The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 2

i Page Two Machado, Assassin MANY WORKERS ARE JAILED IN POLICE TERROR ‘Plots’ Are ‘Butcher’s’ Favorite Method of Julio -China Natives in Air Flight | ) Mella, Unearths “Conspiracy” to Assassinate Himself COURT RECORD PROTEST AGAINST| 149 WORKERS IN SHOWS CROOKED POLICE TERROR; N.Y, STATE KILLED DURING JANUARY HILLQUIT DEALS PICKET CITY HALL Members of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce visiting Coolidge No Information About at the White House. Coolidge is in his own element and feels per- | Number of Dependents: fectly ct home. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929 Exploiters of Indo Businessmen Visit Big Business’ Servant Agent of “Socialists” Demonstrants Demand | Makes Admissions Right to Strike | HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 27.—An-| (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) ALBANY, Feb. 27.—One hundred= other of those discoveries of plots} |time had become a private capitalist are to hold a big shop delegates con- | ; |and forty-nine workers were killed: against the he president and | bank. But the bank was not con-|ference tonight in Webster Hall for | | during the month of January in the the r utcher Ma- |tent with this; it wanted the union/the purpose of taking stock of the lindustries of New York state, ac~ chado militant | buildings too. lvecent activities of their union an | cording to the official report of the labs 3 has been “unearthed” | The Joint Board refused to per-|for the purpose of passing on plans. |industrial commissioner. In Decems her E |ber, 160 workers had been killed The chief of polic |in industrial accidents. , | In Bl of the 149 cases no informa- | tior. was available about the number jot people left dependent by the |death of the worker. In the other bes eases there were 226 dependents, or for each worker killed in industry —Fighting| Tearing forward with powerful an average of more than two peo- mentum, the organization drive|ple are left without any means of mit the buildings which the workers/for future work. The ineceting be- |had acquired thru years of strug-|gins at 7 o’clock sharp. gle and sacrifice to be turned over} Complete reports on the wage to a capitalist bank and be sold. mekers’ strike, on the few-day old ° . . |The Joint Board claimed that the|hemstitchers, pleaters and tuckers|Pilsudski’s Stand on|Big Shops Settle, Pay Vilna Question Cause Raises Secured bout a revolu- tion in Cubs As usual the police he the imme workers whom the C ish were enough to cover the strike and on the organizational jdebt. strikes in the fur industry, will be | The attorney for the Joint Board,|made by the officers of the union. is B. Boudin, took the case to|The cloak industry and the plans rt to prevent the bank from ‘con-! for betterment’ of its working stand- ement from followed by WARSAW, between Polish and Lithuanian bor- |™0 Feb. ment would rather s ind stone g the buildings. On Jan. 16;/ards will also be taken u Yorkers | h a g Se J a aken up. TN qeaas nnaur ne of the Independent Shoe Workers | support. walls than leading tt eliows in , the ease of Joseph Boruch Ge wae roi sais He tnokey. cut anew, 85 Union, is registering greater suc-| Most of the fatalities occurred in their struggles aeuen local and itz versus the 130 East 125th St. Made No: Disturbance. ja result of the strained situation | cesses than was expected by even the| the manufacture of metals and metal American capitalists. Z Corporation, which claimed “the 2... Prspstach and tie others |PTovoked by Pilsudski and his press | most hopeful in the workers’ organi-| goods. The food industries were Machado’s usual “ack in these buildings, came up before Justice ere arrested this morning at 1375 |0Ver the Vilna question. zation. Two more large shoe fac-| second in the number of fatalities,” cases is to call a conference with his Townley in the county supreme a | |tories in Brookly: mpelled to| while the construction group was police and secret service heads.| inksiinet Broadway, At the station house} One was killed and _ several |. F Aides ees laps a there s s + | court. Boruchowitz, who was then |sign with the union, and another | third. + Shortly after the conference the an-| nouncement of the discovery of the plot to kill the president is made. A police drag-net is then spread to| catch every active worker in Ha-| vana and other centers. The victims are sometimes left for months in} i Me ee Gere iat no | wounded in fighting near Grany, oniemployer, after four days of a| In most cases the accidents were ting arrest.” Arraigned before | the Polish-Lithuanian border today. strike tie-up called on the union |found to be due to inadequately pro- rt . ge Weil in Jefferson Market |The fighting occurred when a party leaders to “please come andjtected machinery. In one case @ time the money was borrowed. ‘Court the charge against them was {of Lithuanian peasants negotiate.” worker was caught on an unguarded wood: on the border was ordered to| The Mackay Shoe Company, em-| belt-and crushed against the ceiling, Tells of Union Struggle. [adianeed he spacisheta nae | sabe , ng h ‘ : i | Boudin, at the trial, deseribed thé|the discrepancy in the accusations,| eave by Polish troops. ploying over 100 on its crew, when| While another fell through an un manager of local 22, had been ‘one of the mers of the agreement with the International Union Bank at the chopping ape th th | RA ESR Tae * ‘ * i ji i H i tected elevator shaft. jail on stronger charges than ght below, their situation in the union at the time] questioned the policeman who made : confronted with an immediate strike | Pro i ehevalo: : Grmisien and Dhe acéGeations of po-| rard plane (above), for \the loan was made. He declared|the arrest. He testified that the| A skirmish between the Lithuan- |of his entire plant force, signed the| _ Investigation into Pe causes, - | na in behalf of the French im- |that because of their bitter experi-|six were not making any disturb-jian and Polish border guards re-|Pact a union representative pre- | the death Re ane enebee ate. be | started in Albany but, as is usually pelled to restore a 5 per cent wage the case, these will result in white- reduction imposed on his men about| Washing the employers and leaving ithree months ago. jthe dependents to shift the best : Pheee days of fighting with neabe| ‘ey. Cet Zor, themeelves. ance and they were dismissed. All sented. In addition he was com- of them were arrested with the 230 pickets arrested last Monday at 1375 Broadway, where, the union states, | every ‘picket that has appeared has| above unless otherwise stated were been immediately arrested. |arrested in Monday’s raid on thejand hired thugs led the striking) < * oe John Demelos, and| picket line. shoe workers at the Breslau shoe Nadir to Present His Ethel Shore who were arrested last| The Civil Liberties Union and the|Company plant to victory. Their | ¢ ‘J res mh ee to ten days|Methodist Federation for Social bosses, former officials in the re-| Stage and ge Sag in the workhouse by Magistrate Weil | Service both sent committees to in-/actionary A. F. of L. shoe union, | ve ar. today. Ethel Shore had two other | vestigate the union’s charge of po-|/now defunct, asked to sign the agree oN Sunday E i 4 charges against her and received|lice brutality, who were on the|ment. Here the workers got an in-} gy Sunday evening, March °10, |Moishe Nadir will present in the* form of a concert, a réview of stage \sulted, leaving one Lithuanian killed | jand several wounded, | suspended sentences. Abe Ruben, | picket lines this morning, They |crease in pay and the contractors Minnie Ruben, Bessie Young and M./ tried to picket the ‘shop at 1875|were thrown out of the shop. Gandleman, arrested February 28,| Broadway, the Jack Herzog Dréss| ALBANY, Feb. Tice and police spies. perialists who have enslaved the Indo-China natives. ‘ences in the Joint Action struggle of ised the American capitalists that) A —— |1925, the Joint Board and the left there would never be a strike in \wing locals had refused to have the Cuba if he were elected president. fg fig i ‘bank act as trustee of the shares He was Wall Street’s agent for re. jand the stock of the buildings. Hill- tionary leader, by assassination in| i \parties, proposed that his office Mexico City recently. 5 i a FI jmanager, Umhey, act as trustee, ae land he gave his personal guarantee gars |that the Joint Board and the locals Delegates to Workers Exposes * 75 . | “It is important to know who the| Socialist Party Roosevelt’s Plan |trustee was,” Boudin told Justice] Be at L L.-D. Bazaar | - |'Townley, “and it is also important| | The National Office. of the Inter-! 7.—The assem-|to know that notwithstanding. the Delegates and visitors at the | national Labor Defense will give all, Sixth National Convention of the| Possible support to the defense of planning to visit the big annual| Worker, and Moissaye J. Olgin, edi- bazaar of the New York District of tor of the Freiheit, who were ar-/ _ the International Labor Defense,|Tested today on an indictment se-| which opens next Wednesday night|Cured by Morris Hillquit, leader of | clusive at the New Star Casino, | them with criminal libel. The so- 107th St. and Park Ave. \cialist party has again run to the For the first time in the history | Capitalist courts to attack a work-| Communist movement thruout the) Hillquit became angry when the country will be present on one or | Daily Worker and the Freiheit print- more nights of the bazaar. In or-|ed articles exposing “his participa- ; tors an idea of the truly: interna: }the needle trades workers. ' tional character of the work of the; The action of the leader of the I L, D., special programs are be- Socialist party in seeking the aid of ing arranged by the various)the capitalist courts and the Tam- the bazaar. |policy which has long been prac- The I. L. D, bazaar this year will|ticed by this party of the capitalist present a greater variety of articles | Class. i than ever before. There will be| In the present dressmakers’ strike, of working class organizations of a'the socialist party, is doing every-| large number of nationalities and, thing possible to break the strike. trades. All the proceeds of the|In this strike of the militant Needle bazaar will go for the defense of| Trades Workers’ Industrial Union,| Machado is the man who prom-| : | moving Julio Mella, Cuban revolu-| quit, who was the lawyer for both Role of the Bitter Debate Held on |¥old get their proverty back. Party Convention Will! | Workers (Communist) Party are| Robert Minor, editor of the Daily and continues until Sunday night in-|the socialist party, who charged | of this annual event, leaders of the| img class organization. der to give these out-of-town visi-|tion in a swindle practiced against language groups participating in|many police, is in accord with the about 30 booths, under the direction| the New Leader, offieial organ of class war prisoners, including the | the ‘socialist party again calls on the| bly today passed the executive; budget appropriation bill after vot- ing down amendments proposed by {merely on Mr. Hillquit’s responsi-| would have re- |bility; it was his responsibility and} stored $2,875,000 of the sum cutjthe assurance of these people that| the democrats whi from Gévernor Roosevelt’s original estimate. | Before passing the bill, the as-| sembly engaged in bitter debate over the governor’s plan, stated in his message, to take over the handling of certain large sums in the budget. Senator Charles, J. Hewitt, chair- man of the Senate Finance Commit- tee, said the governor. would - have exclusive spending power of more than $80,000,000 including approp- riations for personal service. “He could put 10,000 people on the payroll. at $5,000 a year and no one could find out who they were or what they did if the comptroller chose to close his books,” Hewitt argued. Assemblyman Horace Stone at- tacked the governor’s message as “a usurpation and presumptious} message from the ‘man downstairs’.” Funeral Tonight of : fact that Umhey was named as trustee, he was named as trustee counted rather than Mr. Umhey’s personal standing in the matter. . Mr, Umhey really plays no role ex- cept that he was obeying somebody’s orders; he was taking orders from somebody, and that he was doing what he was told to do.” (Court Minutes, page 12). Boudin Keveais Plot. fiere Boudin discussed {. detail the entire conspiracy and revealed the motives behind the Sigman po- grom. The right wing clique, he said, decided to take advantage of the fact that the property of the Joint Board and the locals was in Hillquit’s office. The pogrom served as a pretext for confiscating this property. “We exnect to prove the people who are in control of the General Executive Board,’ Boudin said, “who were also in control of the bank, conspired. with the bank and Mr. Umhey to renew the fight which had been settled the year before and terday had their cases adjourned to March 8th. Charles Grafello was fined $25.. Six were dismissed. Ray | Saperstein was fined $10. Two re- |ceived suspended sentences and 10 cases were adjourned. All of the! were fined $5 this afternoon. Mike/(o,, but were punched in the ribs|the Refined Shoe Company, after | Fineman and six others arrested yes-/ by the industrial squad on guard/four days of striking. |the.e and told to get off the block. | fhe Civil Liberties Union is plan- |ning to take legal action in defense | Elinor Shoe Co., and the Diana Shoe of the picket. right of the strikers to the first meeting of the incorpora- " tors? | A: Yes. | Q: Now at the first meeting of | the incorporators, were you elected’ | | as a director? A: Yes, I was, Q: And at the first meeting of directors, held subsequent to the first meeting of incorporators, were you elected an officer? A: Yes, I was. Q: What officer were you? | A: President, | | Q: And are you still the presi- dent? A: Yes, I am. (Court Minutes, | pages 28, 29.) | Forced to Admit Facts. These facts, which Umhey was, |foreed to admit under cross-exam- ination, were being revealed for the The fake incorporators were three | of Hillquit’s employes: Arthur Mor- itz, Geneva Marsh and Norma Breen. | (Court Minutes, Page 30.) Servant Shields Master. Tho all this was done under orders from Hillquit, Umhey, like a faith-) ful servant, denied on the. witness |stand that he had ever consulted | Hillquit. Hillquit, his boss, the law- vyer.of the. bank and of the Right wing international clique,: im whose office the meeting of the fake cor- ;poration had been held, knew ‘nothing, according to Umhey. When Boudin asked Umhey whether he had ever discussed with Hillquit the question of whether to recognize the Right or the Left wing, Umhey replied: “I don’t know that I: have ever Negotiations are going on with Strikes are being conducted lagainst the Refined Shoe Co., the} |Co., the last mentioned being called jon strike yesterday morning. One Hundred and fifty workers are strik- ‘ing in this shop. Wage raises an \closed shop are being demanded b; | the men. | From union headquarters yester- | \day the announcement of a big mass | | meeting in Lorraine Hall, 790 Broad- | |way, Brooklyn, came. The mass} meeting is to be held at 8 p. m. next Thursday. Prominent speakers will address the gathering after the NEW i i | |SPRING CARNIVAL 662 New Bedford strikers, Mineola frame-up victims, the mili- tant fur worker, William Shifrin,! and others. hater Hall Entirely the | Tammany machine to break the! strike, | The New Leader, the official or- gan of the socialist party, in its February 9th issue, made a vicious} attack on the International Labor Defense, charging them with divert-| to get hold of the property of the ‘Joint Board and these local unions, Postal Clerk Suicide and for that purpose declared these EAST ORANGE, N. J., Feb. 28./neople out of office.” (Court —Funeral services will be held to- | Minutes, page 13). night at 106 Ampere Parkway, East) Yow did Hillyu:t’s trustee Umhey. Orange, for Albert J. Kubler, postal effect this? He coolly made over who believing he was first time inthis trial before Jus-|‘iseussed: the situation with’ Mr./ tice Townley. Hillquit’s trustee had| Hillouit, Mr. Boudin.” | held a fake meeting of fake incor-| Q. Never discussed that at all? | porators in Hillquit’s office, had ap-| A: That end of it, I don’t think | pointed himself director and later we did Court Minutes, Page 42.) president of a fake corporation,! The above citations from the of-| which “took over” the buildings of ficial court records reveal Umhey | Tomorr novelties, which he calls “Stage and‘ Backstage.” The review will consist « of numbers written and staged ‘by« him, with a selected cast of Yiddish end Broadway stars. One of the numbers will be bits |from his unproduced play “The Mes- siah Comes to America.” q Jim Lowe, Negro actor who Jayed Uncle Tom in the movie of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and’in O'Neil’s ‘Emperor Jones” on the stage,, diligently studying the Yiddish language to participate in this re- view. union leaders will deliver @ report on the progress of the already highly successful union campaign. ij ow [Friday] jing funds from defense work for | clerk, the shares that had been entrusted| Another director of the fake cor- boss, Hillquit. But the master Decorated for Big New’ k Masses Ball Tomorrow | vith Webster Hall completely decorated by Hugo Gellert, William Gropper and other noted artists, the final preparations id the New. Masses Spring Carnival tomorrow night at Webster Hall have been completed. A program of several of the best Negro dancers in the city has been prepared to entertain the affair during the moments when the orchestra is resting. “Although tickets for the ball have | been almost completely sold out, several places where they may be obtained will be open tonight and tomorrow until late in the evening in’ anticipation of the last minute rush. The Workers Bookshop at 26 Union Sq., the New Masses office at 39 Union Sq., and the mass meet- ing to open the Workers (Commu- nist) Party National Convention will have tickets’for sale. FLIER CHANGES MIND. MARSEILLES, Feb. £7 (UP).— It was reported here today that Lieut. Paulin Paris has decided to postpone his trans-Atlantic flight to the March 21. USSR FIGHTS ALCOHOL Opening of Vodka MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By Mail).— A: Jaw limiting the alcohol trade has st been approved by the Soviet of yple’s Commissars of the Soviet "Under this law the opening of new ‘business places dispensing vodka whisky) and other alcoholic bever- ages in industrial cities and work+ ers’ villages is forbidden. It is also to sell alcoholic beverages in such cities and villages during olidays and pay days. No adver sement of any kind of spirits will allowed. The sale of alcoholic 4 mited States via Berriuda until | Communist propaganda. The I. L. D. is now preparing an answer to} | this vicious falsehood. The 1. L, D.| \at the present time is defending sev- \eral..hundred workers before the} (capitalist courts of this country, in- cluding strikers jailed on the advice | of the socialist party. It needs mon- ey for: this. The~arrest of these Communist editors isvone more example of the se of capitalist justice and of the | government institutions to persecute |working class organizations and working class leaders, this time at | the instigation of the socialist party, | which is a part of this attack on the working class. The Daily Work- er and the: Freiheit have always taken part actively in the struggle of the workers for better conditions and against capitalist justice. The I. L. D. protests against this capitalist attack on the working class and will do all in its power to repulse the attempted frame-up of the socialist lackey, Hillquit and ‘his allies, the capitalist courts. ey BH L® Tae New York District of the In- \ternational Labor Defense last night lissued a statement, signed by Rose Baron, secretary, denouncing the arrest of the editors of the Daily Houses Forbidden beverages in public places, theatres, clubs and hospitals, is also forbidden. A number of anti-alcoholic dispen- saries, for the purpose of fighting drunkenness scientifically, are to be opened in various cities. Many beer houses are to be closed and the number of tea houses and cafes is to be greatly increased. The State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R. has been charged with the task of devising a plan for the replacement of the alcohol revenues ‘by some other sources of income. short in his account in the Harrison 't9 him in his own name and by this branch office, shot himself. Fearing | simple trick deprived the “Joint a prison term, for shortage in ac-| Board and the locals of their prop- counts, Kubler, sixty-four, and a erty. And in this way Umhe, (act- faithful slave for twenty years,|ing 04 Hillquit’s instructions) also killed himself rather than have deprived the Joint Board and the what he pitifully considered a blot|jgcals of the vote they had in the on his record. Tfonically enough, /hank as shareholders. This enabled later investigation from the Post ihe right wing to retdin their grip Office officials showed he was 21 on the bank, a grip which was cents over. threatened by the large’ number of ishares Owned by the left wing Joint |Board and locals. The Worker and the Freiheit. statement declares: | Robert Minor and Moissaye J. Olgin.|8" (ve lett wing locals being even quit, and his Tammany friends tole, ai Ashped ociiees the bis rae eee ‘alge baleen Seite boss of the union’s shares, And burdens on them and depriving a aac yt “ joni ng a of their directing heads. ‘fhe New|} a14 of directors. “ York District of the International) cq much for ‘the shiares,; Naw lét pane ae ated shore) fight} 4 consider how Umhey, Hillquit’s house pur Re Piers shay prvi: trustee, became the “owner” of the Hillquit and the capitalist courts to wie pad 44 edinase > wand 1a¥yer deal our two fighting workingclass | Boudin quizzed Umhey concerning organs crushing blows. Ht calls upon |the so-called 130 East 25th Street all foc ore Oh pappery “te ee '§Corporation which Umhey had or- fight, ganized in order to gain control of . he buildings, The testi fol- Send Material for the Here ee Women’s Day Daily Question; Now when was the defendant, 180 East 25th Street Worker Immediately In preparation for the Women’s Corporation organized? Answer: In the month of August 1927. Q. And was that organized by hick Wit agieat ane ene peat your office, I raee Mr. Hillquit’s week in March, request has been| | °ffice, ¥e paciebnl made that material for this edi- at i, he tion be sent in immediately. Ar- Me ei oe caLe e incorpora- ticles from women workers in the d shops are especially asked for. A: I believe vers were three Worker correspondence from amaployes in. the: office, womet workers in all industries Q: Just what | is commonly is also wanted for the special known as dummies? Worker Correspondence Page in A: Dummy the Women’s Day Edition. All such material should be ad- dressed “Won:en’s Day Edition” that’s right, Q: And the directors were simi- and sent fn care of the. Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. lar? A: They were directors, #24 Q: Intended to be replaced at similar dummy poration was the Right wing hence man, Caplowitz, who has & job in passed the servant when he took he witness stand. Hillquit doesn’t Asa result of this piece of|@ incorporators, | the International Union Bank. Cap-| know who Boruchowitz is. . .he lowitz admitted on the witness stand| doesn’t remember. . .he has for- that as early as 1926 he had stopped, gotten, and so on. paying dues and had thus dropped ahaa out of membership in the union.| (Hillquit’s testimony on the wit- (Court Minutes, Page 73.) ness stand and the story of the The third director of the fake com | $150,000° swindle will appear in poration was an employe in Hill-:| tomorrow’s Daily Worker. Don’t quit’s office, Miss Norma Breen, + | miss it!) * The Undying Example i ! of Proletarian Heroism! Now Playing! Authentic! ~ THE ‘SENSATIONAL POLAR DRAMA WHICH SHOOK THE WORLD ! | | | | |the cloak and dressmakers. | in the*role of feebly trying to shield i | ) | | | Actual! A Sovkino Production—An Amkino Rel! THE OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH SAVBD THE NOBILE CREW — and on the same program — “A DAY WITH TOLSTOY” AN ACTUAL FILM RECORD OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN: filmguildcinema , Continuous Performances. Popular’ f Daily (incl. Sat. & Sun.) from 12 to 12. Direction SPRCIAL - 12 to 2 p..m.,.35¢ - SYMON GoULD FOR WEEK DAYS: 2 to 6 p. m..500 | —PHONE: SPRING 6095 Oy ‘ PPPPPIPOR. Sensational Attraction The Savoy Wild Cats The Pride of Lenox Ave. March 1s Webster Hall, 119 E. 11 St. | George Ganoway & Bertha i Vanderbilt in a dance se- lection “Scrambled Feet” and GEORGE SNOWDEN and PAULINE MORSE in their interpretation of the Har~ lem Stomp. VERNON ANDRADE Rei wince Orchestra DANCING TILL 3 A. M. © Sw fh R For the delegates faa si convenience 0, Tickets will be sold there. Everybody Is Urged to Come to the Carnival * After the Meeting OR Phi reservations at New Maanen Office until § p..m. Remember! Tickets at the Door Are $2.50! BUY OR RESERVE IN ADVANCE AT $1.50 . On sale at: New Masses, 39 Union Sq. (phone ordere accepted —- ALG. 4445) ‘WorkersBookshop, 28 - Sq.3 Rand Book Store, 7 E. |] 15th 8t.3 Negro Champion, | 160 W. 193rd Street. | THE WORKERS © BOOK- SHOP WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 11 P. M. TO SELL . TICKETS