The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 1

>) 7 L NATIONAL ANTI-STRIKE BILL NOW READY ee ee ee * He was suspected of being about to il THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered am second-claas mater at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ,__ Vol. V Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION I Outside New In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ork, by mail, $6.00 ear, ~_ Price 3 Cents ., No. 20 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, CANTON LEADER SHOT BY CHIANG IN WUHAN WAR Kiangsi Clique Defeats Nanking Lords in Yangtse Battle Hostilities Are Official Chang’s Army Holds Chefoo SHANGHAI, China, March 28.— Reports from Nanking state that General Li Chai-sum, commanding Kwantung, was shot there at 11 a. m. on orders of Chiang Kai-shek. Further credence was lent the first report by a second stating that Wu Tze-hui, aged Kuomintang poli- tician and guarantor of Li’s safety, had committed suicide following the execution of Li. It is said that, ac- cording to ancient Chinese practice, he felt unable to sustain the disgrace of having his promise of safety vio- lated. Li Chai-sum, Canton warlord, was arrested during the sessions of the Kuomintang congress in Nanking. send aid to the Wuheu generals.| The immediate event which precipi-| tated his arrest is believed to have| been the flight to Shanghai of Yu Yu-jen, member of the “Left wing” in the Kuomintang who threatened to form a Kuomintang congress in Canton with “legally elected dele- gates.” * Wuhan Victory. Tm Alone Crew, Pawns in a Shipping Game BT The crew of the I’m Alone, Canadian owned rum smuggler, sunk under doubtful legal circumstance: in the middle of the Gulf of M crew of the sunken vessel. They ar s by shell fire from a U. S. vessel eq They are the captain and left to right: Edward Fuchard. Edward Young, J. G. Williams, James Barrett, Capt. Randall (seated), Peter Jonsen, Chester Hobbs (en: gineer) and William Wordsworth, ‘Red Cross Denies Aid to Militant Kinloch Miners “The serious situation that has arisen in Kinloch,” Alfred Wagen- knecht, secretary of the Workers International Relief, One Union | Square, New York, stated last night, PEKING, China, March 28.—It is officially reported today that Nank- ing forces have been defeated by Wuhan troops in fighting on the Yangtse River. The number of casualties is not stated. The Nanking government is re- ported to be rushing troops to the Yangtse section to try to stem the Wuhan advance. Today’s battle follows the official declaration of war against Wuhan by the Nanking government. The declaration accuses Generals Li Chai-sum, Pei Chung-hsi and Li (Continued on Page Two) CALLES FORCES CAPTURE CITY Clericals Retreating; Major Executed JUAREZ, Mexico, March 28.—Un- official dispatches penetrating the censorship set up by the reactionary insurgent commanders today said advance guards of General Plutarco Elias Calles federal command and outposts of the clerical forces com- manded by General Escobar clashed last night at Jiminez and a battle was imminent. Federal reports from Mexico City said cavalry under General Benigo M. Serrato occupied Escalon, 45 miles east of Jiminez today. There was a short engagement with rebels, the reports said. ee Bees NOGALES, Sonora, Mex., March 28.—A bulletin issued here tonight by leadérs claimed that a federal unit at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, had been surprised and attacked by a force. The announcement said that the federals apparently had believed Mazatlan was completely abandoned by reactionary insurrectionist troops, but that the latter gppeared and drove them back to their fortifica. tion. A number of participants were believed killed in the skirmish, it was said. eee Ne MEXICO CITY, March 28.—The fall of Jiminez, last reactionary in- surgent stronghold in the state of Chihuahua, was expected to occur without opposition after the capture of Escalon by federal troops today. | “must be faced immediately by all | | company Elias Plutarco Calles, Mexican minister of war commanding fed- eral troops .in the field, reported the capture of Escalon in a mes- sage to the government at noon to- day. ‘He said he believed the cler- icals would not resist when federal troops reached Jiminez, 45 miles northwest. Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, command- ing federal troops in the state of Sinaloa, was expected to reach Mazatlan within two days. According to a dispatch from Puerto, Mexican, published in the newspaper Universal today, Major Jose Leon Flores and two clerical soldiers were executed in a ceme-| tery there after they had been given & court martial. ¥ friends of the struggling coal-dig- gers of America.” “With the Red Cross and the Armer- | iean Legion, who have been placed | in charge of the relief activities by the coal barons, refusing aid to the «militant miners who belong to the National Miners Union,” Wagen-| knecht continued, “it is the duty of | all working men and working wo- | men to rally to their support.. The | mill barons know where to draw the | line. They are giving soup to the | miners who are willing slaves and follow the instructions of the coal | without any protest. Those who protest and who organ- | ize for the National Miners Union| are discriminated against. “The explosion at Kinloch is a classic example of how the coal (Continued on Page Three) POWERS ACTING ON I'M ALONE U. S. Consul in British Colony Threatened WASHINGTON, March 28.—At- torney-General Mitchell took care today to declare that the investiga- tion he is carrying on into the sink- ing of the British rum-runner, “I’m Alone,” does not have international implications but is ‘only concerned with the prosecution against the members of the ship’s crew. It is probable that the crew will be made the butt if Britain and France con- tinue to press the case. i z The British consul at New Or- leans declares that the ship was fired upon outside of the 12-mile limit, while the coast guards hold they started the chase within the limit. The French ambassador has also started an investigation since the sailor who was drowned proved to be a French citizen. ASLAND, Pa. (By Mail).— Crushed under a fall of several tons of coal a month ago, Steve Gerrity, 40, died yesterday in the State Hos- pital. HARLEM NEGROES STOP LYNCHING ob Forms on Basis of Flimsy Charge M Several dozen lynchers, throwing stones and calling for reinforce- ments to hang Ernest Barnett, a Negro, gathered at 115th St. and Fifth Ave. yesterday, and only the presence of Nc ~» workers who hur- ried to the sc.:.e, long before the police made any attempt to save kim, prevented a tragedy. Barnett had already been arrested by a policeman, Fred Beers, on the unsupported accusation of a hys- terical white woman who charged | that he had tried to snatch a loaf of bread from her hand as she was carrying it from a delicatessen store |to her apartment. | Barnett was arrested in the door- way of his home, at 11 East 115th St., somewhat after the alleged food snatching. He declares his inno- | cence, but there is considerable fear among his friends that third degree torture will be used against him. He was taken to the East 114th | St. police station. 400 RAIL MEN ~ VOTE TO STRIKE DALLAS, Texas, March 28.—In protest against bad working condi- |tions and against being transferred recklessly from towns in which the company induced them to buy homes |on the installment plan, 4,000 train, | engine and yard employes on the |Texas & Pacific R. R. have voted | practically unanimously to strike. |_ Fred Barr, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen .and Enginemen, stated today that no strike will be permitted until the vote has been sent to the heads of all the brotherhoods involved, and their sanction obtained. BE A ‘DAILY’ REPORTER Workers, Send in News of Labor Events The Daily Worker, as the news- paper of the workers, depends to a great extent on the workers them- selves for news of interest to work- ers. ~ Events occur daily in the var- ious sections of the country of im- portance to workers, news which should be brought to the attention of all the workers who are readers of the Daily Worker. Many of these events the Daily Worker is unable: to cover, due to the distance from New York City. Every reader of the Daily Wocker should be a reporter for his fight- ing newspaper. Every occurrence in every section of the United States, of interest and importance to the workingclass, should be reported for ithe Daily Worker by,the readers of the Daily. Workers are urged to send in re- ports of all labor events, local strikes and labor disputes, and any news of interest to workers occurring in their section, to the Daily Worker. Clippings from local newspapers, to- igether with additional facts on the jevent from the worker, are welcome. Be a Daily Worker reporter in your section and send in all news Without delave i. suis fatlstscs abit ‘ OF JUNE 1 MEET “Cleveland Convention for Trade Union Unity Needed” Unionizes Unorganized New Militant Center Can Compel Safety inhumanity of James Paisley, who of his employes in one explosion a few days ago, but now accuses the miners of blowing themselves up with a bomb, are cheered by the announcement that their union, the Nationa! Miners Union, is one of the three new unions which have signed the Trade Union Educational League call for a new trade union center. Only organization, these miners know, will put a stop to the callous disregard of the safety of the men underground. The mincrs at Kin- loch, where the Paisley property mine exploded, are about one-third of them in the N. M. U. already. They knew weeks ahead of time that the mine was filled with dangerous gas. But they could no nothing. They had to have work. Organized action against their employers, to \compel safety conditions, meant }more organization first, Real Unity in Sight. “When we have all the splendid fighting textile workers of the New Bedford strike area, and the needle trades workers of New York, who never give up, no matter what the cdds, with us, joined to the same central body, each new union help- ing the other one out in a crisis, ‘that will mean we will all of us win out,” said one of the rescued |men in New York yesterday, look- ing for a temporary job, since all work has stopped at Kinloch. Yes, the miners are for a new (Continued on Page Two) C.E.C. Urges Support of Seventh Jubilee of Daily “Freiheit” GLAD TO HEAR» | Coal miners, suffering from the not only ran a mine that killed 46 | KINLOCHMINER |Xi¢¥oman in Rol@ ANOTHER STRIKE Te IN CAROLINA MILL AS FIRST WINS Pelzer Walkout Brings Abolition of Speed-up Whole South Seethes Is Fifth Revolt in 3 Weeks | GREENVILLE, S. C., March 28. ~—No sooner was the news flashed around that the owners of the pow- | tile Co. had- capitulated to the de- |mand of its striking workers than another strike “broke out, Yester- day afternoon, 1,500 workers in the [Brandon Corp. at the village of |Brandon, demonstratively halted work marched out of the mill in a body. Here, too, the strikers are de- manding the abolition of an effi- |ciency speed-up system. | Withdraw Speed-up Plan. Deputy Sheriff Roy Si raided the home of M De King at Aurora, Ill., and shot her dead when she tried to tele- phone a lawyer. A twelve-year old son of the woman then got a gun and shot the brave officer through the leg. He was looking for liquor. Even before the workers Following a conference between Allen McNab, northern absentee ‘owner of the New England South- ern Textile Co., and the local plant officials, an announcement was is- sued by them withdrawing the effi- ciency scheme which was the cause of the walkout of this company’s |2,500 workers. F erful New England Southern Tex- | “Widow of exin ADE BY WOLL, “AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Will Be Proposed for | December Ses | of Congres Means Jail for Striker Courts to Enforce All Nadezhda Constantinovna Krup- skaya, widow of V. I. Lenin, has been hailed throughout the Soviet Union on her 60th birthday, Ske | Misleaders’ Contracts is actively engaged in cultural | work. Before the Revolution she Th worked with Lenin as his secre- | yester tary. From her fingers came the | propo: scores of letters between the rev- olutionists at home and abroad, |s and in her had alone were car- ried the various codes which un- 2 locked the contents of many of the |renewed fi letters, seem to make ac 5 | The plan it up before |the bar ociation committee in | R charge of it y y. They met in the New Yo | , Commerce building, GOTH BIRTHDAY ss, 2 svc: Li Bg bill, and arran the main principle of the vicious act ‘coved by & sociation in jihad already been ap: meeting of the whol eattle, July 1, 1928. | Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, on whose invitation the bill was first |prepared, and who helped to plan ._, {it, was expected to be present at the | MOSCOW, March 28.—The Soviet | final meeting of the committee, but jand the international Communist |was compelled by other matters to jmovement and press are now cele-jabsent himself, it was announced. jbrating the sixtieth birthday of| Julius Henry Cohen, of the com- OF KRUPSKAYA Active in Revolutionary Movement 40 Years ting of all Brandon |Nadezhda Constantinova Krupskaya, | mittee, and chairman of the so-called |scheduled to be one of the biggest} jaffairs ever held by the organiza- DELEGATES MEET news was received of the Brandon strike. Concentrate Forces on Coming Fur Strike A ‘special letter of instructions was sent to all shop chairmen and delegates of the Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union, giving} them detailed information on how |to rally support for the coming “Build the Union Bazaar,” which is| Needle , held Tuesday night, an Itimatum was handed the bosses |containing the demand that they an- |noynce official recall of the effi- |eiency system by three o'clock yes- terday afternoon. This demand was Jignored by the b Cheered by At the dot of three, the sirens in the factory began to biow. Loom: were silenced and the entire work- | (Continued on Page Three) SOAP STRIKERS | Ata mass me workers, [wu a | tion. a period of four Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Apri A call for mass support of the Seventh Jubilee of The Freiheit, Jewish Communist Daily, has been| issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. The call’follows: The Freiheit is the mass organ| in the Jewish language of the Com- munist Party of the United States of America. ranged by the union. i The Freiheit loyally serves the | The Needle Trades Bazaars hav interests of the working class since| been noted as the most popular an the first day of its existence. | successful of all the affairs held by Through the Freiheit our party effectively led the Jewish workers in (Continued on Page Five) sino, Park Ave. and 107th St. ready engaged in this new phas of the “Build The Union” Dr cently inaugurated. ises to be another long remembere: event. 30 Days for Dodging Hold-Up. When the Tammany police make an arrangement with an hon- est hold-up man, who treats the cops right, y’understand, they won't let him be mistreated and robbed by strong arm victims, Oliver Deardorf, a taxi driver, took a gun away from a highwayman, who pointed it at him. He found himself arrested for violating the Sul- livan act against having firearms; detectives snooped out the fact | that he wasn’t legally married, and the judge said, “You are a des- picable character” as he gave him 30 days. Wall Street Hit in British G. E. LONDON, March 28,—-A part compromise passed unanimously at a meeting of the board of the General Electric of Great Britain today, was decidedly directed against the American shareholders, It would force them to sell their steck immediately thus putting them at a decided disadvantage, Preachers Rally to Hang Man. TYLER, Texas, March 28.—Twenty Baptist preachers came in a bloc to the court room here, to testify in an effort to hang Loys Wilson, who killed Rev. H. H. Wallace, another preacher some time ago in a quarrel over his wife. Mrs. Wallace admits that she committed adultery with the preacher, and the Wilson defense is that discovery of this unbal- anced the defendant and caused him to shoot. The preachers are going to swear that a Baptist preacher wouldn’t do such things as Mrs. Wallace testifies he did. Banks Shove Stock Prices Up. Call money yesterday fell from 15 per cent to 8 and on the New York Stock Exchange prices rose with every drop of the interest rate, The beating down of the call money rate was due largely to large sums thrown on the loan market by New York banks, though those snme banks: had assisted or consented to the raising of the rate Monday and Tuesday. A lot of money was made in the sudden crash and recovery—by those who knew what was going to happen. Army “Blimp” Imperils Lives. Four men of the crew of the army dirigible PC-5 had a little taste of the horrors of war yesterday, when their ship broke loose from moorings at Lakehurst and after floating free for a while, crashed in a swamp. One man had both legs, left arm and right elbow broken: the others were less injured. __ The bazaar will be held over days—Thursday. 18, 19, 20, 21, in the New Star Ca-| The most active workers are al- re- All boards are busy preparing for the bazaar ar- the union, and this bazaar prom-| HEAR T.ULEsL Consider Organization Help Offer Today Despite all e attempts made by bosses to hire strikebreakers, the} 50 girl work in the Proctor and Gamble soap plant, manufacturers jof Ivory », Port Ivory, Staten Island, are still out. They are as determined as ever) on winning their demand that wages be raised to a decent level, especial- ly since their production of work is exactly twice as much as before the speed-up system, now in force, was introduced, The Trade Union Educational League yesterday sent representa- tives to the strikers’ meeting, who | addressed the strikers and offered lthe backing of their organization and strike leadership. The T. U. E. L. representatives left the meet- ing to allow the workers to discuss e id y | di turn today for the answer. Before leaving they contributed ,$10 to the strike fund, DENIED FRANCHISE ja franchise for bus service was de- inied yesterday by the Transit Com- } mission, The company has been junder fire ever since it failed to |make a proposed contract with |Hedley’s Interborough Rapid Tran- and act on their offer, and will re-| The Equitable Coach Co. pian for) widow of Lenin, who was born Feb. |«, 5 held i Hew Wake 27, 1869. The more than forty | ; i: pn rae voluti x , to propagandize the of constant revolutionary activity| measure, read into the records of she has engaged in have endeared |, hacia thi Peatea op ree the meeting yesterday an account | © masses of men and women | of » consultation between the~com- workers throughout the Soviet Union, as well ne to peoleterrace mittee of the bar association and eitvaicat he ceseld P amans the American Federation of Labor bec iigis hs et Sinn general council in New Orleans in Krupskaya joined the revolution-| July, at which the general council jary movement while still a young of the A.F.L. “expressed yappreci= tudent and has passed throug the ation for the opportu yof discus- Ifiercest struggles and bitterest ex-|sing the provisiens of the bill with |neviences it offered. With Lenin in the bar association.” exile, she took an active part in the : ; she ideological battles out’of which ery-|,. 12, ™ain, Purnos® of the: bill is |stallized the Bolshevik Party, and |‘? Take cnforceable by the courts jwaS especially valuable in keeping, ae gree tts: up communications between Lenin |enh pinough arbitration or other- and the Party members and crgan-| "ise petween employers and the ee ete union bureauer his is intended | ey ._, {to utilize the and the police |, 20, Siberia she wrote the first|t) simply imprison all rank and file R propaganda pamphlet for |jeaders who are implicated in strikes working women (“Woman and the| forbidden by union officials who Woman Worker,” February, 1901),|have sold themsevies to the bosses a iia ee hepa ‘betweer'!and tied down their union by con- their sisters in Western Europe. | "tS #0" however long a term. She worked with Lenin from the time they came together in under- ground activity in St. Petersburg in 1893, in Siberia and in we: n E rope, doing most dangerous a sponsible underground wo co-worker, secretary, inter: and propagandist. After the revolution she became a member of the Commissariat of Force Fanray Cafeteria |Fdueation, in charge of mass educa- | to Close Down tional work, and now gives mest of | a3 her time to this important work, at! A sign appeared the same time that she does much of the Fanray Caf |work in the Communist Party. h ry FOOD PICKETS ed’ the window a at 156 W. 28th St., Thursday morning read- ing “Closed For Alterations.” This * is the outcome of the strike called Daily Worker Agents against this place by the Hotel, Res- Will Meet Tonight taurant and Cafeteria Workers’ i | Union when the proprietors refused ‘An urgent meeting ‘of allt restate three employees dis- 8 eg charged for membership in the union. Yesterday morning, when the 26-28 picket line appeared in front of the Fanray, the workers were attacked by the proprietors and a gang of LEGISLATORS RAISE OWN PAY cabs ae Apso ate iat ~ ie ay) _ Succeeded in repulsing the attack, BOSTON (By Mail)—The Massa- During the fight the plate glass |chusetts house has voted to substi- window was broken by a missile |tute for an adverse committee re- thrown at one of the pickets. De- |port a bill to increase the yearly feated in their attempt to break up | New York Daily Worker agents will be held tonight at 6:30 at, the Workers Center, Union Sq. jsit Co, my US. to Drive Child WASHINGTON, March 28,—A further policy of robbing the Amer- ican Indian, and a continuation of the treacherous treaty-breaking which has colored all of the U. S. government’s dealings with the In- |of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur | today. Indians are to be put through a process of “hardening off,” for it “is time for the Indian to be weaned,” he stated. “Weaned away” from any oil or | farming Jands the tribes might still | possess, of course. ‘await. | Wilbur’s program, which he says! will get firs jt shgice of dians, was announced by Secretary | the picket line, the proprietors re- salary of the legislators. a | (Continued on Page Five) NUE INDIAN GRAB Rayon WALKOUT ren Off Reservations IN OHIO SPREADS is backed by Hoover, is to put In-| 2 BOT dian children through trade schools, | CLEVELAND, March 28. — Two | then banish them from the reserva- hundred women workers of the In- | tions, so that they will “not be any dustrial Fiber Company yesterday |longer contaminated by the influ- joined the strike which began Mon- — ences of the tribes,” which once day against the company’s attempt — owned the whole country. |to cut prices on piece work from After the younger generation has eight and a half to six cents ® | been flung into the labor market in pound. the cities, according to Wilbur, “the! With the strikers now numbering |economic phases arising from the 400, more men and girls are ex- ownership of Indian land will be! pected to join huge picket demon- dealt with according to federal law, | strations tomorrow in response to as they come before the department} the appeal for a general walkout for discussion.” Which means, ob- | called by strike committees led by servers say, that the Rockefellers | Dorothy Merrill. The plant employs the oi] lands./ 1,509 workerse ojos Mute shot eee enn iceman HRS MS