The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 2

rage Iwo JA ~~ ene ee ARREST 11 FOR DEMONSTRATING IN CLEVELAND WorkersDenounceJack Johnstone Jailing | (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, 0O., Jan. 13. —| Eleven members of the W: (Communist) Party were during Saturd demons’ The ners demanding the release of Jack Johnstone, now, in jail in India, and denouncing the ‘Kellogg Peace Pact and the Amerigan. invasion of Nica- demonstrators carried ban- ragua, “We demand the immediate re- lease of Jack: Johnstone,” one sign read. Another: demanded complete independence for allAmerican col-| onies in the namesof.the Workers | (Commuuist) Party: and the Young | Workers (Communist) League. | The pickets roused the ire of the police by refusing to ‘stand still in order to be artested: A huge crowds gathered to cheer the pickets om their: way to jail as they marched. down the streets of the city singing-revolutionary songs. The prisoneys#were, charged with violating a Palade ovdinance. ahie Fle Drop. Charges. CLEVELAND, ¢ @},"} Jan. 13,— Charges of item@yt"to riot made against I. Antterp*orgenizer of the Ohio district of the Workers Party, | in connection with the election cam- paign in Martins Ferry have been dropped. The ippy refused to in-| dict. The poli¢e'’had used tear bombs. | BRITISH ANSWER HOOVER JUNKET Parley of Caribbean | Colonies Called LONDON, Jan. 13.—To consoli- date the British colonies on the Caribbean and organize them for more effective resistance to Ameri- | can imperialism, the British imperi- | alists have called a conference of | their Caribbean colonies for January £6 at Bridgetown, Barbados, Although it is called the “West | Indies Conference’’, it is in reality | & meeting of the British rulers in| Bermuda, British Honduras, British Gviana and the islands of the Brit- ish West Indies. The agenda of the conference, as made. public, in- + cludes interesting divisions; such as } “Empire Marketing Board in Rela-| tion to the West Indies,” “Cvil Avia- | tior”, “Cable and News Service”, | under vhich heads are to be taken up trade competition with the United States, the development of eviation for war use and the com- pletion of the British empire cable merger for war purposes. | Coming as it does upon the wake of Hoover imperialist warship tour, | the conference is one of the answers of British imperialism to the expan- tion of its Wall Street rival. THE €. |. EXPOSES PLANS FOR WAR ‘The Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, at its re- | cent sessions if’"*Moscow, unani- | mously adoptedi.the following reso- | lution on the international campaign against the danger of,a,new imper- jalist war: es In view of thée-active preparations the imperialist powers are making for an attack unon.the, U. S. S. R., of the vnenine Bp onflicts be- tween the capitalist sharks and the intervention in binaealso proceed- | ing; in view also of the treacherous | role being played by international | social democracy” ’of‘‘all shades, which is disarming2the workers in the face of the-gapitplist offensive | and is at the same time actively and cynically helpin; le imperialist "groups in the varibas ‘countries in their preparations-for;gnether world | butchery, the Sixth World Congress | of the Communist Internationa! is of the opinion thatit isthe’ ‘duty of all Communists, iny-the present tense situation, to intensif; jthe struggle | ‘inst the war danger and to set rk immediately: 4: ¢arry out an international campaign against the impending imperialist war. etive Struggle Against War. ‘he Congrestiinit s the Cen- Committees of all the Commu- Parties immediately to com- snce political, organizational, agi- i} and propagandist work in ‘ ration for an International " Day for the fight against imperialist | and defense of the Soviet Union. | this day the toilers must demor- | against the capitalist off-nse the slogans: “War Against list War”; “United Workers Against the Capitalist Of- “Defend the “To the Aid of the Revo- Peoples in the Colonies”; the Lies of the Social “Establish Proletarian | ence Organizations.” | he Central Committees. of the | Communist Parties must | practical measures, corre- to the concrete conditions respective countries, for | ’ Worker’s Child Tenement Gas Victim Two year old Stanley Manes (above with mother) was overcome by gas fumes in the tenement house ‘at Coney Island. Workers are forced to live in tumble-down tenements, and thus fall victim to escap- ing gas and other results of the landlord's greed, in failing to keep homes in repair. 1ST DRESS STRIKE REICH ARRESTS RALLY TOMORROW DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JA RY 14, 1929 CLEANERS’ UNION ANTI-WAR MEET MEMBERS CALLED HITS WALL ST.’S TO FIGHT FAKERS MELLA MURDER Progressives Warn of | Demand Recognition New Sell-Out | of USSR Faced with a new movement to- Continued from Page One ward trustification among the em- | worker, sounding the keynote of ployers in the cleaning and dyeing | the conference, outlined the underly- industry, in which the officials of ing causes of the approaching im- the union are again preparing to | perialist war, the role of the work- | offer the membership to the bosses | ing class in defending the Union of | for their use as a catspaw, the Pro-| workers’ republic, the target of the! gressive Group in the workers’ or-| attack by combined forces of imper- | ganicc ion, though expelled, are re- | tack by combined forces of imper- ; jnewing their drive to mobilize the jalism, the record of imperialist | members for a fight against the ad-| plunder in Latin America, and the | ministration. |necessity for developing and sup- | This administration, desiring to| porting the Anti-Imperialist League perpetuate themselves in control,|to help it arouse the mass of Amer- jand anxious to rid themselves of | ican workers. militants who were making difficult} Robert Dunn, who gave statistical | the putting over of repeated betray-| data on American investments in als of the membership, inaugurated Latin America, was followed by} |@ most brutal policy of expulsion, George Pershing, field organizer of |Sluggings and other forms of ter-|the United States section of the ror,till the members of the union! Anti - Imperialist League, who stopped going to the union meet-! stressed the growing militarization ings, even when they were called. | of the youth in the schools, and the In a leaflet issued to the member-/| colossal war machinery now being ship, the Progressive Group calls ©N| organized by the American ruling the members to prepare themselves | «Jas, Union Prepares ; Locals Nominate This Week Continued from Page One headquarters of the union, 16 W. 2ist St., immediately after work. To this meeting all employed on 29th and 40th Sts. are called. All New York members of the 38 COMMUNISTS |\Jailed at Liebknecht- Luxemburg Memorial BERLIN, Jan. 18.—Police, under the direction of the social-democrat police chief Vorgiebel, arrested 38 Communists today during the ob- servance of the tenth anniversary of for a fight against new betrayals, | similar ones to the sell out of con- ditions by the bureaucrats in the| \‘strike” of February, 1928. These |betrayals are expected to take the |same form as at that time and are lexpected when the trustification| |move now in preparation among the! employers gets under way. The leaflet ends by calling on the |members to: “Go to the meetings | and don’t let the gang terrorize you! |Demand an account of union funds! | Demand a drive to organize the un- organized! Demand the reinstate- ment of all expelled members! Join the Progressive Group of Cleaners and Dryers!” Workers are also re-| |quested to'send letters telling of {shop conditions Richard Moore, secretary of the American Negro Labor Congress, sharply criticized the apologetic at- titude of William Pickens, of the vancement of Colored People, to the Kellogg Peace Pact. Moore charac- terized the pact as an instrument of | war which gave imperialists the smoke screen behind which to pre- pare. Harrison George followed B. S.| Roy, Indian Nationalist, and pointed Indian liberation could be achieved. | Speaking for the enslaved work: fers of Haiti, R. La Motte made a President of the National Federa- |plea for the support of the Amer- | tion of Cuban students, founder and | jof the outstanding leader of the Cu- |shark’s belly. On the hand of this 4 POLICE FAIL 10 STOP PICKETING OF CONSULATE ‘Johnstone Rally Held in Chicago | (Special to the Daily Worker) | CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 13.—Policé of this city completely failed to in- terrupt the anti-imperialist demon- stration Saturday in front of the British Consulate and the meetings | which culminated the same night |with the unanimously passed reso-’ lution demanding the immediate re~ lease of Jack Johnstone, the Amerf- | can representative to the conference lof world Anti-Imperialist Leagues: jnow held in India. | Johnstone was recently thrown | To Aid Subway Bosses in 7-Cent Fare Steal ee Photo shows Wm. J. Fullen, Tammany Hall's new state transit commissioner, receiving congratulations of Tammany politicians. The subway bosses will count upon him as a valuable ally in helping them to push the 7 cent fare steal thru. into jail by the Anglo-Indian govern- eae The consulate was the scene of a |demonstration and picketing Satur- |day afternoon. Tho the police were present’ in numbers, they failed to prevent the making of speeches call- ing for the downfall of American and British imperialism and the re- Cuban Emigres Denounce Murder of Julio Mella The Daily Worker is glad to give| workers of Cuba; Alfred Lopez, its readers the message below as | genersl secretary of the Federation | lease of Johnstone. received from the comrades of Julio of Labor of Hayana; Cuxar, a| William F. Kruse, organizer of the Mella, brave fighter against Ameri- | Spaniard; Noske Yalob a Polish | Chicago District of the Workers lean imperialism which is responsi- | worker; Claude Brauzan, a Spani- | Party, was pulled down however, ble for his raurder in’ Mexico City. «rd—the last three murdered in the | while speaking. —Editor | military prison of “La Cabana”. | Following the demonstration the e is | The “disappearance” of Brauzan | participants marched to Bakers Hall | * |National Association for the Ad-|FACING FASCIST TERRORISM. | from prison, as told to his wife, |for a meeting. The New York section of the Cu-|was expleined a few days later by| In the evening a meeting held at ban Revolutionary Emigrees’ Asso-|the discovery, when fishermen | the Workers ‘Center, where Scott ciation hears with deep indignation |caught a monster shark in Havana | Nearing spoke, unanimously passed the iragic news of the vile murder | Harbor, of the arm of a’man in the |the demand for Johnstone’s release. lan revolutionary movement, Julio|arm was a ring, which proved to} MOSCOW, Jan, 13 (U.P).—News- A. Mella by hired agents of the Brauzan’s wife that her husband’s | papers today demanded action in the Moody dictatorship that for three |“disappearance” from. prigcon was | mysterious murder of Gen. Jacob jout the bourgeois character of Roy’s| years has been terrorizing the Cu- | caused by his murder there and dis- | Slashtchov, who was found slain in |theory as to the manner in which ban people. |peeal to the sharks. She was im-/|his apartment Friday. It was be- Julio Mella, founder of the popu- |imimediately deported for protesting | lieved personal revenge was the mo- lar university “Jose Marti’, former | this ghastly crime, | tive of the murder, Slashtchoy was A Crime’ of Imperialism. |a leading general under Denikin jand later under Wrangel. He turned the assassination of the German revolutionary leaders, Karl Lieb- knecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union are to meet this week at their respective local meetings for the) When masses of workers collected to 780 Prospect Ave. Progressive Group headquar- | ters, ican workers for Haitian liberation, first secretacy of the Communist |John De Facio pledged the support |Party of Cuba. former secretary of jof the Anti-Fascist Alliance with the |the Continental Committee of the | League in the fight against the com-| All-American Anti-Imperialist Lea- | Yalob and Brauzan, active mem- |bers of the Communist Party of} |Cuba. were arrested Jan, 15, 1928, | on the day the Sixth Congress of | {and functionaries purpose of nominating all officers of the United outside the police station demanding the release of their comrades, the police were compelled to set them Joint Board. freo LABOR SPORTS mon enemy, the fascist terror, under | gue, present secretarv of the Cen- | |whatever guise and wherever it|tral Cotmcil of the Cuban Revolu- | made its appearance, the Pan-American Union onened at | Havana, on the charge of “distribu- |ting literature” against this imperi- | ary Emierees, is a new victim | alist conference, headed by Hughes | Trade union representatives par-|of the bloody series of crimes com- {and attended by Coolidge. . They Bolshevik in 1922. The Workers (Communist) Party demands unemployment insurance, the amount of compensation te be full wages for the entire period of unemployment, the admi; ration of this insurance to be in the hands of the workers, the cost to be | borne by the state and the employ- ers. | and Soldiers’ Delegates? Nominations at these local meet- ings will not only include the gen- eral manager and _ secretary-treas- urer of the New York Joint Board, but will include business agents, Joint Board delegates and the exec- utive boards of the various locals. The nomination meetings begin Wednesday night. Five locals meet then. Dressmakers’ Local 22 and Pressers’ Local 35, both meeting in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Operators’ Local 2 and Finishers’. Local 8 meet in Stuyvesant Casino, Second Avenue and Ninth St. N ers’ Local 10 of the Furriers, meet at union headquarters, 22 E, 22nd Street. On Thursday evening, the Cutters’ Local 10 and Tuckers’ Local 41 meet in the union office auditorium, 16 W. 21st Street. Furriers’ Locals and 5 meet at their union office, 22 E. 22nd St. The date for the elections to these offices is not as yet announced. “What is the Soviet of Workers’ significance is outright power. . There ix no such liberty anywhere as we now have in Russia, ‘Down with the war!’ doex not mean we muxt throw away our bayonets, It merely means the transfer of power to another The important thing of th le situation ix to teach this thing.” From speech by Lenin soon after overthrow over ezarist power. Lenin memorial meeting, January 19, Madison Square Garden. in carrying out International Day. (mass meetings, street demonstra- tions, protest strikes, and other forms of action). The Congress instructs the Exec- utive Committee of the Communist International to take all the Its class | The memorial was observed by thousands of Berlin workers. Masses of workers filed past the graves of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- burg, founders of the Spartacus League and leaders of the revolution against the bourgeois democracy of the social-democrats who were cruelly assassinated by Pabst and other hirelings of the social-demo- crat Scheidemann-Ebert government on the night of January 15th in the hwest end of Berlin, | The Red Front Fighters, founded by Ligbknecht and Luxemburg, one ‘of the first editors of the.Communist newspaper “Rote Fahne,” stood at attention before the graves, The Communist speakers pointed out the treachery of the social- democrats during the revolution, showed how their new militarism under the war minister Noske rallied about itself all the reaction- ary elements to put down the revolu- tion of the workers and made clear the equally treacherous role of the “socialists” today. Prof. Seligman Goes to Advise “Butcher” Machado on Finance Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman, who calls himself a “liberal,” head of the economics department of Columbia University, has been ap- pointed visiting Carnegie professor | ‘of international relations to Cuba. | He will start for Cuba on Jan. 27 j and when he arrives he will lecture jat Havana University in the pres- lence of officials of the Cuban gov- | Soviet] |Necessary measures for organizing | o-nment, which at the behest of |Such an international campaign, to | tynited States, assassinated Mella, |co-ordinate all the measures taken | Gyan Communist leader, in Mexico for this purpose and to arrange for | City Friday. simultaneous action in order, in ac. | cordance with the decisions of the | Congress, to secure that the cam- paign against war shall be intensi- fied and that the broad masses of jwas seriously injured when the mo- the toilers, including the soldiers, | tor auxiliary cutter Clara G. blew up shall be brought into it. in the Thames. CUTTER BLOWS UP. LENIN ON ORGANIZATION How the Bolshevik Party Was Formed; Shop Nuclei; Menshe- viks and Liquidation; Bourgeois Intellectuals; Opportunism; Party Unity; Democratic Cen- tralism and Party Discipline: Historical Materialism vs. Bour- geois Idealism. “NEW ‘EDITION 75 CENT! Indispensable for every Communist. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS +85 EAST 125TH STREET, NEW YORK terday in the Metropolitan Work- jers’ Soccer League follow: In Divi- |sion A, Argentine beat Rob Roy, 2 to 1. The game was playe dat Cro- tona Park, Hecht refereeing. In | Division B, the American Hungar- ians took a close one from Harlem, 2 to 1. Friedman referreed the game | at Central Park. Prospect Unity | jdecisively beat Freiheit, 4 to 1 at! Hudson Oval. Gordon Derg wa: | referee. In the Brooklyn League, |Red Star and Scandinavian Work- jers tied 4 to 4. The game was played at Thomas Jefferson Park, jwith Rosenfeld as referee. | Spartacus: took Red Star into jcamp, 1 to 0, in an exhibition game | |at Dewitt Clinton Park. In the cup} |game, Spartacus again demonstrated jits superiority over Red Star, win- jning 2to 0. Gottginer refereed both | games, iRhys Williams Will Lecture on U.S.S.R.! Albert Rhys Williams, recently re- | |turned from a five years’ stay in| |the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-| | publics, will relate his experiences | jon Sunday evening, Jan. 20, at the| Martin Beck Theatre. The talk will | be given under the auspices of the | American Society for Cultural Rela- | | tions with Soviet Russia. |_ Williams is the author of “The! | Russian Land,” and “Through the| Russian Revolution.” Nina Tarasova | | will follow Williams with a selec- | tion of Russian folk songs, many of |which she has collected while visit- jing the homes of the peasants. The meeting will conclude with a short film depicting life in the Soviet vil- lages. | of the League to stand by the strug- gle of the Indian workers and peas- Results of the games played yes- | ticipated in the discussion and reso-| mitted on the persons of the mi lutions were adopted pledging in- |tensified activity in behalf of the|nerislist fiehters and all those who | Nicaraguan rebel forces, in support |have raised their voices ovainst the of the Chinese Proletarian Revolu- tion, and condemning Jack John- stone’s arrest by the lackeys of Bri- tish imperialism in India. A tele- gram was sent to the British ~ | bassador at Washington demanding the immediate and unconditional re- | ase of Johnstone, and at the same | ime pointing out the determination ants for liberation. | Other resolutions called for recog- nition of the Union of Socialist} Sotiet Republics, demanding uncon-| ditional independence of all Latin | American countries, including Ha-/| waii and the Philippines, the end of marine control of Nicaragua, abol- | ishing constabularies trained by the! U. S. military machine, and con- | lemning the Pan American Union| s a tool in the hands of American imperialism. Resolutions also condemned pup pet dictatorships in Latin Americ: the militarist policies of the reac tionary leadership of the American} Federation of Labor, called for trade | union unity in a concerted fight against all the imperialist powers and endorsing as well as pledging | support for the Labor Conference to | be held in Montevideo in May. \ After the reading of resolutions | and the formulating of the League’s | plans for its Anti-Imperialist work, | trade union and other representa- tives pledged financial support from} the organizations they represented. | One pledge of ten dollars from the | Venezuelan Revolutionary Party was | included in the total amount of $130 | collected in pledges. yt LONDON, (By Mail).—A worker | | Every Worker— | Every Party Member and Sympathizer SHOULD WEAR A Lenin Memorial Button Sold through all Workers (Communist Party District Organizations ~~ These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans; “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” All Party Units! Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City vere imprisoned in the “La Cabana” | — “4 prison, murdercd by the jailers of |CWing te the low price of sugar, is | Machado. and their bodies thrown |borne by the workers and small to the sharks, peasants. The overproduction on | The murder of Mella follows the tne world market and the competi- murder of hundreds of other tion between the Cuban cane and workers of Cuba, as an integral the beet sugar interests of the U..S. part of the fascist program of Ma-|®nd the cane sugar interests. of chado of smothering ail labor. or- Hawaii and the Phillipines, is “rem- sranizations of Cuba, which has des- | died” by Machado’s following. a |troyrd most of the trace unions of |Helicy dictated by the American | Cuba, mililarized “public education |Cwners of sugar lands of Cuba, who have invested $700,000,000 therein, tant Cuben workers, the anti-im- white terror ruling in Cuba. An Anti-Labor Plot. The murder of Mella means a con- tinuation of the sinister plot to emacsh the workers’ organizations ard kill their most ective members. Workers of the United States! Anti-imperia'ists of the United States! More than 400 Cutan revo- | by earned occupation of universities e lutionary workers have been mur- | by troops and by placing students |°f reducing the area planted” to dered by agents of Machado, the , martial law and by army orders to/ Sugar, but not of the Americans... _ Cuban tool of Well Street in the 'stifle student discontent, the exten- | Only the-small peasants are pro- last four years. Among them have |jsion of Machado’s dictatorship | scribed to plant sugar cane, and disappeared the most prominent for six years by his own decree, |these peasants, together with the leaders of the libertarian cause, suppressed organs of the press and | workers in the fields and mills, are under the most brutal repressive all who raise their voice aguinst the jredued to the utmost misery and methods without the excuse of ar-|tragic conditions which prevail|are uctually perishing of hunger rest or of trial. They are, for ex-|under his brutal reign. FHinally | and want while the interests of the ample: |Machado has establishe:] in Cuba | Yankee planters are protected by Part of Ghastly Roll of 400 Victims. |the most horrible. regime of crime |the Machado government. Under Varona, leader of the sugar mill |and terrorism known in the history | this power of Yankee imperialism, workers; Duminigo, secretary of the |of tyrannic governments of Latin | these Cuban masses suffer the ex- Reilway _ Brotherhood; Grant, an | America. |tremest agony of life, and when American, leader of the railroad The economic crisis in Cuba, 'they protest they are assassinated! \LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING