The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1929, Page 1

oe f THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class matic: FIN AL CITY EDITION ol, V., No. 331 Publishing Association, Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker » 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. W YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1929 "SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, 86. i ‘Price 3 Cents MPERIALISM IS HIT AT COFFIN OF JULIO MELA lasses at Mexico City Hear Proletariat’s Eloquent Tribute Tella Set an Example lis Blood in Our Ban- ners, Says Carillo MEXICO CITY, (By Mail).—At 1e Pantheon de Dolores, address- ig the great throngs which had athered there to pay a last tribute > Julio A. Mella, the Cuban revo- itionary assassinated on January 0, by agents of Gerado Machado, |. resident of Cuba, Diego Rivera, ‘orld-famous proletarian artist and vader of the Mexican Communist | arty, charged the murder of Mella > the imperialists of the United tates. Speaking in the name of the All imerica Anti-Imperialist League, tivera declared that “Wall Street eigns, making dollars at the cost f workers’ blood; and the conflict 1 Mexico between Yankee imper- ilism and British imperialism, from ‘s inception twenty years back, has aused thousands of Mexican peas- nts to perish in that conflict, ‘round to pieces in the imperialist aachinery.” Symptom of World Situation. “The murder of Mella is a cow- rdly deed and a symptom of the vorld situation. The ruling “class an no longer rule without employ- ng the method of murder. The renerals, the rich, whose palaces ine the streets of this capital from vhere we stand to the city’s center, re no longer able to conceal from is their real character. This is the ignal which cries out the real sit- tation to all Latin America. “The assassination of Mella is a (Continued on Page Five) (0 TRY: MINEOLA CASE ON MONDAY . eB in a Special Appeal for Funds A widespre: and concentrated ampaign for immediate funds to srovide legal assistance to the vic- ims of the Mineola frame up case, s about to be launched by the In- ernational Labor Defense, which is arrying on the campaign for the sine workers. Seven of them are to ‘ome up for a new trial in the same lineola Court and before the same fudge Smith that first sent them to ong jail terms, next Monday. District Attorney Edwards is pre- varing to start with the trial Mon- lay, despite the fact that even the Jourt of Appeals in Albany made a lecision which admits that the ‘rame-up was too thin, by permitting seven of the nine workers a new rial privilege. The other two whose sentences were sustained by “he higher court are already serv- ng their two and a half to five year terms. The sentences of the other seven is of the same severity. That the Ku Klux Klan judge end orosecutors of Long Island intend to insist that the workers go to jail, san be proven by the fact that the sase is brought up. Usually when a high court grants a new trial the sase is dropped. Financial contributions are ap- sealed for by the I. L. D. Workers are to send it to their headquarters at 799 Broadway. New Earth Shocks Felt | in Venezuela as Ruins Are Searched for Dead CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 23 (UP).—Renewed earthquakes were _ reported from Cumana today as re- ief workers continued their task of removing bodies from the ruins of the buildings razed by last week’s quakes, The correspondent of El Diario at Sumana reported today that fifty yodies had . been identified, but the cotal number of deaths could not be sfficially reported due to the slow) orogress of relief work. About 200 / | i} | t Left, observation plane being ing over San Diego, Cal., prior to Lexington going at top speed on the Pacific. ever seen is being made by the U.S. imperialists, ostensibly for maneuvers. blast to pieces Latin-American villages this year or not, they are in training for it. hoisted aboard a battleship; right, top, navy's fighting squadron, drill- departure; below, right, navy torpedo plane; botton, aircraft carrier The largest concentration of naval airplanes the world has But whether they fly to CALL WORKERS TO MILLINER VOTING | Left Wing Appeals for Ousting Bureaucrats Appealing to the members of the Millinery Local 24 to overthrow the present union-ssmashing executive board by the election of honest and |progressive elements, the Trade | Union Educational League of this | union yesterday issued a statement calling the members to come to the polls to register their vote. The statement sums up in detail all the policies and tactics of the Right wing now in control and pre- sents a program of its own, which it calls on the workers to endorse by their action at the elections. Since the last elections the pres- ent board has been responsible for: (1) a steady growth of contractors in the industry and the attendant demoralization of conditions, (2) a more severe unemployment crisis, without the proposal of one prac- tical remedial measure; (3) the ex- penditure of over $150,000 in single strikes without being able to record substantial victories; (4) the “reor- ganizations” in the shops without union interference, through which in maany instances more than half the crews lost their jobs; (5, the (Continued on Page Two) 3 Firemen Injured in Atlantic City Blaze ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 23. (UP).—Three firemen were hurt, one seriously, in an early morning fire which today nearly destroyed the Hotel Loretta, 123 South Ken- tucky Avenue, this city, in the heart of the small hotel district. \ 14 Cheswick, Pa., Miners to.Go TAY| DRIVERS on’ Trial in Pittsburgh, Today\ (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28.—Eehoes | i 2 of the Sacco-Vanzetti case will once | pontaneous Strike in more arise out of the grave where Zone Gets Stands the murder justice of the capi- feakist: cliss thought it had ‘con-| A spontanéous strike of taxi driv-| |demned them when 14 coal painersalcts who could not stand the car} \arrested in connection with a |Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration in |Cheswick, Pa., on Aug. 22, 1927, \face trial here tomorrow. The 14 ere | defendants, who are charged with! fate eee ie te paras urlawful assembly, inciting to riot| the Rothstein’ case out of public! ‘ . the Rothstein case out of public and resisting an officer, have been | mind, and driving taxi drivers to| jout on bonds of from $500 to $5,000 | give up their best chances to make leach, \a living wage, now admits that he The attack by state troopers on a will have to modify his rules. |mass protest meeting of 5,000 men, | Whalen will establish eight hack women and children, nearly all coal | Stands on the edges of his restricted | ruining, wasteful regulations against | eruising cabs and prohibition of) hack stands in the restricted theatre | | zone has forced Police Commission- | |er Whalen to begin to weaken. U.S. Sends World’s Greatest War Plane Fleet to Terrorize the Latins| AOMMUNISTS OF | A vrest Canada BRITAIN FINISH PARTY CONGRESS Vote to Pay Politica] | meetings in any other language than | Levies in Unions; Much Discussion Discontinue Left Wing ‘Plan Struggle Against Imperialist System (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LONDON, Jan. 23.—The congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain has just ended. It started jon the nineteenth, and made deci-| | sions as to left wing tactics, to pol- icy in the fight with British im- perialism, and the British labor party. The opening address was deliv- ered by Campbell, justifying the new policy. Speakers discussing the situation declared that the party had not carried thru the new policy firmly enough. On Labor Party Levies. Other speakers stated that the party leadership did not do enough self-criticism. Other stated that a right wing danger existed. A closed session dealt with the question of payment of the political levy in the trade unions. Pollitt j urged the expediency of contribu- | tion to political funds of the unions, despite the fact that these funds are used in the interest of the labor party. Murphy opposed the payment of such political levies, demanding im- mediate independent Communist ac- tivity in the unions, based on re- fusal to pay the levy. ae Two. Policies. Murphy demanded the formation of an independent fund against the Labor Party. The discussion revealed two sharp- ly opposed tendencies, but the ma- jority favored continued payment on the general grounds there out- lined. However, Murphy, in his closing speech, declared the whole resolu- | tion for payment was unworkable as the basis of a fight against the labor party. the labor party, he said, would come thru factory activity, winning the masses. Resolution Carried. Pollitt, in his closing speech, ap- pealed to the congress to “be real- ists” and wait and see what mass (Continued on Page Two) CLERK UNIONISTS miners and their families, in Ches-|20n¢, Within which empty cabs are wick on the eve of the murder of |0t allowed to take customers, and) Sacco and Vanzetti was one of the| Will use police as car starters, on| most brutal instances of state terror | Orders from the hotels. Only forty | connected with that case. The|¢abs will be utilized in these hack i mounted troopers rode roughshod | Stands, however, ON TRIAL TODAY Communist at Lenin Meeting TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 23.— ing use of a new fascist, anti ing class police order which for' TO DISPROVE Mak- ids English, police today broke up a MORRIS HILLOUIT, EXPOSED, ANNOUNCES SUIT FOR LIBEL SOCIALIST LEADER FAILS CHARGES OF THIEVERY OF UNION FUNDS Lenin memorial meeting ata local JF quit Indicates He Would Cover Stock Steal theatre and arrested Philip Halpern, editor of Der Kampf, Yiddish Com- munist weekly, The police order, which was ned yesterday, is intended as a direct attack on militant workers as it not| only forbids meetings in a foreign language, but also prohibits “disor- derly or seditious reflections on our s ‘ form of government, the king or any| ® gigantic steal of $150,000 of constituted authority.” was issued by Police Chief Draper ber of the exec after a conference with the Board of Police Commissioners. Several hundred workers were gathered in the theatre at the time lof the police attack. Indignation | swept the audience. Many workers arose and protested loudly and in- sisted upon continuing the meeting. The theatre manager, however, in-| 'timidated by the police, ordered the place cleared. Several workers were | roughly handled and the police made | use of a tear bomb. The arrest of Halpern was greeted with hoots and) two enthusiastic strike district jeers. Despite the provocative tac-| meetings, attended by a large num- tices of the police, the audience | },4, of dressmakers in the two dis- marched from the theatre in 8004 | tricts yesterday completed the order, cheering for the Soviet Union! tanlishment of the very strategic and singing the Internationale and) piock Committees, began the forma- other revolutionary songs. tion of building committees, which The attack on the Lenin memorial| are to be an organizational arm of meeting and the arrest of Halpern, the union among the rank and file have caused widespread resentment) jn the coming general dressmakers’ | among the workers of this city. The| strike. local Communist Party and other left | | wing organizations are preparing to| union auditorium, 16 W. 2Ist St., wage a vigorous fight against the and in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and new police order which practically| 42nd St. Those working on 25th, Court Records, to Be Substantiate Al utive committee HOLD SPIRITED DRESS MEETINGS Meet Tonight tional, 'Vote Today; Chairmen |} The meetings were held at the Trail With Civil Suit Published Soon, Will 1 Charges Made Exposed yesterday by the Daily Worker as a ringleader in needle workers’ union property, The order Morris Hillquit, chief of the American socialist party and mem- st Interna- statement of the Second Social issued a ! promising libel suit. In a whimpering outburst in the yellow Jewish “Forward,” Hill- quit’s statement, and the editorial lead that accompanies it, provide substantiation first of the dis- closures made in the Commvnist ss, the Daily Worker and the th Communist daily, the Frei- To Print Court Records. Second substantiation will be made when the Daily Worker ob- tains the court stenograms for re- printing. These records, to be printed in a few days, record the testimony of Hillquit and his cides, while under cross-examination by Louis B, Boudin, attorney for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union. In answer to the wealth of de- tail, in which fact after fact con- tained in the “Daily” expose nails the “socialist” colleagues to the |wall, Hillquit and his organ can puts an end to so-called freedom of| 96th and 2ith Sts, meeting in thelonly find the words “you're a liar.” speech and is especially intended as| union and those on 37th and 88th| After stating that they have at last a blow against the Communist Party. | Sts. meeting in the hall With quiet| “cornered” those whom they period- - | efficiency, the workers: set about/ically “corner, the great socialist The real victory over, into the crowd, declared the meet- | ing dispersed and began swinging clubs, throwing tear gas bombs and shooting off their guns recklessly. | Many children were blinded for several days by the tear gas bombs | and others in the crowd were badly According to police figures, an!1S Frameup of Militant even thousand fewer cabs entered 4 the restricted zone on the first night Union Leaders The case of -the three of the strike than on Monday night. members of the Retail leading Grocery Cab drivers say it was much more than a thousand that stayed away, | and they expect to continue their| Dairy and Fruit Clerks’ Union, in| hurt by horses’ hoofs and the troop-| fight against Whalen’s arbitrary ers’ clubs. In the shooting one of | TUlings, that cost drivers their much) the state troopers was killed. needed fare, get men who work for| 6 Fanaa k the big companies fired for not mak- ad Sut akea beh ritbe ieridenca” | 2 the minimum collections, and rested, a |eut the tires and break the springs | of the state troopers proved too / of cabs which have once entered the | flimsy to convict most of them and | zone by forcing them to drive down} they oe tH subsequently released | the rotten pavement on Eighth Ave. | except the 14 miners. pe RTL HNN Attempts were,made to frame the miners on a charge of murder, but the state was compelled to drop this Serial Based on Soviet Film to Begin in Daily | which a framed-up charge felonious assault is to be the method with which these workers may be sent to prison, is to come up this morning before the labor hating Judge Rosalsky, in General Sessions, Part Six, the Criminal Courts Build- ing. These workers, Union Organizer, \J. Vacker, vice-president, M. Koval- sky and the organizer’s brother Hyman Vacker, are now out: on a bail which the judges insisted shall of | SENATORS WORRY OVER EXPOSURE SecretTax Refunds But West Vote Published WASHINGTON, Jan. senate is pledged to get back to the | cruiser bill tomorrow. Word has | been passed around that American | imperialism wants its warships, and there has been “enough nonsense’ ‘about Secretary Mellon’s tax refunds to his favorite corporations. | The senate intends to’ obey, but finds it difficult to get off the tax scandal, which compromises the whole machinery of capitalist gov- ernment in the eyes of some of the senator’s constituents back home. Senators are also angry at the pub- lication of the supposedly secret vote | by which they confirmed the appoint- ment of the Insull power trust agent, | Roy West, as secretary of the in- terior. Publicity Worries. The Mellon case and the exposure | of those who backed West got tangled in the debate. Mellon calmly refuses to tell the senate who is (Continued on Page Five) ‘General Meeting of | Left Wing Tailors’ | Leagues for Tonite A general meeting of all sections of the Trade Union Educational League of the Ai | Workers Union wil! be held tonight \ malgamated Clothing | charge and content itself with ef- forts to railroad them to jail on the other charges. The 14 miners who go on trial to- morrow are Tony Camilli, Dominick Paolini, John Bernabei, Steve Kure- pa, Ercole Moretti, Antonio Demoro, |Fred Nozaranti, Joe Jtsienski, George Reikovitch, G. P. Libertoy, James Marcodi, Ercole Marcodi and Joe Iacomi, ROME, Jan, 23—The pope has made a list of American labor hating and trust forming corpora- tion officials’ Knights of the Order of Malta and bestowed the grand cross of the order on certain cthers. POPE KNIGHTS BOSSES Big U.S. Trust Heads in Order of Malta ' Anaconda Heads List. On the list made knights are: Cornelius Kelly, president of the Anaconda Copper Company. Henry 0. Havemeyer, president of Worker Monday, Jan.28 A new serial, a story by Charles Yale Harrison based on the great Sovkino film “Two Days,” will be a new feature pre- sented to readers of the Daily Worker, beginning Monday, Jan. 28. | The Sovkino film “Two Days,” on which this serial is based, and which will be seen in New York shortly has been hailed by the foremost European criti¢és as: “A tremendous psychological study of an old man torn between his slave-like devotion to his White Guard master and his love for his son, a Red Army commander. - . caught in the changing tides of the early days of the Russian Revolution . . . penetrating in its tragic heauty . . . unforget- table in its overwhelming pathos.” Watch for it! ° | sters, since they were led by a gang- |tectives with the assistance’ of the | socialist, arrested the union leaders, | \charged them with felonious assault, in the Workers Center, 26-28 Union be $10,000 each. | Square, according to an anncunce- Pie case coveloge fo he ae \ pent issued yesterday by the secre- when a squad of detectives led by an | taries, official of the reactionary socialist! ‘The newest developme: - 4 y pments in the United Hebrew Trades, invaded a) Amalgamated, which include not hens tes ages 4 of Ere at enly, the well-known facts of the Ce abet Thirtaoe them sean | demoralization in the union, but ; jments, require that every left ster official, the workers defended |, A 4 | Pint | winger attend the meeting without | themselves. In retaliation, the de- | fail. and are now waiting for the notori- ous Rosalsky to send them to jail. FINN PROHIBITION FAILS. HELSINGFORS, Finland, (By Mail).—According to government statistics, customs authorities seized a million litres of spirits in 1928 on the Finnish coast. They estimate the Finnish consumption of spirits at 9 million litres, twice the consumption Executive Committee this Saturday St. and Irving Pl. jeven more far-reaching develop- | | choosing. their committees after | hearing the report and proposals of the union spokesman. The func- tion of these committees is to reach the. organized and _ unorganized workers with the union message and with the strike call when it is is- sued, Preparations for the elections for all officers of the Joint Board and for the locals are completed, the union stated. In a final call to the , cloak, dress and fur workers, the Industrial Union declares: “On Thursday, January 24th, you are called upon to cast your vote in the first election for local Execu- >| tive Board members, Joint Board| members, business agents and gen- (Continued on Page Two) HOUSE TO ORDER CRUISERS BUILT New Imperialist Drive for War Ships Quick WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— Chairmen Fred Britten of the house naval affairs committee announced tonight he would introduce a bill jnext week to provide for cruiser |construction work under the annual ‘navy appropriation bill unless the senate takes action on the pending {cruiser bill in the interim. The announcement was made after Britten had conferred with | President Coolidge, Senator Charles Curtis and other senate leaders. Such action, however, would re- quire a special rule, as the house cannot appropriate on an appropria- tion bill for an item not authorized in the measure. “My thought is to introduce a bill | calling for a rule to make $12,500,- 600 available for construction in the navy appropriation bill which will 2 week,” Britten said, (CALL DIST. 2 CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS PARTY The District Convention of District 2 of the Workers (Communjst) Party will be held in accordance with the instructions of the Central and Sunday, at Irving Plaza, 15th The convention will begin on Saturday at 1 p. m. All delegates and alternates elected by section conventions, or mem- be reported from the committee next the Brooklyn Eastern Terminal Company. Frederick J. Fisher, vice-presi- The same distinction was given an admiral and... colonel. Those selected for honors from the Catho-|dent, General Motors. lic church and the new papal states! George Macdonald, president of | in process of creation are among the |the Nassau-Suffolk Lighting Com- PARIS, Jan. 23 (U.P)—The min- ister of colonies tonight presented a posthumous medal to the famous Japanese scientist, Noguchi, who tie reported dead in early aes v died during his yellow fever re- most war hungry and imperialist in|pany. { [search work in Africa, the country, (Continued on Page Two) | before prohibition in Finland. RUBBER WORKERS DECREASE WASHINGTON (By Mail).— There was a decrease in the number of employes in the rubber industry trom 41,800 in 1925 to 85,000 in 1928, bership meetings of cities not connected directly with any section are instructed to take note and report promptly for this meeting. The cities sending delegates direct to the district convention are those not included in any of the existing sections, and those lying outside of Man- hattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens, in New York or New Jersey. —District Executive Committee, District 2, Workers (Communist) Party, VILLIAM WEINSTONE, District Organizer. \leader and reputed stockholder in an jopen-shop coal company, Hillquit jand his “Forward” whine that they will “bring to responsibility all those responsible.” Fail to Deny Charges. “By saying only this, they convict themselves before the eyes of the |working class.) Why? Because not {by a single word, thru no implica- tion, does the gang of traitors and |union-wreckers deny a single charge eoncerning their monstrous swindle. \In a lengthy hysterical threat of libel suits to come, Hillquit and his sheet fail to even attempt to refute |the assertions made. } What is there to prevent the “Forward,” or Hillquit, from giving an explanation of how they managed to buy bank shares, the property of the needle trades workers, for $200 and for $195 when their market value (as admitted by Hillquit) was more than $310? Where is their de- nial of the fact that their deal netted \a profit of $150,000? If that money \did not “settle” into the pockets of Hillquit and his partners, why doesn’t the representative of “Inter- {national Socialism” in America tell | just what he and the destroyers of (Continued on Page Five) SMASH MOSCOW TROTSKY GROUP Workers’ State Arrests 150 Enemies (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, USSR, Jan. 23.—An il- legal Trotskyist organization has been discovered here, and broken up by the arrest of a hundred and fifty of its members. A quantity of Trot- skyist illegal literature was discov- ered in their possession, and was con- fiscated. The arrested persons are treated as elements hostile to the proletarian dictatorship and are held in isola- tion. Among those arrested are the fol- lowing: Midvani, Pankratov, Globus, Drobnis, Kavtaradse, Vorinski, Ga- yevski and Grinstein. Arab Tribes Battle Fascist Imperialist Forces; Many Killed ROME, Jan. 23 (UP).—lItalian native troops in Africa fired on re- volting Arab bands advancing to- ward the bases of Augila and Elleba Sunday, it was announced today. Ten Italian native soldiers were | killed and 20 wounded in the fight- ling that followed. The Augila and |Elleba oases are the furtherest points of Italian occupation toward the Sahara Desert, about 200 miles front jthe coast. Wy , dA