The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 1

' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Vol. V., No. 355 Published daily except Sunday by The Nai ‘ablishing Associat FINAL CITY EDITION nal Daily Worker — Uni Sa., New York, N. Y. WHITEWASH FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TUBE DISASTER ORGANIZATIONS, NEED OF BY COMMISSION THE DAILY WORKER TODAY 200 Injured Told It Was Merely by a “Coincidence” Why- Blazing Tracks? Fault of the Company , Wholly Concealed Defective gerously dirt sible for a fire that stalled % Ho- the insulation and a dan-, roadbed were respon- boken-bound train of Hudson day night, threw hundreds of ngers into a panic and sent 200 to the hospital. The Hudson and Manhattan Rail-| of the} whitewashed | Company, ators , Were practically when the Transit Commission, after | 2 brief “investigation,” contented | itself with a mild reproof and de-| clared that “coincidence” was | equally responsible with the com-} negligence. Transit op Comm would die, before making its | whitewashing report, for if any of | the injured died, the commission | would have to “talk up” to the anger | of the public, and stall off the mat-| ter with words. Though 15 persons, were still in the hospital late last | night, the commission thought it could safely proceed with the white- | wash at once, The Fire Depart-|! ment and the Interstate Commerce | Commission also must make a re-| port, but not much more is expected | of them. | The first attempt, as in the Ves- tris wreck, was made by the capi- talist papers, to lay the blame for} the fire on the train crew. The} motorman of the train, named Van Zandt, when reporters tried to} question him at his home, 176 Ton- nele St., Jersey City, refused to talk. “I’m not talking. Go to the office, The company is giving out | statements. I’m not.” | According to the stories of wil nesses, the train was about 1,000 feet from Christopher St., station when the motorman saw the tracks afire ahead. He evidently thought he could run over it and threw on more speed. When the third car was directly over the fire, however, the train suddenly came to a grind-| ing stop, as someone, said to be E. Kusha, trainman between the fourth and fifth cars, had chanced to no- tice a smoking junction box under the fifth car and pulled the| emergency cord, cutting off the| third rail power and halting the] train over the fire. With fully 1,200 people on the train, halted in darkness lit with} fire and filled with smoke, panic | ensued. Then the lack of common | ense of company-intimidated em-| ployes made matters worse, as those trapped in the third car were or-| dered forward, only to be ordered | back again. ‘They, and the people} in three following trains which came} up behind, were forced to scramble | through broken doors and windows, | thru the other train and along the | track to air and safety. In the jam and panic hundreds were injured, BRITAIN SEEKS NO NAVY TRUCE Chamberlain Denies He Will Parley With U.S. LONDON, Feb. 20.—The British government has no intention of en- tering into negotiations with the United States on the matter of} ending the naval race and for naval limitations and Kellogg’s proposals for such negotiations are inaccept- able to Britain, Sir Austen Cham- berlain, British foreign secretary in- formed the house of commons today. He further let it be understood that Kellogg knew that the terms he proposed for naval limitation in his note answering the Anglo-French naval accord were inacceptable to Britain even before he sent that note, ¥ Chamberlain also sharply rebuked Sir Esme Howard, ambassador at Washington, for his statement to the press last week that négotia- tions between Britain and the United States were soon to begin and said that was not the official position and that Howard had spoken only as an individual. On questioning in the house Chamberlain made it clear that Britain had no intentions to call a new: naval conference. The other clanses decay and finally Gisappear in the face of modern in- dustry: the proletariat ix itk special and ‘eanential product—Karl Marx | (Communist Manifento), ~ Breviously listed 23 504 oe. $11,212.70 Monday ..-- Vanicruerean 465.82 Tuesday Stes : 312.20 WEONOSOAY is ch cnr ausielictsiicias sie 404.04 UU BIE eat varie eco oes cine eee $12,394.76 Comrades: Those loyal and energetic workers whose efforts are responsible for the collection of $12,394.76 to date for the Save the Daily Worker Fund have secured this amount chiefly from individuals. The great re- serve of sympathetic organizations—union, fraternal and benefit societies, cooperative societies, workers’ clubs, ete.—is almost untouched. Yesterday only three contributions from organ- izations were received—S10 from the Great Falls, Mont., branch of the International Labor Defense; $5 from the Finnish Workers Club of Keene, N. H.; oe from the Workmen’s Circle branch in St. Paul, inn, The geographical distribution of these dona- tions—one from the New England states, one from the Middle West and one from the Rocky Mountain region—shows clearly the wide response to the ap- peal of the Daily Worker—the central organ. of the Workers (Communist) Party and the fighting paper of the American working class. Distribution of knowledge of the needs of the Daily Worker and the concrete evidence of sympathy and a desire to aid in areas so widely separated, shown by the donations mentioned must be followed now by concentration of the activity of Daily Worker supporters in working class organizations in all sections of the United States. The mass organizations of the working class— this is the base of the support of the Daily Worker. Since the Daily Worker was founded in 1924, it has never failed to lead and support uncompromisingly the struggles of workers’ organizations against the attacks of American imperialism and its agents—the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor and the socialist party. Should the Daily Worker be forced to suspend, the militant organizations of the working class would be left voiceless. THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN. It will not happen if the Daily Worker support- ers now will concentrate their efforts in workers’ or-* ganizations—guarantee that every militant organ- ization has the critical situation of our fighting paper called to its attention in the concrete form of an ap- peal for a substantial contribution. When we say “substantial” we mean exactly that. In all organ- izations, no matter how militant and class conscious the average level of the membership may be, there are certain elements which approach all questions formally. In the present emergency a formal, “official” approach to the question of support of the Daily Worker would be fatal. The amount sent in to date has been collected precisely because our comrades have realized that the question is not a formal one of making standardized donations of small sums, but that THE DAILY WORKER FACES ACTUAL SUSPENSION if they do not come to its aid with generous donations. : Comrades and fellow workers! Into the mass organizations! The end of the time set for our campaign is close at hand. Let us finish it with a magnificent total of contributions from workers’ organizations which will place the paper which speaks for them in a position of financial security, leave it free to devote all its energies to the sharpening class struggle, and which will be at the same time a tribute to the wide mass support without which the Daily Worker could not have survived the crises of the last five turbulent years. Greater struggles mature fast in the womb of the future. Therefore—into the mass organizations! To mobilize them for the Daily Worker is to mob- ilize them for struggle against the danger of imper- ialist war, against the wage-cuts and speed-up, against social-reformist betrayals, against the ex- ploitation and oppression of American imperialism, for defense of the Soviet Union! Mobilize the dollars of the mass organizations against dollar imperialism! Every supporter on the mass front! Fortify the Daily Worker! Give it the muni- tions it needs for the battles of today and the bigger battles that are to come! BIG CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MASS ORGAN- IZATIONS IS THE WEAPON WE WANT TODAY. EVERYONE TO THE FRONT. MORE ENERGY IN THE DRIVE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. ’ THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Rush all funds to: The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. m HE YOUNG } PIONEERS 5 on tHe MEET WILL OPEN Tailors Pick Delegates to W. P. CONVENTION Ruthenberg Memorial on March 1 M ASS PICKET-LINE SKETCHES TERRIGLE” xv —. U Tere you.Mawrnris, THEM STRIKERS ARE ACTING SOMETHING Sake _Price 3 Cents vy mee DRESS STRIKE GROWS, BOSSES NOW CONFESSING \Employer Paper Fears | Fight on Open Shop Will Last 24 Jailed Yesterday Socialists Act as Stool Pigeons in Court The poliey strike has end ridiculous o} strike, has now given ‘admission of fear on the p dress manufacturers strike “may t throughout the This adn made yester day in a rep ed in the em- ployers’ trade journal, the Womens’ Wear, and means not only an ac- tual confession that the dr is still on, but the printing of the ” story shows that the strike is grow- KEEP ON MouIN’. (as. WADAYA MEAN The toll of jailings last night 27 reached the figure of 24, a veport Resins from strike headquarters stated. The union leaders are contemplating Big Left ~ LABOR RALLIES TO action with other working ¢ or- The oppressed and enslaved work-!few years to fight the Hillman- ers in the mens clothing industry, Schlossberg-Beckerman gang in an members of the Amalgamated Cloth-| organized form. ing Workers Union, are breaking) Noted speakers of the left wing loose from the domination of their movement, Ben Gitlow, and Wil- betrayers, their union leadership|liam Z, Foster, Communist Party Unions, Other Groups to Aid Dress Workers The Sixth National Convention of and are organizing themselves to leaders will address the conference. ganizations to protest against the unequaled campaign of persecution ° which the police are ying on ‘r Wing Conference en oe ET darity. The arrests yesterday put criminal offense of picketing, well over the thousand mark in the slightly over two-week-old strike. Figures from the union office of the fact that the pickets have halted production in 50 more shops, the workers of which have Great interest is being shown by numbers of trade unions, the Workers (Communist) Party |oust an officialdom that has been President Louis sehen National ‘ i ir izati re Secretary Ben Gold of the vi : ss ting debasing their organization to mere |S wo | ‘ peal Oban ieee Gilee tier er OUE Peomtbane itaipntam Saad (aiding the| Tzades « Workers (Indust -Cnlon local, New Yorks TU, Bele bo aupe large joined the shops and labor fraternal organiza- . strike, prove that the impetus of Needle tions in the conference called by the the strike is still sharply on the up- i ee : ; , grade, despite the police terror against the war danger, and @ tosses in enforcing wage cuts and will also speak there. M. Olgin, port the dreasraakers’ strike, to be Seen Ra: Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting at inhuman speed-up systems. Thou- Communist writer and speaker will held on Saturday, Feb. 2 BE) ae gig ainlen band” GAG New Star Casino, 107th St. and sands of workers in the shops of be there. P i : Park Ave. on March 1. There will} be shown at this meeting a new 8- | veel-of the U. S. S. R, entitled “Aj Visit to the Soviet Union In 1928,”! made in connection with the visit of | the American rank and file trade union delegation last year, and an-| other film dealing with the role of Ruthenberg. | The speakers will be the Party leaders and delegates to the conven- tion, among them representatives of (Continued un Page Two) 5 ILL. MINERS —_DIEIN WRECK 200 Hurt as Work Train | Jumps Tracks RIA, Iil., Feb. 20.—Five min- e ‘e known to have been killed and at least 200 seriously injured when four cars of the miners’ special No. 1 of the Peoria Terminal Rail- way Company, went over a 20-foot | jembankment five miles south of | here. Many of those injured are so se-| viously hurt that it is certain they | j will die. Following the derailment, flames | from the coal stoves in several of | the cars spread through the wreck, Lurning the victims who were not the smoking wooden coaches. Probably only the quick action of | the engineer, F. 0, Fisher, in un- | ‘coupling his locomotive from the | wreckage and rushing to tow ‘summon help, saved the victims | from greater suffering. As it is, | the injured were exposed for an| hour in the zero weather. { | The eleven-car train, crowded | \with nine hundred miners on their | way to work at the Crescent Coal | | Mines, fifteen miles south of Peoria, | ‘left here early this morning. | The train had proceeded only five | \miles and was moving at from 12) |to 15 miles an hour when the engi- (Continued on Page Fiv Funds Vital Respond immediately to 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 I am send- Name Address ........ Names of contributors will be delay. | ing yeu the enclosed amount, $.... if Our Press is to Live New York are now busy electing rank and file shop delegates to the conference called by the Amalga- mated ‘section of the Trade~ Union Educational League. The conference, to be held this Saturday and Sunday at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave., promises to represent a large majority of the workers in the industry. It is the outcome of a left wing move- ment that has sufficiently crystal- lized till it encompasses a majority of the union membership. The anti-administration movement formed over a long period as the Hillman-Beckerman administration piled one betrayal after another on the heads of the workers. The dis- integration of the New York organi- zation, the fight between Beckerman and Hillman, resulting in the resig- nation of the former and the ap- pointment of the Chicago thug lead- er Rissman to his place, brought the movement to a head and the work- ers are now rallying in a concerted attempt to oust their betrayers. The call for this conference has aroused more enthusiasm than any of the attempts made in the past Will Support Dress Strike at Harlem Mass Meet Tonight Edward Walsh, Williana J. Bur- roughs, of the Negro Champion; Henry Rosemond and Virginia Al- len, of the executive board of the | National Needle Trades Workers In- | | xtricate themselves from |4ustrial Union; Charles Zimmerman, alg to) Faera et sens \dressmakers’ department of the Na- ticnal Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, and Richard B. Moore, national organizer of the |American Negro Labor Congress, | Which remained and was turned over are scheduled to speak at the mass meeting in support of the dressmak- ers’ strike at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., at 9 o'clock tonight. Speakers at the meeting, which will be held under the auspices of the American Negro Labor Con- gress and the National Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, will expose the corrupt bureaucracy of the reactionary A, F. of L. unions and stress the policy of the new In- dustrial Union which welcomes Ne- groes in its ranks. the appeal of the Daily see ‘ published in the “Daily” without 0k CRA aOR RN AO. 5 i a cE mE ca ae om bs f { CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and find ablaiatos Irving Place, New York City. JD Beans anc Teas teurs among the leaders of the Credentials so far received show |ciglist company union, can be that there is a broad response from | p+oved not only by the fact that so- i Slant : all sections’ of. the’ labuss mors of. ment, /cialists testify against arrested pic tut, as, ne ain one snd. kets, but these labor fakers even go eather, textile, machinists, and!so far as to demand the arrests of te wall oreaaetea a Seagaany iets workers picketing in front of the wi prese S| shop. eye! i Sas ca a ade for ., THis incident kappened yesterday trangements are being made for|,+ 307 W. s9th St. Antonninni the senders of ioe New nie iar lcompany union official. walked over ~~. |Geller, and two thugs demandin; MIAMI, Fla, Feb, 20—The ex. | Will be informed of the methods of the arrest of five pickets in front of | ecutive council of the American Fed- | organization and strike taaeeey the building. The complaint was eration of Labor made a fake ges- employed by this militant industrial that they had entered the bosses |ture at “organizing steel workers” | union. sts shop illegally, and that they were yesterday, when, after discovering| Those workers’ organizations and ymed gangsters. The workers chal. that the U. S. Steel Corporation had | shops which have not yet acted upon tenged the socialist thugs that all cut wages ‘from 7 to 10 per cent inthe sending of delegates to this most |;,. searched for weapons to see who the Elwood, Indiana, plant, it said| important conference must do s0! the real gangsters were. In search- that “the executive council proposes | Without fail. MALS ing the pickets, the policeman was to give this matter special consid- also compelled to look into the poc- eration and attention.” SANDINO SHOT kets of the labor faker and his thugs. STEEL “DRIVE” New Tall Talk to Fool) Workers | When asked what that meant, In the pockets cf the officials, as Wm. Green replied: “Use your im- vell as of the thugs, guns were agination.” It is taken to mean that | found, the whelly meribund committee, DOWN vA PLANE Despite this the five pickets were headed by P. H. Hannan of the In- ternational Association of Machin- | cuit ists, which started out with a blare| TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sdward Stark, were let out on $500 of trumpets some two years ago to | 29, (UP).—The newspaper “El bail each, because of testimony “organize the steel mills of Gary,” | printed an interview today with Gen-| against them by Antonninni. The to be given some more life, at/eral Simson Montoya, said to be other two, Sophie Cohen and Geo. least, mere publicity. second in command of the forces of Lakis, were released on $50 bail. | At that time, in spite of the trum-|the Nicaraguan rebel leader, Gen-| Others arrested yesterday were ;pet blasts, steel workers hunted jeral Augustino Sandino, in which |S. Sallustro, George Silardo, Abe \high and low around the steel towns | Montoya said it was “quite impos- Rubin, Mimma Rubin, Bessie Young |of Indiana to find either Hannan, or | sible to capture Sandino.” and M, Gondelman. | anybody sent by him, but to no avail.| “The last fights with marines ith the issuance of a general As foretold at that time by the |took place near Yali and Guanacas- strike call practically a few days Trade Union Educational League, |tillo,” Montoya was quoted as say- °ff, the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hem- the whole “carapaign” was a fake, |ing. “Sandino’s troops had quite the Stitchers Union, Local 41, affiliated intended only to give a few fakers|best of it. Nothing will induce with the Industrial Needle Workers big salaries for a time taken from |Sandino to abandon the fight against Union, is well on its way to com- the fund collected for organizing |the Yankee marines. He is ready to Pleting construction of its strike ma- during the strike of 1919, a part of defeat President Moncada of (Nic-|chinery. This Saturday afternoon, aragua) and he counts on sufficient at 1 o'clock, the Organization Com- support. mittee of the local will hold a meet- | “Up to the present Sandino’s| ing in Joint Board offices, 131 W. |troops have shot down 21 airplanes /2Sth St. of the enemy.” Irving Potash, head of the Gen- PRO EN See (Continued on Page Two) ‘Will Discuss Needle 25s Geos Rae) ‘ ’ Trades Strike Today Hey one ; An open forum on “The Present | Strike und the New Needle Trades! A “Hunger” Banquet for the bene- Union” will be held under the aus-/fit of the Daily Worker will be vices of Section 2 of the Workers | given by Branch 1, Section 5, Work- (Communist) Party at 101 W. 27th!ers (Communist) Party at head- St. at noon today, quarters, 715 E. 138th St., tonight. All workers are invited to attend, A varied program of speeches, en- from Prison, Is Murdered in Tampa the forum which was postponed from | tertainment and dancing will be pre- lyesterday to today. | sented. scuarietwets| EMERGENCY FUND year-old Negro boy, charged but not arrested. In Jefferson Market Court, mes Dimos, Robert Parker and Kr to the A. F. of L. by William Z. Fos- ter, the leader of the strike. Thus, if one follows Green's ad- vice and “uses imagination,” the new “organization campaign” can be seen |to be the same as the old one. The council also had some kind jwords for the unemployed, to check them from getting out of hand and |keep up hopes never to be realized junder capitalism. |'Negro Boy, Taken en given a hearing on a mythical jstatutory offense, has been found dead after being murdered by white | re iynchers here. .: é Day? |The boy. Buster Alten, was inthe. Workers Contribute to Save the ‘Daily ;Tampa jail, when on Monday night | two men presented a letter signed, | Cigar Workers, Tampa, Fla... 95.39] pathizer, $3; S. Argiroff, $1 23.00 “Sheriff Cobb of Hernando County,” | Section 5, New York City .. 50.00 Collected at Nucleus 201 meet- instructing them to transfer the boy | Hungarian American Singing | ing, Cleveland, Ohio: T, Ath- to another jail. Although this is| Society, Cleveland, Ohio.... 25.00| anasiaches, $5; K. Pitz, $2; an old trick, the jailer made no ef-| Collected by Lolich, Akron, 0. 12.00 P. Matrena, $1; E. Hage- fort to certify the order. Collected by V. P. Phillipov, dom, $1; D. Patranshas, $1; Tampa police today, however, dis-| Gary, Ind.: V. P. Phillipov, P. Csont, $5; M. Lucich, $2; covered the boy's body buried be-| $10; K. Apostoloff, $1; J. Nucleus Treasury, $3 ..... 20,00 neath a cotton wood tree near Maslinoff, $1; B. Koynoff, Collected at General Member- _ Brooksville. The body was riddled $1; N. Keneoff, $1; J. ship Meeting, Oakland, Cal. 19.00 with bullets and indicated trat he, Josofofi, $1; Dr. E, Nickol- Collected by the Ambridge had been hanged first, off, $2; U. Miteff, $2; Sym. i} ‘ (Continued on Page Five)