The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 1

S Y > DA Baily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. umder the net of March EW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929 2 P.M. HOUSE, TOMORROW AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’ 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 a Price 3 Cents Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, tnc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Vol. VI, No. 9 MEXICAN COMMUNISTS DEMAND ARMS T0 FIGHT REACTION 7.500 MINERS 7 Mexican Troops Near Torreon tor Battle New Submarine of British Empire Snarls at U. S. Empire ae LOGKED OUT IN UID. eS Karl Marx, 1818-1883 DI ~ PENNSYLVANIA| UL, SHIPS TEAR ae REBEL TRIUMPH Speed-up, Long Hour GAS AND ARMS T0 | WOULD AlD THE GIL GOVERNMENT _ WORKERS’ FOES Tactics Produce Too Much; Men Starve U. 8. Submarine Fleet Calles and Gil Have Off Mexico; West W.LR. Raising Relief ue Permitted Growth Coast Watched of Reaction Escobar Gives Policy 4 Owners Victimize Men Who Tell of Conditions TAMAQUA, Pa., March 15 (UP). —Seven thousand, five hundred men were thrown out of work today for) an indefinite period when the Lehigh | Coal and Navigation Company an-| Demand Arms, Power The “Orpheus,” most deadly submarine ever constructed, just launched at Dalmuir, Scotland. This boat has six torpedo tubes, heavy artillery on board, and a long cruising radius. She can post herself outside New York harbor, and drown a lot of the marine transport workers in the coming world war. ‘U. S. subs of similar deadliness will do the same in England’s narrow seas. For Honest Gov’t, Says, Leading Looter Workers and Peasants Oppose Rebellion nounced suspension of all its Pan- ther Creek Valley operations, Slack market conditions blamed for closing the mines, and officials said they could not say when operations would resume. ‘were Un iene * The “slack market conditions” are largely the result of the long wor! | 1 speedup policy of the coal mpanies, coupled with introduc- tion of machinery by which a crew of from five to 25 miners working a gang, under a boss, replace and much coal as_ several 's working individu- under the od sys- National Miners’ Union is ng to’ organize the miners from the low. point to which have been cut, but also for the absorption of the unemployed by a (Continued on Page Five) REVOLT AGAINST HILLMAN GROWS Presser Club Steps Out to Fight Traitors So deepgoing ig the revolt of the workers in the men’s clothing in- dustry against the rule of the Hill- man gang, over the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, that hith- crto pro-administration elements are coming out openly in a fight against the company unionization of the A. C. W. Threaten Hillman. Suddenly breaking a long-main- tained silence, the employers’ press, which hitherto quoted long extracts ; from union statements that “abso- lute peace” prevailed in the union, yesterday came forth with the an- | nouncement that the Pressers’ Club had held a meeting and “issued a threat of war against Hillman fox his use of the expulsion weapon against those who fight his union- wrecking policies. They also de- nounced his piece-work and check- off system policies, demanding their imnfediate recall. It was learned, (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS LEG FROZEN OFF. A worker, William Garrison, forced by his low wages to sleep in an un- heated shack near White Plains, had his leg frozen two nights ago, so} severely that all feeling was lost, and he. did not know what was the matter with it. He continued on his job until gangrene set in and it had to be amputated yesterday. New Russian Story, Article by Lenin in DailyWorker Monday The first instalment of a long short story by one of the new Soviet writers will’ be, published in the Daily Worker Monday..The story is a :masterly character study of a young Russian stu- dent who,‘ after: going: thru ' the horror of the Revolution and the civil wars, finds the necessary labor of the reconstruction period too prosaic and “goes to pieces.” Don’t fail to read the first in- stalment of this fascinating sty and follow it every day in the Daily Warker. Subscribe and you will be sure of not missing. any numbers. 2 ‘ In Monday’s issue a remarkable}. article by Lenin on “Marx and Historical’ Materialism” will also |;|Commune) bréaks the: modern state | New Political Committee and TQ FEATURE MASS eernes Vomimunisi £070) pyeraiy dnunay ANOTHER LARGE 0S8 SIGNS ‘Expect New Victory as ‘SHOE B Week Ends The closing of the week sees the | Independent .-Shoe - Workers . Union chalking up a strike victory against another large firm, and at the same time gives evidence that still another jghoe, boss will be compelled to bow | | | | f 1" | JOSEPH MAGLIACAN! 0. jbefore the might: of. this young or- | lganization, before the week closes. The Goldstein Shoe Company, 127 \Spring St., hiring a crew of 135, | signed up late last night and agreed to concede all the demands of the workers. This shop had held the men on strike for about five days. The Gerson Style Shoe Company will probably sign up tomorrow. Another large firm that is anxi- ous to end the strike is the Colonial Shoe Company where~ oyer 100 workers are employed. Acceptance of the Union’s uniform contract was already conceded, but the firm was not yet ready to agree to all the demands of the crew, such as wage raises, ete. The workers, are to listen to a renort and will decide whether they want to go back or hold out. A new strike was also declared yes- terday against the Calsrad Co. and the entire crew is out in answer to the call. The fight against the Dan Palter Co., where 350 are still striking, is being conducted with the greatest vigor, despite the negotiations for a settlement that are going on. This is'the biggest shop to be tackled in the drive and a strong fight for rec- ognition is being conducted here, It was in front of this shop, at 151 W. 26th St. that, Organizer Joseph Magliacano, was injured. A scab -had slashed him. across the cheek, inflicting a deep wound. Not a single man;is left in the shop, and it is quite certain that the employer will submit to unionization and the wage raise..concessions, . Although, injured, Magliacano was arrested ‘and will be compelled to-face .trial’ in the Jefferson: Mar- ket Magistrate’s Court this morning. The! working cl lay hold of” the rendy-mnde state machinery, nnd wield it for its ‘own :. Thin new Commune (Parix raet Following the Sixth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S. A., which re- cently concluded its sessions in New York, the new in plenary session to transact such post-convention business as the election of the Political Committee and Secretariat of the Party. The new Political Committee elected at this plenary session con- sists of fourteen members, to which will be added one additional mem- ber to be selected by the Young Workers (Communist) League. The \composition of the new Political | Committe is such as to include 2 Negro comrade and three workers now employed in the shops and mines. Of the fourteen. members, ten were selected s representative , of the former majority and four of |the former minority of the party. Ten candidates to the Political Com- mittee were selected, only a portion ‘of the number being able to attend the regular meetings, due to their places of residence. The plenary session of the Central Executive Cémmittee selected the new Secretariat of the Party, which consists of Comrades Max Bedacht, | William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow. These co-equal secretaries have! their functions assigned as follows: |bord, of the National Textile Work-| Agitation and Propaganda: Bed- acht, Trade Union Secretary: Foster. Executive Department: Gitlow. RAYON BARONS TO BRING IN SCABS Strikers Determined to Resist ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March 15,.—Announcement was made to- day by the officials of the Ameri- can Glanzstoff Corporation, a rayon trust, that they will try to resume operations with strikebreakers which the company is preparing to import in large numbers. That the desperately determined strikers, numbering 2,000, are not prepared to accept this submissively ean be gleaned from the answer given a capitalist newspaper re- porter by one of the women strik- ers, who was asked what they would do if strikebreakers were imported. After explaining that there are more ways than one in which a hee can be used, she added, “and I haven’t forgotten how to us¢ a hoe.” * Start Injunctions. Just as the helpful Governor Hor- ton provided the rayon barons a militia officer to stay in. the strike zone and give the signal which will bring troops at a moment’s notice, (Continued on Page Three) M. J. Olgin to Discuss Problem of Nationality, School Forum Sunday The Workers School Forum ex- pects one of the most interesting lectures of the year this Sunday evening, March 17th, when M. J. Olgin will speak on “Workers and the Problem of Nationality.” Olgin, editoz of the Freiheit, is especially qualified to speak on this subject since he’has made a special study of | ite. pee ennui wy or ithert - toting inociety in th Minor “ot class struggles.—Karl Mars (Cots: munist Manifesto), Central Ex-| ecutive Committee of the Party met! Thousands Will Attend Int’?l Women’s Meet “ mass pageant depicting the po- sition of workiag women throughout history will be a featuve of the In-| ternational Women’s Day meeting at Central Opera House tomorrow at 2 p.m. For the first time the working women of New York are producing and actively participating in their own pageant., Active in the production of the pageant are the milliners of local 48, who have shown the same zest for this event as they have for union activities. Office workers, dressmakers, knit- goods workers, and many other working women will also take part. The dances will be directed by \Gertrude Prokosch, who has organ- ized the Dance Guild, and who has directed dance pageants in summer schools for working girls, Women speakers active in the |struggle of the American working class will arouse the thousands of working women to the significance of International Women’s Day. Among the speakers will be Rose | Wortis, of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union; Albert Weis- ers Union; Juliet Stuart Poyntz ani Ray Ragozin, of the Communis' Party; Kate Gitlow, of the United Council of Working Women; Gladys Schechter and via Bleecker, of the. Milliner ion, Local’ 43; Pauline Rogers, of the New York Working Women’s Federation; Anna Fox, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union; Sara Chernow, of the knitgoods -workers, and many others. Lovestone Will Open Lecture Course on America Imperialism Jay Lovestone will open the lec- ture course on “American Imperial- ism” at the Workers School, 26-28 Union Sq. on Saturday afternoon at on “U. §S. and World Politics.” Lovestone is author of the pamph- \lets “America Prepares for the Next War”; “American Imperialism”; “Labor Lieutenants of American Imperialism” and was one of the |reporters of the Sixth World Con- gress of the C. I. on the “Struggle Against the War Danger.” On the following Saturdays Robert {Dunn, Earl Browder, Robert Minor, Benj. Gitlow, Wm. Z. Foster, Otto ood, Herbert Zam, Wm. W. Weinstoze and Max Bedacht will lecture on other phases of American imperialism, Hoover Builds WASHINGTON, March = 15.— President Hoover. today demanded and got written resignations from all bureau heads, undersecretaries, and chief clerks in the départments of cabinet. officials. All employees above the rank of civil service regu- lations, and below that of depart- mental secretary are included in the order, He also announced appointment of another $10,000 a year private sec- retary, Walter H. Newton of Minne- sota, who, will have the single duty of ‘taking all these secretaries and | _treorganizing theiz works |» ——. | 3:30 p.m., with .a lecture today) ‘aN Irebellion. After. referring to Calles4 Making Bureau Heads Resign BULLETIN WASHINGTON, March 15.— Large amounts of war materials, in- cluding tear gas, arms and ammuni- |tion, have been ordered from Amer- licean manufacturers by the Mexican |” |government through its embassy jhere, Additional, munitions are be- ing provided by the United States | government from its surplus stock. | The wife of an El Paso hardware | dealer was arrested at the border |today for smuggling ammunition to |the rebels. * * MEXICO CITY, March 15.—The | Mexican government today stated! ‘that federal troops. under General” Calles had driven rebels from the \city of Durango, in the state of Du- lrango, and was pressing hastily on ito the northeast in order to reach \Torreon, where the decisive conflict jot the present rebellion is reckoned las only a matter.of_hours, or at the | jutmost, within two days. With Calles approaching from the jsouthwest, Torreon is nearly but not [quite surrounded,’ with another: col- umn of Callés’ command coming from Canitas along the railway from ‘the south, and with three .columns |spreading their approach from the jeast along and on both sides of the railway running from Monterey. A ‘complete encirclement has not yet ‘been made, as federals have so far \found it impossible to reach a point jnorthwest of Torreon, so as to cut} the railway northwestward to Chi- |/huahua and the U. S. border which in Torreon cannot retreat. Pe at Yankee Navy at. Hand. | WASHINGTON, March 15. — American citizens at Mazatlan, on the west coast of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, now menaced with a rebel attack, have asked for American warships “to protect” them. Wash- ington says it is asking Ambassador Morrow before making any decision. | However, quietly and with no pub- licity, the whole submarine division lof the great Yankee fleet, which has been “practicing” off Panama, is| now steaming northward ‘up the west | \coast of Mexico. ‘This submarine di- | |vision numbers scores of under-sea | boats, sorhe heayily manned and with |disappearing guns of big’ caliber. It lis supposed to be going to San Diego, Calif. ee 8 8 The Rebel Program. {TORREON, March 15.—This city, | strangely peaceful’ in” view of the certainty that it will soon be the| scene of battle, yesterday heard Geh- | eral Escobar speak to a crowd of 3,000, telling why he is leading a as a tyrant and double-crosser, he said: i ‘We want in Mexico a clean gov-| ernment that will not steal—in fact an honest government.” Escobar came last week from Monterey, re- (Continued on Page Five) Christian Sociniism is but the holy water with which the priest conse- erates the heart EN DCE TE Autocracy by * Were Doing the Work. As the technical heads of depart- ments, who really do the work while the political: appointes, the secre- \taries of the cabinet, play politics or| play golf, the bureau chief remained jin office thru administration after administration, and managed the de- \partments. Hoover’s order, and the: appoint- ment of a, boss oyer all the bureau chiefs, places the real control-of the departments in himself, and estab- lishes such a cen| ized. autocracy The original of the above reproduction of « photo of Karl Marw hangs in the office of the Worke: York City. It was sent to. this cc rs School, 26 Union Sq ountry by him in 1883, re, New can be seen from the letter accompanying it, reprinted elsewhere in this issue. | With civil war raging in Mex- ico, the attitude of the Mexican {Communist Party toward the present insurrection and toward the Gil government, becomes a mat- ter of great importance and a sub- ject of intense interest to every |revolutionary worker. The Daily Worker has received and publishes herewith, the call to the workers jand peasants of Mexico by the M ican Communist Party. It was is- jsued on Mar the day following the outbreak of the rebellion, and published in the Party’s official or- Machete The sto re “Comrades: “The revolt of the generals of the north, the revolt of Agu in Vera Cruz, and the revolt of the generals in other states, is an uprising of all | the forces of reaction, of all the hagend*does and large landowners, of alljthe reactionary generals and governors in order to establish in Mexico a military dictatorship of all jthe elements inimical to the inter- ests of the working class. Prepared in 1928. Speech of Friedrich Engels | ipsssies,xsie se. sues 9 At the Funeral of Karl Mar, (On Saturday, March 17th, 1883, Marx was laid to rest in Highgate cemetery, beside the remains of his teen months earlier. Ly At the graveside, Comrade Lemke laid on the coffin two wreaths loop- ed with red ribbon, one in the name of the staff of the “Sozialdemokrat,” of Zurich, and the other in that of the Commynist Workers’ Education- al Society of London, Then Eng noff.) On March 14th, at a quarter to | three in the afternoon, the greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. | He had been left alone for barely two minutes; but when we entered his room we found that, seated in his chair, he had quietly gone to sleep—for ever. The loss which his death has in- flicted upon the fighting proletariat in Europe and America, and upon the science of history, is immeasur- able. The gaps that will be made | by the death of this titan will soon be. felt. Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolu- tion in. human history. He discovered the simple fact, (heretofore hidden beneath ideological excrescences) and drink, clothing and shelter, first of all, before they can interest themselves in politics, science, art, religion, and the like. of the immediately requisite mate- rial means of subsistence, and there- with the extant economic develop- -| mental phase of a nation or an ep- och, constitute the foundation upon which the State institutions, the le- gal outlooks, the artistic and even the religious ideas, of those con- cerned, have been built up. It im- plies that these latter must be ex- plained out of the former, whereas usually the former have been ex- plained as issuing from the Jatter. Nor was this all. Marx likewise discovered the special law of motion proper to the contemporary capital- ist method of production and to the bourgeois society which that method of production has, brought into be- ing. The discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light “here, wherea: ail previous investigators (socialist critics no Jess than bourgeois econo- mists) had béen groping. in the dark, “Two ‘such discoveries might suf- fice for one man’s: lifetime. Fortu- as'no other presiden thas, previously y aitemiatede a é ! nate'is he who is privileged to sone discovery *s6 outs! aie } | els spoke. — D. Ryaza- This implies that the production | 000 ARE FACING DEATH IN FLOOD Militia Agrees to Save | Negroes Last of All jis their objective in order that rebels| wife, wha had been buried there fif-| TROY, Ala., 15 (UP).— The removal of refugees from the submerged vown of Elba got under way early tonight. families were rescued by boats. The flood victims, who had been trapped in the upper floors and on roofs 0 |buildings for more than 24 hours, |were carried to New Brockton, and} \Enterprise, | * | TROY, Ala., March 15 flood disaster, with po: loss of life, engulfed southeastern |Alabama today. By noon only a fev [score of more than 20,000 persons, many of them Negro tenant far. mers, marooned in the area wer known to have been rescued. Th fate of the rest remained unknown here, because of isolation from Mazch and several * * that human beings must have food | Wrecked communications and storms. | At least 10,000 men, women and children were believed trapped on house tops and in upper floors of buildings in a score of towns. | State of Alabame militia, ordered jinto the district, are making slow progress, and are known to have a general agreement among them- selves to rescue only white residents first, and to let the Negroes drown, |if necessary, to keep them from leaving * ns. There are reports about screams jat El Ba, Ala., a telephone lineman jpenetrated to within a half mile of the inundated town and returned, white-lipped, with a tale of agoniz- ing pleas for aid and a picture of Continued on Page Three POSTPONE TRIAL OF COSSACK. BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., March 15. —The $5,000 damage case of Ru- dolph Dipiazza, miner of Bentley- ville, Pa., against Louis W. Kranz, coal and iron policeman charged with assault, has been continued until May upon a motion of the de- fendant’s attorney. The motion was made on the grounds that the de- fense needed time to locate one of and moans of women and children |© Serano in 1927, the Mexican reac- | tion in 1928 prepared for the present jarmed revolt. However, the situa- tion today is graver and more dif- ficult than it was in 1928 and in 1927, because today the militant Catholic reaction, the clerical and reactionary landowners, was joined hy the group of Sonora—the elements which only yesterday were known as the representatives of the ‘Mex- ican Revolution.’ “The revolution, made with the blood of the 1 » and with the sacrific of the working class, has not given the eople that for which it was fight- The land continues to remain in the hands of the large landowners; the oil fields and the mines, the atest riches of the country, are in the hands of foreign capital, and all the means of communication and transport are in the control of na- tive and foreign companies which ex- ploit them at the expense of the Mexican people and to the detriment \of the workers and peasant masses. What Has Happened. “What the Revolution did was to stablish a new class, a class of new rich, landowners of the Revolution, governors and lawyers who side and outside of the gov- ernment, living on the budget and jaccumulating wealth for their own enefit and for the benefit of their friends. “Instead of giving the power to ie people, the Revolution trans- \ferred it to those elements which |today, in collusion with the native jand foreign capitalists, apply a sys- jtem of continuous sabotage against \the rights, demands and the strug- gle of the workers and peasant ‘masses. Article 27 is not being com- plied with. | “The National Agrarian Commis- n has become transformed into an japparatus of pettifoggers and bur- jeaucrats, paid by the same landown- j in order to prevent the realiza- jtion of the just demands of the agrarian communities and _ villages. |Article 123 exists for thesmajority of the states only on paper, because in |reality the working class suffers from the most abject capitalist ex ploitation. * Petty Bourgeoisie in Power. | “The revolutionaries of 1910, the |petty bourgeoisie now in power, are | incapable of effecting the economic reconstruction of the country. All the agitation and propaganda of Calles and of the Laboristas, faith- ful servants of the petty bourgeois, for the establishment of an independ. ent national Mexican industry is the greatest failure in history, the 1 ‘y_(Gontnued om Bowe’ Rap) | \th