The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 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 3] aily Entered as second-class matter at (he Post Office at New York, N. Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ee Ree Vol. VI, No. 5 Pu Published dally except Sunday by The National Dally Worker 1 Assecintion, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 BSCRIPTION RATES STRIKE LEADERS ON TRIAL TODAY IN NEW BEDFORD Mill Owners Pick Out Eleven Militants for Frame-up ILD Defends Workers} Courts Anxious to Jail Picket Captains NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 11.—A deliberate attempt to “get” the leading figures in the New Bed- ford textile strike is seen in the calling to trial as a group tomor- row morning of 11 of the leading figures in the strike. Their cases will be heard in the Superior Court here as part of the mass trial of 662 New Bedford strikers. The more than 100 who came to trial last weck were all dismissed on probation terms, ranging from six months to one year. The group that is being called to trial tomorrow consists of William | Murdoch, Elsa Pultur, James P. Reid, Peter Hegelias, Ellen Dawson, Sam Wiseman, Amy Schechter, Jack Rubinstein, Fred Beal, Martha Stone end William Siroka. The fact that these 11 militants | are being tried together out of their | regular turns seems to indicate that | the authorities, while willing to free the rank and file workers on rrobation, are determined to deal a serious blow to the Natonal Textile Workers Union by railroading its | leaders to jail. | The International Labor Defense, | which is defending the New Bed- ford cases, is determined to wage a bitter fight to smash this new strategy of the mill owners’ courts. WEAVERS STRIKE IN NEW BEDFORD New Union Leads Walk Out in Big Mill (Special to the Daily Worker) | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 11.—Fifty weavers walked out of the big Acushnet Mills here yester- day in a strike under the leadership of the New Bedford locals of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The strike was called when the mill owners tried to speed up pro- duction of the workers and thereby put over an indirect but none the less vicious wage cut. Over six hundred looms are tied | up by the walkout of the fifty weavers, | The strike was no more than a} few hours old when the consterna- tion of the employers showed itself by their openly manifested desire to confer with the mill committee of the N. T. W. U. The workers, however, will not| consider going back till their de- mands are met with. This is not the first strike to take place in this city, where a six months struggle against a wage cut was not long ago ended. All the strikes, nearly all ending success- fully, were called thru the initia- tive and under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union, established during the general strike, Striking Students in a Demonstration Against De Rivera Government MADRID, March 11.—A parade and demonstration of striking stu- dents today marched on Primo de Rivera’s heavily guarded home. They were scattered by a charge of mounted police. A few of the demonstrators were | Injured. Only about five per cent of the students attended their classes to- day. The university authorities took down the names of all absent, with the avowed intention of expelling them for the rest of the year. The students are striking against arrests and expulsions of military students who expressed sympathy with the recent officers’ revolt against Primo de Rivera. REFUSE OVERTIME LONDON, March 11.—The. coal trimmers at Newjort decided not to accept the recommendation of the Bristol Channel coal trimmers to work overtime in order to clear sway a heavy stock of coal at the docks caused by severe weather con- ditions. NEWENGLISH Views of four Mexican cities which lie in the center of the regions of the rebellion. Above left, Orizaba, state of Vera Cruz; above, right, a view of Vera Cruz, both cities re- cently recaptured by the govern- ment; right, the Guadelope mission at Juarez which has done its share in enslaving the Mexican peasants, and extreme right, a scene in Chi- huahau, whose governor, Marcel Caraveo, has joined the rebels. Views from Centers of Mexican Rebellion Clothing Workers Revolt _ Against A.C. W., Strike Shop Setting themselves on record as the first to openly revolt against the fascist and traitorous leadership of the Hillman-Risman regime in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, the 50 workers employed by the firm of Stolofsky and Hyman, ———- 85 Bleeker St., yesterday walked First Clearly Left Wing out on an “outlaw” strike. . | The walkout of these workers ..Trade Union and their refusal'to return to work after an attempt had been made by the reactionary officials to “settle” conferences, the needle trades work- the strike, can be regarded as the ers of England, thru their delegates, |direct outcome of the call to open have established a new Left wing | Struggle issued at the recent rank union which is. built on industrial | 4nd file Shop Delegates Conference. lines, with workers in all crafty of The entire crew in the factory in- the needle industry eligible for mem-|Volved is. now out on strike and bership. ‘picket lines will be maintained to- After numerous struggles with the | Morrow to prevent the officialdom reactionary leadership and the boss- from sending up other men to take collaboration policies of the old or: | their jobs away. 5 ganization, the militant workers in| When the owners of the firm this industry came to the conclusion | S°veral days ago told their workers that bettayals can be eliminated and |that four of them were herewith their interests protected only by a| dismissed, the _reply he reeeived fighting union led by Communists.| 85, that an immediate stoppage They therefore launched this organi- would be made, which was imme- Continued on Page Three) diately carried into effect. The ( mate 217°) | boss remonstrated, telling the work- ers that he had permission to make Ladies Tailors Protest the dismissals. “The union leader Schlesinger Treachery told me,” he said, “that if I dis- miss two left wingers in the shop, at Big Rally Tomorrow they would let me fire two more | The Progressive Group of the (Continued on Page Two) Ladies’ Tailors, Local 38 of the,In- Mussolini Boasts to the ternational Ladies’ Garment Work: Blackshirts His Pact ers’ Union is calling a mass meet- ing for the purpose of demonstrat- With Pope Aids Rulers ROME, March 11.—Speaking be- ing the protest of the membership in the removal from the ballot of all progressives because they had) fore the quinquinneal assembly ot declared themselves in sympathy | the forces of the fascist state, Mus- with the striking thousands of | solini tolay for 40 minutes defended dressmakers. The meeting will be|the Vatican treaty. The treaty is held in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and unpopular in Italy, where many have 42nd St., immediately after work. | received it with bad grace as a prac- in a circular distributed among tical surrender of all the rights won the membership printed in English | from the black despotism of the and Italian, the Progressive Group | Catholic church by the victorious appeals that the members should | national revolutions of 1870-71. prevent the gang in control, who! Mussolini also lauded the growth are henchmen of the traitorous|of the Italian army. and navy, and Schlesinger machine which heads| issued the usual jingoistic slogan the I. L. G. W. U., from perpetuat-|of making the sea a source of ing themselves in office another |strength for Italy. year and depriving the most active and most sacrificing members of the right to run for office. LONDON, March 11.—After many FLUMBER INJURED. | MILWAUKEE, (By Mail), — A falling board cut a gash in the head of Frank Ewyer, plumber, yesterday, © ‘The other classes decay and finally | ixappenr in the face of modern in- | \emergency hospital. British Union Misleaders Ape Matt Woll, Begin “Red ” Hunt Special to the Daily Worker) mendations, to the affiliated unions, LONDON (By Mail).—The Gen- erat Council of the reformist Trade Union Congress has started another of its “Red” hunts, in a letter sent to all its affiliated organizations, entitled’ “Danger of Disruption.” The letter asks for information as to the activities of “disruptive ele- ments” working within or against the union, . The affiliated organizations are asked to reply to three specific questions on the extent of disruption. Only “authenticated evidence and original dccuments” are wanted. The information is required by March 16, and the General Council is to submit a report, with recom- x ‘ based on the evidence thus collected. This is the beginning of another | campaign to oust as many Commu- nists and left-wingers from the unions as possible and attempt to! prolong the traitorous tactics of the} T.U.C. officialdom. The “Sunday Worker,” organ of the British left wing. movement, lands a straight left at the misleaders by citing a whole series of cases of “disruptive activities,” documentary evidence | (original), in which the officialdom | of the unions affiliated with the! T.U.C. removed workers wholesale from the unions and passed auto- cratic decisions against the rank and file, » BARBER CHIEFS. TRY EXPULSION Will Attempt to Oust Progressives at Meet All leading progressive members of the Bronx Barbers Local’ 560 have this week received a registezed ‘letter from the officialdom of their union, which orders them to come to a membership meeting of the local where charges of “conspiring against the local” will be taken up, Recognizing this as the long- ,awaited attempt to expel them from »membership in the organization they had sacrificed so much to build up, the Progressive Group in that local yesterday issued an appeal to the membership to attend the meeting and prevent the gang of corruption- ists from ousting them from the local. The local is to meet tonight in Rose Garden Hall, 1347 Road, Bronx, at 9 o'clock. The progressives heard of the: at- tempt to oust them from the local when one of. the vrog ives was called to the executive board and quizzed as to his alleged Communist connections. The letters soon fol- lowed. Follows Expose. The reason for the adoption of the expulsion policy at this time is the unrelenting exposure of corrup- tion and outright theft of union funds which were being regularly thade by the progressives in their Progressive Group organ “The Bar- bers’ Voice,” and also in the Daily Worker. A campaign had also been con ducted condemning the administra. tion for the neglect to organize the innumerable open shops and the ne- glect in maintaining union conditions in the so-called union shops, while in the meantime dues were being raised and taxes of $3 a head were being levied. A short time ago the secretary- |treasurer was caught stealing $3,000 of union money, but the clique whitewashed itself by asking for and accepting his resignation, while ithe other culprits still retain the reigns of office, 'Peincare Cabinet Will ‘Face “Left” Attack | . . ‘This Week in Chamber | PARIS, March 11—The politi- leians of the radical-socialists will ‘sttempt to overthrow the Poincare | ministry in debates in the chamber | this week on the question of whether ;missionary societies working abroad |shall be allowed to recruit members and have heddauarters in France. The debate will be fought on the worn-out, issue of connection * be- tween church and state, but will be pushed to a vote of confidence. Tomorrow the government will announce the debate for Thursday and on Wednesday the “left” will tress the issue around the freezing to death of 250 French soldiers of the army of occupation in the Rhine. Leaders of the radical-socialists an- nounce that a “left leadership of a moderate but effective kind” is necessary to prevent the swinging of the voters to the Communists at the approaching municipal elections. Christian Soctaliam tx but the holy water with which the priest conse- erntes the hearthw nings of the Aris toerat—Karl Marx (Commuulst Mane Boston BEGIN FIXING SUM TO BE SQUEEZED OUT OF GERMANY French Worried Over U. S. Imperialism’s | ‘Neutral’ Trust | \Fear Wall Street Grip Paris Paper Sounds the | | Price 3 Cents ADVANGE BY THE “GRATIFIES U.S, Fall of Canitas Opens Road to Battle for | City of Torreon Rush Planes from N.Y. |DeLa Huerta Refugees Alarm Joining Rebellion BERLIN, March 11 (,P).—The A decisive battle is shortly expected at Torreon (3) on map TIN. |veal difficulties of the Paris Rep-| “bove. Federal forces, under ex-President Calles, now general of March Aten arations Committee of Experts will) federal army, have been moving north from Irapuato (1) to Canitas : nin Beak aia tee start this week, according to the, (2), which federals have just recaptured and from where it wilt Confirmed reports from the fran' belief expressed here by German strike at rebels in Torreon. Rebels recently seized Monterey, but were state that General Escobar has |financial sources in commenting on the month of preliminary discussion and the proposed international bank for handling of payments, tive. This advance is being made later driven out, While General Calles and h rebels are advancing south on west coast, with Mexico City as objec. army are moving north, evacuated Torreon and is retreating to Chihuahua. Ota okt WASHINGTON, March 11.—Pub- from Nagales (7) and Juarez (6) Mazaltan (5). | Another encounter is expected at It was pointed out that made in the organization date must not deceive the world in connection with the still unsolved problem of fixing a total for rep- arations by determination of the| number of years and amount of an- | nuity payments from Germany. German Viewpoint. Summarizing the German view- Fur Pickets Again Beat point, the Paris correspondent of Off Thugs; 3 Jailed | , the Berlin Tageblatt asks: (1) Must| Needle trades workers employed! Germany reach an agreement in these weeks at any price and (2)! what if the German experts are un-/in all crafts are called by the New able to assume responsibility for|York Joint Board of the Needle sanction of the creditors’ demands? |Trades Workers’ Industrial Union In answering the first question, it|to join the huge mass meeting at is pointed out that Germany is not}Cooper Union, 8th St. and Fourth bound at present to reach an agree- Aye., tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock. ment which would be unfavorable, “A full report, summing up all the to her interests. Referring to the /results of the struggle in the dress | second question, there is general | industry, when that struggle was in agreement that any agreement the general strike period, ‘will be| which the German delegates are un- made, and plans for continuing the! progress work to able to sign in their capacity of fi- | unionization campaign thru the stop- | ¢ nancial experts “must remain un-| page of individual non-union shops signed.” |all season, will be presented for the 4 workers’ approval. French Worried. | The leaders of the N. T. W. I. U. PARIS, March 11.—French na- will also report on the preparations tionalists are badly worried over !eing made for the coming general the latest scheme of American im- strike in the fur industry, where perialism- to get a further grip’ on union conditions have‘also been de- (Continued on Page Three) stroyed by the seab union installed ADMITS PERJURY False Testimony Aided Judge and Helfand Hi J. Halperin. an attorney, ified yesterday before Senior idge Knox of the U. S. Federal District Court that Marcus Helfand, also an attorney, had caused him to testify falsely in favor of Hel- fand and Federal Judge Winslow before the federal grand jury. Winslow is under investigation by ional committee which is * * 5 Thugs on the Run. For the second time since the strike was declared against the fur manufacturing shop of Bernard} Reineman, the hired gangsters of the A. F. of L. union attacked the picketing workers and for the sec- ond time these underworld hirelings are nursing swollen remembrances of undignified appearance—this de- | spite the frankest and most brutal collaboration between these thugs, the unif»rmed neice and the legal- ‘zed thngs armed with badges of the “industrial squad.” Before the police and “bulls” that had been stationed to assist in the activities of strikebreaking could ar- rive to rescue the members of the (Continued on Page Two) a congr d : ; io report whether he should be im- [", S, Seaman in China eached. One of the charges sige ul Feainst him is that he so conducted Dies in Hotel Fire himself that the law firm headed ‘by Helfand could assure litigants that for a very heavy fee they could ‘have Judge Winslow act any way they wished. ‘As part of the proof that Winslow | was Helfand’s creature, they showed | spective bribe givers Judge | slow in intimate converse and) VICTORIA, Hongkong, March 11. —An American seaman named Kish from the cruiser Memphis, lost his ife early today when fire gutted the King Edward Hotel, one of the largest hotels ‘of the city. He jumped from a window on the upper floors to a sheet held for him by firemen and spectators, but missed it and hit the pavement. An Eur- opean couple, one Japanese and four Chinese are also believed to be dead from the fire. | The hotel is a fire trap, whose \inner construction is of ramshackle wooden material, but well painted jand decorated with plush hangings |to attract tourists. It is by no means a cheap hotel, the minimum \charge per day being about $6 (U. |S. money). It is owned by an European syndicate of capitalists | who make immense profits. | IW \ social escapades with Helfand. Hal- | perin now admits he assisted in sev- cral of these demonstrations. On advice cf Helfand, he says, he de- nied it before the grand jury. Andre Marty Elected. as Honorary Member of the Odessa Soviet (Wireless By “Inprecorr’*) ODESSA, (By Mail)—Comrade Andre Marty has been elected an honorary member of the Sebastopol |Soviet as an honor for the prole- jtavian fighter who led the revolting | sailors in the French Black Sea Fleet which refused to let itself be used against the Soviet Union, and who is now in prison for the same convictions which he continues to | uphold. 8 FRENCH WORKERS -DIE SAUMUR, France (By Mail).— | | Eight workers were killed here when |the iron and cement work of a gar- |age under construction gave wi and buried many workers. Elev others were injured. Cheap mater- ial and speed-up in construction is | blamed. f 35,000 Are Unemployed | ‘in Buffalo, N. Y.; City) lished reports that Mexico had asked for 10,000 rifles evoked smiles: from ER STRIKE U. S. officials today, and it was learned that the Mexican request was for 2,000 rifles, but Hoover sent STOP 10,000, and in Addition granted Mexico credit on all munitions bought, as the strain on Mexican. fi- eos nancial reserves is heavy and the Gil Workers Party Assists |sovernment needs funds to pay its Detroit Mivtante wer thei slay t troops contented.” a q Reports at a late hour say that DETROIT, March 11.—Nearly a jyebel forces under General Escobar thousand of the 1,500 rubber work-jand federals under Genera! Almazan ers then on strike (with more com- have met in a major battle at Pare- ing out all the time) held a meet- \don, half-way between Monterey and ing here in Amity Hall and worked |saitillo. The battle for Torreon will out a form of organization to carry pe decisive and is expected to occur their struggle with the U. S. Rub- | 5, Wednesday. ber Co. to a successful conclusion. | pee These workers are battling | against the Bedaux system, a com- bined rationalization, speed-up and ize cutting scheme, which in some s results in a fifty per cent cut i s. They are determined not to give in until the company gives * WASHINGTON, March 11,—The |way in which Secretray Kellogg viewed the last 24 hours develop- ments in the Mexican civil war was stated today to be “encouraging.” Secretary of War Good announced e up the wage-cutting, man-killing, he was reporting to Kellogg on the speed-up idea. status of 300 Mexican federals held Company Hard Hit. at El Paso, who retreated into U.S. The company is badly. disergan: |*'itry Whew driven out to: Juases ized by the iinexpented sbigiies on Fy iday. Their arms are in U.S. possession, but Good states that ous ‘uprising of its workers, Fur- ther mass meetings are scheduled. There is a report that the company is about to surrender to the strik- ers’ demands. At the first meeting, Arnold Ziegler, representative here of the, Daily Worker, was at first put out of the hall. The reason was that he was suspected of being a repre- sentative of the Detroit Federation of Labor, the misleader officials of which have so often betrayed labor here that the strikers will have nothing to do with it. He convinced the strikers’ committee that he was not for the misleaders, after a little conversation, and was re-admitted, being well received when he offered (Continued on Page Three) \their arms may be returned to them and all may be returned to Mexico at another point, not held by rebels, so they can resume fighting for the |Gil government. * * Calles’ Army Presses North. MEXICO CITY, March 11,-—The Mexican federal army is pressing northward toward Torreon, in the state of Coahuila, where a battle is expected within 24 hours between |the rebel leader, General Escobar, who vacated Monterey Friday, and whose forces are being reinforced from the north, and the army of some 19,000 federals under General Plutarco Calles, who captured the rail center of Canitas, in the state of Zacatecas, yesterday. Canitas fell to ‘the federals with- out a shot being fired. Airplanes flew over the rebels and saw white flags waving everywhere, whereupon the fede made contact with the rebel troops, who surrendered and The Mills Hotel, one of the night joined the federals, stating that the lodging houses for the “down and Tebel leader, General Franciseo Ur- cut,” workers wrecked by the ration- |b=lejo, had fled with only 30 me alization and unemployment of (Continued on Page Five) American capitalism, was the scene | Sey eet yesterday of an unnoticed tragedy, ] when an unidentified man, about 35 ‘Schindler Case Goes years of age, was found hanging! to Grand Jury Today; dead in his room on the seventh | to Whitewash LR. T. floor of the institution at 136 West 6th St i ; The man registered on Sunday The case of Herman Schlinder, night as “John Smith, New York |who was found hanging in his cell City,” and, as is required by this |a few hours after he had been beaten abominable institution of “charity,” hy 1, R, 'T, detectives who said he gave his clothes over to the man- hag put a slug in a subway tura- agement: on retiring, When ae stile, will come up before the Bronx ciothes were brought back in the County Grand Juy today, the dis- morning, when the management \trict Lid ‘office * nnolRed forces everyone to get up and get yesterday. aM 7 ver was given to the”, fy Lagek” Hueh Carrell, the mavager,, Although medical examiners, entered with a pass key and found Coached by the transit company’s the body hanging. jlawyer, announced that they found There was nothing to indicate the ed sary of beating upon Schindler's man’s identity, though the fact that Dodv, ben arc ble, bam ae a no money was sufficient to clare etectives. i a Batt reaba tee ede hard enough to disable him. It is r RISE, believed that Schindler hanged him- AUSTRALIA ROADMEN STRIKE. fell cena ee ane beat a SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail).)) 7) pti —Sixty road workers on public Pad ere he was found hang- work have struck at Banbury for a é 44-hour week instead of a 48-hour) The grand jury will whitewash the week. jcompany and give a decision fayor- abole to the I. R. T. Mills Flop-House the Scene of Suicide for 35-Year-O!d Worker Story of Changing Morality 1n Vital part Omitted ‘Council Does Nothing the USSR in ‘Daily’ Tomorrow She was going by train to Moscow | taken along according to custom. from, the little village where she|Though she had come to do some- lived. Her husband had left five| thing desperate, the ancient cus- lyears before and had gotten a job/|toms clung to her. in a factory. He had sent her money regularly and occasionally a letter. | husband. She meets the other woman And now she had learned that he|and it isn’t at all as she had im- | was living with another woman. |agined, She doesn’t tear out her TEA READE She would go to her husband and hair nor break the window-panes. BOSSES KILL 8-HOUR BILL. |do something desperate, tear out the They talk and--— CHEYENNE, Wyo., (By Mail).— other woman's hair, break the! Tomorrow the first installment of | Public work contractors killed a bill) window-panes. In her hands she this fascinating tale of changing in the state legislature to enforce jcartied a kerchief in which shé had | morality in the Soviet Union will ithe eight hour day on public a Sai some black fritters—a present (Continued on Page Thice) | in Huiswood <2. ort Due te an error, the opening sen- tence of the second part of Otto Huiswood’s report on Negro work |to the Sixth National Convention of the Communist Party was omitted trom the City Edition. It reads as After much trouble she finds her | Tatlowia: Negro Workers Relief Committee. “The Negro Workers Relief Committee, which supplanted the Negro Committee for Miners’ Re- lief and was organized at the time of the Florida hurricane, has very good possibilities as a permanent relief organization.” BUFFALO, N. Y., March 11.— |State and city employment bureau |managers estimate that 35,000 men jare jobless in Buffalo this winter. |The “normal” number is around 10,- |000, say statisticians. The City Coun- cil has been asked to appropriate |$120,000 to cope with the emergency |situation. So far it has done |nothing. ia) . “= + d