The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 1

° THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class watter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the net of March Vol. VI, No. 19 Publishing Asseciat! Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker ne, 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N. ¥- NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 COMINTERN ASKS 14000 OF RED ARMY ADVANCE IN SOUTH CHINA “Reds” Take Towns in Kiangsi; Drive on Kanchow - Marines Aid Nanking Wuhan, Chiang War Lords Battle SHANGHAI, China, March 27.— Fourteen thousand workers and peasants comprise the Communist forces which are continuing their advance thru Fukien province, ac- cording to dispatches from the American consulate in Fuchow. The dispatches confirm the capture of Ting-chow and Shang-hang by the worker-peasant troops. The American consulate at Can- ton at the same time reported that Anyuan and Hing-kwo in Kiangsi had been taken by the worker and peasant troops and that the Commu- nists were advancing on Kanchow. * * * Marines Aid Nanking. SHANGHAI, March 27. — The troops of General Chang Tsung- chang today entered Chefoo but a landing party of United States marines prevented them from cap- turing the cable station. The station is the property of the Nanking government and is worked by the Eastern and the Great Northern Telegraph Companies. The act of the ‘marines is the first active participation in the pres- ent Chinese warfare of the United States on the side of Nanking. The marines are from the U. S. S. Trenton which is lying in the har- bor. The capture of Chefoo is not a yucprise since 7,000 of the defend- ing troops deserted to Chang re- cently and there have been rumors that Liu Chen-nien, commanding the} city for Nanking, had left part of the entrenchments unguarded. Battles in Kiangsi. SHANGHAI, March 27.—Train- Joads of wounded are arriving in} Nanking, according to a dispatch from that city, confirming the ru- mor that the Wuhan generals have) struck another blow against Nank- ing. Fighting is reported in the direc- tion of Ying-shan in Anhwei and Tung-ku and Wantsai in Kiangsi. Workers in the city and peasants in the regions near it are being im- (Continued on Page Two) STRIKE 1ST CAFE IN UNION DRIVE Mass Meet Yesterday Applauded Campaign The fight for unionism in the cafeteria slave shops of New York has begun! ‘A strike was declared, and made almost immediately effective by the Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Branch of the Amalgamated Union, against the Fanray Restaurant, 156 W. 29th St., when the owner of that place dismissed three employes for joining the union. ‘As soon as the dismissals occurred the workers went to report to their union, at 131 W. 51st St. Imme- diately a union committee was or- ganized and with Organizer Michael Obermeier, went down to demand the reinstatement of the discharged workers. Refused their demand the committee called on the workers to go out on strike. Staged Demonstration. The workers, customers and union members present in the cafeteria thereupon staged a demonstration and the proprietors called the po- jice. In response to the appeal of Obermeier, all except two or three of the workers and most of the cus- tomers walked out, amidst great commotion, in which the proprietors attempted to throw Obermeier and the sympathetic customers out, threatening them with knives. ‘At a mass meeting of all hotel, yestaurant and cafeteria workers last night Obermeier declared that this is only the first of a series of many strikes that will be called to abolish the 12-hour day, starvation wages and intolerable working con- ditions. prevailing. ‘ ; merchants | ois. ee the blast at the Valley Camp Mine bombs” for the explosion. gas-filled and unventilated. Revolt at First (Special to the Daily Worker) By WILLIAM F. KRUSE. PEORIA, March 26, (By Mail).— In spite of the careful stage-setting arranged by the reactionary Fish- wick-Nesbit machine, already at the very first session some indication of | the smouldering flames pf discon- tent broke through. It was planned to have everything so harmonious—| especially at the beginning. The| Reverend Father MacGuire blessed them, and expressed his longing for | a return of the good old craft guild days, when master and man were | in the same “union” and settled all) differences by an “arbitration” which the good father tools pains not to describe with too much historical | accuracy. Then came “hizzoner the} Mayor,” apologizing for the “sight” | offered to the last. convention and} assuring the miners that at least the | majority, if not exactly all, of the/ and manufacturers of Peoria welcomed them. And to cap| these amenities there came the Po- lice Department Quartette — all tricked out in brass buttons and re- volver holsters, sweetly warbling the praises of “Peoria” and “TIllin- ” | “Railroading.” Then ‘followed the fireworks. The) hand-picked Credentials Committee) reported, Progressive delegates from the Peoria sub-district chal-| lenged several machine delegates and plural votes. The credentials) committee was very unsympathetic | and turned down the challenges. The leader of the Peoria insurgents was | on his feet in an instant. “Some more ‘railroading,’ eh?” he shouted. President Harry Fishwick stepped | into the breach and shouted back,| “Yes, and I'll do a little railroading | myself.” | “Before we get through we'll rail-| road you out of office,” came back | the Peoria delegate. | Preparations by Reactionaries. The 82nd Convention of the United Mine Workers of America, District 12, is marked by all sorts| of precautions obviously taken by the Fishwick-Nesbit machine in) order to choke off the revolt that is making itself evident among the| miners from all parts of the district. | For the last ten days the Resolu-| tions Committee has been at work) under the chairmanship of George} Mercer. It is significant that this most important body of the conven-| (Continued on Page Five) | ENGLISH WOOL WORKERS | STRIKE, | BRADFORD, England, (By Mail).| —All operatives in the mills of Richard Poppleton and Sons, Ltd., have gone on strike against a wage cut. The firm is a woolen firm.) The company first threatened a 10 per cent cut, but when the workers went out, reduced the cut to 5 per cent. WASHINGTON, March 27 (LRA) —Henry L. Stimson, just installed as Hoover's secretary of state, was directly responsible for breaking a big strike of Filipino dock work- ers shortly before he resigned as governor-general of the Philippine Islands. Using the 31st U. S. In- fantry, he gave a free hand to dis- KILL, BIBLE READING BILL. CLEVELAND, March 27.—A Ku Klux Klan-inspired bill supporting compulsory bible reading in schools was killed by 12 to 1 in the house education committee here. trict and provincial army command- ers to.act against. 3,000 half-starved stevedores on strike for a bare sub- sistence wage. Telegraphic reports from the strike area at Cebu were sent di- rectly to Stimson’s official residence, Boss i ies to Frame Miners by “Bomb” Cry In an effort to avoid the blame for the murder of 46 miners in owner, is attempting to frame up workers by blaming “anarchist | The blame is Paisley’s, for the mine was at Kinloch, Pa., James Paisley, the Session of Illinois UMWA Convention ISSUE GALL FOR MAY FIRST MEET Conference Will Take} Place April 14 | Working class organizations are) invited to send delegates to a] United Front Conference April 14,| at Irving Plaza Hall, for the pur- pose of arranging for a huge May First demonstration in’ New York City, ‘in a call issued by District 2) of the Communist Party of the United States yesterday. The call follows: Fellw Workers! May Day, the International workers’ holiday, this year oc- curs in the midst of ever-growing preparations on the part of the American capitalist class to plunge the workers into a new world war. The effort of the big bankers and trust barons to dominate the world has caused them to intro- duce new devices of exploitation, speed-up of the workers, and is everywhere worsening the condi- tions of the masses of toilers. Unemployment, low wages, ter- rible working conditions, is the common lot of the masses of workers, The reformist leaders at the head of the American Federation of Labor and the local Central | Trades and Labor Council are do- ing everything to disorganize and demoralize the masses of work- ers. They have co-operated with the employers, the capitalist par- ties, the police and hired thugs (Continued on Page Five) SHOP DELEGATE CONFAB TONIGHT The full meeting of the Shop Dele- gates Council of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union will be held tonight beginning at 6 o’clock in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The meeting, which is the regular monthly gathering of shop represen- tatives of the New York needle trades workers, will hear reports of the union’s work and achieve- ments for the past two months and will take up for discussion plans for further activities. Thorough consideration of the les- sons to be learned from the reeent successful dressmakers’ strike is ex- pected as is also the recent conflicts with the thug squads sent by the of- ficials of the scab union to harass the workers in the cloak industry. Stimson Crushed Stevedore Strike by Use of Soldiers Malacanan, Manila. Fearing that the dock workers’ xevolt might spread to cause a general uprising against American imperialist rule in the islands, Col, Stimson gave the situa- tion his personal attention, the dis- patches reported. He expressed himself as well satisfied with the manner in which the strike was put down by military commanders. Shipping was practically tied up at the port, until steamship com- panies, backed by the local Cham- ber of Commerce, used Stismson’s soldiers at dock entrances, brought (Continued on Page Five) Three Militant ‘Members Enthusiastic! — ‘Meeting in Cleveland |. |\Drive Now Under Way 1, $5.00 per r year. AID FOR INDIAN REVOLUTIONS 3 “American Eagles MINERS, NEEDLE. ° TRADE WORKERS, TEATILERS SIGN : for Convention Call | from T.U.E.L. | Will Aid Organization Three new militant unions have} endorsed the call of the National Executive Committee of the Trade! Union Educational League for al National Trade Union Unity Con- vention to meet in Cleveland June if andh 2p, taro 8 | These latest endorsers of the call sent out a few days ago are the, National Miners Union, the Needle, Trades Workers Industrial Union| and the National Textile Workers Union. Will Build Center. The convention to be held in) Cleveland is for the purpose of) creating a new trade union center, | for the workers’ own unions, the| militant unions created during the last year, to form a co-ordinating | aie Above are pictured. some finan- cial birds of prey. Top, Owen D. Young of the General Electric; center, Thos. D. Lamont, Morgan's center for the left wing organiza-| "ational intrigue; bottom, John tions fighting bureaucracy and mis-| Pierpont Morgan himself. Young leadership in the unions belonging| @%4 Morgan are now on the Dawes to the American Federation of La-| board of experts, putting, the screws down on Germany. GOV'T SCAB NOW IN MILL STRIKE Labor Dep't Agent in Southern Village GREENVILLE, S. C., March 27.— bor and in similar old unions, to lay | out plans for organizing the «nor-| ganized, especially in the heavy basic industries, steel, mining, rubber, | automobiles, food packing, etc., to fight the war danger, win the Negro | workers to unionism, and other ne-| cessary things set forth in the reg- ular call for the convention which is now being distributed in leaflet form far and wide throughout the labor movement. | Signed Endorsement. It is this call for the convertion A that the three new unions have en- Traveling strikebreaker Charles G, dorsed, and in copies sent out after | Wood, otherwise known as commis- this date, the signatures of John sioner, Department of Labor, arrived Watt and Pat Toohey, president and | here yesterday and went into a secretary of the National Miners lengthy conference with Allen Me- Union, signing for the national exe-|Nab, on plans for breaking the cutive board of that union will be! strike. Two thousand five hundred (Continued on Page Two) {textile workers are out on strike ince Monday morning against the w England Southern Manufactur- |ing Co. of Pelzer, a company village near here. Commissioner Wood, a notorious figure in leading the forces that strike of 30,000 textile workers in New Bedford, has just come here from his joint “achievement” with Governor Fights Case/4. F. of L. officials in betraying on Technicalities |e tite of the 5000 rayon work- ers in Happy Valley, Tennessee. | The entire labor force of the big BATON ROUGE, La., March 27. textile mills here are staunchly de- |—Preliminary maneuvering in the| termined to stand firm in their de- ‘impeachment case against Governor | ands, which were broadened, ac- Huey P. Long, who is charged) cording to the latest information anes aa ace aes a eel 2vailable, At first the workers only am A demand fas that the speed up sys- opponent, ended on an even basis to-| tom which caused the strike be abol- bath = 5 ae ished; now they are demanding wage 1e ong forces won one bat le | increases. and his opponents another. Both) jyom the many hour conference centered about Speaker John W. heiq between Wood and the employ- Rournet. . Action on ie impeach- | org and Wood’s announcement that ment was deferred until tomorrow. | he has not as yet even seen any of Soren ene _ paid to ee Pte strikers, it is believed that the member of the Ku Klux Klan, which | company is out to fight the strike. certainly actively supported his can-|In the other two strikes, the bosses didacy. He took office in May, 1928 offered and worked for the swiftest and had scarcely been in’ power for | ending to the struggle of the work- a month when two Negro brothers | ers, offering concessions to that end. named Blackman were brutally| No offer has been made here as yet. is a a Loe ste ene peas we belief ist the against whom one 0: e charges | workers face a bitter struggle. now is tHat he called out the militia ‘i to. overpower civil authority, did not . ‘ call out any troops either to pre- Mayor and Police in mt the murder of the Blackmans | by, a lynch mob, or to punish the Court on Charge of Non-Feasance in Office lynchers. OCEAN CITY, N. J., March 27.— Suppress Negroes. The N s in Louisiana, ci- he Negroes in Louisiana, @spet| Mayor Joseph Champion and the entire police force, numbering 21, ally in the small towns of the forth, | where the Klan is most active, are - were in court today arrested on a charge of non-feasance in office. suppressed and discriminated | Former Prosecutor Edmund Gas- against, as in other parts of the south. They are reduced to virtual y th kill, of Atlantic City, representing the mayor, asked for permission to peonage and serfdom on the plan- move to quash the indictment. Per- tations, and have no right of suf- mission was granted and mayor and frage. But the opposition to eye Long is not based on his record ae tbl aaa police force were released in $1,000 bail. as a Negro hater, STOLEN, FOUND, RE-BURIED. HORSE CAVE, Ky.—The body of Floyd Collins, who died after a 17- hour struggle to save his life when he was trapped in a sand cave in Daily Worker Agents Will Meet Friday All New York Daily Worker agents will meet tomorrow at 8 p. m. at Workers Center, 26- 28 Union Square 'N, {on the banks of the Green River, wrapped in a burlap sack, and re- turned to its casket in Crystal Co ve, _|Clericals Continue to partner and chief agent for inter- | 1925, has been stolen, found again | FEDERAL TROOPS NEARING JIMINEZ, | BASE OF ‘REBELS’, Forces of Government Reported Occupying Escalon } pemanpenes Battle Near in Sinaloa 4 Sou Chow-jen, great leader of the Chinese working class, died during this month it is reporte: rom. Chinese sources. Details of his death are lacking due to the terrorist conditions prevailing in China, but it is said that he died of appendicitis aggravated by ex- tremely heavy underground work. To reach Escalon the federals had DEATH PENALTY scat == FOR COMMUNISTS |vanguard of General Juan Alma-/ Japanese Diet Forbids \zan’s column of federal troops ad-| ¢ . ) | vancing upon the clerical stronghold| Dangerous Thoughts TOKIO, Japan, March 27.—A bill lat Jiminez was reported today as) \nearing its objective. | I General Eulalio Ortiz, in com-| approving the death penalty for all mand of the cavalry which consti-| Workers who are convicted of dis- tutes Almazan’s vanguard, sent a| approval of the government has radio message to the Presideneia | Passed the Japanese Diet without here at noon today saying he was| difficulty. \“near Jiminez,” and indicating a| ‘This bill legalizes the temporary \hope of engaging the forces of the | So-called “ordinance against danger- yeactionary General J. Gonzalo Es- | US thoughts” aimed at the Com- cobar, soon. | munists, many of whom are now in General Plutarco Calles, head of] jail under its terms. ithe federal war department, sent; “Ihe bill makes not only activity, |the Presidencia a message from|but the suspicion of thoughts Bermejillo, stating the federals were|@gainst the imperial government, |repairing ten kilometers (a little| punishable by death. more than 6 miles) of railway a| Leaders of the Gifu peasant out- day in the advance northward to- break and the workers and soldiers ward Chihuahua, who revolted at the coronation | * ceremonies of the emperor, are now in jail waiting decisions which the March on Naco MEXICO CITY, March 27.—Fed-| eral troops will occupy Escalon to- | night, a dispatch from the army in} | the north stated today. | Escalon is a small junction town |in southern Chihuahua, It was the first headquarters of the reaction- ary insurgents following their rout jin Torreon. ee ee * + | Battle Near in Sinaloa. n i | MEXICO CITY, March 27.—The| Pill prescribes. advance guard of the column under The Diet also defeated a resolu- | General Perez, more than 4,000 men, tion deploring the use of the words are reported to be nearing Tepic and| “in the name of the people” in the pee me ‘|ratification of the Kellogg pact. | (Continued on Page Three) ')\ G A435, who .offered the resolution, | 3: eee declared the words diminished the Talk About Friendship emperor’s absolute authority. i Most of the government’s major jwith U. S. Does Not pitis, which passed the lower legis- Excite British Officials !*%°. hee failed to pass the Diet. ‘In consequence she Diet has been | LONDON, March 27.—U. S. Am- | closed. passador Houghton made his fare-| SAR well speech at a dinner here last Damage to German jnight and admitted that peace be-| Timer “Europa” Is |tween nations depends on mutual in- | Estimated $3,000,000 terests, and war comes from rival- ries. ae HAMBURG, Germany, March 27. He then tried in half hearted)pDamage to the North German fashion to show that the deadly | Lloyd liner Europe, burned in the trade rivalries growing up between | yards here yesterday, was estimated British and American predatory im-|#t about $3,000,000. |perialisms were merely “hobgoblins”| The fire broke out in four places ithout danger to friendly relations. i" the vessel, which was to compete without danger to friendly relasions. | in the North Atlantic shipping war, The audience of British officialdom | and it is obvious that the fire is the was polite, but unimpressed, lresult of deliberate incendiarism. 200 Cleveland Rayon Workers Strike CLEVELAND, March 27.—Resisting a wage cut of from eight | and a half to six cents a pound for rayon handled by piece work, more than 200 women workers of the Industrial Fibre Company here have declared a strike. Charge Police Frame-Up. Benjamin Wagner, father of two children, sentenced to 35 years in Sing Sing for robbery, yesterday was awarded a new trial on presentation of evidence that his arrest, for which Patrolman William Shanover got a special citation for bravery, was a frame-up. Shan- over said he, unarmed, leaped at Wagner and took a gun away from him, Experts testify that this gun was really one of Shanover’s, planted on Wagner. | | Dawes Goes To Tighten Noose On Domingo. Former Vice President Charles E. Dawes sails today to head a commission of American bankers, forced by U. S. imperialist threats upon the Dominican government as financial czars, to reorganize the country’s credit system for the benefit of Wall Street. He is on the Porto Rican liner Coamo. 25 Injured When Trolleys Collide. Four persons were injured seriously, and 21 others less so when two crowded, eastbound trolley cars were wrecked in a rear end col- lision at Tremont Ave. and Purdy St., Bronx yesterday. Vincent Artale has a broken spine, Anthony Colombo a fractured skull, Joseph Gordon a broken spine, and Clement Carick internal in- juries. The worn cut brakes of the rear car slipped. Defeat Dry Bill At Albany. ALBANY, N. Y., March 27 (UP).—New York state, the first to act upon a proposal for concurrent legislation since President Hoover's inaugural request for local cooperation in enforcing the Volstead law,” | was definitely out of the dry column tonight. Assemblyman Edmund B. Jenks, sponsor of the Jenks state en- forcement bills, fails to get enough votes today to recall them to the floor of the house from the rules committee, to which they were sent week ago, and the measures were /mat. ‘ . Bi techathet <b Slee a ater ie — nn illite A AI A I EEE year. FINAL CITY EDITION Unions Endorse. Unity Conveniion EA ADDRESSED Shows India Is Burning | Under the Feet of j | the Imperialists Peasants in Unity with City Labor Daily Worker) | (Wireless to t MOSCOW, t S. R., March 27. —The Executive Committee of the Communist International has issued an appeal to the worke and op- pressed people: the world to sup- | port the Indian revolutionary move- ment. The statement dec s that the strike wave now rising in the left wing unions is growing constal and great demonstrations are being org: 1 under slogan of Work- ers’ Soviets. | Discontent Among Peasants. The statement goes on to say that India is burning under the feet of the imperial Oppressien of the peasants and their pa i the congress of workers @ j ants par shows that the peas- Jants are lining up with the work jers. Imperialist terror is increa: ing. The wor | parties, which - \the Communist Inte being attacked. | Learn Lessons of 1921. | The workers of Bombay, and other industri: by their heroie st: strations that the v'tter lessons of 1921 have been learned. The Jagrarian revolution is the axis of the Indian revolution. | The imperial have instituted |thgir terror against the workers in |the hope of crushing the workers’ |movement before the reserves of peasants come up. Only the al- liance of the workers’ revotution and \the peasants can overthrow imper- \jalism and its bourgeois and feudal allies. India Is Imperialist War Prize. The reformists and trade union leaders have consistently opposed the colonial revolution, particularly the British reform The present wave of terror was preceded by the treacherous capitulation of the In- dian burgeois nationalists. The threads of the impending im- id demon- perialist war are all meeting in In- dia now. But the threads of the proletarian revolution and the col- onial revolt also meet in India. India is the main prize in the new imperialist war between Britain and the U. S. A. Br n is also using India as a base for the attack it plans upon the Soviet Union. The rise of the Indian revolution will impart new life to the revolu- tionary movements of China, Indo- nesia and Egypt and represents an alarm bell for the whole of oppressed humanity. The day is approaching when the proletarian revolution and the colonial insurrection will meet and mingle in India. The statement concludes by call- ling upon the workers of the world, especially the British ‘workers, to |support the Indian revolution, re- membering the words of Marx: No people which oppresses another can be free. Hl India Unionist, Jailed. LONDON, Engiand, March 27.— Joalekar. secretary of the Great In- dian Peninsula Rail en’s Union and a member of Executive Committee of the Wo and Pea- sants Party and the Executive Com- ittee of the Indian National Con- gress, has been arrested in Bom- He was charged with conspiring 9 overthrow the king while he was (Continued on Page Three) THEATRE WORKE RS STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, (By Mail)- | Union musicians and motion picture operators of the Nasser Bros. Theatre are striking as a result of the nt of musicians by talking mov Get Freiheit Tickets, Is Party Instruction Communist Party Units and Fractions are instructed to get tickets for the seventh anniver- sary celebration of the Freiheit, New York Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River, Saturday, April || 6, 8 p, m. Twenty percent dis- | count will be given for tickets i paid for in advance.