The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 1

‘NEW YORK WORKERS! JOIN HUGE ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION TOMORROW THE HOMES WE LIVE IN! ia Daily FINAL CITY EDITION Daily Worker’s Exposure of Housing Con- || : ditions Must Reach New Thousands Eaterea as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the set of March 3, 1879. bo . | of Readers. : ‘Vol. VI, No. 26 Price 3 Cents HE STARTLING results of an intensive investigation now being carried on by The Daily Worker into hous- ing conditions in Harlem, New York City, one of the worst tenement sections in the world, will be published in a series of articles starting Monday, April 7. York, by mail, $8.00 per year. |, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Outside New York, by NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929 GASTONIA SWITCHMEN STOP SCAB TRAIN family, in the great cities and small, even in the tiny vil- | | The problem of housing haunts every working class | lages, especially isolated coal camps and the company- | a_mnenernes | EVA Cotetorias Struck on First Day of Huge General Sirtke EFY It may be said that housing is one of the major prob- | lems of the whole working class. | Preparation for Next Imperialist War Owner Drun k, Ww 0 R i Captain Gone-; NATI Frame Sailors. Every effort was being made late T yesterday by P. Sanford Ross, own- The Daily Worker has planned to launch its exposure “GREAT SUCCESS” of the housing conditions in Harlem, the home of the great || : Negro population in New York City. The housing prob- || lems here are not much different than elsewhere. Our STR | KE CENTERS IN GARMENT AREA revelations will show that they are worse than in other sections, because here race oppression is added to class |Needle Workers Help, Are Asked for Yet | oppression. Greater Efforts | 13 Jailed and Beaten 10 Employers Asking for Settlements Promptly on the dot of 11 yester- day forenoon, entire crews in many | eateterias in the garment manufac- |turing center of New York, took off their aprons and walked out in EEE |POLISH ARMY IS | TRAINED AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION cs “Rote Fahne,” German |st., Jersey City, to cover up, deny, and coat with whitewash an early Communist Daily, {report that his brother, Leland Ros Makes Expose lowner of the yacht Nomad, Soe board the ship when her capt * |John B. Scofield was thrown over- \France Behind Move (ior ctr the Jersey coast, a board off the Jersey coast, and the <a ship left to drift under full sail to- i ward the rocks. Polish Masses Refuse The first reports, after the ship to Assist Troops “Dispossession” is the fearful word that is being heard about Harlem. Rents are expected to climb toward the sky after May 31, when the Emergency Rent Laws expire. Negro and Latin American workers, who constitute the majority of tenants in Harlem, suffering as they do from increasing wage cuts and growing unemployment, are facing the black prospect of soon finding themselves in the streets. Rail W. I. R. Promises Aid Appeal to Militia Not Many of the Harlem tenements were condemned as to Be Seabs unfit to live in as far back as 1901, nearly a score of years ago. But the profit-hungry landlords still get all the rent they can for them. Extremely insanitary conditions every- where prevail. Segregation and overcrowding are the allies of the landlords, two of the many evils that bear down heavily on the working class tenants. And most of |was towed into the dock by the coast| guard, was that F was found The Rote Fahne, daily organ of |lying drunk in a cabin, the captain the German Communist Party, pub-|and log were gone, and “four mem- the following expose of the bers of the crew mysteriously para-| ies against the Soviet Union |lyzed, perhaps poisoned.” of the imperialist powers working| The story that the cost guard is| , This scene shows soldiers at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York, rehearsing for the coming world war. These sham battles how- ever, give the soldiers little conception of the reality of war, and they | do not show how the capitalists make millions from the slaughter of the workers on the battlefields. (Special to the Daily Worker) e - A > ou || answer to the general strike call of A t Ww D t t thru their agent, General Le Rond.|expected by the Rosses to tell now nent. of two the tenants living in Harlem are workers. l Gia Hotel Daecaae and@Gateteria ntl - ar emonstration _ The Rote Fahne states: “We are/is that the men were drunk and) ¢; Man- This series of articles will have a general interest for || Workers’ Union, Before the after- ° ne poaicion to eee 5 oe themselves eles overboard the cap-| king the t {noon was far gone, reports from ] T Pl T military documen: at discloses |tain, and that the owner was not re are en- all workers. In order to. increase the volume of protest | strike headquarters placed the num- 1 a e ace Omorro W with lightning clearness the pre-|in the spree at all, but came up by tie over the pledges of assi against these intolerable conditions, in order to achieve |ber of eating places crippled at 50, © parations of the imperialists for train. tance received from several local their offensive against the Soviet! Ross was known to have started| Union. \from Florida in the ship to coast It is a report of the French gen-|along to New York. Joseph Green,| ga eral Le Rond on the Polish army and| customs supervisor here, announced | ¢ | with 600 men on strike. The first day of strike saw 13 pickets ar- rested. ' Horrified restaurant owners yes- || terday watched their allegedly sub- missive kitchen and counter slaves) labor bodies, Besides the re : something more concrete than the mere publication of these articles, it is necessary for The Daily Worker to reach out among new elements. It must win new contacts by getting more readers. This housing campaign, there- fore, fits in closely with The Daily Worker’s subscription drive. New thousands of readers under the banner of The Daily Worker means a bigger fight against insanitary, disease-breeding tenements, with their intolerable high rents. You can co-operate and help make this campaign oad workers’ or- dmont Iron Work- zed aid and solidar- | Preparations are being completed | = + |for the largest anti-war demonstra- Taaye RHEE GAVIA be madehing and Fifth Ave. Militant New York|sent by French officers who were|crew and they will be questioned tion in the history of New York, ec ewied. eadaters? laden vhieh — workers will reply to the militarist | present at tHe maneuvers of the/when the Nomad puts into port to- which will take place on Saturday, |is made up in part of his own ob-|that Ross was under arrest along j April 6, at 4 p. m,, at 110th St.| servations, in part of information with two members of the Nomad | with mountains ef food prenared for} Y- W. C. L. Sv LLL ner Batade on Shes aia rereeyis ine a | Polish army in 1928. night. | the noon hour rush of needle trades | Campaign | ‘ s Into the Criticizes Army’s Fitness. North Caro- | world war by a giant open-air meet- | workers. i F 4 itici: 2 now con- 5 +, A od Mae F «,/ing at which many promi t & Le Rond sharply criticized the a success in any one or all of the following ways: But there wasn’t a noon hour rush| An anti-militarist_campaign will ah ene eee ea ae | Hitseaa GE ial Ballnncerany and his oray. plant i i i i ipti of any account, for necdle trades be conducted by the Young Workers} rose the new militarist war prepara-|Teport is shot thru and thru with o break First.—By getting new subscribers in our Subscription || workers kept out of, the struck res- | (Communist) League in April and) tions, | tha dhiameieaiine 46 boreeck tn da ed here by Drive, using the subscription blank that appears on Page | taurants. | May. The-National Executive Com-| “Workers Called Upon to Join fects in-ordér’ to Taise it tothe high: 5 he. ional Workers’ Three. This is the best method because it gets and holds ‘A little uncertain because of| mittee of the League has decided) ‘The gemonstration will be under |¢st level of aggressiveness for the Union. Ten s rikers we already 1 he A A never having participated in a|that at this pericd the organization! i A | campaign against the Soviet Union. been jailed while picketing. a reader for a definite period of time. mite) a minority of tha workers | ist ‘hinanteabe see enbrpis.on the he aD eee of ae Commant Bey aie pa oe Std : Seat cThestreote, tie eS wih teed ee ¢ ond ie Young orkers Communist 7 ¢ rile . : | who went on strike yesterday. wait-| fight against the war danger—al- ae ae his report headed “Miscellaneous” a5 .| bayonets the thousands of strikers Second.—If workers won’t subscribe now, get them to cree thelr Jobs till'a committee of |Ways one of its major tasks. | Eeuue, Re aga ee sre P eee det poe ue. S. Tightens Border who march in mass picket forma- buy The Daily Worker as often as possible at the news- |) inion men came in to the restaurant | During the campaign, the League |, , ‘dene eel Patrol on “Rebels tion, are under the command of Adj. General J. Van B. Metts, who came h when the two units of troops were increased to five. Governor Is Mill Owner. Without even the usual of waiting for an incident which can *, A A : 1 £6 . : to join in this protest against the | Present state is not capable of op- stands. This campaign must be developed in New York to call them out on strike. An in-| will hold membership, unit and mass | °° 4 Lip Ge aeattes | posing troops of the force of the * 7 5 v4 | * r resent preparations City especially, Harlem in particular, since all Daily Work- | teresting account of how this was | meetings wate ere will stress] Imperialist See aneyon years after | Russian or German armies. Every| . ers in the metropolis go out over the newsstands. |done was given by one committee- been peat: ste pee a ae the last war, which cost the work-|ffensive movement which the 3 |) man. | 20) ‘' “ a Third.—Order a bundle for special distributions. . rapa fe : ae ing class of the world 26,000,000 | Polish army may undertake against The committee would come into) vise Pac ace stention| (Continued on Page Five) | Russian territory, is likely to end dividual workers can do this. It is something that every (Continued on Page Five) xecutive Committee calls attention WASHINGTON, April. 4.—Fed- eral troops north of Jiminez won a complete victory over the reac-| tionary insurgents on April 3, in | which all the retreating “rebel” in- In- in catastrophe. After mature delib- rena RU Nee eas, to the impo:tance of unity of young eration I have come to the ~|fantry were reported to be killed, be magnified to se as a claim workers’ organization can take up and carry out. {workers in the armc1 forces “10 AID SOUTHERN aaa that. --the Sones qronttie wounded or captured, according to|that the local police force cannot ‘4 |the civilian worker: | | r : ish| Morrow’s tel 1 re-|cope with the situation, Governor THE HOUSING EXPOSURES START ON MONDAY. | PLAN BIGGEST | U trom stationed on the Polish Morow's,felegam on federal recone Tit th overnor GET INTO LINE FOR THIS ONSLAUGHT AGAINST Polka eae The fight took place at Refroma, | state’s strikebre machinery into THE HOUSING EVILS THAT TORMENT ALL OF US. B | ape is where federals said all reactionary| motion. Governor Gardner is him- GROCERY STRIKE | Urges Foreign Planes. trains were in their possession. The|self the owner of a mill in the Le Rond also comments on the! principal clerical leaders were re- strike area, the workers of which N D % “NSARM” MEET WwW TRO Relief uniforms and equipment of the| ported to have left the troops be- may go out on s rike at any moment, _ é eA ens Relief Polish troops which he calls “ade-| fore the battle. First the 120th npany, Gas- T.U.E. L. egro epartment Drive Centers on Fruit | pape ook \quate and, on the whole, good.”| * * # tonia, was sent in, then the ee : ® ° rac: 4 een | |He criticizes the handling of the| Seize Standard Oil. tonia Howitzer Company. The in Campaign for Unity Meet) Stres: Bally Sunday Soviet Proposals Are | seeing toe cee al See Siealend Oe to ee aes : > red The cpening of a national cam- | tanks, however. He believes that the) joan winner Staaten ar ole ‘" | Infantry, t incolnton Cav Evidences multiply that the res- vumore' paign to raise funds for the strik-|Polish air equipment “must be| mas, st surgents at GuaY-| the Charlotte Con |ponse to the general strike ‘soon to) mas, state of Sonora, have sei! The thousands o: “There will be many Negro dele- gates at the Trade Union Unity Conference in Cleveland,” said Otto Hall, director of the Negro Depart- ment of the Trade Union Education- In the Scotts Run mine fields of West Virginia, a similar situation exists as that at Gastonia, N. C., for white and Negro workers are strik- Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union, will be the greatest in the history of the be called by the Retail Grocery, | union. In proof of this the leaders | GENEVA, Switzerland, April 4.—jing textile workers of North an The deputies of imperialism to the South Carolina was announced last | |League of Nations here are thor-'night by Alfred Wagenknecht, na-| oughly aroused over a rumor that |tional secretary, Workers Interna- | q\strengthened by the substitution of 1,000 cases of gasoline and 50 to greet the ng troops with he ten workers ers defy the govern: crush their rike, foreign aircraft for Polish.” Under the heading “Staff and commanders,” Le Rond urges the of lubricants belonging to the Stan- dard Oil Company of California, the state department was informed to- ing shoulder to shoulder under theirjof the union point to the crowded| Maxim Litvinoff, acting People’s | strengthening of the Polish staff by| day by Consul Herbert S. Bursley. oo # rested were j al League, yester- own militant leadership, against the registration windows at their of-| Commissar for Foreign Affairs, | tional Sele, TVURIOR UP aUer sew) ue mmenne ron (ee ey of them are free ie i day in an inter- employers. |fices, where hundreds of recruits are|™¥ confront the Preparatory Dis.) York City. CORD ace eB bea ree Smee More U. S. Troops. cally, till the International of French militarism.” Of especial interest are a view with * the The Negro Department of the joining in expectation of the strike, | Armament Commission; meeting, Mere Daily Worker. Es a “The strike that has been called Trade Union Educational League | April 15 with the issue of Soviet | by the National Textile Workers WASHINGTON, D. C., April 4.— Brigadier-General Van Horn Mo: few Defense, which a’ “Our confidence in an overwhelm- : Z : : Bs ate y es eh a . 2 L 0se-| tance, can come into Hall is just jas issued a special leaflet directed |ing response to the strike call will |rebresentation in, the League /'¢-| Union. in. Gastonia,” Waperbeeht Conese mane Chats Conca! # ley ncommmanding wotteen As Fy] Appeal To Militia. starting on an ex- ‘0 Negro workers, to accompany the|pe definitely proved at the mass| Sieh yes pete ES senda Wdebakanls : | concerning the behaviour of the| Bliss, announced more motor trans iveleedlar, sppeatiigsts the wie tended tour of all official call for the convention June | committee is the ultimate body| ‘tated, “is the latest of several} peasants during the Polish maneuv- : i a port troops would be requested. ing class solidarity of the members Shales i agiotree ree ee i ah ; of the National Guard on duty.here, ; : Jj. S. Air Patrol, was distributed by the strike: writes: “The entire population van- Spal baie a es res meeting this Sunday,” the union rep- | discussing disarmament matters and strikes of textile workers of the |¢tS resentative declared. This meeting,!the Soviet * phan if government has already) couth 5 to which is probably to be the last criticized a policy whereby its outh during the last few weeks. industrial centers — q| 1-2. where Negroe: e Wie 4 form a large per- (The statement of the Negro De-|mass rally before the strike goes| ; Textile workers of Pelser, S. C.,|; EL PASO, Texas, April 4 (UP). ein tude Ad e . ee ti theses may be advanced in the Pre-| Be iser, S. C.J ished. Cattle and horses were lead) 47 ai tan yD W. I. R. Promises Aid. fend “4 ee Lie AS te vale re ie: Ng effect, sales place pu Sunday | paratory Committee but remain un-| Struck recently. Since then strikes ‘ate the eee By Hapa rakce ana|—A8 mepinpe meso) oe the ber Grosting tha “iércigiy. af: ae peaage cohge os ; so endorsed by | afternoon, at 2 p. m., in Irving Plaza} i i i - : 7, ; agent ers anc’\ will be started immediately to stop) g a Gere age eae in the spreading the American Negro Labor Con- |defended in the Third Committee, kave broken out in Ware Shoals, S.|there hidden. With the exception upeling to the Mexican clértcala bec workers in their fight (Continued on Page Five) owing to lack of representation. against the inhuman working con- ditions, the Workers International Relief, in a telegram, has announced |C.; Central, 8. C., and Woodruff, S..C, More than 1,700 have just | gone on strike in Greensville, S. C., in the Brandon Corporation mill. According to the latest information strikes in many other textile cen- ters of the south will be declared shortly, against the long hours and speed-up of the mill owners, who moved their mills from New Eng- 4 of the T.U.E.L. i call for the con- » vention and to di- rect attention of gee se“ GALL VIENNA WORKERS TO oa sults in Three Dead OUST FASCISTS FROM MILLS lems of the Negroes. | Results in Three Dead | (Wireless) ~2" land in the hope of employing cheap Smash Race Prejudice. | “The great textile strikes in North VIENNA, April 4,— Declaring] Fahne, the organ of the Communist) Japor, fascist or proletarian dictatorship,| Party, declares that Seipel’s resig-| ‘ gress. It will be printed in full on page 6 of the Daily Worker tomor- rew. Watch for it.) of the local authorities the popula- |. A ; ‘; if ‘ it was decided at a conference of tion did nothing to assist the/tjnitod States army officers troops.” ag customs officials here today. lores ay 5 2 | that it will assist the strikers with Workers Must Be On Guard. | relief: This report of the French gen- ee eral is of tremendous interest. Its ] SHOE BOSSES | Workers Guard Leaders. effect must be to stir up the watch-) } A squad of kers are. still |fulness of the working class in spite | guarding organizers Fred E. Beal jof the statements of the inferior SIGN UNION PACT sx: George Pershing, day and night. More threats against their lives h ‘condition of the Polish army in the| ave been received. A man named past year. Jones has announced that he is look- and Otto Hall WICHITA, Kans., April 4 (UP). Three persons were burned to death today when a cabin monoplane nosed over while banking and crashed at Scott City, near here. and South Carolina now going on have convinced the white workers there that their Negro fellow work- It must be remembered that with ers are as good fighters as any-/| body,” said Hall. “The Negroes and |striking thalearth The plane fell 600 feet and caught fire after | fascist +of proletarian dictatorship, the Rote Fahne today called upon “Refusing to toil 60 hours a weel frighten the petty-bourgeoisie in ine ending of the speed-up and ai nation is nothing but a maneuver to|the workers demand reduced hours. the “active cooperation of French) Two New Strikes Called ian ‘i ; ‘ ing for the union leaders, + | militarism, the Polish army is being) f .4 white workers now serve on the Yesterday, All Out f 9 rn The dead J . the workers to throw the fascists| order to obtain a new mandate to j i , ional dle | \g pase teil potuniiteeen: dean he ad are John Flourney,| out of the factories, to organize the| continue an intensified fascist policy. Workers Union. Seba aot aoa ray AG S LEFT WINGERS treat each other like workers, with- Rally ay: Heer ican COSES | aiittake |demand a coalition, but the Rote FUR WORKERS iN BE sae greed to tase vstorin rs eily, ity, ii a * 5 ikers. ston Sle ¢ t " out regard to race, and this even | cu? Scott City, traveling salesman.) “yoy the workers only one govern-| Fahne declares that in eonsequence| tring ed Ta Gastonia, eae te ae the poate of oe shoe | RE ATEN , te employers, who were compelled to yi have been kept alive by the bogses | peasants’ government, the paper de-| workers, a social democratic coali-| : | ‘follow the road taken by scores of A f FE : to the best of their ability,” Hall|| Textile Union Needs ||\<2r¢- Hon ci toe asia of Satgalin ttoersin| GRE ae Mf ieee ie | OPEN FORUM ‘other employers and grant wage in- modernized from the ground up. | ‘ ‘ Wichita, pilot; Dr. C. C. innis, | * same union weetitighy andan general Pi vr. C. C. MeGinnis, | etal workers and form strike com-| The social democratic leaders| jhe fiekd and. are organizing the U ; s bi be nion has scored two more victories | ‘ sven) They were goii ishi i Pf A in the South, where old prejudices Rnleoit ilet cake calitelat trip.| ment is possible—a workers’ and/of the radicalization of the Austrian Workers Union, which is directing | pointed out. “From the textile reg- ; The Rote Fahne’s statement fol-|is impossible. The Communist or-| ,, seit | jcveases and full recognition of the Rabbinic iplac : ions now on strike there will be Funds to Continue | lows the resignation yesterday of|gan appeals to the workers for in- wo or on Bae eae |union. cians ie: str ith Negro delegates, elected by white Fight in the South | the Seiyel government. lerea'sed economic and _ political ac-| i | Over 1,000 unemployed fur work-| These firms are, the Supreme | Rey, Norman Thomas in the socials and Negro workers together,” he The declaration issued by Seipel| tivity, to fling the fascists out of ers, yesterday crowded every avail-, Shoe Company of Brooklyn and the | jst pa continued. ‘ The National Textile Workers || OT Tesigning Points out that the ten-| the factories, to organize the metal Ask Jobless Party | ab!e inch of ‘space in Webster Hall |Dandy Shoe Company of New York. slo of an iat rath and rm To Mine Strike ‘Area. Union - appeals “fp dean eltnte sion within Austria has snapped and) workers, and to form strike com-| Members R rt at an open forum meeting, where the | Wage increases of from 5 to 20 per ganized his paid thugs to blackjack ; Holl stated’ that his: tour woula||- funds to carry on organizational jopines that democracy “can only be) mittees In the factories, v! embers hepo! |workers discussed the miserable situ- cent were gained in addition to the the left wing members of the union take in such automobile centers as|| work in the southern textile | saved by a calm solution of the dif-| The last official action of the U _ }/ation facing fur workers, who are |other union conditions. The workers ho js boss of, the Poeketbook Work- | Fiint and Detrott, Mich., the mini atvike axun,\ Runbtavde tocNws ‘ficulties it faces. nN | government was the confiscation of ! nemployed comrades are in-| jobless because of unemployment struck eight or nine hours in both|cys Union, f che sree ot | I oe 2 | The Heimwehr, the bourgeois na-|the: Rote Fahne for publishing its structed to report at the District || greatly aggravated’ by the lack of | Places, ‘The maned x regions like West Virginia and Bir-|| tional Textile Workers Union. |’ tional defense organization, and the| appeal to the workers to prevent | Office of the Communist Party la union in th Efforts t ‘og |_ The meeting, called allegedly to i) iningham, Ala., where Negroes also Room 1707, 104 Fifth Ave., New iy | app: ie 1S preven Y |\a union in the trade, ‘orts to open scab agencies, provide the membership with a re- this morning, between 9 and 11 | Austrian fascists, are working fev-| two fascist meetings which were an- Fs | ‘| a.m. for important Party work. York. ‘erishly to exploit the situation for nounced to take place in Vienna this week, ja putsch (coup d'etat), The Rote » ) Every speaker ,at the open forum | though ther} mhany rank and filers edie, | hem . (Continued on Page Five) successful in enthroning port of conditions to be contained the Broadway Central Hotel | jn the new agreement, was, instead, (Continued on Page Five) ly i toil in the steel industry, the pack- rid ing houses of Chicago, etc. |