The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party pute Nol. V., No. 317 Published daily except Sunday hy The Na Publishing Association, Inc, 26-28 Union Sd 7} aily Entered as second-class matt he Post Office at New York, N. Worker under the act of Marck 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION 1 Daily Worker ew York, N. ¥ EW YO TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1929 _ SUBSCRIPTION R A ‘k, by mi 00 pe Price 3 Cents Outside 6.00 per year. WAR LOOMS ANEW AS POWERS PLOT ANTLUSSR. MOVE French Arms Help in Anti-Soviet Pact With Bayonets )kraine Faces Attack Rumania, Poland to Do Imperialist Dirty Work BERLIN, Jan. 7.—The war danger | loomed momentarily more ominous today along the western frontier of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publies as reports of arms contracts, arms shipments and new attempts to create internal dissension, all direct- ed against the Soviet government, leaked into western Europe. Under the guiding hand of British imperialism, which is still inciting | the Afghan tribes in an effort to stab the Soviet Union in the back, and of | French imperialism, which is indus- triously fomenting war in Rumania | and Poland against the U. S. 8. R.,| generals and military commissions , of these two powers were today re- | vealed scurrying like incendiaries along the border which capitalism | ends and the workers’ government begins. | Close on the report received here from Dantzig, in the Polish corridor, | that several heavy shipments of arms | haye been received from France for | th® Polish government, comes con- | firmation of earlier rumors that rance, Poland, Rumania and Czecho_ lovakia have entered into a pact| hose immediate object is war against the Soviet Union. | The pact is said to have the hearty endorsement of all the governments involved and of the armament capi- talists who are expecting to reap a tremendous harvest in profits when the war breaks out. A foretaste of these profits, the big arms contracts whose fruits have been shipped via Dantzig to Stnaislau and Taropol, fortified cities in Galicia, have al- ready whetted their taste for more. Continued on Page Five ELECT TEXTILE UNION OFFICERS *ussak, Pippin Chosen at Paterson Meeting PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 6.— More than three hundred silk work- ers met here at the first general membership meeting of the Pater- son local of the National Textile Workers Union at Oakley Hall, Saturday afternoon. The meeting, which was enthu- siastic from the start, chose as its | officers, Martin Russak, militant | textile worker as secretary-organ- | 'zer, and John Pippin as Italian or- zanizer. | It further elected three represen- | tatives to the National Committee of the union and one member to the National Council. An executive board of thirty was also elected, three places being left pen for the dye workers. Lena Chernenko, who has been active in the Paterson local for two nonths, reported to the meeting hat the local has been making steady progress in organizing the yroad silk workers and the dye workers, Chernenko also reported that the National Textile Workers Union was in the process of organizing several new locals in Paterson, “Every Member an Organizer!” Following Chernenko’s report, ussak, the newly-elected secre- ary-organizer, outlined plans for he future work of the union and raised the slogan, “Every member of the union an organizer for the anion.” Plans have been made to divide all the shops in Paterson into sec- sions according to the mills so that nass meétings can be called for she individual districts directly after work. The Executive Board met imme Jiately after the general member- | ship meeting and elected B. Leib} as its chairman, | Rss Wee | PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 7.—De- spite the announcement of the oosses of the Park Silk Company, strike-bound here, that they will Continued on Page Five German Peasants in Tax Rising, Win Out BERLIN (By Mail).—Complain- ng of tax oppression, German pea- sants of the small village of Barbel- ‘ath armed themselves with picks, icythes, pitchforks and shovels and itormed the local administration wuildings. They turned out the of- ficials and took possession of the wmildings and succeeded in obtaining ower tax rates, i é . 4 State. Radium Co. In Legal Victory Over Victims | Two more victims of the radium paint poisoning which workers for the United States Radium Corpora- tion contracted while making watch dials luminous are being forced into a court of the company’s own choos- ing, in order to deprive them of damages. Most of the victims weie frightened into accepting mere ex- penses for their last year or so of life "by threats that if they did not waive their legal rights to damages, |they would get nothing. | Technicality Favors Boss. The United States Radium Cor- poration, defendant in the suit of |two women radium victims was to- |day granted a motion to, have the case removed from the supreme jcourt to federa' court, on the grounds that the concern is in- corporated in Delaware. The two women, Mrs. Esthel- wynne Metz, 29, of: Newark, and Mrs. Helen Puck, 27, also of Newark, were employed by the Radium Corporation and contracted radium necrosis from handling radium paint. Mrs, Puck is able to open her mouth only half an inch, Her jaw has been locked for about two months. Mrs. Metz is in the initial stages of the disease. There is no cure known. Several others poisoned in the same way have died. Suits for $250,000 each have been filed against the radium company | by the women. Their husbands have also filed suits for $50,000 each. ‘OFFER MORROW AS SECY, STATE Senators Propose Big Morgan Partner WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—Dwight |W. Morrow, partner of Morgan, the Wall Street banker, was recom- mended to President-elect Hoover to- day for the post of Secretary of Hisesponsors. were Senator Edge and Senator-elect Hamilton Kean of New Jersey. The fact that this reeommendation ‘has been given wide publicity and is |the first announcement to be made in this connection, indicates that Hoover probably intends to put an- jother member of the House of Mor- |gan in the Cabinet, along with Mel- jlon. However, Borah is said to be in the running, partly as a reward for his services in pushing the Kel- logg pro-war treaties. Morrow is |now ambassador to Mexico, and is Morgan’s special expert on German reparations. “Second White House.” Hoover has established his head- quarters in the Hotel Mayflower, making it a “second White House.” He arrived in Washington yesterday { jon his special train, with an extra baggage car attached to carry the presents which South American |governments thot it wise to give to the agent of American imperialism. Among the presents are articles of Inca gold, of enormous value. Canada Builds New War Boats, Preparing for Imperialist War SOUTHAMPTON (By Mail).— Thornycroft, Ltd., shipbuilders, have secured a contract to build two new torpedoboat destroyers for Canada. The vessels ‘will be of the Amazon type, will cost $8,350,000, and will be delivered in 1981. The contract marks another step in the increase of armaments of the british colonies and dominions, in preparation for the coming imper- ialist war with the U, S. Recently it was annourced that similar prep- arations were being made by Au- stralia, British Workers Aid Labor Election Fund LONDON, (By Mail).—The elec- ion fund of the Communist Party of Great Britain will benefit to the extent of $15,000 as a result of a successful Red Bazaar given by left jwing workers in the Shoreditch Town Hall. 3 Although Shoreditch, one of the poorest sections in the east end of the city, has suffered severely from chronic unemployment ever since the post war industrial depression, it was estimated that 10,000 workers attended and danced to music pro- vided by a Communist orchestra. “G. E.” LOSES PATENT. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Gen- eral Electric Company, Schenectady, today was denied a U. S. supreme court review of a circuit court of ap- mensely valuable patent on ductile tungsten, used now in all electric lamp filaments was invalid. Other capitalist interests want this patent. peals decision which held its im-) DETROIT SUNDAY Trade Unions, Workers’ Groups to Be Represented Foster Will Represent T.U.E.L. at Meeting DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 7.—A con- ference for the organization of the auto industry will be held at 55 Adelaide, Sunday, Jan 13, at 10 a. m. This conference, which is com- posed of many trade unions and working class organizations through- out this city, is going to lay the Detroit auto workers as a beginning of the organization of a powerful national industrial union in the in- dustry. Conditions for Organization Favorable. The intense competition between the various automobile concerns, particularly Ford and General Mo- tors, is bringing with it a tremen- dous over-expansion of the auto in- | dustry, wage-cuts, speed-up and un- employment. The heavy burden of the workers is being increased al- most daily by the bosses in their ef- forts to cheapen’ their products and put their competitors out of busi- ness. With production plans for over seven million cars for 1929 and a curtailed market capable of ab- sorbing only about four million cars, considerable unemployment can be expected before the year is out. At its Detroit convéntion in 1927 the A. F..of L. made a lot of noise about organizing the auto industry. (Continued on Page Five) DUNCAN TROUPE Appear for Workers’ | Children Saturday Responding to the demands of the thousands of workers who were turned away at the fifth anniversary | celebration of the Daily Worker | last Saturday night, as well as of | a large proportion of those who did manage to squeeze into Manhattan | Opera House, the Daily Worker has | made arrangements for three ad- ditional performances of the Isadora Duncan dancers from the Isadora | Duncan School in Moscow. The performances will be given next Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening at Manhattan Opera House,, 34th St., west of Eighth Ave. Children’s Performance Saturday The performance next Saturday afternoon will be arranged especially for workingclass children. All mem- bers of the Young Pioneers and students of the various foreign- language left wing schools from the ages of eight to 14 will go in a bloe te the performance and will be ad- mitted at 50 cents each. Teachers of | all left wing schools are asked to | communicate with the business of- | five of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, Stuyvesant 1696, to make arrangements for their pupils. On Sunday. afternoon another popular-priced performance will be | given and on Sunday evening the Duncan dancers will appear for the last time before leaving for their national tour. The Daily Worker is | arranging to have them appear in a number of other cities to give work- ers the opportunity to see the amaz- ing art of these young Soviet} dancers, | Tickets for the three Manhattan Opera House performances may be secured at the office of the Daily Worker. Five hundred dollars: was con- tributed to the Daily Worker at the anniversary celebration by the Prolet Cooperative Stores, Inc., own- lers of the Proletcos Cooperative Restaurant. The committee that | made the contribution consisted of IN, Polak, secretary of the organi- \zation, A. V. Brusila, A. Lefkowitz, L. Landy and Adolf Wolff. Other contributions were: New York Working Women’s Federation, $100; Progressive Fancy Leather Goods Workers, $10; B. H., $100 and Leo Klin, Daily Worker agent of Section 1, $100, MANN UNEMPLOYMENT RAMSEY, Isle of Man (By Mail). --The unemployment situation has | become serious in the Isle of Mann, | with 25,000 or more jobless. Pov- erty forces boys to leave school at an early age, but the government has raised the age for leaving Other | A.F.L, Won't Organize | | basis for a big spring drive among | A. F. of L. Refuses to Organize. | ATLANTA BLLTM ATLANTA dicks “f a eb. KH Le ICA Secety ” n~ a Seats « Tocusord 8 Bf fou ‘ a7 ne Auk on t wa” ast o. SF a dae e377 epi ee Atlanta Biltmore, Atlanta, Ga. | En Route | My dear Mr. Eastman: | After reading your Trotsky book, | I venture to suggest the formation, | under your leadership, of a selected | group equivalent to a “Lenin So-| ciety.” First step to organize a} world-wide distribution of the Trot-! sky Platform. Follow-up steps to! be discussed. | I shall not be squeamish about submitting personal history and credentials, if you think the sug- gestion a feasible one. Should Stalin’s course nullify Lenin’s work, | it would give the capitalist press a) Carlylean holiday. Home in a week. My home ad-| / ahias Pinot sth a Sy fag? Cornel - Cnt he tiburon. Mfrs Tallow ~ of stage Me Shell (esrb onk TL wnat que Lh. Gap ACH pres a Co Shay pain Na fe 2¢ Sug geod” er fyuurehut © ~! “Marxian “Putnecet th CB, J shat wet he Syceewsh 7a. suet haf CH Figur. ea os Cacerg2 Reel) Gain, Seemed, Patek Yo YLEL Copy of Sard Letter Sept. 13, 1928 York City. Sincerely FREDERICK N. Telephone Algonquin 4319 Columbus 9200 (The following is written in Sard’s handwriting but stricken out): SARD. ciety” or a “Marxian Historical So-| And say whether he should see J. | “Send S. 6 copies Lexington 7070 Ep eee | 12 f. 70 Park Ave. (NOTE—The J. B. S, referred to is undoubtedly J. B. Salutsky Hardman, who was expelled from | the Workers (Communist) Party for betraying it at the Conference for Progressive Political Action in Cleveland a number of years ago.—EDITOR) In view of the final discussion and the elections to the section conven- tions which are to take place in| New York City this week, the Exec- utive Committee of District 2 has issued an appeal to all Party mem- bers to attend their unit meetings. Emphasizing the necessity of all members participating in the discus- sion of the Party’s shortcomings and in making proposals for overcoming its weaknesses, the appeal further school as a “remedy” for unemploy- ment, » stresses the necessity of fighting the District 2 Calls All Party — Members to Attend Units CONFER ON AUTO Sard, Guest of Coolidge, ‘WORLD-WIDE PLOT ORGANIZATION IN. Ally of U. S. Trotskyist OF TROTSKYISTS TO RUIN PARTY, C ‘Cannon Working With Urbahns, Eastman and Guest of Coolidge Working With Lore The French Trotskyist Group Is Involved The Daily Worker herewith pub- shes a number of documents re- li |a national and international scale by the the | Communist International its various sections. Trotskyists to wreck and | The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has charged the renegade Trotskyist group of Cannon with working hand in glove with such out-and-out so- cial-democrats, anti-Marxist, coun- ter-revolutionary forces as those represented by Lore, Eastman and Sard, the guest of Coolidge. The documents presented prove beyond any question the correctness |of the charges made by the Central | Executive Committee of our Party against the opportunist Trotskyist- Cannon group. The letters from Eastman speak for themselves as damning docu- ments which reveal a most sinister plot to destroy the American section of the Communist International. Note the letter from Urbahus, the notorious German Trotskyite, to Schachtman, Cannon’s laying down the appeal for close co-operation between Cannon and Lore. Since this letter came into the possession of the Central Ex- Continued on Page Three Guest of Coolidge. ARD CALLS ON COOLIDGE. | aar pre Gratification Over Schubert Observance. President Coolidge expressed yes- terday his appreciation of the im- portance of Schubert Week and his | gratification that Americans in all | walks of life were participating in it, according to an announcement made by the National Headquarters of the Schubert Centennial. |“"rhe President received the Aus- \ trian Minister, Edgar M. Prochnik, | and Frederick’ M. Sard, the director of Schubert Week, at noon yester- day. ‘They took ‘him phonograph records of various Schubert works, facsimile es of the original Schubert dlary and a letter of pre- sentation signed by Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the advisory body. of the Schubert Centennial, calling at- tention to the nation-wide agcept- ance of the movement. u| The presentation was arranged ;| through the Austrian Minister, whose overnment is cooperating with the hubert Week in America. we. Te SCAB GANGSTERS INJURE PASSERBY | Millinery Union Thugs jdress is 216 East 15th Street, aay Try to Break Strikes |. Exasperated to the point of reck- |lessness at the tenacious fight the ‘girl milliners are putting up for \their union, the “organization com: \ mittee” thugs of the right wing in |Millinery Union Local 24, yesterday attacked girls picketing struck shops and, when a passerby protested this \brutality, they slugged him severely too. J. Nelson, a worker employed in a dress factory on West 36th St., while on his way home from work with two women, shop companions, protested when the Zaritsky gang- sters tried to assault girl members of Local 48, who were picketing 3 alizing the efforts being made on j5 lieutenant, | Germany Sank Deep in U. S. Debt in 1928 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The sale of foreign securities in U. S. during 1928 amounted, according to commerce department figures, ’> $1,426,487,580, Of this, over a bil- lion was loaned during the first half of the year, before the discount rate was sent toward the sky by the federal reserve system, trying to stop corporation loans of call money, and reckless stock speculation. This is the largest amount ever | loaned in one year by the U. S. since the war, with the exception of 1927, during which the figure was $1,- Germany Fakes Most. The geographical distribution of the loans showed a change, also. In 1928, instead of loaning mostly to Latin-America, Germany was the heaviest borrower, taking $290,000,- 000, of which $47,000,000 was to the government, This is for Dawes plan payments. Canada is second, with $240,000,000. Denmark, Italy and Norway are high in the list. Loans to South America were almost entirely to the governments. The U. S. financial colony of Bolivia got $19,880,000; Colombia, where the government helps the United Fruit Co. by shooting strik- ers, got $74,158,000; Brazil and Chile, mostly under British financial control nevertheless borrowed $78,- 245,000, and $81,412,000 respectively. Argentinia borrowed only as part of a refunding operation, without in- creasing her debt much. NEEDLE WORKERS RALLY TOMORROW ‘Call Industrial Union Meet in Cooper Union | The first mass meeting since the formation of the industrial union of needle trades workers is to be held | tomorrow evening, immediately after work in Cooper Union, 8th St. and | Fourth Ave. This meeting will be the first of a series throughout the nation, de- cided upon by the General Executive Board of the new union. The coming struggle to organize the dress industry thru a general strike, the plans for a strike in the fur industry and other decisions of the convention which launched the in- dustrial organization will be brought hefore the membership at the Cooper Union meeting tomorrow. Last night the two Joint Boards —in the cloak and dress trade and in the fur industry—were merged, and are to function as a single i stitution hereafter, though not per- manently, ci for the convention de- om is that this governing body be progressively replaced by a board composed of representatives of the shop delegates council. The meetings out of town are all | to be held for the purpose of amal- | gamating the locals of the cloak and | dressmakers and furriers. A mass | meeting will also be held tomorrow \in San Francisco. | The amalgamation meeting in Boston will be held Thursday even- ling in Paine Memorial Hall, 9 |Appleton St. Louis Hyman, presi- dent and Ben Gold, secretary-treas- urer of the new union will address \the meeting there. | Philadelphia needle trades work- ‘ers gather at a mass meeting next Tuesday for the same purpose while in Los Angeles furriers, cloak and dressmakers meet on Saturday, Jan. 17, The meeting in Cooper Union will be addressed by convention delegates as well as by the leaders of the union. Magistrate Forced to | Dismiss Picket Cases of disorderly conduct Charges DICTATORSHIP PROCLAIMED BY SERBIAN KING Full Military Power Is Vested in Monarch; Constitution Ended Parliament Dissolved {Communists Denounce New Dictatorship BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Jan. 7. —Establishment of a virtual mili- tary dictatorship with supreme power vested in King Alexander and |General Peter Zirkovich was de- creed here yesterday. The decree, signed by the King himslf, an- nounced that the constitution of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was abolished and parlia- ment and all local governing bodies dispersed. New laws will be en- jacted by, royal decree in the near jfuture, superceding all legislation !now in effect. General Peter Zirkovich, notori- jous militarist and expansionist, was named premier and reserved \for himself the post of minister of | the interior. He will be responsible for enforcing the royal decree and |maintaining the dictatorship. Almost the first act of the new dictatorship was to ban any expres- sion of political opinion under | heavy penalties, while the existing |press laws, already brutally strin- gent, were supplemented with |harsher provisions. | Under the dictatorship, the king is vested with all legislative and lexecutive powers. He is wielder of ‘all authority, and as commander in jchief of the army, has power to con- \fer military rank. Amnesty and par- |don are also vested in him and he iwill represent the kingdom directly jin all foreign relations. | All local governing bodies are |dissolved and new bodies will im- jmediately be appointed with the \king’s consent. Announcement of the dictatorship was received here with tremendous excitement visible in the unusual crowds on the streets, at the cafes |and particularly in front of the royal palace. There were no outbreaks, ‘however, tho special detachments of |police patrolled the working class sections of the city, many being |posted along the Danube wharves, and around the Budapest-Sofia rau- |road depot. | Leaders of the illegal Communist |Party of Jugo-Slavia today defied |the dictatorial laws and called di- | rectly on the masses to oppose the | bitter hostility of the dictatorship to the proletariat. It further pointed out the role of the Croatian national- ist leaders who are jubilantly endors- ing the military dictatorship as the supplanter of the parliament which |refused to grant their autonomist de- |mands. The illegal Communist Party of | Jugo-Slavia points out that the mili- itary dictatorship immediately made |it clear that it would likewise un- | conditionally refuse the Croatian au- |tonomist demands. | Father Antno Koroshetz, former | priest-premier is included in the new | dictatorship as minister of communie | cations. FASCISTS JAIL FOUR MILITANTS (Red Aid Press Service) | ITALIAN FRONTIER (By Mail). —Charged with building a Commun- jist Party cell in their town, four | workers were brought before the \fascist special tribunal on Dec. 19. | One of the workers was also charged with having attempted to obtain the key to one of the offices of the ‘fascist militia. | Three cf the workers openly de- | Clared before the tribunal that they | were Communists and said that they «'uck shops because their members against six workers picketing the |were proud of it. The fourth said were dismissed from the shops on the order of the right wing officials. Boynton Aves., Bronx, were yester- | | Ward Theatre, Westchester and that he belonged to no party. The court accepted the verdict of The sluggers attacked him, break-| day dismissed by Magistrate Ewald | the state attorney and sentenced the ing his glasses. Despite this, the police who ran up arrested him as | well as his assailant. Both were to come before the night court magis- rate. Local 43 is fighting for its exist- ence and for the right of its mem- bers to work in the shops. This in Morrisania Court. Two of the strikers, who carried placards worded “Strike at this the- atre—Motion Picture Operators Lo- ‘eal Unien 206, A. F. of L.,” and who jwere picketing the theatre peace- |fully, were arrested Dec. 7. The ‘remaining fout were arrested the right danger, which is the main |union, because of its militant leader- | soNowing day. danger before the Party, “The district convention must be the expression of the entire mem-)many ending successfully, were call-| bership,” the statement says. The Party will be able to fulfill its tasks only if the entire membership un- derstands these tasks and partici- pates wholeheartenly in the formu- lating and guiding of its policies. The statement concludes with a final appeal for 100 per cent at- tendance at unit meetings, ship was expelled from the Hat, 'Cap and Millinery International. Since that time numerous strikes, ed when the employer tried to dis- charge its members because they re- fused to register in the right wing Local 24, The shops which are strike bound, and at which the slugging took place late: the Moon Hat Co., Herschenson |Hat Co., and the Arcade Hat Co. |All are on West 36th St., in the block between 5th and 6th Aves. Many Jdress factories are located here too. |i ial AA NA AN i i | Although lawyers for Joseph L. | Dillon, manager of the theatre, | | fought hard to have the strikers | jailed or fined, Magistrate Ewald | |was forced to dismiss the charge \because of the weakness of the evi- dence. | UNSOUND OVEN KILLS WORKER | LONDON (By Mail)—A Mans- \field baker was found dead in a ‘dough-trough, after being overcome hy coke oven fumes. The ovens were found io be unsound, workers as follows: Domenico Rov |Amedeo Gambertini and Antume Brina to 5 years prison each and the | loss of status as citizen and close police surveillance for three years, | The fourth prisoner was set free. Tammany Grafters to | Lay New Cornerstone mmany Hall at E. 17th St. and ‘ion Square, two blocks from the revolutionary Workers’ Center, at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Former Governor Smith amd the wisecracking Mayor Walker, will be “a chief speakers, The cornerstone of a new and © more dignified monument to graft,’ corruption and fraud will be laid’ ,| by Grand Sachem John R. Voorhies - at dedication ceremonies of the new | r #