The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1929, Page 1

MURDERER, BALBO! JO! NI THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ew York, N. Y., under the ct of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by Publishing Association, Inc., 26-2 e National Daily Worker Union Sq., New York, N. Y- NE UBSCRIPTION RAT Vol. V., No. 313 W YORW, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 192 Outside New York, b FIN 00 per year. til, $8.00 per year. RVING PLAZA DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW NEEDLE WORKERS UNION PICKS NATIONAL LEADERS LABOR TONIGHT MEETS AGAINST BALBO'S CRIMES | Many Organizations In | Call to Demonstrate | at Irving Plaza Fascist Organizes Here Mayor Walker to Honor Murderous Gangster The workers of New York to-) night will denounce at a mass meet- ing in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. the visit of the fascist murderer, Italo Balbo. Today Balbo will get an official veception in New York by Mayor Walker and a special committee representing many of the forces! opposed to labor. Friday-he gets | a banquet. Walker will receive the agent of Mussolini’s government and wish him well in his work of slaughtering Italian workers and| building gangs of fascisti in Amer- ica, at the City Hall. Grover) ors will appoint special police | © guard the meeting. The Repub-| ican-socialist © Congressman La} Guardia is on the reception com- | mittee. . “Go and Kill.” At the meeting will be told the! story of the massacres of workers after Balbo’s orders in Faenza 1925, to “Go and Kill. God Will Choose His Own.” | At the mass meeting, too, will be related the personal exploits of | Balbo, in helping with his own hand, to stab to death a young boy, An-| teo Zamboni, accused without evi) dence of attempting to assassinate Mussolini, as well as numerous others of Balbo’s crimes, and the} reasons for his flattering welcome by the employing class of America. The Workers (Communist) Party in a'recent statement has urged all workers to attend the mass meet- ing. So did the All-American Anti- ‘Imperialist League, the new Needle 'Trades Workers Industrial Union just organized in its New York convention, and many other labor | bodies. | A joint committee, which was formed by the International Labor Defense, and the Anti-Fascist Al- Italo Balbo: Wanted for Murder! He has directed. and personally varticipated in the murder of about 10,000 workers in Italy, He has directed the destruction by fire and sword of all the labor unions, co- operatives and working class polit- ical parties of Italy. He was sent here by the murder- ous fascist regime of Italy, to the aviation conference in Washington, and now he is touring this country ssisted and honored by American ialists, organizing murderous wherever he can in America.. Come to the mass meeting tonight, Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Plaza, to protest against ees him and his imperialist backers. liance of North America, for the purpose of waging a relentless pro- test against the presence of Italo Balbo in this country, representing | the fascist dictatorship of Italy, is| organizing the international pro-| test meeting tonight at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., at Bill Awakens; Story of a __ Worker and the “Daily” ‘SENATORS OBEY GILBERT REPORT gem HOOVER ORDER; MEANS WORKERS 22,000 Stor TREATY FIRST” FACE MORE CUTS 222/07? \Meet and Agree Upon | Ratification Vote Before Cruisers ‘ImperialismNeedsBoth Scheme Is Morrow’s U. S. Will Repudiate DETROIT, 32,000 their —More men, Jan. an shivering stamping feet and burning newspapers to keep warm, stormed the Ford- son’s plant of the Ford Motor C today as hiring of the 30,000 new Morgan’s Man, Head of Reparations, Argues for Heavy Bleeding employes Ford promised would be Several hundred of the men had been in line standing in the three- ‘ReedCommittee Tender ° inch snow since midnight, but as i r Any Adverse Ruling the crowd increased, the press of wards 5 I a . |men broke up the line of 1,200 | gWASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UP) — Fen, a aged inte weom by [me and the job seckers jammed n agreement to allow a vote on ness gloo | : is gra ee ane ratification of the Kellogg peace|the report of S. Parker Gilbert,|@@ainst m high fence on three |treaty ahead of the navy eruiser|chief of the reparations collecting |sides of the employment office |bill was reached today by senate|here. German workers realize that | building. leaders. jthe employers are bleeding them! after a few had been hired the Chairman Hale of the naval af-| terribly now, but feel that under the | |fairs committee and chairman|lash of further demands by the Al- 'Borah of the foreign relations com-|lies, another attempt will be made lmittee reached a definite under-|to reduce the standard of living, and |standing on precedence of the two| increase exploitation. |measures, it was learned. | Gilbert states that German indu se as try is increasingly profitable, that Empire Needs Both. ;the government budget could easily} For several days the senators |b reduced, that taxes are low and |here have been aware that Presi-| Could easily be raised again. | dent Coolidge had orders from his| The Nationalist “Lokal Anzeiger” successor, Hoover, that the two/ gives two pages of refutation, under war bills, the Kellogg treaties, | the headline, “Reparation Agent’s which strike a blow at England’s| Dangerous Optimism.” international prestige, and the| The “Tageblatt” says that the cruiser bill, must both be rushed.| reparations paid so far were bor- |Hoover had no sympathy with the|rowed money. \atitude taken by senators who . f | Other capitalist pape follow wanted to fight for one bill to the) suit. The sactalist ate in favor injury of the other. lof the Dawes plan, the Communist! While anxious to put through the|is energetically against it cruiser bill as soon as_ possible, |Hoover has made it known that a_ filibuster or lengthy discussion as Gilbert, Morgan's Man. premnaricele shor suary Dy 20) : |to which_should come. up, is inad-|. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The re-|Olgin, editor of The Hammer, will | missable. American’ imperialism|action to S. Parker Gilbert’s state-|be one of the many features pub- cracks the whip, but it will also re-| ment that Germany can pay almost! lished in the special fifth anniver- |sort to diplomacy when needed, and| anything arouses little discussion or| sary edition of the Daily Worker to in this case, believes that a few|surprise among American bankers|be issued Saturday, | weeks or perhaps only days’ delay|or at the state department. G The first instalment of this fan- jin the cruiser ‘bill must be allowed, | bert, whose official title is Agent! tasy of the next imperialist war ap- if it hurries along both measures, |General for Reparations Payments peared in the Daily Worker some Kind to Vare. and who resides in Germany usual-|time ago and aroused great inter- | The Reed investigating commit- ly, as a spy on German industry and est, but for technical reasons the tee has not summoned Senator-| fimance, and a dictator of the elab-| concluding instalments were de- jelect William S. Vare of Pennsyl-| Fate provisions for exploiting Ger-| layed. They will be published |vania before -it and has no intention |™@n workers in order to make big|the special edition of the “Daily of “dragging” him here, Chairman| Z¢Parations” (really indemnity) | together with a resume of the firs | (Continued on Page Five) Ae COR and thru | instalment. them to America, is Morgan’s man.| He is now on his way here, to meet | Hoover. He represents Secretary] | | | FOR JOHNSTONE of the Treasurer Mellon, and Mor- Anti-Imperial League other men were told to return to- morrow. ~ The 1ew employes will be given jobs “production consists of standing in the Ford as- sembl, all day. as which men,” lines doing the same work BIRTHDAY EDITION OF “DAILY” SOON Many. Features Will Enliven Pages “Gas—War ode of 1940,” * * * a Many Interesting Articles. Among other features in this spe- cial edition will be th articles by A. G. Richman, “History of the Daily Worker,” “Lenin and the Bol- shevik Press,” and “The So Press,” an article by Lenin himself on Bolshevik literature and pres: articles by Harrison George on the Red International, on China and on gan, altho his appointment has the consent of other countries also. Morrow Planned It. year ago, Dwight Morrow, now U. S. ambassador to Mexico, then member of the House of Morgan, “ government troops opened 8 o'clock. Story of Crime. T. De Fazio, secretary of this) committee, states: “American employers and their|0thers outside the factory gates. welcoming Italo governments are Balbo, one of the leaders of the famous dictatorship of Italy. brief account of Balbo’s history in place. “In 1914, Balbo was a republican pacifist. “In 1915, he was a pro-war pa- triot. “In 1919, Balbo asked for employ- ment as propagandist from the! then controlled by the Communists. He Ferrara Chamber of Labor, aske! for 800 lires per month start. He was willing to become a/Cheap restaurant he saw a sign:|everybody and where those who did | jolshevik if he were given a job t He had then just 4 ome back from the front as a de-| vith enough pay. i rmobilized officer of the army. ‘soon as he was refused by the Chamber of Labor, he enlisted the fascist groups of ‘combattimen- to’ (groups of action), the action being applied against the peasants’ unions and the co-operatives of the) province of Ferrara. “In 1922, Balbo was one of those who directed the ‘march on Rome,’ which brought fascimo in power. Regular Clubbings. “On August 31, 1924, Balbo sent, a letter from Rome to the secre- tary, Beltrami, of the fascist fed-| eration in Ferrara, whith says part: ‘In regard to the acquitted | hungry rats scurried over the floor —hunting the job, too. Bill found| his Daily Worker under the door, | left there by the mailman. That} The failure of further informa- at least could be depended on, @/tion to arrive from India as to the |friend that would never desert him.| fate and present treatment of Jack in-|picked about 20 of the meekest-|Every night when he came home| Jchnstone, arrested by the British Allooking fellows in the crowd—and after a day of fruitless hunting | government while speaking for the js |that was all. Funny the way these|for work, it was good to sit down! Arti-Imperialist League at the All- |straw-bosses invariably spot the and read his Daily Worker and) tyqiq Congress of Trade Unions ‘most willing slaves. |learn what was happening in the|causos the greatest anxiety among Bill began to pound the streets|labor movement of the world and gyiitmperalists here, and the as he had done yesterday, the day|feel himself part of those toiling) protest determination to break thru |before, for so many days that it| millions that in every country in/the veil of silence and secure in- | seemed an eternity. A job, a joh—| the world were struggling to over-| formation, A‘ great protest move- jthat was all his mind could think | throw this world where human be-| ent is being organized, beginning of. He went to the river front,|ings were starved and persecuted | with Sinan. rrocting tosiarvaw at but he didn’t look husky enough|and to build in its plac: a world aang ! ; “ lIrving Plaza, at which the principal for that kind of work. Outside a|where jobs would be plentiful for’ sneaker all eG aGeap Earkbines The All-America Anti-Imperalist League, section of the international organization, has isued the follow- Bill shambdled_ disconsolately | down the street. He had been turned down again. For two hours {he had waited with several hundred Denounces Arrest Then a straw-boss had come out, to “Dishwasher Wanted.” He went in|the work would rule and control. and asked for the job. A fat,) fees: : | greasy man told him that it had) Days passed and still Bill could) ig iatawaant! been filled the day before. They|find no job. One day he came . % i : Call For Demonstration. tten to take out the sign.) home and found no Daily Worker), Pat ‘ hacisorat te ee oR - |waiting for him. The next day| ‘The British government has ar- . |rested Jack Johnstone in Djaria, In- All day he walked the streets. | and the next passed and still no} Candied on Page rs , He had a horror of going home to|Daily Worker. After a few days his room while it was still light.|he inquired at a stand where he i To be alone for so many hours!| knew os Bates Ae sold aoe was Honolulu Prepares For Here in the streets there were at told that it had gone out of ex = eae least people, faces, many of peat: bol eeM ay pelaee to believe if Next Imperialist War; llike his own with haggard eyes! ani egan frantically inquiring at) * = hunting the job. ‘other stands. Everywhere he ‘vas Will Erect Airports It was dark now. He went into|told the same story. He decided HONOLULU, Jan. As| in a cafeteria, got a cup of coffee to write a letter to the Daily, idee 4 * i and walked Mame, His tiny room) Worker at once od eon ie truth. ek rath easter se mes was cold and barren. All night) Continued on Page Three through the Territorial Harbor for the Board, has approved of plans removal | | deepening, widening, and HAYWOOD LASHES FOES of the 20th of December, it is. nec-| jof half of San island at the harbor essary to explain to them that it is hygienic to change climate and tablish themselves in other prov- If they insist in remaining,| inces, and procuring in consequences 4 | decide. Show this part of my let- # ter also to the signor prefetto (the ip political head of the province), to e ( The on Pagg Two noral disadvantage, it is neccssary © club them without exaggeration out at regular intervals until they whom you will say in my name that I have sufficient reasons to justify my pretense of not wanting in the or province, the masnadieri questura (Italiay po- well to keep after entrance. In the: report submitted to the Governor stress was laid on Memoirs Rap Capitalist Respectables | | Law important plans for the erection of wo military airports, one on each side of the entrance to the @hannel. file before your eye, shown in the! Real estate corporations will also light of “Big Bill's” devastating |benefit from the scheme, it is con- = 1 The memoirs of “Big Bill” Hay- wood, which will begin in serial form in this paper the day after to- | d 10) morrow, will take more than one |/E, Borah, fake progressive republi- will create new land worth millions eminentiy “respectable” member of |can, and rumored as the one whom of dollars. italist society and hold them up| Hoover will appoint as secretary of} RPA TITY IIS for al to see anths hypocrites they | state in the new American govern-| CHILD, 4, SAVES SISTER. are. Haywood was a sort of “rough! ment, which will, of course, be the) TORONTO, Ont., Jan, 2 (UP).— neck” diplomat and hated the suave|same old imperialist government. | Mary Ailen, 4, of Charleston Lake, political crooks of capitalism as only} Gompers, Roosevelt, the latter|Ont., succeeded in pulling her little a worker seared in the fire of the} president of the United States when| sister Fern, 2, out of the icy waters class struggle can hate. | Moyer, Haywood. and Pettibone of the lake, after she had dropped | Here, in Haywood’s memoirs, will Continued on Page Thres | through a hole in the ice, i 2.—As its con- comment, such figures as William |fidently expected, for the project, | toured Europe, and saw Gilbert. He also talked with Churchill. | Morgan’s immediate interest in the | reparations payments is that under Continued on Page Three ‘Extra! All About the |King and Creamy Eggs | LONDON, Jan. 2—When the | king is sick it is “news” to the capi- |talist press; likewise if he is well; ditto if he does anything, and the |same if he does nothing, his usual | employment. | Now it is “news” that “creamy, |rich eggs of Rhode Island red hens” are being fed to the figurehead of | British imperialism, and in great de- tail it is toid whose hens they come |zrom, and how all the “important” |train of events occurred that en- abled the king to connect with the eggs. Meanwhile 1,000,000 Welsh miners and their families are liter- ‘ally starving to death in the |Rhonnda Valley coal fields. They ‘are only workers! Minister, Overfond | of Joy Riding, Beaten CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan. | Lloyd Shanklin, faith healer, has di |cided not to preach to business men ‘and old maids in the city following |a beating up given him by the hus- jband of a charming member of his | congregation, | The husband, whose name is with- |heid, discovered that the man of god, |while taking the girl friend for an lanto ride, was discussing less spiritual matters than the road to heaven, BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. LONDON (By Mail).—The Im- perial War Graves Commission is making a charge of 8 shillings per letter to relatives who wish the names of their dead engraved on headstones marking the last resting place of those who were killed and are buried abroad, an interview with A. B. Magil, telling incidents of his many inter early life and sign- | ‘Daily’ and the Poor Farmer,” bj Vern Smith; “The Daily Worker and the Needle Trades,” by Michael In- trator and many other art’ The special edition will al tain drawings by Fred Ellis, Jacob Burek and Communist artists of | Continued on Page Two | so con- Worker, Ill, Prefers | Death to Hospital LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2.—Lee Springer, 67, who for fourteen years gained a meager living as a doorman \at local theaters, decided that death was preferable to hospital confine- ment when doctors advised him that only a long confinement in the city hospitals would benefit him. Springer, who in his time had been head doorman at leading vaude- ville houses, shot himself and died before reaching the hospital. “TREAT FOR y after a long and bitter fi HYMAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT: GOLD, SECRETARY; UNION IN ALLIANCE WITH THE R.LLU, To Send Fraternal Delegates to Red Unions’ Congresses; to Consider Affiliation added to the Ford payrolls began.‘ All-Day Final Session Selects General Executive Board of Forty-One The needle trades workers wound up their convention with a session that—as scores of delegates affirmed—will long re- main in their memories as a i djourning i TROOPS MURDER 1,400 WORKERS Masses Shot Down In Colombian Strike ith which the Col- ian government at the instiga- The savage on tion of U. S. imperialists represent- the United Fruit Company, smothered in blood the recent strike the banana plantation who struck against that company at last coming to light in spite of the official censor- ed by of workers last month, is ship. The‘ Colombian government's of- :1 report admitted that its troops had murdered 200 workers, but now stories of eye-witness the Colombian newspaper “El! Lib- » given by eral,” show that nearly 1,400 work- | ers were killed and 2,000 wounded the Colombian soldiery at the t of the United Fruit Company. Hundreds were buried in unmark- ed graves and others were thrown |into rivers and swamps. Wounded Shot or Drowned. “El declares that the re upon in Liberal” | aoaeaaee workers and peasants them down ne towns, mowing th machine-gun fire. Wounded were shot, and in some ases those yet alive were buried while still breathing or thrown into The Colembian paper prints names and svecifie instances of wo- (Continued on Page Five) Company Forced to Award Compensation Henry Robbie, laborer, 4 the Pacific Gas and Elect pany and the London Guarante Accident Company, was awarded judgment for $50,000 when the State District Court of Appeal confirmed ap ous favorable decision of a lower court. Robbei, following all through a roof skylight four years ago, became pe-manently paralyzed. The 'sur- ance and company lawyers fought bitterly to have the decision reversed in favor of the company, but be- cause of the strength of the worke case the judge had no alternative but to award in his favor. WAR VETERAN SENTED WICHITA, Kan., Jan. victed on slight evidence for rob- bery of the Maize State Bank early in December, Hugh Oliver, farmer and war veteran, was sentenced by Judge J, EK. Alexander to ten to 50 ye in the state penitentiary at ng. WORKERS)” Bigger Duncan Program for ‘Daily’ Fete When the members of the Isadora Duncan dance troupe were told by A. Ravitch, business manager of the Daily Worker, that they would perform before a working class audience at the Daily Worker fifth anniversary celebration Saturday night, they were overjoyed. “We're going to dance for work- ers!” they repeated to each other | excitedly, Ravitch spoke to the youthful dancers after witnessing a prelimi-| nary performance of the famous troupe. When interviewed by a Daily Worker reporter “yesterd: ‘he was sv enthusiastic that hej could hardly find words to express his reactions to the performance. The Revolution in Dance. “Everything that you've heard about them doesn’t begin to tell the truth,” he said. “I never be- lieved it possible to express such deep human emotions through the} ‘dance. And the revolution lives in their every gesture!” “T only wish I could see them dance every day,” Ravitch burst out. It is something that can’t be described in words. And it’s a wonderful thing that we were able to secure these dancers from the Continued on Page Tre banner day in their experience n order to move the convention *from New Star Casino to Laurel Gardens, E. 116th St., the delegates devoted an 75 session to vital organ- to 1 decisions and a politice discussion, tional in range, before of t Noting fo announced. interna- national was Ovations Greet Leaders. Tumultuous demonstratic plause, whic! y by the ovations accorded last night to the nominees for chief office, greet- ed the of Chairman Liebowitz, t Hyman and Ben Gold d to the posts were rivalled announceme’ at Louis been electe of president and secretary- treasurer, 7 ful respective is was t final 7 made itself mom bl ng d he earlier in the day. For, 0 these had unanimously to est lations with the R of Labor Unions ternal delegates to i Relations With R. 1. That the conver of the epoc! it was taking, can be seen is recorded that’ four and hours of discussion took this question. This result erystal of an sentiment for the propos The details of the d be reported the last conver gates and hundr of attending workers spell-bound thru a ¢ that lasted over eleven meeting he pioneers ion wa ng dec conscious step on it ion overw sion will t down that y held del ion of continuous short 1 sumn tion decis on th union, conel the new committee session, explaini chinery of the union works under the shop delegate sys- tem. The recommendations of the committee were accepted after sharp division developed on one question. This discussion was precipitated when the minority on the constitu- tion committee brought in a recom mendation that the terms of lo officers be limited to no more than three consecutive terms of c ¥ each, and that a shall never serve y officer n two national th more consecutive terms of two y each, A discussion that again demon- strated the needle trades work as having developed sound polit maturity. Final vote on this que: tion was 119 in favor to 41 against. Man In the discussion, not only leaders of the union, but a great number of n Discussion. rank and file delegates took the floor and pointed out the fallacy of this syndicalist and time worn notion. It was pointed out to the minority that the shop dele system, with the shop as the ba: unit of the union the foundation of the organiz: ; that the by- laws provide for the easiest method of recall; and that the fighting union then being built ruled that no officer shall ever get more wages than that earned by a worker in the shop, Therefore, minority supporters were told, it would be silly to re- move from office a leader whose de- veloping experiences and abilit‘es would make him more and more val- uable to the organization. Although tempted to further this engrossing dis which depicted a union of the and file in evoluticn, it is now nec sary to get to the question that took up the greater portion of the day. R. I. L. U. Resolution. The discussion on the resolution ealling for relations with the Red laterp ed in hy 4 G Continued on Page Two x ’ report cussion, ank %