The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 1

it t G r re re Se eae een ee acd ” HE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workgxs-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., umder the act of March 3, NOs ——— ——" FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 353 hed daily ex: ing Associ t Sunday by The Natio: m, Inc., 26-28 Uniom Sa., ily Worker New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929 N RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents ASS ARRESTS IN HUGE DRESS PICK 3RITISH MP’S TAG DAY RESULTS SMALL, MEXICAN POLICE “JUGGLE NAVAL ~ RIVALRY ISSUE: Opposition Wants Fake Disarmament Meet | With U. S. Joward Gets Chastized ShamberlainSaysOffer to U. S. Not Made LONDON, Feb. 18.—The opposi- | ion in the house of commons today } wrepared questions asking Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain vhy the British government changed uddenly from advocating another arms conference with the Jnited States to a program of no} onference, and on with the naval | ace, Parliamentary leaders feel that | 3ritish diplomacy in this case was ather bad, as it fails to place the | lame for the naval race as clearly | n American imperialism as the h statesmen desire. Sir Esme Howard, British ambas- ador in Washington, last week pro- vosed this naval conference to Sec- etary of State Kellogg. Kellogg ejected it, with kind words, to be ure, but still rejected it. Ji was) lear that American imperialism | vanted to drive ahead in naval com- vetition with England, without the ormality of bidding for the support f neutral nations and popular opin- on within the country, through a engthy chess game of conferences. This was the clue for British di- sJomacy to complain loudly that now tngland is forced to build navies, oo, for her overtures toward disar- nament are rejected by Amierica. nstead of this, Chamberlain ‘issued . statement that Howard acted with- vut permission of the cabinet in his fer to Kellogg. ake SAG IMPLICATION. OF DOHENY DEATH Attorney, Family Cover Oil Connections LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18.—Every ffort is being made by District At- orney Buron Fitts and the Doheny ‘amily to crush the implications hat there is a connection between he deaths by shooting of Edward .. Doheny, Jr., millionaire oil man oncerned with his father in the Elk lills oil scandal, and Jesse Smith ind Jake Hamon, mixed in the oil rraft. Fatality pursues those in the oil , andals who knew too much about che inside. Jesse Smith, confident of Attorney General Daugherty and President Harding, was shot dead ander snysterious circumstances. No ame was ever punished. Jake Hamon, politician who handled some of the oil graft negotiations and iominated Harding, was shot dead oy a discarded mistress who had aigh official protection, and got off very easily for the crime. President Harding died under circumstances which are also queer; the: official (Continued on Page Five) Section 5 Has Banquet: for New Executive; 592 for Daily Worker Members of Section 5, Bronx, of the Workers (Communist) Party elebrated the installation of the ew Section Executive with a ban- uet and entertainment at its head- uarters, 1330 Wilkins Ave. D. Benjamin, agitprop director of istrict 2, greeted the incoming ex- cutive on behalf of the district, and short talks were made by active omrades of the section, including Nohnson, Paley and Yakovleff. Comrade Righthand contributed everal selections on a musical saw. fe was accompanied by his daugh- er, Valentine. Following the banquet, the movie Breaking Chains” was shown, Sender Garlin made an appeal for tunds on behalf of the Daily Worker, nd $92 was contributed by those resent. The new members of the Section xecutive include: William Johnson, brganizer; Sophie Mesnil, recording ecretary; T. Yakovleff, financial ecretary; Hannah Siegal, Daily Vorker agent; Leroy, agitprop; P. Amron, Pitkoff, A. Radin, L. Baum, BaskotipRose Katz, Ziebel, Belle DAILY WORKER HARD HIT Comrades: Thus far 60 per cent of the collection boxes used in gathering funds in the New York tag days for the Daily Worker have been turned in. These boxes con- tain only $620. The returns of the rest of the boxes will be published tomorrow. But unquestionably the results are small. We looked forward to about three times as big returns from these Tag Days as appear now to have been gathered. Many workers appear to have believed that the Daily Worker was already out of danger due to the fact that over $10,000 has been raised. But this sum went towards the payment of our most pressing bills, which had accumulated during a long period and led to the present crisis. THE CRISIS IS NOT OVER. Your funds must flow in steadily in ever larger sums to pull the Daily Worker out of its pres- ent crisis and place it on a solid foundation for fu- ture work. The receipts—aside from the Tag Days re- turns—up to last night (Monday) are: -$11,2 465.82 Previously listed . Monday . Total receipts to last night ..,...6ssseeeeereeeeeeee $11,678.52 Comrades, this leaves the Daily Worker far short of the sum needed to overcome the crisis. Our drive must be stimulated to-greater energy. How is this to be done? In the first place the districts have not yet ful- filled their quotas and they must immediately fill out this gap. We will publish tomorrow the sums al- ready raised by the districts and show how short they are of the sums they promised to raise. ‘In the second place, comrades ‘and sympathizers must throw all their energy into the drive to obtain donations from every workers’ organization. In the third place, every section of the Party, every city, must immediately arrange affairs for the benefit of the Daily Worker. While some affairs have already taken place—with good results—the comrades have again fallen short in seeing the tre- mendous possibilities of this method of campaigning. More affairs must be arranged! From Tampa, Florida, the cigar workers have come across for the second time. They sent $95.39 yesterday. Previously they had collected and sent $200. Is this not a concrete example of working class solidarity and sacrifice? Comrades in Wisconsin, California, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, in every state and section of a state in this country, you too will rise to the occasion and shove your revolutionary paper over the crisis and onto a solid financial basis. The Daily Worker needs your help. Without you it will not be able to exist. It is up to you to keep your revolutionary fighting “Daily”! Fraternally, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. RUSH all funds to: Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. here that he will be offered, or has been offered, the office of secretary cf state. ‘Practically all administration du- ties of his present office have been turned over to Vice-Governor Eu- gene A. Gilmore, ‘ Stimson Leaves Manila for United States; Will Head Hoover Cabinet MANILA, P. I, Feb. 18 (UP).— Governor General Henry L. Stimson ——————————— has booked passage to the United | RossEs FIGHT COMPENSATION. States aboard the liner President Pierce, it was learned today. _ The President Pierce sails from this port Feb. 23. Stimson still declined to reveal his exact position under President-elect Hoover, but it is generally presumed er house. representatives. CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily 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 1 am send- ing you the enclosed amount, $....... , NAMe cisccccccceesccersccsaneennerersssnserane see seee eens ee se eee Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without jay. OKLAHOMA CITY, (By Mail).— A bill to repeal the compensation law has been introduced in the low- Workers will fight the bill, introduced by Oklahoma bosses’ | SHIELD SLAYERS OF JULIO MELLA Although Their Names, Are Known, Killers | | Not Arrested ‘Investigation’ Is Stall) Hope Masses Will Soon | Forget About It (Special to the Daily Worker MEXICO CITY, Feb. chief prosecuting attorney |federal district, Jose Aguilar Maya, | announces that he has received a| \letter from Havana, signed by a |prominent Cuban, giving the names jof the assassins of Julio A. Mella, jas well as the details of how they |murdered Mella, the young Cuban {Communist who was killed on Jan. |10 by agents sent to Mexico by the | \dictator of Cuba, President Gerardo Machado, | The prosecutor does not give the {names publicity, as the police “in- | vestigations” are still pending, ac- |cording to the newspaper “El Uni- | versal,” which adds that the crime }can no longer be questioned as a | political assassination, |" ‘The Mexican Communist Party \has been and continues pointing cr | |the complicity of the Portes Gil gov- ernment in protecting the by stretching the so-called vesti- gations” out interminably in the |hope that the Mexican masses will let the murder of Mella be forgot- ten. It is more than ever necessary | |at this time for all who resented the murder of Mella to demand that the Gil government cease its deception and bring the assassins, whom it |knows, tc light, the Party declares. STRIKE A SNAG _ ON REPARATIONS Amount First Problem, Division Another Dawes plan board of experts, an- nounced a plan today for “avoiding pay” by “increasing German trade and thereby increasing the German ability to pay.” The scheme is not taken seriously here except as indi- cating the intention of the allies to gard German pleas in the de- cisions. a on # PARIS, Feb. 18 (UP).—The Com- mittee of experts is proceeding slow- lly in its attempt to set a definite total for German war reparations and may continue sessions for the anticipated time of three months, ac- cording to indications tonight. Approaching the first critical phase of the sessions, the experts met this morning to approach dis- which Germany must pay in the future. men—one allied and one German tomorrow morning on more detailed of annuities. of Germany and Sir Josiah Stamp of Britain, are on the Committee. when he explained the Dawes plan annuities ($625,000,000) can not be paid without help. definite statement of the sum which \to pay to the former allied nations. Division To Bring Fight. board is expected to split several ways, of dividing this amount among the victors in the late war will come up. of the General Electric Co., and not prevail with the board, the U. the whole thing and refuse to be bound by its decisions. ‘The proletarian movement the aclf-conseloun, indepen movement of the immense maj _ity=—Karl Marx (Communist Mao! Strikers Arrested Photo shows several of the scores of dress workers who were jailed yesterday while picketing in the dressmakers’ strike being shoved into patrol wagons by Tammany polic “Women’s Battalion” Aids Big Struggle of the Dress Strikers York District of the Workers (Com-| PREPARE STRIKE dress struggle was especially lively | and effective because of th New York Working Women’s Fed-|(all Member Meeting’ eration, the United Councils of . * for Brooklyn Drive “Wom- en’s Battalion” of picketers brought| out under the leadership of the New| Working Class Women, ete., and who| were marching, hundreds strong. ne The police made no bones about| Laying the ground work for the dragging the most ‘active ones out/cont®mplatéd strike ¥o organize the|ing, mary of the members took” THOUSANDS DEFY POLICE TERROR IN GARMENT an£A: PULL DOWN 26 MORE SHOPS Jailings Fail to Bre: Young Pioneers J Machinery for Hernstit k Huge Picket Lines; ein Demonstration chers’ Strike Prepared Last Night at Enthusiastic Meet Enemies of the dressmakers’ strike from the capitalist press to the socialist publicity machinery, who.cr, is over,” were exposed as bar the biggest and most enth i § garment di TAX SELVES FOR DRESS STRIKE. Hoid Anti-Police Terror Protest Meeting Colored by the enthusiasm aroused by the huge mass picketing demon- tion in the dress manufacturing of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, crowded Webster Hall, 11th St. and ‘Third Ave., be- yond capacity last night and after a spirited discussion unanimously endorsed the recommendation of the general strike committee that all those working in settled shops work eight hours for the strike fund ‘After listening to the report of Joint Board Secretary-Treasurer Portnoy, who presented the General Strike Committee recommendation for the one-day tax before the mei PARIS, Feb. 18.---Owen D. Young, | Suffered a_ spr of the American delegation to the | other a violent nosebleed as a result discussion of the German ability to|0f another, into the bulging Black cussion of the amount of annuities A sub-committee of two) delegate—was appointed to report | more eae AL ear ead aa AE the National Hotel, Pennsy!vania day without taking up the problem | It was reported un- officially that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht The sub-committee is charged with | finding a “short cut” through the maze of figures which Dr. Hjalmar | | Schacht, chief German | delegate, |cials of the Furuseth bureaucracy. preneiived Ip the, sees\cns apreteat| Toe union has practically no mem- It was learned that Dr. Schacht yanted to know what was going on has no intention of making @ for or against their interests*in this Germany would consider herself able | After the decision as to how much for Collecting Funds Germany can pay, the still more) {portant decision, on which the £0F ‘Daily? on Tag-Day The American delegates, Young) Morgan, the Wall Street banker, are | “unofficial” and if their wishes do) o, S. government will simply repudiate j.a;i¢q out by the New York district of the line and throwing them into the lobbies of the great buildings which house the dress manufac- turers, to await the arrival of the patrol wagon. And as soon as it arri in first, then piled about twice as many workers into the patrol wagon as it could hold—on top of the women. Altho the drive to the sti tion was very short, one woman ned ankle and an- {of the brutality with which the po-| lice jammed the pickets, one on top| Maria, Arriving at the jail we (Continued on Page Two) CORRUPT SEAMEN UNION IN MEETING ‘Gather at Hotel Home, of Furuseth nee | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The convention of Andy Furuseth’s “In- ternational Seamen’s Union,” which ‘started on Feb, 11, continued until today. This convention indicates the de- gree of degeneration in the union. were seven delegates alto- | gether and the convention was held were Ave., Andy Furuseth’s comfortable hang-out, and no additional room jrent had to be paid, as Andy let the jconvention meet in his room and ‘bathroom. | The convention met absolutely in | secret, no visitors and not even press |representatives being allowed in. All the delegates were paid offi- |bership and pursues a most reac- (tionary course. | Members of the I. S. U. who |“convention” were denied entrance. Try Worker Tomorrow | { | | Arrested Saturday while collect- jing funds on the first of the two Tag-Days for the Daily Worker, William Weinberg will appear for |a hearing in Jefferson Market Court |tomorrow morning. Weinberg was arrested at 34th |St. and Seventh Ave. and taken to | 50th St. Police Station. He was ‘of the International Labor Defense | and was.scheduled to receive a hear- ‘ing Sunday, but it was postponed | until tomorrow. He will be defend- jed by Jacques Buitenlant, repre- senting the New York I. L. D. iY ios ' 4 retail food store clerks in the bor-| floor and called for immediate ace ough of Brooklyn and adjacent sec-|tion on this proposal. The meeting tions, the Retail Grocery Fruit and|‘@e" decided to set aside the coming et eae weceue |Saturday as the day on which all ues ling @lyorkers in settled dress factories Dairy Union is trade for tonight at the main of-|the discussion of the membership. fice of their union, 220 E. 14th St. Calling the workers to real union- isth, telling them to beware of the A. F. of L. fakers who are trying to create the impression that their company union is a factor in the industry a circular issued by organization declares as follows: | “From a progressive and militant union to all the workers in the trade that a ving in open shops under unbearable conditions. . “Brother Workers: “To eliminate this evil and in- | Speaking before Portnoy, Irving Picket Committee, gave a report of the work of that body of heroic fighters in the two weeks the strike is on. He then appealed to the the| meeting, which was made up mainly ¢ of those working in union shops, to continue to participate in the strike by carrying on intensive organiz: (Continued on Page Two) WON'T EXTRADITE humanity in our trade, we must have a strong union and honest and able leadership to protect the in- FRED BIEDENKAPP terests of the workers only, “As in other trades we have in our trade some individuals who are| parading around and they call them-| selves a union, they are organizing a company union for the benefit of the bosses only and they speak in the name of the workers they do not represent!” \Court Upholds Gas Tax WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UP).— Montana’s ‘*wo-cent-a-gallon gaso- line tax law, which was levied only on gasoline refined and sold within | the state, [. L. D. Wins Fight in New Bedford Case (Special to the Daily Worler) ALBANY, Feb, 18—The sharp struggle of the International Labor Defense against extradition of Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the In- ternational Workers Relief, from |New York to Massachusetts for trial the Tuckers, Pleaters on “conspiracy” charges in the New Bedford textile strike, semmed a suc- “The strike aced liars yesterday by one of tic mass picketing demonstra- ct has ever seen. As a result of the p ration yester morning, 2! shops halted work and joined the strike, an announcement issued later by strike headquaters stated. This makes the total number of shop: ke-bound 400. The number that ettled with the union, g | demands, are to date 8,000 dressmakers have al- ready gone back to work under union !eonditions, with 5,000 still striking About All the work of the union is bei centered on increas out now. As a of demon- many of are now the stration, 230 workers, result them women strikers, in jail where, st reports state, |many are being finger-printed. They had dared entertain the criminal belief that they can By Order of the General Strike Committee All active dressmakers are called upon to appear at the of- fice of the Joint Board, 131 W. || 28th St. tonight at 6 o'clock, without ry active union member respond to this } | call! picket the struck shops and dem onstrate that, far from the strike |being over, the strike ranks were growing. The women were mem- d the police shoved the women| mass meeting of all workers in the|'T. W. I. U., spoke last, summing up | bers of the Womens’ Battalion, or- ganized especially to pull more shops on strike. On the 11-day-old strike |Potash, chairman of the General | more than 900 have been arrested. Upward: < thousand striking dressmake arting in parade fcr- mation at 7:30 in the morning, con- tinued to march around the garment rict till after 10 o’oclock in de- {finance of innumerable order: spers a result the wi more shops joined the strike. Defy Police Threats. Deprived of the leadership of their five-block-long formations again and again by the arrest of those who re- peatedly stepped to the head of the long picket line, the rank and file always found among them more who rallied the kers to fresh forma- tions. Terrorization by threa (Continued on Page Five) PLEATERS BHI! D STRIKE MACHINE Irving Plaza Hall was crowded with the enthusiastic membership of and Hem- 1 41, last night, unanimously they voted full stitchers Union Loe jand was held valid by the |cess tonight, when it was announced | power to their executive board and United States Supreme Court today. | that the governor had refused to|to the Joint Board for the setting The case was appealed by Hart Re: | tineries, Missoula, which contended | the law would put the few state re- | fineries out of business. The com- | pany suggested a law like these of | most other states, taxing gasoline | bronght in from other states as well | as domestically-made gasoline. sign the writ of extradition. This was the second hearing be- fore the governor’s commission, Po- lice officers representing the mill owners of New Bedford appeared at the first hearing to testify that Biedenkapp spoke from a soap box |to the strikers. EMERGENCY FUND ‘Workers Contribute to Save the ‘Daily’ Feb. 18, 1929. Collected by Gavy Workers Co-op. Society, Gary, Ind. operative Soc., $50; tion at Co-op. mect- gz, $10; A, Farmus, 3 alaiko, $1; Z. Sosieff, J. Lisevich, 25c; M. E., G.,Lazarian, $4; H. Shenuk, $1; M. Yowike- vich, $5; A. Voitovich, $1; * Z. Lemchenko, $1; I. sha, $1 Branch 4, Sec. 5, Bronx Collected by Sarah Vict Detroit, Miech.—Adam chol, $6; Nick Kelis, $ John Karpathakis, $3; Geo. Glendienis, $2; collected by LL. Ostrowska J. Katt, b0c; M. Solomon, $1; hy i -3 76.00 | 51.00 | Collected by Int. Kahan, 50¢; Davison Bros., $1; R. Rose, 25¢; M. Cob- 50c; Albert Levco- Shop Nucleus, . Bezeff, $1; J. Jackminsky, $5 Wm. Moi- lenhauver, $10 ... Aye 1F, 3D, City .... 45.75 36.50 Brai Yonkers, N. Y.—John Gu- saky, $5; Int. Brranch prof- its on tickets, $26... Sec. arrested pickets, City. Collected by Harry Fox, Newark, N. J.—Slovak Workers Home, $25 Anna Pivko, $1 Cc. C. C., Waukegan, Collected by D. Fed-~ Brose. ‘. (Continued on Page Thice) 31.00 30.00 0 25.00 of the date for their general strike. The strike may be expected at any moment, union heads stated. This is an auxiliary industry to that of dressmaking. Strike machinery was set up at this meeting. Plan Investigation of ‘Winslow Racketeering Ring in South N. Y. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The House will be asked by the Judi- ciary Committee today for special authority to investigate the admin- istration of the federal district court for southern district of New York under Judge Francis A, Winslow. Winslow is charged with maintain- ing a ring working thru his court to profit from bankrupts. The de- ‘faulting Steinhardt was a member | of the Winslow racketeering ring, it is charged. Chairman Graham of the com- | mittee announced the House will be |asked for authority to subpoena Basle and appropriate funds | sufficient to pay the cost of such an investigation. “We also will report a resolution asking authority to continue the in- ‘vestigation after the present short session ends,” Graham said. Attorney General Sargent has. re- fused to investigate,