The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1929, Page 2

New GASES OF 662, FRAME UP OF 95, ~ TOCOMEUP SOON Affair Under Auspices or Pere Pp. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 15. --The New Bedford, workers, alive to the need of building up a strong local of the International Labor De- fense, and the necessity of raising isoney for the defense of the 662 New Bedford strikers,,.whose cases are to come up'soom iin the New Bedford courts will. hold a bazaar in Sharpshooters Hall, New Bedford, on January 24, 25 and 26, Fraternal erganizations, unions and individuals can help make this affair successful by contributing clothing, furniture, candy, groceries—any. sort of article which can be sold at the baza: There was ‘no I. Li D. Tedford before last summer’s strike but as the struggle progressed, the workers felt more and more the need of establishing a permanent organization in New Bedford, to take care oi the iocal defense cases, and to join with other workers throughout the world to fight for the protection and defense of all workers persecuted for their acti- vities in the class siruggle. Now the New Bedford I. L. D. local, with a membership. of over 700, has three branches, It is an active organiza- tion, with membership. meetings twice a month, meetings of the Exe- cutive Committee of 15 twice a month, end occasional mass meet- ings, with local and out-of-town speakers. I. L. D. Aided Strikers. During the strike when mass ar- vests were made, when workers were brutally beaten up for going on the picket; line, when the whole strength ox the bosses, through the police, through the courts and through the press, was used aaginst the strikers, a elass-conscious fighting organiza- tion was forged. In no instance did ene of the 662 arrested strikers plead gmilty. All the cases were appealed. Almost a half a million dollars in hail was put up. Thousands of dol- lars were raised to pay the bail commissioners fee. Near three quarters of a million dollars in prop- erty was tied up. All these 662 workers were taken care of by the rewly-built local of the I. L. D. All ihe money raised, ‘@l} the bail put up was gottensdremlecal sympa- thizers. ni After the sirike, the bosses again titempted to smash the militant National Textile Workers Union and its growing local in New Bedford, by the framed’ ‘ap “conspiracy” charges against 25 of the active workers and organizers, the charges being “conspiracy to disturb the peace” and “conspiracy to parade without a permit.” Again the local T.L.D. erranged bail workers were arrested. When Ellen Dawson, organizer, end one of the vice-presidents of National Union, was illegally held last month in the New Bedford county jail for one week. with no charge against her, the LL.D.’ fought for her re. lease. Its members are: not forget- ting Patrick Cabral, textile striker, sentenced to six months by a jury of business men, on a trumped up charge of assault—the man assault- ed, incidentally, testifying he could not identify Cabral, and also, inci- dentally, going to. work the next day as usual. Cabral is in’ the county jail serving his six months sentence, while the tax collector of the neigh- boring town of Westport, tried for an unexplained “shortage” of $72,- 000, rides by, free, in his car. Bazaar Rallying Point. The coming bazaar will be a ral- lying point for new members for the I.L,D. The committee in charge, sure of the support of the several | thousand members of the New Bed. ford local of the National Textile Workers Union, hopes to raise a layge sum of money for the defense of the 662 arrested strikers, The committee consists of Antonio Sa- ‘merio, New Bedford I-L.D. organ- Bedford when these | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA Y, JANUARY 16, 1929 orke Fire Threatens A fire, which broke out in the § as it was docked in the port ‘of ¥ members of the crew who were ke fight the blaze. They were allow was actually sinking. Haywood Take Gampers an One of the richest descriptions of persons Haywood gives in his me- moirs now being published serially in the Daily Worker, is his picture of Sam Gompers. Do not miss one issue. of the Daily Worker which will soon reach his story of how he {met Gompers and what he thought of that notorious chief of labor fakers. In the periodical “The Nation’s |Business” for August 1928, appeared an estimate of both Gompers and Haywood, written by the millionaire Civic Federation official, John Hays Hammond, who did his part in fighting the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania in Roosevelt’s time. Hammond was busy on imperialism schemes the world over. For his part in the British im- perialist armed aggression in Trans- vaal, South Africa, in 1895-96, {Hammond was sentenced to death, | but finally got off by his imnerialist masters paying a $125,000 fine, He later became most active for Ameri- can imperialism in Latin-America and in corrupting labor leaders of ithe A, F. of L. In the periodical mentioned, this arch-imperialist speaks as follows about Gompers and Haywood: “Samuel Gompers was the world’s strongest single factor opposed to so- lism. I shudder to think what might have havnened during the war and afterward if some such char- acter as ‘Big Bill’ Haywood had dis- placed him fifteen years ago.” Haywood’s memoirs also will take a crack at this imperialist John Hays Hammond, whose tribute to Gompers and attack on Bill Hay- wood should show American workers which of the two was really fighting during their lives for the interest of labor. Gompers rushed into the! arms of this slimey imperialist that Haywood would not touch with a ten- izer, Andrew Izyk,-treasurer, Steven | | Swizzch, secretary, Albert Martins, | |secretary Bili Haywood Branch; Na-| jialia Prebucka, branch secretary; | | Alex Vasconcellos, branch secretary; | | Alphonse Lamiros, branch organizer; Emile Lanzone, Manuel Mendonca, | Mario Thunudo, Conceicao Arruda, Nazara Baptista, Maria Caetano, | Manuel Pereira, Francisco Pacheco, |Jose Almei Stacha i, Miki- na, Sadewski, Alberski, Wisniewska, |Pozak, Godlewska, Pr ski, Fo- raczek, and John Amaral. The workers of New Bedford have not only shown their militancy. In the way they are building up their union and the LL.D. they show their | organizational ability and their de- termination to strengthen these weapons against the bosses. The thousands of strikers, however, be- cause of the six months struggle, and because of the vicious wage cuts and = speed-up bosses since the strike, are finan- cially drained. Readers of the Daily | Worker are asked to show their solidarity with the. New Bedford workers by sending contributions for the bazaar to A. Sameiro, Room 49 Williams St., New Bedford, la ‘Mass, ——— Formed; tralism NEW EDITION 75 Bune LENIN ON ORGANIZATION How the Bolshevik Party Was viks and Liquidation; Bourgeois Intellectuals; Opportunism; Party Unity; Democratic Cen- Historical Materialism vs. Bour- geois Idealism. Indispensable for every Communist. iTH_STREET, NEW YORK Shop Nuclei; Menshe- and Party Discipline: CENT‘ 7S t jcompleted their terms. isessions. introduced by the | Lives of Crew . Paul Lescart, a French liner, farseilles, endangered the lives of pt on board to the last minute to ed to leave only when the vessel s a Shot at d Boss Friends foot pole, except to attack. Gom- pers gave his picture to Hammond and on it wrote: “To the most constructive, prac- tical—radically democratic million- aire I ever met, John Hays Ham- mond. With the compliments of Sam Gompers. April 10, 1911.” Those who are not following the Haywood memoirs published daily on the back page of the Daily Work- er are missing the greatest story of labor history ever written of Ameri- can life. Read them every day. Subseribe now to get every They appear only in the Worker. Workers who knew Haywood are especially invited to write of their experiences with him and concern- ing his work. is Dai e. Many Workers School Classes Now Resuming Their Regular Sessions Many classes of the Workers School have had their sessions post- poned for two or three weeks due to many reasons, such as the pre-con: vention discussion in all the uni of the Workers Party, the prepara- tion and activity resulting from the establishing of the new needle trades union, the postponement caused in the weeks of Christmas and New Years, illness of certain instructors. All classes of the Workers School have now resumed their sessions, Among these are Principles of Marxism I and II, Fundamentals of Communism, Elements of Leninist Tactics, Workers’ Correspondence, American Economie and Political History, History of U. S.. Commu- nist Party Organization, Elements Marxian Economics, Theory and Practice of Trade Union Work, Public Speaking, Program of the I, European History, Social Aspects ‘of American Literature, as well as English classes. Some English Classes have already Arrange- ments have been made by the Wor ers School that adjustment be made for all postponments and that each class will have its full term of 12 In the case of the English Classes each class will have its full |term of 24 sessions. All students are urged to take | mote of these facts and to co-operate with the school in overcoming the jdifficulties enumerated above by tending their classes regularly, un- | til the end of the term. The Spring Term will begin Feb, 1st. All |students who wish to secure infor- }mation in regard to the courses to |be given in the Spring term should secure the Spring term annourice- ment that will be serattable within |@ weeks time. All workers can re- \gister immediately. 0 Hold Big Bazaa | Atrocity Scored r for the SPANISH BUREAU WORKING WOMEN’ PROTEST JULIO URGED TO ATTEND MELLA MURDER LENIN MEMORIAL Wall Street’s Party in Federation Will Honor Memory of Leader Continned on Poge Two the request of the lackey of Amer- can imperialism, who is at present te head of the Cuban govern- nent. Mella, the fighter for the libera- tion of the Cuban proletariat, was aware of the fact that at a given moment he would fall by a criminal The N. Y. Working Women’s Federation urged all its affiliated] organizations to attend in mass the Lenin memorial meeting at Madi- son Square Garden, this Saturday and to join in the giant protest against the murder of Mella. Sev- eral sections in the Garden will be reserved for working women’s or-| act of capitalism, but this was one ganizations, where the working} more reason for him to intensify!women of the various left ng | his struggle against imperialism | ynions, T. E. L. groups, indus- | and its lackeys. trial clubs, and fraternal organiza- It should not surprise us tions, will sit in a body with their Mella was assassinated in Mexico. | banners and slogans. He would have been assassinated in Cuba or ir y other Latin Amer- ican country had he been there, be- cause all these countries are being “Lenin, the father of the Russian Revolution,” said Ray Ragozin, secretary of the N. Y. Working Women’s Federation, “made it pos- controlled by the same power— <ible for the working women of So- Wall Street, whose enemy Mella| viet Russia to throw off the yoke of was. There is no doubt that the With Lenin ignorance and slayery. as their teacher, the women of the Soviet Union helped to overthrow, capitalism, helped to protect their country against the invasions of the! capitalist countries of the world, and are today a very important fac- tor in the building up of socialism. Lenin stands as the symbol of social | and economic freedom for the werk- | ing women of the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. It is there-| fore fitting that thousands of working women of our city pay tribute to the memory of Lenin at the Garden on Saturday evening. ‘yomen must be aware y nt part they play in c of imperialist war prepa: With the increasing numbers of women in industry, we see more wage cuts, longer hours. government of Mexico responsible for the murder. Mella was the leader of the work- ing class of Cuba. He was the sec- retary of the Political Refugees of Cuba and was carrying on a strug- gle against the bloody beast who op- presses and massacres the proletar-| iat of Cuba, and against the dollar magnates, who are the actual mas-| ters of the governments of Latin America. : American imperialism is prepar- ing new crimes in Latin America for it is determined to completely dominate it. American imperialism |; is determined to eliminate the lead-| ers of the anti-imperialist move- ments, and especially the Commu-| nists. Mella was not the first one to fall victim to Wall Street's assassins, | The crimes committed during the re cent banana strike in Colombia are still fresh in our minds. We do not and cannot forget the ™massacres conducted by American imperialism with its interventions in Cuba, Nica- ragua, Haiti, Cento Domingo, Mex- ico, Panama, ete. Mella will not be the last one to) — is equally premeditated darity with the workers of the world! Join in the mass protest against the treacherous murder of | a powerful example of workingclass ” solidarity! Mella, and against imperialist wars! ! " | Bring workers to the Lenin Mem-|the Caribbean countries. The work-|hourge orial meeting, and help to make it|ers of Greater New York and of|as “saint of revolution.” (Above) The stadium built at Barcelona, Spain, for the interna- tional exhibition of arts, industry At right, Miguel Primo de Rivera, son of the Span- ish dictator, who is in the Umted States as advance business agent and publicity, director for the exhi- bition. It is @ good-will mission to U, S. capitalism and is an attempt to cover the brutal dictatorship with an art exhibition. and commerce. ; To Popularize Spanish Dictator Defense of Strike Arrest Victims -|SHOE STRIKERS "PIGKETING OPEN SHOP FACTORY Union to Fight, Calls Membership Meet The slipper manufactory tied up by a strike called by the Indepen- , dent Shoe Workers’ Union, was yes- terday picketed in full force when the »mployer, V. Horowitz, iasisted on ufis demand for a 10 per cent wage cut and the open shop. The strike will go on here, the union states, till full surrender by the boss is won. Meanwhile the union is further- jing the preliminary plans for the organization drive they are about to inaugurate. All arrangements are | completed for the membership meet- |ing of the union this Thursday eve- ning at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. | In issuing the call to the meeting the union announces that the gen- eral mobilization of the organiza- tion will be made there for the com- ing organizational struggle against LENIN MEET T0 HIT MELLA CRIME Huge Rally in ‘Garden Saturday Night Continued from Page One Structural Workers’ Union, made, the following appeal: one of the blackest criminal acts} upon a revolutionary leader ever Street im: hich has long raged in Cuba and| the country as a whole must join | with the workers of Latin America fall, unless the proletariat of Latin! America will prevent it, as the im- | Perialists of Wall Street will not tolerate any obstacle in the way of | the exploitation of the workers, Wall Street is preparing to inten- sify its aggressiveness and to more ruthlessly exploit the workers and peasants of Latin America. This is jthe lesson that we must derive from the murder of Mella, The proletariat must answer to these crimes by a united action with the workers and poor farmers of the United States by intensifying its struggle against the bourgeois dic- tatorships and against American im- perialism, which is responsible for these dictatorships of Latin Amer- ica. It is only after this united ac- tion that imperialism and its lackeys will have to account to the prole- tariat for the thousands of murders of Mellas committed every year. It is necessary for all workers | to understand the necessity of or- ganizing themselves by joining the Workers (Communist) Party, the Party of the exploited masses, the only Party that carries on the strug- gle against imperialism. } Down with the murderers, imperi- jalists of Wall Street! Dovyn with the bloody dictatorship of the criminal Machado! Down with all imperialist dicta- torships and their lackeys! SPANISH BUREAU, Workers (Communist) Party. t a revolutionary theory be no revolutionary par- Lenin memorial meet- | ing, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, Every Worker— Sold through all Workers Organ “DEFEND THE All Party Units! Every Party Member and Sympathizer SHOULD WEAR A Lenin Memorial Button ~~ These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY. National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City (Communist Party District izations SOVIET UNION” een rae | Party “The slaying of Julio Mella was; Lenin | Street, takes observance of the 0c. | ian sports spectacle by the Labor casion, “Wou ‘sing women, show your soli-/ committed by the agents of Wall) and of the imperialist Washington! noted Soviet pianist, will offer perialism. This is but the | regime admits in its columns that| “1905,” “Insurrection,” and “1917.” latest outrage of the White. Terror| Lenin’s name still has a magic ee see | power—and the world feels the ef-| hold its last rehearsal at 4 o'clock fect.” Ih the widespread wage cutting now jin a storm of protest against the | going on. vile regime of ass has been set up in Cuba by Amer-| at the meeting tomorrow. In addi- ican imperialists. The workers must close their ranks and demonstrate | union organizers, Fred Biedenkapp, | to | Mella’s death has not been in vain.| tional Relief, will address the meet- | Every class conscious worker should | ing, » be at the Lenin Memorial Meeting | date for the big mass meeting to |Saturday night to protest against) which will be called all shoe work- | Mella’s murder and the continuance|ers in New York City. |of the sination which, General elections will also be held tion to J. Magliacano and H. Levine, the imperialist butchers that| secretary of the Workers’ Interna- The meeting will also set a White Terror.” “Times” Takes Note. ably be announced on Friday. the Workers (Communist) Among the speakers will be William makes ready for the great| Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Ben Git- memorial meeting, the New/low and William W. Weinstone. A ork Times, principal organ of Wall | brilliant feature will be a proletar- As This glorifier of capitalism! Sports Union. Jascha Fischermann, The Freiheit Singing Society will The Times, in its traditional! Saturday afternoon at 106 E. 14th ‘ois manner, refers to Lenin! St, Members of the Bronx, Pater- son, Co-operative, Downtown and The complete program for the Brownsville sections will take part nin memorial meeting will prob-|in the revolutionary vocal program. Protest Against Imperialist War Preparations! Giant Protest Against Murder of Mella! Sat. Ev., Jan. 19 Madison Square Garden SPEAKERS: JAY LOVESTONE, W.W. WEINSTONE, W.Z. FOSTER BEN GITLOW and OTHERS JASCHA FISCHERMANN, Soviet Pianist, will be heard in 1905” nie 1 Page “INSURRECTION” FREIHEIT GESANGS VEREIN ... Revolutionary Selections BRILLIANT LABOR SPORTS SPECTACLE by Labor Sports Union TICKETS NOW ON SALE DOORS OPEN 7 P. M. ADMISSION: 50c and $1,00 AUSPICES: WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, 26 Union Square, New York City 3 (