The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, ) Cu LAUNCHES FISHT UPON HILLMAN Ally Wth New Un ion to Fight Comnany Unions } f P, One) The (Conti; tion of the N. sands ¢ union ow ha: with only 3 this of revolting failing, ers, From reri delegates all opinion: Ths workers and their pe with the ditions and repeated be- trayals had passed the stage of ity. - They. were .ready to That. the forces of the work- ers in a fight. were now far greater because of the existence of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, whose representatives had come to the conference to offer their leadership and assistance in the fight. That the Hillman gane is no longer as powerful because of squabbles with his he: man, recently ousted. That the threat of terror thru gangsterism is no longer so imposing because of the bankruptcy of the New York Joint Board, who lacks the funds to pay expensive underworld hirelings. By far the greatest enthusiasm was aroused when Ben Gold, general secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Satur- day declared that the new union in- tends to include in its membership all trades and crafts of the needle industry. “If any of Hillman’s Spies are here,” Gold declared, “tell him that the new Industrial Union will carry on the fight against you.” The Industrial union was repre- sented by other kesmen, the entry of each of which was greeted by tremendous , ovations. Charles S. Zimmerman; “vice-president of the IndustffalCnion and Rose Wortis, secretary cf the Dressmakers Strike Committee, spoke and stayéd Many hours at the conference. Nationally known leaders of the left wing, also spoke. Ben Gitlow, expelled from membership in the A. C. W., and a Communist Party leader addressed the conference. Henry Sazer, head of the Needle Trades T. U. E. L. was seated. Every mention of the new union and its purpose in aiding their fight was heartily applauded. The resolutidns adonted are: Sup- port fOr “the dressmakers strike, against\-class. collaboration- policies, for becoming part of the N. T. W. I. U. Against the checkoff system ‘of dues paying. For the 40-hour week; for the development of special work among women organized and un- organized; for real amalgamation as against fake Hillman amalgama- tion; against labor banks; -against the speed-un systems of the Hill- man machine; for the organization of the unorganized; for the organi- zation of young workers in the in- dustry, ol ol Iron, Bronze Workers Will Hear Report at Meeting Tomorrow Organizational problems will be discussed at the meeting. of the Architectural Iron, Bronze and s ral Workers Union at 7 E. ‘15th St., 8 ». m, tomorrow. The program of the union in its fight to ‘win union conditions for the trade n shops in Greater New York will be reported on by the secretary and iscussed by the membershin. ! ortation tor. Com TAILORS’ MEET Lvon, Bronze Shopme General Br Comm nN ‘GENERAL STRIKE unists Seen in Atter ~ Prepare for Struggle OF DOCKERS IN By GEORGE E. POWERS. { of the A ze and Struct hitectural ‘al Work- of bitterly of almost kers whose have built, this. organiza- ve had fully their share of. j ions, jail: sentences, and police- to» by the ic attempts ave-the iron and The prt the open s and, fro: more than large bronze | nze - Corporation, which includes the Polachek, Renais- to $10,000,000,) s its tentacles| on several other bronze plants about | to swallow~them-inte -the--Bronze |: Trust: 5 Had to Resist. Intensified speed-up arid wage cuts soon followed with the result that | all finishers, | tices. organized shopmen to do the out- side worl: Want United Action. Genuine united action of these two groups with the rest of the build- ing trades unions would be a big step in the right direction, towards 100. per cent organization of. all rs in the building industry. vever, faced with lack of coop. the iron and bronze workers y must therefore fur- their efforts to or- al.part of the pre- intensif a ther gay eas come with the expiration of theii agreement with two associations on] at once over the wage increases de-| the il 30, 1 The followir made upon all the bos 1—A mi per Ap mum scale for helpers week on the 44-hour A minimum -seale for bronze fitter, welde | smiths and automatic riveters of | $50 per week. | ainimum scale for appren- | tices for°the first six months of| apprenticeship of $24 per week, with | a $2 raise every six months during the total of two year term of ap- prenticeship. | 4—A general increase of $4 above | the wages received at present for} helpers- and © appren- ARGENTINE SEEN 20,000 Harbor Workers Demand More Wages BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 24.—Al- though the partial strike of dock worke~s ended, a new general strike thr y the Maritime Work- e racing 7,000 men in Buenos Aires, and others in paration for the struggle which will| Rosario, Santa Fe and other ports! the day. \ to the total of 20,000, may break out} several mass meetings arranged: by manded by the union. | ference with owners of river boats, | lighters and launches, which will, be| affected by the strike, stated that | | the owners refuse: to give wage in-| Wor on the basis of what the bosses| claim, in spite of the increased cost | of living. The. matter has been! terior, Dr. Elipidio Gonzales, The strike is certain to have| material backing by solidarity ac-| tion of workers in Uruguay and| Paraguay and internationally on a larger scale, as did the recent ship-| pt to HIT YELLOW 0G CONTRACT IN MASS MARCH Haverill Shoe Workers | in Demonstration fis | HAVERHILL, : Mass., Fet | Eight thousand shoe workers in the city of Haverhill, Mass., began | marching through the city at }a. m,, Feb, 20 and continued all thru The workers packed. the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union as a demonstration of labor 1g demands are being! President Irigoyen, after a con-| strength against the introduction of the “yellow dog” contract. In an atmosphere charged with labor intensity, a. branch of the rs International Relief was creases, on the excuse ed in Haverhill, on the same “cannot afford it.” An executive committee of The government is tr ig to make, e n was formed with Wm. Ryan, jthe union recede from its demand| of Local No. 9, chairman and John L. Delaney, of Local No, 8, S.W.P.U., secretary. The provisional W.I,R. committee |taken up by the Minister of the In-| was elected by local unions addressed by Jeannette D. Pearl, field organ- izer for the W.LR. The splendid co- operation and response from mem- bi ip and offi of the unions visited thus far indicates the expec- tation that. the. other unions will 5.—Only one apprentice allowed in| ping strike, because’ of the unifying | also cooperate when called upon to each shop. “\tacks of the bosses and improve! laid off without the consent of the ~ | thei 6.—Non-union foremen shall not| Provisional Committee of the Latin-| be allowed to handle any tools. jAmerican Trades Union Confedera- | 7.—Helpers shall not be permitted | which is located at Montevideo | |. Where a congress is to be held in} | May. | | the bronze workers, who had ‘been| rather indifferent to the union for some time, at last realized that’ only! thru organized resistance could they to ‘do any blacksmith work, hope to stop the ever sharpening at-| 8—-No’ shop’ chairman is to be conditions. union. | | This feeling of the bronze work-|, 9.—Equal division of work among] L UPPORT | ers, combined with the aggressive|the men of each shop in time of | | organization campaign of the union, | slackness. | | brought’ many “of them ‘into our) 10.—Employes discharged. at any ranks, The good éffect however, did'time before the expiration of. the not stop here. The iron workers are! day shall be paid for such full day. also having their troubles... Young) “To win these demands calls for German iron’ workers; recently ar-| the: highest’ possible degree’ of or-| Labor rived, are being forced-to slave long |\ganization and: activity. This means | hours: for- starvation wages ‘by. the | that every one of the 3,500 iron and|at T.U.E.L. Conference bosses, who-hope thus to break down} bronze workers in Greater New| the standards of all the iron and) York must join the union and take | (Continued from Page One) bronze workers. (The bosses in both | part in the further necessary pre- |Party, Bakst for the Marine Work the iron and bronze trade. are hiring |parations for the big fight just |crs Progressive League, Harold Wil- more and more of these young Ger- | ahead, \liams for the American Negro La- mans.) At the sdme time the Allied) SEE TREAT EY \bor Congress; Sidney Jonas for: the Building Metal—Industries, linked Independent Shoe Workers |with the Iron League, the leading Mi Nl combine of iron bosses, is conduct- Workers Union. ing an active campaign to forge all| | Charles Zimmerman, vice-presi the iron bosses either out of busi-| HELD IN VIENNA jdent of the Needle Trades. Workers i ness-or-into one big. bosses wssocia- + +Industrial -Uniern;. appealed. te the Unions, I. L, D,| tion. Melegates to-urge the members of , their organizations to give actual support to the strike by taking their place on the picket-line. He was War Makers. aa This combine, of course, is ditect- | ly connected with the Steel Trust} Break Fascist March ? ers of Local 11 of Haverhill. | Union, | and Florence Geller for the Office t and Wall Street, and thus figures) prominently in the. aggressive war | preparations” now -being - pushed’ by} the United States government. This) growing centralization of control is accompanied with a more thoro “ra- tionalization,” more speed-up, longer hours, lower wages, more unemploy-+ ment. The smoldering discontent of | the iron’ workers caused by these conditions was fanned into a bright-/ er flame by the activities of the| union, leading to further increases in membership and an energizing| effect upon the workers’ organiza-| tion as a whole. Asked Affiliation. | The iron and bronze shopmen are organically part of the building} trades industry, but like many other} groups of workers, are excluded | from the A. F. of L. organization} which make up the Building Trades| Council. ‘Theshopmen’s union has} consistently “favored for years a policy of unity With the rest of the. Socialists Play Safe (Continued from Page One) tors. appeared they were immedi- ately attacked by the police and {forty of them were jailed, but not | ‘ore they had made a break in thy fascist lines, : The socialists, however, kept their forces’ Well of the other side of the: police guards and limited their’ ac- tivity to addressing meetings in the well-to-do sections. The parede of the fascists in Vi- cmna is intended to be the first of | |2 series which were promised when } the armed fascist bands marched on | Vienna-Neustadt last October? which they declared was only practice for the“march on “Vienna.” At that time the Workers Defense Corps, consisting of representatives from | the factories and Communists, was formed and it called for a general strike and a sabotage of the provo- cative parade of the fascists by seiz- building tgdes workers. As part enthusiastically, received. One hundred dollars. in. cash »was: jcontributed by the delegates forthe support of the strike and $600 was pledged. This was in addition to $500 given by the bakers, $300 by the grocery clerks and $100 by the Resolutions © were passed pledging full and active sup- port to the dress strike, protesting | against the police terror, support- ing the Daily Worker and the Frei- heit, and endorsing the work in be- half of the: strike of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Work- ers International Relief, as 1 as} the I. L, D. bazaar on March i The conference elected a ways and | means committee of seven to carry | on and extend its work | Poyntz Tells of War) Danger, Exposes Role | building trades workers. | unanimously | |foree present in the form of the/do so. The Haverhill committee has al- ready made arrangement for a strike benefit dance for the needle trades of New York and the strik- The dance is to take place March 9, 1929, at Liberty Hall. A confer- ence is called for March 15, Liberty Hall of shop and organization dele- gates. The committee is consider- ing a series of activities to draw DRESS STRIKE |the workers of Haverhill into the R | work of the W.L G.0,P. ‘CLEAN UP’ PURELY A FAKE Oust Negroes in South; Ohio Gangster O.K. (Continued from Page One) leadership in the South, under the highly moral banner of “extricating | the party from one of the worst pa- tronage messes in history.” The result will be that the “new South” which turned four states re- publican in November, .will have some new, and white, faces, to speak ;for that section of the republican party hereafter. “Now it can be told,” after the November elections, the republican and democratic par- fice and protection to bootleggers, will be neatly fastened on the Ne- gro republican leaders and they will be politically lynched by Hoover on the high moral grounds of “clean- ing out corruption.” Ohio Gangster Rewarded. How much this amounts to, may be seen also from another angle. Senator Brookhart, who is head of the senate committee to serve as a broom in the “clean up campaign,” emerged from a conference with Hoover to declare that the “Daugh- erty-Fall regime has been stamped out for good.” Why it was put as “has been,” as something already 7:30 | \A Scheme of Bosses to Blind W fase e Newsboys are children of: wor | kers whom poverty forces to slave | Workers (Communist) Party? ‘| vital question will be put before the | revoke on the streets in all weather for 14 hours a day or more, in order that w few cents may be made to keep the worker's family from starvation. In order to keep the newsboys from learning the real reason of the | poverty.of their families, the bosses and church collaborate each year in giving a‘dinner to a picked number. of the boys. The boys are jorced to listen to lectures on “loyalty” to the bosses; and patriotism so that they may become sheep for slaughter in imperialist war. Photo sho Randolph Guggenheim and Rev. Cashin, a Catholic servant sses in the act of inflicting the “loyalty” bunk on the NEW SOVIET FILM NEGRO WORKERS. AT BIG MEETING IN RELIEF BODY Worker Party to Open Cleveland Committee all the traditional methods of both | ties of selling appointments to of- | Convention Friday Continued from Page One Proletarian’ Fatherland of all the workers, The necessity of rallying to the de- fense of the Soviet Union will be graphically brought home by the showing of “A Trip Thru Soviet Russia.” Every phase of the new life that is being built in the Soviet | Union under the banner of Leninism will be shown on the screen, Mos- cow, Leningrad, all the important industrial centers, workers’ clubs, rest homes, the Red Army, peasant life—it will be such a trip thru the| Soviet Union as few actual visitors to the U.S.S.R. are ever privileged to take. The struggle against imperialist war will also be linked up with the of one of the most valiant fight- ers against it, C. E. Ruthenberg, late leader of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. The mass meeting will also be a Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting, commemorating the second anniversary of the death of the man who led the fight of the workers of this country against the last im- perialist war. Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, TWilliam Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow, members of the secretariat, William W. Weinstone, district organizer, and other leaders of the Party will speak on the opening night. Tickets should be bought at once as accommoda- | tions are limited. They are on sale |at the district office of the Party, ; 26 Union Sq., and the national of- fice, 43.E. 125th St. | that region and the familiar mugs of what is left of the Fall-Harding- Daugherty-Jesse Smith gang, will be the front of the “purified” adminis- tration under the Quaker imperial- ist, Herbert Hoover. Doak or Lewis There seems to be a rivalry be- }tween the trade union bureaucrats of the A .F, of L. and the railroad brotherhoods, £3 to whom shall be |mamed as secretary of lator, William Helps Flood Victims CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 24.— A Cleveland Negro Workers Relief Committee was formed here last night at a conference attended by thirty-odd delegates representing sixteen working class organizations of both Negro and white workers. The conference was called by the Cleveland Inter-Racial League, for | the purpose of setitng up a broad |committee to aid in providing im- mediate relief for the oppressed | Negro victims of the recent Florida- | West Indies hurricane disaster. It | was decided that the conference im- [mediately affiliate the Cleveland committee to the New York Negro | Workers Relief Committee, which {has already launched a national campaign to raise funds to re- habilitate the Negro workers and farmers of the devastated area. | At the conference, Sadie Van | Veen, of the League, gave a detailed | and moving description of the terri- | ble conditions of the Negro workers and farmers in the hurricane area. | She told of the outrageous discrim- \ination against the Negroes prac- ticed by the Red Cross in its relief | Work and cited case after case from | the revort of the New York Commit- | tee’s representative in Florida, show- |ing the brutal treatment of the | Negro population by the Florida | police and national guards on duty ‘after the disaster. It was decided to call a second |conference in six weeks, in order to jdraw in more organizations. In the | meantime the Executive Committee elected by the conference, was in- structed to proceed at once with is- suing contribution lists,—calling on /wnions and workers organizations ‘generally for funds—the organiza-| tion of a mass meeting to acquaint | Cleveland workers with the need of relief and to organization of an In- ter-Racial solidarity dance. Of all the classes that stand face jto face with the bourgeoi the proletariat alo: ‘Iutionary el munist Manifesto). Bar Workers from Citizenship > MAY SEND BACK WORKER TO DEATH UNDER HORTHY ‘May Bar Communists from Citizenship PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 24.— Will foreign-born workers be allowed |to take out final citizenship vapers the The when they are members of legal apparatus of Pennsylvania when the high courts will seek to the citizenship of John Topolesamyr, a Hungarian worker, because of his membership in the Workers (Communist) Party. As part of the formality of obtaining second papers some years ago | Topolesamyr was obliged to swear jallegiance to capitalist institutions. Judge R. M. Gibson, presiding at the courts of the Schwab steel town of Bentleyville, Pa., has already ruled that Topolesamyr cannot become a citizen because of his political af- filiations. At the higher court hear- ing Isaac E. Ferguson, who is hand- ling the case for the International Labor Defense, will fight for a re- versal of this decision. Seven years ago, while living in a Pennsylvania mining town, Topolc- samyr wrote to his brother, a gend- arme under the Horthy government of Hungary, censuring him for his aid to the Horthy government in its campaign of anti-working class terrorism and appealing to him to drop immediately his connection with the gendarmerie and fight in- stead in behalf of the working class. The letter was intercepted by the Horthy Government and sent to the U. §. Immigration Department, while in the meantime Topolesmyr had obtained final citizenship papers. Arrested on.a deportation warrant, he was later released and in 1922, two years after he became a citizen, he joined the Workers (Communist) Party, In March, 1926, the government instituted pro- ceedings to revoke the citizenship. In a letter sent last week to the International Labor Defense, Topol- csamyr indicates the close relation- ship between the company town cos: sack police and the legal authorities whose ends they serve. A house- boss, a spy of the coal company, the foreign-born workers relates, en- gaged Topolcsamyr in argument. De- nounced as a spy, he immediately went to thejlocal police and reported Topolesamyr. Five cossacks raided the house next day, while Topole- sSamyr was attending a meeting. They revisited the house five times. When Toplocsamyr appeared before the loeal judge he was given a war- rant charging him with striking the houseboss, Bail was fixed at $1,000. The International Labor Defense wired its Pittsburgh representatives immediately on receipt of the letter. They are making a close investiga- tion of the case, and a decision is expected early this week, LABORERS DEMAND INCREASE. CHICAGO, (By Mail).—Organized building trades laborers in Chicago are demanding an increase of 10 cents an hour, bringing the rate up to $1 an hour. AUSTRIA JOBLESS INCREASE VIENNA (By Mail).—Over 250,- 00 workers unemployed in Austria . | have applied for unemployment dole in January. This is 25,000 more than in December. |N. Doak, a business man who. has | | of #1 | action’ it Wasstepeatedly sought ’en-| ‘trance inté tiie International A‘sSo- ciation..o£" Bridge, Ornamental and Structural Iion Workers, but as yet has received no definite answer be- yond ~évasions.and postponementa. This, despite the fact that continued \isolationof..the-iron workers is not ‘only injurious to them, but to ail the “outside” iron workers as well. |Many of these, whose organization \is affiliated with the International, are now unemployed due to the well- i knownpractice of the open shop bosses. of forcing the lower paid un- _ Then Enslave CAPETOWN, South Africa, Feb. 24.—A story of farmers suffering from drought, attacked. by police, under maztial law and finally forced to work in the diamond mines or starve, was told by men arriving from Namaqualand. It is the fairly comprehensive account the rumored uprisings against the ‘rnment by the workers in the ond fields of South Africa. in the world in large quan- was to have been the scene ers who had been aroused to g pitch because of police overnment intervention in the d fields. j has been no-rain in Nama- for almost three years. fe prosperous farms have been ed and many farmers have Simple Dutch settlers, made ends mect before the ought, have been forced to Rob South African Farmers, | Them in Mines sell everything -to buy food and clothing. The farmers discovered diamonds, | and these stricken farmers saw a) | way out of their troubles. | But the government intervention | imade the fields state diggings and | jall the farmers were allowed was “an opportunity to work in the mines.” The Namaqualanders felt it was a great injustice and they watched .with. growing dissatisfac- tion, is Under Martial Law. | Armed police were sent to. guard |the field and ‘the Namaqualanders \felt that this was but another method of preventing them frori en< \Joying what was rightfully theirs, and they demanded $5 a day from the government in payment ‘for “what they. had lost,” ‘and: they |threatened fo rush the diggings if |the government refused. The government answered by sending in more armed police. No cofftitims for this’ united 32S railvoad stations-and counter- demonstrations. , fascists to arm, end to"a lesser de- gree the socialists, the government has declared the Workers Defense Committee illegal and ordered it dis- banded. Despite this ithe workers ‘suceeeded in holding a counter-dem- onstration today. Business Before Old Congress Includes a Nicaragua Canal Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The last week winding up the present session of congress starts tomorrow with the house having disposed of most important business, though the senate has a score of major mea- sures and several important nomin- ations to dispose of. Monday the time of the senate will be given to the report of the special elections committee report- ing on the exclusion of’ Williem S. Vare of Pennsylvania, and the Edge Bill, providing for a survey of the proposed canal through Nicaragua, There is a re-apportionment bill, to change representation in the house of representatives on the basis of the 1930 census, and a bill providing for this census, Among the nominations to act upon aro those of former Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin for court of customs appeals for Governor Pat Neff of Texas 10 the board of con- ciliation, and Forest Northcutt of Denver for U. S. attorney in Colo- rado, re ey ; BRITISH JQBLESS GROWS. LONDON, (By Mail).—The total of registered unemployed workers in England. last week was 1,425,600. ‘This is 250,000 more than a year open outbreak has as yet occurred, andthe: elseation 1s hanging: fte._ cA ange this, Une. Since then, while allowing the | Jless than standard gasoline engines, “Only the Communist Interna- tional stands prepared to fight to the finish against the coming war and the capitalist system which gives it birth. The socialists are degenerated reformists and patriots —the Second International betrayed the workers in the last war,” de- clared Juliet Stuart Poyntz, na- tional women’s work organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, before a large audience at the*Har- lem Workers Forum, 43 E. 103d St., Friday night. Dave Campbell, of the Harlem Tenants’ League, was chair- man. “Rivalries. and conflicts between the capitalist powers are sharpen- ing and leading directly to another world war vastly more terrible and destructive than the last,” the speak- er continued. “Struggles of the im- perialist powers for world markets, for world trade and mastery of the seas are only some of the causes that are leading directly to war.” Poyntz urged working women to | take a leading part in the struggle against the war danger. One of the. leading tasks of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party, she said, was the mobilization of the women workers | in the revolutionary ranks. New Plant to Speed Plane Construction | DETROIT, Mich., ‘Feb. 24 (UP). —Plans for erecting a $650,000 building to produce its new Diesel type oil burning airplane engine, were announced here today by the Packard Motor Co, The proposed factory will have a capacity of five hundred engines a month, Packard engineers claim the | engine will increase the range of air- planes between 20 and 30 per cent at an operating cost thirty per cent | | of Yellow “Socialists” | done, may be surmised when it is | imposed himself on the Brotherhood’) known that at the same time, defi-| o¢ Railway Trainmen, ‘or John: L. Hoover would appoint Walter Brown, |the American capitalist class by be- one of the “Ohio gang” whose head- traying the coal miners at every quarters was the “little green house | possible opportunity, Doak was’ the on K Street,” as Postmaster Gen-| head of. the “labor bureau’ af, the eral. | republican party during the election, Incidentally, this same Mr. Brown’ and would naturally receive some of the same “little green house” has | sort of plum of patronage. But right along been assistant secre- Hoover says that “labor,” meaning tary of commerce under Herbert the reactionary bureaucrats, cannot Hoover as secretary. So the “Lily agree on who shall get.the secre- Whites” of the South will be dic-|taryship of labor, so ho definite tators of the republican. party in| selection: is yet made. Lae dee JUST OFF THE PRESS! THE : PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION | By V. I. LENIN The first comprehensive edition of this Marxian classic, Lenin’s smashing answer to the rene- gades of the Second International. The clearest exposition of the Marxian conception of the State and the sham of Bourgeois Democracy. Paper..50c Cloth.. $1.00 - Workers Library Publishers | 35 East 125th Street New York City nite confirmation was given that | Lewis, who has. endeared himself .to | ff] Mass Opening Bi] GTH 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 New Russian Film “RUSSIA IN 1928” Nationally Known Communist Leaders Will Speak ADMISSION 50c Buy Your Tickets at. District Office; Workers: Center, or at National Office, 43 E. 125th St.