The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 1

t ‘ 1 f Se en Ore Se ee <—&ee & \ stances.” _ Communiat Manifesto). _. ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily orker Entered as accond-class matter at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Yq. under the set of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No, 356 Publixhed daily ex: _ Publishing protean Ses 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Sunday ‘The National Dally” ‘Werker NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside New Ne > by mail, 94.00 per yen’ York, by mail, $6.00 per year. me _Price 3 Cents HILLQUIT DEMANDS JAILING OF DAILY WORKER STAFF MOBILIZE FOR WORKERS MUST SAVE DAILY: BILL IS RUSHED | MONDAY STRIKE IS UNDER GRAND J JURY FIRE TO BUILD NEW DEMONSTRATION: Strike Meetings Today Organize for Huge Picket Lines Pleaters Strike Soon Call Fur Strikes for Union Conditions Plans for a mass demonstration on the picket lines Monday morn- ing were made by the executive! committee of the General Strike| Committee last night. The strike Jeaders state that they expect the demonstration against the sweat shop and police terrorism will be larger than last Monday when there were 6,000 pickets out and 230 ar- rests took place. While the mass of pickets will be striking dressmakers, sympathetic} workers’ organizations will send rep-| resentatives. Several well known “left wing” artists are planning to demonstrate their sympathy with the strikers, including Michael Gold, playwright and editor of the New Masses; John Dos Passos, author of the play “Airways, Inc.,” which opened last night at the New Play- | wrights Theatre; William Gropper | and ‘Hugo Gellert, artists; Robert | Wolf, novelist, and Mary Heaton Vorse, author. The snow storm interfered with the activities of the strikers this morning more effectively than the wholesale arrests have succeeded in doing. Ten were arrested. | All dressmakers, particularly those at work in the shops that have| signed up with the union, are called; by the Dressmakers’ Division of the International Union to a member- ship meeting in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., Monday. The meeting begitis about six o’clock, With the issuance of a general strike call practically a few days off, the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hem- stitchers’ Union, Local 41, affiliated with the Industrial Needle Workers’ Union, is well on its way to com- pleting construction of its strike machinery. Tomorrow afternoon, at} 1 o’clock, the Organization Commit-} tee of the local will hold a nieet-| ing in Joint Board offices, 131 \W. 28th St. * * * } Two fur shops were taken out on strike today by the Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- | duscrial Union, The workers in the shops of Albert Reinerman, at 104| West 29th St. and I. N. ‘Blumgar den, at 152 West 27th St., are str ing to force their employers to s an agreement with the union, pro- viding for a 40 hour, 5 day week, an increase in wage scales, and) recognition of the union. These strikers are part of the} campaign of the union in prepara- tion for the general strike to be) éalled at the beginning of the new | season. During the last week, three | other strikes have been called} against individual employers where conditions are particularly bad, and; in each case the union succeeded in| (Continued on Page Two) STARVING CHINA PEASANTS REBEL Attack Walled Towns in Search for Food PEPING, China, Feb. 21.—Thou- sands of starving peasants are re- hbelling in Shensi province, attecking walled towns in their search for food, according to a report today by Ernest Oliver, famine relief investi- gator. The townspeople resisting the at- tacks have barely enough food to keep themselves alive, the report said. “Starving farmers are likely to break loose and loot all towns and cities,” Oliver reported. “The places T visited are in desperate circum- The province, center of the fam- jne-stricken area of China, is suffer- ing frem a rice crop failure, due to Jack of rain, There have been a number of earthquake shocks and fires recently to add to the disaster. 3 WORKERS KILLED IN FALL. LYON, France, (By Mail).— Three workers were killed when a scaffolding gave way in a house ‘under construction here. The proletarian movement is the nelf-conscioun, independent movement ot the immense malority.—Karl eerey \. Previously listed ... Comrades: The New York grand jury is considering charges of criminal libel preferred against the Daily Worker staff by Morris Hillquit, the million- aire lawyer who leads the socialist party. The charges, growing out of the Daily Worker exposure of Hillquit’s connection with the ex- tremely profitable manipulation of some 300 shares of the bank of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union during the height. of the period when the Sigman and A. F. of L. bureaucracy were making open war on the union membership in co- operation with the police and courts, if sustained will result in a year in prison and heavy fines for prominent members of the Daily Worker staff. This blow, delivered at a time when the Daily Worker is fighting for its life, shows more con- clusively than the most elaborate thesis, the inti- mate relations existing between Hillquit, the acknowledged leader of the socialist party, who has grown rich on the misery of underpaid workers in the garment industry, and the other forces of imperialist reaction against which the Daily Worker fights. Hillquit, the millionaire socialist lawyer, head- ing the dark forces which are trying to put out of business the only daily paper in the United States which speaks for the working class—this is one part of the picture. The other part is made up of the thousands of workers who will rally to the Daily Worker and the struggle it stands for, who will see in the Hillquit attack one more concrete testimonial to the continual difficulties and danger which surround our Communist organ of the class struggle and which can be met, overcome and dis- solved only by the concentration of mass support at the point of attack. Another big financial burden has been placed ‘on the Daily Worker. In addition to the debts and expenses which the present campaign was intended to liquidate, the Daily Worker now must pay heavy attorney fees, court costs and other legal expenses. This to a large extent explains the attack. Even before this “socialist” lawyer appeared before the grand jury to demand the criminal prosecution of the Daily Worker staff, the returns in the drive were inadequate. The results up to last night are: Monday ‘Tuesday Wednesday ‘Thursday “Total this some benaon ULMRea rer t ro ‘The full returns on New York tag days are not yet in. With 88 per cent of collection boxes counted, $898.41 is the total re- ceived, When all are opened the final total of tag days will be published. Hillquit, the socialist-imperialist, with his home on Riverside Drive, will not even miss the money he expends in this attempt to cripple the Daily Worker. He will have the fullest cooperation from the agencies of capitalist government, the American Federation of Labor bureaucrats (the Wolls, Greens and Lewises) the heads of the bosses’ union in the needle trades and all other centers of anti-working class reaction. The socialist party which Hillquit leads, and the second international of which it is a part, long ago aligned itself with the capitalist enemies of the masses at home and abroad. It is the enemy of the Soviet Union—the first workers and peasants republic. The socialist party, the A. F. of L. bureaucracy which it supports, and Hillquit, the leader of the socialist party, are enemies of the. American working class. There could be no better proof of this than this latest attack on the only English language daily in the United States which exposes the agents of imperialist reaction, ex- plains their connection with the whole system of the rob- bery and oppression and rallies the masses for struggle against it. We know that our supporters will meet this new on- slaught with redoubled energy and determination. None of the available sources of financial support will be neglected, but more than ever is it necessary to concentrate our ef- forts in the mass organizations, Mobilize behind the Daily Worker the thousands of members of unions, cooperatives, fraternal and benefit so- cieties, etc. who stand ready now to fight the Hillquits with their dollars, to drive back this new attack on the Daily Worker, to defeat decisively on this front the enemies of the Daily Worker and the working class in prepara- tion for the bigger struggle whose rumblings already can be heard. Answer the attack of the socialist-imperialist Hillquit with mobilization of the militant mass organizations behind the Daily Worker! * Smash this new offensive against the revolutionary organ of the American working class! Redoubled energy in the campaign to put the Daily Worker on a sound financial basis! ~~—~—- ~~ ~ \_ a ~GAUISERS NOW Get Rid of of Filibusters | and Assure Vote in | Day or So | ‘To Start 5 This Year, ‘Kenworthy for More} Battleships WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 With | | the sweeping aside of the filibusters | today in the Senate and limiting of | the debate after 3 p. m. tomorrow, |the navy appropriation bill provid- | ing $300,000,000 for the navy, in- cluding $12,000,000 for the imme- | diate construction of the new cruis- lers, is assured of quick passage. There was a feeble attempt at a filibuster today on the part of} |Blaine of Wisconsin on the ground | |that the appropriation bill would | authorize the construction of cruis- jers within the next year instead of \five. A proposal by Senator Swan- | |son to limit the debate, assuring a| | vote before the session was over, was passed unanimously. Dawes| had over-ruled a point of order to! {eliminate from the bill the approp-| | ration to initiate construction of | |the warships. | * 68 * WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Every | additional American warship is an | added guarantee for the peace of the | | world, Commander J, M, Kenworthy, | \laborite member of Parliament, de-| clared in a letter to Representative | Britten of the house naval commit- tee today. | This foretaste of what the labor-} ite imperialist policy will be should | they be elected to power in Great | Britain was inspired by Britten’s | statement that the parliamentarians | of both~countries~should settle the | sanielsg dete RHE ie rss i} PARTY MEET TO HIT WAR DANGER Igoviet Film at at Opening of Convention March 1 The mass meeting, which will |open the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist): Party in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Friday evening, March 1, will be a mighty demonstration against the growing war danger and | for the defense of the Soviet Union. The convention of the Party will cent attention on the fight | against imperialist war and the preparations for attack on the Soviet Union. | The big mass meeting will also |commemorate the second anniver- sary of the death of .C. E, Ruthen- | berg, who at the time of his death was executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party. Speak- ers will tell of Ruthenberg’s role in| the struggle against the last im- |perialist war and his fight against ‘the yellow socialist betrayal of the | working class in that war. ! One of the features of the meet- ving will be the first showing of | “Russia in 1928,” a new Sovkino ‘film picturing conditions in the | Soviet Union. Leading Communist speakers from | ‘all parts of the country will address the meeting. Tickets aré now on sale at the \district office of the Party, 26 \Union Square, or the national of- fice, 43 E. 125th St. | | { | | | | TROYES WORKERS STRIKE. TROYES, France, (By Mail).— | Textile workers in this center. al- |most unanimously took part in a |24-hour demonstration strike in fa- \vor of a wage increase. EMERGEN February 21, 1929. Collected from Finnish Poul- try Men, Cotati, Calif—W. Eliason, $1; F. Stenroos $1; Hilda Mattson, 50c; G. Lasko, $1; G. Snugg, $1; C. N. Wirtane, 50c; C. Ahola, 50c; Chas. Sarlin, 50c; V. Heikell, 25c; K. Lahti, 25c; 0. Johnson, 60c; M. F. Hea- ney, $1; N. P. Ahlstrom, 26c; K. Nordman, $1; 0. Pellinen, 50c; G. Hamalai- nen, 50c; Mrs, A. Koski, ‘Marine Lieutenant, in |forced to withdraw with reports, |tion: jereed the repudiation of the Bryan- |non-permission ofthe establishment ‘conditions which could not be bet- |the Guatemalan, Giron Ruano, who \alterable.” upon also, the United Press learned Workers Contribute to Save the ‘ the ‘Daily’ ‘SANDINO WHIPS -U, S. INVADERS OF NICARAGUA Command of National Guard, _ Wounded ‘Sandino Has fas 2, 000 Men) ‘No Yankees; ees: No Canal; No Naval Base’ MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 21. —A patrol of the “national guard,” commanded by U, S. marines, clashed with the troops of Sandino northeast. of Jinotega. No casual- ties for the Sandino troops are con- firmed. The U. S. troops were evidently minimized, of two wounded. The wounded were U. S. Lieu-| |tenant Robert Forrest Harris, and one of the soldiers of the national guard commanded by him. “No Canal—No Naval Base.” TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb. 21.~General Simeon Montoya, |second in command of the Nicara-| jguan army of independence under |General Sandino, arriving: here yes-| \terday, made the following declara- “The independence revolution de- Chamorro treaty. The principal ob- lject of the revolution is the im- mediate and complete withdrawal of |the Yankee forces from the terri- tory of Nicaragua, and besides, the of a naval base in the Gulf of Fon-| seca. “Sandino is ready to overthrow Moncada. ‘As all the world knows, Sandino has ‘sufficient numbers he can count upon. The recent com-j} bats in Guanaeastilio and-near Yali, resulted favorable to the Sandin-| listas. Sandino Has 2,000 Troops. | “The campaign develops under \ter, as Sandino has 2,000 men, well- jarmed and capable of meeting any kind of attack.” Regarding the recent capture of was fighting with Sandino, Montoya said: “Giron was captured near San Geronimo, when he was going to Honduras. Which force captured him is not known yet. It is hardly possible to capture Sandino, &s the topography of Chipeton does not permit the marines to enter and ef- fect a capture. Nothing will make Sandino cease the struggle, his spirit remains in- Hoover Searches for | Arch-Imperialists; He’s Found 4 Already WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP).— Three places in the Hoover cabinet have been definitely filled and a fourth apparently has been decided authoritatively today. Positive information has been ob- tained that the following appoint- ments have been made and accepted: Secretary of State, Henry L. Stim- son, New York; Secretary of Treas- uty, Andrew W. Mellon, Pennsyl- vania; Secretary of Interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, California. From another source it is under- | stood Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts is to be secretary of navy. Mr. Hoover intends to take care of William F. Donovan of New York if a cabinet place possibly can be found... Ray Lyman Wilbur, who has been chosen.secretary of in- terior, is head of Stanford Univer- sity and had been given a leave of absence to permit him to accept the appointment... He is a brother of Curtis ‘D. Wilbur, now secretary of navy, who is expected to retire from the cabinet. CY FUND 50c; H. Makela, 25c; E. E. Saarinen, 50c; E.. Kajas- lampi, $1; L. William, $1; 0. E. Heino, $1.25; W, 0. Barland, 50¢; J. W. Dye gren, $1.50; Finnish tion, $5 $21.75 Sent in by Artmeis vria- nudakis, Thermopolis, Wyo. —Crosby “Miners, $7.25; Gebo Coal Miners, $8.50. . See, 1, SF, City Milford Workers Party, Mil- (Continued on Page Three) Bo sa 15. 11, Pai '|Exposed, Hits “Daily” socialist party, is behind the move to have the grand jury indict. the| staff of the Daily Worker on crim- inal libel charges, following the ex-| pose of his part in a $150,000 union stock steal. ANTI-FASCIST CONGRESS TODAY Delegates to Meet at Labor Temple at 2 Typical of the response among | workers which the call for a con- ference to combat fascism is calling | forth, is the following letter received yesterday from Ohio by the Pro- visional Committee, which has charge of the American conference being held today at 2 p. m. at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. “Dear Provisional Committee—I read in the Il Lavoratore of Feb. 9 of the great and noble initiative of the International Congress in Berlin, { herewith enclose one dollar as a Ae cere aaa Wk on Page Two) 1,000-WAIT HOURS TO SHOVEL SNOW Grey-Haired Workers Get 50 Cents an Hour BULLETIN. Three workers were dead as a re- sult of the snow storm which swept New York City yesterday. Rail- roads and steamships were behind schedule, elevated and surface car service was slowed up, and hundreds of working class families, hit sud- denly by the intense cold, shivered withot even the meagre preparations they usually make in their ram- shackle tenements, for warmth. ee 8 One thousand unemployed work- ers, many of them gray-haired vet- erans of the industrial scrap heap, shivered in line yesterday outside the temporary headquarters of the City Street Cleaning Department on 11th St., between University Place and Broadway, in the vain hope that when six o’elock arrived they would be among the lucky gang of pos- sibly 200 hired to shovel snow from the city sidewalks. Rumors of a chance to make a meager fifty cents an hour drew crowds of job-hunters early in the day. At 20th St, and Broadway several hundred left when petty bu- reaucrats of the Street Cleaning De- partment intimated that there would be no more work for the day. “You gotta get there at 6 in the morning to make sure of the job,” an ola man whose bare feet showed through (Gontinued on Page Three) Women’s Councils Call Four Mass Meetings to Aid Dressmaker Strike Wives of all needle trades work- ers and working women are urged to attend mass meetings called to organize support for the dressmak- ers in their strike. The mectings, called by the United Council of Working Class Women, are to be held in four halls tonight. Three of the meetings will be held in Brooklyn in the following places: 1374 48rd St., Borough Park; New Columbia Hall, Stone and Blake Aves.; Workers Club, 313 Hillsdale Ave. The other meetings will be held in the Bronx at Ambas- sador Hall, 8875 Third Ave. The U. Ci W. W. has done re- markable work in aiding the strike. In addition to many of their mem- bers and Yeaders being jailed for picketing, they are raising large sums for the strike fund. MANY BUILDERS JOBLESS. LONDON, (By Mail). — Over 110,000 building workers are unem- ‘ASKS GRAND Still Fails to Answer Morris Hillquit, millionaire | party of America, appearing as prosecution of Robert Minor, e for criminal libel. York statutes se Te a a ty of one year in peor ae a | $500 fine for this offen On January 23 the Daily wks in a story based on the records Pal court proceedings before Judge Al- bert H, Townley, made public the fact that Hillquit, while acting as attorney for the right. wing of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- | ers’ Union, had sold to a group| headed by himself, some 375 shares | of stock in the bank owned by the! IL. G. W. The stock had a market value ot | $310 per share but»was “‘sold”-to the Hillquit group for $200. per share! by Hillquit, the attorney for the | right wing officials who. posed as the union. The Daily Worker estimated that} the Hillquit group profited by this transaction to the tune of something like $150,000 and said-so. The Daily Worker story, backed by the court records, caused a sensation in labor circles. and furnished further proof| jot the corrupt character of the ele- |ments gathered around Hillquit and other ‘socialist -party leaders. insihe | needle trades section of the labor) movement. The procedure followed. by. Hill-; quit, after intimating that he ‘would|} file a civil suit for damages in a his immense fortune collected in jarge chunks as attorney fees from ests in New York City give him privileged access to the district at- torney’s office, Only by the con- sent of the district attorney’s of-| fice could Hillquit, socialist party) boss and delegate to the last .con- gress. of the Second International, | be allowed to go over the head of} a magistrate’s court, where the tion him, and appear as a volun- |tary witness before the New York County grand jury where the proce dure is secret and the accused ha no epportunity to question his cuser. It is clear that this is not “pri- vate” controversy. between a lawyer | whose fcelings are injurcd and. the Daily Worker, but that: Hillquit has! enlisted, in his fight to put the Daily | Worker out of business and its edi- tors and business manager in jail, all the forces of Tammany Hall. the editors and business manager appears to to be imminent. Restaurant Workers at Central Trades * Tammany Ryan, boss of the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council, ex- perienced a few uncomfortable mo- ments yesterday at the meeting of that body of fat fakers, in Beeth- oven Hall, E. 5th St. One of three delegates, represent- ing two locals of the Hotel and Res- taurant Employees International Al- liance and the Bartenders’ Interna- tional League of America, asked for the special midnight’ performances tonight and tomorrow of “The Kras- sin,” film epic of the heroic rescue ‘of the Italia survivors by the pow- erful Soviet icebreaker, indicate that the house will be sold out ‘for both showings, according to a state- ment issued yesterday by the local Workers International Reiief. The performances will be given at the Film Guild Cinema, 52 W. Eighth | st. The Soykino production has been Ployed in England, gu: described as a thrilling and magnifi- } i i i i editor, and A. ote keine east of t the the Daily Work | previous interview, shows that his) palatial home on Riverside Drive, ; jneedle trades workers and his close} connection with big business inter-| Daily Worker attorneys could ques-| As this is written the arrest of| Rap Ryan Scabbing | the floor, and not knowing -what was coming, Ryan, chairman, gave Midnight Performances of “Krassin” to Aid Strikers Advance sales of the tickets for cent record of proletarian spirit and JURY'S AID IN SMASHING COMMUNIST PRESS FOR STEAL EXPOSE What He Did With $150,000 Swag; Daily te Print Court Records Seeks Indictment of “Daily” and the Jewish | “Freiheit”; Would Avoid Public Hearing Morris Hillquit, wealthy corpora-| tion lawyer and chief of the yellow) lawyer and boss of the socialist a voluntary witness before the New York grand jury yesterday, demanded the arrest and ditor, Wm. F’. Dunne, a BiG “BIG ANTI-HILLMAN CONFERENCE WILL BEGIN TOMORROW Left Wing z to Organize Tailors for Fight | While Sidney Hillman, task-mas- {ter of the men’s clothing workers here and president of the Amalga- | mated Clothing Workers’ Union, is |busily engaged installing his Chi- ‘cago henchman Rissman in control of the New York Joint Board, the jrank and file are taking steps to |organize for a big struggle against | the officials who made a company junion out of their once powerful or- ganization. Despite all the articles written in |the boSses’ trade journals praising ;Hillman’s ““generalship,” and in | spite of the intensified discrimina- tion against and dismissals of all who protest against the sweat shop speed-up systems of Hillman, the workers are going full speed ahead |with choosing shop delegates to the big conference called by the left wing for Saturday and Sunday in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. This conference already gives evi- |dence of being representative of a large majority of the members of |the union. This is seen from the |statements made by the arrange- |ments committee who declare that scores of credentials have been sent | in daily from the men’s clothing |shops of New York. Workers in the trade, victims of the Hillman policy of the piece work system, all other sorts of speed-ups, wage cuts and wholesale discharges, have at last reached the limit of |their endurance. They are on the }road to building up a movement that | will sweep from control of the in- |dustry those who have made a com- | pany union out of the A. C. W. In addition to the left wing lead- jers in the trade, and the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union, the conference will hear |nationally known leaders of the militant trade union movement in the country, Ben Gitlow and William Z, Foster. it to him. | The delegate declared that the membership of his local had con- |demned Ryan and the rest of his | strikebreaking gang for calling on \the New York police to terrorize the striking dressmakers by jail- ings and sluggings. After getting over his astonish- ment, since he thought the C. L. U. free from any breath of progres- sivism, Ryan launched into a vi- triolic tirade against the agents of Moscow and the Trade Union Edu- cational League. The demand of another delegate from the second local to read a like resolution of condemnation was refused. daring. All workers throughout the city are urged to see the film to- night or tomorrow, especially since the proceeds wil! be turned over to the striking needle trades workers. Additional features will also be presented to the audience on these two nights, including a Chaplin film which has never before been Shown. Tickets may be obtained either at the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square, or at the office of the Work- ers International Relief, Room 226, 199 Broadway, ov by calling Stuy- Vegant ‘$81. ).