The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1929, Page 1

l t 1 ( ol oad SS ee n r a JOIN “TH “Textile Workers Tak /« Daily Worker Subscription Campaign HE textile workers, battling the exploiters on a dozen fronts, have joined the Daily Worker. Their annow day’s issue. The support pledged by the textile workers is the sup- port that will quickly devel mass organ of labor, more able, better equipped to fight the battles of the working class. was as follows: “We can do no better service at this time in repaying the huge debt we owe the Daily Worker for this great work in our behalf, than to urge all of our thousands of adherents to join i the subscription drive to build the Daily Worker. We call upon all the textile working class, gained from the fact that the Daily Worker has been their , to rally to the Daily Worker Drive, and to build the Daily W: champion, in struggle and out, There is an opportunity tional mass support for the armed men, women and ch the strike struggles in North and South Carolina.. Labor in the South is on the eve of Bedfords and Lawrences. oppressors. The news pours hourly presses cannot be kept bus, national Relief, that is now miners’ families suffering the Daily Worker. We have Here are important de battle-fronts: of labor, pointi thousands of new readers on Worker immediately. that direction in which all ow to join. the employers’ soldiers, armed to the teeth against un- These are not local battles. || These struggles have a national, and international sig- || nificance in the class war of the workers against their rushing out hundreds of thousands, millions of copies, to spread the facts of these growing strike efforts before || the eyes of the nation’s whole working class. The endorsement and appeal of the Workers Inter- Kinloch, Pennsylvania, is published today on Page Three. It also sets forth the vital necessity for all labor to build of this campaign for more readers from the International Labor Defense, calling upon its membership to support |) this drive. It will be published tomorrow. Daily Worker is rendering the working class. This sup- port can be considerably strengthened by the putting of Our present Subscription Campaign is an effort in E DRIVE” e Their Places in the Subscription Drive of the cement appeared in yester- lop the Daily Worker into a Part of the declaration particularly those who have orker.” 1 for all labor to roll up addi- textile workers, now facing ildren. All aid to labor in its Passaics, Fall Rivers, New into the editorial offices of y through the entire night directing the struggle for the from the recent disaster at also received an endorsement clarations from the various ng out the great service the the mailing lists of the Daily r readers are urgently invited i Comintern Issues Anti-War Appeal on 10th Anniversary (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail). On the 10th annivesary of the foun- dation of the Communist Interna- tional, its Executive Committee has issued an appeal to the workers of all countries and to the oppressed and exploited masses, calling for mobilization of the workers for de- fense of the Soviet Union and for struggle against simperialist war preparations. + Reviewing the history of the Sec- ond International and social democ- yacy, and the support given to the’ : bourgeoisie by the “socialists,” the appeal emphasizes the role of the Communist Parties as the only lead- ers of the masses against capital- ism. “Capitalism is approaching a new world war which must end in a; catastrophe for capitalism,” de- clares the appeal of the Communist International. “The first world war ended with th- breakdown of the imperialist front and the establish- ment of the first proletarian dicta- torship. A second imperialist war and an intervention against the Sov- jet Ur. > will give the system of world imperialism the 1s.t and final blow.” é The appeal follows: Ten years ago the Communist In-| ternational was born in the fire of the revolutionary struggle. As a consequence of the imperialist war, Europe has been turned into a heap of smoking ruins. Millions of men had been killed and wounded and the soldiers who had gone through Coontinued on Page Six Servicemen Write for the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker y Letters from two soldiers, one now #stationed in Panama, the other for- merly in Hawaii, and a letter from a National Guardsman in Denver, Colorado, will feature the anti-mili- tovtet evtition of the Daily Worker which will appear Friday in the is (ser material wiil include an article on reinforcements of the armed forces in the colonies as a \ part of the preparations for a new ‘vorld war, and an article on indus- Xhijal preparations for war. ed Whis issue will appear on the an- | “Swrersary of the entrance of the er pited States in the war. The anti- ev) litarist page, however, will ap- Year every week as a regular fea- “ture of the Daily Worker. [ Brief Quarry Workers’ Strike Sold Out; Only Half Demands AreWon FITCHBURG, Mass. (By Mail). »—Workers of the McAuliff Quarry | Co,, Inc., won a partial victory in a one-day strike against the com- pany. They sought a 5-day week throughout the year, but strike rep- resentatives settled, over the pro- test of many workers, for a 5-day week in six months of the year. |Paring the other six months the -men will work a 51-day week, No ; NANKINGREPARTS NEW ADVANCES Kwangsi Generals May Attack Canton SHANGHAI, China, April The Nanking government today re- ported that its gunboats were shell- ing Yang-lo and would advance to Hankow tomorrow. Simultaneously the headquarters of General Chiang Kai-shek announced the capture of Hangchow, thirty-five miles from Wuhan. Col. Max Bauer, former member | of the German general staff, is re- ported to be aiding Chiang Kai- shek in directing the campaign on Yangtse River. Bauer is described as General von Ludendorffs right- hand man. * Kwangsi Generals Threaten. } CANTON, China, April 3.—The Kwangsi generals, recently driven from this city by the neutrality de- eree of the civil governor of Kwan- tung province, Chan Ming-su, have halted at Wuchow on the Kwangsi- Kwantung border and are threat- ening to return to conquer the pro- vince, The Kwangsi generals were in | control of Kwantung for about fif- | teen months. FURRIERS HOLD BIG FORUM TODAY ‘A large open forum of unemployed fur workers will be held this after- noon, at 2 o'clock, by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The meeting will be addressed by Ben Gold, national secretary, Chas. S. Zimmerman and A. Gross. They will lead the ea of the workers on the preparations for the coming general strike in the fur industry. That the agitation for a general strike, with which the workers in- tend to regain lost union conditions, is widespread, is evidenced by the fact that even the bosses are admit- ting the response will be big. This is seen in the reports carried by the bosses’ press that less skins are be- ing sold by the raw skin dealers, since they fear the effects of a strike. 3.— * * | MERGE OIL HOLDINGS. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., (By |Mail)—A merger of two of the largest oil exploration companies in| California took place with the tak-| ing over of the Summerland Oil Co.) by the George F. Getty Co. The, deal involves the largest part of the Vol. VI., No. 25 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929 SUBSCRIPTIO Outnide New York, by mail, $6.00 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘Cafeteria Men in Gene 700 W. VA. MINERS ON STRIKE; LED BY LEFT WING '4 Mines Closed Down the Daily Worker, telling of rapid developments on all || fronts. The only regret of the Editorial Staff is that our in Walkout Against Wage Cuts Picket Lines Formed! Company Controlled by Kinloch Owners (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 8, — Under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners Union, seven hundred | miners employed in the pits of the, Pursglove Mining Company in the) Scotts Run section of West Virginia | walked out on strike to day. The) men struck against a wage cut. The strike was called and is being led} by the West Vi ia District of | the National Miners Union. | Vincent Kamenovich and Charles; Close, militant members of the Ex- ecutive Board of the National Mi- ners Union, and Charles Guynn, its Ohio organizer, are in charge of the walk-out. Picket lines have already been formed and the spirit of the men} is militant. Only twenty-seven of the men have remained at work. | The Pursg! ve Mining Company is the same company where six hundred miners struck last month under the leadership of the Nation-| al Miners Union at Powhatan, Ohio. | The mines affected by the walk-| out are numbers one, two, three and four. The Pursglove company is con- trolled by Paisley interests, the same which control the Kinloch mine where at least 47 (the figure given by the company) miners were recently killed when t-apped by the mine blast. | CHAUFFEURS OF CAN CO. STRIKE | | JERSEY CITY, N. J.—April 3.—} All chauffeurs of the American Can Company here are on strike for a wage increase. The chauffeurs em- ployed at both the Communipaw Ave. and Day St. plants of the com- pany are demanding a wage of $42 a week, the union rate. They now receive $30 a week. | The chauffeurs do not have an| eight-hour day, but are sent out on| long routs and are thus forced to work long overtime, for which no pay is given. They have been on strike for more than two weeks already, and are de- termined to stick solidly until their ploits about 600 workers, many of demands are won. The American Can Company ex- them young girls, in its Jersey City plants. A letter from a worker in the plant, describing the slave con- ditions, appears on page two of this issue, Workers Letters Show Conditions in Hotel, Can Co. Two letters by worker correspon- dents, of interest to all workers, ap- pear in this issue of the ; Daily Worker. On page five is a letter from a worker at the Park Central Hotel, a palace for the parasites who feast there, but, as the worker | correspondent reveals, a hell-hole | for the workers who slave long | hours for starvation wages. On page two is a letter from a) worker correspondent on conditions in the American Can Company, Jer- sey City, where a strike is going on. AIM TO DEPORT ITALIAN WORKER Another militant worker is being threatened with deportation to a fascist country. Mario Gileiti, an | Talian worker, who is now serving | a sentence on a framed up charge | in the state prison at Comstock, N. Y., has been informed that upon his | Jersey Drivers Demand Increase entire town of Summerland, * (Continued on’ Page Five) U.S. Navy Poinis Guns on Philippines neat OO ee on Oe 1 iatic fleet, maneuvering in Mariveles Bay, off the coast of the Philippine Islands. The United States navy was Stimson’s strongest argument in the Philippines, STRIKE WAVE IN 1929] HE fact that capitalist rationalization is being met by more deter- mined resistance on the part of the workers is shown by the in- creasing number of strikes since the first of the year, eSpecially in the textile industry, against speed-up, wage cuts, longer hours and the efforts of the bosses to break all. militant unions. The following are the most important strikes since the beginning of the year. Textile and Dressmakers Strikes. New Bedford.—Strikes in Soule, Hathaway and Acushnet mills ee February, under leadership of the National Textile Workers’ nion. Paterson, New Jersey.—Strikes in silk mills in Paterson and Summit, during January and February. New York.—Dressmakers strike in January, involving thousands of workers. Boston.—Strike of 400 tailors against Hillman speed-up system. Cleyeland.—Strike of Rayon workers begun in March, still going on. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Silk workers on strike at present. March. Begun in Southern Strikes. Elizabethton, Tenn.—Strike of more than 5,000 textile workers, during March. First large textile strike in South. Slight increase granted in frantic effort to stop the strike before it could spread to other parts of South. e Greenville, S. C.—Strike of 2,500 workers, following the strike in Tennessee, against speed-up. New strikes in this section now in- volye more than 2,500 workers. Gastonia, N —Strike of 2,500 workers now in progress under leadership of National Textile Workers’ Union. Strikes in Shoe Industry. New York and Long Island.—Strikes in shoe shops during Feb- ywary and March, forcing employers to sign up with Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, granting improved conditions. Other Strikes. New York.—Strike of building trades workers in Brooklyn against the use of non-union labor on school house construction. Strike of employes of the Proctor and Gamble Soap Company. Detroit.—Strike of 1,500 rubber workers in March against speed- up methods and wage cuts. Present New York Strikes. New York—Heuse wreckers. Eighteen hundred walked out April 1. Cafeteria strike begun in latter part of March. Preparations now under way for general strike of cafeteria workers. Shoe strikes continue. UP ALL GARMENT: DISTRICT PLACES Needle Trade Workers Urged to Support Strike \See Revolt Growing |All Departments Are| Called Out At 11 o'clock this morning all cafeteria workers employed in the garment manufacturing district of |this city, are called upon to quit work, take off their aprons, and walk out on the first general strike in their industry. Got Goods on “Dry” gan, of Ohio, an ardent dry and ad- vocate of the Jones act. JAIL WRECKERS Hundreds of members of the Hotel, ! |Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ red handbills which officially an- |nounce that the cafeterias in the | district encompassed by 25th and 39th Sts., Sixth and Ninth Aves. are on work standards and sanitary condi- tions of employment. Ask Needle Workers to Aid. A smaller circular is being broad- cast by the thousands among the) needle trades workers in the district appealing to them as class conscious workers to assist their fellow work- ers to fight for a union by not eat- ing in a cafeteria where a strike is declared, The final decision for the strike hour was made at a large and enthusiastic mass meeting in Bryant | Hall, Sixth” Ave. and 42d St. ‘last WHO HALT SCABS “Company Union” “An ordinary scab agency, digni- strike, till they grant human fied by the degrading term of ‘com-| pany union,’” is the strikers’ de- scription of the frantic attempt of the bosses’ House Wreckers Asso- ciation, to establish their own or- ganization. First attempts to bring in the abs recruited by this fake organ- ation from Bowery Missions failed members of House Wreckers Lo- 1 95 and their fellow-strikers from Shauffeurs Local 816, picketed ca the work halted by the strike, 17 Jailed. Seventeen chauffeurs, for unionism ‘for the first time, and Louis E. Crawford, customs in- spector for the port of New York, who told how he found four bottles of liquor om representative Mor- | fighting | . TROOPS ARRIVE TO BREAK TEXTILE STRIKE ral Strike Today WALKOUT TO TIE 1 MILL WORKERS JAILED; STRIKERS RANKS HOLD FIRM Bosses Threaten Union Organizers with Violence Will St art Evictions Continue Brandon Mill Walkouts April 3%.— kers of two more mills in Union, S. C., walked out on strike today, thereby making the total number of strikes in this town three. The other strike began yesterday the Union-Buffalo Mills. The Monarch and Ottray, shut down, at two new mil are completely GASTONIA, N. C., April 3.—The National Guard today arrived in the strike zone here, though no “vio- lence” was even alleged by the mill Union are this morning distributing Seal Agency Poses as owners in the two-day strike. The 120th Company, under Captain Ar- thur Fuller, has come in an effort to break the strike. | Four picketing strikers, members of the National Textile Workers | Union, which is leading the strike, jwere arrested by the militia for try- ling to break through the National {Guard lines, which surroundéd all approaches to the mill. They were \later released on $100 bail each. The coming of the National Guard lis somewhat explained by the fact ‘that a mill south of here is owned by the state governor. o 78 (Special to the Daily Worker) of the y plant of the night. At this meeting the workers | two house, wreckers were arrested | yanvilleJenckes Co., which is tied heard new assurances from the leaders of ‘the left wing Needle | that one of the house wreckers was the hundreds of mill wot Trades Workers Industrial Union, that their organization and member- |ship will help the workers to organ- ize both morally, financially and| “physically.” I. Potash was the speaker sent by the needle union. Fred Biedenkapp, organizer of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, ticed by the union, which is confi- | 1 of yesterday. A Jate report stated stabbed by a scab yesterday while picketing in the Bronx. was unobiainable. Three truckloads of mission louts were yesterday recruited for scab duty. No attempt to place so many scabs on any picketed job was n His name |- up by a strike, are no deterrent to daily ng the National Textile Work- s Union, Fail to Halt Picket Line. Yesterday the huge picket line came to a section of the public i roped off to pre- age by the town au- long body and soul Pi vho i tl es, also gave the workers pledges from dent that the efforts of the scab/t, the mill owners. Prompt action his organization. epee sicke tostpresd. | The leaders of the union, Organ-| izer Michael Obermeier and Secre- | tary Sam Kromberg, both expressed their conviction at the meeting that the general strike will grow beyond the bounds of the garment district with a speed that will surprise every- | (Continued on Page Five) | ‘REBEL’ ARMY FLEES JIMINEZ ‘Federals Repulse the! Clericals at Naco WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3.— | Conferences among officials of the| state department today resulted in jannouncement that the United, HUGE ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION IS States government might use the) pretext of the recent accidental bombing of Naco, Texas, by reac- agency will continue to be equally unsuccessful. Bosses Surrendering. While the employers are still try- ing to get an injunction, forcing ar- bitration, the union is compelling builders to sign up. Three did so already, with both chauffeurs and jouse wreckers granting their de- mends, One important clause in the new agreement demanded by the House Wrecker bosses is that no indepen- dent agreements be signed up with the builders. The House Wreckers evidently want to control all wreck- ing operations in town in order to control building operations. ASK FOR SUPPORT OF FREIHEIT FETE N.Y. Communist Party Issues Appeal |met this obstacle, pocket knives |ere flashed out and the ropes were cut, the pickets continuing their line \of march, Furious at the entry of the fight- (Continued on Page Five) AID MINE RELIEF, | TEXTILE STRIKE Tell Need for Aid at | W. I. R. Meet | “The strike of the textile work- jers of Gastonia is only the begin- |ning of a strike wave that will sweep |throughout the textile centers of \the south. If adequate relief is \raised for the workers they will be able to carry their strike to a suc- \cessful conclusion,” Albert Weisbord, sceretary-treasurer of the National ieee Workers Union, said last | night at the conference of the Work- Jers International Relief at Irving tionary insurgents to invade north- ern Sonora and drive the clericals The urgent necessity for the work-| Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. PLANNED FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON A warning against the war prep- arations of United States imperial- ism is contained in a statement is- sued yesterday by the New York District Executive Committee of the Communist Party. The statement) calls upon the workers to attend the open air demonstration at 110th St.) and Fifth Ave. next Saturday, April) 6, at 4 p. m. This demonstration | will be held on the anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the world war, J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, who recently returned from the Soviet Union, will) speak on the preparations for war against the U. S. S. R. Other speak-| ers will be Robert Minor, Ben Gold, Paul Crouch, Herbert Zam, Sasha Zimmerman and Carl Weisberg. | The Communist Party statement follows: The New York District Execu- tive Committee of the Communist Party of U. S. A. hereby proclaims Saturday, April 6th, as Red Satur- day for the fight against imper-) ialist war. This must be the an- swer of the workers of New York City to the Army Day proclamation} of the governor of New York State, | Franklin D. Roosevelt, formerly as-| ‘ers, the increases in army, navy sistant secretary of the navy under President Wilson during the last) World War. | The brazen effrontery of this war jingo who calls upon the work- ers to celebrate on April 6, the twelfth anniversary of the American) entry into the last blood bath, must) be answered by the mass of work- ers of New York City by the giant) anti-imperialist war demonstration, to be held on Saturday, April 6, at! 4 p.m. at 110th St. and 5th Ave. | They fully confirm the serious, warning issued by the Party during) the last election campaign to the effect that “The whole policy of United States imperialism is today a policy of preparedness for imper- ialist wars.” These actions are but new and added evidence, which is) piling up daily in most convincing form of American imperialist war preparations. The recent bill for the building of 15 additional cruis- and aircraft appropriations, Amer-| ica’s armed intervention in China, (Continued on Page Two) Of al) the cl to face with the procetariat al: \« from the positions where they are|/the seventh anniversary of the now materially threatening the rem-| Freiheit, Yiddish Communist daily nants of federal power near the bor-|is stressed by the New York Dis- der, |trict Executive Committee of the President Hoover has already con-| Communist Parfy in a statement i ferred with Secretary of State|sued last night. The call reads, in Stimson on the matter. | part: | or ee oe “The Freiheit is the mass organ MEXICO CITY, April 3—The| in the Jewish language of the C. defeated reactionaty army of J./of the U. S. A. The Freiheit has Gonzalo Escobar was in full retreat] joyally served the interests and led |the Jewish workers in their strug- from Jiminez today, with the federal ae pressing them closely, in-| gle against their exploiters, . the ities heavy losses by airplane,| treacherous labor leaders and the ab mae cavalry. |S. P. In New York City the Frei- en. Juan A. Almazan, federal heit has proven to be the rallying commander under Minister of War) center of the struggles that the Plutarco Elias Calles, reported that ¢, p, and the Left wing have carried ‘the Jiminez battlefield is strewn) on, with enemy dead. I estimate they; «The Seventh Jubilee of the Frei- lost 2,000 men who were killed, cap- heit must be turned into a huge tured or dispersed in the region be-| demonstration for our Party, for the tween Corralitos and Jiminez.” ‘heft wing, against social reform- Calles announced that, Jiminez|ism and for the new unions. Every ing class of New York to support) The conference was called to ar- range for tag days on April 12, 13 \and 14 to raise funds for the strik- ing textile workers of the south and the destitute coal miners of Penn- \sylvania and Ohio. | More than 50 delegates from trade anions and labor and fraternal or- ganizations attended. Committees, P./t) be responsible for the tag day |collections were selected. Group |committees were also appointed to \visit working class gatherings held beforo the tag days. Workers in the shops and factories will also be rallied to participate in the collece tion drive, Alfred Wagenknecht, national sec- retary of the Workers International |Relief, tcld the assembled delegates that the W. I. R. will be developed into a mass organization, so that it j will be able more. effectively to as- sist workers on strike, as in the | present Gastonia textile strike. was occupied by the federal forces| Party member, every worker must|" Harriet Silverman, secretary, Lo- at dawn. The reactionaries fled to| sive full support and become active | special meeting of the secretaries of the north aboard six railway trains,| in this jubilee. A huge demonstra- | workers clubs to be held at 6 o'clock in trucks and on horseback, retreat.| tion of tens of thousands of workers tonight at the local office of the ing towards Santa Rosalio, midway|in the New York Coliseum will be| w, 1. R., Room 221, 799 Broadway, between Jiminez and Bichamba,| the best reply the militant workers | here they will receive tag day in- Federal cavalry and airplanes pur- ¢2" give to the bosses, to the be- structions. sued them, WORKERS HURT IN BLAST. LONDON, (By Mail).— Three workers were severely injured when a blast in the Ramsgate G: r and strengthening of the Party and U. 8. Moves Against Clericals. | of the new unions, WASHINGTON, April 3.—Amer-| “District Executive Committee, lutionary clays.—Karl Marx (Cob- munint Manifgnto), ‘ |trayers of labor, for the building icans who enlist for service in the) District Two, Communist Party (Continued on Page Five) | of the U. S. A.” ‘ tore off the roof, All may r