The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 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 3} : aily Entered as second-class matic: 11 the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc. 76-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- ON R Vol. V. No. 319 NEEDLE TRADES MEET PREPARES DRESS STRIKE Spirited Cooper Union| Rally a Mobilization to Struggle Seab Union Gives Piece | Work to Dress Bosses Thousands of # needle trades work- ers, at a mass meeting in Cooper | Union, 8th St. and Fonrth Ave.. vesterday issued the mobilization call | for the coming general strike in the dress manufacturing trades. The meeting, called for the pur- pose of telling the membership of the decisions made by the convention, quickly assumed the character of a marshalling ground for the coming struggle With tremendous enthusiasm, the workers showed that they heartily convention, industrial, tional and political, Speakers, among them. Louis Hy- man, president; Ben Gold. secretary- treasurer; Charles S. Zimmerman and Josevh Borachivich, in diseuss- ing tthe dress strike decision of the) conventior, pointed out that the strike in the dress industry was an absolute necessity, since the open shops and the working standards were no longer bearable. Louis Hyman, in his speech, ridiculed the fake “agreement” ar- rived at between the Schlesinger company union gang and the racketeering outfit that designates | itself as “Dress Contractors Associa-! tion.” He branded this “associa- tion” as a purely paper outfit, which as no-membership, controls no part of the industry, but is there purely | tor the purpose of fighting the wide- spread strike sentiment now existant | among the workers. After telling of the intentions of the new Industrial Union to organize the entire needle trades till the 40- hour week and the week work system | were won back along with the other | union conditions. Charles S. Zimmer- man showed that the workers were being paid the miserable wages of $2 and $3 a day in dress shops. “For 40 cents, an entire dress is made up,” he declared, Ben Gold, aroused the greatest pitch of enthusiasm at the meeting ban when he called on the dress workers to repeat their historic duty of beginning the struggle of the needle workers for a union and for livable standards. This was after he drew a word word picture the intolerable condition. Zim- merman had previously pointed out that in 1909, when the first needle trades unions were being fought for, organiza- the first to go out in a general strike, followed in 1910 by cloak-| raakers and in 1912 by the furriers. A storm of applause broke out when Joseph Borachovich announced of the establishment of fraternal re- | Continued on Page Two New Trial for 7 Begins Next Monday fur worker victims of the anti- strike frame-up in Mineola, Long | Tsland, will be compelled to surren- | der to the police, to begin serving | their sentence of from two und a half to five years in Sing Sing. They are Leo Franklin and M. Mal- kin. The seven other fur workers, who were originally included in the frame-up, but who were recently granted a new trial by the New York State Court of Appeals, were informed by the district attorney ‘The trial is to come up in the same court, Nassau County Court, Min- eola, Long Island. Despite overwhelming evidence of the innocence of all nine fur work- ers, the appeals judges nevertheless could not endure to see all nine working class militants granted a new trial. So they took their toll and two fighters must begin service of their long jail terms tomorrow. The Internationa! Labor Defense, which is now handling the defense 2,000 JAPANESE PEASANTS REVOLT AND TAKE TOWN QO. K. Convention Plans | Be endorsed every decision made at the | the waist and dress makers had been | MINEOLA VICTIMS 60 TO PRISON that the’ date for their new trial | has been set for Monday, Jan. 14. | Greed Is Bad, Taft, Labor | Hater Says: DECREES DEATH the War Labor Board, and director | | since 1920 for the “Peoples Legis- lative Service,” an organization | Military Coup Part of | | calling itself “liberal,” has in a New War Bloc Against Soviet Union |York daily a long interview with William Howard Taft, ex-president lof the United States and chief jus- | tice of the U. S. supreme court. | The interview, copywrighted, is full of “soft soap,” sickening sen- | timentalities and “spiritual” plati- tudes, but the gist of it is in Taft’s | statement that the most disturbing | element in national life is “the ma- | terialistie philosophy which places | wealth and worldly success ahead of YUGOSLAV FRONTIER, Jan. 9. every other consideration in life.” | ‘The first laws of the dictatorship Taft declares that most of the| which has been set up by the king of jgreed is that of “criminals” and Jugoslavia are directed against the | can be nullified by more police. He Communists. Death has been de-| {concludes with approval for class| creed for membership in Communist | ‘collaboration schemes to “solve the| organizations and for harboring | | labor problem.” |Communists, as also for agitation | Nowhere in the interview do | #sainst the government. either Taft or Manly point out what|, A special court with special judges is nevertheless true, that Taft’s is being formed to enforce the dic- | blast against greed was made by a tatorship. |man who has been connected with Against Soviet Union. as many acts of greed as even Hard-| Complete inactivity of the bour- ing’s oil cabinet has to its credit. It | geois parties is encouraging the dic- was Taft who appointed the notor-| tatorship which is now consolidating |ious Secretary of the Interior Bal-| its position. Municipal councils in | | French Manage Move | | Pravda, Izvestia Score Danger to USSR (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) /SERB DICTATOR Demand Anglo- Indian Gov’t Release Johnstone Jack Johnstone, prominent labor leader and militant fighter against imperialism, is still kept prisoner by the Anglo-Indian govern- ment. He was seized by the agents of British imperialism in Diara. India, while addressing the Indian Trade Union Congress on behalf of the International League Against Imperialism. All class conscious workers, all who suffer under the oppressive rule of imperialism, whether British, American, or French, must join in the demand for the immediate release of Jack Johnstone. World imperialism is daily becoming more ruthless, aggressive and arrogant. The two chief imperialist powers, the United States and England, whose rivalries and contest for world domination ere now leading to a new world war, are ruthlessly exploiting and oppress- ing millions upon millions of workers and peasants in all parts of the world. The imperialists and their agents are waging a war of ex- termination against all those who dare to protest against and resist their oppressive rule and their preparations for a new world war. Side by side with preparations for war against each other, the im- perialist powers are intensifying their preparations for war against the Soviet Union. Every day brings fresh news of this conspiracy of world imperialism, led by England, against the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. Jack Johnstone is well-known to the workers of the United States as a militant labor leader who took active part in great labor struggles in the meat-nacking, steel, building and other industries. He came to India as a representative of the International League Against Imperialism to bring to the toiling masses of India greet- ings from the world anti-imperialist movement and pledge of support in their struggle against British imperialist domination. The Anglo- Indian police promptly arrested Jack Johnstone to hinder the inter national consolidation of the oppressed masses against world im- perialism and against the next world imperialist war. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor Party, and the reactionary leaders of the British Trade Union movement are working hand in glove with the English capitalists to keep the colonial masses in subjection. William Green and the whole reactionary bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor have accepted the imperialist wai program of Wall Street and are exerting all their efforts to trans- form completely the American labor movement into an adjunct of the imperialist war machine. The middle class pacifists, socialists and liberals (Borah. Norris, Thomas, Hillquit)—those who pretend in words to be opposed to war but in reality accept the imperialist system which is producing war, are only paralyzing the effoyts of the masses to wage a real struggle against imperialist war. Those who pretend to oppose imperialist armaments (the Cruiser Bill) but accept the Kellogg Pact, the Pan- American Treaties and the League of Nations, which are nothing else but instruments for imperialist rivalry and war, only prove that they are helping the imperialists to deceive the masses. The reformist agents of the bosses in the labor movement—the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., the leaders of the Amsterdam Trade Union International and the Second Socialist International—are the greatest danger to the toiling masses in the development of real anti- war and anti-imperialist struggles, The Workers (Communist) Party of America calls unon the masses to mobilize for struggle against imperialism and the next world war. This means to wage a revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the dictatorship of the capitalist class and for the establishment of the dictatorship of the working class. We call upon the workers, poor farmers, the oppressed Negro masses and all sincere enemies of imperialism to organize mass pro- tests, to demonstrate before the British embassy and consulates, and to send telegrams to the British authorities demanding the immedicte release of Jack Johnstone. We call unon the toiling masses of the United States to mobilize their forces to struggle against the war danger and for the defense and recognition of the Soviet Union. For the immediate release of Jack Johnstone. Down with British imperialism! For the complete and un- conditional independence of India and all the other colonies of British imperialism. Down with United States imperialism! For the complete and unconditional independence of all colonies and semi-colonies of U. S. imperialism! Down with the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., the agents of the imperialists in the labor movement! For militant in- dustrial unions to fight against the war danger, against wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment, company unionism and capitalist rationali- zation generally! Down with the reformist socialist party. For a powerful mass Communist Party to organize and lead the struggles of the masses against the rule of capitalism and for a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment in the United States. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. le New York FIN in New York $8.00 by mail, ATES: MOSES ADMITS KELLOGG PACTS © LEGALIZE WARS | Secretary Wrecks New | Compromise With the Reservationists | Senate will Soon Vote | Debate Only Over Form of Statements WASHINGTON, sees 9.—In_ the ‘ourse of the sham battle which continued today, over the Kellogg imperialistic treaties, Senator Moses admitted they were treaties to legalize war. The question is whether they shall be voted thru in their present form, which Secretary of State Kellogg assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee amply | “safeguarded” the U. S. empire in Latin-America, but which statement he obstinately refused to read into the discussion before the senate to- day. A compromise with the “reserva- tionists” who insist on plain state- ments that bar British imperialism from any territory which U, S. im- perialism has set aside for itself had been reached. They would have been satisfied with Kellogg’s official declaration to the senate that the « treaties do not effect the Monroe | Doctrine. But now the debate will probably go on for several days, be- fore a vote is taken. The vote will surély be in the affirmative. Senator Moses in the course of a long speech admitted. “First, that the treaty, instead of abolishing war, actually legalizes war. Professor E. M. Borchard of Yale Law School was entirely cor- rect when he told the Williamstewn Institute of Politics that the treaty, now qualified ¥y the French and British reservations, constitutes no yenunciation or outlawry of war, but is, in fact and in law, a solemn sanction for all wars mentioned in| the exceptions and qualifications.” Bloody Premier | | | | | | | Aguwinsi the oppressive regime of the Tanaka government, 2,000) Japanese peasants are now in re- jvolt. They have attacked and cap- tured the town of Omoru, in the pre- | feeture of The governmen has ordered troops against the ve-| volving peasants. Above, prentier Tanaka, PLAN NEW DRIVE. AGAINST SANDING. Reactionary Forces Are Prepared MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 9.—| The United States government, thru) Brigadier-General Logan | Feland,| commanding the marines in Nicara-| gua, Admiral David Sellers and the puppet president Moncada, is now) organizing special forces*to send against the army of General Sandino| in northern Nicaragua. Announcing to press correspond- | ents that now only small “bandit | groups” remain composed of from 10 to 50 “bandits” each, Moncada | states that he has “decided” to or- ganize special Nicaraguan forces, | under the direction of Yankee ma- rines, and dispatch them to “wipe out “the bandits.” The confvined™: forces of marines and national guard | will be personally directed by Gen-| eral Feland. Airplanes and Seller’s| sailors will also be pressed into ser- | vice. Jingoes in Vicious Drive r | on Lenin Memonial Meet Vicious attacks were launched yesterday by powerful patriotic or- ganizations against the -Workers | (Communist) Party in its plan to hold a mass demonstration in Madison Square Garden, Saturday) * \evening, January 19, to commemo- ‘rate the anniversary of Lenin’s| death and to emphasize the war} | danger, | Fred R. Marvin, head of the no-| torious Keymen of America, with’ \officees at 120 Forty-second St., jurged that the United States gov- |ernment take action to halt the pro-! |posed exhibit of the American flag jcaptured by Sandino’s men, which} \the Party will offer as evidence of} ; Wall Street imperialism in Latin America. of sedition.” |. “The Federal authorities should intervene,” he asserted. “Possibly the city authorities should also act. | The proposal of the Communists is ;more than mere disrespect to the ;flag. The Communists openly seek | to overthrow the present govern- |ment. This is just part of their | policy. | linger, who looted the forest re-|important districts have been dis- | serves and mineral reserves of the | solved and government commission- | |U. S. for his friends, the lumber |ers have been appointed.. It is! |and mining companies. Thousands | rumored that unreliable’ ministers from the public domain, by Taft’s|for instance, transport minister appointee, Ballinger, and practical- | Koroshetch, former premier, by Gen- | Continued on Page Three jeral Kalabovitch, in order to guar- i} : lantee strategic transport interests in | ease of war against the Soviet Union. HIT LYNCHING AT knew of the concentration of troops | in Croatia weeks before the coup | proves their ‘complicity. Despite, MEETING T TONIGHT | declarations of the Croat leaders and the censored press, mass hos- | tility towards the dictatorship ) finding expression. | Part of Anti-USSR Bloc. at Harlem Protest (Wireless By “‘Inprecorr”) : . MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 9.— sissippi as an act of savage terror- /Jugoslavia an ae DrogareaGon ee a military dictatorship, “Isvestia,” | lism against the Negro masses, the | official or; f the Soviet G | Harlem local of the American Ne- 5 aaath ie Sah a ahaa ea [gro Labor Congress has called 7 ight at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th’ St. This meeting will be one of ieee N R held by locals of the organization throughout the country. At these | meetings the organization will | T0 LAUNCH DRIVE launch a campaign for the creation | of inter-racial defense committees to fight the crime of lynching. In a | Sa statement issued last night, the Friday Night Rally to called upon all Negroes to organize Start Union Drive | “protect and defend your lives.” | Taheeee thinking Negro,” the state- |_ PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 8—This ment reads, “every class-conscious Friday night, in Carpenters’ Hall, worker, must come out to ‘make an 56 Van Houten St., silk workers will | bar us terrorism! |to the call of the Paterson Local of | nite to demand the abolition of | the National Textile Workers Union. | lynching and terrorism! Organize | The meeting will mark the first offi- | to protect and defend your lives!” |cial step in beginning the organiza-| Speakers scheduled for the Har- tion drive the union laid plans tl | Moore, Mrs. Williana Burroughs of| After the silk strike here had | the Brownsville local of the Con-| been betrayed by the reactionary of- | gress; Karl Reeve, editor of Labor ficials of the Associated Silk Work- | | Defender, and Robert Minor, editor ers Union, the bosses began an in-| | of the Daily Worker. |tensified campaign to cut wages. dustry is now almost wholly unor- | A ganized, is what the union is bank. Meet Tonight at Office | ing on for carrying thru a success-| ‘ful drive, | A special meeting of the knit goods| Ben Gitlow, Workers Parity leader | jlocal of the National Textile Work- : ers’ Union will take place tonight Continued on Page Two at :30 at the district office, 247 The reason is beginning in this| |industry. The executive board of the |Knit Goods’ Workers local has work- ‘ed out a very important plan that |must be carried out “immediately. ‘demands for the knit goods’ local ‘and therefore calls all members to this special meeting to discuss all |. 'these important reports of the execu- tive, which are to be presented for jof acres of land were withdrawn |are being replaced by generals, as The fact that the Croat leaders | Minor, Others to Speak | : (Continued on Page Five) protest mass meeting for tonight ae American Negro Labor Congress effective protest against this bar-|gather at a mass meeting in answer ‘lem meeting include Richard B.|carry out here. | This, as well-as the fact that the in- | Knit Goods Local Will and trade unionist, will be one of Sixth Ave. | Also the executive has work(d out their approval. a of vagrancy. of the two victims, yesterday issued a statement calling on all class-con- scious workers io support it in a drive to compel freedom for Frank- lin and Malkin, A call was also issued by the I. L. D. to all those having collection lists on the Mineola cases. The money is now badly needed, the an- nouncement states, because new at- torneys must be hired for the new trial in addition to the immediate needs to begin an intensified fight to free the two who go to prison, arranged murder festival. and quit town. talist class is even more cynical. tive of capi his capture. was riddled with machine gun by This shopkeeper got together capitalism. i Marvin declared that to| |exhibit the flag would be “an act| “Sandino is an enemy of this gov ernment. To put on exhibition an American flag captured by him is} to aid the enemy. It should not be} permitted.” The plan to display the flag with Sandino’s signature was branded = “almost treason” by Walter Joyce, director of the Americaniza- | tion Committee of the Veterans of | Foreign Wars. “This is an outrage. It is an act} against the interests of the repub-| lic. The federal authorities certain- ly ought to take action,” Joyce said. “I believe Police Commissioner Grover Whalen also will be stren-| uously opposed to the proposal to} exhibit this flag, to exploit it inj such a manner. I have known! Whalen for years. He is a good} friend of mine. However, I don't! know whether he will take steps to! ‘block this attempt. | “At any rate the Madison Square | | Garden should be heavily policed on} the day of the demonstration. The} Veterans of Foreign War: posi- | tively in favor of the Coolidge pol- icy in keeping the marines in Ni yagua, The Communists should not be allowed to display this flag, eay tured from our own troops.” To All Oppressed Negroes! To All Negro, White Workers! The closing of the year 1928 was celebrated in Mis- sissippi with the lynching of two Negro workers. Charley | Shepard, a Negro prisoner who ran away from the fright- ful butalities at the state penitentiary at Parchman, was hunted with bloodhounds for three days by 1,000 men. Finally surrendered by his brother, with whom he had taken refuge, upon the understanding that he would be given a trial and a chance to defend himself against the accusation of killing a prison guard the day he escaped, he was immediately turned over to a blood- thirsty mob of Mississippi's “leading citizens.” Long before his capture, these leading citizens planned his mur- der, and as soon as news spread that he had been found, three coun- ties began vomiting up their potential murderers, and the roads to Parchman were soon packed with automobiles speeding to the pre- Shepard was soaked in gasoline and burned at the stake while a mob of 2,000 howled and cheered as his tortured body became a flaming mass. A few days before, another Negro worker, Emanuel McCullum, was lynched by a mob of business men in Hattiesburg, Miss. .Mc- Cullum’s crime lay in the fact that he dared to protest against being overcharged by a white merchant. with his cronies in the local Chamber of Commerce, and McCullum was taken out into the woods one night and eka bis with a half- itiuch rope. He had dared to protne against one phase of the robbery | of the working class by the capitalist class. In McCullum’s case, a coroner’s jury returned the verdict of “death at the hands of parties unknown.” from Sheriff Gray that McCullum had told him of threats against | his life. The sheriff “did not have time to protect workers,” and especially Negro workers, so he advised McCullum to leave his job A confession was forced In the case of the murder of Shepard, the attitude of the capi- Gov. Bilbo, executive representa- lism in the state of Mississippi, brutally declares he has “neither the time nor the money to investigate 2,000 people.” These two brutal lynchings are part of a nation-wide wave of terrorism against the Negro masses and must be met by the united action of white and black workers. In the state of New Jersey dur- ing the same week that the Mississippi lynchings occurred, a Negro worker was hunted by bloodhounds and beaten almost to death upon In New York City, on the Brooklyn and Manhattan sub- ways, two attacks on Negro workers by U. S. sailors occurred. A few weeks previous, a 16-year-old Negro youth, Frank Whithurst, 200 Chicago police after defending himself bravely from their attack. These lynchings and other acts of terrorism are a part of the savage repression and brutal exploitation of the Negro masses under They reveal the hypocrisy of the exploiters who speak | Continued on Page Two dakate Committee aes! Papers Forged Against ‘Borah, Norris, USSR | WASHINGTON, Jan. (UP).— ; Demand that William Randolph} Hearst, newspaper publisher, be con- |demned officially for publication of | certain forged Mexican documents { which prevented action in the senate late today on a special committee | | report absolying Senators Borah of| \Idaho and Norris of Nebraske from charges implied in other ¢ 1 pa- | pers. | 9 hildish to attempt to hold persons guilty for the inception of the war; it inn mix= | take to accuse Kings and enars of having created the present ‘The war | | | | war, was made by enp' | infantr: | district. | leagues | Communists, | olutionary tf evening. AS AL CITY EDITION MIKADO'S ARMY ORDERED IN 10 SHOOT FARMERS (Oppression and Heavy Taxes Cause Muen Discontent Officials Flood Land Forty Killed as Police Driven Fr om. Namoru TOKIO, Jan n the imperial feudal government took place a amoru, Gifu prefecture, Two thousand Japanese pe: stormed the town of Namorz out | had been assembied there and cap- tured it. The Japanese government is send the three hundred police who ing three companies of regular army with machine guns and | hand grenades to t and drive the | peasantry from the and make arrests. They are ordered to shoot to kill. But the revolt is spread- | ing. Forty casualties were reported in the battie with the police. Government Floods. The immediate cause of the up. rising is said to be the flooding of |peasant lands and destruction of lena which means starvation for the farmers. The fioods were | started by government officials en- gaged in constructing engincering work on a river flowing through the The government is an agent of the big landlords and big manufacturers, and wants to build power plants and open up interior navigation, without regard te the needs of the peasantry. Great Unrest. There is vast discontent through- out Japan, and this is one instance where it broke through into action. The suppression of the peasant and peasant parties last summer, the death penalty law for the destruction of left wing labor unions in the cities: and he ,terrifie taxation of the farmers | are driving farmers and workers f | alike to revolution. The imperial | coronation, in November and De- |cember, on which millions of dol- lars were squandered, resulted in sudden and sharp increases in taxa- tion. Demonstrations against the gov- Continued on Hou On Eee Two " DUNCAN DANCERS IN FINE PROGRAM ‘Workers’ Children to See Them Saturday The program for the i three performances of the Isadorz. Duncan Dancers at Manhattan Opera House, a4th St, west of Eighth Av = iced yesterday, is one of the ting they have appeared in. The program bert’s Ave Mar lowed by Chop’ valtzes fro of the ded with I. nd Beethoven’s Ruin: The second part zr the remarkab' Impressions ot ey t the cate iversar thunderous tion of the Daily Wo: The last three be given Saturday afi. Sunday afternoon ar The Saturday po ance has been arranged cially for workii ass childr all Young Pioneers and pu left wing schools will attend in a block and be admitted at a special price. Tickets for all three performances sre selling fast. Those who don’t want to be turned away should buy them immediately at the office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union’ ia ® | Delay Printing of the! | Trotskyist Papers Pxblication of ihe documents vand more nor less than the imperia which dictated » war between thoxe competing for the owner- From speech memorin} Madison Sq rther exposing the Trotskyist | plot has been postponed. Watch the Daily Worker for further an- | nouncement. | © os aa LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING AT, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY “19TH? a nin i AAA int kit