The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1929, Page 1

‘THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a\Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. Y., under the act of March Vol. VI., No. 28 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker 5 Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION E: Outside New S: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. York, by mail, $6.00 neeseer ven yenheLy _Price 3 Cents GROCERY, FRUIT CLERKS GENERAL STRIKE TODAY Mass Meet Unanimous in Adoption of Strike Call Yesterday Sympathizers to Aid Demand Abolition of Slavery Conditions A general strike of all grocery, fruit and dairy store clerks, was de- clared yesterday to take effect at 10 o’clock this morning. With tremendous enthusiasm, al- most 1,000 members of the Retail Grocery Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union, assembled at a mass meet- ing in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, yesterday after- noon, unanimously voted into effect the following strike call: Call Issued. “Grocery Clerks, Fruit Clerks, Dairy Clerks! “At a general meeting of our union, a general strike was pro- claimed to take effect this Monday morning, April 8th, at 10 a. m. @ National Guardsman, Photo at left shows part of the huge demonstration of the mill strikers in’ Gastonia, N. C. who are fighting the Manville-Jenckes Co. for a living wage and decent working conditions. strikers are under the fighting leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union, under whose banner thousands more southern mill workers are rallying thru the South. Photo shows one of the militant woman tertile strikers in Gastonia, N. C., wresting a gun from The me if: oe snr. "MASS PICKETING. — Worker Exposes Evils of Housing in Hatem: Demands. “Our main demands are: 57 hours a week for grocery clerks, 62 hours for fruit clerks; a 6-day week with BY CAFETERIA | one day of rest; a $5 raise in wages per week. | “Brothers, join our co™mittees, STRIKERS TODAY quit work and come to union. | | Our demands are just. © o72 sure | to win! “The Strike Com: pike oh | |Walkout of Restaurant | Show How Negro Workers Are Plundered by Landlords PLAN MAY DAY N.Y. State Commission Admits It Will’ ‘EXPECT LARGEST MILL _STRIKERS | DEMONSTRATE SOLIDARITY ; DEFY TROOPS TEXTILE UNION PLANS T0 TIE UP 15 SOUTHERN MILLS IN 10 DAYS; STRIKE GROWS |Hundreds from Other Plants Come te Loray Local to Join Union | Workers Plan Resistance to Evictions from Company Houses, Scheduled for Today . C., April 7—Plans to stop mill production | in and around Gaston County, as first step toward a general Southern textile strike are almost ost_ completed by the National Textile Workers’ Union. The High Shoals plant of the Manville Jenckes Co., 12 mes from here, is to be struck today strike call to the workers in Pade wick-Hoskins mills in Charlotte will quickly follow. Eager to Strike. Difficulty in holding back the workers from nearly every mill in this ion until strike machinery is | , organized, was reported by Fred E.| | GASTONIA N.Y. WORKERS HIT IMPERIALIST WAR IN MASS MEETING Demonstrate |Beal, organizer in charge of the Counter \Gastonia strike. The early arrival lof a relief organizer will facilitate) - AgainsteParade of the spreading of the strike, Beal | Militarists | reports. More than one hundred mills are in Gaston County alone, and many |working in other mill villages here | and in Mecklenburg County have and the Young Workers (Commu- come into Gastonia to ask the Loray | nist) League Saturday at 110th St. local of the N. T. W. to organize | and Fifth Ave. Speakers exposed the jthem, They joined the union here} purpose of the military parade on and were sent back to organize a| Fifth Avenue, which ended at 86th local unit. | Street as the Communist demonstra- Thousands of New York workers took part in the anti-war demonstra- tion called by the Communist Party ANTI-WAR RALLY Do Nothing tor Tenants By SOL, AUERBACH. The union aims to tie up 15 mills| in the next ten days, according to| Beal and Pershing, Well function- | \ing units are established in these YWL CONVENTION : | tion was beginning. Police officials were unwilling to |permit the demonstration, and for a time it appeared that an attempt With this call, the horribly ex. ploited food store workers,. who} slave innumerable hours and seven days a week, will begin a fight to spread the control of their union to non-union stores, so. that more bearable conditions czn be forced Workers Spreads in | Garment District A mass picketing demonstration for the noon hour today was the policy decided upon by the leaders | Svontheboasek jof the Cafeteria Workers’ Union as ia answer to the mass arrests of Workers Respond. |pickets peacefully marching before That this is easily the biggest|the struck restaurants in the gar- strike movement undertaken by the | ment district here. union in its 15 years of existence could have been easily seen at the|picketing demonstration will meeting yesterday. The presence of | place is not known, but that it. will many non-union workers from all|bo in the ladies’ garment district in sections of the city, 150 of whom|the upper thirties, is practicall: take On just what street the mass |” Big Coliseum Is Signed for Demonstration May Day this year will be utilized for mobilization against the immin- ent war danger, and many thousands of workers in New York will take part in the huge mass meeting. The New York District Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Party has announced that the Party, together |with left wing trade unions, has signed a contract for the Coliseum, How is the worker housed? After a day in the factory, in the shop, on the building opera- | tion; in a digging gang—wwhat is the home~like to which he comes for rest? Under what conditions must his wife and children live? After being exploited in industry how is he exploited by the | landlords? What Pay? The average pay of the factory worker is said to be abcut $20 per week in New York City. This means that by far the greater ra |the Young Workers Textile Strikers Bé Delegates The Fifth National Convention o (Communist of America, 1929, Laegue April 26, ntative | League. More than 100 delegates will at: tend, including fraternal delegate: from the Communist Youth Leagues WORKERS MAY is willl of Canada and Mexico. This wil |serve to establish co-operation be- Will which opens in New York City, by the strikers all week. | will be the largest and most repre in the history of the many plants. | would be made to break it up. T! Trouble is expected here tomor-j authorities finally decided that Tw“ jvow, when thesmill or- | would: be-toomdiffiewlt te brees™up ities begin their program of forcible} such a mass gathering. evictions of some workers who have | Expresses Use of Militia. f | joined the union. The greatest de-| J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor ) \termination to answer this threat|of the Daily Worker who recently ‘S| with mass resistance, was expressed | returned from the Soviet Union, told of the progress of the workers’ More troops are being prepared| republic and imperialist attempts to for strike town duty, whether the} prepare war against the Soviet (Continued on Page Five) | Union. Engdahl also pointed out the - RECESS |role of the armed forces against |the workers and cited the use of | the National Guard brought in to | crush the textile strike in Gastonia. ! Referring to the Fifth Avenue mili- immediately joined up, proved that} | certain. = : the strike call will meet with a| Thousands of needle trades work- (at 117th street and Bronx Rixer great response. lers are expected to respond to the|Avenue, which seats 20,000. |tween the Canadian, Mexican fl | American Leagues and will help in| coordinating the struggle against | TIE UP SUBWAY (Continued on Page Five) The workers also received assur- | Special ih HR ar By sibs Many militant trade unions al- American imperialism, the United | gums te ances of assistance from friendly; Needle Trades Workers Industrial) ready have arranged to participate States League decla | * . | Saale a a a canes eine, workers acai ecaeeee ‘these |i the May Day demonstration, There will be fraternal delegates Union of Technical Men |¥+ Vi of the International Labor Defense, tra, by picketing as well as in other|which assumes especial importance ; s youth or- Demands Increase 1 Kate Gitlow, of the Working Class | - f ations, youth sections of trade —_— Women’s Councils and J. J. Ballam | Ways. this: year, onaccountrof the: Aner nd other fraternal organiza-| The Union of Technical Men, con- from the Trade Union comers cama pong Seer ee ee ana [uanonal situation aud fhe prepara: tions. ng of rodmen, draftsmen, tran-| League, spoke for the organizations | z tions for a new world war. One of the features of the con-|Sit men and others who work under S Il begin to- | e of the features of the con. ; s se Big rerreente ae Nal olen Lae aes ea ey ae, Preparations are practically com- vention will be a delegation from oe cneineety pees al Adv ance of Federals in H ‘ |. Eh € those arrested Satur-|pleted for the united front confer- | largely of young textile |Strike which may tie up all subway | sia * ; Vacker, union leaders, also spoke. ie Soe Seniee aat erate sean ence of labor organizations at Irving ! who have been active in|¢construction now in progress here | Chihuahua Continues The Working Class Women’s| among the most militant fighters. | Plaza Sunday, April 14, beginning at jth it strikes, This will be the mien ens ae of sixteen met) WastINGTON, D. C., April 7— Councils, in past strikes of this) svivia Weiner, Rose Plotkin and |1 p. m, This conference will prepare fi ime that the South will be|at headquarters, 15 Park Row. American invasion of Mexico toa union have proven an invaluable| Gertrude Welsh were all beaten up [plans for the May Day demonstra- |represented at a National Commu-| The workers claim that the city|1+2 tool of the American govern : aid in winning the struggles for!) ‘the “private detectives” when |tion and for mobilizing the workers | nist Youth Convention. Be aie to put into te the | ment, the Gil xegime, in Antanas better condrtions. they entered the Traffic, Consoli-|of New York for this occasion. | Sidine UPeieae etcs deed into the Kearte of tenaite inithe. "|. he Uist’ of delegates trom the| {12> minimum wage: Year for en. (BP the reactionary outbreak in the ‘ jdated and Monroe Cafeterias to All militant labor organizations) 1,o,ring class districts of every large city. In some cases fire- |Léague districts and from the Com-| ji ooars of the Grade “C.” They |?°rth appeared probable today. lurge the scabs to throw down their | which have not already elected dele-) s-anes do not reach the ground floor, or are so old and rusty that |™munist Party follows: State that this is a violation of the| ,SWeeping authority has beem |aprons and join the ranks of the | gates to this conference are request-| thoy would collapse in an emergency. It docs not take much flame District itil aeeeisaviavr placed in the hands of Major Gen- ; nes James Alphonse was | ed fo do 80 at once. to destroy old, condemned tenementss | District Plans were made for a complete |! William Lassiter, commanding 4 | seize the boss and manager and | © Di tr t ¢ i % jon the Mexican line, vi ” em- J Geaciearanieoneoas with his MOBILIZATION CALL majority of workers get $20 or lower for a weeks’ work if they | Fd Bh ee es vue ats Lib powering hin to. ee tae , He was later arrested, charged with| | A meeting of extraordinary im-|| Work full time and are employed. Leer the LaGaL oe eeinssaitation, ritory if the pretext can be found. ; assault, and released on $500 bail.| | portance for Section 2 and 3, is According to even the New York State Commission of Housing 3 | yesterday poopooed the possibility | 1 has long been thought that it 4 The efforts of the strikers were suc-| | called by instruction of the D. E. and Regional Planning, dwellings which are half decent are beyond 1 \of a strike, it is evident that it|'V@S the intention of the American by Nuorteva aboed in \cessful in spite of this brutality, and] | C,, for Tuesday, April 9th, at 6 (Continued on Page Five) District B | seemed only, too probable to him. government to help the federals ‘di S " li la oe of the Traffic came out| | p. m., at the Workers Center. All| | District i “Whatever action the union may |™0P UP the remnants of the clerical ocialism ‘aturday morning 100 per cent. members of Sections 2 and % are aus 4 District 9 4 |forces, once the Calles army had . Building | liamyBieenman and. Leonard|| Asked to lay all ther meetings 15,000 Workers Crowd Freiheit Jubilee Dinistet 2 | ons sual,” he said intimating that done the major part of the heawy Rosen were kidnapped Saturday by | | aside and be present to this meet- DS SON | District 5 i: : : work in crushing the outbreak. MOSCOW, April 7-—Santeri Xuer-|the bosses’ gangsters and taken to| | ing. a A huge demonstration for theyclared that the Freiheit has been the| District oy Eo pote omer 10,000 Troops Ready. teva, are len' a . s Bile has died | tHe cellar of the Blossom Cafeteria District Executive Committee,|| Communist Party on the occasion|great instrument in building the| District fee! The workers are now on a $2;400| , The state department has de- { nomousl poriet Republics jon 27th St. and beaten. They re- B. Lipshitz, Actinj of the seventh anniversary of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial| Workers (Communist) Party.. 5 | w, i ” {clared that the situation “had as- ddenl: Leningrad, according t»} 8 I ig D. O., | ( ) y wage basis. } suddenly in ji re turned later with several other L, Litvin, organizer Section 2.| |Freiheit, Jewish Communist daily, | Union snd that the meeting is an _ sumed such grave proportions” that a report from that city. strikers and succeeded in taking out | | H, Bydarian, organizer Sectio was held Saturday night, when | cloq testimony to the support] Total... 3 | : it has “ceased to be a problem for chi Aviles f ydarian, Section 3. y P , Nuorteva, who has been ailing lt majority of the workers on strike. The District Executive Com.| |12,000 workers filled the big hall of | | which the paper has ‘among the ~ = diplomacy” and wiil now be turned ¢ : Bes bee ee rage bri CME ae mittee, Dist, 2, calls upon all aN ee oi ate St. Me = MERCURY REACHES 86 | over to the military forces of the , al inie it 3 unemployed comrades to call at iressing the gathering in the | ose Wortis, secretary of the Yesterday was tie hottest April United States. : end came. The late Laer shad Instruct Unemployed | | the District Office, 26-28 Union| {name of the Central Committee of | Joint Board, 7 on record, with the mercury regis- Ten thousand troops are andae many friends among the American) to Report at Center| Square, Monday morning, 9 a. m. tering 86 degrtes at 3:45 p.m. This | N Y GOVERNOR Lassiter’s command and within easy ; workingelass in whose cbs he : Very important. was the hottest April 7 for New ooao striking distance of the international . took an active part during his resi-| Unemployed Communist Party | © s. | York Gity. line. Transportation facilities are ; dence | in the United States. The| comrades are instructed by the New | | present to cnable them to be rushed Karelian eee ae nate York District Executive Committee | Tp ts Asn SO orter in the |into Sonora the aid of the fede : lic was one of the most flourishing | to report for important Party work | th Ne W ae ad Ss i f th ‘Da il W k arcel post room of the genera| Post | ovals at a for hour: tice, { in the Soviet Union, the president|at the Workers Center, 26 Union | ou e e e SS an a es 0 e ai or er.: joffice, yesterday risked his life to| 4 * Ait > having inteeduced ee ee Square, at 9 o'clock this morning. | Rie OS fea a ie pits of @ aa be-| s. Planes. : . nique in the interest of the workers i |lieved to have been mailed by a * oh 2 ena sane nille ana dade. i = qh Daily Worker's fight against the housing evi one | Worker on the newsstands, or to help distribute special lunatic to Governor Roosevelt. le Mexico, A i Th. Peteivods tie mapieal,’ Nuok Special Texiile Page of the big problems that haunts the whole working | bundles in their own neighborhoods. | Later police were enlled, who in-)rursuit planes were brought oe teva took an active part in the in-| -poqay class, begins in today’s issue. All workers are urgently requested to write of the | ‘tepidly lifted the now harmless) coryice to patrol the border today seallndion SE amen tweet hcuned| st haee ote orker Correspandence conditions they actually face. These letters from worker- | 20™> out of the water and busied Casualties Slight. \ and aided in the construction of a Puitletsh Sean: al This campaign will expose not only the actual condi- tenants will be oublisked as part of the campaign. Spe ciganghalieie seic the bomb with] Casualties suffered on the Amare number of new pulp and paper fac-|crecint dietributi _ States.| tions that prevail in the disease-breeding firetraps that fal nae ‘ z - _|the one which they probably planted, |ican side of the boundary line Sat- : Special distributions of this issue : cial pages will be devoted to this purpose. Only the work- | in the West Thirty-third street sub-| ight, i edna ; bit ais Perec being made in all the textile eae sagt the 1 toad section of the working class ing class itself will fight against the buat evils im- |way station gett the Bacto ‘pi | bated nee Bee we en the newest of these factor- | centers, in New York Ci with the wors' iti yt Fy s | ‘oday, vAUG * ‘i RAs SOM plaints aia SurATes) We ibs Ne ae ek in Haslam, th y fa t conditions to be found posed on it. The landiords are strongly organized. The | V*n7¢tti demonstrations. gro of the Tenth Cavalry, still was : newspapers thruout the Soviet Union SEARTH FOR FLIERS in Harlem, the center of the Negro population, but will organization of the tenants must be made a part of this eager in the hospital, but al the others H will be definitely freed of import-| SYDNEY, N. S. W. April § (UP) also review the housing horrors that prevail in practically campaign. Harlem already hes its Harlem Tenants’ YOUTH RESTLESS. injured had been dismissed. Finizee ing paper from Finland and Sweden,|—Interisive search was continued to. ¢V¢T¥ Population center in the nation. League. This should be strongihened and built into a pow. sree een be te h as ibe? an whet the the ae n Fi veague, iss Strong '- of nudity, one of the outgrowth of |across the line. bate eg toa Soviet Enh ik ete es| This campaign, should attract greater nankbere of erful mass organization. The Daiiy Werker will aid in | youthful unrest in Buespe in early| Tho Mexican. resetionaciae ae Raviblic. tx. onthe border’ of Fing| trail Dee ee readers to the Daily Worker than ever before. It is the this direction. It can give greater help if its newsstand — ?st-war days, has spread to France, |apparently had lifted the siege of i i ( tt ere ‘ tralia for the missing airplane task of present d to bri thi " to th lati N x &) ip crhece. boven nad girls Say) in and, Its capital Petrovodz is on| Souther: i e our present readers to bring this campaign to the circulation e cam- a eat n Cross and its four occu. 4 paig! in Ww orl City, is | do bled during this ugurated the nature city on an is- Tals Onega. attention of.other workers, urging them to get the Daily paige ei Alita ,tJand in the § Naco after their failure to ar his base in the second Ee ages, rou alt ;