The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 1

—$____ BUILD OUR “DAILY” Communist Party Members Must Lead in New Daily Worker Subscription Campaign OMRADES: The Daily Worker must be built into the mass organ of the Party. This is not the effort of a single day, week or month. It is one of the major tasks of the entire Party, year in and year out, until our goal is fuliy achieved. During this month of April, however, all Party mem- || bers are specially called on to lead in the drive to win thousands of new readers for the Daily Worker. The importance of this task must not be underesti- | mated. The strengthening of our “Daily” is part of the | fight against the growing war danger. It aids in win- ning workers everywhere for the left wing industrial unions that have been organized. It prepares our “Daily” for better service in all the growing mass struggles. | Building our “Daily” is part of the effort to build our Party into a mass Communist Party, the leader of the working class in its struggle for emancipation. The powerful interests back of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and the weekly magazine, “Liberty,” openly and brazenly provoke an American im- perialist war against the socialist fatherland of the world’s workers, the Union of Soviet Republics. This is shown in the publication of the frenzied jingo propaganda con- tained in the serial story, “The Red Napoleon,” widely advertised in a multitude of capitalist dailies. Our reply must be a stronger Daily Worker to fight back this flood of falsehood through the publication of the truth about the achievements and the aspirations of the Russian workers and peasants. | | | } The Daily Worker is now in its Sixth Year. Its very existence is a monument to the unceasing efforts of revo- lutionary labor in the United States to maintain this weapon to aid them in their daily battles. The sacri- fices already made have been great. The sacrifice de- manded in the Daily Worker’s subscription drive is the sacrifice that loyal workers make in giving of their time to win other workers fer their press and their cause. Forward to the full realization of the plan to Build the Daily Worker through increasing its army of readers! Long Live the Daily Werker! Leng Live the World Revo- lution! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES. * Note: The program of tasks for all Communist Party members was published in Monday’s Daily Worker. The quotas for the different districts into which the nation is divided for this campaign appeared in yesterday’s Daily. For the purposes of this campaign, Bill Haywood’s Book has been continued as a subscription premium until the end of the drive, Internaticnal May Day, May First. In |} sending in subscriptions use the blank on Page Three. All |) textile workers are urged to join the Daily Worker’s “sub” F} drive in the appeal appearing on Page Three. ANTLWAR MEET HOUSE WRECKERS TOBE HELO APR.G ON PICKET DUTY Demonstration Against Organize to to Halt Seabs New War Plans from Stealing Jobs On the occasion of the twelfth anniver of America’s into the world war a giant demonstration | aptneGumberalice crepatatious far a new world slaughter will be held Saturday afternoon, April 6, at 4) fe at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Fight War Propaganda. The demonstration will be held under the auspices of the Commu- nist Party and the Young Workers | (Communist) League. While the war mongers are using the anniver- rary of the entrance of the United States into the world war to spread their propaganda for _ increased | aimies, navies and air fleets in prep- aration for a new imperialist war, | Nearly a thousand of the 1,800 striking members of the House Wreckers’ Union, yesterday did |picket duty to prevent the hiring! cf strikebreakers by the 74 employ- | ers, comprising the House Wreck- ers’ Association. Werkers Demands. A complete tie-up of all building razing activities was affected by the walkout of the union members | when they struck Monday. One im-| portant field of work paralyzed was ithe pulling down of buildings in the way of the new subways. The demands of the workers are for a ten cents an hour increase in the speakers of the Communist | wages and for the right of the truck Party and the Young Workers | drivers to organize their own union. (Communist) League will expose rate } these plans for slaughter of the Leo enn | workers. Bosses organizations are planning Engdahl, Minor, Gold to Speak. |to apply to the courts for an in-| junction to “restrain the union from striking.” The reason, they claim, Among the speakers who will ad- dress the meeting will be J. Louis Vol. VI., No. 24 aily =2 Antered an second-class wiatter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879. “ae LOM ASM FINAL CITY EDITION | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New ¥ New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ork, by mall, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents CAROLINA TEXTILE STRIK FUKIEN DISTRICT |CommunistsAdvance i in Province Against Kuomintang Nanking Captures City |\U. S. Firms Sell Many Planes to Lords SWATOW, China, April 2.—Re- ports from the interior today state that worker and peasant armies | goming from Tingchow-fu are again advancing in Fukien and are in con- trol of all the southern part of ane | | province. The advance of the worker-peas- | ant armies, under the leadership of the Communists, is part of the steady drive which they are mak- ing thru southern Kiangsi and Fukien. Tingchow-fu, strategie mountain city with a population of 250,000, fell to the worker and peasant arm- ies March 26. Shanhang was captured by the worker-peasant army at the same time, a counter-offensive of the Nanking forces failing to re-cap- ture it. ee Oe Approve Punitive Move. | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) SHANGHAI, April 2.—The third congress of the Kuomintang, which expelled the leaders of the Kwangsi group from the party, has approved the order of the Nanking govern- (Continued on Page Five) Part of the crowd at the funeral at Kinloch of the 47 miners which the Valley Camp Coal Company admits were killed in its mine. They were murdered by company greed, for the mine was too danger- ous to work in, Their families and others made jobless by the ex- plosion, are in great need. Funds should be rushed for them to Work- ers International Relief, No. 1 Union Square, New York. Red Cross Starves Negroes, Unionist Miners at Kinloc. ? KINLOCH, Pas April 10 6 ALL STRIKE greatest indignation among the miners’ destitute by the explosion of gas through criminal carelessness of Mass Meet Tc Today Will, ;James Paisley’s Valley Camp Coal ;Company mine here, at the slimy |role of the Red Cross. Approximately 500 miners, their |parents, wives and children are Complete Plans |couped up withir the confines of| this company town. During the Final preparations for the com- | ing general strike in the cafeterias in the garment section will be made at ‘a mass meeting tonight in Bry- ant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. The strike call will be issued” soon, ed by guarded barrier like a prison |pen, and “outsiders,” including jStrikers, were driven away. Red Cross with Bosses. The Red Cross has established | vheagquarters sin “the company's. of- fice, where strike records, etc., use- | 2.—The prevails here) families made | strike the whole town was surround- | Muinerich Starts. Prison Term Today + WORKER, PEASANT hata for Kinloe \ Sie ite by aa ARMY GONTROLS : alled on Diggers to Disregard Courts’ | Injunctions | 'V.M.U. Board Member | Helped Organize New Union | NEWARK, Ohio, April 2.—An-| uA ais Peay i NC. | \TWO New Si Strikes South Carolina Mills in wa in Georgia gtrike C ommittees Are “Formed in Gastonia BULLETIN. (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, N. ©. April 2. qhe Loray Mill local of the oral Textile Workers’ Us‘on lected a strike committee today “nd demanded the immediate ree- th eeu “snition of the union and the |p pony Minerich, national executive tanting of all the workers’ de- E ard member of the National Min- ‘hands. 5 jag’, Union, tomorrow begins his 45: The Woodruff and Union Buf- , “ay prison term for violation of an/ ‘ ; lin ; : pte ve alo Mill at Brandon was struck It junction against picketing issued! bday, ‘Bllen’ Dawson Gneaeaee 4 the coal operators’ friend, Fed-| te ; : lel : he union, reports from Green- al Judge Benson Hough of Ohio. | that the stelkes aca ies an The judge had ruled that the min- | 4 Hees a e 5 a el | we and that there is orderly pick- fs could not picket mine: during | tl a ee pir ywhere. ide last great strike, Minerich came ;: 4 the field, speaking under the aus-| huge pee ket lines to~ Plees of the “Save-the-Ustion” move-| fay in G astonia. The mill owners Ment, which led the left wing of the| hee 5 ; re ke-l'ng the motors running embers of the United Mine Work.| ,, 2t¢ Kinloch miners knew their e lights burning. to@eenm erica before the National| lives were in danger through com- a that the plonts are wark- nion was formed, and de-| Py greed and wanted to move ~ fared that such arbitrary rulin s,| oway; but ioe OMB OOF oe the . Stri M y iioded only! to ibreale (the strike'| wages paid to do so. Above is one | Strike at Woodruff, S. C. |huld not be tolerated. He offered| °f the evidences of miners’ pov- | SPARTENBURG, April 2,— | t¢ lead mass. picketing. ’s shoe, completely | ,ight hundred workers, comprising Gay SoH ICeE | but still worn. The | ;1¢ day and night shift of the Wood- ep ee rnational Relief, No. | ,,ff Mills at Woodruff, went on The miners responded with mass cketing, and closed down the fines, but Minerich was punished by | al company justice for his stand.| His case was appealed by the In- national Labor Defense, but con- P | my eq ptq yj gftike y ion Square, New York, is col- lecting money for the relief of the Kinloch families left destitute by | the disaster. terday morning at 9:30 a. the demand that the speed-up system be This mill belongs to the prandon Corp. wl Those main n mills in » With a 3tretch-out” | polished. sentiment in the union indicates. Biedenkapp, Others to Speak. The speakers at the meeting, be- ction was sustained. About two reeks ago, the Supreme Court Te=| sed a writ of certiorari, and legal | ;ful for discrimination are handy. To |v families with young children, the | {| Red Cross gives one or two quarts | | MEXICO CITY, April 2— jof reactionary deputies is involved | ganization drive, winning hundreds | Laborde, Communist {cunningly inserted as an item in a sides Organizer Obermeier, will be | Fred Biedenkapp, organizer of the Independent Shoe Workers Union; Irving Potash, organization depart- ment head of the Needle Trades MEXICAN DEPUTY kee Industrial Union, and Au- gust Burkhardt, general secretary- | treasurer of the Amalgamated Food Laborde Flayed Hoover | Workers Union. Sam Kramberg, ecretary, will be chairman. “Good-Will” Trip |" “os Organization Drive. (Special to the Daily Worker) For three weeks the Hotel, Res- |taurant and Cafeteria Workers A group|Union kas been conducting an or- in an attempt to expel Hernan! of workers deputy, the Mexican legislature. The attempt against Laborde is to union membership, from | The general strike call will climax ‘this campaign. Patrons Aid Strikers. A tremendous factor in the com- measure to expel all congressmen ing cafeteria tie-up is the assurance who have shown sympathy for the |that the needle trades workers who reactionary insurgents now fighting mize cafeterias will refuse to the federal government. leat in restaurants where strikes Against U. S. Imperialism. have been declared, Action is taken against Labprde in the bill specially on the grounds} POW-WOW DOCTOR HELD of his opposition to Hoover's Latin! ar1ENTOWN, Pa, April 2 (UP). American tour, thus once more prosident Judge Claude T. Reno of showing sharply the subservient the Lehigh County Courts today ad- character of the Mexican federal | mitted he had before him a petition government to American interests. At the time of the Hoover tour, Laborde denounced the American | jrelease of Charles T. Belles, alleged \“pow-wow doctor,” who is charged for a writ of habeas corpus for the | of milk daily,” for one week only. | Then there is no more. A large} family, not discriminated against, | a will get from the Red Cross one small can of soup, a few sandwiches, |a glass of home-made jelly, a couple| of small cans of beans, and a neck of peas or potatoes. This is not a daily ration, it is supposed to last! ) several days. To some of the families, the Red Cross gives nothing but credit slips, | good for $5 or $10 worth of food at the company store only, where prices can be set by the company, and a neat profit made from the starving women and children. Where no other reason for dis- crimination can be found, the fact | that a miner was foreign-born gh {him at a disadvantagi |. The National Miners Union is es- tablishing a relief station, but the bulk of the relief will have to come from the Workers International Re- lief, 1 Union Square, New York, loch sufferers. All are urged to donate to it at once. 2. WASHINGTON, April —The treasury department reported today because of the unusually large in- which j is raising a fund for the Kin- | Ehgdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, who recently returned from the Soviet Union; Robert Minor, | president -elect while he waved in the | is that the union refused to call in an arbitrator when the union and |¢ association failed to reach an agree- | Ben Gold, Sasha Zimmerman and Paul Crouch. The Communist Party urges all working class organizations to par- ticipate in the demonstration. Pak TESS Every Party member is instructed to report to section headquarters before Saturday in connection with the demonstration. Leaflets will be ready at the Party office on Thurs- day evening. SUPPORT FREIHEIT FETE Needle Unio Union Urges Attendanceat Jubilee Urging needle trades workers to) stitute the sweat shop in our trade. support the seventh anniversary | The Freiheit was instrumental in celebration of the Freiheit, Yiddish pelb ing ue bate Ye re sled Sh: Communist daily, the Needle Trades| F™eiheit helped us win the dressmak- trike. And the Freiheit will Workers’ Industrial Union, through ers’ 8 Louis Hyman, president, and Ben| help us in our future struggles. “All cloakmakers, dressmakers Gold, secretary, yesterday issued a call pointing out the role of the|and furriers must come to the cele- Freiheit in the development of a| bration, the 7th Jubilee of the Frei- militant Industrial Union for Nee-|heit. Make sure that this affair dle Trades Workers. The call de-|heit means a strong union. Sell clares: tickets to your shop mates so that “On Saturday, April 6, at the New| the Freiheit will be a vanguard in York Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx| our future fights. River, we will celebrate the Seventh; “Needle Trades Industrial Union Jubilee of our Freiheit. of U.S. A. “Brothers and sisters, you must) “Louis Hyman, president, realize that the Freiheit led the) “Ben Gold, secretary.” fight against our betrayers, Sig-| Volunteers for work at the cele- man, Schlesinger, Kaufman, Mc-! bration are asked to meet tomorrow Grady and all others who have been} at the Workers Center, 26 Union, tying to smash our union and in-j Square. ment at the expiration of the pact, on March 31. Application for in- junction was made to Judge Henry L. Sherman. Against Unionization. It is known that the bosses were | willing to grant the wage increase if the house wreckers would halt their activities in aiding the drivers to organize, but the union member- ship refused this offer. chamber of deputies an American | flag captured by the Nicaraguan | army of independence under General Augusto Sandino. It is impossible to expel Laborde on the obviously false allegation of sympathy for the reactionary in- \surgents since the Communist Party, \from the outbreak of the present dis- | turbance, has called the workers and peasants of Mexico to a real armed struggle against the reactionary in- surgents, urging them to form work- ers, peasants and soldiers councils wherever possible. At the same time the Party has explicitly pointed out that the pres- ent capitalist federal government is carrying on its fight with the re- actionary insurgents in such a way \that it is possible for it to negotiate successfully with the reactionaries jand compromise the fight against their clerical and large landholding reaction, aoe ee Expel Jalisco Communists. (Special to the Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 2.—The government of the state of Jalisco has ordered the Communist state deputy, Perez, and the secretary of the state “ederation of labor, Con- treras, to leave Jalisco immediately. A number of other Communists and left wing union leaders have re- ceived similar orders in the con- certed drive which the government is making against the Communist Party of Mexico. Ke ere EL PASO, Texas, April 2 (UP). come tax receipts, the treasury sur- \with the murder of Verna Octavia |plus will be about $100,000,000 at Delp. % Roosevelt May Leave Tax On Workers Governor Roosevelt is reported considering the best excuse on which to yeto the raising of the limits in state income tax from $1,500 to $2,500 for single persons, The lower figure, used at present, would catch a good many more workers than the higher. Moscowitz Inquiry Monday. The congressional committee appointed when the scandals around Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz became too thick to be disregarded, has announced that it will begin inquiries Monday. Bank Buys Fascist Title. The National City Bank of New York yesterday paid $100,000 to the defunct fascist run City Trust Company fer the one word “city” in the title. Hereafter “city” cannot be part of any bank’s name but the National City’s. All Set To Impeach Governor Long. BATON ROUGE, April 2.—The Louisiana House of Representa- tives teday adopted the rules of procedure, specially designed to con- sider the impeachment of Governor Long on 19 charges ranging from ordinary graft to attempt to hire an assassin. Long accused the legislators of having been bought by the Standard Oil Company, but refused to give names. Grafting Chicago Won’t Pay Employees. CHICAGO, April 2—Cook county, mostly the city of Chicago, is bankrupt and cannot meet its payroll, it was announced today. Thousands of county employes will get no pay this week which is the monthly pay day. There has always been plenty of money for graft. Federal Reserve Balks. WASHINGTON, April 2—The Federal Reserve Board, throwing the New York stock market into frenzies of foar by sitting several days and saying nothing while rumors that the re-discount -Roberto V. Pesqueria, envoy of (Continued on Page Five) rate would be raised, today announced that it would not raise athe rate. e 4 ithe end of the fiscal year, June 30. | venues for continuing the fight peng exhausted, Minerich, who was a ut on bail, went to Columbus, Ohio, | id was ordered to start his term pril 3. fle: torond willbe gemved, tnt tne icking County jail here. Hard Fighter. Minerich is a young Pennsylvania} bal miner with a long record of jDilitant struggle for organized por and decent conditions for the Thiners. After leading the struggle ainst. the coal operators and the wis machine in his locality dur- 1g and preceding the 1927-28 strike, | 'e took a prominent part in organ- ting the National Miners Union in te Pittsburgh convention, and was “ne of over a hundred dele- Sates arrested and thrown in the ‘ittsburgh jail while the rest of the | tivention met. Minerich was made national “xecutive board member, and organ- Ker in the unorganized districts. ra a 1e' i ‘ BRITISH FIRM T2 EQUIP USSR MILL. | Machinery Order OSCOW Anvil 9 A anafeuw! jton mill in the Soviet Union has been given to members o7 the British financial and industrial com- mission to investigate possibilities of trade with the U. S. S. R. The members of the commission jare now in Moscow, where they are | being given every facility by thes, |government to investigate condi- |tions. Directors of many large state |industries have come to Moscow for \the purpose of assisting the British delegates in their studies. has been given to a firm in Oldham, England, The concern had for some time been attempting to secure the order from the Soviet government. Its representatives are among the delegates in the British commission. DISCUSS MINERS RELIEF TONIGHT Representatives of many New York working class organizations \will meet at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at eight o’clock tonight to discuss the situation in the coal fields of Great Britain and the United States and prepare for ther New York tag day to be held April 12, 13 and 14 under the direc- {tion of the Workers International 'Reliet, Local New York, | sds _. tized, if and “The World Reyolation li PE DEES STIS nl et Soviet Union Gives Big’ explained that whereas ’Tretofore workers were obliged to | ru | fo} 30 or 40 looms they are now \Open Forum 1 Tomorrow | «.: ed to operate 72 looms each, ith the pay less for 72 than was i the 30 or 40 looms. in Webster Hall | ibis territie body breaking speed — |; unbearable, the workers declared. With conditions in the fur indus-|** Ghote try almost annihilated by the bosses, New Strike at Union. who ably ta vantage of the aid they receive from the A. F..of L. |seab union, the only thing left for | the fur workers to do is to strike to regain union standards. With this in view several initial steps have been taken by the Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers I:- dustrial Union. They are, the cal- ling of almost daily open forums, ISPARTENBURG, S. C., April 2. The strike wave against speed-ups read to the village of Union near re, when 800 workers in the ion-Buffalo aah walked out to- d that recall of system be made a aicly. The rest of the in the mill are expected to t tomorrow. | registration of unemployed and the |‘ building of an organization commit- | Mill Cuts Wages. tee. | Ga., April 4 Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock | w the strikes Pe in King South when the ufacturing Co., urers, announced a@ cut effective yes- the next open forum will be held in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Avenue, This hall has been taken because union headquarters proved too small to accommodate crowds turning out to these meetings. At the open forum tomorrow Ben Gold, national secretaty; Aaron Gross, Fur Department manager and Charles S. Zimmerman, Dress De- partment manager will spea Fur division leaders yesterday 1,000 w el e than nt will th ir already rkers in the suffer a slash in iserable wages. AOVIET SESSION | erder for machinery to equip a cct-| the The order for textile machinery | stated that the registration of un- employed Trea t mpeg’, bas AAG, PRAND dodard | union’s strike preparations. Hundreds of the industry’s crafts- | men have registered themselves with the left wing union. 2) ek. © Strike in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—A .| Strike, resulting in a 100 per cent response by the shop crew, was called by the Needle Trades Indu: trial Union here against the Su- perior Dress Company. Great importance was attached to the halting from work of the three cutters in the plant, since work is here cut up for manufacture in the Salem, Pa., plant of the firm. HONORS KALININ (Wireless By ye MOSCOW, U. S. S.-Ry April’. |A spe ion a the ‘Soviet gov~ ernment was held here on the tenth anniversary of Kalinin’s chairman- hip of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Soviet Union. Rykoy, Voroshilov, Petrovski and others spoke. | The presidium has published an address to Kalinin, pointing out jamong cther things that he was chosen for the chairmanship by Lenin as representing the unifica- ition of the workers and peasants. “The Soviet Theatre,” the first of | on “Revo- a,” will be tt the » at [8 p. turned fr in the U.S.S.R., where 2 special study of his subject. The subjects of 1 to be given on the remaining Friday eve- nings of the month are “Soviet The- tized”; “Soviet Problems Drama- atre”; “Russian Revolution Drama | TALKS ON USSR DRAMA Dana at Workers School Following Visit Dramatized.” In the lectures, which will be fol- lowed by questi Dana will de: ‘s and acting in the Soviet U; , and will analyze current} S. S. R., which reflect t Revolution of 191%} i lems of the Soviet Union and the world revoiutionary mse of the werker o the new dram of the