The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 2

Gv ATL ‘Y WORKER, NEW YORK, W. 192 SDNESDAY, MARCH 2 27, | 9 Witness Against Mooney and Fascia Was Forced to Testify Falsely or Go to Jail EXPOSE FRAME UP AGAINST MOONEY IN “BOMB” TRIAL Witness Confesses to} Perjury SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 26. ‘ainst Mooney e-up in 1916, s for the prosecution and by ae was wal: caret ; ; killing the pilot and three pass sad not yet been exposed as per- being strongly played up by the capitalis McDonald, a prosecu- , confessed perjury. The confessed in her story. Gas Firm Wanted Blood ion of Es- “preparedness indi- t. the district attor- the detectives of the Pacific Gas and several developed slated This is all that was left °. W: ar Mania Flights Have Many V ictims lL plan rashe lled afier i were ki f the Ryan mone engers. In two days 13 prees as part of the imperi {LEFT WING UNION | | Mass Meet of Tailors Tomorrow Night PHILADELPHIA, March 26. The Men’s Clothing Workers Orga izing Committee of Philadelphia i: sued an announcement yesterday of the arrangement of a big mass meeting of clothing workers for | Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in | Garden Hall, Seventh St. and Mor- ris Ave. } | This meeting sti a campaign \by the Organizing Committee, which jis affiliated with the Needle Trades | Section of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, for the unionization of the almost totally unorganized Philadelphia market, and for the| winning of union conditions in these | | open shops. Chief among the speakers at this meeting will be Ben Gold, national secretary-treasurer of the left wing | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Mt. Gretna, Pa., instantly ne accidents. Flights are war preparat dn in pi KILL “LABOR” Now Estelle Smith says that when | LEGISLATION. subpoenaed she told Fickert was Billings, unless she would go to prison herseli. Swanson, detective for | the pa company, which was anxious she | could not be. sure the man she saw and he told her that swore he was Billings | Frail Tiger ‘Demands’ Swept Aside ALBANY, | called “Labor March 26.—The Legislation” of the to hang Billings and Mooney be-j democrats, passage of which was cause of their organization work among its employes, she says. was Tickert’s right hand man in fram- ing up the case. They not only to identify Billings, but to y she saw Mooney there, too. Oxmen and told her that he was authorized te offer her “a sum in five figures” if she would commit perjury for the gas company and Fickert. Este! nith ends her confession the statement that she took mor- phine tablets throughout the trial, and if she had not, would not have had courage to go through with the freme-u TADICS PNEREN TMOVIEV LETTER p. F--oar Admits British | Firnished Draft" Cont ‘om Page One) nam — me a photo- “nued y ho worked n Embassy? muc h were they said £80 I—Who paid them? can’t cay. We were just 1 said Belgardt e in the British ° at, but did Zemehuznikov yon about where they worked? worked for the tell Spv—He said th he say that the Tiritish intelligence service ordered that etter from Belgardt and Gu- This dialogue, reproduced from the Soviet Review of October, 1927, was published just after the spy was chot. * 8 * Stock Exchange Affected. LONDON, England, March 26.— Betting on the coming elections on the British stock exchange is being influenced by the revelations con- cerning the forgery of the fake “Zinoviev letter” which has come to light in the tria! of Orloff and other forgers in Berlin. Tt is hinted that the fake letter which was designed to return the conservatives to power may now re- sult in their rout and the return of ‘the labor party. | The “Zinoviev letter” purported | <0 be instructions from the head of the Communist International to the Soviet embassy in London, urging ‘the staff to organize “celis” or lei in the factories and in the tish army and navy. was at once denied by the unist International. loover Admits Must thange Patronage to pid Wide Scandal ‘ASHINGTON, D, C., March 25. | resident Hoover today admitted | press interviews in the White | that the patronage system, changed or widespread scandals wld result. . took the opportunity to make for free publicity in favor of ) South alleging, “The welfare requires the breakdown gnalism” as his motive. None s reporters were so impolite as before going outside. nted her | and provide political capital me to her dental office | |} requested by Governor Roosevelt, j with full knowledge that the repub- | lican majority would throw it out | killed today ina s | The measures included ti and useless injunction bill, spon: sored by the New York State Fed- eration of Labor, providing for a hearing during 24 hours’ delay when }an injunction is applied for in a |labor case, a very low minimum wage for women and children, the |} 48-hour week for women and chil- dren, and inclusion of Chinese laun- dries within the scope of workmen’s compensation statutes. | None of this had any chance of | passing a republican legislature, and |it is well understood here that none lof it, however weak and useless, ivauld have ever been proposed by the democrats if they thought it would be accepted. Destroy Direct Primary. The legislature today rushed thru’ |the multiple dwellings bill, to per- mit “the erection of towers which |make possible thirty-story tenement | houses. The bill was fought by | Mayor Walker of New York as “i terfering with home rule” and will probably be vetoed. Another bill that will perhaps be rejected by the governor is the poli- tical party conventions bill, passed jby a straight republican majority, jand wiping out the direct primary system. It is not so certain that Roosevelt will fail to sign this bill,! as it-has been freely rumored that Tammany really wants it to go through, in order to give the ma- chine in New York a better weapon against such interlopers as former ;Mayor Ryan, who might get in under the direct primary. DRY LAW EXPOSE IN NEW WET BOOK \Murder, Teenie and Graft Bred WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26. , —“The Scandals of Prohibition En- forcement,” a booklet just issued by the Research Department of the As- | | Amendment, made public today sta- | tisties in which graft through liquor | has been proven in Chicago, Detroit, | so- | the way. sociation Against the Prohibition | |Tunnel Worker Denies | ‘Self Lunches _ to Aid| iNew Bedford Strikers A man came into nto the office of the| New York di ct of the Interna-| tional Labor Defense. He wore overalls and his hands bore the of hard man di The into his pocket and nting out i and Ie counted ‘s r aid, “this is for the defense of the New Bedford 5 8 1 it out of my e man said his name is Jacob M. Rifkin, of Tinton Ave., Bronx. He a tunnel worker and id. He denied himself ‘y food in order to help his fellow-workers of New Bedford whom the mill barons’ courts are trying to send to jail. Rifkin is only one of many work- ers who are making sacrifices to aid the I. L. D. in its struggles to free militant workers in the clutches of the capitalist courts. Others who want to help should go to the I. D. office; 799 Broadway, Room N.Y. TEXTILE WORKERS MEET To Hold Mass Meeting Thursday Evening gets poorly A mass meeting of unusual im- portance for all knit goods and tex- |. ot workers in Greater New York “as been called by the New York the National ’ Union. The meeting will held tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. This meeting will spur to renewed efforts the or- ganization drive among the thou- sands of New York’s textile work- Textile Albert Weisbord, well-known lead- er of t great Passaic and } Bedford textile strikes and Ben Gold | secretary of the Needle Trades In- dustrial Union will be the principal speakers. The campaign to organize the tens of thousands of knit goodg} “British Subject Killed.” workers of New York is well on| Many workers are joining, the union. The National Textile] Workers Union realizes that never! before was the need so great for the organization of the knit goods | workers, Perhaps in no industry in New York are conditions so miser- able as in the knit goods and textile mills, The hours are from 46 to 50/ and more. Wages are extremely low. _ border, BRITISH REPLY — Union. Other speakers will be J. |Miller, manager of the local Joint |Board of the industrial union; Sam Burt, manager of its fur depart-| |ment; Nino Siracusa and Dominick |Flaiani, two men’s clothing workers |who have been expelled from the) | Amalgamated Clothing — Workers | Union for their progressive views and activities. The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Hillman gang have repeatedly started so-called organization drives Alone” Sinking | Rouses Press “Pm March 26.—|which were converted quickly by Just the American imperialist the Hillman officialdom into an orgy | government rallies behind its reve-|of squandering the thousands of nue cutter which dollars they came here with for sank the rum ostensible organization purposes. FIRE DESTROYS | GERMAN SHIP runner I’m Alone so do the British officials back un their ship. ‘The sinking is daily becoming more of an_ interna- tional incident British Consul Mellon. General Henry is ‘ Tom today stated Ori igin of Fire Remains that his “investigation had con- | a Mystery vinced him that the I’m Alone was entirely within its rights in resist-| HAMBURG, Germany, March 26, ing search by the U. S, coast guard | —The mysterious fire which sintae| cutter, and that sinking her was a ally destroyed the new North Ger- breach of international law.” man Lloyd liner Europa was expect- | He is reporting to this effect to|ed tonight to have an important ef- r Esme Howard, the British am-/|fect on the North Atlantic traffic ador at Washington. | war. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon| The Europa, a 46,000-ton vessel, yesterday issued a statement that|was being built for five-day service cruiser should have sunk the with the Bremen between New York Alone, and offering certain le- | anc the English Channel, and was sinking: namely, that the ship was lard, White Star and Hamburg hailed by the U. S. government boat | American lines. within the 12-mile limit, and “con- | tinuously pursued” until its pursuer | while only a few workmen were got close enough to hit it with ar- | aboard her. tillery. make her maiden voyage in July, The preliminary hearing sched- and construction was nearing com- | uled for today was continued for one |Pletion when the fire broke out sud-| §, |denly. Cause of the fire probably never will be known, it was said, since it ‘started in four places simultane- Gously, deep in the hold. When the North German Lloyd LONDON, March 26.—The Brit-|Company challenged its competitors ish forsig» office has received a re- by building the Bremen and Europa port from its ambassador to Wash-|the White Star and Cunard Lines ington on the sinking of the British decided to await developments. The ship “I’m Alone,” by a U. S. armed|Hamburg-American, however, re- ter in the middle of the Gulf of | built its vessels, increasing their Mexico, but maintains as yet an/ speed. ilence. Not so the London} There was some question in Ger- . They run long articles man shipping circles today whether lauding the courage of the British the North German Lloyd would at- ship’s captain and crew, under such | tempt to build another ship, a mat- headlines “British Seamen in tey of two years, or whether it would | Manacle: “British Flag Fired Upon rely on the Bremen to wage the by American Coast Guard,” and traffic war, at the same time in- creasing the speed of its other ves- sels. The Bremen, it was pointed out, probably could not offer suffi- cient competition alone. < by agreement between U. t+ Attorney Talbot and De-| Attorney Edwin Grace. * « * British Papers Wild. Bessarabia Are Made Homeless by Floods BUDAPEST, aneee: March 26.) ~—Forty thousand persons, most of | hundred men were thrown out of them peasants, have been made work by the fire. homeless by floods on the Danube at its estuary on the Bessarabian reports from Bucharest when the fire started were injured, General ] Motors i in Race IN PHILADELPHIA MEMBER DRIVE galistic arguments in favor of the} | considered a challenge to the Cun-) The ship caught fire early today | She was scheduled to} None of the few workmen aboard , but a fireman was overcome. Eight | Bursting Main Drenches Workers ' } The bursting of a water main in an excavation at State and Smith Streets, Brooklyn, drenched the workers engaged in street re- pair there and flooded the cellars of the nearby houses. GHINA WORKERS HOLD CITY OF 250,000 PEOPLE | | | (Cable to the Daiiy Worker) BUENOS AIRES, Arg., March 26.—There are two Anti-Imperial- ist Leagues in Argentina. One is| jcomposed of members of the ‘Chis- \pa” group (the “Partido Comunista \Obrero”) repudiated by the Comin- tern); the other is the “Liga Anti-| \imperialista—Grupo de Izquierda” | (left group) composed of Commun- lists, sympathizers and _ socialists. |The . latter organization is much ‘larger than the former. Recently it (proposed to the “Chispistas” a uni- \fieation of both groups on the basis of the resolution of the Anti-lmpe- |rialist Congress of Brussels, by ac- cepting resolutions at a joint meet- ing of members of both organiza- |tions. The “Chispistas” rejected this proposition and founded their rejec- tion [against the leaders of the left Anti- \Imperialist League, The news of the assassination of Mella, except for a few cable lines, |was hardly noticed in the bourgeois newspapers of Argentina, although they wrote columns during his hun- ger strike two years ago and the | Argentine parliament at that time sent a cable to Cuba expressing sympathy with Mella. Only the Anti-Imperialist League (left group) called a mass meeting |at which two members of the Com- murist Party spoke, two socialists |and representatives of the Anti-Fas- jeist Alliance, the Argentine Liberta- jrian Alliance (the “anarcho-bolshe- vistas”) and of the Textile’ Workers | Union. PLAN HAVERHILL RELIEF CAMPAIGN “W.LR. to Show Benefit | Movie Tomorrow HAVERHILL, Mass., March 26.— Notwithstanding the attempt on the vart of the shoe union officials to prevent the Workers International Relief from functioning in Haver- ‘hill, in denying it headquarters, de- nying it the right to hold its con- \ference in the hall rented to the Workers International Relief almost a month in advance, the W. I. R. is proceeding with organization work and making preparations for the holding of a conference in the near future, The W. I .R, is arranging a mo- |tion picture show, featuring “The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair, and a ‘second film, “The Miracle of the ‘Russian Soldier Ivan,” portraying Russian army life during the reign of Alexander II, The showing will ‘take place Thursday, matinee and evening, at the Lafayette Theatre, | Haverhill. SPEED UP SHOE | solely on personal accusations | Its authen- | under investigation by Con-| ‘was so bad it would have to republican party organization | Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Buf-| Thousands of workers make about | falo. |$12.00 per week, especially is this Official Graft. | true of young girls and women gen- | Detailed paragraphs under the | erally. There is no protection on the | city headings speak of the large job. The bosses do what they please. | bank deposits and indictment of Side by side with the ever growing | Philadelphia policemen; of the re-| speed-up, wages are being cut in| cent massacre, bombings and gen- mill after mill while the bosses are | eral “brazen recklessness” in Chi- making huge profits and the indus- | cago; of “administration booze” in| try is prosperous. Pittsburgh, and the intermingled --—— Canadian and American troubles in | Buffalo. Six Drowned, Much | Damage from Floods in Eastern Kentucky The last half of the book deals with general graft and corruption ‘activities in a dozen other cities; in- |creasing number of deaths from al- | |coholism; increase in insanity; “life aNeaIAC imprisonment for a pint of gin” in LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 26 | _recently organized for the purpose state, | The peasants are reported to) have lost cattle and buildings and/| to be destitute as a result of the) flooding waters. Casualties are. |not reported. | The Bessarabian floods are due to the melting of ice which froze | deep in Europe’s unusually severe | winter. Similar floods are still dev- ‘astating large sections of Czecho- | Slovakia. New Inter-Racial Club in Membership Drive The Harlem Inter-Racial Club, | of carrying on inter-racial social. educational and athletic activities, has started work with a great deal of energy. The baseball team of this young workers’ club is prac- ticing every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock in Central Park East at 102nd St. The club is a member of the Labor Sports Union. Among the plans for the near future are lectures on Negro prob lems by prominent speakers and an inter-racial dance. A membership drive is now being conducted, Meet- ings are held the first and third Tuesdays of the month at the tem- porary headquarters, 7 W. 137th St. Michigan; the Ohio mother in jail (UP)—Six persons were drowned, with her baby; the problem of jury rail and highway traffic was dis- | trials, and the crisis in federal prison |Tupted and communication lines conditions. jwere broken by floods in eastern | Kentucky, acerding to reports re- ceived here today, ‘Party Unit Organizers | | Five persons lost their lives at Rarboursville, where the Cumber- | to Meet Friday, 8p. m. jland River burst its banks and drove | A meeting of Unit organizers of | hundreds of residents from their | the Communist Party will be held | | homes. at the Workers Center, 26 Union| Amos Thompson, 18, of Page, | Sq., Friday, 8 p. m. jand an unidentified Negro also | eet A were drowned in the Cumberland | BARBERS UNIONIZE | ood at Barbourville. KENT, Ohio (By Mail).—Jour-| A 17-year-old boy was drowned at | | neymen barbers in Kent, Ohio, have ‘Hazard, where considerable damage decided to rvganize into a union. wes reported and 200 homes were | Their present wages sre far below | nded Ly water. Coal mines the union scale, ‘in the Marlan area were closed, For further information write to With Ford for Control | PARIS, France, March 26.—Re- ports that the General Motors Cor- poration is negotiating for the own- | ership of the Citroen Automobile Company bring renewed attention to the war between General Motors and the Ford interests now being waged | ‘tn Europe. Ford is reputed to have the edge on General Motors in France owir.g to a superior organization of selling jtion of the Citroen concern would alter the situation in favor of the General Motors, Citroen, often called the “Ford of Europe,” is a manufacturer of cheap | priced cars. Ford meanwhile is about to open a plant at Dagenham in Essex, Eng- | land, which he will use as a distri- bution point for Ford cars all over Europe. Yesterday General Motors offici- ally took over the Opel Automobile Works, their recent big acquisition in Germany. Ford is reported to be planning to build his own German plant. Leonard Patterson, 772 St. Nicholas Ave, | working elass—th Karl Marx (Commraniae Binuitentap: of Europe’s Auto Mart | and filling stations, but the acquisi- | UNION CAMPAIGN 'Begin Sharp Fight on Bench-Shoe Firm (Continued from Page One) ‘in full force and shop meetings in- |dica’e that the 200 strikers are de- terrrined to stick it ous to the end. The crew of the Griffin and White 1Co., a laree firm adhering to the Board of Trade, an open shop em- ployers’ association are actively en- geged in getting the entire plant to [join the strike. Meanwhile the union is spreading the decision of the shop delegates conference among the rank and file membership of the union. \By this decision the membership le- vies a voluntary tax of one dollar a week as a “Union Protective Fund” to be used to intrench the union in the industry so that the bosses will fear to challenge the union when the season is over. The sudden onslaught of the junion’s drive in the height of the ‘season has brought the membership rom 600 to 4,000 in a few weeks. seen above that the first revolution by the work: in to rnine the proleta t ition of ruling ela: avis the battle of democrncy—! Ma.x (Communist Manifesto) Urges Anti-Imperialist — Unity in the Argentine ‘GAFE WORKERS red \_ PARIS, France, Mar. 26. Chiang Diverts Feng to Shantung Prevince (Continued from Page One) | Chinese negotiators on the Tsinan- fu incident is believed here to open | a race for the Shantung between the forces of President Chiang Kai-shek and those of Feng Yu-hsiang. While it was generally supposed that the Nanking government wished to draw out the Tsinan-fu | r/-otiations in order to delay the evacuation of Japanese troops and prevent Feng from seizing Shan- tung, it now appears that Chiang has determined to attempt to gain the rich province for his dwindling | Nanking government. Move Northern Army. It is suggested that Chiang also | hopes in this way to divert Feng’s |interest from support of the Han- RALLY TONIGHT Meeting fe to Push Unionization What ‘s undoubtedly the most definite event looking toward the organization of the: intensely ex- vloited workers in the cafeterias of New York will take place tonight when the cafeteria workers gather at a mass meeting tonight at 8:30 o’clock in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Itestaurant and Cafeteria Workers Branch of the Amalgamated Food | Workers Union. From this meeting the organiza- tion drive planned by the workers organization begins in earnest. Leaders of the union will report to the meeting the progress in recruit- ing membership made so far and the plans contemplated for the im- mediate future. Tens of thousands of leaflets are being distributed among the cafe- teria workers, not only in the gar- ment section, where the first attack of the‘union will be made, but also in the places where the leach-like unemployment agencies are located. The organization drive to union- ize the cafeterias was tied up with the campaign against the private employment agencies which fleece the workers, act as strikebreaking agencies and help the bosses to cut wages. Five thousand leaflets, at- tacking these agency sharks, were | handed to the unemployed workers who crowd the sidewalks in front of the agencies on Sixth Ave., wait- ing for a chance to pay the sharks $5 for the privilege of slaving 12 hours a day in some filthy hole for $12 to $20 a week. The leaflet | called upon the unemployed to come to the mass meeting and participate in the struggle to unionize the cafe- terjas so that the union can furnish | jobs to its members free of charge. Poincare Pulls Thru Reactionary Religious (Laws in Chamber Fight — The first of the religious articles which will permit catholic orders to recruit novices in France at an earlier age than the existing laws was passed | by the French: chamber today, | the opposition | forces abstaining from the T he Poincare government made | the issue a vote) vote. | |kow generals with whom Chiang is |now fighting and Feng dickering for terms of alliance. Four of Chiang Kai-shek’s divi- | sions, previously stationed north of | Peking, have been ordered to take ‘up positions along the Tsinan-fu lines. At the same time, Feng Yu-hsiang has ordered two divisions from | Tientsin to proceed to Yen-chow. | Yen-chow is south of Tsinan-fu, es tes 12,060,000 Starve. Twelve million Chinese workers and peasants are facing starvation, according to the report of a capi- talist relief society here. The grow- ing struggle for power in China be- tween the Wuhan and Nanking forces is aggravating the already critical situation. JERSEY WORKERS TO HOLD PARLEY Textile Union Calls a Shon Delegate Meet PATERSON, N. J., March 26.— The first shop delegates’ conference of the Paterson District of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union will be held this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Oakley Hall, 211 Market St. The conference call, which was issued yesterday, shows that it has been organized on a big’ scale and will be representative of the broad masses of textile workers in the New Jersey area. Represented at this conference will be not only the organized shops, | but the unorganized shops as well. And official representation in the form of fraternal delegates will be given the Passaic and Summit locals of the union. The Trade Union Educational League will also send fraternal delegates. According to the -instructions is- | sued by the union every shop is en- | titled to 1 delegate out of every 10 | workers in the plant, and every | fraction of that number. The main order of business will be the report from the shops and the forging of plans from them with which to begin an organization drive in the silk industry, and in the dye industry. The Paterson District, thru Or- ganizer Martin Russak also an- nounced the laying of plans for a convention of District 5 of the N. T. W. U. The conference call concludes with a call to workers to send delegates whether they work in organized or | unorganized shops. | WORKER IS BURNT. MILWAUKEE.—Thomas_ Grono- viez, a worker at the Paper Pulp of confidence. | Product Manufacturing Co. was se- There are nine! verely burnt about the face and separate religious! hands by hot shellac when a spray- bills, each of ing machine he was operating ex- which must’ be debated individual-| ploded. Gronovicz is in serious con- ly. They remove many of the re-| dition. strictions which were formerly) Aga 25m 7a placed upon the activities of cath-| RACINE STEREOS GAIN. olic religious orders in France. | RACINE, Wis. (By Mail).— The government is behind thp | Stereotypers of Racine have won bills. jan increase to $48.33 for day work- | ots, and $51.31 for night workers. This is a gain of $2. often a kind of e opportunist sins class movement. Poincare. LOW WAGE FOR CHILD SLAVES | TRENTON, N. J. (By Mauil).— rete The average earnings of 67 per cent | pymighment foe of New Jersey child workers is 15 | Sennen begs Anarchism cents an hour. Twelve per cent ay- boggy erage less than 5 cents an hour. windtom Last 3 Days! FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! “AELITA” THE REVOLT OF THE ROBOTS The Russian “R. U. R.” A Mejrapomfilm THE LAST LAUGH The Perfect Motion Picture film guild cinema 52 West 8th St., bet. 5th & 6th Aves., Continuous Popular Prices Dally incl, Sat. & Sua, Noon to Midnight—Phone, SPRIng 5005-5000 Special weekdays; 12 to 2, 35c; 2 to 6, 50c; Sat, & Sun., 12 to 2, 50c Coming this Saturday: “FLAMES ON THE VOLGA”—a remark- able Soviet drama of a peasant revolt aneing the reign of Catherine the Great ts AND ON THE ‘SAME PROGRAM POTEMKIN The Screen Clanste