The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1929, Page 1

a THE HOUSING EVIL! This Tormenting Problem of All Labor Will Be Exposed by The Daily Worker | Bag ft greeted the announcement in this column in yesterday’s Daily Worker that the hous- ing problem, with all of its tively dealt with in a series of powerful articles, the pub- lication of which starts Monday, April 8. Although this Housing trated in Harlem, center of New York City’s great Negro population, it will also deal generally in New York City, It is a sufficient indictment of the housing situation in Harlem to say that many huge evils, would be effec- Campaign will be concen- with the housing problem and other cities. of the so-called old-law tene- ments existing there and inhabited were condemned as unfit in 1901 and before. Crowding is one of the great evils, in many places three to five families live in a five- room apartment. Many other evils will be laid bare. Often there are no provisions for the removal of garbage, which is then thrown down the dumbwaiters, creating foul odors, breed- ing disease epidemics, creati! vermin. Fire escapes are ii they do not reach to the cracked walls on every hand; creaking steps. ng hordes of rats and other nadequate. In many places ground floor. Dilapidated, No door bells, no letter boxes, community toilets, lack of baths, no light and a minimum of ventilation. These articles will also take up the question of rents, showing how these are increasing steadily, how segrega- tion helps the landlords. Th ey will review the fake legis- Jation that is offered as a sop to silence growing protest. They will take up the program of action already pro- posed, the organization of house committees, the calling of rent strikes and mass resistance to dispossession. This series of articles must reach an increased num- ber of readers. The subscription campaign of the Daily Worker must become an integral part of this drive against the housing evil. in yesterday’s Daily Worker The three measures outlined in detail were the getting of subscrip- tions, the distribution of bundles and increasing the sale on the newsstands. Here is work for every reader of the Daily Worker. U, S. WARSHIP TO AID CALLES Destroyer - Will Go to) Mexican..( Coast WASHINGTON, N, April 5.—Secre- tary of State Stimson has asked) that the navy department send an-| other American destroyer to the} west coast of Mexico, it was an- nounced today. ee It is understood that the Amer- ican war vessels, like the army on the international border, will co- operate in mopping up the remnants of the clerical forces after the fed- erals have borne the brunt of de- feating them. The immediate cause of the des- patch of the destroyer is believed to be the seizure yesterday by reac- tionaries of Standard Oil supplies in the port of Guaymas. * ose Killed By U. S. Bombs. MEXICO CITY, April 5.—Losses of the reactionary insurgents at the battle of La Reforma were placed| authoritatively at 1,000 dead, 500: wounded and 2,000 prisoners today. | The number of dead is astonish-j ingly high since the wounded gen-! ging Seipel again to take over the | erally outnumber the dead in battle. It is explained by the use by the federals of demolition bombs rushed them by the United States govern- ment, which were dropped from planes, also supplied by the U. S. The reactionaries’ troops were trapped on an open plain while death was poured into the ranks from three sides. There is also a rumor that federal officers issued instructions against taking too many prisoners. While federal cavalry is pursuing and attempting to slaughter the remnant of the clerical infantry, the huddled mass of the -reactionary army are believed to be heading for Bachimba Pass tho it is now ques- tionavle if they will make a last stand there as at first intended. Meanwhile 5,000 cavalry under General Cedillo has been dispatched to deal with the Cristeros, clerical fanatics in their strongholds of Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Jalisco, R. R. PORTER KILLED. LUDLOW, Ky. (By Mail).— VIENNA FASCIST COUP ORGANIZED ‘Social Democrats Help | by Attack on Strike VIENNA, Austria, April 5—A fascist putsch with a fascist dicta- |torship as its object is brewing here | today following the resignation of \Ignatz Seipel, christian socialist | chancellor, two days ago. The right jwing bourgeois press is openly de- manding a fascist dictatorship. | The Heimwehr, recruited from |fascist elements and financed by the ‘hig industrialists, is declaring that its wishes must be heeded in the present crisis, which it calls “a crisis in parliamentarism.” They declare that the coalition government must either compromise with them or see the parliamentary system of gevernment abolished, At the Styrian Heimwehr organization, has told his followers at a general meeting that any attempt of a coal- ition between the social democrats and christian socialists will be “pre- vented by force.” The christian socialists are beg- government, though the impossibil- ity of the move is obvious to all. The reactionary Pan-German party is proposing the reactionary Schober or the leader of the Heim- wehr, Rintlen, as chancellor. pressed their willingness to form a coalition government and are work- ing to throttle the metal workers’ sands, Ballam to Speak on Cleveland TUEL Meet at School Tomorrow The forthcoming Cleveland Trade) Union Unity Congress will be dis-| cussed by John J. Ballam, acting national secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, at the Worker School Forum, 26 Union Square, at 8 p. m. tomorrow. The necessity of organizing a revolutionary Trade Union Center in the United States, the aims of Jack Pittman, a Negro Pullman por- ter, tripped and fell from a South- ern Railroad train here, and was killed. the Cleveland Conference, and an analysis of capitalist rationalization will be among the points which will be discussed by Ballam. FREIHEIT FETE TONITE! USSR Movie, Soviet Artists, in Program Subways riders who travel to the East Bronx are warned to finish their travelling well before 7:30 to- night. There'll be a terrific jam at the E. 177th St. Elevated station— because that’s the nearest station to the New York Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River Ave., where the Freiheit, Yiddish Communist | daily, will celebrate its seventh an- niversary. Some Freiheit supporters are go- w ing primarily to demonstrate their solidarity with the paper which has at all times given them a Commu- nist lead in their day-to-day strug- gles. Others, while just as anxious to join the huge mass chorus of “Solidarity,” are going to see and marvel’ at the latest Soviet news- reel. The rapid growth of the in- dustrialization of the U.S.S.R.. col-| lective agricultural achievements of (Continued on Page Five) the same time, Rauter, the leader of |' The social democrats have ex- | strike, now involving several thou- | JOIN ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION TODAY, Vol. V + No, 27 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. ander the act of March 3, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929 orker 1879. 4 P.M., 110TH ST. AT FIFTH FI Outside New SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NAL CITY EDITION —z Price 3 Cents START UNIONIZING 300,000 MILL WORKERS | | | | | 18 COMMUNIST SPEAKERS T0 HIT WAR PLANS, Will Be oe | Against Jingoes’ | War Pan Parade ‘Military Invade 5th Av. Minor, Poyntz, Crouch, Trumbull,Gold to Speak The largest anti-war demonstra- | tion in the history of New York, at 110th St. and Fifth Ave., today, will |e the answer of the militant work- ers of this city to the militarist | parade to be held by the jingo Mili- tary Order of the World War as pert of their celebration of the an- niversary of the United States en- trance into the world war. In their preparations for imper- ialist war against the Soviet Union, the militarists have arranged for an open display of their eagerness for imperialist conflict, in the shape of a parade of 7,000 members of mili- tary, naval, semi-militarist and fas- cist organizations, together with a show of military apparatus in the line of march, up Fifth Ave., from | 50th St. to 96th St. Mayor Walker and others will view the parade at | C5th St, As a direct reply and challenge to the jingoist blasts to be delivered by army officials and President ment will point out to the thousands of workers taking part in the giant cemonstration the purpose behind the celebration of America’s en- trance into the last imperialist war, of facilitating the entry of the United States into the coming im- perialist war, and as a means of een workers with attacks on Soviet Union. The nature of the military prep- arations of the Wall Street govern- ment for the coming war will also | be exposed by the speakers. Among the speakers will be J. Louis Engdahl, who recently returned from the Soviet Union. Other speakers will be Juliet Stuart Poyntz, secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; Alberto Mo- reau, head of the Spanish Bureau ef the Communist Party, who will speak for the Latin-American work- ers; Moissaye J. Olgin; Otto Hall, of the American Negro Labor Con- gress; Robert Minor, Rebecca Grecht, Paul Crouch, Ben Gold, John J. Ballam, Sasha Zimmerman, Walter Trumbull and others. One of the principal purposes of the anti-war demonstration will be to expose the war plans against the Soviet Union. Such celebrations as that by the imperialists today will be unmasked as part of these war plans, HOUSE WRECKERS SIGN UP BIG FIRM ‘Evade Injunction Writ, Picket Fake Union The meeting of House Wreckers Union, Local 95, which has 1,800 men on strike on practically every demolition job in New York, yester- day was amused by the antics of sleuthing gum shoe men, trying to serve summonses to “appear in court and show cause why an injunction shall not be issued” against the strikers. Big Firm Settles. Tt was announced at the meeting that another big building company, the fifth since the strike started, had signed up with the union. The strik- ers prefer to settle directly with the builders because in that way they go over the heads of the contractors who are organized in an association. It was the contractors’ association which applied for the injunction. It was stated at the meeting that the company union, calling itself the “Demolition Works vs” was unable to furnish 1,000 wy ‘s they promised the bosses foi ay. They actu- | ally put o: vd these the | Some of Hoover on the occasion, many speak- | ers prominent in the labor move- | will show its use as part the means | poisoning the minds of the Ameri- the | 7 By GEORGE PE PERSHING, (Staff Correspondent, Daily Worker) | GASTONIA, N. C., April 5—A|} |page paid advertisement in an ex- jtra edition of the Gastonia “Ga- |zette,” signed “A Group of Citizens jof Gastonia,” virtually appeaied for jviolence against the textile strikers by calling upon “all American citi- )zens and church people” to prevent | Fred. E. Beal, the district organizer jof the National Textile Workers Union, from organizing the workers |here. The advertisement urged the use of force to crush the strike, Mill owners and officials of the southern textile mills are going to great effort and expense in trying |to propagandize the workers again: |the union. jever meet with no success, is being intensified, and every ef- jfort made to intimidate the strik- Police Brutality. | Bertha Thompkinson, one of the! : strikers from the Loray Mill of the Manville-Jenckes Co., was with a rifle by a national guards- ; man while she was obeying an or- |der to “get across the street.” She |was then arrested by two policemen arms as they pulled her into a car. |The police slapped her face several times while in the auto. After be- ing held for six and a half hours, she was released on $100 bail, on (Continued on Page Five) SAVE SCHOONER CREW. WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 5 (U.P).—All members of the crew of the schooner Frances L. Taussig were saved when the craft was rammed and sunk by the steamer Sandwich off West Chop today. Representatives of royalty and tbhdding m quantity of hypocritical tears at the funeral of Marshall Foch, leader of the allied armies in the last imnerialist world war. cortege crossing Pont de Alexandre JJ], Plumer of Great Britain, followed by General Pershing. These attempts, how- | ~ The terror against the workers | struck | |who swore at her and twisted her | itarists wept the usual Above the with Field Marshall Lord N. C. Trooper Clubs Woman : Textile Striker with Rifle “MUST WIN ARMY’ SAYS TRUMBULL. PointsOutPreparations for New War “The United States government at the present time is engaged in a campaign to popularize the mili- tary end naval forces and prepare the workers for another imperialist declared Walter M. Trumbull, s war,” former U. soldier sentenced to prisonment for Com- munist a’ es in the army in 1925, who arrived in New York yes- rday. “Tomorrow we will watch the military parades in celebration of the entrance of the United States into the world war. This occasion being utilized by the Wall Street ialists to propagandize the workers for the present war p parations, which are being carried pacifist} }, on behind the mask of phrases and the Kellogg pact.” In Sanatorium for Year. Trumbull came to New York from Detroit, where he has been secre tary of the International Labor De- fense since he left the sani um ¢ few months ago. He was sentencec to 26 years for his part in organiz ing the Hawaiian Communist League. Mass protests of the work- ers, led by the International Labor Defense, reduced his sentence to one} year, and the 40 year sentence of Paul Crouch, who was arrested with Trumbull, to 3 years. Trumbull’s health broke down after his im- prisonment and he had to spend (Continued on Page Five) tire crew had been rescued. NEW DELHI, India. pickets pes ‘ Co a Ws ive) i Hankow Retaken Without Battle SHANGHAI, China, April 5.—Chiang Kai-shek’s communique today declares Hankow occupied by Nanking troops without a battle and the Kwangsi-Hankow armies in retreat. U. S. Empire Buys Envoy a Palace. DETROIT, Mich., April 5.—Swollen by three days of rain, streams near several communities northwest of Bay City tonight forced 400 families to leave their homes, according to meager advices reaching here over crippled telegraph lines. are marooned in Detroit east-side houses by flooded streets. telephone lines to Bay City, Midland and Sanford were disabled by the floods and rain, but there is so far no loss of life. Thirty thousand more All Floods Make 400 Homeless. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 5 (U.P)—The United States has bought the “Chalet,” one of the most sumptuous dwellings here, for use of its ambassador, it was announced today. cost about $1,273,200. It served as the residence of the Italian Crown Prince during his visit to Argentina. The residence Five of Crew Escape Burning Schooner. WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.P).—The schooner “Chiefa” with a crew of five men on board caught fire and sank about four miles off Station, Mass., near Boston, late today. The information which was radioed to the Boston district from the naval radio compass station at Fourth Cliff, Mass., said the en- Post Office Jobs Sold in 4 States, WASHINGTON, April 5.—Senator Brookhart today read into the record evidence of sale of post office jobs by the republican party organizations in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. Stop Discussion of Indian Anti-Communist Bill. April 5.—President L. V, Patel and the Indian members of the Indian Legislative Assembly, a discussion body of no real power, out-voted the British members and stopped con- sideration of the government’s Public Safety Bill, on the grounds that while Indian unionists are on trial, no discussion is profitable, NEGROES REVOLT British-Belgian Troops Drown Rebellion in Blood |Kill Many in Swamp \Socialist Betrayers Get | Share of Loot CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 5.—Negroes starved by the | thousands, after being plundered of their lands, other thousands dying in droves in the Central African swamps in their desperate trek for ‘ood, hundreds of other kidnapved | nd forced into slavery in the Ka-| \tanga copper mines, and then a re- volt of the equatorial tribes, sweep- ing thru the jungle, until drowned in blood by British and Belgian im- perialism combined,—this is the story of the Belgian mandate over Ruanda which has come of the heart of Africa. Censors Silence News. The British and Belgian censors | }at first successfully silenced the —Tstory of one of the largest Negro| r¢bellions which white imperialists Africa have yet had to face. The cy news permitted to ach | tlpousands of Negro men, women and cihildren were fleeing femiae condi- tilons thru the eastern Belgian Con- jep and that the still living bodies | hundreds had been devoured 1 fenas as they fell. Guns and Swamps Deadly. Tt is now known that these thou- i With the taking of the Ruanda Wiholesale confiscation 2 lainds was begun. The lands were mn concession companies social democ’ Socialists Get Loot. |As a@ result of this plundering | atad the kidnapping of the natives thje fields were not tilled and a fam- e broke out in Ruanda. But ornly the thousands of Negroe: affected, not the Belgian of tthe colonial government had no (Continued on Page Three) rman Police Murder | \Hfis Funeral Procession BERLIN, Germany, April 5—Ger- | tmjan police today broke into a| wal procession of a member of | Germen Communist Party, | during Several of the workers int ch. Clubs were used freely. The dead | is himself said to have been by a police officer in one of numerous police attacks on ers’ gatherings here. PRANCE LAUNCHES SUB. SAINT NAZAIRE, France, April ¥ built in France, will be launched Wednesday. It is 301 feet long. Senator Borah Ready | to Introduce Motion to Recognize US.S.R. WASHINGTON, April 5.—Sen- ator Borah, Hoover supporter, to- day announced that he would in- troduce in the December session of Congress his original resolu- tion to recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Borah is chairman of the Sen- ate Committee On Foreign Rela- tions, He recently wrote for a large syndicate of newspapers a review of the British Minister Churchill’s book, pointing out that the Eng- lish war maker acknowledges the intervention in the first workers’ republic had no legal basis, and was for the mere purpose of destroying a form of government which other governments do not like. Ejurope were missionary reports that | rritory from the Germans as a} s|on scores of those S| needle unist; Then Club | d Meta Acteon, largest _ I beg n Slaves Striking Now 1 n So uth cile workers have been added to the growing ranks of workers revolting against intolerable slavery; un the leadership of the left wing N tional Textile Workers Union. The last mill to be tied up is the Anderson Cotton Manufacturing Co. r ae at eehiroD, s. Cc. trikes are now in force against: Loray Mills, Gastonia, N. C., 3,000 strikers. | Brandon Mills, three mills near Greenville, S. C., 2,000 strike: Woodruff Mills, 1,000 strikers. Woodruff, Union-Buffalo Mills, Union, 8. C., 1,000 strikers. | Ottray Mills, Union, S. C., 800 | strikers. | Monarch Mills, Union, S. C., 500 trikers. Anderson Mills, 500 strikers. MORE CAFETERIA WORKERS STRIKE Police, Thugs Assault Pickets; 1,000 Out Anderson, S. C.. Despite vicious assaults on strik-' t! ers and pickets hy police and priyate detective agencies the Hotel Restau- rant and Cafeteria Workers Union,}| -|leading a fight for organization and) jendurable working standards, was able to report 25 additional cafe terias emptied of their workers yesterday. This brings the total on strike to 1,000 workers whose walk- out caused the partial or complete shutdown of 75 cafeterias in that busy industrial district. Magistrate Jean Norris, despite evidence of the fact that hired thugs | 3 and private detectives were slug- ging and assaulting the picketing workers, lashed out $5 and $10 fines arrested after being beaten by hired thugs and handed over to police for arrest. | What riles the employer is the determination of the needle trades workers in the district not to patron- ize a struck eating place. workers also help strikers picket. Leaders of the union declared that a stern fight will be begun against the private detective agencies, hiring lout legalized thugs to beat up strik- | - ers, Fifteen applications for settle- |" ment have already been received. | The union committee will take the |cases up soon. GLERKS UNIO UNION IN BIG STRIKE MEET As the leaders of the Retail Gro- cery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks’ Union report that the general strike mob- lilization is nearing completion, the \big mass. rally tomorrow being a step in that direction, an- uncement is made of the capitu- lation to union demands of one of the largest firms—Mason and Fore- }man. This concern signed up for |, jits five stores. | The mass meeting which will be lone of the final mobilization rallies to be called by the union before the! |strike call is issued, will be held temorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, in ing Plaza. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April |—Despite the fact that six men |have been arrested for the kidnap-) ping of Edward F, McGrady, vice These | I:ving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv-| Thousands iid: to Take Part in Anti- -Militarist Meet Here (CENTRAL AFRIGAN 500 More Mill WEISBORD SAYS DRIVE ON SOUTH _ NOW UNDER WAY | a bas |gastonia Strikers Will Resist the Evictions Starting Monday 500 More Go on Strike vovernor Ready toSend G Troops to Brandon ational secre- National Textile Work- esterday issued an of- ment whic definitely all the resources of this ijion to the prosecution of a tre- endous drive in the ill not end till its 300,000 textile abolished the unen- conditions and have orkers have arab! pailt up th on to protect those | gains.” ia Union Ready. | Weisbord exp! ed that the strike yevolts in North were ee result of nd South Carolina ny months of s by organ- owly built the bosses by ers of the union, «he union there, eS A quntinued to inc while @ pressure, »w speed ups and wage slashes, LiL nv D. Lawyers Sent. ional Labor Defense, 7/9 Broadway, announced yesterday yat it has dispatched its attorney tigGastonia to take charee of legal mse of the arrested pickets there. * * * Resistance to Evictions. (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, C, April 5— udffer mass 1 nce to the at- tampt of the mill barons to evict 13 from our s,” is the call is- led to the ng textile work- es of the Loray Mill here. Offi- cals of the Manville Jenckes Co., netthern owners of the mill, have ymounced that the f ctions wil take place Monda: Troops Persecute. | Meantime the hundreds of troops concentrated in and around the mills are becoming more and more brazen 4 their per: ynore have been arreste n workers are out on bail ‘ge number are still in jail for ack of funds. a SRS 7,500 More Strike. NBURC April 5. ndred workers here, em- Anderson Cotton by the erson, walked out on t the stretch-out sys- inhuman speed-up. workers set up a strike com- sent their demands to the "ill owners, and were promptly t#rned down. They announce their jitention to stick it out with the ofher thousands on strike till they clin, nfittee, * * * Troops for Brandon. | GREENVIL LE, S. C., April 5— at the mill owners and the gov- Ppescetal officials mean business he re, despite the fact that the 2,000 Miers against the Brandon Co, pave not as yet agreed unanimously td fight under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, cn be seen by the quick response of Governor Richards to the request yor “troop protection.” “Survey” First. q Austin Latimer, emissary of the vernor, yesterday arrived here to |«Burvey the situation,” before his 0! ‘Ficial request is added to that of jtpe mill owners. Larger numbers of strikers are refusing to be influenced by the ne union” policy of their misled strike committee and are demand- | 4 (Continued on Page Five) WAILS AT INGRATITUDE McGrady Aided His Own Kidnappers 5.)among the strikers of the Bemberg & Glanzstoff rayon factories, It was to settle the strikes at these plants that McGrady came, | president of the American Federa- and his whole program was one of | tion of Labor, and Alfred Hoffman, arguing with the workers that if ‘organizer for the United Textile they were nice and docile, the em- | Workers of America, and attempted) ployers would be kind to them. That kidnapping of John B. Phenix, McGrady and his followers in the | county organizer for the A. F. of L., U. T. W. should have crawled at a good deal of amusement is cur- the feet of the employers in this — | rent here over the affair, especially « Ci (Continued on Page Three) eran 2 Cesc soc eta ” eorre 6 of \y