The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1929, Page 1

Baily Entered as second. ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION Otfice at New York, N. Ys under the act of March 3; 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929 se matier at the F JAY LOVESTONE MAKES POLITICAL REPORT FOR CENTRAL COMMITTEE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. inday by The National Daily Worker Cy 26-28 Union Sq., New Yerk, N. ¥. Vol. VI, No. 1 LABOR-PEASANT BLOG OPPOSES. MEXICAN REBELS U. S. Support of Gil! _ Government a Form COMINTERN IN CP, Delegate DECLARATION T9 !2Pbed <r For Kolchak ‘WORLD WORKERS orc The most stirring speech in the Ten Years of Struggle; | (Communist) Party, on Tuesday discussion on the war danger at the |night, was that of Scotty Carsten- Hoover’s Allies Mass Forces in Mexican Warfare | War Comes; Workers |2cn, tongshoreman and Communic, Report of Weinstone on Sixth World Congress ' of Intervention Monterey Recaptured Hoover Watches Fight for U. S. Imperialism MEXICO CITY, March 6.—Diego Rivera, Mexican Communist and Jeader of the National Workers and Peasants Bloc which nominated the agrarian leader Triana for the presi- dency, has announced the opposition of the Bloc to the present rebellion in a statement that “the movement is frankly reactionary.” He said that his group would combat it. Ser: Mutiny Against Rebel Leader. WASHINGTON, March 6.—U. S. Consul Myers at Vera Cruz today wired the State Department that the Third Battalion of the rebel troops at Vera Cruz had mutinied against the rebel leader, General Aguirre at dawn today and were occupying half the city. Fighting between Aguirre and the mutineers was momentarily expected and later Myers wired that he was “unable to reach his office at the consulate.” This may be an excuse for the United States to land ma- rines from the American warships which are approaching Vera Cruz having been ordered north from the Canal Zone on the outbreak of the Mexican rebellion. * A Form of Intervention, The announcement of President Hoover, that the United States would support the Gil government against the rebellion and would not allow the tebels to get arms from the United States, can be defined as a form of intervention in support of U. S. imperialism. The American embassy at Mexico City informed the State Department that it prob- ably will be nécesS8ary for President Gil to import arms and ammunition from the United States to suppress the revolt. With the 7,500 United States troops now on the Mexican border, and with 10,000 more within a short (Continued on Page Five) CHARGE JAPAN RULERS MURDER Fight in Diet Over the Killing of Yamamota TOKIO, March 6.—Proletarian | members and even delegates belong- | ing to the capitalist opposition in|, the diet today accused the govern-| ment of instigating by its propa- |ganda and protecting after the |erime, murderers of workers’ lead- |ers. | The accusations arose during in- | terpelations of the ministers over the | stabbing to death of Senji Yama- | moto, a deputy of a workers and peasants party. Insincere Sympathy. The house of representatives passed a resolution condemning the murder, and expressing sympathy for the victim, who was stabbed to | death yesterday by one Hokuji Ku- roda, a former policeman, and now | member of a fanatical anti-Commu- | nist organization called the “League of the Seven Times Born.” After the vote of “condolence,” \Jotard Kawakami, a_ proletarian ; deputy, spoke, charging that the as- | sassination was illustrative of. ter- roristic methods by which the ruling classes held the workers and peas- ants in subjugation, A Minseioto (opposition party, ‘ but capitalist) deputy then accused the government of failing to protect | members of the diet during its ses- sions. : Accused pf Communism. Kuorda, the assassin, has stated that before he killed Yamamota, he asked him if he would resign from the diet and “abjure Communism,” and that Yamamota refused. Membership in the Communist | Party involves a death penalty, un- | der the Japanese law. Communists | must run for office on the ticket of other parties. But the spirit of re- bellion grows in Japan, where a bit- | ter exploitation of workers and peas- strikes and demonstrations, both in the country and city. ° MACHADO JAILS BOY ~~ HAVANA, March 6.—A_ shaking coward behind his horde of guards, secret police and soldiery, Dictator’ Gerardo Machado has had a boy ar- rested who was supposed to be “fol- lowing” him everywhere. The boy is 21 years old and is named: Manuel x Upper left, a detachment of Mexican. federal cavalry, import of still inadequate railroad’ facilities, They belong to the 26th regin revolt in 1927, then left him for the federals. They scem to be som ant in fighting in this country ment, and joined De la Huerta’s pewhat unstable elements. Upper right, airplane view of Mexico City, with. buildings which will probably be bombed by U.S. planes of a government Wall Street does not like establishes itself there. Left center, Governor Fausto Topete of the state of Sonora, a rebel chief. With him is President Emilio Portes Gil, supposed to be provisional president of Mexico for the next two years, and supported by Hoover. He has been very friendly to the claims of American. oil .imperialists. Right center, Plutacho Elias Calles, former president and now minister of war for the federals. Below is Vera Cruz, most important seaport of Mexico, and now in hands of the anti-Portes Gil forces. ‘Say Tailor Did OVER 100 MILL ce Not Hang Self STRIKERS FREED 7, Prison Cell | Rest of Cases in Mass’ Trial Up-Monday NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 6.—Having bitten off far more than they could chew, the’ frame-up courts of Massachusetts yesterday | self from humiliation, in this way | began to back out of the severe | whitewashing the I. R. T. and their | sentences they had imposed on hun-| brutal system’ ot espionage. | dreds of, textile strikers. Instead| | Frank Wulf, who followed Schin- | of jail: sentences of varying length dler into the turnstile where the | they are putting the strikers on|{etectives say. he deposited a slug, | probationary periods of one year |Strongly persists in his version of | and six months. In the Bristol County Court at New Bedford, the appeals of the | Witnesses of the beating of Her- | |man Schindler, Bronx tailor, by two | |I. R. T.. detectives express the be- | \lief that Schindler. may have died | from the wounds he sustained and was then hanged in his’cell to make | Schindler. In the meantime, the | SHOE WORKERS IN BIG RALLY TODAY Win Another Strike Call:2 More Today At. the mass meeting called by the Independent Shoe Workers ’ it appear. that he had hanged him- Union for tonight in Lorraine Hall, | 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock, the leaders of the organiza- tion, in reporting the brilliant suc- cesses achieved, will be able to re- port the winning of another strike. The Franklyn Shoe Company of Brooklyn, which declared for the the beating and says that he has Pen shop last Thursday evening | procured other witnesses who will |2"¢ was tied up by a strike since | swear to’ the brutal handling of |the following Friday morning, was | Mf compelled to capitulate, signing up ‘ants has already brought large] -. 662 New Bedford strikers began yes- terday. Over one hundred of these cases were heard before Judge J. Billan and six were sentenced to a probation period of one year while the rest are to be watched on pro-| bation for six months. The judge declared he was releas- | ing the workers “in the interest of | harmony between capital and labor.” The courts are carrying out the) mill owners orders to establish no precedent of having these cases quashed. They therefore deny the} appeal, but nevertheless free the! workers out of fear for their power. The thousands of workers in this| city aceepted the verdict of the} courts in the first 100 cases as. a\ great victory for their strength and’) determination, Nota single one of | the workers on trial has so much as backed down a fraction of an inch} from his attitude of defiance of the| capitalist courts. “Nolo contendre”. is the legal term of ‘their plea, when (Continued on: Page Five) Chamberlain Sneers at’ Kellogg Fake “Peace” Pacts as US Maneuver GENEVA, March 6,— Austen Chamberlain, British foreign min- ister, today shocked believers. in the Kellogg. “peace” pacts by angrily. exposing them in a conference with British’ journalists, as instrument of American imperialism, a reporter who asked if the. Kel-. logge pacts did not show the “desire | to Have Special Issu district attorney, McGeehan, of the Bronx, held a “hearing” yesterday, in which Henry Sherrock, Inter- (Continued on Page Two) INT'L WOMEN'S DAY TOMORROW Big Celebration, ‘Daily Tomorrow is International Wo- men’s’ Day among militant and rev- olutionary workers throughout the |2Wakened among the shoe workers |38, Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- world. In every working class cen ter this day will be celebrated by demonstrations, mass meetings and special drives ‘to reécruit working | women into revolutionary organ- izations’ fighting for their emanci- _ |pation. from capitalist oppression. Throughout the Soviet Union, in| practically- every ‘city, town’ and vil-| lage, celebrations and ~ demonstra- tions will be -held. : In this. country, demonstrations will be held on. various dates in March, in every center where pro- \gressive and revolutionary women’s | with the union yesterday. The workers gained the wage increase |which precipitated the strike besides | better conditions contained in the |new agreement, | In addition to the above, the lead- ers will be able to tell the hundreds Being Radicalized The ‘Socialists’ Betray ‘Fight: on Opportunists : Means Bolshevization | | MOSCOW, March 6,—The Ex- ecutive Committee of the Commu- nist International during the cele- bration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Communist In- | ternational (the Comintern), has is- | sued the following appeal to the workers of the world: “The Comintern was born in the fire’ of the revolutionary struggle. War had turned Europe into a shambies, killing and maiming mil- lions. All eyes were turned on the first Workers’ State, born in the storm of the November Revolution, which made a breach in the war ‘front and turned the imperialist war jinto civil war. It overthrew the power of capitalism and established |@ proletarian dictatorship. “Under the influence of the Rus- sian Revolution a wave of workers’ revolts poured over the world. The | tragedy of the world proletariat out- jside of the Soviet Union, was that! jno strong, experienced Communist | | Farties existed. The young Commu- | nist Parties contended with strong |social democratic parties allied with jthe bourgeoisie. } A Leader. | “The Comintern was founded in| |order to organize and lead the work- Jers in the struggle against capital- | ‘transpired on the steamship Delight delegate from Seattle, who led the| strike and picketing against the | shipment of American arms and | RY ‘ ammunition to Kolchak in 1918. It|Cyedentials Committee shows what the struggle against the war danger means when carried out to practice. The speech follows: | “Comrades, I have been requested to give you the little inside of what of the Sixth National Conventio Party yesterday afternoon at GARMENT BOSSES BEWAIL PLIGHT ism, smash social democracy and establish the world proletarian dic- | tatorship. | | “Based on the lessons of Marx | |and Lenin, the Comintern became | |the historical successor of the First | | International and inherited the best | | traditions “of the Second Interna- | | tional in its pre-war period. | | “The First International gave the | workers’ movement an ideological (Continued on Page Two) BiG CROWD AT ILD BAZAAR OPENING | | | | | | I | any Organizations! Have Booths The sixth annual bazaar of the New York district of the Interna- tional Labor Defense opened last night with a bang. A steady stream) of workers from every part of the | Workers to Talk of. in the year 1918. “In the year 1918 I was a mem- ber of Local 30-12 of the I. L.. A.; that means the International Long- shoremen’s Association. In other words—‘I Love America!’* (Laugh- ter.) “Nevertheless that was an organ- jization which at that time consti- = ; hose. Wee. eae ena, soe | Admit, Union ‘Growing, hysteria and I was shipped through| Scab Union Bankrupt |the system used in putting us to work at that time. I was consigned] [n an appeal to the yellow leader- to Frank Waterhouse dock, on the ship of the scab socialist Interna- steamship Delight. tional Ladies Garment Workers “We got down there on the dock | Union to fight against the new Left and you know how it is, working- | wing union, the employers in gar- |men. I work all the time. We got ment manufacturing trades yester- j down on this old dock and we looked |day gave conclusive evidence that around and we saw very peculiar |the brilliantly successful dressmak- looking cargo, you know. It looked ers strike had struck fear of the new like a bunch of coffins to me. So, |union into their hearts. naturally I went and took my hook| The “appeal” appeared in the out of my pocket and opened the |form of a story printed yesterday ease. And what did I see there? |in the Women’s Wear, an employ- I saw ammunition in the form of /ers’ trade journal, in which the rifles, ammunition in the form of opinions of a number of employers hand grenades, And the consignee |were recorded: marked on the case was Kolchak,| Despite the fact that it called on via Vladivostock. |their good friends, the socialist “Four gangs of men were con-junion leaders, to become “active” signed on this vessel. It was un-/against the Left wing, the story derstood that we were to load this /nevertheless disclosed the fact that vessel fast, that is, that it should the, bosses were frantic at the (Continued on Page Three) growth of the new workers organ- RES ization and also that they consid- ered the I.L.G.W.U. powerless to CAPMAKER OPEN do anything to halt this growth. Some examples of the opinions of- FORUM TONIGHT fered are interesting: “Observers ‘lieve that the so-called indifferent attitude of the right wing leaders is by no means a deliberate, well- thought-out method of reacting to the doings of the rival union, but a hidden confession of powerlessness to deal with the situation in a de- Members of the Capmakers Union |termined and definite manner.” Some more: “No matter what the right wing leaders may say, the \truth is that the Left wing element at 6 is making inroads into the industry.” Ss Their fear expresses itself well the |in this: “It is pointed out by these factors that the industry cannot af- ford to be harrassed by one labor Unemployment bere are being called to an cpen forum meeting tonight in Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th o’clock to be held under the a of the capmakers section Trade Unior: Fducational League. cf at First Bus Ella Reeve Bloor as chairman opened the third s in the industry are inclined to be-| | The subject to be discusse] Ly the workers will be “Crimes committed tre unemployed an jobless workers in our trade.” Originally having control of an of shoe workers who will come to |city and vicinity kept flowing into unemployment fun of large propor- the meeting that two more non-|New Star Casino, 107th St. and/tions, the union officialdo:a have union shops have been called out on strike with a unanimous response from the workers in both shops. These shops are: The Florell Shoe » Company and the Monte Carlo Shoe|ness all evening. Among the or- |Company, both on Powell St. in the e@ Brownsville section of Brooklyn, | Young Defenders, Progressive Shoe Not quite 100 workers are striking here. | Tremendous enthusiasm has heen in. New York City by the victories | achieved almost daily by the union. | Scores of shops have been unionized and thousands of workers have joined the union. In ‘settling with the union, every one of the employ- ers was: compelled to grant wage increases and other union conditions. | TAILOR PROTEST } “They're building fifteen cruieers, | ' aren't they,” said Chamberlain to! / organizations are active. Organiza-| tions .with a .membershin of over | 100,000 are. mobilizing for the cele-| To Fight Expulsion. of Militants from A.C.W. A mass meeting of the men’s clothing workers, for members of the Amalgamated Clothing. Workers Union, has been called by the Ex- bration, The Daily Worker will have | Spécial women’s edition tomorrow | nd the Jewish Daily. Freiheit, and (Continued on Page Three) of United States for world peace.”! | Daily Worker Will Publish of New Russia Soon “ Stories 7 e wKlen—Karl mated ctnelseaial ecutive Committee of the Shop Dele- gates Conference in order to dem- onstrate against the removal from her job of Anna Fox, secretary of the Delegates Conference, and will be held. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, this Saturday at lp. m. The Shop Delegates Conference RALLY SATURDAY With the raising of more than), The Daily ‘Worker wants to build $16,000, the campaign. to. save the|its circulation on the basis of =n Daily Worker has come to an end.|i::proved paper. We have already Nowthe’ Daily Worker wants’ to|made a start in this direction with make such campaigns, “with - he serial publication of “Bill Hay- heavy financial burdens: they pl wood’s Book.” ‘The publication of the on th orkers, permanently. un-|autobiography of this great prole- necessary. The only way this can ater fighter’ has aroused the en- be done is by building the ‘ircdla-|thusiasm 0 fthousands of workers tion’ of the “Daily.” Circulation’ is | throughout the country. was held recently by representatives from the factories to consider ways and means for developing an organ- ized struggle against the traitorous and boss-collaborationist Hillman union administration. Besides being a protest meeting against the repri of. the: reac- tionary Hillma administration, which is beginning a reign of ter- a the financial keystone of a news| But in addition. to “Bill. Hay- Saha rampant seca pe mig ace: ted on. Page Thive) Eady ror against the leaders of the re- new insurgent “movement, the |Park Ave., all night. More than 30 booths, gaily deco- rated for the occasion, and selling | articles of all sorts, did a brisk busi- | jganizations that have booths are | Workers, Neckwear Workers, Bronx | Workers Cooperative, Brownsville, \I. L. D., Downtown I. L. D., Local trial Union, National Textile Work- ers’ Union, ‘Sacco-Vanzetti Branch | L. D., Harlem Branch I. L. D., Councils 1, 7, 21, 4 and 17 of the United Council of Working Women and the following language groups: Polish, Jugo-Slav, German, Finnish, Hungarian, Armenian, Japanese, Czecho-Slovyak and Lithuanian. Norman Tallentire, acting national secretary of the International Labor Defense, gave a talk on the work of the I. L. D. He pointed out the all- important role the I. L. D. plays in fighting the attacks of capitalist courts on militant workers and called upon all those“present to give full- hearted support to the work of the IL. D. Tonight will be Finnish Night. An interesting musical, .athletic and jdance program will be presented by the Finnish workers. There will be jgeneral dancing after the program, iwith music provided by a jazz or- chestra. Tomorrow night will be German and Hungarian Night. | meeting is the first of a_ series planned by the shop delegates con- ference. é . Yesterday, all day, rank and file volunteers distributed thousands of leaflets calling for protest against the removals from -jobs of Bonchi Freedman and Anna Fox, president and secretary of the conference. The speakers at the mass meet- ing Saturday will be Ben Gitlow, Communist Party leader and ex- pelled member of the A. C. W., Louis Hyman and Ben Gold, presi- dent and secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, H. Sazer, New York T. U. E, L, mismanaged it till not a single cent is left with which the union menvoer can be relieved during this critical period of unemployment in the trade. In addition to outright mismanage- ment of whatever funds there were, the administration refrained from collecting the share due from em- ers in cider to remain in their geod graces. Since criticism is not pernitted in the union, loss of job and meimber- ship being the punishment, the work- ers are calling o,en forum meetings. An example of this terrorism can be seen in the following case: M. Zwickel, a progressive, was some time ago fined $50 for distriouting leaflets criticizing the adiiz tion. The worker was allowed to pay it off by installments by the kindly union dictators. Yesterday Hersch- kowitz, Right wing official of the union, came up to the shop where he was employed and demanded $5. Having only $3 the worker asked to by the union administration against | jistra- | faction and suffer from the supine- ness of its rival.” In the meantime the union is pre- paring to extend its strike and or- ganizational activities in all depart- |ments of the industrial union, dress, fur and cloakmakers. Preparations are now already being entered into for the coming struggle in the fur industry, which is expected to be as highly successful in outcome as the dressmakers strike gives at this time. | The union is preparing to launch a campaign for the defense of all workers against whom frame-up at- tempts are planned as a result of their activities in the dressmakers strike. : | | | |Name of Member of Presidium Omitted In listing in the Daily of yester- *|day the names of the members of \the Presidium of the Sixth National | Convention of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party on error in the print- | ing shop caused the omission of the iname of Frank Sepich, delegate |from District 6 (Cleveland) and | sub-district president of the left wing National Miners Union. Also the correct name of delegate Bixby jis Chester W. Bixby. be allowed to pay two. He was turn, | pasties ee ed down, a full five being demanded. | LIQUOR KILLS 15 Then he offered the entire three. | PEORIA, Ill., March 6.—On the Because he had no more and was|very day Herbert Hoover was call- unable to get more, the worker“was ing for. more prohibition in his in stopped from working in the middle | augural speech, prohibition liquor, of the day and compelled t» lose ai-|made from U. S$, government poi- only about noon the next day, when|this city and blinding four, he had paid the full five demand: | Ex-U. Two of the victims were women. S. Soldier Organizes . “My meeting in Washington, 'marked. most a day’s work, being reinstated | soned alcohol, was killing fifteen in for Anti-Imperialist League where I spoke as representative of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, was attended by over 20 Police, because the night before one of the League members had been arrested for distributing leaflets ad- vertising the meeting,” John Harvey Steele, who has just finished a tour for the League, told the Daily Worker yesterday. head and Anna Fox. eee tae at any meeting before,” Steele re- Steele states that his latest tour started in Chicago, Feb. 22, and cov. ered Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Cleve. land, Pittsburgh, Wilmington, Wash- zi Pkg In several for it petty bourgeois idealism anc ington and New York. iness Session Report Is Adopted by Overwhelming Vote on of the Workers (Communis 8 o'clock. The session discussed the re- ports on the war danger and the VI Comintern Congre: heard recommendations of the Pre- sidium regarding the composition of commissions, the report of the Cre- workers’ organi In the evening the fourth busi- ness session was held with Jay Love- stone, executive secretary of the Party, making the report-for the Central Executive Committee on the political and economic situation in the country, the activities and tasks of the Party. This report will be published in the Daily Worker in full soon. Ten Negro Delegates. The renort of the majority the Credentials Commission adopted overwhelmingly of was report receiving only Credentials Commission reported that there were 104 regular dele- gates and 62 alternates. Ten of these are Negro workers and one |Japanese delegate. , Complete data was received and tabulated only for 99 of the regular delegates, Of these 72 are industrial workers, 4 agricultural workers, 22 Party func- tionaries, and one housewife. Of the 62 alternates, reports tabulated show that 42 are industrial workers, 1 agricultural, 2 intellectuals, and 13 Party workers Working women’s consultative delegates were seated with voice and | vote, Addtussing the third business ses- sion of the Sixth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, Wil- liam W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, made the following re- port: The Sixth World Congress of the Communist International accomp- lished great and historic tasks for the development of the Communist movement. The attendance at the Congress showed the increase in the strength of the Communist Inter- national as a world Party of the at, as did also the addition etions, particularly from Latin America and the increased representation from colonial coun- tries. Program Adopted. The reporters and the exclusive participation of the delegations of the various sections demonstrate again the ideological development of the Communist International and the firmer establishment of a col- lective leadership. The Sixth World Congress will be known for the historic fact that the program of the Communist International was finally formulated and adopted. This is the first program of the international Party of the proleta- |viat. The fundamental character- istic of the program is its interna- tionalism, the fact that it is a pro- gram for the realization of Commu- nism on a world scale, The program (sees the perspective, the goal,| the {Struggle to which the work of all sections must be dedicated for the establishment of the world proleta- rian dictatorship. The program rests upon the teach- ings of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Engels, upon the ex- |periences of the revolutionary First | International, the mass struggles of the Second International, the gigan- tic lessons of the world war and the ten years of the post war period. The experiences of the Russian Reyolution, the proletarian dictator: ship, the lessons of the betrayals of the social democracy, the lessons. of the colonial m: movement are generalized, their universal appli- cability pointed out so that the |world proletariat has in the pro- gram of the Communist Interna. tional a powerful projector, light: ling the path through the wilderness ‘\of capitalism to Communism. | Exposes Social Democracy. The program analyzes in a most thoro-going manner the development of the social democracy, pointing ou! that it actively supports the bour |geois governments in their imperial ist policies, that it has set for itsel the task of directly cooperating witl the bourgeoisie, that it has aban doned every vestige of Marxism anc the revolutionary theories of thi class struggle and has substitutec of these cities strong committees of Teligious trash. the A, A. A. I. L. were organized | He will con- and through his meetings, |tinue his activities. Steele, a former soldier in the U. “T never saw more than 20 police S, army. stationed at Hawaii, and|Menace of the so-called Left wing | (Continued on Page Two) The program draws the lesson: experiences of “Left” socia idemocracy in Germany, Englan and Austria and warns against th: \ (Continued on Page Two)