The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 1

Priore " ‘THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party — Vol. V., 338 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker _ Pablishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq, New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION SPEED AID TO DAILY WO ork, by mail, $8.00 per ¥ York, by mail, $6.00 per . Price 3 Cents The alarmingly small receipts Thursday in response to the appeal for financial help to save the Daily Worker, have made the situation today graver than heretofore. We are confident that the workers who depend upon the Daily Worker would not willingly allow it to die. But the slowness with which contributions are being received makes the danger most extreme. Contributions received Thursday amount to $539.91, smaller than the dona- tions received the previous day. The Management Committee conferred with some of the larger creditors. By con- sent of creditors, certain of the obligations were postponed for several days. Other obli- gations could not be postponed, and it is the estimate of the bus positively cannot be morrow, Saturday. it on promise of earl this cided to request the v to accept the followin amount of $4,500 covers the demands which Our telephone service was temporarily shut off, but has been restored. News tele- graph service has not been interrupted, ar- rangements having been made to continue is only a temporary relief unless the | flow of donations is greatly stimulated. The Management Committee has de- | zations of the Workers (Communist) Party ent campaign to maintain the Daily Worker: | . . iePeaAERNOe NOs Us a(s o6ic's)eic: o's sieixisteres Berea S $1,000 iness office that the Distetet 2 aon District } 1,000 ss District 400 postponed beyond to Bice ai District 650 District N -- 1,200 District . 2,000 District 500 District 400 District No. - 500 District No. 2,000 District No. 400 y payment. However Agricultural 200 PPOLRL OE: Qaptasicn. sis es isievtie'as a Susereria/Cisieinicdeboce $16,000 Comrades! Despite the disappointingly small results obtained thus far, despite the fact that the life of our Daily Worker hangs in the balance from hour to hour, from day to day, we are sure that you will realize the arious district organi- g quotas for the pres- RKER AT ONCE! DANGER IS EXTREME! duty that you owe to the cause, and will make the necessary sacrifice of a substan- tial part of your wages for this week. Militant workers! You face the neces- sity to chose whether or not you are to fight your battles in the future without your e’empion, the Daily Worker. We urge all unions, all fraternal and other organizations of our class, all mem- bers and units of the Workers (Communist) Party, to set an example in working class | solidarity. : Fraternally yours, THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Send all contributions to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. JOHNSON TAKES SLAP AT JAPAN “NO LIMITATION’ Says Arms Conferences Are Snare and Fraud; for Open Navy Race Will Maintain Secrecy Senators Snarl About West Vote Exposure WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—After disposing of the question of great- er secrecy when senators identify themselves thru their votes with future Teapot Dome scandals, the Half Million on Passengers None for Crew | “You don’t think that we would spend a half million dollars for re- modelling the passengers’ quarters if the ship was no good?” asked )an official of the Dollar Steamship |Line at 25 Broadway, when a Daily | Worker reporter interviewed him in connection with the fire aboard the S. S. Johnson in which two sea- men lost their lives, others are still missing and still others are in a rious condition, | The slick official, in an assured tone, tried to impress the reporter with this sum when he wanted to know if the ship was in good con- \dition and whether the report was true that the ship was old and un- worthy. “Hm, a half million dollars on COLER, PEEVED, PULLS LID OFF TAMMANY GRAFT Spills the Beans on Corruption Employes his charges that the gang, whom he has tried to serve faithfully for eleven years in the office he is abandoning and Charity Head Gets Mad, Shows Incompetence’ |The ‘Tiger’ Chooses All’ Bird S. Coler yesterday repeated | Tammany | By making a “playground” out of the block at 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, Whaien cuts off this shop section from the main thoroughfares during the noon hour. His meaning is clear. . On the eve of the garment strike he has fixed it so that the scabs will be protected within t roped-off area and pickets will not be allowed within it. His strong-armed squad will quard the ropes. steel Ra’ Sen nce ta: Saar at sone wee TOO DRESS FIRMS Soveet Crafts 2 HAT LOCALS IN ator Hiram Johnson, of California, traditional foe.of Japan, flay arms limitation, denounce arms limita- tion treaties as fraud, and appeal \for a great big navy of warships for the U. S. imperialist govern-| ment. He referred to Japan and England as rivals to U. S., build- ing in competition with the U. S. navy. ‘The Washington Arms Treaty which was supposed to have ended competition in capital ships be- |tween U. S., England, and Japan | by preserving the ratio of 5-5-3 in naval strength, was a fraud, a de- | lusion and a snare,” said John- son, who then in characteristic | jingo fashion, laid all the blame for ‘going around the world, wererft }yor? But it seems’ as though the lerew’s quarters were rather crowd- ed, they seemed to have been j trapped... .” “Well I don’t know anything |about that. You can see for your- {self on the ship. Some reporters | from other papers were down there | today and the reperts in the news- |papers wil! be better tomorrow, I lussure you.” | ‘The official further assured the |reporter that the Dollar Line had cnly good service, did not cater to five or ten dollar passengers and (Continued on kage Five) {loaded down his Department of Pub- jie Welfare * with © Incompetent, Grunken and dangerous officials who had to be politically rewarded. He also declared that Mayor Walk- er’s new Public Hospital scheme which takes away part of the wel- fare work and places it under the hospital department, is a “gold brick” and will work injury to the “homeless children, indigent moth- ers, blinded war veterans, and others” he has been giving official city charity to. Tammany Ran it Coler’s first charges were made at a banquet given him by his friends Wednesday night. Yester- day he stated again that he could |the violation of the 5-5-3 ratio on|Plan Joint Meeting on j1ot hire any employee drawing over | England and Japan. '* “We sacrificed — $150,000,000,” !Johnson said. “We scrapped ships | which were the peer cf ary before | constructed on the seas. We expect |the 5-5-3 ratio to be preserved, “Thereafter the English started on their building program.” Johnson quoted Commander Ken- worthy, British author, as saying after the Harding Disarmament Conference, “By the grace of God and President Harding, Brittania still rules the waves.” “They told us they accepted cur interpretations in principle,” John- son added, referring to the British attitude at the conference. always said ‘in. principle’ then they began to build under the quota as they chose.” “Coming from the territory I do, of course I am for the cruiser pill, and realizing what the future may (Continued on Page Five) ATTEMPTS RECORD FLIGHT. MITCHEL FIELD, L. 1, Jan. 30 (U.P).—Elinor Smith, girl aviator. took off in her Bird biplane this ‘War Danger at Royal \Palace Next Thursday Wall Street’s open and concen- | trated preparations for a new world conflagration resulting in |$850 a year, unless the name was jsent to him by Tammany Hall. Coler said that of seventeen men jsent him by for appointment as Deputy Commissioner in eleven years, only fo knew anything the |about their duties. One was drunk |their determination to go on the | ‘ASK SETTLEMENT Special Committee of 1,000 Meets |tion of the arts and handicrafts of | | Russia under the Soviet, opens in} pape Nearly 100 dress firms yesterday |New York today to continue until; ‘The members of the militant girls’ |applied for settlement with the new | March 1, in the Grand Central millinery trimmers’ Local 43 yester- |Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Palace. day gave an exhibition of working- |Union. This large totai is looked| More than a million dollars worth | class solidarity that caused consid- upon as a direct result of the over- | of peasant things have been brought erable consternation among the |whelming success of the huge dem-|for the Exposition by the Amtorg |strikebreaking flunkeys of Presi Exhtbit Opens | in N.Y. Today The first comprehensive exhibi- JOINT STOPPAGE Local 43 Workers Show Solidarity ~ |onstration in Manhattan Opera | ling Corporation, which is |dent Zari in the Cloth Hat, Cap | House Wednesday night which voted | sponsoring the exhibition. The gayjand Millinery Workers Interna- |to call a general strike in the dre: carvings, toys, linens, embroideries, | tional. | trade. velry, ivory, will be displayed in| ‘The local yesterday ordered a| | |. The office of the new union was jammed all day yesterday with en- thusiastice werkers — dressmakers, cloakmakers, furriers, workers of all the needle trades. The workers lwere unanimous in expressing a real Russian setting, a miniature out-door fair, such as the one held each year in Niji Novgorod on the Volga river. Great kiosks house the exquisite linens and embroider- ies of the peasant women, and the lacquered wooden ware which they use as household ute: . Exact re- wing operators’ Local 24 who had stopped work because a blocker had been discharged. The Local rs had been working at th stoppage at the Little Queen Hat | ti Company, 1370 Broadway, in sym-| pathy with the members of the right | wholesale slaughter of workers and|When he got there, another while picket line when the strike call is peasants will be discussed at a mass|in the Police Department, he|issued and fight until all the de- |meeting next Thursday, Feb, 7, at learned, had been fined ten days’) mands are won. |plicas of peasart houses, represent- ing various sections of Russia, have been built in to display the typical by side with the members of 24, the local whose officials have been trying in every way to “They | the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., corner Graham Ave., Brook- lyn. The meeting, which will open |at 8 p. m,, will be under the joint auspices of the N. Y. Branch of the ‘All - America Anti - Imperialist League, United Council of Working- class Women, No. 4, and Sec- tion 6 of the Workers (Communist) Party. | “Speakers at the meeting, which will stress the war danger and ex- pose the white terror in the Carib- bean and Latin-American countries, | will include George Pershing, field lorganizer of the United States sec- ition of the All-America Anti- Im- perialist League; Ray Ragozin, of |the United Councils of Working | Women and Harriet Silverman, sec- afternoon in an attempt to set a/retary of the New York branch of new (solo flying endurance record|the League. Anthony Bimba will for women. preside. r Contributions received Thursday: |Louis Rubin, N. Y......... 5.00 Section 1, International Br. | Unit 3, See 4, N.Y. . 5.00 No. 1, New York ...... $101.00 | P. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. . » 5,00 Branch 6, Section 5, Bronx, |Lithuanian Literature So- » 4 on ciety, Br. 59, Akron, O. 5.00 i |Workers Women’s Society, New York ..... . 50.00 Br. 41, Akron, O, ...... 5.00 Bec. 1, 8F, N. Y. .... +. 29,00/Vlassis Hondry, Wilmington, Section 1, 7F, New York ... 27.51 Delaware .......... +. 5.00 A, Rochester, N. Y. .... 25.00 |J. Volkman, Wilmington, Del. 5.00 Branch 1, Sec. 5, N. Y. 20,00 |A. Nemerowsky, Glenside, Pa. 5.00 Sec. 1, 5F, New York» 20.00|L. Kania, Paterson, N. J. 5.00 A. Manoka, N. Y.... 20,00 |J. Glass, Brooklyn, N, Y, 5.00 8B, Sec. 6, B’klyn, N. Y..... 10.00/E, N., Erie, Pa., an 5.00 Shop Nucleus 1, Sec. 1, N. Y. 7.00|P, Slekoitis, Scranton, Pa.,.. 5.00 1F, 8E, New York ........ + 650|Dr. M. Goldberg, N. Y, 5.00 H, & Fi Person, Hicksville, Section 1, 9F, N. Y. . 4.50 New York . .» 5,00|C, Bangermann,N. Y. . 4.00 £m Jo Basshe, N. +» 5.00|J. Zielinski, Chicago, I! 4.00 H. J., Milwaukee, Wis....... 5.00|2B, 3F, New York ... 3.15 A. Malison, Woodridge, N. Y. 5.00/K. B., New York . 3.00 Abe Olken, New york désoes G001M, Stain, N. Y.... 3.00 L. Talmy, New Yor! 5.00|M. Katz, Brooklyn, N. Y. 3.00 Angelo Dioletis, N. Y. . 5.00|B. Weinstein, Bronx, N. Y. 3.00 A. Parginoe, N, Y. 5.00 J, H, Gee, Brooklyn, N. 3.00 & Makris, N.Y 6.00 (Coutinued on Page Three) pay for holding up an automobile |with a pistol. This man refused to (Continued on Page Two) FORM TEXTILE PRODUCT TRUST IttlesonGang Combines Two Big Factors A long step towards monopoly in {the handling of products of textile mills was taken yesterday when fi- nal touches were given to a merger | by which Commercial Investment Trust Corp. of New York, has bought Frederick Vietor & Achelis, textile factors, and will merge this newly acquired firm with Peierls. Buhler & Co., Inc., which the Com- mercial bought several months ago. The merger will control sales of about $200,000,000 per year. Both are old companies, representing about 150 mills, The Commercial USSR SCIEN Following is the second of two larticles obtained from the United Press, describing experiments of Soviet scientists, who are trying to find how to continue or restore life in an apparently dead body. a By EUGENE LYONS. (United Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (U.P).—-Success- ful preliminary experiments by \Soviet scientiste with an “artificial " Last night a spirited meeting of |the Organization Committee of 1,000 |was held in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The workers were |divided into groups of ten with a picket captain for each group and were given instructions as to their \duties. It is the Organization Com- mittee that will be the shock troops jarts of their regions, An oriental |bers to the jbazaar, with a copy of a mosque at |ryle of the Zaritsky machine. The jone end, and gay striped tents clus-| blocker who had been fired was a (Continued cn Page Two) |member of Local 24 and Local 43 | —__—_ |was therefore not directly affected. . Moreover, similar situations, in Negro Champion Plans (ris Vota 43 has struck shops, has ‘Benefit Performance always found the officials, of Local of the coming strike and will be ex- of “Singing Jailbirds” 24 ordering their members to remain pected to play the leading role in) at work, jall strike activities. As further evi-| ‘dence of the solidarity of the needle | Sinclair’s play, “Singing Jailbirds,” |trades workers was the fact that jas heen arranged for Sunday eve- |among the volunteers for this com-| ning, Feb. 10, at the Grove Street tmittee were cloakmakers, furriers,| pyoctre (one block from Seventh \capmakers and milliners, | Ave., Sheridan Square | The newly elected officers of the |The performance will be given un- |New York Joint Board will be in-|der the auspices of the Harlem stalled at m mecting in Webster/ Champion Booster Club and the |Hall, 119 E. 11th St., tomorrow at | Young Pioneers. 1p. m. Show Solidarity. Despite all this and the entreat- jies of the boss the members of Local 43 joined the stoppage of Local 24, At the invitation of Local 43, the members of Local 24, going over the A benefit performance of Upton hold a joint shop meeting with Lo- cal 48 yesterday afternoon. But ‘ _ The net proceeds ca] 43, they found the special strong- | will be equally divided between the aym squad of Local 24, which has | latter organization and the Negro (Continued un Page Two) Investment Corp. Henry Ittleson,, Champion. HELE ID president, did a business last year} Tickets are now on sale at the of-- CURFEW LAW FOR “MORALS.” of $282,000,000. fice of the Negro Champion, 169 W.| MILWAUKEE, Jan.,~31 (UP).— The present merger, under the|/133rd St., and the Workers Book | Strict enforcement of the 10 o’clock | powerful protection and control of Shop, 26 Union Square. All work-| curfew ordinance was invoked in an enormous investment trust,| ers are urged to attend this benefit) Milwaukee’s morals drive today as shows the forces driving toward! performance and to urge other,an aid in protecting girls from the monopoly in the textile industry. workers to come. Idestgens of “unprincipled sheiks.” TIST TELLS OF GREAT EXPERIMENT ‘Mechanical Heart Enabled Severed Head of Dog to React to Varied Stimuli greater accomplishment in the study | haved exactly in “he manner of a of the brain than heretofore. living dog’s head except that it ut- The experiment with the dog’s|tered no sounds, Dr. Brukhanenko head, which has been completely|said. It showed the usual canine recorded and documented after four|signs of pain and pleasure and re- years’ study, was described to the|acted to light, to sound, to touch United Press correspondent by Dr.| ax! to taste, he added. Brukhanenko, who showed photo- graphs of the experiment taken at|the scientists point out, the activi- every stage. | ties of the brain may be observed The bodyless head, lying on a/more accurately and it may be pos- heart” have aroused great interest in scientific circles in the possibility of new methods which will permit intensive study of the nature of the brain. Dr. S. S. Brukhanenko and Dr. Sergei Chechulin, who built the arti- ficial heart at the Moscow Scienti- fic Chemico - Pharmaceutical Insti- tute, are of the opinion that their experiments in keeping alive for a certain period the detached head of| plate and connected to a mechanicg! | sible to determine what substances ja dog will open the way to far| blood pump or heart, looked and’¥e-4 (Continued on Page Two) |smash Local 43 and subject its mem- | corrupt bureaucratic | station).|heads of their officials, decided to. when they came to the office of Lo-| By such isolation from the body, | TWO DEAD, SEVEN HURT, IN FIRE-SWEPT DOLLAR LINE 25 YEAR OLD HULK Oil Stove to Keep Warm | Resulting Fire Reveals President Johnson ‘a’ | Hell-Hole for the Seamen y hand of the Dollar Line cen .all investigation other than “its own,” of the fire which cost the lives of two supposedly unidentified workers, and seriously injured seven, one of whom is expected to die, on the Dollar Line “round-the-world” ship, the President Johnson, early yesterday. WILL DIE FOR SPANISH REVOLT ‘Death Sentences for Others Expected LISBON, Jan. 31.—Three artillery officers who participated in the re- cent uprising at Ciudad Real, Spain, are reported to have been given death sentences, according to a dis- ship yesterday shut-off At the Jersey pier, specie! com- pary police barred all repcrters or photographers, . and the Daily Worker. Relaprber. was. to ‘see Mr, Duffy.” This rarity Kovtier said to “see the company head- quarters at 25 Broadway in New York City.” He added, wheypasked what caused the fire, that he was instructed “to work, not to talk.” Hard-Boiled Open Shop. The Dollar Line has good reason to smother everything in a cloud of secrecy. It is a notoriously open |shop company, its head, Robert Dol- lar, in the open-shop fight against te ransport wor t! patch arriving here from Madrid. San Fri ‘© many years age.; TY; Spanish censor has been |said that the union would be driven! clamped down upon all news, how. off the waterfront “with blackj and guns.” That ther ever, and information concerning events across the frontier is exterme- xist the worst condi-|ly difficult to obtain. particularly for the Latest reports, which seems to be 's employed by the borne out by the nature of the situ- Dollar Line ships, is a fact known i state that death sentences also to every seamen, said George Mink, t Sanchez Guera, and possibly secretary of the Marine Workers’ his son, fo paticipating in the up- (Continued on Page Five) rising. Guerra is a Spanish who has spent much time in Paris, He and his son were arrested as they debarked from a French boat 300 Shoe and Slipper Workers Attend Mass Meeting in Brooklyn Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Workers’ International Relief, last night addressed almost 800 shoe and slipper workers in Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, at a mass meeting called by the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union. Steve Alex- anderson, president of the union, was chairman. Strikers of the Shirley Shoe Co. and the Vincent Horwitz Shoe Com- pany were greeted with thunderous applause wien they marched into the hall bearing placards and militant! jy slogans. An organizational commit-| here that the revolt would have tee of fifty was elected to carry on quickly lost its military character the work in the union which is con-|and have drawn sections of the worke stantly increasing in size and in the ing class and peasantry into it scope of its activity. against the present regime. Other speakers at the meeting,, Further death sentences and re- jchairmen of strike committees, des-| prisals against the revolting troops cribed the militant action of their are expected. ‘fellow workers. Edward Erickson, general shop chairman at. the | |Mackey Shoe Co., announced that DUMFRIES, Scotland, (By Mail) the entire working crew, formerly|._Made the goat by the railroad non-union, had joined the Independ-| following a railway disaster at Din- ent Shoe Workers’ Union in a body. | Woodie, in which four were killed, MR ASART aaeT ‘ames Scott, signalman, has been TWO FACE DEATH. | acquitted. FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 31 (UP).— | rs. Ada Bonner Le Boeuf and Dr. | FIGHT OPEN SHOP | Thomas E. Dreher wept today when| CAMDEN, N, J. (By Mail),— informed by Sheriff Charles Pecot| Building workers on the Ere that every legal recourse to prevent | Stevens building will fight against their execution tomorow had been|the employment of non-un on ele exhausted. \ tricians. ‘DAILY’ AGENTS TONITE To take up at once emergency measures to save the paper, all Daily Worker agents of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party are called to a special meeting tonight at 6:30 in the business office’ of the “Daily,” 26-28 Union Square, Room 201. = Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak, and tell of the present struggles of the paper for existence, and of its great need to the American workers, the outbreak. The ruthlessness with which the government of Primo de Rivera seems determined to mete out ven- geance to the participants in the uprising is believed to reveal the insecurity which the present dicta- torship feels. While the outbreak in Cuidad Real is reported to have been confined entirely to the artillery corps, it is known that the plot to overthrow the Rivera government was wide- spread thruout Spain and it is cer- tain that it was prevented simply by the discovery of the plans, Had the outbreak been successful one or two cities, it is thought FRAME-UP FAILS i | | | at Valencia, one of the centers of © nt a RSH EERENS Cold in Port to Save Coal; Men Used Ss . ~