The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 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 FINAL CITY EDITION } 4 Entered as sccond-clase matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y» under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 6-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Tol. V., No. 321 JULIO MELLA, COMMUNIST LEADER, MURDERED IN MEXICO NOLEN Sport ct ~ WORKERS’ LEADER SHOT Lenin Mect MOULON'T ALTER| BY AGENT OF MACHADO, cae ae: eee WALL ST. TOOL IN CUBA Arrangements are fact moving to- | ward completion to stage an elab-| Lettish Splitter with Assassination Is Definite Part of Terrorism, Eastman, Cannon orate labor sports spectacle at the emacs | Engineered by Wall Street ; Part of World Plot pear Se annual Lenin Memorial meeting, | Saturday evening, January 19, in fillionaire Pinchot Is “Militant” Reader Murdered! IMPERIALIST MURDERERS! Our yaliant comrade and revolutionary fighter, Julio Mella, has just been murdered by agents of United States Imperialism in Mexico City. Mella was assassinated by hired gunmen of the Cuban Machado government, which is only a puppet of Wall Street. Mella, one of the best known Communists of Latin-America, was formerly secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. He was a | sworn enemy of Yankee imperialism and its tools and agents in Latin-America. Because of his anti-imperialist activities against Wall Street’s domination in Cuba, the Machado government of Cuba sentenced hm to prison and death. Upon his escape to Mexico, he | became a member of the Central Committee of the Mexican Commu- Wants Plain Words;) U. S. Slave Empire to Be Preserved French Press Sarcastic ‘Won Hatred of Cuban “Butcher” Who Framed Him in Bomb Plot MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—U. S. imperialism, anxious to JULIO MELLA Madison Square Garden. With] other parts of the entertainment The Daily Worker is herewith blishing additional material deal- and speaking programs making z with the Cannon-Trotsky cam- proletarian athletic program will be| put on by the Labor Sports Union. An outstanding number ‘of the spec- tacle will be a hammer and sickle |similar headway, there is every as- nist Party and Secretary of the League for the Protection of surance that the demonstration ign to destroy the Workers (Com- tac mist) Party and the Communist | drill by twenty-four members of the | is : which will emphasize the war|Jeer at Revelation of |. Persecuted Workers. ternational. Vesa Athletic Club. The workers 3, F) | : The blood of our brave comrade is on the heads of the im- danger, is to be the greatest ever) = American Greed — | perialist Coolidge-Hoover government, This is the fruit of the conducted in Greater New York. The} | For some time the Trotskyists|will be attired in Russian costume ve been working with the worst |and in executing the various man- Hoover good-will tour. Yankee imperialist “good-will” means super- ti-Party elements. The documents |euvers will symbolize the advance blished reveal this to be an indis- of the Soviet Union. table fact. | The Kisatoverit Athletic Club will Note the fact that the Rand Book- present an act in the form of two wre of the Rand School of Social p-yamids, one larger than the other. ience, a socialist party institu-|In the former, 26 members will par- n, is the best distributing agency ticipate, building up with fine pre- v the “Militant.” cision a unique human structure. A letter from Mr. Collier, business This pyramid bids fair to be one of inager of the Modern Quarterly, is | the most brilliant spectacles ever secially enlightening in the out and offered in the great Garden. Per- t hostility it displays towards the haps the star feature of the sports viet Union. Collier’s letter reads | Program will be a rigid mass drill full: |in which 125 members of the com- Modern Quarterly, | bined clubs will engage. Magazine of the Newer Spirit, | The Freiheit Gesangs Verein P. 0. Box 322, Baltimore, Md. _| promises a rare musical treat for Editors: \the workers. A special rehearsal of V. F. Calverton, all sections of the society has been Samuel Schmalhausen, called for Sunday afternoon at 106 Walter Tans |East 14th St. The progfam, which uM i Edit 2 |will be in keeping with the revolu- Managing Editor: itionary spirit of, the occasion, will Kileen Hood. |be conducted by Lazar Weiner. It Business Manager: has also been anounced by the com- Armistead’ Collier. _| mittee on arrangements that music Dec. 14, “1928: Will “b8 “furnished by’ a” symp ames P. Cannon, editor. HE MILITANT, .-O. Box 120, Mad. Sq. Sta., ‘ew York. brass band. The musical part of the meeting will be rounded out with a \rectal by Jascha Fisherman, noted Soviet pianist. Jay Lovestone, William W. Wein- stone, William Z. Foster, Ben Git- |low and others will speak at the ‘meeting. Tickets for the event are /now being sold at the headquarters |of the Workers (Communist) Party, 126 Union Square. CALL 1ST DRESS STRIKE MEETING |Union Holds Boston Personal ear Cannon: Please send me your paper (Dol- r bill enclosed)—beginning with te first issue—and let me know there is anybody down this way ou want to reach with it. I had ome difficulty in getting hold of | ne. Calverton finally sent me, “om New York, a copy of the sec- | id number. The Party-ites are reduced to 1e necessity of suppressing the rguments and facts they cannot rice. It is a cowardly method of ghting—with which the fearless svolutionist can have no pa- ence. | ‘ c I am not now a member of the’ Meet; Scabs Deser ted arty—and, I suppose, cannot The first meeting of workers em- | ployed in dress manufacturing shops |in a particular industrial division, has been called by the United Joint |Board of Cloak, Dress and Fur Workers. The meeting is the first | district meeting of a series planned which are part of the mobilization for the general strike in that indus- try, the union is preparing for. The meeting is to be held this Tuesday in Bryant Hall, immediate- ly after work, and is confined to all dressmakers working on 35th and | 36th Sts. After telling the workers of the decisions of the convention and of the new union to mobilize workers in all crafts in the needle industry in New York and throughout the |nation, to support the dressmakers’ | general strike, the union declares in | part in a call to the union: “The United Joint Board is begin-. (ning to arrange district meetings of (all dressmakers, irrespective of | whether they are working in union Continued on Poge Two |British Say Amanullah Drops Reforms; Their d you in your fight within its mks. The Social Revolution, as see it in the light of the theories * Marx and the earlier prophets, too big to depend for success— + support—upon the mean little ickeries of petit-bourgeois petty olities; and as an individual I ive been forced to stand aside ad watch for an opportunity to vin in preparation for the com- gofthe Proletarian World Rev- ution of the future. In Russia, ‘construction and reform seem to ave absorbed and side-tracked 1e Revolution. T like your stand. The tone of our writing rings true. There no whine in it—and no tiresome olfeish_hypocrisy and whang- sodle, Paid propaganda—even in revolutionary cause—loses its tality and tends towards corrup- on. Incidentally, I am glad you ok a whack at Calverton’s Stal- ism. 1 became interested in his Modern Quarterly” with a view bringing it over to a revolu- onary working class point of ew. Jt is entirely too high- -ow intellectual—but it has the phony’ | WASHINGTON,. Jan.. 11. — A | frank admission that they are sham-| ming came today from the leader of the so-called ‘“Reservationists” engaged in what the country at large is asked to believe is “oppos- ing” the Kellogg treaties for a rival league of nations to the one con- trolled by England and for bigger | and more wars. | This morning Senator James A.| | Reed began his speech, probably one | of the last to be delivered on the | Kellogg pacts. He began by stat- | ing: “All we (the Reservationists) pro- | pose to do is to make an official | statement of the very thing the sec- | retary of state says the treaty) means, what the chairman of the) | it indubitably means. | it or change it and if we make an | official statement it can by no treaty in any way.” Pride Injured? Reed said each of the 96 senators | had a different interpretation as to | what the treaty means and what it ‘Will'do. “He complained bitterly over this insult to the senate. “We are asked to ratify it with- out dotting an I or crossing a T,” said Reed. “All we are to be per- mitted to do is to stand here and say what we think the treaty means, a treaty which has as many dif- | ferent meanings as there are sen- | ators.” Stroke of Empire. ‘But Senator Reed’s that everybody knew what the trea- ty meant, that it was generally un- derstood that it marked off the left Latin America marked off as a spe- ican capitalism, and that it did not grant England any similar right to Continued on Page Seven PREPARE WOMEN FOR NEXT WAR profits for the American millionaires, and degradation, poverty, tyranny, oppression and death for the toiling masses in the countries of Latin-America and everywhere else. Let the death of Mella be Foreign Relations Committee says) it means and what is pretended here | | “We are not proposing* to alter) | means alter, destroy or injure the | confession | cial slave-pen belonging to Amer- | National Conference of a warning to the workers of the United States and Latin-America. The death of our comrade rips off the mask from the fake Pan- American peace conferences and Washington arbitration schemes. All these devices are only deadly, Poison-weapons in the hands of the oppressors and exploiters of the Latin-American and United States working masses. The murder of Mella follows closely upon the cold-blooded assas- ‘sination of numerous striking workers in Colombia by uniform mer- cenaries of the United Fruit Company in the armed forces of the servile Colombian government. This foul attack upon ‘one of the most courageous fighters in our ranks symbolizes the brutal, the aggressive drive launched by the Yankee imperialists to subjugate completely the Latin-American masses, to drive under the yoke of Wall Street the toiling masses of Central and South America. The assassination of Mella is only part of the United States im- perialist drive to crush the growing forces of resistance to its aggres- sion, But the working masses of Latin-America and the United States will not be over-awed by this campaign of terror organized hy the United States imperialist plunder gang. The murdering of Mella will only forewagn and forearm us, will only inspire and steel us to a determined, united struggle of the working masses of both con- tinents against our common enemies—the United States imperialists and their bloody puppet governments and other tools in Latin-America, their labor lieutenants in the ranks of the American working class— the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy and their socialist parties, Working in the closest cooperation, the United States’ toiling masses and the Latin-American working masses, under the leadership of the Communist Parties will avenge the murder of Mella and the many other victims of American imperialist domination by overthrow- ing the exploiting and oppressing classes of these countries and setting up in their stead workers’ and farmers’ republics, The murderers of Mella draw their inspiration from the same source that the lynchers of the Negroes in the United States do! The assassins of Mella and the Colombian strikers, the oppres- sors and exploiters of the Latin-American masses, draw their in- spiration and comfort from the same forces that exploit and opp: 288, the workers and poor farmers in the United States, that give us in- junction democracy, that break our strikes, smash our unions, cut our wages, force upon us intolerable living conditions, jail our best fighters, and are feverishly preparing the next imperialist war. We pledge ourselves to the Communist Parties of Mexico and Cuba and the Communist Parties of the other Latin-American coun- tries, to work with all-our might and main, hand in hand with them, for the overthrow and destruction of our common enemy, U. imperialism. Down with the fake, the poisonous Pan-Americanism! with United States imperialism! s. Down Down with the bloody Machado puppet government of Cuba! Out with Wall Street’s imperialist agents, now terrorizing Latin- America as native governments! Away with the social reformist labor bureaucrats and reaction- aries, paralyzing the labor movements of the United States and Latin America! Smash the United States imperialist plot against the safety, against the lives of our best Communist fighters! Hands off Latin-America! Under the leadership of the Communist International, let, us rally our forces for a common victorious struggle against United States imperialism and its allies and puppets! -Bourgeois Women WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The | peace-war propaganda of American | imperialism will receive a large | boost at the Fourth National Confer- ence on the Cause and Cure of War to be held in Washington, January 14th to 17th. This conference will include delegates from all parts of the country from women’s organiza- tions who are supporting the Kel- logg “peace” pact and the imperialist program of the government. Im- perialism covered with pacifist | phrases will be the keynote of this gathering. ‘ All Reactionaries. | The conference which is held every | lyear is called by the National Com- mittee on the Cause and Cure of War which includes delegates from the American Association of Uni- versity Women, the Council of | | | (Snecial to the Daily Worker) | —CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. DUNCAN DANCERS WHITNEY HAILS Program Tomorrow Today hundreds of working class { PERFORM TODAY HAYWOOD BOOK |Also in a Remarkable California Leader Says All Should Read It That the publication of “Bill Hay- children of New York City will wood’s Book” is rousing great in- Duncan School in Moscow. Under the auspices of the Daily Worker members of the Young Pioneers and |greet working class children of the | terest in all who esteem the value of jland where the workers rule at a Haywood’s life and its lessons to | special performance of the Isadora | American ;Duncan dancers from the Isadora | answers already received to the in- | labor, is vitation extendec by the Daily Worker to all workers to write about pupils of left wing schools will go| Haywood. Spy Is Still at Work) \in a bloc to Manhattan Opera House, Women for Home Missions, . the | One of the first replies is from usual merit of opening its col- nns (for what they are worth) | both sides of a controversy in NEW DELHI, India, Jan, 11—A\ Federation of Women’s Boards of Foreign Missions of North America, 34th St., west of Eighth Ave., this one who has been persecuted for her afternoon and attend this special'part in the class struggle in Cali- mflicts involving differences of dispatch from British sources re- the General Federation of Women’s | children’s performance of the re- ceived here today says that King Amanullah of Afghanistan has is- sued a proclamation withdrawirg. his series of reform laws. According to this dispatch the girls sent to Turkey to be educated are to be recalled, the purdah, or |seclusion of women system, is to be restored, conscription is to be withe drawn, womens’ associations are to |be closed and soldiers are permitted to become followers of the holy men. The question of reforms has served the British as a cloak under which to incite the revolt against the Afghanistan government so that they could dominate the country and use it as a base against the Soviet Union. Colonel Lawrence, the Brit- ish spy, on whose head Amanullah ninion in revolutionary interpre- tion. I am not responsible for 3 policy of cultured liberalism; it I would be glad if, at any me in the future, you can util- e this medium to gain needed ablicity for forcibly suppressed volutionary material, Your sincerely and fraternally, ARMISTEAD COLLIER. 8 ‘he Daily Worker calls attention the anti-working class swamp t James ?. Cannon has ai last nd t: be his natural. element, as ibited by the letter from the _ ty-bourgeois business manager the anti-Communist magazine, “ye Modern Quarterly.” Note that mon’s friend, Collier. in address- | has fixed a price, is still at large a ti - on Page Three |Afghanistam, _” Pa Clubs, the National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Associa- | jtions, National Council of Jewish | |Women, National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, National League of Women Voters, National Women’s Chris- tian Temperance Union, and the Na- tional Women’s Trade Union League. | As this roster indicates the confer- ence will therefore represent millions of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois women. The National Committee | on the Cause and Cure of War | claims that it has secured the sup- port of 11,000 meetings of women in various organizations and of 51 dis- Continued on Poge Two “Without a he revoluth no rev markable young Soviet dancers, Tomorrow afternoon and evening the Duncan troupe, which is under the direction of Irma Duncan, head of the Moscow school, will make its last two appearances in this city by fornia, Anita: Whitney. Comrade Whitney was arrested under the “Chiminal Syndicalism” law of California because of mem- bership in the Communist Labor Party and convicted in 1920. Her appeal was taken to the U. S. special arrangement with the Daily Supreme Court, which decided that Worker. The program for all three performances includes several new numbers as well as the famous series, “Impressions of Revolution- ary Russia,” which was greeted by tremendous outbursts of enthusiasm she must go to prison. However, such a stout fight was put up by labor organizations throughout the ‘Continued on Poge Two when performed at the Daily Work-| tomorrow are the last opportunities |er fifth anniversary celebration last | Saturday. Following the performance tomor- row evening the troupe will leave for a tour of the country. The for the thousands of workers who vhad to be turned away last Satur- day to see the revolutionary art of these amazing dancers. A limited number of tickets are Daily Worker is arranging to have still obtainable at the office of the them appear in a number of cities. Daily Square ‘The three performances today and Get yours at oncel Worker, 26 Union Square. © ‘Workers Party | | | Scores Murder of Julio Mella, The following cable was sent | yesterday by the Workers (Com-| |munist) Party of America to the | {Communist Party of Mexico, de-| jnouncing the murder of Julio| Mella, by agents of the Wall | Street puppet government of | Cuba. | “The Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party of America is deeply | grieved over your great loss thru Comrade Mella’s death. Macha- | do's hired murderers are only the | tools of Wall Street’s puppet | Cuban government. We pledge | ourselves to work in closest co- | | |operation with the Mexican, | Cuban, and all Latin-American | Communist Parties for the over- | throw of United States imperial- | ism upon whose head is the blood | of Mella. (Signed) Lovestone.” HAIL ANTLWAR ~ LABOR MEETING ‘Sandino Supporters Hit Murder of Mella | | | General Augustino Sandino’s of- \ficial representatives have sent a cable greeting to the first Labor Conference to fight the war danger, to be held today in. New York. Salvador de la Plaza and Secretary General Machado (not the Cuban | president) have wired io the New {York branch of the All-America | Anti-Imperialist League as follows: “The representatives of Sandino greet the Labor Conference of the New York section. Congratulations for the work you have realized. Only |the united power of the masses of ; Workers and peasants assure the success of the anti-imperialist strug- |sle, “The Liberation Army of Nicara- |gua expects greater support from the Affierican masses against im- perialism in this third stage of the struggle ending the election farce. Long live the workers and farmers lof the United States. Long live Sandino’s energetic war against im- | perialism.” | Genera: Sandino has been leading jthe struggle of the Nicaraguan | Continued on Poge Two BIG “FREIHEIT” FETE TONIGHT proven by| Workers to Celebrate 2,500th Number | Tonight the Jewish workers of |New York City will celebrate. the appearance of the 2,500th number of the Freiheit, Yiddish Communist daily, at Manhattan Opera House, 34th St., west of Eighth Ave. | Preparations have been in pro- gress for weeks for this big event and workers and working class or- |ganizations thruout the country jhave sent greetings to the news- paper that forgmore than six and ja half years has been the stalwart champion of their interests. The celebration has been made a real rank and file event by the fact heit has been entirely written and edited by workers from the shops. Tonight’s celebration will include varied musical numbers and the showing of the movie, “Red, Yellow and Black,” as well as a film of the editorial and technical departments of the Freiheit. Tickets are on sale at the office of the Freiheit, 30 A Union Square, exploit the workers of Latin America, h ssinated an- other of their leaders. Julio Mella, Cuban Communist, was sins sent by the Machado gov- $ died. killed last night by two a ernment, U. S. imperialism’s pu ippet government in Havana. Mella and Tina Moditta, well known Communist, left at 9:30 the office of the A Emigres from Cuba, of which Mella was secretary. Mella had an appointment with a man at a certain cafe near the center of the city, and Tina waited in a cable office nearby until he came back. When Mella returned he told Tina that a Cuban had warned him that two Machado agents had ar- rived with orders to kill him. Mella and Tina proceeded along the dimly lighted “Abraham Gonzales Street.” rrived at the corner two shots When they of Morelos Stre fired out of the The assailants Tina was burnt by the flash of their guns. Mella fell wounded as the sassins darted away. He was rus! to the hospital where he was oper- ated on for two hours, At first re- covery seemed possible, but at 1 a.m. Mella relapsed and at 1:59 he were | Present at the operating table at Mella’s death were Diego Rivera, Communist painter and member of | the Central Executive Committee of the Mexican Communist Par Frances Toor, editor of Mexicai Folkways, and several others. side in the courtyard comrades friends watched bulletins from time to time. For months, the Machado p; has published articles. sayin, the Machado government would “get” its foes no m: r where they were, Mella was an outstanding revo- lutionary in Latin A | 80 active as sec Communist Party that the M. government framed him on c! of participating in a+. bomb Mella imprisoned plot. was and con- demned to death. He went on a hunger strike, and the demonstra- tions of an aroused working class forced his” re Later he was exiled and went first to Ce America, then to Mexico. Here he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the M Communist Party and se: ary the League for the Protection of | Persecuted Workers, a defense or- ganization for workers. Mella vis- jited the Soviet Union during the celebrations of the 10th a y | of the Bolshevik Revolution, Mella’s assassination by the Cuban govern- | ment’s agents is part of the terror ism carried on by the Amer jcontrolled Machado 4d to} | against revolutionary wo: | ticularly Communists. | At the time Mella was shot, the Cuban, Machado, U. S. imperialist |government, thru its Mexican con- |sul, had a suit in the Mexican e {for his deportation to Cuba, death there. ship and They evidently decided that Mella was toc dangerous to im- * |perialist interests to wait for the ’ |Process of the courts, and resorted to direct assassination instead. About six months ago a meeting of workers in Harlem to protest de- portations of Barcelona and other Cuban workers from Cuba, was broken up by Tammany police, who came down at the request of the Cuban counsel in New York, and ociation Out- | * rkers, par-|, of New Revolutionary MELLA PROTEST AT LENIN MEET “Garden” Demonstra- tion January 19 Vigorous denunciation of Amer- imperialism f inciting the rder of Julio Mella, young Cuban will be made at Lenin Memorial meeting to Madi: are Garden, evening, January 19th. The meeting, which 1 issue the str gi the suppres- si a and other “col- onial pos by the American Empire, will now turn into a vig- orous demonstration against this newest outrage against the Latin- American people and the Commu- who ar leaders in the ankee domination. jonaries and profe ional in the past, to prevent the of the Lenin Memorial meet- spite these efforts, it is gen- expected that the Madison ting will be the anti-war demonstration in w York labor histo A age from Sandino denouncing the murder of Mella has ved and will be read at HAVANA HARBOR STRIKERS. FIRM Tie Up May Spread in Spite of Terror HAVANA, Jan, The strike movement of dockwor! in the port of Havana continues. The em- ployers are receiying*the assistance ¢ of the murderous © seer police, inations of strike lead- e made ‘the fascist regime of esident Machado hated by labor ‘oughout the world. Some time, ago,..when Machado was in the United States, at a re- ception given him by the Yankee bankers, he promised to break any ikes in aid of imperialist s. In spite of the terror st the Cuban workers, the present strike not only continues, but threatens to extend to other dock workers not yet engaged. Manchuria Dictator Kills Rival War Lords; Barricades in Hankow MUKDEN, Manchuria, Jan. 11.— |with representatives of the Cuban consulate accompanying them, Just before news of the ass: General Yang “u-Ting and Chang Yin-Huai, Manchurian war lords, tion of Mella reached here, I that the holiday issue of the Frei-| Vampa, a Spani.h worker ve ac- tive in anti-imperialist work New | York, received a letter from him questing information about active Spanish workers who had _ dis- appeared. The letter is of great in- terest because it shows the constant |possibility of workers ‘disliked by | the Yankee puppets in Cuba, of sud- denly meeting of their death. The letter says in part: “I would like to know if Leanardo |Fernandez Sanchos who, as per the | Daily Worker, left for Mexico City— |where he has not yet arrived in |that city or has been assassinated by Machado.” Sarichos cannot be located any- where. Immediately upon receipt of th news of the latest outrage’ of W Continued on Poge Two ve executed here Thursday, for plotting internal disturbances in Manchuria, an official announce- ment said today. Chang Hsueh-Liang, dictator <f Manchuria under the Nanking re- gime of Chiang Kai-shek, arrested the generals on Thursday and had them executed a few hours later. The official announcement charges them with plotting against his re- gime. * HANKOW, Jan, 11,—Feeling aroused by the sharp conflict _be- tween the Nanking regime and Japan on questions of control of Chinese business, has reached such a stage here that the Japanese are building barricades of sandbags aroun} their concession, +