The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929 Six | 400 HOMELESS AS ~ RESULT OF BLAZE. IN POOR DISTRICT Many. Go to Hospital, Disfigured for Life Six workers were five others Were seriously i red, and more than 400 others, fa ies of workers, were driven into the cold streets when fire, starting in the little cloth- ing*shop of Marcus Greenstein & Son; swept upward through the en- tire tenent house at 162 BE. 112th St in the working class district of Ha lem, early yesterday morning. The fire, starting shortly after idnight,. was fanned by the brisk winds into a roaring blaze, cutting off. all the exits from the tenants, asleep, after a hard day’s work. Thrown into pandemonium by the fire, which soon had spread to al- most-every floor of the old red brick | five-story building with out of date and inadequate fire-escapes, the ten- ants tried vainly to esc; When the charred bodies were , two) mothers with infants ched t elu Mexican Aviator Perhaps to show the world that the Latin-American countries might put up something of a defense it at- tacked by U.S. imperialism, certain Mexican aviators have been answer- ing “good will flights” with long distance flights of their own, Major O. M. Lopez, above, will fly from Galveston, Texas to Guatemala, Workers Burned to Death, Five Injured in Crowded Harlem Tenement House Fire UNUSUAL MUSIG (COL! Her Diss FIGHT NOW FOR Snappy Automobile Slogans CEC URGES AID IN ] S-DAYWEEK, SAY C@%# Hide Open Shop Slavery BE ESTABLISHING PROGRAM AT BIG LENIN MEMORIAL ‘Communist Leaders to Speak Continued from Page One sic by Jacob Schaefer. This selec-| tion is dedicated to Lenin and ex: | tols the life and deeds of the be-| loved standard bearer of the world’s revolutionary masses, Other Numbers. Next will be sung “Forward Com- rades,” a call to the workers to} smash the chains of capitalism. The| fourth number will be “The Red| Draft” which promises to be one of | the outstanding of the entire pro-| gram. It depicts the joy with which the Russian youth rally to the} defense of the Soviet Union and the sharp contrast to the time when young men were dragged from their homes against their will to fight for the czar. “Brother Workers” by the entire chorus will conclude the sing- |ing society's program. The mem- > pesca Marshall Ferdinand Foch, gen- eral-in-chief of the armies of the allies in the world war. sick in Paris. what skeptical about Foch’s having a heart at all, doctors declare that he has a disease of that organ. He is very To a world some- PROGRESSIVES Anti-Broach Electrical | ‘Workers Hit Treachery Continued from Page One | and wage-raise now, by forcing their | union officials tg abandon programs | of setting one union to fighting an- other, and the progressives promise to use all their power to prevent the | Broach gang from forcing the elec- ians to scab when other crafts are on strike. | Record of Scabbing. Broach’s actions in this struggle are in line with his previous course. He has fought consistently to help the larger contractors to drive com- petition out of the industry. He told ‘the union, when progressives some jtime ago demanded a fight for a \five day week, that it was “nonsense juntil the industry is stabilized,” by |climination of competition for the big contractors. Broach has a record of scabbing jsee it. By ROBERT W. DUNN. (Robert W. Dunn is author of Labor | and Automobiles, to be published | shortly by International Publishers.) Labor was cotpletely out of the | picture in the 29th annual auto show sumptuously staged in Grand Cen- tral Palace, New York. It was aj| front window display of glistening | wares—and they pay 75 cents to! There was an Army and) Navy Day, an Aircraft Day, but no! Labor Day. The workers who pro-| duce all of this shining wealth at an| average wage of $25 to $30 a week! were well hidden from view—in the | factory districts of Detroit, Pontiac, Flint and Toledo. | The show was put on by the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, the heads of which are all | vigorous foes of union labor. At} least half of the companies repre- sented have been known to use spies in breaking up attempts at organi- zation. Fine Slogans. The companies know how to use slogans. General Motors boasts of “The Oven Mind.” The police of Flint who drove workers selling the !dustry, talks in a large, mouth-fill- ing way of “Better Public Service.” Dodge workers who were thrown out | of work when Chrysler rationalized ! the plants will appreciate the grim | humor of his claims, as will those | who felt the 20 to 25 per cent wage | cuts when this new “leader” of the | industry took over their plants. | Henry Ford’s Lincoln car boasts of the “Spirit of True Service” in a booklet, the only one at the show} with pictures of workers at their | jobs, These workers would appre- | ciate an annual week’s vacation with pay from the Detroit billionaire, but that is not included in the slogan. } Conditions Worsen. Competition between slogans ond jsales forces promises to be more | | strenuous than ever during the com- ing 12 months, Companies plan a production of some 7,000,000 cars. Experts place the buying limits at not more than 4,500,000. The re- jsult of such crowding will mean |taking more out of the hide of the auto and accessories field. More) overtime work at certain periods, un- | employment and short time at) others. Reductions in group bonuses THE “NOVY MIR” Need for Russian Party Organ Is Great Continued from Page One Union on the economic front, in building socialism, in transferring agricultural production to a collec- tive basis, are finding opponents within the union. The Right dan- ger and Trotskyism are manifesta- tions of struggle against the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, and against the Soviet government. These counter-revolutionary tenden- cies also exert an influence upon the Russian speaking workers in America. “The problem of carrying .our message to this section of the worst exploited workers of America, is an important task for our Party. “We cannot successfully fight the war danger, or organize the uno: ganized, or carry out the other tasks of the Party, unless we reach all sections of the industrial workers ‘bers will march in a body through |the Garden prior to mounting the ee HIT MURDER OF | The extensive entertainment pro- | | Sram will be rounded out with a/ lbers. Many did not do so, and |every one of the provisions of the |proletarian sports spectacle by the| |struck, against Broach’s business |@steement signed after the Oshawa |Labor Sports Union. Members of| lagents’ direct orders. The plumbers | Sttike of last spring with executives — were then striking for the five day |of Canadian labor, and in its black- |the Visa Athletic Club will give a! Spanish Workers Score week and increase in pay. listing of oil sanders who led the hammer and sickle drill to symbo- |lize the advance of the Soviet Union. | \brief strike at the Fisher Body heed ;too. When the plumbers struck in | Auto Workers News out of that city Brooklyn last spring, Broach’s ma- jlast summer displayed the true Gen- chine ordered union electricians to |¢™@! Motors Open Mind. It was al- work on jobs with the scab plum-'S0 Shown when the company violated and time and bonus systems devised | to rob the workers. Speeding up of a speedup pace already unendurable especially in plants making the cheaper cars. More accidents, more thealth dangers, more exposure to |poisonous fumes and dusts. To- |gether with a little welfare oil for |the human machine. This is the of America, “Of a special importance is also the work of bringing out the real facts about the Soviet Union. “All this makes the re-establish- ment of the ‘Novy Mir’ an imme- diate task, not only of the Russian speaking members, but of the entire membership of the Party. their breasts were among them. The ir INLAND GRAFT josito, 2 years old, her grandchild. osito, 3 weeks old, an- ears old. years od,|Considers Indian Oil) Mass Athletic Drill. | Imperialist Assassins | OES ica bis anette {pant a Flint dase year. : Leet Sec ae eeany oe eee aaa open ake iE Party miguel Esposito, 6 years old, their) Theft and Patronage | qacuy and skilfully erected in an| A. protest mecting against the /#Teement with the Edison Co, His /———— —— ae a fe en ee ee a ahs Rey % —_— ‘ . | uni ing i e gal in every Ww i re son. oe fact by the Kisatoverit Athletic | bloody assassination of the Cuban union, and misking, iGeasy to-expel | MUNCIE 18 (CANpRED (9 Ors Anite, Bureau in every way possible. tm re or fine members for such crimes as '“using profane language,” etc., pun- lishments inflicted only on those lin opposition to Broach, needless to Say. he administration signed an agree- Forced Into Streets. _WASHINGTON, Jan, 16.—The In- | Club. ‘This organization will also| Communist leader, Julio Mella, was |™eBt Mot to organize any Edison The blaze started shortly after | 1am oil land graft, involving former | present a unique acrobatic perform-|held at ihe Spanish Workers Club, Reba ee toes fi a Aiea 3 midnight in the basement and had|Sectetary of the Interior Fall, Attor. /ance. The combined clubs of the|5 W. 113th St., under the auspices | "NB AUOwes 10 Ao Some of the ox spread to the dumbwaiter shaft when |ney-General Sargent, Chairman of Labor Sports Union will then give of the club. Leth oy bas a ae Py ee we discovered by Maurice Gasparo, a the Republican National Committee a mass athletic drill. | The meeting was crowded with| pried she ete, ners worker living on the ground floor.| Worth, Indian Commissioner Burke | With appeals issued by leaders of| Latin-American workers who list), But the Progressives in the elec. Tt vas Gasparo, who, hurriedly ®°4 others, came up before Presi-' various workers’ organizations to|ened throughout to the denunciation |‘"ica!, workers’ union know all of) slipping a few clothes on, sped to dent-elect Hoover today, in “the sec- |this. They are not fooled by Broach bee fi 3 the masses of Greater New York to of the bloody dictatorship of the |)". yi . the nearest fire alarm box and sum- Rey es Nina Ge he ar bre lattend the Lenin memorial meet-|{ascist Manchado, of the complicity |{i™ 0 progressivism himself. moned firemen to the building, al-|t@blished at a Washington hotel. i ‘ | zi ers «, | They see that he has introduced in- The roofs of three adjoining build- | dian Affai Committee conferred Mm practically complete for the great-| Modotti. The workers approved the | clauses, prohibiting rank and file unionists in other branches of the | DETROIT, Jan. 16.—On Jan. 13 : ings, all tenements of the same type |Secret with him for some time, and) imperialist demonstration |denunciation of the United States |omtrol a= far as possible; prohibit- | building trades industry, the five /a conference of sixty of more dele-|tion of the auto shops. The confer- Ss that in which the fire started, |Tefused to give details when he came | aye, held in the eity. The complete Hmperialist Soveuuken’ tn seve jing workers from joining militant day week may be saved in spite of gates from 87 different organiza- | ence was called by the Auto Work- eine crowded with workers and their |°Ut- program will be aunounted Somorint sae ulan ta all Shaka etnies ‘organizations such as the T.U,E.L. | Broach and Halkett, and their res- | tions, fraternal and labor, repre- ers Union, which will be the basis Gives and children. The flames had | Hoover also made plans for the row. | i |from circularizing the membership fective machines and their “friendly | senting 15,000 auto workers, met and|of a united industrial union for begun to spread to adjoining puild-|€Xtra session at a luncheon with} committed against the militant |" 5 a | 4 : 5 It i i Saat " S eT with leafiets about the policy of the | bosses, imade plans to assist the organiza-'automobile workers. ings, and workers in these too were |"@PUblican house leader Tilson. t is understood the speakers will Latin-American workers and peas- forced to flee for their lives into | Promises “Park.” include William Z. Foster, William! ants and their leaders. the cold street. Other workers were! The source of all patronage took | Ww. Weinstone, Ben Gitlow and Jay) Ruiz Slavin spoke in the name Ww ‘ | fe “ Lovestone. Tickets for the event of the Spanish Workers Club; Ruiz, | groping, their lungs filling with the |p this problem, important for re- publican politicians also. He is de-| are now on sale at district head-|a Cuban student and friend of Mella { fumes, through the halls of the burn- | 2 E 4 quarters of the Workers (Commu-|in the name of the Cuban students; ing building filled with heavy chok-|voting attention to-the New York nist) Party, 26 Union Square. The|Uuis Martinez, for the Spanish sec- ing smoke. |patronage controversy, in which doors at the Garden will be open |tion of ihe All-America Anti-Impe- Women Hysterical. friends of William H, Hill, chairman | Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. rialist League, and Albert Moreau | ‘When the firemen arrived, ladders |°f the New York Sooper) for’ thé Spanish Bureau of the | shot up cn all sides, firemen helping {Committee during the last campaign, = oT Workers (Communist) Party. ; sis : ep ge Sid ‘ Worker: scores to descend to the street, where jaro, seeing ~ a 0h Hill in bi | Mexico Will Educate” : Yhroughout the meeting, other neighbors led hysterical women and lL ogwenaad Tee te eee ee ee |Masses i he Vi Cuban workers in the audience de- és “ . National Committeeman Charles D.! In the Virtues ©! i frightened children to their homes} ‘les. % manded the floor and bitterly de- up and down the block. Some were |/,°% ptebident-elack edufaried with of the Bourgeois State nounced the latest crime committed MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16.—Accord- agents Machado end Portes Gil. taken to the Bellmore Theatre oppo-j,.. by the U. S. government and its site, from which all had been evicted |Hilles at breakfast today and last ws : ing to Ezequiel Padilla, secretary of education, Mexico will adopt the So- jnight discussed the situation with viet system of cduestion ie a, Freeman to Speak at ee room for the victims of the | Under Gecretany of Teeny Onder ¥ | L. Mills of New York, who is among jschools, In reality, however, judg- Worker Forum Sunday jing from his further explanations, petore the roofs had been cleared, |11 0 seckinig ‘recognition Yor" Hill. the system will be an extremely; Joseph Freeman will spezk on flames were bursting through them, showering the entire neighborhood | Seger PE | TEXTILE UNION nationalistic one having as its main “Modern American Writers” this , sim the popularization of the bour- sunday evening at 8 o'clock at the with sparks that started other iso- lated fires throughout the block. Many Collapse. Marie Martinez and her ‘ 3 e geois democracy, : “5 School Por to be bold hters, Marie, 3 and Julie, 9 ts é . _| Workers School Forum, to be e! one at. who were badly burned zaale states that, like the Soviet at the Workers Center, 26 Union es and almost unconscious method, he will rouse public enthu- | square, on the sixth floor. im having inhaled the thick smoke | Seager ie ane RY Soonee- Among the writers he will discuss fumes, were hurriedly removed|\y Y £17, a “4 ad the public school system. | wil! be Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood he Beth David Hospital, Fireman N. Y. Silk Workers to But this school system will be anderson, James Branch Cabell. es Donahue, of Hook and Ladder Hold Meeting pepe much in the spirit of the Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Floyd pany 143, was badly burned on| | Panto Bah Jusging Hel his re- | Dell, Ernest Hemingway, Morley iy ah | 5 j marks, e says tha ere is no (Cy d others. hatids and overcome by ae ket Continued from Page One —__|uso teaching the “humble classes” | uoeet and omer fle “searching for other workers |is as follows: Thursday, Jan. 24 in| anci i f el ed:in the burning building. His | wj)}j Hikehe “OL ancient history and philosophy since a lay ecg t pene 3} Tes the “They never would understand such Resch oye ain aamt istrict; Tuesday, | tegrning, What we must do is teach Jan, 22 in Astoria, L, I; Jan. 25 in| them about Mexico—nationalize ou: Yonkers, where a huge carpet fac- instruction.” n ‘ tory giv employment "4 to about, : “while the fire was raging /7 999 workers; Feb. 1 in Hudson most-furiously. Overcome by ef y, New Jersey. As a wind-up clecsenqee an ee to the section meetings a big mass ‘on. Searchlights were traine@|yally is planned for Feb. 7. The} the building while twenty streams|+ime and places for the above s carried him down a ladder and re continually played on it-/enumerated meetings will be an-| *Mifty families | |the Detroit workers this month it! |may expect the police, the spies, the \“service departments” (as in Ford’s) and the National Automobile Cham-' ber of Commerce to be arrayed jagainst them. The powers behind ‘the 1929 auto show are pledged to! | keep the industry a completely) {closed anti-union shop. * * sume again the publication of the “Novy Mir” and to make it a sue- cess. “The first issue of the Novy Mir will appear on Lenin Memorial Day ~~a fit commemoration of our déad leader, and the CEC is confident that the Novy Mir will carry with vigor and clarity the message of Leninism to the Russian speaking | workers of America.” Progressives Fighting. But the progressives are fighting. Progressive workers in the electri- cians’ union interviewed yesterday by the Daily Worker are confident | * Mliemorial Meet 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 Mrs. MILLIONS IN ESTATE. The will of the late Mrs. Luisine |W. Havemeyer, widow of Henry L. | Havemeyer, founder and president of the American Sugar Refining Company, disposing of an estate | valued at many millions of dollars, | was filed for probate in New York County Surrogate Court yesterday. - | “Our theory must give an an- awer to t puts to inl meeting, Ji are Garde hith ‘to the Harlem Hospital. Aldo, a tenant, was found in adjoining | nounced later. | * lings fled, wet and cold from streams of water, into the street. ‘ost of the workers left homeless the fire are Portuguese, Spanish * All members of the Silk Workers Local of the National Textile Work- | 4 i lers Union are called to attend an Latin-Americans, many of Bs |educational meeting of their union BI oe cakes now vader conatzoc: | 22r7O™ night at 8 o'clock in the ve, subw i eadquarters of the Local, 247 > aa eee thie od she | eth Ave. according to announce- c long . i Wy. In spite of the fact ment issued by Philip Lipschitz, or- ‘SS away. AD anizer. fe. the pouiding was an old and |# The union stressed a call to the | Bape fined tenement, Aad val members to bring their shopmates ‘eupied by almost 200 families, who) +, the meeting. Albert Weisbord gn seuta oeae pest TL give a lecture on “New cause a err) hibitive for them. Ail six of the | Unioniem. ‘dead were found in a little two-room apartment on the third floor. Late last night many of the home- | were sick in the crowded homes “neighbors, many with influenza pneumonia after the exposure to | fire and streams of water and/| ‘cold streets. Others had lost their being too wenk to go to work! “1 o'clock in the morning after vigorous night. ‘ | the hospitals to which the in- had been removed, it was said all would recover, but would igured for life. | * 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” JASCHA FISCHERMANN, Soviet Pianist, will be heard in 1905” j *4917” “INSURRECTION” FREIHEIT GESANGS VEREIN ... Revolutionary Selections BRILLIANT LABOR SPORTS SPECTACLE by Labor Sports Union Tariff First in House During Extra Session Is Order of Hoover WASHINGTON, Jan, 16.—Presi- dent-elect Hoover in conference to- day with Representative Purnell of Indiana agreed that the special ses- sion of congress which he will call “for farm relief” shall take up first e tariff revision—vupward. | . He issued as yet unofficial order through Purnell that the house ag- | \icultural committee should assem- | ble during the recess in order not iz- | to waste time when the session is our- called. The senate committees are th | also expected to assemble ahead of time, creating socialism, = The senate will take up the farm many the mistaken ‘hill, for a fake relief measure, in- uy aeenens |tended to mollify the farmers who t | were promised consideration during the republican campaign. while the house considers the tariff. Then the two will switch, \ te property i the en- TICKETS 1-OW ON SALE DOORS OPEN 7, P. 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