The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 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 Daily Entered as second-class matier at the Post Uffice at New York, N. Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VL, No. 8 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents PREPARE TO SEND MILITIA AGAINST RAYON STRIKERS Tennessee Governor} Replies Quickly to Boss Request Plan to Spread Strike U.T.W. Agents Arrive, | Begin Betrayal BULLETIN. ELIZABETHTO! fenn., March 14.—Hundreds of striking young men and women, fighting for a mere pittance to add to their starvation wages, organized and for several hours conducted a placard parade thru this artificial silk manufacturing town. Among the placards borne de- fiantly by the hill-folk of Tennes- see, who had left their rural lives to come here to make silks and yarns, were: | a Week or Bust.” I ‘$8.50 a Week Here, Slavery.” | “Fair Wages or No Wages.” “We Can't Raise Wages On | Starvation Wages.” i oe ee ZABETHTON, Tenn., March 14.—No sooner requested than com- plied with! Captain Knox Alexan-| der, of the Adjutant General’s of-| fice, sent by Governor Henry Hor-| ton of Tennessee, is now here “sur- veying the scene” of the strike of 2,000 rayon workers, preparatory to} the coming of squadrons of militia 0 the officials of the} off Corporation. nrrival here of; reactionary United Workers’ Union of the A: ’. of L., are the two latest develop-| s in the spontaneous revolt of} exploited workers the production of ar- ers Get Busy. ly a day and the A. F. of L, unions’ emissaries are already | Kings Talk Over Dictatorship FAKE CONGRESS AT NANKING IS READY TO SPLIT Feng Demands Meet | Put Off; Moves Army Against Chiang Militarists Wrangling Uprising of Workers, Peasants Grows King Christian of Denmark talking to King Alfonso of Spain ' who sunports the brutal dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. NANKING, China, March 14.— aks There is every prospect that if the | packed Kuomintang congress opens tomorrow, it will be merely a for- Plot New Government. Tammany city detectives made a| Chiang Kai-shek from Marshall Green: Will Merely Ask |up snd tiieateniag to ‘shoa ther [end deuions American Federation of Labor|Sisted on searching the rooms and | ment. what the plan could be, nor what|*® Sobmit to search |all real business will be indefinitely an Uns ON Negro Porters \sostvoned.. Postponement. even of aa |the opening of the congress is de- : tu NO A, F, L, FIGHT brutal assault with clubs, black- Feng Yu-hsiang. : jacks, iron knuckles and guns on _ The Kuomintang organization in Negro porters. working as “red ees denpunces: the conenete. caps” in the Grand Central station PN ike Se group, a lyesterday, and, after searching their Sips P and decisions. DW: S. to Do Something friends, arrested four of them. | The dicks raided the porters’ room| A quarrel is brewing within the President William Green of the|0m the lower level, on the suspicion | congress itself, in spite of the fact American Federation of Labor told|that gambling in policy slips went | that over half of the delegates are capitalists and others at the Bond|on there. When they arrived «nd | not elected at-all, but are appointed would “ask the U. S. government|lockers to which the porters ob-| Shanghai business men ate almost to formulate a plan for giving a sertet When the detectives began} openly plotting to finance a new living to the workers displaced by|to carry on a search, porters col- Cds : machinery, until they can care for|lecting from all parts of the Grand CO ae eager Tite Keiddeiven,” |Central station objected, upon which} _* ; i pressure the A. F. of L. under his| During the attempt to search the | direction would bring to have it lockers, the police used all of their alther” made .or carried . out: |eapons in a murderous assault. DRAW THOUSANDS |One of the detectives drew his gun | and threatened to shoot if the work- |manded in a telegram received by TO AID JOBLESS SRN lecsrsl Gandatockers. REE thee nation-wide a circular stating that Club luncheon yesterday that the|Saw no gambling going on they in-|b. the Chiang Kai-shek govern- the detectives tried to force them jers did not clear out. Those present at the luncheon got the impression that altho Green is familiar enough with the effects of i 4 h Four red caps were arrested: LO Denounce Imperial continued introduction of newer f A | Thadd Ni types of machinery into mining, Peat he he peat tees War at Meet Sunday textiles, water and land transporta- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929 ‘Revolutionary Emblem CHARGE HARVEY WITH FRAME UP IN GRAFT CASE Wanted Ward Leader to Aid; Would Say He Offered Big Bribe Paino Is Papal Knight More Evidence Harvey Joined Ku Klux Klan “Proletarians. in all countries, umte for the common struggle against the imperialist. war-mak- ers and their fascist and re; ist agents, for the common gle for the defense of the orm- Union!” With this as their bat- Harry J. Sivles, ¢ chairman tle-cry, the Red Front Fighters of of the revublican jon in Germany, numbering many \the Fourth ict of | thousands of proletarian fighters, | Queens, re on the | will gather the week of May 19 stand in the bribery trial of Frank in Hamburg, scene of the 1923 |H. Berg and Albest L. Levin that | uprisings, for their fifth cong Queens Ecrouzh President George Delegates from Denmark, Hol- U. Harvey called him into his pri- | land, Belgium, Austria, Switzer- ve ice and nroposed to him that land and other countries will be tozether they frame up Berg for | present. Above is the emblem offering $10,000 bribe to Harvey. that has been adopted for the , He said Harvey telephoned him | congre to come to his home and that when | he got there Harvey said: “Berg is a skunk and I don’t want }you to have anything more to do with him.” ADMITS ROBBERY He said that finally Harvey said mL |to him: | “I want you to say you were with me, and that you saw Berg try to | |Evade Blame, Beg Men bebe Hie The Sais Has are + . when I must get Berg before he US A I ieee Yeu ew hg yom sa | him offer me a ten thousand dollar International and local officials of | },; the Lathers Union appeared at a Styles testified he protested to Be oe rie ets BE te come oat eon |try and defend themselves against |fimatly; had made it plain that. he frave charges made by the Lathers | would:not: a¢cuse Berg, he asked Section of the Progressive Building |jrarvey: . Trades Group and published in the | Daily Worker. They begged the | lworkers not to read the Daily | | Worker any more. One admitted that there was robbery in the local. |The charges were that the money jof Local 6 was being misused and wasted, and that the officials. used \gangsters to drive union men from “Does my position in your cabinet depend on my saying these things?” Harvey, Styles said, replied: “T would not take it that way.” Testimony that Berg brought a $10,000 bill from |Sewer contractor and Papal Knight, as the first installment of a $200,- Angelo Paino, | OF REBEL GAINS IN MEXICAN WAR Gil Government States Rebellion Will Be Crushed Soon Clash Due at Torreon U. S. Border Scene of Important Moves BULLI N. Captain Finar Lundborg, Swed- MEXICO CITY, Mz ims ish aviator who fought against Three fed coldniik ‘oiniuiand= the workers in the Finnish white | oq by Ge Saullo) Aliend guards is coming to Am and Carden e closing in on His latest stunt was the 1 Torreon to vent the rebel | of (Nobile, from the Arctic te." | forces: under’ General . Escobar { Lundborg and Nobile, true’ fas- | trom withd to Chihuahua. cists, saw nothing wrong in sav- |’ Calles is pushing north separately pi A ie scemenanter., of hak eee to the west to clear Durango of 4 ° g his men to die, | rebels who might execute a flank but the world | outery forced | movement if. not. prevented. demn” Nobile’s behavior. AIS es Peels hows ing Nogales, Sonora, on the U. S. borde re preparing to attack als holding Naco, also a i point. A rebel. attack. is | | developing against Mazatlan on the coast of Sinaloa, western NAVY GUT TALK = | MEXICO CITY, March 14,— OF gra: Though reports from the U. S. bor- League Meet on War ‘der gave rebel claims that they had won two clashes with federal troops Materials Breaks Up | pa WASHINGTON, March 14.—Sec- retary of State Kellogg today threw cold water on fervent hopes of the pacifists that a naval disarmament egreement would result from the Arms Limitations Preparatory Con- yester r Saltillo and some- ar San Luis Potosi, the Gil government denies the truth of these claims, stating that “Amer- ican airmen who flew over the re- gion” say government troops march- ing north uninterruptedly. What |“American airmen” are doing fly- ference, which meets in April in|ing over central Mexico. is not Geneva. | stated. The hopes were based-on a rumor! President Gil yesterday declared that the United States, France and |The rebellion is broken. The last England were. holding unofficial ? vestige of it will be crushed out in conferences to arrive at a common a week or two.” Meanwhile, how- agreement before the conference. | eyer, the main Mexican federal U. S. Empire Stands Pat. army is driving steadily north to- Kellogg ‘said that this was’ not ward Torreon expecting to engage usy with their. ~of- stifli Pate f ., busy! with; them deaineiss i Ding. ther act aia~tiiaed al bratiches oF tds ilaming of the strike, e hundred workers em- in the American Bemberg ion are demonstrating their s to join the strike. The king against the Glanz- ‘ation are demanding ediate spread of the strike to that plant, and the U. T. W. agents join the Bemberg bosses in pleading that the strike should not he broadened. The Bemberg plant (Continued on Page Three) 70,000 STUDENTS IN MADRID STRIKE Americans Would Like to Be Scabs HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron- tier, March 14.—Reporis escaping the censorship from Madrid say that in the clash last night between striking students and police in the center of Madrid ten persons were killed and scores wounded. . It is estimated that 20,000 stu- dents in Madrid alone are affected hy the strike, which arose over the students resenting the closing of the ertillery academy and the ejection of its students. When the other students made protests at this ac- tion of the Primo de Rivera dic- tatorship, the government placed policemen in the class rooms of the Madrid and other universities. Instructors With Students. The instructors joined in resent- {ment at this police supervision, and the students struck in Madrid and (Continued on Page Five) New U.S. Poison Gas “Can Snuff Out Army” (By LRA Service) ‘A new poison gas, called casodyl isocyanide, is described by Dr. Hil- ton Ira Jones, research chemist, as follows: “One sniff of it would kill man; a lot of it would destroy armies as a man might snuff out a -andle.” But Dr. Jones is reluctant ‘io talk about the matter, “because Jthe government does not wish the subject discussed.” Of all the classes that. nti to face with the bourgeo! the proletariat e in a really revo- lutionary ¢lass—Karl Marx (Com- _munixt Manifesto). Members of the Communist Party at present unemployed are asked to report Saturday, March 16, between 1 and 2 p. m., at Workers Center, fourth floor, where they can obtain part time work. F te dustry, concerning which he even | cited some of the more recent catas- trophes to workers, such as the di: | placement of 3,000 musicians within | the last year by talking movies, he regarded the situation as one for some kind of polite charity, rather | than for a strenuous fight by labor | to save itself from decimation. For Bigger Charity. Confirming his apyarent com- fortable acceptance of the present hours and wages, which permit every improvement in machinery to cast thousands into the labor mar- | ket, Green said, “No private ‘agen- | cies can cope with the problem of | (Continued on Page Two) | | WindowWasherPickets of Roxy’s to Be Tried \by Magistrate Today Three strikers, members: of the Window Washers’ Union, Local 8, are to come up for trial in the 57th St. |picketing in front of the Roxy and |Capitol. Theatres. Magistrate Mc- \Carthy yesterday found Harry Der- lier, another striker, guilty and gave him a suspended sentence. A determined struggle is being carried on by the Window Washers Union against the open-shop Com- mercial Window Cleaning Company, which has contracts with the Roxy and Capitol Theatres. The union demands decent, working standards jfor the men employed at this hazardous trade and recognition of their union, . Earlier in the week, Harry Der- mer, a picket, was arrested before Roxy’s and was compelled to pay a $25 fine. The other three, who are to stand trial today, are Business Agent Shafchick, Lee Kimmel and | Fd. Reitelbaum. FRENCH CABINET ROCKS PARIS, March 14.—Premier Ray- mond Poincare’, government saved itself again by a narrow margin in the chamber of deputies this after- noon when a vote to adjourn the de- bate on the proposal to restore re- ligious orders in France was de- feated. The vote was 321 to 249. By GRACE HUTCHINS The strike of 2,000 rayon workers at the huge American Glanzstoff Corporation piant in Elizabethton, Tennessee, reveals inhuman condi- tions of low pay and speed-up under which the men and women have been slaving. “Happy Valley,” where the plant is located, should be called Misery Valley. The Glanzstoff Company, employ- Magistrate’s Court today for | }Corona and Hayes Foster. of 1990. |Seventh Ave, They ‘are being held jon from $1,000 to $1,500 bail, and e charged with having gambled with policy slips. BASLE WORKERS TO DEFY POLICE Will Hold Anti-Fascist Meet Called Illegal (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BASLE, Switzerland, March 14.— |The Swiss Federal Council, which recently prohibited the anti-fascist meeting in Tessin because of “dan- ger to public order and damage to Italian-Sw diplomatic relations,” has now, over the ‘heads of the lo- jcal authorities in Basle, prohibited the meeting here against fascism. The workers are determined to |hold the meeting in spite of the pro- hibition. . The social democratic press is sabotaging it and objec- tively supporting fascism. Fascists Wanted It. When it was first proposed to |hold anti-fascist meetings in Basle, the bourgeois and fascist press be- gan a campaign for the city to pro- |hibit it, However, the Basle au- thorities decided there was no legal basis for the prohibition of the meeting. The Swiss federal council then disregarded the Basle authorities and declared that the Basle meeting | would also endanger public order |and international relationships, etc., ond could not be held. The revolu- tionary workers’ organizations have decided to defend with all necessary means their constitutional right to hold meetings. Poland Mobilizes in Vilna and Corridor LONDON, March 14 (UP).—The Polish war ministry has ordered mo- bilization of the reserve army in \all districts of the Vilna Palatinate and the Pomeranian Corridor, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Warsaw reported tonight. RAYON AND SLAVERY Tennessee Strike Reveals Exploitation ing more than 5,000 workers, one of the ‘largest of the new rayon com- panies, is part of the international rayon trust or cartel. It isa branch of a vast German company which announced profits of over $2,000,000 last year, It maintains “close neigh- borly relations” with the American Bemberg Corp., its near neighbor at Elizabethon, and together the two Continued om, Page Three “Down With Imperialist’ War! Defend the Soviet Union! Fight Capitalist Rationalization!” will be the message of speakers at Inter- national Women’s ‘Day Celebration at Central Opera House, 67th St.) jand Third Ave., Sunday, 2 p. m. Thousands of working class women are expected to attend the meeting, which is being arranged by the Wom- en’s Department of the Communist | | Party of the U. S. A. At the meeting, which is expected/ to prove one of the most successful) celebrations since International} | Women’s Day was first inaugurated | in the United States, women and| girls who were clubbed and arrested| in the recent dress strike will join} | with working women from Millinery | Local 43, the Office Workers’ Union, \the United Council of Working; ‘Women and fraternal organizations in denouncing the preparations for the imperialist war. | The feature of the event will be) the pageant of the class struggle,! which will show tableaux depicting | sweat shop conditions, the dress strike, picket duty, and scenes at the factory gate, Revolutionary) dances will also be given. Speakers will include Rose Wor- tis, of Millinery Needle Trades} Workers’ Industrial Union, Gladys} Schechter and Sylvia Bleeker from Millinery Local 43, Kate Gitlow, of the United Council of Working Women ,and Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Ray Ragozin, of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Call Local 38 Members to Stay Away from the Fake Elections Today | Three of the oldest members of the Ladies’ Tailors’ Union, Local 38, of the International Ladies’ Gar-} ment Workers’ Union, chosen as a) committee by the huge protest meeting of the membership Wednes- day night, to demand an honest elec- tion from the right wing executive board of the union, were told “we will do as we damn please.” As a result, all progressive members of the union are called upon by the Progressive Group in that organ- ization to stay away from the polls and refuse to participate in a fake election, to be held today. B, Chazanow, M. Goodman and N. Abramowitz, whose union mem- bership books carry the oldest num- bers, being Ledger No. 1, 2 and 126 respectively, were the commit- tee chosen by the protest meeting which crowded large Bryant Hall. The demands they had made of the right wing gang styling itself “the executive board,” were that the 20 members who ran on the progres- sive ticket, and who were removed from the ballot because they ex- pressed sympathy with the dress strikers, be put on again by the bureaucrats in control. The refusal of this demand was the signal for the call to sabotage the election. | jobs that. were not.controlled. by. the bosses’ corporation, made arrange- ments with the big bosses to leave |certain jobs non-union, and ran the | union through a closed clique. Other \erimes were also included in the ac- cusations in a leaflet distributed by the progressives. Among those present were Gen- (Continued on Page Two) FORCE BIG SHOE PLANT TO CONFER Union Strikes at More Open Shops | The large shoe manufacturing | concern, Dan Palter Company, 151 W. 26th St., which has fought with | great vigor, but in vain, all attempts | of the Independent Shoe Workers | Union to unionize its plant, was yesterday compelled to enter into negotiations with a union represen- tative for a settlement of the strike. Concede Workers’ Demands. Tt took three days of the most! militant picketing tactics before the | entire factory crew of over 350 workers were all able to quit work and join the strike seeking the union- izaticn of the shop. As a result of the first conference | held with the employers,, some of the workers’ demands were conceded, which were brought to them for consideration. The workers, how- ever, insisted on all of their de- mands, which include completely closed shop, a wage increase, aboli- tion of a vicious fines system, ete. Boss Lonely for Profits! Three days of a 100 per cent strike by the 135 workers in the Goldstein Shoe Company were neces- sary before the employer here was | cverwhelmed by his desire to resume the manufacture of shoes, He, too, | was willing to confer and will have to come through with wage grants | before settlement can be had, | The newest shop to be caled out | on strike in the successful organiza- | tion drive the uhion is conducting is } the Colonial Shoe Compary of Rrooklyn. Here over 100 workers walked out and joined the union. Picketing was begun immediately. | This shop was pulled yesterday | morning. 5 Plan New Strike. The Colonial shop and that of the Gerson and Style Shoe Company were both called out on strike yes- terday. The last mentioned is a smaller factory, located at 40 W. 28th St. Plans were last night completed for the calling out on strike of the shop of Gerson and Style, 40 W. 28th St. The workers here had all joined the union and are in readi- ness to begin the fight which leads to more wages and decent working (Continued on Page Two) | i iggest-hattle of th 36, ahd that Any proposals of limi-|i9 the biggest battle of the present tations must come first from Eng. | ebellion. Another federal foree is (Poincare Forcing Thru ee eee ovine that when they | directed toward Durango. Bill to Finance Monks did they would ‘be passed on to Calles Names Catholies. land 151,746,464 tons in 1926. to Belgium and now practically a professional head of U. S. delega- PARIS, March 14.—The Poincare | tions to aris’ conferences. government today jammed thru a motion, on which the fate of the cab- inet depended, to immediately de- bate giving state property to cer- tain Catholic religious orders. The imperialist nec.:sities of this for Imperial Prestige John W. Davis, former ambassa- \dor to England, proposes in an a‘ ticle in the coming Foreign Affairs, that England give up her claimed {right to seizure and search of ships, he chi when she is engaged in a “private measure were used as the chief ar-|..4.% je, not one to enforce an gument for it: Aristide Briand, for-| dey of the League. But England eign minister, said that without it,!; \yetty strong in the League, and Peenepemulgsonery, er 9uns {would not) will probably get its consent for ave money. enough for their pro-| most of her wars. paganda, and “French prestige | ane would suffer.” seh ‘ 2 The opposition, led by Deputy Al-| GENEVA, March 14 (UP).—The exandre Varenne, former governor |latest efforts of the League of Na- of French Indo China, merely argued tions to control private and com- that the religious issue should. be tercial production of war material discussed calmly, and not rushed. failed yesterday when the commis Communist members of the cham-| Sion of experts under Count von ber of deputies were not able to Bernstorff of Germany adjcurned speak today, on account of the rules, | Without accomplishing anything. but will participate in the debate ” which is now opened. Many To Subjugate Colonies " 7 C LONDON, March 14.—W. C. Anlst? Bridgeman, first lord of the admir- LIBERTY, S. C., March 14.—A |alty, speaking on the naval program reckoning of life and property dam- of Britain, denied that England was age, caused by a tornado which last engaged in a naval raca.with U. S., night struck the little town of Six |put, said she: “must maintain an Mile, near here, today revealed a | adequate navy to protect her insular toll of nine lives, nearly a score in-|position and imperial _responsibil- jured and a number of homes and ities"; there is “no danger to the other buildings destroyed. |peace of the world in two such pa- EEG SER 5 cific nations as Great Britain and COAL PRODUCTION FALLS the United States maintaining ade- HARRISBURG, Pa., March 14.— |quate navies for defense.” The department of mines today | Bridgeman. revealed that England stated that the production of soft |will lay down three new cruisers in coal in Penrtsylvania is seadily fall- |1929, ing, being but 129,846,603 tons in 1928, as against 131,644,922 in 1927 the navy estimates tonight without a vote. UNIQUELENIN ARTICLES Unusual Features in ‘Daily’ Tomorrow Two articles by Lenin, never pub- “The Paris Commune,” by Karl Marx, lished before in the English Jangu-|an article on Marx’s intellectual in- age, will _be among the features in terests by Paul Lafargue, a biograph ge seria edition of Fe Daily |ical sketch by his daughter, Eleanor “Daily” will be devoted to honoring [of Mars, “nttcies’ phim by “hese four anniversaries: the death of |Luxemburg and George Piekhan- Karl Marx, the Pairs Commune, the off, and an article on the tenth an- February Revolution in Russia and jniversary of the Comintern by M. the tenth birthday of the Communist | Jablonski. International. | Two otker unusual features will be lieioaa! tier giving ho fleas xoar live Mase’ Segue ofiees \tion to the revolution of February, America and an original photograph 1917, and his thesis of March 17, on the February Revolution. Both these | historic documents were written \from Zurich and ‘a picture of the jhouse in which they were written will be included in tomorrow's issue as well as a police photograph of Lenin as he looked at the time of the February Revolution. Among the other articles to be in- American friend, Don’t miss tomorrow’s Daily Worker. Tell your shopmates and friends about it, The best way to make sure of getting all future [special editions of the “Daily” is to subscribe. A year’s subscription will also Lring you free the large standards By Aa bound volume of “Bill Haywood’s Memoirs.” - : cluded in this unusual issue will be a a a alla em Huge 'S. Gibson, U.-S. mire tal | The House of Commons approved ne of himself sent by Marx to this’ General Calles has set up a new + |federal temporary headow>~ Rio Grande, in the s*>+ |g0, and ordered troops releaseu | from the liquidated campaign on |the Vera Cruz front, westward into Guanajuato, an important railway |junetion on lines between Mexico |City and Guadalajara, as Calles If said, “to suppress the Cath- rebels” in that section. i hi | The Gil government regards that the present most important moves |are along the U. S. border, where |General Olachea, switching back to |federal allegiance, has seized Naco and thrown panic into the Sonora |rebel front on the border. He yes- | terday sent troops south forty miles to guard the great American owned }copper mines at Cananea. } Although rebels seemed to be moving troops in Sonora to recap- ture Naco, a plan is afoot to put |the rebels there on the defensive by }an attack from the west under com- mand of General Rodriguez, who is | holding lower California for the fed- | (Continued on Page Five) Helping Federals. Communists of Prague Condemn, Expel Those Attacking Red Unions (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) | PRAGUE, March 14—A meeting lof all the Communist organizations Prague yesterday unanimously {condemned the attack on the Red Labor Federation by liquidators, | Those responsible for this attack are |secretaries and editors: Josef Hais, |Arno Hais, Halik Mikesh, Tcherny, |Jakubek, Mendel Gruenzweig, Douda |Kratki, Handlirsh. They have been |unanimously expelled from the Com- |munist Party. 9 KILLED IN FACTORY MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March |14 (UP).—-Nine persons, two of them’ women, were burned to death today when they were trapped by ‘flames in a small shoe factory. Five other employes escaped. Damage |was estimated at approximately $8,000. Urge Return of All Emergency Lists in Drive of the “Daily” in their posses- sion collection lists and funds in connection with the Emergency Drive of the Daily Worker, which has just closed, are urgently re- quested to mail or deliver them at once to the business office of the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square.