The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 1

Sor emer OFFICIAL PR Tea tao ts WW oa nT DOCUMENTS, COURT RECORDS OF HILLQUIT STEAL TO APPEAR IN “DAILY” IN FEW DAYS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party =— aily Worker Entered as second-class matter at (he Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol., V., No. 352 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Pablishii ing Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sa., jew York, N. ¥. In New York, by m: NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 MASS PICKETING TODAY TO WIDEN ‘SAVE DAILY FUND’ IS VERY LOW Outside New York, by mail, 80.00 per year. ___ Price 3 Cents KELLOGG FAVORS WORKMEN CIRCLE Sport ‘Daily’'g)) MINERS. ON Is Plea of Mill EMBARGO TO HIT SOCIALIST HEADS STRIKE AGAINST SCOPE OF STRIKE WholeIndustrialNeedle | Union, Sympathizers | Are Mobilized Protest Rally Tonight | Meeting Tonight for a'| Hemstitcher Strike The entire membership of the! Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union and thousands of sympathetic | workers in other trades, will con- duct a mass picketing demonstration this morning in the dress manufac-| turing district here, now paralyzed Comrades: The receipts for the two days, Saturday and Sunday, in the drive for funds to save the Daily Worker were VERY SMALL, only $515.44. This of course, does not include the amounts derived from the New York City tag day collection which took place on the same days. The tag day results cannot be known until after this paper goes to press and can therefere be announced only in tomorrow’s Daily Worker. The low ebb of out-of-town collecttions yesterday and the day before may partly be accounted for by a centering of interest upon the New York tag days. If so, there is much to worry about in this. In the first place, this tag- day drive in New York could not possibly have ended the difficulties of the Daily Worker; and in the second place, it is already known that the results of the tag days is not as large as had been hoped. Aside from the returns—as yet unknown—of the New York tag days, the record of receipts up till last night (Sunday) are: EPP BRMONM) Cs MME aie wl d.e araiert ale dcdikg,d viv ole tienes ae's's Cow ac ee $7,641.88 FOES OF EMPIRE |Tells House Committee | President Must Watch | Interests of Trade ‘Protect Munition Trust (Resolution Extends a | Power Already Held WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Ap- pearing before the House Commit- | tee on Foreign Affairs yesterday, |Secretary of State Kellogg ap- proved the general principle of the ‘Strike Leader rank and file leaders developed by the New Bedford textile stri “City Cossacks” Slug: tmows what the Daily Worker means| Join National Miners’ | Those Who Expose to the workers fighting in the class} Union: Struggle I d Seab Union Aid | by N.M.U. Officers erie Fight Over U. S. S. R. |Answer to Union Call Will Spread the Strike Lifshitz Is for New Unions in Conference to Other Properties WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 17.— | Six hundred miners mployed in the Powhatan ne struck in a body early Saturd in defiance of a he coal company. More e strikers are Negro CONDUCT POGROM | | A pogrom in the best style of the gangster-ridden “socialist” union machines was the method employed by the right wing clique in an at- tempt to stifle the voice of the left |wing delegates at the National Con- AUGUST PINTO. Ye eae d Week of Feb. 10: Porter resolution to give the presi-|ference cf Workmen’s Circles in miners. The strikers immediately by a strike nearly two weeks old. | Sunday and Monday dent power to place an embargo on | Websier Hall yesterday. The pog- | war. Arrested and beaten insensible | eclempned the headquarters of the Preparations for this picket Tuesday as tore country which he|%™ was carried through by a spe-|by the police during the strike,| National Miners Union requesting demonstration were made all last Weilesday | cares to declare is violating the Kel. (‘ial committee of 90, otherwise | biacklisted now by the bosses so|organizers. Robert Matusek, presi week at the numerous meetings of "Thursday ogg cence areata? | known as the “City Cossacks.” In | that he is unable to get a job, Pinto| dent, and Andy Plechaty, secretary- the strikers, with other symnpathetic Friday | spite of the severe beating up of a | knows the necessity of keeping the| treasurer of the Ohio aistrict, Na- labor organizations joining the union in calling their membership and followers to attend the demonstra-| tion. As a reply to the brutal police terror raging in the dress strike, which resulted in more than 617 ar- rests since the strike began, the strikers issued the call for this pic- ket demonstration. “Spread the strike through more and larger pic- ket lines,” was the slogan issued in fighting the police terror and the frame-up plans of the bosses’ and Saturday and Sunday (yesterday) .. Total receipts to last night ..............ceeeeeeeeee $11,212.70 Comrades, this leaves the Daily Worker short approximately $14,000 of the sum that is absolutely necessary to liquidate the crisis. We earnestly re- quest all readers of the Daily Worker, all militant workers, to REDOUBLE their efforts now to pull their revolutionary fighting organ out of danger. Until we can secure the additional amount there can be no assurance of the continued publication of the only revolutionary working class daily paper in the English language. { | Don’t Hurt Trade. | The embargo power, Kellogg made | clear, must not be used where it has no effect in increasing the influ- | ence of American imperialism by de- | priving one of its enemies of the|shitz, the spokesman against the | sorry that I can’t help towards our | the s tools of war. An embargo that merely interferes with the profits | of American munitions makers, Kel- |logg has no patience with, “The president would have to con- |sider whether the embargo would | be of any value,” Kellogg explained. Cal Says Don't Need It. number of left wing delegates, the | mighty organ of the working class | tional Miners Union, immediately |left wing conducted itself so well | that the right wing was forced to vithdraw its motion to call on the sheriff to eject Delegate Ben Lif- jright wing promise of support from |the Workmen’s Circles to Schlesin- | ger’s International Ladies’ Garment | Workers’ strike-breaking company union. The fcllowing were beaten up: Sol | Fishbein. Branch 187; N. Fishman, | |Branch 417; W. Davidowich, Branch | jalive. In a letter to the Daily | | Worker, he writes: “When I hear that the Daily | Worker is in danger I feel very} (Continued on Page Three) | NEWBEDFORD TRIAL PUT OFF sponded to the call. Powhaten lies ck in the mountains far away from tr M nmmediately organized into a local union of the iners Union, scheduled a meeting and selected uittees. The strikers unanimously voted to telegraph Pat national secretary-treesurer . M. U., to address their big € meeting. National large variot Toohe; f the str Theae sirike treating faves hare| ,_. EVERY DAY without exception the still remaining difficulties of press- | president Coolidge has expressed [Pere uses aes, Manan __Toohey, together with Isaiah already oiled their frame-up| img debts for technical services (which have piled up so high in the past), put | imselz, coyly, as not being in favor |‘Titiefsky, Branch 272; J. Lotker,| mere. | ak one ellcenoua Neseianigs machinery and are swinging it into| the Daily Worker in precarious cond tion. of handing the president so much |Cohen, Kopel, Kelner, Branch 254;|Biedenkapp Will See |azd,member of the executive board action against five workers arrested several days ago and charged with “carrying concealed weapons.” Tuckers, Pleaters Strike Soon Leaders of the dress strike and the heads of the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hemstitchers Union, Local 41, an auxiliary trade to dressmaking, are conferring on the plans for the strike to be called in this trade in a We are sure that you, the workers who depend upon the Daily Worker as the only means of voicing your class struggles in the native language, will re- spond better—IF you don’t get over-optimistic. An interesting indication of loyal support is given by the raising of 49.25 by the Chinese language fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Another was the raising of $100 by the United Council of Working- Class Women. Still another: The members of the staff of the Freiheit—our additional power, and made several cautious remarks to the effect that sufficient power already existed to deprive any courtry defending itself against U. S. imperialism, or gov- ernments supported by U. S..imper- \ialism, of its arms. | tion that as the new rights granted | the president under the Porter. reso- | lation in the senate were not really Coolidge seemed to take the posi- | | Spizheiser, Branch 875; Rena Green- berg, Branch 330; Altman, Branch 9i; Schiller, Branch 608; Smotritch, | Branch 91, and S. Kniazik. | The following were driven out of | the hall: Pollack, Fishman, Cohen, and Spizheiser. The Workmen’s Circle is a Jewish fraternal organization with a large | membership. N. Y. Governor Today | (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mas —The trial of the 25 te | was scheduled to start in superior |“ | court here tomorrow, has been po: poned_-until next. Monday. - The 25 workers are facing trials | of the N.M. U. liam St ber for t together with Wil- m, executive board mem- Indiana district, N. M. liately went to Powhatan. ke committees were crganized, demands were formulated, the or- ization of the strikers perfected, ampaign for a militant fieht The strike oceurred in response to the call of the M. U. drive against few days. Communist dajly paper in the Jewish language—raised among themselves | recded it was pee to let well) Weinberg Dodges. | on two counts, conspiracy to parade | wage cuta. che vine ee The last lie ati, * Fd s. :. , a 7 enough alone, and not raise a storm The conference was opened by | without a permit and conspiracy $01 018 pute 36, Fight age inate last mobilization meeting of $22 in spite of their own needs after missing many pay-days. of controversy and alarm the rest | (Continued on Page Two)” | Gatett thence cee ts, 2 Cute” leaflets’ throughout Oho, 1 | held tonight at Irving Plaza, 15th We urge all workers to concentrate on getting donations from ORGANI- of the world. Kellogg yesterday grand jury on evidence furnished | Fennsyivania and West Virginia. St. ds Irvi ~ : A eye . es . oe ase . seemed to disagree with Coolidge, or | solely bv police officials. The con- a company had reduced the pare age ea mired ZATIONS, in addition to every possible contribution from individuals. at least with Coolidge’s expressed | SILLOW AY N OW spiraey indictments include the lead-| wages cf the “day men” (hourly has a company union local to con- i ; 7 views. |ine figures in the strike, as well as! employes) from $5 to $4.40 per day. 1 tend swith whan they ate tN ice: __ The need is great. And if you will push hard now you can make the Kellogg pointed out that under the Ibert Weisbord, secretary of the) ‘The N, M. U. drive is taking on S gle for union conditions against| drive go over the top, putting your fighting revolutionary Daily out of the | p:csent law the president's power to | National Textile Workers’ Union; intensity. More strikes are expected pt impose embargoes is limited to Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary y. The entire 600 miners plore * danger zone. Sovth and Central American na \of the Workers’ International R ined the M. U. at Powhatan ee 1 | Sov ni can na- }o: e Workers’ ern 2 e~ -U. - ' alee Fraternally, tions and countries where the United | See: lief, and Paul Crouch, national sec- 3 has a membership of Mehiees Meets Tonlpkt: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE 'States 1 treterritorial rights, | tary of the All-America Anti-Im.|50 additional members organized 4 q ‘ States has extraterritorial rights, i retary of the All-America Anti-Im-| ional m Ts 4 Di ee Re |such as China, Persia and Egypt. | Advantageous to State reiclist League. in Local Union No. 1 in Powhatan. g ee he i +449 . zt «racy charves were | M@king a total of 950 members o hether abet Pepa act 2 . 7, K * x, | He saw no reason why the presi- Didn’t Kill 7 The fake conspiracy charges were ; Bape Tied chose ane cutie ne inset] 2 Send all funds QUICK to Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, |< st" no teason why the presi-’ — Cops Did trumped up as supplementary to the (Be Militant new unin the town ha Pup: § é : owhatan, t tend a membership meeting tonight M Pee -1909. j ened as proposed. CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Major Fred | mass trial of 662 New Bedford strik- eel in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third : i Newton, Mass., Feb. 7, 1929. | omens area D. Sillo deputy prohibition ers on a variety of charges. The| minors hells 1. 7 Ave., immediately after work. Dear Comrades: : ere agent for Chicago, who Friday, so | International Labor Defense is con-|jocals and taken. away from the k Chief among the problems to be | Lam enclosing check ($6) which explains itself. I regret to see the struggle the ; all the reporters said, charged the | qucting the defense work in both Cor y Union, United Mine Work- c taken up at this membership meet-"} Dailv Worker is having to pull through. ‘ Police of the city with being the/ ia, which are looked. upon as “work has ressed t- , ing, the general strike committee | [am 73 years of age and would rather go on two meals a day than miss a copy. It murderers of seven members of the | sinone the most significant in. the babies ty aceied u announcement states, are further | is the only working man’s daily paper printed in English that I know of. How long Moran gang of bootleggers lined Up |, cory. of the legal-batiles of Aine Will Spread Strike. 31 pine i eesapai? out. the strike | it is geing to take the workers to become class conscious and read a real newspaper? bad and shot down in a ore t i St. icant labor’ The defaiae alloca The policyeof tha Moo) UE em Maite | It points out the class struggle they are going through every day, walking the streets | eeraes) ias seen 8 epee’ Ye) are headed by Clarence Darrow, Ar-| be to spread the Powhatan strike to i recta! ae een ‘ and cannot find work and when they are hired they received a wage that barely keeps Earnie He has devided that such expose |thur Garfield Hays and Joseph other propert Since the miners 25 New Settlements. | body together from day to day. N h a thi th 2 Is! Ni h j ¢ Les ne interfere with a man’s politica a mae Dey sapeetl " ‘4 ‘The meeting will also have before | thing a good clothes! Not even a good bed and room! What in the name of common Reinstate Leaders, But jrrrnd vet it ix more profitable |Bredsky. See aa a eae Gane it the task of taking action on the | sense is the matter with you working men and women? You make all of the things Bosses Plan Reprisal to retract them. He now says he |. : Tadic. | Uigeunleds ‘aveettlanteny jaciadaiie n proposal that all dressmakers work- society uses and for being so good and kind, to your masters, you yourself and your didn’t mean thai the pclicemen ac-| ere percre Rovonts poenye the company with the strikers; the e ing in settled shops work one day family go hungry. That’s all right for yourself, if you want to, but what about your Two hundred and fifty workers|tually did the shooting, and that; (Special to the Daily Worker) MU will deGare a ateiee ona i for the strike, so that funds be ob- children? Wendell Phillips said, “Men do not get freedom, they take it peaceable if employed in the mechanical depart- | every reporter who thinks he heard| ALBANY, N. Y.—While the trial | Sroperties of this company; and tie n tained for carrying out the union 8 they can, forcibly, if they must.” Franklin said, “we must hang together or be hanged ment of the Proctor and Gamble|him say that is entirely wrong. He |of 25 labor militants on fake con-/| up preduction completely. n strike program of eliminating the separately.” Soap Company, at Port Ivory, Staten | still does say today that he has evi- |spiracy charges in connection with | hb pean atl the dress manufac- Yours in Comradeship, Island, are back at work this morn- | dence connecting eee with ste |tne New Bedford strike draws near, | FLU RAGES IN BERLIN n uring: Pa are M. J. MOORE. ing after striking one day, as the | west side gangs of . apone and | req Biederiapp, national secretary | BERLIN (By Mail).—Ten emer- 4 Besides the agreement with the 7 Piet Guat nada a [eee ee san eee ee etemen® 1 bege: Fannin: jot the Workers’ International Re-|gency barracks for influenza pa- ‘ ees es " 1 a S any offici: y A a e m pti i i i 4 Protective Association, union offi- Argentina Angry at mode SEES ate, Sema! ers |b b)] that ah attience speed-up system ao ntascre: lief, will for the second time appear {aan are being hastily run up in cials announced 25 additional agree-! 17 G° for Pro sals ‘ Ae 3 lhe abolished and that the strike| After more than 72 hours of “in- | tomorrow for a hearing before Gov- | Berlin, as all hospitals are full fol- pl ments have been reached with inde- - S. 10 po: The Argentine el Union, Senders: he retustated, vestigation” police could not point |crnor Roosevelt to combat efforts tee a pee ineeeases para ma pendent shops, bringing the total of to Raise the Tariff an organization of native manufac-| r Bale to a single important arrest that |to extradite him to Massachusetts |ber of sufferers {rem the epidemic. r th ‘ * | Though never before organized, elated . * ‘ Several hundred workers have died m agreements outside of the associa- che turers, with their own interest at A ; x could be linked directly with the/as cne of the defendants in the con- | Several hundred workers n tion to 250 to date. These victories , |Stake, want an increased tariff all the men in ie deper cet, walked slayers who killed their victims per- | spirevy trial, | Say thie Jaks wor weasel hi do not, however, end the strike,|| BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 17.—|around, with no reductions to any- joan £8) coe whens thes of thale is ity vaprieal for “hijacking” of ey tr b : DOD aoa Vee eC Pe is ae ‘ . aby is wide agitati u leaders were summarily dismissed | \@P' Biedenkapp will be represented by| e which continues to spread to new|There is wide agitation here to re-|one. The struggle between the two fs li y truck: itenle | gov i : Fhotk ease a taliate with the same weapon, the | categories of capitalists to influence 4 twa As 19 g| by foremen for denouncing the | U@v00 TiC ss. , Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for} governor last Monday, when testi- x shape a pe ies beset soa" proposal. in the United States to|the government, is becoming in- Will Give Airways 3 “Dyer Efficiency Plan” as an inhu-| Members of the Paul Morton boot-| the New York District of the In-| mony was given proving that on the in phase hic ne Sh eee ta Salt {raise the tariff on imports of wool, |tense is Nights in Fund Drive |™=. health-wrecking scheme. They | legging gang, who, with the Purple | ternational Labor Defense, which is} day when the so-called conspiracy r e warn eae is! meat and agricultural products 5 + kad threatened to make the strike |gang of Detroit, were aligned with fighting the ‘attempts to extradite|is alleged to have taken place he th the awestenan: vayiien! Mebiclh hits Aveeutised sxporta:iiag a : js .,| general, to include the 1,250 other|@ Canadian cistillery in running}him as well as Paul Crouch, na-|was not in New Bedford. At to- ig ares - Piel RS hala) Ps ORGANIZED JANITORS’ DRIVE|,.2%?, Daily Worker will benefit) Vorkerg in the plant if their de-|liqvor trucks into Chicago were tional secretary of the All-America) morrow's hearing two witnesses a Hold Protest Meeting Tonight. hy 25 ri from the Thursday, Friday and Sat- (Conttuiced va Page Tinh) jsought. The Morton-Purple gang | Anti-Imperialist League, and Albert| will appear to give further testi- i The outrageous manner in which| This agitation takes the form of} MILWAUKEE (By Mail).—A|urday performances of “Airways, blamed the “Bugs” Moran followers | Weisbord, secretary of the National] mony to this effect, the New York police force is set-|# Proposal by the big agrarian! give to enroll women engaged in |Inc.,” the New Playwrights produc- Te 31g? . Li in Chicago for the “hijacking” of Textile Workers Union. * Ca ting about trying to break the strike | bourgeoisie, to urge the Argentine Oe 1 ..| tion which opens Wednesday at the! |“Daily” Will Publish liquor trucks. | Biedenkapp appeared before the|y. 1, p, ‘To Ask i y throvgh ts and clubbings |Bovernment to regulate the tariff |‘leaning in theatres and also to en-| Go.’ Sirect Theatre. The action | Wes ji be. Zo Aak Heating tC Cae hi | af vickéta. baa ‘aroenian a Noni on imports so that U. S. products |Toll theatre porters is being made| o¢ the play, the second New Play. Expose of Hillquit The New York District of the indignation araong New York work- ers. would pay the same rate as at pres- pS ESE ae SRN by the Theatre Janitor's Union here. _———$———O wrights production of the season, | centers around a great mill strike. Swindle in Few Days | International Labor Defense last | night announced that it also plans EMERGENCY FUND As 4 r |to demand a hearing before Gov. son, ieee (CAN “DAILY? SURVIVED?) reve insist at 1 sos |,,0i hapa fo the , Hires catia 1 inion Educational League | |’ last minute rush, workers intending ; ht Ney on tosh aaa « pry? | Paul Crouch. Crouch was arrest Tee Wr aken Corman Party to see the play and help the Daily; | quit, corporation lawyer and Workers Contribute to Save the D atly = Bin ieee i. ‘ eran penta joi i i it a Mt = s are urged to obtain tickets without ader of the socialist party, and re ie ra vting against the “Whalen roun | (UNAS Vital if Our Press is to Live| |%*.c* tee “cules wort ales February 16, 1929. ] trict Nucleus, $4.50; L. Tis | is. scheduled to receive a magis- 4 vps” and sluggings of workers ex- —_ swindled out of the cloak and Pesan Cae Bureau, 8 sian, $2; E. Caroll, $1; A. | trate’s hearing next Monday. no ‘erci: i al right to picket . r 6Ag ’ dressmakers thru the manipula- OOK, NO Never sees 75.78 Checker, $1.50; Fagan, $1.. 60.50} Should Albert Weisbord be ar- we ees ail tac cenccedae Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily| |Airways’ Show Sunday | iressreters thru the mantpule'||collected by A. Sokolov, | White Geller Stance Bons, rested on an extradition warrant, the | The meeting will be held tonight | |Worker for aid in its present crisis. Night for N. Y. Anti- | | Union Bank? Phila, Pa.: Shaffendler | Section 5, City . 35.00/T. L. D. declares that it will also “4 at 8 o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall, ase Nga | | The Daily Worker has already| | (collected) $2; Mirell, 50c; Collected by Dora Lipshitz, carry the fight for him to the gov- he 15th St. and Irving Pl. Speakers at The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. Imperialist League | | published revelations of this R. Rotman, $1; Trenton, N. Chicago, Ill: Nucleus 11, ernor. The I. L. D. once more the meeting will be: Ben Gitlow, for colossal swindle. In a few days J. (collected by B. Herman) $21; Mr. & Mrs, Say, $2.... 23.00| points out that the efforts to extra- " the Workers Party; Norman Tellen- After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- The performance of “Airways,||we will begin publishing official Josephon, $10; Lehman, Collected by C. Bron, San | dite Biedenkapp, Crouch and Weis- tire, for the I. L. D.; H. Sazer, for th 1 Tne.” at the Grove Street Theatre, | |documents and court records giv- $10; Wishnewski, $2; Aff- Francisco, Calif.: Nucleus bord are actually attempts to crush the T. U. B. L; Ben Gold, seeretary | |i you the enclosed amount, $.. Sunday night, will be given under | Jing all the details and fastening ner, $2; Pilich, $2; Ukrain- | 31, $11.50; Nucleus 3, 5.55.. 16.93) the three militant working class or- 7m of the Industrial Needle Trades | |na, the auspices of the New York} | guilt irrefutably on Hillquit and ian, $5; Gold, $1; Safir $1; T. D. 1, SS. 2C, City. 15.00, ganizations which they head. In in Union; Rose Wortis, secretary of get J eeeeeeeeeeueeewecereeeeeee*! ) Branch of the All-American Aati-| | his associates. Rewage, $1; Babot, $1; Shop Nucleus 1, Detroit .... 15.50| order that they may be saved from or the General Strike Committee; Rob-| |Address . LaeeeNG tg NAMES UTCaOE eA vanish eee «| |Tmrerialist League. BYE Watch the “Daily” for the first faa se Ap oa ee Mra oe TF, 2A, ne being se Ho trial before the mur- n, lecturer and writer; Rich- Members and friends of the||of these documents. Tell your lecte ce; Radkowski, $1; S. Resnick, 25¢; W. Wright, derers of Saceo and Vanzetti, the ] a ety deeees the Americar. Ne- Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without] |tesgue may obtain tickets for the | friends and shopmates not to|| B. Shatz, $1; H. Rubin (col- $1; Litvin, $5; Mr. Bhrlich- 1, L. D, declares, immediate funds he Labor Congress, Gi . show at the local office, 799 Byoad- | | miss this unusual expose. lected, $2; Fuman, $2; L. man, $2; G. Lacher, 50e; M. must be sent to its office, 799 Broad- of the Iron Work - way. f 1 Gittelman, 50c; Factory Dis- 1 (Continued on Pave Three) way, Room 422, # 4