The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1929, Page 2

fs oi DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929 = — 72,000 JAPA NE SE ‘To the Oppressed Negroes! ‘EXTRACTS CASH sas aoae Threatens to Flood London Workers’ Section NICARAGUAN IN , PEASANTS REBEL AND TAKE TOWN Rise After Long Period of Oppression Continued from Page One ernment took place in city and coun- try alike during the coro period, and thousands Were arrested. ry, eee | tion Reign of Terror. In connection with the reign of terror in Japan, the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat on October 15 issued a statement calling for the overthrow of the Mikado and his of workers | of “democracy” and “justice,” To All Negro, White Workers! ERoM THE HOPES Continued from Page One but who really only reward their Negro slaves with the lynch rope, the stake, jimcrowism, peonage and other brutal forms of oppression. Lynching is purposely maintained by the capitalist rulers of | America as a necessary part of the vicious system of oppression and exploitation which keeps the Negro masses as a slave class at the bottom of capitalist society, degraded and driven in the most mer- ciless fashion, to produce profits for their inhuman exploiters. is the naked engine of terror by which the exploiters seek to prevent the Negro masses from organizing for their own protection and mak- ing common cause with the exploited white workers. The brutal and atrocious treatment of the Negro masses, of which lynching, cold-blooded and horrible, acteristic of United States imperialism which suppresses with bay- onet and gun the peoples of Haiti, Latin America and the Philippines and crushes with murderous cruelty every attempt of the colonial and semi-colonial peoples to free themselves from the oppression and exploitation of their imperialist masters. Only a revolutionary workers’ and farmers’ government can abolish lynching and overthrow the whole vicious system of dis- It n expression, is a char- OF UNEMPLOYED alton Connected With Tammany Hall By HARRISON GEORGE. | Yesterday the Daily Worker de- } scribed how one Ralph E. Dalton, | president and proprietor of the |“Workers’ Ethical and Community Center,” weaves fairy tales of “free” jobs to be had by joining his or- |ganization. The capitalist press, with its usual shameless assistance to any parasite upon the poor, had) lured a few jobless workers into} Dalton’s office. | We listened to beautiful promises tion which lies along its shores. PATERSON RALLY The Thames is rising and has already begun to overflow its vanks. threatening the workers’ sec- Above, workers building dams to stem the flood. |High French Military | and the Gov’t Officials | Praise Foe of U.S.S.R. HOT ATTACK ON LATIN LAGKEYS |Felicitate Oppressor at Washington Meet “At present, Nicaragua does not have the government that it de- serves, but one that is imposed upon it by the necessity of living with | 7,000 foreign bayonets at its breast, | forty airplanes, artillery and all the paraphenalia of the best equipped most powerful nation,” says Toribio Tijerino, of 284 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, in a letter to “La Prensa,” the New York Spanish language capitalist daily. | class rule, part of which is as fol-] crimination and exploitation. It was the revolutionary Communist | PARIS, Jan. 9.—French govern- “In this fight, General Sandino TO LAUNCH DRIVE LYNCH A NEGRO lows: Party which abolished lynching and pogroms in Russia. It will be ie Paes iiaveriene! ment and military officials again| Fiat oh pee paaeetan eta ‘The spectre of ‘dangerous| the revolutionary Workers (Communist) Party of America that will | &' Be nay jotibad hie oepaniens Frida Ni ht Rall: to demonstrated their unity with all Fancied Attack Starts the Nicaraguan people in its im- thoughts’ is haunting hourgeois| abolish lynching in America in the same way. eee De ey aed Gate aor ee Wy ent Soviet clemmats “by attending! i J mense majority is with him, defend- Japan. ‘Dangerous thoughts’ are The Workers (Communist) Party stands forth as champion of | 21,0.¢ trade unionism. | Start Union Drive the funeral of former Grand Duke Memphis Mobs Seare ing as best they are able. Sprouting in the heads of the ju venile _proletarians. ‘Dangerous thoughts’ are spreading wide among | the working masses and are taking | root in the army and navy. the oppressed Negro masses. Only the Workers Party supports the Negro masses in their struggle against the system of lynching and race oppression. Only this Party unites black and white workers in “And all this, while the represen- tatives of our brother nations em- brace and felicitate our oppressors and raise not a finger to halt the burning of our homes, the slaughter of our citizens and the outrage of our women. Why No Protest at Washington? . Nicholas of Russia, and joined in| A young fellow declared to Dal- Continued from Page One praise of his acitivities against the) MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan, 9.—An- ili 1 snaked ake fi fallat Gapreasion: of ham that a man of his tremendous the chief speakers at the meeting Soviet Union. | other brutal lynching of a ee militant struggle against the system of imperialist oppression, | influence should “get some big poli-| Friday. In addition to Albert Weis-| Among those present were Mar-|being prepared here, to add to the which lynching is an outgrowth. Only this Party champions the |ticians” behind his plan. Dalton! bord, secretary-treasurer of the N. shalls Foch, Joffre and Petain, for- | two that landlords and business men Negro masses in their right of self-defense and only this Party assures him that Senator Wagner|T- W. U., a representative of the | mer President Millerand, Minister |of Mississippi have just perpetrated. fights with them against capitalist mob violence and terrorism. = inoton is “fighting” for his| New Needle Trades Workers Indus- | of War Painleve, Minister of Marine| ~ A score of policemen and deputy The Communist Party considers it as its historic duty to unite We/| trial Union will also address the Leygues, high army officials and sheriffs today led a mob of several Connected With Tammany Hall. “Oppression.” “The causes «of the ‘dangerous thoughts’ are not far nor difficult | to be found. Precisely the extreme | exploitation and oppression of the | working class and peasant masses | by the bourgeoisie and the landlords, | the enforcement of the speed-up system and the lengthening of the | workday, which flings hundreds and hundreds of thousands of prole- | tarians on the streets of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, ctc., the cut in wages and the pressing of the stand- ard of living of the workers down even lower; the systematic and per- all workers regardless of their color, against the common enemy, against the master class. The Negro race must understand that capi- talism means racial oppression, and Communism means full racial equality: political, economic, social. The following are the demands of the Workers (Communist) Party for which it fights with all its vigor and determination. It calls upon the workers and poor farmers, black and white, to organ- ize their might to put these demands into effect: 1, Abolition of the whole system of race discrimination. racial, poli | and social equality for the Negro race. 2. Abolition of all laws which result in segregation of Negroes. Abolition of all Jim Crow laws. The law shall forbid all discrimina- Full | free employment bureau bill. Hall fake friend of labor on_ his; |loyal supporter, Mr. Dalton, Like} water, fakers find their own level. | | Dalton says. |ganization to us alone. We could not but be overwhelmed with ad- | miration. The place has no telephone yet, | compliment Wagner, the Tammany 8athering. Park Co. Boss Gives In. ~five who walked out | Wagner will lecture for this outfit, | ge atiaursalld ae vee Silk Co. and | ys. Bat Dalton senue ™Me/ kept it paralyzed for some period! jo ret assistant, no less garrulous, | pecause their shop chairman had | who recites the wonders of the or-!been dismissed, went back to work yesterday when the boss capitulated |to the demand that the worker dis-| criminated against be reinstated The workers are enthusiastic in representatives of the Danish, Bra-| hundred business men in a search of | |zilian, Yugoslavian and Czechoslo-|all suburbs and surrounding coun- |vakian legations. \try for a Negro, variously described. Cuban Workers’ Kick | Stalled by Official |shot and wounded a Negro who “ap- | proached and insulted” her this aft- HAVANA, Jan. 9.—Some time ago | ¢rnoon, It is this man the mob says the tobacco workers demonstrated in |they want to find, but they are in the streets and petitioned President |@ mood to lynch any Negro they sus- Machado against the introduction of | pect. jhaving insulted her. A certain Dollie Bernard says she | who is accused by a hysterical girl of | jor “jobs would be pouring in,” we cigar-making machines which would “Grand and good that they sign treaties of Pan-American Concilia- tion and avoid war between Bolivia and Paraguay for the oil of the | Chaco; but perhaps there might have been one of our worthy brothers gathered at Washington who might have said that reconcilia- tion of our peoples could not be ob- | taintd while United States marines jare killing Nicaraguans in a war | that has no place within the treaties of compulsory arbitration. ; ‘ % ‘ ; ; M Ne; s h b bi d | sistant persecution and suppression| tion against Negroes in selling or renting houses. Banu NOeTOes RAYS Dee e HUD cf strikes, peasant riots, mass dem- 3. Abolition of all laws which disfranchise the Negroes. onstrations—all combined causes 4. Abolition of laws forbidding intermarriage of persons of dif- |their acclamation of the N. T. W. Local, under whose leadership the | victory was won. The employers; jare told by an individual who signs |himself “Frank B, Lassiter,” tho Dalton told us we were to see “Mr. put a large percentage of workers at the stake in the South and mas: Fight Will Go On. out of work. |sacres of whole Negro populations “Perhaps Colombia itself might and drives the working masses to ferent races. ‘dangerous thoughts,’ to thoughts 5. of revolutionary working class con- profit, cepts, and the crystallization of a definite left wing within the Japa- nese labor movement. Fight Empire. “The newly formed left wing de- velops ripidly into a leading center of the mass struggles, not only those of an economic character and imme- diate nature, but also of political activities and far-reaching revolu- tionary aspirations. The left wing presses not only the struggles of the daily needs and the fight for free speech, free press, freedom of strike, organization, etc., but it also promotes the struggle for the over- throw of the open and violent bour- geois dictatorship and the establish- ment of the workers’ and peasants’ government in Japan. Likewise the left wing propaganda for the inde- pendence of Korea and Formosa, as ‘well as the campaign for the ‘Hands groes. civil service. ing conditions for Negro and whi work for Negro and white workers. ing, oppression and exploitation. abolition of the system of lynching - Abolition of all laws and public administrative measures which or in practice prevent, Negro children or youth from attending general public schools or universities. 6. Full and equal admittance of Negroes to all railway station waiting rooms, restaurants, hotels and theatres. 7. Federal law against lynching and the protection of the Negro masses in their right of self-defense. 8. Abolition of discriminatory practices in courts against Ne- No discrimination in jury service. 9. Abolition of the convict lease system and of the chain gang. 10. Abolition of all Jim Crow distinctions in the army, navy and 11. Immediate removal of all restrictions in all trade unions against the membership of Negro workers. 12. Equal opportunity for employment, wages, hours and work- ite workers. Equal pay for equal : The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon the Negro and white workers to organize and fight against the lynching system, to join and support the only Party that can and does fight against lynch- Unite against the lynchers aad exploiters, organize for the . Join the Workers (Communist) Smith.” The evils, genuine enoug! {of employment offices where you} {have to buy a job, were retold by “Smith” or “Lassiter’—take your | |choice. Here, all is “free.” h. here were bitter in fighting the * strike, going to the extent of as-| saulting a picket volunteer, a mem- | |ber of the N. T. W. Formerly members of the reaction- To stall off the workers the in- | in such cities as St. Louis have been terior department has proposed a carried thru, because some notoriety- $1,000 tax on each machine annual- {Seeking neurotic has told stories of ly. However, President Machado has | being attacked. In many cases the yet to consider the proposal and | accuser afterwards confesses that not finish by benefiting itself from our situation by signing with Adolfo Diaz a treaty by which is legalized that which Chamorro gave to the States in the Chamorro- |Brvan treaty? Tnited | “Of course, ‘we protect ourselves | ary Associated Silk Workers Union, from guys that may get a job and | the officials of which harmed in- we never hear of them again. If| stead of helped the strike, the work- we offered jobs free there would be |€rs here are no longer paying dues mounted police outside holding back|to the Associated. This Friday |the crowds. So jobs are only for they are to meet to decide the ques- members of the organization. From | tion of joining the N. T. W. |25 cents up, you are entitled to all| ae gay | privileges. Papers here, ee |checkers. Got a restaurant in the Social and Dance. |basement. Chicken dinner, good,| The Women’s Council of Paterson |too, for 35 cents.” lyesterday announced that prepara- approve of anything to hinder the| cheapening of production, such as/| the restriction proposed, “You will agree that to promise freedom to the workers and nt the same time to leave the castles, the land, the factories and all the re- sources in the hands of the capi- | talistx and land-holders—that thix has nothing to do with liberty and | equality. We have only one slogan, | one watchword: Everyone who works has n right to enjoy the imperialist agencies state he will not | the attack was imaginary. | “Tt is not strange, then, that there ; ‘ jmay be Nicaraguans who tire of a Nearing, Bridges to terrible struggle and appear hope- Debate In Chicago |less, commencing to believe, at see- | ing themselves alone and abandoned CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Is Commun- | by those whose duty and own inter- ism in American Conceivable?” is |¢Sts oblige them to aid us, in the the subject of the debate between) USelessness of a sacrifice that is not Seott Nearing, Communist lecturer,| St all appreciated by those who and Dr. Horace J. Bridges, leader of | should, better than any other, know the Chicago Ethical Society, at the| appreciation, seeing that Panama is not far away, both in situation and |. We ask about rooms here, since | both “a job and a bed” are prom-/| |ised the unemployed. “Smith-Las- |siter” assures us that there are |some beds, but he don’t know the | price. “You'll have to see Mr. Dal- {ton about that. But some of the | boys are rooming here.” So Dal- |ton runs a rooming house, a res- tions for the social and dance sched- ulel for Sunday, are all but com- pleted. The affair is arranged for the purpose of raising funds for the organization drive of the N. T. W. local. It is certain, according to remarks heard, that all those who tasted the coffee and cakes the Coun- cil used to donate the silk strikers, good things of life. Idlers, para- sites, those who suck out the blood of the toiling mass must be de- prived of these blessings. And aur ery is: To the workers—everything | to the tollers, everything!” From xpeech by Lenin at mans meetive in Moscow. Lenin memorial meet- ing, January 19, in Madison Square Garden. Austin Community Forum, Sunday, Jan. 18, at 8 p. m. | in historic location. | “Meanwhile, T am able to assure | natriots, the Nicaraguan National- jist Party, which I have the honor Proletariat."—Lenin, Attend the |t0 represent abroad, will continue Lenin memorial meeting, January | the ficht. even though we have to 19, im the Madison Square Garden. ‘leave it as a legacy to »ur sons,” “The Party ix the highest ‘form of the class organization of the Party. |taurant, club and employment bu- will come to the affair to take -ad- |Teau, all “free” if you pay. vantage of the swell cookery which Queer Stories. will probably be available there. We are convinced and ask for an application blank. Unfortunately, )| |like the telephone, there “ain’t any| where “free” jobs were found al- yet,” though we are told that the ways to have something attached to “organization” has been going for | them by Mr. Dalton in the line of | “quite some time.” “Mr, Vail there| finance. Workers complained to the has been a member for two or three | Daily Worker of being swindled by |years. Got about 1,500 members.|the “ethical” and “equitable” Mr. | Get more now that Mr, Dalton is on| Dalton. Revised and revived his the job, He’s been working nights | plan now offers “free” jobs, if you |at the New York hospital and work- | pay for them by aed the organ- a: ing days here. Now he’s going to| ization. Then the job assumes a jae the employers and their seab | give all his time here. Resigned his | guise of futurist art patterns. You | union agents are in terror over the | position there.” | pay for meals. You pay for bed. approaching general strike in the | w, tink PS 0 ; i dress industry We had just heard from Dalton in| The bed-bugs may be furnished ‘ the next room that he had been| without charge. There are going | At the meeting last night the de- | sick, hence unable to boost the “or-| to be “entertainments” uptown. You | cisions of the Industrial Needle | ganization” which he said had 1,200 | will doubtless pay for that also. Off China’ movement threatened to become a serious obstacle tc the Japanese imperialist aggression and invasion of China, and a disturbing factor in the general preparation for imperialist war. Firstly, in prepara- tion of war against Soviet Russia and the great Chinese revolution, and, secondly, for a war against its imperialist rivals, against the United States of America in particular. Suppress Peasant Organization. “Therefore the smash-up of the left wing. ‘Therefore right after the general elections the Tanaka government began a vicious attack against the left wing and revolu- | tionary organizations. Thus on March 14 over one thousand left wing trade unionists and Commu- _Negro and white workers, organize mass meetings to protest against these brutal lynchings and mob violence. Negro and white workers, organize protest demonstrations against these dastardly crimes maintained by the capitalist class. Workers, rally your union or other labor organizations behind the fight against lynching and exploitation. Negro and white workers, unite and organize inter-racial defense organizations to defend the lives of the workers against capitalist terrorism. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. NEEDLE TRADES (Siw ‘as2 nists were arrested and simultane- ously the left wing organizations dissolved, namely, the Nippon Rodo Kunuiai Hyogikai (Trades Union Council in Japan), the Musan Sei- nen Domei (Proletarian Youth League) and the Ronoto (Workers’ | and Peasants’ Party), were all broken up. In April again mass ar- | rests all over the country and, above all, the promulgation of the ‘Bloody |lations with the Red International | PREPARE STRIKE Scab Union Gives Piece | Work to Dress Bosses | Continued from Page One | of Labor Unions. Other speakers | were, A. Koretz and Bleiman. J, H. Cohen was chairman. | Law’—a law calling for a death penalty or at least ten years’ im- | prisonment for every revolutionary seeking to change the present form | of the Japanese state. Mass arrests | again in August and more mass ar- rests last week. At the same time the mass trials are in full sway of | Positive evidence was offered yes- | terday, through the columns of the employers’ press in the ladies’ gar- ment industry, that the company union leaders—Schlesinger and gang -—were hypocrites when they denied intentions of legalizing the sweat- shop system of piece-work in the cloak and dress industry. Here are the facts: Two hundred and seventy work- ers, employed in the seven dress Trades Union to call district meet- ings all over the city was received with acclaim. All next week, these meetings, several in each borough, will be held. Dates and places will | be announced later. The Boston meeting tonight<n the Paine Memorial, Hall. promises to be a huge success. Sentiment for the amalgamation meeting, where the | furriers and the cloak and dress- makers locals are to be joined, is running high. A large committee of the rank and file are planning to meet Louis Hyman, union president, and Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer, at the station when they come in to town for the meeting. The Philadelphia amalgamation meeting is also planned as a banner rally by both locals here, who are making elaborate plans for it. The meeting will be held next Wednes- day, Jan, 16. The Baltimore meet- ing will take place on Thursday eve- |members. Grew 300 between the, Quite fitting it is, that the capi- two rooms and two spinners of | talist press is “behind” this outfit. | fairy tales for the jobless. “Most | |of the big papers backing us,” said | | Lassiter-Smith.” Also, we learn }are “big people.” A Mr. Gordon | Battle is mentioned as one. “Now that you’re a member you’re entitled | to all the privileges. Come here Such is the Seventh Avenue para- | dise. A sequel, we learn to an- | other earlier one on Fourteenth St., and sit around as long as you want.” | It is also behind all fake remedies, like Hoover’s, to “solve” the unem- ployment problem. Under capital- ism there is no “cure” for capital- | ism’s jobless army. But there are parasites with fake reforms and “cures” to extract a living from the victims of capitalism who seek some way of avoiding the only genuine cure—the end of capitalism by revo- lution. Every Worker— Every Party Member and Sympathizer SHOULD WEAR A S) at, Jan.19 DOORS OPEN AT 7 P. M. ning, Jan. 17. Lenin Memorial Button Sold through all Workers (Communist Party District Organizations Madison Sq. Garden 49th Street & 8th Ave. Spanish Government Acquires Shell Oil Property in Spain LONDON, Jan. 9.—All the instal- lations of the Shell Oil Company, a o British concern, in Spain, are short- saying that they ily to be turned over to the Spanish ) Should not have locked out the work- | oi] monopoly, which is owned by the | lers, since they could have waited | government, but like the tobacco | Speakers: |until Jan. 31 (when the agreement preparation by the employment of the most cruel methods and barbar- | ous tortures. Especially the most | outrageous and brutal torture are | heing inflicted by the Mikado spies | manufacturing shops in Ozone Park, and police to the comrades arrested Long Island, were locked out Dec. in Korea and Tokyo.” | 31 by their bosses, who have banded Lk LES EEE | together into a “Long Island Dress . Contractors’ Association.” A.B. Magil to Talk on The Losses demanded that the 7 i |“union” abrogate the agreement for 4 Revolutionary Poetry jweek-work and start the piece-work Poetry” will be given by A. B, Magil, | System. of the Daily Worker staff, tomorrow| A strike ensued, which lasted until night at 8:30 at Irving Plaza, 15th Monday. During this short period St. and Irving Pl. The talk will be the scab union officials made state- given under the auspices of the Fol | ments in which they shook their fin- are of the Trail, workers’ sports | rers at the bosses, cultural organizations. Magil will discuss the social ten- dencies in modern poetry and read an the work of Carl Sandburg, | Michael Gold, Alexander Blok and | ‘a number of other poets. * | A Word to the Wise afternoon 3 expires) Then, the bosses were told, they could have made their de- mand legally, But this is by no means all they did! Because yesterday the offi- cials ordered the workers back on the job under the piece-work sys- tem. Messrs. Grossman and Dinola, the company union representatives, had concluded an agreement with the bosses legalizing piece-work. This was done with the aid of A. J. Portenar, chief mediator of the de- partment of labor of New York state. This action, as well as the sign- ing of a fake one-year agreement with the New York dress manufac- | i monopoly is farmed out to private capitalists. The price stated is to be $5,500,- 000, and although the Shell Com- pany says that this represents only 8 per cent of the value of the prop- erties and business, this is an in- credible generosity on the part of company which may be taken with several grains of salt. It is added that similar properties of the Standard Oil and the French oil companies are not yet acquired by the Spanish monopoly, as these companies refuse to accept the price offered them. Though all these for- eign holdings were taken over a year ago, there have been no compensa- tions made before the present one turers, is clear evidence of the fact {made to the Shell Company, ou mela aaa ~~ These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” | i All Party Units! . Order Your Buttons NOW! ! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City SOVIET SPORTS SPECTACLE By Labor Sports Union Symphonic Brass. Band “1905” “1917 “Insurrection” Revolutionary Program by the Noted Pianist JASCHA FISCHERMAND eae Freiheit Gesangs Vere JAY LOVESTONE WM, Z. FOSTER and Others ADMISSION 50c and $1.00 Auspices: Workers [Communist] Party, 26 Union Squar