The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 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 aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Y. under the act of March 3, Vol. V., No. 334 Publishing A’ Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker ssociation, Inc, 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥Y. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JAl RY 28, 1929 MINEOLA FRAME UP VICTIMS GO ON TRIAL TODAY Seven Workers Face| Same Ku Klux Court Need for ‘Legal Funds | I. L. D. Holds Protest! Rally Tonight | n leading members of the] ers’ union, victims of brutal prison sentences of two and a half to five years by a Ku Klux Klan judge in Mineola, and granted a new trial by the Albany Court of! Appeals, are this morning to face the same judge and the same prosecutor in the same court, where the labor haters will try to repeat their performance, made at the orig- inal framed up trial. Marked for arrest, framed and sentenced by the Long Island court with the aid of a stool pigeon coached by the socialist and A. F.| of L. officialdom of a reactionary dual union, the frame-up was at first aimed to include eleven. In-| sufficient manufactured evidence | was provided and two were found) “not guilty.” Nine received these brutal sentences. Two, Leo Frank-| lin and M. Matkin are now in Sing Sing, having been denied a new trial by the higher court. The vietimized workers were | charged with having put out of busi- | ness a scab fur shop in Rockville} Center during the big furriers’ gen- | eral strike that ended victoriously, | being the first union to win the 40} hour five day week. For this auda-! cious deed, the furriers were singled out by the veactionary courts and the bureaucratic A. F. of L. offi- cialdom. An intense campaign is now being carried on by the International La-| hor Defense, for the raising of suf-| ficient funds to «secure for the A Gun-sight View ‘ Austen Chamberlain, devoted im- perialist, sees peace flowering be- tween his vernment, the Britich, which is feverishly arming against its American al, and the United States, which is arming with equal fervor against the British. His optimism, contained in a statement nade yesterday, is “for diplomatic purposes only.” 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 atteution of the union and mem- bership is being concentrated on 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 can be | that would otherwise THE DAILY WORKER IS IN THE GREATEST DANGER! (STATEMENT BY THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE) This Monday morning the Daily Worker faces the gravest danger of being unable to survive to the end of the week. We are compelled to place the truth of the situation before the thousands of workers who depend upon the Daily Worker as the fighting organ in all struggles of our class. By a special decision of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, of which the Daily Worker is the Central Organ, instructions have been issued authorizing an intensive drive immediately among the workers and among the member- ship and units of the Party for the raising of a fand to pull our fighting Central Organ out of the danger of death. The Management of the Daily Worker appeals to you now not to lose one minute’s time in getting into action in this campaign. You know what the Daily Worker has done for the working class in the five years of its existence. paper will be needed ten times more in the nearest future. The struggles that this paper has put up for the mine workers during the past months are only a beSinning of what must be done as the one and only daily newspaper in the language of this country that supports the MINE WORKERS in building their GREAT NEW UNION. We have fought for the TEXTILE: WORKERS, we have fought for the NEEDLE TRADES workers — and these workers understand fully that without this support in the past they might have been un- able to sustain the fight,—that without this support in the future their new unions, freed of the throttling grip of the enemies of the working class, would face a very grim prospect. RAISED MONEY FOR STRIKES. All of these struggles have DRAINED THE STRENGTH OF THE DAILY WORKER. Time after time our voice has had to be raised for financial help to these workers in their strike struggles when we ourselves were almgst unable to continue for lack of funds. HELP yorker HAS necessarily BEEN DIVERTED TO OTHER POINTS of struggle. We have signed notes for loans, we have piled up ac- counts from week to week because that was the only way we could continue to concentrate all strength to win the fight of our class immediately before us. have come to the Daily You know that our fighting daily | HUNGER STRIKE . E NATIONAL DITION a | | Heroic Hungarian who, with a n munist prisone the revolutionist mber of other Com- , has been enduring sufferings of a hunger etrike | @gainst the brutal treatment of the Horthy jailors. The Communists | were seized and jailed on charges of distributing literature among fac-) tory workers. RAKOCZY WINS Life Still in Danger; Kept in Icy Cell (Wireless By “Inprecorr’) |_ BERLIN, Jan. 27.—The lives of | Rakoczy and his comrades im- |prisoned in Budapest, Hungary. by |the brutal Horthy government be- |cause they are accused of partici- | pating in the workers’ Soviet govern- ment are still in danger, tho their \hunger strike has been ended due to the solemn promise of the Hun- garian ministry of justice to with- {draw disciplinary action against jthem. The hunger strike lasted for days, and was started because Hun- garian prison officials decreed a regime of solitary confinement in underground cells, and condemned its worker victims to a regime of | Slow starvation intended to kill them in the course of a year or so. In spite of the promise to revoke \the “discipline,” Rakoczy and com- 2 Price 3 Cents ARRESTED; TRY TO EXTRADITE Worker Relief Head to Be Tried With Crouch, Weisbord in Mass. ‘Conspiracy to Parade’ in This Case; 662 Others Up Soon On ao Fred Biedenkapp, national secre- tary of the Workers International Relief, w arersted Friday night as he wa out to address a meeting of the Council of W ng Women in the Bronx, New Yor Although | George he Tammany Bomb vrant be- fore Bied e spoke, he ng and keeping his ment, and was aft- n to the Tombs. Saturday morning he taken before Judge W. Simpson, first magistrate’s court, and the case set for hearing Feb, 1. The New York District of the International Labor Defense had been trying most of Friday night to arrange bail, but as not allowed to do so until after appearance before Simpson. hey then got him out on $1,000 bail. | Warrant For Three. Warrants for the arest of Bieden- app, Paul Crouch and Albert Weis- hord, secretary of the National Tex- tile Workers Union, were issued by |Chief Magistrate McAdoo of the New York municipal court for ex- [tradition to New Bedford, Mass., | where they are charged with 22 oth- ers on two accounts: That they entered into a | conspir with others to parade | through New Bedford without a per- !mit, during November, last year. | Second—That they entered intoa |conspiracy with others to commit disturbance of the peace. These charges are set forth in Wi framed up workers all the legal as-| recorded as a decisive victory in THE RESULT IS AN APPALLING FINANCIAL SITUATION WHICH WILL rades are still kept in dark, ice-cold | detail in a bench warrant issued in sistance they may require in the|themselves. Over 3,000 members of fight for freedom. |the union came to cast ballots for That the Mineola open shop the election of officers. Joint Board gangs intend to frame the workers | officers, from manager to all busi- again is attested to by the custom- i ness agents, the Joint Board delega- ary decision of district attorneys to | tions from all locals, the local func- drop cases where the Court of Ap-|tionaries and executive boards were peals grants a new trial. Not so|chosen in the all-day elections on here however. It is learned that Thursday, the right wing stool pigeon, Bassof,| All eyes are now turned toward is to be brought especially from|the huge mass meeting next Wed- Sing Sing to give additional framed | testimony. | In addition to carrying on the| drive for funds, the International | Labor Defense, is rallying the work-| ers in a protest movement to fight | against this frame-up. Tonight in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Iry- ing Place, a mass meeting of pro-| test is to be held for New York} workers, President Louis Hyman and Sec- retary Ben Gold, of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will be speakers there. Moissaye Olgin, Communist leader and writ- er, will also be there, as will A. Wagenknecht, of the International Labor Defense. DEMAND BRITISH FREE JOHNSTONE Chicago Labor in Mass Protest Meets s * ® Chicago Workers Picket British Consulate. CHICAGO, Jan. 25—The arrest of Jack Johnstone in India by the Brit- ish police resulted in an immediate protest demonstration in Chicago, where for many years Johnstone had been an active militant trade union- ist 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) NEW SOVIET OIL-PIPE LINE BAKU, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).— The head/of the Grozneft Oil Trust, Ganshin, reports that the first kero- sene pumped through the new Groz- ny-Tuapse oil pipe-lines has reached Tuapse. WORKERS Jan Chapel, $5. Robert Heenug, $5. Harry Liff, $2. nesday evening, immediately after work, in Manhattan Opera House, 84th St. and Eighth Ave. At this meeting the dressmakers are to have their final say on the question of the hig struggle ahead. Final vote will be taken at this meeting. The dressmakers will here give voice to their determination to go out and give battle to the employ- ers and their socialist agents of the company union for a chance to re- store union conditions in former union shops and gain them for the many never-organized shops in this industry. That this is the only method 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 aiready volunteering their organizational (Continued on Page Two) ‘20SAILORS FACING DEATH Four Ships Send 8.0.8. Then Grow Silent The fate of four vessels, in dis- tress far at sea, remained uncertain last night as land radio stations here tried in vain to pick up further information in regard to their plight. The vessels include: The Italian freighter Capo Vado, in distress some 1,000 miles east of the Bermuda Islands, with a crew of about 25 men. The British freighter Silver Maple, 780 miles east of Boston, with a crew of 40 men, The Norwegian steamship Fern- lane, which was helpless in a gale 500 miles southeast of Bermuda after losing its rudder, with a crew of less than 30 men. The American freighter Dixiano, aground on the southern coast of Cuba, with a crew of about 25 men. RESPOND Contributions Arriving at the ‘Daily’ Responding immediately to the appeal of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party for aid to the Daily Wetker, the following readers have contributed: a i aaa FORTHCOMING! week are: Fee Wectinical service bil. 5204. i... se ceee ss Ly Notes to Commercial Firms.................. eer confidence in regard Worker. Printing and Press Work é Notes due at Bank this week................. our revolutionary organ—can be continued. engraving the drawings for the press. Comrades! We urge you to make your action in this matter quick. This means TO- DAY. We are confident that you will respond to this urgent duty to the whole working class and its leader, the Workers (Communist) Party, whose fighting voice is the Daily CRUSH THE DAILY WORKER OUT OF EXISTENCE UNLESS IMMEDIATE HELP IS We have delayed until no other recourse was possible. By asking “immediate help” we mean that substantial contributions within the next 48 hours will be the only means of | saving the Daily Worker. Not to speak of the more remote accounts, we can say the amounts which we meet this $1, These are the most pressing demands which must be met this week. Other demands can await liquidation for a longer period. The Management will take our readers into its to the entire matter. Drastic losses to the Daily Worker’s attractiveness and usefulness will result before even the end of this week unless the response is quick. During the last week 17 sacks of mail held up by the post office for three hours until the relatively small sum of $73 could | be obtained to send them on their way. Eventoday it is doubtful whether in the next issue | of the Daily Worker the customary cartoon by Fred Ellis—one of the finest features of | » beeause we are heavily in debt for the cost of "THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Send help by Airmail or Telegraph to: Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City (The Management Committee Requests the Entire Party Press to Reprint This Appeal), a $5, cells without any warm underwear. Those part strike are very much exhausted. Rakoczy has lost weight badly. The campaign of the workers all over the world to set free this Jeader | of workers and all sent with him to | Horthy’s torture cells must continue | unabated or he will be done to death jyet. Cae ake BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 27. |—House to se searches reminis- |cent of tsarist police raids in old Russia are being carried out daily | now by the police of dictator Horthy | under the law banning revolutionary 300 500 . |literature from the country. Domi- \ciliary visits are made every eight 490 |days to suspected houses and the 200 police treat the inmates of raided a |houses with the utmost brutality, joften grossly insulting the women of the unfortunate families, | The term revolutionary literature |is broadly interpreted by the Horthy |police to include any book whose contents or illustrations may awaken |the suspicions of the police. 490 Whip of Hunger Drives Miners in Wales Into Army CARDIFF, (By Mail). — Over 7,000 young miners, unemployed |and starving, have offered them- selves as army recruits in the past | years, the army authorities in Wales |claim. They have been driven by starvation, they state, in most cases, WILHELM IN NEW PLOTS. DOORN, Jan. 27.—Wilhelm Hon- | zollern, still claiming to be emperor of Germany, celebrated his seven- tieth birthday here today, surround- ed by 48 or 50 members of royalty , |and ex-royalty and amidst the plot- ters of all the reactionary forces in Europe, who hope for a restoration of the monarchy in Germany, but |are not all agreed on the Hohen- \ollerns as their best champions. ABRUZZI, Italy, (By Mail).— By VERN SMITH Yesterday was set aside by the National Child Labor Committee 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 shame there were 378,000 toiling in LIBERAL GESTURE AT CHILD LABOR YESTERDAY Fake “Child Labor Sunday” by Capitalists to Fool Workers Into Acquiescence children between the ages of 10 and|Court of the United States, that 18. There are no statistics on the/notorious guardian of American work of children under the age of ‘liberties,’ declared any laws for- 10—that is the sole reason why there | bidding child labor unconstitutional is no report about the scores of|—(National Platform of the Worl thousands of the smallest children |ers (Communist) Party of America.) of the working class slaving to the| Against this situation, too pain- glory of our dollar civilization. |fully obyious to be denied, we are “There are almost four million told, a crusade is taking place, young workers and at least one mill-| told, a crusade started yesterday. It ion boys and girls in industry alone.’ is the National Child Labor Commit- Steel and iron, coal and textile fac-|tee on the march, They are doing tories are the chief “playgrounds” |the job, All you Reds c&n stop of our working-class youth. Tech- shouting your nerve-wracking de- nical progress means progress of|mands for abolition of the system youth and child labor. It is one of that fattens thru the constant liv. the biggest achievements of Ameri- ing sacrifice of little children. The by inhabitants of Abruzzi and the port of Aquila, Inhabitants were | panic-stricken, Earthquake shocks have been felt| | the superior court of Massachusetts, | February, 1929. Others Arrested. others charged by the textile courts with the conspiracy to | parade in the interests of the New |Bedford textile workers have al- ready been arraigned. They will be defended by the I. L. D. They are: Nathan G. Kay, Eli Keller, Elsie Pultur, Marion Botelho, Bessie Kat- sikaros, Germaine J. Madeiros, Au- gusto G. Puito, Manuel Pitts, Ellen Dawson, Jack Rubenstein, Jos, M. Cabral, Louise Kitsakaros, Maria C. Silva, Casimiro Lameiros, Elizabeth Donnelly, John Pelcazar Jackson W. Wales, Andrew Izyk, Alphonse I. Lameiros, Mary Silva and Manuel Machado. i. L. D. Will Fight. Rose Baron, secretary of the New York branches of the I. L. D., stated yesterday: “The arrest of Bieden- hay s a first maneuver to try and extradite him, along with Crouch and Weisbord, to New Bedford. The I. L, D, will fight against the extra- |dition. The I. L. D. has engaged |Jaeques Bietenkapp as attorney in this case.” Those who saw the procedure sey jthat the officers and ataches of the | municipal building who heard of the jease snickered .audibly over the |flimsy and unusual charge, “con- \spiracy to parade.” 662 to Be Tried. In addition to the cases of the 25 raraders, New Bedford will have, during the first part of March, a trial in the superior court of 662 New Bedford textile strike pickets, already framed-up-and convicted in the district court there of every sort of misdemeanor the police and mill owners could think of to bring against them: Picketing, traffic vio- Hlations, breach of the peace, rioting and inciting to riot, resisting an of- ficer, ete. Some of the charges jcarry penalties up to three years. Some of the militants were con- victed as many as twelve times, so that the cases total over a thousand ‘convictions. The International Labor Defense |has the cases appealed, is furnishing |bail wherever possible, and will de- fend them in the superior court. | The | 10: | going to drive the heathen gods of profit from the nursery, so it Says. How? Tt is all meticulously set forth in a little sample leaflet, distributed | free to pastors of churches, for the| celebration of National Child La- bor Day, Where We Die, Too. In as many churches as have child slavers forward-looking enough | to see that this is for their own | good, services Worker for aid in its present After reading the appeal for ing you the enclosed amount, $ ct opened yesterday, |Name ......seseees08 Ks Cp ceneue optionally with “My country tis of | thee, Land where my fathers died,” [Address .......seseeeeneeeeenee or with “The King of Love My Shepard Is."—Extract from ean ‘democracy’ that the Supreme, National Child Labor Comune is a the) | delay. ‘CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without crisis. aid in the Daily Worker I am send- (Continued on Page Two) le ipating in- the hunger jveturnable-on the first- Monday ine