The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 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 FINAL CITY EDITION 2. Worker New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. $6.00 per year. Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Assoctation, In Union Sq., New here N. ¥. Price 3 Cents — THE “DAILY” Can you not speed up the collections from ORGANIZATIONS? The response from the Tampa Cigar Makers and from the Seattle units of the Workers (Communist) Party are responses Tol. V., Ne No. 347 (Telegram) | the Daily Worker,” by other ae who had been there before. “All right,” shouted the new prisoners. “We will follow their example!” So all money (except 5 cents car-fare apiece) was emptied out of all pockets--and $21 was sent to the Daily Here is coetnr: | DAILY WORKER, F (Telegram) -28 Union Square, New York. DAILY WORKER, Enclosed please find our draft for $100 covering 26-28 Union Square, New York payment of money transfer from Felix Noreiga at Tampa, Florida. The, sender says: This money from Tampa Cigar Makers Committee, Pablo Pitici, Enclosed find draft for $100 covering payment of | money transfer,from J. Sorenson at Seattle, Wash- eee en xt Worker. of ORGANIZATIONS. Such responses To the Readers of the Daily Worker. Here is the Workers (Communist) | Comrades: The splendid spirit with MUST be increased if the Daily Worker 3s to be saved. Comrades: The above telegram is significant in the history of the struggles of our class. The Tampa Cigar Makers—far away in Florida—many of them not speaking Eng- lish—understand what a tragedy it would be to our working class cause to lose the Daily Worker, the only daily Bolshevik pa- per in the English language in the world. The response of these Cigar Makers of Party in action! We must and do expect many more like this. From the Jefferson Market Jail in New York comes some more news. Scores of arrested pickets of the dress strike were jammed into the dirty corridors and cells —arrests were so many that some worker- prisoners had to be “stored” by the police in patrol-wagons parked on the streets out- side the prison. Inside the jail rises the which the workers are responding to the call to save the Daily Worker is gravely diminished in effectiveness by the fact that so many are unemployed. Your paper is in danger. Conferences with creditors are being arranged BECAUSE THE COLLEC- TIONS SO FAR ARE VERY MUCH BE- LOW THE AMOUNT REQUIRED TO PULL THE DAILY WORKER OUT OF THE CRISIS. Demands are pressing and We are sure you will respond. pei THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Send funds QUICK to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York Here is the list of receipts thus far; 7% Tampa should be an inspiration to every sound of singing. It is the “Interna- we are thousands of dollars behind in the Up to Sunday, February 10... .$7,641.88 worker in the land of Wall Street imperial- | tionale.” Then the prisoners observed that amount which we were obliged to have sun aN eels ey ism. the walls were plastered with signs: “Save last Saturday. | Total THOUSANDS IN MASS DRESS PICKET DEMONSTRATION When ae Reserve § Smashes Market, PR AVD A WARNS | a ss D. ‘Editor Bee TREATIES HAVE. CUS of Coll me Weibel “See By KARL REEVE. ccna (Editor, Labor Defender) ‘We Sign and Continue | Peace Drive; Watch Other States’ ! MORE WORKERS ap oo sale by ales KILLED DURING BOMBAY BATTLE Cotal Now 119 Dead, Over 700 Wounded; Fight Continues MANY PICKETS ARRESTED AS BOSSES, COMPANY UNION OFFICIALS GROW DESPERATE , The strike of the dressmak or- |ganized in the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union entered anew | {phase yesterday when the strikers, \Militancy of Workers Defeats Efforts of. the thousands strong, staged a mass | | picketing demonstration in the gar- | Police to Break a | ni H ment center and in spite of mass ar- strikers Standing Firm) Poland Obeys Empires jrests added new hosts to the ranks Sehr oe ae jof the strikers. With the garment Acreage Increases for [bosses openly directing them and Collective Farming pointing out pickets to be arrested, ‘the police arrested over three hun- (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) |dred, clubbed a number, kept them in BOSTON, U. S. S. R., Feb. 11.—| missed the greater part “for lack Bae The New York Stock Exchange, the biggest Fonbling hall in the world. Values of stocks fell $4,000,- oples Draw Non-Labor 000,000 when the Federal Reserve Board declared against loans for speculation, and the bank of Eng- nee . land raised its rates. The Federal Reserve Board announcement was held secret for a whole day after Into Religious War, | "rcs decided upon’ Two motions before: congress evidently from congressmen who werewt tigned off, demand an pkey ae Many New Shops Join S Strike: Big Mass Picket Demonstrations to Continue BOMBAY, Feb. 11.—Battle-torn | |jail the entire day, and then dis- |] > 3ombay entered the second week of More than 10,000 workers took part yesterday morning im the greatest and most enthusiastic picket demonstration of th “i 13 1 iT da yesterday commented on the |of evidence” against them. big a kers’ ke. T trike battles today looking like a D Hi iS t ‘ds Pravda } ig dressmake strike. Thre g the garment district, si gs Ae : a, a Ss eve on a Ur a signing of th perotocol of a treaty) Yesterday marked the tightening jng and cheering pickets showed their determination to fae vesieged city. : to renounce war by the Soviet Union, | of the battle lines, with 150 extra i 1 PARSE gee sag ey Fighting continued, with seven | 9| Poland, Rumania, Latvia, and Es-|police, five patrol wagons, and an | 07 on until'al a thelr dema de mands e won and gave a mighty, militant HATHAWAY MILL sersons killed today and 67 wounded, | wringing the casualty total since a veek ago Sunday to at least 119 thonia. Pravda points out that it is use- less to have delusions as to the ef- answer and Sunday day for the “Daily the Dally Worker land J to the efforts of the . the police and the Tn ional company union of = lemergency squad swinging clubs on behalf of the employers, Schlesinger and his scab International Ladies FASCIST TERROR bosse “Mobilize for Worker land Road; 313 Hinsdale Ave. and iead and more than 700 wounded ind injured. The total of the dead s an official estimate, but it was ipparent that the estimate is low, is bodies continue to arrive at the norgue today. Sunday, 32 were killed, 21 of them nill strikers. Mills Shut. Murderers of Sozzi The \ United States Sunday afternoon 600 Pledge Fight on campaign against fascism, which is being sponsored by the In- ternational Anti-Fascist Committee of which Henri Barbusse is chair- man, was definitely launched in the Stuyvesant Casino. The occasion for day, Feb. 16 and 17!” With this slogan as their rallying call, workers throtghout the city are stripping for action in the two tag s that are expected to carry the Worker Emergency Fund Drive over the top in New York Cit Stations for the tag days will be located in central points all over the at Tag Days, this Saturday and Sun-| 154 Watkins St. Hall, Broadway and 14th Ave., toria. As- Other stations will be announced in the Daily Worker later in the week Every member of the Workers (Communist) Party is urged to ob- tain a collection box before Friday, either at one of the section stations or at the Daily Worker office, to fect of the signing. Poland will not shake off the influence of its tectors.” The value of documents signed with bourgeois diplomatists is small. “We continue the peace struggle, sign the protocol and watch the be- havior of other states” says Pravda. Check Alcoholism. The Council of Peoples Commis- saries is bring forward a bill to limit “pro- | |Garment Workers Union . issuing strikebreaking statements; and on the other hand the union mobilizing thousands of workers in a mass pic- keting demonstration and calling many more shops out on strike, Arrest Olgin, Zimmerman. It was about eight o’clock in the morning when Moissaiye J. Olgin, \the noted Communist writer and | speaker, and Charles Zimmerman, Textile New Bedford Walkout a NEW BEDFORD, Mass., ter s to break their strike. shops joining the the bosses and ational agents” se of the market, the po= a terroristie spree itt fort to crush the strike, some brandishing loaded re=~ und, however, much e, such determina= new bec Union Leads “* on en) 1 volvers. their (Special to the Daily Wor to surpr Feb. Religious warfare, especially be- | ity, and workers will use these sta-|take wi . : ‘ li Waa Gitemeaident of th hi y faa ; h Cae the starting of this campaign was ClY ‘orKers se these sta-'take with him to his shop. An in-|the sale of spirituous liquors. vice-president of the union, who’ aoainst a $ of the textile | tion and « ance on the part of ween parties of the non- ‘working | fitting see wasting, Lipide tions as their bases of action. Col-!tensive campaign must be carried on, new law prohibits the sale of alco-|were leading the mass picketing Beene attempts of the textile |e thousands of united wana ass populetion, is beginning under memorate Gastone Sozzi, the young lection boxes will be available there, in the shovs and factories, to im- hol, in towns and workers’ settle-|demonstration, were arrested by a | 20SS8¢s to force intolerable ene that all their efforts were powSt= he constant stimulation of the jeader of the: Italian. workers, who|@d all activities will be directed press every worker with the fact ments on Saturdays, Sundays, and | squad of police who darted out of a / upon the workers, twenty-four 1 less to break up the picket lines: British egents, who are trying 2 | earfoctured to death in the fas. from these central points. Workers that the Daily Worker is his paper, | pay days. | (Continued on Page Two) spinners in the Hathaway Mill Time after time the police attaeled Be the pee cae 8 ae ine 4 | cist dungeons in Italy. will finecomb the streets, the Rie fighting his battles, always in the| The law includes public places, a have walked out on stri h time the workers reformed. scabs into a combat o: tories and shops, meetings and all forefront in his struggl i sh ti The government plans tional Textile Workers Union is their lines and continued to picket. Norman Tallentyre spoke for the . ” erefront in his struggles against shops, etc. eg iona! ‘extile € i pi oh cies tee scar agsinat International Labor Defense; Mor- |affairs called by labor and fraternal the bosses, to reduce revenues from alcohol. Section 3 Holds Meets leading the walk-out. About 806. Atrentall peat eS raH s ‘eau representing the Latin-Amer-/'anizations and workers’ clubs. Collection boxes will be delivered Aid Agriculture. on Party Women Work The mill-owners are demanding About three hundred workers The a ae ee eens ican Anti-Imperialist League, spoke Here are the stations: shortly to all section headquarters, Prayda comments on the reduc- that the workers manage twenty- were sd including severalaame on fascism in the Latin-American} Downtown Section 1: 60 St. Marks |and it will be the duty of all func- tion of taxati¥n on the middle pea-| Section 3 of the Workers (Com- four instead of the fourteen tia aielen domaaea. 3 is ae countries; V. Mcntana, editor of the | Place. tionaries to see to it that these santry, The Soviet government is | mynist) Party has arranged many chines which they had been hand ‘ - that has thus fame Il Lavoratore stressed particularly’ Downtown Sections 1 and 2: boxes are distributed. taking measures to relieve the middle | .qucational meetings ania stinks ore. na single day and” the forms of Ttallan eet and) workers Center, 26 Union Square gave an intimate picture of the life | snd 101 W. 27th St. of Gastone Sozzi, in whose memory | the Remember Saturday and Sunday! “Mobilize for the Daily Worker In the spooling department werkers were ordered to tend one peasantry. Fresh land cultivated police are spa js exemvt | \where women’s work will be fy the request ti 143 E. 103rd Tag Days!” from taxation for two years. In- | stressed. hundred spools instead of the sixty- | the traitorous, Tammany~ -controlled RESERVE BOARD [ee Gnesting: Lad Hen celled. Fret leer a608 pain ive and 350 E.! ssieie ik AM Ate dividual farms are aided but col-| Tonight Rebecca Grecht will speak |four they had been tending pre- Central Trades and Labor Cou jeden eneasing ae i he | \81st Street: ; : hee . lective farms are not neglected, for | at 101 W, 27th St. at 6:30, This | Viously- and the Inter eae ers’ International Relief, explaine . Jape eye ; - saa 28 Rane 5 nif ihete Worried Over State- the significance of the late pact, be- Bronx Section 5: 1330 Wilkins Women Will Support to the agricultural, revolution. The | [will be followed tomorrow evening Oa avesieD, bila ap ey ee ee ee rk E i titute ali the departments of s yn | tween Mussolini and the Pope. Other |Ave.; 2700 Bronx Park Hast and | Dressmakers’ Strike spring sowing has increased the cul-| |with a talk by Ray Ragozin, and on |‘), ail ere TRS ae alk Gat ot he of the new Needle ment Before Crash speakers were Hugo Gellert, Otto]715 E. 188th St. tivated area of socialized agriculture |Thursday with a speech by Juliet |entire mill is foreseen within a few 3 Workers’ Industrial Unione at Saturday Meeting Huiswoud, and Tom Di Fazio. Williamsburg Section 6: 690 by 2 Sharh yy 20 per cent. | Stuart Poynt: i Charles Zimmerman, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. (U.P.) | ——_ Myrtle Ave. si eee tc oe tebe <0 abiive. nme of the General Strike Committees —The Capper resolution providing, | The moderna labore: eee Coney Island Section 7: 760 40th see? haga sp * | Rose Wortis, secretary of the Gen- for an f embareo on arms to any) beget Foe ne ith the /St. ‘and 1373 48rd St, (Boro. Park), |New York District of the Workers Hemstitchers, Tuckers | EMERGENC Y F | N D als ie Committee; Karl Reeve, country violating the Kellogg Anti-| and. deeper below. the conditions | Brownsville Section 8: 1111 Rut- | (Communist) Party has arranged @ Djan New Struggle: editor of the Labor Defender; Mois- War Treaty was introduced in the of existence of his own clays—Karl Long Island Section 9: Turner |288 meeting for Saturday after- ggle, Olgin, editor of The Ham- senate Moday. and” vetened tothe | gre cree » hoon at 2p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Praise Dress Strikers ae OC ee and Jensky, youth representa- Foreign Relations Committee. There iving Pl. and 15th St., to mobilize ‘ y Feb. il, 1929. A. Sompolinsky, L. Nadol- on the General Saxena was no discussion of it on the senate ‘ bd 9 | Working women behind the dress-' pjans for mobilization for strug- Cigar Workers, Camere, Fla.$200.00 |. sky, C. Schoenau, Meine Zoard of the .union. floor, | e | makers’ strike. ta caiskinnt: thes bosses weres dime Nucleus 1, 2, 3, Seattle, ler, W. Rasikas, Jansen, e rs ay be ce | attire, Aver | Every working women’s organiza- |Ssesed, at an enthusiastic meeting |. WASH. ---+++++++0.e+e se 100.00, J. Barkin, J. Johnson, J. |: Sing Revolutionary ‘Saami Puts “Teeth In.” . 3 : 2 “ tion should participate. Women of active members of Hemstitchers|Colleced by S, A. Krieger, Gerbert, Ei. _ By Singing the International, Soli- Th Tn sesienea unds Vital if Our Press is to Live) worrers in the shops must demon- and Tuckers, Local 41, last night. | Chicago, lat Vetan Melder,'J. Urban, A Forever" and The Red je Capper uri Hal : ee | ‘strate their complete solidarity with ‘The meeting, which was held at| %5; G. Preno, $1; A. Nor- kus, M. Rupsii the pickets were taken in to sit tedgrany belch ‘taal? Pict the strikers and make the meeting |131 W, 28th St., heard speakers tell} 12m, $1; Esther Zuckerman, nauskas .... be ee ya beta Wes pots Seam pi (Conti kad guiBiaga: Five) Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily) | strong demonstration for their of the gradual worsening of condi-| $5; I. Dobkin, $1; Steve Collected by 1 i bi a : v Mane iE o “f ontinuer 9 \ speevi} ae support. ions of the workers of the industry| Chilatko, Chicago Units— —Theador Maki, to’ Jefferson, Market Cours, .aay 6 ———— |Worker for aid in its present crisis. gta Fae ae a ai ttent tatie ( Becsion’@, St. Nucleus 2 ish Workers Club dreds of workers gathered abo . “Daily”? ‘ ; 17 an oe een en Initiated E80; Section. 6) St. N "51.00 Jefferson Market Court and chee Section One “Daily The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. lunt { | Will nave to be taken in the very A ight ait in a Nie tea ah sorte aba ks '|Need Volunteers a’ \Near future to halt the slavery in| cleus 30, $6; Section 5, Workers Party, Wilming eg rice ame conrad ae n e' ni; y, i id i 1 "4 i i ithe shops. Nucleus 20, $20; Hungarian Del.—Louis Benedette, soecahe eir singing i e gents Meet Tonig After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker 1 am send. Daily Worker Office ae fe heroic struggle of the| Workers Home, Hammond, | ‘Albert Walton, $4; B room. ; A . | ling you the enclosed amount, $..... ” | m New York dress workers was point-| Indiana, $15 .........6.+ 69.50 dini, $1; Toffas, $5; N I the arrested pickets we Ue eens werkcca ti peeecaga ey needed at the) lod to ag an example for the hem. |Grand Ledge Slovak Wor Minertella, $1; Louis La facing jail terms, they did not fi OF Reeen ere a ooere | Vor | |Name aR siete at oP he he ‘A *. crs Society, Newark, N.J. 50.00| kas, $2; J. Dworkin, $33 get their fighting newspaper, t (Communist) Party will meet to- | | Worker, 26 Union Square, Room| stitehers and tuckers | Piet ay Pi night, at 6 o'clock at 60 St. Marks | | | Address 4 201, in connection with the Tag) | Another meeting to discuss fur-| Collected by a Red Box S Johnides, $2; Wilmington, Daily Worker. An appeal by It i i Ne hg eae. Pa Re rere s for the mobilization of|, cial held in Grand Rapic Delaware, Unit, $10 Olgin in one. of the cells result Pl. It is of the utmost import-|— : ; i Day Campaign to be held this, ther plans the nm of |, d pids, Ed etet h ance that all agents attend. A Names of contributors will be published in the Satarday ‘and Sunday, ‘The of-| the workers in the trade was de-/ Mich—A. Ziegler, 1. Dale, the Lithuanian Daily in a generous collection, despite t delay. ‘cided upon for Thursday night, Feb.) M. J. Sokoi, J. Andruska, Brooklyn 20 fact that most of the strikers -h roll call will be taken. fice will be open all day. , | | elo 14, immediately after work. W, Valenta, K. J. Tocelis, 4 (Continued on Page Th i. (Continued on Page Two) CaP HR ae