The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 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 aily = Entered ax second-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yu. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Publi: Publis! i. V., No. 348 day by The National Daily Worker ‘6-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION R Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per yea ew York, by mail, $8.00 per year. TATEMENT 10 OUR Somrades: READERS The Daily Worker received yesterday a letter which we feel must be im- mediately passed on to the workers who depend upon the Daily Worker to voice the leadership of their struggles: “National Daily Worker Publishing Co.: “The management of the printing plant, in considering its own financial sit- uation and the indebtedness of the Daily Worker for composition, stereotyping, press work, paper etc., reached the following decision: “The arrears of the Daily Worker, on account of the printing of the news- paper alone, on the basis of the arrangement we have, is approximately $3,600. In addition there is due about $900 in monthly notes which have not been paid in months. There is also due about $1,900 for job work, of which we must have im- mediate payment of $500. total of $4,869.00 due as a balance. After the amounts you have paid, there remains a “We therefore notify you that we must insist that over and above the regular bills (amounting to about $1,700 weekly) the following payments must be made, or it will be impossible for us to continue to print the Daily Worker: Wednesday, Feb. 13, must be paid .. . Saturday, Feb. 16, must be paid Wednesday, Feb. 20, must be paid . $1,200 cee L200 +. 1,200 In addition we must have by Saturday, February 23, at least half of the $900 sum due in monthly notes unpaid, as well as the full amount of the $500 due for job work for the Daily Worker. “Non-compliance with the,above will stop the paper. to continue if we cannot get this amount.” There is no possibility This letter is from the printing concern in whose shop the type-setting and press work of the Daily Worker is done. The Daily Worker has been keeping the working class informed from day to day just how the struggle is progressing to save your revolutionary daily paper. Up to last night (Tuesday) you had given $9,040.45 to help surmount the crisis. Now we want to account to you as to what we have done with the money you have given, and how the situation lies for the immediate future. At the beginning of the campaign for saving the Daily Worker we told you that we were obliged to get something above $11,000 before February 2. We failed to get that sum in the allotted time, but succeeded in making new arrangements for more time to meet some of the demands. Now, during the course of the campaign, the Daily Worker has succeeded in paying off the amount of $8,144. Without having met these demands, the Daily Worker would have been forced to suspend. But we are still eleven days behind in the FIRST AND MOST PRESSING demands, and have not yet touched the needs which were at first not so pressing. We have before us now as obligations which must be met in the near future: Balance to printing concern For photo-engraving ay! ‘Telegraphic news service ........ Bank, commercial . Telephone and telegraph .. .. Office supply debts, wages, etc. . Total . Here is the list of receipts thus far: Up to Sunday, February 10 . Sunday and Monday .. Tuesday Total $3,431 Kedme 420 - $9,040.45 The $16,166.19 which we still must meet will put the Daily Worker out of serious difficulties for the time. Comrades, we are absolutely assured that the workers will not permit the Daily Worker to cease publication. The very inspiring response we have re- received thus far is a guarantee that the militant working class is going to support its only Bolshevik daily paper in the native language. TAG DAYS are being prepared for next Saturday and Sunday in New York City. We urge all workers to jump in and make these tag days wipe up a great share of the indebtedness that is weighing the Daily Worker down. However we cannot wait for tag days, but must receive every possible dol- lar that can be obtained from individual workers and workers’ organizations TODAY. The ultimatum from the printing concern is an indication of the serious- ness of the danger. Fraternally yours, THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Rush all funds to Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. CORRECTION. Two hundred dollars, not $100 as stated in the Daily Worker yesterday was received from the Tampa Cigar Workers Committee. ‘urriers to Mobilize |Church Treasurer in \N. Y. Anti-Imperialists | to Aid Dress Strike | Prison for Swindling | Will Discuss Caribbean. A general fares meeting of | ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 12 (U.R).—) ie Furriers will be held at Irving | Clinton S. Carnes, ex-treasurer of | ‘Conference This Eve. Celebrating the second anni- laza; Inving Place and Fifteenth the Southern Baptist Home Mission yersary of the Brussels Anti-Im-| treet, at 8 p. m. tomorrow. eeting will consider the mobiliza-| on of the furriers in aid of the ressmakers strike and a number | begin serving a five year term for t trade problems of the furriers. "embezzlement. 4 , - CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? : Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live > — 4 Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily : Worker for aid in its present crisis. - The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. ‘ After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- ing you the enclosed amount, $...... Name coccececeerseeses sedeaee Sevonvcseceense Seeedavoeged veeeeees ‘Worker’ Agents Meet Address ae a os er, “"""") | Qocal comrades are urged to at- Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without} | {cna an important meeting of Laily | delay. (Worker Agents, 8 p, m., tomorrow, j pi eine At 5G Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. 4 \ The Board, will be removed to the state | perialist World Congress of the} ‘prison at Milledgeville today to) League Against Imperialism. mem-| bers of the New York branch of the | |All-America Anti-Imperialist | League will meet at the Labor |Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., Room 42-44, tonight. Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch, and other ‘eampaign to win support for the Second Anti-Imperialist World Con- gress of the League, which will be) held in Paris in July. Prepara- tions will also be made for the Carribean Anti-Imperialist Confer- ence, to be held in Mexico City in| Labor Conference to Fight the War | Danger will be delivered, DESTROY WLR, (Fight Extradition of | Fred Biedenkapp at Hearing | | ‘Frame- -up Is Exposed ‘New York LL.D. Issues Statement (Special to the Daily Worker) | ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 12.—A he ig in the extradition case of |Fred Biedenkapp, national secre- | tary of the Workers International |Relief, was held before Governor Roosevelt at the capitol building jhere yesterday. Biedenkapp ap- peared in person together with Jac- | ques Buitenkant, attorney for New York District of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is fight- ing the efforts to extradite Bicden- | kapp to Massachusetts on charges jof conspiracy to parade without a} | permit and conspiracy to disturb the | |peace in connection with the New |Bedford textile strike. | The frame-up nature of the \charges against Biedenkapp was re- |vealed when William C. Crossley, | district attorney for the Seventh| | District of Massachusetts, placed on |the stand one Wilfred Coty, who | testified that Biedenkapp had been| | present in New Bedford on June 27, 1928. Biedenkapp, in his testimony, \declared that he had been in New | Bedford in May, July and Septem- ber, 1928, but was not there thruout |the entire month of June. Plot to Crush W. I. R. The defense attorney pointed out |the ridiculousness of the conspiracy | charges, which have also been | beought against 22 other militants, \including Albert Weisbord, secre- | (Continued on Page Two) | ak. RASS NO bine PROBE ~ ON SHIP-SALE |Board Hen’ Explains | Imperialist Tactic the | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12,— The senate commerce committee today \had before it Shipping Board Direc- | tor O’Connor to explain the selling lof practically all the government | liners to the Chapman Co. Some of |the senators seemed to favor the rival bid of the Winchester Co. O'Connor explained that the Chap- {man Co. would build two new liners | |with the capital furnished by the! government, and compete heavily | | with the British, for a private profit, j of course. | Imperialist Motives. | “We are not going into this for | charity,” said Joseph Sheedy, a former shipping board official, now manager of the Chapman concern, |“but we are going into it with a’ high motive.” | The Shipping Board had been di- jrected to submit to the Senate the | bid it favored. It will be passed | | upon by the upper house before final | aon is taken. | Articles on Mexico by Albert Weisbord Will Begin Soon) WHAT’S DOING IN MEXICO? | In an early issue of ‘the| | Daily Worker there will begin a series of five articles by Albert Weisbord, recently sent as repre- sentative of the Trade Union | Educationai League to the Mex- ican Unification Assembly of | | Workers and Peasants. The first article will deal with “Mexicans in the United Siates.” Other articles will follow, treat- ing with conditions in Mexico, the workers and peasants and their | organizations, and of the recent) and oncoming conflicts. ® i | © Camp of Green ‘An d Mat Wall spy, “indust: al engineer” and frame-up artist is making another assault. He has announced his complete solidarity with President Green of the A. F. of L. and with Vice-Presi- dent Woll of the A. F. of, L united drive against all progressives and Communists in the labor move- ment, He has organized a new flim- | flam organization known as the Al- lied Manufacturers’ League, Inc., “to combat communism and radical- ism and its inroads into American industr The new bosses associa- tion will confine itself to the textile and hosiery industry. So far only a few hosiery manufacturers have fallen for the game. Among the “outstanding membe' claimed are Berkshire Knitting Mills, of Read- ing, Apex Hosiery, Julius Kayser and Co., a notorious scab concern, and a number of small- er firms in Easton and Reading. In his press story, announcing the new hold-up game, printed in the} | last issue of the Knit Goods Weekly, MacDonald takes the credit for be- jing “the originator of the contract (Continued on ania on hae: Five) CHURCH INCITES CRIME, SAYS GIL Pressure From Masses Forces “Left” Talk MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—Declar- ing that Catholics were responsible for the attempt on his life last Sun- |day, when his train was dynamited, President Portes Gil warned the Catholics that “in the future” those responsible would have their prop- erty confiscated, The only step he took at present was the order to all} Catholic priests to register their name and address within two weeks. | The announcement of Gil was given to the newspapers, and its language indicates how~-the-rapidiy: growing revolutionary sentiment of the masses is affecting Gil by forc- ing him, in order to maintain popu- | lar support, to talk with revolution- | ary phrases designed to delude the masses. | Gil Talks “Left”—Acts “Right.” “Investigators of the recent ex- cesses are not sincere Catholics, but | bourgeois elements seeking to save | | the remains of that which was taken | from them by revolution. This is! shown by the murders of peasants | committed in the name of Christ the King, and also by pseudo-Mexican aristocracy’s protection of Catholic rebels. The government will seize) the holdings of authors and accom-| plices involved in revolutionary cai Such lands and factories will be given to peasants and workers to be managed co-operatively.” Lands Not “Taken Away.” Gil does not mention thi the lands supposed “taken from” the re- action by revolution, largely re- main in the hands of reaction yet,) as the law has never been carried into effect, and the threat is ac- companied with modifying talk that those who commit crimes are “not sincere Catholics.” The pressure of the masses on! Gil is indicated by his lower sub- ordinate authorities here, who are claiming that the presidential can- didate of the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Bloc, General Tirana, whom they call a Communist, is “stirring up peasants in Vera Cruz.” The peasants, it appears, do not trust Gil, but their own forces, to fight ‘against reaction. $600,000,000 BANK MERGER. CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (UP).—For- 'mal approval of the merger of the |Union Trust Company, tional Bank of Chicago and the First | | Trust and Savings Bank, consolidat- | BARE PLOT 10 Labor Spv im COOLIDGE COLD FIFTY ADDITIONAL SHOPS TO CAPPER PLAN ARE TAKEN DOWN AS BIG AS NOT NEEDED Republican Chiefs Say League Behind New Embargo Scheme Cal Has Power Already I Think Time Not Ripe; Publicity Too Great WASHINGTON, Feb. -Presi- dent Coolidge announced today that although sympathetic with the aim of the Capper resolution to make 12 embargoes on arms and munitions | called la mandatory in times of war, he be- lieves that the project goes further than is wise at this time. one of Mac-| |Donald’s old Philadelphia “clients,” The president already has au- thority, it was pointed out, to place |embargoes on arms shipments to Latin-American countries and to countzies in which the United States has extra-territorial privileges. This power, together hi of congress, in the white house | a claim at present. Proposals for exerting economic pressure against nations which en- ter into war inimical to U. S. busi- ness interests, or threaten to do so, were before both houses of congress today. Involve Kellogg. Chairman Porter of the house for- eign affairs ‘committee conferred with Secretary of State Kellogg to- day regarding his resolution extend- | ing the embargo powers of the pres- ident to include embargoes on ar and ammunition to nations which |are at war or threaten to be. | He asked Secretary Kellogg to | appear before his committee tomor- vow, but the secretary is due to| ‘consult with the senate foreign re- lations committee at that time. Thi meeting is one of a series regarding treaties, but in view of the discus- | (Continued on Page Five) -REPORT REVOLT IN VENEZUELA Small Army Marching Toward the Capital HAVANA, | “Excelsior-Pais,’ Feb. Cedeno, the head of a supposedly | revolutionary movement Juan Vicente Gomez, dictator |of 500 men from Los Llanos de C; nares, 400 miles northward to C the capital. The news orignates in a cipher cablegram received here by Fran- BACK BIG le ig | Ploited wor ‘needle trades workers 12.—The daily, strength of the worke publishes a lengthy | employed, wandering from shop to article stating that General Arevalo | shop looking for work, paid starva- against | regularity, subject to the t; of and whim of th |Venezuela, is marching at the head ized shops, these are the conditions ‘Shoe Workers to Meet cisco Laguado Jayme, who is the agent of Cedeno and chief of his council here. It was previously | jagreed that upon receipt of certain code words, Jayme was to release 2 manifesto of Cedeno’s and give the news to the press that armed at- tack had begun. The manifesto states purpose to be to overthrow dynasty of Gomez, who has Venezuela by murder for 20. “This is the sixth time,” says the document, “in the last fifteen years of moral battle against the bloody tyranny of General Gomez, that I have put foot on the soil of my dear country and this time I carry onthe end of my sword a message of lib- Cedeno’s “the on the organization campa yuled |the membership driv ears. | strike |Schwartz ond Benjamin ‘eration and complete guarantee of | security for the oppressed republic | and for terrorized Venezuela. | ‘The “Excelsior-Pais” forecasts the | strictest censorship on news from | Venezuela. First Na-| ‘New York k Central R.R. ain | ing approximately $600,000,000 in ‘Out to Frame Worker. | assets, was effected by stockholders | here. Stock of the First National for a Railroad Crash, was increased to $24,000,000, of | which 40,000 shares, par $100, was ers, share Hh: share. express last night in the New York | All City Astir Intensive work in the drive of the | Daily Worker to rally the workers ‘of New York for the two big Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday be- /gan yesterday, with volunteers | Working feverishly in the business office of the Daily Worker prepar- | ‘|March, and a revort on the First. ing the machinery of collection.) |From all parts of the city every | worker who had a bit of time to “spare spent it in the Daily Worker | office. The fact that the work— | tying bits of red string on the red ecards inscribed with the slogan | “Show Your Color!"”—was monoton- ous did not deter the volunteers. | Working at long shifts, with a mo-| ment snatched now and then for a Dav Activities for “Daily \speakers will outline plans for the! launching of a mass membership | Central tunnel, Park Ave. and 53rd | |St., was due to failure of the auto- | |matie signal system, officials of the New York Central Railroad today yy commenced a fake “investigation” ‘in an attempt to fix responsibility | with Tag Parson of the express train. bite to eat, they worked steadily, The local train was rammed by | and. cheerfully throughout the day. |the first part of the express. Al- | First reports indicate that the though the local had stopped for the final activity in preparation for the| red light, Parson, the company al- two big tag days is going at a | leges, failed to see the signal. Po- | breakneck pace and that everything | lice and firemen were summoned | | will soon be ready for the climax| when the crash was heard on Park this week end. Ave. above the tunnel. Railroad | munist) Party has taken 500 collec- tion boxes for its work in the Bronx. —— These have been delivered to the | 7-STORY FALL KILLS WORKER. different stations, and each unit is| Falling seven stories from a slip- [eaeneers before police arrived, | Party member gets one. Plans have | St. and Central Park West yester- | | also been made by Section 5, as well | day, a window cleaner whose name as by other sections, for collections | | Was withheld by police was instantly (Continued on Page T'wo) ‘killed. DRESS STRIKE SPREADS Workers Defy Police in Another Mass Picket Demonstration; 34 Arrested Rallies in All the Halls Today; Will Protest Police Activities at Meet Monday With about 50 new shops, employing hundreds of workers, taken down yesterday, the great d nakers strike continued its march into the sweatshop strongholds of the New York dress market. Constantly increasing in strength since it was st W ednesday, yesterday’s developments showed that Te ae *the strike is just about swing- WOMEN URGED Tf figs tite its atride add ema expected to spread greatly dur- > next few days. picketing esterday njected into the strike by solidarity picket demon- with the existing |Party Wienient s Dept. stration of Mon The militant stand of the thousands of strikers is as much as it is safe to, Issues Statement caused a temporary let-up in the | vities of the police who dis- covered on rests A stirring statement, to all women workers, Monday that mass ar- and brutality were powerless addressed urging them to rally to the support of the New/to break the picket lines. Thirty- York dressmakers who are now four e arrested yesterday, all courageously battling under the | be dismissed except three who leadership of the new Needle Trades | were fined $3 each. Workers’ Industrial Union, has been) yfother and Daughter Arrested. issued by the National Women’s de- partment of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. support of the ‘Rally to the port | ting. The mother’s case striking dressmakers! Their strug- sinlsded: when’ she apnearet in gle is your struggle Come out in) Jefferson Market Court, while the masseson the: Give} daughter was taken to Children’s aid and relief!” arrested were Mrs. and her daughter, 's old, both of whom those Se Gan ae oe Court where she will receive a Cae cnn in the statement) hearing this morning. The young ay ADO E: picket refused to be terrorized by The dres | cisive conflic makers strike is a de- not only for the ex- ers in the needle trad but for the American wor as a whole, in whos truggle s the are fighting in the vanguard. But it is for the women workers in the needle trades and in all other industries that the dressmakers’ strike has a special significance. Women workers consti- tute a large proportion of the work- ers in the dress industry and are the worst paid and most exploited section of the trade. Conditions Today. Toiling long hours under worse than sweatshop conditions, working piece work under an_ intolerable speed up system that saps the whole irregularly | the and i »| struggles of the strikers and demands they are fighting for. Pians for spreading the were outlined by Charles 2 (Continued on Page HARVEY TRIES T0 COVER GOP GRAFT Berg Ce Nothing” of $200,000 Bribe Boro F temptin ares 0 police n making the arrest began telling him of the the lent Harvey of Queens, to cover the graft of the in New York, H. Berg, former tion wages with great se nal ir- politicians rank and as one who was named boss in unorgan- mmany politician (Continued on Page Two) “private detectiv present when he was offered a bribe c£ $200,000 to stop his so-called in- Tomorrow Night; Need the Queens sewer Funds to Wage Drive Pav ee SESE { hom he en- A general membership meeting of j; VG 5, home Ont heater the Independent oe Worke had dag unpaledoer oF sae Union to discuss elections v ee “ : been offered at any held at the Union Hall, 51 E AREA Row eveL LEA St., tomorrow at 7 Magliacano, there Harvey been offers of money to which he characterized as “legal” matters and ing nothing to do with bribery. Tammany and G. O. F org: ions, stuck deep in the rain their vindling activities ing the past few years, especially the evidence attendant upon organizer the striker: Yesterday Both the held a meeting at Flushing Mansion, 1090 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, at which Fred Biedenkapp of the W. I R. spoke, The workers showed t ie Gi Shines same enthusiasm they have had the Queens sewer scandal. since the strike began over two CCRT weeks ago, and laid new plars to Tag Day Leaflets carry on the struggle. ° | The Independent Shoe Workers Ready at the ‘Daily’ Union, in a new call, lays far |Taising funds for Denying that a crash of al isting society is the history of allotted to Union Trust stockhold- Poughkeepsie local with the western | ¢lass struggles—Karl Marx (Com- for the accident on Motorman C. C. Collected | | | Section 5 of the Workers (Com-|workers, however, had quieted the | Peter Fireman, Trenton, N.J. seeing to it that every individual pery ledge on a building at 82nd i One hundred thousand leaflets to advertise the Tag Days of the Daily Worker this Saturday and Sunday are now ready for dis- greater stress on the importance of the continuance lof the organization drive and the | successful carrying on of stz workers are asked to h funds immediately to the office of tribution and can be obtained at the Daily Worker business office, 26 Union Square. All section organizers of the Workers (Communist) Party are instructed to call at the Daily of- fice for batches of these leaflets immediately. the union, 51 E. 10th St The history of all hitherto ex- munist Manifexto). EMERGENCY FUND a iy dons, | ence 1929, ; Brenner, $1; by Sarah Victor, Hamburg, $1; Detroit, Mich.—Piperidis ‘g, $1; Lischner, $2; K. Demirijia Kinafsky, 50e; Kuttner, Nucleus 6, | +. 50.00 Educational A: Miller, $1; K. Kasminskly, ction 6, $20; Sib Ure, $2; T. Be- . 1, $18; Unit 8, zeff, $1; St. Nucleus 15, Ss $15; G. Schwartz, $1; G. | ection i “34/50 whaseceeee 39.50 Schwartz, $1; G. Suchin, $2 $55.00 Collected at a meeting in 50.00| Baltimore, Md.——Wolf, $53 Golden’s Bridge Co-operative Kitt, Greenberg, $1; Farms, Inc., City—Anony- Mrs. Isaacs, $1; Berger, mous, $10; Ment, $5; Ar- $5; Sokoloff, Farinac- cous, $5; Rubenstein, $5; ci, $1; Kadyla, $1; For- Milstein, $5; W. Golden- | man, $1; Freistad, $2; Sha- berg, $5; Liebster, §3; Shumsky, $1; Anonymous, ; Oakinan, $1; A. Rosen- a icaimean on Page aoe) berg, $1; Tedmen, $1; Fan-