The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 1

tad ALL NEW YORK WORKERS ARE CALLED UPON TO JOIN RELI THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party ily second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. . 32 Vol, VI. N Published daily except Sunday by T Publishing Ansociation, inc. 2 Union A PRIL SUBSCRIPTION Sq., New York, N. ¥. \EEDLE WORKERS U. S. Gave Cash to Form PICKET WITH 2500 Pan-American F. of L. As Imperialist War Tool Boased AlAs al aa the Secret Files Show Gompers Aided Wilson Who CAFETERIA MEN Strike Spreads, Call Police Aid Jewish Day Aids Bosses ‘Fight to Win”; 2,000 Pack Cafeteria Meet Over 2,500 workers, including more than 500 workers in the needle trades, took part yesterday at noon in one of the largest mass demon- strations during the strike of the cafeteria workers in New York’s garment section. Knock Picket Unconscious. Many of the strikers were badly beaten up by police and_ bosses’ thugs during the day. The most seriously injured of the victims of the police was Albert Rescigne, of 2361 First Ave., who was knocked unconscious by Patrolman Selig of the Thirtieth St. station, while picketing in front of the Monroe Cafeteria, on 35th St. Rescigne had only just left Bellevue Hospital, where he had been under treatment since a beating by police while he was picketing Monday. Rescigne was dragged across the street to the hallway near the *iner Food Cafeteria, and there kicked and knocked into uncon- sciousness. So badly was the work- er beaten that he required hospital treatment, and then was removed to on a charge of disorderly conduct. He was paroled in custody of Jacques Buitenkamp, the Cafeteria Workers’ Union lawyer, until April 13. Four new cafeterias were brought out on strike yesterday. Picketing continued thruout the day, the noon hour mass picketing being the high spot. A riot squad was called out during this demonstration. There were nine arrests of pickets during the day. Four of the pickets arrested were sentenced to two days. They are James Alphonse, of 24 Cooper St.; Alex Gagi, of 1415 Bry- ant Ave. Bronx; Alex Witzner of 96 Avenue St. John, Brooklyn, and George Taylor, 268 E. 24th St. Five others arrested were discharged. A.F.L, Misleader, “Day” Aid Bosses. Furnished Treasury Funds | ‘That Samuel Gompers worked di ‘rectly with the war-making Pre: dent Wilson to create the Pan-Amer ican Federation of Labor, that Wil- ,Son advanced money from the treasury of the United States gov- jernment for this imperialistic ool, and that the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor was created in the first instance as a weapon of the |U. S. militarists, to secure “allies from among the Latin Americans jfor the capitalist war on Germany, are revelations in the book: “Labor and Internationalism,” by Lewis L. Lorwin, just published by the Mac- | millan Co., of New York, under the | auspices of the Brookings Institute. | Lorwin intimates the story came |from secret files of the A. F. of| |L. He says: War Excited Gompers! “With the outbreak of the World| War, the*A. F. of L., urged on by | Gompers, was aroused to take a new and wider interest in the Pan- | American situation.” (Page 282). | “Gompers pursued his Pan-Amer- ican plans. On January 31, 1917 at a conference held in the offi of the A. F. of L. in Washington, a few delegates from the A. F. of L., Porto Rico and Mexico (Yuca- tan) set up a permanent committce of which John Murray was made secretary, and drafted a manifesto to all the Latin-American countries. Used as War Makers. “A Pan-American labor organiza- tion, as Gompers saw it, could be used to ccunteract anti-war and Germanophile tendencies and to cre- ate favorable opinion for the cause | of the Allies. With this in mind, Gompers corresporded with the la- bor leaders of Mexico and urged them to push the Pan-American plan. . .Gompers sent a labor mis- | sion composed of John Murray and James Lord to talk matters over with the Mexican leaders. At the same time he persuaded President Wilson that Pan-American labor unity was an important war,meas- ure which would help to educate Continued on Page Four in Keeping R $10 Following By SOL A | in the Daily Worker exposing the Harlem. Previous articles told of The present article describes furth landlords.) : ey Stung by the success of the Cafe- Mrs, Williams has lived there Courts Work with Lanidleria ents High for Negro Workers in Harlem the Thirtieth St. station, and booked | 18 Tenants in One House Raised About a Recent Raise UERBACH (This is the fifth article in the series now running exclusively intolerable housing conditions in a “dumbell” apartment, a Seventh Avenue tenement and of “elevator” apartments on Eighth Avenue. her the rent-raising tactics of the “we WON'T do anything to this apartment unless you accept a $10 raise,” said the landlord to Mrs. Pearl Williams who lives in a five-story tenement at 72 West 133rd Street, for 10 years. From the time she teria Workers’ Union in bringing out such a large proportion of the cafeterias in the garment district and alarmed by the certainty of the strike spreading thruout the city, the cafeteria bosses, thru the Res- taurant Owners’ Association, yes- terday resorted to the use of two of their chief weapons, the officials of the reactionary officials of the A. F. of L. Waiters’ Union, Local 1, and the “Jewish Day,” a Yiddish daily which has been posing as “non- partisan” in the food workers’ strike. | Nearly 2,000 strikers of the Ho- tel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Work- ers’ Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers followed the chorus of “Solidarity Forever” as_ strikers, just arrived from the picket lines in the garment section in which the union is concentrating its strike, led the picket line chorus as they march- ed through Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl., last night. Irving Rosenberg, recently em- ployed by the Traffic Cafeteria, 38th St. and Sixth Ave., and Albert Ro- signere, bus boy—still suffering from a nearly fatal attack by strike- breaking thugs, were among the rank and file members who express- ed the determination of the union to (Continued on Page Five) BASKY CLIQUE PLANNED ATTAGK Prepared to Use Cops, Courts, Press ' The Daily Worker has learned ‘that the attack by the armed gang- _ sters of Louis Basky, Cannon-Trot- sky lieutenant, upon militant work- ers last night, which resulted in the stabbing of Matthew Holzbauer, and the arrest on charges of feloneous assault of James Lustig and Nich- olas Kish, was deliberately planned for some time before the meeting. The Basky clique expected that a number of the workers who would come to the meeting would protest against his counter-revolutionary at- tacks upon the Soviet Union and the Communist movement. He had his thugs, armed with lead pfhes, rubber hose, ready for the first signs of protest. The plan was to lock the doros of the meeting room as soon as a few of those known as opposed to their (Continued cn Page Two) % | first moved in she has been raised at the rate of $1 a year and now pays $42 for the five-room apartment which she shares with another family. The raises were toned down scmewhat because Mrs. Williams is a fighter. Every time he wanted to raise her she would take him to court and fight the raise. This court fight is not very effective, as you can see for yourselves. Court and Landlord. In the first place it i she had to employ a lawy: raise came anyhow. That is the usual occurrence. When a landlord knows the tenant will go to court he will ask for an exorbitant raise and the judge will usually grant him a raise a little lower than what he asks for. In that way the judge makes a pretense ot helping the tenant, When the case comes to court a compromise is struck, if the raise seems too exorbitant, and the landlord gets what he wants. In many cases the judge is a friend of the landlord and will du him a good turn. The tenant, of course, is left in the cold. There is no getting away from it. The courts serve the land- lords just as the state legislature and the petty Harlem politic- ians—both Negro and white—dc. Birds of a Feather. When the raise is granted or just simply demanded, and the worker living in the tenement cannot pay his rent, he is put out into the street with his family and all his belongings. . That is called dispossession. Rent raises and dispossession go together. Landlords, courts, legislatures, rent raises and dispossession all go together. If the tenants of Harlem want to fight rent raises and dispossession then they will have to fight the courts and legislature as well as the landlords. The way to do this is to go together. To go together, we must have an organization that will be our own, and not belong to some petty politician. An organization which is the voice of the tenants who are workers is the Harlem Tenants’ League. Mrs. Williams knows that so she is a fighting member of this League. e. ex:pens: Last time she went to court and pay him $25, It did not help.’ The Falling Ceiling. IRS. WILLIAMS lives in an apartment which has been neither cleaned ner repaired since 1924, We will only remind you of what we have found in the other apartments we have alrendy visited to give you an idea of what this “higher class” apartment is. Nearly every year the ceiling falls cown. Once the bathroom ceil- ing fell upon Mrs. Williams. In most instances she has had to fix it herself. Once when the landlord actually sent someone to repair it at his expense, the job was so badly done, that Mrs. Williams had to get someone to go over it. The same trouble with the dumbwaiters. a Ashes on Kitchen Table. “It's just great when you are sitting in your kitchen eating and ashes and all sorts of stuf! comes down that shaftway right down on the table you're eating from,” remyrked Mrs. Williams, Eight years ago everything scems to have stopped working in this tenement. The sound of a bell is never heard here. One is lucky to find letters left for him in the mailbox, | “And lots of times we can't get any water at all. The water sup- ply is low. If the water suddenly decides to stop when there is a fire, then we are all just out of luck.” There is no use repeating. What one describes of one tene- Continued on Page Four | ~NEW YORK, FRIDAY, RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. EF CAMPAIGN FOR CAROLINA STRIKERS! FINAL CITY EDITION Cents 2 oO Price LEFT WING EXPOSES A. F. of L. ARMED THUGS TO - TAKE SOLDIERS’ J0B IN STRIKE National Textile Union Appeal to 'Froops Chills Bosses Pineville Mill Closes N. Y. Brokers Think Strike Will Win GASTONIA April 11.— Hired gangste called “special deputy sheriffs” are being assem- bled to take the places of Troop 1 of the 109 Cavalry and Company K of North Carolina, who are bein; demobilized and sent home. Since the appeal of the National Textile Workers’ Union distributed | in leaflet form several days ago | to these soldiers not to shoot their | fellow. workers on strike, and the |advice _* Albert Weisbord, national | secretary of the N. T. W. U. that the strikers themselves go to the soldiers and ask them if they want to kill working women and children for the bosses, the employers here feel that the troops are “not reli- able” for the murderous work they may have for them. Three units of the militia, th Gastonia Howitzer Co. and two com- panies from Charlotte, are still here. Carl Reeve, southern representa- | tive of the International Labor De- e tion is very tense, as the sentiment ot the strikers is in favor of re- sisting the eviction from company houses which J. C. Baugh, man- ager of the Loray mills has de- cided upon. The strikers live in company houses, surrounded by American L gion and other anti-labor element: said Reeve, “and there is little lib- eral sentiment Support and defense for the strik- ers must come from the working class. Money for defense and re- (Continued on Page Two) in the community. | of the 120 Infantry, National Guard | fense, stated today that the situa-| | her at the wrist. These st ties, guardsmen and thugs. Strike Leaders CHARLOTTE, (LR Jailing a Wo man ss tained at union headquarters. * New York workers will collect funds today, tomorrow and Sunday for the 8,000 textile workers of North Carolin: s | three-day relief drive arranged by the New York Local of the Workers the strike of textile worke: preads through the Carolinas, mill owners use every possible means, secret as well as open, to break it. In an ef- fort to create distrust of strike lead- ers among the rank and file work- ers, mill masters employed the American Vigilant Intelligence Fed- eration of Chicago, open-shop infor. mation bureau for anti-union bosses, to conduct an “investigation” Fred E. Beal and George Pershing. A report on the two labor organ- izers as “dangerous reds” was then wired to the Southern Textile Bul- letin, a journal owned and published by David Clark. This notoriously bitter spokesman for mill owners against the federal child labor law and all other protective legislation ever proposed in southern states, s responsible for breaking the strike of Carolina textile workers in 1921-22. Later he formed a fake organization, called the Farmers’ States Rights League, to fight the child labor movement. The money WEISBORD TELLS OF STRIKE AIMS |Speaks at Big Meet of | Gastonia Workers GASTONIA, N. C., (By Mail)—| “This strike is the first shot in the | battle that will be heard round the | world,” declared Albert Weisbord, | | secretary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, in a stirring ad- dress to thousands of textile strik- ers gathered in the vacant lot back of the strike committee headquar- ters here. He continued: “Tt will prove as important in’ transforming the social and politi- cal life of this country as the Civil War itself. Whereas the Civil War, was between the slave-holding men of the south who used the people as cannon fodder and the manufac- | turing men of the north who used |the mill workers of the north as ; cannon fodder, the present fight is against those who exploit you in this new plantation system of the south, | | “These same yellow aristocrats \have ground you down for cen- |turies. They went out to the farms and mountains to offer you high wages and good living conditions, (Continued on Page Two) by southern cotton mill owners who sent out propaganda in the name of “farmers.” “Whispering Campaign.” The Charlotte News, capitalist paper, now frankly admits “that the new phase of the fight to break the strike has its full force directed to- ward creating distrust of Beal and ers.” Calling it “word-of-mouth propaganda activity, apparently in- spired by the mill management,” the News explains that a deliberate whispering campaign’ against the organizers was circulated through- (Continued on Page Two) Of all the classes that stand face to fnee with Cie bourgeoisie today the procetariat alone is a really revo- lutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifesto). of | for this campaign was contributed | Pershing in the minds of the strik- | ZARITSKY THUGS | ATTACK PICKETS. 19 Millinery Workers Arrested; $500 Bail Thugs from the scab Local 24 of | the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery | Workers Union yesterday beat up | eighteen strikers belonging to Local 48, Millinery Handworkers Union, | picketing at the shop of S. Morrison, 1640 Broadway, chased them into the | |nearby hallway of the building in| |which are located both the offic jof the scab local and the strikers | Locat’ 43, and when they ran down, the hallway to the Local 43 office | |followed them, broke in the office and beat them up some more there, then beat up Frieda Fraidias, or- ganizer of Local 43, in her own of- fice. Arrest Strikers. After this police arrived and ar- | rested all of the Local 43 pickets, | and none of the scabs from Local 24 | or their gangsters. The 19 arrested girls were taken to the Mercer St. tation, where they were ail held on | 500 bail, which was furnished. They will appear in court today Max Goodman, organizer of Local 24, was seen driving away from his office with one of the policemen. About 15 men took part in the beat- ing of the girl pickets. The proletarian movement is the sclf-consectous, ‘ndependent movement of the immense major- ity.—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- A special deputy and a plainclothes man arresting a militant striker during a picketing demonstra- tion before the Loray Mills at Gastonia. The deputy-thug is twisting one arm, while the other grasps , rs return to the picket line again and again despite the brutality of depu- The International Labor Defense must have money to defend the strikers. | TEXTILE RELIEF TAG DAY OPENS TODAY |..::: Bosses Spread | Lies About Mill BULLETIN. The executive hoard of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial @nion yesterday called-on all members to assist in tre-shop cellec- tion today for the Workers International Relief. “International Relief, Room | arrived SHOWS TEXTILE | FAKERS. OFFER | AND TO BOSSES Ss A. F. of L. Appeal | Against Relief for | Strikers |Threats Against Beal Says Left Wing Union to Fight Till Victory | Denouncing the American Federa- | tion of Labor appeal to workers to | starve the Carolina textile | into submission, and the the United Textile Workers, F. L. organization, to assist the em- | ploy there and lynch the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union or- ganizers, the N. T. W. U. yesterday Jissued a statement through Albert , national secretary, which the union’s intention to strike and organize the 300,- 000 southern textile workers. The statement refers to the in- spired question of a “committee of 12,” supporters of the bosses and of the A. F. of L., which talks of “run- ning Beal out of town.” Beal is the N. T. W. U. organizer in Gastonia. strikers mpt of an A. win the Weisbord’s Statement. Weisbord’s statement in full is as | “Latest reports show that the American Federation Labor union, the United Textile Workers? Union of America, is frantically aid- ing the mill own South in their efforts to break the texti strike and to lynch our organ The local newspapers carry the fol- the Boxes can be ob- lowing questionnaire signed by a |‘Committee of Twelve’: and South Caroying in the) sci) 1¢ we um Beal (ores Jizer of the National Textile Work- Jers’ Union) and his crowd out of >! town, will you give your approval to local unions of the American Fed- Th from Broadway. will Wednesda; participate in the Tag Day drive, which is expected to eration of Labor? Testo). a bal g's f not, why? be the largest ever known in New y Et ie oh : York “«(3) Are you sincere in your : F “ oost of the American Federation Poor Clothing for Children, | Poost of, the Ameri Scene Yesterday evening the Gastonia \ Bpaneec Line a netians strikers spoke at a number of meet-] | UUSSSS ier ee E ings in connection with the relief] “These questions have Bs gh campaign, at which they told of the the greatest publici the local ith heartiest speed-up and wage cuts in the Caro-| Press, and are greeted lina mills. Cecil Burger, age 17, de-|approval. We have the added fact clared that many children of Sovih-|that the American Federation of ern textile workers are unable io go| Labor has gets an appeal sage to school because they have no suit-|anyone contributing for the relief of able clothing or shoes to wear. ee strikers, and the further fact that the utive committee of the After speaking for the strik United le Workers has issued relief meeting held at 16 W offic’ nt denouncing the erday, Harriet Silverman,| ynion which has the support of the ary of the W. I. R. declared,| workers, the National Textile Work- addressing the strikers, “We willl ore Un help you give such a knockout blow! “Ever: r outh the Klu as the textile bosses of the South xtux Klan, the A Legion, have never known before.” the employers on the one hand Shop -Collections Today. threaten to lynch our organizers, and on the other hand boost the Special shop collections are te be taken up today while tomorrow and Sunday will be devoted to house to United Textile Workers of America, and it is plain that the American house collections. Members of many| Federation | of Tabor has openly. trade unions, including the Needle in ordérto Genel: aia Trades Worl ustrial, Union, | voment now erowiie in aie and the Iron © Workers Path Union have signified their intention Uaion Wall, Beieks of participating actively in the tag ian a tile Worlenks day drive. In addition to the central! “The National Textile Workers’ | Union means to stay in North Caro- lina and the South. The present sit- vation is only the opening gun in the fight to organize the 300,000 office at 799 Broadw branch relief stations in: various parts. of. the city. Tne collection station for the Knitgoods Room Textile Workers will be at 16 W.! aves in the South. Already 2ist St. on Satu nd Sanday. some talk of displacing the ~""1 60-hour week with 55 hou W. I. R. Statement. “As the fight grows sharper the In a statement issued yesterday,|employers will soon recognize that the W. I. R. stated, “The need of|the workers know there is such @ raising funds becomes more urgent|thing as an 8-hour day. and that heurly.” even the 40-hour week is not beyond ENCOURAGING results in the during thi: This novel, therefore, becomes Great Soviet Novel ‘Cement’ Will Be Published! the reach of immediate realization. here the working class is greeting the southern strikers with enthusiasm and will support them to the end. We shall not betray the st which the working class has but will fight on until Daily Worker Subscription Drive second week make it possible now to announce the publication serially of the famous Soviet novel, “Cement,” picturing life in the First Workers’ Republic as it is today. available for the tens of thousands of Daily Worker readers; the truth about the Soviet Union in reply to the malicious propaganda flood disgorged daily by the capitalist press. Feodor Vasilievich Gladkov, the author of “Cement,” has also written “The Gulf,” “The Wolves,” “The Courser of Fire,” “The Deadwood,” all of which have al the Soviet Union. Originally wi ready made a deep impression in ritten in the Russian language, “Cement,” had to be carefully translated into the English language by A. S. Arthur and Charles A shleigh, This was a big task in itself for the book contains 311 good-sized pages. Arrangements for publication were made by special Publishers, arrangement with the International vleveland, Ohio, June 1st. CN Tae eee ___It has not yet been decided on just what day the serial publica- tion will begin. Announcement will be made in sufficient time, so that it will ke possible to put large numbers of new subscribers on our mailing lists of workers who ought to read this book. In the meantime the Subscription Drive should be accelerated in every section of the nation; in New York City the newsstand sales should be increased. Encouraging reports of activities have come in from Chicago and Philadelphia. Other cities, big and small, should also let us know what they are doing. The Daily Worker Subserip- tion Drive goes forward with the preparations for May Day, the Membership Drive of the Communist Party, the struggle to build the left wing industrial unions and organize the unorganized, with the growing campaign for the Trade Union Unity Conference in It grows and develops out of the mass activities of the whole working class, ‘Dailv’ Agents Discuss ‘May 1 Campaign Today Daily Worker agents of Section 3, Communist Party, will discuss the | May Day Campaign at 6:15 p. m, to- day, 101 W. 27th St. IMPERIALISTS LUNCH PARIS, April 10.—Frank B. Kel- | logg, former secretary of state, had lunch today with Owen D. Young / and General John J. Pershing. Aft=/” erwards Kellogg visited the othe” | American delegates to the repr tiops conference. _. ly’ ES A