The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 1

THE DAIL, JORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Toe Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week Fer a Labor Party aily 4 =i INAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 12 Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929 PION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 pe! {$6.00 per year. r year. RIP Outside New York, by mat 8 STATE TROOPS ARRIVE TO BR FORCE CHINESE PEASANTS INTO ARMIES; WAR ON Warlords Swell Ranks by Impressments,Fight Flood Waters Still Rage in South Begins in Kiangsi Hankow, Nanking Split To Repudiate Kuomin- tang Decisions BULLETIN SHANGHAI, Match 19.—(UsP.) —Anti-foreignism was reported increasing in Nanking today. Foreign women and children are arriving here daily, saying they were advised to leave the city. The British cruiser Berwick has been ordered there. Two other gun- boats are awaiting orders. ee SHANGHAI, China, March 19.— The unity of the Kuomintang gov- ernment of China began to show more dangerous cracks, and actual open rifts yesterday as generals con- tinued feverishly to align themselves with Nanking or Hankow and other cliques before the impending rup- ture becomes definite. The most impressive military hap- penings are the menacing of Chefoo by the forces of Chang Tsung-chang and the attack of troops of General Yen-chi (Hankow) upon the Nan- king forces near the Hunan-Kiangsi border. e Meanwhile the Nanking generals are hurriedly advancing their lines in western Kiangsi and Anhwei. They are being rapidly directed against Chang-sha. The Hankow lines are developing Machang to Wusueh in Hupen thru Ping-hsien and Liling in Hunan. Three of the Hankow generals have announced that they will make peace only upon conditions that Nan- king stops moving troops “towards” Changsha, The Chinese peasants and workers are the real sufferers as both camps are impressing them into service to swell their ranks as rapidly as pos- sible before the open outbreak of hostilities. A definite rupture between the -two factions is forecast for the last days of the Kuomintang now in ses- sion in Nanking. The Hankow faction is already joining similar groups in Canton, (Continued on Page*Two) Hoover Takes the State Patronage Away from the Senatorial Grafters WASHINGTON, March 19.—Pres- ident Hoover continues to give his main attention to the matter,of pa- tronage, As supreme boss of the republican party, he has just sum- moned the New York “triumvirate,” Machold, Hilles and Hill, to meet with him and Representatives Snell and Parker, chief protestants against the triumvirate’s handling of New York patronage. Formerly patronage was handled through the senators, but Hoover, in line with his general centralization and dictatorial attitude, is breaking the power of the senate by dewling directly with the state bosses Venezuelan Dictator Insists “Peace Is Firm, Solid and Imntovable” CARACAS, Venezuelg, March 19. ~—President Juan Vicente Gomez, dictator of Venezuela, yesterday is- F sued one of his periodic *state- ments, denying that, though there are con- stant rebellions in Veneruela, there are any re- bellions in Ven- did not himself address repre- . SRS sentatives of the General Gomez press assembled ‘ to question him, but through Pedro Arcaya, minister of the interior, an- nounced that the country was per- fectly quiet. “There is complete calm in the country,” Gomez said, “and peace is firm, solid and immovable.” “Tt would .be ridiculous for any- one to attempt to alter the present order,” he added. Gomez’s official statement fol- lows by one day the imprisonment in the island fortress at Puerto Ca- bello of 200 revolutionists formerly kept at forced hard labor on roads in the interior. whites” homeless and without an WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.— Deaths in the coal mines of the United States totaled 2,171 during Jast year alone, according to figures just released by the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Almost all’ of them were pre- ventable accidents, due to the, speed- up tactics of the employers and their neglect of safety precautions in or- der to reduce costs. Of this number, 1,724 accidents were in the bituminous coal fields and 447 in the anthracite. There Were more soft coal acci- dents in 1928 than in 1927. Falls in mine roof and coal are responsible for at least half of the accidents. Proper timbering would have saved these men. There is always a fight by the miners to get the company to timber those underground workings leading to the working class, and without a strong union the company prefers to kill its men rather than put in timber. The National Miners’ Union is try- ‘ing to organize the miners and put janend to.this murder for profit, ARGENTINE TAXI DRIVERS STRIKE Aet in Symphaty with General Motors Men BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 19.—The government tonight began the mobilization of all police effectives for action against the walkout of taxi chauffeurs which is tying up the entire taxi system in this city. The strike began late this after- noon and by five®o’clock about 2,000 drivers were out. The strike of the taxi chauffeurs is in sympathy with the automobile workers in the General Motors plant here who are waging a strug- gle for increased pay. * * 48-Hour Walkout. BUENOS AIRES? Argentina, March 19 (UP).—Police today in- stituted precautionary measures against possible disorders in Buenos Aires resulting from a strike of ap- proximately 2,000 chauffeurs which in at Sea. m. The strikers intend to. yemain away from their jobs for 48 hours as a gesture of sympathy for work- ers in the local General Motors fac- tory who are striking for higher wages, SCAN NEWS PRINT MONOPOLY. WASHINGTON, March 19 (UP). '—The Federal Trade Commission to- day formally accepted the senate resolution of ‘Senator Schall, Rep., Minn., directing an investigation on the news print paper industry. The resolution, recently enacted by the senate, instructs the commission to jdetermine whether manufacturers jand distributors of news print paper are tending to create a monopoly. - * . WATERBURY, Conn., March 19. —Radium paint poison, contracted four years ago, and not recognized until *a week before death, killed Mrs. Mildred Cardow today. She died in the hospital here six months after becoming the wife of William W. Cardow, gn auto mechanic. A week ago, when Mrs. Cardow was first admitted to the hospital, doctors told the husband to give up all hope, as the radium was in her bones, breaking down thei structure by its’ ceaseless bombardment of deadly rays. A scene in McIntosh County, Ga., where burst. its banks, making thousands of Negro workers and “poor U. S. Figures Admit 2,171 Miners Killed for Profit .. GIL WILL SHOOT ‘REBEL’ LEADERS, U.S. TO MIX IN Mexican Government | Not to Accept Offers | of Escobar to Yield Army Left in Desert as Leader Runs to Safety NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, March \19 (UP).—The battle for control of |Mazatlan, Sinaloa, important west |coast seaport, started today, advices |to revolutionary headquarters said, General Ramon Iturbe, command- |ing the insurgent forces in the sec- | tion, said his 10,000 men were op- posed only by 2,500 men under Gen- \eral Jaime Carrillo. the Altamaha River | | y means of relief. 1 | | The capture of Mazatlan, Mex- ijeo’s most important port on the /Pacific, will be an extremely im- portant step in the revolutionary |movement, officials here said. | Tt will open a direct line to Mex- |ico City through Guadalajara in Ja- |lisco and will permit the rebels, if |they so desire, to flank the army of |General Plutarco Elias Calles, now jadvancing against General J. Gpn- | }zalo Escobar in the state of Chihua- | REFUSE HELP TO” NEGRO GROPPERS ‘Red Cross, Gov’t Help | Whites Only | | MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 19. | —The flood of the ng Alabama | hua, River, which now covers four Negro | counties, continues to spread, altho | the first flood, that of Big Creek and Pea River is now subsiding. The Alabama River flood, in the west- ern part of the state, is already sev- leral times as large as the Pea River| |flood, which was in the southern counties of Alabama. | JUAREZ, Mexico, March 19 (UP) The first news of the latest dis- —Advices to rtbel headquarters aster came from aviators, flying to|bere tonight said a Mexican federal the stricken Pea Rivet section, They |*i"plane bombed Escalon, state of |reparted people clinging to trees, ang| Chihuahua, this afternoon. Escalon | shouting for help. Communications is the new desert stronghold in| Jare-destroyed;-hut-it-iseknown-that (hich General, Jose Gonzalo Esco ‘some 25,000 are driven from their 23% leader of the rebellion, has fot homes; and-‘that’ there have heen | tified his troops since evacuating | beri ‘orreon. beni aye The advices said the town's only | baker was the only person killed in | the bombing. | | | General Topete, who announced | |his intentions of leading 2,500 men | |against Naco, Sonora, today still re- | {mained here as did the same 500 |red blanketed Mayo Indians intended to act as shock troops. ie hee Entirely Negro. | Lieutenant Gill, pilot of a govern- iment plane, reports that Alabama} be #, ~ |River, 10 miles wide at Primrose,| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19. |Wilcox county, is the very heart of |—Strengthened by thé occupation of jwhat the white plantation owners | Torreon last night cad the apparent call “The Black Belt.” It is thickly disintegration of the inhabited by Negro tenant fatmers, insurgent forces, the ekeing out a precarious existence by Portes Gil govern- iworking on land that does ‘hot belong ment today felt se- to them, but to rich landlords, who cure enough to re-| prefer to live in the cities. ject the “insurgent It is swampy, roads are bad, and Pence ovens 12. telephones practically non-existent, leged ‘to, have been because the farmers are kept in pov- made thru the Mex- erty by high rents, eté. No attention Le ee eo was ever paid. by the state to the ra teedarcrare danger of a flood here, and supplies | oo SA campaign. of and rescue parties are still being | extermination’ against | the insur- sent past the Negro section to the|Sents was the reply of General Plut- Jolatively unimportant Pea River dis-|@%¢o Calles, relying on recent suc- triet, not one tenth as large. cesses and the consistent support ha of the United States government, ATLANTA, Ga, March 19.—New- Gil Is U. 8. Man. |ton, Ga., is menaced by the Flint! Not only has the United States (Continued on Page Five) | government. supported the Gil gov- E. Calles EAK RAYON STRIKE Where 14 Plane Passergers Mihi Biles | SEF ATTE MPT T0 IMPORT SCABS; STRIKERS FIRM Bosses Admit Walkout Is 100 Percent ‘Brmge Back Refugees) 4 Scene of the crash of the giant sight-seeing plane in which 14 ort ton of a freight train a mile north of the airport at Newark, and in poor condition when. it started. Neds were killed. The plane crashed The plane was overloaded PLANE OVERLOAD Musicians in IN FATAL WRECK pe Francisco ut on Strike ie FRANCISCO, March 19,—Re- |¥ fusal of the owners of five the- |atres in the San Francisco bay dis- trict to out their contract to hire musi even though “movie- tone” and other sound devices may be installed, has brought a strike of ull musicians, stage hands and movy- 16 in Sightseeing Ship Licensed for 14 WASHINGTON, March 19.—Bur- jeau of Aviation officials admitted that the Ford three-motored plane | used by the Colonial Airways Co., for sightseting over Newark and New York was licensed for only four-|ing picture operators in them. teen, including the pilots. The plane} ‘The strike was called by the which was forced down and wrecked | musicians’ union, and the other em- on a sand car, with loss of 14 lives|ployes walked out in solidarity with |day before yesterday, carried 15 them, passengers and one pilot. The strike is under control of the aN are locals here of the American Federa- Lou Foote, the only pilot in the |tion of Musicians. There is much wrecked airplane of the Colonial| dissatisfaction among the members Airways Co., gasped out his story | against their international officers, from his cot in St. James Hospital,| who have done absolutely nothing Newark. He said that he had plenty|so far to adapt union policies to of fuel, but that while in the air,|combat the unetaployment resulting one motor died, and the load was from the “vitaphone” and “movie- heavy the other two could not keep tone.” It is stated by the members the plane afloat. He had to land,|that International President Weber and had not speed enough to drift) himself owns stock in the sound back to the landing field. He tried dovices, and that this accounts for to miss the freight trgin ‘against | his lassjtude in fighting for the which the plane crashed, but could) members of his union when they | tanevich, a miner, Norman nd a third worker, were so |badly beaten up by thugs and police at a Trotskyist-Cannon meeting last ‘HOOVER MODIFIES VOLSTEAD STAND Distiller Mellon Behind Change | | WASHINGTON, March 19.—Pres- lident Hoover’s loudly trumpeted \declaration, repeated in his inaugural | Speech, that he would enforce pro- hibition, is already becoming me- what modified. One of the modify ing influences, political observer here say, Secretary of the T: ury Andrew Melon, to whom f: the task of enforcement, but who is, |they say, a big whiskey distiller himself. Oth as- big interests and the ludic- |rous case of the seizing of the ship- ment of real wine and strong waters billed for the Siamese legatiort, have brought their pressure to bear, and Hoover today announced that he “contemplated no sudden or spec- tacular drive to enforce the 18th amendment.” Secretly Build Navy. Nearly 400 new prohibition agents are about to be put to work, a $50,- 000 educational campaign is being organized and airplanes are being purchased by the coast guard. But this is to some extent polit- | ical pationage, and also a secret way of increasing the navy for the forth- coming world war, as all of the armed personnel, planes and revenue cutters will be openly added to the navy as soon as war is declared. * MADISON, Wis., March 19 (UP). A resolution petitioning congress or a national referendum on the (Continued on Page Five) SHOE UNION WINS f Effective | cketing Continues A. F. of L. Organizers Ss xet Cold ELIZAE Tern., March |19.—Compz A C of the |Tennessee National Guard Infantry went on duty morning at the two 2 anufacturing plants of the G toff and Bemberg Cor- porations, both ied of their 00 workers by a strike against avery conditions. houlder ! Just before the order mobilizing jthe militia to the strike area was ssued, the officials of both plants jmade public admission that the es are 100 per cent effective by dering department heads to close down. Till now they made a pre- tense of operating 40 per cent. | To Try to Import Scabs. With the ‘ival of troops, the companies are expected to begin an organized attempt to import strike- |breakers under martial escort. At meetings of workers, plans to continue with the method of picket- ing used were made. Hundreds of pickets patrol the roads leading to the two factor both located in Happy Valley, and have already defeated test attempts to bring in scabs, The rayon barons are making ela- borate preparations. Large busses have already been acquired <2 con- vey out of town strikebreakers. Strikers’ Ranks Sofid. Despite noisily advertised offers of bonuses, full pay for time lost, adequate prétection, etc., not a sin- gle worker has broken ranks. Un- shakable determination is shown by [the workers, brought to desperation |by the inhumaa grinding of profits jfrom their bodies. The calling in of the troops came after Sheriff Moreland himself asked for them. The local boss press had been charging that he and his |deputies were too friendly to the | strikers. Sheriff Moreland hastened reputation to rights with the rayon barons—and the signal for bringing in troops. night at Labor Temple, 14th St. and} 3d Ave., that they were taken to St. ‘not get power enough out of the two | face s{tuations such as the present The idea of a three-matored plane premised on a reasonable load. | BEAT WORKERS: Ga: TAILOR POLLS Detectives Help Membership to Vote the fake elections, the right wing|Marks Hospital and had stitches showed that only 159 members of | fades issued yellow cards to those motors. He has not been told that one, is that it can un with two motors Mike Despite all attempts to force the was compelled to admit they were | taken in their scalps. Ladies Tailors Local 88 of the In- who were allowed to buy tickets, and there were any deaths. Sar SRA A See Oi if one goes wrohg. But this = GANNON THUGS ngsters, Police and Threats Fail to Force jsitert, a union membership to participate in a farce by publishing figures which} Appropriately enough the rene- had ernational Lad zarment Work- a strong-arm identification ers Union came to the polls. The | Squad stationed at the door to keep progressives in the union illegally | militant workers from entering the ruled off the ballot had issued the meeting hall, slogan, “Boycott the fake elections.”| The left wing id Communist What further demonstrates the | workers who were refused admission bankruptcy of the tyrannical clique |or ejected from the meeting, which controlling the organization is the | was, only half full, picketed the hall | MORE STRIKES: Big Firms Sign, Begin | | Drive in Long Island |: difficult “local” remely to enroll members in their f the United Textile Wor y since the 3,500 Bemberg refused to listen to their t work and walked the 2,000 Glanzstoff Hardly had the 350 work em- ployed in the Dan Palter Shoe Com- | pany gone back to work the victor of a struggle to unionize the plant, | than the Colonial Shoe Company of | 7 ies Nite ra Rrooklyn capitulated to the union. CtuCago City Official Over 100 are employed in this crew.|Gangsters Go on Trial; out strikers. DIES OF RADIUM Woman Worked on Dials 4 Years Ago ESE 5 EET RIES }ernment with arms and planes from Could Afford One Meal the beginning of hostilities, but it is unquestionably part of the “cam- paign of extermination” to have the} Americans give up insurgent ref-| ugees in the United States to the mercies of the victorious Gil bour- | geois government. This was confirmed today in aj) Mexico City despatch stating that, the federal; would attach all funds sent across the border by the in-| surgents and would immediately take steps to extradite all fugitives. | Insurgent generals in consterna- tion at one another’s treachery were today eagerly denying reports that | ‘eral of thom had independ=ntly made peace overtures to the fed- erals, Enrique Santibanez, Mexican gon- sul general at San Antonio, declared however, that generals Gonzalo Escobar and Marcelo Caraveo, gov- ernor of Chihuahua had offered to surrender their armies to federal forces. Santikanez said Mexican consul Liekens of El Paso advised him of the surrender offer, adding that Liekens in turn had been informed | by the American, consul at Chihua- hua City that the two generals had | approached the Americans regarding | opening capitulation _ negotiations | with President Portes Gil of Mexico. | Escobar and Caraveo were repre sented as ready to listen to any terms Gil cared to offer. ee Insurgents Retreat. MEXICO CITY, March 19.—The | vanguard of the federal forces en- tered Torreon at 8:15 last night, Portes Gil announced today. General Escobar, insurgent leader, | is believed to be well on the way to Chihuahua City, tho he has left troops behind, of course, to defend | a Day; Girl Artist Is; Suicide After 2 Months, CHICAGO, Mareh 19 (UP).— Huddled on a shaky bed amid the paintings and sketches for which she never found a buyer, Amelia fa-| Monte, 19-year-old artist, was found | dead today, . An open gas jet and a scrawled note told how Amelia had given up her Jone fight. | On a tablg beside the bed lay her | purse. It contained three dimes, a nickel and two pennies. “I’m afraid that I will go erazy,” | she wrote. “I have eaten only one meal a day for two months. [ can- not let this Bo on. “Please bury me in Potters Field, er use my body for medical experi- ments, as I do not wish to be buried PAINT the Waterbury Watch Co. planf, where girls were employed to paint luminous dials. Hundreds have |passed thru the luminous dial de- partment since it was established, and at any moment any of them may expect to develop the fatal :mp- toms, The case of Mrs. Cardow is like that of five victims of poisoning in the United States Radium Corpora- tion, of East Orange, N. J., who are awaiting death now, after several of their co-workers had died in \will be important items for discus-| lobby |Congress, Harlem Labor Center, 169 | This shop, too, just as did the} |Dan Palter firm, was compelled to | come across with wage increases. | In the Palter factory workers re- jceived raises of from $2 to $6 a week each. | fact that 85 of those who did come |en masse and organized a spontane- to vote had marked “no” on the bal-|cus demonstration on the street lot where the right wing names were |against Trotskyism and for the printed without contenders, while 15 | Communist International, the Com- ballots were altogether blank. The | munist Party of the U. S. Ay and vote for the machine leader, Draizen, |the Soviet Union. Besides this new victc was therefore 109. _ | A Daily Worker reporter who at-/ union was able to report in| _This despite the fact that offi-| tempted to enter the hall was told itself is a substantial victc By | cials of the union had visited the |}y Max Schachtman, lieutenant of yesterday afternoon, the entire shop shops and after threatening five dol- | Cannon: of 200 workers in the Arthur Pen- lar fines for non-participation even) “Aw, that’s a cheap paper. You der Shoe Company were out on went so far as to provide autos for | can’t get in.” |strike, The first group came out variots shop crews to come down | ‘The: dozens and ‘vote. ‘and a larger number of plainclothes | tative and the shop committee pre- cscs aaah men who crowded the lobby, the| (Continued on Page Two) Harlem Meet to Protest | ante-room and the sidewalk before | — ‘ * 4. \the hall took their orders from Can-| HEFLIN RAVES WESTWARD. Police Brutality Tonite | non and his gang. The indignant) PORTLAND, Me., March 19.—U. The police brutality " {workers who crowded the lobby re-'§. Senator J. Thomas Heflin will in Harlem | fused to leave. The and support for the “Champion”) asked Abern and Schachtman who fact the City Council has refused to dance at the Imperial Auditorium | stood at the door if they w: at cleared, and the latter told the sion at the meeting of the Harlem | police to do their stuff. local of the American Negro Labor | jgrand titan of the Ku Klux, Klan, ) stuff. declared today. At Heflin’$ last At the time this edition went to| peech the crowd threw a bottle at (Continued on Page Two) him. |W. 133d St., tonight. | agony. It was the New Jersey case The Polmoning, was contracted in (Continued on Page @hree) Escalon, a nearly indefensible town (Continued on Page Three) ‘You Can Still Start |interest among thousands of work- PRAVDA ON 10-YEAR C.I. | vAsae Cites” by Alosay Totes, | Special Supplement on the Anniversary Soviet Union. This penetrating | psychological study of a former | Red Army soldier has aroused great ° fascinating story, by Alexey Tolstoy, Read _ the “Azure Cities,” (Special to the Daily Worker) tonal, and an article by Marcel Ca- MOSCOW, (By Mail).—On the chin, French Communist deputy, tonth anniversary of the Communist about the struggle against the dan- International, Pravda, official organ ger of war. Among others there stages and you can begin it today of the Communist Party of the Sov- was an article by Bela Kun, Hun- on page 3. ist Union, published a special sup- garian Communist leader during the “Azure Cities” raises many prob-, Flement dealing with the event. eriod of the Hungarian Soviet, on lems concerning whose solution Besides numerous letters of grect- *'¢, question of Bolshevization and there will probably be a great dif- i1g from Communist Parties of other **ticles by Tom Bell, Semard, Lo- ference of opinion among our read- countries and various working class ;°VSki, Yaroslovski, Klara Zetkin ers. When the story is concluded, crganizations and individuals, the| D4 others. workers are asked to send letters supplement carried many interesting to the Daily Worker- giving their articles. There were reminiscences reaction to it and their solution of of comrades present at the first con- the problems it presents, ‘gress of the Communist Interna- ers. The story is still in its early * * BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Berlin! rganization of the Communist Party (Continued on Page Two) Un AON a the | dz of uniformed police the night before. A union represen- | police sergeant speak here March 29, despite the anted the grant him a permit, W. H. Witam,| 12 Convicted Before CHICAGO, March 19. hirteon reputed henchmen of Mo Eller, city collector, went on trial yester- charged with kidnaping two poll in the “Bloody Twentieth the prir y election last of the defendants violate the | election laws in a pre- viou: 1 and were fined. | Capitalists 4 Choose Mission to Plead in Washington hilippine Islands, lipino nationalist in- awaiting the opening of 2 in Wash- bring d again de- is for a great- share in the po- litical life of the slands, according to reports here, The reports have taken tangible for; in the creation ® tive mission to the which will aid the in Washing- Filipino commi: ten in opposing tariff restrictions on Philippine products. The ques- tion of autonomy will also interest the commission. It is expected that the demand for autonomy will be presented as ja bill with the alternative of a Fili- jpino vice-governor. The bill has |little chance even of consideration. The interests involyed at present have frequently betrayed the Fili- pino workers and peasants and rep- resentative capitalist elements come peting with certain® United States rivals. *