The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 2

Page Two Soviet Ind STEEL AND Ol INDUSTRY SHOW GREAT ADVANCE Exports to European Countries Gain production reached high during the month ember, according to cable re- ived by the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, the principal firm in Soviet-American trade, Oil out- put attained the record volume of 1,115,000 metric tons, as against 1,- 079,000 tons in November, while steel production was 384,000 metric tons as compared with 373,200 tons in the preceding month. Soviet. foreign trade across Euro- pean frontiers showed a large favor- able balance in December, rubles by 17,900,000 ru ¥ more than counterbalanced the u favorable trade balance for Novem- ber of 14,400,000 rubles. Show Substantial Gains. The results of the calenda 1928 i: ‘icate a number of substan- tial gains in Soviet indus and trade. The oil output for 1928 was 12,01 0 metric tons, an increase of 15.9 per cent over that of 1927, which amounted to 10,440,000 tons, and a gain of nearly 3,000,000 tons| over the 1913 output. Steel production in 1928 for the first time exceeded the pre-war pro- | ~ PATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929 ustrial 2 a a est When Brig. Gen. Raymond Casanave, new French military attacke the United States arrived herve and visited Governor's Island, the American forces were brought out for him to look upon The | French and United States imperialists are none too friendly, due to the French support of British im- perialicm against Wall Street imperialism. DRESS WORKERS A’ghaus Fight SENATE ANGRY ENDORSE STRIKE 727/701 ‘0’ OVER EXPOSURE mash Them ioe eT hes New High Ee SANDINO LOSES AN AGENT AND |” GAINS ALESSON | © “Lost Child in Turcios, Intellectual, Turns Betrayer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. 30.—Again it‘has been proven that the armed struggle of peoples op- pressed by imperialism cannot rely Jon bourgeois elements, by the] |. b f treachery, though not unexpected, |. . $2//¢¢, at @ neighbare houte, after |of Sandino's representative here,| 1? Géath in a fire which ae fs |the bourgeois intellectual and au-| The fire was started by a i Ithor, Froyian Turcies, needed to keep the place warm. ae Month of December Tenement Fire ln a This ‘id the family of Mr. and Mra. Anthony La Scalla, drinking ild had been burnt in which they lived. their smallest tenement hous sene stove in one of the apartments, Turcios recently sent Sandino a letter saying that it was sufficient if the marines left, to permit the traitor Moncada to rémain in the presidency and continue the same fiction of independence that is now inflicted on the people of Cuba. Now | know Leaders Appeal for United Struggle r Page One) and we know that we will We know that they will and put us in jail, and we that we will carry on the fight despite all. All Needle Workers To Fight. “When the call for the i issued. (Continued fr be fi ing, but the furriers, Clothing worker: cap- mak all must be out on the yirket line. This meeting has been called not only to have the workers endorse the strike, but to mobilize duction and reached a total of 4,-| them for the struggle and the ulti- 269,900 metric tons, an increase of| mate victory.” 30.5 per cent over the calendar year} Louis Hyman was given a tre- 27. Scrap iron was used exten-/riendous ovation when he arose to sively last year. | speak. He was interrupted by bursts of applause when he lauded the Soviet Union. Losses Counterbalanced. (Wireless By “Inprec MOSCOW, USSR, Jan. 30.—The Pr points out that events in Afghanistan are taking a change, and that it is very possible that the carefully laid plans of the great British agent provocateur, Col. Lawr ence, will collapse. In this case the overthrow of the Amanullah govern- ment and the withdrawing of the s reforms he was trying to make will be considered but episodes of civil war. Answer, a “Curiosity.” The Pravda comments sarcastical- ly on the British foreign minister} Chamberlain’s bland reply to the} query of Saklatvala in the House of} Vote for Insull Agent Thinking it Secret WASHINGTON, Jan, 30.—The senate again today seethed with in- dignation for an hour or so against the verson who made public the vote on the confirmation of Roy West, as secretary of the interior. West has been such a notorious hireling of the power trust headed by Insull, and as secretary of the interior is in such a good position to grant power sites to his friends, that a vote for him is equivalent to a public participation in any graft scandal that develops in his depart- ment before March. Turcios ha signed” rather than to subscribe to the fighting plans of Sandino, which plans were dis- tasteful to his tender bourgeois soul, Turcios does more. the plans of Sandino to the forces of Yankee imperialism. These plans, if Turcios’ story can be given credit at all, were that Sandino would of- ‘fer to surrender his arms to Mon- cada, if all marines would be re: moved from the four northern pro- vineces. But he would surrender {only a part of his arms, his men jeoncealing the major part in the mountains and going to work as agricultural laborers on the planta- He exposes 2 A large number of speakers, who | will talk on a variety of subjects, will appear at the weekly Sunday night forum of the Workers School, 6-28 Union Square. Next Sunday night, Feb. 3, Earl | Browder will speak on “The Rise of the Pan-Pacific Labor Movement.” Browder spent considerable time in China, where he participated ac- tively in the labor movement. On Feb. 10, Robert Minor will speak on ica. Minor on Latin America, The question of the United States | activities in Nicaragua, the so- ¢U. S. Imperialism in Latin Amer- | tions, but ready at a calt from San- called “good will” trip of Hoover to dino to drive Moneada from power. |Central and South America, the Commons concerning the attitude of Thought Vote Was Secret. the British government toward Ba-| The senate took the vote in “‘exec- cha Sakao, the leader of portions of | utive session” and as good agents of the movement which Lawrence rais-|big money, the senators voted, as ed against Amanullah. Chamber-|they thot, in secret, to put Insull’s lain’s statement, says Pravda, about man in the cabinet. They are | Britain’s “disinterestedness” would|naturally furious because the record This plan horrified the intellec- |tual Turcios, who evidently thinks |that war should be a polite affair between gentlemen. So he resigns | and betrays. Pig iron production amounted to} 5,872,000 metric tons, showing aj gain of 11.2 per cent over the pre- ceding year. A record output was reported for the textile industry,| which produced 2,764,000,000 meters | of cotton cloth, more than half a billion meters over the 1913 produc- tion and 400,000,000 meters over the 1927 figure. Both the import and export trade of the Soviet Union showed gains last year. According to the data! for trade across European frontiers, Soviet exports in the calendar year} 1928 amounted to 651,200,000 rubles, | 2.5 per cent more than in the pre-| ceding year, in spite of the falling off of grain exports, while imports of 825,000,000 rubles were 26.5 per) cent greater than in 1927. | | Proprietor of John’s | Regrets Act of White | Chauvinism Sunday | Following the publication in the) Daily “Worker of the facts reveal-| ing that Henry Rosemond, Negro| fur worker, was not permitted to dance at John’s Restaurant Sunday evening, the Daily Worker yester- day received a letter from John} “I cannot lead your strike,’ Hy- man said, “nor can Zimmerman or Rorachovich. You workers your- selves must lead it. And no power on earta can break your strike if you stand united. We know that strikes are frowned upon by the Wolls, the Greens and Schlesingers. They believe in co-operation and co- operation means that the worker toils and the boss gets the profits. Forward Lie: “The Forward has, as ip jal, been spreading all sorts of lies about us. Tomorrow it will print head- lines saying that you weren’t here st all and that Manhattan Opera mean nothing to us. We know that the sweatshop of 1907-03-09 was a paradise compared to the condi- tions in the shops now. “It is reported that the workers lef the Soviet Union have a slogan among themselves: “We are ready.” “We are ready” must become the password of the dressmakers. Yes, we ready to fight for better conditions, we are ready to repel all the attacks of our enemies, we are ready to fight for our bread and for our freedom!” Huge Crowd. Zimmerman chairman of the meeting. acted as | Charles be a curiosity, except for the change which had come over the Afghan situation when he made his, answer. British displomacy, says ‘Pravda, may soon have to conceal the traces | of its work on the Indo-Afghan fron- tier. MORGAN GIVING ~ GAL HIS ORDERS on Dawes Board |. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UP)— | Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan, American members of the forthcom- ing reparations commission, con- ferred with President Coolidge and then spent 15 minutes with Secre- tary of State Kellogg today in dis- cussing matrers relating to the rep- arations situation. fe * Both Morgan and Young have been in conference with Coolidge, Kellogg, Hoover, and Gilbert, Mor- . So great} gan’s agent of reparations, before. } \Bill to Deport Foreign Born Workers Arrested for Strike Activities | WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UP). |—The House Immigration Commit- I can’t imagine a senator so far tee today reported favorable the forgetting his honor if he ever had |Blease undesirable alien bill. any, as to let the roll call become| Under provisions of the bil! any public, without also making public alien who re-enters the United the votes which preceded it,” said|States after deportation, when con- |Senator Caraway, “I think we ought vieted of more than one federal law to abolish the rule because I don't | violation, or convicted of one or want to put a premium on a manjmore violations entailing a two \without honor; whoever let this out year prison sentence, would be de- jwas published, Most of them pre- face their remarks with a statement that “I never objected to having ..y ‘Vote public,” but they are very angry for one reason or another that it is publie, “Honor, If He Ever Had Any.” House was empty. But their lies Starts for Paris to Sit)must have gotten something for it, | ported, some kind of reward. To my mind he id he is worse than Benedict Arnold.” | Under the Blease bill, any foreign Senator Bruce, Dem., Md., again born worker convicted after a frame- suggested that Vice-President Dawes |up in a strike, or perhaps only for could ask each senator in executive |violating a federal injunction against jsession whether he gave out the in-|striking, could be deported. It is formation. Glass said such a ques-|intended to greatly strengthen the tion would be an insult to any sen-|terror in the mining, steel, meat ator. packing and textile regions, where Prohibition Case. The evidence follows indirect evi- dence yesterday charging R. B.) Creager, republican national com- mitteeman of Texas, with having | |held up planned prohibition raids | |on hotels at Dallas and Fort Worth. | Evidence alleging sale of postmas- | | | are a usual event in strikes, | —_—_——— All Clothing Workers T. U. E. L. Groups to Hold Meet Tonight ‘attempts to deport militant unionists | ‘struggle between Bolivia and Para- guay, and many other phases of U. |S. imperialism will be discussed by | Minor, ‘ | Gold and Zimmerman, On Feb. 17, S. Zimmerman and | Ben Gold will speak on “New In- |dustrial Unions. and the Needle Trades.” Gold and Zimmerman lhave for a long time been the lead- lers of the left wing movement in the needle trades and will discuss the new trades union. Garlin and Magil Speak. Qn Feb. 24 Sender Garlin and A. B. Magil, both of the editorial | staff of the Daily Worker, will talk at the forum, Magil will discuss |\Modern Revolutionary _ Poetry,” ; which will include Carl Sandburg, Alexander Bloch, Michael Gold and lothers. Sender Garlin will telk on “Some Bourgeois Literary Critics,” lincluding the following: Mencken, Ludwig Lewisohn, Van Wyck Brooks, |Carl Van Doren, Heywood Broun, iV. F. Calverton and others. Toohey on March 3. On March 3, Pat Toohey will talk {Union.” Toohey is the secretary- lireasurer of the National Miners’ Union. Huiswood at Forum. March 10, Otto Huiswood, na- tional director of the Negro Depart- iment of the Workers (Communist) |Party, will lecture on the “Negro Problem in the U. S., Its Solution.” The industrialization of the South presents many new problems for the lon “Problems of the New Miners’ | Variety of Speakers at the Workers School Open Forum ‘RECEIVER GRAFT ROCKS GONGRESS Charge Judges Shared in Bankruptcy Fraud WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UP).— Representative Sirovich, N. Y., in- |troduced a resolution today author- izing the appointment of five mem- jbers of the house to investigate |bankruptey _ receiverships |southern and eastern judicial dis- in the His resolution said “Public confi- |dence in the administration of jus- |tice has been distarbed by scandals larising in connection with receiver- yships,” and it is reported judges have been actuated by “favoritism, |despotism and other improper con- | siderations” in appointing receivers. Sirovich said he had received }many complaints of frauds by im- proper private sales and execssive | allowances to receivers, trustees and | their attorneys, Prohibition Graft. A congress committee is investi- gating alleged sale of federal pa- |tronage in southern states under | the leadership of Senator Brookhart, | republican, Iowa. Hill said Creager protected the Metropolitan Hotel in Fort Worth and the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, ‘and that P. V. Petty, then director |of prohibition enforcement unit in Texas, was ousted from the service | because he raided the Metropolitan lin defiance of its immunity. We have seen above that the first ing class is to raise the prolet te the position of ruling ela) win the battle of democracy—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto) step in the revolution by the work- | LEATHER GOODS WORKERS URGE AID FOR “DAILY” Warn All Against Spies of Shiplakoff Calling on all leather goods work- ers in the shops and factories to aid the Daily Worker through its pres- ent financial crisis, the Progressive {Group of the Fancy Leather Goods Workers Union yesterday circulated | the following appeal among workers |in many factories in New York; | “To the fancy leather goods work- jers:; The Progressive Group of the |Fancy Leather Goods Workers ' Union appeals to you to send in im- mediate financial help to the Daily Worker. | “The Daily Worker, the leader of the rank and file workers, is in im- mediate danger. Only Workers Can Help “The Daily Worker cannot. ex- pect help from anyone else but from the workers in the shops, “In the forthcoming negotiations between our union and the bosses the Daily Worker will be, as it al- ways has been, the mouthpiece of the rank and file. “Tt is just for this that the Ship- lakoff clique in our union, as well as the bosses, hate the Daily | Worker, Warns of Spies. “While you make collections in ‘the shops, watch out for Shipla- koff’s spies, who are always ready either to squeal to the boss or take you to the ‘henchmen’s room,’ the | Grievance Board “But no matter what hardships there are you must start to imme- |diately collect money in your shop and bring in your share immedi- lately.” \Communism Course in |Newark to Begin Again NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 30.—The class in “Fundamentals of Commu- nism,” ¥ A Markcff as instruc- tor, will resume its regular sessions tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock at 93 Mercer St. ; All workers taking this class are urged to aitend. Cap, Millinery Meet at Center Tonight An important joint meeting of all ‘eap and millinery workers who are | members of the Trade Union Educa- |tional League will be held at the | Workers Center tonight at 7 o’clock. Attendance at this meeting is of |the utmost importance. VOLUNTEERS Negro as well as the white worker. | Hlewood has been active in the” CLERICAL WORK IN BUSINESS OFFICE Pucciati, proprietor of the restaur-|was the crowd that an overflow had| Morgan is in commard of the’situa-| terships in other southern states | ant, apologizing for the action. Mr.|to be let on the stage and many) tion, the others taking their orders)has already been put into the rec-|,, 4 important meeting of all the| Pucciati.. writes: | hundreds of workers had to be! from him. lord. Trade Union Educational Leagues “Referring to the article which] turned away because there was not} The debtor countries of Europe,| Secretary Mellon told the house of men’s and children’s clothing appeared in today’s Daily Worker) even standing room. allied as well as Germany, are brac-|{oday that the $24,000,000 prohibi- | Wo"Kers, shirtmakers and makers of about, Mr. Rosemond, a Negro} Other speakers were J. Boracho-| ing themselves to face Morgan, their | tion amendment to the pending defi-|Washables_ in the Amalgamated ber movement for many years. Olgin, March 17. On March 17, M. J. Olgin will lec- ture on “Workers and the Problem worker, who was forbidden to dance in my restaurant last Sunday night, allow me to state that I extremely | regret this whole incident which has | justly aroused your protest and that of the friends who were in Mr. Rose- | I don’t hesitate) mond’s company. to say that the action of my wife against Mr. Rosemond was abso- lutely ill-advised. “J am sorry I didn’t prevent the above discriminatory action at that time and now, although belatedly, I wish ‘to assure you that nothing of the sort’ will ever happen again on my premises. Negro patrons will be just as welcome and will be e tended”the same courtesy and serv- ice which we usually extend to all our other patrons, “Also, being in sympathy with the causes and struggles of labor, - I am against any racial discrimina- tion.” Amalgamated Clothing Workers Locals Tonite Two important meetings of Amal- gamated Clothing Workers locals will be held tonight. The Kneepants Makers’ Local 19 wil! meet in Reethoven Hall, Fifth St, near vich, Richard B. Moore, organizer of | biggest creditor. Thru his govern- the American Negro Labor Con-|ment in Washington, Morgan is in gress; E. Oswaldo, Italian organizer|a position to repudiate the confer- of the union; Rose Wortis, M. Kor-| ence if it does not vote his way, for etz, head of the organization de-|he and Young go as “unofficial partment, and Jansky, speaking for | delegates.” the Youth Section of the union. —————————- The Organization Committee of 1,000, which will actively lead the fat Salaries for Big strike, will hold an all-important} Census Bosses; Jobs meeting tonight at 6 o'clock at Man- haitan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Gold, Hyman and Zimmerman will speak. ciency bill could not, in its present form, accomplish more effective pro- hibition enforcement. Mellon said to own large whiskey distiller- ies. ‘Comrade George Welsh, After 40 Years Labor for Political Heelers Activity » Passes Away WASHINGTON, Jan, 30—The| .3Y PETER KRONBERGER, reds, on pee barrel of all is about| CINCINNATI, Jan. 30. — The Latvia, Esthonia Will }i#f¢*\Rached in Congress. It is Workers (Communist) Party of i i i | esti sus jobs, America has lost a loyal comrade Sign Treaties Against ee ay Spee atecivardeates (5 the death of George Welsh, who ‘War With Soviet Union ¢rienas of the Congressmen, diéd here at the advanced age of 85, Jobs will range all the way from after 40 years’ activity in the labor | RIGA, Latvia, Jan. 30 (UP).— house to house canvassers, for the movement. |The Latvian government has ap- local machine heelers, to big juicy) Comrade Welsh began his activity proved participation in the Russo- directorships and superintendent’s, in the old socialist party and always | Polish anti-war treaty. ‘offices, for those who have done|took a left position in that party, The Esthonian government has real service in getting out the vote, | coming. over to the first left wing \informed Lithuania it is willing to| Supervisors will get a flat salary | formation, then into the Communist jagree to the proposal of M. M, Lit- | of $2,500 for part of a year’s work, | Labor Party and he died as a mem- vinoff, of the Soviet Union, that an | plus a bonus of $1 for each thousand | ber of the Workers (Communist) anti-war treaty be put into imme-/ population in their district, plus; Party. Gate effect in eastern Europe, pro- four cents for each farm. This in| viding other interested Baltic coun- | addition to what they will be able | age from 1918 onward, le could not tries join. ‘to make on the side from chambers participate actively in the Party of commerce and others anxious to, work, his interest never flagged have certain facts suppressed. His subscription to the Daily Work- | NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 30) The bill to start the census will er outlived him, and his Party card |W.P).—A petition for a writ of)be in the senate soon, The work is Was in good: stnading when he, 2 TRY TO DELAY HANGING. Third Ave., at 8 o'clock and Local 10 of the children’s clothing makers will meet in Clinton Hall, 151 Clin- ton St. Both meetings are of the greatest importance. Piece-work will be the chief stibject of discussion at the meeting of the kneepants makers. Various matters in connection with conditions in the trade will be taken up at the meeting of Local 10. Silk Workers Local habeas corpus to prevent the hang- supposed to start May 1, 1930. but veteran of the class struggle, finally ling Friday of Mrs. Ada Bonner Le |the higher officers will be drawing Passed away. |Boeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher | salaries long before that. OMIA EOE AT iy at Franklin, will be filed with Judge | Chief Fundamentalist Treaty With Nanking; Must Debate Evolution Wayne G. Borah in federal district | |court late today, James Parkerson, member of the defense counsel, told Imperialist Agreement | tLe Unite! Pre: | | As an echo of the recent failure Se RRS ret TOKIO, Jan. 30.—The Japanese to repeal the Tennessee law against BRITAIN ORDERS AIRCRAFT | 4. eouneil approved. the Sino- sing . LONDON, Jan. 30 (UP).—The air | Japane-e customs tariff agreement | for similar laws before severai other |:ninistry has ordered six new mono- | today, which is to take the place of State legislatures, Prof. Joseph Mc- planes from which to choose three |the trade agreement which expired Cabe will debate Rev. W. B. Riley, craft for the Schneider cup seaplane jast year. The approval was be-|in Mecca Auditorium, 133 W. 55th St., at 8 p.m. Feb. 7. On account of the disabilities of ‘teaching of evolution and the bills | Clothing Workers will be held at 8 \o’clock tonight at 26 Union Square. | The present intolerable situation in the union will be discussed in detail and plans for important work | will be formulated. All League | of Nationality.” Im bourgeois society, living labor a lated is 1@ promote the laborer,—Karl of the Marx (Communist Manifesto). existence WANTED! 26 UNION SQUARE | | | ROOM 201 NEW YORK | members are urged to be present. | ELEMENTS OF | POLITICAL EDUCATION Berdnikov | Svetlov Under the editorship of | BUCHARIN | Tis book gives the worker the elements of that political and economic knowledge which is essential in the sharpening struggles against capitalism and an under- standing of the problems which confront the Soviet Government in its battle for the realization’ of Com- munism. New Edition, Cloth . . . $1.00 FREE WITH A NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO will be off the The Decline of the of Labor— With An Ed. Jay Lovestone A Leninist Analysis lem— O. Kuusinen The Metamorphosis Party— M.N. Roy Karl Reeve A, B. Richman William Z. Foster Some Issues in the Party Discussion— THE JANUARY-FEBRUARY “Communist” (Special Convention Number) press next week No Communist can afford to miss this issue CONTENTS: American Federation a 4 i jitorial Answer of the Colonial Prob- of the British Labor 4 De Leonism and Communism—. The Economics of American Agriculture SUBSCRIBE TODAY—$2.00 per year—Together Hold Meet Tomorrow | ‘The New York silk workers’ lo- ‘of the National Textile Workers Union will hold an important mem- FAILS TO SET RECORD réhip meeting tomorrow evening] ROOSEVELT FIELD, Jan 30 o'clock at its headquarters, 247 |(UP).—Martin Jensen, who started Ave., Room 9. races next fall, 1t was learned to- ieved to constitute de facto recog- day. Two planes will be fitted with | nition of the Nanking regime. new Rolls-Royce engines. | The agreement is believed to be ‘along the lines of the treaties en- ‘tered into with the United States jand England, and clears the way for | Japanese exploitation under formal shortly after 10 a. m. on a new at- | approval of the Nanking war lords. H members are urged to be pres- |tempt to establish a solo endurance time, and to bring théir shop | flight, landed shortly before 1 p. m./ with them. Important organ- |near Northport, according to advices | maiters will be taken up. at the field. 7 ‘The proletariat of each country munist, of course, first nettle matters with 1 ie Karl Marx (Comunist Manifestod McCabe, destined by his parents \for a priestly life, broke away from it and has become a well-known popularizer of biology and the the- jory of evolution. Riley is the chief |fundamentalist official in America, president of the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association. 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