The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 1

n | | } | ] | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily = EEA EIT, yabacs Vol. NI, No. lay by The National Daily Worker NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 In New Yo $6.00 per year. by mail, $8.00 per year. _Price 3 Cents Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Outside New Y ae CHINA WORKERS HOLD CITY OF 250,000 PEOPLE Occupy Strategic Place | in Fukien Province; Capture Confirmed Chiang Gives Foe a Sop Report 12,000,000 Are Actually Starving SHANGHAT, China, March 26.—| Confirmation of the capture by a worker-peasant army of Tingchow- fu, city in the mountain section of Fukien province, reached here today from the interior, Tingchow-fu is a city of 250,000 inhabitants. * Chiang in Field. NANKING, China, March 26.— Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Nanking government, left this city with his staff to take active com- mand of the operations against Wu- han at Kiukiang. Simultaneously an army of 20,000 Kwantung troops was reported mov- ing north to support the Wuhan generals. NEES * * Wire About Li. SHANGHAI, March 26.—General Teng Shin-tseng, commander of the eighth Kwantung army in the ab- sence of Li Chi-sen, has wired to Nanking that the Kwantung forces will take no orders from that source unless Li Chi-sen, arrested several days ago, is released, Three days were given for reply. Kwantung troops are reported moving to support Wuhan. * * * Discover Plot. PEKING, China, March 26.—A * plot against the Nanking govern-| ment was discovered when three lealers of the Kumintang were seij'ed here yesterday, together with twinty-five bombs, a quantity of arns and ammunition and anti- Nanking posters. In consequence the Nanking gov- ernment has ordered troops not to mobilize without orders from head- quarters. The discovery substantiates the common rumor that Nanking is em+ barrassed in its ‘operations against Wuhan by serious splits within its own ranks. * Report Fighting. SHANGHAI, China, March 26.— Severe fighting was today reported | * * between Nanking and Wuhan forces | in northeastern Hupeh and northern Anhwei provinces. Fighting is also reported south of the Yangtse River near the Hunan- Kiangsi frontier. * * $5,000,000 for War. SHANGHAI, China, March 26.— Despite the sharp decline of all its securities, the Nanking government has raised about $5,000,000 to fi- nance its operations against the Wu- han generals. * at © Try to Stop Trains. SHANGHAI, March 26.—Soldiers are patrolling the Shanghai-Nanking Railroad and all mass meetings have been prohibited here as a result of an attempt to interrupt service on the railway. * * 4 Treaty Starts War. SHANGHAI, China, March 26.— Signing of the preliminary agree- ment between the Japanese and (Continued on Page Two) Steel Slaves Live in Wretched Quarters In today’s Worker Cor a steel worker tells of the wage cuts and speed-up system which have reduced these workers to the verge of starvation. Photo above shows the interior of a novel of a slave of th2 Steel Trust, in Bomasteag ad, Ei Police Raid L’H te; Jail C st Edit (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) | PARIS, France, March 26.—The FEDERALS GAIN police in Clichy have provoked col- lisions with the workers which re-| sulted in the serious wounding of three policemen. | The police then raided the. con-| gress of the Paris district of the French Communist Party in session) NEW Move or on to Seize here, arresting over 100 delegates. TT Costes, secretary of the Paris dis- own of Naco trict of the Party, was among the| oR Sabir! & Oe) MAZATLAN, Sinaloa, Mexico, * ‘* |March 26 (UP).—The United States PARIS, March 26.—For ridicul-| Destroyer Robert Smith arrived in ing the lavishness with which the|the harbor here today. levann government has attempted | The war craft was dispatched from to dramatize the death of the im-| San Diego, Calif. Saturday. | perialiat Marshal Foch, the editors | ¥ of L’Humanite, French Communist | 27, pet daily, were this morning arrested JUAREZ, Chihuahua, Mexico, in a raid on the offices of the news-| March 26 (UP). —Upon receipt of paper, jreports that federal bombing planes . ; ttacked his headquarters at = The offices of th be ipigtnelay plete lasliy are at 142, Rus prommunist! ez Monday, General J. Gonzalo Rs- int one" ofthe poorest: sections of |cObars rebel generalissimo, hurriedly Paris! and: ansindignant ened ‘ct | left here by special train today for workers yes es once when ru-|the battle zone. mors of the rfid spread through) Travelers arriving here said that | the quarter, four federal planes swooped down | ‘The ‘police were booed and jeered | VEE the rebel encampment and as they brought down their prison- {dropped bombs which killed four ney | rebel soldiers 2 and wounded seven- The article in L’Humanite pointed Be acre ae mled, oro LTe out that the French imperialists, in poried si quriged: : aiete preparations for war, are eag-| The attack was the first made so erly seizing upon the corpse of |far by federals upon the rebel Marshal Foch, leader of their arm: | stronghold recently established at ies against the German capitalists | Jiminez after the insurrectionists in the world war, in order to make |vacuated Torreon, propaganda for the next carnage. | The hombing was believed by The millions of dead uniformed |those close to the revolution here to | workers who died in Foch’s imperia- /PTesage an early encounter between list armies, the millions of maimed |the troops of Escobar and those of | and the millions of blind survivors |Plutarco Elias Calles, federal secre- |did not, however, weep at his death, | tary of war, who now is advancing it was intimated. |upon Escalon, Chihuahua, rebel ont- The arrest of the editors of L’Hu- Post. KINLOCH BOSS ‘FOSTER RELATES CRIES “BOMBS”; SPECIAL TASKS STARVES MINERS Paisley’s Wild Charge Convention Called by | Covers Own Fault for | T.U.E.L. Put in Heart Gas Filled Mine of Heavy Industry ‘No Relief to Unionists | Workers Grow Militant |New Center for Unions and Left Wing Groups Red Cross Prejudiced; W.LR. Calls for Funds { PARNASSUS, Pa., March 26.—| “The Trade Union Unity Ccnven- | With James Paisley, owner of the |tion called by the National Executive Valley Camp Coal Co. mine at Kin-|Committee of the le Union Edu- loch, where 46 workers were killed | cational League meets in the heart |in a terrific explosion a few days jof the heavy industry section, when ago trying to avoid blame for the jit meets in Cleveland, e 1,” said |unventilated, gas filled mine by al- | William Z. Foster, national seer fleeing that “the explosion is due to tary of the T.U in inte an anarchistie bomb,” workers in| view with the Daily Worker yester- this mine and their families face day. not only a probable frame-up for| “There is great need for such al murder, but actual present starva-|convention, to organize a trade union | the source of the explosion, organized left wing struggle against the mine was known to be full of| gas, that a fire boss was discharged Good Chances. for calling attention to this fact,! “The opportunities are very great | and that miners were forced by /|for such a movement as the T.U.E.L. | old unions,” said Foster, which were so dangerous that the foster continued. “The recent dress first chance spark from the ma-|strike in New York, the rayon strike chinery could and did cause a ter- |in Tennessee, the strikes in southern rible disaster. |mills, the str Need Help at Once. |the mine fields with the growing But the immediate need is for ma-|unrest of the Illinois miners, the regular capitalist relief agencies | plants recently, with the desire for | and state organizations discriminate | organization shown by automobile | against union members, the union Se A aah on ES: Three) Spat Toohey) sacteaGutnegiiban ct EXPEL. TR AITORS IN CZECH PARTY the N. M. U. has sent the follow- [Disruptors Th Thrown aa ing telegram to the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, No. 1 Union Sq., of. Communist Ranks New York: (Wireless By “Innrecorr”) “Workers’ International Relief: The families, of our brothers who PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Mar. | 26.. —Dealing with the disruption in| were killed in the Kinloch explo- sion are absolutely destitute and need immediate aid. Our union, the National Miners’ Union, is do- ing everything possible but still assistance to these worker fam- ilies is inadequate due to the im- mensity of the situation. We ex- pect discrimination against our sufferers at the hands of the Red~| the organization, the congress of) the railwaymen’s section of the Red| Federation of Trade Unions yester- day expelled the disruptors Gruenz-) weig, Skopek and Sucharda aa the union. The disruptor Hais appeared ana| demanded to speak but the congress refused to hear him. A resolution approving the deci-| | Cross and the bourgeois charities, therefore we must provide for our own people. “One-third of those killed were our members or supporters. “Can you rush two hundred | dollars and several crates of cloth- | ing immediately. The situation is imperative, demands instant ac- | FOR UNITY MEET tion. center for the militant new unions Mine Was Full of Gas. already in existence, unite those The National Miners’ Union local |that will soon be organized, and to| on the ground has abundantly fixed|form a cooperating center for the! It has irrefutable evidence that|the bureaucracy of misleaders in the | Paisley greed to work in conditions |has initiated with this convention,” | scattered through | terial help, food and clothing. The| strikes in steel mills and automobile | CABLEGRAM U.S. A. has just received the International. tional struggles after the con * * Ds struggles after the convention ready now to remind all Party really to carry out the decisi factional struggle, pointed ou | Although we do not yet | tions, nevertheless we regard fight, which is in direct contr: cisions of the convention, refusing to recognize the Central Committee elected by the co discipline must cease at once. The Comintern will firmly continue its policy towards liquidation of factionalism in U.S. A. It is the self-understood duty of the Central Com- mittee to carry on a policy of comrades from all Party work Committee Minority against t! delegation, together with the years. BA sn: PRESIDIUM OF THE OF THE COMMUNIST NEEDLE SHOPS TO MEET TOMORROW 'Students of of Br ookwood | | Act as Strikebreakers | COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist It deals with some attempts to resume fac- the information of the Party membership: | TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMM PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Executive Committee of the Communist Interna- tional has received information from the Political Bureau of | the new Central Committee of S. A. concerning some attempts to resume factional satisfied with the results of the convention. The attitude of the Presidium towards concrete events indicated in this information will be defined only after care- ful examination, but the Presidium deems it necessary al- immediately after the convention the Minority resumes the of the Party and in no way to eliminate the most capable | belonged to the Minority group. tical Bureau of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. in re- gard to leadership in the Party fraction in the TUEL will be considered by the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International after the arrival of the ECCI tion. Can you make a broad ap- peal to the workers to come to our assistance.” sions of the Fourth Congress of the | Red International of Trade Unions | was adopted. All shop representatives from the | needle trades factories in New York manite follows by two days the ar- rest of the entire Congress of the) French Communist Party now in |session in Paris. At that time, Chi-| appe’s lieutenants attempted to force their way into the Congress and when the delegates battalions drawn up around building seized them. 2 KILLED IN DU the Narrow Escape for 50) Workers - GIBBSTOWN, Two men were killed and _ three others are reported missing tonight after 3,000 pounds of nitro-glycerin exploded in the duPont powder com- resisted, | PONT EXPLOSION N. J., March 26.— | The first plane of General Esco- bar’s foreign air squadren, with |which he plans to combat the Calles raiders, reached Chihuahua City yesterday, piloted by Captain Rob- ert Polk, 8) ce NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, March 26 (UP).—A dispatch received at rebel headquarters here tonight |said the main body of the insur- rectionist force, which has been at- tacking Mazatlan, has been ordered to proceed south to Guadalajara. The bulletin said that several hun- dred soldiers were left outside Ma- \zatlan to keep the federals under ; General Jaime Carrillo in the town. Stocks Smash; Recover; ‘Call Money Hits 20%; ReserveBoardJuggling | Yesterday continued the smashing | decline of stocks that started the day before. When the New York issued a manifesto to the workers; ing description of the situation against the present policy of the there from one of its correspond- lents: Communist Party in appealing to “In Kinloch, Pa., in the heart of| the workers to save the Party from the coal and i empire where| the gamblers’ policy of the present leadership and demanding an extra- ordinary Party congress. The Party will take action against |those responsible for this breach of discipline. l r more than 60 miners were killed in (Continued on Page Three) | Daily Worker Agents Will Meet Friday The meeting of Daily Worker agents, originally announced for tonight,” has been postponed to | ONLY DOCTOR DIES. NOME, Alaska.—Dr. A. W. New- jhall, the only doctor in Point Bar- row and serving the whole region, died of heart disease before any Se IR Nieto hie ere |help could reach him, The workers Faikin mmatnger, will outline | it the district are now left without 5 , campaign plans. |any medical care. BUILDERS’ TRAIN KILLS R. R. WORKER. STRIKE. MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail).| MINNEAPOLIS, (By Mail). — | Building workers refused to work) further on the New National Bank) —An unidentified worker was killed | when struck by a Northwestern First Hand Account. | ate Consume sonore Hoon [are called to a shop delegates’ con-| The Workers’ International Relief | Mairova, alirova, eumann, 5 at Kinloch has received the follow-!bracht, Seifert and Vancura have|ference tomorrow evening, imme diately after work in Webster Hall,| 11th St. and Third Ave., according| to an announcement issued by the | New York Joint Board of the Nee-| dle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday. At this meeting, officers of the} left wing industrial union will de-| liver a full report of all union ac- tivities and accomplishments since the formation of the new left wing organization. They will then pre- sent for discussion and action by the delegates plans for the union’s fu- ture work. The official order of business will include the following problems: Re-| port of the Joint Board’s activities to date, report of the organization department, report of the finance} department, and the organization of block and building committees, FROM THE following cablegram from the vention, and is published for * T the Communist Party of the by a part of the Minority dis- members of the absolute duty ions in prohibition of further t in the Open Letter of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, and the decision of your Sixth National Convention, and to repu- diate all attempts to violate this prohibition. know the text of the resolu- as absolutely impossible that adiction to the unanimous de- nvention. Such violation of the Communist Party of the real consolidation of the ranks merely because they formerly The appeal of the Central he latest decision of the Poli- examination of the entire ac- tivity of the Party fraction in the TUEL during the last EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL. SAY GOVERNOR HIRED KILLER lYoung of Louisiana to Face 19 Charges BATON ROUGE, La. March 26. | —Governor Huey P. Long, chief ex- | leeutive of the state of Louisiana, | where several lynchings of Negroes | jhave already taken place this year, and the state considered reactionary | enough by the American Federation | of Labor bureaucracy to hold its convention in, was himself charged today on 19 counts with attempts | te do murder by hired killers, graft | and other crimes. The charges are | |in impeachment articles voted by a jspecial committee of the house of representatives of the state legisla- ture, submitted to the house late to- day. The governor’s floor leader, seek- ing a popular alibi for his chief, | says the Standard Oil is back of the charges because a defeated pro- governor. The articles included charges that the governor attempted to hire an assassin to kill a member of the that posal for five cents a barrel tax on | oil was known to come from the legislature; that he bribed or at-| ‘tempted to bribe a legislator; #1 2,500 TEXTILE : WORKERS STRIKE IN SO. CAROLINA | peat Organizers of the Left Wing Union Are on Way toS Scene | Silence 136,( 000 Spindles ‘Strike Against Vicious Speed- -up GREENVILLE, S. C., March 26.— A spontaneous walkout of over 2,500 textile workers yesterday, employed at the plants of one of the largest mill owners, gave further evidence of an impending general revolt among the enslaved industrial work- ers in the South. | The 136,000 spindles of the New England Southern Manufacturing Company, at Pelser C., were si- lenced at 10 o’clock yesterday morn- ing, because of a strike against a speed-up system, which trebles the amount of work to be done for prac- | tically the same miserable pay. Never Organized Never before organized, but influ- enced by the agitation of the left | wing National Textile Workers’ Un- | ion, several locals of which were re- | cently established in this region, the mass of workers refused to listen to the pleadings for strike postpone- ment made by the plant superintend- lent, and unanimously walked out of | the factories. | The village of Pelzer, 8. C. is one of the largest company owned vil- lages existing in the South. Allan McNab, of Boston, the ab- sentee owner of the textile concern, | who is president of the New England | Southern Manufacturing Co., is on | his way here post haste in order to |deal with the strike. This company | owns several large mills in New | England, and was a leader in the | movement to bring the New Eng- | land textile industry to the South. | The strikers’ determination and bitter resentment at the fiendish | Speed- -up system imposed on them, \is well evidenced by the manner in | which they have struck. Refuse to Postpone A committee of three workers | which they had elected, were grant- jed a conference with the plant su- perintendent, who begged them to [itay the strike for a “short time jonly.” This committee was influ- enced by the bosses to follow this {advice and went back to a meeting of the workers to tell them so. But | (Continued on daca An) Three) TORIES ORDERED ZINOVIEV LETTER Forger Admits British Furnished Draft BERLIN, Germany, March 26.— Alexander Gumanski, aide to Vladi- mir Orloff, head of the Berlin sec- tion of an international forgery |mill which prepared documents against the Soviet government to |the order of the British intelligence ‘service, has further disclosed how the fake “Zinoviev letter” was ‘put over, His latest statements reveal that the letter was “ordered” by certain British circles interested in defeat- ing the labor party at the polls, | He admits that the British Tory interests provided him and his col- leagues a rough draft which they a : | | SPEED UP SHOE UNION CAMPAIGN Begin Sharp | Fight on Bench-Shoe Firm A day spent in the mobilization of forces for paralyzing the big shoe manufacturing plant of the La Valli-Lo Presti Co., was the most im- {portant development in the organ- ization campaign now being success- Hully prosecuted by the Independent Shoe Workers Union. While all preparations for enlist- ing the support of workers in the La Valli-Lo factory for the partial strike now on here, strikes against other firms were consolidated. As a result one firm called for union representatives for negotiations. This firm is the Albee Shoe Co., which was a union shop, but which was struck because of the bo:s’ vio- lation of the agreement. The strike aims to secure a substantial sum from the employer to the union as assurance of a more careful obser- vance of union conditions. ‘The 100 per cent strike against the Arthur. Bender Shoe Co., is still | (Continued cn Page Two) pany’s neutralizing plant here. The known dead are: John Kerns, Paulsboro, N. J. John Harbeson of Gibbstown. N. |stock market closed yesterday sales had totaled 8,246,000 shares, thou- sands of small speculators had been ‘wiped out, several billion dollars ; worth of paper values had been Railroad train here. He was work- ing on the tracks when hit. Muste Grads Are Scabs. | Brookwood graduates, the striking Building here, unless all union labor was employed. Two Weeks to Pick Tammany Head Seven district leaders of Tammany Hall met yesterday to devise jdressmakers of the Jack Herzog shop, report, are scabbing. The In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- he used his appointive power to in-| were to follow. fluence the judiciary; that he wasted | | Gumanski, Orloff and Sumara- and misused state funds and prop- koff, another member of the for- erty; that he subordinated civil au- gery ring, were implicated by Sergei thority to the military and that he! Druzhilovski. forger 2nd spy ex- habitually carried concealed wea-jecuted for his activities against the Die explosion came shortly after 2 p. m. just after 50 men had left the one building in which the ritro- glycerin was stored. It exploded with a terrific concussion which was fut for miles. Camden, parts of |Philadelphia and other distant cities felt the terrific shock. In nearby cities windows were shattered and pictures knocked from walls. Try to Blame Worker. other buildings. Company officials -were trying to- the watchman, saying he may have dropped one tank of the explosive causing explosion of the entire 3,000 pounds, Explosions in du Pent powder plants are very frequent occurrences however, and such things are taken by the employers to be merely the risks of the trade. It is cheaper to erect dirt embankments between the frail shacks in which the explosives are manufactured and let a certain number blow up, than it is to take extensive precautions. | Workers are invariably killed in such explosions, but compensation is cheaper than safety devices. The exvlosion did not spread to} night to blame the accident on Kerns, | wiped out, and restored by a rise in |prices toward the end of the day, land accusations were rife that the |Federal Reserve Board had done |what they did once before; smash the market by raising interest rates, and give time enough for all “in the know” to profit exceedingly. The |call money rates went to 20 per cent \today, the highest in history. French Imperialists Glorify Militarism at Funeral of Foch PARIS, France, March 26.—An- other act in the orgy of imperialist glorification which the French gov- ernment and its corrupt press have been lavishing’ over the corpse of Ferdinand Foch was completed with his funeral service today. With the assistance of the Cath- olic church the imperialists arranged a monster funeral ceremony in | Notre Dame cathedral where many of the notorious leaders of the third French Republic and the Catholic dignitaries, including the papal nuncio were prescnt, some means, if possible, to avoid a split and still get their man, and | the man the millionaires back of them want, elected head of Tammany Hall. The best they could do was to issue an announcement that the .“Big Four” had two weeks to make a choice, and that they did not expect the choice to be limited to district leaders. McManus Asks Bail Today. George McManus, the only person arrested (he walked in and in- sisted on it)» for the murder of Rothstein months ago, will appeal for bail today. Threatened Official Quiet. Fritz Brieger, Queens Superintendent of Street Cleaning, yester- day failed to supply any of the evidence he admits is in his possession | to indicate that members of Borough President Harvey’s cabinet were grafting. The day before he told friends that he had been threatened _ with death throigh members of the cabinet, if he told. Yesterday he | didn’t tell, in a hearing before Commissioner of Accounts Higgins. All Right to Kill Boy. It is all right for a garage manager to kill a boy if he sees him apparently trying to coax away a pigeon belonging to the manager, said Judge Nott, in effect, ruling yesterday that the jury must acquit Albert Scott of manslaughter for clubbing to death Charles McCarthy. Object to Dry Spy Killing Woman. AURORA, Ill, March 26.—Considerable dissatisfaction pervades this city over the killing of Mrs. Lillian Deking in her own home by | Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, engaged in a prohibition raid. After his | mother was shot, Mrs, Deking’s 12-year old son, Ralph, shot the officer | through the leg. > CALL MORGAN IN ‘Owen Young and Ford (Continued on Page Five) ON FARM FAKE, Also Included WASHINGTON, March 26.—As if to advertise the fakery in its farm “relief” bill, which it is supposed to have ready by April 15 for the special session of congress, the sen- ate agricultural committee today idecided to call as assistants in the ‘drafting of the bill: James P. Mor- gan, Owen D. Young and Henry Ford. Morgan and Young are at this moment in Paris watching out for the interests of American creditors | of Europe on the Dawes board of experts but will be back, it is ex- pected, in time to advise how the pons. Threatens to Use Troops. Other charges were that he was |repeatedly guilty of violent abuse of that he publicly flouted the federal and state constitutions; that he at-| ‘buying and that he was guilty of job- boxy. Earlier in the day it had been re- jported that Long was planning to call out the National Guard to pre- vent reconvening of the legislature, a climax to a near riot in the Louse jof Representatives last night. to inttoduce a charge that the gov- ernor had tried to induce his former bodyguard, “Battling” Bozemen, to assassinate Representative J. 0. Sanders. STEREOTYPERS GAIN. MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail) —Stereotypers in this city have won crease in wages of over $2 weekly. Former rate was $46 for day and $49 for night work. New wages are farm “relief” bill can best be made to serve the interests of bankers, $48.33 for day and $51.51 for night work, state officials and private citizens; | jtempted to impose his views on the| ;members of the legislature by lob-| The trouble started in an attempt Soviet Union two years ago. ! As he faced the firing squad, Druzhilovski made the following jstatement: Official—Did Zemchuznikov say jhe was the author of the Zino- viev letter? Spy—He said Belgardt (exiled son of a former Russian senator) and Gumansky wrote the letter in his apartment. Official—You were connected with him through your other forgeric=? (Continued on Page Two) Daily to Print Article | by Roy on China | In tomorrow's Daily Worker will appear an article by Mana- bendra Nath Roy on the situa- tion in China. This is a splen- did analy waged between the of the ing military chiefs, tegration of the Kuomintang and of the role of the great imper- ialist powers. Look for this article on page 6 of Thursday's paper. NS: