The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 1

S THE DAILY WOR KER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Vol. V., No. 366 daily except Sunday by The Na pia 1 Association, Inc. 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. ‘ional Dally Worker : New York, by mi Outside New York, ai mail FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents J, §. WILL ARM Shoots eg YOUNG DECREES ‘Sie of “Daily” ane HOOVER REFUSES COMMUNIST CONVENTION A'SALES TRUST’ Is Victory for Workers 10 LET SENATE TOLD OF PLANS FOR NEW REGIME OF GIL, HOOVER STATES. \rms, to “Mexico Only When Permitted by United ed States zl Claims U U. S. Aid [roops Concentrating Against Rebellion BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, March 5 (UP).— ‘resident Hoover's decision today to, upport the established Mexican overnment against rebellious gen- | rals, by maintaining the arms em- | argo, soon may require action by \merican border troops to make the olicy effective. This prediction was made tonight | fter it became known at the White Jouse that the Mexican government tould be permitted to purchase nitions in this country for use in uppressing the rebellion. To make his policy effective, it would be ecessary to prevent munitions ship- rents to Mexican rebels who hold everal towns just across from «merican territory. Available customs officers on the order would be insufficient, the Inited Press was informed, to pre. ent the smuggling attempts which | re expected to result if the rebel- on is prolonged. The 7,500 Amer- | van troops on the border will be rdered to establish adequate anti- muggling patrols if the situation arrants. It is believed troops now on the order are sufficient to cope with he situation. Approximately 10,- 00 additional troops are within asy reach of the border and large erial forces are stationed at Kelly ‘ield. Texas, and March Field, Cal- fornia. e * WASHINGTON, March 5 (U.P.) -The Mexican government will be | ermitted to purchase such arms nd munitions as it may-need in the Inited States to cope with the pre- ent rebellion in Mexico, it was rarned at the White House today. In behalf of President Hoover, it vas said that there appeared to be o occasion to alter the arms em- argo policy of the Coolidge admin- stration, under which licenses have een issued from time to time per- iitting the Mexican government to) mport arms and munitions from he United States. Swindled b “Job Sha rhs” PHILADELPHIA, | March 5 soa |—Because an employment agent fused to refund $5 which he had paid to get a job that did, not ma- terialize, Harry J. MacCall, former- lly of San Francisco, today shot and | |killed Julius Koffler, 52. | Koffler was proprietor of the; |Acorne Employment Service. It is a common trick of employ- ment sharks to swindle workers out of their deposit by sending them where no job ever existed and rely-| ing on a corrupt judiciary to reject! |the worker’s demand for a refund. | In this case, the worker driven) desperate, found himself without} any recourse whatever, and took| matters into his own hands. In! many other cases, the impoverished worker is not able even to return |to the employment agency to make | trouble about the fraud. | | LLDBAZAAR OPENS TONIGHT ;Class War 1 Play and | Chorus on Program |’ Thousands of workers, coming | from every section of New York and | vicinity, will gather tonight at 8 o'clock to attend the opening of the | | big annual bazaar of the New York | district of the International Labor | Defense at New Star Casino, 107th| |St. and Park Ave. The bazaar this year has been planned on a scale never before at- tempted.. The many ‘class war sesh |now being handled by the Interna- \tional Labor Defense, for which | funds will be provided by the ba-| zaar, together with the general growth of the influence of the I. \L. D. make the bazaar this year one of the most important Left wing activities, of the: year. | ‘The bazaar will be formally énien’| ed by Norman H. Tallentire, acting | national secretary of the Interna-| tional Labor Defense, who will talk | on the work of. the I. L. D. and its | | Significance in the struggles of the} | Gomis on. Page Two) ROOT, BRIAND IN | PARLEY ON COURT Arms For Gil—None For Rebels. | It was explained that it was too arly to make general pronounce-_ aents of public policy, but that the mbargo would remain in effect in| ts present state, which permits aovement of atms across the bor- er when agreement for the entry) nto Mexico is accompanied by li-| ense from the United States gov- rnment. * Gil Claims U. S. Support. MEXICO CITY, March 5.—In ad- lition to a visit to the Mexican} oreign office yesterday, U. S. Am- vassador Dwight L. Morrow was Peet loseted with President Portes Gil) or some time. Referring to the isit of Ambassador Morrow, Pres- dent Gil said it was fresh evidence vf the excellent relations between | he United States and Mexico. The Mexican government is mck- | ng elaborate preparations to crush he revolt, with 15,000 cavalry and| nfantry starting toward Vera Cruz j nd 10,000 troops enroute to Sonora, ‘hus moving against the two chief senters of rebellion, Important Entry Ports Lost. The evident difficulty of the Gil overnment to add to its supply of ar material by shipments from the nited States lies in the fact that he rebels have control to a greater r less extent of every railway line (Continued on Page Five) - ine Leaders Demand aldwin Take Action to Relieve Distress “LONDON, March 5. — Secretary, rthur J. Cook and President Her- rt Smith of the Miners’ Federation pf Great Britain visited Premier tanley Baldwin last night and laid vefore him a demand by the federa- ion for certain measures, “to alle- iate the distress in the mining ‘ields.”” : ‘As part of the program were in- luded a demand for the repeal of he eight hour law (which changed ining hours from seven to eight), ions paid for partly by the em- loyers for men over 60, and raising he school age from 14 to 16. Baldwin is expected to issue a ‘tatement as to his decision on the mands before long. ¥ To Submit U. | S. Dictate on Entry March 11 | GENEVA, March 5.—Elihu Root, President Coolidge’s (and President | | Hoover's) personal representative on | the world court matter, conferre today for several hours with Aris- tide Briand, foreign minister of | |France, on a formula for American | |participation in the world court. The proposition will be presented to the League of Nations conference | for revising its statutes, which meets | March 11. Root has announced that his form- | jula, if accepted, will permit U. S. jentry on a satisfactory basis to all | | concerned. U. S. Reservations. The U, S. senate has withheld par- ticipation by a set of reservations, (Continued on Page Five) | Lynn Shoe Strikers Force Manufacturers to Accede to Terms) LYNN, Mass., March 5 (UP),— The Lynn shoe strike was virtually settled today when 34 of 49 manu- facturers announced they had signed petitions acceding to the workers’ | World War would have the follow- JAILED STRIKERS ‘yesent them in court or bondsmen | | open shop. | Nationa! Textile Workers Union to lead their strike. |troops have re-occupied the Lama | Temple, in which a regiment of the FOR DAWES PLAN Great Organization to Sell Products Taken from Germany iFight for Control Is On| All Creditors Want to) Become Directors | PARIS, March 5.—The plenary; session of the board of experts of |the Dawes Plan Commission yester- day adopted the dictum of Owen D. Young, the unofficial U. S. repre- sentative, and head of numerous banks and power companies. | Young declared that German in- demnity paid in materials must. be! sold thru a “neutral” trading com- | pany, a trust of gigantic proportions, Joperating thru its own bank. Today the whole group is figh' ing over details, as to who shall be on the board of directors of this} new corporation, and in control of [the sale of this war loot. | The new body which would super- sede the Dawes organizations and as far as possible remove the ques- tion from the atmosphere of the ing powers: First, receiving and disbursing all | Germany’s reparation annuities: second, handling all deliveries in} |kind; third, arranging all details | with regard to the proposed com-| |mercialization and mobilization of | German payments; fourth, executing | all functions relating to delays in | annuities, APPEAL GASES OF LAG: Bails Pickets, Fights 30-Day Terms SUMMIT, N. J., March 5—Georg Hamway, silk striker, and Jac! | Glass, strike sympathizer and me ber of the Young Workers League were tsday released on $500 bail, | when the International Labor De- | fense succeeded in appealing their | cases to a higher court. ‘The | of Lottie Blumenthal, also a s sympathi: zer was also appealed were sentenced to~ thirty d jail for picketing in the long-fought | ;sik strike in this town. Attorneys of the I. L. D., in de- manding an appeal from the vicious | sentence of the judge in the Summit court, used as “grounds” the fact | that the Summit judge had refused | to allow the imprisoned workers | time to get either attorneys-to rep- to get them out on bail. The strike has been going on here |for many months, despite a vicious | policy of the police and courts to arrest all those who picketed the |niills here. Nearly every one of the jsilk strikers here have been ar- rested at one time or anviher dur- ing the fight against the Shabnaza- rian Silk Co., which has been unsuc- cessfully trying to establish an Recently the workers, all mem- bers of the corrupt Associated Silk Workers Union, broke away from! that organizaticn and called in the | MUTINY IN PEKING ARMY. PEKING, March 5.—Nationalist nationalist army revolted Saturday and fired on the city, with some loss of life to innocent by-standers. A demands for renewal of wage and working agreements. Cheering and singing workers opened the first session of the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party in their own sweeping way, even before it was officially opened. While the Secretariat of the Par- ty was meeting, a section crowded with members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League burst into lusty singing of “Solidarity,” “Old lan Capitalism,” cheering and a vigorous outlet of spirit and enthusi- asm which was immediately taken up’ by the assembled delegates and the hundreds of visitors, Irving Plaza Hall beamed red. Cheering, Singi of the Communist Convention mutinous spirit pervades many other regiments here, and further upris- ing may be expected. ng at Opening Red in the slogans on the balcony, red in the paper ribbons, red on the delegates’ badges, red in the spirit and determination of the delegates from industrial centers throughout the country. Enthusiasm, combata- tive spirit, eagerness to carry on the work as planned by the Convention, ruled the hall. Delegates seated around the tables in the fore of the hall faced the platform with its mounted picture of Lenin, the founder of the Com- munist International and the great leader of the world proletarian rev- olution. In front of the platform (Continued on Page Two) % COMRADES: This is not an appeal. victory—and congratulations. This is an announcement of | Congratulations to every worker and every working class organization who came to the aid of the Daily Worker during the desperate financial | crisis out of which we have just emerged. | For the campaign to save OVER THE TOP. Yesterday’s the Daily Worker ee GONE | receipts raised the total of contributions to $16,036.32, slightly above the goal of $16,000 that we set for ourselves as absolutely essential to pay off the most pressing debts and give the Daily Worker a little breathing | space. This is a record of which be proud. It shows the vitality of the Daily Worker, the entire working class may it shows the vitality and the growing influence of the Workers (Communist) Party, of which gan. section of the working class. foreign-born, Party members the “Daily” is the central or- The $16,000 has been contributed not by any limited It has not been raised solely | by Party members, Every section of the working class, or- ganized and unorganized, skilled and unskilled, native and and non-Party workers, from every part of the country—all have responded to the call, all have joined in the campaign to save the only fighting | working class ene raped in the English language in the | world. Any such united action of the working class is a phen- omenon of the greatest political significance. It shows that the Daily Worker is not merely in name, but in actuality the rallying center of the most militant elements of the American working class. The Daily Worker speaks—and FIGHTS— for the exploited masses of this country. The success of this campaign is even more remarkable when we take into consideration the fact that two other or- gans of the Workers Party, the Jewish Freiheit and the Hun- garian Elore, were also in financial straits during the past month and conducted campaigns for funds at the same time. | Among them, the three Communist organs raised a total of $50,000. Tho the Daily Worker campaign is now officially closed, there is still much money outstanding. Many districts sur- passed their-quotas, while others are still in the process of pe theirs. In addition, many individual workers as well as working class organizations still have funds that they have collected in their possession. All such outstanding funds should be immediately sent to the Daily Worker, 26- 28 Union Square, New York City. The total contributions are: Previously listed Saturday and Sunday . Monday .. Tuesday $15,568.42 120.10 200.00 147.80 $16,036.32 EMERGENCY FUND Jobless Worker Sends Money to ‘Daily’ The letters which accorapaiy con- | tributions to the Fund to Save the | |Daily Worker speak of whole- |hearted devotion and sacrifice te the | reveluticnary cause of the ws 7king class. Unemployed workers, old | workers who are barely getting | along, underpaid, sped-up workers, | farmers have contributed to the | drive which is now nearing its close. The Shop Nucleus No. 1 of De- troit, Michigan, donates $15.50 with the request that we print the fol- lowing: | “We, the members of Shop Nu- | pene No, 1 of Detroit, challenge the newly-elected office-boy of J. P. Morgan and all republican hordes jend democratic leaders as weil, and every so-called patriotic organiza-| tion in this country.” ‘| From Jacksonville, Florida, in the center of industrial and plantation | ‘slavery, L, Berinhout writes in the | name of his family: “The same old story—hard times, unemployment, low wages, no money to spare. But we are trying to do our bit, so we are enclosing ten dol lays which will heip a little. We do hope that some new plan may be! (Continued on Page Three) TRY TO FRAME UP DRESS STRIKER. SILK “UNION” HEAD RESIGNS ' | commerce, - Bureau of the Red International of PASS ON MELLON 'Ratification for All'the Cabinet Appointees Formally Named |Motion to Probe Mellon Say ‘Private Interests’ Make Him Illegal Commissions Selected WASHINGTON, March 5.—The at Yesterday Session attempt of President Hoover to slip of Meet the notorious Andrew Mellon thru from the Coolidge cabinet to his own . A * cabinet without submitting his name| The second business session to the senate for ratification as of Sixth National Convention secretary of the treasury has! of Workers (Communist) Party aroused formal opposition from opened last night at the Irving Plaza those senators who have an elec-| Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, at 9:15 p. m., with Otto Hall, Negro delegate, as chairman. The read- torate that is becoming nervous over the scandal associated with the ing of telegrams of greetings, the organization of the work of the con- Pittsburgh millionaire. A motion was carried to investigate Mellon’s | |vention, and discussion on the war The senate today ratified pea sn and VI Comintern Congress legality in the new cabinet. names of Hoover cabinet members|reports was the business of the ses- jas submitted, and the oath of of-|sion. jfice was administered to them. The following committees were They were: Henry L. Stimson of|selected by the Presidium of the New York for secretary of state,|convention and endorsed by the con- James W. Good of Iowa, for secre. | vention: a Political Commission. tary of war, William Dewitt Mit-| consisting of 17 members, with Max chell of Minnesota for attorney gen-|Bedacht as chairman; an Organiza eral, Charles Francis Adams of tion Commission of 15 members Massachusetts for secretary of the with Norman Tallentire as chair \navy, Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri man; a Credentials Committee of ° lfor secretary of agriculture, Walter ; with William F. Kruse as chair. F as ae Ohio for postmaster) man; and a Press Committee of 5 general, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur of| with Robert. Minor as chairman faliternia. ie secretary of the in-| Charles Dirba was elected secretary terior, and Robert Patterson La-|of the convention. mont of Illinois for secretary of| Other commissions which will be ,elected are the following: Program This is a cabinet of millionaires Commission, Trade Union Commis: and engineers, rather than of the sion, Negro Commission, Nomina- old type of supposedly “democratic tions Commission, and a special com- leaders of the people” which means | mission to prepare the Anti-War _(Contigued on Page Three) Day which the Party will hold. The membership —and composition - of HAIL 10 YEARS these commissions will be announced later. Telegrams of greetings were read from the following organizations’ Leading Bodies Pledge to Fight Right Wing The Women’s Committee of District 6 (Cleveland) of the Party tele- (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March 5— graphed: “Greetings to Convention. May a stronger and more Bolshevik Party grow from this Convention, and above all may unity be achieved so tha tthe Party can The tenth anniversary of the Com- munist International was celebrated yesterday by a great meeting in which were the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International, | the Central Committee and the go forward to ever greater bat- tles, leading the working class to Moscow Committee of the Commu nist Party of the Soviet Union, the final victory.” The Jugoslay Communist Frac- Central Council of the Soviet Union Tabor Unions, and the Executive tion of the Detroit workers club wrote: “Greetings to Workers Commu- nist Party Convention. Long life to unified Party with proletarian leadership.” The Jewish Workers Club of Chi- cago sent the following greetings: “Greetings to Convention of thee only real workingmen’s party in America. Are with you in your fight for the emancipation of the working class in America.” Labor Union. The speakers were Kuusinen, Mo- lotov, Bela Kun, Kolarov, Clara Zet- kin, Losovski, Manuilsky, and dele-, Other telegrams of greetings |gations from the Communist Par were of Germany, France, Britain, China organizations: Grand Rapids Nuc- jand the oppressed peoples of the joys of the Workers (Communist) colonial countries, Party; Martins Ferry, Ohio Nucleus Fight All Enemies. of the Party; Young Workers Com- The speakers emphasized that the munist League of the Cleveland Communist International would lead District; New York Freiheit Man- the workers victoriously against the dolin Orchestra and the Sub-district |social democrats, and imperialists, Emergency Committee of Los An- while conducting a constant strug- | &¢!es- gle against all inner deviations, par- ticularly against the Right wing deviation. The Leningrad conference of the Communist Party opens tomorrow, * Delegates and visiting Party mem- bers are asked to give to any mem- ber of the Press Committee for pub- lication in the Daily Worker and other Party press, stories of their impressions of the Convention, of their trip to the Convention, of con- ditions in New York City, and espe- * * Schwab Won’t Confirm 11, f conditions in th hops, Seab Union on Heads Act. |r Slate Him for Biggest Steel Merger <i! Sales at ictan te ee as Provocateurs With all the viciousness at their command, the leaders of the “social- ist” scab ladies’ garment workers’ union are trying to engineer the | frame-up of an Italian worker ar- | vested in Brookiyn yesterday, who is reported to have burt two scebs on the dressmakers’ strike, when he defended himself against both of them. Isadore Nagler and Julius Hoch- man, officials in the scab joint board yesterday denounced this worker to the police as a_ hired gangster employed by the Commu- nist union, The worker, with a long record in the revolutionary movement here and in Italy, as the reported finding of a membership book in the Com- iiunist Party seems to prove, show | these “socialist” traitors as ready | to do more than organize acabhing | against a strike to abolish sweat: | shop conditions, (Continued on Page Two) City Hall Job PATERSON, Ned J. Marck 5.— Fred Hoelscher, secretary-organizer ‘of the Associated Siik Workers | | Union, who led in carrying out the ‘expulsion of left wingers from that jerganization, an action which broke |the recent silk strike and reduced | \the Associated to an empty, dis- | | credited hulk, has resigned. His resignation is the most conclusive proof of the fact that the Associ- ated is breathing its last. Hoelscher’s action in itself is no great surprise to the silk workers of Paterson. Because the only ac- | tivity and power left to his organ- | ization was that of legalized ‘and or- |; ganized scabbing on the striking | members of the National Textile Workers Union. Its membership | had left and joined the N. T. W.) locals when that union was formed | under the leadership of the expelled progressives. But the surprising element in the resignation is the substantiation 0” | Again they arc, the rumor, which has been aflcat jwords to express the miserable con- ‘(Continued on Page Two) > with a delegation of ten miners to from. The members of the Press Committee are Robert Minor, J. Louis Engdahl, Harrison George, D. Benjamin and A. G. Richman. Charles M. Schwab, steel mag- nate, exuded optimism on his re- turn from Mussolini‘s Italy on the Roma yesterday, but refused com- ment on rumors that the U. S. Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel eventually would be merged. Words Can’t Tell Miners’ Misery”, Toohey Declares A story of utmost eeu enione tantra tactics of the Lewis machine starvation and misery was told by|of the United Mine Workers. “The |Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer of | National Miners Union is taking up the National Miners Union, in anjthe struggle to unionize the coal \interview describing the conditions |fields on a national scale. “We will of the miners in the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West \Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, |Toohey is now in New York City ce yellow dogs, sheriffs and courts to get living conditions for our :nen and organize them into a powerful union. “For the present we must have relief to tide over the winter, and alleviate the terrible conditions un- der which the miners live. In con- junction with the W.LR. we call (Continued on Page Two) start off the relief campaign be- ing initiated by the Workers Inter- national Relief. Toohey declared that “he had no} Aitions” resilling from the traitor- received from the following | fight the coal operators, their thugs, | IMPERIALIST WORLD WAR Leading Committees Selected by Delegates; Discuss War Danger, Comintern Reports Summary of Bedacht Report, Continuation of Lovestone Speech Is Published “Defend Soviet Union” Is Urged by Speaker The imminent danger of a new world imperialist slaugh- ter and the measures which the working cl led by the Com- munists, are to take to combat it, were discussed in the report on the War Danger, made by Max Be- dacht, member of the Political Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party. This was the first report in the opening busines ssion of the Party Convention y night at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. A summary of the report fol low As a result of the» world war American capitalism ha: rength- ened itself tremendously and its vosition in the capitalist world Its economic gi have created it the possibility of a more vapid accumulation of new capital than ever before. This fact pressing the American capital into a more and more aggre: The r capital policy of expansion. idly accumulating new must find a market. As a result the imperialist s of expansion followed by the American capitalist govern- ment we are confronted with a very serio conflict between Ameritan end British imperial- ism. The expansion of American ‘imperialism, the acquisition of a colonial empire can only take place at the expense of British imperialism and its colonial em- pire. American imperialism de- mands the redistribution of the territories of the earth in its favor. And British imperialism demands the status quo with changes here and there in its favor. Inroads Into Latin America. Aside from this American-Brit- ish conflict, the policy of imperial- ist aggression followed by the American imperialist government leads to more and more open and intense military and political con- quests in the Latin American countries. The Monroe Doctrine, used so long to preserve the ter- ritories of the Americans for the capitalists of the United States, is now used to consummate final ly the aim of swallowing these territories direct or indirect dependencies or colonies of the United States. This creates a state of permanent war carried on by American imperialism against the peoples of Latin America. The present military expedition in Ni- caragua is a classical proof of this fact. American imperialism, also as a result of its hunger for new ter- ritories and in class solidarity with other imperialist powers, makes itself an important part of the forces attemptin defeat «the upri: and revolu- tionary struggles of oppressed colonial and semi-colonial peoples. Thus American naval and military forces have contributed decisively to the struggle against the revo- lution of the Chinese masses and have helped to cause and support the treachery of the bourgeois- nationalist leaders. Rationalization. The acceleration of accumulation of new capital is brought about by systematic increase of efficiency of production, by rationalization. This rationalization is primarily an intensification of the exploita- tion of workers. Rationalization has as its result permanent and expensive unemployment, relative ' and positive loweri standards, and a of the workers. These results of rationalization react with the mas- ses of the workers in the form of a readiness and desire to fight against capitalist oppression, This results in an intensification of the class struggle. The capitalist class on its part reacts to this phase of the results of its rationalization policy and (Continued on Page Two) to suppress and SEARCH FOR BODIES IN FIRE, PARKERSBURG, W. Va., March 5 (UP).—Firemen searched _ the charred ruins of the Backus Hote} today for the bodies of three per- sons still missing after a gas ex- plosion which wrecked the hotel late ‘yesterday, »)