The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 1

WORKERS TO OPEN COMMUNIST PARTY CONVENTION, HONOR RUTHENBERG AT MEET TOMORROW ". THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered 3s second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1873. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol Ve No. 361 Published daily except maphabing Asseciation, day by The N: —- 26-28 Union ational Daily Werker Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929 Outside New SUBSCRIPTION RATES York, by sail, $6.00 per year. York, by | mail, $8.00 per year. “Price 3 Cents MINOR, OLGIN IN PRISON! HILLQUIT’S AGENT MAKES ANTLWARDANGER SOME AMAZING ADMISSIONS MASS MEET WILL Daily Worker Prgta Further Revelations of | Colessal Thievery by Right Wing Gang Cro Examination Brings Forth Starnes Admissions from Hillquit’s Man In yesterday’s Daily Worker we told why Morris Hillquit, corpora- tion lawyer and leader of the so- cialist party, was so unwilling to haye his criminal libel case against the editors of the Daily Worker and the Jewish Communist Frei- heit tried publicly in a magistrate’s court and has, therefore, used his influence with the Tammany dis- trict attorney to secure a grand jury indictment behind closed doors. We also reproduced a let- ter sent by Hillquit on Aug. 9, 1926, to Louis Hyman, then man- ager of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, in which he gave his personal promise that the property of the Joint Board and the union locals, for which he suggested that his associate, Fred- erick F. Umhey, act as trustee, would be returned to them. This property had been offered as se- curity to the International Union Bank in return for a loan of $300,000, made by the Joint Board in order to conduct the cloak strike of 1926. Hillquit kept his promise only to the right wing lo- cals, while the Joint Board and the Left wing locals were swindled out of their property, which was. subsequently sold without the knowledge of “the Joint Board. —The Editor. * * + At the advice of Morris Hillquit, then attorney for the Joint Board, Frederick F. Umhey, his associate, yecame the trustee for the Interna- ional Union Bank shares owned by he Joint Board (when the bank was organized by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, he Joint Board and the locals nought shares in order to provide pital for the bank.) The Joint 30ard and Locals 2, 9, 22 and 89 ilso turned over as security the| \tock of their buildings. Local 10, which does not have a building of | ts own and Local 48, whose build- ng could not be given as security, | paterson silk strike, called this one | rerely turned over their bank shares. | Imhey Turns Over Shares to Bank. The Joint Board already owed the nternational Union Bank $67,000, naking together with its new loan, total of $367,000. Because of the jogrom started against the rank nd file by the Right wing clique at the ad of Hillquit) in De- ember, this debt could not be jaid. Hillquit’s trustee, Umhey, lagain at Hillquit’s behest) there- pon turned over the shares to the} nternational bank, which by this (Continuca on Page Two) SERRY MACHINE NEVER TO STRIKE 2) 000,000 “Organizing Fund” to Squander CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 27.—Speak- ig in measured phrases entirely ap- ropriate for a speech to a chamber Ecommerce luncheon, Major George . Berry, president of the Interna- onal Pressmen’s Union, addressed pur thousand press room workers 1) Ashland Auditorium Sunday af- mmoon on the subject of concilia- lon. The mass meeting was the cul- ination of Berry’s campaign of any years duration to finally ‘ing the Chicago locals of his union ler the whip hand of the Interna- onal board and its policies of em- joye~ management cooperation. Under the slogan of “unity” and \ith the announcement’ that it was be “the start of a drive to or- nize the commercial printing shops Chicago 100 per cent,” what was irmed the greatest turn-out of ssmen in the history of the In- (Conttraant on Page Five) TRAIN DERAILED. MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 27 (UP),— south-bound Mobile and Ohio pas- ger train was derailed at De Soto, iss, at three o'clock this after- , but no one was seriously in- red, officials of the road said. SLUG, JAIL, NJ, SILK STRIKERS |Pickets Get 30 Days; Many Injured SUMMIT, N. J., Feb. 27.—Police and judges jcined here yesterday in | a terrorist attack on the striking silk workers that surpasses in bru- |tality the infamous strikebreaking terrorism carried on by Passaic cos- sacks against the textile strikers in 1926, Half of the police force of this. little open-shop town were rallied to slug approximately 50 workers who picketed the shops on strike, and, after many had been injured | on the picket line, two were si tngted | out for the courts to handle and were given prison sentences of 30 days each. Lottie Blumenthal, member of the Young Workers League, and pick- eting as a strike sympathizer, and George Hamway, striker, were sent }to “jail *b¥ County JudgeWilliams for calling a seab by his right name. That was their only “offense.” They were kept in jeil till 6 o'clock at {night, though their bail was ready early in the afternoon. They were kept waiting for the judge. Despite all this terror, the Na- |tional Textile Workers Union, lead- ing the strike, announces their de- termination to organize new picket demonstrations, where the right to strike’ against degrading conditions | will be fought for. | This strike has been long and bit- \ter, having been begun under the leadership of the Associated Silk Workers, a reactionary union. This | organization, when it betrayed the | | | | | off several times, failing, however, to do so. The workers insisted on | staying out till the strike was won. | Recently, at a meeting, the entire |Summit local voted, and unani- {mously joined, the N. T. W., which lis rallying its forces for the support of these heroic fighters. Gil Destroys Photos MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27.—The Mexican war department has or- and still in the reactionary press. He landed somewhere on the trip, land lost a wheel, but’ didn’t notice it until the plane turned over as he landed again here, Anne Morrow was shocked, but otherwise unin- jured. Lindbergh had a dislocated shoulder. Neither would talk. The Portes Gil government fears that photos of the crash would be exulted over by the working class of Mexico, which does not like im- perialism or its agents. REACTIONARY EDITOR DEAD. Briton Hadden, editor of the weekly news magazine “Time,” died here today after a protracted illness. Workers from all parts of the country are responding in true revo- Iutionary fashion to the call of the Daily Worker. The attack of the Millquit-Tammany clique brings an answer from class-conscious work- ers. Tom Roy, of McDonald, Pa., writes: “Please receive under same cover $2.20 to help out the campaign to Save the Daily Worker, and at the same, time help in the defense of of Lindbergh’s Wreck | dered the destruction of all moving pictures of Lindbergh wrecking his plane on arrival here. |The imperialist hero went for a lit- tle joy ride with. the daughter of U. S. Ambassador Morrow, whose promise to marry him is big news OPEN CONVENTION ‘Memory of Ru Ruthenberg Will Be Honored Tomorrow ‘Thousands te to Attend |New Soviet Fi Film at Big Rally Tomorrow Tomorrow night the workers of New York and vicinity will welcome |the delegates to the Sixth National |Convention of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party at a big mass meet- jing in New Star Casino, 107th St. jand Park Ave. The meeting, which | will formally open the convention, will sound the keynote of this his- torie gathering of the representa- tives of the American working class hy raising the slogan of the fight against the war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The convention sessions will start Satur- day morning at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. The mass meeting will not only be the official opening of the Work- ers Party Convention, but it will also honor the memory of the foun- der and leader of the Party, C. E. Ruthenberg, who died two years ago. Ruthenberg led the fight of the left wing against the last im- perialist war and the part he played in this fight will be tied up with the present struggle against the riew war being prepared by the imperial- ist powers. The mass meeting will also serve as a_celebration of the tenth anni- versary of the founding of the Com- munist International, the central body of the Co:nmunist Parties of the world. As a special feature the remark- able Sovkino film, “A Trip Through Soviet Kussia,” will be shown for the first time in this country. This film, in addition to showing scenes of every phase of Soviet life, pre- sents some of the most dramatic events of the tenth anniversary cele- bration of the Soviet Union. Tremendous interest has been aroused by the unusual character of tomorrow night’s meeting and from present indications New Star Casino will be packed. JAIL COMMUNIST AUSTRIAN EDITOR High Treason Charge Is Made for Poem VIENNA, Feb. 27.—Paul Kohn, editor of Rote Fahne (Red Flag), the Austrian Communist newspaper, was arrested on the orders of the Seipel government on the charge of high treason. The charge is based on a poem which appeared in the Rote Fahne on Sunday, the occasion of the fas- cist march in Vienna, which called upon the workers to overthrow the capitalist state and charged that the Austrian government was promoting fascism. Seipel, the Austrian chancellor, has in fact shown his support of the Heimwehr, fascist organization, and has allowed it to arm openly againee the workers. Most of the jascist arms are procured from government arsenals, Of the: seventy Communists ar- rested for breaking into the fascist lines on Sunday, five are bein held for trial. EMERGENCY FUND Workers Con Contribute. to ‘Save ‘] ‘Daily’ our comrades against the prosecu- tion of. the notorious social reform- ist, Morris Hillquit, millionaire law- yer, who has been exposed in the Daily Worker as a crook of the right wing leadership of the socialist party and the old craft unions.” “Who is next?” is the head over the following letter: “The workers cf the Alchas Dress Co. of 19 West 21st St., were among Continued on Page Three ty other side of the cell yellow socialist party. press the working class these arrests. “The socialist party ing class, and is in fact a class. The statement, gate, also calls upon the workers to exert greater efforts in exposing the “The socialist party, which is trying to sup- press, is the instigator of is the enemy of the work- party of the police and an agency of the capitalist class against the working “All class-conscious workers must fight the so- cialist party and destroy its last connection with the working class. When you fight the socialist party you are fighting strikebreakers. “Morris Hillquit, leader of the yellow party of betrayers, appeared publicly as complainant in this case. Hillquit was the testimony, and at whose made. A representative state’s witness on whose request, indictments were of Hillquit and the so- cialist party preceded the detectives and waited for the detectives at the door of the Daily Worker office, when they came to make the arrests. “This ‘socialist’ greeted the detectives cordially when they arrived saying: ‘You are on time.’ The detectives, who are men now commonly used in all labor struggles in New York against the workers, when they came to make the arrests, were accom- panied by a young woman representing the ‘New Leader,’ official weekly organ of the socialist party. “This gives a true picture of the S. P. today. We, the Communists, defy Hillquit and his yellow strike- breaking organization the socialist party and his available fact and all of needle trades workers. low socialist party and crats. “The left wing will capitalist police and courts. “My instructions to the staff are: The exposure of the Hillquit, fraud against the needle trades workers of New York must be continued to the last the political connotations. “We defy Hillquit in his police conspiracy. At the trial he will be the defendant before the work- ers, to answer for his thievery of $150,000 from the “We expect no consideration from the police or the courts, we will soon be in a position to give the most startling revelations between Hillquit the ‘socialist’ and Tammany politicians. The facts will show the most sordid money basis of relations be- tween Hillquit and these capitalist politicians, with whom he is on such cordial terms as to secure the unprecedented procedure of having us locked up without a hearing in a magistrate’s court. “Workers! Fight your deadly enemies, the yel- the trade union bureau- win! “Build your Workers Communist Party, the Party of the class struggle!” (Signed) ROBERT MINOR, Editor Daily Worker. Tombs Prison, Wednesday, 9 P. M. CACHIN ATTACKS KELLOGG PACTS. French Gov't. Says the) Treaties “Useless” (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) PARIS, Feb. 27.—The chamber of | deputies took up yesterday the dis- cussion of the ratification of the Kellogg pact. Only a hundred depu- ties were present when the govern- ment defended the pact, but ad- mitted that the interpretations made of it by Foreign Minister Austin Chamberlain of England and by the American senate “rendered it use- Icss.” The Communist deputy, Marcel Cachin, declared in the name of the Communist fraction in the Chamber of Deputies that the Kellogg pact represents only a concealment of, warlike intentions of the imperial- ists against the Soviet Union. AMANULLAH NOW. -NEARING KABUL ‘Afghan Forces Drive, | Sakao from Maidan KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 21 | The troops of King Amanullah of | Afghanistan are now within 25 miles of Kabul, on its drive to oust the British pretender to the throne, Bacho Sakao. Amanuilah’s forces have taken the city of Maidan and ousted Sakao’s forces from thut vicinity. Procla- mations distributed here call upon the residents of Kabul to join Ama- nullah’s forces and say that his headquarters are at Ghazni, 80 miles south of here. General Nadir Kahn, coming from France, has arrived at Peshawar on his way to Jalalabad to attenpt a compromise. In 1919 and 1920 he ‘had managed inter-tribal confer- ences in that city, MINOR, FROM PRISON, IN PROTEST AGAINST PLEA FOR AID TO ‘DAILY’ POLICE TERROR; From behind a heavily barred cell, finely steel- screened, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, yesterday dictated the following statement, appeal- ing for the workers to rally in support of the Daily Worker, now in a financial crisis. which the “Daily” reporter took down from the PICKET CITY HALL Demonstrants Demand | Mayor Return Right | to Strike ‘New Arrests Yesterday Shop Delegates Parley Tonight at 7 p. m. | Starting from strike headquar- |ters, over 500 picket captains and | |shop chairmen of the dressmakers’ strike marched down to City Hall yesterday afternoon, and, after hold- ling a protest for lover an hour, had a committee bring to the secretary of Mayor Walker {a statement demanding a halt in demonstration fo: |rolice terrorism and the restoration | |of full picketing rights. | The demonstrating workers |raded in picket formation in front of City Hall for about one hour, with Rose Wortis, secretary of the Strike Committee, in the lead. Rose Wortis then addressed the strikers and thousands of sympathetic on- |lookers from City Hall steps. Placards: reading “Down With Po- jlice Brutality,” “Stop Police Terror- | ism, ” “We Demand the Right to rike Without Police Interference,” e. Were carried by the marchers. In her speech to the assembled jcrowd, Rose Wortis declared that \the purpose of the strike is to abol- lish the sweatshop. She said that she did not expect the Tammany Hall \administration to prevent further police brutality or wholesale ar- |rests. The purpose of the demon- jattention of the public to the facts, to win mass sympathy for the strug- gle of the dressmakers for decent wages and working conditions. She jcontrasted the reception which vis. jiting princes, aviators, etc., receive |with the cold reception of the strik- jers. “We will not accept evasions \of this issue,” she declared, Milton White, militant worker who was arested and held for dis- orderly conduct when he successfully resisted the attack of a yellow so- cialist scab on the steps of the City Hall, was removed to the Second |Precinct Police station. He will be defended at his trial by Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the International Labor Defense. lhe, | Shop Delegates Mect Tonight. * ies, taking in all departments in the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union, cloak, dress and furmaking, (Continued un Page Two) House Passes Motion to Investigate Graft | Charge on Moscowitz WASHINGTON, Feb. |House of Representatives |passed the judiciary committee’s motion for an investigation of the conduct of Federal Judge Moscowitz, \of New York. Moscowitz is charged by two brothers named Levine with driving their bankrupt father tempt of court so they could not |practice law, until a go-between ar-| pa-| stration, she stated, was to call the | Representatives from the factor-|{ JAIL COMMUNIST EDITORS FOR REVEALING THIEVERY OF “SOCIALIST” LEADER Hundreds of Workers Cheer Them After They Are Arrested at Their Desks Minor Exposes Robert Minor, editor of th Olgin, editor of the Jewish Co Prison today. Socialist-Tammany Alliance to Crush Press of U. Bs . Workers e Daily Worker and Moissaye J. mmunist Freiheit, are in Tombs They were lodged in cells yesterday afternoon after de- tectives attached to the New MITCHELL GIVEN POST BY HOOVER {Donovan Returns to Job on Mexico Border WASHINGTON, Feb. 27,—While Herbert Hoover, general representa- his new position as president of the United States, which he wili for- mally take over next Monday, petu- lantly squelches shocked and deserv- ing republican aspirants for the post ; of attorney general who protest at the appointment of a democrat there, it is unofficially announced that William D. Mitchell, the demo- erat, has accepted the post, offered him at the usual “breakfast consul- tation.” Hoover assured virtuously excited members of the “party of Lincoln,” and Mellon, that he “was greatly concerned about the reports that Mitchell is a democrat,” but that anyway he wagn’t a very regular democrat, had been known to follow his job interests in a republican ad- ministration as well as any—and. Raskob, the democratic party caynpaign manager, is a rich and respectable man, too, you know, and we have to consider General Mo- tors’ interests. “Wiid Bill” Gets Wilder. One of those most piqued, ru jhas it, is William J. (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, who wanted the job. Don- ovan was offered a consolation prize in the form of a secretaryship of | war, but rejected it and walked off in a huff, back to the Rio Grande, |where, as a member of a mixed |commission, he has been rendering good service wheedling and threat- ening the Mexican government into | surrendering valuable water rights to _U. S. power companies. Most of the big. graft heretofore |has centered around the attorney general’s job, made popular by Pal- |mer of the war raids, and Daugh- erty, who has been tried several liimes but has so far kept out of | jail. * The present incudlibent, Sargent, | 27,—The|has to go out, because of fire con- | ment, today (ceriktated on him for actions favor- | jabl ple to men accused of stealing land |and oil from the Indian wards cf the |government. The war department has never been considered as a lu- erative post, though there is mies tol thing to be made there, too, suicide, and holding them in con-| throwing contrac’ ts in the right i | ty rection. tive of all big capitalist interests in | York district attorney’s office, carrying warrants secured by Morris Hillquit, corporation lawyer and “socialist” leader, had taken them from their edi- torial desks. The arrests which had been ex- pected momentarily during the past day or two, followed indictments obtained by Hillquit from the New York grand jury on a charge of criminal libel. If this socialist-Tammany con- spiracy against the jailed Commu- nist editors succeeds they face a prison term of one year each in the penitentiary and fines of $500 each. New Leader with Dicks. So brazen is the alliance of Hill- | quit and his treacherous socialist ;gang with the Tammany police and | court, officials that the plainclothes detectives who took Minor and ,O]- gin from their desks were accom- panied by a representative of the New Leader, official organ of the socialist party. At the same time, an emissary of the yellow Jewish Daily Forward hovered around the | Tombs Prison for several hours as | tho to make certain that the Com- | munist editors who have consistent- jly exposed the treacherous role of are actually imprisoned. |this organ, The indictments were secured by ee after the publication of rges in the Daily Worker and the 4 eiheit that Hillquit had personally directed a gigantic swindle of union funds of the International Bank— in the sum of $150,000—belonging to needle. work: The “di alighted on the edi- or |torial office of the Daily Worker on the fourth floor of the Workers Center as the staff was engaged in preparing the next day’s edition. Shades of Broderick, Kelly and the other faithfuls of Whalen’s “bomb |squad” arose as the two plainclothes- men, one heavy-jowled, florid and |pugnacious, and the other tall, long- {faced and impatient. | “Where’s Minor? ked the stocky individual, Thomas Smith. Mr. Hillquit’s emissary was directed to the editor of the DaiJy Worker, who was in his private of- | fice. “You'll have to come with us,” an- nounced Smith, “Have you a warrant?” asked | Minor. The gentleman produced the docu- Minor left instructions with (Coniinued on Page Five) ‘GROUCH HEARING IN ALBANY TODAY Ku Kiux Klan opposition to Dono- ; ranged for a $5,000 bribe to the! van, a Catholic, was the main fac- | judge, and other bribes to other|tor against him in his ambitions for | peneapess of the bankruptcy ring. attorney general. | | “NORDIC SUPERIORITY” MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 27.—-One of|the gong sounded, with every manj| the most vicious and degénerate ex-| for himself, until there remained but amples of “Nordic superiority” was |two exhausted survivors, who divided “Society” Folk in Ghoulish P Pastime. I. LD. Fights Efforts for Extradition ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 27.-—Paul Crouch, national secretary of the Al - America Anti - Imperialist \eague, will appear here tomorrow before Governor Roosevelt for 2 hearing in the extradition case against him. He will be accom- panied by Jacques Buitenkant, rep- jresenting the New York District of ithe International Labor Defense, which is fighting the efforts to ex- staged last night as one of the pre- liminary attractions for the Shar- key - Stribling prizefight. Named a meagre prize offered by Dempsey. | |tradite Crouch to Massachusetts to Fashionably-dressed women in the | stand trial with 24 others on charges ring-side seats, society dames and/of conspiracy resulting from the by its backer, Jack Dempsey, a tle royal,” 18 giant-sized Negroes | delight at the spectacle of the Ne- pummel each other. The widespread | resin dust over the open stadium.) poverty in the South, especially | Indicative of the complete degen-| among the mistreated and intimi- | eracy of the present ruling class, | dated Negro workers, made it easy | this exhibition, as vicious as ient | for Dempsey and his big society tortures and so-called “uncivilized” | backers to find the men to partici- sports, was greatly applauded by the | pate in this melee. pedigreed collection. of Amovica’s The “battle royal” continued, after bluest blood at the ringside. a “bat- | wives of big financiers shrieked with| New Bedford textile strike. Reports current last weeek that were blind-folded and placed in the | groes: hammering each other about;the Massachusetts authorities had ring at one time with orders to|the ring, spreading great clouds of|decided to drop the case against Crouch after an unsuccessful effort to extradite Fred Biedenkapp, na- tional secretary of the Workers In- ternational Relief, proved to be un- true. Should Crouch be extradited to #Massachusetts he faces a jail term of six years on the two counts (against him, %