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POLIUEm IN AUTO snfT RING, HE SAYS Murder Squads Know Department Decisions CHICAGO, Mar that the murd which are the Chicago city offi tentacles into the have stretched ermost coun- of the police rtment was voiced by in tors for the state’s atto: office today, after force were allied with crime. Edward Coleman, for seven years a patrolman, confessed he had shot Michael Bugario, racketeer, because he feared Bugario would reveal the patrolman’s part in an auto theft ing. Bugario “taken for a ride” Saturda; The patrolman said he had been working with Bugario for sev years, giving tips regarding automo- hiles which coulda be stoien. Buga- rio was trapped and demanded $500 of the ring to fight prosecution on a charge of violating the Dyer act. Murdered Seven. Several witnesses have charged that members of the gangland firing sguad, which committed a wholesale massacre two weeks ago, were mem- bers of the police force. Tt has been shown the gangster are at least so close to police activi- ties they are able to obtain infor- mation regarding even the most se- evet moves. As an example of this, it was pointed out that testimony | of Dr, Loyal Tacker in connection with the massacre had not become public knowledge, yet Tacker was kidnapped and beaten and taken to Detroit, presumably by gangsters who feared his revelations might lead to important arrests in the gang mas : Young, Representing Creditors in the U.S., Bosses Dawes Board PARIS, March 4 (UP).—The United States asserted its power in reparations problems today as Owen D, Young, unofficial American dele- wate and chairman of the repara- tions experts commission meeting here, ally reorganized the en- lire procedure toward settlement of howrmuch Germany shall pay and the method of the payments. After three weeks of technical negotiations on the question of final settlemert of German war idebts, in which the foremost bankers_in the world have been more or less dead- locked’ because of the absence of it was stated that of the experts be concentrated to- ward establishment of one universal bank situated outside Germany. The bank, he suggested, would be char- tered as an independent, interna- tional institution, privately man- aged but adequately controlled by the allies. The bank would be somewhat analogous to the United States Federal Reserve Bank. Soviet Ukraine Builds Up Food Manufacture KIEV, U. R The Ukrainian Comm Ss. S. March at for Trade has appropriated 43,400,000 rubles for the construction of fac- tories to produce foodstuffs for the domestic and foreign markets. About 60 per cent of this sum is to be expended on construction of canneries, bakeries, three large re- frigerator warehouses and other en- terprises devoted to the internal market. For the export trade it is planned to construct three additional bacon factories, 22 oil pressing fac- tories and three large poultry farms. VENEZUELA 2EVO!T CARACAS, Venezuela, March 4.— The Venezuelan minister of the In- terior, Pedro M. Arcaya, denies the @tistence of any revolutionary agi- tation in Venezuela. A short time @go reports from Colombia and other sources told of a revolt by a bourgeois opposition military group against the fascist dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gomez, ‘Senor Arcaya denies the reports on of the suspicion that some members .of the police | ™ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, f ARCH 5, 1929 ‘Imperialist Cabinet for Wall St rect’s War Preparations _ : Se ' Seamer Top row, left to right: Henry L Philippines which are conquered ter cabinet, Andrew W. Mellon, will do Wall Street's bidding a. of the navy: Walter F. Bro Stimson, former secretary of war, governor general of the vy, and a bloody imperialist is secretary of state in Hoover's millionaire labor hater is secretary of the treasury; James W. Good secretary of war; Charles F, Adams, another millionaire as secretary 3 hater, as postmaster general. Lower row, left to right: W. De Mitchell, qilliona attorney-general; Ray L, Wilbur, professional imperialist, sec- retary of the interior; Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture; James J. Davis remains as secretary of labor; Robert P. Lamont, steel-millionaire, secretary of commerce. Hoover, who is worth $10,- 000,000, leads them, DEFIES JINGO TEACHER HIKES fNOMILES cn Sncen onnects Chicago Police with Gang Mu vders; Policeman Confesses Crime CONVENTION OF WORKERS PARTY COMMENCES HERE Jay Lovestone in Open-| ing Address | (Continued from Page One) | Party, as a Party, by the sorern- ment when we were driven under-| ground, The comrades will recall] the crisis in our Party as a result of the death of our leader, Comrade Ruthenberg. The convention held tion, will be known in our Party| annals as that convention which laid the basis for the development of a Central Committee as an organ of the entire Party, acting as a Cen-| tral Committee for the entire Party} membership. The primary task of| this convention, insofar as the ‘inner| situation of the Party is concerned, | is to eradicate (with surgical meth ods, if necessary) whatever vestig of factionalism still remain in o convention must be a convention| jwhich will result in the consolida-| Pioneer Refuses to be Coerced by Scouts TOP ARTY EE rate? es ee BOSTON, (By Mail). — James} Mishkis, 8, member of the Red . le; Guard Group of the Young Pioneers \Negro Wor ker Walks of America, was reprimanded by the | from Ohio principal of the Kosminsky School | in Chicago because he distributed (Continued from Page One) anti-Boy Scout leaflets at the school! would hike to New York City, they thought that he was only “kidding.” gate. When the principal questioned him | But he took his cane and came along with his cousin, Edgar Mahoney. HOOVER WRITES "ATTACK ON USSR Article in Magazine and other pedagogues cross-examin- of any doubt, plause.) “In this direction we have already| made substantial headway. The sup-| port the Central Committee has} won, particularly among the prole-| tarian sections, has won the recog-| nition of even the most skeptical of| our comrades that our Central Com- mittee has the widest basis of sup- port and loyalty, energetic support and unquestionable loyalty of the (Tremendous ap- Watchdogs of Am erican Imperialism Hoover and his vice-president Curtis, posing before their im perialist flag on the e lackeys for Wall Street. of their inauguration as chief governmen — eee this moment. The CEC report will|clique, the enemy outside, and even cover this. A new Party line means |if there are such enemies still in ; fs ates that our Party must have a new/our ranks, our Party has pledged) in 1927, the Fifth National Conven-|inner situation in which the enor- | unquestionably and determinedly to| mous tasks are confronting us, un-| fight under the banner of the Com- der conditions which still present|munist International to overthrow tremendous difficulties before us,|and destroy capitalism and imperial- means that first of all we must se-|ism in the United States of Amer- cure a complete Communist consoli-|ica. dation of our forces. If we wish to} This is our job and it will be real- take a birds-eye view of our Party|ized under the Leninist leadership at this time we should call upon an/of the Communist International. impartial observer, the only sound|'This Convention will take decisive judge of our Party in the last resort, /steps to establish our Party as the the Communist International. The|jeader, as the victorious Party of Comintern speaks of our Party as 'the proletariat in the United States.” beginning to turn into a mass Party|(Loud and prolonged applause. of political action, guiding the poli-/ Cheering by delegates with delegates tical and economic actions of the | arising to sing the Internationale). most advanced and most militant ranks of the American proletariat. The Comintern very properly speaks of the number of fierce and stub- born class battles led by our Party. There are comrades in this room, delegates from the factories, from the mills and mines, who have re- ceived scars in these battles led by rect when it says: ‘Precisely in the rect when it says: “Precisely in the period following the Convention of * * «© |. After Lovestone’s opening address Max Bedacht reported on the War Danger and W. W. Weisstone on |the VI Congress of the Comintern. |These speeches will be printed in tomorrow’s issue. W.LR. Clothing Center |Wants Men’s, Children Repeats Slanders (Continued from Page One) pursuit of social theories, had de- stroyed the primary self-interest im- pulse of the individual to produc- tion.” He continues his attack on Com- ed him, James declared that he was a Pioneer doing Communist work. He was told that he must drop his membership in this “un-American, ired organization,” and was put in | charge of a Boy Scout who took him |from room to room, displaying him as a “vicious” Bolshevik who was He said that anywhere between) one and two hundred automobiles passed him and many drivers cursed [him outside of Pittsburgh, before he finally got a “lift” that took him | over the mountains. It was a worker | driving a truck who picked him up and when he was told that Bud Party, of the overwhelming major- ity of our membership. “In this convention we will deal with more basic problems than we have dealt in any of our previous conventions. The question. of the! estimate of American imperialism,| fur lincreasing frequency as_ stalwart leader of mass actions of the Amer- its influence the workers,’ among workers, garment workers, ican proletariat and has increased | native “Comrades, our work among the) munism and the Soviet Union in the trying to undermine the Boy Scouts | Lockert was going to the Communist | following words: of America. James never flinched! Convention he said: “Well, you've “Although socialism in a nation-|@7d displayed his contempt for his| got nerve. T'll take you as far as wide application has now. proved it-/“¢ndarme’s” Boy Scout propaganda. 'I'm going.” self with rivers of blood and incon-|, He was led back to the principal) stinded as Young Worker. ceivable misery to be an economic the question of reformism, the ques- tion of the fight against the right danger, the main danger confront- ing every section of the Comintern without exception, the question of a struggle against Trotskyism which among the miners and textile work- ers, is a good start, a good begin- ning, but a very feeble beginning. And in this work we have made some very serious errors. It is the task of this convention to pass nded the entire efforts | OI. .NT! and spiritual fallacy and has wrecked itself upon the rocks of de- stroyed production and moral degen- eracy, I believe it to have been nec- esrary for the world to have had this demonstration.” | Hoover thus embraces in his statement the pith of all the lying slanders against the U. S. S. R. that have. been concocted ring the jlast few years by-the white guard emigres and the reactionary enemies! of the Soviet. Union. The man who now takes over the job of directing the forces of WallStreet in attacks on the working class at home and abroad, defines his capitalist “*in- dividualism” as a “road to liberty” | Which “admits the universal divine inspiration of every human soul.” 6S Hoover, however, will have a lot of words to swallow, and a com- plete change of policy to announce, | if, as well may be, American big business follows the lead of one of its rivals, the Royal Dutch Shell | Oil Co, (British owned) and nego- tiates a surrender to..the Soviet Union: dictated. by the growing con- ,tradictions of capitalism. Lack of Window Wiper y Causes Death of “L” Motorman in Collision on the front cab of a t ger train of wooden ca on the Third Ave. Elevated Line caused the death of ~Wm. McCormack, motorman, yesterday. The motorman was driving an empty String ‘of cars in a blinding rain, which, when it wet his window, prevented him from seeing a train ahead in time to ston, tho he set all \brakes as soon as he saw it. The accident was at 195th St., Bronx. McCormack died in Fordham Hospital two hours after the acci- dent, stating that he was glad he had no ngers on board. He had worked for the company over twenty years. Company bosses immediately declared ‘the wree!: was his fault. | ANOTHER MCNACO CRISIS. to whom he announced that he was | still a Pioneer and would continue to be a Pioneer in spite of anything that might be done. That night a group of Boy Scouts gathercd outside James’ house ‘and shouted “Down with the Pioneers.” The door opened and James came out, shouting: “Long Live the Pioneers! Live Soviet Russia Long Live Com- munism!” ‘Hremada’ Defendants on Appeal; ‘Protests Against Using Torture (IL. D. News Service) WARSAW, Poland, (By Mail).— |The hearing of the appeal of the first group of appellants sentenced in the Hromada cases commenced on | the 28th of February, 1929. At the previous trial, which lasted almost two months, 37 aceused were | sentenced to a total of. 209 years hard labor. Amongst the accused were the White-Russian members of Long! it was while working for the Cen- jtral Sewer, Pipe and Supply Com- |pany in Steuberiville, when 14 years fold that Lockert was burned by molten iron. He lost his sight com- pletely and the company gave him |$800 fer both his eyes and threw jhim on the dump heap. Bud Lockert, however, was made of stern stuff. He went to a school |for the blind and learned a trade he could pursue. Five years ago he joined the Communist Party and has been an active worker in Dictrict 6, ever since then, In spite of his physi- ;cal handicap, he travels through the mill and mine towns of Ohio and Western Virginia, as sub-district or-| | ganizer for Negro work and as Daily | Worker agent, recruiting new mem- bers for the Party and the League. | Lockert has also been thrown into} jail a number of times because of! |his Communist activities. But he fears neither jail nor blows. “Why should I be. afraid of the police,” Lockert says, “I can’t see them?” Once he was arrested in Midland, ;0., home of the Pittsburgh Crucible! | the Polish Seym (Parliament), Tar | Steel Co. while explaining the prin- ashkievitch, Rak-Michailovsky; Vol-|Ciples of the:Communist Party to a |oshin and Miotla, who received sen-|!arge number of steel «workers in tences of 12 years hard labor each.|the general store. He was charged MONTE CARLO, March 4 (U.P).—_ Two accused were sentenced to 8 yi hard labor each, 8 accused to 6 years each, 9. acoused to. 5 years each, and the other accused to 3 yeers hard labor each.. The indict- spies and “confessions” ex- tracted by torture and. intimidation, “confessions” which were after- wards withdrawn. The cases created world-wide interest at the time and caused a wave of protest. The cam- paign of protest must now be com- menced again, with all possible energy. ‘To Hold Mass Meeting | for Summit Strikers | JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 4.— A mass meeting in sympathy with the striking textile workers of Sum- mit will be held at 63 Mercer St., this Friday night at 8 o'clock, Problems of the strike and relief for ‘the strikers and their families | will be discussed. All workers are urged to attend. based upon the evidence! with having stolen a pool table and | trying to sell it and was in addition | threatened with a beating by the |police chiefs. He told them to “go | ahead and beat me.” After having spent a few days in jail he was finally released. \Worker Correspondent ' Course Will Have First Active Session Tonight The first active session in the | Worker Com espondence course being jeonducted hy Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker staff, at the Workers | School, 26-28 Union Sq., will be held [tonight at 8:30, Last week, pre-| |liminaries were taken up and the: {scope of the course outlined. | An effort will be made in this jeourse to train workers to write! i brief, accurate and effective news | jfrom the shop. There will also be jinstruction in the writing of news |stories and special feature articles. | There is still an opportunity for ‘a small number of students to reg- j country, has since the last convention and for the first time in our Party raised its ugly head in a really dan- gerous way. judgment on. these errors, and not merely to pass judgment but to take the necessary stops politically and organizationally to make impossible “Our Party is at a turning point. It is true we have turned the corner but we have not yet completed the} turn. The very fact that the con-| vention is held after the Sixth World| Congress, which congress next to the Second Congress of the Comintern was the most productive ideological- ly, was the most important in a de- cisive sense towards the develop- ment of Bolshevik sections of the Comintern. I refer you to the adop- CEC, the Party under the leader- ship of the CEC, has made a num- ber of serious right errors since the last convention. We have corrected more fundamentally. But this is up to this convention. The CEC is con- fident that this convention will tak |the necessary and decisive steps t make impossible the recurrence. 0: old errors and to fight the Right tion of the first Comintern pro-|danger in such a way as to prevent gram, the fight against the Right|the poison of opportunism from danger, the question of strengthen-|seeping into our Party, into the ing the discipline and unity of our|ranks of our comrades (Tremendous various sections, the question of| applause). eradicating Trotskyism, the fight) “In the examination of some of against the imperialist war danger|the difficult tasks confronting us as the primary task, as the primary|there has arisen in the minds o objective of our section of the Com-| some the question ‘what is the Com- intern as well as of all other sec-|munist International?” The opinion tions. lof the Central Committee is that “The entire present world situa-|the Communist International is the tion lends a certain color to the| central collective leadership of the importance of our convention. The increasing antagonisms between the Anglo-American imperialisms, an- tagonisms making very rapidly for a clash of these imperialist powers, for another world war; the increas- ing hostility toward the Soviet Re-| nist is unquestioned and unquestion- public, the increasing conflicts! lable loyalty to the Communist Inter- among the various imperialist pow-| national (Applause), ers—all this indicates that our Par-| «7 pave had occasion, as a rep- ty convention meets in a period of] occntative of our Party, to work extreme international tension, At! * 7 jin meetings of Commissions of the the same time, and precisely 8TOW-| Communist International, in many ing out of these conditions, precise- ly growing out of this world situa- tion, in which the United States is becoming increasingly involved, in which the United States is becoming organically bound up, so that it reacts more quickly and _ suffers more positively from the contradic- tions of the war-shattered capital- isms of other countries—all these conditions give rise to increasing re- sistance among the masses of this the basic proletarian masses in the unorganized indus- tries, which constitute the over- | } whelming majority of the working |} »395 class of this country. “In the light of these conditions| we can say that our Party has been World Party, the World’Party of which we are an organic part based most Leninist conceptions. In our Party the first prerequisite of be- and in the World Congress. I know ithis is the spirit of the Communist (International. |which has time and again had its |problems examined and evaluated, |its shortcomings pointed out, was ‘strengthened by the- Comintern’s criticism. Our Party which has fought the enemy, the Trotsky Louis Gartner |} Gantrance N. W. Cor. 86th Street) > | — First Floor — SNOW ts the time to have your Federal and State Income Tax Re- ) turns prepared and filed by experts }..A full xupply of forms on hand.. | pbiorhen siden e ationtaa Gunite oe developing a new Party line. It is| a the recurrence of these errors, The} ing worthy of the name of Commu- | Plenary sessions of its Executive! This Party of ours | 1927 the Party has been acting with 'Clothing Immediately | The W.LR. Clothing Distribution International Relief at 2311 Second Ave., yesterday appealed for dona- \tions .of men’s and children’s shoes jand men’s clothing. Louis A. Baum, manager of the |store, states that most of clothing jis needed immediately, especially men’s and children’s shoes. Workers jwho can donate clothing are urged | by Baum to send it by express, as |the truck of the W.I.R. has broken jdown. “The express charges are very |small,” declares Baum, “I feel con- fident that all workers who have \clothing to contribute will be will- ‘get the clothing to the distribution jcenter at once. Especially now, hen the W.LR, is conducting a na- onal campaign for miners’ relief, \it is important to get your clothing out to the center where much of it |Will be utilized for miners’ relief. | “The clothing center appeals to all friends of the W.LR. to send the elothing to 2311 Second Ave., care of Baum, New York City, where it will be disposed of.” Center conducted by the Workers} |ing to call in the express company | some; others we still have to correct |and pay the slight charges so as to| DRESSMAKERS’ § HOUR TAX GOES TO UNION FUND Norkers Respond to Appeal (Continued from Page One) court made up for police “gener- \osity.” Five women strikers and two men strikers were sent to jail for | two days each, | In addition to this, four others were found “guilty of disorderly con- duct” when they dared to picket, but had their sentences suspended. These cases came up in the Jeffer- json Market Court, Sixth Ave. and Tenth St. Magistrate Norris was the “passer of judgment.” Those sent to jail for two days jare: Bessie Cohen, Lena Fineman, |Dora Rosenblatt, Louis Kapermanos, C. Petrotokis, Ida Cohen and Celia Goldstein. | ‘Khe case of Ottelo Schenbri, ac: cused by @ scab of having “assault- jed* him was postponed by Judge | Farrel till March 12. Magistrate |Norris also postponed the cases of | Esther Brelowgwiska and five others | till March 6, ‘Workers School Will | Give Lecture Course | : . | on U. S. Imperialism A detailed analysis of American |imperialism will be given in a sym- |posium lecture course at the Work- |ers School, beginning next Saturday. jat 3:20 p. m. Among those scheduled to lecture jon various phases of the subject are Jay Lovestone, Max Bedacht, Ben Gitlow, William W. Weinstone, William Z. Foster, Otto Huiswood, Robert Dunne, Earl Browder, Her- bert Zam and Robert Minor, The nature of Imperialism; the United States and World Politics; Americe’s Foreign Investments; United States’ Imperialism in China; United States’ Imperialism in Latin- America: the War Danger; the Ef- |fect of American Imperialism on the | American Working Class; the United States and the Oppressed Negro Race; the Militarization of America; Imperialism and Revolution and Whither America? are subjects that y will be discussed in the series of | lectures. U.S.S.R. Scientists Produce New Grain MOSCOW, (By Mail). — A new grain, named “Sekalotrikum,” des- cribed as a cross between wheat’ and rye, having the quality of wheat and the power of rye to resist cold, has been produced by Soviet scientists, who state it will enable the wheat growing areas of the Soviet Union to be extended farther north, on the best experience, based on the ="! i | 52 W. 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Benjamin, assistant director of the Negro Gets Jailed for, Hensanin, aseie Aruging With White | tt Gomez was attdcked personal- the resignation of three: members of | . and says there is no danger of| the special mixed commission which| vasion” by the reported forces of| was appointed to attempt a settle- rel Arevalo Cedeno, that all Communists.” |ment of the protests against the Such stories are spread by “exiles growing power of directors of the! famous casino, GIRL KILLED IN SUBWAY Crushed almost beyond recogni- by the roaring wheels of the T. subway express, the body unidentified young girl was yesterday on the subway cks a few hundred feet east of e Grand Army Station in Brook- One searcd hand of the vie- clutched a purse. It contained ¢ and while picking up this sum from the floor of the near the connecting doors "the was jerked from the platform tracks below. feet three inches tall, the wed to be of the Irish- ‘alls to Track While Seeking 90 Cents American type. She wore a blue coat and dress, with brown stock- ings and shoes, but police were un- able to find further eciual identifi- cation, Charles Decker, motorman of the eastbound express train, reported a mild jolt of the front trucks of the var as it pulled out of the Grand Awny station. The mangled body of the unknown victim, to whom 90 cents was so apparently precious that she lost her life while trying to pick up her purse, was found by subway, workers leter, sli a SPARTANSBURG, S. C., (By | Mail) —“If a Negro can be shown |as having cursed a white man, that will be enough to be considered as jhis having struck the first blow,” Magistrate Merchant stated last week in sentencing C. McBeth, a Ne- gro, to pay a fine of $100 or spend £0 days in jail for cursing a white man, Want Bar in Spain as ‘ Against U. S. Tariffs MADRID, March 4.—Because the United States is erecting tariff ber. viers against Spanish products, nancial circles in Spain are as the Spanish government to ce American products th ree! that it concedes to Frenee, land, Germany and other nations. \ Of all ti! to face wit! the proletariat lutionary clans. munist Manifest: bourgeoinie today lone in n really revo- ‘Karl Marx (Com- ‘Report Big British Plantation Captured by Sandino’s Forces MANAGUA, Nicaragua, (By Mail).—The forces of Sandino to the number of 100 men, according to re- ports made to the British legation here, have occupied the coffee plan- tation of a British owner, Charles Potter, the department of Jingotega. Potter is a great plantation owner with many large holdings in both Jinotega and Matagalpa. The ranch eccupied, which is some distance from the princtpal plantation, was, jing to reports, deprived of its hy the Nicaraguans, Upon re- of the incursion, a detachment “f U. S. marines have been sent to ,preteet the Britisher’s property, Christian Sociniiam ts bat the holy water with which the pricat conne- crates the heartburnings of the nrin- iF + Pages trom Party History by JAY LOVESTONE An examination of the growth and development of the Communist Party of the United States — — 10 CENTS (Postage Prepaid, 15 Cents) Workers Library Publishers 43 East 125th Street New York City tocrat.—Karl Meat, se Marx (Communist Mane CAN ‘DAILY (REMIT POSTAGE WITH INDIVIDUAL ORDERS) WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS ./f] 43 East 125th Street New York City SURVIVE? Funds Vital if Our Press is to Live Worker for aid in its present The Daily Worker, 26-28 Name oe.cscsccecceseesereeees delay. Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily crisis, : Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- ing yeu the enclosed amount, $....... 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