The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1929, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥Y. under the act of March 3, 1 FINAL CITY EDITION v ol. V5 No. 333 Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union ‘d daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Sa. New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929 SUBSCRIPT. 3.00 per yea! Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. r MEXICAN TRADE ne : ag ‘UNIONS UNITING *o0/27", 2. N NEW CENTER Starts Fight LOS ANGELES, Jan, 25.—E. Ya- | maguchi, a Japanese worker who has been active in the militant labor movement in southern Califoria, is still in jail three weeks after his ar- rest, faced with imminent deporta- |tion to Japan, where the Tanaka terror has issued the slogan of x |death to all militant workers and Clique | peasants. | Yamaguchi was arrested with two lother Japanese workers at a Negro |mass meeting three weeks ago. The To War on Imperialism t " |police were forced to release th rc and Labor Lackeys |other two, but Yamaguchi sy held ’ MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25.—A la- 0" * charge of illegal entry. _ This bor congress of great historical sig- Charge is untrue. Yamaguchi has nificance to the Mexican proletariat | Peem in this country 15 years, hav- ‘and to the workers of the whole |ime entered legally. His real crime, world, will open here tomorrow at | Workers declare, is that he has been the convening of the Unification As- | such apiece tighter Beaune Aaner sembly of Workers and Peasants, |/°2? and Japanese imperialism. with 550 delegates present from | Yamaguchi, who CAieat gardener, almost all sections of the Mexican M@yed a leading role in the Cali- republic representing a majority of | fornia fruit-pickers’ strike. He is the, at present, very much disinte- |S¢ctetary of the Japanese Workers’ grated trade union movement of the Association and has been active in nation and the principal national |®®ti-imperialist work. He is only 28 peasant organizations. years old. 2 A fraternal delegate is present The International Labor Defense, from the Trade Union Educational | Which is defending the worker, is League of the United States, the trying to secure his release on bail. U.S. section of the Red Interna- It intends to wage a vigorous fight tional: of Labor Unions against the attempts of the authori- To Organize New Union Center. | ties to deport Yamaguchi to the cer- This assembly is intended to be|t#in death that awaits him in the constituent congress at which |J@Pan. will be born a new national trade SEE DTN Workers and Peasants) “Open Assembly in ~~ Mexico City Fights Morones union center, to be called the Uni- tary Trade Union Confederation of | Mexico. This development takes | place at a time when the labor) movement, and indeed all Mexico, is | seething with swift changes, with | old political groupings disintcgra- | ting and new ones crystallizing on a higher plane—a plane in which the class struggle is intensified and threatens to come to open conflict between rising fascist forces and revolutionary workers and pea- santry. The assembly which opens to- morrow is the fruit of the tireless work of the revolutionary trade ‘unionists of Mexico in harmony with the decisions arrived at with other Latin-American trade union- ists who met in the Soviet Union on the occasion of its Tenth Anni- versary celebrations in 1927, and, invited by the Red International -of Labor Unions to discuss their com- mon problems, reached agreement looking toward trade union unity nationally and the establishment of a Latin-American Trade Union Con- federation. It chanced that more Latin-American trade unionists from a greater number of countries, were then in Moscow than had ever been gathered together at one time in Latin-America itself. Organization of Continental Unions A further conference was held in ‘April, 1928, and a central organ- izing committee established at Mon-/ (Continued on Page Five) SERB DICTATOR “BANS PARTIES Alexander to Get More French Instructions BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 25. —All political parties have been dis- solved, their archives, funds and fur- niture confiscated, by the military dictatorship of King Alexander, which from day to day is perfect- ing its terror machine. All vestiges of open independent political activity ave thus wiped out and even political clubs of univer- sity students are no longer permit- ted to hold meetings. It is said that in view of the lap- sing of the Italo-Yugoslav treaty on Jan. 27, the foreign minister, Ku- manudi, and the former minister, Nintchitch, are leaving for Paris and .that King Alexander will himself go incognito to Paris to further the Yugoslav-French entente and agree on the course to he followed toward Mussolini’s government. Nintchitch is the author of the Nettuno pact which gives Italy special rights on the Dalmatian coast and which led to mass protest demonstrations of Dalmatian workers when the treaty was ratified by the Belgrade parlia- ment last year. It is reported that Dr. Anton Pavelich, leader of the Croatian fed- eralists and a former deputy has fled to Vienna in order to escape the dictator’s police. British Bombing Plane Mistakes King’s Troops for Target: Kills Them LONDON, Jan. 25.—The under- secretary of state for India admitted in the House of Commons today that a British airplane, practising the art of drcpping bombs on Hindu villages hat do not pay their taxes regularly. istook the white helmets of a troop British imperialist cavalry, for target, and dropped a bomb on it. result was ten troopers, sixteen and three officers killed. Shicago Labor in Mass, Protest Meets The workers of India are being |teld that American workers are de- |manding of their British oppressors | the release of Jack Johnstone, for over twenty years active leader in was arrested at the recent conven- tion of the All-India Trade Union Congress and who has since not been heard from. The foliowing joint cablegram was sent yesterday to the All-India Trade Union Con- gress at Bombay: “American workers, in mass meet- ings throughout the country. de- mand the release of Jack Johnstone, arrested in Jharia, at your Ninth Convention while representing the | International League Against Im- |perialism and for Colonial Inde- |pendence. We are protesting against |the terrorism and suppression of the |Indian masses by the British gov- |ernment. Please inform us what laction you are taking to obtain Johnstone’s release. (Signed) U. S. | Section, Anti-Imperialist League; | the Trade Union Educational League jand the International Labor De- fense,.” * Chicago Workers Picket British Consulate. | CHICAGO, Jan. 25—The arrest of | Jack Johnstone in India by the Brit- ish police resulted in an immediate jprotest demonstration in Chicago, | where for many years Johnstone had | | been an active militant trade union- list and one of the most prominent left wing figures in the Chicago Federation of Labor. Despite sub-zero weather, several hundred workers responded to the call of a group of organizations, | headed by the Chicago branch of (Continued on Page Two) Hold Protest Meeting Against Mineola Fur’ Frame-up Here Monday pe | A special mass meeting to protest against the intentions of the open shop interests in Long Island to re- convict the seven furriers in the Mineola strike case, will be held this Monday night in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, im- mediately after work. Despite admission that the frame- up evidence provided by the Ku Klux Klan Mineola court in the con- viction was thin, the Court of Ap- peals refused to free the 9 strike victims, sent two to jail and ordered a new trial for the other seven, The trial is to begin on Monday morn- ing, in the Nassau County Court. Mineola, L. I., before the same Judge Smith, | The speakers at the meeting will be M, Olgin, Communist leader and writer, President Louis Hyman of the Needle Workers Industrial Union and Ben Gold, its secretary- treasurer. Other speakers will be Mensher and Weiss, two of the pris- oners and A. Wagenknecht, I. L. D. secretary. Herbert Zam Speaks at BronxFdérumTomorrow Herbert Zam, executive secretary of the Young Workers (Communist) League of America, will speak on “Youth and Imperialist War” at the \Ave., tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Bronx Open Forum, 1330 Wilkins the American Iabor movement. who | |the National Child Labor Commit-| struggles in the past. lw ‘smothered. EMERGENCY CALL (Issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America.) TO THE WORKERS WHO READ THE DAILY WORKER! TO ALL MEMBERS AND UNITS OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY! The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party makes an urgent | call upon all members of the working class in connection with a dangerous crisis which threatens the militant organ of our class and central organ of our Party—the Daily Worker. During the past few weeks, because the attention of the militant workers and of the Party was necessarily concentrated upon several other important tasks, the Daily Worker has failed to receive sufficient support, and the disastrous financial condition threatens to close the paper. Several times within a few days the Daily Worker has narrowly escaped suspension because of inability to obtain funds for the most pressing current expenses. The continuation of the Daily Worker is not a small routine matter, but the greatest \political necessity. The Central Executive Committee points out to the workers who have’) found the Daily their constant defense and inspiration in all the recent strikes, that the immediate future of the class struggle calls for our militant fighting organ more than any There are great struggles ahead. The launching of new unions in three important fields, and the increasingly sharp struggle within the old unions still controlled by agents \of the bosses, the imperialist plans of the capitalists of the United States as indicated by \the recent shooting of strikers in Colombia and its instigation of the Bolivia-Paraguay war \for the interests of U. S. capital in Bolivia; the continued criminal imperialist war on: Nica- \ragua; the Kellogg treaty challenging British imperialism and threatening the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; the present rushing through Congress of the big navy plans in FREE JOHNSTONE |preparation for the coming war—all the events of the present point to sharp struggles in which it would be unthinkable that we should consent to be without the great central or- oe gan—the voice of the Party. To all workers who are dissatisfied with the system of exploitation which has thrown jmillions of them out of work in a time of unprecedented profiteering by their employers, which conducts ceaselessly a wage cutting campaign, which is speeding them up mercilessly by a continually more intense “rationalizing campaign,” to all class conscious workers who wish the destruction of capitalism and the substitution of a workers’ and farmers’ rule, ho wish the destruction of capitalism and its merciless wage system, and the substitution of a socialized society, to these workers the Central Executive Committee poses the prob- \lem: how will you even make the beginning if you allow your voice to be silenced, your only English*language daily journal of expression and of winning ‘others to your. views, to be In view of the vital necessity of carrying the Daily Worker through its present most dangerous financial crisis which threatens to destroy it just when it is more needed than ever before in its history, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party authorizes an immediate Party campaign for funds to save the Daily Worker. The \Central Executive Committee directs that all Party units and leading committees shall give itheir most effective energies to raising through collections in unit meetings, by calling spe- ‘cial emergency mass meetings, by holding entertainments, by personal solicitation of con- \tributions from all who realize the necessity of maintaining our organ, and in every possi- ible way to raise the needed $10,000 without which the paper must cease publication. SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMU (The entire Party press is instructed to republish this appeul immediately) ‘ 9 Hunting Jobs © By Rail Will | ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. Jers in New York state who find themselves out of work and forced |to travel to other cities chasing an lillusory hope of a job som i should know that the Tamman: avhine in the state legislature is |providing that they be imprisoned for 15 days if they have no money \to pay fare to the railway corpora- |tions and try to ride either pagsen- Jger or freight trains without a |ticket, or even walk along the rail- |way tracks. The cost of being jobless, hungry 7 While stock bro all millionair the bill from riding blind baggage or stealing a ride in freight trains the bill saying that “anyone” doing so must serve 15 days the luxury of prison life wiii un- |doubtedly be monopolized by jobless |workers whose plots to obtain the |comforts of laying on the rods under ja freight car in cold and dirt with |pleasurable hope of being ground junder the wheels or shot by rail- [way detectives are undoubtedly en- | gineered by Communists from Mos- |cow. NEEDLE WORKERS ELECT OFFICERS |Hold Huge Dress Rally | Next Wednesday With the elections in the New York organization of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union over, and with the officers of the Joint Board | and separate locals elected, the en- tire attention of the union and mem- bership is being concentrated cn the | task of perfecting the machinery for the imminent general strike in the dress manufacturing industry, the first big struggle of the new union. Meantime the elections themselves ‘and the turnout to. the polis: ..am be | recorded as a decisive victéry in themselves. Over 3,000 menibers of |the union came to cast ballots for the election of officers. Joint Board officers, from manager to all busi- | ness agents, the Joint Board delega- | tions from all locals, the local func- tionaries and executive boards were | bankers, and 8, | Draw 15 Days —Work- | so forbidden by | jail, yet NEGRO WORKERS IN SOUTH AFRICA IN BREAD RIOT Capetown Jobless Fight Police Sent Against Them by British (As Parliament Meets { \Fighting Is Prolonged; | Many Arrests and broke, hus raised consid CAPETOWN Africa, Jan. ably, as a imum of a $5 fine tS previously the punishment for ee having no money to pay rail fare, |almost dead fr ion, because {of prolonged a great ext s of the reactio: demon jclashed t against them. The demonstration just as the South A ment was opening |amidst great ceremo news of the demonstration reached | the government, a large force of po- jlice was transferred from the par- jliament building to fight the unem- yed workers. The demonstration | openly broken up after contin- ued fighting and numerous arrests. ion of the General J. nt, violently At the opening se: |house of assembl |B. M. Hertzog ge |anti-labor and anti-Negro, presented |the trade treaty with Germany for debate and was disputed by the “op- ition,” who claimed that it favors trade with Germany at the expense of trade with the rest of the British empire. In his speech from the throne, the Earl of Athlone, British gov- ernor-general, said that he would submit to the house a Colored Per- sons Rights Bill and a bill granting natives representation in parliament, both of which are designed to pacify the upper native bourgeoisie and help them in the co’ exploita- tion of the native w {2 HURT WHEN MINE CAVES IN Wilkes-Barre Workers ;chosen in the all-day elections on | ‘hursday, All eyes are now turned toward the huge mass meeting next Wed- | nesday evening, immediately after | work, in Manhattan Opera House, S4th St. and Eighth Ave. At this meeting the dressmakers are to | have their final say on the question | of the big struggle ahead. Final | vote will be taken at this meeting. | The dressmakers will here giv voice to their determination to g: out and give battle to the employ- | lors and their socialist agents of the | ompany union for a chance to re-| 5 ST) PARTY. Special Material on Mineola Frame- up in Monday’s ‘Daily’ Special material on the Min- eola frame-up case will be pub- | lished in the Daily Worker on | Monday when the new trial of | the seven Mineola victims starts. | A special article on the Mineola case by Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of The Hammer, an_ exclusive photograph of the workers in- volved in the case, a cartoon by Fred Ellis and other features will be found in Monday's paper. Due to technical reasons, the review of “The Krassen” by Rob- ert Wolf could not be. printed to- day, but will be in Monday’s “Daily.” In addition, the Daily Worker , 10 YEARS AT HARD LABOR. ST. GEORGE, S. L., Jan, 25 (UP). —Albert G. Oxley, who two weeks ago pleaded guilty to second degree forgery, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison at hard labor. Judge Tiernan pronounced sentence. LaFrance Co. Made Big Profit in Fire Engine Bribe Case MINNEAPOLIS, (By Mail).—The county grand jury last week, bribed three aldermen to vote for tne pur- | chase of a fire engine which proved faulty, overcharged the city $3,310, will begin publication on Monday of “Two D: a serial story by C. Y. Harrison, based on the re- markable Sovkino film of the same name, it was revealed. The engine ran wild | on its first trip thru the city streets. | : . |The LaFrance Corp. is a non-union the Henry Synder Junior High conduct, or displaying documents in- | Country and will not return to Apa | shop, which machinists have been on| School at Jersey City fell dead in a|tended to spread sabotage constitute | City, the performances today and to-| istrike since last June. \Italian Workers Hold! Lenin Memorial Meet Tomorrow Afternoon) A special Lenin memorial meeting ; will be held by the Italian bureau of | the Workers (Communist) Party to-| morrow afternoon at 2:30 p. m., at jthe Workers Center, 26-28 Union | |Square. The speakers will be Vanni | Montana, editor of the organ of the (Italian fractions of the Party, and | Nino Siragusa, of the Italian bureau jof the New York District. |American LaFrance and Foamite| The meeting, which will commem- representatives by Representative | Corporation, which, according to in= orate the fifth anniversary of the|w, G, dictments returned by a Hennepin|death of the great leader of the | compa | world Communist movement, is un- des the auspices of the Italian! | bureau. | Dr. James T. Mackey, principal of \Jersey City street yesterday. FALLS DEAD ON STREET. | STRIKE store union conditions in former union shops and gain them for the | many never-organized shops in this STUDENT NURSE! CRESTON, Iowa (By Mail).— Fifteen student nurses of the |; Greater Community Hospital of | ; That this is the only method | Creston struck as the res | = : 3, Cental ae gts ihe result of the | through which endurable working |standards can be obtained, is the |firm conviction of the thousands of |needle trades workers, with those |that are not dressmakers already volunteering’ their organizational (Continued on Page Two) Introdtice Vicious Syndicalism Bill in Colorado House | DENVER, Colo., (By Mail).—A criminal syndicalism bill, sponsored | by the open shop bosses and jingoist | organizations of Colorado, has been > introduced into the state house of Last Duncan Programs | Today and Tomorrow | The Isadora Duncan Dances will | say farewell to the workers of New| York at their last three perfor- mances this afternoon and evening | jand tomorrow afternoon at Wal-| lack’s Theatre, 42nd St., west of | Broadway. | As the famous dance troupe from Moscow is leaving on a tour of the| Stewart, a Colorado Springs | ny attorney. It provides a term of 14 years in the penitentiary for violation of the act. The bill is aimed at the crushing of all strikes, militant workers state. Under the terms of the vicious bill, spoken or written words, personal morrow will be the last cppor- tunities New York workers will} violations.” By VERN SMITH Tomorrow has been set aside by| tee as “Child Labor Day.” Yes, there is child labor America. Lots of it. “Exploitation of children and | young workers is one of the pillars of American capitalist society. Chil- dren’s blood and young boys’ and| girls’ sweat are a growing source of profit for big business. According to the 1920 census, which greatly underestimates the number of child laborers, there were over one million working children between the ages of 10 and 15. To increase the 4 in shame there were 378,000 toiling 7X children between the ages of 10 and 13. .There are no statistics on the work of children under the age of 10—that is the sole reason why there is no report about the scores of} thousands of the smallest. children of the working class slaving to the glory of our dollar civilization. “There are almost four million young workers gnd at least one mill- ion boys and girls in industry alone. Steel and iron, coal and textile fac- tories are the chief “playgrounds” of our working-class youth, Tech- nical progress means progress of youth and child labor. It is one of the biggest achievements of Ameri- can ‘democracy’ thet tha Supreme LIBERAL GESTURE AT CHILD LABOR TOMORRO Fake “Child Labor Sunday” by Capitalists to Fool Workers Into Acquiescence ‘oa movement, will be inciudea |Court of the United States, that notorious guardian of American| \iberties,’ declared any laws for- bidding child labor unconstitutional. —(National Platform of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America.) Against this situation, too pain- fully obvious to be denied, we are told, a crusade is taking place, starting tomorrow, Sunday. It is |the National Child Labor Commit- tee on the march. They are doing | jthe job. All you Reds can stop) {shouting your nerve-wracking de- mands for abolition of the system that fattens thru the constant liv- ‘ing sacrifice of little children. The National Child Labor Committee is have to see the remarkable art of | these young Soviet children. “Im- \pressions of Revolutionary Russia,” | \the series of dances which interpret | |the various phases of the revolu- | at each performance. rofit from the nursery, i *. er itow? ys 8. BigProgramTomorrow It is all meticulously set forth in a little sample leaflet, distributed) The “Young Defenders” club has free to pastors of churcheg, for the ranged the following program for celebration of National Child La- tomorrow at its meeting place, 1400 bor Day, 3 Boston Road, the Bronx: Where We Die, Too. Esperanto class at 4 p, m.; an im- In as many churches as have portant meeting to arrange for In- child Slavers forward-looking enough | ternational Labor Defense work at to see that this is for their own 7 p. m. and a pagkage party at 8 good, services tomorrow will open, Pp. m. optionally with “My country tis of thee, Land where my fathers died,” | or with “The King of Love My) ing class ix to raine the proletariat says. POEUN. eF= HAY We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the work= Barely Save Lives WILK BARRE, Pa., Jan. 25.— Mine dents multiply here, under the company union system of the United Mine Workers of America, to which no miners belong, but to which many contribute thru inyol- untary check off. No adequate struggle is being made against the forcing of me nto work in danger- as ground. As a result the hospi- tals are filling with seriously maimed coal mine workers. elve workers arrived in the al Hospital a few d a result of two “squeeze more No. 5 colliery of the Hudson Coal Co. Mine workings driven into formations that should have been penetrated only with most ex- cessive caution, were filled with men, when the earth was shaken by what seemed to be an earth quake. It was felt all over the city. Dash For Life. Galleries and rooms underground closed in, and thirty men beat death by a second in a mad race for safe- ty. A second “squeeze” took place a few hours later, and twelve were badly injured, being tossed about by the force of the concussion and the blast of gas thrown out. Here jagain, only a furious dash from the danger saved their lives. There had been ample warning, thru noises and caving extended over several | days, of the dangerous condition. Propose 275 New Seats Sold in Stock Exchange In view of the great increase in stock gambling and the correspond- ing rise in the price of seats in the New York Stock Exchange. the board of governors announced a plan for selling 275 newly created seats. The recommendation will be voted on by the members February 1. If | Ne hoe bee jit passes, each of the present mem- going to drive the heathen gods of Young Defenders Have bers will get a quarter interest in |the new seats. The last seat sold brought $625,000. The last sale of new seats was in 1879, when forty were created, and sold. Workers’School Calls Off Tomorrow’s Forum Because of the district convention of the Workers (Communist) Party today and tomorrow, the Workers School announces that it will not hold its usual open forum tomorrow night. Shepard Is."—Extract from the) to the position of ruling class, to (Continued on Page Two) | yyin,the. bate democracy—Karl ist Manifesto) It will be continued, however, regularly, beginning Sunday, Feb. 3. « i ms