The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1929, Page 2

Page Two Amalgama CONCENTRATING ON THE GARMENT SECTIONS FIRST Organizational Stage Leadi to mobilize united 2-h day ploitation of hed tod nt and € h of the Am kers sh the ble 1 W ve will being wtih a ¢ of all energies on the feteria worker: section, between 27th and 6th and 9th Aves. the cafeterias are ely by needle trades ent th Sts., tion In a short a period as possible the to t nsform the from the agit age of the campaign to one union intends gar tional of action—the calling of strik the i union’ nt center stau- ization deliber- Y WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929 ted Foo Borough President's enager Convicted { §, ad | Left to right: Frank H. Berg and Albe | of carrying bribe money to Borough Presicicnt George U. Harvey from a sewer contractor named Paino. Harve he refused the bribe, and Berg, his election v, says he-took the money.and used it to buy buck ev new borough pr nt was a Klansman. Bankers Boast of Frauds ~~ a Big busi: eady icultural corporat re farming on a large scale, dis- |g placing independent farmers in the | pres west and attracting outside capital. e story of this new development sketched in the February issue of the Index, published the New York Trust Company. ve er half lies fal- largest. wheat- it in the world. Its| nt, Thomas D.- Campbell, states that “modern farming is 90 cent engineering and 10 per cent ultural.” His corporation has made large profits and paid divi- equal to, “good” in- is the oy s viet because of | tance which the needle are expected to render in the drive, Official pledges of aid were made not only by the leaders of the left wing ~‘eedle Trade Work- ers’ Industrial nUion but by the membership of that union as well, At a huge membership meeting held | last week, chae] Obermeier, speak- ing for the cafeteria union, was told nents. | large corporation, the | nd Sharon Land Co., owns | neres of land near Fargo,| Dakota. A village, built, owned and operated by the com-| pany, is directly under the super- n of the ‘corporation manager. The land is divided into 65 tenant holdings. A tenant farmer, working or this company’s land “can direct Corporation managment brings together a number of farm units applies scient methods, develop: efficiency, buy scale and employs workers wage earners, The independent farmer d pears in this process of cen tralization. He cannot himself af- ford to buy the machinery needed for large-scale production, nor can he secure the necessary credit from to depend on the moral and material hanks and lending houses. Large |his work independently, but must aid to be given by the seedle work- cyerators are squeezing out the adhere to the specifications laid ers. small farmer, who must then take |down. The contract specifies what ier, organizer for ers’ Branch of scribed conditions pre- job as a wage slave either on the farm or in the city, Ford in Game. crops are to be planted and provide: for a certain rotation of crops.” | Tenants of Corp-rations vailing as follows: “Of all unor | Henry Ford, exploiter of autome-| “Thcr> are likewise certain spe-| @anized. wo who are always pile workers, owns several large- cial obligations, which include haul-| ruthlessly | vited, few work scale farming units in Michigan and |ing and spreading at the landlord’s | harder for longer hours, and for as 'in other states. Of efficiency on his |direction all manure made on the} under s miserable s the cafeteria workers. the 12-hour day. These an 80 hours ar fortunate Dearborn farm, he boasts: “In plow- farm, hauling all threshed grain to | ing time, we string 50 or 60 trac-!the elevators and keeping the farm | tors ina line. They are run by men adjacent roadways taken out of the factories and paid This tenant farm- All the es- |stopped at 5. rkers Start Drive Today to E IN SHOE STRIKE AS UNION GROWS Workers Vote Today (Continued from Page One) from unionization. Workers in all |shops should look to the Indepen- |dent Shoe Workers Union for guid- Jance, should join it and make it strong, to win in other plants, Conditions were bad in this shop, | with a 64-hour week. for girls, but nobody realized what. had. to he done In the folders’ department. the foreman had a habit of cursing the ‘s. If you talked back, you ired. Finally, when one and mittee went to the foreman, and he s reinstated, However.this ex. nee taught the workers they should do something, and about 20 |registered in the union, the Inde- {pendent Shoe Workers Union, The union advised them to get as many other members as they could, and they secured 28 more, in other departments, A Spy. One squealed to the boss, and told him everything, who was in it, what was going on and who the speakers at meetings were. The employer's tactic was to dis- charge one man, before dinner, At the dinner hour, the union members decided on a meeting at 5. The boss heard of this, too, and ordered the union members to work until seven. Some of them gave excuses, and The boss asked one worker outright whether he belonged te the union, and, when the worker said he did, he was fired, and also five others. ‘Two refused to take their pay; the’ boss, called in a po- liceeman to make them, telling the policeman that they were trying to start a union in’ his shop and he |there burns in each and every breast dances, under direction of Gertrude! They are suf-/Prokosch of the Dance Guild, an or-| didn’t want them” to“come around where they could talk to the other | workers. Gerson Settles; Palter| until the bosses. drove them to ac-| | tion by their tactics. another man was discharged, a com- | Navy THOUSANDS OF MASS MEETING Celebrate International Women’s Day | (Continued from Page One) the world, they are active in-the fight against the capitalist govern- | ment of Wall St. and its agents in the bourgeois women’s militarist and | pacifist bodies, | Greetings from U.S.S.R. Kate ‘Gitlow brought greetings from the working women of the U. S. 8. R., and told of the freedom the revolution had brough them, At this meeting, she said, shop and factory women, unorganized women, and proletarian housovtives, were going forword under the leadership of the Communist Party. She ap- pealed to those present to join the Party and fight with it against the war and danger and for the emanci- pation of their class. Aided Needle Strike. | Clubman for 2 Earnest Lee Jahneke, head of the republican party organization in Louisiana, owner of Jahncke iron works and shipping service ia New Orleans, yacht club sports- man—and therefore appointed by Hoover to be assistant secretary of the navy. Hoover builds his cabinet of just these kind of men, of the new Left wing unions and the Rose Wortis spoke on the building | nd 12-Hour Day in Cafeterias |Practising for Wall St. tan SANDINISTA BALL TO ASSIST PAPER Support ‘Vida Obrera’ Fighting Paper A “March of the Sandinistas” in |which workers from 21 Latin Armer- jiean countries participated featured the ball held Saturday night at Lex- ington Hall, Lexington, Ave, and 116th St. and arranged by the Spanish Fraction for the benefit of “La Vida Obrero,” Spanish Commu- nist weekly. Attended by several hundreds of workers, representing numerous trades, the ball was one of the most \colorful and spontaneous held in this leity in many months. | Albert Moreau, head of the Latin- {American department of the U, S. |Section of the. All-America Anti- Imperialist League, denounced the jrole of American Imperialism in Latin. America, and urged support jof “La Vida Obrero,” fighting |weapon of the oppressed national- lities, | | | eu! cadet lieutenant R.O.T.C. at the University Roger Taylor, int | of J | intereo ship 4 puri, who won the national llegiate shooting champion- hen he scored 577 out of sible 600 points. The R.O. 8 the training school fostered by the millionaire-owned colleges for Wall Street’s next war. The Young Workers (Communist) thoroly reliable upholders of the recent dressmakers strike, and the role of the Party ar-ng working by high The bus- trom $10 6 per The countermen about 5 to $30. The hers get 312 to $16. The cooks, who are skilled workers, are paid. only $25 to $° Women and discriminated aaginct, he hardest, dirtiest he Jowest pay. conditions ‘prevail to not only a class 5 fight, but a personal Basle Social Democrats Say Anti-Fascist Meet Legal, But Prohibit It BASLE, Switzerland, March 15.— The authorities in Basle, including the social democrats have declared #here is no legal basis for prohibi- tion of the Anti-Fascist mass meet- ing called here, and which the workers have determined to hold anyway. However, the Basle authori- carry out the Federal Council’s order to prohibit the meeting. Say Stresemann teQuit, Has Had Many Failures BERLIN, March 17.— Foreign Minister Stresemann intends to re- sign. soon, it was announged here, unofficially, today. The’ Anglo- French naval pact, and the calm overriding of German volicies at the Dawes plan board exvert’s confer- ence are revorted to have badly dis- , couraged him. He has been fight- ing continually with the various leaders of parties in his coalition and there may be a split any time. Many Denver Workers at Nearing Lectures DENVER, Col. (By Mail).—A suc- cessful course of five lectures on im- verialism has just been concluded by Scott Nearing at the Labor Lyceum under the auspices of the Commun- ist Party. The lectures were given on succezsive nights and about 300 workers attended each lecture. Nearing also lectured before 400 addressed a meeting of tho local ‘branch of the All-America Anti-Im- ‘perialist League. 4 officers were always ; when the Vandyck came Cape Hatteras, where the ‘is went down, the passen- were in a panic, for the of- were dead drunk; the chief d had been in bed three dead drunk, The lifehoats » antiquated.” jo wonder tic whose stery will be the usual factory wage. ing system has been profitable to sential operations of the farm are the corporation managers. Money done in this fashion, and aitogether zeturns have averaged over 10 per we do about fifteen days’ wo: cent a year on the original invest- Strike Starts. with about 30 present. It decided For this reason |* tye Campbell tien, one of the largest agricultural | workers and their families for short | OFFICERS WERE D gilor to Tell of Lamport-Holt Hell Hole i year—and keep the land in a state of productivity.” In Montana and other wheat- growing states, consolidation is re- ducing the number of wheat farms by about half. Nationally - tions are trying to speed up the ized corporations, such as the ted workers. exactly as industrial cor- uit Growers and the sugar-beet |porations have done, by “competi- companies control thousands of acres ‘tion and by offering incentives _of of land, jbonuses and promotion.” The sea- 100,060-Acre Farm, , |sonal character of farming usually ming Corpora- |means the employment of migratory ment. But “the position of the laborer in corporation farming is a debat- able question,” comments the New York Trust Co. Farming corpora- companies in the world, controls periods curing the year. cn a strike, but, of course, took the capitalist system, labor haters | of them. all women. Pauline Rogers stressed the need for supporting the “Workire Joren’s pion campaign for 20,060 new readers. Florence Austin brought greetings from the Harlem Tenants’ League, Ray Ragozin spoke on Anglo-American rivalry as a chief cause of the coming war, and the need for struggle against rationalization as an immediate weno means of fighting for the war dan- ‘Workers Relief Tells ger. The other speakers spoke on | vas Papas various phases of this work. of Terrible Misery Brilliant Pageant, tab- and “Everywhere I saw the same mis- tically received. It pictured in ‘erable conditions, and heard the Jeaux and dances the slavery same stories, Everyone spoke of the struggles of women through the defeats of the past, the miseries of ages from primitive times to the the present, and the hope for the /present day. Working women took future. Even though they are drink- part in the pageant, under the direc- jing the dregs of the cup of misery, tion of Pauline Rogers, and in the \the flame of, revolt. \fering, they are tormented, but still! ganization in which working girls \they are not beaten.” study dancing. The Wo~ 2s 'The- This is the summation of condi-|ater produced the mass pageant, | The meeting was held anyway. tions in the coal regions of Pennsyl-, which was made up of the following | vania and Ohio by a writer who re- numbers: primitive dance; tableaux; cently returned from the section. primitive Communism, slavery, and The mass pageant was enthusias-} League is the only organization waging a real fight against mili- t in the colleges CURBING OIL PRODUCTION, HCUSTON, Texas, March ‘7.—As ja means of keeping up the price of ‘gasoline, the general conservation {eommittee of the American Petro- lloum Institute (large producers) has ladopted a resolution recommending that the combined output in U. S., |Mexico and northern South Amer‘ca ibe not larger than the average of |1928. \ The program of entertainment was unusually lavish and was greet- led with great enthusiasm, On the program were the following: Consuelo Flore, in a series cf ac- robatic dances; Joe Diaz and Maire |Marabelle, tango dancers; Pedro |Flore, Ramon Guiros, Pedro Mare- ‘ano, Jose Diaz, Jaime Ustrella, an- itillian group. of musicians, | Julie Mata, composer of the San- |dino march was present at the ball. The proletarian movement in the self-conseioux, independent movement of the immense majority——Karl Marx “THE MARCH OF THE MACHINES” —a powerful and rhythmic close-up of modern “civili- zation” produced by Eugene Deslaw, a Russian director (Communist Manifesto). “The most remarkable film of the machine age ever produced” —says L'Humanite, the French Communist Daily —AND ON THE SAME PROGRAM— “LOOPING THE LQOP” the sensational successor, to “Variety” with WERNER KRAUS of “Caligari” fame in an original and striking The work- | * | jmatter up with the union. The ‘The article will appear soon in the feudalism; dance: Jews in captivity; nion joint council authorized the first’ issue of “Solidarity,” official tableau: the French Revolution; the strike. Monday, March 11, with in-| monthly organ of the Workers’ In-|sweatshop; homework; the machine structions to line‘up all possible and |ternational Relief, which is conduct-|(danced by Local 48, Milliners’ take cut as many as possible onthe ing a nation-wide campaign for re-|Union); at the factory gates; in the t day. lief. factory; strike; dance: the Russian HickoHne fee Se Le first monn Tells of Bitter Fight. Revolution (led by the Dance Guild); ing of the strike, Tuesday, saw two] po os. ainand 3 _itableau: women in the U.S.S.R. complete departments out, folders ee aco pien ae BSR ae Greet U.S.S.R: Women. and stitchers. The cutters came out oy ake eedgee et. hang strugales be-| A cable of greeting was sent by at noon, making 150 on strike, tween the coal diggers and the coa! the meeting to the Women’s Depart-| The second day at 11 the lasters. a8 Ree f the Comintern for transmis-| ini: barons, tells of hi ressions wh ment of the Comintern for transmi | sewers, finishers, packers and all re Tee: sepa al op he when See eae Veet the | murmur of crying children, weeping |Soviet Union. | 3 other departments came out; On Thursday the boss called for | 100,000 acres of Jand in Montana, |ers must then move on to try and ducing 500,000 hels of wheat 1 other work here. Fi cht Pilsudski Terror Sentence in Hromada Case (Red Aid Press Ser force is being continually used to | WARSAW, (By Mail)—On the crush strikes, etc, workers having |28th of February the ‘proceedings been shot down in Kossov, Land- | were timed to begin in the appeal of vorov, Lemberg and in other places. the membe: of the West White-| The upper classes are falling away Russian workers and ~ peasants and the national-revolutionary move- ties declare they will respect and |Hromada who were sentenced to ter-| ment in West White-Russia and in} rible_ter of- hard labour. in-Vilna, the. Western. Ukraine is taking on last year. The f accused are the}a purely class character. It must ex-deputies Tarashkievitch, Voloshin,| be feared that the Warsaw cour Miotla and Rak-Michailovski. The! will confirm the brutal sentences 87 accused were sentenced to a total passed upon the leaders of the toil- of 209 years hard labour. ing peasants and the workers. How- The procead. inst the Hromada ¢ver, the workers of the world must. was Peeare nnn of Pilsudski Protest immediately and demand the to make the Hinterland secure’ in fever "g these class-fighters fro case of war with the Soviet Union. | the Polish prisons. The idea being that if the workers 2 & and peasants in West White-Russia | MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Com- were robbed of their class-organ-; mittee for the Defense of the Hrom- jzation and it sleaders, they would ada in Minsk has issued an appeal be unable to offer any resistance to the workers and intellectuals of to the war plans of Pilsudski against} the Soviet. Union and of the whole the Soviet Union for which West world calling upon them to protest Pika es ify fora ae Bin eral ae anenipapion o tar ing o! ase. es! jite-Russia| Hromada an e burying alive o: and the Western Ukraine are being its leaders. The appeal bears the turned into military encampments| signatures of 17 prominent leaders, |for the war agajnst the Soviet! scientists, authors and others in the Union and under such circumstances | Soviet Union. it is perfectly clear that Pilsudski ses \needs above all peace in these dis-| * _tricts, even if it is only the peace Hoover Will Revoke (of the graveyard. Oil Leases of Rival Pilsudski knows that he cannot| * boa the workers and the poor Firms to Rockefeller | peasants and for them and their eerie leaders. therefore he has only the), WASHINGTON, March 17—Pres- noose, but he hopes to corrupt the ident Hoover has ordered a review White-Russian bourgeoisie and ur- Of all 20,000 outstanding oil pormits ban petty-bourgeoisie and a number 0" government land by the interior of guarded concessions have been | ¢epartment, made recently with this end in view. | | The persecutions of the toilers are icy of removing all possible com- increasing. The prisons are full| petition to the Standard Oil Trust, ‘with political prisoners and armed and follows an announcement a few bac days ago that no new leases would be granted, The Rockefeller crowd N K |already have all the wells down they ‘need, and production is likely at any |moment to cut prices. RU ‘Government Clerks Hurt in Train Wreck WASHINGTON, March 17 (UP). |—Two peysons were injured, fifty lwere bruised, while more than 100 ‘escaped injury when the last coach ‘of a six-car passenger local from Trederick, Md., jumped the trac! ond turned over In the Union Sta: to here today, West of the na+ ci nays were com: lmating government worke printed, beginning in Wednes- day’s Daily Worke:, on this page, gays that the Lemport and Holt liner Vandyck, sister ship of the Vestris. stands no better chance than that ill-fated ship did ia a storm. Watch for this revelation of brutal exploitction on the seo. Btarti: in Wednerday’s wor! vorre: OF the | ja conference and azreed to most of mothers and embittered men.” SUDDOrE Wee, Greed Glue concert) “Stary is d hall to be given by the United | is fi iy Starved, diseased, unclad, the 2? op bi pert [the demands: He. held” out toy (th bone tortures’ that elements and Council of Working Women on Sat-| | raving at Lana iene 'man can devise cannot stifle the mili. Uday eve. April 13, at Manhattan | aa ‘4 tai = tant spirit that has kept them liv- Lyccum, 66 E. 4th St., at which the rush periods, claiming that some- |' My 4 b \ | ha all ing—struggling,” he writes. “And Dorsha dancers will appear. with their. spirit of militancy, they | ~~ aN The workers realized that’ this ‘have high hopes of final victory, con-'cess of the program of the National never do, and cofitinuéd the fidence in the union they have raised Miners’ Uni.n would bs-cme one of amidst their suffering, and unbound- the greatest epics in the history of | ed courage to fight on and on,/the American labor movement,” Fer. the ‘Shoulder to shoulder. dinand says. | union proposed that if non-union Feed the Fighters. é Another miner prophesies a “real, workers were used because theunion| “If they are fed, if they are |aggressive fight, under the leader- | could not. supply..the men, they clothed, if the picture of their starv-|ship of the National Miners’ Union.’ | should pay the. union $3 a week, |ing and shiveting families are oblit-| “Every ounce of energy, every} should be laid off. first if men were |erated—their struggle for the suc-|single resource of the Workers’ In-| | discharged, and at any time could | ternational Relief is being now |be replaced by union men if the urday; abolition of the 15 cert's pressed into service, Express your }times the union might not be able jto provide men. i j would strike. Substantial Increases. At Saturday's conference i chal film LAAMAALAAAMAAMAABM Your Chance to See ,OVEET RUOSSHEA TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes its friends and wiil put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own eterization . «. and CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “A DAY’S PLEASURE” guild cinema 52 West 8th St., bet, 5th & 6th Aves., Continuous, Popular Prices Set, and Sun., noon to midnite—Daily Coming: Aelita: The Revolt of the Robots—the Russian “R.U.R.” 2-12 p. m.—SPRing 5095-5000 | "I This is a continuation of his pol- vnion had men to send there. The boss finally accepted this. Gains in the, strike are wage in- creases, in all departments, amount- ing to from $2.to $5 per week for ith no work after 1 p. m. on Sat- the Slogans:— ‘girls; working hours reduced to 44, |ing the struggle of course get their |eharge for “damaged work and other |solidarity with the struggling min- |fines, and the right to be five min- ers!” the article concludes, The utes late in the morning. Formerly | writer further urges workers every- a miinute’s tardiness resulted in a {where to “rush your contributions to half-hour fine. All discharged dur- |the Workers’ International Relief, | Room 604, 1 Union Sq., New York \City. ljobs back. 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