The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 1

” HE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered as second-cinns matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ol. V., No. 345 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Imc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, 1 -FEBRU ARY 9, 1929 _ SUBSCRIPTION Ral 8.00 per year. _ Price 3 Cents To the Readers of the Daily Worker! Comrades: The Daily Worker is obliged today to ask all class-conscious workers and their or- ganizations to make a special effort to hasten the financial aid which we are sure that you will give to pull your revolutionary paper out of the dangerous condition in which it finds itself. This condition of finan- cial distress is due to sacrifices in carrying on the fight for our class cause in recent and present struggles. We have no other re- course than to the workers. The help that is coming in now is inspir- ing. It is proof that you—the militant mem- bers of our class—believe in and will do your class daily press organ—the BOLSHEVIK | press organ of our class—in the English | language. The amounts received are NOT ENOUGH to accomplish the purpose. The | flow of donations in this drive is DANGER- | OUSLY SMALL. We are compelled to ask all workers to | make a special effort THIS WEEK-END to | DOUBLE their energy in the drive to save | the Daily Worker. This is absolutely neces- sary. Receipts yesterday were LESS than on the preceding day. We are FAR BEHIND in meeting the promises we were forced to make to creditors in order to persuade them to continue the technical services necessary utmost to save the only fighting, working to publish the Daily Worker. | Today we recommence the publication of Fred Ellis’ cartoons. We do this because we are confident that you will help us to make it possible to meet the expense IMMEDIATELY. We begin again today to give you six pages. We consider this necessary, because the big dress strike and other important news for the workers CANNOT be left out. The pickets of the dress strike released from jail today tell us that the jail walls are covered with big inscriptions, put there by jailed strikers, reading: “SAVE THE DAILY WORKER!” Receipts for yesterday were $735.55, which is a falling off of more than a hundred dollars from the sas of the ~ — Here is the list of receipts thus far: Up to Sunday, February 3 ....$3,100.63 Monday 741.46 Tuesday » | 722. 66 Wednesday . oe Thursday Friday (yesterday) .. Total to last night . $6,888.28 CAN you and WILL you try especially hard TODAY to swell the flow of donations? The Daily Worker is NOT going to fail. Of that we are determined, and you are deter- mined. But the reason we can say this is that we know that you will respond to this plea. It is urgent. The danger is great. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Send Funds QUICK to the Daily Worker, | 26-28 Union iia New York. OMBAY POLICE KILL 30 MORE IN ONE NIGHT [ass Planes, Artillery to Help Seabs Fight Mill Strikers ‘aith War Plot Fails VorkersDenouncePlan | to Divide Ranks BULLETIN BOMBAY, India, Feb. 8 (UP).— hirty more were killed tonight hen police fired on crowds in the treets of several districts. More ian 100 persons were injured in to- ight's fighting and brought thé to-} al toll to approximately 95. More ran 500 persons have been injured ince last Sunday night. en BOMBAY, Feb. 8.—In a fresh at- ack by armed, imported scabs to- ay in the Byculia mill area six lindu mill strikers were killed. The otal injured during the last six ays is officially set at 116. Over) 0 have been killed. The Anglo-Indian government is | looding this city with troops. An| normous concentration of artillery, nough to blow Bombay out of ex- stence, is parked at military head- uarters. Tanks rumble through he streets, strong patrols of cavalry latter along, waving lances, pistols nd sabres at the crowds of strik- rs; fortifications of sand bags are rected at the street corners in vorking class sections, protected by varbed wire and crowned with ma-j| hine guns. Regiment after regi- nent disembarks at the railway sta- | ion. Two full brigades are on heir way here. Military bombing (Continued on Page Five) SOCIALISTSIN JAIL CLUBBINGS Hurl Poison Gas Bombs at Reading Prisoners READING, Pa., Feb. 8.—State, county and city (socialist party ad- ministration) police rushed to Read- ing penitentiary yesterday and with bombs of poisonous tear gas and clubs assaulted 200 prisoners who were in revolt against the horrible food given them. Warden A. L. Rhoads admitted today that the demonstration start- ed when Mike Terrizzi, 19, pro- tested that food served in the prison was poor. Officers stayed at the prison today when the inmates, al- though locked in their cells, contin- ued tg yell and threatened to strike if they were not fed something they could eat without being made sick. > ® Important Meet of New DEC Sunday, 10 a, m., Worker Center Comrade William W, Wein- stone, district organizer of Dis- trict 2, announces a meeting of the district executive committee to be held on Sunday morning at 10 a. m. sharp, at Room 402 of the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. ‘All members and candidates of || the district executive, committee » must attend this meeting. ALL REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS! ALL LEFT WINGERS! ALL PARTY MEMBERS TO THE PICKET LINES MONDAY—PARTY MEMBERS, DO YOUR PROLE- TARIAN DUTY! HELP SPREAD THE STRIKE OF THE DRESSMAKERS! |OUT ON THE PICKET LINE WITH THE DRESSMAKERS! | The strike of the dressmakers has met the hearty response of the workers. The employers are panic-stricken. The agents of the em- ployers, the Schlesingers, the A. F. of L. bureaucrats are terrified at the response of the workers to the battle for the elimination of sweat- shop conditions and for the establishment of their union. The united front of the black reactionaries with the employers, the police, is already effected. The strike-breaking Central Trades and Labor Council has appealed to Mayor Walker for the mobilization of ,the police against the workers. They know that their scab unions will be crushed by the onward march of the dressmakers. They know | that the dressmakers will win union conditions and will demonstrate that only through a militant industrial union can the conditions of the workers be improved, The battle of the dressmakers is a struggle of class against class. No workers will be intimidated by this united front of the workers’ enemies. All class conscious workers must respond and form their united front of the workers against the employers and their agents. Every single Party member, irrespective of what trade union he works in must answer the call of the union for support in picketing. On Monday morning will occur a big picketing demonstration of the dressmakers. Every Party member has it as his class and revolutionary ‘duty to report at 7:30 a. m. in the morning in the garment districts to assist in picketing, to help abolish the sweatshop system, to increase the wages, to establish the 40-hour 5-day week, the right to the job, no discharges, to help in the struggle to abolish. the piece-work system, for the limitation of the contractors, to establish a powerful industrial union embracing tens of thousands of dressmakers in the city. Every Party member, every revolutionary worker, every left wing | worker! This is ycur battle! | None must flinch in his duty, Answer the enemies of the workers with a powerful united front. Show these scab agents of the | employers and the Tammany Hall police that terrorism cannot break the spirit of the workers, that the dressmakers will march forward. Help spread the strike! Help build a powerful industrial union in the dress industry. —WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY District Executive Committee, District 2, William W. Weinstone, District Organizer. EMERGENCY FUND Su- | City Org. Committee, perior, Wisconsin ........ Bronx Wkrs. Youth Club and Wkrs. Athletic Club, Bronx 80.35 Collected at the Freiheit Gesange Verein—Tyber, | $1; Rigrad, $1; Teldon, $1; Dorfman, 50c; Marshal, $1; Branch 3, Sec. 5, Bronx.... 67.50] Geivritz, 25¢; Rosenbaum, Branch 5, Sec. 5, Bronx.. 56.00} 50c; Milgrom, 50c; Modlin, Section 1, Night Workers 50c; Mindlin, 25c; Weiner, No. 1, City.. 43.35| $1; Greenbaum, $1; Stein, Collected at the of $1; Rom, 1; Staff, 50c; A. F. W. Hotel and Rest. Sickler, 50c; Levit, 50c; Branch, $15.40. Joffe, $1; Feldman, 25c... Collected by H. Branson: J. Lawrence Unit, W. P. Dis- 26.00 Bal, 25c; I. Margruz, 25c; trict No. 1, reaver 2 Garcih, 25¢; Mo. Marguez, Mass. .. 25.00 25c; H. Banson, 50c. Italian F Collected by J. F. Frischman: (Communist) Party, Chi. Frank Rothran, 25c; J. WEED ALA Soca Catod ethers aie 25.00 Nelson, 50c; Louis Cijillio, 50e; P. Abramson, 50c; Farkos, 50c; F. Gersdul- edit, $1; N. N., 150; C. Si- mon, 50c; I, R., 50c; Clara Handel, 25c; Sylvis, 25c; A. Austin, 25c; Martin Meyer, 50c; Strausman, 26c; A. Jacobs, 30c; I. Steiner, 25¢; W. Jeremios, 25c; Siegel, 25e; L, Klein, 25c¢; P. Fox, 25e. Collected by M. Lancarevic, Luzerne, Pa.--Luzerne Sec- tion, $20, and Zanneti and Magrini Music, $5. ¥ A. L. J., Brooklyn. Proletcos Workers, Sarner, $3.50; Fotis pane $3; H. Levisky, $2; F. Strika, $2; F. Frank, $1; M. Dogavarian, $1; S. Ves- kevich, $1; N. Zappettini, $1; P. Jabely, $1; T. Vin- 25.00 25.00 Unit 3, See. 4, City........ 40.50] cent, $1; J. Televiky. $1; S. Branch 1, Sec. 5, City. 42.00| Sherman, $2; J. Swersky, eno ae dae eG iol hope eee ere) Collected by L. Johnson, But. falo, N. Y.—L. Johnson, $5 W. E. Falk, $5; A. Stein- man, $1; B. Hirvonen, -1; E. Leskinen, $2; K. Hie- tala, $1; K. Maki, $1; K. Kati, $1; M. Rinne, $1; A. Elo, $1; E. Hellman, $1; M. Miller, $1; V. Rose, $1; Ida Lahtinen, $1; C. Falk, $5; J. Kovach, $2; J. Zeitler, $1.50; A. Sterman, $1; E. Eskola, $1; Ida Odell... Branch 2, Sec. 5, Bronx. Section 1, 7F, City SB, City ........ Section 1, 6F, City. Collected by Comrade Morris Langerat, Unit meeting at Newark, N. J.—G. Hoff- man, $2; Stern, $1; S. Gold- berg, $1; Rosenbaum, $1; A. Sudre Kiewich, $1; John Genchak, $1; r, 50c; Kashkiewich, $1; Kerp, 50c; J. Blumen, $1; Kurtzer, $1. Call Youth for Strike Picket Duty on Monday All youth dressmakers and mem- bers:of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League must meet Monday morning at 7 o'clock in front of the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, 181 W. 28th St., for a picket dem- onstration in the garment district. Call Jobless Party Members for Duty All unemployed members of the Party must report at the district office for special work today. Instructions will be given at any time during the day. WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, District Organizer. 35.50 27.00 27.00 27.00 26.00 |International Labor WORLD CONGRESS AGAINSTFASCISM IN BERLIN SOON To Prepare U U.S. Meet| at Sozzi Memorial on Sunday Choose Delegate Feb.22, \Int’l Anti-Fascists Meet | in March To commemorate the murder of |the Italian Communist, Gastone |Sozzi, by fascism, and at the same |time prepare for the world-wide conference against fascism that will take place in Berlin in the middle of, March,.-a—meeting .of.New. York workers will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 2 p, m. While one of the purposes of this meeting will be to commemorate the deaths of the victims of fascism, its chief purpose will be to prepare for the national Anti-Fascist confer- ‘ence, to be held on Feb. 22, as prep- aratory to the International Anti- Fascist Congress, called hy the pro- visional committee, to be held in Berlin. At the meeting which will take place at Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second Ave., on Sunday, speakers, representing many working class or- | Bosses’ Sh Ji 5 1 More Sanath Strikers DRESS STRIKE SPRE ADS AS _ MORE WORKERS JOIN; JAIL 68 IN ATTACK ON PICKETS Revolutionary Workers Feo Poets 1 Many Trades on Picket Line in Dress Market | “Socialist” Company Union Officials Ask Aid Garment strikers of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union staged a huge demonstration before the shops yesterday morning. Many more workers joined the strike. Above you see workers being herded into jail from the police truck. On Thursday 65 were ar- rested, Yesterday, 51. The answer is a Jarger, Bichae line. “Women Workers, « on ‘Picket Line! Help Spread Dressmakers’ Strike! “The déssmakers strike is a° great strteglé in” which thousands of women workers are struggling to build a union and establish union conditions in their industry. The women workers, as always in the needle industry, are fighting in the vanguard in a determined struggle once for all to organize their shops and get rid of the parasites that have preyed on them—the corrupt Schlesinger clique of officials 2 the bosses who have got rich from the slavery in the dress shops. Unemployment, irregular and seasonal work, starvation wages, over- time, piece work and the speed up, the tyranny of the boss in the open shops, the sell-out of the old, corrupt union officials, all these evils the dressmakers have been struggling against. And now they are on strike against all their enemies together—the bosses, the bureaucrats of the right wing and the “socialist” party. The police and the gang: sters, in the pay of the bosses and the International, are trying to terror- ize the workers and protect the scabs of Schlesinger and the*Interna- tional who are trying to do the work of the strik s in all trades, remember that the women workers ganizations and nationalities will urge the mobilization of workers of | all countries for the International | Congress against fascism and pre- | pare the most effective means for | fighting international fascism. The | speakers will include: Norman Tal- | lentyre, national secretary of the | Defense; Fred Biedenkapp, of the Workers Inter- | national Relief; Otto Huiswond, of | the American Negro Labor Con- gress; Vanni Montana, representing the Italian workers; Carlo Tresca will aiso speak in Italian; Hugo Gel- lert in Hungarian; Albert Moreau, representing the Latin American section of the Anti-Imperialist League, and speakers in Lithuanian, Polish, ete. The United States Provisional Committee for the World Congress, | calling upon all organizations to) send representatives to the national conference to be held on Feb. 22, at (Continued on Page Two) Biedenkapp to Speak at Bronx Open Forum Tomorrow Night at 8) Workers of the Bronx will hear) Fred Biedenkapp, National Secre- | tary of the Workers International | Relief, discuss “Conspiracies In the’ United States” at the Bronx Open Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave., to- morrow evening at 8 o’clock. \Special Member Meet| of Sections 2 and 3 This ‘Afternoon at 2 A special membership meeting of Sections 2 and 3 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, District 2, on a matter of vital import- ance to the Party and to all mem- bers of the two sections will be held this afternoon at two o’clock, in Irving Plaza, irving Pl. and 15th St. Because of the extreme importance of this meet- ing, a roll call of all members by units will be taken. William W. Weinstone will report for the District. District Executive Committee, District 2, Section Executive Committee, Section 2, Section |tion of American imperialism in of the dressmakers union started the whole movement for organiza- tion of the sweated needle trades workers in the great strike of 1909. Remember that their struggle built a stronghold of women’s trade union organization in the needle trades that helned the women worker in other trades build unions to better their conditions. So in this great strike today it is not the dressmakers alone who are vitally con- cerned in the struggle. It is an ue of the American labor movement | as a whole and especially of working women in every trade and in- dustry. WOMEN WORKERS! COME OUT ON THE PICKET LINE every day with the dressmakers, but especially in the big pickcti demonstration on Monday morning. Show your strength to the bosses and the police! Show your determination that the needle trades shall be organized and that working women in all trades shall be organized. DO YOUR BIT ON THE PICKET LINE! ALL TOGETHER IN MASSES ON THE PICKET LINE! KEEP SCHLESINGER’S SCABS OUT OF THE SHOPS! SHOW THE BOSSES OUR STRENGTH! BUILD THE NEW UNION! MONDAY MORNING NOT LATER THAN SEVEN AT 7TH AVENUE AND 38TH STREET. [Minor Speaks on Latin'Gold to Speak at America at the hogetad Costume Ball for School Forum Sunday | Dress Strikers Aid Robert Minor, editor of the Daily! Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of | Worker, will be the speaker at the |the Needle Trades Workers Indus-' Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union | trial Union, will be the chief speaker |Sqy tomorrow night on the snbject |St the Workers and Farmers Cos- of “U. S. Imperialism in Latin America.” |day, Feb. 15, at the Pythian Temple. |The proceeds of the ball are to go Montenegro in Curacao, Dutch West |trades workers. Indies, off the coast of Venezuela,| This is the first of a series of af- following the assassination of Mella, |fairs arranged by the Workers In- tionary of Cuba in Mexico, the ques- | makers win their strike. of Tammany Police | The big dressmakers’ strike continues to spread. The |creeping paralysis of the New York dress market, that bégan _ | Wednesday morning, is affecting new shops every day. The second mass picketing demonstration yesterday morning was jcharacterized_ by even greater militancy and fervor than on SIDELIGHTS.ON | DRESS STRIKE | Through the mist and drizzle of early yesterday morning striking cloakm: in the heart of the shop district, in- tent on winning their strike and building their Needle Trades Work- jers’ Industrial Union into a militant | « organization which will embrace all the needle trades workers in New York. and down Seventh and Eighth Aves., through 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th Sts., pulled out. The crowd of strikers grew. Bodies of men and women | marched off together to the various strike halls to register on the rolls | of their new union, those not under the influence of | the scab cossa ed only the imp a few more words to join the of the strikers and throw the w (Continued on Page Two) Negro Workers to Hit A mass meeting has been called for next Tuesday evening at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., to protest the arrest of six members |of the American Negro Labor Con- | gress while picketing the Tip Toe Inn Restaurant at 62 East 14th St. The mass meeting is being held {under the joint auspices of the American Negro Labor Congress and the International fense. The chairman will be Ed- ward Welsh. Among the speakers| |tume Ball which will take place Fri-| are Harold Williams, one. of the ar-| rested Negro pickets; Alfred Wagen- knecht, National Secretary of the With the recent murder of ‘Hilario |for the relief of the striking needle | International Labor Defense; Rich-| baat fe | however, insisting upon its demands | ard Moore, National Organizer of the Congress; Jacques Buitenkant, I, L, D. attorney who defended the ‘the Daily Worker. Latin-America takes on greater sig- | nificance, These two events, com- | ing immediatcly after the visit of | President-elect Hoover to South} America, show the aggressive role of American imperialism in Latin America and the determination of Wall Street to reduce Latin America to a colony. The following Sunday ‘Charles Zimmerman and Ben Gold, well- known leaders of the militant needle trades workers, will be the speakers at the Workers School Forum on the “New Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the Present Strike.” Worker for aid in its present The Daily Worker, 26-28 gng you the enclosed amount, $ i Name Not, only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons i Address +. death to itself; it has also 1 into exixtence the men who wield those weapons—the Executive Committee, Section 3 | dern | |delay. working claxs—the preletarians.— Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto), “ hist. CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? 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- Names of contributors will be published in the “Dai A SEEM DNAse oR AY 20 SEER OOO RMI « | crisis. Union Square, New York, without Many of the | workers in these shops, especially | ’ Schlesinger, need- | s of numbers and | ranks |of an attempted frame-up of eight veight ctrikers by the International crew. The |Thursday afternoon, charged with Labor De-| ‘s turned out in masses | shop after shop was | noted Communist leader and revolu- | ternational Relief to help the dress-| pickets, and Robert Minor, editor of | ®|ving Plaza, he day before. An_ outstanding phenomenon is that for the first time in the history of the needle industry, not only workers of a single striking craft—the dressmakers—are on the picketline, but furriers, cloakmakers and even workers in trades not in- cluded in the new Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union are stand- ing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow-workers in a common fight against the triple-headed enemy— the employers, the police and the “socialist,” company union officials. Yesterday new thousands of work- @rs joined the strike. Many more |shops were taken down, including shops that had never been organized and others whose workers had been compelled against their will to: join | the International company union. The record made at the building at 282 Seventh Ave., where all 12 |dress shops have been taken down, has been equalled by strikers from everal other buildings. Frame-up Collapses. Yesterday witnessed the collapse workers were arrested late attacking a shop. Schlesinger is- sued a statement to the effect that Arrest of Inn Pickets these workers are Greek gangsters employed by the industrial union. When the eight strikers appeared in court this morning the employers admitted that the strikers had done no harm and the entire case col- lapsed. An important new development that became known yesterday was the decision of the Dress Manufac- |turers’ Protective Association to en- |ter negotiations for settlement with the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. The members of this association, as well as many manu- facturers who are not affiliated, have been badly hit by the strike, About 250 bosses have thus far ap- plied for settlements. The union is, {and is making no compromises. Enthusiastic Strike Meets. Enthusiastic meetings of the strikers were held yesterday in Ir- Webster Hall, Stuy- vesant Casino and Bryant Hall. A |suecessful shop chairmen’s meeting | was also held in Webster Hall. The strike is gathering momen- tum each day. Plans are being made now to make the picketing Monday morning a tremendous dem- onstration of the workers’ solidarity in the present struggle. All class- conscious workers are urged to take part in this picketing demonstra- tion, Strikebreaking Police Active. The police displayed even greater brutality yesterday than on the day (Continued on Page Five) jodern bourgeoix society routed from the ruing a8 away hax but new com forms of old ones—Ki Manifento). * v1 y ele in pla Marx Gommeniak =