The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 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 FINAL CITY EDITION Published dally except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Vol. VI., No. 29 Publi ing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. BO CAFETERIA STRIKERS JAILED, SCORES SLUSGED Picket Unconscious in Bellevue Till Late | Last Night Sympathizers Strike Grows Despite) Intense Terror Eighty strike: were arrested and scores were injured by thugs and police in yesterday’s picketing demonstration at W. 36th St., in the center of the garment district on which the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union is concen- trating attention in its general strike. Albert Rosinere, bus boy, was in a critical condition at Belle- vue Hospital as a result of a vicious attack from thugs. He was declared | out of danger by doctors only when) he regained consciousness. } Heavy fines and jail sentences are | tuthlessly imposed on workers who appear in court, with their wounds still bleeding. As soon as the pickets arrived, and were joined by sympa- thetic needle trades workers, the sluggings began. First the private} detectives were immediately joined | by about 200 police massed in the streets. | Settlements were reached with six cafeterias yesterday, and 16 more} applications for settlements were | made. Negotiations will continue | tomorrow. Ninety-five cafeterias | are now declared on strike. | Union Denounces Brutality. | Denouncing the brutal and brazen strikebreaking tactics of tye police, | Sam Kramberg told how the injured | workers came to the union head-| quarters “Ten strikers came back | to the union office,” declared Sam/ Kramberg, secretary of the organ- | ization, “who were badly injured—| eut and bruised about the face and | arms. Rosinere, of 2361 First Ave.,| was brought to the headquarters by a taxi-driver. As soon as he stag- gered into the office hg fell om the floor unconscious, Witnesses said that they saw policeman Number 11124 beating Rosinere at the Traf- fie Cafeteria, 38th St. and Sixth Ave. When the victims of this bru- tality are arraigned in Jefferson Market Court, they are fined $5 or $10, or given a jail sentence, for disorderly conduct. Ninety-nine per | cent of all the disorder and violence is caused by the police, the employ- ers, and their hired gangsters, but the strikers get the punishment.” Of the 80 arrested today, 15 were women and girls. One striker, Aaron Balter of 169 East 107th St., was given a sentence of 30 days in the workhouse. U.S AIRPLANES MENACE MEXICO Many “Rebels” Desert as War Moves West BULLETIN. JUAREZ, Mexico, April 8.— General Jose Gonzalo Escobar was proclaimed “provisional president” of Mexico by the insurgents here before they fled to the westward, to join Governor Fausto Topete ef Sonora, if they can. en. EL PASO, Texas, April 8— Kighteer. U. S. army airplanes have been ordered to attack any planes, cither federal or “rebel,” which cross the national boundary, said Briga- dier-General Frank S. Cocheu, com- mander of all American forces here. U. 8. cavalry patrols have also been strengthened and will participate in fighting if any troops of the “reb- els” approach the border. The U. S, officials here are mak- ing it clear that Hoover’s aid to the federals means active intervention at the slightest opportunity. Ten thousand United States soldiers are cither on the border or very near it. ~“ * * Plan Stand in Sonora. | JUAREZ, Mexico, April 8,—Rebel Beaten | ‘loaders today indicated that General J.-G. Escobar, rebel chieftain, dur- ing the next three weeks plans a concentration of forces in Sonora, with capture of Naco as the first objective. _ The clerical force now besieging Naco has withdrawn about two miles from town, apparently somewhat demoralized by their repulse in two attacks during the last two days. Many Desert Escobar. Defections from the Escobar forces continue. About half of the garrison at Ojiniga, on the border. revolted, killed Lieutant-Colonel Raul Cardenas, the Escobar com- mander, and seized the town after a two-hour battle. Row of Tenements on 134th Street a. row of double-decker dumbbell apartments on E. 134th St. just off Fifth Avenue, Rents here range from $30 to $35. the garbage cans at the door-steps. —Photo by Nippon Camera Club. Notice A Block in Harlem—Flimsy, Disease-Festering, Common Toilets, Robber Landlords "4 BOURGEOIS BLOC INAUSTRIA MAKES FASGIST THREAT ‘Communists Pull Auto Workers Again on Strike Smash Fascist Parade Fascists Threaten Will March on Vienna (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) VIENNA, April 8.—The negotia- ions of the bourgeois parties have Ited in complete unity on the ‘asis of the previous government’s program. The bourgeois bloc di- rected demands, in the nature of an ultimatum, to the social democrats to be accepted by 5 p. m. yesterday. The chief of these was acceptance by the social democrats of the aboli- |tion of the legislation protecting | tenants. Should the social democrats re- ject these demands the bourgeois parties threaten a “strong hand,” meaning probably a government without parliament, i. e., a dictator- “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929 Wall Street’s President and His General Gen. Miguel M. Acosta, right, talking with President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico on the campaign against the reactionary in- surgents. Acosta won a victory over the insurgents in Vera Cruz. CANADA BARS FREIHEIT Gov't Refuses Explanation; Second Ban The Freiheit, Yiddish Communist ,ger clique down, is probably in- daily, has been barred from Canada. | volved in the plot to isolate the | Apart from an official announce-|militant Jewish working class in ment of the Canadian department of |Canada from the influence of the national revenue “prohibiting the |Communist lead in their day to day importation into Canada of the|struggles provided by the Freiheit. newspaper entitled ‘Freiheit,’” no| “The blow at the Freiheit, com- |reason for banning the Communist * |newspaper is givén by the Canadian | Laber Fakers Betray Strike. |government. At a late hour last The metal workers union has de- |Might a telegram sent by R. Salz- ship, Blind Negro Worker Making Only $10 craved the auto workers strike off, |mann, business manager of the a Week Pays $35 tor Rooms By SOL AUERBACH. Il. {Peake is a Fifth Avenue in Harlem, too. It is not a broad sweeping street, oily with traffic nor stretching skyward in stories of luxurious business offices and high class apartment stores. This Fifth Avenue is bumpy and cobbled in some places. It ex- tends towards the sky in five or six story buildings, which offer a menacing front, for they look as tho they might give up aspiring toward the sky and crumble. Fire-escapes zigzag their fronts, and dingy stores line the pavement. There, are corner fruit stands and some peddlars carts buzzing with flies, Cross this Harlem Fifth Avenue and walk east along 134th Street. Beware of the slop and muddy puddles on the sidewalk, as you turn to look at the gloomy candy factory across the street and at the row of | It had been raining and the brick side- | dark warehouses at your side. walks ooze water into revulets and baby lakes. Refuse cans and garbage pails line the street. Here and there a bundle of slop has broken open and coughed out its contents on the pavement. This slough-tray which is called a street has been turned into a playground by Negro children.. A group of girls with jumping ropes, shouting and laughing, plats flying, jump past you. You catch a glimpse of black stockings torn at the knee, turned over shoes, and coats com- jing out at the elbows. Slapped in beside the warehouses there is a row of red-brick house fronts. A brick extends its jagged edge here and there. There is a gaping hole where bricks once rested. The mortar has become so decayed that it looks like ridges of bed-rock? The windows are lop- sided; sashes all out of joint; corners of glass missing; window ledges are weather-beaten and worm-eaten. On the Fifth Avenue of the rich, fronts rise smooth and straight as the glistening roadway itself. Here, off the Fifth Avenue of Harlem, the sloppy street is continued into the house fronts. Doors, hanging loose on their hinges, are wide open. You step up two wobbly steps, past a vestibule door with glass missing and you are in No. 16 East 134th Street. * * * F you had come-here to find anyone in particular you would have to knock at every one of the eight “apartments” in the four story house, for there are no door-bells and the mail boxes look like pigeon’s nests. And if there were mail boxes and bells with names on them you would not be able to see them for lack of light. You enter a gloomy hallway. There is a gas jet jerked away in the corner but no light. You have a sense of walls which were once painted green. You know that, not because you can see the actual color of the paint thru the grime, but because you see patches of plaster with the edges of peeling paint sticking out into the dim light from the doorway. On the hall floor you scrape pieces of paper along as you walk. You grope your way up a narrow wooden stairway. The steps creak painfully, and their edges are worn smooth and round. You see the hint of a light thru the glass panes of a door at the end of the hall on the second floor. As you walk towards it the stench which you have just caught as you entered becomes more pronounced. You trace it unmistakeably to a door half open at the end of the hall, between two closed doors which lead to apartments. It is the community toilet. There are no windows to this cubby-hole. The floor is slimy and scattered with paper which has been used. The seat of the toilet is broken. The drain does not work right and water rises to the very brim when you pull the string. This has apparently not been cleaned for some time and not repaired for years. You knock at the door to your right. You are introduced into the home of a Negro worker in Harlem, in the largest city of the most “prosperous” country in the world. * * * | without any gain to the workers. | Paper, demanding an explanation re- The Communist Party appealed to mained tnans red. |the workers to continue the strike, Second Ban. and, upon the rejection of the de-| Mass pressure in Canada and the |mands of the workers, who went United States forced the Canadian | back last Monday only in order to | government to revoke its ban on the |hold meetings at which new demands |Freiheit last July. The official ex- |were formulated and presented to |cuse for the ban at that time was the employers, they went out on|the “undesirability” of a paper strike again. {which published a cartoon on the The bourgeois press unanimously fascist Nobile expedition, by Mau- declares that the Communists are Tice Pass. Z responsible for the strike, The con- | “Plan General Attack. tinuation of the strike against the} “This is only part of a general wishes of the reactionary officials | attack on the Communist of the unions have depressed the |Salzmsnn declared yesterday, ‘o- social democrats greatly, {day it is in Canada—tomorrow it | ee may reach the United States. The Fascists Threaten March. lentire labor _bureaucracy, from the | Last Sunday there were collisions “Forward” McGrady-Woll-Schlesin- ing at a time when the working class is organizing new, militant in- | dustrial unions and abandoning the | treacherous craft cliques of the A. Y. of L., is especially significant. “But class-conscious workers of Yanada and the United States, knowing the value of the Freiheit, will not meekly accept the decisions | of bureaucrats of the master class, however much they may be aided by yellow reformist leaders of the A. F. of L. The entire North American work- ing class will support the Freiheit. Especially in Canada, where the edi- tor of “Der Kampf,” the Yiddish Communist newspaper was recently arrested for speaking in Yiddish at a public gathering—where the Can-| adian government is pursuing a sys- |tematic policy of attempting to | stifle all organs of militant working | |class expression—the workers will ‘fight back.” |again between the workers and fas- | |cists. In Hallein, in Salzburg, the | \Ifeimwehr (fascisti) parade was [INJUNCTION ON {broken up by the Communists. There were serious collisions in| |Krems, near Vienna, where the Heimwehr had organized a parade. The Heimwehr leader, Pfreimer, fect tts a, MOUSE WRECKERS | openly reactionary policy must be | |sellowed and that if even a pact| Lemporary WritIssued; jwith the social ‘democrats is made Case Is Argued Today the Heimwehr will organize a march | jon Vienna, It became known last night to the House Wreckers’ Union that the De- molition Association, the contrac- tors” organization with its 150 jobs tied up by the strike of 1,800 house wreckers, has only $700 left in the treasury with which to fight ifs em- ployees. These facts were reported 1.000 WALK OUT Police Slug Many, Jail | _The president of the bosses 18 Pickets ciation, Morris alles, su however, in getting his court writ The hitherto ” asso- for a restraining order served impregnable wall) Charles Glenn, a union delegate. stores fell with a crash as the clerks Court building where he had to be jin many of these stores thruout New| on union busines: The writs are York answered yesterday’s general! for a temporary injunction against strike call of the Retail Grocery,!the union, and the union is called Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union. Be-;¢o be present today at 10 a. m. in fore the day was over, over 1,000|the Supreme Court, Part 1, “to workers from non-union stores had | show cause why it should not be Haat themselves on strike. | made permanent.” early every union store had signed 4 4 up, renewing the agreements aoa Walles Is Labor Traitor. demanded. | The union attorneys are Rice and Police Club Strikers. McGuire, 122 W. 43rd St. The De- Many strikers, victims to police ceeded, |* on presented by the open shop fruitiGlenn was caught at the Municipal |” WIR BEGINS DRIVE TO AID STRIKERS Tag Days to Be Held April 12-14 The mobilization of all the forces of the Workers International Relief to raise funds for the southern te |tile workers, now on strike, was an- nounced last night by Alfred Wagen- knecht, national secretary, Workers | | International Relief. | “The strike region which now centers around Gastonia,” said Wa- genknecht, “where 3,000 workers are | striking under the leadership of the | Textile Workers Union, | 150,000 textile workers. | ational Textile Workers Union | read the strike to the 100- | ctor around Gastonia. The \strike is spreading daily, hundreds of workers joining the National Tex- tile Workers Union, This increas |the responsibility of the Workers International Relief, which will have to furnish relief for the ever-grow- ing body of striking workers. Eight thousand textile workers are at | present on strike. | Revolt Against “Stretchout.” | “The rebellion of the southern tex- \tile workers against starvation | | molition Association's lawyer is J.|wages and the speed-up system may |fe | now various cities thruout the country. WORKERS IN THREE MORE ~ SOUTHERN MILLS WALK OUT "AS STRIKE WAVE SPREADS Workers International Relief Opening First Station; Labor Defense on Scene Farmers Aid Strike; Official “Mediators” Fail in Efforts to Crush Walkouts /-GENT FARE T0 STATE COURTS Supreme Court Evades Je Decision on Steel WASHINGTON, April 8. — The Supreme court of the United States today overruled the decision of the three judge federal court rendered a few months ago, deciding that the decision to grant the Interborough Rapid Transit Company a seven-cent | fare was illegal, and that the dir work of taking four to eight cents more a day away from New York} workers should be done in the state courts, to which the case is now re-| turned. | I. R. T. stocks fell in value on the New Yor Stock Exchange nineteen points when the ruling was announced. They had gone up in value recently under pressure of ru- mors that the increased fare would | be allowed by the supreme court. Justice McReynolds, who read the | opinion of the court, objected to considering the I. R, T. and B.-M. T. holdings as one company for pur- poses of the suit, and held that the supreme court did not consider the five-cent fare confiscatory. General public resentment against the subway steal has recently been made more extreme by publication of figures of big subway profits on the five-cent fare, by extra bad ser- vice, and state commerce depart- ment figures showing that the sub- | way company was charging as op-| for propagandize the (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, N. C., April 8.—In line h plans to up all mills ing to the ( anville- w ! the ational Te declared strik against the High Shoals pl Manville- Co. and against the Chad- skins mill in P: ille, nine he work- kins Mill, anizer Fred E. Beal re 1 the general strike weeping the South. his mill are to go on strike today. To Call Out 15 Mills. When the day shift employed in the High Shoals plant of the Man- ville-Jenckes Co. completes its day’s work and leave the looms, no night shift will stream in to keep the looms running. The strike here begins ‘en. Preparations are ng completed for the calling out of at least 15 mills before this week ends, these being fi steps in that di- rection. Meanwhile word is received that another mill in South Carolina is crippled by a strike of a large frac- tion of the operatives. This oc- curred yesterday in the Orr Mills at Anderson, where the strike against the bigger Anderson mills is still going on. Despite the menacing presence of the five companies of troops here, the spirit of the strikers is tremend- ously high. W. I. R. on Scene. Determination. of the striking |erating expense the money used to/| thousands in the Loray Mill here seven-cent | was stiffened still more by the com- fare, amounting to millions of dol-|ing in of the Workers’ International lars. Duncan Troupe Will Perform Two New Dances in Farewell Two new tfumbers, never per- formed before, will be on the pro-|national Labor Defe: gram of the Isadora Duncan Danc-| defending | Relief. Amy Schechter, sent down |here from the national headquarters of that organization in New York, has already arranged for relief headquarters and will soon be ready to open, according to her statement. Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, has also come into the tike bearing offers of the Inter- to assist in arrested. the stril ers when they make their farewell| During his stay here he has already appearance in New York City at)arranged for an attorney to appear Manhattan Opera House, 34th and Eighth Ave., on April 18, 19 |20 and 21, The two new numbers are called “Young Guard” and “Pioneer March” and are said to be among the bést in the entire repertoire of these remarkable young Soviet dancers, Hundreds of New York workers are preparing to give the Duncan Dancers a rousing welcome when they return to this city. They are| in Montreal, having toured As on their previous appearances, the Duncan troupe will perform in this city by special arrangement with the Daily Worker. Tickets are already much in demand and should be bought at once at the office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Seed NEW CARPENTER WAGE SCALE NEWARK, N. J. (By Mail).—Ef-| All effort: -|for the arrested strikers in court. Farmers Aid. Farmers in the surrounding coun- tryside come into town expressing the greatest sympathy for the strik- ing workers. Though fearfully im- erished themselves, they never- theless volunteer provisions for the P are under The Loray local of the N. T. W. uing mimeographed leaflets te r the venomous full page ads appearing in the Gastonia Gazette, which actually call for violence against the s e leaders. ‘The union calls on the strikers to pre- pare themselves for attacks by the organized business interests. * * * Official Strikebreakers Fail. GR VILLE, S. C., April 8.— of mill owners and de- ctive May 1, a scale of $1.50 an partment of labor “mediators” to end |and thug clubbings, were later ar-|Leon Fred. This Walles, now head |ceyelop into the largest strike in| hour and $12 a day, with a five-day the dozen strikes now on in this state rested. Committeemen informing workers of non-union stores of the strike, were severely beaten by po- lice, who then arrested the strikers, (Continued on Page Five) of the bosses, and the man who ap- {he history of the industry. The week, will go into effect for organ-|have failed. Workers stick to their plied for the injunction, was once process of rationalization in the|ized carpenters in Essex County.|demands. Stri} are also becom- the organizer of Local 95, House |southern textile mills and the effi-|The scale also provides for an in-|ing insistent in their demands on Wreckers’ Union. Like others of|ciency schemes of the employers, |crease to $13.20, beginning next Oc- | their strike committees to ally them- (Continued on Fase Five) (Continued on Page Five) \tober 1. sel with the National Textile You enter the kitchen in the wife of a Negro worker. of $33 per month. in this five-roomed coop. ROME, April 8 (UP),—Augusto ‘Turati, general secretary of the fas- cist party, sent a circular to women fascist leaders today lamenting the fact that members of “young and little Italian girls organizations” All the “rebel” troops at Palomas |wear excessively short gowns, caus- also mutinied and went home. ing unfavorable criticism, The apartment runs the length of the house. (Continued on Page Three) FASCISTS WORRY OVER SKIRTS | home of Mrs. Ethel Williams, the Mrs. Williams is a tall lanky woman, and you get to know her and her surrounding better when she lights the small oil lamp on the table. “We have gas,” she says, pointing to an iron-pipe fixture drop- ping into the room from the ceiling. want to warm up some milk quickly for my baby.” Gas is too expensive when the coal stove burns. pe The walls of the kitchen are no different than the walls in the hall. She points out places on the wall and ceiling near the water pipes, where the. dirt-green paint has come off and the plaster is crumbling. On the floor, propped up on some pillows is an infant playing with his brother who is only a few years older. around over the coal stoye which takes up the most part of a wall. Mrs. Williams knows that she lives in no place and is indignant at the condition of this hovel of five rooms for which she pays a rental “But I only use the gas when I An older girl is pottering She, her husband and four children have lived here for three years. She sublets a part of her “apartment” to a couple. Eight people live There are two DISCRIMINATE FOR SCABS SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail).— Premier Bavin of New South Wales has introduced a bill in the state parliament to give preferential treat- ment in seniority rights to 850 rail- way strikebreakers in return for their services to the bosses in the 1917 general strike, | | Workers’ Union strike movement. Shop Brigades, Flying Squad | | | | To help double the number of subscribers to the Daily Worker | by May 1, the militant workers in the Chicago district have pledged | to do their part, and more. To go over the top in raising its quota of 850 new subscribers, District 8 (Chicago) will form shop brigades, to cover the shops and factories in the District; flying squads will sell the Daily Worker “on the fly” in the business streets and the proletarian neighborhoods. A Red Press Sunday Distribution is also planned. Here is the call sent out to all militant workers in the District 8: To all Section Executive Committee Secretaries; To all Secretaries of Units; To all Daily Worker Agents. . Dear Comrades: A country-wide Subscription Drive to double the circulation of the Daily Worker has been launched by the National Office. The quota for District 8 is Eight Hundred and Fifty (850) new subscribers. Three very important steps are outlined for the building up of the Daily Worker in Chicago, These measures must be acted upon at once at section executive and shop and street nuclei meetings. or more factories every week with copies of the Daily Worker for sale and distribution. Members of units who are not factory workers are requested to make up the “Shop Brigades.” Factory workers on the other hand, should make up the flying squads. 2—FLYING SQUADS—To sell Daily Workers “on the fly” in the business streets and in proletarian neighborhoods. Every unit must A 1—SHOP BRIGADES—Every unit must undertake to cover one | s in Chicago District for Daily Factories Will be Covered in Intensive Drive; Plan House to House Canvass recruit a group of comrades under the direction of a competent leader for this work. The group splits up and marches on both sides of the street while the leaders shouts slogans thru a megaphone for the sup- port of the Daily Worker and the “flying squad” sells our paper to the passersby and workers who come to the doors and windows. 38—RED PRESS SUNDAY DISTRIBUTION AND SUBSCRIP- TION DRIVE—a. House to house canvass of proletarian neighbor- hoods for regular paid subscriptions. | b. Securing names of workers who WISH to receive a two weeks free trial subscription. (Emphasis must be placed on the aim of send- | ing our paper only to workers who express a desire to read it.) The Section E. C. should designate some Sunday in each month as f ict Sunday and notify the ection membership to respond to the call. Section secretaries, unit secretaries, and Daily Worker agents should communicate with the district Daily Worker manager at once and make arrangements for the carrying out of these plans. Our district went over the top in the Emergency Drive. We sayed our “Daily.” Now we must nourish it and make it grow. Let us put the national subscription campaign over in Chicago. \ A Daily Worker agents’ conference has been called for Friday, April 12, 8 p. m., at headquarters. Every unit must be represented by its Agent without fail. S. A. KRIEGER, Daily Worker Agent. oi. WILLIAM F. KRUSE, Organizer District 8, reception given the news that the Workers’ International Relief is al- |ready establishing the first relief store. The strikers here, still un- affiliated, have not organized any relief machinery, | Particularly impressive was the TENNESSEE FAKERS MEET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail).— |The misleaders of the Tennessee |State Federation of Labor will hold their convention here May 13, 14 and 15, The head of the state fed- jeration is Aymon, who helped sell out the rayon strikers in Elizabeth- | ton. Turn to Page 3 And read the first installment of “The Lawbreakers,” a short story by Lydia Seifulina, the out- standing woman writer of the Soviet Union. This story de- scribes with unusual vividness and humor the life of the so- called “homeless waifs,” whose welfare is the constant concern of the workers’ and peasants’ government. Follow this story every day-in the Daily Worker, i" ies