The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1929, Page 1

y . WORKERS! HELP IN 3 Daily matter at (he Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized tdi For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION For « Labot Party Entered aswsecond = —— Price 3 Cents APRIL 11, 1929 8.00 per year. New York, by mail, $6.00 per yenr. Published “dally ex: Publishing Ansneci: jal Daily Worker e, 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. G5 NON-UNION FOOD STORES SIGN IN 3 DAYS F. of L. Officials Already Busy at | Seab Work . | A= | Vol. VI., No. 31 CAFETERIA RALLY GASTONIA WORKERS ARRIVE TONIGHT DECIDES [N N.Y. FOR AID AS STRIKE STRIKE SPREAD SPREADS TO INCLUDE 20,000 BASKY, TROTSKYITE HAS THUGS ATTACK WORKERS; SWEAR OUT WARRANTS _ * Cannon Gangsters Stab Militant Worker; Use| Tammany Police; Attack USSR | Worker Stabbed Narrowly Escapes Death; Two 19 Arrests Yesterday | Delegations Arriving With Pleas for Unionization | 5 Days’ Jail for Striker Weisbord Addresses Meets; 500 Walk Out in Bridgeport, Conn., Mill The following are the outstanding events today of the textile strike movement, centering around Gastonja, N. C 1.—Strikers number 1,000 in Anderson, S, C., z Hills, N. C. Statement of the employers that the Forest Hills strike é . pi is settled are denied by the strikers in Picketing Call | 2.—Four Gastonia strikers arrive in New York, to address mass ae. | meetings and raise relief funds through the Workers International Relief for the strikers. 3.—Albert Weisbord speaks to enthusiastic mass meeting of thou- sands in Gastonia, defying the owners to start their lynching pre gram. 4.—Slanderous attacks on strike leaders and attempts to break the morale of strikers through hand bills distributed by the employers in Gastonia are laughed at by strikers. 5.—Five hundred in Bridgeport mill strike in spite of company union there. Others Brutally Beaten '50 More Open Shop| Women’s Section C. P. ai At a Trotskyist meeting Tuesday night at the Hungarian Stores Struck | Educational Society, 323 E. 79th St., the renegade, Louis | pire: ee ve Basky, expelled from the Communist Party for counter-revolu- ee tes Viena oh Gone tionary activity, pointed ou? militant workers to the police URGE RELIEF FOR and had them arrested and 65 settlements since the strike be- held in $1,000 bail on charges of gan. Fifty stores hitherto not af- panne eee These charges | fected by the strike call were struck carry with them 10 year jail terms | |when their workers walked out to if the accused workers are convicted. lt | he call of a union committee. Demands for spreading the strike of cafeteria workers, now confined to the garment man) turing area. are increasing as di ations of from cafeterias in other | grocery stores signed up yesterday | ~|with the Retail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union on the third day of the general strike, making Striking cafeteria workers, én their huge picket demonstration kers fron rias Monday, pushed aside police lines and clubs, and continued their sections of Greater New York come picketing despite the brutality of the police and thugs. Photo shows | to er their places of work section of picket line. and join the union. The question of i —— (spreading the, strike to other sec-| tions will be the chief object for de- | cision at the mass meeting tonight j at 8 o'clock of cafeteria workers at Strikers Tell Tale Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv- * ‘ | Sere | of Terrible Slavery | ing Place. A militant Hungarian worker, Matthew Holzbauer, was nearly fa- : 10 Arrested. tally stabbed, and is now in the hos-, WIR 3-Day Tag Drive) ‘this picketing work resulted in |the arrest of ten strikers, eight in | Brooklyn and 2 in the Bronx. They | are to be tried in the Coney Island “Elevator” Apartments in Harlem—-on Eighth Ave.; ae aa “in ° icket in Spite of Rain. | A story of the most intensive ex- Tenants Liye Next to IRT),f2-2cmyrey rece tian? nen co ers from picketing diligently all self- wages of $6 to $9 per week, was) |\Strike Wave Spreads Rapidly Thru South By KARL REEV (Representative of International Li se.) CHARLOTTE April 10.— service restaurants tied up by the told to a Daily Worker reporter yes-| A scab here drew a knife and tried Negro Workers Have Markets at Their —————--~ Se | Ee ee eee ioe aun ceetise @ Wetec ree Door-steps ; Plenty of Noise \is pital, two other workers were ter- ribly beaten up and arrested, and a number of others were also at- A . tacked by gangsters of the Troteky-|, 1°° Teed for relief for the strik-| on ath District Magistrates’ Courts Headed by ing textile workers becomes more | this Saturday. urgent every day. The four strik- Latest word from Flower Hos-|ers from Gastonia, N. C., who pital, where Holzbauer is, states | yeached New York yesterday to ap- | #,° ' that, although dangerously ‘injured, | eat for the suppct of the Neg | Which the Clerks’ Union had split, he will probably recover. The other |” Support of the New | are intensifying their strikebreaking two militant workers beaten and ar- | ¥°Tk workers, brought a message of | activities in both Brooklyn and the vested, James Lustig and Nicholas | Working class solidarity that must Kiss, were defended in court by the |be answered at once, a statement of International Labor Defense, repre-|the Workers’ sented by Joseph Brodsky, and were | . dared tard , released in $1,000 bail. If convicted |“ One® Yesterday. hs of felonious assault, with which they} “Friday, are charged by the renegades, they | will be tag days for the textile strik- may be sentenced to 10 years in jail. | ers, Opens Tomorrow ist renegade Basky. group, The reactionary socialist official- dom of the United Hebrew Trades, a central A. F. of L. body from arrived in New York City yester-/ers still in the Chadwick. day. Scheduled to speak at meet-/ mill at Pineville. The loc: ings of workers on conditions in the) L. Central Labor Council appealed South and the necessity for immedi-/to all members of the A.F.L. to ate relief for the strikers, they will| starve the strikers back to their also aid in the Workers’ Interna-) miserable $9 a week jobs today. Its tional Relief tag day campaign that cfficial solution passed today starts tomorrow. | states: | Cecil Burger, the youngest of the! “The council calls upon all na- delegation is 17 years of age, and tional and international unions, state has worked in the mills more than| federations of labor, city central la- two years as a doffer. His wages | bor unions and local unions affili- were $13 per week, above the aver- | ated with the American Federation age, for a 72-hour week. In addi- of Labor to withhold any financial tion, he often had to work on Sun- or moral assistance to the so-called day. Cecil looks like about ten years | National Textile Workers’ Union of of age. He says that most children Ame tca, of which Albert Weisbord have to begin work in the mills at/ is secretary.” | It advises everybody to “ignore Bronx. . Posing as a committee from “the Grocery Clerks’ Union,” carefully | failing to say whether they repre- | Harlem. sented the small scab union they Saturday and Sunday | maintain or the real union, A. Heller and Rosenzweig, U. H. 7. officials,| on ‘Fighth Avenue. Thousands of workers must euped ue Weis Fruit Market, Se bai At the hospital, Holzbauer said pie? if | Bronx, into signing an agreement that Fenyes had stabbed him and participate as volunteers. Reportat) with them, It was not till after not Kiss or Lustig, as the Trotsky-|'he station nearest your home or| the clerks employed here had been : place of work, obtain a box and get | ordered by the labor fakers to “fork | ** Iv. . |over” $12 y in the Daily Worker exposing housing conditions in The previous articles have described the vile conditions under which Negro workers, both on the east and west side, are forced to live. The present article deals with some apartments International Relief By SOL AUERBACH. ists charged. Attack Soviet Union. on the job,” the statement urges. The meeting, which was attended| “The striking textile workers of by about 20 Trotskyists, was held in|the south are appealing for help! crder to gontinue the vicious attacks | We must answer their cry. The tag apiece as union entry fees, that the non-union workers recognized who the “commitee” By this time the boss had HERE are “elevator” apartments in Harlem, too. These elevators rush along the streets past the second stories of the tenements on Eighth Avenue. BAloant The elevated trains roar over the Eighth Avenue tra been won over to the scab union, hooting Fevlcyi ihciaee wees. aia r a much younger age. c ybody : of the Cannon-Trotsky group |days arranged by the Workers In-| 4° large sign telling of a pact, ‘st and grime into the windows of the tenements, leaving a black ania ae icles Are Children,| the printed appeal” of the strikers against the Soviet Union and the |ternational Relief, Local New York, with the AwPisef Ls’ waachong over coat over the house-fronts. Bi sebat third of the workers @0d-toe‘snd them no money,” be- Stonianist. movernent. Above, 10) tum: its 760 Becadway, ust Bel cstone ~ : ere ee oe rae enews apy ine plentital aignery in the Loray ‘mills are children, cause “it might hurt the United militant workers protested vigor-|given the fullest co-operation of all : e s 3 on the rows of stands making up the open market that sprawls along Eighth Avenue up above 138th Street. Fruits, vegetables, fish are all doused with good supply of dirt before they find their way into the kitchens behind the sooty fronts. Four Strikers Assaulted. Four strikers were assaulted by under 16 years of age, according to Textile Workers” for these strikers the strikers. No attempt is made| to win their strike, to enforce the North Carolina laws| * * * prohibiting the employment of chil-| GASTONIA, April 10.—The tex- dren under 14. Many begin work in tile mill strike situation developed the mills at the age of from 10 to rapidly yesterday and today. 12. | Five hundred workers are on “I don’t know what I would live strike at Forest City, near Char- on,” said Iva Fulbright, one.of the |lotte. At Anderson, S. C., 1,000 strikers, when asked by a news-| have gone on strike under the lead- paper reporter if she could not go ership of the National Textile Work- cusly when Louis Basky, one of the | militant workers! speakers, began his attack upon the| “All other engagements should be Soviet Union, They were immedi-|postponed. Friday, Saturday and employers yesterday at the Burland) ately attacked by he Trotsky gang-|Sunday must be given exclusively | Fruit Market, Bronx. They are M.| sters with knives, and Holzbauer|to helping raise funds for the tex- | Novick, L. Berger, H. Rubacher and was badly hurt. 5 On the first day of the Fruit and Grocery Clerks’ strike for union recognition and improved working conditions, David Zaroff, shown here, was attacked by strikebreak- ing thugs at the Dyckman Frat Market, near the Dyckman St. I, R. T. subway station. Zaroff was so viciously manhandled that his eye was saved only by prompt medical attention. What a Piayground. tile strikers. The 8,000 workers now | M. Tauber. : | When the weather becomes hotter, flies buzz around the stands and insects, carrying disease germs, add their deadly work to the elevator dirt. In the evenings, after a day of busy marketing, the street looks Ise a dump, with refuse and papers piled ankle high. Imagine what a fine “playground” this is for the children, or what The gangsters then attacked the,on strike must be fed. The sttike | ee » . other militant workers, who de-|will spread, doubling, possibly treb- fended themselves with chairs and |ling our responsibility. Our task is TELL WRECKERS other furnishings of the meeting|plain. We must not shrink it! All room. The injured workers were|out for the tag days! Support the vorkers see ee : a fine boulevard this Eighth Avenue is for workers and their wives, back to her old home at Sylva, N. C. ers’ Union. At Pineville, N. C., the aa Pees co aarien woe peril: Seas ee Nhe T AR ITR after a day’s work, for taking a little stroll in a summer evening! pees rrr | Like many of the Southern textile | strike call of the N. T. W. U, was Bere ree licen Quite different than for those “tenants” living on River- (Continued on Page Five) answered 100 per cent. In Gas- ‘ment, general strike in the garment dis- side Drive, who have a river and a park all to themselves. tri tAsraiesuliio these wieketih Compare this Eighth Avenue with Grammercy Park in the center of the , which is carefully locked except for the nurses of those delicate little children who have the keys to the gates. You need no key to get into Eighth Avenue. You must be a (Continued on Page Three) came Soon a squad of police appeared, | Decision on the appeal’ for a per- activities, five arrests were made. day BOUT grotleers “cit” BERIEA eEeata and Basky pointed out the workers FEDER ALS NOW manent injunction against the house Sapios Constantinopolos, a striker othiey “tallia demonatratad eters to be arrested. Basky made charges | wreckers’ strike was promised yes- from the Zenith Cafeteria, arrested Tia probable that 20,000 workers ti for picketing several days ago, was ll by pahiriiapag ss © i Lustig. Lucas Basky, Louis’ father, Court Justice Henry L. Sherman, PL A NED Re Gee Seen oe made similar charges against Nich- who heard arguments on the appli- Magistrate Gottlieb in Jefferson Gen thia eae . olas Kiss, and Police Detective \cation of the demolition contrac- AWAIT DUNCAN TROUPE Market Court. He had been ar- j is Thomas McGuire against the Trot- tors’ association for an order re- rested previously. Harry Schneider, ee | - * ty | Strainin; Albert Weisbord, national secre- bing Holzbauer about. the jheast. Fighting Expected in| Union “Local 95, Monday. The iS ae day. Others were dismissed. Leon- Conferenen tary of the National Textile Work. Fenyes was held without bail. 0 judge tried to persuade the union to ard Rosen was re: ers’ Union, spoke yesterday to a charges were made by the militant) Naco meet with/the employers and arbi- Workers Look Forward lo Farewell Here missal, and fac strike tagline of several ihouaaeel workers, who refused to have re-- JUAREZ, Mexico, April 10.—New trate. were all of previous arre: i | ; to yesterday to Mayor Walker, for a ovation, He went into the entire When the case came up at the E. ye, today after official surrender) A™ contractor named Abraham|dora Duncan Dancers will appear ;2¢PUblic, has proved an inspiration court today. jpermit for the May Day parade and) program of the textile union, ex- 65th St. police station, Lustig and | of the town by reactionary forees. | Lessner trying to wreck two houses | q Rie tn Mew Glare by areca’ ak to thousands of workers. | demonstration, by Charles Zimmer- | plained the development of the Kiss were held in court over night,;| Qarlier in the day an adyancing|at South Second and Roebling Seles i zs ye Tickets for the fareweli appear- | ile thadl de uals ¢ the| am vice-president of the and in the morning were brought guard of federal soldiers from the| drove his scabs and some policemen rangement with the Daily Worker | ances of the Duncan froupe“AWuld. | ee ee ©\Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, pec ssity of solidarity of all work- before Magistrate Flood in the) south marched into the town and|into an attack on union pickets |has aroused great enthusiasm among be bought only at the Daily Worker | (Continued on Page Five) and Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of ers regardless of race, color or 121st St. and Sylvan Place court. | occupied the garrison which had|there, and when the pickets got the hundreds of workers, The memory |ffice, 26 Union Square, as the | GT NET AST a | the Independent’ Shoe Workers’ | creed, on a completely equal basis. Bail of 1,000 was furnished by the heen in clerical hands since the bat-j better of the struggle, drew a black-|of their previous appearances here | “Daily” receives a, percentage of} 3 DIE IN MEXICO WRECK | Union, and other labor organiza-|” qn the evening, Weisbord spoke of felonious assault against James }terday for tomorrow by Supreme OCCUPY JUAREZ sentenced to five days in jail by Weisbord Speaks. skyist, Edward Fenyes, for stab- the House Wreckers’ another picket was sentenced to one Delegates Elected to ) re a A formal application was made workers and received a tremendous course to capitalist courts. federal officials took charge of Jua-| Boss Swings Blackjack. The announcement that the Isa- built in the wor asants’|five arrested yesterday Omir Wanted iby the ee. Needle | South industrially, and told of the New York I. L. D., and the trial set! te of March 7, which the clericals|jack on them. He has been arrested at the beginning of the year i1 | the proceeds from all tickets it sells. | MEXICO CITY, April 1¢—(U.P.) | !°R® again. . Both, meetings wereon) faa for April 17. won, also, as were several workers found | fresh in the minds of all those who |Buy them at once and you'll be sure —Two federal soldiers a _brake- Fred Biedenkapp stated that the empty lot in back of the union head- ee | x oo # watching the attack, and among |saw them. The dancers will appear | of getting in, |man were killed and eight passen- | SRO? ape ales Hos Sone ee quarters along the tracks of the : | | Reactionaries Fleeing. jenpee ees eee |in Manhattan Opera House April 18, : gers injursd today whell a railway "Cl en way ay this Southern railroad. a E | MEXICO CITY, April 10.—The ie New Yor! uilding Trades | 19, 20 and 21. \é¢ *TL9 . trai vas’ derailed néar Fortin, | Yc8™ 28 the: e won many - 2 c | has endorsed the house} The Duncan Dancers are now con- | Daily Agents DISCUSS, | HA Nee Seeded mete Fortin, ‘tories over the bosses. Within the Spur On Lynchers. federal army under General Juan | Council : . R ere ane ¢ state of Vera Cruz. A faulty rail | Alamazan was reported to be follow-| Wreckers’ strike, and the Bricklay-|ciuding a brilliant national tour j . : F ‘ bay past few weeks we have forced 44, At night I spoke as representa- Mayl Campaign Friday phere de detad the wreck, ac- bosses to sign an agreement with tive of the International Labor De- ing closely the retreat of the reac- ers’ Union Council of the Five Bor- | which took thefn to the chief indus- i 5 shies reid [tionary army across Chihuahiua to- Oughs has officially decided to co- trial centers of the country. Bvecyel The May Day campaign) will be — the, unions. “This. agreement calla |fense; ‘and explained why the newss 5 day. It is expected that the reac-|perate with the house wreckers and | where they were received by work- | discussed at the meeting of Daily |, The working cinss cannot simply |£F observance of all holidays, in-/papers are trying to stir up. the — tionaries will evacuate the whole|Prevent the use of any second-hand |ing class audiences with acclaim. | Worker Agents ofgSection 3, Com- | imz.,nold, of the ready-made state CCOnt ec ions BAG ee ive) Population to a lynching piteh SV : ; c Wane el : . " 0 machinery, and wield it for its own against the strike leaders. The state within a few days, taking up brick at all while this strike is|'The art of these young Soviet dan-|munist Party, at 101 W. 27th St., |Purposs....Dhis new Ci e (Part: e ‘ . py . : Tammany Planned to their main line of defense in moun-| £0ing on. cers, nurtured on the new life being! at 6:15 p. m. tomorrow. ’ Commune)’ breaks the modern state Harlem Tenants Will America Legion is conducting, < potrer,—Marx, through speakers that travel around the town, a series of inflammatory speeches against the strike leaders, whom they call “foreign, outlaw, Red Russians,” and the usual line of slanders, Every day the mill owners give {out dozens of different kinds of leaflets, reflecting their panicky tainous Sonora. Hit Republicans Protest Housing Evil at Meeting Today The Harlem Tenants’ League, an organization of working class tenants, working jointly with the Daily Worker in fighting the rob- bery of the landlords, will have The main army of General Asco-| Tammany city and state officials|bar (reactionary), about 3,000 men, | : e e | were actively planning yesterday to|is reported to be planning to escape e capitalize the 7-cent fare decision of |through the defiles of the Sierra ou 5 @ 0 1é the U, S. supreme court, throwing | Madre. H pea NSN LSS NET, the whole case back to the state} Meanwhile it is reported from | courts. Tammany will claim this| Juarez that many reactionary of-) as a “victory” for Mayor Walker, |ficers have changed their Mexican) : it i i i i | “ ” and “ ‘i » i ‘ |state. One of these leaflets tells though it is practically certain that |money into American and have re-/ "THE authors of the two novels, “Cement” and “The Red Napoleon,” | School. At the end of six months, I pas: saminati its regular meeting next Monday | *tate- “ } the state courts, at a suitable time | moved their goods to the American T are typical of the countries from which they come. Feodor day-scholar. I hecame initiated Sars into serpaieaky as. 8 p. m. in the lecture room of | OW they love the workers: “Come after the election, will see the “re-| side of the line preliminary to their! Vasilievich Gladkov, the author of “Cement,” depicting life in the tivity. I went to Kuban. There I was active among the pana he Public Library at 103 W. (CORRIGY ON RROCS Sanaa grettable necessity” for taxing the | own flight. | F iz Soviet Union as it is, was born in 1883, in the village of Chernavka, | e 135th St, workers four to eight cents more a Pe oe | province of Saratov, district of Petrovsk, a member of a family of | All tenants are invited. Turn this meeting into a monster mass meeting. The speakers will be Richard Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants’ League; Grace Camp- bell, vice-president; Elizabeth Anderson, secretary, and Sol Auerbach, of the staff of the Daily Worker. democratic groups. Sought by the authorities, I took flight to Transbaikalia, where I fell into the hands of the police. “Result: three years’ exile on the banks of the Lena. Then I | returned to Kuban, where, as a Communist, I took part in the Civil War from beginning to end.” - The fiction serial, “The Red Napoleon” is now being published in the weekly magazine, “Liberty.” It is spreading its vicious un- | truths about the Soviet Union. The truth as Gladkov writes it in his book “Cement” must be spread through the Daily Worker. We announced yesterday that the publication of this book serially in the Daily Worker would be pos- sible if sufficient subscriptions would be received in our present drive for new readers, to enable us to put aside sufficient funds to meet the cost of translation and the privileges of publication. We leave it up to our readers. Shall the novel, “Cement” be published serially in the Daily Worker as a powerful reply to the “Liberty's” provocative Anti-Soviet se IMPERIALIST RELATIVE DIES PARIS, April 10.—(U.P.)—Col. Alex Fournier, son-in-law of the late Marshal Foch, died of a heart attack on a train today while return- ing from a sanitarium near Cler- mont-Ferrand. Fournier, who was gassed in the war, was accompanied by his wife and Madame Foch, day for riding to work and back. See Fighting at Naco. poor peasants. He suffered many years imprisonment for his revo- Worked Both Ways. NACO, Ariz, April 10.—All sa-| lutionary activities and finally took part in the Great Revolution It is whispered ground the city | loons and sporting clubs in Naco, | that established the Soviet Power. hall by those in the know that if | Sonora, Mexico, were ordered closed Floyd Gibbons, the author of “The Red Napoleon,” that seeks the I. R. T. loses its tokens, or has |today, indicating that the federal! to provocate war against the Soviet Union, sprang from the petty to store them for a while, the Tam- | garrison believed another clerical as-| bourgeoisie of the middle western United States, was cradled in the many bunch is also having to scrap | sault was impending. lap of capitalist journalism as it is known in the editorial offices a lot of printing and press agent |. of the Chicago Tribune, blossoming into a war correspondent of stuff, for, counting on a victory by| FRENCH SEND KELLOGG PACT | Wall Street imperialism. the subways, they had planned to| PARIS, April 10.—(U.P.)—The On the one hand, Gladkov, seeking to interpret the life of work- capitalize that as a wicked attack | French ratification of the Kellogg ers and peasants in the Soviet Union, building the new social order, on he people of New York by the treaty for renunciation of war,, on the other, Gibbons, the’ intellectual serf of capitalist journalism, - republican party. Either way, Tam- sealed and signed by Foreign Min-| fighting against the Soviet Union with all the power possessed by many meant to use it in the elec- | ister Aristide Briand ‘and President| poisoned propaganda featured in a publication with a huge circulation. tions. Gaston Doumergue, was despatched Gladkov writes of his own experiences as follows: The Winslow injunction will be tonight by diplomatic courier to| “The first murmurs of the revolution (1905) began to sound. —_— MAYBE HE I COUNTERFEITERS ELECT PARIS, April 10.—(U.P.)—Police GENEVA, April 10.—(U.P.)—An held an insane bus conductor to- international conference for suppres- night after the man had inquired sion of counterfeiting, organized for the way to the office of Premier | work at its opening session here to- Raymond Poincare with the an- 4s =) | We will watch the subscriptions | day, electing Hugh Wilson, American | nounced intention of killing the quashed@n a day or 80, | pw Washington, z ae Instead of Moscow, I went to Tiflis, where I entered the Normal | that roll in from day to day for the answer, ~ baer | minister to Berne, vice-president, | premier, o ‘ é Ce . 2 ?