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

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929 Entire Police Force of Sum ® see MR. HILLQUIT ON THE WITN CLUBS, JAILINGS FAIL TO BREAK PICKETING LINES Protest Against Police Terror at Rally SUMMIT, March 1.—Due to the proximity of police head~ ters, it being only a few blocks away from strike offices, the plans of the silk strikers Summit were found out by the police, who came racing up in three automobiles and prevented the strikers from leaving their hall. This oveurred during the morn- ing and for a while the entire Sum- mit police force succeeded in keep- ing the strikers bottled up in their hall. Even while prevented from picketing (temporarily) the strik- ers managed to find things to do, things which particularly enraged the brave, besieging army. the de- fenders of “law and order” in Sum- mit, N. J. Denounce Police. The irk unionist placards dows, d behavior em as ome behavior of the luded the postitig of the union off win- in nouncing the high-handed of the police and branding tools of the mill barons. daining to use a white flag, a Di: courageous sergeant marched into the strike hail and ordered the signs taken out of the window. Determined to make use of their legal right to picket, the strikers left strike headquarters at noon and picketed the struck mill for about two hours before the police again interfered. The entire force of the Shahnazarian Mill, and a few strike sympathizers, were picketing the plant when the police charged the line in an effort to break it up. First the attempt to break the line was made by arresting a strike sympathizer, Jack Glass, who is a member of the Young Workers League. When this failed they set about dispersing the 60 or more pickets that marched before the plant. This failed, too, nnd the picketing went on for more than an hour after the arrest. Glass is still in the jail. Another member of the Young Workers League, Lottie Blu- menthal, and a striker, George Ham- way,.are now serving 30 days for saying. “scab.” Glass may meet with a sentence just as vicious. Meeting Saturday. Tonorvow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the N. T. W. is calling a mass meet- ing of ail Summit workers, em- ployed in all trades. The meeting is called as a protest-demonstration egainst’ the irhuman.. police and court terror the strikers have to contend with here in their long and hitter struggle for better conditions. "the meeting will be held at 616 Morris Ave. Summit. Summit strikers are also called to attend ® meeting of the Paterson locals of the N. T. W. This mecting is to be addressed by Albert Weisbord, Na- tional Union secretary, and Martin Ressak, Paterson orgenizer. SIX KILLED BY TANK EXPLOSION Many Injured in Ku Klux Quarry STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., March 1.—Most recent deaths in the Amer- ican Civil War occurred here today, when six men were killed and eleven injured by the explosion of a stor- age tank for compressed air to run the drills manufacturing a gigantic Ku Klux Klan monument to the in- dividual always referred to in sen- timental circles as “that illustrious general and patriot, Robert E. Lee.” A commercial quarry is run in connection with the drilling and blasting that is turning the whole, side of the mountain into bas relief of Lee and his generals, and the blast was in the quarry. Many Accidents. The tank, located a short distance from the quarry office, burst while workers employed at the quarry were grouped about the building, checking out after their day’s work. Accidents have been frequent at Stone Mountain during the past few years. Three months ago two work. men fell 500 feet to their death when a scaffold gave wa: Oklahoma Senate Lets Johnston Use Hearsay OKLAHOMA CITY, March 1— The impeached Governor Johnston today began his defense against Pag iad that he misused state mon- ey, chased the legislature around _ with the state militia when it wanted! to impeach him a year ago, and let his private secretary, Mrs. 0. 0. Hammonds actually dictate policy in s fice. Hig first evidence was hearsay, which the senate allowed him to pre- sent), It was to the effect that cer- tain of his acts were really com- mitted by a former governor. yr MAKE SILK IN PENNA. TON, Pa., March 1.—Many iis in this district pay work- wage which, at the highest, from $9 to $13 a week, for | | | mM SS STAND it, New Jersey Mobilizes PARTY MEET | Sen By Gropper (Continued from Page One) were invited to reorgsnize, to come into other local unions.... (Court minutes, pages 19 and 20.) Simple, isn’t it? Right Wing “Invitations.” The left wing called the strike (the Right wingers were, of course, innocent of any such dastardly act) and somehow an “estrangement” occurred. And since several local unions had stopped paying dues, they were disorganized and the members “invited” to enter reorganized locals. Hillquit failed to mention that the Hillquit Contradi¢ts Umbhey. | from Boudin, the teamwork between | pieces. Umhey and his boss gave different answers to the same ques-| tions. Umhey had stated in his tes. Umony (given in yesterday's Daily Worker) that the right wing Joint | |oard got part of the money to buy |the shares from the bank. Hiliquit seid that the Joint Board got the money from the group of outsiders to whom it sold shares. Three hundred and seventy-five of | the total of 1,275 shares had already | been sold to Hillquit and three other | “socialists” at $200 a share—much lower than the market price. Had members were “invited”—with black- jacks and lead pipes. Hillquit’s pretty little fairy tale was simply woven out of whole cloth. The Left ] wing locals were expelled before|they heen sold to outsiders, thou- the strike was over and they stopped|tands of dollars more would have paying dues after they had been ex-| been realized, thus decreasing the pelled. The reign of terror instituted }debt of the left wing Joint Board by President Sigman, of the Inter-| (the real Joint Board) to the bank. | national, in order to break the strike | Instead, these thousands of dollars Hillquit Lets Cat Out of the Bag; Is Forced to Reveal Details of Huge $150,000 Swindle to his other clients, the Joint Board, It is clear that under questioning But the Joint Board owed the bank|of its members were jailed, Benjamin only $100,000 of its original debt, Hillquit and his tool, Umhey, fell to| which would have been more than) declared that in the present period | covered if the 900 shares had been sold to the outside group directly. Instead of this, the right wing union- wreckers made $104,000 and the bank now claims the union buildings which it wants to sell on the real estate market. It was to prevent the sale of these buildings that the union brought suit against Hillquit and company, and it was at the trial before Jus- tice Townley that the facts of this huge swindle of $150,000 belonging to the cloak and dressmakers were for the first time disclosed. TURKEY FOLLOWS: | DEMONSTRATION i} Celebrate Founding of | to Ha fool Ss ey OPENS WITH BIG Comintern (Continued from Page One) steer our determination to move for- ward on the path of Lenin.” Lovestone then referred to the Party as the leader of the Negro masses, and declared that the Ne- groes following the line of Lenin under the banner of the Communist International, will yet speak to the capitalist lynchers in the only langu- age they can understand, the langu- age of revolution. | Tremendous bursts of applause in- terrupted Lovestone thruout the | course of his speech, Huiswood Speaks. He then introduced Otto Huis- | wood, head of the Negro depart- | U. S. Debt Settlement ment of the Party. Huiswood de- | ; ‘ elared that the Negroes had already LONDON; Mar ch ae pas id Aloyd S A 4 | George, campaigning for a return |shown in the Chicago race riots that | Pee ri | ahi . to power of the Liberal Party in they know how and where to shoot | sn Vassily Li, Wi dpebals have thdae ak and now that they have gone a step ng " Fa Z y farther and grown class-conscious /f9chcn and ‘reskioce, settlement of they would yet fight. shoulder to/11, American debt.” He said that qpouidey ie ee tee °F lif the British government had held ‘ jout longer, all Europe together could | Recalling that the Party was born | have got the debts wiped out, He in-| out of the struggle against iam | timated that if his party was elected, perialist war, and for proletarian|he would adont a more defiant atti- | revolution, a struggle in which many tude against U. s. Many pos trolle streets caused a street-cleaning hurt. ROTHERMERE SEES WAR. | LONDON, March 1 (UP).—Lord| of war preparations against the So-| Rothermere, British newspaper | viet Union, the Party -will continue| publisher, warns of the “serious | to conduct a struggle against im-| danger” of further estrangement of perialist war, for the defeat of the| relations between the United States | imperialist armies, including our |and Great Britain in an article which | own capitalist army. At the same /| will appear in the London Daily Mail time the Party will fight for the de-| Saturday morning. velopment of revolutionary struggle in event of war and for the estab- lishment of a proletarian dictator- ship. Gitlow, member of the Secretariat, | ited while in the Soviet Union. He stated that the workers and peas- ants of these republics placed on t Silk Strike Picketing Trolley Crash eath in Avenue and Douglass Street, Brooklyn. ‘Lloyd George Attacks |32 Men of Crew in Gitlow pointed out that the leader- ship of the Workers Party has al- ways fought in the front ranks in the struggle against opportunism, when it manifested itself in the old |socialist party. Ruthenberg was a |symbol of this struggle which is con- |tinuing today, he said, when the {socialist party is feeling our blows. the road to China, India and Af- ghanistan, listen to the C. I. as their leader and feel it as a power unit-| |ing them with the workers of all) the world. They expressly feel the unity with the workers of the United States, the dominant world imperialism. Others who addressed the conven- tion were Pat Toohey, secretary of DRESS SHOPS TO WORK FOR STRIKE FUNDS TODAY 2 More Arrested Today;, Trials Come Up (Continued from Page One) Yacker while picketing the Shop éf Albert Reineman at 104°W. 2 F where Yacker is working h were arrested and r bail for March 15, parged with being |wangster, with a criminal record. hy Jacob Mandlebaum, attorney for the union. Four arrested this after- noon are out on $200 bail to be tried on the charge of disorderly conduct |on Mareh 8. | Morris Taft, business agent of, |Local 41, of hemstitchers, tuckérs land pleuters,. reported * that the union hag signed settlements. wit! |28 shops and the strike will con- Yacker {s a notoriotis® y narrowly escaped death when iret truck to skid into trolley at 3rd The driver of the truck was ‘Danger on “Sujameco” | —— jtinue against the others. | MARSHFIELD, Ore. March 1) The American Civil Liberties’ | U.P).—The coastwise vessel Sujam-| Union will send a delegation to make | eco is aground in a moderate sea) further investigations of the union's | 50 miles north of Cape Arago and|charges of “police. terrorism and | has called for assistance, said a re-| brutality.” The arrests have reached: port received here today. The Su-|a total of 1,400 since the strike was jameco carries a crew of 32. ‘ealled on Feb, 6. ‘ t qoceivedl ce S ju Large Shipment of New Revolutionary CARDS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA and gain control of the Joint Board —all done at the advice of Hillquit —is still too fresh in the memories of thousands of cloak and dress- makers to be dispelled merely be- cause a wealthy “socialist” lawyer tells -a few brazen lies, Hillquit Lets Cat Out of Bag. - But even Hillquit had to come out with the truth at last. When his tool, Frederick Umhey, was unable to answer Lawyer Boudin’s embar- rassing questions concerning the sale of the shares and Hillquit was put on the stand, he was compelled to let the cat out of the bag. Hillquit: The facts with respect to the sale of the 900 shares of the bank stock were as follows: there was an offer by an outside group to purchase that stock at a larger price than $195, but the by-laws of the bank contain a provision to the effect that no stock is to be sold unless notice of such pro- posed sale be given to each and every stockholder, stating the book value of the stock, and that the first sckholders or group of stockholders offering to purchas the stock et such book value be entitled to so purchase it. They procesded in accordance with this provision of the by-laws. They gave notice to every stockholder of the fact that it is proposed to sell 900 shares of the bank stock and that the board of directors had fixed the book value at $195. The Joint Board (ie. the fake Right wing Joint Board.—Ed.), which was a stockholder, was the ! first one to accept this offer by registered mail. There was no other offer, and consequently it had a right to sell this 900 shares at 195. They in turn sold it to the outside group and made the difference, which they used for union purposes, Boudin: I thought there was something about it I ought to know, H: Any more questions? B: Yes, sure. Now, Mr. Hiilquit, who was that outside group that you are referring to? H: A group consisting of a num- ber of persons represented by one, Walter Jeffreys Carlin, as attor- ney. B: Do you know what the offer was that they made? H: Let me see. It was upwards of $300 per share. B: Upwards of $300 per share, and they offered to buy it for that amount, $3007 H—What? B.—They got it for that prico; they got it for that price, the out- siders? H.—They got it from. the Joint Board at that price, B.=-Did the Joint Board pay for it? H.—The Joint Board paid for it. B.-+How did it pay for it? H.—My recollection is we got the money from the outside group, which paid more than 195. B—At any rate, what was the pride that the outside group paid? H.—Well, now, I have said it was a little upward of 500. I think it was about $10, I am not quite positive about it at this time. (Court remained with Hillquit and his part- ners a8 clear profit! Fake Pretext. The other 900 shares suffered the same fate, as Hillquit himself testi- fied. Some pretext was found in the bank’s bylaws for selling the shares to the fake Joint Board (which curiously enough was the |first and only stockholder to reply Three Other Countries Only Ratify Kellogg MOSCOW, March 1—The Tur- kish government has notified M. M. Litvinoff, acting foreign commissar USSR. ON PACTS when the shares were offered for sale). though the Joint Board’s of- fer, $195, was $105 per share less than the offer vf an outside group. (The offer of this outside group was also considerably less than the mar- | ket price.) Had the bank accepted the offer of the outside group, it would have realized $279,000 instead | of the $175,000 it got from the Sig- man-Schlesinger fake Joint Board. | This difference of $104,000 would/ of the Soviet government, of its willingness to adhere to the Litvin- off protocol calling for immediate observance of the terms of the Kel- logg Pact. * # @ PARIS, March 1—-The French Chamber of Deputies today ratified the Kellogg anti-war treaty follow- ing several days debate. The vote was 570 to 12. At the beginning of the debate, It is the growing strength of the! the left wing Miners’ Union, who | Workers’ Party among the masses| received a tremendous ovation; Rob-| of the American workers, he de-| ert Minor, editor of the Daily Work- jclared, which is causing the socialist | gy; Herbert Zam, national secretary | |party to act as ithe jailer of our) of the Young Workers League; El-| Party leaders. Gitlow declared that | jen Dawson, a vice president of the. the Workers Party is ready t>|National Textile Workers’ Union; throw every ounce of energy into! Albert Weisbord, secretary of the! the task of defending the Soviet) National Textile Workers’ Union; | Union and again emphasized that| “Mother” Bloor, speaking for wom-| we have always supported fully the en's work, and Jessie Taft for the! Communist Party for the Soviet| Pioneers, | Union, the leading Party of the Communist International and will continue to fight, together with all other sections of the Communist In- throw of imperialism. William Z. Foster, member of the Secretariat, spoke in appreciation of Ruthenberg’s services to the revo- lutionary movement, which, he de- clared, it is especially timely to re- ternational, for the complete over-| Moore Will Discuss |.Negro Problems at | Bronx Forum Sunday | “Democracy, Terrorism and the| Negro” will be the subject of a talk by Richard B. Méore, National Or- ganizer of the American Negro La- have practically wiped out the debt | Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy, cf the real Joint Board to the bank. | But this money went into the pock- | ets of the Sigman-Schlesinger gang! | Another question arises: how did) the right wing “Joint Board” sud-| denly become a shareholder in the | International Union Bank? The real| | Joint Board had owned 1,275 shares,| | but these had come into the posses- | sion of Frederick Umhey, the trus-| tee, at the end of 1926 by the sim-| ple device of making them over in his name. By this trickery the Joint Board and the left wing lecals! were deprived now-enly of their shares, but of their vote in the bank. But if the shares were in Umhey’s name, how did the Joint Board (the fake right wing one) become a) shareholder? Three Significant Facts. | Out of this maze of tricky man- ipulations and outright swindling three significant facts emerge: | 1. Hillquit, the leader of the so-| cialist party and one of the leaders| of the Second International, was at-| torney for the left wing Joint Board when the agreement with the Inter- national Union Bank, involving the loan of $800,000, was made in 1926.) On Aug. 9, 1926, he sent a letter! (reproduced in Wednesday’s Daily Worker) to Louis Hyman, then, manager of the Joint Board, giving his word that the property of the Joint Board and the left wing locals would be returned to them. Several months after this promise was made, the trustee whom Hillquit had pro- posed, Frederick F. Umhey, Hill- quit’s office manager, took the shares entrusted to him and made them over in his own name. And the Joint Board and the left wing locals were not even infotmed of it! 2, Hillquit, who as attorney for the Joint Board, had promised to protect its Bb to the shares, was himself one of the purchasers of the shares--and at @ profit to himself! 8. Hillquit, as lawyer for the In- ternational Union Bank (now a pri- vate bank), as one of the bank di- rectors, and a8 boss of Umhey, en- gineered the entire deal by which 900 of the shares were sold in such a way that the right wing clique | made $104,000 profit—for continu- ing the pogrom against the rank and file, Bank Claims Union Buildings. Of course, it may be objected that | Hillquit as lawycs for the bank had presented a statement for the Com- munist fraction in the French cham- ber of deputies; declaring the treaty to be a camouflage for imperialist aggression against the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. CG Sues. AMSTERDAM, March 1 (,P).— The second chamber approved the Kellogg Pact today with only two dissenting votes. COPENHAGEN, March 1 UP).— Parliament ratified the Kellogg treaty today. . “FLU” KILLS IN EUROPEAN SLUMS Starved and Freezing Sections Suffer LONDON, March 1—Unable to combat the recent influenza scourge on starvation wages, which have beon their lot since the post-war industrial depression, thousands of British working class: families are again falling victims to the insidious disease. t Since Jan. 1, 5,347 deaths through- out gland are reported. In the fetid slums of Bethnal Green, White- chapel and Shoreditch, the epidemic rages especially among the poorly- fed, scantily-clothed and rottenly- housed workers, with the resyit that 1,764 deaths in London arid the larger cities are reported for this week alone, The bright weather and low tem- peratures do not affect the mortal- ity rate; the deaths continue. Trade stagnation in Poland was aggravated ty the recent intense cold, southern European reports in- dicate. Textile mills in Lodz have been closed and thousands of work- ers have been thrown on the already overcrowded industrial scrap heap. In Travnik, Bosnia, a brother and sister collapsed while tending goats. They were frozen to death when eventually they were found by their parents. 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