The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 1

\ il So eee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farme To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party rs Government Entered as sccond-c er at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. VI., No. Al NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, “1929 n New York, by mail, $6.00 "SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Outside New York, by ma HILLQUIT FIRM ADMITS FAKERY IN ITS EVIDENCE “Minutes” Presented to Take House from Workers No Good Right Wing Chief Lied Printer’s Mark Shows Document Too Fresh The law firm run by Morris Hill- quit, socialist party leader, was again “caught with the goods!” Though not as staggering as the swindle perpetuated by the “social- ist genessen” when they robbed from the needle trades workers their union funds and property, this latest disclosure shows something just as| odorous. This exposure like the other was made in court. Louis B. Boudin,; attorney for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, yesterday brought out facts connecting Morris Hillquit’s firm and the “socialist’”” officialdom of the scab International Ladies Garment Workers Union, with the introducing of fake minutes, which they used as genuine evidence. Faked Some Minutes. The minutes were presented by the “socialists” as evidence in their suit (still unsuccessful after more than two years of litigation) against the left wing union for possession of| the building at 16 W. 2ist St., which is now the national office of the left wing industrial . union. Boudin was the attorney, thru whose cross-examination of Hillquit, facts of the $150,000 swindle were. drag- ged into the light. Knowing that their manufacture of fake minutes had been found out. before they came into court yester- day, Hillquit’s representatives in court tried to mend their fences and the result was a sight for sore eyes. Frederick Umhey, co-worker with | Hillquit was compelled to stand up | | = —_ “fe Bi A mechanic was burned and another worker died as result of an | explosion and a fire in this Brooklyn garage. Pools of gasolene and oils on garage floors are a constant menace to workers employed there. “Peace?” Quit Your Kiddin’, Col. Stimson Tells “Daily” By SENDER GARLIN aptured the WORKER,PEASANT TROOPS CAPTURE FUKIEN CITIES Army of 6,000 BeatBack Nanking Forces; Kill Commander in Fight 7 Kiangsi Towns Fall Kwantung Mobilizing toAidHankowGenerals | SHANGHAI, China, March 25, An army of six thousand workers and peasants is revorted to have in- vaded Fukien province today and important mountain ity of Tingchow-fu and the town of Shanghang. The Fukien provincial troops of the Nanking government were to- tally defeated by the advancing worker-peasant army. The com- mander of the Fukien troops was killed in the battle for possession | of the city. “What chance have we got to go to heaven? Ask me_ something easier!” This was Col. Henry L. Stimson’s answer to the question of the Daily Worker reporter: “What do you think are the prospects for world | peace?” Stimson thus refused to cover up his notorious militarism with any pacifist illusions, or even to be trapped into any pacifist admissions. Army Man. The new secretary of state in the Hoover imperialist cabinet and sec- retary of war under William How- ] | Nanking is reported to be mobil-| | HOE DELEGATES izing troops to attempt the re-cap-| |ture of the towns but the struggle | | |with the Wuhan warlords is ham-) Communists Take Towns. * | . +4.) PEKING, China, March 25.—Re- Tally Union Victories; |,orts to the United States legation Plan More Struggle here today stated that worker and peasant troops under the leadership With a spirit of enthusiasm mani- | the Communist Party of China were in possession of large parts jfested only by victorious strikers, |o¢ the provinces of Kiangsi and Fu- over 150 shop delegates from 30 or- | kien. ganized shops formulated plans to| Several towns have been captured spread unionism throughout the|by the worker and peasant troops, |shoe industry at a conference at the |the report indicates, and adds that Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv. |the Nanking authorities are incap-| t jable of checking the gains by the jing Place, yesterday. Steve Alexan- | Communists |derson, president, opened the ses- Among the towns reported cap- sion. jtured by the worker-peasant troops Driven like slaves by profit-hung- |are Nanan, Anyuan, Sinwu, Ningtu, ry bosses, a few weeks ago, and com-|Shiukin, Hingkwo and Siashi-chen. pelled to put up their savings as! Fukien and parts of Kiangsi have in court and tell Judge Edward G. Whittaker of the State Supreme Court, that one-of. his .chief wit- nesses in the suit, the right wing union official, Bluestein, had been lying. | The Story of Minutes. And this is why he said so: As! was already stated, the suit for possession of the left wing union headquarters has been dragging along in hearings for, about three! years. At the previous hearing be- fore this, held February 27, 1929,| the scab union officials Bluestein and Rabinov, testified that they to- gether with Hillquit’s employee Um- hey had held a meeting of the Work- ers Unity House Inc. This corpor- ation, they claimed, owned the build- ing at 16 W. 2ist St. On December 21st, 1926, over two years ago these witnesses said at the last hearing, they had held a meeting with Mr. Umhey and had elected themselves directors of this corpor- ation, They then closed this meet- ing and as fullfledged directors re- opened it the same day and elected themselves as officers of the corpor- ation. And to prove this they of- fered as evidence to the court the minutes they took at these two meet- ings—held over two years ago. These minutes, they told the Judge, were onthe same day, Dec. 21, 1926, brought to the office of their attorney Mr. Hillquit and have been peacefully reposing in that gentle- man’s vaults for over two years. With this the hearing ended. This was a month ago. Last week Miss Cohen, employed as law clerk for the firm of Boudin and Wittenberg, as is customary, asked permission to examine the (Continued cn Page Two) Iron Workers Prepare Strike Plans Tonight Organization preparation for the forthcoming strike in the structural iron industry will be outlined at a _ meeting of the Architectural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union at 7 E. 15th St. 8 p. m. to- night. ‘ Is He Typical? Thousands of workers have by shis time come to know the weak- nesses and strengths of Vassili Alexeievich Buzheninov as his character is unfolded by Alexey Tolstoy, noted Soviet writer, in his masterly story, Azure Cities, now running serially in the Daily Worker. Is Buzheninov a typical citizen of the Soviet Union? Or is he an abnormal type, a product of the bourgeois society of before the Revolution? Follow the story day by day, until its conclusion, cd then send your reactions to the Daily Worker. Letters from workers—not from professional literateurs—are wanted, telling briefly what they think of this story and of the problems whic’ “security” before they could get a|long been regarded as a stronghold job, these workers demonstrated |their satisfaction at being liberated |from the degrading conditions of the jopen shop. Prolonged applause greeted the |speech of Organizer Joe Magliacano, | |when he related in detail the con-| | quest of shop after shop since the | organizational drive was started re- | cently. They approved plans sub- mitted by Organizer Kaplan when he told them how to organize their branch chairmen, and the functions | of the general chairmen. A general | shop report was made by Business| ard ead was meeting the “Press” | Agent Levine. | in the law library of Winthrop,| A resolution to concentrate the! Stimson, Putnam and Roberts, coun- | energies of the organization to as-| sellors and attorneys-at-law, offices sist the strikers of the LaValli-La| at 32 Liberty St, on the 12th floor | Presti Shoe Company was unanim.| of the First National Bank build-| ously carried. Special plans were ing. 7 aM also voted for the strike against the _“Must Report to Chief.” | Griffin and White Co., the first of | _ Stimson has just arrived from the | the big employers banded together| Philippine Islands, where for nearly | into an open shop association—the| COL, STIMSON of Chiang Kai-shek’s, but the Nan- | king forces have proved powerless to stop the victorious sweep of the Communist uprising. The worker and peasant troops have been in control of various sec- tions of southern Kiangsi and ncrth-| ern Kwantung for a considerable time, but the new advance into Fu- kien suggests the growing strength of the Communist revolt. TO APPEAL CASE OF TAPOLCSANY! Labor Defense Calls on Labor for Solidarity | A campaign has been launched by two years, as governor-general of the conquered province, he swung the imperial fist of the United States. Stimson refused to discuss the Mexican situation, the world court and the prospect of war with Eng- land. “First I must report to my chief,” he said. Discontent ?—None. “I understand,” ventured the re- porter for the Daily Worker, “that there is great discontent in the Philippine Islands.” Stimson denied it blandly. “Speak- ing for myself,” he said, “I met with the utmost cordiality and co- operation.” This was almost worthy of a home-returning Caesar. A reporter for Cyrus Curtis’ New York Evening Post spoke up defer- entially: “Colonel, what do you consider to (Continued on Page Two) FOUR KILLED IN MT. GRETNA, Pa., March 25.— Four more victims today were added to the casualties of the intensive aviation campaign of the govern- ment when a Ryan monoplane crashed here, killing its pilot and three passengers shortly before noon, As a result of the efforts of the government to build up aviation in this country immediately as a part of the war preparations, many deaths are resulting from poorly constructed airplanes and aviators inspired by stunt flying. The crash here today—brings the total killed during the past two days to thir- teen: The plane was so badly wrecked that it required several minutes to reach the bodies of the men in the cabin and cockpit. All were dead when rescuers suc- ceeded in cutting their way through the tangled wreckage. oSemiadelaen ba AIRPLANE WRECK Board of Trade. |. After Magliacano announced the |intentions of the union to develop |into a nation-wide organization, General Organizer Fred Biedenkapp spoke on the general struggle of the | workers in the shoe industry. CEYLON BOSSES’ LEAGUE COLOMBO, Ceylon (By Mail).— Employers here have formed the “Employers’ Federation of Ceylon,” under the auspices of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, to fight wage increase demands. ICE WF 4CKS HOMES FORT ATKINSON, Wis. (By Mail).—Workers’ homes near the north end of Lake Koshkonong, near here, have been wrecked by ice tossed against them by high lake waters, WORKER BADLY BURNT MILWAUKEE (By Mail).—Tony Gornoviez, 89, a worker in the Paper Pulp Products Co., was badly burnt in an explosion of shellac while he was at work in the plant. Official government releases from Rome give 8,506,576 “yes” votes €or the parliament of 400 chosen by Mussolini and 136,198 “no” votes, in a campaign in which Mussolini tried to show the world, according to Tom Di Fazio, acting secretary of the Anti-fascist Alliance, that fascism is approved by the Italian masses, Di Fazio stated that “despite the fact that from the very inception of fascism Mussolini has attempted to force its acceptance upon the masses, the masses will remain overwhelm- ingly anti-fascist, and for very good reasons.” i “These reasons are contained in sharp form in the election literature of the Communis"\Party of Italy, ITALIAN COMMU the International Labor Defense {against the decision of the federal court in Pittsburgh in the case of John Tapolesanyi, whose citizenship was cancelled on the basis of his “belief in the principles of Com- munism.”- A copy of the official decision, received by the National Office of the I. L. D., shows the seriousness of this effort to establish a prece- cent for depriving every foreign worker in the Communist Party and jmilitant trade unions of citizenship. | The following is the main point of | |the government’s charges against | Tapolesanyi. For Soviet Union. “In a letter to his brother in Hun- wary, written less than a year after his admission, he berates his hrother for being ‘patriotic’ and al- legees that he (defendant). for eight years, has been ‘a pure red Communist.’ He also admonishes his brother that workmen have only one country and that is Soviet Rus- sia. He tells his brother, ‘If you will havé your interests with the | ures He Argues Indemnity | Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, and head of the German government's delega- tion to argue with Morgan, Young and delegates of France and Eng- land on the Dawes board. Schacht spends most of his time carrying propositions for hundreds of mil- lions of dollars “reparations” to Berlin, and coming back with pov- erty statistics to prove Germany can’t pay. HOOVER STALLS ON FARM RELIEF Brookhart His Pal in This Fake Issue WASHINGTON, March 25.— The} committee first Congressional relief has spent on farm| its session from the pompous but, on close| scrutiny, very vague Hoover speeches | | just what kind of a farm relief bill, the president will be willing to sign. By the time the special session of Congress meets in April, the com- mittee must have ready a bill that will not scare the eastern bankers, will give the western bankers imme- diate control of marketing machin- ery for farm. products, and -will- at the same time be apparently liberal enough to trick many farmers as possible into believing the Hoover (Continued on Page Two) OHI MINERS TO MEET MARCH 1 National Union Men to Organize District BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 25.— The Ohio District of the National Miners Union is at present busily engaged in preparing for the hold- ing of the first District Convention of the National Miners Union in Ohio. The Convention, which is scheduled for March 27, 28 and 29, will definitely establish a district organization of the National Miners Union in the state of Ohio, work out plans for an intensive drive to organize the unorganized miners and fight the wage cut offensive of the employers. The National Miners Union has enrolled more than 3,000 in Ohio at the present time. tion has functioned under the lead- ership of provisional officers for the past several months. Local unions of the National Miners Union function in all important coal towns in the Ohio district. John J. Watt, retary-treasurer of the national or- tion, representing the national or- ganization, BOATS CRASH IN CHANNEL LONDON (By Mail).—In a col- lision between the cross-channel vessel Picard and the S. S. Catford, near Gravesend, the crews of both International Workingmen, the lead- (Continued on Page Two) which despite the fact that it is forced to work underground has rallied about itself the most effective anti-fascist elements. In a series of slogans, distributed in the form of leaflets and handbills, principally thru the secret shop nuclei and other under-ground organizations, the prin- cipal demands of the workingclass against Italian fascism are sum- marized. Voting “no” in the elec- tions means of course voting against fascism. The following are the slogans used by the Communist Party in the election campaign: “No, we do not want the slavery of the workers to the capitalists and the fascist dictatorship! We want freedom and the dictatorship of the narowly escaped drowning. The Catford was badly damaged. FIGHT AGAIN AT "s?mttom Pazams WALATLAN; BOTH ao SIDES. “WINNING” | Federal Reinforcement) | Near But Delayed by | | Destroyed Tracks | \Chihuahua Battle Soon, | 300 Government Troops | | Tricked, Captured MEXICO CITY, March 25.—The federal government tonight denied ie 2 ae BOD Mens Lenoniag canine’ Lee A new picture of Senor Ricardo i . eerie ceed Sa in the! Jj. Alfaro, minister to the United state of Chihuahua had been cap-|° states from Panama since 1928. tured. They stated that the men had entrained on an insurgent train under the impression that they were being taken to the federal forces. They had not yet discovered the deceit and it was not certain if fed- eral messages would reach th in |time to prevent’ their capture. | oat es, MEXICO CITY, March 25.—Gen. | Jaime Carillo, federal general hold- He is a useful and popular (with his masters) puppet of Wall St. REVOLT FORCES ing Mazatlan against the rebel as- sault, reported today that three of his men were killed during the siege) of the city. Seven federals were wounded, he said, while “rebel” cas- ualties were 58 dead and three wounded. Sixteen civilians also were wound- ed at Mazatlan, Carillo reported. The federal general said firing was resumed at Mazatlan this morn- ing, which prevented removal of other wounded men and bodies lying outside the city. Reinforcements for Mazatlan were |pretending to be trying to guess| expected to reach there tomorrow ous local unions denouncing tie vote under the leadership of Gen. Evar- isto Perez. The march from Irapuato where the troops started, was slow, and railways could not be used be- cause “rebel” forces destroyed the tracks and burned bridges. | | Gen. Lazaro Cardenas also was} marching towards Mazatlan with. ad- UMWA MEETING RushConvention;Delay | Exposes Fishwick By WILLAM F. KRUSE | CHICAGO, arch 25.—A _ Dis- trict Convention of the United Mine Workers of America will be | held in Peoria, Illinois, on Maré 26. Delegates are being clected| from all over the district and many of them are militant opponents of the Lew: ishwick machine. Re: olutions are being adopted in vari- steal which forced a wage cut against the will of the membership, the paralyzing of the fighting | power of the workers by the bureaw- | crats’ policy of separate agreements for each district expiring at differ- ent times, etc. Resolutions also demand that the FINAL CITY EDITION ~ Price 3 Cents TWEL. OUTLINES PLAN TO BUILD UNITY CONGRESS Shop Committees Send Delegates to June 1 ( Convention Raise Issue in Locals Will Create New Trade | Union Center you want shorter working hours? Do you want to stop the speed-up system that is foreing you to work faster every week?” s the Trade Union Educational League of thou- sands of workers to whom it is send- ing its call for a trade union unity congress to be held in Cleveland, \June 1 and following days. These pertinent questions head a state- ment by the League, which accom- panies the call in leaflet form, and which will be widely circulated dur- ing the next few days. “These things can only be gained e union organiza- E. L. continu ith its members in the sho} ganized into shop-committee: ing all the w a powerful militant industrial es, unit- ers in each industry into union. “If you are interested in these things, then you will be interested in the Trade Union Unity Convention, Cleveland, O., June 1, 1929.” “You Can Be Represented” The statement of the T. U. E. L. instructs workers how they may be represented at the convention. They Jare told to take up the convention call in their local trade unions, get it endorsed, and see that a delegate s elected. Then,” says the T. U. E. L., “or- | eanize a committee of all your fel- ditional reinforcements for the fed-|pay of the officials shall not be erals, ae oe higher than that of the miners and that in times of strike the officials’ low-workers in your shop, or as many as are ready to fight for a “Rebels”. Ciaim Mazatlan. pay shall’ be no highet than the NOGALES. Sonora, Mex., March |strike benefits paid to the strikers. 25 (UP).—Dispatches today from| This conventicn is being held two General Francisco Manzo, com-|months earlier than _ originally manding the insurrectionist attack | scheduled, the excuse given being on Mazatlan, Sinaloa, claimed that |that the reasons which had impelled with the exception of one hill reb- the fixing of the date in May no els controlled the city. longer hold good, since there will “The federals are making their|be no natienal scale negotiations ast stand in the old fortifications |this year. Actually, the bureau- jon the hill,” Manzo advised. “I will|crats realize that it is impossible wire details as soon as the job is |for them to call off the convention completed.” altogether, owing to the ii | demand from the membership, Villa Troops for Reactionaries. therefore they plan to hold it as JUAREZ, Mexico, March 5 \soon as possible. Delay would only (UP).—Guillermo Martinez, Parral | work against them since from day merchant, arriving here today. said|to day more and more mines are 1,200 followers of the late Pancho shutting down. Villa have joined the “rebels” under| py May the situatidn of the Il- the leadership of Salas Barraza, |jinois miners will be even more"des- confessed slayer of the famous | )orate, and this would reflect itself Mexican bandit leader. in still greater revolt against the allie misleadership which is now running Deposit Gold in U. S. the U. M. W. in the interests of the * * } * stent | The organiza-| president, and Patrick Toohey, sec- | ganization, will attend the Conven- | MEXICO CITY, March A re- port from General Calles today states that six hundred thousand (Continued on Page Five) ‘Show Soviet Newsreel, (Give Entertainment, at} the “Freiheit” Concert " | By special arrangement with the} | Friends of the U.S.S.R., the eight-) |reel movie, “A Visit to Soviet Rus-| |sia” given at the Waldorf Theatre| | Sunday night, will be featured at the seventh anniversary celebration of| the Freiheit, Yiddish Communist daily, at the New York Coliseum, |177th St. and Bronx River Ave., | Saturday, April 6. Pictures showing | | the development of industrialization lin all sections and autonomous re- publics of the U.S.S.R. are features |of the film. Nicholas Karlosh, Ivan Vilikanoff and Anna Sovina, Soviet artists, will complete the entertainment pro- gram. may be secured at the Freiheit, 30 Union Sq. NISTS WILL SAY ‘NO’ WITH GUNS Di Fazio, of Anti-Fascisti, Analyzes Elections and Gives Demands of Workers: proletariat!” “No, we do not want a government of industrialists, bankers, landown- lers and priests! We want a worker- | peasant government. “No, we do not want the king and the fascist monarchy! We want a republic of workers and peasants! No Parliament! “No, we do not want to return to |the parliament that made the war and has put fascism into power! No, we do not want to return to bour- geois democracy! We want to over- throw the capitalist regime! We want Socialism! We want prole- tarian democracy! “No, we don’t want any more wage-cuts, We do not want to ay any more taxes! We do not want to work like slaves for black-shirt bosses any longer! We want to fight against fascism, against cap- italists, against landowners for the conquest of bread, land and freedom. “The 136,000 votes against the fascist regime, registered in spite of black-shirt terror do not represent even a small fraction of the real opposition,” said Tom Di Fazio, act- jing secretary of the Anti-fascist Alliance in an interview ‘with the Daily Worker yesterday. “The Ital- ian workers are preparing to vote down the blackshirt rule with bul- lets, which are the only ballots that Tickets for reserved seats) operators and contrary to the will of the miners. Only a week or so ago the largest mine in Illinois, and the largest in the world, Orient | No. 1, shut down and others are | following suit. Fake the Vote. The miners were promised by the bureaucrats that the acceptance of a ‘wage reduction would result in plenty of work for the unemployed | miners. This promise did not fool the coal-diggers and by an over- whelming majority they rejected the proposed wage-cut agreement. This did not suit the Fishwick ma- (Continued on Page Three) CLASH POSSIBLE ON “TM ALONE” ‘Dry Law Sinking Up- held by Congressman WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. |P.).—A diplomatic clash between the United States and Canadian gov- jernments over the sinking of the |Canadian schooner “I’m Alone” by coast guard patrol boat in the Gulf of Mexico Friday appeared prob- able tonight. The situation was further intensi- |fied when Secretary of Treasury, | Mellon, held that the coast guard vessel’s action was fully justified under international law, a view that \is known to conflict with the Cana- dian interpretation of the rum-run- ining treaty between the two coun- tries. Part of Ship War. It is known that the Canadian |government holds to the British side in the shipping war between US. imperialism and that of Great Bri- tain, and that the I’m Alone incident (Continued on Page Two) gn Boas Zwo), of the immense en Sepimpniot: Manifesto). pees et Us 2 staal Gs real. trade-union organization and organize a permanent shop com- mittee, electing a delegate to the convention. Adopt resolutions on this question and send copies to the trade union press, and circulate them among the other workers’ organ- izations. Hold small meetings of your fellow-workers to talk these matters over, and plan joint action in sending delegates. Unite the ef- forts of all supporters of the Con- vention in your city or town, and es- tablish a city committee. Read the call to all your fellow workers, Cir- culate it among them. “Let every important shop, mill, and mine in the United States have its delegates in Cleveland on June 4, 1929!” By means of shop committees, the convention is expected to have a large delegation from places where no union exists. The formation of shop committees for representation at the convention will, T. U. E. L. officials point out, also be the bas of organization of unions there. A New Center The call for a convention in Cleve- land emphasizes that it will result in “the creation of one common trade (Continued on Page Three) MINERICH GOES TO SERVE TERM Toohey States Courts | Assist Mine Owners PITTSBURGH, Pa., March That Anthony Minerich is now en- route to Columbus, Ohio, to surren- der to United States Marshalls and |begin serving a sentence of 45 days \in prison for violation of an injunc- tion granted by Federal Judge Ben- son Hough, to Eastern Ohio coal operators, during the recent strike, was today confirmed by Patrick Toohey, secretary-treasurer of the National Miners Union, with head- quarters in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Na- tional Miners Union, collaborating with the International Labor De- fense, conducted the defense of Mi- nerich who is a member of the exe- cutive board of the union. Minerich will commence serving his sentence in view of the refusal lof the United States Supreme Court |to allow a writ of certi orare in his (Continued on Page Five) “Daily” Agents Meet Postponed to Friday The meeting of Daily Worker agents, originally announced for tonight, has been postponed to Friday, 7:30 p. m., at the Work- ers Center, 26 Union Sq. Irving Fralkin, manager, will outline gampaign plans.