The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929 { Explo AID HUGE STRIKE OF DRESSMAKERS, “Battalion” Militant in| Picket Rallies | (Continued fr F One) separated, men go set of cells and women to Seven of us were shove I half the size of a room with an uncovered toilet which, if it had a flushing apparatus it was s0 well hidden we could not locate it. The stench was terrific. Look- ing around saw many slogans| evidently imprinted on the walls by| the preceding arrested pickets and! which expressed character of the strike: “Lor the Indus- trial UL n”? wil trial under- lined three times; “S arity For- ys ever,” “The Union Makes Us eth Strong, Jown With the Sweat For 15 years W. O. Irvin, 66, uggled on a little farm in Barton County, Missouri. The land Shop etc. vas bad, the crops poor. Irvin, his wife and seven sons toiled on the land. Today, Irvin, Mrs, Irvin, To these ded ours, which in-| and their three sons, Galva, Clifford, 19, and JJoe, 17, are in the Missouri State Penitentiary cluded “Workers of the World| charged with stealing chicke The farmers say t hey are not guilty, but the judge sentenced them to Unite,” “Join the Communist Par-| five years prison. A poor farmer like a poor worker is always guilty in a capitalist court. ty,” “Support the Daily Worker,”| — — 2 ict eb S ete. | { } ve-ouive NINE INJURED IN A2peal Made SHOE FIRM OPENS In the midst of writing these we | suddenly heard the voice of Rose Pastor Stokes coming from an ad- joining cell reminding us of the| great role the Daily Worker was| playing in the strike and that it de-| pended upon the pennies of the revo-| lutionary workers to cover expenses. | Pockets were emptied of small; change and some $18 was collected | in the women’s cells of the Jeffer- son Market Police Station. Three hundred arrested pickets! were brought to this police station| alone, according to the register| which lay open in the hall where some of us were stationed for a while were able to see. The station rang out with continuous song, cheers and slogans, from nine in the morning when arrested pickets began coming in to late in the af- ternoon when the writer was re- leased along with a group of about 50. Many pickets were still left in the cells. Every little while a cop would come around and urge us not to sing, “that you are making it worse for yourselves,” but no one took heed of him. Every time a new batch of pickets were brought in the roof was in real danger of being raised by the cheers from both the new and older arrivals. Two or three times it hap- pened that a young daughter or the mother of a young picket came in with a new group of arrested pickets. Show Soldiarity. Everybody was in great spirits. There were various nationalities represented, as well as Negroes, men and women workers of other than needle trades who had come to picket to show their solidarity and support of the strike. And so the strike is bringing to- gether all class conscious revolu- tionary elements in a concerted bat- tle against capitalist exploitation, Very characteristic of the spirit of the strikers was a little incident following the arrest of two women pickets who were shoved into the lobby in which I was standing. Ad- dressing herself to her picketing mate, one of them said, “Say, the dumb cops put us into the lobby of tle very building in which our shop is located; let’s watch who is go- ing up, then maybe we can talk to them tomorrow and get them to come out.” To Give ‘Airways’ on Sunday Eve for Anti- Imperialist League “Airways, Inc.” by John Dos Passos, the second play of the New Playwrights Theatre this season, will be given Sunday night as a benefit performance under the aus- pices of the New York Branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. The performance will take place at the Grove Street Theatre. . Members and friends of the League can obtain tickets for this performance at the local office, 799 Broadway. WOMEN WORKERS! i Farmer and Family Jailed for Five Years for Ne Reason ropean ELEVATED CRASH 2 Train Workers Get Bad Sealp Wounds Nine were injured, some seriously y night when a north- Avenue elevated train crashed into an empty up train on the curve above Webster Ave. at 194th St., |the Bronx. Faulty signals are be- | jlieved to have caused the collision. | About fifty passengers were on of five car: eight-car, | |the train at the time of the col-| jlision. Most of them were hurt | slightly. | seriously were removed immediately |to the Fordham Hospital. They ar John Murphy, 26 years old, of | 307 Cypress Ave., the Bronx, aac |man; scalp wound, | Elizabeth Benedict, 8, of 2785 Pond Pl., the Bronx; scalp wound. Maris McCullough, 25, 1045 For- est Ave., the Bronx; abrasions of the right knee. Michael Toohey, 26, of 460 E | 124th St., conductor; scalp wounds. | Vincent Sabino, 30, 2735 Webster | Ave., the Bronx; abrasions of the) right leg. | Mrs. Rose Sabino, 28, wife of Vincent, scalp wound. | William Curry, 64, 3055 Webster) Ave., the Bronx; lacerations of the| face. | George Moratt, 42, of 240 Main St., Yonkers; scalp wound. | Frank Donovan, 40, of 787 Elton! Ave., the Bronx; contusions of the | back. | The force of the collision tele- scoped one of the empty cars injur- ing the motorman. Windows crash- ed and glass was flung among the| passengers on the five-car train.) Traffic was tied up for about fifteen ; minutes, Those who were injured| | } Film Epic of Soviet | Rescue to Be Shown for Needle Strikers The special benefit performance of “Krassin,” the motion picture of the heroie Soviet rescue of the No-| bile expedition will be given this Friday and Saturday at midnight) for the needle trades strikers at the Film Guild Cinema, 52 W. Eighth | St. ‘The showings are being held under |the auspices of Local New York, Workers’ International Relief, 799 | Broadway, and owing to the ar- |rangement of midnight perform- ‘ances, it is possible to take over the entire theatre for the strike. All workers are urged to buy | tickets immediately for the two per- formances so that the house will be sold out in advance Tickets can | | be reserved by telephone—Stuyves- ant 8881—and are on sale in the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Sq. “Art Is Now Part “Collective purchase” of works of art has taken the place of the art collector and connoisseur in Soviet Russia, according to Alexei Krav- _ chenko, noted Russian painter, who the Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia in Grand Central | Palace Friday afternoon. “The encouragement given to con- - temporary artists by the purchase of their works for museums, work- ’ clubs, and government buildings ns that art has become a part of lives of the workers,” he said. “The demand for pictures to te workers’ clubs is growin.; the time. Five hundred such which will be built in the near will contain decorations by Ya best artists. One club in Moscow province has assigned tubles to the al USSR PAINTER SPEAKS spoke at a reception in his honor at | ot Workers’ Lives’’| | “This naturally draws all kinds of lartists and craftsmen into re-', munerative work. Their canvasses | do not remain stacked in the studio. but are put on display in the centers of community life.” | cotton almost exclusively, | around the speakers’ stand. by Haywood | tothe Negroes Readers of the Daily Worker, whoever they may be, but particu- |larly plain, ordinary workers, are especially invited to write letters to the Daily Worker telling of their experience h “Big Bill” Hay- | wood, whos story is being pub- lished serially each day in the Daily | Worker, Those who have read the early chapters of Haywood's book, remem- ber that he told how race prejudice had aroused in him a deep resent- | ment against any f>»m of oppres-| sion visited by whites 2pon the Ne-) groes. Haywood never forgot class| aes, and always mad? a special | appeal to Negro workers. This is shown by a letter we have received | from B. H. Lauderdale of Brecken- | ridge, Texas, which reads as follows: | Negro Workers’ District. “In 1908, Bill Haywood toured Vexas under the.auspices of the so- | cialist party, his route carried him to the little town of Mart, in Wil- liamson County. This covuty grows and a very large portjon of the pupulation are Negroes. “Many Negroes came ont to hear Faywood, but neld back to the bor- ders of the crowd. Haywood invited them to come up to the front, and refused to speak until the Negroes gathered to the front and close “When he reached Leuders, Texas, the scene of a socialist encampment, a delegation met the train. When a comeade was taking one of Bill’s big suit-cases, someone hollered: “What you got in that, Haywood?” “Dynamite!” was Haywood’s an- wer.” No More Such Explosives in S. P. While Comrade Lauderdale did not mention it, no suit-case ever carried into the heart of the South, which is to say the heart of race prejudice against the Negro, could be one- tenth of one per cent as filled with dyanmite as Haywood’s action at the meetings where he spoke of de- manding not only an equal but a specially favored place in his audi- ences for Negro woréers. Not every socialist speaker in those pre-war days had Haywood’s sound class-consciousness and cour- | age in defying rac@p¥ejudice. Such | an attitude was not mandatory by! party policy, in common with nearly | every genuinely revolutionary prac- | tice. The socialist party expelled | Haywood four years later, and now | there are no Haywood’s in that party, which can scarcely hide its | really capitalist character with the | fig-leaf of a few reformist phrases. | Readers who wish to obtain Hay- | wood’s memoirs in bound volume, | may obtain them free with a yearly | subscription to the Daily Worker, renewals or extensions also draw the | book, a fine addition to your book LABOR SPORTS The Eastern District of the Labor | Sports Union will hold its first sae door men’s swimming meet of the | winter on Saturday, March 2, in| the Metropolitan Ave. Baths, Bed-) ford and Metropolitan Aves., Brooklyn. | The program for the meet is as follows: | shelf. Senior Events. Kravchencko explained the organi-| 1. 100 yard dash—free style, 'zation of the artists of Russia into, 2. 50 yard dash-free style. | their own union, which protects) 3. Fancy diving. | their interests in all art trans-| 4. 100 yard breast stroke. | actions. | 5. 50 yard breast stroke. | j | 6. 3 man relay—free style. | Two hundred artists and writers 7. | ‘attended the reception, Among} those present were Hunt Diederich, | \Adolph Dehn, Moissaye Olgin, | Jerome Meyer, David Burlick, Louis | Lozowick, Boardman Robinson, Wil- ‘liam Gropper, Maurice Pass, Mil- dred Van Doren, Hollister Noble, Florence Robinson, Art Young, | Maurice Becker, Thomas Smither, | Lucy, Branham, Minna Harkaway, and Sydney Ross Cup races. . Plate race. 9, Life saving demonstration, Carry, break, grip, approach, respiration, 10. Comic life-saving. Junior Events—Age 12 to 16. 50 yard free style. 25 yard free style. 83 boy relay—free style. Baloon race. Candle race 1 2. 3. 4. 5. SCAB JOB AGENCY JInion Continues Strike Against Bosses ® open shop in the face cf the strike called by the Independent Shoe Workers Union, the Schwartz | Sonora, where reports say that Gen- | opening and eBnjamin Shoe Co., 134 Noll St., , yesterday established a . employment agency in the Broadway Central Hotel, 673 Broad- way. The bosses of the company had been unable to get scabs from the ranks of the workers. The union, in a statement yesterday, warned all shoe workers that only seab jobs can be gotten through this “agency” and urged that its adver- tisements in papers be ignored. The Century Shoe Co., 7 St. Nich- olas Ave., Brooklyn, agreed Satur- day to accept the demands of its workers after a short strike. The settlement includes complete recog- nition of the Independent. Workers are again reminded by the union that funds are necessary in order to continue the struggle against the open-shop and wage cuts and for the organization drive. All remittances should be sent to the office of the union, 51 E. Tenth St. Dana Will Give Series of Six Lectures on the Drama of Soviet Union series of six lectures cn. the tionary Russian Drama” will »e given at the new school for So- cial Research, 465 W. 28rd St., on | Wednesday evenings by Professor H. W. L. Dana, who recently re- | |turned from a.two-year stay in Eu- rope. One complete year was spent in Moscow and Leningrad. The first lecture, on “Moscow Theatres,” will be given tomorrow evening at 8:20. In his other five lectures, on succeeding Wednesdays, Dana will take up, in the order named, “The Theatre International,” “Plays About Revolutionists,” “The | Russian Revolution Dramatized,” “Soviet Problems Dramatized.” and “The World Revolution Dramatized.” Dana stresses the point that he believes the Soviet theatre drama the most vital and interest- REPORT BRITISH { ; Death Dogs 2 eigen: Another Shot D ANUB AIDING MEXICAN FASCIST MOVES Reactionaries on Verge of New Outbreak MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18.—That ‘fascist reaction is on the point of jopening civil war for seizure of power is evident from many swift | developments. That it is probably backed by British imperialism seek- ing to overthrow the Gil government which has “made friends” with the | United States, also appears in the fact that Gilberto Valenzuela, who is | verging near calling for armed re- bellion, was Mexico’s minister to London for some year: The Catholic clergy are helping along materially. In semi-defiance to the government order that all priests register their address with the government, Bishop Miguel de la Mora, head of the episcopate, who has been in hiding for months, an- nounces that if priests register, they do so “on their own respon- sibility. We do not prohibit the priests from registering, if they be- lieve it is convenient to subject them- selves to such humiliation.” Not Responsible Either Way. The, statement praises the priests who have not registered, and then | has the effrontery to say that the| ate to work for funds which will | ‘Catholic church cannot be blamed | further the scope of the strike and | Communist Party secretariat mem- still ber; Ben Gold, secretary of the In- for the religious rebellion led by priests who “acted on their own re-| sponsibility.” Thus, if they register | and keep the peace, or don’t register | tional activities among the non- | speak, Working Class Faces Added Torture of Winter Floo Floods Edward L. Doheny, Jr., and Hugh Plunkett, carriers of the $100, 000, for secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall in the Teapot Dome transaction, are both dead by Plunkett's bullets. actual messengers for Doheny, Sr., and the others involved in the oil steal and knew a great deal about the whole business. knowledge of the oil swindle, also died by bullets. Now a Doheny is added to the number of dead. Jesse Smith, with much E RISING; PEASANTS FLEE, STARVE, FREEZ| Cold Kills in German: and in England LONDON, Feb. 19—Already figh ‘ing desperately to escape death starvation and frostbites, worke: and peasants of Central Europe no face a new danger with the threa ‘ened appearance of floods in whic ;many weeks’ accumulation of ic and snow, seeking an outlet to th sea, will spread destruction, accor ing to reports received here today. They were the | Fierce snow storms rage in Ew lope, causing intense . sufferin |among the peasantry. The flimsied rags are being grabbed in a vai Jake Harmon, TAX SELVES FOR Hold Anti-Police Terror Protest Meeting (Continued from Page One) install union conditions in larger sections of the industry. DRESS STRIKE \effort to minimize the effect of th shortage of precious fuel. In Polan | railroads are still disorganized. Er tire districts are completely cut of in Eastern Galicia, One hundre and ten vessels are icebound of | Danzig. but so far no reports hav been received of government expc ditions to aid the crews. |strikers added fuel to the indigna- jtion of the workers which crowded | the hall to protest. | Under the chairmanship of George Powers, a leader of the Architec- tural Iron and Bronze Workers Union, some noted speakers in the local labor movement addressed the gathering. Among them were Nor- man Tallentire, of the International |Labor Defense; Robert Dunn, lec- turer and writer; Henry Sazer, local head of the T. U. E. L., and, Bert | Miller of the Communist Party. As we go to press, Ben Gitlow, Poilowing a burst of undergroun pipes by frost, five workers wer injured in Berlin. Coal is reporte more difficult to obtain than whe: the cold spell first started. The intense cold in London ha brought with it a new outbreak o the virulent influenza to whic! dustrial Needle Union, and Richard | thousands of British workers fel Louis Hyman, president of the N.|B, Moore were also scheduled to| victim during the post-war indus and start rebellion, the church con-| Union shops in the buildings their Striving desperately to maintain |tends that they act “on their own|*hops are located in, | responsibility.” | Rose Wortis, chosen by the meet- | trial depression. VOFVVVVVVVVVVCG | The armed revolt threatens from|ing to act as its secretary, in the | VWVvvvvvvvvvvv feral Francisco Manzo, commanding } 5,000 troops, planned to seize control | of that area. Manzo was close to| Obregon and is a friend of Valen- speech of the meeting summed up the gains made by the strike already and emphasized the fact that the strike must now be pread to make more and greater in- |auela, who is backed for the presi-|1roads on the sweatshops still numer- | idency by big agrarians as well as | the church, | | Valenzuela, speaking at Cajome,| \Sonora, welcomed being called a rebel. He said: | “If they call me a rebel because | I attacked the government’s. sub-| terranean precedents such as poison- | ings and assassinations, I declare then that.I am in open rebellion. If| they consider me a rebel because I} opposed the selling of public posts| |by grafting officials, then Valen- zuela is a rebel.” | | As is usual with fascists, he ap-| | peals to the masses against the lexisting regime, but only to substi-| jtute it with terror against the ‘masses, once power is won. The! | Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc will |fight. both fascism and the Gil gov-| |ernment, | ‘Brownsville Youth to | | Hold Liebknecht Meet | speak at} | George Pershing will | the Liebknecht Memorial meeting | Workers (Communist) League of} | Brownsville for this Friday evening} | at 8:30 at 154 Watkins St. | In addition to Pershing, a young) | dress striker will speak. Proceeds| | of the affair will be divided equally) | and contributed to the needle trades | | strikers and the “Young Worker.” ing in the world. A study of the | | theatre in all the important capitals jin Europe has strengthened, he says, | this conviction. In his lectures, Dana will focus attention on the} | spot where the current of interest in | |the Soviet Union crosses the cur- |rent of interest in the theatre, and |thus unite the study of revolution- and jary subject matter with study of a| paper Universal revolutionary art form. ous in the industry. eee The International Labor Defense, New York District, the New York Local of the Trade Union Educa- tional League and the Workers (Communist) Party yesterday held a mass meeting in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, to protest against the vicious police terror with which the capitalist class here is trying to crush the heroic strike of the workers, This meeting was planned severai days ago, before the latest orgy of arrests. The jailing of 230 more Workers Lab Theatre to Give Mine Play at Labor Defense Bazaar The premiere showing of “March- ing Guns,” by Louis A. De Santes, the first production of the Workers Laboratory Theatre, will take place Wednesday, March 6, at the New Star Casino on the opening night of the four-day bazaar of the New Labor Defense. “Marching Guns” is a one-act play | of the coal miners’ struggle, and depicts the bitter fight the mine workers are conducting against the operators, the coal and iron police! jand thugs, and the labor betrayers, 7 Soldiers in Mexico Die in Wall Collapse MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18.—Seven soldiers were killed and thirteen in- jured by the collapse of a barrack wall while a class in military law was meeting, dispatches to the news- from Monterey, state of Nuevo Leon, reported. FOR RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) Anti-War MEETINGS To Be Arranged by All Districts and Many Party Units All Over the and Country, the National Office Can Supply RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL BUTTONS With Comrade Ruthenberg’s Picture on a Red Background and with the Slogans:— FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR and BUILD THE PARTY 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. All Party Units Are Urged to Send in at Once Their Orders Together With Remittances Direct to WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, e 43 E. 125th St., N. National i jand dance arranged by the Young! York Section of the International | | SPECIAL PRICES to LABOR AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS Banners BEN PRIMACK WORKERS CENTER SIGN SERVICE 26-28 UNION SQUARE. 4TH FLOOR _VRVUVVVVVVYVVIVVY yr VV VV VV VV VY THE SOVIET THEATRE ~ H. W. L. DANA (RECENTLY RETURNED FROM 12 MONTHS IN Moscow) A Series of Six Lecrures on REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN DRAMA Wednesday Evenings at 8:20 I, Feb. 20 Moscow Theatres Py IL, Feb. 27. The Theatre International " Ill. Mar. 6 Plays About Revolutionists IV. Mar. 13. The Russian Revolution Dtamatized V. Mar. 20 Soviet Problems Dramatized VI. Mar. 27. The World Revolution Dramatized f \ The New School for Social Research 465 Wesr 23rp Street - New York City