The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 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 ly Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 187! Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, inc., SUBSCRIPTION RAT Ontside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ew York, by mail, $8.00 per ye: & Union Sq., New York, N. 300 MORE CL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 192 ERKS ADDED TO STRIKE OF F STRIKE 3 MORE TEXTILE MILLS IN THE SOUTH 300Demonstrate Before Manville-Jencks Loray Factory Will Assist in Tag Day of Workers Relief GASTONIA, N. C., (Head- quarters of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union Strike Committee), April 9—Three more mills in nearby towns are shut down by strikes of work- ers determined to stop the speed-up and improve stand- ards of living. 300 workers demonstrated today at the Loray mills of the Man- ville-Jenckes Co. Congratulations from the New Bedford textile lo- cals, from the International Labor Defense and the Workers Interna- tional Relief were enthusiastically welcomed by the strikers. All pre- viously on strike are standing fast, and the morale is good. One of the new strikes is spon- taneous and shows the rapidly grow- ing sentiment for resistance on the part of the workers in this vicinity. Enough men quit at the Wennonah Cotton Mill at Lexington to stop the plant. They are rapidly organ- izing and calling on those still at work to come out. Pineville On Strike. The Pineville strike, against the Chadwick-Haskins mills, which a large mass meeting last night de- cided upon, after hearing the ad- dress of Fred Beale, organizer of the National" Textile Workers” Union, came off according to sche- dule this morning. Plant No. 5 of the Chadwick Haskins company tried to start work with a small force, but a vig- orous mass picket line is doing its work, and the strikers feel confi- dent that those on this shift will quit before the next shift starts. The strike is rapidly spreading through all departments of the mills in Pineville, Defy Militia. The demonstrations before the Manville-Jenckes Loray mills is the largest attempted yet in this South- ern territory. About 2,000 are striking, and mass picketing has been carried on by two or three hun- dred workers at a time up to now. The demonstration was conducted in the face of five companies of national guardsmen, open appeals to violence by the companies in their paid advertisement in the local pa- pers, many threats against the lives of the strike leaders, and several arrests already made. Several hundred workers are on strike at the Florence Mills, Forest City, as a result of distribution here of strike leaflets prepared for Gas- tonia and brought to Forest City by Gastonia strikers, wages and are perfecting their or- ganization after coming out of the mills. One mass meeting has been held and another is in preparation. The Workers Iniernational Relief opened its first relief store today. Amy Schechter is here as the repre- sentative of the National Office of the Workers International Relief. “The situation is critical,” she stated. “The company store system (Continued on Page Three) LOCKOUT BUILDING WORKERS. | OIL CITY, Pa. (By Mail).— Building workers of the L. A. Bou- quin Company here, numbering 250, have been locked out. They are de-! manding a 20 per cent increase in| | | | | { | Whalen Police Attack and Arre st _ Large squads of police, mounted. cops and plain clothes men attempted to break up the mass picket- ing demonstration of striking restaurant workers, members of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Two strikers were knocked unconscious and taken to Bellevue. Photo shows strikers being jammed into police wagons. Workers Union, Monday. Many workers were beaten. Striking Restaurant Workers : ~ STRIKERS COMING TO NEW YORK FOR “TAG DAY" DRIVE \Delegation from Caro- lina Textile Strike Here Today Will Speak at Meetings | Relief Stores Reply to Starvation Threat Arriving in New York tomorrow morning, the strikers’ delegation will begin its campaign immedi- ately, The strikers will speak at meetings in New York during the tag day dr tion are going on strike. The mill owners have boasted that starvation will bring the strikers back, but they reply that they know they will re- ceive aid from union workers of the north. ‘The first relief store has al- ready been established here by the Workers International Relief. To furnish food for the strikers of the South as well as for the des- and Ohio, tag days will be held Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, under the auspices of Local N. Y. W.I. R., Room 221, 799 Broadway. All work- jers and sympathizers of the strik- ing textile workers and the starv- ing coal miners should volunteer as collectors. t Republican Politician Robs _ Negro Tenants of “Higher Class” Harlem Apartments Vermin - Infested Rooms, Dumbwaiters That Don’t Work, High Rents . By SOL AUERBACH. Il. A. JOHNSON, who ran for congress on the republican party ticket last November, owns a block of houses on the odd side of the 2300’s on Seventh Avenue, We will have to call the tenants living in the five-story tenements between 2323 and 2337, by letters X, Y, Z, because they have been so intimidated by the landlord that none of them would pose for pictures. “The landlord will raise my rent if he recognizes me in that picture,” said Mrs. X. The specific picture we wished to get was one of Mrs. X bending down and removing a whole wooden panel from the wall, to show the dilapidated condition of the walls. When we had asked her whether the landlord had made any improvements in the apartment recently she bent down and pulled the wall apart, He’d Die First “He'd die before he would do anything here. a $10 raise then he’ll do something.” This same republican politician, who makes a living by exploiting the Negro tenants to the limit, was full of promises to the Negro work- ers while campaigning in Harlem. NS! If you will accept Mrs. X lives in a seven-room apartment in the old law tenement at 2337. An old law tenement is one built before the Tenement Law of 1901 went into effect. According to this law this row of houses should have been condemned long ago. But that only shows the uselessness of laws passed by a capitalist legislature controlled by the landlords, the real estate men and others of that kind, This row of houses is nothing but a fire-trap. There is an “excuse” for fire escapes, but no fire escapes. In the rear of the building there is an iron balcony for each floor, but there is no way of getting from one balcony to another since no steps connect them. In case of fire all the tenants would be trapped, for the mai nstaircase in the hall is narrow, made of wood, and actually rotting. Must Take Lodgers To add to the danger, the floors are rotten and dried up, none of the rooms are fire-proof, and the walls are about ready to fall apart. For seven rooms in this house Mrs. X pays $52 per month. She has lived there for 10 years, which is probably an inducement for the landlord for he has not raised the rent recently as he threatened to do. In order to be able to pay this rent, Mrs. X., who works as a servant Continued on Page Four All members and sympathizers in |the textile and knitgood industries jare called upon to raily behind the ose | | UNIONS JOIN IN tag day drive for aid of striking textile workers and miners in a MAY DAY PLANS: | |statement issued by District 4 of |the National ‘Textile Workers’ adi. | “District 4, of the National Tex- United Front Meet to tile Workers’ Union, calls upon all | | Be Held Sunday a Le I ° which have not already elected dele- NEW BEDFORD gates to the United Front Confer- ence, to be held next Sunday, April 14, at Irving Plaza, to make ar- FR TUEL MEET Day celebration. are urged to do so | without del Send in the names Toe s lof your delegates to.the May Day | Build Shop Committees Committee, District 2, Communist | + Square, immedi.| iN Steel, Coal, Rubber ately, together with a contribution beciaw toward the expenses of the celebra- aor textile workers’ organization prom- ise of complete support comes to participation in making this year’s |Labor Unity, organ of the Trade (Continued on Page Five) |Union Educational League, which is ; for the National Trade Union Unity Conference, scheduled for June 1 in | Many Delegations Coming. | Active preparations continue for CARINET TOTTERS Wits Se representation from the striking BERLIN, Germany, April 9.—|{eXtile districts of the south, say | tottering towards its fall, the Ger-|ficials, and from the heavy indus- man police tonight announced wide-| ‘ties of the west, middie west and imen were said to have been “in.|ivon, steel and rubber industries of volved in a political conspiracy.” No|the United States, and is close to | Union, which follows: U (Continued on Page Five) All working class organizations rangements for the coming May Party, 26° Union Squ: From the fighting New Bedford | Assurances of active support and ye cne of the strongest publicity agents eennuad sy’ DEITCH FCOMALIST? cases the convention on June 1-2, This With the social democratic cabinet| trade Union Educational League of- | spread arrests of Communists, ‘The north. It is keld in the heart of the | further details were disclosed by the | the coal centers, from which the Na- pallees |tional Miners Union is preparing to * * * send strong delegations. BERLIN, Germany, April 9—)| A-large part of the conference The probability that the social dem-/ will be made up of delegates from ceratie government might resign be-| recently organized shop committees cause of-a hitch in negotiations to|in the as yet non-union mills and form a “big coalition government”) shops. Special organizers are ac- | with the other major bourgeois par- (Continued on Page Three) | ties was reported by the socialist of- a | ficial press service today. LONDON, (By Mail).—Two rail- Workers Oppose Cruisers. |road workers were killed when the Under the leadership of the Com-|Newcastlé to York mail express munist, Party of Germany, the work-| crashed into a stationary light en- jing class thruout the country de-| gine at Darlington. nounced the original cruiser ap- propriation which the social demo- leratic Chancellor Mueller uphéld. |Fear that the situation will lead to (Continued on Page Three) We have seen above that the first step In the revolution by the work- ing class ix to raise the prol to the position of ruling cl; win the battle of democracy. Max (Communist Manifesto) More textile workers in this sec- | titute coal miners of Pennsylvania | meeting is already assured a large | Says Nuorteva Gave Life for Working Class “Nuorteva w known the ‘Kalenin of Karelia’,” declared Alex- | ander Trachtenberg in an interview | with the Daily Worker yesterday. Discussing the activities of Santeri Nuorteva, president of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Republic who died a few days ago in Leningrad, Trachtenberg referred to him “one of the ‘old timers’ in the Rev- olutionary movement.” Forced to Leave Finland. When the Czar was forced to} grant a constitution to Finland, | psa: | SANTERI NUORTEVA | Nuorteva was elected a member o: | the first Finnish parliament by the | Revolutionary workers movement. | Later, as a result of the suppres- | sion of all radical organizations, Nuorteva was forced to leave Fin- land and came to the United States. | In this country, Nuorteva quickly mastered the English language and was active in both the Finnish labor organizations and in the American [labor movement generally. He was |an editor of, Finnish workers papers, and traveled and lectured extensive- ly. Joined Bolsheviks. | “When the Russian Revolution broke out, Nuorteva immediately took the side of the Bolsheviks and supported the Bolshevik program. In February, 1918, the Finnish work- ers government was established. Comrade Sirola, foreign minister of the Finnish Republic, appointed Nuorteva as representative in the United States. He immediately or- ganized the Finnish Information Bureau in New York. But he did not only help to make known to the workers the achievements in Finland but the Russian Revolution as a jwhole, | _ “When the Finnish workers repub- lie was overthrown by the white guards and thousands of Revolution- ists imprisoned or murdered, Nuor- Continued on Page Four “RED” CONGRESS IN PARIS ENDS PARIS, April The session of | the French Communist Party Con- jgress on Friday morning heard a |member of the Political Bureau of | the Party speak on the strengthen- |ing of French imperialism and the preparations for war. He declared that the Party was | too passive, that connections be- | tween the soldiers’ councils and the | factories must be strengthened, and that a “Red Day” must be organized with mass participation of workers’ | organizations. A youth delegate stressed the mass character of the Right wing danger and declared that Doriot’s (Continued on Page Three) | Dairy FINAL CITY EDITION _ Price 3 Cents 00D WORKERS CAFETERIA PICKETS OUT OF JAIL; GIVEN WELCOME; BOSS WANTS INJUNCTION Police and Gangster Sluggings Continue; Food Workers in Co All Union Shops S Firms Shut Down for Fir With the cafeteria workers < strike in spite of a terrific police cludes arrests and sluggings of p tion was heightened by addition o! and by settlements forced upen ° 35 Former Non-Union Stores Yield to Clerks Four strikers a number were beaten up by po and thugs, but the striking member of the Retail Grocery, Fruit and Clerks’ Union succeeded in were arrested and nA | extending their general strike till it \that cuts-a 14 | seven-day |s | ter £ agreements | permission from a mythical included 300 more workers, inc - ing the strike ranks to 1,300. The general strike began Monday at 10 m. Bs Stores Grant Demands. Thirty-five formerly non-union re- tail food stores were already com- pelled to come down to union head- quarters and sign up an agreement and 16 hour day, week into a 10-hour, ‘As was reported yes- day, all the stores struck because expired renewed the agreements, conceding a $5 a week wage raise to all worker Strikebreaking Activities. information of the arrests were coming into strike headquar- ters at 220 E. 14th St. yesterday, word of renewed strikebreaking ac- tivities by the United Hebrew Trades was also phoned in. A work- er had seen the notorious renegad: Rosenzw on Bathgate Ave., where a vicious group of open shop bosses are concentrated. It was later learned that he was busy persuading the open shoppers to grant recognition to his scab union and thus avoid the discomfort of better conditions for the slaves working there. Further proof that the socialist ads of the Hebrew Trades “Union” intend to fight the strike can be seen in the news story in the For- ward that the scab union obtained Be eh of L, “clerks’ international” to begin a drive among the clerks. The union conducting the strike now split away from the Hebrew Trades because of its treacherous policies, earning their constant enmity. All arrested workers are out on parole, to be trie’ in the 6th Magis- trate’s Court tomorrow morning. They : W. Breger and B. Roth, arrested at the Gingold Market, 22 E. 170th St.; Irving Essig, arrested at 170th St. and Broadway; and N. Matskin, arrested at the Berland Fruit Market, 160th St. and Union six-Nay week. | Ave., Bronx. Mn Communist Party to. Start Build-the-Party | Drive; See Page 4 | } _ The Central Committee of the | Communist Party has announced | a Paity-Building Campaign, to | begin April 15 and last two| months. The statement of the Central Committee will be found on page 4 of today’s issue. The statement, after quoting the Open Letter of the Commu- nist International on the situa- | tion in the United States and the tasks of the Party, outlines the | organizational measures _neces- sary for the achievement of these tasks, and sets the aims and quotas of the drive. * urageous Struggle ign Up With Clerks; Other Time firm and extending their gangster terrorism, which ine ickets, the New York strike situa- f 300 to the grocery clerks’ strike ) previously nen-union * Mass Meeting of Food Strikers Called Today wer Nearly all of 2 19 strikers sen- teneed Monda to a two day jail term by 1] te Gottlieb in Jef- ferson rned the strike he s had freed earlier in the day. One work- been i s a ten day sentence in a strikers yesterday rallied for a stub- conditions in the their pare born fight against the cafeteria bos: rment center. The owner of the New Way Cafeteria at 101 W. 27th st, has already applied for an in- union junction to prevent picketing. | A mass meeting of all cafeteria workers has been called by the Cafe- teria Workers Union for tomorrow |night at 8 o'clock in Irving Plaza, A full of 15th St. and Irving Place. report of the accomplishments the strike and discussion on br ening the strike into other di will be the chief q the meeting. Demand Indictment of Police. Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the Cafeteria Workers Union, yes- terday demanded of the district at- torney the indictment of mounted policeman 11124 for felonious as- sault. Meanwhile Albert Rescigne, the injured striker, sti lies in a very serious condition, according to last reports from Bellevue Hospital, Continue Slugging. Despite protests from the workers organization, police sluggings of strikers and the open thuggery prac- ticed by private detectives con- tinue unchecked. The Traffic Cafe- teria, at 38th St, and Sixth Ave., was again the scene of brutal as- sault Elmer Smith, a 19-year old bus- boy, employed there, who called on noon to the by t lu lugger ons the workers yesterc out with him and s slashed and beate and their hirec number of workers ite attempts cf the boss to hold them back. It was at this cigne, the victim ceived his beating from the mounted cossack. It was only late yesterday evening that Rescigne was in con- dition to be seen by the union of- |ficers and attorney. The following | statement of what happened was there obtained from him: | Striker Tells of Beatin | “While picketing the Traffi | teria I was chased with about 200 | others, strikers and other workers by a mounted cop. He swung his club again and again on my head. I fell and became unconscious. Other workers put me into a taxicab where t came to my senses a little. When T got to the union office, I again (Continued on Page Five) t struck afeteria that Res- 3ellevue, re- ELEVATOR OPERATOR KILLED. RED WING, Minn., (By Mail).— Anton Johnson, an elevator oper- ator, was killed in a fall down the ® shaft of the St. James Hotel. _ Our Reply to the Enemies of the Soviet Uni eA the Chicago millionaire. The American Federation of Lalor, through its pub- licity medium, the International Labor News Service, has FTER considerable investigation into and discussion of the entire matter, we have finally hit upon one plan to reply to the latest attack against the Soviet Union contained in the slanderous fiction serial story, “The Red Napoleon,” now appearing in “Liberty,” the weekly maga- zine owned by the same interests that publish the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. This poisonous propaganda openly provokes war against the First Workers’ Republic. The president of the corporation publishing the magazine “Liberty,” is none other than the renegade socialist, Joseph Medill Patterson, Help the Daily Worker Publish the Russian Novel, ‘Cement’ Page Six, The problem now is, ho’ | the Sovict Union! That is cl have come to the conclusion joined hands with the capitalist publishers, supporting their attack. This is pointed out in today’s editorial on against the Soviet Union must be met with the truth about The Editorial Staff and the Business Management the Daily Worker of the famous Soviet novel, “Cement,” be a splendid achievement. w to meet this attack! Lies | workers and peasants will pi | talist poison. early evident! | | There is considerable expen that the serial publication in as against the capitalist novel, “The Red Napoleon,” would In the Daily Worker the truth about the Russian rove an antidote to the capi- Two questions present themszlves, however: (1) ise involved in securing this novel, originally written in Russian, and, (2) a largely in- creased number of readers is necessary in order that the ni NAAN Se publication of the story ma Every new reader must bee truth about the Soviet Union on have the desired effect. me a propagandist for the y We have found that two birds can be killed with the same stone. A rapid stimulation of our Subscription Drive will make it possible to set aside sufficient funds to meet the expenses of publishing this novel. That means a little greater effort on the part of every reader. Will you help? 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