The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 1

are THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 314 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Unton Sq., New York, N. Ye NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929 ~ SUBSCRIPTION RA k, by mail, $8.00 per ye Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, _Price 3 Cent NEEDLE WORKERS UNION HOLDS 1s G. E, B, MEETING Workers Crowd Office as New Union Heads Begin Work Committees Organized Dress Strike The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union swung into acticn immediately after the convention establishing it had ended. While all the out-of-town delegates were yet in town a full plenum of tne General Executive Board was called yesterday at 16 W. 21st St. Before the meeting was over, | provisions were made for the or- ganization of the various commit- tees on the board which will carry out the manifold activities of the new organization. 2 Negroes on Board. Just as the convention had marked a departure from the con- ventions of the old corrupt unions, | so did this G. E. B. meeting. In- stead of a crowd of dissipated faces of old time bureaucrats, as are seen at all A. F. of L. boards those around the long glass topped tables here reflected the spirit of the new. unionism which they are pio- neering. This was immediately observed by the fact that two Negro work- ers, one each from the fur and the | dressmaking trades, were regular members of the G. E. B. and that | another board member represents | the youth of the industry: They| are: Virginia Allen, dressmaker; | Henry Rosemond, furrier, and M.| Jensky, youth delegate. Important Decisions. | Once the meeting was opened by | Louis Hyman, president of the | union, it got swiftly under way and carried. through. its . business avith speed and dispatch. Some of the) important decisions of the meeting are: That the National Office of the union be established at 16 W. 21st St. and that the present cloak and dressmakers joint board, whose headquarters the building now is, should obtain new headquarters in the garment center district. That two statements on the new union are to be issued to the work- ers. The statements are to be man- ifestoes, one to the workers in the needle industry and one to the gen- eral 1.-or movement. To ‘rganize Committees. The following committees are to/ be organized as G. E. B. standing} committees: Press Committee, Finance Committee, Organization | Committee and Education Commit- tee. The Organization Committee is to be charged with the special work of dealing with youth and} Negro problems. A sub-committee of five was chosen immediately to bring in recommendations to tlfe Board for the composition of these committees. The sub-committee elected consists of Charles S. Zim- merman, Joseph Borachovich, J. Portnoy, S. Liebowitz and A. Weiss. The G. E. B. also decided to issue an’ official union organ twice monthly, the Press Committee to be instructed to carry this out tech- nically. Rose Wortis, Irving Potash and} Ben Gold were picked as an edi- torial committee to edit the official report of the convention just con- eluded. All localities were also in- stracted to arrange for member- Continued on Page Five King’s Streptococcus a Bit Ill, We’re Told LONDON, Jan. 3.—The capitalist press informs us, gravely, that the King’s streptococcus is “diminishing in potency,” that the “calcium con- tent of the blood” has decreased, but that “calcium parathyroid” and a little strychnine om the side is ex- pected to do the job so that “the king will be restored to his people.” The medical statement is signed by Stanley Hewett, Dawson of Penn and Sir Leslie Buttocks. The only thing missing in this is the fact that a large percentage of “his” people don’t care a tinker’s dam if the king is restored or made into fertilizer. Hence such a lot of fuss is made to cause the gullible to believe that the English workers have any interest whatever in the king’s health, or that the oppressed millions of India care a cuss if the king takes a dose of salts or not. What they are interested in is in getting the British military power out of India. It appears they'll be obliged to throw it out, king or no king, sick or well, drunk or sober. “The Party the working cl vanguard of nin, Attend Next Meet to Consider | ning. Seven Workers Buried Under Tons of Debris ay Seven men working on the second floor of the frame building at Willoughby and Bedford Aves., Brooklyn, were hurled two stories to the cellar when the building collapsed. Squads dug for hours be- fore the workers were unearthed from the debris. The collapse is attributed to faulty construction plan- Fervor of Revo CHARGE BOSTON Solicited Bribe From Baseball Club BOSTON, Jan. 3.—Charges by Emil Fuchs, president of the Bos- ton Braves, corroborated by the vice-president of that organization, that thirteen members of the board of aldermen were trying to get $5,000 bribe each from the base- ball magnates were made more de- tailed today. 7” Charles F. Adams, vice-president of the Boston Braves, was called to the witness* stand before the Boston Finance Commission today to cor- roborate the testimony of Presid-nt Fuchs that he had been solicited for a $65,000 bribe for 13 aldermen to expedite passage of the Sunday professional sports ordinance in this city. Adams told of a telephone con- versation with Fuchs in which the latter related to him the co,.versa- tion with Councillor William G. Lynch, in which Fuchs said Lynch tried to get a bribe. Fuchs told on the stand of hav- ing been a judge in the criminal sessions court in New York. Evi- dently for that reason he was se- lected as a proper person to ap- proach with an offer to bribe some aldermen. The question was asked: “What conversation did you have) |with Mr. Green, president of the council?” “A number of conversations hav- ing to do with his efforts to secure a majority vote to carry out the mandate of the people.” “Did you discuss the composition of the council and what each man would undoubtedly do?” Fuchs objected to answering this question because it would involve others, but after some argument, continued: “My conversation with Green was that I had told him that on No- vember 23 Councilor Lynch called on me at the Copley Plaza Hotel with Dan Carrol (a boxing man- ager) and said that they had a meeting of thirteen councilmen, and that Green was not strong enough to put it over, although he was satisfied that Green had been paid ‘by me to put it over.” “And what did Green say to that?” Chairman Dowling inquired. “Green said a fellow like Lynch could not do a friendly gratuitous Continued on Page Three -__ ST. PAUL, (By Mail).—Restaur- ants, hotels and chain department stores are violating the minimum wage laws for minors, and are suc- cessfully evading the law, the state department of labor has been forced to admit. There’s still time left, Workers and working class organizations still have a last opportunity to get their greetings into the big fifth anni- versary edition of the Daily Work- er which appears tomorrow. All those who want to advertise in this unusual edition, 500,000 copies of which will be distributed thruout the United States, also have a last chance to do so, Five o’clock this the Lenin memorial mary 18, im the — eting, Jan- isom Square afternoon is the deadline for all greetings and ads. Get yours in be- Duncan Dan © COUNCIL GRAFT LAST CALL, LAST CALL! ‘Daily’ Greetings, Ads Must Be in Today lution in cing Tomorrow Tomorrow night the fire of the) Revolution will burn with unforget- able brilliance in the dancing of the | Isadore Duncan troupe at the cele- |bration of the Fifth Anniversary of the Daily Worker at Manhattan) Opera House, 34th St., west of| Eighth Avenue. The dancing of this great troupe | has taken the world by storm. It is said to surpass the work of even the matchless Isadora in her palmiest days. The dancing of this troupe from the famous Isadora Duncan} School in Moscow draws its inspira-| tion from the Bolshevik Revolution and the new life that it created in the first workers’ and peasants’ re- public, Directed by Irma Duncan. Under the direction of Irma Dun- | can, advpted daughter and favorite pupil of the late Isadora, 20 prize) ptipils “of ‘the ‘school will perform a} program that will display their un-| usual talents in a variety of forms. Since the Duncan dancers came to this country by special permission | of the Commissariat of Art and Education in order to take part in the Fifth Anniversary celebration of the Daily Worker, their program will of course be appropriate to this} great occasion. | Opening with an interpretation of | the International, the troupe will! |perform a series of seven “Impres- {night, under auspices of the All- MEET TONIGHT FOR JOHNSTONE Speakers WillDenounce Imperialism, New War | The fact that Jack Johnstone, representative of the Anti-Imperial- ist League, is in jail in India, and in danger of his life, from British imperialism, and that American imperialism is rushing through war plans in Congress today, lends an air of emergency to the mass pro- test meeting being held here to- American Anti-Imperialist League. Johnstone was arrested for speak- ing at the All-India Congress of Trade Unions. All the forces fightivg against imperialism in Greater New York will. combine tonight at Irving Plaza, Hall, 15th St. and Irving PI., to voice expression against Hoov- er’s trip to Latin America, Amer- ican imperialism in Bolivia and Paraguay, and also against the in- ecarceration of Jack Johnstone in India by British imperialists. Hun- dreds of men and women workers are expected to gather in the great- est anti-war rally held in this city. Military Roads. Hoover’s revealed plans for mo- tor highways to South America are regarded as further evidence on the} sions of Revolutionary Russia” and will conclude with an interpretation | of the four movements of Tschaikov- | sky’s famous Symphony Pathetique. They will be accompanied by a full) symphony orchestra. | Lovestone, Foster, Minor To Speak. | Speakers at the celebration will be| | Jay Lovestone, executive secretary | of the Workers (Communist) Party; William Z. Foster, member of the| secretariat; and Robert Minor, edit - -of the Daily Worker, who will act as | chairman, Tickets have been selling so fast | that hardly any are left. Rush down to,26 Union Square and you may still be able to get some. From present indications it is likely that no tickets will be sold at the door. Fuller, Out of Office, Shrinks From ‘Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti’ BOSTON, Jan. 3.—As a seventeen- gun salute roared on Boston Com- mon, and Frank Allen, the new gov- ernor, took office, ex-Governor Fuller dramatically kissed the state flag and walked out of the state house—to be handed a book, -“The Life and Letters of Sacco and Van- zetti,” as he went down the marble steps. Fuller, the murderer of these two workers, took one quick look at the book, and dropped it on the steps, shrinking away from it as he dived through a crowd of reporters and made for an automobile. “The Party is strengthened by parifying itself of opportunistic elements.”—Lenin, Li meeting, January 1 Square Gard | fore it’s too late! Additional help has been secured by the business office of the Daily Worker to handle the rush of greet- ings and ads which is expected to- day. From every section of the country workers and worl.ing class organizations are sending in their greetings and donations by special delivery, air mail, telegraph and other quick service. They realize what it means to be Continued on Page Four | private manufacturers will help in |an emergency in the production of \Girl Awarded $15,000 part of Wall Street financiers to} help complete economic and_politi- cal enslavement of the neighboring countries. In view of the elaborate and brazen militaristic preparations now being precipitated by the War, Department, the meeting tonight, assumes special significance for| the American working class. | One of the glaring war measures heing pushed through congress at) this time is that to increase the pay of officers and enlisted men. An- other piece of legislation deals with forwarding to private manufactur- ers “educational” orders for ammu- nition. These “educational” orders consist of artillery. machine guns, bombs, airplane sights and gigantic searchlights. It is the contention of the sponsors of this bill that the war supplies. In reality the plan is to mobilize more war supply cen- ters in anticipation of the coming imperialist war. Many Speakers. | Among the speakers tonight will be Scott Nearing; George Pershing; Carl Reeves of the Labor Defender; Robert Minor, editor of th. Daily Worker; William Z. Foster, speak- | ing for the T. U. E. L. against the arrest of Jack Johnstone in India by British imperialists; Carmen Gil Martinez, a fragile girl of nineteen, who is the heroine of the revolt against the imperialist dictatorship in Venezuela, now a factory girl do- ing embroidery work for $15 a week; Paul Crouch, national secretary of the U. S, Section of the All-Amer- ica ti-Imperialist League, and Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch of the League. | Robert Dunn will preside. | The meeting is held under the | auspices of the New York Branch, All - America Anti - Imperialist League, 799 Broadway. for Injury; Reversed | The Appellate Court yesterday set aside a verdict of $15,000 in favor of ten year old Helen McLaughlin, which had been granted her by a) jury, against the Audley Clarke) Company and the Greiner Contrac- | \ciseo, $20,000; Senator James Couz- ting Co. A truck in the service of these companies cut off her left leg. Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, | The higher court scolded the lower will speak one“American Imperial- which he was born and raised court for allowing such a verdict. 6 '. BC. POWERS REFUSE PART IN US. COMMISSION Argentine, Brazil and Chile Decline Aid to Wall Street Bolivia Shoots Spies Standard Oil Finds 2 “Disloyal” Workers WASHINGTO: + Jan. 3.— An air of suppressed disturbance pervaded the state department’s auxiliary, the Pan-American Union, | today, when it became known that] Brazil and Argentina had both de- | clined to serve on the special com- | mission of conciliation dealing with | the recent clash of arms Bergeen Bolivia and Paraguay. | As Chile notified Washington of | a similar declination last week, this| lines up the “A B C” powers, as | apparently not willing to stand onj{ the side of the United States in its | effort to oust British imperialism | from Latin America, and in the| present immediate issue to lend no assistance to U. S. imperialism’s | maneuvers to open the way through | Paraguayan Chaco for the Standard | Oil Company of Bolivia to reach the | world market with petroleum. Upsets U. S. Maneuver. The Washington conference had proposed a commission of nine, two from each Bolivia and Paraguay, and one each from the United States, Cuba, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. This was an attempt to maneuver Argentina and Brazil, which look as much or more to Bri- tish imperialism as to Yankee im- perialism for capital and trade, into a position where they would later be compelled to abide by the decisions of the Pan-American Union’s pres- ent conference and its commissions. Bolivia has stated it will sign the Protocol, but with “modifications,” | In effect the refusal of Argen- tina, Brazil and Chile exposes the sharpness with which British imper- ialism is prodding its Latin Amer- Continued on Page Four MELLON MACHINE HAD SLUSH FUND $6,541,748 Is Raised to Advertise Hoover WASHINGTON, Jan. 3,—The Republican National Committee of Pennsylvania where the Andy Mel- lon-Vare machines control, con- tributed $67,000 to the $6,541,(48 campaign fund collected by the Re-| publican National Committee, cording to figures made public by the House Election Committee on Campaign Expenditures. Vare, whose stronghold is Philadelphia, | is under charges of election cor- ruption in the Senate. Mellon, as Secretary of the Treasury, recently distributed millions in “tax re-| funds” to his own and friendly cor- | ac-| | porations. |took part in the recent strike against fascism, and the Daily Worker were Other large contributors during November and December included Wallace M. Alexander, San Fran- (Continued on Page Five) Workers Hail UNCEASING STRUGGLE ON Conan Pasty BALBO AND MUSSOLINI, German Party | (Wireless by “Inprecorr”) | BERLIN, Jan. 3—The tenth an- |niversary of the German Communist |Party was celebrated by the Berlin | yyy, | proletariat in two great mass meet- ings here. ing Plaza Mass Meeting Votes for Unite Proletarian Front Against Fascism The chief speakers were Thael- a mann and Heckert, of the Central. Tallentire, Weinstone, Tresca, Montana, H Pomunties sob thes barty, wha sdealy Mussolini’s Brutal Imperialist Terror with the history of the Communist | Er ie ee a |Party. They stated that the expul- | “Down with Italo Balbo! Down with the Mussolini 1 sion of right-wingers was necessary! gime!” Down with Walker and Whalen and all who sha in order to maintain the high revo-| the hand of Balbo, Mussolini’s murderous agent in Americ lutionary level of the Communist | “Up with the proletarian united front against fascism!’ Party and forestall the danger of | -—— ———— the Communist Party suffering the| fate of the social-democracy in a WORKERS DEFY gust of 1914, | The workers who filled li ing Plaza Hall voted a resol tion ending this way at —_——. | enthusiastic mass meeting 1: CONGRESS HAS | Italo Balbo, Mussolini’s agent | SE America. Mass at City Hall and) Before that they had listened Denounce Reception —- Defying the heavy cordon of police «|who made liberal use of clubs and Norman Tallentire, of the inten i Defense outline 1 s basis not only scism but also capitalism and i tional Labor For Hoover Program 3 plackfaeies, 200, worllers eave tela | perialism,i"of which) tacciqniem” Rush 2 War Measures ‘Balbo, one of Mussolini's chief true self. i murderers, now visiting this country, Siete enTeee WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.—Con- one of “the warmest’ receptions of jgress re-convened today for the his life when he arrived at City Hall |short session before the Hoover ad- | yesterday afternoon. : |ministration comes in ,and, every-| For hours in advance police were thing is. proceeding according to stationed around City Hall, threat- |schedule to pass the two imperialist ening workers in the vicinity and of- |war measures, the cruiser bill and ficiously Jooking for “bombs.” W hen the Kellogg treaties. Balbo emerged from h heavily | Following instructions of Presi- svarded car, accompanied by Bee |dent-elect Hoover, senators say, the Whalen, Rerupanys hare ae |compromise arrangement intended to| Police commissioner, he turned to |stop the time-wasting fight for pre- wave to the crowd, expecting cheers. | i | ; Instead he was met with scores of jcedence of one bill or the other, and | senched fists raised aloft, hisses and jto get down to the work of rushing Saisie Of hateal, while banners bear. |both measures went into effect to-|Sn0Ute OE nee veand Ital day. ing slogans in English and Italian s | were lifted high. Hale Begins. Militant Slogan. | When the senate“ met, and pre-| “Down with Fascism!” “Down ¢ |liminaries were pushed out of the with Balbo, Fascism’s Hangman!” ‘Way, Chairnian® Hale of the Senate “We Demand Freedom for™Granci_ j Naval Affairs Committee arose and and Terracini, Victims of Fascism!” |made a speech in favor of the naval |“Free the 15,000 Workers Rotting in jbill. The senate then began the/ Fascist Jails!” “Down with Im- |business of passing the Kellogg! perialism, Fascism, Hoover and | pacts, which are an attack upon! Balbo!” “We the American Workers, |England’s leadership of the League| Express Our Solidarity with the of Nations by establishing a new Workers of Italy!” “The Interna- n big capit and tk ment fore more imperiali part of the w nd unemp! es He ) mor s of Weir |league and American control. Borah tional Labor Defense Fights Fas- 4 ‘Ayevices lopened the debate on ‘the treaties,!cism!” “Join the Anti-Fascist Al- brothers of f: after Hale’s speech. liance of North America!” These | led Sacco a Senator Watson of Indianajand other slogans stared the Negroes, suppres Ismooth out difficulties and forced | murderer of hundreds of Italian shoot Chinese, have | administration senators into line for workers and peasants in the face.| shake the bloody hand of |the Hoover plan of procedure. |The demonstration was arranged by Weinstone 2 ed to the a ate Watson, a product of the Stephan- | the International Labor Defense and ing of Communists in Italy to Klan republican | the Anti-Fascist Alliance. machine in Indiana, is:scheduled to| The police immediately got on the {be the republican floor leader as,job and began breaking up the soon as Curtis takes over the vice-| demonstrators, tearing their slogans presidency. Steyhanson got out the and beating several of them. Harry votes for him and he owes his elec-| Eisenman, a member of the Young tion to the “Grand Dragon of the | Workers League, was pulled ou! by Realm of Indiana,” Watson is still a policeman, who led him away from (Continued on Page Five) |the demonstration, took him into a hallway, smashed him in the face and then told him to “beat it.’ No Court Martial Workers rests were made, the police evi- ene ° «, |dently having orders to avoid the Striking United Fruit |odorcus publicity that would result ~ * |if any of the workers came to trial.| Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Company in Colombia) Distelbute “Daily” |tello, recently suppre BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan, 3.—The |. The 200 demonstrators were joined ae ree te b ther workers in the vicin- executive of the federal government] i) "who puree Mein graft, told how Balbo, the sort of Colombia has decreed that the| Balbo either with hisses or stony |{#8¢i8t who not only glorifies 5 members of the trade unions who | sil i i ian | lence but practices it, did not silence. Leaflets denouncing Italian | cont his challenge to prosecute libel but used Mussoli: ambas dor in Washington to have the per suppressed, The hall was surrounded by couple dozen of Tammany police, out to protect, if possible, the re json Ku Klux total of 400 yea underground means death. ome of them dungeons, wh “We mus against struggle ists in Poland, America, war and said, and ended, “ and farmers’ gov protect the working M t ed for pri |ing irrefutable proof in his pa of Mussolini’s murderousness \the United Fruit Company on that distributed and eagerly read. |corporation’s banana plantations, shall be tried by court martial. * Balbo, finding the welcome some- what different from what he had ee expected, had meanwhile gone into | The news arriving in New York the City Hall, to emerge about a half from Colombia rates that “El hour later surrounded by a group 1% Jessica Smith to Talk on Women in USSR at School Forum Sunday Jessica Smith, author of “Women in the Soviet Union,” who has re- cently returned after spending a number of years studying the life and working conditions of working and peasant women in the U. S. S. R., will speak Sunday night, January 6, at 8 o'clock, on this subject at the forum of the Work- ers School, 26-28 Union Square. She will describe the changes in the status of women as a result of the October revolution, their pres- ent social and legal relations, how they have been trained to partici- pate in the economic and _ political | life of the country, ete. Since she lived on a state experi- mental farm (Sovkhos) for a few years, she is very well acquainted with the life of peasant women, who make the great majority of their sex in the Soviet Union. A particularly interesting part of her lecture will be the sex and fam- ily relations in the workers repub- lie, the housing question, as it ef- fects these, and related subjects. The following week Robert ism in Latin America,” " jshown in the following few lines,! fifteen months.” tation of the fascisti, old friends Mayor Walker. A gang of trong arm squad” stood on corner of Irving and Fifteer Liberal,” a Colombian newspaper,/of about 20 fascists. Thereupon |accuses the Colombian troops with | another demonstration was held, the |massacreing 1,400 workers and blackshirts taunting the demons |wounding 2,000. Many wounded! tors who replied by shouting the Sane’ # were buried alive or thrown into slogans and hissing. swinging their clubs and look rivers to drown, The above dis-| The entire demonstration then ‘isgustedly at the workers stree |patch from Bogota, indicates that| marched singing the International | 7%, UP to the hall. T. De Fa: the trade unionists who escaped |to “Il Progresso Italo-Americano,” a. Chairman of the joint committee |death in battle are to be shot after fascist newspaper at 42 Elm St. the International Labor Defense : the farcical formality of a court|/Here another demonstration was the Anti-Fascist Alliance, un martial—unless world’ labor rouses a| held for about 15 minutes. whose auspices the meeting \ | mighty protest.—EDITOR. ‘Again no arrests were made. held, acted as. chairman. “BIG BILL” TOMORRO ‘Daily’ Readers to Enjoy His Memoirs |and was tortured by beating and ‘Tomorrow the Daily Worker will regretting nothing, unrepining, not |pert knife slashing by the bla begin the extensive publication of}even expressing the sense of injury | shirts. Once he was left for d that work for which our readers at loss of freedom, but -subtly Selo the ground. {have all been waiting, “Bill Hay-! flecting what many a prisoner feels, | wood’s Book,” absorbing as litera-|the tangible hurt of being cut off ture, invaluable as history, and one| from the beauties of nature. | of the most wonderful books of re-|_ He was in the Idaho jail, wait-| The meeting ended with une {cent years. This is done by special) ing trial for murder: |mous adoption of a resolution ¢ arrangement with the International} “One night while sitting in my|ing on workers wherever Balbo g Publishers Company. cell I saw a tiny curved strip of|to show their hatred and conter _ Haywood, a battler for the work-| silver at one of the small windows|for him and what he stands for, 1 ing class, spent many a day in| high up near the roof. I could not|to form a united front of all wo | prison. But never did prison break| think what it was. It kept grow- ers against fascism, calling: | | his spiri Yet how wistful was|ing bigger and at last I realized| freedom of prisoners of capitali his spirit for the wide spates in) that it was the moon. It was the| and declaring, “It is the task of 5 is} first time I had seen the moon in| American working class to struy ‘i ceaselessly against fascism.” A speaker who knew and suffe from fascism in Italy was Va Montana, editor of Il Lavoratore Montana was active in anti-f cist work in Sicily, took part in first years of the civil war agai fascism, was often arrested, \ He gave a history of fascis) growth,