The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 1

re ind rs; try ex- ely zed her an nis rt or at of or c= is a ny id or - la ig @ e e d ee a ee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. orker FINAL CITY EDITION © Vol. VI., No. 16 hed daily exeept Sui 5 Association, 1 Daily Worker jew York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 2 5, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside T RADE UNION LEAGUE CALLS BIG NATIONAL CONGRESS: w York, by : In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. 08 per year. AIM NEW TRADE UNION CENTER FOR CLASS STRUGGLE FEDERALS HOLD | MAZATLAN: NEW CLERIC REVOLT Federals Allowed Thru U.S. Territory; More Ammunition Sent Seaport Is Still Intact! Hoover Sends Another | Consul to Sonora NOGALES, Sonora, Mex., March 24 (UP).—Revolutionary leaders here claimed receipt of advices from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, tonight that Gen- | eral Jaime Carrillo, federal defend- | er of the town, had fled aboard the Mexican gunboat “Progreso” after ! a rebel bombardment. de es i MEXICO CITY, March 24 (UP). —The rebel forces which have been attacking Mazatlan, the important west coast city, have abandoned} their position on thé outskirts of | the city and have concentrated on a} highway some miles distant, the Presidencia was informed this aft- ernoon. One small group of rebels has taken up a position at a ranch overlooking the city, General Jaime Carrillo, the ‘fed2ral commander,|from floods and tornadoes in the | advised the government. | The. fighting—most spirited since | the outbreak of the rebellion—endc-| ed at 9:27 p. m. Saturday, Carrillo | advised, and only a few desultory shots were fired this morning. Casualties of the engagement, which | carried yn for upwards of twelve, hours, ‘are unknown, | Cavalry, infantry, machine gun, airplanes and one battleship were used in the defense and attack on| Mazatlan. General Carrillo said he would advise the federal casualties | later but said there was no way of} telling what the rebel casualties had been as the rebels removed their dead and injured before abandoning their positions. There were reports of heavy} fighting last night on the road from Barron to Isla De Piedra. The lat-) ter city is held by the rebels but) the Presidencia was not advised as to who the fighting forces had been. eae MEXICO CITY, March 24.—Fed- eral forces have repulsed all efforts of the insurgents to capture Mazat- lan, strategie sea port, on the west (Continued on Page Five) | SHOP DELEGATES | CONFER TONIGHT Success of Drive to Be Reported On The first meeving of shop dele- gates of New York shoe workers will be held tonight in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, beginning at 8 o’clock. The conference will hear a full report, delivered by the officers of the Independent Shoe Workers Un- ion, on the outcome of the crgant- zation drive begun by the union over four weeks ago. After the report of the union’s accomplishments, the conference of shop delegates will hear and discuss (Continued on Page Two) W.LR. to Give Show to Benefit the British, U.S. Miners Thursday As part of the campaign for funds to aid starving British and Amer- ican Miners, the New York Branch of the Workers’ International Re- lief will give a showing of the new Sovkino film “The Revolt on the Volga” at the, Film ,Guild Cinema, 62 W. 8th St., at a midnight per- formance Thursday. Tickets may be obtained at the} Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square, or at the local offices of the W.LR., 799 Broadway. ’ Plans, for .a tag. day as part of drive on April 14th will be an- nounce¢ ‘by *the ‘New’ York: local later. a i ine the proletariat porition of cating clasn, to battle i adem rl ‘In U. S.-British Fight Sir Esme Howard, British am- bassador, who officially protested against the sinking of a British vessel, supposedly a rum-runner, by U. S. coast guard runners in the Gulf of Mexico. He says the incident may be “serious.” It arises out of the Anglo-American ship- ping competition. FLOODING WATERS KILL NEGROES Farmers and Croppers Homeless IN ANGLO-U. S, SHIPPING WAR British Ship Is Serious Aliens Believed Dead \Coast Guard Ordered| by Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24. | A further development in the ship-| ping competition between Britain) |and United States and in the accent- |uation of the enmity already existing | between the capitalists of both coun- tries oceurred with the official in- guiry of the British ambassador, | |Sir Esme Howard, into the sinking | |of the British Vvessel, Lmalone, sup- |rosedly a rum runner, in the Gulf of | | Mexico, Friday by U. S. coast guard | | cutter. Howard declared that the inci-| | dent might be serious. | A Negro seaman was drowned | during the scrambling for the boats |followmg the sinking of the Ima-| llone. It was intimated that scores | |The Nanking government, LORDS ASK FOR U.S, AMMUNITIO i} ‘Declares Sinking of KuomintangResolution chinese revolutionist and head of Is Declaration of War Wounded Belie Denia! Official ob Peldng Is Assassinated SHANGHAI, China, March 24.— headed by Chiang Kai-shek, has asked the British and American governments to lift the arms embargo on China for the purpose of obtaining arms to fight the Wuhan warlords, it was admitted yesterday by Foreign Min- ister C. T. Wang. Wang denied that fighting had broken out between the Wuhan and Nanking warlords on the Hupeh- Anhwei border, although over 200 wounded Chinese soldiers have |passed over the railway from that direction. The war between the Kwangsi and Nanking cliques has become an of- ficially accepted fact with the adop- ATLANTA, Ga., March 24.—The \of aliens, allegedly being smuggled |tion by the Kuomintang party con- exact number of dead resulting South is not yet known. The num- ber of known dead has been put at about 30, mostly Negroes, in Ten- nessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia. The estimates of the number killed |into the country, had gone down| with the British vessel and are be-| | lieved to have perished. District At- | |torney Edmund E. Talbot of New Orleans said that he was certain | aliens had gone down with the ship. | It-developed yesterday that ‘Ad-| | miral Billiard, head .of the coast UWA, FAKERS | United Mine Workers of America and drowned run from 59 to over a guard, had received specific instruc: | hundred. At Harriman, Tenn., rai] tions from the government to use | junction point, inhabited by workers | #!! means at his disposal to capture | on the railroad, it is reported that | the ship. Orders were: “Capture or 18 were drowned by the rising | Sink her.” The coast guard cutters Emery River. | Walcott and Dexter started pursuit Five Negro children were killed | Within the 12-mile limit but sunk the at Merrellton, Ala., where an old, Vessel outside the limit. dilapidated church used as a school| The crew of the Imalone were | (Continued on Page Five) taken from the life boats held in chains aboard the Dexter and brought to New Orleans. The incident. is a part of the frenzied rivalry between United Sttates and British shipping along the American coast, and the compe- tition between tthe two for the high- ly valuable liquor trade. GET GOOD GRAFT Big Shortage in Funds of Two Paper Locals BRESLAU, Pa., March Harvey Fires 2 Aides | ‘in Fraud Reward Fight Borough President Harvey of | Queens, heavily involved in the po- litical and graft fight centered about the sewer ring, dismissed Frank Mc- Master and Edward James from his cabinet last night. McMaster was deputy public} works commissioner of Queens and | James was Harvey's confidential in- | vestigator. Harvey said he had re- | moved them because they could not WILKES BARRE, Pa., March 24.| get alorg with the other members A shortage of $1,400 in the accounts |of the cabinet. The fight centers | of local union 996 of the U. M. W. A. about the passing out of political | has beén discovered. The U. M. W. A. offices here, as usual in the an- thracite, are merely organizations to make contracts with the operators for hiring only U. M..W. A. card holders, and giving the officials a chance to collect dues. The U. M.} W. A. does nothing for the miners, | whose organization is really the Na- 24. — The officers here, there are very few members left in this reactionary or- ganization, have been slapped on the | wrist by John B. Gallagher, travel- | ling auditor’of that organization, for having a shortage in their accounts of $1,178. There will be no prosecu- tion, ea, ead money and much graft. | ‘Iron, Bronze Workers | Discuss Strike Tuesday | Discussion on the forthcoming} gress of a resolution granting Nank- ing the power “to do what it sees fit if the Hankow generals con- tinue to disregard Nanking’s or- ders,” in spite of the statements b¥ the “Left wing” clique that this was paramount. to. declaration of war. The Hankow generals are asking } Wuhan merchants and banks for a loan of $2,500,000 for war purposes and they have control of the Han- yang arsenal. FASCISTI DRUM UP “YES” VOTES Mussolini Makes Italy “Elect” Parliament ' ROME, March 24.—Voters were rounded up by the fascisti today to say “yes” to the election of 400 members of the new parliament, chosen by Mus- solini himself. Fascisti in their black - shirt uni- forms patrol the streets and swarms of mili- tary planes soar over-head. Al] the principal ci- ties are placard- ed with signs reading “Si,” which in Italian The electorate can Mussolini means “yes.” of the campaign is to roll up as large a vote for the new puppet body by hook or crook, The slate of 400 was proposed b; Mussolini and at a recent convention, endorsed by the T igrand council of the fascist party facturing section of the city. No other) HOWARD MOVES NANKING WAR. Sow Chow Jen, Chinese Class Leader, Dea (Wireless to th | MOSCOW, U. —The death of cer) Sou - Chow-, the € unions, has been in China. nese trad ed here from source: th was from appendicitis, gravated by the exceptionally heavy underground work which Sou Chow- jen had been compelled to carry on for-the last year. gr UNITY CONGRE CAMPAIGN Agents 85 TO BE HELD JUNE FIRST a IN CLEVELAND AS HIGH POINT IN BIG TO ORGANIZE UNORGANIZED ¢- Expose American Federation of Labor and Socialist Party as Capitalist Betraying Workers’ Struggles Sou Chow-jen, himself a worker,|Call Contains Instructions of Basis for Representation; Program for | Complete Equality of Negroes lwas the outstanding leader of the Chinese working class and his death lis an almost irreparable loss to the not only of China, but of | A sailor for twenty years, ho had had little or no Jof the usual sort, educated himself from the daily struggles of the in- ternational working class, | In 1922 the union of seamen which Sou had organized undertook its giant strike in Hongkong. After the massacre in Shanghai in 1925, Sou Chow-jen joined the Communist Party of China, | | He was one of the most persistent | lenemies of British imperialism in the Far East. The strike, which he | organized in Hongkong, lasted two years and profoundly shook the |power of the British in Asia. | In 1927 Sou was head of the com- missariat for labor in the Wuhan government and, after the betraya! by the Kuomintang, he led the work- er and peasant uprisings that re- peatedly swept various sections of | China. When the first Soviet government was established in China with the Canton Commune in 1927, Sou Chow-jen was elected chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars. The Sixth World Congress of the | Communist International elected Sou |Chow-jen to the Executive Commit- tee. The Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions elected him to the Political Bureau. Sou Chow-jen was also a mem- ber of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. Sou’s book on the Hongkong strike of 1922 is still the authority on that struggle. CAFETERIA MEN TO HOLD RALLY Will Give Impetus to | Organization Drive Cafeteria workers in this city are called to a mass meeting this Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- ving Place. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Hotel and Restaurant and Cafeteria Werk- ers Branch of the Amalgamated |plums such as corporation inspector-| vote either yes or no for the list Food Workers Union. ships which carry with them a lot of | prepared by Mussolini. The object | The inecting marks the height of a propaganda drive for the union- ization of cafeterias, being conducted by the union. The drive for organi- ation is being centred around the estaurants in the garment manu- The workers will listen to the re- tional Miners Union, formed during |<trike in the industry will be held) names can be substituted by the sults of the drive, as reported by the the strike, and faeing a reactionary unite front of the operators, state and U. M. W. A, Crowds Storm Palace of Prince of Monaco; Drive Away Police MONACO, March 24.—Monaco to- day appeared to be near the end of its absolute monarchy. Hundreds of men gathered before the palace and demanded to see Prince Louis, to present their demand for abolition of the despotic regime. The police tried to disperse the crowd, me Iron, Bronze and Structural Work- ‘ers Union at 7 East 15th St., at 8 |p, m. tomorrow. BARGAIN DIVORCES. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 24 \(U.P.).—The average Birmingham divorce costs $72.96—$22.96 in court fees and $50 to the lawyer, a recent survey showed. Dissatisfied persons paid $83,493 for 1,143 divorces in Jefferson County during 1928. CANCE Pittsburgh Federal PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 24.— A basis for revocation of citizenship ing, but they were swept aside. ing, but they were swejt aside. 2Tfie prince then announced he would see a delegation. Talk Campaign Plans at DailyMeet Tuesday Communists is contained in a deci- Irving Fralkin, new manager of the Daily ‘Worker, will outline plans, for, important campaigns at a meeting of Daily Worker agents at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, 7.30 tomorrow it. jeral District Court here, in the case Harmony, Pa, The court has can- celled the citizenship papers of at the meeting of the Architectural |yoters, It is hardly suspected that |campaign leaders, and will pass on there will be many “nos,”. for to{plans proposed for further work in be classed as an anti-fascist in Italy |this direction. means torture and suffering. SAW BREAKS, KILLS WORKER. | CHILTON Wis. (By Mail).— Theodore Busch, a worker, was kill- ed when a circular wood saw broke The conditions under which these | workers are employed are termed | no better than those of slavery. The ‘ginning of the drive in the garment _|section is believed good strategy since the needle trades workers in \that district being patrons of the 12 and 14 hour day is general. Be-| | One of the most important events in the history of the American labor movement is PA, SILK STRIKE ‘FOUGHT BY ULT.W,, BOSSES, POLICE Workers Hold Out in Spite of Arrests | | | (Special to the Daily Worker) | | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Barch 24. Resides the arrest of the Wilk Barre organizer of the National Textille Workers Union, Clarina | Michelson and her subsequent fin-| ing by a judge here, the latest de- velopment in the silk workers’ strike | lin this city was the coming in of the United Textile Workers Union | to break the strike, With the aid of two geentry sent | by the department of labor, the agents of the A. F. of L. union are calling upon the striking silk work- ers to come to a mecting they ar- ranged. The labor department men, Messrs. Davis and Mines, who are paid functionaries of the state’s ‘ike breaking agencies, have been urging the strik to attend the meeting of the U. T. W. although their ostensible function is to try to bring the strikers id bosses to- gether for settlements of labor troubles. Their efforts are barren, however, for the A. F. of L. organization is thoroughly d dited in these re- (Continued on Page Five) PARIS POLICE JAIL CONGRESS Communist Delegates to Meet Seized Sous forecast by announcement made by the Trade Union Educational League that a great na- ooling tional Trade Union Unity Congress will be held-in the city of Cleveland on June 1. The call for the congress is already being circulated in the ranks of the j | labor movement and among the workers in the unoganized in- dustries. | The epochal significance of the forthcoming congress is indicated by the declaration contained in the call that its policies will be “based upon the creation of one common trade union center for all class struggle organizations, which shall unite all new unions, revolu- tionary minorities in the old unions, and all movements for organizing the unorganized, shop committees, etc., under a single direction.” In expressing the necessity for the step that is to be taken, the Trade Union Educational League in its call draws attention to the effects of capitalist rationalization, the inevitable oncoming imperialist war, the war plans of the imperialist powers directed against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the corruption of the A. F. of L., its nar- rowing base and obsolete craft union form, its utter abandonment of the masses of unskilled and semi-skilled workers, its neglect and exclusion of Negro workers, the treacherous role of the social reformists, the socialist party and the Muste group of “progressives.” On the other hand the call points out the discontent and. radicalization of the masses of unorganized workers and the struggles which are now breaking out in many places spontaneously, demonstrating the urgent need of militant industrial unions controlled by the workers themselves. This convention is called bythe National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League and the call is addressed to all trade unions, shop committees, organizing committees and minority groups affiliated t othe T, U. E. L. or sympathizing with its aims. The meeting June 1 will be the first national convention of the T. U. E. L. held since December, 1927. A plan for broad representation from the rank and file units of all labor organizations has been worked | out. The call is as follows: * © Dear Comrades: The National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League hereby calls for the election of delegates to constitute the TRADE UNION UNITY CONGRESS, to meet in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, at 10 a. m., on June Ist, 1929, and conclude on June 2nd, Capitalist rationalization, with its merciless, ever-increasing speed- up system, is making conditions intolerable for larger and larger masses of workers, especially in the high-mechanized industries. Increasing pro- ductivity, far from raising the living standards of the workers, is creat- ing permanent mass unemployment, with further intensified speed-up |of those remaining in the shops, with further wage-cuts and intensified exploitation generally. The capitalist class is intensifying its campaign of breaking down all effective working class organizations in carrying through its open shop policy. With smaller working forces, American capitalism is pouring from its factories a tremendous volume of com- modities, beyond the limits of the domestic market, which is shrinking because of the decreasing purchasing power of the toiling masses. For- eign markets are being developed at a forced pace to absorb the increased output, but there also the limits of expansion are set by the barriers of rival capitalist powers and by the growing revolt of the subject peoples against the ruthless exploitation of American imperialism. Thus capitalist rationalization, marching over the bodies of the masses of American workers, reaching out to the further subjugation of the world markets, comes to the limit of possible expansion. American PARIS, France, March 24.—Police Chief Chiappe today mobilized his department, surrounded the con- gress of the Communist Party of France in session here, and arrested the entire gathering of 120 mem- bers. | The arrests followed an attack on the delegates by police who forced their way into the convention. Their ‘attempts to break up the Party congress were resisted by the dele- gates who gave the police as good as they sent. Chiappe, whose reserves were al- ready around the building, then en- tered and demanded the workers who had ejected the police to sur- render. Derision met his insolence. | The police produced warrants and arrested the entire congzess.. The loose, nearly decapitating him while |stores to be tackled, have pledged , delegates were taken to the Sante he was at work. Itheir aid. Prison. Court L CITIZENSHIP FOR COMMUNIST VIEWS Lays Basis tor Wholesale ‘Deportation ot Workers in the principles of Communism.” |out his final citizenship papers in| that belief in the principles of Com- According to the decision, it is not necessary even to prove mem- and deportation of all naturalized|bership in the Communist Party. A declaration by the court that a | worker | sion just handed down by the Fed- principles” is sufficient reasons for) “believes in Communist revocation of citizenship and depor- and other countries where Commu- nist principles are punished with death. 1920. Later, he wrote a letter to his brother in Hungary, in which he declared that he was a Communist Soviet government, This iment of justice. The court granted the request of )munism prevents one from being an | American citizen, Despite the fact that Tapolezyani in principle and in favor of the is not a member of the Communist | letter, Party, the government is utilizing | which was intercepted by the Hun- the letter to cancel his citizenship | igarian fascist censors, was turned and establish a precedent for whole- | of John Tapolezyani, a barber of tation to Hungary, Italy, Rumania | over to the United States depart-|sale deportation of militant foreign | born radical workers, and to hold the threat of imprisonment and capitalism has become inextricably entangled in the world capitalist crisis, From this impasse there is no outiet for capitalism except in WAR:— war, first of all, of the capitalist: powers against the Soviet Union, and second, between the imperialist powers themselves. The present period, \therefore, for the working class is primarily one of STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WAR DANGER AND AGAINST CAPITALIST RATIONALIZATION, A. F. OF L. IS AGENT OF CAPITALIST CLASS. The American Federation of Labor has thoroughly exposed its role as a social-reformist and social-imperialist organization, that is, as an ‘agent within the working class for the capitalist class, to support the | policies of capitalist rationalization and preparations for imperialist war. The A. F. of L., with its ever-narrowing base of the corrupt aristocracy and obsolete craft forms, is the inveterate enemy of class struggle of | the workers. Its. role is not to organize and lead the workers in struggle, ut instead to disorganize and demoralize them, especially masses of un- | skilled and semi-skilled, and to cooperate with employers and capitalist parties and the government through the so-called non-partisan policy in ‘order to keep these workers in continued subjection. The complete denial | of trade union democracy, the mass expulsions of left-wing workers, the | open strike-breaking against the textile and needle workers, etc., are only typical examples of the A. F, of L. role in the present period. The com- ing Congress will take all necessary measures to mobilize the left wing in the old unions for energetic struggle against the bureaucracy and to | win the membership for policies of militant class struggle. MASSES DISCONTENTED. The masses of unorganized workers, in America as in all other cap- italist countries, under the pressure of speed-up and wage-cuts, are seeth- | ing with discontent. Already this is breaking out into hundreds of small, | spontaneous, unorganized movements, fighting against the speed-up, |against wage-cuts, for a shorter working day, and other demands. Ex- perience has proven once for all, that any attempt to lead these masses into the unions of the A. F. of L., under the rule of the corrupt bureau- cracy, would result in dissipating these movements and preventing any effective organization. The experience of Passaic, where a great union of 10,000 members was deliberately destroyed by the A. F. of L., and the criminal activities of the bureaucrats which destroyed the great miners’ union, are typical. These workers in the unorganized industries must have their own ‘lrade Union organizations, controlled by the masses, which can be made per- manent instruments of struggle. In all capitalist countries such develop- ° ments are taking place, being especially acute in America, where the sit-_ uation requires the formation of new unions, based on the class struggle, | |the government for cancellation of {death over all workers from coua-| in open warfare with the Greens and Wolls of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. - Tapolezyani begause of his “belief; Tapolczyani, a Hungarian, took|Tapolczyani’s citizenship, délaring tries with fascist dictatorships. a : ne ata shea Oe Ue ah, (Continued ont Page Thr ye he ( ‘ontinuer om) Hibs eeed a _Aahlage