The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 1

eo " THE 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-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunda: Publishing Association, Ini by The National Daily Worker -28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Vol. V., No. 350 EW YORK, FRIDAY, F EBRUARY 15, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RA4 TO NEW YORK WORKERS! satist ocror Today every shop and factory, every place where members of our class are to. JACK JOHNSTONE. ve found—must be a scene of ACTIVITY! ae: important oe task, a task of the CLASS STRUGGLE is before nhl very New York worker today! Every worker who is conscious of his duty to his . : on lass must respond to the appeal of the Workers (Communist) Party to SAVE Indian Labor Congress ‘HE DAILY WORKER, our Bolshevik fighting paper, from going under in its Protests; Joins Anti- Imperialist League resent financial crisis! Today, Friday, EVERY member of our fighting, working class party MUST | . S41 | “ with him or her a collection box for the DAILY WORKER DRIVE. Have Fascists Help British e box with you IN THE SHOP. Take the collection box with you when you go aires) | ‘ut to eat at noon. Take the little box with you at the end of the day’s work, Fri- ‘Affiliation Ete e. of lay. Go among the workers WHEREVER THEY ARE—in restaurants, corridors, | LE.T.U. Tabled ubways, elevators, elevated trains—everywhere that members of our class can be) geriIN, Feb. 14—Jack John- ound—and GET DONATIONS to save the life of, the only working class daily stone, widely known in America as. ft S) i is: i ! a labor leader, who was arrested by ewspaper in the English language in the whole world Bit § Ge ELE alles atter speaking before the All-India Trade j Union Congress, has been deported The workers will understand what it means when you show them the box and ee ee ee ee pena iee ell them that the Daily Worker is in trouble, that it needs their help, that THIS is jta1y to the German border, and has he paper which fights for the workers in EVERY strike, EVERY conflict, in arrived safely in Berlin. ‘very phase of the life of OUR class. In addition to collection boxes you will) The congress opened at Jheriah, ave the tags and circulars, (boxes, tags and circulars are to be had at stations i,the Province of Bihar near Cal- : t : leutta, on December 18. Johnstone, isted elsewhere if you haven't obtained yours.) peg ace aes! oopetoue | Sent as a fraternal delegate from} FRIDAY is the day! Today! All day long! Morning noon and night, at work yor Chinat Parieg attended the. ind off work, you are to be at your task of collecting, and more collecting, and still |first session and addressed the con- nore collecting among the workers for the Daily Worker. peers. ae ay strnggle| FRIDAY, today, is SHOP COLLECTION DAY. [ihe Weller soca recent eee SATURDAY is to be TAG DAY. Wee Ee AES, Capea: halt SUNDAY is to be another TAG DAY. y were Walting for him FRIDAY you begin your important political task. IN THE SHOP. Saturday and Sunday (that is, tomorrow and next day) we take the collection yoxes TO THE SHOP again with us, and on quitting work Saturday we go out to” police who were waiting for him at} once arrested him. Under a de- ag the workers on streets, subways, in restaurants, halls, corridors, and homes. The tags will be used Saturday and Sunday, giving one to each worker who portation order of Bengal govern- (Continued on page two.) WOMEN UNITE FOR contributes. 4 . ie will be good on all three days. BIG DRESS STRIKE Get your RED TAGS and collection boxes today if you haven’t already received them, for the tag days of Saturday and Sunday. ‘Mass Meet in Irving The necessity is great. The Daily Worker is in DANGER. Thursday’s receipts Plaza Tomorrow were LESS than on any previous day since the first days of the drive. Here is che record: The workers will respond, if you will do your duty! The tremendous role that women workers have played in the strug- gles of the needle trades workers, Prior to Sunday, Feb. 10 . $7,641.88 | their great significance in.the dress- | Sunday's and Monday’s receipt + 812.65 | makers’ strike and the building of | Tuesday's receipts .... + 585.92 | the new Needle Trades Workers” In- | Wednesday’s receipts . 743.80 | dustrial Union, will be told at the/ Thursday’s receipts (yesterday) . 405.01 mass meeting tomorrow at 2 p. m., ease at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Total receipts to last night ........-- aabeass $10,189.16 ‘Irving Pl, called to mobilize ae | = re | working women of this city in sup- Because of the low receipts yesterday, we were able to pay off only $515 of the | port ce aeieitegie ie 8 hie a tne | Jebt when it was really necessary to pay $1,200. It was a dangerous day for the will be held under the auspices of Daily Worker the Women’s Committee of District! oo ee Comma Party, Comrades, we especially appeal to you to make these shop-collection and tage | Wiichstias come tor ygta Se & leader days a big success. We have called it a political task. It IS a political task. | ¢ Ui ect at ile a enue Through drawing the workers into helping the revolutionary working class paper, 2 program of militant class action you start a process by which they learn the lessons of the class struggle. This helps | ee a eae AUS and in future mobilization against the war danger, mobilization for strikes, for organ- eae ee eee izing the unorganized, for building the Workers (Communist) Party. And you can) SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. It is a political task. Among the organizations cooper- ating in the meeting are the Trade Union Educational League, the New | York Working Women’s Federation, Fraternally, ithe United Counel of Working Wo- men, sections o: e new needle THE DAILY WORKER. workers’ and textile workers’ unions, | ete. | Leading Communist fighters in the |labor movement and active workers Rush funds to DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York. in the strike will speak, including | P.S. Workers outside of New York! Don’t fail to do your part in ALL dis- juliet stuart Poyntz, Rose Wortis, tricts while this New York Tag Day drive is on! Watch its results—but do YOUR Rebecca Grecht, Ray Ragozin, Kate t! |Gitlow, Pearl Halpern, Gertrude part. Welsh and others. Women workers in the shops, cight Woodlawn, Pa., steel workers Shifrin and POLICE ATTACK «= "icscvess..veer se’ TRY TO DOUBLE two of the steel workers, Peter Mu- | selin and M. Reshetar, were sche- | duled to speak. Earlier in the evening Police In- spector Hoy, who led the attack of police ard United Mine Workers’ PITTSBURGH, eb. 14.—Police thugs on the convention of the Na- last night, heeding the tip of the tional Miners’ Union last Septem- Steel Trust, broke up a meeting of Pittsburgh workers, held at the La- hor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., in defi- ence of a previous police ban. ber, appeared at the Labor Lyceum ‘The meeting was called by the lo- and declared that the meeting would not be permitted. No reason was given. The LL. D. decided to go cal International Labor Defense to protest against the frame-up of Wil liem Shifrin, militant fur worker lence dressmakers, working class housewives and mothers are called | to attend. NAVAL BUDGETS » JAILED FOR woe soon or QUEEN'S BRIBE WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Con-, . ° a iD} ; ; Indict Underlings Only, tfipough with the meeting, despite the,| See 28, busy doubling the first bud. | police ban, | get estimate for building new cruis- | Higher-Ups Immune | The mecting opened with Pat ers under the recently signed Fif- R 2 | ush, a steel worker and a member | teen Cruiser Bill. raed Geo tien Cait 3 ibis 1 » | % % ¥ presi jueens did not tel ' por ks venest dades and Labor President Coolidge submitted for much. The net result of his story (Continued on Page Three) |immediate construction work the fol- of bribes offered and virtuously re- | lowing figures \fused is the indictment and arrest} | For construction work and ma-/of two underlings, none of the men EME R G E N C Y F U N D | chinery, $5,800,000. |higher up. No sewer contractors or | For armament, armor and ammu- | Dig political leaders. p ARES SEP Lak A POF AD ESET FP ! Frank H. Berg, Jr., the second of nition, $6,000,000. : two men indicted for the alleged Workers Contribute to Save the ‘Datly’ iim irre ne ine sites may be, attempt to, bribe Queens borough | | president George U. Harvey, was in! and the attempt of the Steel Trust to railroad to long prison terms! PR a eda government, |. hands of the police this afte: United Council of Working + lem, $1; Rabboy, $1; J. tae . noon. He is a private detective, Ha: Woman, N. Y¥..C. ....+..-$100.00 Solomon $3; R. Rosenstein, For Next Year Too. vey says Berg handed him $10,000 Collected by Frank Spector, $2; G. Torian, $1; D. Kan- | Congressional leaders had wanted to go in with the grafting ring which | Los Angeles, Calif—N. | tor, $3; Rabinowitz, $2; J. ‘twice as much money as Mr. Cool-| (Continued on Page Two) ; | Sunday, of the demonstration. And Tells About Bill Haywood The Daily Worker is proud to print herewith a letter from Lucy | E. Parsons of Chicago, telling of her impressions of “Big Bill” Hay- wood, whose life was so profoundly | influenced by the martyrdom to la- | bor’s cause of her husband, Albert Parsons, who died on the gallows in the Cook County Jail at Chicago, November 11, 1887, as a victim of capitalism during the great strike movement of the middle eighties for the eight-hour day. Meet Haywood in 1905. The letter of Lucy E. Parsons reads as follows: “It was in 1905 that I first met Haywood. I was a delegate to the convention in Chicago that organ- ized the I. W. W. Haywood was elected chairman of the convention. I met him often after this, and the long, earsst conversations I had with him are the most pleasant of | | my memories in my long connection with the radical movement. “Again, there was the inspiring | occasion at the great demonstration held in Chicago upon his acquittal in Idaho. I was one of a commit- tee who had arranged a great dem- onstration, to protest if he were convicted, but in case he was ac- quitted it was to be a grand recep- tion and jollification meeting. The Great Demonstration. “When the wires flashed the news of his acquittal, we tele- graphed him to come on to Chicago to speak, He had just time enough to arrive here on the morning, a such demonstrations as we could ar- range in those days! Nothing like | them now. | “Well, there was a crowd, con-| servatively estimated at around} 12,000, who met him in Luna Park. When Haywood appeared on the} speakers’ stand to deliver that won- derful speech, the yell of welcome that went up fairly shook the leaves off the trees!” INTL TAILOR C0, BALL IN BIG WAGE CUT Slices Ten Percent of Workers’ Wages (By « Worker Correspondent) Seventy workers without jobs don’t mean anything to the Interna- tional Tailoring Co.—when there is no profit to make out of them. If you don’t think so, ask the seventy tailors on the sixth floor. The com- pany said it didn’t pay to run the floor, so it decided to let them go. The workers appealed to the union, and the union sent its business agent | Beckerman, to look into the matter. He did his job so well (for the boss: les) that he got the firm to keep the|ing of the class struggle floor with a 10 per cent wage-cut | for the tailors. The company couldn’t have asked |* for anything better. Instead of fighting to improve the conditions of | the workers, the Amalgamated help- ed the bosses to pull off a wage cut) on them. | And this is in line with all the} actions of the Amalgamated since it sold out the strike in 1924 when they made a secrét settlement and| the bosses got the privilege of hir-| ing and firing as they pleased, with| the right to employ union or non- union workers. Such a policy only made a company union out of the Amalgamated, so that today a tailor | can put in a hard day’s work andj not make more than $25 a week even} with over-time. | The girls work for as low as $13| a week, since the work is so divided | sp and the company figures each! piece even to a fraction of a cent. That doesn’t worry the bosses nor) the union bureaucrats who always} .ook out for their own interests. As/ for us, we’ve got to have a union) that will fight to improve our con- ditions, against the bosses and their agents in the union. Section 2 Members Rally in Tag Days! All members of Section 2 of the | Workers (Communist) Party must | report at the section headquarters, 101 W. 27th St., tomorrow and S: urday, for participation in the | Daily Worker Red Tag Days. No | members will be gxcused. | Porteney, $5; S. Vast, $3; N. Berkman, $5; -P. Strier, $1; Cooperative Consumers League, $100, ... | Collected by F. Fierstein, Los Angeles, Calif., from ac- tive comrades ‘ Collectid by Sarah or, Detreit, Mich.—Shop Nuc- leus, No. 3.—S. Victor, 5; ~ E. Kindstrand, $5; J. Koz- low, $5; F. Buda, $5; A. Bliznik, $5; K, Zarotzewich, $5; F. Wesley, $5. Shop ‘No. 6—Fedor, $5; 0. Ova- (Continued on Page Three) Henkin, $5; J. Ageshian, $5; T: Rudick, $1; H. Al- pert, $1; Edith “Berkman, $2; B. Siminow, $1; S. Woolis, $1; M. Goldstein, $2; Gussie Reed $2; Albert Shanks, $1; Valerino, $1; Peter Pan, $3; J. Rubin, $2; L. Siminow, $2.50; Minnie Fradkin, $1; Clara Oswald, $1; W. Wallace, $1; Masjoia, $2; W. Ru- dick, $1; A, Feinberg, $5; S. and E. Glembot, $5; Victor Cutler, $1; Willem $1; S. Lippman, $1; Shu- \idge and his budget director, General | 176.50 | next year. There was much discus- sion about appropriating the money without. the sanction of the presi- 94.45 dent. CLIMAX TODAY | UNIT 1F, SUBSECTION 2A | Unit 1F, Subsection 2A will hold | a special mobilization meeting for the Daily Worker Tag, Days and the needle trades strike tonight at 6:30 at 26 Union Square, 6th floor. All members of the unit must at- tend. Worker. +: Today the workers of New York City will intensify their -work in the factories and shops in carrying to a successful climax the first part of the Red Tag Days to save the Daily Not a factory in the city will be overlooked. Organ- ‘izing, spreading the message of the Daily Worker while they H (Continued cn Page Two) IN “DAILY” DRIVE | The COAL IRON COPS’ MURDER OF MINER Lieutenant of Police Tortured Prisoner for Six Hours Bent Iron Poker onMan Stamped All His Ribs Into His Lungs SANTIAGO, Feb. 14.—Fur- ther details in the murder of John Bercoveskie, a farmer and part time coal miner here, by Lieutenant W. J. Lyster, a coal and iron police officer hired by the Pittsburgh Coal Co., show that the crime was one of revolting brutality. The gover- nor a few days ago declared that he would investigate the case and threatened the police lieutenant and an aid with the hideous punishment of being removed from the force if evidence showed they really did the murder. Eye Witness. Since then the governor has an- nounced that the killing was not jus- tified and has declared the two po- lice removed from the force. John Higgens, himself a former coal and iron policeman, has testi- fied that he saw Lieutenant IL beat and stamp his helpless victim into a pulp, the torture lasting six hours before the police finally got him killed. Higgins charged that after Coal and Iron Policemen H. P. Watts and Frank Slapkis had beaten Ber- coveskie unconscious and delivered him, still insensible, to the Imperia barracks of the coal company, Lieu- tenant Lyster finished the killing (Continued on Page Five) TONIGHT TO AID DRESS STRIKE \Olgin Shows Necessity of Workers’ Relief “The iieedle trades strike henefit hall tonight at Pythian Temple, Broadway and 70th St., which being held under the auspices of local New York, Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, to help the militant Needle es Workers Industrial Union to victory, mendous demonst class soli is should be a tre- tion of working to according ued by Moi { the pri statement j O1 wko is one at the aff According to Olgin. gin, eak: ‘the sharpen- in the United States, the de ignation of the working + American imperia prospects of a Hoov tion which is nothir g of the “eff rol of big bus chinery of th e tom, all this augurs for new tended struggle between the m of workers and the American cap- italist: “Every struggle is always accom- | panied by the necessity for Red Aid. Workers’ International Relief, of which local New York is C- tion, is an organization tha its utmost to bring aid to the work- evs in the class struggle.” but @ of the con- ev the ma nd “Worke ould turn out in mass at the solidarity ball tonight and to have their organizations _repre- sented.” Local T.U.EL. Issues Call for Dress Meets Local New York, Trade Union Ed- tional League is arranging for meetings of all the Leagues to mob- ilize them for support of the dress- makers’ strike. The Food Work s Section meet- ing is called for today at 6 p. m. al joles the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, fourth floor. The Building ing will be held tomorrow at the Workers Center, 2 Square, fourth floor. The Needle Trades Section meet- ing will be held tomorrow at 0 >. m. at Irving Plaza, loth St. and at 2 p.m. 28 Union 6, ‘Irving Place, main. hall. All members of the Trade Union | Educational League of the above- Findedpemaycsesiee to sai COLLECTIONS IN SHOPS TO R fas | They wanted at least $12,000,000 for | E ACH mentioned sections are instructed to | be at their meetings to receive re-| ports from a representative of the | T. U. E. L. and the strike commit- | tee and to mobilize for the neces- sary assistance in the strike. | TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, LOCAL NEW YORK. + TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Feb. 14 (UP).—Grover Green, pilot, as candidate 0. tive Mexico, peasant Worker T Lucy Parsons NEW DETAILS OF * "<i Pedro Rodr for f the of the leader Vera Cruz. SHANGHAI, Feb. object of an attempt to him by a white guard Rus Bloc, formed recentl Comm Tirana i FINAL CITY EDITION sident of Mex > and Peas at the Part the from TRY TO MURDER SOVIET CONSUL + White Guard As Foiled at Harbin dispatches archist. a the the The Consul-General, M. Melnikov, was fired at twice by gave his name tack being mi et Un: missed the consul The m at Harbi and selves overeame and turned farbin authorities, with a pro- test at the obvious lack of 14.—Manch Moi in the the intended his him over pr tion being given by the Chinese thorities to the safety of Sovic ficials. PARLEY T0 Ald st ry un is rion « DRESS STRIKE .. T.U.E.L. Issues Appeal to N. Y. Labor 1 the ing on for ruggle itions. to all ations were bei 1 New . The Saturd: Trade Union , New York Le to a conference of tions for the ort for the brilliant a real union an he coll. printed in circ ing distributed in the York conference in the h St. and Irving Place. The call follows: TO ALL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS and Sisters, Fellow-Work- ousands of dre come out on strike in New York ( against inhuman sw ssmaker work sent 10U indus ial c led ternoon, Invi h nakers (Continued on Page Two) Boston Sewer Blast persons w night, Puts 35 in Hospital BOSTON, ffering cuts, after three the downtown d of local graft. (glass | i The entire Fek b. aken to hospi from Summer felt the explosions in the three Windows were broken strewn over the stre es eS ee ae Trades Section meet- § CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? bru explo} cts of street Respond 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 Address immediately ity hop condi- ES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. assin n mon- man who at- late of Both | tes the would-be tc 1 purpose nd: centtrs 14—Thirty-five Is to- Boston. Boston's sewer system is a product area and ‘Funds Vital - if Our Press is to Live Price 3 Cents sais § JAILINGS. AS POLICE FIGHT STRIKE GROWTH ButBossesNowConfess That Industry Is Strike-Bound Wail at Lack of Scabs Strike Rallies Today to Vote on Pact the day’s ev led b Industrial ified police ests which e end the ed by the union, mouncement of a membership meeting of all next Monday. he strikers in all also be held this for the purpose of discus- cation of the agree- ss Manufacturers f ciation, an employers ization representing a section industry. 79 arrests made at demonstrations yester- » and afternoon, the failed to halt the picketing a result many more dress- ster in the joined the strike. » general membership meeting dressmakers to be held this evening immediately after the of M nday work in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Av of putt , is called for the purpose into practice the plans out on strike still more shops. Dressmakers ing in settled shops as well as on strike are called to the non-union work anwhile intensive mobilization 1 strikers, and members of the on in all other crafts is going on for the big picket demonstration to be held this Monday. Strike lead- ers claim this one will be as big and as the one last Monday. how directly tied up with uppressive activities of the fio- the Schlesinger company > is union, was again shown yesterday whe R Morr of the law offices Markewitz, right wing law ed in a Brooklyn court yes and stood at the elbow of instructing him terday the district attorne how to frame up five workers ar- Island. ein, Meyer Fineman, rested in Cone; y ted while on their Island last night. police station on this charge was ged when they came up in the Ma tes Court before Magis- trate Ste when it developed that the “con ed weapons” police had charged them with carrying turned out to be the handle of the jack for the automobile they were riding in. change in charges, the n and Hartenstein 00 each while for > at $1,000 each. This the judge when the Right wing lawyer got the floor and charged the workers with being gi sters. Hartenstein, the (Continued on Page Five) 200 Shoe Workers in Member Meet Pledge to Intensify Campaign Over 200 shoe workers last night attended a general membership meeting of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, 51 E. 10th St., and pledged to intensify the fight against wage-cuts and speed-up in the industry. Reports by Joseph Magliacano, or- r, and H. Levine, business gent, showed that the crews cf hree big shoe factories had joined unio The speakers last night again sed the fact that to carry on the struggle more funds must be forthcoming immediately, both from the membership and other class-con- scious workers. All donations should - be sent to the office of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union, 51 E. 10th St. n, Were arr to Coney yked at e felony spite F le thr other s done by ® to the appeal of the Daily eiflediand Robert Sanpiigton, wv pas: Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without | senger, was injured when their ai. | |delay. plane crashed here today, le. — Se