The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 1

» ” THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION 2S: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. ‘Price By Cents Worker in a very sound position. If we DON’T get immediate and substantial help, the Daily Worker will nevertheless be | The working class cannot afford to let | the Daily Worker die. Every class-conscious worker MUST bend every energy NOW to secure funds to For a Labor Party is Entered as second-class matter nt the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. ol, V., No. 343 ee ee oe lp replacorees NEW YORK, ‘THURSDAY, _FEBRUARY 7, 1929 a ne mat bees oer vent : JAILY WORKER IS BANNER OF STRIKE ST RUGGLE To Workers Who Resd the Daily Worker. Yet at this time the Daily Worker is a oie: Po se be 1 : fighting for its own life. The Daily Worker, Tuesday ........ See Pa, ++ 645.66 | bicwrminata the only working class newspaper published | a. a sat beet | deisered Those of you who live in New York City in the English language in the whole world, | reer See 78.85 | I Wis hei ccd as Hs iat thousands . is threatened with extinction for lack of | Windy. 741.46 ot fhe: ela ie held aloft copies af ‘the funds. Yesterday, for instance, we told you Si Rl RES Ca eg + eye fae ° that on the previous day we had been very ERNE Oe Pe” ine Daily Worker: with, ae nearly closed down for lack of a mere $480, Total to last night .........- $5,283.25 big headline: “DRESSMAKERS’ STRIKE TODAY!” Later, as the big strike got under headway, the workers throughout the struck dress district were armed with copies of this, the only fighting newspaper of our class in the native language, which became the means of informing the work- ers of the big struggle. It is a living example of the fact that the Daily Worker, the Central organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, is the main instrument upon which the workers depend for information and direct inspiration to fight for their class demands, which had to be met day afternoon, while of the Daily Worker, the funds coming in mands would have c The receipts for the crisis, are: of which we were short to meet the demands that day. And yester- preparing this edition it became evident that for the day would not be sufficient to hold off creditors whose de- losed down the paper. day were only $718.50, when fully twice that much was the IMME- DIATE need for preventing suspension for the day. The receipts during the present. drive to pull the Daily Worker out of the Only by the most strenuous efforts in raising two loans of $340 and $200, respec- tively, did we succeed in straightening out difficulties sufficiently to publish today. Why? Is the Daily Worker going down- ward? No. On the contrary, the affairs of the revolutionary paper were never on a sounder basis, generally speaking, than they are this winter. We have less debts than ever before in the past four years. But the shortage makes an immediate and ex- tremely dangerous crisis. If we can raise a few thousand dollars we can put the Daily send to the Daily Worker. See that your Union, your Fraternal society, your Work- | ers’ Club, your working class organizations AND your individual shopmates as well as | YOU YOURSELF make as large a contribu- tion as possible to the fighting paper of your class—as quickly as possible. The press banner of our class must not be hauled down! Save the Daily Worker! Fraternally yours, | THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. | Send Funds QUICK to The Daily Worker, | 26-28 Union Square, New York. SENERAL STRIKE OF DRESSMAKERS PARALYZES MARKET RITISH POLICE SHOOT 3,000 IN CEYLON STRIKE 000 “Workers .Seize’ and Burn Station; Harbor Tied Up il30Bombay Workers emonstrators Shout Victory to Red Flag’ S0LOMBO, Ceylon, Feb. 6.—A apany of British imperialist po-| here fired over a hundred} nds into a demonstration of 000 striking longshore and tram- y workers, killing and injuring r 3,000, The strikers were listen- to speeches by strike leaders en attacks were made on them h clubs to break up their meet- “he strikers not only resisted this nton assault, but advanced to the ice station by thousands, The ice and military opened fire on} crowd as it was approaching} station, and the workers, rging over their dead, broke into} station, partially burned it, and ve away the fire department en it tried td put out the fire.| 2 entire native population, mostly halese, is seething with indigna- 1 and enthusiasm for the strike. How the Thousands of Needle Trades Workers Struck Yesterday. Aves. - EMERGENCY FUND independence movement is tak- | form. The entire harbor and railway system of Colombo and | Workers ghboring country is tied up. | “he harbor workers’ strike start- ten days ago because of police} February 6, 1929, (Communist) Party San Antonio, Texas Collections made by Sarah Victor, Detroit, Mich.: P. ” 75.00 ests and brutality in the tram-| y strike, which began several | aks ago. * Fighting in Bombay. * Zatarka, $2; P. Heles, $1; S. Dmetruk, $.50; W. Busik, $.50; A. Suprun, $1; R. Denesuk, $1; Klimantovich, $.50; Kotjenko, $.50; Bon- dar, $.50; Shekolovich, $.50; Kramer, $.50; S. Bretch, $1; S. Mekulur, $.25; A. Michal- kow, $.25; S. Ewanchuk, , $.25; S. Perkowski, $.50; B. Guwrosinki, $.25; M. Stran- ski, $1.50; S. A, Kowatokin, 30MBAY, India, Feb. 6.—Thirty ‘e been killed and 200 injured in thed battles in the streets here, | ecially near the Bhendy Bazaar, | ween striking Hindu millworkers | one side and imported scabs ted with the British police and liers on the other, $50; Sukonskf, $10; Mill- ‘he British government has ma-| nik, ; Shakoff, $.10; ae guns parked in the street in-| Geo. azevich, $5; Joe sections, and is assembling more; Briski, $2; Nick Ziga, $1; | more troops. The millworkers! Louis Canty, $2; Pauline ade, shouting “Victory to the Red! Grekin, $9; collected at a .” “Down With the British| meeting of — International ers.” and strike slogans. Home Ass’n. on Yemans, he British officials are exercising} $5; E, “Kuko, $5; David ry art of provocation to transfer; John, $1; Dr. Shilkovsky, ocial struggle into a religious} $3; Jessie Shilkovsky, $5... 76.40 flict, Most of the scabs are Philedelphia, Pa. .........:. 46.50 hans and the Mohammedan pop- | Stamford Party Unit, Stam- ion is being incited to join them | Ford, Conn, ... » 89.00 defense of 'religion” against the | Collection made by 8. T. Ham- dus, All official British pub- | mersmark, Chicago, Tll.: y refers to the struggle as a re-| Herman Lawrence, $3; Geo. ous war, | Reprases, $2; John George, $3; N. Rosendale, $3; N. Rosendale, $3.50; Harry Co- hen, $8; Phillip Hauser, ISCONSIN ASKS WET VOTE. {ADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 (U.P).— te and national referendums on hibition were asked in a resolu- adopted today by the Wisconsin | ite, $1.50; Federenko, $2; J. Kel- ler, $2; Morris Kauf, $3.50; Collection made by Alex Bail, Boston, Mass.: Nathan Gil- lis, Dorchester, $5; John Grabir, Chelsea, $5; Samuel Zeichick, Chelsea, $5; Da- vid Glanz, Chelsea, $5; Har- ry Semdsers, Chelsea, $5; Nathan Shore, Chealsea, $5 Mrs. & Mrs. A. Gauld, Mon- treal, Canada 6F, 3D, City ... “s | (Continued on Page nusd "on Page Three) _ ANTLWAR MASS MEETING TONIGHT ’ Hundreds Expected at. Brooklyn Rally Hundreds of workers are expected to fill to overflowing the Joyal Palace Hall, 16 Manhatan Ave. Brooklyn, tonight in a huge mass anti-war meeting called by the New York brarch of the‘ All-America Anti-[mperialist League. Many prominent speakers will address the meeting and call for a united front against the forces of imperialist reaction that are work- ing for a new world imperialist slaughter and carrying. on a cam- paign of terrorism against the mili- tant fighters for the’ working, class throughcut the world. Ed. Shafren, $6; Mrs. J. L. Beesen, $.80 . + 38.50 IG BROOKLYN ANTI-WAR MASS MEETING TONIGHT WILL Among these speakers will be (Continued on cach Two) | 30.00 + 25.00 - 25.00 | the Part of the huge walkout of 12,000 dressmakers who went on strike yesterday. Photo shows strikers thronging the streets on 36th Street between Seventh and Eighth They'll all be out picketing today and every day until they win their demands, “NEGRO FURRIER BEATEN BY THUGS | | Nearly killed by police and thugs, | Henry Rosemond, one of the strike) \leaders and member of the Joint! (Board of the new Needle Trades | |Industrial Union, was the first vic-| \tim of Tammany police brutality in| dressmakers’ great struggle | | which began yesterday morning. | Rosemond, who is especially popu- | lar among the Negro workers, him-| | self a Negro and a fur worker, was | | beaten unconscious by police and thugs at the shop of Berman and Wenett, 199 W. 28rd St., had just! succeeded in bringing out on strike six of the eight workers employed | jin the Berman shop, among whom | |were two women workers. He was} struck from behind with a piece of iron pipe. He fell to the ground) unconscious. When he regained con- sciousness, he found three policemen standing over him, who again began to beat and kick Rosemond. The worker received serious injuries about the head and arms and a pos- sible fractured leg. He received a slight stab wound in the hand. The policemen placed the strike leader under arrest, and took him to the Twentieth St. station. He was then brought to Jefferson Mar-| ket Court, where a charge of dis-| orderly conduct was made against him by the policemen who had beaten him. He was placed under $500 bail for hearing Monday. While in the a a Rosemond | DEC OF WORKERS PARTY WALKOUT SPREADS IN FIGHT UPON SWEATSHOPS AND TO ENFORCE UNION CONDITIONS Mass Picketing Begins as Thousands of Work- ers Rally to Call of Needle Union Socialist Fake Union Scabbing to Aid Bosses Astounded at Power of the Strike The general strike of the dressmakers is paralyzing the industry in New York City. And it is spreading. Driven to struggle by the intolerable sweatshop conditions and the ever- increasing production demands of the bosses, the dressmakers are pouring into the streets in rising waves while the strike is only in its first day. _ The Sahleaiigee? Seah Bede oe bosses are plainly astonished “We have fected t the swift strength of th iin Rice Stee ne jab the s 8 gun oO} | ment with the ‘Rights’ whereby the strike. workers will be swung into the va- s with little delay. Thru co- operation with the ‘Rights,’ the pro- duction of the association members of those firms calling on ciation for assistance, will »|be maintained.” | | | Fight To Win! According to the estimate, in the first few hours of the st |by the General Strike Comn |formed by the Joint Board Cloak, Dress and Fur Worke | Union of the Needle Trades Indus-| Again the company union, social- |trial Union of the U. S. A., close | ist-led, and boss-supported, offers to to 12,000 workers had been regis- | do the dirty job of scabbing on the tered with the Strike Committee, | strikers. But the sweep of the strik- while many more were pouring into ers through the shops will wipe out the strike headquarters at 16 W., this effort of the boss-owned fake | 21st St., as the strike pickets spread| “union” to break the strike which | the call throughout the city. “We’ll| is gathering headway with every fight till we win,” is the spirit of | hour. given URGES 2 District (New York) of die cious pa Workers (Communist) Party of} STRIKE SUPPORT ; glorious pages in the history of the | working class of this country and/| the workers. So rapidly has the walk-out spread that the strike machinery was of necessity increased and an additional hall engaged for today’s Socialists Call for Police. In the strike meetings yesterday, the wailings of Benjamin Schles- inger, the chief of the would-be scab-herders, were laughed at by the America yesterday issued the fol-| who are led by the militant class | | lowing statement on the dressmak-| ers’ strike: if To the workers of New York! To all members of the Workers (Communist) Party of New York | district! To all revolutionary workers and| workers’ organization! The needle trades workers of New York City have today opened an at- tack upon the miserable sweatshop | conditions and the inhuman slavery that obtains in the dress shops of the city. The opening day sees the outpouring of thousands of men and women into this battle. The dressmakers are driven to take up this battle by the lash of | exploitation, poverty, by hunger, unemployment, deep grievances, by the abuses caused by the ever in- creasing exploitation of the greedy employers, by the treachery of the) Schlesingers and Sigmans, by the Wolls and the Greens. The needle trades workers who have fought the most valiant bat-} tles in the history of the American labor movement, who have written | fell to. ‘the g ground. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital by fellow work- | conscious Needle Trades Workers’ | Industrial Union will again show to | the oppressed workers of this coun- | try how to fight and destroy the how to build up union organization. jalone into this battle. army of the needle trades workers, craft divisions and who stand united as one army in the fight against their enemies, the employers. The dressmakers are fighting the | battle of American labor—for the forty-hour five-day week, for in- creased wages and the abolition of | the sweatshop conditions; for the or reorganization; for unemploy- |ment insurance to be paid by the (Continued on Page Two) Stimson Intimates He Has Cabinet Position | MANILA, P. I, Feb. 6 (UP).— | St. meetings. This is Bryant Hall, 42nd) workers who crowded the halls to and Sixth Ave. Today, the overflowing. The dressmakers of Strike Committee announces that) New York sharply resent the scab- mass picketing will begin and the bing attempt of Schlesinger’s clique strike call will be taken to thou- who openly call on the Tammany | company unions, how to improve the | \living standards of the workers,| The dressmakers do not move | They are| | part of an industrial union, of an| spective localities, to plan for ex- who have turned their backs upon| j right to the job and no discharge} ers, where, because he is a Negto, | Governor-General Henry L. Stimson he was made to wait until every|confirmed today reports that he | white patient in the clinc had been would return to the United States sands more to enter the fight for better conditions in the dress in- dustry. In every hall at 11 o'clock this morning, the shop chairmen are called to meet according to their re- tension and consolidation of the! great strike. Demands. The demands accented by the strikers are for the 40-hour, five- day week; a minimum wage scale with increases; the abolition piece work for week work; the right to the job, with no discharges or reorganization; and an abolition of the sweatshop conditions, of home work and section contracting, The hour has lost by the treacherous leadership of the past. That the traitors who go under the name of “socialists” now are fully united with the bosses against the workers, is prov- en by the statement of F. C. Rogers | of | struck for the| | needle workers of New York to win | back and to better the conditions police to aid them break the strike. Schlesinger told the capitalist press: “If any effort is made by the Needle Trades Workers to annoy workers in shops signed up with us (the company union—Editor.), will make a concerted effort to have the police protect these shops.” Break the Strikebreakers! | The workers on strike showed that they will meet and meet effectively [this unspeakable scahbing alliance with bosses and police to defeat their fight for better conditions, for con- ditions they have lost precisely through the treachery of the Schles- |ingers and Sigmans since 1926. Through continuous betrayal, pre- |elsely by these strikebreakers, not | only union conditions, but the union | strength was weakened until the | beeses were unchallenged in the en- |foreing of the most humiliating (Continued un Page Two) ESCAPE FROM SUBMARINE. KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 6.—Four | times today two men escaped from the hulk of a submarine 76 feet be- of the Wholesale Dressmakers’ As-| low the surface of the Gulf of Mex- sogiation, published yesterday in| ico to further prove that with proper | treated, before he was attended ts | \to “take up another duty,” upon the although in extreme suffering. “request of President-elect Hoover. | He says: the bosses’ paper, “Women’s Wear.”| apparatus the S-4 and similar dis- asters could have been prevented. DENOUNCE MURDERS BY IMPERIALISTS