The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAY WORKER. NEW YO MILL STRIKE IN WILKES -BARRE NOW GROWING Committees Go to Mills and Call Workers Out Sd (By Mail).—T kers are cnergeti nizing pick n anc tr mittees, National On April ill | nal ed . es ne entire night nn evs of the union. girls went out, An aerial view of the destruc Havoc Wrought Among Mid-West Farmers by Tornado toll of 10 lives and injured more than 100 when it swept a half-mile path across Minnesota and Wisconsin tion on the farmlands at Forest Lake, Minn., by a tornado which took rs. The night shift }_——— ; MEXICAN | BORDER s $12 a week. Plot to Kill Calles (Continued from Page One) 50 a we ve been here . Report r it to $ he night shift from $ he bonus for two weeks. Fine for “Welfare.” stunt the boss just put tell the workers if the: ve a day’s pay to a “welfare federation drive” here, a charity | stunt, they would get fired. They refused to pay it. to 8 and cut ief is needed. Defense funds hould be sent to 1. L. D., 799 Broad- way, New York.” Mill Closes. PINEVILLE, N. C., April 11— The Chadwick-Haskins Company to- day announced that the atterapt to run its “Mill No. 5” here with scab labor would be abandoned, for the time at least, and the mill be al- lowed to remain idle until a settle- ment could be reached with the strikers. The Chadwick-Haskins Company, in order to save its dignity a little, night committee of t work went to the Goldsmith Mill, at 83 Waller St., Wilkes-Barre. The whole night 45, came out and came to a in the National Textile ’ meeting place, Stravinskes Plymouth St., Plymouth. ne night at midnight, when the night shift kas a half hour off, . * * they ent to the third H. G. Mill on : nan St, Wilkes-Barre, where) EL PASO, Texas, April 11.— were chased by cops, and one Army authorities are prepared to got pinched, charged with disorderly |Send at least 1,500 troops to the conduct, and was taken care of by New Mexican and Arizona border the I. L D. ~ | line with Mexico, it was made known here today. Day Shift Strikes. 4 This morning the entire day shift from the H. G. Mill in Plymouth, all Lut about 15 who came to a meet- ing, walked out. Practically all signed up to join the union. A com- mittee went to get the day shift As pretext for the move, which may mean intervention on behalf of the federals, the army officers state that a major battle between federal and clerical troops is imminent in Sonora. It is known, however, that RK. FPTOAY, APRIL 32. 1929 UP IN STRIKE IN PHILA, DRESS 60, Picket Superior Shop Despite Arrests | PHILADELPHIA, (By The strike at the Superio Co., located at 12th and Arch § almost in the center of the ¢ continues in full swing, The other da girl, one of the seabs recently hired by the Super-| ior Dress Co. to take the place of | the striking members of the Na- tional Needle Trade Workers Indus- trial Union, as called by her proper name—scab—and this scab was brazen enough to start a fight igainst the pickets. The pickets, led by Clara Yampolsky, did not hesitate in defending themselves. General William Lassiter informed | the war depatrment today. WEISBORD TELLS Allege Plot to Kill Galles. OF STRIKE AIMS MEXICO CITY, April 11.—Mexico City garrison officials were inves- tigating tonight an alleged plot to Speaks at Big Meet of Gastonia Workers assassinate Plutarco Elias Calles, former president and emergency ; minister of war, a group of men and one woman were said to be involved in a plot to dynamite the minister | (Continued from Page One) but you’ve got a low standard of living. In 1850 the government of this country announced a 10-hour day in navy yards and for public of war’s train in the Torreon re- works, and here you are so far be- gion. The reactionary generals—Mar- hind times that you're working 12 hours a day. celo Caraveo, Gonzales Manzo and Robert Cruz—were incriminated in |the scheme by documents found in Others Also Fought. | “In 1886, we see in the north a big movement for an eight-hour | a hotel room occupied by a man named Santiago Perez, authorities day. The manufacturers began a systematic drive for European la- said. Perez escaped before police arrived to arrest him, it was under- stood. borers. The workers over there, driven under the lash of bloody aris- tocrats like you ar> here came over. | “These “fellows came over on the |word of the same swindlers who promised you money to come off the farms. Then they were driven into | their hell-holes, and to lower stand- ards of living. Then they formed unions and became militant. That | ‘is why we have come to Gastonia— | to help you in your struggle for ex- istence. Stay Unless Carried Out. “If the authorities want to know what we are doing, let them find out. Not one of our organizers will leave here unless they are carried ; oes am “Political Bandits.” WASHINGTON, D. C., April 11.— American smelters and mines in the vicinity of Chihuahua City, Mexico, | are being guarded by Mexican fed- eral troops, the state department has been informed by the American con- sul at Chihuahua. This was one of the first services which the federals performed on be- half of their American purchasers after the occupation of Chihuahua City. The federal troops entered Chi- huahua City April 9 and amnesty has been offered all minor military officers and troops and all civilians and officials who present them- selves. from the Wilkes-Barre mill out and about 15 came to our meeting this evening. These two mills supply ell the silk for the Blackman and Kingst Mill, the fourth one, so if the kers can tie them up the ethers are tied up too. One hundred looms were shut at Waller St. today | the army of General Caraveo, reac- | tionary, is in a partially demoral- ized condition. PN ee. then he in set upon by the other portioss of the bourgeoinie, the Inndlor4, the shop- keeper. the pawnbroker, ete—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). Armored Cars for Border. WASHINGTON, April 11.—Two armored cars have been ordered to * jand revolution. reinforce American borde rtroops in| ; 2 All Class Conscious Workers at the New Mexico and Arizona, Major | Coliseum May First. and the redrawers are laid off be- | cause of no wor There are strike committees of both mills, who meet together twice a day right after the other meet- ings, at 7:30 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. A local has been established in the H, G. Mill on Waller St. and elected an organizational secretary and de- | fense committees of both mills. Textile Strikers Are Hungry | for ‘Daily’—Send It to Them “The Daily Workers are seized by the textile strikers in Gastonia The strikers unanimously voted and read eagerly. When a bundle of 500 or 1,000 arrives they are cemands at this morning’s meeting grabbed up quickly,” says a comrade from Charlotte who has just ad arrived in New York City from the strike area. 1.—Eight-hour day and 44-hour “The Daily Worker has been a tremendous factor in the or- week. gor’ ‘en of the textile workers and a beacon light in the struggle. 2—A wage increase of 30 per “From the time the first bundle of 500 arrived last week the cent for all workers, day and night workers have looked forth eagerly for the arrival of the next bundle. shifts. They have not seen anything like that before. y $-—When there is overtime, time “They know that the capitalist press is their enemy. They want Mee» half cvertime. the Daily Worker. “When a reporter from the vicious Charlotte News came to a group of workers at Pinesville and asked them for news of the strike, tmey bombarded him with rotten eggs. He had to run for his life. hey want nothing but the Daily Worker. “From the yery beginning the Daily Worker has played a lead- ing role in organizing for the strike. I used to give Daily Workers to three boys from the mills at Pineville. When Fred Beale came in to see me the boys wnre there. I introduced them and said, ‘Boys, here is your organizer. He went with them to Pineville and today one of our strongest units is located there. “*As soon as we go back to work when we win the strike al 4.—No discrimination against any- ene for union activities. 5.—Recognition of the the mill. §.—Return of the bonus. union in Dana Talks on Drama of Soviet Revolution at, Bs School, 8 p. m. Today | get some money we will subscribe to the Daily Worker,’ say the & | boys.” nial ‘ “The Russian Revolution,” as | But in the meantime the boys want the Daily Worker and noth- _ @ramatized in a remarkable series| ing else. ea : of plays, will be the subject of a They must have bundles of “Dailies” coming as fast as they lecture at the Workers School, 26-28| can be sent. We must send loads of special bundles to the strikers. Union Square, by Harry Dana to-| A bundle of 1,000 Daily Workers costs $6. : night. | How many Daily Workers will you send to the southern textile f Dana, who has studied Soviet | workers? Fill out this blank: | SPECIAL BUNDLES FOR THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKERS Enclosed is to pay for special bundles of the Daily Worker for free distribution among the workers in the southern strike area. drama in Moscow for 12 months, has specialized in plays dealing with _ the Bolshevik Revolution. A dele- gate to the tenth anniversary cele- bration of the Revolution, he saw every play presented on the occa- sion by the different theatres deal- NAME i icscncssvcsecveays Aad eeGesespavecagtve pt ites 2 eR i ing with the events of November, 1917, and later stages of the Rev-| ADDRESS .....ssee0++s pubeatcnedaat i ebevelsad eas cpt Baie olution. _ LOYAL TO GREAT IDEAL ARKANSAS GALE Duncan Pupils in N.Y. April 18-21 TAKES HUGE TOLL Altho the late Isadora Duncan ‘adopted six young girls and, as she says, “taught them the secrets of her art,” so that they in turn might teach hundreds of other children, only one, Irma Duncan remained faithful to this ideal. For eight ws, at first as assistant to Isa- ora and then as chief director, Ir- taught at tne famous Isadora in “choal in Moscow which had n established at the initiative and the support of the Commis- Jat of ‘ducation. re thousands of children of jay workers have been taught | Irma Duncan with a troupe of prize, LITTLEE ROCK, Ark., April 11. pupils come to the United States to| Forty-four are dead, scores are take part in the celebration of the | missing and believed dead, and 100 fifth aniversary of the Daily Work-| are injured in a tornado which car- er. Their appearance o nthat oeca-| ried destruction through whole sec- sion will be long remembered by the | tions of North Central Arkansas thousands of workers who were pres- | last night. ent. | The roughly assembled “homes” Now the Duncan Dancers are rented to workers of the Nborthern again coming to New York after s Ohio Lumber Company were stet- triumphant tour of many cities thru-| tered as the storm crashed through out the country. By special ar- the village of Parkin. Three Negro rangement with the Daily Worker tenants of the company shacks per- they will give their farewell per- ished and nine others met death formances here on April 18, 19, 20 outside the village. and 21 in Manhattan Opera House, | One family was crushed to death 84th St. and Eighth Ave. All tickets in their home near Wynne. Hopes should be bought at the office of | were abandoned for the lives of the the Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., in | two children who were asleep when order that the “Daily” may receive the house was razed to the ground. the henefit of a percentage of the Only the injured were taken to proceeds, \the hospitals near Swifton. ‘as only after many urgent that the Commissariat of n finally consented to have t | poison of the bosses, Extend the | ‘strike over the whole countryside. | out. The United States belongs to |the workers. The bosses would like {to have us talk about the red flag The Revolutionary | War, the Civil War, and this last | war were fought by these same jbrave people for Manville-Jenckes, Dress Co. are determined to win the | (U Mr. Cannon, Mr. Duke and’ the oth-/ ers. Fight the Lynchers. “We'll be men. They will learn how we can fight. One word about lynching. If a single hair of our organizers is touched we'll hold Baugh and his company personally responsible. Mr. Baugh, you'll per- sonally have to pay for any crim- inal outrage. We can do as strikers did in Kansas City. Some men start- ed a lynching bee. The workers formed a defense corps to stop the | lynching mob. | “I’m here from New York. We’ve got four or five strikes on now, at Cleveland, Wilkes-Barre and in Rhode Island, besides here. I can-! not say how long this is going to last, but we are not children at this thing. I was born in this country. I was a leader in the Passaic strike. I was also a leader in the New Bed- ford strike. The bosses tell you we lost that. The fakers of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor forced us back in the mills. | Spread Strike to Win. | “Our strike depends upon how | you spread this movement to Green- | | ville, to Charlotte and to all the! | mills. Go say, ‘come on brother, | | white and black.’ Our union knows , |no political or religious distinction. | | We have no color line, although the | \bosses wish you did. Tell your} | brother workers in these other mills, | |‘now is the time for us all to mo-| | bilize.’ We will spread this strike | throughout the south. The quickest | | way to win victory is for all the) | mills to go out. | |. “This militia question is very | easy. You girls and women go in| |a body to these soldiers. They are |not hard-boiled gunmen, Only the |top-sergeants are. Ask these boys, \‘do you mean to shoot us down and |stab us and our children?’ Frater- nize with them.*Urge them to create |trouble in their ranks so when the lay comes to shoot us down they | won’t obey. You'll see these boys | | throwing down their guns and uni- ff | forms. | | Delegation To New York. } | “I’m taking back one man, one |woman and one child from here so ithey can speak at a big mass meet- jing we are going to hold in Madi- | ‘son Square Garden so we can raise | |funds for our big drive. And here _is $800 which the unions of the east |gave me to bring you for relief | work. We are a militant, fighting union. Remember the north will |help you 100 per cent. But now is the time to go around the country- | side to ask the farmers to give you \food. They will do it, the poorer |ones more than the others. We are | leven appealing to our “Luropean |unions to help us in this big strike. | “Make this a flame ‘that will) | sweep from Charlotte to Atlanta and | | beyond, so we can have at least 200,- |000 cotten mill workers on strike. You cannot get ahead by yourself. Stick together, Don’t listen to the | We need mass action.” 4 Seeing this the husband of the b, who had accompanied her, as- | saulted other pickets in the line. | The police wanted to arrest only the vickets, the boss of the factory be- ing on hand to instruct the police, and altho the line of pickets wa reduced, four of them being ar- rested, the other pickets thru their vigorous protests at this open manifestation by the police of their alliance with the bosses, forced the police te also arrest the scab and her husband. The pclice were loathe to do this but all the pickets said in chorus and with feeling, “You must arres the man who attacked us if you arrest us.” Later in the morning one of the scabs came along and assaulted an- other picket. The picket was ar- rested, but the police did not bother the scab. The picket line did not budge be- cause of these arrests, but re-| mained faithfully in line, picketing thruout the entire day. The near riots of the morning were repeated at the closing hours of the work-day when, as the shop closed, scabs again attacked the rickets. Two dressmakers, Esther Carroll and Bertha Cantor, well amongst dressmakers KEEP SOLIDARITY legislators to vote for hi A. J. W. Hilly being sworn in by Mayor Wallzer as the new corporation counsel. Hilly’s family is with him for the ceremony. This is a good paying job and if Hilly hasn’t got friends on Wall Street yet, he will get them soon enough. ON GOV. LONG BATON ROUGE, April 11.—Fur- ther impeachment charges against | reactionary views Governor Long will be voted in the| would have entered, and then to Louisiana house of representatives! make a brutal attack upon them late today or tomorrow, it was an-| with knives. Meanwhile one of their nounced here by Cecil Morgan, of! number was to wait downstairs in the house committee of impeach-| readiness to telephone the police to ment managers. Bribe for Legislators. Late into last night the house ar- fer their militancy, were arrested | vance, when placed by the governor by the police. A gathered around and including the arrested girls con- tinued to appeal to the scabs to quit scabbing on them, to join the strikers, and the crowd applauded the speakers, especially the arrested girls, the scabs retreating under police protection in shame. Despite the arrests occurring fre- quently the strikers of the Superior the pickets, strike and better large thvong|as building advisor. The governor also, certain wit- attacked, and a third was almost nesses said, was in the habit of curs- fatally stabbed. ing out legislators over the tele- phone in “obscene and abusive lan- | guage” if they did not carry out his | orders. $25,000,000 MERGER. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 11 ).—After six months of negotia- their conditions | tions a $25,000,000 merger of 18 (olutionism, which resembles, thru demands of the National Tex- Ohio pottery manufacturing com- tile Workers Union. panies was reported near completion os here today at a conference in the Something else, however, must be law offices of Dustin, McKeehan said of the other enemy of Bolshe-| 4. vism in the working claxs movement, Arter and Stewart. it is not sufficiently known abroa : i rela ¥ : dial. Bolakevism xrew um f6resd It was said Cleveland would be: and hardened itself in long yenrs of come the headquarters of the huge straxgle against petlt-bourgeot rev! combine to be incorporated as the r. r 7 Sy. American Chinaware Corp. rows something from, anarchi: The Same Address Over 75 Years Deposits made on or before the 3rd day of the month will draw interest from the Int day of the month, Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 on all amounts from sn Ql i, to $7,500.00, at the rate of 2 0 Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M Banking by Mail. Society Accounts Accepted. We Sell A. B. A, Travelers Certified Southern Textile Strikers FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY April 12, 13 and 14 THE WORKERS, THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN CRY FOR FOOD! RALLY TO THEIR SUPPORT! SELL STAMPS! COLLECT FROM YOUR SHOPMATES! eee: -_ Volunteer at the Office of Local, N. Y., Workers International Relief, Room 221, 799 Broadway, New York City. Another Tammany Politician Sworn In ‘gued over evidence submitted by | renegades, their plans miscarried to witnesses that Governor Long bribed | # Certain extent, since a majority of tilt on a| the workers who attended the meet- | tax for refined oil, on his summary | 128 disagreed with the Basky gang, |tile World, to share with the w removal of Superintendent Roy of the State Normal School by the| derous plans to succeed. However, |process of making threats against | tte part of the plan which called for him until he resigned, and that F. J. known Richardson was paid an excessi in the city, | salary of $2,400 for one year in ad- | and ‘assault, carrying ten year jail sen- | tences, were made by Basky and his BOSSES SLANDER STRIKE LEADERS IN $0. CAROLINA Use “Whispering” in Southern Walkout (Continued on Page Two) out the mill village of more than 6,000 population. | The craftiness of David Clark is seen in his leading editorial of the jcurrent Southern Textile Bulletin. |He “regrets” the open use of stop- jwatches by efficiency experts, and urges bosses to use “tact” in intro- ing the inhuman speed-up or tretch-out” system, If the affair jis “properly handled,” he assures | fellow prifiteers they need have “no |cause for alarm.” But not even the secret plotting of David Clark and his kind can hide \from textile workers what the stretch-out system means. Weavers have been tnding more than 100 looms. One weaver, who had handled 24 looms at $18.91 a week, jwas made to run 114 looms, but could earn only $23 a week. 8 Run 990 Looms. Eight weavers at the Woodruff Mills, owned by the Brandon Corp., were running 990 looms with the heip of battery fillers. At another mill five section men in the card room were earning $23 each a week, but the number was cut to four men, each earning only $17.25 a week. When the number was later cut to three, each man earned $20.23, The company was profiting at the rate of $54 a week more than before. |Each worker was doing far more work, but earning $2.77 less a week. Two workers out of five were job- less. To put over such. a speeding-up on workers already worn out with long hours of standing by thunder- jing machines, mill owners are urged by the employers’ trade paper, Tex. MORE CHARGES BASKY CLIQUE | PLANNED ATTACK (Continued from Page One) and activities arrest those who were to be attacked inside. Unfortunately for the Trotskyite and were too numerous for the mur-|ers some little part of the “gains resulting from increased production and decreased cost. If after such basic conditions have been complied with by the manufacturer the op- \eratives feel that they are being un- justly treated, then the quickest way \of bringing them to their senses is (to revert temporarily to old condi- itions and their accompanying smaller pay envelopes.” LAST DAY! the cooperation of the police, courts capitalist press was carried through, with charges of feloneous father against two of the workers Ancther SOVKINO Masterfilm! “An authentic historical epoch of Czarist Russia, ple, genuine acting, moving mass scenes and liant direction. -picture is powerfully realistic, rare examples of splendid photography of the Volga regions. . ." AN AMKINO RELEASE SENDER GARLIN, Daily Worker. 4FLAMES onp 4{THE VOLGA) DIRECTED BY JURI TARITSCH who produced “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” «film film guildcinema 4 ent. ‘ Direction: SYMON GOULD . 52 W. 8th St. (Just West) SPRING 5095, 5090 (of Sth Ave.) Cont. Daily, Incl. 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