The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 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 Published dally except 8 ol. V. No. 344 ny by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, inc, 76-28 Union Sa New York, N. ¥. FRIDAY, the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION FEBRUARY 8 1929 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York _Outalde New York, by m Price, 3 Cents $8.00 1, 86.00 per year, a ee JAILED PICKETS SEND MONEY TO DAILY WORKER The workers of this country, carrying on important struggles directly for. living conditions, are at the same time conducting the present drive to save the Daily Worker, the chief organ of their struggles, the revo- lutionary working class paper upon which they depend for militant guidance in ALL their struggles. The present drive, therefore, is a very | Interesting and important POLITICAL | event. The news of the campaign to save the Daily Worker is STRIKE’ NEWS, for the | Daily Worker, as the central organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, is the prin- cipal press LEADER OF EVERY STRIKE, EVERY ORGANIZATION DRIVE of our class. Yesterday 18 workers were in jail in New York for picketting in the great strike of the dress shops which is growing to in- volve 35,000 workers. These 18 pickets in iat were uabaoadls ‘chine about what? About the strike. Sitti ng in prison, consider- ing the best ways and means of winning the big strug gle—THEIR THOUGHTS CENTERED UPON WHETHER THE DA SURVIVE. This was logical. THE QUESTION OF ILY WORKER WILL The merest suggestion of the loss of our only daily work- ing class paper in the English language fills any intelligent worker with dread. These 18 working class prisone of their peckets all Each kept five cents a released. The rest of to $18.11. Of this $9. jail to the Daily Work to the Daily Freiheit, gan of our Party. rs, therefore, took out the money they had. s car-fare to use when the-money amounted 11 was sent from the er, and the other $9.00 Jewish langu2: ;2 Or- Another interesting thing: Section One of th e Workers (Commun- ist) Party of the New York District found 316 DRESSMAKERS STRIKE S RITISH TROOPS | EMERGENCY FUND #ILLMAN PLANS J. D., City | Collected by A. Sokolov, Phila., Pa.—Betty W. Paul $25.00, Unit 38C, $35.00; Factory Dist. Nucleus, $14; Unit 3B—Olken $5; Bail, $3; Winkler, $2;, Sherman, $1; R. Plotnick, $2; Kurcheff, $1; J. Lyman, $10; L. Gon- charski, .83;, L. Goren, .$2. Total $18; Mateotis, $1; Charlotte Jones, $1; Cover- man, $2; Grossenbacker, $1; Soares, $1; Cornfield, $1; A. Sokolov, $1. Total Rochester Section, (N.Y.) . Contributed by 17 students and other members of the FIRING ON MILL STRIKERS AGAIN. fficials Admit Death List in Bombay-84; : Probably Larger ills Fail to Re-open svernment Still Tries to Start Faith War 30MBAY, Feb. 7—The | strike continues, and worke » energetically defending thgm- | ves against armed bands of im- (Pathan) strikebreakers. 2 mills re-opened this morning, closed again. “wo companies of infantry and a/ e A. L. D, L. D. 2nd Dist., Yonkers, N. Collected by A. Gudzis, Sche- nectady, N.e« Y. Workers Party and Finnish Workers Club, Richard Yonush, $1; Anthony Kasper, $1; John Bozvary, $1 . “ed tery of artillery are held here to Collected by M. Kanger, aforee the company of infantry Unit 3, See. 7, City — B. ich is marching through the Adelbers, $3; Rachel $10;; cking class quarters of. the city, A. Matsen, $1; R. Holffi, ng on every crowd that as- $1; Haines, $1; D. Kanfer, nbles. The death list is very $1; H. Besner, 25c........ ge, the authorities admitting 34° ed and admitting that five were t by troops. The hospitals are | of wounded. The officia! fig- s on dead and wounded are con- ered a deliberate underestima- lL ‘he native and British mili-own- and the city government au- rities are loudly clamoring for re soldiers. A regiment is on way from Declali. Declaratio martial law is very possible ii ‘near future, jour native police and Deputy In- ctor of Police Priestly have been ed within the last few days. estly intervened on the side of gang of armed strikebreakers hting with 2,000 Hindu mill- rkers. Branch 2, Sec. 8, Brooklyn. . Collected by Rose Cohen, Cleveland, Ohio — Gustave Ecke, $2; Pauline Ecke, $2; Paul Ecke, $1; Lillian Ecke, $1; Gustave Ecke, Jr., $1; Carl Ecke, $1; Bertha Ecke, $1; J. Racheff, $5; and J. Fericci, $1. ... Four Coney Island Sympathiz- ers, Brooklyn, N. Y...... |“Forward” Club of Clifton Heights No. 71 of United Ukraine Toilers Org., Inc., Clifton Heigts, Pa. 45; OT, Clty... 3... | Collected by Domminic Bek peri, Duncanwood, Ohio,— S. Grunolakis, $1; C. Bun- forl, 50c; M. Ujhary, $1; ‘Yroops Fire Twice. M. sea a J. 8 tee “yis morning troops twice fired | pen per 8 aoeee. workers assembled in the region Lak h 81; ’p i “4 Basich, ith of the Bhendy Bazaar. Aband| S0view S13, Pets, Basich, Pathan strikebreakers, armed! 51; C: Prosperi, § knives, charged into the crowds | Factory Nucleus 1, Sec. Ithe bazaar and killed a number, Long Island, N. Y....... ‘Hindus. Fighting took place in Street Nucleus 2, Dist. 8, He- Byculla district and around the! gewish, Il]—$5; J. Woronko oa district. | $1; G. Fesenlzo, $1; B. Mo- lenda, 60c; F. Kot, 60c; F. Krawetz, 50¢; J, Szuflita, 50c; A. Pszezolkowski, 50c; W. Pasterczyk, 50c....... Vinn'sh Club, New Rochelle | Drug League Ass’n. City | Nucleus 1, Toledo, Ohio.... Progressive Group Cleaners and Dyers, City, Collected by M. Hellerstein . Discussion Group, Ast re RA eI SE TREN ¢| pecial I Member Meet | if Sections 2 and 3| fomorrow Afternoon | i special membership meeting ! Sections 2 and 3 of the Work- (s (Communist) Party, District on a matter of vital import- to the Party and to all mem- Island, N. Yee.sscceseees - of the tee anetlons will be| International Br. 1, 3E, City ‘Id tomorrow afternoon, 2| | Custom Shoe Workers of New York . Jock, in Irving Plaza, Irving . and 15th St. Because of the treme importance of this, meet- g, a roll call of all members units will be taken. William | Collected by ‘Baythe Cohen, Phila., Pa., Fanny and May, 30c; Nettie Caruso, $1; Dora Weinstone will report for the and Sara and Ray, 30c; bitelet. Miriam and Faye, ‘5c; District. Executive Committee,| | O'Connor, 50c; Anna and District 2, Section Executive Committee, Section 2, Section Executive Committee, ‘Section 3| | - Millie, 50c; Sadie and Nellie T5e; ania in Ida, 50c; _ Fanny and -@| Osterman, A5c. ie community, Katonah, N. Y. $30.63) Peter Firemen, Trenton, N. J. 30.00 Finnish Workers Club, Chicago 25. 00} -$ 300.00] Collected by $ 100.00/ 1, Sosken, N. Y. -$ 37.50) 20.00 18.00 |E. Tulman, N., Y. . \J. Speranze, N. Y. ... Samuel Polter, Reading, Pa.—Morris Co- hen, $2; Morris Apliner, $1; I. Polter, $1; Samuel Polter, gue Spee roar op eS 5.00 G. P. Curcio, Far Rockaway, New York sav. 2 ........ 5.00 Nucleus No. 31, Toledo, Ohio. 5.00 |G, Tuchelaski, Detroit, Mich. 5.00 E.-Adanuk, Chicago, *Hl+.i «6.00 E. Levins, IF, 3D, New York 5.00 A. Chorover, Section 1, N. Y. 5.00 M. Chorover, Convalescing, Section 1, N. Y, .. 5.00 o. 5.00 Collected by Anthony Orovich, White Plains, N. Y.—A. Or- ovich, $1; S. Konotic, 10¢; S. Morijoni, 10¢; M. Sutlo- vieh, 25¢; John Borich, 25c; M. Borich a 8. Skocich, 10¢. 2.00 Unit 1F, Sec. 2, N. car 2.00 M. Jackson, N. Y. . 2.00 Goldstein, N. Y. 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Stratis Movrogeorge, N H. W., New York .. Goodisman, N. Y. . Esther Schweitzer, a Philad el. 15.00 13.06 12.26 12.00 11.00) 11.00 10.05 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.50} 10.00 10.00 6.00 6.50 phia Worker . 1.00 Celia Rosenberg, 1.00 Ferguson, City ... ‘ 1.00 |J. P. Sullivan, Bridgeport, | Conn. 4 1.00 J. Peretz, H 1.00 1... Siegel City GS 65, 1.00 John Carlson, Chicago, Ill. . 1.00 | Anna, Isaacson, Chicago, Ill. 2.00 E. Wangman, Chicago, Ill... 1.00 | E. Leanelers Chicago, Ill. .. 1.00 E. J. Hyllanders, Chicago, Ill. 1.00 H. Johnson, Chicago, Ill. ... 1.00 L. Joobsono, Chicago, Ill. .. . .80 B. Hendrickson, Chicago, Ill. 1.00 B. Johnson, Chicago, ‘Ill. .... 50 E. F. Hillner, Chicago, Il... Total $859.48 The contribution of Branch 2, Sec- tion 8, Brooklyn in yesterday’s | Daily Worker was incorrect. The amount is actually $25, MEET TONIGHT ON LIEBKNECHT, “Against the danger of a new) the infamous secret supplementary | world war, against the militariza- | tion of the working youth in the in- terests of the bosses, for the organ- | ization of the young workers, for the freeing of John Porter, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for the Communist Youth International!” These are the main slogans under which the Liebknecht demonstra- tion, organized by the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, will be carried through tonight at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. There will be a number of well- known youth speakers at this meet- ing, including Jack Stone, the tex- | tile youth leader; George Pershing, of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League; C. Alexander, Negro youth organizer, and others. A number of special features are planned for the program, in particular a oue-act, | Fi three-scene playlet based on the Porter case. The demonstration at Manhattan Lyceum tonight will start at eight | o'clock. Large masses of young workers are expected to seat in the demofibtratios ion, # 1.00 § NEW TREACHERY | WITH BOSS AID To Start System to Tighten Grip on Workers Bureaucrats Quarrel, Employer Allowed to Make Scab Garments The Hillman machine of corrup- tion and treachery in the Amalga- mated Clothing Wor prepar- ing to blaze new trails of betrayal. Not content with foisting piece-work ing them to the most inhuman sweatshop condi- ying on a ruthless aign against all progres- e Hillman bureaucracy is preparing to institute the “check-off, is a plan by which the bc ery kindly deduct the union dues from the wages of the workers and turn them over to the union o “The check-off” has been the in- famous device used by the corrupt officials of the United Mine Work- ers to keep their pockets well lined while the workers were starving. | By making the bosses their dues col-| lectors—which the bosses are only too willing to do in view of the many favors received—Hillman and his flunkeys aim to tighten their grip on the men’s garment workers and to fatten their slready over- — flowing treasury still more, The meeting of the Joint Board of the Amalgamated, at which this plan was to have been proposed, has | been postponed because of the} |squabbles among the little czars of | the Hillman machine. These squab- |bles have been intensified since the resignation of Hillman’s chief ter- rorist, Abraham Beckerman, as manager of the New York Joint ‘Board. Meanwhile it» has become known | | that Charles Jaffe, president of the | bosses’ association, has been granted agreement with the right of hiring | ‘and firing as suits him best. And, | as an additional favor, he will be uliowed to send out his vests to be {made up in scab shops for a period of six months. Needle Trades Strike to Be Aided by W.LR. The general | dustrial needle trades union sounds the call to militant workers of all | trades to rally to their support, Lo- cal New York, Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, responds to the situa- tion with an appeal to workers to buy tickets for ‘the Workers’ and mers’ Ci stume Ball arranged for ‘iday, b. 15, at the Pythian | Tempie, 70th St., east of Broadway, \for the benefit of the needle trades strikers. Left wing workers of Greater New York are organizing commit- ltees to sell tickets for the affair, ” “Cheek-off” | Costume Ball Feb. 15) trike of the new in- | that it had aaa: alibted 4 its quota of $900 which it had promised to raise for the Daily Worker. The quota was exceeded by $38. But the Section Executive Committee was not satisfied and decided to DOUBLE the quota, to raise ANOTHER $900. This is the spirit of the Workers (Com- munist) Party—the vanguard of the work- ing class, the LEADER of all its struggles. The Daily Worker is the VOICE of our revo- lutionary Party, its central organ, without which it would be severely crippled in its primary necessity of speaking to the work- ing class in the native try EVERY DAY. language of the coun- Comrades! Only if the workers respond in this spirit will the Daily Worker, the only . revolutionary daily paper in the English language in the world, be able to survive. It is threatened with death. The quickest _ Over 15,000 Walk Out On Strike! Part of the huge crowd of strikers fighting under the leadership of the new are mass picketing on 36th New Yor St., Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union for abolition of the sweatshops and establishment of union conditions. between Seventh and Eighth These workers Ave. Young Workers League i in Statement The rike, was called Wednesday by the new National Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is of tremendous imrortance to the entire working class. It marks a new stage in the struggle of the workers in New | York City and in the country gen- lerally. The strike, called to abolish the sweatshop system, for the estab- lishment of the Industrial Union and ‘its recognition by the bosses, for the organization of the unorganized, for the 40-hour week and against the speed-up conditions, has been an- swered with a mighty wave of en- |thusiasm by the workers and young | workers in the dress trade. * The dressmakers’ strike is the first 'to be led by the new militant union. The strike will be bitterly |fought with all their strength and power by the bosses, the yellow so- dressmz courts and the whole government. On one side stand the class-con- scious, militant, left-wing workers; | on the other, the one solid front of | the capitalist class and its agencies. The union is faced with great diffi- culties; but those difficulties can easily be overcome by a united and / \decisive rallying of all the workers in the needle trades. In that sense, the question of mobilizing and or- ganizing the young needle trades workers is of most outstanding im- portance and is one of the most im- | according to statements just issued by Harriet Silverman, secretary, Lo- cal New York, Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, 799 Broadway. Ten thousand notices have been sent to | working class organizations to make demonstration of solidarity with the strikers. *y which , cialist company union, the police, the | mediate tasks of the union in this | on Dress Strike RENTS workers must be organized in the youth section of the union; through the youth section the union will have a powerful means of approach- ing the masses of youth in the in- austry and rallying them for the struggle. There are thousands of youth workers in the needle trades today, and the number is growing. This is the result of the elimination of skill in many sections of the indus- iry. There are tens of thousands of young workers in the open-shops out-of-town and thousands right | here in New York. This is not only |true of the white goods industry (house dresses, collars, shirts, etc.), | but aiso in the dress trade, particu- \larly in the last two years, when union conditions and standards in the shops were wiped out. This fact \is realized by all of the workers and the question of the organization of the unorganized young workers is put to the fore in the present \strike. Build the united front of all workers, young and old! The Young Workers (Communist) |League endorses and supports the demands of the union in the strike jand especially the youth demands | put forward by the youth section of |the union. These youth demands (Continued on Page Two) ‘Affair Tomorrow Eve to Aid “Daily” Drive Unit 3, Section 4 of the Work- }ers (Communist) Party will hold an / affair tomorrow evening at the Czechoslovak Workers Home, 347 B. 72nd St. The entire proceeds will \the needle trades ball a tremendous | go to the Daily Worker Emergency jers—the 40-hour week, the minimum | | that all Daily Worker agents be | Fund. All workers are urged to at- tend this affair, The young needle trades | and biggest possible response is necessary to save it. Fraternally, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Sends Funds QUICK to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. P.S. Yesterday’s were: Sunday, Jan. 27 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday ... Saturday and Sunday . Monday ... Tuesday Wednesday ..... Thursday (yesterday) receipts of donations 12.00 Total to last night 614 (In yesterday’s Daily Worker the total collected on | Wednesday was given as $817.50. This was an error. The | correct total for Wednesday was $718.50.—Editor.) READS; 5 000 NOW OUT ‘MASS PICKETING STARTS AS MANY ADDITIONAL WORKERS SWELL RANKS OF STRIKERS /70 More Shops Join Walkout; Police Beat | Workers, Arrest 79 | LCR an Bosses, Scab International Officials Dazed by Strike’s Strength The second day of the big dressmakers’ strike found the tie-up of the New York market even more complete than on Wednesday. With mass picketing starting at 7 yesterday morning, thousands of additional workers came out on strike, swelling the ranks of those who walked out the first day to 15,000, according to estimate feat a granted Baidre a ands of officials of the Needle Trades | shop wiil be settled. Workers Industrial. Union| The “socialist” officials of the . yellow international, despite their which is leading the strike, Picketing was marked by a mili- tancy and fervor such as have not been seen in New York City since the great cloakmakers’ strike of 1926. Wor! s who have watched iying, boastful and at times idiotic statements to the capitalist press, were ,equally frantic. Schlesinger, chief agent for the employers, is- sued statements that only 1,200 workers had struck, involving a during the last. two years all the handful of shops, and that the work- gains won in two decades of hard|ers who had packed five halls the |struggle destroyed by the corrupt first day of the strike were in re- lofficialdom of the International | ali y furriers, cloakmakers. and company union came on the picket-| “Communist sympathizers.” The lines with new enthusiasm and a| yellow Forward went even further determination to continue picketing in its lies. \their shops until all their demands; Schlesinger and his lieutenants were also busy al! day trying to are won. From 60 to 70 additional shops corral scabs for the bosses, but meeting with little success, since came out yesterday extending the paralysis of the dress market at the there are few dressmakers affiliated with the scab international and most peak of the season. Some of the shops that came out of these had joined the strike. The shop chairmen are being have been open-shops for the past . . 25 years. Many other shops have drawn into the strike more and more. Successful meetings of the struck whose workers have been| : nominally registered with the scab|Shop chairmen were held yesterday International. The workers in these|@t the various halls and today at ‘shops, who were forced into regis- 2p. m. they will all meet at Webster tering with the company union, are| Hall. now determined to win real union Strike Effective in Brownsville. conditions for themselves. In Brownsville the strike has been The police, who already showed equally effective. Hundreds of addi- their true colors on the first day Anes Nyy ding a ioabual the. strike, were ‘Disy. yesterday.) ctisively of Italian, worked. 0% Many | Workers were beaten and sneeting of all the striking dress ase ate aoe vere, arrested at the vakers in Brownsville will be held mass picketing in the morning and at 1 o'clock today at the strike \14 at the general picketing in the hall, 154 Watkins St. jafternoon. Of those arrested in the| “Conspicuous in all the picket lines theese 88 hate dismissed when have been the Negre workers, whe |they appeare efore Magistrate % . * tea Adolph Stern in Jefferson Market ("he first time are striking with real spirit, since never until now jCourt, one, Bertha Lerner, was jhas there been a union whose aim |fined $2, and one, h is ai meni Nelson, |i; ty unite all the vorkers of the chose to serve a day in jail instead, joj industry, regardless of race. of paying a $5 fine, Nelson had | color or nationality, in a fight also been beaten up. The charge | against their common enemies. against all the workers was dis. oe orderly conduct, The 14 arrested in the afternoon were released on bail for a hearing? |this morning. The ~roletariat of ench country muni*t, of course, first of all settle ters with its own bourgeointe— ‘arl Marx (Comunist Manifesto) | | Bosses, Scab Officials Dazed. po: M i Employers everywhere expressed Im rtant eeting of |astonishment and consternation at Daily Worker Agents| ithe success of the strike, Many of them called up the new industrial union or rushed over personally, || nieading for immediate settlement. | total of about 250 have so far asked for settlement. But the union is following a no compromise pol- icy. All the demands of the work- ‘in Center Tomorrow | | An important meeting of sec-| jon and unit Daily Worker gents will be held tomorrow at p. m. in the Workers Center. {It is of the utmost importance wage scales, the right to the job, no piece-work and the other ‘§ present without fail. 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