The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRID/ CHARGE HARVEY WITH FRAME UP IN GRAFT GASE Say Harvey Wanted Boss to Perjure Self (Cont age One) at is relied upon to d Levin. Levin is} with being privy to the saction, The polar fliers who have Expose Harvey a . K. K. Antarctic. Left to right: J. E. Frederick Sa of the Hubert Wilkins, Polar Fliers Return; Greeted hy Ta just returned from an airplane Crosson, Orville H. Porter, Carl They were given a reception by Mayor Walker who always hangs onto the coat- mmany Walker Walker ACCUSED FAKERS. ey PREVENT STRIKE “OF CARPENTERS 'Halket and the Gang | Chiefs Aid Tammany The strike resolution presented by |the Dock and Pier Carpenters’ Union (Local 1,456) to the District Council of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer- des the ica, for a strike of 6,000 men forced George to work under the scale and’with bad exploration Ben Lielson expedition and Sir itracked by reactionary delegates Fire Destroys Hangars in Curtiss Field | 3 The hangars of Rogers Air Lines at Curtiss Field were a mass U.S, IMPERIAL NIRWAYS FIRM GRABS ROUTES Wants to GetArgentine Mail Before Britain BUENOS AIRES, March 14 (UP). ~The Pan-American Airways Com- pany is negotiating with the Argen- tine government for a concession to operate an air mail and passenger service from Buenos Aires to New York via the west coast of South ‘ eae sa se agit pe we cies eA chest ot cocoa bint a eh ENS apis jthere and turned over to the execu-| of -nins bei ling swept duildings, endangering the lives of the America, according to Vincente Lo- | got a post in Harveys cabinet he A say tive committee for action, where it] @°”*ers om the field. pez, local attorney for the Pan- |Young Communist Int’] American Airway-. n of a picture Klux Klan use publicat in his Ku regalia. A former official of the K, K. K. testified the day before that Harvey joined the organization, in one of its undercover branches, called “The American Krusaders.” Berg testi- me day that Harvey took (een Will Merely Ask 0 sent by Paino and told| [J, S. to Do Something him to use it to suppress proof that he had joined the Klan. Styles is himself a Klansman, al- though he says he was, “born, bap- d and brought up a Roman NO A.F.L. FIGHT (Continued from Page One) those made unemployed by machines because of their great numbers.” hens Militant workers regard Green’s atholic. ; i Fi 2 plan as nothing but an easy way Stop Quiz on Klan. ‘of dismissing a problem in which’ Paino took the stand yesterday,|he is not much interested, as the and swore he was in the habit of|U. S. Department of Labor has} carrying around with him twenty! never made the slightest effort to or thirty thousand dollars in ten|do anything for these unemployed,| thousand dollar bills, and that he. and Green proposes no way to force International Red Aid is agitating | gave Berg the $10,000 “for cam-/ action. paign expenses,” altho he was ac-| Workers who have studied the| tually supporting with much more! problem want a fight all along the; money, the democratic candidate, | line to absorb as many as possible Patten. |of the unemployed by cutting down! Judge Adel ruled out of order a/ the hours of the employed workers,| direct question from an attorney | without reducing day wages as the! addressed to Harvey: “Did you ever | best immediately practicable method | apply for membership in the Ku/ of reducing the misery of unemploy-| Klux Klan,” | ment. Businessmen Organize to | Defeat Old Age Pensions ALBANY, March 14.—(LRA)—A the bribery is not lost upon the|cials of the local, and Delegate Co-| boisterous summons to business men state factory inspectors, who are is issued by Merwin K. Hart in the thus urged the bosses’ lobbyst to current number of “The Magazine |overlook violations and to favor the; of Business.” Hart is a-member of manufacturers organized in the the Board of Directors of Associated | Associated Industries. | Industries . of the State of New) York, an upstate manufacturers’ lobby. organized to fight Workmen's| Reform Poor Law So compensation acts, old age pensions|tgo Make Many Jobless; and social insurance bills. L--der, Schultz, Jailed; I. L. D. Fights Arrest BERLIN, (B: Mail).—Walter Schulz, for many years a prominent member of the Young Oommunist International, was arrested and charged with being involved in the preparation and distribution of cer- tain material containing illegal mat- ter. He has been in prison since Jan. 24. The enquiry has been concluded and Schulz should now be released on bail awaiting trial, but the authorities refuse to release him de- claring that there is danger of col- lusion. .This is an excuse to keep a prominent revolutionary imprison- | ed and the German section of the energetically to enforce his release. LATHER FAKER ADMITS ROBBERY Evade Blame, Beg Men to Avoid “Daily” (Continued from Page One) eral President Bell, Secretary-Treas- urer Yoder, Organizer Weston, offi- hen, +» “Ought to be Satisfied.” They began by making pacifist speeches, telling the workers, who are ‘badly exploited and suffer from unemployment, that they “ought to be satisfied” with the agreements the officials have made. A worker got up and challenged ithe speeches and policy of the offi- ; conditions on city jobs, was = can be quietly choked to death. Action was taken after a long de- bate at a council meeting, 130 Madi- son Ave., during the night, and an- 7 K {nounced yesterday morning. | John Halkett, the president of the |Building Trades Council went out of \his road during the preceding day to and Little of Much “there w pia Cerieuy ot \“there will be no strike or tie-up of |work on the subways, schools or LONDON, March 14.—The Bald-jany municipal buildings or struc- win government of the Conserva-|tures.” tive Party is trying to make poli-| Accuses Fakers. tical capital out of the slight im-| The president of Local 1,456 still provement noted in reports on in-|threatens that the dock and pier dustrial production. Four big steel! carpenters will strike, at least on works in South Wales have reopened the job of underpinning the buildings after a long period of suspension,|on Nassau St., the most dangerous | and it is said that coal mining has! part of the work. | improved somewhat in Wales. When announcing that his Iccal However, the reduction in regis-| would demand a general strike, he tered unemployed workers for the! accused the leaders in the Building | past week, 5,000, is insignificant Trades Council of permitting all man- | compared to the total yet jobless—jner of injustices against the carpen-| a figure well above 1,250,000, But/ters on city jobs because they were the Baldwin government must have|influenced by Tammany patronage. | something to puff up, to exagger-| Among them is Halkett. » ate and show off as “achievements | “The influence of the City Ad- of the party” which faces a general|ministration in the Building Trades election in May, |Council can be seen readily by look- Another angle of Conservative ing over the appointments of dele-| Party propaganda is the “pooh-|gates to important city positions,” | poohing” of the war danger between |said Johnson, | England and the United States. Con-| “Francis X. Sullivan, chief coun- | Servative orators are spreading out sel of the Building Trades Council, | over England the fairy-tale that has been appointed a member of | there is no such thing as a rivalry|the board of transportation. Others |or hostility between England and are County Clerk Thomas M. Far- America, at the very moment when jley, William Kennedy, democratic |the intrigues of both these imper-|district leaders and member of the jialist_ powers are shoving China,|board of aldermen; Deputy Street {and Latin America as well, into|Cleaning Commissioner James J.| civil wars to “settle” which bunch/Nugent and John Halkett, head of ithe council, who was appointed by Gov. Smith to the state housing commission.” \Give Benefit Dance for |Negro Champion, Daily, | (Vida Obrera March 22 | gressive workers in the industry for The imports in January amounted | | millinery trade, piece work and the|Compared with the corresponding |44 hours in the cap trade, the ex-| period of last year the exports show Hart tells his fellow capitalists ‘Scrap: Roosevelt Bills jeials, He wanted to know when the) O¢ total of over three hundred CLEANERS GALL CAP, MILLINERY USSR FOREIGN The proposed route would join the |present P-~-Americin route from the {Panama Canal Zone over Central jAmerica, Cuba, and Florida, it was tending to the West Indies, includ- ing Trinidad, to hook up the Canal Zone with Venezuela and Baran- To Hold Meeting Next|Increase of 6.5% in 4) Monday Months | } | Opening a drive to gain members,| (Special to the Daily Worker) | the Cap and Millinery section of, MOSCOW, (By Mail).—U.S.S.R.| the Trade Union Educational | exports across the European fron- | League, a left wing organization!tier amounted to 52.2 million roubles | fighting the reactionary policies of|in\ January 1929 against 65.6 mil-| the right wing controlling their|lion rubles in December 1928 and) union, has called a meeting of pro-/43.8 million rubles in January 1928. Monday evening immediately after|to 51.8 million rubles, compared) ‘work, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th/with 47.9 million rubles in December St. and Irving Place. John J.|1928 and 58.1 million rubles in Janu- Ballam, organizer of the T. U. E. L.,,ary 1928, In January 1929 the for- will speak on “The Tasks of the/eign trade balance was favorable to T. U. E, L. the extent of 400,000 rubles against Issue Call. ja favorable balance of 17.7 million To this end the League section | rubles in December 1928 and an un-| issued a call which was distributed favorable balance of 14.3 million to the workers in the markets yes-|Tubles in January 1928. | terday, as follows: i | The total trade turnover of the “The union-wrecking activities of U-S.S.R. across the European fron- | the Zaritsky clique, the trampling |tiers for the four months of Oc. | upon the most elementary rights of tober 1928-January 1929 amounted the membership, their plans to car-|to 450.2 million rubles, the exports | ry out the program of the bosses | mounting to 231.6 million rubles for a collective agreement in the|and imports to 218.6 million rubles. | pulsion of locals and individual|/an increase of 10.9 per cent while members from the union. Their|the imports remain stable. | support to the Schlesingers and} The foreign trade done by the} McGradys, demands the unity of all|U.S.S.R, during the above four progressive forces in our union, de-|months across the Europeun fron- | mands the organization for a str tier and for the first three months gle against their criminal activi-|of 1928-29 across the Asiatic fron- ties, demands an organization to tiers amounted to 524.1 million lead this struggle. ‘rubles, which reprezents an increase “The Cap and Millinery Workers’|of 6.5 per cent on the correspond- Section of the Trade Union Educa-|ing period last year. tional League has carried on this! The foreign trade balance for four struggle despite the terror and dis-|months across the European fron- quilla, Colombia. * * 8 A British West Indies company is being formed to give service over much of this route, and as airplanes have unusual imperialist significance over other forms of commerce, the America company is trying its best to get in first and get the mail con- cessions, say observers here, LAST DAY! A Powerfal Drama of War Prisoners In Siberiat Homecoming Produced by ERICH POMMER, who created “The Last Laugh”; “Caligari”; “Variety*” film guild cinema 52 W. Sth St. (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) Dir. Symon Gould—SPRing 5095 Cont.; Pop. Prices; Daily 2 to 12 Pp. m.} Sat. & Sun. Noon to Midnight Com. Shortly: MOSCOW TODAY: A remarkable film of the Red Capital at work and play The Communist International jnext general meeting would be held, In | “ criminatory tactics of the Zaritsky | tier and three months across the and General President Bell snubbed i clique. | Asiatic fronticr was favorable to the “The Zaritsky clique could notjextent of 14.1 million rubles against succeed in exterminating the left) an unfavorable balance of 15.1 mil- wing from the union. We were|lion rubles during the same periods strong enough to prevent the estab-|of 1927-28. lishment of piece work, 44-hour week and the collective agreement, \ how the Associated does it. When| grpany, N. ¥, March 14.— the New York State Industrial Sur-| |(U.P.)—The senate today passed! him with the remark: “Not until bo |Champion is the one labor paper vey Commission was set up (to/ “ rs “a a jthe Fearon-Shonk bill repealing | ivili y which, happily enough for the cap-/v 2. York State's century and rh Let ee emeencag isi dis- | C@lling upon the Negro workers to italists, Mr, Hart happened to get/isi¢ old poor law and replacing it liked delegates, was listening out. |*88¥me their historic role in the appointed!), the Associated raised | ranks of the revolutionary move. | Militants Will Discuss : ith a statute approved by the|,; " i a slush fund of $20,000 which they |" ants side the door, When he thought it fe Serre f < turned over to the National “Indus-|St#te Department of Charities. The | yas safe for him to come in, he did rust caer Be nee catee dattto Coming Fake Pact egro newspapers published weekly | the United States, the Negro English edition — published on ; the Ist and 15th of each month measure would permit the elimin-|snq delivered a tirade against “the trial Conference Board, the major |... | | pene * ¢ Fe Ae ie cons) Mata Gas research agency of American ant jation of numerous poor law Of-| Peds.” The local secretary, ‘Anglin, |¢*Ploitation, both as Negroes and as | Appesling to the workers in the in the ps Ay ae oe hat he, recelves es ; PYs per year; i ti £o ehich ¢_ | ficials. |also spoke along the same line, mak- |workers, ; + acantng and: veins waduatey to Zaritsky worked hand in hand with) his waxes in cash, then be Ip set $1.25 for six months. The a all: the bic vata ayes The governor's spectacular plan to ing many flagrantly false charges | On Friday evening, March 22, at join them m a struggle for a union the eae Pe ae he be) bourgeolale, the landlord, the shop~ | Communist International has facturers’ ;:associations as well as (have the age manufacture see: jagainst the Communists and claim- Ce ee of ee not controlled by a reactionary and | ossive’ hp sr Hi brened etal Mae (Com eee Caer acum | resumed publication in a new |trie power at Niagara to give to the | y ions” in | 22! . = | i | $ ey a : the army and navy ordnance devart- | Avale siete ons jedbchad Aang ing that they broke up unions” in| jig ‘Two; Communist Party. of the eee ees that ane eee the | ae aoe | form. The January issue haw ments and the army and military |?) pi P: | “the west. U. S. A, will stage a benefit dance | NOTTS con itions to the bosses,’ gpiyjgQN WILL NAME DAWES. | just arrived. On sale at the jseems doomed. The republican ma- jority in the legislature wants priv- A te generation of power, and re- Board turned out a “survey” that |2' ; was submitted to the Industrial Sur- Pali are the: Diy tenga by vey Commission. As a result of | |. 4 this survey, the commission recom-| Not only that, but according to mended to the state legislature that |H. Edmund Machold, the governor's no further benefits be added to the entire legislative program will be | wworkmen’s compensation law for at |Scrapped, in retaliation. for , the least five years. vetoing of $54,000,000 worth of ap- Then Hart tells how he beat the i dipelnapechinihe a danathdee 2g 48-hour law for women workers and got a compromise on a 51-hour law, together with the recommendation that no further consideration be intelligence services. With this money the Conference Farm Population Less |Than 20 Years Ago; | bosses’ Members Not Consulted. The union members asked ques- tions of the officials, particularly ebout the last contract with the corporation. One member said, “Is it a legal contract when the members are not asked whether they would agree to it or not?” Sec- retary-Treasurer Yoder said it was. When ‘you have a class collaborat- ing machine in control of a union, the officials pay little attention to what the members want. Each official announced that he had not grafted. But Local Secre- tary Anglin, after pleading not ri . 5. | the Progressive Group of the Clean- for the Negro Champion, Vida! . A : . Obrera, the Spanish paper, and the ors and Dyers’ Union is calling Ft Sin vat to an open forum meeting to Daily Workat, John c. Smith’s | 59 held this evening at 8 o’clock Negro Orchestra will play darce Wash. Wiskeis maple obtained at in the Jewish Workers University, " * 108 FE. 14th St. | the Workers Book Shop, 26 Union . tril { |Square; the Champion, 169 West In the circular distributed to the | z i membership, the progressives call 138rd Street, and the Spanish Work: | attention to the fact that the Effrat ‘and Weintraub gang, which is at | | the head of the organization, is pre-| 1930 Census Plans to Coun’ Noses of Nation |paring to conclude another fake) WASHINGTON, March 14, given to such “unsound legislation” for “some years to come.” Thus far, boasts Hart, the legislature has fol- lowed his bidding. It pays, he points out, for employers to organ- ize a powerful lobby. Mark A. Daly, head of the Asso- ciated Industries, a few days ago, offered bitter opposition to a mild old age pension measure introduced in the legislature. (The bill would have given a measly dollar a day to any needy person over 70 who had lived in the state 15 years.) the business of the Associated “In- dustries to keep such legislation off the statute books and to keep the workers dependent on employers’ private pension slave plans. Daly is known to employes of the N. Y. State Department of Labor as the man who personally sends a box of cigars as a gift to each man ‘and a box of candy to each woman ‘jn the department at Christmas ‘time, The Bureau of Women in Industry staff are not included in “this subtle bribery. The reason for (Red Aid Press Service) APEST, (By Mail). —The parliament has adopted It is} Driven Out by Poverty | WASHINGTON, March 14, — | Farm population of the United | States is estimated by the Depart- |ment of Agriculture at 27,511,000 persons, compared with 27,699,000 a yeat ago and 32,000,000 in 1909. The figures show that the rural | population is steadily decreasing | and now is the smallest in 20 years | notwithstanding the fact that in | that time the population of the whole country has increased more | than 30 per cent. The terrific exploitation of the farmer by middlemen, by the state, and by those who sell him tools, | and manufactured goods, is the rea- son. A rationalization process keeps the supply of farm products up.to normal, despite the lower population in the country. ; The farmers driven from the land congregate in the cities and add to the army of unemployed, or cut wages and place other workers on the labor market. cation of such figures was caleu- lated to ‘incite the population against the state. In the future the agreement with the bosses, Even the degrading conditions provided) Plans for the census of 1930 pro- | vide an appropriation of $39,000,- in the alleged pact are never obeyed yy the bosses, who openly join with | guilty of graft, made the important admission that “systematic robe! 2 f \of the local has been going on f 00, and the field work is supposed tyears.” He did not answer-the im-| to begin Jan 1, next. It is esti- portant question, “Who did it, and | mated that 100,000 enumerators and why didn’t the officials stop it, or | 540 supervisors will be employed in at least tell the membership about | the field, while 6,000 or 7,000 office it?” which was in everybody’s | employes will be working at Wash- | mind. ington. The work in cities is sup- The officials went through the | posed to be finished in two weeks piuff of demanding that members | and in the country districts in four lmake formal charges, but all pres-| weeks time. Enumerators in cities lent knew that whoever did would | will get foun cents for each name. | go down under frame-up by the ma- | Those in the. country districts will on him. concentrated population. Discuss ‘Democracy, Negro’ at Harlem Meet “American Democracy and the American Negro” will be the sub- | ject of n lecture to be given by Dr. David N. Snedden at the Herlem | Workers Forum, 169 W. 182rd St.. | at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. Members of the Communist Party of the United States. of America are urged by Grace P. Campbell, chairman of the forum, to attend and stress the Communist viewpoint in the discus- | sion which will follow the lecture. | nm ® kind of | rohixm wi opportuniat sing | ment for © working clans movement. An ait, and Ly gente ply Led ities, one complem the other==V. 1. Lenta (Lett Come muniam). chine, or would have gangsters used | be paid according to scattered or) * Barricades = GEORGE SPIRO with an Introduction by M. J. OLGIN the officials to reduce standards, the | | progressives charge. | The Progressive Group has re- cently grown sufficiently in strength | and support to be able to issue aj | periodical called the “Cleaners’ and} | Dyers’ Voice.” In this paper the | betrayals of the officialdom are) | mercilessly exposed by articles as} | well as first-hand testimony taking | |the form of letters from workers on} the job. | | movement Is the 50c publication of all forms of statistics must be controlled by the minister of the interior, and without his per- mission nothing may be published. Further, only state institutions have the right to collect statistics. No private institutions, organiza-! tions or persons may collect statis- ties concerning property, property owners, income or concerning the! moral condition of the country, sta-| tistics of illegitimate births, abor- | ti was made to the) tions, ete. In the future, therefore, f the statistics, but it! figures in Hungary will-lie and fas- rved that the publi-feist liars will figure. ; + prohibiting the publication of es calculated to “incite” the ion. The occasion for this cable law, according to the of the secretary of state, ‘was the publication of sta- showing that only 12 per it of the land is in the hands of : ng peasants and that two- . ll the peasant and land- HAYWOOD’S BOOK— now running serially .in ‘The DAILY WORKER—ta two editions your copy today from the Source of All Revolutionary Literature Workers Library Publishers 85 E, 125th ST. NEW YORK CITY An eyewitness’ own story of the heroic struggle of the Parisian proletariat in defense of their dictatorship (1871). WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 48 EAST 126TH STREET WASHINGTON, March 14.—It| was stated at the state department EOTARS BUBLIC 2365 BROADWAY, New York City Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square, or order direct from Louis Gartner! 5 (Bntrance N. W. 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