The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 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 = Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March FINAL CITY . EDITION Publ Pal jonal Daily Worker New York, N. ¥. Vol. v., No. 349 ing Association, Inc. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 _ TO DAILY WORKER READERS Comrades: APPEAR IN MILL Yesterday we received $743.70 from workers and sympathizers with the cause of the working class, as donations in the drive to save the Daily Worker. 2 2 ___ I.L.D. in Big Defense Fight; Darrow, Hays as Attorneys This makes the record of receipts up to last night as follows: Prior to Sunday, Feb. 10 ..... eevee. $7,641.88 Sunday and Monday receipts 812.65 Tuesday receipts ...... 585.92 pers Wednesday (yesterday) .......... ase i 743.70 Blow at New Union Total receipts to last night ....... Ue ele o es $9,784.15 Indictment Includes Strike Leaders (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Ma: 13. -The mill barons of N Bedford, through their instrument, the Su- perior Court of Massachusetts, will on Monday set in motion the elab- lorate fraud of capitalist justice when 662 of the most active partici- pants in the New Bedford textile strike face trial in the largest mass trial in the history of American la- bor. “" Yesterday’s Daily Worker told you how we had utilized $8,144 to meet pressing debts which would otherwise have closed the Daily Worker some pec aa Wednesday we were able to liquidate $725 more of the most urgent emands, The Daily Worker, the revolutionary organ of class struggle of our class expresses the thanks of all revolutionary workers to thosc who are contribut- ing thus to make possible the continuation of the workers’ paper. ‘+ Yesterday we printed in these columns the ultimatum from the printing concern which does the typesetting and press work for the Daily Worker. 662 WORKERS TO Jail 3 Young gait Workers; Gave Out Leaflets Three terrible criminals appez in the Fourth District Court ye: terday morning. They were Bertha Rosenberg, Rose Kleidman and Fre- da Kass, all members of the Young Workers League. These three des- peradoes were charged with the heinous crime of distributing leaf- lets to the pupils of Washington Irving High School, 15th Ssreet and | Irving Place. The leaflet protested against the | action of the school authorities in suspending Rose Pollack for mem- bership in the Young Workers League. | Magistrate Jean No: notoreus {for her anti-labor bi: ied to im- press the three girls with the enormity of .their crime. She was volubly supported by Principal Ed- ward C. Zabriskie, of Washington Irving High School, who proved that even the most mediocre peda- ogue can be expert in the art of king the boots of his masters. The three girls were however, vis- 4a by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by fail, $6.00 per year. TEN ADMITS DRESS STRIKE SPREADS AS NAVAL RACE AS ARRESTS CONTINUE; EXPOSE COOLIDGE SIGNS Fifteen Cruiser Bill Now Law; Funds for Building at Once U. S. Imperialist Says : : She ‘Menaces World’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UP).— Chairman Britten of the house naval affairs committee issued a statement today praising President Coolidge for signing the cruiser bill and charging that the Lord Birkenhead nayal construction program adopted by Great Britain “is a distinct men- ace to the balance of the world.” The British admiralty, on receipt of news that U. S. imperialism was From that ultimatum you know how grave the situation is, and how much MORE must be done to save the Daily Worker. Comrades, we are determined to secure the amount of approximately $15,000 in addition to what has been obtained, with which the Daily Worker, the only Bolshevik daily paper in the English language in the whole world, will be enabled to march ahead, freed of the pressing debts which have crippledand almost destroyed our paper. And we are confident that you will see us through this crisis for the sake of the working class cause which you and we serve. : Why are we so sure? Here are a few of the many letiers that are pouring in (we will print them ultimately) from those who will save the Daily Worker: Gary, Indiana, Feb. 8. Daily Worker, The trial of 25 strike leaders on | two conspiracy charges is also sche- duled to begin Monday. Among those indicted on the conspiracy charges are Albert Weisbord, secre- |tary of the National Textile Work lers Union; Fred Biedenkapp, na. tional secretary of the Workers In- ternational Relief, and Paul Crouch, national secretary of the All-Ameri- | can Anti-Imperialist League. Variety of Charges. The 662 workers are being tried |on a yariety of charges, including ; disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, parading without a permit and what- ever other charges the police offi- jibly unimpressed with all this fuming. | Jacques Buitenkant, representing {the New York District of the In- | ternational Labor Defense, appeared {in behalf of the defendants, but Magistrate Norris overruled ell his Jarguments and declared them | ogni: x | guilty. They were sentenced to one | inevitably to war, is going on be- |day in jail or fines of $5 each,| tween U. S. and England. They chose jail. | President Coolidge, as was expect- | rs ed, signed the fifteen cruiser bill to- | P day, after a fifteen minute confer iC ATHOLICS M AKE jence with senate and house leaders | | as to the best way to divert govern- } | |ment funds to an immediate build-| |ing program. It was decided that this would be ‘done best by passing | building a fleet against British im- perialism, accepted the challenge) | with a formal statement that Britain | would build an equal number of war- | | ships. All European official and} | semi-official comment has since rec- | ognized that a naval race, leading d | STORIES 0 F STRIKES END 30 More Jailed; Strike Committee Discusses Concluding a day marked by of dress strikers which crowded f strike committee at a meeti hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th § ing the strike still further for the un rE ae 5 ®tions of WOMEN MOBILIZE IN DRESS STRIKE Call Mass Meet Satur- day in Irving Plaza Working women of New York, or- ganized and unorganized, working class housewives and mothers who have felt the onslaught of the bosses’ attacks will demonstrate their solidarity with the striking ssmakers at a mass meeting this aturday. at 2 p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving The meeting has been arranged by the Women’s Committee of District Workers (Communist) Part A statement issued by the Place. | 26-28 Union Square, New York, Dear Comrades: Enclosed please find two checks—one for $59.00 and one for $51.00—also $5 in cash for the Daily Worker fund. The steel workers of Gary cannot afford to lose the “Daily,” the only mili- tant working class paper published in the English language. The following comrades have contributed: George Maravich, $5; T. Vlasonetz, $5; E. Kovaluk, $5; Sam Rudy, $4; Harry Reich, $5; Sam Belnko, $5; M. Germok, $5; Sam Kuchor, $5; J. Rusak, $5; George Paynich, $5; S. Chernisky, $5; J. Yankovich $5; J. Zenevick, $5; J. Gudan- dos, $1. ‘ -The City Executive Committee of Gary, Workers (Communist) Party, con- tributes $5, making a total of $115. We will try to send in as much as we can at the earliest possible date. For a strong Communist Daily! Keep up the fight ,comrades. With Communist Greetings, cials of New Bedford were able to |devise. All of the 662 Strikers have already been convicted in the dis- |trict court and they are now being tvied on an appeal. Some of them have been convicted as many as 12 times. Practically all the strike leaders are among the 662, including , William T. Murdoch, Fred Beale, Jack Rubinstein, Ellen Dawson and Eli KeHer. The International Labor Defense, which is defending New Bedford cases, is planning to make one of \the greatest fights in its history to | prevent the conviction of the work- ers. Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, who have appeared |defended Greco and Carrillo last | year, will lead the defense corps. Hays will be present in New Bed- |ford Monday, as will Joseph Brod- isky, New York labor attorney. The J. Rusak, - \I. L. D. has also wired Darrow to 9, 4 : * 5 | make all possible efforts to appear See’y. City Committee, Workers (Communist) Party. Lieve sk Uhe Seek GEAR celal! ‘ Los Angeles, February 6, 1929. y Try to Crush New Union. The International Labor Defense |points out that the trial of these militants is an atempt on the part |of the mill owners to deal a crush- ing blow to the National Textile Workers Union and remove its lead- |ing members from the field of ac- tivity. The I. L. D. calls upon all iass-conscious workers to back its fight to smash this attack of the joss courts which comes at a time en the mills are engaged in a ruthless wage-cutting campaign. | Galiad ae” Paul Crouch, national secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, was arrested yesterda; ;| morning on a warrant of extradi- tion to the state of Massachusetts. zs "|The arrest was made by two detec- tives of the bomb squad shortl; (Continued on Page Five) Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. Dear friends: Enclosed find my check for Two Dollars. Sorry I cannot make it $200. The condition of my eyes prevents me from soliciting aid for our paper. I gave your local collection a $6 check for renewal (made out to Daily Worker). Will be glad to receive Bill Haywood’s Book. Yours for a Better World, ae Siegfried Seiler. P. S—More than 50 years ago I joined the International in San Francisco. ‘At the age of 73 I regret to take a back seat and watch the Sunrise. Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. Dear Comrades: a Enclosed is my bit to help the Daily Worker through this time of stress— $100.. No sacrifice is too great to keep this fighting arm of the working class movement, the Daily Worker, in condition to strike harder and more effective blows against our deadly enemy, the capitalist class. Anita Whitney. - i Section One to Hold ‘Member Meet Tonight A general membership meeting of | Section 1 of the Workers (Commu- jin many prominent labor cases and | THREATS 10 KILL ‘Letters ‘From Heaven’ | | to Calles and Gil | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13—-With more bombs fcund, with threatening letters from Catholics seeking to re- venge the execution of Toral, the |Catholic murderer of Obregon, the | Mexican police are guarding many | ‘of the political associates of Presi- | jdent Gil and ex-President Calles, | while/three: foreigners, one a consul} of Bolivia, have been ordered eee | | ported for stirring up a Catholic re- | bellion. Ex-President Calles received many | gan. |ten on white cloth and said: “This | foll from heaven.” | President Gil, issuing a new state- | liment on developments, declared that | |newspapers were shielding _ the | |Catholies by trying to ascribe the | |erimes to “political groups or a po- | |litieal party.” He denied this-— | which was aimed by the papers to |turn attention from the Catholics to |the Communists—and said that doc-| juments and investigation show that | Catholics.” | CHARGE “GRAFT,” ANSWER “FRAUD” Grand Jury Has Case of Queens Bribe | The Queens County Grand Jury at! \2 p, m. yesterday took up the case of | |bribes offered to George Harvey, president of Queensboro. Harvey’s jdirect accusation is that the ring of politicians, both republican and democratic, that control Queens- ert Minor, an amendment to the naval appro- priations bill. The first appropria- tion will probably be $50,000,000. TROOPS TORTURE IN PHILIPPINES Attempt to Frame Up Peasant Leaders (Special to the Daily Worker) MANILA, (By Mail).—The cen- trai office of our organization has |threatening letters, some saying the | just received affidavits from our| |Catholics would kidnap his daugh- | jeader on the Dinaluihan estate, in| ter, who is married to a Yankee, a! the province of Bataan, revealing son cf a sugar capitalist of Michi- | the maltreatment given four peas- rk c a ‘tat ill Some of the letters were writ- | ants there by officers and vobtens Shoe Workers W of the Philippine constabulary, under American command. Extract: of these affidavits are as follow: On January 12, Martin Majada, peasant, was arrested by a constab ulary major with two soldiers, and brought to a sugar plantation which was burned some time ago. Hi feet were placed in the footprint (Continued on Page Five) |the criminals are “exalted fanatical! Mass Meet to Protest | Montenegro Murder in Harlem Tonight at 8 A mass meeting in protest against the murder by American imperial- ist tools of Hilario Montenegro, sec- retary of the Curacao branch of the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at Lexington Hall, 109 E. 116th St. The meeting is under the joint aus- s of the Venezuelan Revolution- sry Party, the New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League and the Harlem section of the Workers (Communist) Party. Among the speakers will be Rob- editcr of the Daily Worker; Luiz Martinez, of the Ven- ezuelan Révolutionary Party; Otto Huiswood, of the American Negro | Comrades, in New York this coming Saturday and Sunday will be TAG DAYS for the Daily Worker. Great results are expected. All members of the Workers (Communist) Party are being mobilized for these TAG DAYS. We are sure that you will be among them. Meantime all readers of the Daily Workers, in all cities and everywhere, |nist) Party will be, held tonight at | 6:30 at the section headquarters, 60 |St. Marks Pl. 100,000 Leaflets Now Ready at the Office |boro, and the sewer pipe manufac- lturers, combined to offer him a} i Labor Congress; Leon S. Ruiz, of | bribe of $200,000 to let certain prac-|the Spanish section of the All itises of his convicted predecessor,|America Anti-Imperialist League; Maurice Connolly, continue. | Carlos Fleury, of the Venezuelan Connolly was president of the | Revolutionary Party; Karl Reeve, | boro until he was convicted of par- editor of the Labor Defender, and | | | {Women’s Committee calls upon all |working class organizations which fight for workers to mobilize their member- |ship and sympathizers for the dem- onstration.. The Trade Union Edu- jeational League, the New York | Working Women’s Federation, the | United Council of Working Women and sections of the new needle work- crs and textile workers unions are rallying behind the meeting, the |first effort, under the leadership of |the Workers (Communist) Party, to \gather together all possible forces jof working women in support of the strike. | Communist women active in the | struggles of the workers and strike leaders of the new union will ad- dress the meeting. Hear Organization Talk at Meet Tonight The necessity of building up a strong organization to fight wage and speed-up systems w j cuts he shoe bosses are attempting to nforce will be stressed tonight at} |a general membership meeting of the | s Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, ich |at Union Hall, 51 10th St., 7:30 tonight. An organizational report Il be given by Joseph Magliacano, organizer. To aid the organizational drive, members and sympathizers are ask- ed to rush funds to union headquar- ters, 51 E. 10th St. Britain Increases | Size of Cruisers to Match U. S. Foe LONDON, Feb. 12.—In sharp re- |joinder to the U. mperialist en- larged navy, the British admiralty lannounced today that the new cruisers building for the British |navy will be of 10,000 tons each, in- stead of 6,500 tons, the normal size of British light cruis A further building program is expected, ac cording to the admiralty’s prom to build ship for ship with its U. rival. WAGE LAW “ILLEGAL.” VANCOUVER, B. C., (By Mail). are urged to intensify the drive to obtain the greatest possible donations, from | individuals and from workers’ ORGANIZATIONS—trade unions, workers’ | clubs, fraternal societies, etc. The need is urgent. Time is pressing. j Fraternally yours, THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Rush funds QUICK to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Sq., New York. EMERGENCY FUND of the Daily Worker Leaflets, 100,000 in number, are now ready at the business of- fice of the Daily Worker. All Party comrades, functionaries and others, must call today for bundles for distribution through- out the city. Factories and shops must be thoroughly covered in all boroughs. 'Hemstitchers, Tuckers | ticipating in a $5,000,000 sewer pipe | | graft. | | Berg Go Between. Harvey’s main specification is |that a private detective named Frank H. Berg, Jr., came with) others to Harvey's home at New, | Milford, Conn., and that the bribe was offered there. He says it was) offered again, before witnesses at) |his office in the Boro Hall. i 1 Berg admits the visit, but says he (Continued cn Page Two) | ‘Meet Tonight; Await) | dig, $1; R. Epstein, $2; R. Cohen, $2; C. Morrison, $1; Sarvay, $1; Roller, $1; Gerson, $2; R. Wenston, $1; P. Romont, $1; J. C. Constantine, $1; Alice Ho- gan, $1; Markoff, $5; Mina Ressman, $1; Fishman, $1; Spiro, $1; L. Morrsion, $1; Zema Zubkoff, $1; V. Ver- gun, $1; M. Nenki,» $1; Garfinkel, §2; Blanken- stein, $5; Rosenberg, $1; A Friend, $1; Eiseman, $1; Kaufman, $1; Novack, $2; Halperin, $2; Marks, (Continued on Page Three) Workers (Communist) Party, Gary, Ind.—Geo. Maravich $5; F. Viasovetz, $5; E. Kovaluk, $5; Sam Rudy, $4; Harry Peich, $5; Sam Belenko, $5; M. Yermok, $5; 8, Kuchor, $5; J. Ru- | sak, $5; Geo. Paynich, $5; | S. Chernicky, $5; J. Yan- Kovich, $5; J. Zenevich, $5; | J. Gutandos, $1; City Exec- | utive Committee, $50...... $115.00 Anita Whitney, Oakland, Cal. 100.00 Dollected by a comrade, City. i —A Friend, $5; A Friend, $5; W. Jackson, $5; Margo- las, $1; Zutkoff, $1; Dar- ~ ‘ (Call for General Strike All active members of the Hem- | stitchers’ and Tuckers’ Union, Local ;41, will hold a meeting tonight | immediately after work at 131 W. 28th St. This meeting, which is the | second of its kind held this week, | is called for the express purpose of | continuing plans for the mobiliza- | tion of the workers for the coming | struggle with the en/loyers. | A mass meeting of all the work- |ers in the trade is ) cing called for | next Monday. Details of time and {place will be published later, it is announced, MOBILIZE FOR TAG DAYS IN NEW YORK ‘SHOPS TODAY, TOMORROW FOR DAILY Today and tomorrow, all class-conscious workers of New| York will start the drive to acquaint their fellow-workers in| the shops and factories with the fact that the Daily Worker | is their paper, fighing their battles. Armed with collection | boxes, they will invade every factory in New York in the huge drive for funds to save the Daily Worker. Their slogan, today and tomorrow, will |be: “Into the Factories!” On Saturday and Sunday, the streets will be | |canvassed throughout the city/“workers clubs will be visited, meetings | and affairs will be called on to show their color in the Two Red Tag (Continued on Page Two) 5 Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch of the League. 'The chairman of the meeting will be Albert Moreau. 'Special Articles on Mexico by Weisbord to Appear in ‘Daily’ The recent events in Mexico in- | dicate that the Mexican masses of workers and peasants are astir with revolution while the forces | of reaction are taking ever more openly fascist forms. What's do- | ing in Mexico? That will be a question of growing interest to view of the signing of a Solidar- ity Pact between the new revolu- tionary trade union center there and the Trade Union Educational League. Albert Weisbord, who recently visited Mjxico as representative of the T. U. E. L. to the Unifica- tion Assembly of Workers and Peasants has written a series of articles for the Daily Worker, the first of which will be pub- lished tomorrow. Look for it, ¢ workers in the United States, in| | ' 4, |—The Canadian Supreme Court has) str‘ |declared illegal the regulations under jthe Male Minimum Wage Act of the interests of women) Draft of Settlement With Ass’n Bosses ‘England Is Retaliating To Continue Strike Until the Sweatshops Are Wiped Out, Leaders Say Fur Meet Today nthusiastic mass meetings r large e general held late into t in Man- dou ns for extend- Pic with undi out the day ket ken up clause by clause the tentative agreement the union’s conference committee ad worked out in the negotiations ith the D: Manufacturers’ Pro- ective Assoc After Char s immerman, who read the proposed agreement io the strike committee, had pointed out that besides the 40-hour, five-day week, the no discharge provision and the minimum wage scale, the new union had succeeded in having the employers concede a one- trial period i period. In the’ old agreement, which the company union is now alleged to have with other dress bi Sy @ boss had the right to dismiss a worker if he claimed that after two wee trial t rker did not suit him. In the nt pact the trial period is not one week, but even then a al cannot take place unless the n agrees to it. After a discussion on the tenta- tive agreement had taken place, the strike committee gave its leaders its endorsement and then made a de- ision to call a strike mass meeting for ratification of the pact by the rank and file before the agreement goes into effect. At the ‘mass meetings eariier in the day the strike leaders had con- ned as enemy propaganda, de- gned to injure the inspiring soli- of the strike, the tale that ike had ended. This was the carried in nearly all capitalist ‘s when they heard of 2 pro- od agreement with the Protec- ciation. The socialist press ed it up and howled that the had ended. e Trades Workers In- ion will never enter into greements before the general w po tive strike committee and before the rank and file of the strikers have ven their official endorsement of ettlem eedle In- The dustrial Union announced late yes- les Workers’ y the calling of a mass meet- ing of all cloakmakers for the com- ing Monday evening at 7 o’clock in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. A mass ‘membership meeting of the furriers has also been called, this one for tonight in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Report Strike Status. The purpose of these two meet- ings is to report to the workers of these trades the present status of the strike in the dress industry how the mobilization of the cloakmakers and furriers to aid the strike can be the most speedily accomplished and * what immediate measures shall be taken in that direction. These meet- ings will also take up. local trade s to the effect that the settled, which was the in- terpretation given to yesterday’s de- yelopments by all the capitalist pa- British Columbia, which was enact-| pers, is absolutely false,” was the |time the lumber and the catering | industries are the only ones to which | the provisions of the act have been | applied. @ |ed two years ago. Up to the present | (Continued on Page Five) y of all hitherto ex~ in the history of Marx (Com- The history isting society class struggles.—Warl munist Manifesto), Respond immediately ing you the enclosed amount, $ Address | delay. CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? Funds Vital of Our Press is to Live to the appeal | |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- e of the Daily ‘ Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without of °