The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 2

Page Tw G WOMEN URGED TO BACK BIG STRIKE @ DRESSMAKERS Party Women’s Dept. Issues State ment (Contin a in the n the wome Page One) y, under which the worst being cari in Americ develoy along with the merican imperial- he competition for i] and cheap p: on, finds ‘king women its readiest victims due to their weak econ and their lack of orgar Treason of Yellows. world Toda; omen workers in t need! s elsewhere, are suf fering from this att of the bos on'their wages, hours and union or- uni cor nization, ng aided by the tac of the aldem b up by § ~ party and its i-labo} wish Daily Forward who working hand in hand with the} bosses. The women workers in the dress industr and s¢ ec have struggled to build a union to fight for and de- fend their interests, find themselves today, because of this very struggle, and the strength they have shown, ect of bitter combination of traitorous official-| dom of the Sigman-Schlesinger In- ernatio with the emplo; to! wipe out the union, to destroy union} tandards and organization in the shops and introduce yellow company | unionism. Building of Union. “The great dresmakers’ st apt ike of} militant women workers rebelled against the conditions of the sweat- shops and through their valiant | uggle blazed the path of organi-| zation for all the workers in the needle trades, set new and higher/| standards of wages and hours and organization for working women in all industries. The organization of | great masses of women workers in the dressmakers’ union gave an im petus to the organization of unor- ganized women workers in the other needle trades and in other indus- tries.. Through the militant action and fighting spirit of the workers, | in the face of the bitter-opposition ; of the employers and’ thé sabotage | and betrayal of the union officials, a union was built up:which was a bulwark of women’s trade union or- zation and strengthened the po- ion of women workers everywhere. The workers of the dress indus- try and the women workers in the front rank, have put up a desperate resistance to this combination of| greedy bosses and rotten officialdom gar They have endured hunger, unem-| ployment, expu. of the Sigman International and ne attacks of the police and gangste line, netions pe prison sentence The heelers of} Hochman, Sigman and Schlesinger are putting the climax to the record | of betrayal b yas scabs against these mili 2 Present Strike. The d ’ strike of today 4s the culr m of a long and bit- ter struggle for a real union in the Gress ind a fighting union built on the basis of a class strug- gle with the needle trades workers | completely freed of their blood-| sucking officialdom, the first strike with all needle trades workers uni- ted in the industrial struggle regard- less.of craft differences, the first strike With all sections of the enemy clearly and openly lined up together in the opposite trench, the bosses, | the Dureaucrats, the American Fed- oa" of Labor, the gangsters, the | polie e, the whole apparatus of the underworld and the bosses’ many government, together with the eapitalist political parties, including the ‘socialist party. “Against this labor-baiting con- spiracy the workers are united in a struggle for the organization of th dress industry, for union shops, and union conditions, for a fight ns industry are showing an on acked | who through great efforts | attack by the |; | struggle against the bosses and or- when tens of thousands of|ter wages and shorter ho | that the only hope for a suce jleadership openly betrays them, League, Tam-) AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929 Leader of Imperialist Vanwuard Photo shows the old and the new commanders of the U. nvINE Major-General W. C, Neville, right, will be the new ser of the slaughter of Nicaraguan and Chinese workers by Vb Street Marines. He s Major General John Cy Lejeune, left Corps. super- eceeds gardless of craft Ii in the strug-! York. Exploited women in all trades gle-against the bosses offensive, and | and iadustries, toiling in the shops who are leading the Y of | and stor in the mills workers toda ug- and factor Make this strike your | zle toward the building strike! Follow the lead of the Left fighting National Needle ing; the fighting wing of the la-| dustrial Union. bor movement, which alone is lead- | t ne’ of Creat "Reaction: ing women werkers to power and! The women workers of the dress organization! Build up unions in| inspiring mple of solidarity and militar to o working women all over the coun. y. At this moment of deepest re- \action when the imper st govern- ment in Washington is rushing the preparations for war, while the bosses at home are plotting to de- oy the labor movement and fas ten the chains of compulsi labor land the speed-up upon the workers, when fascism lifts its ugly head in America, already strong and blood- a new Trades In- your trade’ under the leadership of | the Trade Union Educational ue, in which all workers are ted on the of the class truggle! Struggle against the op- pression of the bosses not only in{ your shops but on the nation- -wide | field of industry as a whole, the} political field where the capitalists | ontrol and use state and gov-} ernment as an ment for ex-| ploiting the workers! Take up the struggle against imperialism and im- thirsty, when pacifism is seeking to perialist war danger which threatens | |conceal the war preparations with| the workers of all countries and phrases of peace, when America is | especially the Soviet Union, the re- on the verge of a world war and public of the workers and peasants! | the American labor movement faces | Organize and fight for the defense a life and death struggle with the |of the Soviet Union, the fatherland, | employers, at this moment, the wom- | of all workers! en workers, the great masses of unorganized women workers toiling s and factories for a: ng unlimited | hours under the ‘lash of the sp) up, must aweken to a consciousness of their terrible condition and of its roots in the capitalist system and 'the imperialist developnient of Amer- ; icah capitalism, must take up the/ basis Carry on your struggle under the} leadership of the only fighting or- ganization of labor in America, the| Workers (Conimunist) Party; under the banner of the only international | organization of, labor which binds all workers in all countries in a chain of international solidarity, the Com- munist papenaecvonment MASS MEET WILL ganized into unions to fight for bet- for | equal pay for equal work, for aboli-| tion of the speed-up, for protection for mothers and chi'dren of the working class, for better working conditions and power in thé shops 3 | and industries. to free themsélves | from. the. terrible. exploitation and; 10 ° Organize . Women | subjection in which. they are held by} pets ao 2. the capitalist today. ; for Strike Activity The women worl find, as the dres: $ in general will | makers have found, ful struggle is under 'the leadership of the Trade Union Educational League Am meeting to organize New; Working Women in aid of the ing dressmakers will be held , 2 p. m.,-at Irving Plaza} ch St. and Irving Place, un- |and. the. Workers .(Communist)| 4... tha Jeadershi f Work Party. They will find that theare- 4 ecome Earle ane thes. eid| formist right wing and socialist} or fie Trade Union Educational the United Councils of sells them out and leads them into Workine Women, the N. Y. Federa- the slough .of. .campany ynionism. 7 tion. of Working Women, sections of that. the American Federation, of the needle a textile ‘unions and levels inaceeel oS STRRIROE oFe oeher: s mpathatic organisations, as i Juliet Stuart Poyntz, head of the! ers, uses every means to revent | at P National Won Department of them from organizing and ‘to dis- ] criminate against them in the imions, the Party, Rebecca Grecht and Ray Ragozin, of the Party district or- jthat the Women’s Trade Union - ey league, its female annex, imitates #2nization, Kate Gitlow, of the itorous class collaboration tac-| United Councils, Rose Wortis and s, and instead of organizing work. Pearl Halperin, of the striking hing women, seeks only to maintain | dressmakers will be among the} | its<"ownt’™ bureauertaey, the > Rose! speakers, | Schneidermans, atid Maud Schwartz-t Speakers will appeal for support es, whose chief-role teday is a strike-/ of the str in their struggle to breaking one, aiding the other bur-|defeat the attempt to restore sweat- eauerats of the A. F. L.°to smash {shop and piecework conditions, will |the women’s organizations, and’ set | urge the building of a left wing in- |UP open shops, that this same woni- dustrial union strong enough to en- en’s Trade Union League .acts,.as} the right to the job, wage in-, he political lackey of the capi fkalist fe creases and the 40-hour, five day political machines, and the. servant, week. of the bourgeois pacifists ‘and ime} | | perialists in their preparations 4¥ Give Lindbergh Girl | the next way, | Working women. everywhere! The From Morgan Dynasty | dressmakers’ strike is your strike, |'Their victory will be your ee MEXICO CITY, FebS‘f2.—It was |The new union they are building] officially. announced here today | | will be a stronghold for the spread-| that Dwight Morrow, Morgan’s oily | ing of organization- among the un- diplomat here, has got his daughter organized women workers in other | a Lindbergh. Simultaneously with industries, Rally all your forces to| the news that the chief aviator of | aid the dressmakers in their strug-| American colonial oppressors had | gle! Help to win this strike and to| landed his plane after being thought | jlay the foundation for the nation-! lost in a storm, it was declared here ‘wide organization of women work-|that he was engaged to Miss Anne ers! | Spencer Morrow. Other decorations | Come out on the picket line in|from a grateful imperialism will masses, women workers of New | follow. MAX BEDACHT BARE PLOT T0 | jextradite id jin “Economic and Political History Three Workers Killed, 20 Badly Injured in oon oe. Explosion DESTROY WAAR, AT STATE QUIZ Seriousness of Attack Pointed Out by I.L.D (Continued from Page One) y of the National Textile Work- and Paul Crouch, na- ional secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. Attorney Buitenkant declared the efforts to Biedenkapp were really ned to. destroy the relief ac- of the Workers International t Relief. Governor Roosevelt adjourned the hearing for one week to permit the defense to produce witnesses to prove that Biedenkapp was not in New Bedford last June 27. Workers faced loss of small of sli ® th for the closing. Photo sh ey oe : ae 12 Classes Ope Week at The beginning of 13 Workers School this w opening of the spring term of the’ Workers School. During the week, \six English classes will commence, while six general and _ political courses will have their first sessions. On Tuesday the first “Fundamentals from functioning in behalf of the | 9° Communion class began, wip its first session at 7 o'clock, with VOPIAGIASs | Eve Dorf as the instructor. Tonight The I. L. D. calls upon all class-| yf J, Olgin will begin his class in conscious workers to raliy at once| “Anarchism, Socialism, Communism” to the defense of their comrades and at 7 o'clock; A. Markoff will start |prevent their extradition to the mill! pis class in “Principles of Marxism barons’ courts. Immediate funds! y» gt 9:30 p. m., while Mary Ghent are needed for the defense work. and Vera Gréen will start English | They should be sent to the Interna- | jasses in English 5 and in English tional Labor Defense, 799 Broad- 6 respectively, on that evening. On way, Toom 422, Thursday the class in Engiish 7, Se ene with V. 1. Jerome as the instructor, \Fretheit Chorus Will | will begin at 8:30 p. m.; the Euro- Participate in Needle | Trades Ball Friday | m., and A, Harris will start his class The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will [in tintish Woe ae ay | participate in the program to b % j7, beginning at 7 o’clock, while on aa at the needle trades ball this | Saturday Max Bedacht will give the Friday evening, at the Pythian Tem- \first session in “History of Clas ple, 70th St., east of Broadway, un- | Struggles” at 2p. m. der the auspices of local New York, | _As registration for practically all Workers International Relief. lof these classes is very good, the Ben Gold, strike leader of the) Workers School will be compelled to hows gror lL, D. in Statement. The w York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense, in a statement issued last night by Rose Baron, secretary, warns against an;r illusion that the capitalist state of New York will refuse to aid the jcapitalist state of Massachusetts in | | railroading the 25 militants to long | jail terms. The I. L. D. points out the seriousness of this attack {against the leaders of three work- ingclass organizations of national | scope as an attempt to crush these | organizations and prevent them! the instructor, will begin at 8:30 p. Union, and Moissaye Olgin, editor | by the end of the week, so ali work- of The Hammer, will speak at the | jers are urged’to rogister without de- affair. ‘ay. bs sais as ie PT | The week after the Wo 3 Courses in History | School plans to begin 15 or so tional classes. Those that want in- of U. S. at Workers \fcermation regarding all the cot School This Semester | exys Schoul, 26-28 Union Sq. Three courses in the History ot Gee the United States will be given at the Workers School this year, ‘The| | who are well acquainted with Amer. first, “History of the United States” on Monday at 7 p. m., by Joe Speer; second, “History of the United States Since the Civil War,’ on Thursday, 7 p. m. by James Cork; and third, a more advanced course on hand at the office. of the advanced study in this course will For details regarding other courses at the Workers School a copy of the Spring Term announcement is available at the office of the Work- |ers School, 26-28 Union Square, 5th of the United States,” by D. Ben-| floor, jamin. In addition, a special study and research course of a very advanced [ahire will be given by A. Landy The Communists disdain to con- ceal their views and aims. openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible “Marx and Engels on America”| overthrow of all existing social con~ ditions—Karl Marx (Communist on fy theaaaye at 7 p.m. Only those manifesto) Show Your Color on FEBRUARY 16th, 17th Report at the Tag Day Stations for the when the five banks of the City Trust Co, were ele State Department a banking, which refused to gi “TAG DAYS FOR | pean History Since the French Rev- | | olution, with Juliet Stuart Poyntz as} eedle Trades Workers’ Industrial | close registration for these courses | the Spring Term Announcement is | Work- | ican History and are ready for some | be permitted to take this course. | TURBINE FROZEN IN WORST COLD WAVE OF EUROPE Peasants ‘and Poor Hit Most Severely BREME Three others seriousl. noon when an explosion w boiler factory here. The explosion resulted from an attempt to thaw out a carbide, frozen as a result of the cold wave, the fie: 390, which has held Eu » for the past few days. In Berlin, five thousand workers’ shivered in the city’s “warmth halls,” the unemployed were driven into the railroad stations by the biter cold, and_in rural districts in the vicinity f the y over 100 farm laborers died from frost-bite in a 200-year | Pecord:breaiking cold spell. Especially in the poorer districts, | tel has been exhausted, and work- ers’ families are gathering together the flimsiest rags in a vain cffort o offset the biting cold. Three chil- ee left by their parents in an un- heated reom in the village of Lub- linitz, in Silesia, were found dead when the temperature dropped to 3 below. Cut off from land by mountainous ice blocks, the poor peasantry in- habiting the small islands in -the Baltic and North Seas face starva- tion. So serious is their condition that the authorities of Lufthansa | were obliged to send squadrons of | airplanes cpus ne ee supplies. ek ay after a life ed by e any reason 1p of depositors before bank. ning This Wor kers School ings they put aw “DAILY” COMING Will .Aid "Struggle of Fighting Paper (Continued from Page One) in the shops and factories on’ Friday and Saturday. Long Island Section 9 has already | organized its committees for the dis- |Negro Party 'y Members ‘Hold Meeting Tonight } tribution of -the leaflets advertising | \the Tag Days, and are confidently.) ‘The: District Executive Committee awaiting.Saturday and Sunday to/of the Workers (Communist) Party, )put overstheir part of the huge col-'through Harold Williams of the lection drive. |District Negro Committee, calls up- Two hundred and fifty boxes have}on all Negro Party and League been delivered to the Brownsville! members to be present at the dis- | section of the Party. A big cam-/|trict Office, 26 Union square, to- paign is planned in this district. /ni¢ht at 6 o'clock. | Other ions throughout the city The call stresses the importance \haye perfected their plans andjof attendance at this meeting in promise to be on the front lines of }view of the fact that immediate | the -coHection driv: |tasks of. the most important nature Tips at No-Tip Shop! j must be acted upon for the support A ‘unique aspect was given the | jot the dressmakers’ strike. Daily Worker campaign yesterday when the No-Tip Barber Shop in the Work Center, 26 Union Square, announced that tips will, be_accepted | this week for the benefit of the} Daily Worker. A fifteen=foot’ poster is stretched across one of the. walls of the shop with the words “Show Your Color!—Tip Heavy—Exception Week for the Daily Worker.” Each worker ‘in the shop: is equipped with a Daily Worker col- | lection box, and these will receive | all tips. | Center, 26 Union Square. Throughout the city the call for} All women Party members must mobilization Saturday and Sunday |be present, says the call issued by | has been broadcast under the slogan | Kate Gitlow, chairman of the United “Show Your Color!” That is what | Councils of Working Women. all workers will have to do. this | Call Women Meeting for Tomorrew Night, An sneageael membership i ing. of all women workers and house- | wives who are members of the Workers (Communist) Party in District 2, and also'in all language fractions and mass women’s organi- | zations is called-for tomorrow even- ing at 8 o’clock at the Workers We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the work~ | week end. | Mobilize for the Daily . Worker) ing class is to raise the proletariat tp the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy—Ka) Marx (Communist Manifesto) |Tag Days! | |» Show your color! Show Your Color! Fifteen thousand Workers, picketing every Morning, rain or Shine, in the great Strike of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union Are showing THEIR COLOR to the Bosses, police, Gunmen, yellow socialist Scabs, Schlesinger and His gang of thugs! -* In New England, Continuing their fight Against the mill barons Militant members of The National Textile Workers Union are Showing THEIR COLOR To the police and Their allies, Batty and His corrupt crew! mM Fighting the battles Of the miners all Over the country, The National Miners Union is showing ITS COLOR To the Greens, Wolls and their Henchmen, to the Coal and Iron thugs and gunmen! * The Daily Worker, In the forefront Of all these struggles, Is showing ITS COLOR to the Thousands of workers Who look to it For guidance! mM SHOW YOUR COLOR *Too, by mobilizing For the Two Big Tag Days, this Lew. SATURDAY and SUNDAY; Get your collection box in The huge drive to Carry the Emergency Drive of the Daily Worker OVER THE TOP! Remember! 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