The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1929, Page 1

a THE TEXTILE STRIKERS ARE HUNGRY; JOIN TAG-DAY COLLECTIONS THRUOUT NEW YORK CITY THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Vol. VI., No. 33 Published dally exe Publis! i Association, inc., 26-28 Unie: lay by The National Daily Worker Sq., New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price a Cents 36 FOOD STRIKERS JAILED FOR DEFYING INJUNCTION “DYNAMITING” FRAME-UP OF GASTONIA STRIKERS ENDS IN RIDICULOUS FAILURE BOSSES’ AGENT CARRYING ‘BOMB’ SOON RELEASED Deputy Sheriff Starts | to Jail With Him But | Never Gets There | Strikers Need Relief W. I. B. Is Distributing Food; Asks for More GASTONIA, N. C., April 12— The fake “bomb plot,” the usual re- sort of an employer who is losing | to his striking employes, material- | ized today, but failed completely due to pooor co-ordination between the | man with the dynamite, working in the interest of the employers, and the North Carolina National Guard, at the Loray mills. | An agent provocateur carrying | two sticks of dynamite attempted to enter the mill but was stopped by the National Guard sentry, who had | obviously not been properly notified that he was to let him by. The sentry told everybody about his cap- ture, and another spy for the bosses wearing ‘a deputy sheriff’s badge, rushed in and claimed jurisdiction. He demanded and received custody of the prisoner, and stated that he was taking him to the police station. Spy Released. Of course neither the spy with the dynamite nor the deputy sheriff | ever came near the station and the attempt at framing up the strike Jeaders on a “bomb” charge is to- day the laughing stock of the com- munity. Organizer Beal of the National Textile Workers Union and Carl) Reeve, representative in Gastonia of the International Labor Defense have issued a joint statement to the press in the name of the union and | the ILL.D., denduncing the plot as| an obvious fraud, and an attempt to | falsely imprison the strike leaders and crush the union. Strikers Stand Fast. The “bomb plot” followed two days of intense intimidation and at- tempts to provoke riots among the | strikers or lynch mobs to kill Beal | and other leaders, all of which schemes have failed completely. The strikers are standing fast. The Workers International Relief store that opened here early this week is packed with hungry textile strikers, men, women and children, registering and applying for relief. Beans, lard, cornmeal, flour and milk for the babies is then parceled | out to them by the strikers’ relief | committee in charge, Crowds of strikers gather in front of the store awaiting their turn. Need Food. The resources of the W. I. R. are being taxed to the utmost to supply all the hungry strikers’ families that | apply. A sa) ‘am sent by Amy Schechter, W. R. representative in Gastonia, to the national office of the W. I. R, in New York appeals | for additional funds so that the re- lief store may constantly contain | enough food for all who apply. Mothers, with babies in arms, are calling for milk and this item alone will require an immediate remit- tance to the strike zone. “The relief work is well under way,” said Schechter. “We rented a good store, large and cool and very well equipped with shelves, counters, lights, water, etc. It is fust about seven doors from union headquarters and about a block from the mill. A striker sign painter made us a big W. I. R. sign—12 feet (Continued on Page Two) | | | | half of the ind. interests of but in. their ¥ are alxo de- move- Communists: ment.—>Marx. Need Volunteers for Textile Relief Work Volunteers are wanted to ad- dress mail for.the national relief. drive for the striking textile || workers of the south. Workers | | should report to the Workers In- ternational Relief Office, Room 604, 1 Union Square. Mill Strikers from Carolina Arrive When four strikers from Gaston City to raise relief for their fellow: ceptions from the Left wing workers. , N.C, arrived in New York trikers they received warm re- Photo shows them in the office of the Workers International Relief, which is cooperating with the National Textile Workers Union From left to right, Iva Fulbright, Carl Burger, Violet Jones. At extreme right i tary of the union. to raise relief for the strikers. Dewey Martin and is Albert Weisbord, national secre- Continue Collections tor Textile IL. D. DRIVE T0 AID MILL STRIKE National Campaign to Defend All Arrested The International Labor Defense, National Office, 799 Broadway, yes- |terday wired more money for de- fense of arrested textile strikers |and sent the following wire to the Gastonia local of the I. L, D. “The International Labor Defense sends fraternal greetings to the brave strikers of Gastonia, Lexing- ton, and other centers of the North Carolina strike. The I. L. D. pledges full support, together with | that of hundreds of workers’ organ- izations affiliated with it nationally to the aid and defense of the South- ern textile strikers, Negro and white, in their heroic struggle | against the oppression of the mill barons and their hirelings in the government, the army and _ the American Legion. We are arrang- ing for bail and defense for all ac- cused strikers, victims of capitalist persecution and cooperating with the union and other workers’ organ- izations in mobilizing the working class on a nation-wide scale for the | | aid of the striking textile workers | of the South.” Protest Lynching Plot. The I. L. D. is also wiring pro- (Continued on Page Five) After every revolution marking 2 TO DEPORT ALL 6.000 BOSTON COMMUNISTS IN BRITISH INDIA iceeoy Issues Order Fight Bosses and Fake} | Defying Legislature | Resolution 'To Strip Parliamentary ‘Heads of Puppet Power | DELHI, India, April from India was issued over the heads of the two puppet Indian legislative |bodies today by ‘the viceroy, Lord Ihwin. | viceroy legal under the dicta- torial government of India, A reso- lution ruling out of order any dis- which also aimed to expel all Com- |mvunists, was the first action of the |legislative assembly on reconvening after the recent bombing. Lord Irwin made a gesture of deference to the parliamentary au- thority of the president of the as- sembly, adding that where the gov- ernment “was for weighty reasons unable to acquiesce in the assem- bly’s actions, the viceroy would al- s make use of his dictatorial 12.—An | |ordinance expelling all Communists | cussion of the Publie Safety bill, | power. He further declared that the gov- ernment wanted the powers pr for southern tex-|Vided in the Public Safety bill and |tile strikers were taken yesterday in | tended to get them. New York shops and factories as |, He asserted that the rules of the | i, legislatur vi i r part of the tag day drive conducted | S&S 3°ure LAGE RC al Strikers Toda Collections the by Local New York, ternational Relief. arrived here Wednesday, pri jtions last night. |Jones, Iva Fulbright, Dev and Cecil Berger. at a mass meeting st Ir |Irving Place and 15th S| auspices is hor Defense a: jtile vores at 8 p. Albert Weisbord, Other speai Worker; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, (Continued on Page Five) N.Y. Members, YWL, Meet 2 p. m. Sunday The District has called a special membership meet- ing tomorrow at 2 p. m, at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, as a part of the pre-convention League discussion. The discus- sion will take place on the basis of the Draft Thesis of the NEC published in the Young Worker and the Daily Worker. All League members must be (aes on time, All other League | affairs, tasks, etc., are called off Committee Workers. In- A delegation of four strikers, who nted the case of more than 8,000 striking textile workers in the Carolinas be- | fore several working class organiza- They are Violet Martin They will speak ving Plaza, , under the of the Workers Interna- |tional Relief, the International La-‘ the National Tex-| ion next Wednesday ‘s will be} of progressive phase in the claxs strug- gle, the purely repressive character of ‘the State power stands out in bolder and bolder relief —Marx. for Sunday. amended in such a way as to pre- ventinterruptions of the govern- |ment’s policy by the president of either legislative chamber. This move virtually ends the semblance lof legislative government in India. The deportation of scores of left wing working class and peasant leaders is forecast as the immediate intention of the Anglo-Indian gov- ernment. It is expected that this | will be the fate of many of the lead- lers arrested during the recent Red jr and mass arrests, who are now iting the farce of a trial in ritish India in the penitentiary at Meerut. naticnal secre- i tary of the N.'T, W. U; J. Louis ROBert Dunn to Speak Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily. gon “Rationalization,” fal School Forum Sunday Rationalization in the Auto In- | dustry will be the subject of the lecture by Robert Dunn at the | Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Square, tomorrow evening. Dunn, secretary of the Labor Research Bureau, has just written “Labor and Automobiles” and is author of “the Americanization of Labor.” In his talk he will analyze the efficency schemes, the belt and conveyor sys- tem and other rationalization meas- ures in the auto industry, the speaker showing the effect of the world-wide competition of the Gen- with ramifications of their strug- | gles in Europe, on the workers o: ‘this country. | A. Markoff will be the speaker | ithe following week. Reader Heb Bring ‘Cement’ to Workers of U.S. It is difficult for workers living in the United States to con- ceive of the tremendous amount and inspiring character of the litera- ture (newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, books) being produced in the Union of Soviet Republics. Against the daily flood of poison press propaganda that flows continuously in the United States, there is the growing daily flood of truth about the revolutionary struggle of labor, in the Soviet Union and the world over, flowing from the printing presses of the First Workers’ Republic, produced by writers whose first concern is the defense of the fruits of the Bolshevik Revolution and the vic- tory of the workers the world over. There is, for instance, the big Soviet Encyclopedia, into which is being written the knowledge of the world from the Communist viewpoint. The encyclopedias in existence today in the capitalist world, the Encyclopedia Britannica, owned by American capital, for instance, are written entirely from the capitalist viewpoint. The Soviet Encyclopedia has already reached its twelfth volume and it is only in the third letter of the alphabet. By the time it is completed it will be the greatest storehouse of knowledge of its kind that the world has’ yet seen. It is being written and published in Russian. The day should come when it will be translated into English. In the meantime the Daily Worker is making an increased effort to present its readers with some of the best of Russian literature. Yesterday it was announced that the famous novel, “Cement,” will be published, starting soon. Our announcement met with a quick response from many readers. The day’s mail brings three dollar bills from Comrade S. Gostin, New Yorl: City, towards defraying the incidental expenses. He writes: “I heartily commend and regard as highly useful to the cause | of both the U. S. S. R. and the working class in general, the fine work which the Daily Worker is about to undertake in pub- | lishing the Russian novel, ‘Cement,’ intended to counteract the | rot, insinuations, nonsense and lies about the Soviet Union that are being printed in the reactior “I am enclosing three dolla! will involve. eral Motors Corp. and the Ford Co. | f| staff of the Daily Worker. the title of “The .Red Napoleon.” that is being served in this fairy tale by Gibbons (the “author”) gives one nausea when reading it. SHOE WORKERS — OUT ON STRIKE Union Heads; New Union Welcomed Biedenkapp a iin for Single Agreement (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, April 12.—The Inde- pendent Lasters’ Union of Boston, after hearing Fred Biedenkapp, gen- eral manager of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New York bring a message of soli- | darity to the Boston shoe worke: began immediate steps to unite with the rest of the 6,000 shoe workers now out on strike here in a demand for the signing of one agreement. Thirty-eight of the 41 shops in Bos- | ton are on strike 100 per cent. The lasters took the lead Monday morn-| | ing and the stitchers completed the tie-up Wednesday. | Strike Spreads. When the lasters called their | strike last Monday, they were the | sole bearers of the banner of revolt against the oppressors as their craft was the only one organized in| an independent union, but the strug- | gle spread rapidly through the | ranks of the shoe workers, and by Wednesday the tie-up was ‘complete with the exception of three plants, | | one of which, the Thomas G. Plant | | Shoe Co., is now receiving the con- | centrated efforts of the 6,000 strik- ers. A special appeal was made to the | Boston shoe workers to prevent | members from deserting their ranks | to go to New York as scabs, and | Biedenkapp also promised that the effort to protect the Boston strikers | from desertions in New York. Biedenkapp was invited to address | the mass meeting of the lasters at| Chelsea, Mass., late this evening, as the first step towards striking the Chelsea shoe factories where con- | ditions are even worse than those} in the notorious Boston plants. ‘Harlem Tenants Will |7-- Plan Drive Again Landlords Monday At the meeting held the coming Monday evening by the Harlem Ten- ants’ League in the lecture room of the Public Library at 103 W. 135th| St., plans will be discussed for wag-| ing an intensive campaign against the repeal of the Emergency Rent Laws and for doing away with the numerous housing evils in Harlem. All workers in Harlem are in-| vited to this meeting to take part) in the discussion and in the work which the League is carrying on. Among the speakers will be Rich- ard Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants’ League; Grace Campbell, vice-president; Elizabeth Anderson, secretary, and Sol Auerbach of the | Among all the classes that con- | front the hourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is really revolu- tionary—Marx. mary magazine, “Liberty,” under The cheapness of the stuff rs as my humble share towards defraying the extra expenses which the publication of ‘Cement’ “I take this occasion to express my heartiest appreciation | of the good and useful work which the Daily Worker is doing both in its way of presenting the general news and particularly its editorials. The Daily Worker is a real fighting organ and a true representative of the working class; d newspaper that every worker should not miss readin; should be: ‘Read it! What is asked today is that iz every day. The new slogan It’s good for you!’” every reader of the Daily Worker push the Subscription Drive, increasing the number of readers who | will begin reading “Cement” immediately it appears. ber of subscriptions received now A large num- will not only make it possible to set aside sufficient to meet the expenses of publishing this novel, but to begin making arrangements for securing the English trans- lations of other Russian literature that should be read by American werkers., Link up this effort with the “Build the Party” Drive start- | | ing today, and the energetic preparations for International May Day, May Ist, I French Warship Brin gs Imperiali s Body MEET IN PRISON AND RESOLVE 10 CARRY ON FIGHT Clerks Call for Great Picket Line Monday; Strike § Spreads The French cruiser Tourville body of Myron T. Herrick, late a to France. The reception of the ) made into a grand cayerte ng st Arrested Pickets Free Boss Association Asks for Another Writ is nearing New York bearing the mbassador for Yankee imperialism body and its burial here will be unt for Wall Street tmp ialis By SOL | conditions i nHarlem. The first | April 8, described conditions wu forced to live in various parts deals with the development of a * O NOT get the idea that all the t the will of the Jandlord. With ‘How Negro- Worker Tenants ..":": Are Preparing Rent Strike Vicious ; Landlord Wants 80 Per Cent Raise for Doing Nothing AUERBACH. is the sixth of a series of articles treating of housing ix cafeteria striker were ested for defying an injunction obtained by the owners of the Wil-low ( rias, Ine. Charged with “contempt of court,” <2. SSeS all were discharged in Jefferson Market Court, when Magistrate Gottlieb stated his court had no jurisdiction over such cases. While in the jail they adopted a resolu- tion pledging loyalty to the union and continuation of the fight. The Unite’ Restaurant Own’ Association yesterday applied in su- preme court for an injunction to re- strain all picketing by the cafeteria strikers. Louis Wittenberg appear- ed for the union to oppose the grant- ing of the injunction. Judge Sher- man reserved hearing on all argu- VI. part of the series, which started nder which Negro workers a of Harlem. The present artic rent strike.) ants’ League on the field, taking up the fight of workingclass tenants as it does, Negro workers are beginning to put up a stiff fight. In order for this fight to be successful and benefit not only the individual tenants involved but all the workingclass tenants in Harlem, | this league must be turned into a big and strong organization that will | be able to resist rent raises and dispossessions effectively and force the landlords to make the houses fit to live in. at 242 W. 144th Str aa ments on this application for a enants in Harlem are submissive to Weeping injunction until _ next the appearance of the Harlem Ten- | /¥esday. Cases in Court Today. The cases of 25 pickets arrested Thursday will come up in Jeffe: Market Court to rson . A total of 50 ts will be heard today. Appreciate “Dail ’s” Aid. The strikers have voted to send | New York union would make every | jeution of workers and their Jeaders ;-are trying to do. | This is the story on. | Mrs. leading spirits in this fight. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. The In this house the landlord is especially vicious. is‘to throw out the old tenants—a total of 14 families—and re- (Continued on Page Pwo) e This is exactly what ten tenants, all living Workers vs. + the Daily Worker and the Freiheit of the fight they are now carrying .an’expressio% of their appreciation of the support given the strike by their fighting paper. “Only these militant, revolutionary working class papers have been on the side of the strikers against the bosses,” read the strikers’ resolution. Despite the injunction by the Wil-low Cafete Landlord. Jenkins, and Mrs. Isaacs, are all other tenants are equally militant. His purpose obtained , Inc., the Militarist Demonstration as Herrick’: s Body Arrives Today ‘ MURDER 1,000 CHINA WORKERS War Between Chiang, Feng Looms More than a thousand left wing workers were murdered by machine gun fire last week in a fresh epi- demi¢ of white terror in Canton,| China, according to an Associated Press report received here. The withdrawal of the Kwangsi | generals and the seizure of power by the Canton clique have resulted only in an intensification of that perse- for which the Kwangsi group was already ‘notorious. Thirty students of the Sun Yat Sen University, accused of Commu-! nist sympathies, have been arrested, court-martialed, lined up and mowed down by machine gun fire. The old method of beheading the worker victims has been discarded Ly the Canton reactionaries to meet the wholesale massacres which they are conducting, machine gun fire, by whick many workers can be dis patched at once, having won the war lords’ preference. ea oe Chiang-Feng War Looms. SHANGHAI, April 12.—The re- cent announcement by Chiang Kai- shek, head of the Nanking govern- iment, that he would resign the pres- ideney is considered an extremely adroit political maneuver to break wway from or abrogate embarras sing alliances which he has had with many Koumintang leaders, Chiang is reported to have bought the support of many groups by con- flicting promises and it is his hope |to wait until the forces secretly hos- ‘tile to him have grouped themselves openly around Feng Yu-hsiang. BLAST KILLS WORKERS DETROIT, April 11 (UP)—A ter- ifie explosion wrecked the Burke curniture ‘store, in the heart of the downtown district here, about six o'clock tonight. Many were trapped in the building. Three bodies have already been removed from ‘the owners of which are ¢ Sestaurant Owners’ pict eane continued in foree yesterday. The workers expressed determination to fight on de- (Continued on Page Five) MEET SUNDAY 70 PLAN FOR PRAY 1 United Front Confab at Irving Plaza tors of the As the swift French cruiser Tour- ville, bearing the corpse of Myron T. Herrick, former'U. S. ambassador |to France, nears this port, the im- perialists are winding up their plans for one of the biggest jingo demon- strations since the return of Lind- bergh, whose trans-Atlantic reputa- tion Herrick was the first to ex- ploit for American militarism. Tomorrow morning federal, state and city Tammany officials will steam out on the municipal tug to whoop up war around the dead body delegates from working class organ- of this faithful servant ications will meet at Irving Plaza The war danger, and the feverish to make final plans for the May preparations of the United States| Day celebration, and to mobilize the government to participate in war, Workers of New York for participa- will feature the funeral cortege tion in this important event. from the time the corpse is unloaded| The speakers will be Louis Hy- from the battleship and placed on a) man, president of the N. T. W. I. U., cannon cassen until it arrives at| Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of he Grand Central Station, escorted| Shoe Workers’ Union, Albert Weis- over the entire line of march by| bord, secretary of the N. T. W. 1. U., army and naval troops and platoons Michael Obermeier, of the Hotel, Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock of mounted police. Thruout this demonstration for war, for which the Herrick corpse affords the pretext, probably _ his | last service to imperialism, guns) will boom at one minute intervals from the forts on Governor's Island. At Grand Central Station the corpse will be placed in the club car (Continued on Page Three) MILWAUKEE, (By Mail).—Peter Muisarek, a tunnel worker, was} made seriously ill by the dreaded | work for Co. here. Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers, and others. Many labor organiza- tions will participate. In a letter applying to, Police | Commissioner Whalen for a par | permit the line of march is out- lined, A demonstration against the growing preparations of the imper- ialist governments for war will fol- | low the parade at Union Syrare. DREAD DISEASE GETS WORKER. Coliseum will follow in the The celebration in the New York evening. CONDUCTOR KILLED LONDON (By Mail).—The con- bends, or caisson disease, while at, ductor of a bus and a passenger the Wenzel Construction | were killed in an accident at Ryde, Isle of Wight. Are you a wise guy? A wise guy is a worker who be- lieves he can minute to get his tickets for the Isadora Duncan Dancers. The fa- mous dancers will make their fare- well appearances in New York at Manhattan Opera House, 34th St. and Eighth Ave., next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There were a lot of wise guys when the Duncans appeared at the fifth anniversary celebration of the Daily Werker last Jan. Most of vuins, wait until the last) inem could be found milling around | few days remain, Don’t Be Wise Guys; Buy Your Duncan Tickets Now, Is Slogan , outside, making frantic but futile l efforts to get tickets. .The only way to avoid being among those left out in the cold is to buy your tickets while the buy- ing is good at the ffice of the Daily Worker, 26 Uunon Square. This means NOW! If you wait to get your lickets at the box office, even if you do succeed, you will be depriving your fighting “Daily” of the percentage it receives on all tickets sold from the Daily Worker Office. Only a Act at one