The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1929, Page 1

" 'THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farm To Organize the ers Government Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered as second-clasw matter ai the Post Office at New York, N, Ya under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. V., No. 330 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sqa., New York, N. ¥. “NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1929 Outside In New York, by mail, §8.00 per year. MORRIS HILLOUIT, SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER. INVOLVED FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents IN $150,000 STOCK STEAL FROM THE NEEDLE WORKERS — ROCESSION IN MEXICO HONORS JULIO A. MELLA Tew York Workers to Hold Protest Meet Friday Evening [achado a Murderer 1. §. Lackey Killed Mella, Is Charge MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13 (By Mail) ‘With a procession of workers and asants through the streets of the exican capital lasting six and a Uf hours, the body of the Cuban ymmunist, Julio A. Mella, was yes- rday laid in the Pantheon de Do- ces, to be cremated and later taken the Soviet Union to rest with other volutionary martyrs beside the cemlin wall. Representatives of any labor, peasant and anti-imperi- ist organizations spoke in tribute Mella and in attack upon his sassins, the tools of Yankee im- rialism—the government of Cuba. Rafael Carrillo, general secretary the Communist Party of Mexico, dressing the crowds from the bal- ny of the party headquarters, said: “Mella has fallen pierced by the llets of those who had no courage meet him face to face. Yet dead he is, he will shake the miserable rant who ordered his assassina- yn, He has won the repose of every shter. Machado, the jackal, may w_ smile; when he reads the press Mexico; but the world proletariat ll also have its moment of laugh- The little school-master, the tban ambassador, also has his nds stained in the blood of Mella, d dares to circulate the insult that 3 death was a passional crime. 1e proletariat seizes this calumny (Continued on Page Five) RAIN AND BUS WRECK KILLS 11 hree Roads Intersect on Same Level BELLEVUE, Ohio, Jan. 22. — venteen persons were killed and least 15 others were injured when interurban car crashed into a ‘eyhound bus near here today. Five the injured are expected to die. The crash occurred at a grade yssing, which is a triangular inter- ction. A railroad, the interurban acks and a highway cross there, on the same. leyel,. tho Ohio is e of the richest states and could ve well afforded underground and erhead passages. It was snowing heavily when the vction ear leaped out of the. murk. .e traction car. was an express, ceed by the company schedule to ep a high rate of speed. Thomas huyler, the motorman, was. first report the accident over the tele- one, and arrange for rescue .of 2 injured. No Watchman. Danger signals were up at the ossing but the storm apparently structed the bus driver’s and mo- rman’s view, and there was ho (Continued on Page Five) enate Votes Millions yw Big Dry Spy Army; Deserving” Get Jobs WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The | At Graves of Liebkn i: | | | | | German workers and Red Fro | by hirelings of the social-democra echt and Luxemburg mt Fighters standing at attention | beside the graves of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, murdered t government in 1919. The pro- cession which marched to the graves of the revolutionary leaders in- cluded delegations from France, | Austria. | of the social-democrat police chief | tion last week. | of the workers. Great Britain, Switzerland and Thirty workers were arrested by the police, on the order Vorgiebel, during the demonstra- The Communists were reléised after a mass protest EW REPUBLICAN WHIP FOR WEST \Watson, Floor Leader, | Votes for Power Trust | (United Press) |The xoll-call by .which the senate secretly confirmed the nomination of | Roy O. West of Illinois to be secre- WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U.P).—|_ SANDINO WINS ANOTHER FIGHT Marines Defeated by Independence Army ‘A, Nicaragua, Jan. 22. jicaraguan Army of Inde- pendénce, led by“ General Augustin Sandino, engaged forces of Ameri- TAXI DRIVERS REPORT 3 SHIPS odes FIGHT AGAINST WHALEN RULES Spontaneous Strike to Hit Show District; i | Taxis Stay Away | First Night Ruins Cabs ‘Forced to Run Over Repairs on 8th Ave. Last night thousands of taxicab drivers united silent protest jagainst Police Czar “Gorgeous | Grover” Whalen's new rules for the | theatre zone. Drivers are staying |out of the zone altogether, rather in than endure the brow-beating of the | | police and damage to their cars from being forced over on new construc- | tion at Eighth Ave. Theatregoers were running around through the jsnow last night looking for cabs, |and there were few cabs. Check-up of Whalen’s new regu- lations, as they worked in the try- out night before last, show thou- jsands of dollars in earnings were lost by cab drivers because of the volice “no cruising order.” Speeding laws were disregarded jon the “try-out” night. Fifteen miles an hour is the maximum, by | regulation, for the downtown sec- tion. jsuch high-powered cars as belong to | the upper crust. forty miles. pean le streets, especially SINKING; CREWS NUMBER HUNDRED |At Least One Working Short Handed Thru | Greed of Owner Freighter Lost for Day ‘Yankee Tanker Vessel, | Italian, May Go Down Three ships were in distress or sinking on the Atlantic yesterday, with 150 lives, mostly members of crews, in great danger. At least one of the ships sailed short-handed, tho there are thousands of unemployed sailors. | The Dannedaike, an American freighter, and a ship believed to be the Florida, a small Italian steamer, were in trouble about 200 miles apa: at a spot approximately 900 mil east of the Delaware and Virginia Capes. The British freighter Tees- bridge was silent after an S. O. S. font yesterday. Rescue ships were un- able to find her and it was feared she had gone down. She was off Cape Race and a thousand miles to the northeast of the other two. She had la crew of 38. | Not Crew Enough. There are at least 33 men aboard the tanker Dapnedaike which is re- ported sinking off Halifax, N. S., the American agents, Charles Kurz and Co., reported today. | The tanker is bound from Beau- (nont-Texy7to Ghent, Belgium, with \a cargo of oil. Captain Meyer A. M. Mathiasen Begin Scotland to London March GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan. ).—The first section of the ch of the unemployed on London t today on the long trail from here to the center of Britain’s gov- ernment. - ma le There were approximately 200 un- loyed in this contingent w well to greater proportions other sections join it en rou cording to the National Uner Workers Committee, who sponsored | the plan. The G schedule, ¢ the committee’s statement izing the parade, om gow group departed on public- | hers plan to be on the 3 days, meeting conti nts from ten other points in Scot- land, They expect to reach London Feb. anners against the uner ent situation in the British s will be carried the marching men and the en- re column, consisting of approx jmately 1,000 men, hope to march through the ets of London, finally ending with demons i Jend a presentation of der the residence of Prime Stanley Baldwin on Dow . and at the government Whitehall of- |fices, The committee has announced tha the m the evidences of in the face of wide unemp! | conditions, loym: had been: announced in | and placards protesting | COURT DATA REVEALS HOW “FORWARD” GANG “LIFTED” BANK SHARES OF THE UNION Thievery Uncovered by New Union in Effort to Prevent Steal of Workers’ Property Hillquit and Crew Challenged to Disprove Open Charges by Libel Suit Morris Hillquit, corpora party, and other leading “ ‘soci ion law, and boss of the socialist were yesterday exposed alists participants in a huge steal by which $150,000 was taken from the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union. STRIKE PICKET FORCES BUILT |At Need le Union Active jj Member Meeting Hundreds of the active members of the Needle al Trades Workers In- Union erday crowded Webst Hall at an enthus meeting. After listening to the pr osals for the immediate construc- for the et about dust The meeting, consisting of about housand of the most nists, xeceived. withpapisitesiap plause the declarations 6f the sp s—that the coming dress strike will be fought out in the sternest 7 Acting the “brains” in working out the details of the scheme, the leader of the American socialist party put over as a “deal” in shares owned by the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union— shares of the International Union Bank, formerly a union institution d now owned by private capital- ists—in which deal the sum of $150,000 was left in the pockets of the group Hillquit headed. The facts of thi swindle, involving shares of the In- ternational Union Bank ame to light accidentally at a trial before Judge Alfred H. Townley. unprecedented Made Loan. When the International founded, the cloak and dr Joint Board bought bank When the big cloak strike started in the summer of 1926, the then left +wingoint’ Beard, finding itself in need of funds, made a loan from the ‘International Union bank and turned over its shares as security. The |tary of interior was obtained today|can marines in the northeastern |was in charge of the vessel when it fashion, and in the same spirit as'loan was a guaranteed by the | by the United Press. The line-up revealed that a split |in the democratic ranks enabled the | republican majority to offset defec- tions and force confirmation by a total vote of 54 to 27. | Following is the roll-call: Democrats for (22) — Ashurst, Ariz.; Bayard, Del.; Blease, S. C.; Bratton, N. M.; Broussard, La.; ‘Bruce, Md.; Caraway, Ark.; Cope- Ga.; Glass, Va.; Hawes, Mo.; Hay- den, Ariz.; Kendrick, Wyo.; Over jman, N, C.; Pittman, Nev.; Rans- dell, La.; Smith, S. C.; Steck, Ia. Stephens, Miss.; Thomas, Ok! | Tydings, Md. Reublicans for (32): Bingham .; Burton, 0. yi Kas. s, K Dal dge, N. J nn, Hale, | Jones, | Lean, Conn.; MeNary, Ore. R. 1; Oddie, Nev.; Phipps, Colo.;, |Reed, Pa.; Robinson, Ind.; Sackett, |Ky.; ‘Schall, Minn.; Shortridge, + Smoot, Utah; Stciwer, Ore.; Vandenberg, Mich.; Warren, Wyo.; | Waterman, Colo.; Watson, Ind. All others present (27) voted | against. | Yugoslav Communist Party Calls on Masses | to Overthrow Dictator | (Wireless By “Inprecorr’”’) BERLIN, Jan. 22—The Com- munist Party of Yugoslavia has issued an appeal to the workers and peasants of the national min- orities to fight against the mili- tary dictatorship and for the es- tablishment of a proletarian dic- tatorship and Soviet Republics of the Balkans. The appeal has been well re- ceived among the masses because all the oppositional parties com- pletely capitulated before the dic- tatorshi ‘ part of Yali disirict, marine head- Ja patrol of the U. S. imperialist |quarters here admit, and drove off | Lost $2.95. | One driver who had early in the |evening picked up a call on Ocean ileft Beaumont with a crew of 382 men. The Dannedaike is an American |troops, inflicting upon them a loss land, N. Y.; Fletcher, Fla.; George, | * CANTOR TRIAL -|Defense Gains Victory |in the criminal libel trial of Harry |on the witness stand as to his part Ave., Brooklyn, to a theatre on | ty-first St. was asked by his |fares to return efter the show for ja return call to Brooklyn. The driver did not collect his fare, Jand at eleven o'clock, when the |shows “broke,” the driver was un- lable to cruise through from Sixth |Ave. to pick un his fare. Result, .95 less wages. of several wounded and one killed. The man killed i ated by marine officers to have been Everet A. Rec- tor. American advisors of the Wall ent, Moncado, have told martial law through- This out the vill undoubtedly be done. northern provinces, vers, who were more for- tunate in getting through, were not alowed to pick up those fares that led thei in front of the theatres. They were kept going “on the but- ton,” speed laws or no speed laws. Protests Grow. One association has alr IS POSTPONED. inst the regulations of | Commis; ion. Whalen. The Inde- , |Pendent Taxi Owners Association, » one of the oldest taxi organizations jin the city, composed of independent \drivers, complains that its members can’t get their return fares, A reporter for the Daily Worker made a round of garages, “coffee pots” and hack stands after mid- J. Cantor, local Communist leader, night, and the check-up shows that which was scheduled to open today,| bookings were far below the aver- gained an important victory when|#¢. Many drivers of new Mogul it forced the prosecution to compel) Checker cabs were unable to bring ex-Governor Fuller to testify by|in their minimum amount of book- taking the case temporarily off the| ings and, as a result, drastic action trial list on the ground that ex-|f0llowed-—they were fired. Governor Fuller must be present at} Drivers on the open-shop Yellow this time as a material witness. | Taxi Corporation reported also a This reverses the original decision|!0ss in receipts and earnings, de- of Justice Walter P. Hall, of Su-/spite a statement earlier in the day perior Court, made yesterday, deny-|to the press by company officials ing an appeal for a writ of contin-; that the bookings were low and that uance, The prosecution is thus/their cabs made better time through foiled in its attempt to shield Fuller|the war zone. and prevent him from being grilled Fuller Might Testify (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Jan. 22—The defense! y pro- | tanker of 2,520 tons net, from Phila- delphia. She is owned by the Dan- nedaike Steamship Corp. and was |built in 1919 at Baltimore for the |United States Shipping Board. She normally carriers a crew of 44. Florida Has 35 Workers. An §&. 0. S, call was picked up he day from the S. S. Flor- jida. The ship reported a broken rud- |der and asked for aid. She gave her | position as about 600 miles due south jof Halifax, N. The Florida is an Italian vessel with a crew of 35 and is believed to carry a few passenge Three rescue ships are s |for the vessels in distress. arching MOSCOW LENIN MEMORIAL MEET |Molotov and Bucharin Speak (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Jan. 22.— | Molotov, of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, opened the memorial meet- ing on the Fifth Anniversary of Lenin’s death at the Big Theatre to- day. He reviewed the past five years without Lenin, and declared that the successes of the Party were due to | following Lenin’s policy. ‘Leninism is the fighting standard of the ~ MEASURE FAILS Charge of Conspiracy Stands Against Fall SHINGTON Af: Senate Indian $ has adopted a resolution Senator W. B. Pine, Oklahoma, of charg him by Indian Commissioner Burke in connection with the Jackson Bar- nett Indian fund case. Burke was defending himself against a ‘charge that he conspired to defraud an Indian in the Barnett involved $1,000,000, and con- a in Oklahoma against Burke, ex ry of the Interior Fall and others, Burke got the then Secretary of Interior Work and At- torney General Sargent to smash the investigation. Started Back Fire. | Burke was confronted with this charge made by the prosecutor in Oklahoma, Charles Selby. He taliated that Senator Pine, Se |and others were trying to ruin him. |The adoption of the report leav |the charges standing against Work, Fall, Burke and Sargent standing. The report absolves Charles Selby and O. M. Parmenter, as nt at- \torney general, and John Collier, aj |representatives of the Indian Rights | Associations, with Pine. The report said there was no basis | whatever to Burke’s charges in the levidence brought before the com- (mittee, | Bt SOD NSS | ANACONDA SWALLOWS CHILE The Anaconda Copper Mining Co. gr re- won the general strikes of the fur- riers and cloakmakers in 1926. Under the chairmanship Zimmerman, manager the s department, the Organiz: tion Committee of 1,000 was started. After cards had been passed around to those in the hall, who filled them out as signifying their adhesion to the committee, Zimmerman called upon the ze those who had been chosen as captains of the huge Or- ganization Committee. These cap. tains, as did the Organization C, mittee proper, came from all in the industry. About 50 captains came to the of of The spe the meeting in- cluded Pre Louis Hyman, 5 t Ben Gold, Ir ing Potash, cl ad of the Or- nization Committee, and I. Kor ‘kers in the dress manufactur- ing ‘shops of two more districts are to meet tonight immediately after work for the purpose of organizing rank and file block and building mtrol machinery for the coming ke. Those employed on 25th, th and 27th Sts. will meet in buildings which the union owned. The union, of course, planned to pay off the loan after the strike. However, the decision of the yel- low Forward clique to wreck the of union and the pogrom against the rank and file started by Morris Sig- = man, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Unions made it extremely difficult tHe Joint Board to pay its debt to thes: International bank. oi f For Fat Boys. The International Union Bayik, * thereupon confiscated the shares of the Joint Board and algo laid cl to the union buildings. 2 prepare to provide for fat boys, found the Joint Board ready to fight to retain the buildings that had keen acquired through the sacrifices thousands of cloak and dressmakéts, The Joint Board, through lawyer, Louis D. Boudin, took! case to court, declaring that? debt to the International Un Bank had been paid by the sk which the bank had confiscated “att its + union headquarters, 16 W. 2ist St.,|that the bank had no claim onfth#!©0> and those working on 387th and 38th s. are to hold their district meet- ing in Bryant Hall. The powerful centralizing instru- ment of block and building commit- tees will be organized at these meet- i tonight just as the previous ct meetings had organized Their duties consist of reaching the rank and file of the organized (Continued en Page Two) Stern Punishment for |Landowners and Priest | WhoKillSovietMember in the murder of Saceo and Van- zetti. The attempt to railroad Cantor to a long prison term has stirred wide resentment among the work- (Continued on Page Five) nate today voted $24,000,000 ad- tional to the prohibition fund, for e purchase of “dry” spies. Secre- ry Mellon has formally protested -ainst the additional funds, claim- g they are not needed. But the nate knows there are many “de- rving republicans’ who have to ive a.job. The “Drys” are suspi- ous that Mellon, despite his de- als, is still interested in the whis- y distillery business, and not in ohibition. In addition to the fund for Mel- 1, the senate voted, almost with- t debate, $250,000 more, to be ed by Hoover, after he becomes esident, to “investigate” prohibi- n, a very lucrative procedure for ose whom Hoover rewards with 2 job of “investigator.” SEEK ANCI (United Press) MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—An expedi- | tion headed by Uri D. Chirikhin is being sent into the icy wilderness of Yakutia, northeastern Siberia, by the Academy of Science in Lenin- gvad to search for a colony of Rus- sians who are believed by scientists to have been cut off from the world for about 400 years. , If the Chirikhin expedition suc- ceeds in finding the “lost colony,” the academy leaders believe it will ENT SLAVS Soviet Scientists to Penetrate Wilds furnish valuable information about the customs and daily life of Rus- sians of the 16th century. Discovered By Czarist Exile. There have been legends and ru- mors of this colony current in northeastern Siberia for more than 100 yeats, but recently an appa- rently trustworthy report was re- ceived here of its existence. A political exile of the pre-revolu- tionary era, M. Zinzinoff, returned (Continued on Page Two) by Long Hunger Strike (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BERLIN, Jan, 22.—Rakosi, Hun- garian Communist, has ended his |hunger strike, which he started as a protest against disciplinary mea- |sures taken against him by the | prison authorities. | On instructions from Budapest au- thorities the prison director imposed further severe disciplinary measures endangering the life of Rakosi. His relatives visited the under secretary of the state prisons, who promised to abolish the disciplinary punish- work of the Lenin Institute. The meeting was concluded with solemn music, Memorial meetings are being held in all Moscow districts. There are great masses collected about |Lenin Mausoleum on the Red | Square, Swiss Gov't Prohibits Anti-Fascist to Enter for Lectures on Dante (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BASLE, Switzerland, Jan, 22.— The Swiss Federal Council an- ments if Rakosi would abandon his | nounced today that Professor Sal- hunger strike. The Hungarian au-)vemini, famous anti-fascist exile thorities are obviously scared hy the | living in London, would be refused international protest campaign. Up- | permission to enter Switzerland to on the urgings of the relatives the | deliver lecture at Lugano on Dante, prisoners then decided to break off | owing to expected disturbances. the strike, but declared intentions to| Public opinion is indignant be- continue it should the promises be | cause fascists are continually per- broken. {| mitted to hold meetings at Lugano. [LESSEE RE eae proletariat everywhere,” he de-! . . clared. ‘Hungarian Proletarian | “‘Bacharin then addressed the huge 7 Hf q meeting. PrisonerWins Demands Savelyev spoke concerning the has called a special meeting of stock- petanay |holders for the purpose of dow vi | MOSCOW, Jan, 22 (UP).—Seven its present capital stock so that it | land owners (Kulaks) and a Moham- jmay take over Chile Copper Co. | medan priest were sentenced to ; This will form one of the largest | death in the village of Sayat, Chard- |copper companies in the world and | jui district, Turkestan, today for be a still more important factor |the murder of ‘a member of the! jin American imperialism. | Soviet election committee. BURN IMPERIAL EFFIGY British Communists LONDON, Jan. 22.—Colonel T. E. Lawrence, notorious British spy, was burned in ‘effigy yesterday on Tower Hill by a mass demonstra- wwrence i in 3 bel in the east | against any king who proved to be too independent and refused to sell) his kingdom to the British. He ex-| : j Pisined how the British were man-| tion of workers and British Com-)euvering to gain control of Afghan-/| munists after speakers had de- | istan in order to have a_ military | nounced the agtivities of British | base against the Soviet Union on its | imperialism in Afghanistan. southern frontier. ae The speakers included Shapurji| The effigy was painted on a | Saklatvala, Communist member of | black banner held aloft on a pole.! | Parliament, who exposed Lawrence’s It showed Lawrence in Arab garb, part as tool of British imperialism | scowling fiercely. {What became of the other buildings. In the final hearing of the case Ww Boudin appeared for the Joint Boar@ tl? (now the Needle Trades Workers* Industrial Union), while the righ jwing Schlesinger gang was repr sented by Morris Hillquit. At the trial Boudin grilled Hill- quit’s confidential aid, Omhay, for several hours, Boudin wanted to find out what had hap- pened to the sh After much dodging and squirming on the part of Omhay, he was forced to admit that of the 1,275 shares of the Joint Board, 875 had been sold 'to a group headed by Hillquit at $200 a share. What was the actual value of the shares? Why were they sold: to Morris Hillquit and to “others”? 900: \ shares? At this point Hillquit began feel- ing decidedly uncomfortable. Om-= hay had evidently blabbed too much already. Hillquit here requested Judge Townley that he be permitted to make a statement. Boudin at once objected, declaring that Hhil- quit could make a statement only under oath. Hillquit was unable to back down and had to agree. He took the witness stand and “the fun” began, Boudin began asking embarrassing questions which Hillquit found it impossible to squirm out of. He was compelled to admit the following: _ At the time he made the deal ar ~ bought the shares they were worth much. more than $200 a share; in faet, even much more than $300 a share. For the shares that were in possession of the International Union Bank there had come an offer — from outsiders of $310 a share! ~ e ‘Continued on Pege Five) Frederick then | itis o105