The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 1

! ( ‘ , |Detroit Cooperative “| eral membership meeting, after " THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farm To Organize the ers Government Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FRACS AAD UINT ARTETA ATM Daily “wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker ublishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. eS Vol. V., No. 335 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1929 MASS PARADE I CHICAGD SCORES MELLA KILLING Thousands of Workers Resist Police Brutality Several Are Jailed Speakers, Pulled Off Stand, Return CHICAGO, Jan. 28. Chicago workers persisted in staging a huge mass demonstration Saturday before | 4 ¢ |gins paying regularly monthly dues | the Cuban Consulate here, to protest the murder of Julio Mella, in spite of the attempt of mounted police and detectives to disperse them, com- ing back and reforming their ranks every time the police charged. Many of the workers were beaten and seven were arrested. Hundreds of workers started the demonstration, but by the time it was fully under way the demonstra- tion consisted of thousands and blocked all down-town loop traffic. A’squad of 15 mounted police rode down the marchers and two score 8,000 Chicago Bellboys Now Build a Union CHICAGO, Jan, 28.—Officials of the newly organized Local 368, Ho- tel and Restaurant Empioyes Inter- national Alliance, A. F. of L., state that 8,000 bell-boys in Chicago ho- tels have joined it as charter mem- | HELP COMES FAR TOO SLOW! DAILY WORKER FACES, CRISIS! bers. Edward M. Sain is elected presi- dent of the local, The grievances of the bell-boys center around their being forced to buy jobs from the managers, and to divide tips with them. The boys have to depend on tips for their | main income, as the regular wage | is only one dollar a day. jafter three months, the member be- jof $2 a month. | Darrow, Labor Defense, ‘Demand Postponement KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Jan. 28. |—Hugo Oehler, district organizer |here for the Workers (Communist) of foot and plainclothes men tried} Party of America, and four others, to break up the march. | Speakers Jailed. | The answer was the starting of a street meeting at which Communist) and young Communist speakers were | greeted with tremendous enthusiasm. Truck drivers stopped dead in the middle of the streets to watch. The first speaker to mount the platform | was Carl Sklar, organization secre- tary of District 8, Workers Party. As he was arrested he introduced Bill Matheson, sub-district organizer of the Southern Illinois District, who made a stirring speech before being yanked down, The next was Minnie Lurye, of the Young Workers League. Then Ed Stevens and Sam Herman, Milwau-| kee Y. W. .L. organizer.. Twice the police “took them around the block,” and especially Stevens showed the effects of the beating. The speak- ers came back and remounted the platform, only to be pulled down again and finally to be locked up in| the Detective Bureau. ‘When a worker photographer, Sam | Wolfe, tried to get pictures of the) police in action, his camera was| smashed and he was beaten into in-| sensibility. When his sister, Helene | Wolfe, went to his aid she too was arrested. Crowd Reforms. Three times the crowd was broken up by police charges and each time it swirled around between the police and reformed its lines. The police tried to tear up the banners, while} the crowd fought to protect them.| Several were borne back to head- quarters in triumph, others went to the police as “evidence.” | Among the signs were the follow- ing slogans: “Workers of Chicago, | Denounce the Murder of Mella”; “Down with the Murderer Machado, | Puppet of Wall Street”; “Down with | Yankee Imperialism”; “Freedom for| the Cuban Workers and Farmers.” A large number of Cuban workers and students, and other Spanish/ speaking workers participated under | the banners of the All-America Anti-| Imperialist League. 3rd District Meet of Phila. Pioneers Opens February 22 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.—The Young Pioneers of District 3 will celebrate the opening of their third district convention on Friday, Feb. 22, at Machinists Temple, 13th and Spring Garden Sts. This convention will also mark the fifth anniversary of the Pioneer or- ganization in Philadelphia district. {t will open with a concert on Friday night, and will continue its sessions on Saturday and Sunday. An elab- orate program is being prepared by the Pioneers for this concert; a two- act play, tableaux, dances, harmonica orchestra, Pioneer chorus, ete. | The sessions will begin on Satur- Jay morning, with delegates present from the Anthracite,, Bethlehem, Easton, Washington, — Baltimore, Trenton, Wilmington, Chester, and ther cities. . The convention will ake up and discuss the questions of the War Danger,. work in the schools, children’s delegation tc So- jet Russia, and ‘others: © ' Gives $100 to ‘Daily’ DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 28.— One hundred dollars for the fund of the Daily Worker was con- tributed by’ the Detroit Work- ers’ Cooperative at a recent gen- including the local secretary of the International Labor Defense, East- |wood, appeared in court today to | answer framed up charges of crim- inal syndicalism. Clarence Darrow is working on the case. The defense began with an argument for postponement, as insufficient notice was given them about the calling of the case today. It has been hanging fire in the courts since the arrest during the election campaign last year. Arrested at Meetings. The argument for postponement |was not ruled upon at latest no- | tice. The Oehler case was that of the arrest of speakers for the Workers Party candidates in the - national elections last year. Police followed speakers to two meetings, and ar- evidence of violation of the criminal syndicalism law, a statute pat- terned after that of California, thru which many workers have been sent to prison for long terms, on perjured evidence that the organ- izations they belonged to practiced destruction of pronerty. __ Quantities of Workers Party and International Labor Defense litera- ture were seized at the meetings by the police. * * Concerted Drive. National Office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, 799 Broad- way, New York, states that very suddenly, important labor cases in several states which have been drag- ‘ing along in the courts for some time, have been rushed to trial simultaneously, or nearly so. It is as though a concerted drive against workers were being made by the state authorities, to try and make it difficult for an adequate defense of any of them. There are now be- sides the Oehler case in Kansas, the Biedenkapp and Mineola cases in New York, the New Bedford par- aders case in Massachusetts, with the trial of 662 picketers coming soon, the Cheswick and Woodlawn cases in Pennsylvania, and the just ended federal court Oswaldo cases in Philadelphia, all on trial at once. or nearly so. The I. L. D. is fight- ing for all of these workers, and relies on their fellow workers out- side of prison to assist by donating funds to it, Otto Hall Sneaks in Rochester Wednesday ROCHFSTER, N. Y., Jan, 28.— Otto Hall, Neero worker who has just returned from a long sojourn in the Soviet Union, will speak in Rochester, Wednesday evening, Jan. 30. at Hubert Hall, 133 Adams St. He will have much to say of the Soviet Union and the task of Negro workers in this country. UNTERMSYER SEEKS HEALTH. Accompanied by a physician, two nurses and his son, Samuel Unter- meyer, transit commission special counsel and widely known lawyer, was speeding westward today aboard the Sunset Limited for Palm Spring, Calif., seeking to regain his health. He was stricken with cardiac asthma late last summer. WALL ST. JOURNAL PAIR Mrs. Cecilia Gertrude Wyckoff, owner and publisher of the Maga- zine of Wall St., and her husband, Richard D, Wyckoff, founder of the magazine, have decided to drop all of their extensive litigation against each other, acocrding to anncunce- ment of attorneys today. The modern laborer, on the con- a unanimous decision on the part of all the members. trary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of exintence of his own ema Marx (Communist Ma: | The initiation fees are $10, and, | OEHLER CASES — UP FOR TRIAL rested them at each, They have no STATEMENT BY THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. > | In response to the Emergency Call of the Central Executive Committee of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party and the subsequent statement by the Management Committee of | the Daily Worker, this office received yesterday (Monday) only $134.50 of the required sum of $11,490 needed to meet the demands which threaten to close down the Daily Worker. Comrades! It is necessary to point out that the Daily Worker can survive only if a much quicker and more generous response is made. Creditors are pressing us harder to- day. At the moment these lines are written, we are not even sure that they will appear in print, as the question of closing the Daily Worker down is an hour-to-hour problem. Under these circumstances it becomes necessary to insist that you, the friends of the Daily Worker, all members and sympathizers of the Workers (Communist) Party, shall pe. Receipts yesterday (Monday) were: White Collar Slaves, Sec. 1, New York .............. $100.00 International Branch, Workers Party, Cliffside, N .» 10.00 J. Minkoff, Philadelphia, Pa. ............+. 6.00 Edward Koenig, New York, N. Y. 3.00 Leon Masoff, New York, N. Y. 2.00 Herman Geltman, Bronx, N. 2.00 Wm. Beck, Bronx, N. Y. Jos. M. Arbor, New. York, N. D.S., New York, N. Y. Sam Steinberg, Brooklyn, N a Frank Peterson, Stratford, Conn, . ey sce 1.00 A. M. Pederson, Stratford, Conn. ....... 1.00 J. Brooker, New York, N.Y. . Rig 1.00 Anna Kornhardt, New York, N. Y. ....... 4 1.00 $134.50 Fraternally yours, increase your energy ten-fold if you really are ready,—as we believe you are—to keep our fighting Bolshevik paper alive. Q 4 Comrades! The working class cannot do without the Daily Worker! We urge you again to rush your aid to the Daily Worker without one minute’s delay! make your assistance as generous as possible.. .As shown in the statement of the Manage- ment Committee yesterday, the total amount absolutely necessary to keep the Daily Worker from stopping publication THIS WEEK is $11,490. The receipts thus far have hardly touched the total. In loyalty to the working class you mustRespond! We urge you to THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Sends funds by Airmail or Telegraph to: Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. MELLA MURDER IS PROTESTED Cleveland Lenin Meet Denounces Wall St. CLEVELAND, 0., (By Mail).— Jay Lovestone, main speaker at the Cleveland Lenin Memorial meeting in thusiasm by his short, incisive speech. District Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party—a fitting cul- tion of the Party to fight against viet Union and for world revolution. The meeting opened with revolu- tionary songs by the Freiheit Sing- in; Society, which rendered “The Church Bells” in a splendid manner. The other musical numbers were by Herbert Offner, member of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. I, Amter, District Secretary, acted uous “aye” to a resolution charging the “Coolidge imperialist govern- ment with the murder of Mella,” and pledging the support of the Ameri- can workers to the fight that the Latin-Americans are waging against American imperialism. Another resolution pledging the white work- ers to fight shoulder to shoulder with the colored workers against (Continued on Page Two) BOOTLEG FORTUNE GOES. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 28 (UP).—The last of George Remus’ huge bootleg fortune vanished today when an agreement was reached on a federal liquor tax penalty case. Remus loses $25,000 in collateral he put up several years ago to indem- nify the American Surety Company of New York, The surety company pays the government the $25,000 as tax penalty, under the agreement. PASTOR FINED. NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 28 (UP).— The Rey. Elmo L, Bateman, former pastor of the Hilton Christian Church of Maplewood, was fined $250 in Quarter Sessions Court to- wy. fray being fees guilty of cir- lat and printing a spurious Knights of Columbus oath. 3 ss) this city fired the audienced +o en-| The meeting, followed upon the | imperialism, for defense of the So-| Marine Kills Himself Okla. Im peachment in Disgust at Dirty |Trial Postponed Until Work of a Conqueror oo | Da MANAUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 28 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., Jan. David Caen I pea |98—'The impeachment trial! of ment I tes marines, died kd Henry S. Johnstone, suspended own gun, marine head-|governor of Oklahoma, was post- s announced today. He had | poned by the Oklahoma senate today |committed suicide to avoid the bru-|intit 10 a, m. Thursday. talities of his officers and out of st Hie " disgust for the ditty work he was| Johnstone got caught in a fight |doing in Nicaragua, | between two gangs of highway con- About 300 mercenary soldiers of | tractors, each anxious to control the the “Nicaraguan volunteer foree? [state government. Those he dis- (constabulary) which is cooperating|criminated against are exposing with the marines in an effort to} graft connected with the deals, and |subjugate Northern Nicaragua, have |Johnstone is impeached for corrup- pitapa yesterday of a wound mination to the unity and determina- | been concentrated near Jinotega for |tion, using the militia to break up) \intensive training. | sessions of the legislature, ete. LOSE LUNCH BY ~ WHALEN RULING Pedestrian Law Keeps | Workers Jammed Thousands of workers lost their luncheon and spent a most uncom- fortable hour, from noon to one he was wrong in interpreting Mr.| today. Latins Talk | Peace While Buying Arms BUENOS AIR Jan. _ While “conciliators” and “arbitr; tors” and supposed “peace” have fallen upon the recent conflict be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay, no one should be deceived by these appear- ances. Behind the whole ° “peace” talk, the South American nations are arming for war and the intrigue flows in ever stronger currents in the. direction of a future conflict that may set the world aflame. Argentina, and then Chile, have placed an embargo on all arms ship- ments destined for Bolivia. Bolivia in turn is protesting and proceeding to summon the legalistic support of the Sixth Pan-American Union Con-| ference held at Havana a year ago, at which the United States delega- tion led by Hughes, supported Boli- via’s demand to change international law to permit arms shipments to land-locked countries through neu- | tral countries even in time of war It is known here that Bolivia has | bought through a Spanish agency, 75,000 rifles and twelve batteries of artillery. The Bolivian agent pre- tended he acted for Guatemala. The Rivera government permitted the sale to be made. | ni See | Admits U. S. Loans Paid For Arms. LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 28—The | “investigation” of arms shipment’ from foreign countries for Boliv | shows that two years ago a Bolivian | military commission went to Eng- |land to buy war material from the Vickers company and that before |the recent clash with Paraguay, Bolivia had already received muni- tions costing many million dollar which were paid for from the las |the Dillon-Read banking house of New York, The sub-secretary of Foreign Re- | lations has issued a statement open- ly admitting thé purchase of arma- | ments, but claiming that Bolivia has a right to do so “the same as Ar- gentina and Chile,” and claiming |that Paraguay has been arming also, getting shipments through | Argentine ports, The Bolivian daily “El jof Argentina’s embargo against arms for Bolivia, declares: “There jis no reason for Argentina to stop |shipments of arms for Bolivia in time of peace.” HOOVER PLANS BIGGEST NAVY \Britten Insists That His Storv Is True | WASHINGTON, Tan. 98 (UP Chairman Britten of the Huose val Affnirs Committee insisted to- day he had not misinterpreted presi- dent-elect Hoover’s attitude “of de- siring a navy second to none in power and efficiency.” denial made on behalf of Mr. Hoo- ver at Miami Reach. Fla., by Law- rence ichey, Hoover’s secretary. Britten told the United Press if deanito the In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. loan of $23,000,000 received from| 2 Diario” | Tirana. |with great headlines over the news| NATIONAL EDITION _ Price 3 Cents SEIZURE OF THE STATE POWER IS AIM IN MEXICO |Workers and Agrarian | Toilers Form Bloc | for Struggle Tirana for President ;Communist Party Joins | New Organization | MEXICO CITY, Jan. e | Worke and Agrarian Toilers’ Con- ference here is onding with the for- jmation of a permanent political bloc of workers and y, a united front formed by 30 delegates rep- resenting a half-million actual ad- herent: | Within this bloc are the Commu- |nist Par ico, the National | Agrar League, the Rail- men’s Pai ful federations and many power- of labor, Reyolutionary Program. The program upon which the bloe {is based insures its character as an organ of open struggle against im- jperialist interests and native cap- Jitalism, both agrarian and indus- trial, and all the political elements | representing such interests. | The program is based on the dem- {cratic dictatorship of the workers land peasantry. It calls for the na- | tionalization of the land—‘“Land to ie Peasants”; nation: ation of in- Id with workers’ control; a |dissolution of the present state ap- paratus and formatien of workers’ and peasants’ counc and the arm- jing of the m ei | Political Unity for First Time. The delegates represent ‘tions fy parts of M |This is the first time in Me n |history that there has been such {unity among the leading forces of \the labor and peasant masses. | The 1 candidate, which will be supported by the Communist Party within the bloc, is the agra- |vian revolutionist, Pedro Rodriguez The blee has elected an exectitive “Committee of nine ‘mem- | bers, with Diego Rivera as chair- man of the committee and Ursulo | Galvan as secretary. | Dircet Struggle Impending. | The perspecti head portends the [sharpest and most direct and open |struggles with the forces of reac- | tion fb d by U. imperialism. | The election, in which Tirana will nd as a candidate, takes place in the coming November, Tirana won his spurs as a revolu- tionary under Madero in 1910. He was later a commander under Pancho Villa and then of Emiliano Zapata. After Zapata was killed, rana retired from military life and cd wide influence as an agra- n leader. LANSING, Mich., Jan. ( John S. Haggerty, secretary of state, today said that an invitation would be presented to Pr Coolidge to become president of the Un sity of Michigan to succeed Dr. Clarence Cook Little, resigned. | Walsh, Dem., Mont., told the senate Walsh announced his sup- o'clock; yesterday on 36th St. west |Hoover’s attitude then he was “the port of the Borah amendment ex- of Seventh Ave., on account of Po- lice Commissioner Whalen’s deter- mination to make the front pages of the newspapers as the man who stopped traffic jams on Seventh garment bosses, poorest guesser in the world.” sk 8 | WASHINTON, Jan. '28.—After Chairman Britten of the House Na- val Affairs Committee had a pressing the sense of congress in |favor of codification of maritime law. “It is perfectly-evident that the construction of the cruisers contem- Ave., and do a good turn to the aparently talked too freely of what! plated by the bill under considera- nresident-elect Hoover thot was a'tion looks to a war primarily with as chairman and evoked a tumult-| By VERN SMITH. Ex-count Ilya Tolstoy stood on |Sunday in St. John’s Episcopal Chureh on Eleventh St., with half of a vested choir to right of him jand half of it to the left of him, waved his fat hands in front of his beard, and prophesied the “downfall of the Bolsheviki in Russia.” The |ex-count admitted in the course of his lecture that he thot in Septem- ber, 1917, when he “saw that Keren- sky was turning over the country to the Communists” (a thing which Kerensky would certainly be the first to deny) that the “Reds” would not last six months. | “So I came to America to make a lecture tour,” said Tolstoy, and I thot that when it was over, I would go back to Russia to enjoy my Tolstoy Still Hoping for Chance to Exploit Workers cere, said Tolstoy, “more and more of them coming out openly to buy and sell gold.” (Here picture an unactious smack of Tolstoy’s lips.) “But on the fourth day the govern- ment arrested them all, and confis- cated the money, and paid the fac- tory workers. Now I ask you, can a government which does things like that be called respectable?” Against Recognition. He appealed to the rather small crowd listening listlessly to see to it that the U. S. never recognizes the Soviet government, ‘‘because it/ \is based on violence, and my father, \the great Tolstoy, would never ‘countenance a government based on violence.” In the very next breath, Ilya Tol- stoy praised the capitalist democ- When the workers in the many Secret explanation of his wishes for factories, dress and fur shops on|@ bie imperialist navy. Hoove 86th St. poured from their work- secretary at Miami, Florida, sent in |places at noon and started for Sev-| his neme a telezram denying the ienth Ave,, to go uptown to restau- Speech in such faint and equivocal lrants, as they had always been ac-|lancuage that it is hardlv a denial. racy of U. S., tho Leo Tolstoy during his life denounced capitalism. Ilya’s theme in the countless lec- tures he gives seems to be his freedom. But here I am still, and it has been twelve years.” But he is still giving the same lecture about the “downfall of the Bolsheviki.” Such Unrespectability. Tolstoy’s idea of freedom seems to be freedom to plunge on the stock father’s mystical, reactionary, dead- ening religious theory, minus his father’s scathing condemnation of market. He told a story, whether | capitalism, true or not your reporter does not) The younger Tolstoy says he does know, to the effect that once the not rely on a counter revolution to Soviet in a big city needed money overthrow Communism in Russia, to pay the factory workers that/but on the economic difficulties | week. So with secret agents they which the Communists are trying to| enticed the “black bourse” of furtive overcome. He repeated the often ex- stock gamblers and speculators in ploded slanders about “constantly money out into the open. “There were the speculators every | ren,” ete, cd ‘increasing hordes of homeless chil- |eustomed to do, they found fifty |Tammany police, on foot and mounted, swinging clubs and forcing them to halt, or go south. As a result, 36th St., for blocks, was crowded by a freezing, immov- able mass of workers from building to building for blocks, Practice Against Strikes. Under command of Gorgeous | Grover Whalen, Tammany’s police in the garment district on Seventh Ave. are practicing a new regula- tion, even before it becomes a law, to interfere with picketing. | The regulation is that no onc must walk north on the west side of Sev- enth Ave., between 36th and 38th Sts., hetween twelve and one o'clock, nor south on the east side during the same time. The police commissioner, and the garment factory owners who initi- ated this regulation, which the city counsel ig asked to make a law, have {in mind also a law to be passed at the next meeting, making it illegal for a pedestrian to cross the street except with a green limht, just like an automobile. The effect will be to provide easier convictions for pickets. Make Traffic Jam. ‘Both of these regulations are be- ing foisted of the workers of New York as provisions to make traffic faster, and prevent jamming of the streets, - , |It declares he stands with Coolidge in reeard to naval affairs. Coolidge ‘is for a big navy, but has made a \half-hearted protest against huild- ine it within three years. The telegram sent by Hoover was |read on the floor of the senate by Chairman Hale of the Senate Naval | Affairs Committee, and is as fol- lows: “My attention has been called to a statement respecting pending morning’s press. I have made no | publie or private statement upon this question, further than appeared during the campaign. I have stated universally to various callers that it would be improper for me to ex- press any views on current matters of the administration. I regret if this reticence should result in mis- | apprehension. As you know I warmly isupport your own views and you mav so inform others if you wish | to do so.” Along with the telegram from Miami, Hale read one signed by Commander McNutt of the Amer- ican Legion, demanding the passage of the naval bill in its present form, including the clause providing that the cruisers be built within three years. Walsh Points To Britain. Another arms conference should be held and “if it fails” the United States should build a navy equal to Great Britain’s, Sen, Thomas J. jcruiser legislation appearing in this | Great Britain and secondly with | Japan,” he said. “No one has inti- |mated any likelihood even of the | most remote nature of a clash with ‘any other country, rendering it pru- dent to spend a quarter of a billion dollars for the extension of our naval establishment. He did not mention war preparations against the Soviet Union. | Su eT a More Money for Marines. WASIIINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP)— President Coolidge today submitted to the house a $4,050,000 supple- | mental budget estimate for the navy | department. It includes $75,000 for the chapel at Annapolis; $198,000 for recon- struction of dry dock No. 3, New York navy yard; $65,000 for the re- ceiving ship station, San Francisco, for improvement of the fresh water system; $175,000 for Marine Corp pay, and $3,330,000 for Marine Corp | expenses. * * Pacific Coast Air Base. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to- day submitted to congress a draft of a bill for establishing a naval air base on the Pacific Coast as a cost of about $5,000,000. The bill authorizes the secretary of the navy to appoint a board of naval officers to examine and re- port upon such locations as deemed most desirable for the air bae. Wilbur explained in his message to the house that a large Pacific Coast base was necessary because of the two new rigid airships now under construction for the navy de- pai WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP). ~