The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929 ~ “ UPHOLSTRY FIRM WOR OF Pennsylvania EPT| Silk Mills Stopped by Strike of the National Textile Workers Union rs Dying After Subway Cave-In UP MUSTE FAKE ‘PROGRESSIVES’ “Follow Communists,” | | iu eo | Seein Wo ‘ld On Riches Ground from Workers GALHOUN SHOWS ”*cts Wer > The millions which the late German steel magnate, Hugo Stinnes, ground from the bodies of thousands of workers are now enabling his daughter Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes to lead a life of carefree As the first girl to attempt a round-the-world tour by auto, she is also getting plenty of free publicity. Photo shows her with C. S. Soderstrom and her dog Lord (who probably gets more to eat ina single day than a Southern mill worker gets in a weel:), Cal Succeds Herrick as Director of N. Y. Life Insurance Co. Calvin Coolidge yesterday ac- cepted nomination as a member of the board of directors of the New York Life Insurance ompany, to suc- ceed the late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick. He is the second former president to be on the board, Grover Cleve- lend having served from 1905 until his death, in 1908. brilliant real AN AMKINO RELEASE DIRECTED Om s Ancther SOVKINO Masterfilm! “An authentic historical epoch of Czarist Russia, simple, genuine acting, moving mass scenes and t direction. realistic, rare examples of splendid photography of the Volga regions. . .” qFLAMES OND 4THE VOLGAD who produced “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” A powerful realistic drama depicting the Re- volt of the Volga Peasants against the Oppres- sions of the Czaristic Regime under Catherine the Great. . . . . Enacted by a Cast of 5000 fils film guild cinema 52 W. 8th St. (Just West) | Cont. Daily, incl. Sat. & Sun., Noon to Midnite DEMAND UNION RECOGNITION, PAY INGREASE Also for 44-Hr, Week; Workers Laugh at AFL (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, April 10— Practically the entire force em- jployed hy the Goldsmith Silk Mill in Plymouth, near here, and all of the night shift of the Goldsmith Mill in Wilkes-Barre, walked out on strike for more wages, less hours and recognition of their union, the National Textile Workers Union of America. A. F, of L. Unable to Hurt Strike. | “That American Federation of La- bor treachery and police brutality |have failed to injure the strike sen- timent in this section can be seen by this new walkout, according to |a statement issued yesterday by Or- |ganizer Clarina Michelson from the union's Wilkes-Barre headquarters, Picket Lines Formed. Picket lines are already on duty. Chief demands of the workers are: Eight-hour day, 44-hour week, a twenty per cent wage increase and full recegnition of the union. A. F, of L. Urges Workers to Scab. Attacks against the National Tex- tile Workers Union, its organizers, and their valiant fight in leading the Ik workers here in struggies for tter conditions, were made by the A. F. of L. press and officials. Members of the United Mine Work- ers Union of the A. F. of L., whose relatives work in the silk mills here, were urged to instruct their rela- s to scab on these strikes, The niners and silk workers, however, ignore these attacks and are fight- ing under N. T. W. leadership. MERGE FLYING FIELDS | Two famous airports of the me- | tropolis, Curtiss Field and Roosevelt ‘Field on Long Island, merged into Jone identity today when Curtiss | Field was taken over by Roosevelt | Field, Inc., a new organization re- ‘cently incorporated here. 2nd BIG WEEK = -picture is powerfully SENDER. ARLIN, Daily Worker. BY JURI TARITSCH SPRING 5095 (of 5th Ave.) » 5000 pecial Daily: 12 to 2—35e of This issue will nary issues. 25 CENTS s 43 Hast 125th Street 10TH COMINTERN ANNIVERSARY ISSUE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Articles by prominent leaders of the Communist. International. five times the size of the ordi- number will sell for Combination of the Communist International and Communist $3.00 PER YEAR WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS the be increased to This special PER COPY New York City PLACE YOUR PRI 10c each to individuals COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. a } | - eS | : | Says Brookwood Man » (By fail). | KATONAH, N. Y., April 5 (By Uphol- Mail).—Arthur W. Calhoun, a mem- ' ber of the faculty of Brookwood ¥ College, in his speech at the stu- | 1 itors. dents’ forum, on the new “progres- t A fer iff closed sive” or Muste movement pointed | ¥ the doors ¢ 4 tying Up {out he is opposed to it because of g the x T jits make up of social democratic d centrism. It will evidently be a bul- wark of the capitalist class, he said, as for example the socialist parties’ € | role during the world war and after. } Calhoun analyzed the German so- i ‘ list party’s joining the war, and ioe d to about t said today that they are boasting > days to file their claims, ti about the fact that they prevented | : needed to look for another tie. Gentyan workers drom settingup € — bourgec p indslide as the subway exeava- | the dictatorship of the proletariat. i j 2 we ew York s dying worker being taken to |The role played by Ramsay Mac. , _ More than a dozen other workers barely escaped. the bosses care about the lives of the | Donald is similar now, he said, in we ? Workers must organize and protect themselves. Great Britain. : out” so cw, eae aa are - — — esl i" ‘ = * All Diseredited. | ; - : TEXTILE LOGALS Establish New Science BN Ee “If we turn to the American la-| jaims t B 4 .. ¢. a 2 r Datay cn peed NS Uh Institute in the USSR RYURE bor movement,” said Calhoun, “we 1 job. The others are looking for ride Saleh eras see et aa of ue neon at vee 8 ork, and canno * the r NGRAD, U.S.S.R, (By are the socialists, who are tools in} fears cede ines ae enger express lines) 0 Wa ues ers of the A. F. of L, to break the SE ea rer a eerne es will function between Leningrad ane most militant unions. Now these : edit dee Seeds Sere ab a fs 25 ° western ports: Leningrad to London progressives speak of organizing pleas aay BE CS, ate hee To Open Wage Fight | with a stop in Hull, Leningrad to|/Xposes Purposes ofthe unorganized, and militant ac- 2 t shor W 4 ep 1S e SO J, - er A, Hambv 2 erad- ve - x . . ion. so- ! owner Just before the company, At New Bedford | Hanbong and Lesingrad Ssehtol=. “Reparations Trio |, One ald star of the so-ale Be ey See Regular traffic will be maintained pices progressives, John Fitzpatrick, on ina s 2 SS ES this fi NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April between Leningrad and Hamburg,| In connection with the reparations the attack of the A. F. of L. against, on arrival in Los Angeles. Pete ats t5e' ak 10.—Eli Keller, organizer of the left| Leningrad and Havre and between | conference which is taking place be-| P'°SW0Od spoke at a large mass . . Labor Laws for Boss. wing National Textile Workers! the Baltic and Black Seas with stops tween the American delegates, J, F,| ecting defending the school and Communist Candidates The Acme Upholstering Co. start-| k © qo 2t all ports of Western and South- Morgan, Owen Young and Thomas &# the same time resigning from Cc ai Vigorously | ed about ten years ago with a cap- Union, has announced that the 82 ern Hurope and Northern Africa Lamont, the vitteal detutors wai] the board of directors and accepting Campaign Vigorou y| ital of $400.00 put in by four stock- locals of the union have rented the! lying on the v he Alli serman. delegates, tte, decision of Bill Green and Mat in Newark Elections holders. During this time these| Bristol Arena for their May Day| pee [gre Se neta German delegates, Woll, This is the kind of people | eas | stockholders have lived on the fat’ celebration ily, nablehee he tet emunist that the progressives can reach to| NEWARK, N. J., April 10—A\| of the land off the surplus profits “ay Gi : ‘i z publishes the following com- | teaq the workers in the militant | vigorous Communist Party campaign wrung from their “loyal workers.” _The City Central Committee, in “The ‘Germa " y , strugg!e to organize the unorgan-| is being conducted for the City Com- When pinched a little hard by Which, the locals are united, met The (German Mine Gazette,’| i 44” mission, the local governing body. Meee ta ctealivts thay wect tate last Thursday night and decided to| which, a few weeks ago, during the Some of them are the sharehold-| The Party is running three com- i 3 >'make the revolutionary holiday the! fe, 08 the Pars TeDare mone | i j missioners for the five places cpen. start : 1 . 2) joners for p Ss epen. bankruptcy, and started some other }, f A conference, revealed the background ®™S in the oil trust and leader of business. Now their workers are ors] inevonce He een OF 8 Sen | ES cf these negotiations and with erm the Second International, Mr. M.|A straw vote conducted by the New- as e Be: soci’ |Cral increase in wages of 20 per See BO AMORA, AUC RO GEOS eran oe ‘ark Ledger, gives the Communists left without even their last week's pea Be ; ical openness stated the Ger Hillquit, Mr. Abraham Beckerman, pay, which their bosses are doing cine he rote, Workers in the ‘: +p perialisim’s forcign ‘nolliecl ain |the union breaker of the A. C. W., 870 votes, so far, as against 480 for , boasts s city. The forty-hour week will be) Ag] mers : perialism’s foreign political aims, ; | the socialists and 2,184 for the other their best to avoid paying. Labor! ,,. : S wners in alll. | 5, sherith ference has entered Of A. and the Reverend Norman laws are certainly made for the °"e, ° the slogans of the meeting. to Curtail eae ants and. the question | Thomas, in whom the workers have leading capitalist candidate. bosses. vines, ts ing, member of the of the price of Germany cane lost their faith completely. The municipal election will take | i y aid eausin pea jthigo paoideeae “i WASHINGTON, April 10. — An/to the Entente bloc has assumed a Communists Will Lead. eta oe se Batis 3 i i be one of the speakers, * "| appeal to owners of oil wells in the concrete form, repeats its war ery «what the workers expect if! so¢jali: 7 i rine Wets Confident Bill ¢ ets Ketilamaaceitle: disteiet lacs Gai: | aeainst tha Gastar Unici. roe 2 eerie shaders aera " acct eel as cay one Repealing Dry Law Elaborate May Day celebrations 7i# £ “urtail production has been “A firm and honorable alliance be-|factor in the American labor move- forme.) uv’ Printed thelr plat-| . A A A - way Jay celebrations made by Secretary of Interior Wil-|twcen Germany, France and Eng-| ment? Nothing more than agents of " Ae . Will Pass in Illinois will also be held in New York City,’ bur. land"— that much was underscova,|eapitalism,” Calhoun declared, “The | AMRa Drenkowski, Samuel Levine | ae j pare the local district office of the His request is in line with the! An alliance of a “militarily cqual” only way I can see clear,” said the 274 Frank Fischer and other Com- UR Weis the Tag AB 10 Communist Party asks other cities| administration's policy of restrict- | Germany with the Entente powers—|sreaker” “ig that ‘the Communist | munist Party speakers are holding| ee e Illinois Assembly io send programs of their May Day/it was explained at the interior de-|that is the aim of the “German Party will lead the American work- | °P¢? ait meetings throughout the | Bess force thse aoe On meetings. =-tpartment. Mine Gazette” and of German trust ers in the elass struggle towards ‘itY- Next Saturday's meeting will Sieber-O'Grady will See doc ; F The Kettleman Hills district, it/ capital the aim which Vogler and| workers’ control.” pe elds of probe’ and Meany Six the repeal of the state dry law en- Cooperative Aims to aa hae is checkerboarded by vari- | Schacht represent in Paris. “I myself was a member of the Fas ce te Riirernent act. ous leases, and drilling gainst whom would such an al-| socialist party and know just how . A Slee ae , House 32 NTWU Locals Though no definite reply has been jliance be directed? The “German|far these people will go, and I don’t Judge Aids Policeman | f ee « shed received from the Kettleman Hills Mine Gazctte” does not make any, choose to affiliate with that gang * | A [NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By group, Secretary Wilbur was repre-)seeret about it. Tt states: “Around | any more.” _ Accused of Smuggling Sy s - | Mail) —' ti I lagelnee si a Pega Bi mary Selo “2 | S & wide vote.in November, 1980, wasi| Gocgarative 2 ae ill Workers sented a having hopes his appeal |t eace Blec (Germany, France | A general discussion by the stu-| The fate of Policeman John T. Me- | inserted in the bill and passed the| ter last Saturday, is planaing te ne | re eee and England, Ed.) the rest of Eu-| dents followed. Most of them ex-|Intyre, charged with being an acz| House yesterday, 70 to 61. The bill cure a building to house the 32 To- strualin grag ne i eee olla caccptins ot Resets, Dressed their disagreement with this complice to an international smug- comes up for final reading and vote |cals of the National T Sain We cB struggling to restrict competition to | with ate Doseible esceyrHen i ih ussia “new progressivism.” Some of the! gling ring, rested with a jury in next week. ers Union, of which Eli Keller iene, |{t2 Standard Oil Company, which |as long (1) as it remains Bolshevist!| students came out clearly and de-|federal court today. i ct nion, of which Eli Keller is or- | has pletny of oil above ground, and) 4nd in conclusion it states even nounced the whole outfit that will in| J ay 4 P The lower middle class, th u ganizer. Keller is also president of | does not want to see the pri more clear the main mislead the workers in the | udge Henry W. Goddard, in manufacturer, the shophecper, tne | °, $o-Operative, duced. “Of course a close collaboration | present fight for real class-conscious |(ha™@ine the jury, said it was un- artisan, the ‘peasant, all thene tight | It is expected that the shares of and cooperation with Russia, an | Pst Homie de st aa from “extinction. their existence nm ‘Me Co-operative will be sold within| 40,000 FOR BROKEN BACK | tern orientation, is rerfectly Malityrs woulda savelved TA puch fractions of the middie ‘class. ‘They the next three months. A building possible, but not with the present : A Pie rane | fonservatives—Harl Mars itoame, Will be bought or built which will| A sealed verdict, opened yester-| Russia. The present Russia can | “LEAGUE DELAYS ON RUM |< crime. nist Manifesto). \contain the largest hall in the city.|¢aY in the supreme court here,| and will collaborate and cooperate | GENEVA, April 10 (UP).—The Sr one: | pe Fig ca awarded $40,000 to Mrs. Nola Diess, with a Bolshevist Germany. economic committee of the League Not only has the bourgecisic | A 6) 1] C ’ * id whose back was broken when a fire ‘This form of government would be of Nations postponed today until its; f°F#ed the weapons that bring merican Z OMMISSION escape fell cn her. The suit was for Germany, as it has been for |June session a final decision on| “¢#t® to Mtaelfs st has also called | Brought “accutane rd e eattevels oath : Jill undertake | Ite exintence the men who are to | < a ee asin ee i : ot es an economic, cu arels whet! er the league will under ake | wield those weapons—the modern | Leaves to Fleece Col, romwell, prominent lawyer, who) m and political destruction. international control of smuggling | Grochisy ‘classe “adsletavitaaee | OMOEA owned the building at 6 Barclay St.,| That form of government (the |in alcoholic drinks. Karl Marz (Communist Manifesto). | ry to As a the fire escape was at- capitalist) is possible, but not pos- | WASHINGTON, April 10—An!siates formi oC | tached, sible to the powers that be in the A ; eae Ae state: serine: the Colombian repub- Bc Soviet Vinton: y will have to | ‘ merican commission of petroleum lic, and allowing them to dispose of | AUSTRALIAN PLANE UNFOUND i ” “engineers sailed for Colombia on their rights to the subsoil as they; | Withdraw. ‘ ithdr March 27, according to a statement | pleased with certain minor restric-|_ SYDNEY, Australia, April 19-- | “a ago aamerlggea ads issued by the Colombian legation|tions. In 1886 the ituti Search for the misging.moncplane that is the tacit, but compelling he constitution of BANS P he “Ger: M here, This commission is headed by | Colombia was changed from a fed-| Southern Cross continued without Conclusion of the “German Mine J | Dr. H. Foster Bain, chief of the eral into a centralized republic and |tesult today. Rescue planes failed | Gazette”—it is necessary to take itralized republic and Y fall by i | United States Bureau of Mines; J.!the rights of vacisue: ale to sight Captain Charles E. Kings- | care of their downfall by military 7 Fed the various states to cuca ie vill. restore th | Steele of the U. S. Geological Sur-/the subsoil were again taken over |ford-Smith and his three compan- intervention which will restore the vey; Jose Amado Ibarra, a Mexican by the nation. This new constity-|!ons, despite native reports from the te af cepitalism” in the. ‘Soviet + petroleum engineer, and is said to tion adopted the rule of one of the Drysdale River Mission that the Union. és include among others also'a Ruma-|former states, accordi ich | Plane had been seen near there. In order to pile up documentary | es, according to which : 3 y f Yr of nian oil engineer. emeralds and rocks salt remained aes Re ey bec ite ay UA a ts Min | 2 The commission, after studying property of the national government; ,,The other classes decay and tinalty |iutervention, the “German Mine By the petroleum situation of Colombia, gold, silver, copper, the property of |quanveny, Im the face of modern fms Gaze o ce bei “watever 40% Gab out er] | & x 1] e will submit _a written report to the|the departments and all the rest ana ersential product—Zarl Mars apne ahi wid The Li of Bolshevist Colombian Ministry of the Interior (petroleum) became the property of |{Co7mualxt_ Man.fento). Rustin, swiltes the orend of she West! about the best form of the exploita the owners of the surface, But a on is German trusts, is world revolution. tion of the national oil resources, on previous law of 1873 provided that Victim of Cave-In AE jeciok Chae that. “REOACOWE line its pipe lines, exploration, participa- all subsoil riches in the national Beta ate ais a A ap chit ‘ Sane rad . tion of the government, taxes, sales, domains should remain the perpetual! id BrP tacalists ies Negba Pena te be Ruane reserves, etc. and inalienable property of the na- Seer oe ee ede wen iduice The composition of the commis-|tion. These contradi¢tory laws, in Ga kapeectnod f pe pee the. read sion Jeaves little doubt that the re- addition to the imperfect land title Mae eae Gee Rib iieatiay calle i i erican oil System of Colombia and the fact that to moderation, that it means | port will satisfy the Am ’ he N ‘talist sense, interests. The oil laws of Colombia |it was not exactly known which are Up she ee 2 8 eee f 5 7 ls concerning foreign concessions and | ational domains, gave the basis for | have peace incorrect. infornis-.| | exploitations have been continuous- the continuous legal disputes and ee faboe ni Mika thane ites id | ly changed, amended, revoked and Tulings and overrulings by courts ies hte) Weed Fee.” Coneaunlath re-established since 1858 and supreme courts and ministerial have read very fe | an , |decisions about the legality of past papers...” the gazette opines and ’ In 1927 and 1928 laws for the na-| concessions and even of the consti- ‘appeals, on the basis of this alarm) tionalization of oil lands, for the | tutionality of the laws promulgated of world revolution, to Pilsudski and } exploitation with government parti- | pocently, ‘ | Poincare for a secret crusade against | , eipation, for the elimination of for- at the time when the first oil Moscow whose “emissaries” “rage | } " eign oil interests, through the sys- Jends in favor of nationalization,: 60 with redoubled zeal” in Poland and | THE WORKERS, THEIR WIVES AND | tem of rigid requirements of titles per cent participation of the gov- |Germany, France and England “to { to the oil lands, were promulgated ¢rnment on all oi! exploitations, and achieve the Communist Revolution.” | ! "or postponed and later revoked 2s | submission of yalid ead titles were “This offensive against the} CHILDREN CRY FOR FOOD! RALLY @ result of the friendly “interpro-| onacted, the British concession great creditor power across the sea 1 q sitions” of the American minister | (Anglo-Persian Oil Company) tive |is, at this juncture of the repara-| TO THEIR SUPPORT! SELL STAMPS! | to Bogota and inquiries of the Amer- rogion near the Panama canal was tions conference in which America | ' ean state department. |diseussed and rejected by the Colom- [is playing & decisive role, of | the| COLLECT FROM YOUR SHOPMATES! An old Spanish law of 1783 de- bian congress. About the same time, j greatest significance. It shows that ‘clared all products of the subsoil, | however, the Barco concession, which | German imperialism has not cole “regardless of who the owner of the|was taken over by the South Amer- ‘determined to effect its western “surface may be, property of the ican Gulf Company, owned by the ti i Ba barging) _ ¢rown. This ownership of the crown) Mellon interests, was cancelled. It |the camp of the Entente but has n | ‘was transferred to the nation by the appeared that Colombia tried to play f : . , _. already taken. decisive steps along | Volunteer at the Office of Local, N. Y., Workers e ion of independence and con- British interests against American| One of the less seriously injured | this path, i | International Relief, Room 221, 799 Broadway, § d by a degree of 1829. In 1858 |and that finally the Americans suc-| workers being carried out of the’ “The provocative language of the . law was changed, when the |ceeded in obtaining the desired| subway exeavation where threo of ‘German Mine Gazette’ is the echo, New York City. hip of the sub-soil was trans-| abandonment of all utifavorable | his fellow-workers were seriously in-| of the war danger which is growing to the various confederate! legislation, jured in a cave-in 3 stronger from day to day,” ‘ MAY DAY BUTTONS . This: year will carry the slogans: —“Organize the Unorganized!” — ‘Defend the Soviet Union!” —“Fight Imperialist War” AMPLE SUPPLIES OF THESE BUTTONS SHOULD BE_OR- DERED FROM THE DISTRIC?' OFFICES OF THE PARTY! Tc each to Units on orders up to 100 buttons 6c each to Units on orders over 100 buttons ORDERS NOW! CES: . S. AW-NATIONAL OFFICE,