushka (Work- | man’s. Song); Warshavianka (Revo- |lutionary Song of 1905); Trilogy; Labor, Famine (1921-22); Labor | neers Song. | accompany the dancing. Jay Lovestone, executive secre- | tary of the Workers (Communist) |Party; William Z. Foster, member of the secretariat and other speak- vers will address the celebration. Robert Minor, editor of the Daily | Worker, will be chairman. The big problem is—tickets, Tf you don’t get them now, you may | not be able to get them at all since) every seat is reserved and no more, jthan capacity will be sold. Buy |them at once at the office of the| | Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. | African Negro Workers Threatened by Police in New Diamond Fields | | CAPETOWN, Jan. 1 (CNS).— Two hundred police today were pa- trolling the rich diamond fields of | Namaqualand, where diamonds were | | half-starved white and Negro work- | ers | who had been laid off, from | rushing the field, and starting mines | of their own, Clashes between the police and | the workers, who have been reduced to desperation by unemployment, and peasants in the vicinity whose crops had been ruined by prolonged drought have created a serious situ- ation here and forced the govern- ment to establish a censorship over news. to f find at any steady em} employment dur- ing the six years of their marriage, and that their continued poverty had vrobably been the cause of her suicide, ill be pre-| Triumphant; and Russian Girl Pio-| A full symphony orchestra will | Sunday, the. roof shook with the {cheers of the assembled workers, “Hooray for the Daily Worker!” The cheers were a spontaneous part the Daily Worker has been playing in the struggles of the nee-| dle workers against the combined \efforts of the bosses, the police and lene reactionary right wing clique to grind down their standards of liv- ing and prevent them from organiz- ing into a militant union. The needle’ trades workers now have an opportunity to express their appreciation in a concrete way. The fifth anniversary of the Daily Work- jer means the fifth anniversary of the paper that has been the fight- ing organ of the needle workers as well as of the other workers of this country. By enabling the “Daily” to fight on, the needle trades work- ers will be strengthening their own | new amalgamated union. What shall you do? Send a greet- ing and donation to the “Daily”! Cut out the greeting list on an- other page of this paper and sign up your shopmates and friends. Do this at once as only a few days re- main. You'll be building your union by building your “Daily.” You'll be striking a blow against the Schlesingers, the Abe Cahans, the | Forwards and against all the ene- mies of the working class. And you workers in other indus- | tries, do likewise. Act now! Gannon, Indicted For Graft, Secures Good | Ruling and Acquitta | Frank J. Gannon, suspended su-/ | perintendent of the street cleaning Y | department, in Brooklyn, was ac-| Fe | removal of ashes. Justices Herbert, Solomon and Salmon, in Special Sessions, Brook- | ‘lyn, made the acquittal certain by ruling from the bench that Gannon ‘had no illegal interest. | expression of appreciation for the 1 quitted today ‘of the charge of hav- | ing financial interest in the Brook-| junction against sale of oil and gas/ publican party paper “La Voce Re- | lyn Ash Removal Company, which | leases on approximately fifty thou- | bulicann,” | has a contract with the city for the sand acres of University of Texas |murder of Minzoni, in the town of |land. The leases had been adver-| Argenta, VOTE ON TREATY. | York, but supported in the 1924 elec-| long by the sotialist party, and for a [lone time lawyer for the yellow so- |cialist administration in the Amal- Has Plan for E Hastening jgamated Clothing Workers of Both War Measures WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—The strategy of president-elect Hoover in driving thru both of the administra- tion’s pro-war bills, the Kellogg} pacts and the fifteen cruiser appro- priation, is becoming evident. Hoover will arrive Sunday, and will go into immediate conference with President Coolidge and with senators who demand that the first vote come on one or the other of the two war bills, The trouble is that one group demands a vote on the Kellogg treaties first, and another | demands cruisers first. Need Pacifist Screen. The reasons for their is that American imperialism really wants the cruisers voted at once, and can wait for the treaties, but Sen- tor Borah and a group around him h to use the Kellogg pacts as a pacifist camouflage to fool constituents. also anxious to end his glorification of a so-called “peace plan,” which will really be a step'to- | ward war. And imperialism needs the sugar coating of the treaties. Hoover’s then rushing it thru. Advance no-| tices of the president-elect’s program | murder brought about a change in enough | w Ronnnied on Page Five ‘ourt Checks Sale of Texas State Oil Land AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 1 (UP).— District Judge George Calhoun, this afternoon issued a temporary in- C | tised for sale on January 2. © proletarint struggles for © conquest of power."—Lenin, Lenin memorial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden. preference | compromise is reflected | « by the growing sentiment for letting his comman the Kellogg pact come up first, and and kill wo | America. Party Statement. The Workers (Communist) Party of America, District 2, has issued a statement condemning Balbo |calling on all workers to attend the mass meeting and protest against his trip to America, and pointing to the united front between Tammany Hall, republican-socialist La Guar- dia, and fascism. The speakers at the mass meeting will be Vanni Montana, of “Il Lavo- ratore;” Norman Tallentire, of the International Labor Defense; Wil- \liam W. Weinstone, of the Workers (Communist) Party; Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Martello, and T. De- Fazio, of the Anti cist Alliance of North America. Balbo the Murderer. This is the lind of workers denounce, together with the m La a monster and cap socialist-part their | Guardia, supports and honors. President Coolidge is| political | career in a blaze of sentimental | Italy, Out For Loot. Balbo began as a republican and a pacifist. He took part in organizing the |fascist party when he saw that it would be profitable to the insiders in that party, He became one of the ‘wild men” of the party, extreme in ds to loot co-operatives, in rkers, Balbo actually commanded many expeditions against the orkers, He murdered Minzoni, He \ordered the slaughter in the proy- | ince of Ferrara. He was one of the men who stabbed to death Anteo| | Zamboni, an innocent boy who was made to pay for his life for the at- tempt by some one unknown to as- |sassinate Mussolini in 1928, ‘Temporary Retirement. In 1924 he was charged in the re- with instigating the The publisher was in-| | dicted by demand of Balbo, tried in) and | |__ROMR. Penideeoverntr Bilbo to took the first steps to- ward a “whitewashing” of the mob of over a thousand Mississippi busi- men and plantation lynchers of les Shepard, a Negro who fled several days ago from a prison farm | where he was being held in slavery | jand brutally mistreated. Although several men Ceuee at the same time Shepard did, and any } one of them may have committed the crime for which Shepard was cuted” by being burned at the stake, Bilbo will appoint a commis- sion thal is expected to excuse the whole thing on the ground of public policy and “sanctity of Southern womanhood.” Us Demagogy. After the escape, a prison guard, Sergeant J. B. Duvall, was found dead, and his daughter returned home next day with a story of hav- ing been kidnapped by Shepard and released woman plantation owner, on arrested him and took him to the | authorities. A detachment of na- tional guardsmen arted to take Shepard along a road, where they would surely meet the mob. He was surrendered peacefully to the which carried him to a cotton field near Rome and Parchman, M | There he was stripped, with a knife, the usual “conf extorted from him by torture, tied to a stake, piled around with oil- soaked wood, and burned to deat {Volleys of bullets and shots we: |poured into the charred body. J. R, Walters, jailer at Summer, was present and witnessed the lynching, but made no effort to stop | it. He told details today of the | | murdering of Shepard. Hindenbure’s Speech Asks Free Rhineland BERLIN, Jan. 1. (UP).—Presi- dent Paul Von Hindenburg, speak- ling at the presidential New Year se property Shepard was hiding, | mob, | ” \the injured party, and asses | WASHINGTON, Jan, 1—After |a secret session of an hour here to- day of the Paraguay-Bolivia media- tion commission appointed by US, Secretary of State Kellogg, and packed in favor of U. S. imperialism [it was announced that the protocol for an “arbitration court” was not | signed by representatives of the two contending countries. | The protocol calls for a court of nine judges, two from each batant country, and five from the Pan-American Conference, which means that U. S, imperialism, in control of the conference and of Bolivia, will dictate the verdict of the court, A four hour meeting yesterdey of |the Wall Street-controlled Pan- American Conference mediation commission forced Paraguay io ac- com- cept the draft of the protocol, which provides a court biased in favor of Bolivia for the di: of the reparations clai ia but not for the ownership of es Gran Chaco, The matter of ownership is left to another commission. When the final copy of the proto- was presented today to Dr. Eligio la, former president and now representative in the Pan- American Conference of Paraguay, he observed that whereas the draft agreed to yesterday concerned only |the battle of Forte Vanguardia, t copy includes all the battles. The court is expected to declare Bolivia $ repara- tions against Paraguay, because American capital controls both the court and Bolivia. Kellogg issued an announcement intended to excuse what appears to be an wnprecendented diplomatic failure. He makes a delay in the formal instructions of the Bolivian minister the reason. (a delay which may be only to provide some con- venient excuse for not exposing an unwillingness of Paraguay ot sign the unfair protocol), Kellogg stated: “Tt is believed that the substance of the protocol expresses agreements of the two governments, Pre- sumably on account of today being |2 Roman court, but the trial ended in reception today, renewed Germany’s | holiday, instructions from Bolivia jan acquittal. Fascism had _ its} |troubles those days, and Balbo had Continued on Page Two |demand for evacuation of the occu- j Bied Rhineland, Palatinate and | 'Saare Basin. The Western Federation of Min-|have always been known as one of | ers was for years the most feared |the most militant groups of Amer- and loved organization of American |labor. Feared by its enemies, chiefly the western mine owners, and loved by the miners of the carly days. The Mine Owners’ As- sociation, organized by John Hays Hammond, used every sort of cun- ning and violence to destroy the old “Ww. P.M." On the other side, the miners of lithe’ Recky Mountain region, who ican workers, were, in those days, led by the fighting spirit that was “Bill” Haywood, jready to rush to arms for real war with the army of professional scabs and gunmen the operators brought in to break the union. Haywood Tells Story. The stirring story of those days ‘is a rich legacy to the present day {American labor movement. It will be told in all its marvelous detail ef plot and counter-plot by Hay- wood himself, than whom there is none better fitted to tell of those and were ever|early days of struggle. Haywood, through the Daily Worker, will tell his own story of the old Western Federation of Min- ers, how it was born in jail—the county jail at Boise, Idaho; born as the result of earlier struggles for which its pioneer founders were then in prison, NK other vital phases of the American | labor movement, must get the Daily Worker regularly for the serial of articles by Haywood which will be- gin in the Daily's Fifth Anniversary Number, Saturday, Jan. 5. “Daily” Has Sole Rights. This series, known as “Bili Hay- jwood’s Book,” will run exclusively jin the Daily Worker, this paper Continued on Page Thece Those who wish to know the in- | side story of the W. F. M., and many | | | were delayed and her representati ve |has not felt authorized to sign. The failure to sign caused the greatest surprise as it was officially |announced earlier in the day that | the treaty would be signed at 6 p.m. StockExchange Throws Fits in Joy Over Easy Pickings During 1928 With the Dupont Morgan General Motors stock roing to the top of the list of price gains, the hired gam- blers of the stock exchange celebrat- ed riotously in the last session of 1928. A huge orchestra, the yipping | of 500 invited visitors, and showers of confetti marked the brokers’ ap- preciation of “good hunting.” The out-of-town speculators who have | been fleeced of millions of dollars, this year were not present to enjoy the affair, perhaps wouldn’t nave enjoyed it anyway. H toric task of foundation-laying was completed Great Union Born. The first real union launched : that plready had ars of traditionsof struggle the boss class and their agents behind them. Ending over two terest struggle a: st the socialist and American Federation of Labor bureauc and the employer ars of the bit- needle workers wrote a b nt page of Ame’ labor history by establishing a union built for rank and file control, and with class struggle principles. Altho the last session had another hour to go t 1 ad- journment, with the ch g of na- tional offi still to come up, all the other complicated machinery of still the new union had been completed before we went to press. A report of those picked for leadership will be given in full tomorr¢ scussions , the 1 1 the part trade unionists of on the major issues before the working class Suddenly while a speakex.-wa. talking handclaps near the door were Followed by a shout, “F and then pande- monium broke loose as ter, head of the T e Union Educa: tional League d a prominent Workers Party. member, appeared in the auditorium. Like a burst of thunder, cheering, handclapping anc shouting from everybody in the hal which was crowded by worker visi tors This lasted for ten minutes while ster bowed appreciation or the platform. Wm. Z. Fos In his speech he drew to the at tention of the assemblage the fac that they were performing a fune tion in launching the new union tha would go down in history as a turn ing point in American labor history “All fighting unions in this coun try must unite against the labo fakers,” said Foster. “Not only nationally but jnter nationally.” International Solidarity. He then called upon the conyen tion to make an international alli ance against the betrayers of th working class by affilating the ne. union to the Red International o Labor Unions. This he did afte describing the traitorous role of th Amsterdam International — whic makes it an open ally of the in perialist masters of the world. i He also advised the developmer | of an alliance with the Pan-Pacif’ Trade Union Secretariat and wit the Latin-American working class Benjamin Gitlow, an old need trades union leader and member + the Secretariat of the Worke Party, was given a thunderous we come when he appeared to addre | the delegates. As the Daily Work. | went to press, Gitlow was speakin his remarks punctuated by rollir Continued on rage Two ’ inne