The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 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 FINAL CITY EDITION “Price 3 Cents dally except Sunday by The National Dally Worker & Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. 1,000 MORE JOIN sank Vol. VI., No. 7 KEEP STEERAGE PASSENGERS ON NEW Y {eMAYDEFROM DECISIVE BATTLE LOOMS Gorky Tunes In PLAGUE STEAMER Let Rich Tourists Go Ashore to Infect City of Seattle Meningitis Kills Eight Those Forced to Risk Lives Are Filipinos SEATTLE, Wash. March 13.—/ (UP)—The second meningitis in- fested ship to arrive in Seattle in the last two weeks was anchored in Puget Sound today after two men had died at sea and two others had been placed in the city hospital here. Three other cases of sickness were under close surveillance aboard the President Madison, American mail liner, which was sent into quaran- tine at Port Townsend, after first class passengers had been permitted to land. The 336 Filipino steerage passengers were kept aboard the! vessel, ki Two weeks ago the President Lin- coln arrived with a dozen cases of spinal meningitis, which resulted in five deaths. A sixth death was at- tributed to pneumonia with possible meningitis complications. The dis- ease aboard the President Madison was described by Dr. P. G. West, city bacteriologist, as cerebral spinal meningitis. FAKER TRIES TO ~ RIPPLE RELIEF Haverhill ShoeWorkers Repudiate Nolan (Special to the Daily Worker) RAYON STRIKE IN | SOUTHERN MILL ‘Shut Down Plant of Foreign Trust in Tennessee [Demand More Wages Boss Seeks to Call in National Guard (Special to the Daily Worker) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March |13.—On the second day of a spon- taneous strike of rayon workers, be- jgun Tuesday, when about 1,000 walked out of the American Glanz- STUDENTS FIGHT toff. Corporation with a demand for | | | Maxim Gorky, friend of the So- | viet Union and noted proletarian | writer. more pay, several hundred women strikers overpowered guards and police at the plant, succeeded in getting inside and calling out on |strike 1,000 more workers. | Thus these southern workers de-| Strike at De DESIVERE ce se clintibery of-commarce\or the Rule Intensifies of the southern cities that they can provide northern manufacturers | MADRID, March 13.—Mounted With docile, slavish workers. |police with drawn sabres again| The entire plant of the rayon cor- |charged striking students tonight, poration, which is one of the Amer- semble between 8 and 9 p. m. along)owned international trust, who the Calle Alcala in the center of|closed down when the strikers suc- the city. The police made six |ceeded in doubling their ranks, charges with drawn sabres. Several] Sheriff's deputies and the entire of the police were wounded,but only police force of this little mountain | by fists, village, practically company-owned, |the mounted police, who had been |tect the plant, special guards being |mobilized inside the court of the|thrown around the private offices | ministry of the interior, sallied forth of the high officials of the company. on a gallop up the Calle Carrera! “We want more pay. We can’t jand the Calle Sevilla to the Calle live and raise families on what we |Alcala. All cafes and stores put up|get now,” the women pickets shout- |were ended. ‘grounds. The desperate efforts to | Shootings and Jailings hold the workers still remaining at Students kept watch all day out- (Continued on Page Three) |side the hospital where Emilio Mar- chessi, a student shot yesterday | of the hands of the rebel veactiona Right, General Jesus Aguirre, on Captain Vasquez (left), who dickered the city of Vera Cruz out ries for the Portes Gil government. ic of the commanders of the reac- tionary clerical forces who was ousted from Vera Cruz and who is now being sought for court martial, OPPOSITION TO MORGANBANKERS Reparations Deal Gets Along Slowly PARIS, March 13.—The plenary session of the reparations exper conference adjourned after a short session this afternoon and it ge erally was assumed that negoti tions were not progressing very rapidly. The next plenary -session was scheduled for Friday, It had been expected by the allies that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who re- turned from Berlin where he had held conversations with his govern- ment, would have some definite proposals or a definite Germah an- finitely gave the lie to the boasts |when hundreds attempted to as- ican producing units of a foreign- , _ As the students started to gather, were immediately mobilized to pro-| \their shutters hastily until the riots|ed as they swept into the company when the police fired into a crowd WORKI nuity offer. This apparently failed | Duplicate Dress Victory in | Fur Industry, Is Cry of Rally | Thousands of needle trades work- jers, members of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union, iter- day held a mass meeting in Cooper Union, 8th St. and Fourth Ave., put their stamp of enthusiastic approval on the victorious outcome of their dressmakers’ strike and prepared to mobilize their strength for the com- ing general strike in the fur indus- try. } a Applaud Victory Thunderous applause greeted the announcement of Ben Gold, national secretary-treasurer of th: industrial union, that as a result of the general strike in the dress manufacturing trades, 400 shops had been union- ized and approximately 10,000 new members had been brought into the union. “Nevertheless we are still greatly dissatisfied,” Gold declared, “despite the fact that union conditions and standards have been inaugurated in 400 more shops in the trade.” Other speakers, among whom wer “BLAST IN PLANT - OF ANILINE 66. |Employers Suspected | of Practising on | War Explosives Lack Safety Measures Buffalo Plant Becomes Death House BUFFALO, N. Y worker One fif- in- Farch 13.- and mortally was killed teen were probably sicn occurred in Plant No. 12 of the National Aniline and Chemical Com- |pany here. The origin of the blast is laid by the workers to the speed- up and disregard of precautions by |the company. The analine dye is a war industry, and all plants are so arranged that they can readily be- gin to manufacture explosives and poison gas, Even in peace time, a certain amount of practising in the“ manu- facture of war materials goes on, in preparation for expected heavy orders as soon as the new world war breaks out. Tanks of explo- sive chemicals are always standing around, sometimes open. | None of the workers burned and |torn by the present explosion are expected to live. BIG SHOE PLANT One More Boss Signs, Another Asks Peace One of the largest shoe factories yet tackled since the brilliant or- ganization drive of the Independent ‘ | ed today when a terrific explo- FOR MEX ‘Federals Closing in on Rebels; Gil Clai ICAN GOVERNMENT Torreon, Stronghold of ms Revolt Over Rebel Who Switched Back to Federals at Naco Says U. S. Mine Owners Interested CZECH WORKERS FIGHT FASCISTS Also Denounce Seizure of Union Offices (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) PRAGUE, March 13.—The anti- fascist organized two successful mass meetings here ye terday, during which Nedjedli and | Vrbenski, delegates to the Berlin | World Congress Against Fascism, |reported concerning its work. committee | Fascists who attempted to dis- \rupt the meetings were easily thrown out by worker marshalls. But afterwards the workers collided with more fascists in the streets, |whereupon the police clubbed the workers and arrested some of them. | The workers here are adopting |protest resolutions against the op- |portunist disruption in the Red |Trade Union Federation. The news that opportunist secretaries allied |with renegades expelled from the Communist Party carried out a “putch” (a sudden attack by a small number) in the executive committee of the federation has caused great indignation. The former collective leadership declares it will not sub- mit to the usurpation and appeals to all members to organize meetings demanding the calling of a congress to settle the question. FEAR COMMUNIST BULLETIN MEXICO CITY, March 13.— —General Almazan advancing on Torreon from the east, announces that Saltillo toward Torreon. his command has captured At the same time the army un- der Plutarco Calles advancing north toward Durango, in Dur- ango province, wired that in a battle between Canitas and Dur- \ ango, sixty wounded. rebels were killed or The rebel force totalled only 80, seven were captured and at once executed. The federals con- tinued their advance, and the col- Canitas to Torreon reports that federals are surrounding that from all sides preparatory to attack. umn advancing from city MEXICO CITY, March 13.—With federal troops closing in on the city of Torreon from the east and south, the dec » battle of the present re- bellion hourly expected. The forces of the rebels holding the city, under General Escobar, are reckoned at about 22,000 men, while the fed- erals, under Cales, marching from the south, number over 18,006, and those under General Almazan, com- ing from the east, are estimated at over 5,000. s is The lest 24 hours have been filled with events so favorable to the Gil government that Gil today issued a statement saying that the rebellion was already defeated. On _ this ground the president ordered stopped all enlistment in the army by volun- teer organizations, such as peasants’ ‘oups, and so on. NG WOMEN | HAVERHILL, Mass., March 13.— of strikers, lay near death. Thous- 7 3 Going Against Rebels. Charles S. Zimmerman, vice-presi-|Shoe Workers Union began several i Suddenly informed by higher-ups among the reactionary American la- bor leaders that the Workers’ In- ternational Relief is an organization ands of students and sympathizers ‘ealled during the day at Marchessi’s | ‘ome. “Here, too, the potice inter- | F # fered and blows were exchanged. The president of the Student Fed- to develope. The elaborate schemes for collect- jing--and distributing German pro- ‘ducts will not mean much, the “ex- iperts” fear, unless the amount Ger- dent of the union and manager of the Dress Department, Joseph Bor- (Continued on Page Two) |weeks ago is the Dan Paiter Shoe Company, 151 W, 26th St. Yester- day the strikers succeeded in get- ting the rest of the workers to join “TAKEN ON RIDE” Chief among ihe events favorable to the governm were the retrea of rebeis from Saltillo before the advance of Almazan’s columns from tion : ‘ ; ie their ranks, and the entire crew of |Mx-Soldier Di ¢ (Continued on Page Five) functioning on a working class basis, 4 ident Fe ’ many is to pay can be settled. If S60 “workere?s veket 2X Olaler Isappears he ata cae President Nolan, of the Shoe Work-|eration, Sbert (CQ), held in jail in-| Int’] Women’s DayMeet |the board dissolves. without fixing fo og en gs Advertises Debate ers’ Protective Union, sent an open|communicado, will receive visitors| \the amount of war loot, the French ro. Jetter to Haverhill papers withdraw- ing the letter of introduction to Hav- erhill locals, which he had given to Jeanette Pearl, W. I. R. organizer. To the great consternation of the labor fakers, however, the confer- ence for the permanent establish- ment of a W. I. R. local, to be held Will Hit War Danger Thousands of working women will tomorrow, pressure having been! | brought on the police authorities by | bourgeois families. It was stated | portant secret decisions today, said| ational Womens’ Day when the to embrace plans to spread the Mass pageant, depicting woman's strike to “other elements of the) Part in the class struggle from the |population” and get financial sup- | dawn of history to the present day, | | will be presented at |that the strike committee made im-| be educated to the meaning of Inter-| cabinet may fall. It is under fire now by extreme nationalists for jagreeing in advance to the U. S. controlled central bank and sales corporation, and if the total repara- |tions sum is fixed low, it will break down. On the other hand, if the sum ex- JENKS ‘DRY’ BILL Roosevelt Offers Power Plan That Aids Trust | To the original union call for an organization strike 75 answered, \that afternoon 100 more came out, and, after a sharp clash between | pickets and professional hired thugs, the remainder of the crew, 175, came out, emptying the large factory. Jail Strikers. (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, March 13.—Where is Harold Wood? His friends and members of the Communist Party |here want to know, intend to know, for Weod has not been seen or heard from since he started out KELLOGE FIGHTS BRITISH STOCK Embassy to Watch the 5 7. # a International 5 i aos ! In the clash with the gangster i fi this Friday evening at Liberty Hall, | Port. | ] ue ceeds about 1,500,000,000 gold ne $ te gangster | Saturday, dressed in the uniformhe | 74.1: 7. auhdced “tl by inetge teats’ onion Attack De Rivera. eee aes belied marks, the German cabinet will, ALBANY, N: Y., March 13 (UP) {guards, a striker, Herman, and Or-| wore duting the world wae with | English Power Trust and other labor organizations, still retains its adherents and’gives prom- ise of being even more successful than before the vicious attack by Nolan and the local press. | A proclamation was issued saying \that in the universities of Valencia, Barcelona, Saragossa, Valladolid, |Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Mur- \cia and Granada, students are strik- Ave., Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. | Girls from the needle trades, mem-| bers of the Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union, Millinery Local| probably fall, as Germany, through its delegates to the board, has never offered more than 1,200,000,000. —The assembly by a vote of 74 to 72 today voted to’ recommit the Jenks state prohibition enforcement bills to committee, which is tanta- mount to same as killing them for | ganizer J. Magliacano were arrested, |despite the fact that the organizer received a vicious slash across the cheek from a weapon carried by one of the thugs. They were boti: later sign on the back advertising the de- bate between Scott Nearing and Roger Baldwin on “The Nex Shall Workers Be Revolutionists or “Taken For Ride?” War— st | March WASHIN 13.—The action to protest its imperialistic in- 43, knit good kers, the Office! laced vont Pacifists?” s against Great Britain, by re- fi . 5 «| 43, it goods workers, the ‘ice | the present session of the legisla-|1eleased on bai! of $500 and came a cae 2 the London embassy to Letter Proves Boomerang. bee Beeps oe Workers Union and members. of the ? PIONEERS WILL ture. jup for trial Saturday morning in |e started fis ee nae aie “observe” developments in the bat~ The letter of repudiation by Nolan | added: fie ray of Working Women| The democratic minority with six |Jefferson Market Court. Vemeaiter the ‘hoanitally ghd hel es (tle of British owners to oust’ Amer- was sent to all local unions in town) wyyonday's government note dem- ine fe a at the| republicans broke away from the| During the period devoted to the |at the police stations have failed to ican stockholders who have filtered and instead of having an unfavor-| | trates aie aes Sh eens gat ering. Besides the pageant, N F RRED ranks of their party despite an ap-|paralyzation of this big plant, the ind actrees ceuiin into the British electrical power and able reaction, has succeeded in ral-| (2° "0°. ee ne meanness) revolutionary dances will be pre- peal by majority leader, Russell G.|Chandler Shoe Co. of Brooklyn and | i light trust, the General Electric Co., ping the taak anddils miembeonty of a regime which maintains itself | sented, : of the unions in support of the W. I. R. conference. In fact, Shoe Workers Local 9, acting as initiating influence in the conference, has permitted Organizer (Continued on Page Three) Gen. Nobile, Failing in Fascist Arctic Stunt, through falseness and lies, “Fight the War Danger,” the main | _,“In spite of the words ofthe) slogan of the meeting, will be ex- |dictator, who imagines all the time) pressed in all its phases by Juliet that his sword is clanking the Stuart Poyntz, head of the Depart- ground in barracks and courtyards,| ment of Work Among Women of we students have demonstrated our the Communist Party of the U. S. Jattitude as men and citizens with {boldness and sufficient heart to face |a government which is representa- jtive of Spanish boasters.” |A.; Rose Wortis, secretary of the! ; Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union; Albert Weisbord, of the Na- | tional Textile Workers Union; Kate Jingoes Demote “Red” «: Student Nathan Singer and Dora Salz- mann, members of the Young Pio- neers of America and pupils of P.S. 61, Charlotte St. and Crotona Park East, Bronx, will be transferred to Dunmore, made up the 74 votes ¢ placing the bill on the ¢ The Jenks bill was a state pro- hibition measure, which in commit- tee got transformed into a bill to allow the sale of 644 per cent beer. Important sections of the appro- priation bill were vetoed today. Vetoed Sections. the Goldstein Shoe Co. of New York called for a union representative to negotiate a settlement. The Chand- \ler Company signed up and confer- Tt is feared that Wood has been |“taken for a ride” (held up, forced |into an automobile and murdered in ences are still being held with the |some lonely spot in the country) by other firm, All employers signing | patriotic thugs, or that he has been [up are compelled to grant wage in-|arrested by the federal authorities creases and strictly closed shops. |Anti-Imperialist land spirited away to some jail, per- haps in another state. The local branch of the Interna- Ltd. (a British, company). not the American Stock for Englishmen, The General Electrie Co., Ltd., at a special meeting today authorized increase of 1,600,000 new shares of ordinary stock of £1 par value. They are to be suld to British in- dividuals and corporations ony at 2, 2s. each, or about $10.20. ee Serene te Upitedl Prem and Vow ACS) a “veined gortians’ include xe| Dy int Botith Africa |ine case. Defenge ds working:on'"” oie tage) His skit eaia Is Forced Out of Army) , STBEE PRODUCTION UP | Council of Working Women; Paul-|Distriet School Superintendent |p iwines Case weet | ‘Phe debate which Wood was ad. |™2n@ging director, said the action . Pe ep ee ty oe tee ect Nem eek. Rosters) i fopenl, iano decided at’ cool > s95 000,000 whieh was ridsmi|:::The new. aésdon "et the League! vertising takes place Friday eve. Had been made necessary because rati i i earin; yesterday. In addition, rat cere 4 RR alae 2 Babette : ~lmore th inary ROME, March 13.—General Um- baste & eel sae ne a ais ae i ae shige Be Reached demoted one Mended by the governor for lump | Against Imperialism which has been | ning at Temple Hall, Chicago. Scott bnaced scare road ump | berto Nobile, commander of the pep oent ca at si fh OU 96 |of the Amalgamated Clothing Work.|#rade. The'decision follows (Continued on Page Two) formed in South Africa is already | Nearing is a Communist and Roger |5 on¢ 000 shares) had’ passed’ into | Italia, has resigned from the army, oo Cont red eel sto ae wi, lege BRign | raitieipal’) Bway: Maguire's re ——-———- at work and on anti-imperialist day | Baldwin is director of the American |77->0* : and the resignation has been ac- cepted. Nobile is a true fascist, a fana- tical butcher during the world war, and a publicity hound after the war. As an assistant to Roald Amundsen in the flight over the North. Pole of the Norge in 1926, he tried to discredit Amundsen and take all the credit to himself. trip last year in the Italia, a ship blessed by the pope, angered the fascist leaders. The flight was meant as a jingoistic exhibition, and instead redounded to the credit of the Soviet Umon and ‘the crew of its ice breaker., the Krassin, which rescued the members of the Nobile party. Nobile himself fled from his companions in a Swedish airplane and left them on the ice. 12 Firemen Overcome dependents” were reported operat- ing at 92 per cent, against 91 per BORAH RAPS SPIES cent the previous week. Last year at this time U. S, Steel was operat- ing at about $9 per cent, and ihe in- WASHINGTON, March 13.—Sen- ator Borah today stated that he would begin a campaign to stop the His disastrous | ¢ dependents at about 77 per cent. use of “undercover” agents by the U. S. government. The elimination lism ix but the holy Of spies would hit the prohibition the priest conse- | service hardest, he said, but he would include all departments. SPIRITUALIST EXPOSED Doyle’s Ghost Proves to Be a Dentist | NAIROBI, East Africa, March 13. |—Spiritualism suffered an inglori- ous defeat and Sir Arthur Conan haunted house. He called attention to the “hard, wicked face” of the apparition and suggested that it! |eent suspension of the two pio- |neers—Salzmann for denouncing the persecution of working -class| children in the school, and Singer | for refusing to take the oth of | allegiance to the American flag. Singer was elected president of aldermanic school board, the Jaw- making body of the school. Salz- mann was elected judge. On hearing the results of the elections, Mayuire, notorious for his anti-pioneer pre- judices, immediately introduced new | rules whereby candidates for office were required to take the oath of ‘allegiance. Protest meetings against the suspension were conducted by local units last Friday. Hylan, ‘Man WhoWon’t. Run,’ Goes on Running Doyle, its noble proponent, received Perhaps was the spirit of a clergy- | ficials and calling on the membership | Local 38 Members Hold | Spirited Demonstration Condemn Officialdom More than one third of the mem- | bership of the Ladies’ Tailors Local 38 of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers Union answered the call of the organized left wing in that union and demonstrated in pro- test at the removal from the election ballot of the most active members of. the union because they had expressed sympathy with the striking dress- makers at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. A large assembly room was filled long before the meeting opened, After left wing leaders addressed the meeting, a resolution, condemn- it organized a public meeting in Civil Liberties Union. The chair- Johannesburg at which thousands|man will be Robert Morss Lovett, of Negro and white workers were | present. ‘one of the editors of the New Re- public. SPECIAL “DAILY” ISSUE To Honor 3 Great Anniversaries Sat. Saturday’s edition of the Daily ;Marx discussing “Capital.” Engels’ Worker will be a special issue de-|speech at the grave of Marx will voted to the. anniversaries of three |also be printed, as well as an article levents of the greatest importance to by Lenin on Marx. {the international working cla: “Marx on the Paris Commune” ;The three anniversaries—the Febru-| will be another of the interesting ary Revolution, the death of Karl jarticles in Saturday’s issue. The scientific socialist movement other. Today is the anniversary of |gives a_ brilliant analysis of the both Marx’s death and the begin- | Commune, completely sefuting all | American hands. This, he said, had occurred during the past year. A committee of American bankers has been formed in New York to urge more drastic action on the U. S. government to prevent the me- chanical control of the Generai Elec- tric of England by British owners who are issuing enough new stock to themselves to freeze out the Americans. Thomas L. Chadbourne is head of the committee. ANTLFASCISTS Marx and the Paris Commune all great founder and theoretician of | PARADE VIENNA t joceur within.a few days of each the ing the fascist procedure of the of-| (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) . ‘ man “earth-bound because of his} Former Mayor Hylan, who re-, to ignore the hypocritical appoint-/ ning of the February Revolution reformist interpretations of the na-|. VIENNA, March 13,—The anti- in Seven-Story Fire a kick here today from which he! gins.” — * cently coyly denied that he was go- ments in the “election,” was unani-|that overthrew Russian czarism. itae of the prdlstasian pevolations \fascist demonstration of the work- sliced will not recover so soon. He was| At this point a dentist arose andjing. to run for mayor in the next, mously carried. It urged members Monday, March 18, is the anniver-| In addition to these special ar- ¢rs on Sunday, led by the Commu- BOSTON, Mass., March 13. (UP)|Shown up as a fourflusher and al announced: “That's me.” He ex- elections, goes right on making all| to stay away from the polls and re- sary of the Paris Commune, the |ticles, the Daily Worker on Satur- first dictatorship of the proletariat. day will contain its regular features, These three great working class |“Bill Haywood’s Book” and an in- nists and Left wing, was a huge suc- cess. The mayor of the city had been compelled to withdraw the po- hoaxer, playing upon the ignorance | —A $200,000 fire of undetermined Pivhad duohtke: Wanahea: plained that the picture was taken J origin swept a seven-story building preparations for running. His or-| iterated the workers endorsement of | 15 years ago at Nottingham, Eng- ganization, “The Better City Lea-! the heroic struggle of the dressmak- in the financial district here today, spread to two adjoining structures and overcame twelve firemen with smoke before it was brought under control. Another fireman was in- jured. Burning paints and varnishes stored in the. blazing building made the blaze dangerous and spectacular. Doyle, who is touring and lectur- ing on spiritualism, was exhibiting “ghost pictures” which he claimed to be authentic physical manifesta- tions of spirit existence. One in particular he had pointed out, a dim figure which he ascerted spirit which had in>~’ it~” land, 100 miles Northwest of Lon- don. After he and friends had un- successfully watched all night at a haunted house for signs of a ghost, he said he had dressed in a night shirt and a friend had made the ~hotograph. “ir Avhur apologized. gue” is to hold a city convention ers against sweat shop conditions. May 14, at which time it will place . SAREE RAERORERG Hylan before the public as an “in- PIERCE-ARROW LOSING dependent candidate.” The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Cor- Hylan is an old Tammany man, poration has reported a net loss for but has been fighting with the 1928 of $1,293,025, after figuring off clique in control of Tammany Hall depreciation, interest, etc., compared for several years now. |to a net loss @f $783,200 in 1927. events will be fittingly honoved in Saturday’s Daily Worker. Some of the material to he included has never language. One of the most inter- Charles Darwin, formulator of the historic theory of evolution, and to esting items will be a letter from | teresting short story by one of the new Soviet writers. This edition jwill be a real treat for all workers been published before in the English | and it should be circulated as widely | as possible. Tell your friends and shopmates about it. Order by jbundle and from the Daily Worker, 426 Union Square, lice prohibition of the demonstra- tion under pressure of the masses. Five thousand workers demon- strated in the streets, headed by the Workers Defense detachments. They ;were greeted everywhere enthusias- jtically by. the workers assembled along the line of march,