The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 2

or Signs ew DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1929 B INJUNCTIONS, 48-HOUR BILL ARE DEFEATED | Instead, Rush Measure to Hunt with Bows March 29.— r Roosevelt an- aounced his approval of 28 bills to- lay, including a Baumes crime com- on measure sponsored by As- emblyman Burton D. Esmond, vice hairman of the committee, requir- ALBANY, U.P.) — ¢ ng a stenographic report of prelim- nary proceedings in a case involv- ng the commission of a felony. While the governor was signing a ew bills of rather small importance, neluding one allowing the hunting f game with bows and arrows, po- itieal circles were worrying over the noney question. The deadlock over ‘ppropriations continues, and there nay be an extra session. No one several million work- rs in New York is worried over the act that the legislature did not one New Chief of Strikebreaking Army | Fugua being shoul- | der-strapped chief of the infantry in the United States army in ceremony at Gov- vernors Island. Ma- ills; None Which Do Labor Any Good Are Passed in Albany TO AID SOUTHS _ TEXTILE STRIKES Cleveland Convention | to Organize Mills ce onan a ToUsE.L. MOVES ‘SAGASA, TRAITOR TO NIGARAGUANS, GETS PROMOTION Is New Minister at Washington ~The Pive stench DRY SPY GAUGHT | SMUGGLING RYE | OUT OF CANADA Washington Diplomats to Swill 10,000 Cases jor-Gen. ly, arch- | jingoist, looks on. Besides preparing the army for impe- rialist war, Fugua will also have the task of sending sol- diers to break many Militant picketing has, how- a_ strike. ever, shown itself time and again pow- I erful enough to de- 4 feat the terroristic attacks of such uni- formed. strikebreak- ers. ingle thing to make the lot of a vorker easier. Not one of the mild y progressive ALD. WILL FIGHT FOR TAPOLCSANY! Hoover Begins Drive ills called cial legislation” or labor legislation” had a chance to sass. Not one of them but would save been vetoed by Roosevelt if it ad passed. Defeat 48-Hour Bill. The 48-hour law for working wo- nen and children did not get ‘ behind a 75-ton fall of coal and hrough even one house. The repub- on Foreign-Born rock, George Ritman, 28, and icans and democrats were both very Wallie Adamskie, 35, were res- villing to see it die, for big business sing child slaves and working wo- aen any number of hours a week (Continued from Page One) general attack upon the foreign vhere the new unions have not or-| born workers, which is now in full vanized yet, are not going to cut| swing. With the inauguration of Ae the tasks eed pile oer | President Hoover, the lines against mployees, nor are ey goin: 0 lel * . *, heir own legislators pass any law | tte foreign born workers active in Gdligian these’ task the struggle are tightened. No old age pension bill was| This is a result of the statement assed, or even seriously considered. | of Hoover in his inaugural address The Pain ues bill was eas-/that ‘the provision of additional ee anice ecaea be cond special tribunals, the better selec- usiness, and this is a business ad-| tion of judges, the more effective iinistration. organization of our agencies of The salary enforcement bills fail-| investigation and prosecution, that d. If a worker is unable to collect! justice may be sure and that it may is wages, that is more profit for | be swift’, must be carried out. It he employer, and it is employers| is in line with the recent report of nat run a legislature under capital cretary of Labor Davis, who ad- xm, not the workers. vocates the registration of foreign The New York State Federation | born workers and urges employers f Labor’s mild, weak, practically | to co-operate with the government seless injunction bill did not get|in securing such registration, or ut of committee, even tho President | with his statement that immigration ullivan of the state federation took |must be further ‘selected’ by hay- lawyer and two other officials on | ing more government agents in for- junket around the state capital, | eign lands. This attempt at deport- ssuring majority and minority ation for beliefs is in line with-the saders that the bill was not against | recent ruling of President Hoover ajunctions, but only to provide the| putting into effect the National nion 1. er a chance to present | Origins provision of the immigra- rguments to the judge before the tion act of 1924, on July Ist, next. sjunction issued. This decision against Tapolesanyi “Employer Deserves Injunction” is a decision against the foreign “At most it would mean a delay | born workers of America. It is an £ 24 hours in an injunction is to attempt to divide the working class 2 issued,” Sullivan explained to the |in its struggle against capitalism, ew York Trades and Labor Coun- | it is an attack on the foreign born, 1, when he spoke to them last| who are engaged in large numbers eek. “Any employer who deserves in too heavy industries, and is an n injunction could get one under! attack on the most class conscious class ———— Weak Roof Entombs Men in Coal Mine; Boss Saved Timber ‘FIRED AS SOAP | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29. | (vuntinued trom Page One) |--Dr, Juan Bautista Sacasa, former | wages, now 50 per cent beneath the liberal presidential candidate in Ni- low wages of northern textile work-|caragua, has, like the leader of his ers. jarmy, Moncada, been bought by the | Fight Rationalization. | American imperialists and given a “Beneath the lash of rationaliza-| diplomatic post here. He is the new tion the southern textile workers are Minister from Nicaragua. ne) coming forward militantly to battle|, Speaking of the recent election for their demands. They are shat-|i2 Which his colleague, Moncada, tering the manufacturers’ boast of | W@ elected to the presidency in a “no labor trouble in the South.” | Vote presided over by bayonets of iThey. are destroying the plan of | United States marines at every poll- United States capitalism to isolate |ine place. Sacasa rejoiced that “Ni- | jsouthern Jabor and use it as a pas-|Caragua is once more in the hands sive instrument to hammer down|°! 4 freely elected, constitutional wages and working conditions in the | S°vernment. rest of the country. The militant! Sacasa emphasized the importance | |stand of these mill workers, new to|of the nationai guard, which, offi- | lindustry—tenant farmers and farm |cered by American marines, is be- | |aborers driven by hunger into the |ing used increasingly in the drive | | mills—shows that beneath the saarp- |to dislodge General Sandino’s army | jening attacks of American imperial-|of independence from their strong- | |ism the workers of no section of the holds in northern Nicaragua. jeountry can be isolated from the| Of this body, whose outrages com- general leftward swing of the Amer- mitted on peons have already be- | ican working class. |come notorious, Sacasa said, “In “The unexpected and determined|their hands domestic security and WLR. Urges Support Ex-vice President Dawes leaves for San Domingo to fix up the | finances there and see to it that Wall Street gets all it can. It was with the same sort of a pipe that he left for Lurope and helped shackle the German workers. of Mine Relief Tag | Days April 12, 13, 14) prohibition ‘been caught smuggling liquor into \the United States recently. Two congressmen, ardent support- ers of the Jones bill for five years? imprisonment and $10,000 fine in violation cases, have Con- gressman William Morgan came in- jto New York from Europe and in- sisted on congressional immunity |from search, known as the “freedom of the port.” When he didn't get lit, a customs officer found supplies | o£ whiskey in his luggage. Congressman M, Alfred Michael- son of Chicago was named yester- day in a removal warrant issued by Commissioner Walker for smuggling liauor into Florida from the West Indies. * oe ® BUFFALO, N. Y., March 29.— Detective Sergeant Simon J. Calli- nan today was held in $1,000 bail, }charged with smuggling six cases of liquor into this country from Canada, It is charged that Callinan came across the “peace bridge” here with five cases of whiskey and SHAMOKIN, Pa., March 29.— Entombed more than 16 hours cued at the Cameron Colli the Susquehanna Collie day. i Coal from the roof, loosened by he two men had fired in t hole, dropped and cut their escape. Rescue workers, toiling in shifts, labored at top speed all night to reach the pair. An accident such as this, miners point out, could not hap- pen if the company kept the mine properly timbered, and if the men were not assigned to work under dangerously weak- ened roofs, The National Miners Union, with headquarters at 119 Fed- eral St. Pittsburgh, Pa, is spreading its organization over the Pennsylvania coal fields, and is waging a struggle against dangerous working conditions. PREPARE FOR MAY ry of to- (ST CELEBRATION New York Conference on April 14 All energies are being made by the committee in charge of arrange- ments for the .coming May Day celebration to mobilize all forces to ure its being the greatest demon- ration ever seen in this stronghold ar Dill.” section of the workingelass, who| of capiteliem. But the legislators didn’t think it/have a long tradition of worki : ; god policy to let even this poor | class solidarity. The first step is to get the larg- ting live, and it was smothered in| Blow Against Working Class. | ©St Possible number of workers’ or- ie committee, The International Labor Defe Most of the bills which did pass | which is now conducting many te bad. The multiple dwellings | portant cases, such as the Tapoles- Il permits tenement houses to build | anyi case, will defend Tapolesanyi in The I. vo or three times as high as now. | the courts to the fini The primary election law is re-!D. calls on all working saled, and the old direct primaries | izations, on all sympatk tablished, a thing which Tammany | working class struggle: ants as well as the republicans. The new noor law makes life arder on those their employers prevention of the deportation of ave used up, and thrown aside. Tapolesanyi into the hands of the! The new workmen’s compensation | Hungarian hangmen. The I. L. D.| Il, extending the category of oc-/ calls on all workers to hold mass | ipations which can draw the in-| meetings, to collect money and to red man state compensation was | send funds collected to the National assed in such a mutilated form that | Office of the International Labor is practically useless, and makes | Defense, 80 East 11th St., Room 402, | harder to get compensation in-| New York City, to aid in this de-| ead of easier. | fense. , When the strike was called they did |not go out till today. There was lan agreement that the whole crew be asked to which organization they wanted to belong. The cutters’ lo- c.1 in this shop was the last of the membership of his union in New | York. ‘Vhen the vote was taken, jall hands were raised in a unani | mous vote of adherence to the mii |tant Independent Shoe Workers’ Union. The vote was followed soon after by Nolan’s exist. The result of the vote soon caused the employer to call for a confer- ence with the union. The negotia- tions begin today at 9 a. m. Other Strikes Near Victory. Two more strikes seem to be on the verge of being victoriously con- cluded. Conferences are being held L. to engage in the I. L. D. campaign for the reversal of this decision and for the SHOE WORKERS DESERT NOLAN ’rotective Loses Last Base to New Union Two events of far reaching im- ortance occurred yesterday in the anization campaign being con- 1cted by the Independent Shoe! ‘orkers’ Union. One was the _aion’s cuccess in getting the entire ew of the La Valli-Lo Presti shop os join the strike, and the other was finite establishment of the fact vat no other union but theirs can Falk and Boies Os. | Bra eer | An Poscen, SE BAR AMON ie: HERG | concentrated against the firm of Piedenkapp At nog | Arthur Bender, where the strike is When the union organizers suc- MAN ceatiing the: attire crew about two weeks old. Plans to con. halt work yesterday morning, a was held for them in Man- ttan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. le Fred Biedenkapp was ad- the workers, President of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- ive Union walked into the hall. Organizer Joseph Magliacano concluded his talk to the crew nt Nolan was granted the fin and White Co., a Board of Trace | of Trade is an open shop organiza- Woman Burns in Frame House. CHARLEROI, Pa., March 29.— | Trapped in the bedroom of her home | when it caught fire, Mrs. Mary | |Buckadella, 40, of Wellsworth, was | fatally. burned today. The home was a mass of flames when firemen arrived. It was a/ cheap frame shack, | "For Independent Union. cutters craft in this shop members of Nolan’s union. with the Delmont Co. and the Shoe- | centrate strength against the Grif-| shop, are also under way. The Board | tion. | ganizations to send delegates to the United Front Conference to be held Sunday, April 14, at Irving Plaza. New York City. The purpose of this conference is to make p! for the mobilization of the masses of vorkers in New York and vicinity for the demonstration, to prepare the program and make other ar- rangements necessary. The May Day meeting will cele- te the achievements of labor in its struggles during the past year, and to prepare for participation of ever larger masses in the sharpen- ing struggles immediately ehead. Because of the fact confronting the working class of ever-growing prep- arations for imperialist war, and |for an attack on the Soviet Union en the part of the capitalist pow- ers, this May Day celebration will j have the character of a demonstra- |tion against the war danger and for | the defense of the first workers’ and peasants’ government. | All organizations are urged to |send at least two delegates to this \important conference on April 14, and to contribute generously to the expenses of the celebration, to make jit a huge demonstration such as the center of the finance-capitalist im- perialists has never before seen on such a gigantic scale. DIRECTED A powerful realistic di sions of the Czaristic | SCHEV, the Russian “. revolutionist. Vont. Dai ie Another SOVKINO Masterfilm! qFLAMES onp (THE VOLGAD ‘ who produced “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” volt of the Volga Peasants against the Oppres- the Great. .... Enacted by a Cast of 5000 Introducing such famous characters as PUGAT= POTEMKIN, BULAT-BATYR, the great peasant film guildcinema 52 W, 8th St. (Saat West) SPRING noes ily, incl, Sat. & Noon to Midnite ee: ys... 12-2, 8he; 2-6 p. m. 50¢ Saturday & Sunday 12-2, 60¢; 2-6 p, m. 76¢ STRIKE SPREADS \T.U.E.L. Agitation Is Effective Walter Taylor and James Lenny, leading figures in the recent victor- ious strike of the mechanical depart- ment of the Proctor and Gamble Staten Island soap manufactory, were fired yesterday for refusal to scab in the packing department from which fifty girls had gone out on strike several days ago. signs point to a sympathy walkout of at least 500 more before the week closes. Fire Militant Worker. Instead of obeying orders and | going to scab in the packing room, the two workers fired instead open- ly agitated for a general walkout. Subject to the bosses hatred for | their previous strike activities they | were dismissed on the spot. Thus during the past two months, which have been marked by four departmental strikes, nearly all end- ing in capitulation of the bosses to the demands of the workers, a 25 year old relation of “peaceful ex- ploitation of labor” was ended. The strike of the girls, the recent stoppages and the expected general walkout clearly demonstrates that |an employer policy of company unionism and employee stock owner- ship, will finally lead to a revolt against chloroformed exploitation, even if that policy is intrenched for | 25 years. The Proctor and Gamble Co., yes- | terday issued a statement branded as “sheer hypocrisy” by the striking workers. The statement says that differences and difficulties can be settled thru the “Conference Com- mittee” of the workers. No work- ers ever knows who represents them |on this fake conference committee. | | The company also asks why should the workers strike, when “During the past year three and one-half million dollars was spent to improve the plant.” With bitter humor the workers pointed out that this money had been spent in installing speed up and other efficiency schemes, which were a cause of all the | strikes. Representatives of the Trade | Union Educational League yeater- day distributed a leaflet calling on |the workers to spread the strike, jbuild a shop committee; and advis- jing them to put forward the de- mands, 8-hour day, general wage in- lereases, abolition of speed up and recognition of the shop committee. ‘Smith Now Director in Two Large Concerns; He’s Getting Reward Alfred Smith, former governor | and candidate, has been elected to a second post in a large capitalist institution within the last few months. He is now a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in addition tc being a director in the Country Trust Co. of New York, His friend, James J. Riordan, is resident of the County Trust and he has many other wealthy connections. Starting Today! BY JURIZ TARITSCH rama depicting the Re- Regime under Catherine ‘Robin Hood,” GENERAL Direction: SYMON GOULD All} j against the constantly |resistance of the southern workers |to intensified exploitation is arous-| |ing consternation among the manu-} |facturers and slowing down their! |rationalization drive. A leading] | textile .manufacturers’ publication, the ‘Daily News Record,’ admits |that the strike wave has ‘caused | several southern-owned mills to halt | in their plans to inaugurate the ef-| ficiency system for their workers’; and is causing manufacturers to ‘speculate upon the effect . . . the | recent labor troubles in the Pied- mont section will have upon the new | capital invested in the South.’ Greater Solidarity. “The southern strikers are open- ing up a page in the history of the) class struggle in the United States, forging new bonds of solidarity for the American working class. “The left wing union, the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, is now appearing in the situation as the only reliable leader of this strike movement, The Tennecsee rayon strike was ha.dled and settled on a class collaboration basis by the} United Textile Workers, the A. F.| of L, union which betrayed the New Bedford textile strike, played an open strikebreaking role in Fall | River, recently bound the only mill in the country (Salem, Mass.), which it completely controls, to a vicious speed-up system over the protest of the rank and file, and is today cooperating with the New | Bedford mill owners to put across an equally vicious ‘Barnes special- ization’ plan. ~ League Can Lead. “The new, fighting National Tex- | tile Workers Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Educational League, which Ic the New Bedford strike of 28,000 textile workers, has now Jaunched an organizational drive in the south. Every militant must sup- port the Trade Union Educational League and the textile union in its work of organizing the southern workers, transforming their spora- dic strikes into one organized, sus- tained movement against speed-up and for higher wages and shorter hours, and linking them up with the strike movement looming in New England, and the other textile cen- ters, into a great unified, nation- wide campaign of textile workers increasing pressure of rationalization. “Special efforts must be made to bring southern textile workers to the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland June 1, “Bring the convention call to the southern textile workers! | “Bring the southern textile work- ers to Cleveland! : “Draw southern labor into the or- ganized left wing struggle against capitalist rationalization and against imperialist war!” *AAAAAAAAAAA Your Chance to See SOVIET RUSSIEA TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form ir own opinion of the greatest social experi- ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. 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A strike committee has organized and immediately issued a leaflet calling to make the strike general against the company. The National Textile Workers’ Union organizers are now in the situation and are establishing a local, calling strike ineetings every day and organizing the relief machinery of the strike. | A. F. of L. Against Workers. The American Federation of La- bor here has already gone over) openly to the scab forces seeking the strike’s destruction by denounc- ing the Communists. | Give Marching Guns’ — at Center Tomorrow “Marching Guns,” a Workers | Laboratory Theatre production, will be featured at the first of a weekly series of socials to be given at the Workers Center, 28 Union Square, tomorrow night. Rheumatism Sufferers — What Is huma-Jell a ef Can you pump out blood, warm it, and give it back to the body? Rhuma-Jell the wonderful salve, warms the blood, and brings normal circulation. Take away the greatest pains in 24 hours. 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CHickering 3795-6, A jone case of brandy in his automo- (Continued from Page One) |p a ona ae seized, bers of the National Miners’ Union. | t+ * # Only those mine workers who are Diplomats Tank Up. servile to the company are aided by the Red Cross and the American| (Jp) the lergest consi nat Legion which have charge of the) aiomatic liquor ever shipped: to teen one dete ce Ki |the United States was unloaded In feats Lied a sabe d and’ allowed to|altimore today when the British Tie ee ial aeons | steamer Maryland arrived. mentve> | Arrangements are being made to “Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer | . ie fi rf a 3 A transfer the shipment, estimated at of the National Miners’ Union has {0,000 Leases, tb: Washington . by sent the W. I. R. appeals for the heavily. guarded tracks, miners of Kinloch. The Red Cross and the other capitalist agencies s Landy Will Talk on U.S. Labor Struggles will not assist them. The duty of A. Landy will lecture on “Revolu- furnishing food is the task of the W. I. R. We shall not fail to do tionary Traditions in American His- tory” at the Workers School Forum, our working class duty. Not only in Kinloch, but throughout the coal 26 Union Square, tomorrow night. The lessons of the American Rev- regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, we find acute suffering. Thousands olution, the Civil War, the historie labor struggles of the Molly Ma- of miners’ children go to school guires, the Haymarket Riots and without food. Others eat one meal a day. This disgraceful situation the Seattle General Strike will be discussed by the lecturer, must not be continued. Food and clothing must be rushed to the min- John J. Ballam will speak on “The Establishment of a New Trade ers and their families at once. “The New York tag days will be} Union Center in the United States” the following Sunday. 29 of the first step in a national cam- paign to relieve the suffering of thousands of miners,” he said. TO PROTECT WEALTHY. 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