The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farm ers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour eck For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yq under the act of March 3, 1879. Pablished dailytexcept lay by The National Daily Worker » 26-28 Union 8q., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THOUSANDS GREET COMMUNIST CONVENTION HERE HILLQUIT LETS CAT OUT OF BAG; REVEALS BIG SWINDLE | Forced to Tell How Union Was Cheated Out of | $104,000; Right Wing Got Money Contradicts His Tool, Umhey; Gives Fairy Tale| Version of 1926 Cloak Strike In the previous three installments of this expose of the huge $150,000 swindle enginee red by Morris Hillquit corpora- tion lawyer and boss of the socialist party, we told how he .-—$ broke his solemn promise made in writing that International Union Bank shares and stock of buildings belonging to the Joint Board, Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union and the left wing Jocals would be returned to them. The shares and stock had, at Hill- quit’s suggestion, been entrusted to Frederick F. Umhey, his office Manager, as security for a loan of $300,000 made by the Joint Board from the bank to finance the 1926 cloak strike. Umbhey, at Hillquit’s orders, made himself the owner of ¢] the union’s shares by outright trickery and then “took over” the buildings of the Joint Board and left wing locals by organizing a fake corporation, the 130 East 25th Street Corporation, naming himself president. Yesterday’s installment gave the evasive testimony of Umhey and Hillquit at the trial before Supreme Court Justice Townley at which the Joint Board (now the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union) sought to prevent the fake corporation from stealing the buildings. Under the questioning of Louis B. Boudin, at- torney for the Joint Board, Umhey was cor:pelled to admit that he had sold 375 of its shares to Hillquit and three other “socialists” at $200 a share, while 900 shares were sold to the fake right wing Joint Board at $195 a share. When asked where this fake Joint Board had gotten the money, Umhey. was “stumped” and Boudin called Hillquit himself to the) stand. Tn today’s iutathient) which. con- cludes this series, Hillquit, after much dodging, is compelled to give the details of how he and his asso- ciates swindled the cloak and dress- makers.—The Editor. * 8 ‘At the trial before Justice Townley Jan, 16, 1929, Hillquit opened the case for the right wing with the fol- lowing simple “explanation” cf the big cloak strike of 1926: Hillquit: Now there are several things in the case which is largely an echo of the famous cloakmakers’ general strike in 1926. To begin with that strike was the outcome, to some extent at least, of the in- ternal difference or differences or fights within the organization. The organization was split in what was ealled the administration faction or the right wing and certain local unions cailed the left wing. Later it was the left that called the strike. The strike was called, and it will be the contention of the parent body that it was absolutely unnecessary and frivolous to call it. Then after this estrangement a. few local unions, including these alleged plaintiffs in this ‘case, ceased to pay dues to the Interna- tional organization and according to the provisions of the constitu- tion they were suspended by the national body and these local ‘unions were disorganized; which ‘means the officers of these local unions, having failed to live up to their constitutional obligations to pay certain stated amounts to the national organization, the local charters were withdrawn, the ‘members of these local unions (Continued on Page Two) TOOHEY AT FORUM SUNDAY EVENING To Speak c on | New Mine Union Problems “Pat Toohey, national secretary of the National Miners Union, will yk at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Square, Morrow evening on “Problems of the ‘New Miners Union.” Pat Toohey is}: well known throughout the country as one of the leaders of the left wing in the old United Mine Workers of American, before the National Miners’ Union was formed. He was “g@ militant leader in the long strug- hich culminated in the forma- t the National Miners Union, ch he became the first na- CONFIRM SOVIET Policy Defeated In response to numerous requests for, additional information regarding | the agreement concluded in London! tish oil interests, Saul G. Bron, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, representatives of the Soviet Naptha Syndicate in the United States, stated yesterday, after Sir Henri Deterding, chief director of the Shell Oil Co., had denied that any agree- ment was reached: “The agreement was signed in London February 27, 1929, by the Russian Oil Products Co. (R. O. P.), representing in England the Naptha Syndicate of the U. S. S. R., and the Anglo-American Company, act-| |ing for the oil combine (the Anglo- Persian Company, the Royal Dutch Shell Company and the Anglo-Amer-| ican Company). Discussed In America. eee in London. fyrther. pre- li ry negotiations were conducted in New York City, where the prin- cipal questions were taken up and adjusted. “The principles on the basis of which negotiations resulting in the present agreement were conducted were outlined in a letter written by me to American oil men on January 4, 1929. In this letter I stated: “Should the interested parties in (Continued on Page Three) PERKINS PLANS GERMAN SALES |Dawes Board Sets Up “Fence” for Loot PARIS, March 1.—The repara- tions committee of experts, having considered a plan for establishment of an international trust incorpo- rated under the laws of a neutral power to act, will concentrate next week on an effort to obtain from Germany a promise to pay uncondi- tional annuities to the former allies of at least $350,000,000. This sum, it is estimated, will cover the allies’ payments of war debts to the United States. In ad- dition Germany will play a “flexi- ble” portion of antuities, depending upon ability to pay further, Ger- many has not yet offered anything near such a figure, it was learned reliably, but insists that such large amounts can not’be paid. Huge Sales Trust. The experts are considering a plan for establishment of an international trust, incorporated under the laws of neutral power, to act as a gen- eral sales agent for all future de- liveries in kind. The Thomas N. Perkins Commit- tee on deliveries in kind has evolved the idea at the suggestion of Per- kins, who is an expert on all kinds of monopolistic selling, for he is a director of a dozen chemical, power, Workers from all parts of the country, of all nationalities and colors, are responding to the appeal to Save the Daily Worker, the voice of their revolutionary struggle. The Afghanistan Progressive Association of America, coming from a country which is now fighting against the inroads of British imperialism, feel- ing their solidarity with the work: ers peasants everywhere, hi between Soviet, American and Bri-| ‘Pleads - OIL AGREEMENT, Deterding Anti-USSR| FREED ON BOND, ‘EPSTEIN IS LED AWAY MANACLED District Attorneys Are| Enraged at Daily Worker er Stories “Not Guilty” |\Continue Exposure of Hillquit’s Steal Meilich Epstein, of the staff of the Freiheit, Communist daily in the | toe language, was arrested yes-| erday by the same detectives of the district attorney’s office who ar-)| rested Robert Minor, editor of the |Daily Worker, and Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, Wednesday, on a warrant sworn out by Morris} Hillquit, millionaire boss of the so-| cialist party. The district attorney, acting in| close collaboration with Hillquit,| who accuses the editors of the Daily | Worker and Freiheit of “criminal| libel” because they exposed the Hill- quit-managed steal of shares and| buildings belonging to the needle} trades workers, sent his detectives yesterday morning to the Freiheit office to arrest Epstein. Due to the fact that Epstein had been out of {town when the warrants had been! served, he was not arrested until today. Epstein was handcuffed by the} | policemen, as if he were a criminal, | and led to the district attorney’s of-| |fice. During the course of the trip) “After the failure of the October|one of the detectives reading the story in yesterday's Daily Worker, of | the release of Minor and Olgin, grew very indignant, and showed it to the) assistant district attorney, Hastings. | Hastings was about to say some-| thing, which could hardly have been} very “polite” but seeing Epstein wayed his hand and walked out of the room. On the way to the Tombs, Epstein was handcuffed to a Brooklyn boot- legger, and was first put into the “Bull,.Pen,” before he was taken) across the “Bridge of Sighs” and} lodged in a cell inthe Tombs. To) jhis surprise, he found that the case was well known in the prison and} he was asked how his friends—Minor jand Olgin—were. Epstein spent two and one-half hours in Tombs before the Interna- |tional Labor Defense could raise the |bail of $500. Contrary to all prac- |tise, he was again handcuffed aftet |he was released and while he was Ibeing taken before Judge Mulqueen | in Parit 1 of General Sessions, where | he pleaded “not guilty” to the | charges of having “libelled” the “S0-| cialist” Morris Hillquit. | The Daily Worker is continuing the disclosure, admitted by Hillquit | and his right-hand man while under | cross-examination, of his steai of the | $150,000 from the needle trades | | workers. \Mexican Priests Jump to Register Or Take Status as KnownRebels | MEXICO CITY, March 1 Rota | Catholic priests have only one day) more to register or be considered as} rebels or accomplices of rebels. The total registered so far is 600. The government has issued a statement asking the people to file charges against any government em- ploye they know who is active against the government. This fol- lowed the discharge and arrest of a federal district engineer in whose rooms alleged “subversive religious propaganda” was found. Military have reported that six- teen Mexicans of an alleged kidnap- ping band who sequestrated two traction and machinery companies juato, have been killed by troops. EMERGENCY FUND -|Afghans Contribute to “Daily” Drive contributed $35 to the fund to Save|the role that our Daily has played |the Daily Worker. ‘ Americans in the state of Guana- | “We understand the importance of the Daily Worker,” they write, “and so we are contributing $35. We hope sincerely that the Daily Worker will live long and serve for the benefit of the masses.” With revolutionary greetings, we received $3 and the following note: “Having just organized our W. C. P. Nucleus in the Soss Manufactur- ing Company, we well understand Continued on Page Three 4 + Daily Faces New Fight; Needs Fund for Battle | COMRADES: : The National Convention of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party is in session, reviewing the situation facing the working class at this most critical time, | making plans for extensive campaigns against the war danger, against the attack on the first workers’ republic, for the struggle against the social-reform- | ist traitors in the working class, the struggle against the speed-up and capitalist rationalization, the strug- | gle for organization of the workers into our fighting new working class labor unions and—to build the or- gan of leadership of our class—the party of Com- munism. These campaigns depend very largely for their success on the efficient aid of a healthy, growing, live and powerful Communist press. The Daily | Worker is the only Communist daily newspaper pub- lished in the English language, anywhere in the world, and will have to occupy a major place in the attack on low wages, rotten conditions in the shops, company unionism, reformist union treachery, and all the other evils of capitalism, in the attack on capi- talism itself and the struggle for its abolition in favor of a Communist society. All class conscious workers therefore must rely on the Daily Worker in the great struggles that ap- proach. The Daily must be made strong enough to justify this reliance. What is the situation now? frankly. The workers of America, during our appeals for financial help have contributed over $15,000. This shows their trust in us, we are proud of this timely _assistance from our worker readers. But this is our situation. This $15,000 enabled us to pay urgent debts for typesetting, press-work, engraving and other service expenses. We assure you the Daily Worker for a while yet, because we have met some of our back expenses, unpaid until now. But we did not have, day before yesterday, enough money to provide $500 bail for | We will tell you Freiheit Editor, } Handcuffed, Led to Tombs by Hillquit’s Police DRESS SHOPS TO SPEAKERS STRESS FIGHT WORK FOR STRIKE” AGAINST WAR DANGER AND FUNDS TODAY DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION \Workers in “Unionized| \Hundreds of Delegates and Out-of-Town | Shops to Use 8-Hour Day to Spread Fight | Party Members at Convention |Pleaters Sign 28 Firiia| 2 More Arrested Today; | Trials Come Up |Lovestone, Gitlow, Foster Honor 10th Anniversary C, Among Speakers; I. Amidst waves of enthusiasm from the delegates and other | ‘The thousands of dressmakers,!'Workers from New York and out of town, the Sixth National |who have gone back to work in the |Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party opened last hundreds of shops that signed up | night with a huge mass meeting, crowded to overflowing, at with the Needle Trades Workers Tn’ | the New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. dustrial Union, will work eight — “It estimated |hours today. They will work not that more is . jhaving eee they are compelled to by an jcpen-shop employer, but voluntarily, because the pay earned on this day |goes into the strike fund of the | junion. ‘This was the decision of the work- jers themselves, who took it up, dis- | cussed and passed on it at two mem- bership meetings of- the dressmak- ers union, held recently. Tomorrow | was the day set aside on which thé voluntary strike tax was to be| worked for. Otherwise the union ishops du not work on Saturda: won a 40-hour, five-day |week through the brilliant strike still going on, of over three weeks. The big fund thus derived by the |workers’ organization will be used jnot only for the spreading of the ssmakers’ strike but will be set| * le for use in the furriers’ strike, | |which is contemplated by the N. T. | [Wet Ue Ten striking dressmakers. were | jarrested today on the picket lines. | | Minnie Katz, arrested this morning | Jat 270 W. 37th St., together with | Mary Schorr, were released by |§ Judge Silverman in Jefferson Mar- | ket Court on $200 bail until March ¢. Shirley Neumann, Anna Fried- | SHOE WORKERS STRIKE IN LYNN. 45 Factories Are Now Forced to Close LYNN, Mass. March 1—Two |thousand five hundred shoe work-| ers went on strike here today | against the recent state scbitranion! awards procured by the bosses call- ing for considerable wage cuts. Acting over the heads of the reac- tionary bureaucracy of both the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union and the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union, | organizations which have betrayed the workers consistently in the past and are now known to be nothing} more than company-controlled | or-| | ganizations, the strikers walked out! in a ‘body, determined to stay on strike until the wage cut is rescinded and until their other demands are granted. Forty-five shops have been closed | our editor when he was arrest er’s fight for the needle trad ed because of the Daily Work- les workers. now on strike, dur- |men and Michael Caroloza, arrested by the huge walk-out, and other at Seventh Ave. and 29th St., were!shops are expected to close soon. | lalso released on $200 bail for trial| The first walkout of 2,000 workers than 5,000 delegates and work- ers filled the auditorium. Among those present were 104 dele- | gates and many alternates and ove 500 members of the Party ‘from out of town. Following the singing of the In- ternationale and a demonstration by the Pioneers who paraded thru the hall, and preceding a demonstration of shop nuclei and the sections of the New York District, a spontan- eous demonstration of the entire convention broke out. William W. Weinstone, organizer of the New York district of the Workers (Communist) Party, opened the convention and greeted the dele- gates in the name of the district. He referred to the last convention, which opened amidst mass struggles of the workers, and stated that the present convention was taking place amidst new struggles of the work- ers; beginning to take the offensive against the bitter exploitation and increasing rationalization of the em- ployers. “The New York district is again a leading factor in opening the struggles of the workers, as wit |ness the Paterson strike and the dressmakers’ strike, now going on. “The district recognizes that the ing which it intensified the hatred of the capitalist-socialist lawyer, Hillquit, and his party, who are trying to break the strike. The New York section of the International Labor Defense put up the bail. Now we must pull the Daily Worker out of the danger zone. We must make our revolutionary paper strong. A big effort must be made to put it out of danger until the circulation growth puts it on a self-sustaining basis. Work- ers who want to use the Daily Worker in their continuing struggles will have to give more, give again, and provide it with a fund to run on, in the months to come. Send in your contributions. When you do it, you are providing a war chest for yourselves, and the war is already upon you. The total contributions, including those of last week, are: Previously listed . Monday . «412.50 Tuesday . 385.01 Wednesday . = $62.12 Thursday . - 393.50 Friday .. 225.10 Oba ae Rew eis wre vce sisin Gactigiia ya ne eno 96 $15,568.42 Send funds immediately to Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New. York. March 6—all on the charge of d orderly conduct. Sol Blum, a str ling furrier, was attacked by Willie (Continued on Page Two) SANDINO FORCES ROUT MARINES: /Yankee Soldiers, Not Sandino, in Honduras | TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, |March 1—Augustin Tijerino Rojas, | supposed to be the agent here of; |Genefal Sandino of the Nicaraguan |independence army, has made the following statement concerning the jbattle alleged to have taken place in Honduran territory outside of the |troops and U. S. marines: “It is rumored that Sandino is possibly in Honduras as a result of | having been defeated in the battle | last Saturday near the frontier, But \® person who receives direct news Nicaraguan border between Sandino| ; led to the strike of 500 others em-j Struggle against the Right danger. -| ployed by the Unity Shoe Co. Al- for the destruction of Trotskyism | though the Boot and Shoe Workers’ and counter-revolution, for the elimination of factionalism is of Union officialdom has tried to gain | control of the workers in the short period since the spontaneous strike |began, reports indicate that the striking workers will have nothing to do with them, They are being led by rank and file workers in their ranks. Immediately following the failure (Continued on Page Five) for the progress of the revolutionary movement in the United States. These must be cleaned out of our path if the Party is to take advantage of the develop- ing class struggles and grow into a powerful, Bolshevik, mass Party. “To this end the N. Y. district, under the leadership of the CEC and major importance pee NER ee ‘the CI, will use all its energies to help make the American section a [Bell Telephone Laying: gir ‘support for Leninism in the World Communist Par Ca ble to Celebrate a While Weinstone was denouncing the role of the socialist party in the needle strike and the Hillquit graft expose, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, recently released from jail in connection with the Hillquit case, entered the Convention. He was given a big ovation. As temporary chairman Wein- stone introduced the chairman, Jay Lovestone, general secretary of the Party. Referring to the tenth anniver- versary of the Communist Interna- tional, Lovestone declared that it | was the signer of the death warrant Grand Orgy of Profits The American Telephone and Tele- graph Co., the parent concern of) “The Bell System,” announced yes- terday that it will spend two billion) dollars during the next five years) increasing its plant, and especially in the laying of a_ trans-Atlantic cable for telephone messages. The American Telephone and Tele- | graph Co. announces that net income in 1928 amounted to $143,170,491, as contrasted with $128,614,910 in 1927. Stockholders feel that this is THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Say Congressmen from| 'Texas Made Postmen Give Campaign Funds WASHINGTON, March 1. (UP). —R. B.. Creager, republican na- tional committeeman for Texas, means to institute criminal proceed- ings against Representative Harry M. Wurzbach, republican, Texas, he n\Gov't O Out to Suppress | |Anti-Imperialist Press| U.S. Controlled Haitian PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, March 1.~Albert Simeon and Froncois Vin- | cent, of the staff of the newspaper |‘‘Petit Impartial,” have been ar- rested by the Yankee-owned “govern- | ment” of Haiti on charges brought |from Sandino states that the battle| in fact only a fraction of the in- |took place near Las Manos, on the) come, as most of the real profit goes| Honduran frontier, between Sandino| in the shape of contracts and of-| |soldiers commanded by Generals Sal-| gicers’ salaries to ‘insiders” operat- | |gado and Ortiz, and the combined | ing subsidiary companies forces of Moncada’s mercenaries and | sorts, Yankees. | | “The battle lasted more than three | that city fled many defeated ‘Ameri-| | hours and was very bloody. The|can soldiers, Sandino was not |sound of battle ‘could be heard inj|present at the battle, because he re- [ts Honduran city of El Corpus. Tolmains in Chipoton, Nicaragua.” \ night,” tionary " of All tenderahip of Lenin, jand vietories,’ he continued, ‘tigating Committee today. \liberately told the Brookhart Patronage Inves-|under the autocratic law against freedom of the press, for accusing He charged that Wurzbach de-|the government of corruption. violated two criminal) On December 14, three editors of statutes by accepting campaign con- |the paper were arrested for attack- |tributions from federal office-hold-|ing in their paper the archbishop Lowell Hid Evidence of Sacco’s Innocence | checks ers on federal property, Creager displayed two cancelled purporting to prove his charge against Wurzbach, and told the committee he intends to present the checks to a federal grand jury in Texas “at the proper time.” The checks were signed by R. B. Nichols, postmaster at Houston, and T. K. McDowell, of San Antonio. Both checks were made out to Wurzbach, Nichols for $25 and Me Dowell’s for $710, DYERS LOCKED OUT. MINNEAPOLIS, (By Mail).— The cleaners and dyers of the Kro- nicks Co. have been locked out be- cause they were union members, | Conan. during the visit of the Lindbergh pest, which leaflets glorified San- dino of Nicaragua, was alleged to be the work of these editors, but was “ignored” at the time in order to |frame up something later less “deli- cate” in connection with the rule of |Haiti by U. S. marines. The five men accused are now waiting trial. \It is evident that the Yankee im- perialists are trying to suppress the paper by persecution. } NEW DAIRIES IN CAUCASUS. BAKU, (By Mail).—In the North- jern Caucasus 43 butter and cheese factories are being constructed by the local daily cooperatives uno, The distribution of leaflets | | | | | Proof that A. Lawrence Lowell, Vanzetti case and “report to him | president of Harvard University,!whether there seemed to be reason-| \knowingly and wilfully suppressed|able doubt as to the guilt of Sacco | levidence of the innocence of Nicola|and Vanzetti.” Sacco, and by inference, of Vanzetti Were To Excuse Execution. as well, in the published report of} Fuller apparently relied on this| his committee of advisors of Gover-|committee to give him an excuse) nor Allan T, Fuller of Massachu-|for rushing the execution through, setts, is contained in an appendix to the fifth volume of the records of the trial and appeals, just published by Henry Holt and Co. The governor's investigating com- | |mittee was composed of Lowell, |Samuel Stratton, president of the! Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and Robert Grant, former) probate judge. It was appointed by Fuller to review the entire Sacco-| the entire world by the murder in| the electric chair of two innocent} foreign-born workers, The committee’s iniveatigation | nearly spoiled the murder plan, for Felice Guadagni and Albert Bosco came before it and testified that in support of Sacco’s statement at his trial that on the date of the South | (Continued on Lage Vive) of capitalism. “The Party has gathered here to- Lovestone said, “with revolu- determination under the the greatest [oan and teacher of the world’s workers, to examine its tactics and polic to criticize its mistakes and jcorrect its errors, to adopt more ef- fective means for fighting and to strengthen its organization. “The Party has had many defeats “and will have more defeats and pessim- ism, treason and opportunism. But this will not thwart us. It will (Continued on Page Twe) “Daily” Will Publish | Special Issue for the; Intern’] Women Day In celebration of International Women’s Day, on March 8, the Daily Worker will publish a special Women's Edition, con- taining news and feature articles of special interest to working class women. Because there is hound to be a big demand for the special edition, organizations are urged to send in for bundle or- ders immediately. At the same lime, working women are asked I 0 send in material for use in the Women’s Day Edition. ae