The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 1

NEW YORK WORKERS CALLED ON TO MOBILIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL MAY DAY CELEBRATION The Mobilization Manifesto issued by the New York May Day Conference is as follows: Down Tools on May Day! MAY DAY, the international workers’ holiday, this year finds tens of thousands of workers in different cities of the country en- gaged in struggle against increasing capitalist exploitation. The past year has witnessed gigantic thruout the world. struggles of labor against capital The huge strikes in Lodz, Poland, in the Ruhr region of Germany, etc., as well as the developing revolutionary move- | ments in India, China, etc., contradictio: | the workers. than ever necessary now becuase THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize th e Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party D aily = Entered as xccond-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1S are proof of the intensification of the of world imperialism and of growii The spirit of May Day, of proletarian struggle, is more radcalization of of the increasing preparations for war by the various Sepeeel powers, and the intensified attacks on the entire working class. For a Shorter Work-Day and the 5-Day Week. The workers of America will live up to the tradition of May 43 years ago, in 1886, it was the American workers, over 350,000 of them, who started the observance of May Day when they went out on strike for the 8-hour day. Today millions of workers are still working 9, 10 and 12 hours a day. In U. S., the richest | country of the world, with millions unemployed and with the num- ber of jobless being increased every day, with the severe strain of the speed-up, we must demand and fight for the 7 eed day and the week, and for unemployment, sickness, and old age insurance paid for by the employers and the state. Against Capitalist Ration Speed-Up. The approach of May Day this year finds (Continued on Page Five) thousands of shoe Vol. VIL, No. 35 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 U RIPTION RAI Outside New STRIKE TWO MORE TEXTILE M STARTS 'S SOON! 7 000 10 Workers Join Mass P; Piupreuing tt in ) Food Strike Press Opinions of, “CEMENT” The famous Soviet novel, Feodor Gladkov, that will be | lished in the Daily Worker has | arouse considerable criticism and | public controversy. Some opinions | of it are as follows: x * OPINIONS OF CEMENT. Gladkov’s novel is one of the most important books that can | now be read; indeed, one that must be read. . -It is such a direct, com- pact expression of life that is now being, or has recently been lived | in Russia, of the convictions and moods operative there and strug- | gling to take shape, that its docu- | mentary value is, and will remain, incalculable.—Vossische Zeitung. In Literature’s Front Rank. | -Thus the author has com- bined consistent naturalism with true poetry and has thereby cre- ated a standard work which will surely secure a front rank in mod- ern literature——Die Welt am Mor- gen (Vienna). Epic of New Russia. “Cement” is the epic of new | Russia. It is an epic of passion and power. (Der Tag, Vienna). Best of World’s Novels. Thus this book is in reality a text book which belongs as much to our scientific literature as to the best social novels of world lit- erature among which it takes front rank. (Ruhr, Germany, Echo). Develops Great Problem. Maxim Gorki, in an interview with Soviet seamen, “Since we are already speaking of writers, I | wish to refer to one more, that is, | of Gladkoy. His ‘Cement’ is one { of the most important creations, a work of dimensions. For Glad- kov here develops one of the greatest problems of today, the question of labor, of labor disci- pline, that is, the most living problem of today. And he solves this problem in the most splendid manner.” The New, Budding Life. A. Serafimovich in the Pravda of February 16, 1929, raises the following question: “Why does ‘Cement’ exercise such an attraction?” And replies as follows: “Because it is the first comprehensive picture of a revolutionary country which has undertaken its reconstruction; the first artistic reflection of revolu- tionary reconstruction, of the new, budding life.” oot Send in the Subs! NOTE: But we need new thou- sands of readers, to give them all | an opportunity to read this novel direct from the Soviet Union. These must be secured through the Daily Worker Subscription Drive. United Council Asks Members to Report at Center Tomorrow The United Council of Working Class Women, through Kate Gitlow, executive secretary, requests mem- bers to report at the Workers Cen- ter, 26 Union Square, at 12 noon tomorrow. Important work must be done to help the cafeteria strike, the council states. Urge Attendance at YWCL Unit Meetings The New York District Commit- tee of the Young Workers Commu- nist League urges every League member to attend unit meetings this week, in order to participate in the District Convention elections. WIR Asks Return of ‘Jacques Buitenkamp. These Collection Boxes Tag day collection boxes and stamps should be immediately re- turned to the Workers International Relief, Room 221, 799 Broadway. Relief is needed at once—the co- operation of those who have boxes and stamps is requested, the W.LR. states. Ms HELP STRIKERS IN RESISTING INJUNCTIONS |Police Swing Clubs and Arrest 45 Needle Workers Picket | Pea Asaments on Writ Today Over 1,000 members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the United Council of Working , Women and the New York District of the Communist Party thronged the mass picket demonstration of striking members of the Hotel, Kestaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union in garment section cafeterias erday, where union members defying injunctions in the first es of a fight to abolish the open shop in New York City. Fouricen of the 45 arrested yes-! terday were women and girls. Gitlow, Secretary of the Kate United Council of Working Women, was ar-.| vested "while speaking. She was later released on $1,000 bail by Judge Rosenbluth in Jefferson Mar- | ket Court. Judge Henry Sherman of the reme Court of N. Y. State, will hear arguments on the injunctions of the Wil-low Cafeterias, Inc., and the United Restaurant Owners Asso- ciation, at ¢ p. m., today. Singing women and girls of the Needle | Trades Union and the United Coun- | cil paraded the strike zone, pausing enly to shout “This place is on strike—don’t scab!” to the crowds gathered outside the restaurant. Among the arrested Sam Babbits, 27, 1636 St. and Louis Demos, 35, of 248 West i28rd_ St. were fined $10 each; Henry Paratore, Peter Hudyner, Leopold Syzaba, Jack Nichols, and S, Zezachaths, paid a fine of $5 h. Sixteen were released on | $500 bail, 11 on $100 bail, and 10 on $25 bail.: Jacqueline Chan, a 16-| year-old Chinese girl, was paroled | in custody of the union’s attorney, cases will be tried next Wednesday. Three of those previously arrested, who came up for trial today, were fined $20 each. They are Walter Larsen, 38, 2800 Bronx Park East, James McMann, 24, 38 Union Square, and John Taylor, 22, 334 West 89th St. They paid the fine in preference to serving tive days in jail, in order to join the picket line today. The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.—Marx. Call Women Members of Party for Work All women members of the Communist Party, members of the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League, and sympathizers, must report at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, to- morrow, for important work. District Executive Committee, District 2, Communist Party, U.S. A. John’s Place, Bronx, | Kills Negro ov Who Won Racing Meet 14 A Ngro boy, Henry Clarke, year old, of 249 W, 122d St., w killed Saturday night by a white boy rival who hed warned him not to win a race at the track meet of the Hudson District Athletic League, Clarke was leaving the 102d En- gineers Armory, 168th St. and Ft. Washington Ave., when he was struck in the temple by a rock, and died soon after at the Presbyterian Hospital of a lacerated br The police, as usual, were looking the} other way and the identity of the boy who killed Clarke remains un- known. dash, which he won, Clarke was| warned by his attacker, accoraing to his schoolmates at P.S. 157, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., that he’d better | look out if he tried to win the race. In an interview with the Daily} Worker last night, Mrs. mother of the dead boy, declared: | “The -blame is to be put on the (Conese Pee | on Page Five) ‘ATTEMPT MURDER "OF PAT TOOHEY |Lewis Thugs Break 2) Meetings in W. Va. LIBERTY, W. , April 15.—An | | attempt was se ea yesterday to| tary-treasurer of the National Min-| ers’ Union. | Twenty-five automobiles with Lewis gangsters, hired men and officials of the United Mine faded | Workers of America, collected from) West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, came into town before the meeting, at which 2,000 miners were |gathered to hear an organization talk by Toohey and others, attacked |the meeting with guns, knives, and |blackjacks, injuring many, and then | besieged the house in which Toohey and several others miners had bar- ricaded themselves. “Kill On Sight.” ] In their parade through the \streets, before the attack, the gang- jelared their intention to “kill Pat Toohey on sight.” Sheriff Helps. Pierce Jol.nson, the sheriff of Monongahela county, gave every as- sistance to the gangsters. Not only did he not interfere with their at- tack on the meeting, but while they were gathered in force around the hall, and shouting threats against Toohey and National Miners’ Union leaders, {men’s lines, demanded entrance to the barricaded hell on a_ liquor search warrant, and disarmed all) the miners in the house. He found} no liquor, He then went out, making no ef- fort whatever to stop the attack on the house. Sheriff Watches Beating. Harry White, \the Civil Liberties Union, went to authorities end the organized at- tack on the union miners. While he was talking to the sheriff, without any interference on the part of the (Continued on Page Two) RECREATE STRUGGLES : |Revolutionary Story in Duncan Dance It has been said that the history of a people can be traced in its folk songs. This is particularly true of .the Russian people, who have poured into their songs the suffer- ing of hundreds of years of oppres- sion. The rise of the revolutionary movement in Russia gave birth to} entire pageantry of these struggles, the victories and defeats, has been recreated through the art of the) dance by the pupils of the greatest | dancer of all time, Isadora Duncan. “Impressions of Revolutionary Russia,” one of the numbers on the program of the Duncan Dancers, whose farewell performances in this sters waved their weapons and de-; flourishing guns and_ knives| the sheriff walked through the gun- | representative of| the sheriff and demanded that the) TAMMANY POLICE RAID N.Y. BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC Medical Trust Behind | Attack; Want Monopoly Jail Women Doctors: 6 No Contraception for | Poor,” Laws Say | Grover Whalen’s drive on “crime” Just before he ran the 100- yard | yesterday corraled another band of | Descending | “desperate characters.” with their usual florid fanfare, a squad of police raided the head- | quarters of the Birth Control Clin- | ical Research Bureau, 46 W. 15th |St., and arrested two women doctors Clark, |@%d three women nurses on charges | of giving | methods. | The bureau is under the direction advice on contraceptive of Margaret Sanger, who for years | nas waged a fight to bring birth control information to the masses. Mrs. she accompanied the five arrested women to the 20th St, police station. Woman Spy. Evidence on which the raid was |made was collected by one of the} | stoolpigeon women members of the | | police department. Those arrested [yess Dr. Hannah M. Stone, medical | |director of the bureau; Dr. A. Piz- | |zort, woman doctor in attendance; | and three nurses, Miss Field, Miss “Solidarity Forever!” murder Pat Toohey, national secre- Byestwell and Miss Sitteri. When the raid was made about 35 (Continued on Page Five) = EXPECT CLASH IN NORTHERN CHINA Japan Plans to Tighten | Hold on Manchuria SHANGHAI, China, April 15. Armed struggle between the forces | of Feng Yu-hsiang and Chiang Kai- shek is forecast following the evacu- ation today of governor of Tsing- | Tao, Chao Chi, puppet of the Japan- ‘ese from the northern faction of | warlords. A lieutenant of Feng’s| | will immediately assume control ee | the city. Chiang Kai-shek, in the name of | the Nanking government, has begged | Chang Hsueh-liang, Manchuria war- lord, to rush troo>s to prevent Feng from taking over all Shantung and | Tsing Tao. Chang Hsueh-liang has refused | to send the troops and instead is concentrating his forces at Shan Hai-kwan where the Teintsin-Muk- | den Railroad pierces the Great Wall. Chiang has twice petitioned the Japanese government not to with- craw its troops. Japan has refused, nothing loath to see the struggle between the war- lords looming, since it promises tightening of Japanese control of prizes than the Japanese govern- ment has yet seized. tae British Sailors Wounded. SHANGHAI, China, April 15.— | Three British sailors are reported to have been wounded when a Brit- ish gunboat was fired upon near Tehang in Hupeh province, accord- ing to a telegram from that city. INDIA ANTI-LABOR BILL. DELHI, India, April 14.—With mass arrests continuing thruout passed the trades dispute bill, which was passed by the legislative as- sembly immediately upon its recon- vening after the recent bombing by terrorists. The measure is sponsored by the Anglo-Indian government and aims to give the government power to in- terfere in labor disputes and assist a new type of folk song, songs ex- j country start here Thursday vight, the bosses in defeating the workers pressing the struggles of the class- | conscious workers and peasants. The depicts by a remarkable fusion of) | (Continued on Page Five) % thru a so-called court of inquiry and board of conciliation, Sanger was not arrested, but | nal I Relief i in Gastonia | | First W. I. R. strikers’ relief station in Gastonia, made possible by donations of food by farmers in surrounding country and of money from other cities. If this store is kept stocked with food to distribute to the hungry mill workers on the picket line, this strike will be won and these workers will be in position to help the section of the working class engaged in a life and death fight with their bosses. Send aid immediately to Workers’ International Relef, 1 Union Square, New York! Organize local relief committees and tag days! The need is desperate! The Church as Landlord— Owns “Rats and Cats Row”’ _|St. Philips Church Exploits Negro Tenants in) Entire Block on West 135th Street By SOL AUERBACH. VIII. (This is the cighth of a series of articles appearing exclusively in the Daily Worker, exposing the conditions under which workers are forced to live. The first six articles, which appeared last week, de- ibed the results of an investigation in the tenements of Harlem. Yesterday, Richard B, Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants League, told of its program. Today, the exposure of the conditions in Harlem | 4s continued.) | ne TaN E have shown that landlords, supported by legislature and courts, rob! the tenants to the extreme for lodgings which are not fit to live \in, intimidate them and throw them out on the street. E. A. Johnson, the politician who claims to represent the Negroes of | Harlem, robbed Negro workers in his block of tenements on Seventh Ave. There are other landlords in Har-© FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents York, by mail, “30.00 per year. SOLDIERS ai -_ GET CAS BOMBS; STARVATION _ BEST ALLY OF EMPLOYERS evans Strike ‘Spirit Gpreada But Need for | Relief Grows Desperate; Many Hungry Walk-out at Rankin Company Mill Opens Way to Add 20,000 More Workers to Strike | N. C., April 15.— | olina textile mills ; more troops are those already ican Legion gun- armed striki uipped with poison gas 2 threatening and driv- pickets back from the mill gates, and the winning of the strike is seen to depend largely on the amount of relief which workers out- side of the strike area can rush to the aid of the strikers, who are al- ready actually starving. One of the new mills added to the vike today is the Pinkney mill, in onia, owned by the Rankin com- pany. About 300 workers quit this mill, completely paralyzing it. The je kers strike here is of supreme importance lief, which is in charge of the re-| because the Rankin company owns | lief activities of the striking work-| a whole string of mills in several j ers of Gastonia, has decided to con-| towns, another, called the Rankin tinue the tag days to enable many} Mill, being right,in Gastonia. | workers who have not as yet con-| lid | tributed, an opportunity to do so. Ask Solidarity. 2 Strike leaders are urging the | “The mill owners, a statement | sued by the W. I. R. points out, are| Workers in the other Rankin mills continuing their campaign to break | to immediately come out, as they \the strike. The storing of tear gas can see that by continuing to work |bombs in the strike region, and for the same boss they are directly | deputizing of members of the Amer- bing on their fellow workers jican Legion as special deputies,| striking at the Pinkney plant. armed with rifles carrying bayonets,| The other mill whose workers join- show the extent the mill barons will|ed the movement for better living rushing to SPEAKTOMORROW Relief Meeting Will Be > Held at Irving Plaza The tag day campaign for the striking textile workers of the South, will be continued until Wed- | nesday, when the delegation of four | workers who came here from Gas- | tonia, N. C., will speak at a huge|s mass meeting to be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St., at 8 p. m. tomorrow. The Workers’ International Re- go to drive the workers back into! conditions is the Dakota mill, in the mills. “This makes it nec Lexington, N. C., 90 miles from the for all supporters of the st e of ope s of the National e their efforts in the W. I. R. meeting in| W. s will be sent | te | their behalf,” decla After Wednesda: | New York, the stri on a tour of New | (Continued on Page Five) 2 of Train Crew Hurt in Wreck of Passenger be expected daily. A. F. L. Cruelty. ington, where s already on and all the re- str lidifying, 7 ere Ane ent stri now under the direct ISELIN, N. J., April 15.—Three | °°" ; per: were seated late today a EC acpeae: aie when a fast Pennsylvania Railroad | Workers’ Union. The strikers have passenger train, enroute from Phila- lthe United Textile Work reakers } Manchuria and grabbing of richer) India, the Council of State today) | Jem besides white and Negro capi- talists and politicians. The church is a large landlord in Harlem. Money-Making Pulpit. But read along and you will learn} that the church, using its creed as a, cloak to hide its serviency to land- lord, legislature and court, takes no little hand in exploiting the Harlem tenants. The clergy and other “respectable citizens” of Harlem have just given | | their support to this same EK, A. Johnson, the robber-landlord of | Seventh Avenue, as the republican candidate to fill the seat in Congress | left vacant by the death of Congress- | man Weller. The pulpit is a good money- |making proposition in more ways than one. . + 8 “Liberal” Tenements. St. Philip’s Church, under the ac- tual supervision of Shelton H. | Bishop, who calls himself a “liberal,” \owns the block of tenements on the \edd side of West 135th Street, be- tween Lenox and Seventh Avenues. The Reverend Bishop lives in a roomy, well kept building, with con- Addressers Wanted i in Strike Relief Drive Volunteers to address envelopes for the textile relief drive should report at the Workers International Relief, Room 604, One Union Square. From each according to his ca- pacity, to each according to his needs.—Marx, delphia to New York, struck a con- they know betrayed the s' eens “is or 2 Iselin Jerossing New Bedford, and is a partner of horeneta WT ; of| the A. F. L. labor council in Char- |, Charles W. Dartelles, engineer, of | 1,112 whose official request workers Brentwood, Md., George W. Phillips, (Continued on P on Page Two) fireman, of Washington, D, C., and Mrs. W. Williams, a passenger, were taken to Rahway ira hry sutie None was injured serious! ser ‘Negro ‘Workers NST a AT MAY 1ST MEET to Report in Har The District Negro Dep't of the Many Organizations Communist Party sends out a urg-| ent call to ali Negro and white | Mobilizing members to report at 169 W. 138rd | ISt., tonight at 7 o'clock, Failure| One of the features of the May to show up will be to undcrestimate | 1st demonstration at the huge Bronx the strength of the Party in its| Coliseum st 177th St., will be a mobilization of the Negro masses. [alas 22 ss the. cauuice ee ie Sees aay Oi mivcay militant left wing unions, Other features announced are “speeches by Of all the classes that stand face & general, a bishop, the mayor of 2 ca “om. | tive of the money powers.’ PE an aati Si faa Many thousands of workers are “=== / expected to attend the meeting at MA ! the Coliseum and make it the largest Y DAY MEETINGS! May Day demonstration ever known in New York. The 133 organiza- ncaa eens | tions which ticipated in united 6 Base following is a partial list of International May Day meetings front conference at Irving Plaza arranged by the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations. The Sunday are busy mobilizing their | Various districts are urged to send in immediately for listing the dates,| membership and other workers for the demonstration. In addition to the speaking, play and other features, there will be ass ballet, depicting the mobili- | zation of the workers for the de |fense of the Soviet Union and turn- jing the next imperialist war into a civil war against the exploiter: | and oppressors of the working class cities, halls, and speakers of their May Day meetings. New York, May 1, Coliseum, E. 177th St. and Bronx River. Pittsburgh, May 1, 7:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. New Bedford, May 1, Bristol Arena. Speaker, Pershing. Newark, May 1, 93 Mercer St. Union City, May 1, 418 21st St. Jersey City, May 1, 116 Mercer St. New Brunswick, May 1, 11 Plum St. Perth Amboy, May 1, Workers Home, 308 Elm St. Elizabeth, May 1. P Gh May 5, Cooperative Center, 252 Warburton Ave. etroit, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Danceland Auditorium, Woodward, near Forest. Speakers: N. H. Tallentire, ete. LAUNDRY WORKERS ORGANIZE SAN FRANCISCO (By Mail)— Chinese laundry workers here re cently organized into a union, and (Continued cn Page Two) % conducted a strike, which was sue- cessful in reducing working hours b Cleveland, May 1, 7:30 p. m., Public Hall (Ball Room),