The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929 ~ Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. \ | blished b: tion, Inc. | Published by the Hoe: nree_ months three months 28 Union Square, > Greetings to Southern Mill Strikers! Ambassadors of the Southern textile strikers have come into the North to report on their grievances, explain their struggles and urge as: ance for their fight in order that it may move forward rapidly to complete victory. Their coming cannot be looked upon as just another in- | cident in the class war. That would be a grave underestima- | tion of the real meaning of the numerous uprisings in a grow- | ing number of Southern mills. Their coming symbolizes the rapid change in the major features of the class struggle throughout the nation; especially the rising wave of working class resentment against capitalist rationalization, against the speed-up that appears in the South under the euphonious names of “the stretch-out” or the “extended labor” system, which brings in its wake reduced wages, despite greater pro- duction, the long workday and intolerable conditions. The Daily Worker and the Communist Party, of which it is, the central organ, greets the arrival of these Southern | mill strikers in New York City, realizing full well the tre- mendous significance their coming has for the growing unity of the whole working class. 1 It was not an accident that the strike-breaking regime of the United Textile Workers’ Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor reaction, should be meeting in New York City on the same day as the arrival of these strikers, discussing the best means of wrecking the courage- ous resistance that the southern mill workers are now put- ting up against the exploiters. The heroic battles of the Carolina mill workers are being fought under the leadership of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union that has joined in the call for the Trade Union Unity Conference to be held at Cleveland, June 1. This he conference from the that will enthuse work- y the unorganized basic nging blow against it, ts the disruption of the hat is the big object: of ures representation at t ile cente from other industri Smar er: industries. the Green McMahon reaction plo ranks of ! nst the unity t the Cleveland conference. I rn labor greets the ambassadors of the Southern mill strikers and will give every aid possible in the growing class struggles in the South, witnessing in them the drive toward the solidarity of labor on a national scale. It is just as certain that militant labor in the South will give the betrayers of the American Federation of Labor and the reactionary United Textile Workers’ Union the reception they deserve when they come as strikebreakers into the tex- tile strike area of the Carolinas. This emphatic greeting should be a unanimous repudiation, a united front of workers against the bos and the company unionism of the A. F. of L. and the U. T. W. For the Unity of the Food Strikers! Daily developments reveal the vital importance of the heroic struggle of the food workers to the entire working class in New York City. There is the growing stubborn resistance to the de- mands of the cafeteria strikers on the part of the owners which becomes increasingly evident through the meeting of the United Restaurant Owners’ Association at the Astor Hotel, and the opening of a vicious anti-labor publicity cam- paign in “The Day”, the Jewish daily. Increasing unity of labor throughout the food industry and the spread of the strike, must be the reply of the workers. “The Day” has entered the struggle as ”strike-breaker,” trying to divide the workers on the basis of race and na- tionality. In a quarter page advertisement appearing in its current issue, it tries to fan the flames of prejudice of the Jewish workers as against the Spanish and Greek workers, claiming the latter to be the leaders and directors of the strike. Thus “The Day” completely throws off the mask of non- partisanship in the labor struggle, with which it has tried to win working class readers. There are Spanish and Greek strikers; good, militant strikers. There are strikers of many other nationalities, including native Americans. Their suc- cess grows out of unity in spite of race and nationality dif- ferences. The strikers will not be divided by this malicious propa- ganda. Among the chief support of the strikers are the left wing needle workers in the garment center where the strike is being conducted, who are boycotting the struck cafeterias. A large percentage of these are Jewish workers. The pile of dollars spent by the restaurant owners in subsidizing “The Day” is wasted. The strikers will not be divided by race or nationality prejudices. The meeting of the restaurant owners, at which plans were laid for raising a huge anti-strike fund, most of. which will be used to hire thugs and gunmen, and to create an army of strikebreakers, shows that the bosses are mobilizing every possible ally to defeat the strike. The reply of labor must be: spread the strike, link up these struggles in the various sections of the food industry, build an organization as wide as the food industry itself under the banners of militant left wing unionism. Texas Guinan, night club queen, holds the first pages of the poison press. Booze, sex, night life, court battle, are all paraded before the eyes of the reader in pages of print and pictures. This is the stuff intended to keep the minds of the workers off their real problems. But strikes rage, Textile Spy Has His Troubles By ROBERT DUNN. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., (LR A).—Union-wrecking activities of the Corporationg Auxiliary Co., la- bor spy specialists, are revealed in confidential letters intercepted be-| tween the headquarters in New York City and its under-cover operatives in the rayon regions of Tennessee. This concern was employed by either the Glanztoff or the Bem- berg company during the recent strike. Corporations Auxiliary has been in the under-cover business for about 30 years and has never had less than 1,000 spies on its operative ‘ist. It uses the name International Auxiliary Company in New York state and Corporations Auxiliary in other states. In New York it em- ploys its spies at an office which also uses the name Eastern Engi- neering Co. at 17 West 60th St. ' Fights Many Strikers. Its operations in Tennessee are in line with its policy in recent} years, of handling more business for textile companies. It claims to have had some of the largest textile firms among its clients. The two letters, showing the char- acter of the Tennessee operation, came into the hands of union or- \ganizers. They show the spy at work but apparently not producing all the results required by the main office. The spy has a code number, 'Q-511, while the manager at the | main office uses the regulation Cor- porations Auxiliary code letters code number BIR-5, The spy is expected to send a daily report to “e main office. This report is then taken and rewritten | or combined with reports from other spies, and then sent to the Glanz- |toff or Bemberg company. This spy \has, as the letter shows, violated the instructions of the agency < :d has been sending reports directly to the client. He is beir_ called down sharply by the agency manager. It is also clear that he is not too speedy with his reports. The agency orders him to step along a bit faster. Tries to Save Letters. The agency, as usual, watches ex- pense accounts closely. In this case it feels that the operative is blow- ing in too much money on hotels without producing results. They call him on this. They also question the accuracy of some of his reports and order him to check up on certain addresses and names and to write more clearly. The spy has an idea that he can get around and do his dirty work among the strikers and their fam- ilies easily if he turns washing ma- chine salesmen, But the cor any doesn’t take to this idea and asks how he can hope to get very far with the washing mechine stall among workers making $8 to $10 a week, especially when those work- ers are on strike. It will be noted that at the bot- tom of both letters <->ears the in- struction: Please note, initial and return this letter immediately. This is the precaution the agency takes to get back its instruction letters after the spy has read them, so working class resentment grows, the mounting waves of the {they will -t fall out of the spy’s _ class struggle rise higher and higher, gradually engulfing the foul social system that expects tens of millions of news- paper readers to grovel before this latest so-called “sensation.” _ Increasing masses of workers, turning their attention to their n problems, mobilize for the celebration of International bor Day, May 1, for the strengthening of the left wing strial unions, for the building of the Communist Party. workers will not be stupefied by the foul stench arising n this revolting orgy characteristic of the capitalist social They sre awakening in increasing numbers for the st of all power, for the smashing of all parasite re-. , for their victory. : pocket and incr: ainate him. But in this case the letters did fall out, and here they are: * * ° March 19, 1929. Dear Q-511: I received today your report for | Sunday and also your personal let- ter. Note that you have located a board- ing house in Elizabethton and will | move in there tomorrow. You fail- ed to give me, however, the street _- name and house number, the name x . ow wae Ww ker “ORGANIZE, HELL! LET’S GET THE REDS!” Baily 225 Vo Plans to Sell Washing Machines to Cover Dirty | By Fred Ellis ‘peat, the people for yeu to contract with, become acquainted with and cultivate their friendship are the U-S, together with his personal | Work But Millhands Can’t Buy jleaders in the union and in the | strike, the officers of the local, of | of the landlord: or landlady and the] give him just a brief oz telephone number in the house, so as to enable me to reach you by wire or telephone if necessar sure and send me this informati immediately on receipt of this let- |ter if you have not submitted it meanwhile already. | Ido not at all agree with you that hotel in Johnson City until yester- day. Your instructions were to get | Friday morning. I know what I am |talking about when I give instruc- | tions and I am unaccustomed to have my instructions disregarded. A | number of our other men over there, situated exactly as you are, have not found it necessary to remain at |a hotel in Johnson City for four or |five days. There is, therefore, no |mained. Under you will have to bear the hotel room |expense except the first night, pre- cisely as I advised you when I first met you. Wants Cheap Spy. Now, there is absolutely no earth- |ly reason for you to spend a lot of letter indicates you have the inten- tion. Through more twenty years of| | actual experience there has never | been an exception to the rule that the men who have heavy expenses are the men who never accomplish |anything. I want you to make good jon this job and you cannot make | good spending money like a drunken sailor. So please cut it out. You 2° > advise that you are send- ing reports direct to the client. In fact one cf the pages of your re- port for Sunday which you sent me is a carbon copy and not an original. My instructions to you on this sub- ject also were very specific. I told you definitely not to send any writ- ten reps" ~~ letters to the client, but to merely call him by telephone of evenings at his residence and BOGOTA, Colombia, April 11. — The repression of the Colombian |labor movement after the massacre of the strikers in the banana region jin which 200 workers were killed and hundreds arrested, continues by the action of the courts in spite of the fact that the state of siege has been lifted in several districts, To the many members of trade unions convicted by courts martial have been added those convicted by the special courts established “for the supervision of the press and public order.” Among those convicted recently by court martial is Alberto R. Castril- lon, one of the leaders of the strike in the banana region and of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (mem- ber of the Comintern) of Colombia. Castrillon was sentenced to 24 years penal servitude. Among the labor leaders: impris- oned as a result of the strike were two women, Maria Cano and Maria Rico dé Tobon, who were among the most active in the Communist movement of Colombia. They were accused of “conspiracy against the state.” In order to make out heavier and. longer penalties against the trade unionists, the police “discovered” several hundred bombs, 99 bombs in one city, alone, none- of which £ it was necessary to remain at the) to a boarding house in Elizabethton | |veason why you should have re-| the circumstances | money cn this opera‘ion as your | | all others | after. know anything of importance. I re- COURT ACTS CONTINUE REACTION IN COLOMBIA cne of the} important developments of the day | verbally, These instructions, like Q-511, I mean literally and I -earzot conceive why should take it upon yourself to act con- trary to them. Unless you cxn fall} in line and comply with my instruc- | tions we aze not going to get along together. I will not have anybody working for me who either cannot or will not follow my instructions literally. Let us be quite clearly understood on this point first as last. Wound Censor Reports. One of the reasons why no writ- ten reports should go to the clients is that doing so would prevent my editing the reports and whipping | them i-‘o such shape that they will be presentable ari up to our gen- eral standard of work. In any event, | I want to receive your assurance that this is thoroughly understood and that you will immediately dis- continue submitting reports or writ- ten letters to the clients direct heres The ‘second reason is that the client wants to hear from you daily by telephone and not by mail, so that he can tell you of any matters he is particularly interested in and wants you to secure information for him without delay, Your hance ing in your report and letter are ._ain very difficult to read, Please give me correctly the name of the people with whom you are going to board. 73 it Stearns or Starms or what? We cannot make it out here, Now, it ‘3 all right to associate with the er. .loyes of the clients who board at the same place for what| ineizental information you may se- cure from them and what influence you may be able to exert over them to get them to return to work promptly. However, they are not in a position to give you much of value as they, themselves, will not ever exploded. All these bombs were “discovered” by the police in deserted or uninhabited places and the arrests which followed in con- nection with these discoveries were made among all opponents of the present government. The conservative party came to power in 1921 and the term of the present congress and president ex- pires next year. The preparations for the election campaign have al- ready started and as the dissatis- faction in the whole country is very great and the victory of the liberals in the coming elections possible, the conservative government arrested all the prominent leaders of the lib- ral party, among them the president of the party and its probable presi- dential candidate, General Cuberos Nino, whom the government accuses of being a participant in the “Com- munist bomb” plot against the gov- ernment. Four Communists, Tomas Uribe Marquez, Ezequiel Campos, Ernesto Rico ‘and Enriqueta Jimenez, ar- rested. previously, are accused of having manufactured and “circu- lated” these bombs, General Cuberas Nino will prob- ably be convicted, together with the Communists, to one to three years the emergency committee or strike | committee, etc. These are the peo- ple you want to buddy around with and get real inside and advance information from, Please concentrate all your ef-| forts toward this end. Let your} next reports indicate that you are} following out this course of pro- cedure. Can’t Buy Machines. The cover you have arranged, sell- ing washing machines, may be all right, except that I do not think you can sell m-ny washing machines at their current prices to a lot of peo- ple making ei and ten collars a week. If you cail at their” ~es and go out on the farms, I doubt whether you can interest any in washing mactines, at least not now while the strike is on. That be:xg the case, and you have already once called at a house and were turned down on that proposition, it does not leave @ way cpen for you to call back two or three ¢“Zcrent times on these self-same people? You mention the distribution of a hand-bill entitled “Inventory.” I am sorry you failed to procure a copy of this and send it to me. Do I understand that this is some pro- paganda issued by the company management or is it some thing is- sued by the union or the strikers, Please? “Note, Initial and Return.” Cole t*~ representative of the lo- comotive enginemen and firemen who you state hails from Roanoke, Va., I understand com.s from Bluefield, W. Va. Which is correct, Please? I wish you would make it your business also to get next to this chap Solamon from Johnson City. I believe he is a brick mason by trade and he acted as temporary secretary at Monday afternoon’s meeting. 7° he remains in town, you ought to cultivate him closely. With best wishes and kind per- sonal regards, Very truly yours, U--S. BIR-5. | Please Note, Initial and Return This Letter Promptly. Copyright, 1929, by Internationas Publishers Co., Ine. eins BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK From the Strike In Paterson Back and Forth to the Strike In Akron; Arrested With John Reed; “B2ttleshipping” Jails All rights rese.ved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. Haywood’s book is a complete record of 35 years of struggle in the labor movement; you can start reading anywhere, with any of the chapters we printed, but th what has gone before. Haywood has told of his life as a boy, his going to work in a mine at the age of nine, his first strike at the age of ten, and plenty of strikes jole lowing. He has told of becoming secretary-treasurer of the most militant organization of the time, the Western Federation of Mine ers, at the age of 29, and of Telluride, Cripple Creek and many other battles. He has told of shooting a sheriff in Denver, and running strikes from an office in the jail. He has told of helping to or- ganize the I. W. W., and of fighti.g misleaders in that organization, in the W. F. M. and in the socialist party. He has told of standing trial on a framed up charge of blasting a state governor. He has told of European speaking towrs, of the Lawrence strike, and is just now writing of the Paterson silk strike. Now read on. SRO ae By WILLIAM D HAYWOOD. PART 85. PEED and the other organizers, with thousands of strikers, were on the bridgeway overlooking the depot, At the head of a great procession we marched through the streets of the town to the home of Margaret Prevey, where the strike committee was holding a session, That afternoon we had a great meeting in Rainbow hall. My address was “A Lesson in Rubber.” I took up the conditions of the rubber plantations of Congo, Africa, which were owned by King Leopold of Belgium in conjunction with American capitalists. I told of how the Congo slaves were compelled to gather a certain quota of rubber and if they did not they were not only beaten themselves but they were further punished by having the hand or foot of one of their children amputated. I traced the blood-stained rubber to Akron, where it was manufactured into automobile tires and other things. But the function of rubber was not complete until it became smeared with the blood of some in- nocent child that was run over and killed in the street. I told the rubber workers that the reason they got so little was because they gave the bosses so much, that they were compelled to work long hours because the bosses did not work at all. It took the Firestones, the Goodriches, the Seiberlings, all their time to spend the money that the workers piled up for them. These companies, among the richest in America, were at the same time the bitterest exploiters of labor. They had in their employ hundreds of detectives furnished by the Corporation Auxiliary Co. and other detective agencies, ee woe I MADE two or three trips between Paterson and Akron, where the work done among the rubber workers by the I.W.W. organizers was of permanent propaganda value. The companies learned that a strike was possible in spite of the finks and detectives that they em- ployed. I was going to Paterson one morning from New York when I was arrested on the train, taken off and driven by automobile to the county jail at Paterson. No charge had been made against me, no warrant was read. I was put into that poisonous hole. All the prisoners were compelled to bathe in a foul tub. The cells were rusty and rank. I had been in two days when Jack Reed came down the stairs to the day cell where the prisoners sat gossiping, reading and writing. I went up to him and said: “What's your assignment, Jack?” He replied: “This is no assignment. I’m a prisoner, the same as the rest of you fellows.” I asked him why he had been arrested. He said: “I was watching the parade, standing under the porch of a house, when a policeman came along and told me to move. That I refused to do and he put me under arrest.” We weren’t there long before we were released on bail. I never learned just why I was arrested, as I was never put on trial in this as in so many other cases. On another occasion the strikers had arranged a meeting to be held on the baseball grounds. When I went to the grounds a big crowd of strikers had gathered. A police officer came up to me and said: “Mr. Haywood, you'll not be allowed to speak here today.”* I looked at him. I was indignant, and turned to those who were with me and asked what they proposed we should do, “Oh,” they said, “let’s go to Haledon,” which was only a short distance away. I replied: “All right, send out runners to notify the crowd.” We started for our old speaking ground. We were almost outside the city limits when a patrol wagon rushed up and several of us were arrested and taken to the city jail. ee ee ie vicious cruelty of the police authorities was an outstanding fea- ture of the Paterson strike. More than 1,800 arrests of men, women and children were made while the strike was on. The sense of humor among the strikers could not be broken. The nights in the city jail were made stormy by the prisoners building a “battleship.” This was done by creating as much noise as possible, slamming down the bunks on their chains, hammering against the bars with tin cups, rattling the doors and making as many other kinds of noises as possible. About three o’clock in the morning a policeman came to my cell and said: “Get your clothes on, the chief wants to see you.” I went with him to a large room where the chief was seated behind a desk on one side. Along the wall of the other was a row of plain- clothes detectives. I had been brought in for inspection. The chief said: “Walk down to the other end, now back. I guess that will be all.” I don’t think there was a dick in the gang who didn’t know me as I had been speaking at strike meetings in Paterson for several * * * Another Letter. March 20th. Dear Q-511: I failed to hear from you today altogether. What is the trouble? Your report for Monday skould have reached me today, as t’ + repc.ts of all our c’!:er men in your town for that day were received by the early morzing delivery today. According to all accounts, Mon- day was a day filled with important developments and it was essential that the inf--mation sl-uld ‘reach matter how important, if it is sev- eral days old, it is of no value any longer to our clicnts, who pay us fro:1 PROMPT reports. “Get Busy.” I suggested that you find out how the mail trains leave there so that you can time the mailing of your reports accordingly, and get them through to me the qui-kest pussible way. Have you done this, please? In any event, please hustle your reports through so they will not be too ancient. It makes a bad impres- sion when the client receives all other reports so much more prompt- ly than yours. He ask us to have you discontinue, I am afraid. Very truly yours, U-S BIR-5 of prison, which will eliminate him from the presidential campaign, | Please Note, Initial and Return This Letter. Promptly. us very quickly. If inform-‘ion, no| months. I was only in a night or two when bonds were furnished and I was released to go on trial later. A woman was arrested one morning on the picket line. She in- dignantly told the policeman: “I can’t go to jail and leave my chil- dren.” She picked up five of her six little ones and put them in the patrol wagon, saying to one of the other strikers: “If you see Freddie, tell him to come to jail.” I had been arrested when coming into Paterson. I was now to be tried for going out of Paterson, There were several witnesses who testified, one of them a policeman who said that a great crowd was following me. Judge Minturn asked: “Was that the reason for your arresting him?” The judge added: “Other prominent people have visited our city. Crowds may have followed them. Did you arrest them for it? Crowds follow a circus. Do you arrest the circus? The case is dis- missed.” $ * * * In the next chapter Haywood tells of helping to organize a school strike of children. Haywood had an interest in every phase of the class struggle. Why don’t you get Bill Haywood’s Book free by sending in a yearly subscription, new or renewal, to the Daily comet ~~ SHADOW By FRED De SANTES. Sunshine lays the steel door sideways, diagonally. But I cannot walk on beams of light. Heaven is impotent. But workers massed— and a man with a key— then, I am free. Pa