The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 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 a): aily Enlered as second-class matter i the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, Published dail except Si Vol. V., No. 336 by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUAR’ DAILY WORKER’S By the narrowest margin the Daily Worker succeeds today in going to press. For two days the question of each issue of the paper has depended upon the contribu- tions received in the day’s mail—whether enough funds have been sent to enable us to hold off creditors for even a few hours. But we hope that from now on each day’s re- ceipts will be bigger than those of the day before. Monday’s receipts were $134.50— appallingly small. Tuesday’s receipts were better—$645.66. But if the Daily Worker is to survive, the contributions must be several times this size in the coming days. We have no assurance that any of the pressing de- mands can be staved off beyond Saturday. The total which we positively must raise this 30, 1929 Worker is to survive! will have to treble his done! The way to do Workers’ Clubs and week is, as we have said, $11,490. The total of receipts so far is only $780.16. That means that the enormous sum of $10,709.84 still re- mains to be raised this week if the Daily More than $2,500 per day! Can the readers of the Daily Worker contribute as much and as rapidly as that? Comrades, every individual reader, every Communist, every militant worker, energies if it is to be it: Individual contri- butions as fast ag they can possibly be sent —also collections among the workers in your shop—also Party units donating as a body | as generously as possible—Trade Unions, Fraternal Organiza- lections among your be at your disposal. | tion should respond a (Communist) Party, Philadelphia, has deci lowing telegram: Daily Worker, District Convention tions should be immediately confronted with the appeal to save the only revolutionary daily paper of our class in the English language—and lists for circulation and col- shop-mates will soon Clearly it is going to be a tremendous job to put over. Every workers’ organiza- s quickly as possible. The District Convention of the Workers just completed at ded and sent the fol- 26-28 Union Square, New York City. of Workers (Commu- | nist) Party of District Number Three, Philadel- phia, decides to raise One Thousand Dollars to » $6.00 per year. i "SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mai LIFE IN BALANCE; AID INCREASES © FINAL CITY EDITION help our fighting Daily Worker to survive the present crisis and continue its struggle for the working class. total of receipts. SOKOLOY. This is a splendid example. The money is not yet received and is not listed in the All units of the vanguard of the work- ing class, the Workers (Communist) Party, should step to the front now. Philadelphia is a small district of the Party, and has undertaken to do a big share! Comrades! Do your part quickly! The | Daily Worker must ‘be saved! Fraternally yours, | Fights Boss ‘Justice’ IED ARMY OF CHINA SEIZES NAMHUNG ITY Santonese Troops Sent Against Huang Haien, PROOF REVEALED OF FRAME UP ON. JULIO A. MELLA Hold Agent of Cuban) CONVENTION FOR Delegates for CEC by Government Under 110 to 17; Units CE. OF PARTY, CPSU Expelled (Wireless By “Inprecorr’) | MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—The Central | Control Commission of the Commu- |nist Party of the Soviet Union to- |day published its decision on the, UNIONS UNITED TQ MOBILIZE WORKERS FOR IN NEW CENTER A GENERAL DRESS STRIKE All Basie Industries Join in Powerful |Manhattan Opera House Rally Will Launch Soviets Join Them Murder Charge | by 93 to 6 bce ee a pee Unitary Group Fight Against Open-Shop easant Revolt Grows) Agent “Planted” Flag Lovestone Urges Unity (0 21) ant Sah Word Com Hail TUEL Solidarity|Picket Committee of 1,000 to Lead Struggle | tional and of the Fourth World Con- Against Bosses and S. P. Allies gress of the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had also conducted anti-Party fac- | Great Ovation to Pact, ah With U.S. Left Wing | Tonight thousands of dressmakers, gathering in Manhat- eee |tan Opera House, 34th St. and Highth Ave., immediately after Jwn Troops Fichting Reactionary Chief Band of Assassins in|\New District Commit- Mexico From Cuba | tee Elected HUANG HAIEN, China, Jan. 29. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20 (By| The District Convention of the! tional activity, and had refused to|,. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—The work, will give the signal that will launch a militant general ~A division of the Second Army sent |Mail).—Judge Alfredo Pino Cam-jtargest district in the Party, at-|submit to the conditions imposed|historic National Assembly of| strike thruout the New York dress market. ara, after hearing for over one!tended by 131 delegates represent-|npon them by the Executive Com-|Workesr and Peasants, which met| : a a igainst the peasant Soviets north of tere revolted yesterday and joined he Workers’ and Peasants’ move- nent. They were attacked by an- ‘ther army hastily gathered by the ailitarists who are desperately fraid that the revolutionary peas- int movement will spread to the vorkers in the great cities like Can-| on, | Battle Fought. | An indecisive battle has been| ought with the reactionary Kuomin- | ang militarists, who are led by Gen- | ‘ral Hoifan, sent here especially ‘rom Ninghan by the Cantonese re- sctionaries by try and suppress the | iprising. | A detachment of the Chinese Red| Army has captured the city of Nam- 1ung, in northeastern Kwang-tung orovince, and holds it securely. The seasants in the country around Nam- vung are rising, driving away all he landlords, seizing the land, and stablishing peasant Soviets. Robert Zelms, secretary of the New England District of the Inter- national Labor Defense, who is lead- ing the fight against the attempt to railroad Harry J. Canter, a leading Boston Communist, to a long jail term on a charge of criminal libel. The charge against Canter resulted ifrom his carrying a placard: “Fuller | Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti,” at an election campaign demonstra- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party on Nov. 8. Report in El Salvador | of Honduran Uprising | SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Jan. 29 (UP)—The Tegucigalpa, Honduras, correspondent of the newspaper Diario Del Salvador re- ported that a revolutionary move- ment, headed by Ladislao Velasquez, has begun. 3 The government has sent troops against the movement, the corre- spondent reported. DAILY CONTRIBUTIONS The following rushed their contribution to the Daily Worker yes- terday: L. G., New York City Branch 2, Section 8,. Young Workers Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Factory Nucleus 1, Section 9, Long 3B, 3F, New York . \F, 3C, New York iF, 2A, New York .. 1F, 3C, New York iF, 3C, New York Workers Party, & Young Workers League, Chester, Pa League New York . Island, N. Y. Section 6, International Branch Ne. 2, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. A. Caspe, Bronx, N. Y. .. 3F, 3C, New York, N. . 4F, 3D, New York, N. Y. A Friend, New York Ruth Fidler, New York .. Section 6, 4F, New York Local 41, Tuckers & Hemstitchers, New York . David Finkelstein, New York . Sam Lombrozo, A Striker, New York T. N. Vuorela, Worcester, Mass, Ex. Com. of 1F,'3D, New York Philip Stein, New York ... Harry Perth, New York Leo Ars, Monroe Bridge, Mass. . Walter Zapletol, New York . W. Malishovsky, New York Eina Peterson, New York Benjamin Fishman, New Yo B. L., New York ...... Tom Roy, McDonald, Pa. . Alex Fountain, McDonald, Pa. Daniel Weitz, New York |week, the testimony of witnesses concerning the murder of Julio An-| |tonio Mella, Cuban Communist lead- ing the nine sections of New York and the cities of northern New ead-| Jersey and the outlying cities of er assassinated here January 10, by) New York State was held Saturday agents of Gerardo Machado, presi-| and Sunday, January 26 and 27 at dent of Cuba, was compelled to dis-/Trving Plaza, 15th St. and Inving miss the accusation made by, the Place. |now removed secret police chief, | cheer ty |Valente Quintana, against Tina | The Convention. by a vote of 110 Modotti, Mella’s comrade, and to {hold for trial the known agent of pee Cuban government, Jose aoe Comrade Weinstone reported for nat. aitinat th ‘ jthe Central Executive Committee agrinat was the man whom! and also made the report of the |Mella met, at Magrinat’s solicita-| District Committee. Comrade Mil- |tion, alone in a cafe a few minutes Jer reported on the work of the Or- before he was murdered. Leaving ganization Department and Comrade the cafe, Mella was walking toward Williams on Negro work. Comrade home with Comrade Tina Modotti, Herberg reported on the work of |when shot down from behind. While | the Young Workers League. Com- STR tae ae told -Mearae teat | rade Hes spoke, for ae Min- ‘agrinat informed him two assas-|ority and Comrade Aronberg ren- sins sent by the Cuban ee ere a minority report on District had arrived in Mexico to kill him. | work, Spy’s Story Suspicious. Magrinat, when questioned, could | not explain where he was during the | hour directly during and following the murder, Suspicion centered upon | BR ee Mella to the| cont were working in the shops, 8 cafe in order to get assassins upon ss f % ee him, and even of participating in the | of the regular delegates Sere Mages #7 si ginaelf since that wae his | Comrades, and four Negro comrades Mtrade” in Cuba, Mella consented | Were alternates; 7 delegates came te cag Ma i because, although | Vvectly from shop pace at ague ome hig t Cie Ale Mella alternates from shop nuclei. enone ee Pave pine) |. These representatives came from "taht lan cecal Section Conferences, elected by the , " units and from city organizations AIMEE SWEARS AGAIN. outside of New York City, which LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 2: SRAt AT Hite SROs Ocal (UP)—Aimee Semple McPherson de- Showed 87 units for se nied under oath today that Superior | Committee A Sor ve eee |Judge Carlos Hariy acted as her eee ee Amboy,” legal counsel during ike difficulties ATUMSWwic™ ys which followed her cited kidnap- Imost three years ago. |to 17, supported the resolution in |support of the Central Executive | Committee. Proletarian Convention. Comrade Benjamin, for the | the delegates was composed of 86 per cent workers, of which 70 per for the Central Committee. In spite of the fact that the Op- position succeeded in winning only Daily Worker Agents! 6 out of 93 units, it demanded 49 t F id E * | |delegates which was denied. ‘Meet Friday Evening Lovestone Speaks. | | | All Daily Worker agents of | | H 9 _| delegates, Comrade Lovestone Hac Pitan ee coma | greeted the convention and stressed | the need for unifying the Party and ‘tend a_special important meet- | | "0° DESC, ri ri . is * ‘ a ening | @liminating factionalism. In the dis- Ag /S0 De held this mrkiny esting | cussion, 40 speakers participated, Bi G20 scion in the bubiness: of} |covering the district activities as ; i Ae aca ee beet |well as the general line of the | Minor, editor of the Daily Work-| | Patty. ‘ an er, will speak. || Great emphasis was laid in the So bg es a SORE 2) RESIN Sot (Continued on Page Two) In response to the request of the credentials committee, reported that | mittee of the Communist Interna- tional. The decision of the Central Con- jtrol Commission was that they be expelled from the Communist Party |of the Soviet Union, of which they | had been members. HEIGHTEN FIGHT INMINEDLA CASE Trial Postponed Until, Monday With the postponement of the Mineola trial until next Monday, the International Labor Defense is in- tensifying its campaign to save the jseven fur militants who have been framed up in this case, Two of the nine workers origin- ally sentenced have already begun ‘serving their sentences of from two and a half to five years. The other seven, whom the court of appeals | was forced to grant a new trial be- | cause the brazenness of the frame-up, will appear on Monday in the Mineola County Court before the same judge and the prosecuting at- of torney who showed such hatred of; the workers at the original trial. The seven who pill go on trial are Oscar Mileaf, Otto Lenhardt, Jack | Schneider, Samuel Mencher, Martin All were active in the 1926 ike of the Furriers’ Union, which Katz. by the left wing Joint Board. Leather Worker Urged ito Collect for “Daily” | Progressive Fancy Leathergood | Workers group appeals to the work- \ers in the shops to give money to the Daily Worker, and to collect | money for the “Daily.” | The workers are warned that Ship- \lacof{’s spies may try to interfere, jor to report workers collecting for \the Daily Worker to the employers |for discharge. Serie oR George Weiss and Joe | City, Hoboken were overwhelmingly | was led to a successful conclusion) here on January 26 (the economic counterpart of the political bloc set up on January 25) has been most successful. Over 400 delegates rep- resenting $15 trade unions and 80 agrarian workers’ leagues, embrac- ing over fifty per cent of the organ- ized labor movement of Mexico, were present. | The old principal Mexican trade | Union conter, the “CROM,” or Con- |federacion Regional Obrera Mexi- cana, led by the Morones clique of corrupt and reactionary leaders, is rapidly disintegrating. One group of 5,000 printers only today left the CROM and joined the assembly. Includes Basic Industries. This assembly has formed the new | trade union center, called the “Uni- tary Trade Union Confederation.” All railway unions have joined the Unitary Confederation. The United States fraternal dele- gate from the Trade Union Educa- tional League received an ovation when he presented a complete pro- gram and excoriated the American Federation of Labor and the Pan- American Federation of Labor as tocls of U. S. imperialism to be fought by the joint forces of Amer- ican and Mexican trade unions, Hail Solid y Pact With T.U.E.L. The Solidarity Pact between the revolutionary trade unionists of the United States and those of Mexico was jointly signed by the Trade Union Educational League and the new Unitary Confederation of the Peasant Leagues during an enormous ovation. The present trade union and peas- ‘ant assembly unhesitatingly adopted \a resolution to call a general strike unless the Portes Gil government repeals the new fascist labor code which prohibits strikes and binds the workers to the employers. Cap, Millinery Meet in the Center Tomorrow An important joint meeting of all cap and millinery workers who are members of the Trade Union Edu- cational League will be held at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, | tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. lthe utmost importance. U.S.S.R. SCIENTISTS KEEP SEVERED HEAD ALIVE Health Commissariat Physicians Revolutionize Surgery with Mechanical Heart | Agree to Vote for War Measure Feb. 4 WASHINGTON, Jan. dent Coolidge today s White House that b fav: 29.—Presi- not only in 2 the senate, but that as soon as it pa he will submit a sup- |plementary budget to get |started on them immediately, and, |furthermore, he does not think fif- teen cruisers are enough. He con- siders that this big increase in the navy of American imperialism must ill other increases. » sham fight over the bill that shall be finished within Coolidge t been said to dislike this clause, Britten of the house naval affairs commitee an- nounced that Hoover disagreed with | 4, Coolidge on it, and Hoover answered with a telegram that he was stand- ing with Coolidge. It is now seen that Coolidge would rathe: ot have the clause, because it excites particular opposi- tion from certain quarters, and is not neces: y. Coolidge has an- other plan for getting the cruisers built than the three-year limit would provide. He is, in fact, afraid that the “three-year clause” might induce some to argue that the cruisers need not be finished before three years. And it is this stand, evidently, that Hoover agrees. Coolidge’s statement today gave many figures purporting to show that the U. S, navy should build still more ships in order to be equal to the British navy. District Office Calls for Volunteer Typists CAL ASKS MORE THAN 15 BOATS Responding to the call of the new Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union, the dressmakers will demonstrate to- night their determination to wage a relentless struggle for the estab- lishment of real union cor ‘tions in all shops, both non-union and those where the scab International union has instituted open shop conditions. Ever since the close of the his- | toric convention that launched the of building the fifteen new | strike, rs provided for in the bill now |have grown particularly intolerable work |of the New York m: nt places in proper | new Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- ted at the | trial Union the union has been mak- ing preparations for this general Conditions in the dress trade under the reign of terror inaugur- ated by Sigman more than two years ago and continued by Schles- inger when he was placed in charge rket. The con- ditions in nearly all shops are re- ported to be even worse than be- fore the establishment of the Inter- national union; the sweat-shop has systems in- stalled and the workers have been generally placed at the mercy of the bosses. The restoration of the old slavery em could not have been effected active co-operation of $15,000 a year advertising agent of the Forward, Benjamin Schles- inger, and his crew of union-wreck- ers. 1 without the ese “socialist” bureaucrats, arding all pretense, openly con- verted the once powerful Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union into a company union, an in- strument of the bosses. Fight Against Bosses, “Socialists.” The ladies’ garment workers took the first step toward emancipation when, combining with the fur work- ers, they formed the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, a fight- ing union of the rank and file. The new union has lost no time in tak- ing the second step. The dressmak- ers have been placed in the role of the vanguard of the needle trades workers and tonight’s meeting will launch the fight against the bosses (Continued on Page Two) LONDON, Jan. 28.—Bishopsgate and Threadneedle St. were closed to Volunteer typists are wanted to/ traffic following the bursting dur- teers should report to Room 202. o~ Attendance at this meeting is of | do very important work at the Dis-|ing the night of a hydraulie water | trict Office of the Workers (Com-|main in Bishopsgate. munist) Party, at the Workers Cen- of roadway were undermined by the ter, 26 Union Square, today. Volun- | escape of water under high pressure Fifty yards in all directions, 3 CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? A. Siegel, Bronx, N.Y. . Goodisman, New York . Louis Ruzzier, Brooklyn, N. Y. Harry Young, Bronx, N. Y. K. Goldberg, Bronx, N. Y. J. K., New York .. Nathan Cohen, New York Nick Samogala, New York .. Octavio S. Quiros, New York . N. Napoli, New York Harry Blake, New York A Reader of the Daily Worker, New York .. Sam Scharf, New York ... H. Grossman, New York Following is the first of two articles obtained from the United Press, describing experiments of Russian scientists, who are trying to find how to continue or restore life in an apparently dead body. ducted with an apparatus designed to perform the heart functions and thereby continue life while an opera- tion can be performed on the heart. First news of the experiments, pub- lished several weeks ago, aroused widespread interest, Eugene Lyons, —————| United Press Correspondent at Mos- cow, made an investigation of them. The experiments have been con-| By EUGENE LYONS, United Press Staff Correspondent. MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (UP).—Sober and intensive study by Soviet scien- | tists of the fascinating, yet terrify- ling, problem of life and death at last is producing some remarkable results at the Moscow Scientific |Chemico-Pharmaceutical Institute. | In the middle ages alchemists spent their lives in a vain effort to create artificial life. The history of physiology is replete with experi- ments in attempts to revive animals and persons. i Today, in Mosccw, probably the most xemarkable experiments of -|this nature are being carried out by | which has kept the detached head of | Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live earnest young physicians who are | \modest in regard to their achieve- ments and who permitted press re- ports only after their work was com- |pletely recorded and documented. The experiments have been con- ducted for the last four years on a high scientific plane and the com- missariat of health, impressed by the results, has just made a gener- ous appropriation to the institute for continuing the work. Dr. 8. S. Brukhanenko and Dr. S. I, Chechulin are in charge of the a dog “alive,” insofar 4s action and | sensitiveness are concerned, for as | long as three and one-half hours. The experiment has been performed before noted scientists, The potentialities of an artificial heart in the sphere of practical sur- gery are unlimited, the scientists be- lieve. It was pointed out that if an apparatus can be perfected which would keep a patient alive for even a few minutes by means of mechan- ical blood circulation, an operation could be performed to make neces- experiments. They have succeeded jin creating an “artificial mms | sary surgical repairs on the heart. (Continued on Page Two) Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily Worker for aid in its present crisis. | The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- | ling you the enclosed amount, $..... i ey Name | Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” wsshout| | delay. EAT TAS RReUTRTRNRTRTIT RG gs