The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1929, Page 2

dian Workers Strike, 10,000 Demonstrate i in Madras Against Simon Commission ARALGAMATED TAILORS CALLED TO CONFERENCE TUELof rae ile Calls for Page One) amated ight (Contin and suffers of the Hi now realiz dangered. man of being cerman a the guilty know the _UAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRU Jee 20, 1929 Flier Returns From Wall St. Mission Col. Lindbergh landing in New York after opening the Central Ame DRESS STRIKE! GAUSES PANIC OF CLOAK BOSSES Joint Board t¢ to Meet on | | Fur Workers | (Continued from Page One) ers’ Association, issued a statement | yesterday to the trade press appeal- | ing that no bosses settle with the | left wing union, In doing so, they | | offer to these manufacturers the in- | |ducement of their fake agreement | | with the socialist company union. | | They ask the bosses to join, and say, jin effect, “We have a desirable agreement with a bona fide A. F. jof L. organization.” ——% | Joint Board To Meet. “Executed? | Police taking to the morgue killed with a machine gun by police in uniform for not paying the cops their regular graft, says Fred Sees a federal official. for Not Faying Police Graft BAYONETS HIDE _ YELLOW LABOR | PARTY CHIEFS Indian Capitalists in | Commission Meeting MADRAS, India, Feb. 19.—A strike and a demonstration of 10,- | 000 workers in the streets of this | city, met the arrival here of the Simon Commission, sent by British imperialism to wheedle the rising Indian independence movement into compromise. Representatives of the yellow Labor Party of England are part of the commission, in spite of the sharpest condemnation of such the body of James Clark, one of five Chicago rum runne rs lined up and BILL TO DEPORT | participation by the All-Indian SHOE WORKERS Neeser "\Needle Trades, ANLC| Speakers Will Address Here, the parading demonstrators ‘can mail line for Yankee imperialists and being feted by Wall | carried black flags, and the trade The Joint Board of the Cloak,} re all of the int s of the workers. ucing the shops to union shops, they n where the and seventy k-breaking, in- em, in order to ng for his fam- speed-up a result of the § thousands of wo being made permanently unemploy- ed. The conditions in New York have developed a situation so bad ging the fas- Mr. Risman, the New York bundles vo in order to cover up his “achievements” of helping the Chi- cage emplo tu force upon the workers Hillman’s speed-up schemes of production, in order to blind the unemployed to the real source of their misery. During the last few weeks the clique has been meeting continually, discussing ‘new plans”; they speak ef amalgamation, centralization and utter other long words, but we, the RELIEF CAMPAIGN, W.LR. Will Launch Big National Drive Soon (Continued from Page One) thousands of miners and their fam- ilies, especially in the Pennsylvania and Ohio coal fields. “We intend,” the W. I. R. state- ment continues, “to exnose so all can see the unusually frightful condi- tions which the coal diggers of America are compelled to endure in the company-owned towns in coal regions throughout the United States. In virtual bondage, the miners, their wives and children are unable to take any decisive action against the dictatorship of the mine barons and their flunkeys who have been placed in public office in the coal towns. Thousands of miners are jobless, while many who work have barely enough to keep them- selves alive from day to day, “The Workers International Re- FASCIST FIGHT. “New Leader” Wants ‘Democracy, of Old’ The socialists | have once again | demonstrated their unity with the | bourgeoisie, by their attitude toward the proposed International Congress against fascism. Henri Barbusse, chairman of the International Anti- Fascist Committee, has sent out a call for a united front of all working class organizations for a world con- | gress to organize a campaign against fascism on an international | scale, The attitude of the socialists is illuminating. The socialists ask whether the congress is willing to accept as a basis of the fight against fascism | “The restoration of democracy in Italy and other fascist countries.” Barbusse stresses in his manifesto | the fact that only the working class ! can be the pillar of support in the | | industry. H jing general | pared, he stated, the union calls a| ike in their trade for the pur- ie of regaining the union stand- ards which were lost because of the A. F. of L. company union in the While ground work for the com- struggle is being | planned, the Furriers Department of the new union is meanwhile con- ducting an organization drive. Aaron Gross, manager of the Fur Department, announced that over 60 shops have been settled in the past week in this drive. After the work- ers in a particular shop are pre- strike which generally lasts two or three days before the boss signs the union agreement. In this campaign the union is concentrating particu- larly on the large shops, manufac- turers of coats as well as trimmings. | * * * Yesterday's Daily Worker, in re-| | Porting the action of the meeting of dressmakers employed in settled shops, who voted unanimously to tax themselves with one day’s work for the strike fund, stated that Sat- urday was the day set for this work. jeign born workers framed up workers, know that behind these anti-fascist fight. When has the | qnis is erroneous. The meeting did i | | beautiful phrases new plans of be- trayal are being hidden, new plans to still further enslave the tailors. Their plan for amalgamation of lo- cals is in reality a plan to unite all graft cliques; their plan that the bosses reduce dues and taxes from the workers’ wages (check-off sys- tem) serve only the interests of the corrupt officialdom. Where are the plans to improve the conditions of the workers? Where are the plans to unite the workers for a struggle against the bosses and against those who have reduced our union to a_ bosses’ union, to a mere company union? There is not a tailor who would except the Hillmans, Beckermans und Schlossbergs to propose such plans to them. Such), plans selves must the workers them- formulate. For this ‘purpose, we are calling a rank and 23 Feb. 23 and 24 at Stuyvesant Ca- sino, 2nd Ave. and 8th Every shop must be represented. to fight Eyery worker who is ready lief will raise funds for the relief of the miners and also for their fellow workers in the British Isles. lt ap- peals to all workers and friends of the labor movement, all progressive- minded people to help feed the thou- sands of starving miners and their families.” The W. I. R. also announced that in the near future district confer- ences on miners’ relief will be held throughout the country. This will be the beginning of the campaign on a national scale. The dates of the district conferences will be an- nounced shortly. | Russian Art Will Be Reviewed at Russian Exposition This Eve. Russian art, from its earliest peri- | authority or Russian art, at the Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia, tonight, at the Grand Cen- tral Palace. 4 cds to its place in Soviet Russia to- | file shop delegate conference of all gay, will be reviewed in lectures by | men’s clothing workers, children’s | Alexei Kravchenko, Russian painter; | clothing workers and shirt makers Jouis Lozowick, American artist, } to be held Saturday and Sunday, pr, Christian Brinton, well-known i ; 5 for bett worker| The effair is sponsored by the t r for a) committee on arts of the American ] union to Society tor (Cultural Relations with workers, every from the inhuman in the shops, every worker who. re- alizes the danger of company-union- ism, must see to it tha® his shop sends representatives to the con- ference in order that, with united ranks like the dressmakers, cloak- | Lozowick will tvanslate Kravchen- | {pion Square, New York City. Russia. Kravehenko, who represents the Russian artists at the exposition, will speak on “Education and Art in Soviet Russia.” He is a painter and graphic artist and a member of the working class ever pained anything! from “democracy,” he asks. The Labor and Socialist Interna- tional has issued an official state- ment in Paris, denouncing the pro- ject as another attempt of the Com-; munists to form a united front un- der their leadership. They stress the | idea of democracy as against the | Communist ideas of combatting} fascism. “The New Leader” faith- | fully echoes this attitude, stating: “But quite apart from the politi- cal and party intentions of the pro- | ;moters of this congress, the true character of Barbusse’s undertaking | " will be shown by whether or not! he is willing to accept as a basis of the congress the fundamental de- mand: ‘The restoration vf demo- cracy in Italy and other fascist coun- | tries.’ Unfortunately, in view of the well-known attitude of the Communists, it is impossible to count on the laying down of this prin- ‘ciple. There can therefore be no} question of socialists participating in this congress, since there would be great danger that the discussions at such a congress, not based on the | democratic principle, would preju- dice the struggle against fascism rather than help it.” The provisional committee appeals to all working class organizations to support the campaign against! fascism by sending delegates to the American conference on Friday and) ‘by sending contributions to help| finance the campaign. | Communications funds should | ibe sent to: Provisional Committee, | Baldwin and Hays are gi not decide the day to be worked. aati epee. Louis Hyman yesterday issued a! statement commenting on the de-| fense made by Roger Baldwin, of | the Civil Liberties Union, when he was taxed with accepting as one of the supervisors over the elections in} the Schlesinger company union. | Baldwin, after stating that he aig \not support the I. L. G. W. U. against the Industrial Union, said, | | however, that he would render this service to any union that called for “Hyman pointed out that not a union, but a strikebreaking agency, | a company union, had called Bald- win to supervise a so-called elec- tion, from which any voice of op- position has long ago been expelled. Hyman asked the allegedly “impar- | tial Citizens’ Committee,” among whom is also to be found Arthur Garfield Hays, whether they would act as impartial supervisors at an! election of the Ku Klux Klan or in the Fascist Alliance. It was also pointed out that when the left wing! demanded an impartial election in the I. L. G. W. U., the bank direc- tor, Benj. Schlesinger refused to do this. Whether they want to or not, the union spokesman concluded, ing aid to a company union that is now open- \ly acting as a strikebreaking agency. a Call Mass Meets. Four important mass eetings have been called to mobilize the Academy of Art of U.S. S. R. Louis| A. Markoff, Sec., Room 604, No. 1 wives of all needle trades workers, land other working women in ite makers and furriers, he will be able |ko’s address. to organize for a struggle against|- Dr. Chistian Brinton, who is in| the bosses and their agents in our charge of the exhibition of paintings | union, in the sition, will lecture on Send representatives to the shop |“1,000 Years of Russian Art,” illus- delegate conference, trating his reruarks with lantern Fight against piece-work. slides of famous art pieces in the Fight against the check-off sys- museums of Russia. tem. j Fight against Hillman’s fake CIGAR WORKERS STRIKE. | amalgamation. | MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail). Fight for a union to serve the —-Cigarmakers are on strike against | interests of the workers. the James Porter Cigar Co. here. | Fight for the unity of all needle The company refused to pay the } trades workers. ,union scale and to employ union} 4 Support the Needle Trades Work- workers. The plant is being pick- | ers’ Industrial Union. | eted. | | IN WALL ST. EMPIRE Rob Filipino | Peasants of ‘Their Lands By JOSE AGUILAR. then attach it. These landlords are MANILA, Jan, 18 (By Mail).— ‘aided by the U. S, commanded con- The . Philippine peasantry faces stabulary and police. Severe oppression by the protection A report from Pililla, in Rizal given under the law established by province, says that so-called “pub- American imperialism to the big lic” lands, which have been occupied landowners and their usurous and by peasants for generations were land-grabbing practices, sold at public auction, and that 400 About 10,000 homesteaders in the | peasants of that town will lose their i, lands and homes with no recompense | whatever. On the Dinalupihan estate, in the ’ steaders of ae province, in the | Catholic archbishop of Manila, in ‘towns of Santa Rosa and ana- addition to the four peasants re- n, have had their crops seized by cently beaten and tortured by con- 0 landlords who claim to own the |stabulary, six inore have been ar- | cleared anc worked by these|rested on suspicion of connection teaders. All their crops were with the burning of a sugar planta- | Ytached and so they have nothing tion there. Although arrested and | ft to live on. The other landlords | put in jail, they are not given food | fe waiting for the other home- by the constabulary while awaiting gaders to thresh their rice, an@| i IVF VV VV VV VV VVVVVVVVVVVYV SPECIAL PRICES to LABOR AND FRATERNAL | ORGANIZATIONS STRICTLY UNION WORK Cards AND Cloth Banners BEN PRIMACK WORKERS CENTER SIGN SERVICE 26-28 UNION SQUARE, 4TH FLOOR MBhbhhh bb bbbhnt VUVFVVHVVVIVIG Aimed at the Militant Foreign Born WASHINGTON, Feb. 19,—The Senate deportation bill, intended to make easy the ousting of any for- in strikes or for activity in organiza- tion work, is back before the Senate. It was amended and made more rigid by the House. The bill provides for the deporta- tion of a loosely defined class of foreign born, described as “unde- | Any person convicted of a sirable,” felony is deportable, unless an American citizen, and according to the House amendments which the Senate will vote on soon, any alien | found possessing a gun, explosives, or convicted of violating the prohibi- tion law can be sent out of the country, Elaborate Program at ‘Daily’ Benefit Dance Proceeds of the entertainment and | dance which will be given by Unit 3B of the Workers (Communist) Party at the Amalgamated Food Workers Hall, 133 W. 51st St., Sat- jurday evening will be donated to th: | Daily Worker Emergency Fund. J. O. Bentall will be master of |ceremonies. A program of recita- |tions, songs and dances will be given, ;and refreshments will be served. | Dancing will follow the concert, ‘Will Discuss Needle An open forum on “The Prese» Strike and the New Needle Trade Union” will be held under the aus: pices of Section 2 of the Workers | (Communist) Party, at 101 W. 27th St., at noon today. port of the dressmakers’ strike, un- der the joint auspices of the Nee- dle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and the United Council of Working Women, These mass meetings will be held next Friday evening at the follow- ing places: Brooklyn, Borough Park, 1873 48rd_St.; Brownsville, New Columbia Hall, Stone and Blake Aves.; Bronx, Ambassador Hall, 8875 Third Ave.; East New York, 313 Hillsdale Ave. at the Workers Club. h : Street's puppets in Latin-America. Dress and Fur Workers of the In.| Harlem Meet Tonight unions established a boycot of any- guilty, gu f eas — 5 |dustrial Union is soon to meet on| ALIENS UP AGAIN Gad SIGN UP SHOPS | thing that was connected with the ing the Bee 5 | the question of organizing the work- | To acquaint the Negro workers commission, ae ae Sree done a s TOES; Asai ie ers in the fur industry to emulate scrraders Monatnertentaely those | other parts of India, with great ef- a result of the of betrayal ne dressmakers in calling a general sige |fect on the commission’s purpose, engaged in the needle trades, with| ! Jail Leaders ors Yesterday. a it is compelled to rely on mili- the issues of the needle . trades} for Picketing tary and police authority to assist strike, a meeting has bean | the commission members at every called for night at St.! | step and talk to angry masses be- - “4 Another firm of open shop shoe | hind a serried row of bayonets about Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., under | manufacturers was compelled to bow their mission of “good-will.” the joint auspices of the Needle | before the impetus of the organiza-| In spite of the mass demand for Trades Workers’ Industrial Union| tion drive the Independent Shoe! complete and immediate independ- and the American Negro Labor Con- | Workers’ Union is now in the midst ence, and the boycott of the com- | grass. |of conducting. This was the Brook- | mission organized upon this demand, : Im Shoe Company, Brooklyn. | the bourgeois Indian “nationalists,” | The employers, confronted with a} | representing the native legislatures, threat of a strike, made to them by | will sit jointly with the commission, their entire crew, as soon as all of advancing their compromise pro- " them had joined the union, signed | gram of “domination status” within the union, Henry Rosemond and the agreement with the union when | the British Empire. Mrs. Virginia Allen. its representative came for his sig- | A stat nt issued by the Amer- | * . jean ‘Negro Lebor Congress some| rye \‘Krassin’ Show Friday, 7 8! aid 8 A The workers in this shop are now | % é | days ago explained its reasons £0F| to enjoy the full union eonditions. ||Saturday, Will Aid the ia | M hile the fight hi . out the essential differences between | Benjamin and Schwartz sea rock, | Needle Trades Union | the A. F, of L, unions with their] iyn, jg still in progress. Gecaune| ce prejudice, and the new union; they led the workers in picketing | mass tomorrow The meeting will be addressed by | national leaders of both organiza- | tions, including two Negro members | of the General Executive Board of |. Proceeds of the performance of “Krassin,” which will be shown ith its program of full equality there yesterday, Business Agent Le- for the Negro workers, including | vine, Secretary Bernoff and Sam| equal participation on leading com-! | Lambroso, were arrested. mittees and equal opportunity for| The fight against this open shop work. For these reasons, says the | company has been going on for two statement, “in addition to recog-| weeks, having been called when the | | the “ |midnight, Friday and Saturday, at | the Film Guild Cinema, 52 W.Eighth | St., will go to the needle trades strike. The house is being sold out in advance and tickets should be nized necessity for waging a strug-| bosses decided to abrogate recogni- | purchased at once. Trades Strike Today All workers are invited to attend. | gle against the sweat shop condi-| tions in the industry, low pay and long hours, the American Negro Labor Congress stands one hundred | per cent for the strike of the needle | trades workers and urge all Negro | workers in the trades to join the) union and support the strike, | ‘Ragozin Teaches New | Eccnomics Class Today | Ray Ragonin, $4 teacher of Marxian Economics I on Monday night at the | Workers School, 26-28 Union Sq.,| will give a second class in that sub- | “set on Wednesday evening at 7. The Wednesday evening class in Marxian | Economics I is scheduled to begin (on Wednesday, February 20th. In| addition to these two classes, the | Workers School also offers classes in Marxian Economics IT and Marx- | an Economics III. The former sub- ject is being taught by Alex Bittel- man on Friday evening. The class will hold its first session this Fri- day evening. Marxian Economics III will meet Monday, evening, 8:30 p m. The Workers School will still | accept registrations for these classes, | especially for Marxian Economies II | and III. Marxian Economics II and | Marxian Economics III will intro- | duce the student to a study of {Marx’s “Capital.” DAIRY P. i The “Krassin” depicts the rescue |made by the Soviet crew of the | bile expedition. Additional features tion of the union and wipe out union | standards, O- \Progressive Cleaners Call Protest Meeting | Ba, or at Local New Yor! The Progressive Group in the |?“ Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union, in the International Relief, a dee orden campaign it is leading to clean the | Reom ng Vel te mare a union of the grafting and corrupt | officialdom, are calling the workers | | in the trade to an open forum to be} held this Friday evening at 8 | the Russian R. U. R.—and the “Frog | Princess.” Tickets can be purchased. at the Workers’ Bookshop, by telephoning Stuyvesant 8881, | but, by their actions, assist them, a leircular issued for this meeting de- o'clock, in the Jewish Workers’ Uni-| ‘lates. Overtime is not being paid | for at union rates, men are being in- versity, 108 E, 14th St. discriminately discharged and other All the union conditions in the | standards are being ignored, the call shops are being ignored by the em-| points out in appealing to the work- ployers and the union officialdom | ers to fight against the union be- not only take no steps against this,’ trayers for such a policy. NN Our glasses are fitted by expert mechanics to insure comfortable ages pili te > ai OPEN DAILY from 9 a. 2-9 p.m. wear and neat appearance, crommeriy Polen Miller Uptical Co.) ‘TRISTS — OPTICIANS 1690 LEXINGTON AVENUE., Gomer 1064 St. Mendes Stock Farms, Inc. 883 TINTON AVENUE BRONX, N. Y. WE SPECIALIZE IN GRADE ‘A’ and ‘B’ COUNTRY BOTTLED MILK THIS IS THE ONLY UNION CONCERN | | | FOR 40 YEARS OUR NAME HAS SIGNI- | FIED PURITY AND QUALITY IN | | Telephone: MELrose 3863-3864-3161 Mass Opening of the 6TH NATIONAL CONVENTION of the WORKERS (Communist) PARTY OF AMERICA ‘Friday Eve., March 1 NEW STAR CASINO East 107th St., near Park Ave, SECOND MEMORIAL OF THE DEATH OF C, E. RUTHENBERG (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) First Showing of the Sovkino Film “RUSSIA IN 1928” Nationally Known Communist Leaders Will Speak RODUCTS —ADMISSION 50: Buy Your Tickets at District Office; Workers Center, or at National Office, 48 E. 125th St.