The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929 Milliners Appeal LOCAL 43 TELLS | OF MISRILE OF | to Membership wo Homes: How “Democracy” Works ee ZARITSKY GANG Calls on All to Make ‘onvention > ( 2 unity of the the rule clique at} onal, as- campaign of nd | hting for tl rs, denounc expulsions ion of union condition 1 police, the Millin has apnealed es of the membership to de: Zaritsky at y convention. i Which of the homes shown above is addressed to all would you rather live in? If yow're of the in this country, you'll never be given a chance to choose, The two homes shown above indicate the unbridge- able gulf between exploiters and ex- Ameri International. gives the attempt of Zarits the union, and will be dis one miltions of wage-slaves to wreck tributed in leaflet form to the rank and This appeal was unani- mously adopted at a meeting of over Local 43, held this ploited. a’s chief imperialist 8% man will occupy the house at the top. It is Herbert Hoover's fish- gy mansion near Frederick, Md. He has a whole trout stream to himself. Contrast this with a worker's home urrounded by rain-floods in h disease is the only thing to e caught. This photo shows a home Milwaukee industrial suburb heavy The single houses are built flat on the ground ond every time it rains, the waters rise around the houses, flooding the we the cap and millinery work- ourselves of this op- e administration al Union to ac- s misdeeds and he past two years of our count for al management -is 8 On the eve of the convention, th Millinery Hand Workers Union Lo cal 43, appeals to all of you, Cap and Millinery workers to give seri- thought and consideration to our The case of Local 43. i ng mple of the policies of our International offi and fi neral problems in @ during rains. case. ground floors, At the 1927 convention, Zaritsky profe nged man, that he ha art and mind in have d nothing but ruin and destruc- It was quite clear to the dele-| and the entire membership 1 the gains and the accom- ments recorded then by our In- only from left ive locals, The and the other egates were sceptical ises and warned against him. The - WORKER-PEASANT UPRISING gates (Continued from Page One) tang forces on them. The manifesto Britain. In the Kwangsi clique are of Honan Province. At this point!is thought to be the last word be-|Li Chi-sen, head of the Kwantung the Peking-Hankow line es the fore the final declaration of hos-'and Kwangsi military forces, Li little Tasha river 6n a bridge. It’ tilities. | Tsung-jen, controlling Hankow, part is at the southern terminal of the/ . od ad of Hunan and Honan and all Hupeh railroad line, at Ping-hsien in we provinces, Pei Chung-hsi, controll- ern Kiangsi, that Nanking i: ing Chihli province and the port of ing troops for a drive on Cha Tientsin. There is also the Anhwei Pei Loses Troops. clique, formally outside the Kuomin- 3 Parties in Kuomintang. SHANGHAI, March 21,.—Stri sha. est secrecy was still preserved as to happenings in the Kuomintang of these locals, therefore,| The sixty thousand troops former- congress at Nanking today. News tang, but a participant in the Anti- nst Zaritsky as president, |ly commanded by General P. still by ‘official statement only, American Party; it is an instrument 3 contributed mostly to c* the Japanese. The so-called “left wing” of the Kuomintang, with which is asso- ciated Yu Yu-jen, who yesterday bolted the congress, includes Wang Ching-wei and Chen Kung-po, Chung-hsi, member of the Kwang: The so-called “Two Parties” with- clique, have now declared for Gen-|in the congress are roughly analyzed eral Tang Shen-chi, Mohammedan follows: Chinese, who after le in Japan| In the so-called “American Par- has come back to ally himself with that friendly to the U. S., are Chiang Kai-shek. pr ly Chiang Kai-shek, president General Pei, who formerly of the Nanking government, whose these gains, as the official report of the ed, lip of General Executive Board | om _a negligible member- 300, Local 43 “increased its p to 3000.” Immediately t the convention, Zaritsky em- con- MILITARIST MANEUVERS. unon a policy of expelling | trolled Chihli province with the im- forces control Kiangsu, Chekiang entire locals and individuals who | portant harbor and duties of Tient-|and Fukien provinces; perhaps Feng) Plans for a “Poppy Drive,” fared to vote against him and his/|sin, has recently been rumored to ng, whose forces control | through which the spirit of Amer- 8 of collaboration with the|have allied himself with Yen Hsi-|Shensi, Kansu, northern Honan and | ican imperialist militarism will be 5 later everts have shown,/shan and Chang Tsung-chang part, of Shantung provinces. boosted under the guise of “remem- utenants relied | against Chiang Kai | In the so-called Anti-American | bering the war veterans,” were ndshin and co-| General Li Ping-hsien, second in Party, which is more or less friend-| formulated at a meeting of the Vet- to Fight Reactionary Officials at Union Convention | operation of the employers, for the|command to Pei, is credited with|ly to Great Britain and Japan or|erans of Foreign Wars at the Col-| maintenance of the organization, /having maneuvered the change. Pei dominated by them, are: Chang|Umbia University Club, W. 48d St were not only willing but|is believed en route for Hankow. Hsueh-liang, who contro! Man-| yesterday. friendship| Chiang Kai-shek today issued a churia and Jehol; Yen Hsi-shan, the| ye proiciariaw Tmovewent ta dards |long manifesto against the Hankow | “model” governor of Shangsi, wth| the xelf-consctoun, independent oo bur-| generals, placing all the blame for,control of Peking; the Kwangsi| movement of the imme: major- ity.—Karl Marx (Communist Maui- Their | the present rupture of the Kuomin- | clique in close connection with Great! teste). hecking of rehoos Ha cee te eater eS Sh ee mers of Chicago, and expelled J. B.{tion, the ( ive Roard | resentatives of the rank and file will with the M-|§alsberg from the G, E. B. for e: no auth disapprove these policies and would band a local posing the treacherous manocw re pre- of Zaritsky. In Boston, the loe: condemn him as a betrayer of the interests of the workers. rds that it involved; the progress made nst the local as provided a ‘The 7 | which was under the militant lead- for’ in constitution, and then| Sisters and Brothers: In spite of JHecked ait of [ership of the lett wing, was re-|only after the vicious attempt to destroy our aa Checked all ef-| Guced by Zaritsky to a mere com-|made 2 But when our! local, our members have demonstra- part of the operators ted undisputed loyalty to our or- ganization. The combined attempts of Zaritsky and his lieutenants to- | gether with the bosses and the police |to smash our union and break our union standards have proven an ab- solute failure. They failed because of the unequalled resistance on the | part of cur members, We can nroud- ly say that our local has stood the nants Anten pany union. The unemployment |r ube Be the fund was given up, and reduction ee, eee Sagt wages and discharges are being oyment instranes, (c2ttied out with the aid of the pup- vs i ‘e et icials of . fe ptanit- waste be |P° officials Zaritsky’s company £5 union. | igning of a. coll-c- ! eement with the new asso-| At the 1927 convention, Local 43 -1rs |was the second largest local of our h the direct |International under militant lead- embership decided to maintain its rights of electing its officers of our local without interference, the Gen- | eral Executive Board! then” decided to disband our local. Our membership, fused to h however, re- 2 their local of 4,000 de- stroyed. T ouflage decision was too weak to give a mortal blow y. The same program jership. It was clear then, that such applied to the Cap Makers where|a delegati $ was sent by our Zari proposed the return to the |local, as well as the other left wing 44-hour week 2s a preliminary step |locals would not be tolerated very to the ‘oduction of the piece work jlong. Immediately after the conven- |tion, Zaritsky and his lieutenants The General Executive Board has ‘ |pursued a policy of terrorism sabotaged and broken the heroic! against Local Not only did Za. struggle of the Chicago Cap Mak- ritsky’s administration fail to car: fought against the intro-/out the mandate of the last conven- of the piece work system.|tion for the formation of a Joint ey have destroyed the Chicago |Board of all the millinery locals in Czp Makers local. They have ¢is- | New York, but he undertook to dis- banded Local 52, Miliinery Trim-\band Loca! 43. Under the constitu- to our live ond militant local, Our entire membership rallied around the banner of Local 43. Zaritsky ‘and his clique started a vicious at- | tack against their union standards lin the shops. They did not stop at flooding the entire millinery district iwith police; at conspiring with the manufacturers against the members of our local; at sending up scabs to shops where our members were on 'strike for the maintenance of their {union conditions. They put the soft pedal upon the enforcement of the (union standard of the operators and acid test. Local 48 speaks in the name of thousands of organized mil- \linery hand workers, and is continu- ing the struggle to defend the inter- lests of the workers. | Sisters and Brothers: On the eve ‘of the convention, we appeal to you, \in the name of the most vital inter- |ests of our membership, which is | also the interests of all the cap and millinery workers. In your election of delegates to the convention, you | must remember that the attack against Local 43, the Boston Cap Makers, the Chicago Cap Makers and even at making direct concessions to| Local 52, is an attack against you the bosses in order to induce them | and your interests. to send out our members from the’ We must continue this struggle jshops. The entire energy of Zarit-| for unity in our own ranks and for isky’s administration was concen- (the unity with the new Needle trated to destroy Local 43, to rob| Trades Workers Industrial Union, the trimmers of the opportunity of | which was born out of the struggle jmaking a living. All of the activi-| against the betra; of the official- | ties of the International were sub- dom, and against company-unioniza- jordinated to the union-smashing tion of the union, and which is at company will fly |campaign, Nothing was done by this | present fighting for the 40-hour | administration to check any of the _week and union control in the shops. Rent resciecy Yor the Pet 0 evils from which the millinery work- | You must, therefore, in the elec- _motion cf Aviation and Chemistry) oes Cees Soviet cenapeyn Ore of ete teri GEE RANA RUE L i Meade Vala Base Bee eto of snap | Western Europe. lof ti ‘eir conditions. In order to carry clect representatives who will openly Bie ty storie ene In July a group of metal two- | out their betrayals they have split pledge themselves to fight for the aa year |seater planes will fly from Moscow | ‘he ranks of the millinery workers, | following demands: neem |through Leningrad, Vitebsk, Kiev, ‘iectly giving sid end comfort to) 1,—Reinstatement of Local 43 and ae ny and June two speed | {harkov, Nijni-Novgorod, Kazan, the manufacturers, ‘all militant workers. its into ‘Transcaucasia and Cen- Stalingrad and back to Moscow over It is clear that all this was done 2,—Organization of the unorgan- covering distances of ja total distance of 3,600 miles. The | with a purpose. Zaritsky and the en- ized cap and millinery workers. it 2,000 and 4,500 miles, will be | object of this flight will be to estab- | Ure G. E. B. did everything in theis| 3,—For the maintenance of the ganized. ou f \lish new speed, altitude, lead and | power to prevent a true representa-, week work system, Ukrainian Air Cormunica- other records. | tive convention in May 1929, Zarit-| 4.—Forty-hour week. Comp-.iy also plans a flight) In August tivo flights will be sky embarked upon a policy of be-| 5.—For the shop delegate system. _new passenger airplane, “K-4,” | riade by military airplanes over dis- -heading and smashing every local! 6,—For unity ef all {> cap and harkov to Irkutsk vin Mos- tances cf about 4,000 and 2,509 union under Left wing and progres- millinery workers xd the new to Kharkov, a| miles, covering various parts ef the sive leaderchip, beec.use he knew that| Needic Trades \ 1 *sstrial etanee of 6,000 miles, to test |eastern part of the Sovies Union, (a convention gompozed of true rep | Union, s f LONG FLIGHTS IN USSR Gov't Stimulates Interest in Aviation MOSCOW, U.S, S, R. (By Mail). | the practicability of this new plane -In order to awaken even greater \for long distance passenger flights. _ popular interest in aviation, both for |, The “Dobrolet” ‘the new Soviet tri-motor plane |“Ant-9” over the route of the “Deru- | | | | HOLD A BIG RALLY TO PUSH DRIVE Union as Drive Develops Join A mass meeting. will climax the agitation campaign the Cafeteria Workers Union of the Amalgamated | Food Workers has been carrying on |struction of the among these restaurant workers this week. The meeting will be held next Wednesday. evenine at 8:80 o'clock in the Irving Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. Confident that the sentiment with which the cafeteria workers received the circulars and calls of the union, showed their ripeness for an organ- tional struggle. the union’s cam- vaign organizers think that the call- ing of the mass meeting is by no | means u hasty sten to take. The terrific »xploitation of these workers, slaving 12 and 14 hours a day for miserable wages, is enough to have them come out in a struggle against their bosses for the better- vent of conditions, if only they are “-htin~ union leadership. This was the gist of a report de- i.veved yesterday to the union’s ex- ceutive by Organizer Michael Ober- meier, An additional incentive for fight- ing for more endurable standards for workers in the cafeterias in the garment district is the fact that the garment workers will back them up in the struggle, Their assistance can prove a mighty weapon for the cafeteria workers, since they are the patrons of the over 100 large cafe- terias in the district. In_ response to a letter to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, this left-wing organization has pledged its unreserved support of the fight to unionize the cafe- terias. Charles Zimmerman, vice- president of the N. T. W. I. U., |stated that “The needle trades work- jers sympathize thoroughly with the }cies of the character as the one|faced with over 100 of the “social- |sending this letter exist in this city ist”-inspired capitalist court injunc- jand while not specifically mention- | tions, purpose of the organization drive. Cur members have already helped in the distribution of leaflets and we will continue to give all help possible to assure the success of the drive. Needle workers are urged to talk to the workers in the cafeterias where they eat, pointing out the ad- vantages of organization and urg- ing them to join the union.” NEGRO HARDEST HIT BY FLOODS Cheated of Relief by Red Cross WASHINGTON, March 21— Thirty thousand persons have been driven from their homes in Ala- bama, Georgia and Florida by the recent floods in the southeast, ac- cording to reports from the stricken * territory. In Alabama, alone, according to a survey, the homeless number 23,000. There will be no demand for emer- gency federal funds, as most of the homeless are Negroes, small tenant farmers who are never either pro- tected against floods or saved from them when they come. return to hunt for their dead and build their shacks over again and slave as before, It was estimated that $5C0,000 would be required immediately to re-establish those white residents who have heen driven out by the waters. The toll of known dead went to 25 today, when Grace Taylor, 9, and her brother, 6, drowned near York, Ala, Flood waters of record height |still burst into towns along the | in Florida and the Lower Flint in Georgia. The Chat- tahoochee also moved southward, flooding lowlands. Most of the tri- state area, however, was rapidly drying out after heavy rains. Serum arrived in sufficient quan- | tities at Caryville, Fla., to end the | typhoid threat there. More than 500 have been innoculated, A conference between Red Cross officials, President Hoover and Sec- | retary of War Good was held today | at the White House, in which it was | decided to give the entire rehabili- tation work to the Red Cross. This is the sai organization which in the Mississippi flood discriminated against Negroes, used their forced labor under armed guards, and cre- ated a storm of protest from the entire Negro community. Engdahl Will Discuss Socialism in USSR at School Forum Sunday J, Louis Engdahl, just returned from the Soviet Union, will speak on “Building Socialism in the Soviet Union" at the Workers Schoo! Forum Sunday evening. Engdahl, author of the pamphlet “The Tenth Year,” has traveled through the U, S .S. R.. visiting fac- tories nnd farms, where he ob- served the progress made in indu~ trialization and in building up co! lective egriculture. Engdahl will re count conversations with peasants and tell of visits to factories and conferences in which he partici- pated, ‘ sf Apalachicola Plaza | They will | \GAFEWORKERS T0 Detective Agency Vies with ‘SOCIALISTS’ TRY _ ‘Socialists’ in Aiding Bosses 19 §p.AR AGAINST How thuggery and racketeering does business protection of the forces of “law and jorder” is aptly demonstrated by a letter which has fallen into the hands of the Daily Worker. The letter, a photographie repro- duction of which is shown here also shows that the “socialist” leaders lof the United Hebrew Trades have gained a new ally in their vicious |and unprincipled fight for the de- Retail Grocery |Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union. | Many Sen Agencies. Numerous private detective agen- Shure Pmncinan Gentlenen nection with th ‘the situation, We further sta from past experi thes |ing its functions in detail, are never- | theless, engaged in providing thugs, legally armed, for bosses who pay | specific rates for this ~‘service.” The reaso1 for this letter being sent out at this time is the big or- ganization drive the union is plan- gangster |ters to the bosses. under | more generous in giving advice. For, | Letters that are | while the detective agency letter | sells its strikebreaking service for a| price, the “socialists” give detailed instructions free of charge. Their | letters tell a boss what to do if a POLISH WORKERS CommunistsLeadStrike [union committee visits his store. in Clothing Industry UNITED DETECTIVE BUREAU ae : ; W311 yout or tae Conmunist rum your Business? For your protection and the protection of your business li i i it te vitally petessary that you iimediately oocsasioste jin calling for scabbery, is that due with our representative Jaco Shapiro who is in el tion in the past and the present 8 definite plan that he vould be willing your aesceietion which will eneble you to that sone of your nenbers will vouch. to the capability of our Mr.Shapiro in checking your labor troubles Por infornation we wish to state that the “coununiet?> who call thenselves the Fruit & Veg. Clerk Union will start their organization drive a8 soon as the weather will pernit Very truly yours, Louis Shultz, Prineipal Jacob Shapiro, Manager “Call us up and we will send you assistance,” they say, meaning that! WARSAW, Poland, March 21.— U. H. T. thugs will be placed at the | rive followers of the Jewish “social- boss’ service. They even go still ist” organization, the “Bund,” were further, offering the employer legal linjured when their attempts to go advice free on how to apply for an-|scabbing against the men’s clothing ti-strike and picketing injunctions. |strikers, met with the resistance of The Grocery Clerks’ Union has been ‘the pickets. The strike of men’s clothing workers was called by the left wing union in that industry, which is under Communist leader- ship. This is rot the first clash between |the embittered picketing workers jand the members, followers and |thugs of the “socialist” bund. “7hen |the leaders of the bund issued a | public proclamation instructing their adherents to scab while the other workers struck against the miser- able conditions the strikers found themselves compelled to drag the strikebreakers out of the factories. | Unfortunately for the scabs, all clashes to date generally left them to come out second best, but many honest workers have been injured by the organized thuggery of the “socialists,” who are supported by |Pilsudski’s fascist police. The excuse used by “he socialist | party of Poland and by the “bund” rae I'a f— antiuill, Sey Re @ group of the "Fruit tion of the to the present situation in the coun- try the strike will be defeated, Strikers brand this as the hypo- erisy of degenerates and traitors. | The striie has every chance for end- |ing vietoriously. The fact that Com- |munists are in the lead of the move- ment for better conditions, is the motivating force behind the “bund’s” attempt to break the strike, workers assert. Bronx Worker Athletic Club Will Celebrate _ Anniversary Tomorrow Incidentally, after weeks of neal preparation for the organization] An athletic carnival, celebrating drive by the Grocery Clerks’ Union, | the first anniversary of the Bronx jour slick and sly sleuths are able | workers Athletic Club, will be given |to give the store owners the “pri-'at 1347 Boston Road tomorrow |vate” tip, contained in the last para- | night, | graph of their letter: “For informa- | The club, which includes a mem- |ning to initiate soon in all crafts of | tion we wish to state that the ‘Com- | bership of 120, has practiced sys- \the industry covered by the union. \The first of a series of mass meet- ‘ings for this purpose was held Mon- |day evening, with hundreds in at- |tendance, “Socialist” Strikebreaking Is Free. Thus the United Hebrew Trades jofficialdom, who are “socialists”, Holmeses” practically tell us that) hoss-eontrolled find themselves faced with compe-|the drive will be started whenever | clubs of the A. A. U., the club has | tition. For they too have sent let-\the union gets good and ready! munist”” who call themselves the|tematically for several weeks, with Fruit and Vegetable Clerk Union the result that members of the ath- will start their organization drive 8 lotic team will be able to present a soon as the weather will permit \varied program of gym work at the them.” i ahi 3 | celebration. Besides getting their information | Organized to interest young work- from the newspapers, our “Sherlock | oys' jn workers’ sports, as opposed to and boss-inspired grown steadily, in spite of the many THREATEN HEAD OF RAYON STRIKE ‘Pleading, Bullying Fai to Budge Strikers (Continued from Page One) | instructions of the rayon plant of- ficials. Seek Outside Scabs. tion on breaking down the morale of |from proceeds of a package party i | Daily’ Benefit Party | obstacles which it encountered. Its i 4 7 Jactive membership participates reg- Unit 4F, aC, Will Give jularly at workers’ athletic meets, and has developed a program which includes cultural and physical ac- tivities. Athletic classes are con- The Daily Worker will benefit |ducted under the leadership of Abe s |Kopit every Tuesday evening and |Sunday afternoon. Workers inter- ] to be given by Unit 4F, 3C, at the octeq in obtaining further informa- jhome of Lena Gordon, 49 E. 102d |tion are asked to write to Gertner, The reason for all this concentra-| | the strikers, besides desiring the | strike‘s termination generally, is the uncomfortable fact that strikebreak- (ers are extremely difficult to get leven from other centers, And once | gotten, the problem of conveying |them into the plant under heavy guard against the bitterness the striker are expected to show, is by no means a petty one. It is generally believed, however, that the attempt to recruit strike- breakers here will soon be given up | as hopeless and outside elements will be depended on. MAAAAAMAAMAAAAA Bin SOVIET RUSSIA TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes ite friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own opinion of the greatest social experi- ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. 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Tomor.: Aelita: the Revolt of the Robots—Russian ‘R.U.R.’ BIG MASQUERADE BALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “UJ ELORE” —Hungarian Communist Daily— Arranged by the UJ ELORE conference with the co- operation of the New York Hungarian organizations will be held Sat. Eve., March 30th 8 P. M., at Central Opera House 67th Street and Third Avenue TICKETS in advance $1.00; at the box office $1.25. Tickets for sale at Uj Elore office, 26 Union Square, Hungarian Workers Home, Tableau from the 1919 Hungarian Revolution. (350 East 81st Street.)