The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 1

* ‘THE DAII,Y WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second," SS Sieg t Hann matic: — aor i age ag ec S the Post Office at New York, N. <7 — Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Pablishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. —— Vol. V., No. 340 ~NEW 4 PAGES TODAY,-“DAILY” YORK, MONDAY, , 1929 , FEBRUARY 4 MAY C under the act of March Worker 187 3 "SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New Y . TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, ALL UNITS OF THE PARTY, ALL MILITANT WORKERS, ‘ALL READERS OF THE DAILY WORKER. COMRADES: THE DAILY WORKER HAS ONLY FOUR PAGES TODAY! We have not yet been able to meet the simple costs of paper, ink, and labor which the printing of the Daily Worker demands. Four pages are still left to our paper. How soon it will be before the next two pages cease to appear, how soon after that before the Daily Worker ceases to appear at all, is now entirely in the hands of the units of our Party, of the trade union and fraternal organizations, of individual work- ers and sympathizers. | When after a downright refusal to print today’s Daily Worker, the printer was moved by telegrams and letters pledging immediate aid to our paper to grant twenty- four hours’ more grace, it was with the strict extension of time he rag es lished next Monday. Monday, Feb 11! conceivable that the arrived. understanding that our entire indebtedness to him must be paid in full this week. He stated frankly that this is the last will allow our paper, and that if full payment is not made by Saturday, the Daily Worker will not be pub- That is,.no Daily Worker will appear on Comrades, it is inconceivable that the paper for which we have battled and which we have built up for five hard years should not appear next Monday morning. It is in- central organ of the Workers (Communist) Party should be forced to stop publication Monday morning. But it is only inconceivable because we have not seen it happen comrades, because we have a tendency to forget the time when there was no Daily Worker, in the United States, leading the workers in their strug- gles, because that “black Monday,” when the English voice of the militant labor move- ment in the United States, ceases to speak to and for the working class has not yet It is hard for those who are not in direct touch with the present crisis of our paper, | hard for those who are asked to give un- | not in the nature of worries, to know how Worker has come. which this morning publish this four-page paper, are not im- | mediately fulfilled, and if their total is not | increased by hundre next Monday. dangerous situation. tions, the Daily Worker will NOT appear That day you will go to your newsstands, that day you will open your mail, but that day there will be no Daily Worker. | | The aid which you gave to our paper on Saturday and Sunday, | tion ef our immediate need. We had hoped that the entire $10,000 which is necessary to place the Daily Worker out of danger, would | be raised by Saturday. Failure to do this places the only militant English daily organ of the American working class in a still more stintingly to save their paper, but who can- things share all our near the end the Daily | But if those pledges of class loyalty forced our printer to ds of other contribu- $624.21,isonlyafrac- | FINAL CITY EDITION Pri ce 3 Cents n New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. york, by ma EASE NEXT MONDAY Even with the contributions for Satur- day and yesterday the total which must save our paper is now only $3,100.63. This is our record to date: Sunday Monday Tuesday .. Wednesday Thursday ‘ Friday sae Saturday and Sunday ... Total received to Sunday. . $3,100.63 This sum will not save the Daily Worker. Facing suspension, we call upon all units of our Party, upon all trade union or- ganizations, all fraternal organizations and upon individual workers, readers and sym- pathizers everywhere to save their paper. The life in this crisis of the Daily Worker depends upon you. Save the Daily Worker! Fraternally yours, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Rush funds by telegraph or air mail to Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Sq., New York. The entire Party Press is urged most emphatically to reprint this appeal at once. NEEDLE WORKERS | ‘Negro Champion’ Sends PREPARE FOR BIC Donation to Save ‘Daily’ DRESS WALKOUT Thousands to Answer! Strike Call of the Industrial Union The Joint Board Moves Strike Committee Meet Tomorrow The Negro Champion, organ of the American Negro Labor Congress, has shown. its. appeciation of the part the Daily Worker is playing in the struggles of the Negro workers by contributing $20 to save the “Daily” in its present acute financial crisis. The letter enclosing the contribution states: “Dear Comrades: “The Negro Champion is sending you $20 to help save the Daily Worker. Although we ourselves are in a critical financial position, yet we recognize that the Daily Worker comes first, and we are therefore doing our bit in this crisis. “If your printing this will stimulate other comrades and sym- pathizers into increasing or speeding up their help, do so. “The Daily Worker is of especial importance to the Negro | working class, since it is the chief fighter for the common interests | of Negro and white workers and of the special race demands of the | oppressed Negro workers and farmers, | “Fraternally yours, “CYRIL BRIGGS, Editor, The Negro. Chempion.” NEW ELECTRICAL MINE UNION RAPS WORKERS STRIKE WAGE CUT PLAN in With the approach of the general strike ‘in the dress trade, more and more needle trades workers are ral- lying to the new Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, deter- mined to make the coming strike a struggle that will pave the way for the wresting of union conditions for all needle workers. The spirit that filled every one of} the 4,000 workers who crowded Man- hattan Opera House last Wednesday night is spreading to many hundreds of other workers who declare them- selves ready to answer the strike call whenever the Joint Board decides to issue it. Joint Board Moves. Meanwhile the new union has out- grown its quarters. In order to fa- cilitate preparations for the dress strike the Joint Board is moving to- Lefcourt Crew for the|Mellon Firms Reduce Five Day Week | Below 1917 Scale Another walk-out of workers in} PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3.—The Mel- the electrical trades has registered oe 4 * th 1 d file determination lon owned coal companies of this ie rank am ‘ile determination to - oe . es oppose the injunction against the | *tate, having succeeded by corrup five day week and $13.20 wage. This | tion of the officialdom of the old fay to 131 W. 28th St, between |. in shite of the evasive answers|miners’ union, the United Mine Sixth and Seventh Avets rer re: of the Broach machine officials of | Workers of America, in breaking the will occupy, - fl International Brother- | ,,j, stri foun modeling of the floors is not LG ees haere aan Brother" | miners” strike, are now continuing complete, all matters concerning the | on to “use th dr own judgment” their drive to lower the standards of dress strike will continue to be taken | hen they com) for strike instruc- | living. up at 16 W. 2st St. Only cloak: ‘tions, ji The new miners’ union, formed meyers a A oath cee The latest j/ rike is on the Lef-| after the officials of the old union PORT GG CHS TE 0: “t. /court Bldg., Seventh Ave., between aye oo lately dell bilization meeting of all the| ry ~ {Were seen to have comp y : ee 25th and 26th St. Electrical appara-| + ihe miners, is the National Miners Union, national headquar- members of the pleaters’ and hem- | tus was being installed by two con- stitchers’ local 41 will be held to-| tractors, who used the injunction as night at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and! Irving Pl. Impressive ceremonies marked the | installation of the newly elected of- ficers of the Joint Board at Webster Hall Saturday afternoon. The of- ficers also constituted themselves the General Strike Committee that will direct the strike activities. | The strike is now only a short) time off and thousands of dressmak- ers are waiting with the greatest impatience for the start of the fight) to establish real union conditions in| the New York market and to drive | out the fakers and betrayers of the) scab International. All needle trades workers are urged to ignore com- pletely the fake “organization” | drives and bond-peddling campaigns of the Schlesinger company union) and to be ready to answer 100 per) cent when the Joint Board issues) the strike call. Confiscate Czech “Inprecorr” With 6th Congress Theses PRAGUE, (By Mail). — The Theses of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International against Imperialist War which were to have appeared in the Tcheckish an excuse to avoid paying the $13.20 wage. The contractqrs.are Living- ston and Comstock. All their men uit. The 40 strikers on the new Grand Certral Building are still on strike. s OIL STRIKE TALK. FORT WORTH, Tex, (By Mail). —il workers of the Gulf Produc- tion Co. here are talking of strike to obtain better conditions. The Gulf workers are largely unorgan- ized. ters at 119 Federal St., Pittsburgh. In a recent call for greater organ- ization of the coal miners, the N. M. U. points to the wage cutting of the coal cperators, as tollows: “The Pittsburgh Terminal and other large companies have made another big cui. Last week they cut the day-men from $5.50 and $5 down to $5 and $4.50; pick miners from 85c to 75c per ton; machine loaders from 58c to 52¢ per ton; cut- ters, from llc to 10c per ton, etc. (Continued on Page Five) + Worker for aid in its present The Daily. Worker, 26-28 ing you the enclosed amount, $.. Name . Address . edition of the “Inprecorr” have been almost completely nfiscated by the| |delay. | es of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without CAN ‘DAILY’ Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- SURVIVE? crisis. Union Square, New York. SENATE PUBLIC LAND BOARD WILL CENSOR SCANDAL | Rejects Diluted Walsh Exposure of Work, Fall and West ‘Hide Sinclair Oil Grab | | | Secret Deal Cost U. S. Treasury Millions WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The senate public lands committee, by a vote of 7 to 6, has whitewashed former secretaries of the interior Secretary of the Interior West, along with Sinclair the oil baron and Attorney General Sargent. | The vote was taken on the Walsh ” report on the renewal of the contract of Harry F. Sinclair to the Salt Creek oil lands. The actual report as at first gubmitted contained so many scandalous revelations that it was considered only behind double- locked doors, and nearly unani- mously turned down. Told Too Much. It was said that Senator Walsh, | compiling without sufficient con- sideration and in a routine way, some ‘of the facts of the case, had writ- ‘ten a document that would have had |the same effect on the reputation of |the Republican administration in Washington that the story of the Teapot Dome swindle did. Walsh then modified his state- ment, cutting out many details, and now eyen this is considered too (Continued on Page Five) UNIONS OF FAR EAST DRIVE ON Browder Tells of Great Pan-Pacific. Progress | “It is especially important that the work of the Pan Pacific Trade Union Congtess should be brought close to the workers of the imper- ialist countries, especially to the workers of the United States,” said Earl Browder, secretary of the P. P. the Workers School Forum. The Congress includes every trade union movement in the Far East, with the exception of India, possibly, and In- dia is considering affiliation and may have already joined. Browder outlined the achieve- ments, problems and difficulties of the vast work of forming a trade union center for the workers of those countries bordering on the Pa- cific Ocean. The area covered is so great that five weeks’ travel is re- quired to go from the first city con- sidered for*the 1929 meeting of the P. P. T. U. C., Sydney, Australia, to the city finally chosen, Vladivostok, Siberia. In addition to the Far (Continued on Page Two) T. U. C., speaking yesterday before | | Has Senate Friends Harry F. Sinclair, chief. bene- frciary in the Teapot Dome Oil swindle but never punished for it, }|Pall and Work, and the present|#as just found the senate useful again. The senate has rejected the mild Walsh report on the Salt Creek lease, exposing Fall, Work and Sinclair, MORE SPANISH TROOPS REVOLT Rivera Threatens Hard Punishments VALENCIA, Spain, Feb, 3—The second revolutionary moyement with- in the last week broke out here early today when part of the military garrison revolted and attempted to liberate Sanchez Guerra, former |prime minister, who was arrested |here last Thursday in connection | with the Ciudad real uprising. Government troops intervened and ‘the revolt was said to be suppressed. general Sanjurjo arrived by air- |plane from Madrid a few hours |later and ordered the arrest of the captain-general of the Valencia re- jgion. The captain-general will be | taken to Madrid. | General Sanjurjo was enpowered \by the government to take over con- |trol of all military and civil build- ings and to administer all affairs | here. is said, with those held responsible for the uprising, which strengthened the belief that there was a wide- spread program for revolt through- jout the nation. * * Control Press. MADRID, Feb, 3 (UP).—After a lengthy conference with King Alfonso at the Royal Palace this morning, Primo De Rivera, premier, said the king signed a number of im- portant decrees, involving the revolt leaders and the press. They included decrees providing for creation of a special tribunal to |deal with the leaders of the revolts for utilization of patriotic organi- zations as guards of the government and to report on any signs of dis- turbance; and that each newspaper must put one-sixteenth of its space at the disposal of the government, Severe measures will.be taken, it, POLAND USING PACT TO FORM “BALTIC BLOG” PravdaExposesScheme Against U.S.S.R. in | “Joint Signatures” Two Countries Refuse Polish Rulers Resort | to Sabotage (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, Fet Pravda states that the Polish demand that the Kel- logg treaty be signed simultaneously | and jointly by Poland, Esthonia, Fin- | land, Latvia and Roumania’ confirms the worst fears of the Soviet Union | that Poland is trying to form an anti-Soviet Union Baltic bloc. | The Pravda* thanks Finland for | refusing to sign now and Lithuania for declaring that she will sign later. Poland’s plans have failed to stop the efforts of the Union of Social- | ist Soviet Republics for a reai anti- war treaty for Eastern Europe. Polish Intrigue, Pravda points out that the U. S. S. R. has no objections to a joint | signature of the pact, but fears now that Poland will try to stop it alto- gether by resorting to her oid tac- ties of evasion, delay and sabotage. The Polish ambassador in Mos- cow, Patek, has already stated that the reservations in the first Polish note must be maintained although | the Polish note of Jan. 1 agrees to a signature of the pact and demands only a discussion first concerning procedure. | The Soviet Union's efforts to! force Poland to sign had great ef- sie Out Rumania 00 COMMUNISTS JAILED AFTER _ RUMANIAN LOAN Maniu Mortgages Salt, Match and Tobacco Monopolies \Gets $100,000,000 Loan U.S. Banks Lead Gang of Usurers’ BULLETIN. (By United Press) VIENNA, Feb. 3.—Two hundred European bankers for a $100,000,-' Communists were arrested in Buch- 000 loan to bolster up his regime, | arest, Rumania, today at the con- clusion of a mass meeting and a demonstration against the royal |family, the Telkomp Agency report- ed. The Communists tore up pic- tures of the late King Ferdinand. Queen Marie and the boy king, Michael. The pictures were thrown on the floor and trampled on. Julio so-called Peasant Maniu, Party premier of Rumania, who has just finished the deal started by his predecessor, Bratianu, to mortgage state monopolies to American and| Lindbergh May Get a Government Post for Imperialist: Service MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 3 (U.P). -Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s name| Announcement has just been made is the latest to be drawn into specu-|by New York bankers that they lation regarding the make-up of | have participated in an international President-elect Hoover’s administra-| consortium to take out a mortgage tion. {on the state monopolies of Rumania After a luncheon today at which) and grant the fake Peasant Party Lindbergh was a guest of Hoover, | Maniu government there a loan of “grapevine” gossip was that Lind-|$100,000,000. bergh had been offered the post of| The markets which will soon pase assistant secretary of commerce in| Under the control of American and charge of aviation. Lindbergh is to|French usurers by this agreement start tomorrow on a flight to Cen-|include the valuable tobacco, salt tral America, opening a new air|&md match monopolies. route. Petty Bourgeois Party. The mortgage has been obtained |theoretically to stabilize the Ru- manian currency, which is in a bad way. Actually it will be used te bolster up the treacherous Peasant . fect on the masses of toilers in West- ern Europe. Poland, says Pravda, has suffered a serious moral and po- litical defeat. EMERGENCY FUND | February 2, 1929. | {Section 4, N. Y. C. (Pledges ~ | $101 not included until col- | lected) ..+ - $114.50 | |3F 2A, N.Y. 32.00 | | St, Nuc, 2, Detroit, Mich ... 25.00 |A.N. Routhier, Detroit, Mich 20.00) |1F 213, New York City .... 20.00] Lith. Fraction, W. P., Roches- | TAIN ee haa Mes che dina’ » 10,00 | Nucleus 32, Chicago, Ill. ... 15.00 | Chas. Crasnitski (collected), | | Waterbury, Conn. ... «16.61 | Cap and Millinery Workers, | Sec. TUEL, N. Y. C, .... |5F 2B, New York City . \J. K., New York City ... |S.S. 8B, New York City . |2A 2, New York City ..... | 6A 2F, New York City .... A group of workers of the | Fur Dressers’ Union, Local Wie 64 NOME Sa pcan che | 8F 2C, New York City ..... | H, L. Gage, Brockton, Mass, | Mrs. W. Ostrom, Chicago, Ill. | Council 1, Newark, N. J..... | James Donovan, N. Y. C...., gare Lettish Comrades, | Minneapolis, Minn. | 2F 2B, New York Gity .... |M. Kubilius, Providence, R. I. |P. Panditis, Detroit, Mich. .. 16.60 15.00 15.00 15.00, 14,00 | 13.00 | 12.00 10.50 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 9.00 7.00) 5.00 5.00 A. Kratofil, Norwalk, Ohio.. K. Kratofil, Norwalk, Ohio. . 5.00 5.00 Party leadership, which now takes over the graft formerly enjoyed by lthe Bratianu clique.. ‘The Peasant |Party is composed of rich peasants. and petty bourgeois. The peasants jare to be exploited mericlessly, new | by higher prices for such necessities as salt and matches. Emil Falk, Detroit, Mich... 5.00 Tnéetrasaeat wee Ce vetror Mich... 5.001) ‘phe Swadiah Mateh Company wil M. Marraccini & Co., Eliza- |take $30,000,000 of i Bir BalGs aah Gs 5.00 | ANS SDI RIO St. then Gene ta Carl Paivio, New York City. 5.00| (Continued on Page Five) M. H., New York City ..... 5.00 | an F. Bedrick, 4F, 2C, NYC.... 5.00 Huge Soviet Plant Noah Esteson, Bronx, N. Y... Carl Dernac, Neffs, Ohio .... E. B. Tchushkoff, Pontiac,Mich. Jobin Matuze, Trenton, N. J. L, Epstein, Springfield, Mass. Harry Fox, Newark, N. J..... C. Vangeloff, Chicago, Iil. Sa: Warhaftig, Newark, N. J. Paul Burton, Detroit, Mich. .. S. Danowitz, Seranton, P: A. Lavac, Berwyn, III. Gladstone, Troy, N. Y. ...... A. G, Cahal, New Bedford .. J. Cory, N.Y. CG. cece eee sees P. Melrolovich, Murrysville, |K, Tamkos, Cleveland, Ohio 5.00 3.00 3.00 3.00) 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.00 2.00 A. Schumacher, Bronx, N.Y.. 5.00 # BF 2C, New York City ...... 5.00/ Will Make 40,000 A. Kalesiunas, Providence, R.I. 4.00) |J. Gitsitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.... 4.00 Tractors Per Year E. Schweitzer, Cleveland .... 3.00 S. Zimnik, N. Y. C. ......... 3.00. MOSCOW (By Mail).—The Stal |M. Goldberg, Elizabeth, N. P. 3.00|ingrad tractor plant, now under con- struction, will have an annua capacity of 40,000 tractors, insteac of 20,000 as originally planne i. The factory will operate on two shifts and will produce 15-30 H. P. trae tors. The construction work, or which 1,500 people are employed wil be speeded up so as to complete the work by 1931. | A temporary technical bureau has | been set up in Moscow to work out the technical details in regard to the construction and equipment. i We have seen above that the first | step in the revolution hy the work- ing class ix to raine the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democrue: art Marx (Communist Manifento} es