The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 2

ze Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929, Slipper Workers Win Strike Against Employer At BOSS SIGNS uP ¥ Where ‘Nineteen Dial to Save Watch é AFTER TWO DAYS. OF PICKETING Open Forum Tomorrow | Mass Meet Next Week | The str Brothers ago by the Ind ers’ Union ended victory for the union. ainst the Feifer Co. called two days jent Shoe Work-| terday with a The strike against the shop was declared be- cause the bosses demanded a reduc- tion in wages of from five to forty of securities and e members per cent, open shop, $200 from each crimination against a of the union. After the shop had been picketed for two days, the bosses requested a conference with the representa- tives of the union and the strike committee, This conference was held on Wednesday » and an agreement was re The firm agreed to re-emplo: and all scabs will be firm also agreed t union and represent union and the right for the repre- sentatives of the union to enter the shop. It will also recognize the general chairman and the shop com- mittee. The strikers will return triumphantly to work this morning. The. strike that the union is con- ducting against the Vincent Hor- witz Slipper Co. at 64 W. 28rd St., N. Y. C., which is now in its second week, is becoming more militant. Yesterday the scabs, which the firm succeedéd in getting into the| shop, attacked the pickets, and after | a short battle five of the scabs and! one striker were arrested. They| were all released under $100 bail| each and the case will come up Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Jeffer- son Market Court. The strikers are determined to} carry on the struggle against the| bosses till their fight ends in vic- tory. wo! The Independent Shoe Workers’| Union is calling the unemployed! shoe and slipper workers to an open! forum today at 4 p. m. in the office of the union, 51 E. 10th St. This| forum is in conjunction with the! general organizational campaign that the union is now carrying on against wage cuts and other condi- tions that .the shoe and _ slipper manufacturers are now instituting. A mass meeting is also being ar-; ranged: for Thursday, Jan. 31, at! Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brook- lyn. Well known speakers will ad- dress this. meeting. NEW LAW TO AID *RAIL, MERGERS” Coolidge, Hoover, ICC, Eager for Passage WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—A bill to legalize the largest and most mo- nopolistic railroad mergers conceiv- able, to taxe away the rights of minority stockholders in any one road to veto the consolidation, to permit the formation of new com- panies to buy up and consolidate! roads, has been drafted and is going before the’ senate. It has the of- ficial endorsement of President Coo- lidge and President-elect Hoover, who have stated that they hope for passage at the present session, and ), was drawn by.a sub-committee of the Interstate. Commerce Commis- sion. Favor Van Sweringen. The bill not only permits the mer- ger cf competing roads by purchase of stock,-and-holding companies to/| merge the stock, but permits a new) name for the consolidation. It al-! lows the Van Sweringen mergers! which were defeated by the opposi- tion of a large minority interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. goes vastly farther than the Parker | bill, which has never been passed | tho it was proposed years ago. MOVIE OPERATORS STRIKE. TOPEKA, Kan., (By Mail).—Mo- | ‘tion picture operators at several the- | atres here, including the Crystal, Orpheum and Grand, are on strike) against the open shop. ‘ to run at express speed through a driving s bus as the bus was passing over a Photograph shows the trolley piled crashed into a ig where three roads iz d up atop the wrecked bus. grade cro: man’s Wages for Company 3000 JOBLESS | - BATTLE POLICE IN INDIAN CITY Beaten, Jailed in March on Governor’s House LAHORE, India. (By Mail).—| Police at Lahore halted a demon- stration of over 3,000 unemployed | ex-soldiers, who were marching on} the Governor’s House, with the| avowed intention of demanding that the officials secure them relief. The Anglo-British authorities panic-struck at the determination of the marchers ordered police to heavy Toledo to Pittsburgh motor ntersect on the same level. Above JOHNSTON AIDED Unique Exhibit eOLDEN CHAINS BY BOOZE PLOTS Okla. Governor’s Pious Friend Abetted OKLAHOMA CITY, 24.—Charges that M Hammonds, woman political power in. Oklahoma, because she heads Johnston’s secret church, ordered a state fish and game commissioner of the state to get a member of the legislature drunk, were made before an investigating committee today. Meanwhile. Henry S. Johnston, suspended governor of Oklahoma, was impeached for the 7th time to- day by a vote of 59 to 39. The lat- est charge is that he issued with- out cause a proclamation calling out the state militia to prevent a special session of the legislature in December, 1927. He was impeached Friday on five charges and yesterday by one. Some Okla., Jan. rs. Mamie ;of th> charges involve corruption in office. The administration’s favor- | itism for certain highway contrac- tors excited other contractors who claim they also paid bribes without getting results. 0. P. Slack, the commissioner, told the house committee which is inves- tigating the affairs of all state de- partments that he was told to get Representative Tom Johnso drunk. The plan, Slack’ testified, was to learn from Johnson how members of the legislature stood in reference to Gov. Johnston’s administration in Dec. 1927. Knew His Capacity. “Who told you to get Johnson drunk?” Slack was asked. “Mrs. Hammonds,” he replied. “What did you tell her?” “I told her I was afraid I would get as drunk as Tom.” P| “Did you attempt to get the in- formation as desired by Mrs. Ham- ting Tom drunk to one of the men who works in my office.” “Did he get the information you Yes, He Got It. “He got a list of ali the legis- lators, with those for and against | the administration checked against | it. I tock it-to the governor's office | and gave it to Sullivan.” Sullivan was Johnson’s secretary. banat while merely referring to tyainmen called on Governor Roose- further brought oui in the Mrs. at investigating committee thi Hammonds, confidential secretary to the imp ned governor, also or- dered a woman state employe to campaign for an administration sup- er while the same employe was being paid a state salary. NATURALIST DIES AT 77. LONDON, Jan. 24 (U.P).—Abel Chapman, 77, noted big game hunt- er and naturalist, died at his home at Wark, Northumberlund, tonight.| He had written a number of books on big game hunting. He was not! married. was destroyed by fi of Soviet Arts to Begin Feb. 1 RUSSIAN Art and Handicraft Exposition, the most comprehen. | sive ever attempted in this country | will be held in the Grand Central | Palace, here, Feb. 1 to March 1, un- der the auspices of the Amtorg| Trading Corporation. All the handi-| work and art of the Soviet Union) will be represented, from the pro- ducts of the most remote Siberian villagers to the work of the most distinguished artists. The exhibits will include over 250 paintings in oil and water colors and numerous pieces of sculpture, both represent- ing contemporary art in the Soviet Union. The exhibition will contain hand- woven textiles from all parts of the Soviet Union — rugs, tapestries, laces, linens and shawls; the famous Russian and Ukrainian potteries; a colorful and varied assortment of the peasant wooden-ware from all sections of the country. NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS BURNED Cause Is Absence of Safeguards PALATKA, Fla. Jan, 24—A white worker is near death, and three Negro v ers are in hospital with serious injuries received when they were trappcd on the second floor of the Wilson Cypress Com-| pany’s open shop sawmill, which| ire. On account of 2 tota! disregard oa the part of the conipany of the ma jordinary saf2guards agains’ fire hazards, the four w forced to j tm» for the whi ker, cted to re- pai S. I. Bunch, cover rom a broken back when he jumped. is not The capitalist press services, in| reporting the accident, displayed their usual race discrimination in| giving the name of the injured white egro workers by the injured, number HINT MORROW TO STAY IN MEXICO Stimson May Be Mad Secretary of State MIAMI BEACH, Jan. 24—A' statement issued by Dwight Morrow, | Morgan partner until he was sent | ay charge the column as it advanced towards the mansion thru the streets. Those of the marchers who were not pitilessly beaten by the police were trampled during the charge. Many of the unemployed men were seriously injured tho the authorities made no effort to care for the vic- tims of police ferocity, but threw a number into jail immediately, Many bystanders were also trampled. The leader of the march was im- prisoned at once and held incom-| municado. i During the struggle with the| police the unemployed were forced into a roadway where they were | blockaded by fresh platoons of police FOR THE LATINS New Loans Are Bait on Imperialists’ Hook MEXICO CITY, Jan. 24. (UP). —Financial circles here understand tkat the Electric Bond and Share ompany of New York may invest approximately $50,000,000 in power plants in Mexico in the next few months. rushed to the scene. Thirty million pesos (about $15,-| Unrest thruout the Punjab, by 000,000) already has been spent to|nature one of the richest provinces purchase plants at Orizaba in the|jof India, is being fanned by the state of Vera Cruz, Puebla, State of |rapid growth of unemployment, and | Puebla, Tampico, Aguascalientes |especially by the brutality of the | an! Guanajuato, and now the elec-| police towards those seeking relief. | WAR ON TROTSKY State of Nuevo Leon. In some cases, the equipment Menshevist Elements, Rally to Them bought was small and out of date, (Continued from Page One) but a program of consolidation, modernization and centralization of plants is expected to be put under way when the purchases are com- plete. ments are rallying around Trotsky. | The latter first delivered his blows | against the leadership of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet: Union, but the logic of the struggle com- pelled him to turn his blows against | the proletarian dictatorship. “Trotsky’s letter, dated Oct. 21, 1928, instructs members of his or- ganization to organize strikes against the campaign for the re- newal of the trade union collective agreements. The Trotskyists are supporting anti-Soviet attacks | * * SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 24 (UP). —The Chilean government will con-| tract for a loan of $12,500,000 for 52 municipalities, it was disclosed today. Contracts already have been drafted and it was understood the loan would be placed with a group which includes the Grace National Bank of New York, Brown Brothers and Company, and E. H. Rollins and | Sons. OFFICIALS FOR BIG FUNERALS Union Bureaucrats Ask Governor for $300 , Jan, 24.—A bill to in- crease the amount paid for funeral expenses under the compensation w from $200 to $300 has the e thusiastic support of the railroad union officialdom. Chiefs of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers, Firemen and | Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors, and the Brotherhood of * against the Soviet Union and striv- | ling to disrupt the Communist In- \¢ ternational. The Trotskyists are now playing the role which the Men- \shevists played previously in the struggle against the Soviet power. “Merciless struggle against the Trotskyists by the organs of the viet government are now neces- sary. Arrests and banishments have already been carried out. All mem- bers of the Communist Party must consider carefully that an irrecon- cilable breach exists between the former Trotskyist faction in the} {Communist Party of the Soviet velt today, and appealed to him to|Union and the present Trotskyists, use his best efforts for better funer-|Which are an illegal, anti-Soviet als for workers. group. Garnishee Limit. | “A ‘liberal’ attitude on the part | The railroad union executives also | Jared theiselves in favor of other ; Is for slight modifications in the of certain Party members toward the Trotsky ieaders is impermis- s he |sable. Those Trotskyists who still existing laws; one allowing six stand halfway must choose between months more iime for federal the anti-Soviet Trotskyist organiza- courts to delay before telling those |ticn and the Communist Party, the claiming damages,that they should proletarian dictatorship and the have made the claim under the com- | Soviet Union.” pensation act. The federal courts always wait until it is legally too late to make this claim before noti- | fying claimants. —Joseph Horik, 72, a bridge tender, AGED WORKER KILLED. MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail). Another bill includes mentally in- | was tun down by én sutomobile and capacitated children over 18 years | yiteq while at work on the Pleasant KILLED IN 3,000 FOOT JUMP. |at the behest of Morgan to represent | of age among dependents of work- | Street Bridge. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24 WUP)—! Lita Belle Wichart, 22-year-old par-| Mexico as U. S. ambassador there,|may not be garnisheed is to be| achute jumper, was killed late to-|seys that he will go back to Mexico. |yaised to $25 a week under another | day ‘after jumping 3,000 feet from|In some quarters this is taken as | pj], There is little assurance that, la biplar> during the filming of a|meaning that the interests of Mor-| any of these bills, mild as they are, Hoot Gibson movie thriller near|/an are better served by keeping) wjjj pass. Morrow in Mexico, at least for a} ‘ewhall. The ‘history of hitherto ex- isting society ix the history of | class stroggles.—Kark Marx (Com- munixt Manifesto). American capitalist interests in| while, and that he probably will net be appointed secretary of Others deny this, Boost Stimson. state. | ers. The limit under which wages | ANOTHER VESSEL. Royal Reaction Plays Friend of Poor hana 8 Princesses Ileana and Helena of the Rumanian royal family, which to say the least is rather shady as royal families go, are seen here with high priests of their church, posing in open-hearted charity, as they dedicate a home for the poor. most reactionary and brutal regim It’s publicity for one of the es in the world. WORKER MEETING ‘For Next Week; Officer| Elections Held (Continued from Page One) agents of the company union want to keep you enslaved. “The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union is ready to lead you in the struggle to wipe out the sweat-shop system, long hours, and starvation wages. “Respond to the call for the mass meeting like one man! Let us mob- ilize! Let us organize for the strike in the dress industry. “For the re-establishment of the 40-hour week. “For the guaranteed minimum wage scales, “For the right to the job, and for all other union conditions. “Forward to the mass meeting! “Forward to the mobilization in the struggle for union conditions!” That a very good response was made by the workers to the elec- tion call of the needle union, was ascertained by the Daily Worker in time for this issue. The election re- turns were however unobtainable at that hour. The election committees of all locals were still counting votes in the three polling places, 16 W. 21st St., 22 E, 22nd St., and in Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Aye. ' * * * The shop delegates conference which was to have been held last night in Manhattan, Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., was postponed till next week, because of the elections and vote counting which lasted longer than was expected. EUROPE HOPES TO OPPOSE U.S, Think Dawes BoardMay Hit American Debt PARIS, Jan. 24—European dip- lomats are united in the opinion that.the Dawes plan reparations dis- cussions which start with the meet- ing of the committee of experts in March will not swerve the allied victors in the great war from a po- sition that Germany must pay them as much as they pay the U. S. on their debt to Wall Street bankers, and that the result of the discus- sion will be to unite all Europe, vic- tors and vanquished, in a common bond against the United States. This, apparently, is the strategy of the European countries. Morgan Will Press. There is much speculation as to ACTIVE GALL HUGE DRESS SLAVERY UNDER HILLMAN SCHEME 12 Hour Day Enforced; Workers Tell Facts (Continued from Page One) |The force of workers in the big Simon Ackerman factories are com- pelled to slave 12 hours a day be- fore the piece-work system allows them enough to sustain themselves. And how much is this? The work- ers here earn $3.85 2 day. The brother of H. Blumberg, one of Hill- man’s chief henchmen, is the labor manager in this shop. | ae worker was telling of how he other big manufacturer. After working three hours at Hillman’s piece-work system he was told by the forenian that he had earned ex- actly $1.35. “At these wages,” the worker stated, “I am compelled to work from 12 to 14 hours if I want to earn enough to exist.” He quit the job after being told this and be- gan to hunt further. The strike of the 400 workers of the Tremont Clothing Co., which ard of production, was broken by a fice, the Hillman lieutenant Blum- |berg. Blumberg came to Boston, went into conference with the bosses jand told the workers to go back since he had “settled.” The “settlement” reached by the Hillman man, was that the firm re- tains the right to the standard of production, which is a particular form of Hillmanesque speed-up, per- mitting the cutting of wages if the |worker does not produce a certain |standard amount set by the boss. | The demand of the firm, that the | workers make up 1,500 garments on their own time, which had been a |shortage on a newly raised “stand- | ard’ set by the boss, was given over for decision to an “impartial” chair- man. Thus not one demand of the workers was acceded by the boss in this sell out. Forcing the acceptance of the piece | work and other condition degrading {schemes of the Hillman gang, the | referendums had been faked by the | officials and advertised as a victory |by the Forward. the “unofficial” American represen- tatives on the Dawes committee of experts, will take. They are ex- pected to refuse to reduce the debt to the United States, on the grounds that they do not represent the U. S. government. They are also expected to bring some severe financial pressure to try and break up the union of debtor countries against the American fi- nancial empire, had gone hunting for a job. He ap-; plied at the J. Friedman Co., an- | fought for the abolition of the stand- | representative from the national of-| what attitude Morgan and Young, ! tempting to Establish Open Shop : WORKERS SCHOOL GIVES 5 CLASSES IN “COMMUNISM” ‘Reeve, Dailes, Kaplan | Among: Instructors Due to the heavy registration for |the “Fundamentals of Communism” course during the past fall term the Workers School has scheduled five |classes in this subject to begin in | the coming spring term, one on each | evening in the week. The instrue- jtors will be Nat Kaplan, Eve Dorf, Rebecca Grecht, Karl Reeve and Ida | Dailes. | Big Attendance Last Year. During the past fall term 280 |workers registered for this basic |course in the Workers School.’ Next |to English the “Fundamentals of Communism” subject was the most. heavily registered for in the school, in fact totalling over 50 per cent of the registration of the English |classes. This is a record number for |the Fundamentals of Communism |course. Heavy registration for this |course was the outstanding feature jin the fail term of the Workers | School. Great interest in the “Fundamen- tals of Communism” has proved very gratifying to the committee in charge of the Workers School, as it shows that the workers are sceking a real thorough basis for their fu- . ture educational activities, and be- cause it proves that the workers are interested, not only in improving | their technique by taking classes in |English, Public Speaking, etc.,. but that workers also are anxious to im- |prove their political understanding. Plan Text Book. The Workers School is prepared to organize more classes in this {course if such are needed. The | |“Fundamentals of Communism” in- structors have handed in detailed joutlines in connection with the course, and, as a result, the Workers School intends in the future to pub- jish a “Fundamentals of Commu- nism” text book that can be used all over the country. The following jis a schedule of the various “Fun- damentals of Communism” classes |to be offered the coming spring \term: Section 1, Monday, 8:30 p. m., Karl Reeve; Section 2, Tuesday, 7 p, m., Eve Dorf; Section 8, Wednes- day, 8:30 p. m., Ida Dailes; Section. 4, Thursday, 7 p. m., Nat Kaplan; Section 5, Friday, 7 p. m., Rebecca Grecht. All workérs. are urged to register at the Workers School, 26-28 Union Square, without delay, so that the course can start as soon as possible. IOWA FIREMEN SEEK RAISE. IOWA CITY, (By Mail).—Fire-’ men of Iowa City are seeking a 20 per cent raise. AGED EX-SLAVE DIES. CLARENDON, Ark., (By Mail). \—Mrs. Hickey Halvey, a former Ne- | gro slave, is dead at the age of 105. A New Pamphlet REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA by Bertram D. Wolfe—ic The oppressed colonial peoples in revolt against imperialism are the allies of the proletariat of the capitalist nations. This pamphlet gives the eco- nomic basis of imperial- ism in Latin America— the rivalry of British and American imperialism— intervention—class forces in Latin America—Pan- American Federation of Labor—the new wave of struggle. Workers Library Publishers i} 35 East 125th St., New York City DISTRIBUTE A BUNDLE OF Daily Worker PRESS, Inc. 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY At any rate, the Morrow state-) ment revives the partisanship of! Root and others for Governor-Gen- jeral Stimson of the Philippines. yy hie secretary of state, Stimson bet | reduced the Filipinos to practical | f 4 slavery on U. 3. Taber. plantations, | Rescued Ship Florida : ,and'is considered as having thus} _ John Dos Passos, author, poet and! In addition to these Russian fea- won his spurs. | NEW LONDON, Conn., Jen, 24. playwright, who has just returned | tures, short stories, sketches of work-| Hoover has gone on a three day | (UP),—The steam trawler “Sein-| _ from Soviet Russia, records his im-| ers’ lives, poems and book reviews fishing trip on Chain Store Owner jer,” of the Portland Trawling Com-| a tad 2. the haope issue a i embices the latest number of the | Penny’s luxurious yacht. pany, Groton, was due Tuesday | ew sses, with a group of | New Masses. | —_ morning and has not been heard fivid sketches of Russian life, “Rainy! Michael Gold writes “A Gang of! FARMERS HUNT WOLVES. from. | Days in Leningrad.” Illustrating | Little Yids,” another installment of ST. JOSEPH, Jan. 24 (UP)—An} The vessel, which was equipped is article and most of the whole | the East Side memoirs which have| nate 5 int will be held With radio, has not answered mes- ‘are a number of unusual draw- | attracted attention and are to be} Hel eit ap Bilaey a |sages addressed to it after it failed zs by William Gropper who was| published in book form this Fall. | Saturday to rid the surrounding Ppt port at the scheduled time > @ recent visitor in the Soviet! Joseph Freeman contributes a social Sn ae eure Waed lees Yeye with a load of fish from the Danke aac are tonnes in this | Confusion.” sons | the large wumber cf wolv-s roam-) VO8H™ isting f by Ernestine Evans. F, Nearing on “Coming War.” Mei desde ed Florida Crew Injured. same number, Harry W. L.| Scott Nearing writes on “The The crew with the exception of who visited Russia last year|Coming War With England”; Carlo 3 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. lone drowned Sunday, of pri ery Theodore Dreiser, writes a|Tresca “On Strike With Bill Hay-| SAN ANGELO, Texas, Jan. 24/tured Italian freighter Florida was ig «review of the famous au-| wood,” recalling the days of Lawr- | (U.P)—Al Henly, W. E. Shytles, and | taken from the sinking ship lest : of impressions as well|ence and Passaic.in 1912 and 1913. |Don Frazee, were killed here late) night and put aboard the 8. S. the book by Dorothy Thomp-| A full page drawing’ by Louis Lo-| today in an attempt to land their! America. Six of. the Florida’s crew , poth of which have been the | zowick is one of the unusual art con-| airplane with the wind gt’ the Muni- | were severely injured and four were 0 a recent controversy. tributions, cipal Aimport. very ill IMPRESSIONS ON U.S.S.R Dos Passos, Gropper in Feb. “Masses KISSING AT SEA One Sailor Drowned on, Order a bundle of Daily Workers for dis- tribution in front of the large factories, . in union meetings and other places, where workers congregate. This is one of the best means of familiar- izing workers with our Party and our press. Send in your Workers Correspondence.and ORDER A BUNDLE TODAY! A New Pamphlet FOR THE CLASS CONSCIOUS WORKER REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA by BERTRAM D. WOLFE DAILY WORKER 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK crry Plei send Me@......sree ++-.copies of The DAILY WORKER at the rate of $6.00 per thousand, NAME . ADDRESS. 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