The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 1

'THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party oe on mae ly Daily Worker Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N. Ya under the act of March 3, 1878. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARGH 8, 1929. FINAL CITY EDITION z In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. LOVESTONE MAKES REPORT ON POLITICAL SITUATION - PARTY ACTIVITIES, TASKS Tol. VL, No. 2. "Price 3 Cents Publishing Axssociat NTERVENTION'BY' IRMS SHIPMENTS N MEXICAN WAR funitions to Gil and! Embargo Against Any to Rebels tig Battle for Juarez tecapture of Vera Cruz Completed DRESS STRIKE IS TERMINATED BY INDUSTRIAL UNION First Struggle of New) Industrial Union a Great Victory | 400 Shops Unionized ,Win 40-Hr. Wk.; Union Plans Fur Strike Leader of World’s Proletartan Women Also Reports on Right Danger and Menace of Trotskyism; Commissions Elected Negro Workers Head Negro, Trotskyism Com- missions; Greetings Telegraphed The fourth session of the Sixth ional Convention of - WASHINGTON. March 7. — An aplication for license to export unitions to Mexico was received at At a full meeting of the General Strike Committee held last night in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., the Workers (Communist) Pai 8:15 at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th * ty opened Wednesday night at St. and Irving P’ with Ben itlow, member of the Secre- state department today and will ua) ihastadcers'\ svike: wee tor, Veteran Fighter tariat of the Party, in the > granted, perhapsstomortow. The minated: chai After the reading of »plication came frem a_ private Thus the new Needle Trades telegrams of greetings, the organ rm, and a visit by Mexican Am- Workers’ Industrial Union brought ization of working commissions, con- issador Tellez to Kellogg indicated to*a victorious close the first open tinuation of the discussion on the iat the Mexican government was struggle to be conducted by it reports on the war danger and the wtifying the purchase as required. against the garment manufacturers : VI Comintern Congress, Jay Love- Department officials were most and their agents, the scab Interna- tone, executive s ary of the seretive and would give out no tional Ladies’ Garment Worke: Pa » made the r for the Cen- ames and every effort is made to Union. r Executive Committee. This was meeal the route by which the muni- Called exactly four weeks ago, 1 combined political report and a ons would be sent to Mexico. the general strike of the New York eport on the Right danger and The request to export munitions dressmakers on its termination, Trotskyism. » Mexico follows the Hoover policy | boasts of having won union condi-| At Mauro’ Comidusion’ of Dawes mounced two days ago, that the exican rebels would have no arms re tions, among them the 40-hour five-| | day week, for over four hundred} cted, with Otto Hall, of the Ne- z ‘ sro Department of the Party as armitted as the embargo would he shops in the industry, and of hav- hairman, and a Committee on Trot- pe he TEL Many ine sande unlon men andzwomen cb VOa Tn faraateaal WORE Dada arieG Cleo idiien ThPu ONE th kyism of 17 members, with Otto ould be allowed to the Gil govern- | thousands of.non-union workers. pe tae led Pee ine, aM EE MCR ENEN Huiswood, head of the Negro De- ete While officially called off, the| rid join in honoring Clara Zetkin, who for two generations has SURES AT Gis Bate is oe Le General Strike Committee definitely been in the forefront of those who carried high the banner of pro- 3 WASHINGTON, March 7@—With declared that the campaign for the| etarian revolution. During the last imperialist war Clara Zetkin Telegrams of greetings were re- br : Vor 3 iPad? i z y z fohivatt f ress. industry| fought with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht against the social- | cived from a number of mass erent Or Ste ee ee Ens Lescbipieary, pemdored: coith Karl iaabieneahtnby the agents,” \umonimanon, 2 c88 CFeRs IMGUBTY |e itdo tratteraand’ ledtoe of Centon: tne okinn | workers’ organizations and Party or- val troops of the Mexican goverm-| of and Scheidemann, who drowned in blood the German pois Nhe ee 5 pi ai-| - oes) 3 Hilla Keeve (Mother) Bloor, | i fein Ogura du the GER El ent yesterday, the Gil regime, with letarian revolution, s today as the inspiration of the workers of extermination o ‘ sw ae op con ie re aterdn cof recone vor IabwNlat |Mouatintee tate ameran Cie President Calles as acting minis-| the world, and particularly of the toiliug women? / |tions in that trade, is by no means Meets:in ( ] S S R ( elebrate Wea ain Untias Ore TANG Ge x of war, turned its attention to| ~ ‘ “ over. Plans were drawn up, to be Pe OPE OF . to the Sixth National Convention |tisy nec 1 pe ‘foll Be Se ‘ ‘e campaign against the rebels in| . executed by the Dress Department) fi ‘ ‘ TNC pee ag jtion read as follows @ noth dpa OSA LULCMOUTE WAS Fighter sie eer ronan en's] -Anternational Wojnen’s Dery treet tiny’ wer |,Amerian Livan Wore i , _ M4 re industry, till. the conditions en- = © a a ieares : ternal greetings to the Convention The Washington government has the industry, till ‘ . Bi ie'a “Uso: greeting entior canted 1eeatale Gorretsein: 46: the £LaINS €@ Lmpervialis. QP icved by the union workers are en- i MOSCOWS AEGR, March 7 ie) oo oe the Workers “Party and’ woes il government to transport 2,000 ate 6 forced here too. , gawes Se | ) 1"Thowsandsof mass Hie p that real har mony be tablished at exican federal troops over U. S. | name Though comparatively short in| 15 out the Soviet Union toda; : this convention. Our association il, from Matamoras, on the Gulf of | By S. CROLL. duration, as needle trades strikes | Fe et eee with its 7,000 members always sup- rexioa at the U.S. border, to Juarez | HE name, the memory of Rosa|g0, the four week struggle was one the observation of “Interna ported Party activities and especial- rough El Paso, in an effort to split . |* Luxemburg, must be known and|of the most bitterly and heroically | | Women’s Day.” ly the Daily Work Best: wines ion in rez | jheld dear by every worker .|fought strikes in needle trades his-| For a number of years March 8 to the h Convention. Central ie rebellion in the north. Juarez | y ‘y worker and es-| | r } 750 miles by rail from Matamoras | AG AINST lJ § § p [pecially by every woman worker, | tory. al the gone of he ear _— hd Shades ienideab the iOdannae eels | Committee. t SOOM HEE) War is threatening, On all sides we | ment bosses of all trades an de. vO) “key » 5 eg rane et eee eee Bet me rough Texas. ee seo the mighty. imperialist, powers |scabbing power of the A. F. of L.|Detroit Workers Won't tnisis throughout the world for in- Another telegram was sent by the From Vera Cruz, consular yeports ate that several rebel leaders were illed during the fight for the city asterday, among them Luis de la ierra and General Gama. General guirre is supposed to. have “with- rawn” after ‘an armistice was de-| + i ‘Plots Rumanian, Polish Attack on Soviet Union | | KOVNO, Lithuania, March om | the last world war. preparing for war. burg died—was Rosa Luxem- assassinated—for exposing the war mongers and their | Were overcome nts, the social democrats, in Were won, h r She was mur-| Were arrested for picketing. dered for trying to arouse the Ger- and socialist I. L. C. W.'U., injad- dition to a terrific police offensive, before conditions Fifteen hundred strikers Let A-F.L. Lead -Them | tensified forts to draw women i into their activities. Here, in the DETROIT, March 7—A strike is|one country controlled by the Com- | spreading thru the U Rubber Co./ munists, the occasion is given im- jhere. Over 1,500 men have quit work |mense importance, already, and strike meetings are be-| The militant strike strategy, how- C:P. Women Delegiites | Hit Reformism Calling on working women of the United States to rally to the de- }Communist mine nucleus at Slick- ville, Pa., in District 5: “Accept greetings to Sixth Na- tional Convention CP. Unity must be established in our Party only on eorrect political line.” ike ‘ SO iets é : i i «»/ever, soon broke the ranks of the |? r The press today was filled with) tense of the Sovi nie Sas The Progressive Butchers and b: ig fasddent iat the! eobelar The official newspaper Lietuvos| man Masses to rise against their (Contiaisl On Page Tio) ing held to pull out thé 7,500 still! ayneals to women to take a place|(°7™8¢ of the Soviet Union and cad Sa Wether Haioe ce tae red L Five) Aida today published sections of a| imperialist masters, to turn the left in the plant. r as equals with men in the work of the fight against Imperialist war, New work * loeranheds ae x, oc (Continued on Page Five cree Polish-Rumanian military |28"S °” them*and to unite with women delegates to the Sixth Na.|NeW York telegraphed: “Workers TORE WORKERS | agreement directed against the Sov- \iet Union and Lithuania. The agree- their proletariang brothers through- out the world for a determined and decisive struggle against the master The strike was a spontaneous, un- the government, the trade unions, |organized revolt against the Fabrum|the cooperative moyément and all system of payment, which means other phases of Soviet life. At the F COMINTERN ASKS tional Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party greet the (Communist) Party. We greet you at your 6th National Convention. We are fighting with you.” i 928, si | clas more speed up, piece work, and less/same time the men are urged to women workers of America in the| sm eakers participati ; pest Seaatet “Dek: 21088 jsepple=| clans. wages altogether. accept. women as equals, without following statement issued for In-| The Speakers participating in the menting the Polish-Rumanian treaty! Rosa Luxemburg gave her whole MEN T0 RA The strikers have elected a strike prejudice, and to help them in their ternational Women’s Day: (Continued on Page Two) jof 1926, the paper said. life to exposing the capitalist sys-| committee, and refuse to follow the cultural advancement. “The women delegates to the Tray we eet abs | In ease ‘of danger,” the treaty | ‘em and to the struggle of the toil- vii nds [leaddrahip: of tha As Fite) 'They te-|~ spulenvus “avticles “chow tho. ex: (Sixth National Convention’ of the Sal calls for a united Polish-Roumanian |" “Already a ears a kK q] | jected the “offer” of Frank Martell, |tent to which women have already| Workers (Communist) Party, the : = ped 7 IE [to ee eae oF 18 she bad Women’s Day: Apperll|ivesident of the Detroit Federation died tate the. Gublic action, | Aidetlcah Section vor’ tha! Bomman- NA ndHun arian | ffensive and also a ten day ulti-|{o flee her native country, Poland, r saa penetrated into the public activi-/ 4 _ Sec fi verman a g Avcitim stothe Uc Hos Be it mecae: (En ardent tol escape ‘exile +5. Sikes of Labor, to lead them to the usual ties of the country. It is pointed nist International,” the statement | Program Tonight sary, the newspaper In case of a Polish-Russtan war, for her revolutionary activities. But Rosa, as she was often lov- to Workers, Peasants compromised defeat, and gave @ out that the local Soviet elections rousing welcome at the first massinow taking place have resulted in (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) {lie buildings in the capital today. “greet the working women of merica on the occasion of the In- LAYS OFF FORTY $ Tent? es | s 7. 3 ting, to Daily Worker represen-|. sigenifics “ga ternational Women’s Day, March 8, aD) ie yorker: Continued on Page Three. 3c March 7.—The Exe- ;™eeting, 5 i significant of women 2 ay, March An. even wreg ey crows et Voto pelanil vould be entitied 5 obeapy |< BE ae): s.\ > MOSGOM: pearch. 4 ist |tative Siegler, who addressed them.| voters and of women elected as 1929, which marks the beginning of esterday attended the second day |cutive Committee of the Communist 2 pees: ‘ vote ae htruepion’ IW Henman’ the (NIGP . Di. Vee, eae * the big bazaar of the New York/|Lithuania under the agreement. ' itnternatichal: publishes, an appeel td The Detroit district of the Work. |Soviet delegates triperlalist weerand tos ela aetecds \Nichols Plant Workers intel ‘national Lab vspaper said that the e working and peasant women of ers (Communis') Party has issued) 4+ euch special davé. | mPerialist war and for the defense i Rae e afew . 4 tai rom a re- a ries on the E . lige .|the Communist Party has 1 crs’ and Peasants’ Republi ve Taee ‘ j sourci . " Ww ’s Day. jon their seeing th ~ fee 3 P x . = vith St. and Pagk Ave. were| Poland Agent of Empire WOMEN Ay DAY jibe statement points out the tase to: join the’ Auth” Worker meetings and in articles, Many of Forty workers were laid off yes- row! at 2. p. m., tho the vhii as p: ¢ tensifying world si ‘ion, si- 4 fe « se alacdna, ge white let- e ae Nie es h Gas ae aad ene ee eH cents ie aaa ahaa fae ines of war, above all war| Union. The leaflet calls for shop oes eae an nee Huts ist terday morning at the Nichols Cop- oe m. R \French rfilitary | supervision has| eas against the Soviet Union, the grow- committees to be built at once, ern seeae womens, decorate. pub: RS HURT per Company, Laurel Hill, L. I. Tonight a musicai and dramatic|never ceased to plot against thei Many Meets in U. S.; rogram of unusual interest will be resented by the German and Hun- arian workers, The bazaar is open every night ntil 2 a, m, Tomorrow afternoon will be hildren’s Day, and in the evening ie big International Costume Ball ill be held. On Sunday afternoon t 2 o’clock the official commemora- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. {There have been a series of “bor-| ;der incidents” and — diplomatic | clashes, but the pressure of Soviet | Union diplomacy, directed towards | peace agreements and disarmament treaties was so great that Poland | was forced recently to sign a joint | treaty with the Baltic states and the pues S. R. to “reject war as a means of international relationship.” N. Y. Rally March 17 Today Day. en, led by the Communist Parties throughout the world, will make this the oceasion for an expression is International Women’s of their international fight, shoul-| der with the men, against the loom- ing imperialist war and the accen- | ,,)ment in colonial countries. Revolutionary working wom- | | | | | | ing radicalization of workers in cap-| Martel, the misleader of labor, is italist countries, and the developing an advocate of the open shop A. F. new wave of revolutionary move- L. policy in “organizing” the auto- | “Women! Take part in your fac- mobile. industry, which means to tory meetings and learn to conduct It gives examples of the great role spend hundreds of thousands of dol-| industry!” of working women in the class strug-|lars for organizers, who merely try “Working women of the gle and concludes by appealing to to convince the employers that they join the struggle of the Sov the working and peasant women to could get more work out of their peace gaits tual digarmarient continue the struggle against war|men for less pay if they sign up (Down aawith: the and for the transformation of war|with the A. F, L. unions. | polygamy! into civil war for the overthrow of; He belongs to the local Crossbeck “Let us release the working wo- A few of them are as follows: world, veil and with IN ‘L’ SMASH UP Seven workers, six of them women, were injured in the second elevated line crash of the week, when a northbound local train crashed the rear of another north- bound train on the Third Ave. line, | Queens County. As part of the policy of the com- pany to cut down expenses, about 40 workers of the Refinery and Anode Departments were told to get their belongings and pay and leave the works. It is believed that all the work- ers laid off were high paid men and jthat the company will hire cheaper men to take their places. , a = Phiore Bae a italist dictatorship and the|wing of the republican party. . Srey fai The Nichols Copper Company is on of the anniversary of the Paris| |tuated rationalization which is part the capita! 4 ‘ iz men from the prisons of national- near the 138rd St, station mite PE PAY ign sceipebane ars: | ia rea ee i “ti tilts mip oat pare yet ae eae preparations /¢Stapiishment eve tee | mi ae s Superstition! | arte noon yesterday. pie mhiley ceed eee mig cute be ae Remvdietes \of ibn, Beviat Un, oratted. far | east tareiom the working clase wee Gel George Pershing, John Down with amt The reason for the crash is re-|try. About 1000 men are employed ° jof tl i 5 | e principal cities and indus- | . | ah “ SEED) ray OR Raa iL calm <, aee = et oe ‘Mino cuiina leading article, that as long as Po-/trial centers of the United States| SCIENTIST REVIVES CORPSE. \Steele, Will Address ported as “undetermined. whose wages are from 45 to 52 into existence the men who are to wield those ne—the modern Peed Karl Marx (Communist Mai ato). To Demonstrate Tomorrow | |masses March 17, at New Star Ca- Against A.C.W. Expulsions A demonstration of protest, which vill at the same time be a mobiliza- ion to struggle against the reac- ionary Hillman administration in he Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jnion, is the purpose behind the alling of the mass meeting this aturday noon at the Irving Plaza fall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The reeting is called by the Executive ‘ommittee of the Rank and File hop Delegates Conference. It is planned that the meeting » iall consider plans for fighting to © einstate Anna Fox, secretary of we Delegates Conference, whose ex- ulsion from the union and removal rom her job is the cause of the rotest. The corrupt and traitorous Hill- ian regime again turns to its old 1ethod of terrorization to stifle the ank and file’s protest against the land took orders from western im-| perialists, its mere signature did not mean everything was settled. company unionization of the A. C. W., a call to the protest meeting declares. This terrorization con- sists of depriving the administration fighter and even critic of his means of livelihood by dismissal from the job and then by expulson from the union. Eight thousand members of the A. C, W. were represented by 266 delegates at the conference, held re- cenfly. The conference decided on the launching of organized struggle against the officialdom. Mass meet- ings and more conferences were de- cided on as the medium for arousing the membership to action. This meeting is the first mass meeting to be called. More will follow. A general league meeting of the A.C.W. will be held tonight at: 8 p. m, at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. during this week will hold mass meetings of working women, as a part of the united campaign against the coming war and the rationaliza- tion of industry. In New York City | working women will gather in sino, 107th St. and Park Ave., at 2:30 p. m. A huge pageant will be staged representing the historic struggles of the working women, The chief slogans which the Wom- en’s Department of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued for the demonstrations are: Struggle Against the War Danger! Fight Capitalist Rationalization! The im: mediate tasks which the working women will take up are: a recruit- ing drive to bring women into the Party and the building of the new left wing Jabor unions, SEATTLE, March 7.—Interna- tional Women’s Day will be made into a militant demonstration of working women against the war danger and the speed-up at the mass meeting and dance to be held at Finnish Hall tomorrow night, under the auspices of the United Council of Working Women and the Work- ers (Communist) Party. The prin- cipal tasks will be broadening out (Continued on Page Three) ‘Take Place in the Class War MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March 7.— That persons ordinarily called dead 'Y. W. L. Meet Tonight | can be brot back to life providing no material injury has been done to| George Pershing, field organizer vital organs, was the statement to-|0f the All-Amgrica Anti-Imperialist day of Prof. Theodore Andreiev. He| League, will address an_anti-mili- told of permanently resuscitating |tarist meeting of the Young Work- Soe. fishes, a dog that had been killed |¢rs League of Williamsburgh at 8| with poison, and a man for 20 min- Vere se ee at 56 Manhattan 'Weisbord, Magliacano, b inci) tabli: ,|Ave., Brooklyn. | 2 utes. The principle was established, | | Biedenkapn Speak he said, and it was now only neces-| Pershing will be supported sary to work on the technique. John Steele, an ex-soldier Negro Working Women Must by Plans for extending the influence of the union by the development of shop committees and the recruiting of unorganized workers into union activity were formulated at an overflow mass meeting of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union of Greater New York and Vicinity at By GRACE LAMB. |workers, not only by the capitalist 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, last night. Class-conscious organized work-|system and the employers, but by, Albert Weisbord, secretary-treas- ers should endeavor to reach work-|the unenlightened race prejudice urer of the National Textile Work- ingelass women, since women are|which is found even in the work- |ers Union, ‘congratulated the shoe even more oppressed as workers,|ing class, and is used by the em-| workers on their recent successful than are men. It is particularly) ployers to drive a wedge between | strike activity. An organizational necessary that Negro women work-'tte black and white workers and/report was delivered by A. Maglia- ers should be brought to a consci-|thus destroy their unity and fight-|cano, who spoke of the plans thru ousness of their position in the|ing power. This effort of the em-|which the union will combat. the working class, and drawn into the|ployers must be energetically com- | wage cuts and speed up policy which class struggle. jbatted by the working class. Wouen| shoe bosses seck to impose. Other Negro women workers are the! workers must stand together, re- speakers were Hyman. Levine most abused, exploited and diserim-|gardless of race and color, in or- Fred Biedenkapp, English spe inated against of all American (Continued on Page Three) King iseclion organizer, Suffering from lacerations, abra- sions, confusion and shock, the in- jured were treated by a doctor from the Lincoln Hospital. cents per hour. 54 hours. The work week is An effort is now being made to organize the workers of the plant. Working Women Play Leading Role in the Struggles of Labor By KATE GITLOW. Again the international vanguard of the workers takes account of what was accomplished during the past year in the way of organizing | proletarian | and educating the women to take their place with the class-conscious workers of the |world; to carry on the struggle for the emancipation of the workers, of ‘all toiling peoples, for the overthrow of the capitalist dictatorship and \for the establishment of a workers’ dictatorship. The year 1928 has nade history for the working women in the United States. The active participation of women in the New Bedford textile strike will take up considerable space in nd the history of the textile workers’ |actionary Right wing. struggles here, together with the imen, they haye vigorously resisted |the wage cuts and speed-up system introduced by the textile employ- ers. Women textile workers have fought bravely against the betray- als of the labor bureaucrats of the textile unions. The women have not jenly shown their ability during the |strike on the picket lines, where they resisted police clubbings and ar- vests, but they have also played an important role in the formation of the New Textile Union, under the leadership of the left wing. Participate in Struggle. The dressmakers’ strike adds a glorious chapter in the history of the participation of working women in the labor struggles and in the fight against the bureaucratic, re- The women |dressmakers are playing a very im- i (Continued on Page Three) ’ ) a