The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 2

[Poxe Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 imo De 21 GARRISONS Light Penalty for Army Chiefs, Others Suffer x “MADRII Zation of gani- It will be retuér to Con- | Stitutior will be taken, t} nt ctors | in an ari are retvined, | tho Rive ep out be- caust’ of the detestation taken suppres- sion of the m celona are in government b: affection is so ¢ eimy ard there is so h the revolters, that it, is hment, will Former Guerra, ed in Valen- v led, an takes all the blame for i zation is permitted to ho also fought eir employers, long prison WIN SOAP STRIKE, RECALL SPEED-UP Reinstate Leaders, But Bosses Plan Reprisal (Continued from Page One) mands were not immedietely com- plied with. Bosses Cave In. The bosses cay in quickly, whining that they didn’t know the workers objected to “a plan of prog- ress whereby. moré work ‘is produced in the same“time:” But in geing back to work, the men made the mistake of not or- ganizing a union, and compelling its recognition. The promise of recall ich has Primo five Rivera May Step Ou Grave Robbing After the World War rar aN % k was sunk in 1914 off the coast of the Ued with the skeletons of her crew, b: s underwater ing their lives in rough water an dtides trying to salvage the more val- t to Allow Continuati on of Rule Under Other Forms | WORLD CAMPAIGN AGAINST FASCISM Ale N. Y. Conference Will | Elect Delegates The call issued to labor organiz tions to support the Anti-Fasc World Congress to be held in Berlin} in March announces the aims of the} Congress to be the launching of al world-wide, organized campaign} against fascism. | Delegates to the international con- | gress will be elected at a confer- ence in New York on Feb. 22 The| | Provisional Committee, authorized} house. to right: Levine, Aged 109. WILL ORGANIZE A One Hundred Years Old; Live in Poorhouse These aged women are confined in a cheerless charity poor- They are not from the employing class, needless to say. Left Sophie Maas, aged 108; Leah Hummelstein, and Fanale by the International Committee to| handle its affairs in the United States, urges all workers to get their organizations to elect dele- | gates. | | The International and the Ameri |can Congresses aim to struggle against exceptional laws as in Amer-| iea against injunctions in labor d putes, struggle for the suppression | of special tribunals, for the libera- tion of deportee: nd for amnesty | to all political prisoners (Mooney | ':0uses, campaign, etc., in America). |the wo. | The congress will also discuss the| jstruggle for freedom of the press,| freedom of association (in America Of all the hazards faced by the men who rear steel and concrete 50 stories into the air, or build the of thousands of small scaffolding is undoubtedly ee bundreds German fortified island of Heligo- etween the buoy and the tender | department figures indicate that at Divers are Julian Billiard Hall j CAPPELLINI IN Ejects Negro Patron Albert Patterson, 24, Negro work- er, was refused the use of a table at the Jualian Billard Academy, 14th St. and Irving Place, Friday night, because, according to the manager’s excuse, all tables -| Pressed for further explanation, the mahager declared the pool room did Grievance Committee Gives Him Car ARRE, Pa., ellini, @x-president of , was presented r; worth $3,100 and a donation of $500 from the General Grievance Committee of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. Collieries in Pitt This gift, ing from the same group of reactionary of- ficials who less than one year ago condemned Cappellini. as a traitor and supported the insurgent ticket, headed by Frank McGarry, who since that time sold out the miners to the Lewis machine. There are many disillusioted min- ers who also have faith in the man who got into office in 1924 through the support of the progressives but who ¥esigned Jast’ summer’ all dis- credited. | Doheny, Jr., Killed ing Negroes. Patterson and Schandt, protested the manager's d . They point- ed out that while Negroes were barred from the use of the tables, the management was énly too eager to exploit racial prejudice and belief in the “white supremacy” by em- ploying five Negro workers at low ‘wages. friend, Joe against Prison Strike Exposes Cruelties of Warden; Forees His Indictment PHILADELPHIA,- Feb. i7.— Chatles F. Sorber, resigned assis- “| tant superintendent of Holmesburg County Prison where a prisoners were reserved. | not make a practice of accommodat-_ * by His Private Sec’y) of the snced-up efficiency. s was not tinconditional, s strike occurred for three days last month, will go on trial Tuesday on | against the company unionizing of} |the A. F. of L. organizations,| — ‘against gangsterism in strikes), the Herberg Gives Class in defense of racial minorities, struggle against the war prepara-| Historical Materialism jtions of fascism, the struggle} cidents, including fatalities, result RIGHT WING IN A POGROM AT MEET Hot Fight at Work- {from foreign countries, and the; struggle against fascist propaganda in foreign countries. Historical Materialism will be |given at the Workers School, 26-28 ’ ‘iy £ finance the delegation. Communi- berg, district organizer of the Young men’s Circle Confab cations and funds should be sent|Wo Aatnnnate limmediately to the offices of the! who has been a frequent (Continned from Page One) | provisional Committee, A, Markoff, | contributor to the “Communist,” will inberg, president of the Work- | Sec’y.-Treas., 1 Union Square, Room| give his class on Monday night at y Cirele, who tried to avoid the | 604, New Ycrk City. p. m.. and will teach a second class burning issues of the labor move- —_—_—_—_———_- same subject on Wednesdays t and his promise of support to \¢ ey . |at 8:30 p.m. ‘The second class on Schlesinger. (‘Krassin’ Show Friday, Wenesday will begin its session The issue was put sauarely right Saturday Night Will this week. st the boginning, however, when J. : oy In this class Bukharin’s “Histor- Sultan made a motion that the ere.|Aid Needle Strikers) cat materialism,” Thalheimer’s book Genitials committee should be com- | jin “Dialectic Materialism,” as well resed of delegates of all opinions in| Proceeds from the midnight Bh owr-7 a8 various works by Marx, Engels the Worknien’s Circle and Delegates |ing of the Soviet news reel “Kras-/ and Lenin. will be used as text. Costrell, Sigel and Koppel should be ,” which will be given under the| Registration is going on at the ‘members of the committee. auspices of the New York Branch| Workers School for all classes. Slugging Start {of the Workers International Relief | : REESE Stare: at the Film Guild Cinema, 52 W. 8th| Chairman Chanin ruled Sultan’s g¢., Friday and Saturday nights, will | motion out of order and Delegate pe donated to the Needle Trades | Lifshitz appealed against the de- | Strike, cision of the chairman. The right| “Kyassin” will be shown for the wing machine, however, did not sive | first time at the Carnegie Hall to-| Lifshitz any chance to make his ap- | morrow night, but workers unable to | peal. When Lifshitz said, “The is-| attend this performance may secure | sue is Letween a workers’ union and | tickets for the Friday and Saturda: a seab company union to which] midnight performances from the t. New York state labor | least 10 per cent of all building ac- | against deportation of anti-fascists|At the Workers School | Funds are urgently required to| Union Sq., this term by Will Her- | (Communist) League. Will | Poor Material in Scaffolds; Bnibed Inspectors, Kill Men {from falls from scaffolding, in col- lapse of the wooden lattice work or in missteps on rickety ladders con- necting the different levels. Save On Material. “In my experience,” said Secy. J. |W. Jockels of the Ohio Bricklayers Conference at the first nationa! la- bor health conference in Cleveland, “poor material is the main cause of scaffolding accidents. There are many accidents too from projections | and poor material in overhead pro- tection.” William Reuter of New York Electrical Workers’ Local 3 com- plained that the city and state regu- lations were inadequate and that |“inspectors are bought right and left.” “Then there is the case of ithe shanty,” he added. “In winter the men have to undréss without any heat, And in many localities there is no proper lunch room. They have to sit outside on a crate where all the dirt and grit comes down off the building.” WORKERS SCHOOL PLANS TO OPEN 18 -NEW CLASSES Will Make Total of 30 $| Spring Courses Eighteen classes will begin this week at the Workers School, 26 Union Square. Five are classes in the English Dept. the rest are courses in Heconomics, Politics, His- tory and Marxian Theory. Opening sessions of English 3, with Freda |Serby as the instructor, English 4, | Eda Fields, instructor, Fundamentals jof Communism, Principles of | Marxism I—A. Markoff, instructor; Marxian Economies III, J. Mindel, \instructor, will be held tonight. Pub- \lic speaking 1, V. I. Jerome, instruc- |tor, English 8, E B Jacobson, in- structor, will start tonight. On Wednesday the following jclasses will open: English 1, Sonya | Waldey, instructor; Women In Hi: jtory, Pauline Rogers, Instructor; Fundamentals of Communism, Ida |Dailes, instructcr; Principles of | Marxism 2, A. Markoff, instructor; | Marxian Economics 1, and Historical Materialism, Will Herberg. instruc- tor. On Thursca., D. Benjamin will begin two classes in Elements of Leninist Tactics and Economic and Political History of the U. S and James Cork will also begin his class in History of the U. S. Since the Civil War. On Friday Alex Bittel- |man will teach Marxian Economics |I, and Rebecca Grecht will begin her {class in Fundamentals of Commu- jnism. | These classes, with the 12 which | Last week’s sessions were mainly in- Last weeks’ sessions were mainly in- | troductory. It is therefore not tod late for workers to register for any of the 30 classes. The history of all hitherto ex- BE society is the history of class struggies.—Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifesto). VUVVVVCG a of SPECIAL | LABOR AND STRICTLY UNION WORK yVVVV VS . & & 4 ORGANIZATIONS VVVVVY PRICES to FRATERNAL Weinberg promised support,” the office of the New York Branch of employers insisted that the “prin- ciple of efficiency will not be dropped by the company,” thus mak- ing it certa.n that its installati will te attempted again, us soon & the leaders of the revolt are weeded aut for one cause or another. The leaders of the strike, James Lenny, Ray Taylor and Charles La- Monte, were all reinstated, but agai the boss sookesman issued the reinstatement er with his torguce in his cheek. He declared: “Fiverv mai goes back. I do not think, how- evirpthabany man can take excep tion to the discharge of an em- not do his work yloyé who does *, T.ULK. Tie Traie U Educatiors] League issued a statement :a cir evlat form which. was distributed the workers. It declared in part: “How can the workers of the Proctor and Gamble Soap O®mpany be sure that this vicious speed-up ' system will not be introduced? There is only one way and that is through the establishment of a powerful union taking in all the workers in| the plant no matter what work they | do or what language they speak. The ’ union must have a shop committee - based upon representatives. elected | by the rank and file in each depart- ment. When such a union is estab- " lished with the power to call a strike | LOS ANGELES, Feb. © 17.—Ed- ward L. Doheny, Jr., son and heir of the oil millionaire Doheny and man- | yesterday. pee tals of serene pie The strike took place because of Pail cat einen 7 he He fh ithe impossible food served to the ’ Sinclair ils prisoners. It was b by a dis- Naval oil lease scandal, was shot to-| Flay of Satie gaan a Nie ia day and killed by ‘his confidential Ce tear gas bombs and hoses. The secretary, who then committed | acts heeame known about conditions suicide. |that led to the mutiny, and the The killing took*place in Doheny’s | grand jury was forced to act. bedroom. The cause for the murder pea is not announced. The family say that the secretary, Hugh Plunkett, 2 Young Plays Races as servant of Doheny for 15 years, had Plans New Extortions been nervous about something lately. charges of “wanton ¢ruelty.” Sor- ber was indicted by a grand jury PARIS, Feb. 17 (UP).—The com- .London Papers Jeer mittee of financial experts who will ' . . re-convene tomorrow to start the at Marines’ Tin God concrete task of fixing a definite total of war reparations, will find a LONDON, ‘Feb. 17 (U.P).—The|wide divergency between the total ‘daily press commented today on sum which Germany estimates she dispatches’-from Cannes, France.|can pay and the sum France esti- ‘reporting @n © encounter between| mates must be paid. | Gene “Tunney, former heavyweight! Owen D. Young, un6@ficial Ameri- | champion, and photographers who can delegate and chairman of the attempted to photograph him in a| committee, headed a party on a trip | hotel lobby. ‘to Vincennes where they attended “Tunney made his fortune from the trotting races. It was said “That fame was made th the assistance of pho- tographets “and press agents. To | knock outt"Oné.of the men who helped Says Made War Worse advance hiti-from obscurity to the! | Americaf sédial register, makes one) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U.P). Question Mark Officer his fame as a fighter.” the news-|Young’s horses “all did very well.” | [steering committee on the platform | the Workers International Relief, | ordered the pogrom to start. Many 799 Broadway, the Workers Pook- left wing delegates were beaten UP shop, 26 Union Square, or the Pro- | and ejected from the conference by | jetcos Restaurant, 26-28 Union Sq. the “City Cossacks” that Chanin, as | chairman, appeinted to the , in} . sys | the shape of a committee of thirty. ‘Revolt Against British | Agent, Sakao, Spreads Lifshitz Sticks. | The right wing leadership of the i Workmen's Circle wanted, under all, MOSCOW, Feb. 17 (UP).—Sev- circumstances, to eject Lifshitz from eral tribes in the Southeastern part the ecnvention. However, they of the country have declared their covld not do that because ¢f the independence, advices tonight from strong fight that the left wing dele- | Afghanistan said, and a separatist | gates made. The right wing had to | movement is: spreading throughout | + withdraw their order to the sheriff | the country in opposition to the con- | \to eject Lifshitz. |trol of Bacha Sakao, who captured | In the objections that were after- | the throne. | wards made by the left wing dele-| Inter-tribal fighting among the |gates to the nominees for the na-|Shinwari, Mohamands and Kugiani tional executive committee of the tribes was reported, as well as} 's Circle, they brought out /frontier clashes between Mohands | rly = ‘the political character of their fight |and Anglo-Indian border patrols. | Foto METRIS Ave against the Worknien’s Circle. Kabul was described as a dying Lad ¥S Bt | The left delegates, after the con- \eity, with a critical food shortage | 1690 yor? | ference was over, held a meeting to and increasing banditry. Many sec- | * adopt a declaration exposing the |tions of Bacha Sakao’s territory ° pogrom tactics of the right wing |/around the capital were reported in : gat: ° 9) eal 9) . ater OPES : pole aailler err ict NS Cards AND Cloth Banners BEN PRIMACK | WORKERS CENTER SIGN SERVICE 26-28 UNION SQUARE. {TH FLOOR _& & & & 4 4 ~ ‘machine in the Workmen's Circle, ‘revolt. | | FOR RUTHENBERG (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) throughout the plant in case of any _ violation of agreements, then and ' then only have the men any. a a IERIE antee as to their conditions. Then ‘ {tary and commercial air operations. |Congressional Rush Major Carl Spatz, commanding of- | _ and then only have they a weapon to Cover Up Scandal ficer of the army endurance air. wonder.if hé is not suffering from| Refueling airplanes in mi a swelled not only safe and practicable but | ‘also of distinct advantage in mili-| "with which to fight for better eon- ha poe pag teers ring her bine Fre hpeey ya ' y ” in e air almost seven | for job control, and against unsani- | divs auaated today. tary conditions. | legislative Stampede, common to the Referring 6 refueling of planes “The Trade Union Educational closing days of every congressional); Lititary operations, Spatz said | e is anxious to help in every , Session, will start in the Senate to- that refueling can be applied ‘suc: gssible way the workers of the morrow and several bills are Cer | cessfully to pursuit, attack and ob- r and Gamble Soap Company | tain to be killed in the rush. servation dleoraft | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The + } ‘and hopes that this word of advice! | tmay be of assistance in aiding you or early Tuesday on the Jones bill A vote is expected late tomorrow © to establish once and for all an or-|to increase the maximum penalty |Office Workers’ Union } THE PROGRAMME of the COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL The first World Programme of the Communist International in its final Anti-War MEETINGS To Be Arranged by All Districts and Many Party Units All Over the Country, the National Office Can Supply RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL BUTTONS Vatican Treaty Makes itzerland Unneutral INEVA, Feb. . 17.—Possibility the status of the papal Swiss ry troops might be affected t Italo-Vatican treaty devel- into intricate question today. 6 new Swiss military code pro- citizens of Switzerland from i in foreign armed forces the consent of the Swiss pal council. jo, the question is raised the presence of this Swiss a another state, consti- ‘Wiolation of Switzerland’s ¥ ; ‘ganization to protect your interests.” to $10,000 fine, five years impris- ‘onment or both and then the fight for precedence will be on. Scandalous matters like the ap- pointment of Pat Neff of Texas. | virulently unfair to organized labor, and the Varé election frauds, may be pushed well to the background. 3,700 Cup Makers on Strike for More: Pay. BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb, 17 (UP).—Workers in the cup making industry announced a strike today, demanding five per cent increase in wages and alterations in working conditions.. About ©3,700 persons _* the strike, | for violation of the prohibition law Webster Manor Thurs. All roads will lead to New Web- ster Manor, 126 EK. 11th St., this Thursday evening, as workers from all parts of the city come out to help the Office Workers Union cele- brate its first year's existence at its first annual. dance. Tickets for the dance are on sale at the union headquarters, 1 Union Square, Room 605.. The union holds meetings every second and fourth Mondays of the month at the Labor Temple, 242 E. 14th St. DUBLIN, (By Mail).— spectators were badly hurt at a foot- ‘ball game in Tolka Park, when a ee 30 HURT AT FOOTBALL GAME. Thirty wire netting construction collapsed. H form. Unanimously adopted by the Sixth World Congress of the Com- munist International held in Mos- cow. The most important formulation of revolutionary policy and social-eco- - nomic analysis since the Communist Manifesto. 10 CENTS PER COPY WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 3§ EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY the Slogans:— m+ te With Comrade Ruthenberg’s Picture on a Red Background and with FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR The Price of These Buttons will be: 7c per Button on Orders up to 100; 5c on Orders of 100-500, and 4c on Orders Over 500. 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