The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For 4 Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y.. under the act of March 3, 187! Vol. V., No. 320 Published daily except 5: Publishing Association, inc., 26-28 Uni iny by The National Daily Worker Sa. New York, N. ¥. W YORK, FRI DAY, JANUA RY 11, 1929 INFORM SENATE HOOVER FRIEND IN MEXICO PLOT Held Papers Showing U.S. Embassy Helped Counter Revolt Baker RealReactionary Admit Leitner: Forged Against USSR WASHINGTON, Jan. 10,—The senate committee investigating documents bearing on the question of whether various government of- ficials have been bribed by foreign governments today turned in a re- port showing evidence that George Barr Baker, adviser to President- elect Hoover had last year about 200 documents, taken from the files of the U. S. legation at Mexico City. These documents told a story of in- terference with Mexican politics by the U. S, ambassador who acted as a friend and consultant of the re- actionary counter-revolution then being organized. Ambassador Shef- field admitted losing the documents. Mexicans Saw Documents. Baker’s defense is that the docu-| ments came into possession of Mex- ican authorities, and that his con- nection with them was to get them back and immediately return them to the state department. The com- mittee hinted, in defense of the U. S. government that some of the documents were forged, but did not publish either these or any of the others. George Barr Baker is a former naval officer, and newspaper man between imperialist expeditions. He was attached by the Supreme Econ- Continued on Page Five NAME ALL DAWES BOARD BUT U. S. Mostly Gov’t Bank and Cabinet Men PARIS, Jan. 10.—Twelve of the 14 members of a committee of finan- cial experts which will undertake to more effectively divide the war booty thru revision of the Dawes plan were named by reparations commission in session here late to- day. Tho the two unofficial American delegates were not announced, Owen D. Young is to be one of them. Others are: Great Britain: Sir Josiah Stamp and Lord Revelstoke, both administrators of the Bank of England. France:—Emile Moreau, Governor of the Bank of France, and Jean Larmentier, former minister of finance. Italy:—Alberto Pirelli and Fulvio Suviteh, both capitalist economists. Belgium:—E, Francqui, indus- trialist, and M. Gutt, members of the reparations commission. Japan:—Kengo Mori, former Japanese financial advisor in Lon- don, and Tetsuturo Aoki, vice- governor of the Imperial Bank of Japan. Germany:—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Rechsbank, and Al- bert Voegler, industrialist. Workers in N. 7 _ Bosses’ SERB DICTATOR City Aid Daily Worker WELDS BLOODY | The workers of Roebling, N. J., a company town, every inch of which is owned by the Roebling Wire Com- pany, have succeeded in outwitting the.company spies that hover over every moment of their lives and have sent $47.56 to the Daily Worker as a greeting on the fifth anniversary |‘ jof the paper. This tribute comes from workers who cannot even read the Daily Worker regularly since it would be suicidal for any of them to sub- scribe. Copies of the “Daily” are smuggled in only at rare intervals and are read secretly. If any of them should be caught it would mean not only loss of job, but loss of 4 home too, as all the houses are owned by the Roebling company. “Private Property” is the sign that stares you in the face every- where in the town. This means post office, schools, streets—everything owned by the Roebling company. As in most such company towns the workers are mercilessly exploit- ed. Low wages, low hours, speed- up, every device employed by the American capitalists for squeezing the workers until they are crushed \into helplessness are the lot of the |Roebling workers. And the answer jof the workers to all this persecu- n—persecution that makes them |slaves of the Roeblings not only in |the factory but outside as well—has been $47.56, scraped together out of their miserable wages, to the paper that is fighting for them as well as| for the thousands of other victims of capitalist exploition thruout the country. The Roebling workers probably | won't even see this that is written) about them. They must hang on to} those jobs if they don’t want to} starve. They won’t know what has) jbeen the fate of the money they |have sent to their fighting paper. But they won’t let the Daily Worker die. What about you? What are you doing to keep the Daily Worker! alive? j Jail 2 Fur Frame-up Victims; Seven Others on Trial Monday The two fur workers, who are vic- tims of the anti-strike frame-up in Mineola, Long Island, were yester- day compelled to surrender to the police and start serving their sen- tence of from two and a half to five years in Sing Sing prison. are Leo Franklin and M. Malkin. 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 that the date for their new trial-has been set for Monday. The trial is to come up in the same court, Nas- sau County Court, Mineola, Long Sing: I. L. D. Statement. The International Labor Defense, which is conducting the defense of the victims of the Mineola frame-up, issued the following statement yes- terday with regard to the railroad- ing of the two defendants to Sing Sings: “In April, 1927, 11 fur workers faced the courts in Mineola, L. I., in the frame-up growing out of the fur workers’ strike of 1926. The case was tried in Mineola, because Mineola is a county seat in which millionaires and Ku Klux Klansmen predominate, and this was thought to be the proper atmosphere for the frame-up of these fur workers. “The 11 fur workers were charged with assault upon a boss who ran a scab shop at Rockville Center dur- ing the 1926 strike. He swore they had come into the shop and attacked him. This boss’s witnesses identi- fied eight of the defendants as those who had assaulted him, although they had never been in the town of Continued on Poge Two Youth Needle Trades Workers Will Meet in Center Tomorrow at 2 All members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, District 2, who are employed in the needle trades are urged to attend an es- pecially important meeting tomor- row afternoon at 2:30 at the Work- ers Center, 26 Union Square, in Navy SaysMarinesStay in Shanghai to “Stop Labor Trouble” There WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The U. S. State and Navy Departments revealed today that a force of 1,500 marines will be maintained in Shanghai “to forestall any labor troubles that might arise during the construction by ‘American ship building firms there of five gun- boats for the Chiang Kai-shek gov- ernment.” The marines are heavily armed, and a fleet of warships lies in the harbor to assist them to shoot strikers. BOURGEOIS FAMILY LIFE DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 10.—Mrs. Grace Wood, business and society woman, accused of instigating a plot to kill her husband, Ralph, was for- mally charged today. Taylor Pierce and William Thomp- son, reputed gunmen, were held on charges of being hired by Mrs. Wood to kill her husband, William Haggerty, said to have been a third would-be assassin, was shot and killed when he walked into a trap set Wednesday night at Ralph's home, Room 603. “It is of the utmost importance,” the call to the youth needle trades workers says, “that all members of the League working in these trades should attend this meeting.” USSR Ships Rushing to Aid British Liner Stranded at Feodosia MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (UP).—Hurri- canes were reported to have stranded the British steamer Majestic. at Cape Feodosia today. Ships of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics near Crimea were hurrying to assist the vessel. It was believed the Ma- jestic is the steamer owned by Wil- liam Cockerline and Company of London, It is a 3,034-ton ship. INDICTED FOR KIDNAPING. WOOSTER, Ohio, Jan. 10 (U.P).— Indictments against five members of the family of Elias Arnold, Orrville, charging them with child stealing fin the kidmaping two weeks ago of four-year-old Melvin Horst, were re- turned by the grand jury this after- noon, Those named in the bills were Elias Arnold, his sons, William and Arthur, his daughter, Dorothy, and her husband, Rascom Henry. They | i | the fight there. PLAN DISTRICT DRESS RALLIES ‘Union to Build Picket Committee of 1,000 Every borough in New York will | |this week see one or more meetings | each to which all dressmakers will | be called by the dress department of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. This, after the general mass meeting held Wednesday night | in Cooper Union, will be the first | direct move to organize the! machinery for the coming organiza- tional strike in the dress manufac- | turing industry. | announcement was yesterday made |that full designation for the meet- lings’ time and places will be made as soon as possible. It is expected jlonger period than a week, The union is now concentrating on the campaign to enroll volunteers to make up an “Organization Com- mittee of 1000.” Even though the official call for volunteers to this committee has not yet been issued, scores of applicants have already given evidence that the response to the call will be met with enthusiastic answer from the workers. Meanwhile President Hyman and General Secretary Ben Gold were scheduled to speak at a mass amal- gamation meeting of cloak, dress and fur workers in Boston. At this meeting the workers there will be told of the decision to call a general strike in the dress industry here, will be asked to give active support to the struggle and are then to amal- gamate into one local needle trades workers organization. | Benjamin Schlesinger, scab union chieftain, was also to speak at a Boston meeting last night. Although both meetings are to be held too late in the evening for the Daily Work- er to get reports before it goes to press, the events there will be interesting to set down, since sen- timent beforehand showed that a huge turnout was to come to the | new union, | The General Executive Board, | though having the problem of rally- ing national support for the dress strike already under consideration will, it is expected, announce soon what additional steps it will take to secure this active participation of the workers outside New York in 12 HURT IN BUS CRASH Twelve passengers were injured last night when a Queens bus col- lided with a taxi at 16th Ave. and Ninth St. Brooklyn, Bella Fur- man, 20, of 1733 51st St., Brooklyn, } At the Joint Board headquarters | TERROR MACHINE Metal Workers’ Union Suppressed; Three Peasants Shot ‘Form Fascist Tribunal | Five Croat Papers Are Barred VIENNA, Jan. 10.—The military dictatorship recently proclaimed by King Alexander in* Yugoslavia to- day continued its acts of oppres- sion against wo! , peasants and national minorities, with all the bru- tality and terror of a fascist regime. Police, acting under orders of the new military cabinet, searched and closed the headquarters of the | Metal Workers’ Union of Yugosla- | via. Ali meetings have been banned, and it is announced that any at- tempt at protest demonstrations will be attacked and dispersed and the responsible leaders jailed. Peasants Shot. At the same time three Bulgarian peasants were shot to death by Yu- goslavian frontier soldiers while crossing the fronticr to visit rela- tives living at Stramisirov, near the border. New yesterday, laws, decreed \complete the judiciary organization | of the dictatorship. Py far the most important of these is the creation of an extraordinary court to “pro- tect the interests of the state” along the lines of the fascist special tri- Continued on Page Five WRITE TO DAILY ABOUT HAYWOOD Was an Internationally Known Figure | | The Daily Worker calls the atten-| |tion of its readers to the great) that the meetin.s will extend over a| drama of life and work written by|the trade testify | William D. Haywood, for thirty years one of the most militant and |famous of American labor leaders. | His own life’s story, written by him! | before he died at Moscow, is pub-) lished exclusively in the Daily) | Worker by arrangement with the) |International Publishers company | which holds the copyright. Few workers realize that Hay- wood became an international fig- |ure. He visited Europe and at- tended the Copenhagen Socialist | | Congress where he met Lenin, long} before the Bolshevik revolution. He was a personal friend of Alexandra Kollontai, and aided her tour in the United States to aid the Russian revolutionists after the defeat of | 1905. These incidents and many more | are revealed as the story appears |in the Daily Worker. If you are not a subscriber, send in your sub- | scription at once, If your subscrip- tion is expiring soon, renew imme- diately. Don’t miss Haywood's won-| derful work. | The Daily Worker has invited all} who knew Haywood, who were im- pressed or inspired by his courage and activity, to write to the Daily Worker and tell of the Haywood they knew, of how they saw the old fighter in action. Already letters are coming in. The Daily Worker will publish these, because Haywood belongs to the workers.’ Let us honor Haywood, the battler for la- bor, Do youp part by writing of your experiences with him. | { | CAILLAUX’S NOSE BROKEN | PARIS, Jan. 10 (UP).—Joseph | automobile skidded on a frost-cov- the most severely hurt, was treated at the United Israel Zion Hospital. ered road and collided with another machine. Caillaux’s nose was broken. i} JINGOES SEEK INJUNCTION AGAINS Outside N' This Is the Flag That Has Made Jin $8.00 per ew York, by mail, $6.00 per year. T LENIN MEMORIAL goes Wild FINAL CITY EDITION 3 Cents Price year. TRY TO PREVENT ‘SHOWING OF FLAG SANDINO SEIZED Head of Nat’l Security League Joins Red- Baiting Drive Flag on Way to U. S. Big Demonstration at Garden Jan. 19 tens will be con- Definite sidered today by the National Security League to block the plan of the Workers (Communist) Party |to display the American flag cap- jtured by General Sandino on Satur- day evening, Jan, 19, at the Lenin Meeting Madi Square Garden. The banner is to Memorial in on be exhibited as first hand evidence of Wall Street’s bloody intervention A jiingo’s breast can usually be trusted to burst with patriotic fervor whenever he sees an Ameri- in Nicaragua. can flag. But the flag shown above, strangely enough, has caused leaders of a nwnber of jingo so- The. exaenticer eanities “cea steties tn New York to tear their hair with rage. The reason is that it is an American flag captured | security League, which represents from U. S. marines by General Sandino and it will be displayed at the big Lenin Memorial Meeting in of the richest and most vici- Madison Square Garden, Jan. 9. “Hands Off Nicaragua!” organi TAILORS REVOLT AT LOCAL 5 MEET Drive Officials Out of Arion Hall Workers in the men’s clothing in- hdustry, members of Operators” Lo- | cal 5 of the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers’ Union, yesterday revolted | at their local meeting in Arion Hall, |Brooklyn, and drove the officialdom | of the local out of the hall, halting the meeting thereby. Despite the rosey of “peace” between slaves and slave drivers, for which President Hillman is getting medals, the workers in that there is terrific ex- in the shops, reports in existence most ploitation of worke which was made more intense since the officialdom aided the bosses by legalizing the piece work system. Despite the bitterest opposition from the entire membership to this degrading system of piece work the officials f granted it to the large manufacturers, “who will be the only ones to get it,” according to the Hillman gang. Yesterday, how- ever, an official boasted that 75 per cent of the trade is under piece) work, with the other 25 about to in-| stall it. | The breaking up of the meeting came when the outraged members of the local were told by Jackson, Pol- | lak and Leder, men who were elected | this city. |to the executive board as “progres-|if you don’t want to miss | sives” but who betrayed as soon as| They are on sale at the Daily Work- they were put into office, that I.! Cooper, a militant member had been| deprived of the right to the floor) for six months. | On hearing this many members) took the floor for a denunciation of | the board. The final vote showed) five to one against the board de-| cision, When the officials tried to nullify the vote almost the whole platform. Leder, the little Becker- man aide, grabbed his coat and dis- appeared thru a stage exit. | Unit Organizers Meet | Tonight Postponed to | Sunday Conventions | The unit organizers’ meeting, to- | the Lenin Memorial meeting were | These arrangements will be taken | up at the various section convention | meetings this Sunday. | Photo shows the flag being receir zation, Workers to See Hundreds of working class c’ dren are going to have a spe holiday tomorrow. They are all go- | ing’to see the Isadora Duncan Danc- ers at Manhattan Opera House, 34th St., west of Eighth Ave. The Daily Worker has, by arrangement, secured this remark- able dance troupe from the Isadora Duncan school in Moscow for three more performances in response to the demands of thousands of work- ers who were either unable to get in at the fifth anniversary celebra- | tion of the “Daily” last Saturday or who want to see the Duncan Danc- ers again before they leave for their tour thruout the country. The performance tomorrow afi noon has been arranged espe for children. Members of the Young | Pioneers and pupils of the various left wing schools will attend the special = WILL REPORT ON ved at Mexico City by the Mexican the Duncan Dancers Tomorrow, Sunday LATIN AMERICA Anti-Imperialist Meet to Hear Statements Reports on labor exploitation in Venezuela, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexi- co and other Latin-American coun- tries will be made by delegates to the First Labor Conference to fight the War Danger on Saturday, Jan. } 12th, at 1 p. m, at the Labor mple, 14th Street and Second Avenue, which opens the campaign | for a concerted fight against im- ~ perialist war plans. Not only are credentials coming performance in a bloc and be ad-|, i : 1 mitted at reduced r . Pioneer|i® from trade unions, udent leaders and teachers at workers’|°Te@nizations, nation groups, schools who want to make arrange- ments for their children are asked to communicate with the office of the Daily Worker at once as accom- modations are limited, rs’ clubs workmen’s circle and women’s organi: sponded to the conf In addition to ple port to the League, Li ed to The last two performances of the coe a ’ Se the Duncan troupe will be given Sun- e ades Work- day afternoon and evening. The Hotel and Res program includes many numbers| Branch of the A never performed before as well as tional Night Wo Printing the famous series, “Impressions of | pressmen’s Chapel of the Publicity Revolutionary Russia,” that created such a stir last Saturday night. These are positively the last ap- pearances of the Duncan troupe in Get your tickets at once them. » 26 Union Square. Anti-Labor Prosecutor of Los Angeles Kept Secret Bribery Office LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (UP).— A story of how Asa Keyes, when dis- | meeting rose and moved toward the| trict attorney, met with others in a small tailor shop here ana plotted dismissal and acquittal of criminals, was told today from the witness stand at Keyes’ trial for conspiracy to bribe. Asa /Keyes’ connection with the scalding of workers’ children by a mob intent on breaking the San Pedro waterfront strike, his activi- ties in “sending to prisen for “one to fourteen years” dozens of mem- |night, et which arrangements for |bers of the I. W. W., while a little later, according to charges, agree- Caillaux, former French premier, |to have been discussed, has been ing to dismiss indictments against was injured late today when his| postponed, due to other meetifigs. ihe sometimes missing “Rev.” Amy McPherscn for a $100,000 bribe, will be kept cut of the trial even hy the prosecutor, it is said. The Political Committee has at its meeting of January 8th adopted a motion criticizing the failure of the Communist fraction in the Trade Union Educational League to mobil- ize sufficiently the TUEL for a sharp struggle against the reactionary, corrupt trade union bureaucracy at of Labor. The question involving criticism) fraction in the Trade Union Educa- tional League was criticized tiecause | of its failure to work energetically | enough to have the League speak show to large masses that the Amer-/and the Trade Union Educational! out clearly and sharply to the work- ican Federation of Labor machinery | League has not as yet published a| today is an organic part of the im- | statement on the convention. This | ing class of the country so as to ex- pose the real treacherous character | of the conduct of the A. F. of L. try. In failing to utilize this oppor- the head of the American Federation | bureaucracy and its convention in tunity, the Communist fraction in of Labor held in November gave a} splendid opportunity to the Com-| munists and the entire left wing to! perialist war machine of the coun- CEC. ACTS ON FAILURE TO EXPOSE A.F.L. MEET adopted by the Central Committee: It is now nearly two months since the convention of the A. F. of L., upon the failure of the TUEL to is- New Orleans. It is the opinion of|the Trade Union Educational League sue such a statement i | nt instruct the CEC that the 48th annual con-|/made a serious error which is dealt/Communist Fraction as TUEL was a concrete one. The Communist /vention of the American Federation | with in the following resolution Continued on Page Two = Printing Corp, Prog: ve Butch- ers Local, Foodworke Local 719, etz:, have signified their intention to participate. A special section of the agenda will deal with the White Terror and f m. A cable has been sent to Sandino and a message will be read at the conference to enlist the sup- port of the delegates for the strug- gle of the Nicaraguan rebel forces. The conference will also act on the issue of obtaining Jack Johnstone's release from jail in India, while at- tending the Indian Trade Union Congress at which he spoke on be- half of the oppressed masses of workers and peasants. Workers in shops and factories— organized and unorganized—are urged to send credentials at once ty Harriet Silverman, Secretary, N. Y. s in the United States, uss the question of getting out an unction against the Work- lers Party at a meeting this after- noon at 2 o’clock. This information was given out yesterday by S. Stan- wood Menken, chairman of the Board of the patriotic bunk-dis- seminating organization. Menken is a millionaire corporation lawyer, a well known fighte: against the revo- lutionary working class movement in America, and an arch enemy of the working class. Attacks Communists. When interviewed yesterday, Men- }ken waxed very. hitter against the |Communists. As he finished re: | ing the plans of the Lenin Memorial arrangements committee to exhibit the captured flag, he burst out: “This god damned thing ought to be stopped!’’ Thereupon, he launched into a torrid denunciation of the Communists. “They’re ob- structors, always seeking to create trouble. I’ve talked to them, I’ve mingled with them, I’ve attended their affairs. They’re crazy. The United States Government has been following a serious and high-minded policy in Nicaragua. The govern- ment should receive the support of all Americans.” He digressed to say complacently: “There are some people waiting to see me about a million dollar case.” He speaks of millions as the success- ful fisherman of fish. They come easily. The corporation lawyer re- turned to the subject at hand. V1 call up General Bullard.” (General Robert Lee Bullard is the president of the league.) But his secretary failed to reach the noted militarist. To Seek Injunction. “Well,” said Menken, “we'll take up the matter of an injunction at an executive meeting tomorrow. There’s a federal statute, I think, that for- bids such a proceeding.” Menken’s declarations followed hot on the heels of attacks by lead- ers of two other patriotic agencies. Fred R, Marvin, of the Keymen of America, has urged that federal au- thorities take action to halt the meeting. Walter I. Joyce, head of the Americanization Committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ex- pressed the view that either the federal authorities or the city should intervene. Meanwhile, the arrangements committee, entirely undaunted, is rushing preparations for the largest mass demonstration ever held in Greater New York to emphasize the war danger. The speakers will be Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, |Branch, All-America Anti-Im- Ren Gitlow and others. \perialist League, 799 Broadway, Flag on Way to U. S. Room 226. The committee has announced that ‘Will Protest Shifrin, | Mineola Frame-ups in | Coney Island Tonight | A protest against the Shifrin and Mineola frame-ups will be held to- night at 8 o’clock at the headquar- ters of the Jewish Workers Club, +2907 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island. Among the speakers will be Nel- son, one of the left wing leaders of \the Amalgamated Clothing Work- | ‘ers; H. Schiller, of the Joint Board of the Furriers Section of the new union; Morris Taft, manager of Lo- jeal 41, and William Shifrin himself. | In addition to being a mass pro- test against the two frame-ups against the militant workers, ‘the| meeting will also organize a Jewish | |in spite of the fact that immediately| branch of th i | jafter the convention the Polcom| nae Mab tection ot Wie ie Defense in that section of ‘the city. | “Impert capitalism orinl meet the coming imperialist war, m iv the last stage of | Lenin. Lenin mem- | » January 19, against Vy the flag captured from the United States marines by Sandino is now being transmitted to America from Mexico through the courtesy of the Anti-Imperialist League. The Lenin meeting will be marked by an elaborate entertainment pro» gram. Jascha Fischermann, not Soviet pianist, will play, the Frei- heit Gesangs Verein (all-seetions) will sing and the Labor Sports Union will offer a labor sports spectacle, Read the Big Drama of Labor by “laywood On the back page of this issue} of the te Pe Baily Sa: Worker “Big Bil” Haywood, famous leader of American labor, tells of | his life in’a remote mining camp) of Nevada in the early ‘ Read it! o &