The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1929, Page 2

nea nNaguaNanNebiibiet Page Two EW YORK, WEDNUSDAT, APRIL 17, 1929 BABINET ORDERS PREVENT INDIAN LEASES OF Ol Wilbur Cuts Chances for Tribes to Profit WAS tinuing of pany from competitio the Interior no more oil } saving the He specifie the Crow ation a, but in- led all other ations except e, which is covered bk pecifying the annually, No More Royalty. The effect on the Indi: i to prevent them from drawing any royalties. Their oil will be act until the new Indian bill Wilbur broken’ up and dividuals, tribal orga tile world full of m-to face il swindlers MILL STRIKERS TOUR COUNTRY Help W. I. R. Gather Funds for South (Continued from Page One) Brunswick and Hoboken. Nation-wide Campaign. Thousands of letters appealing for funds*are being mailed daily, while tag days and mass meetings are be- ing atranged by W. I. R. locals throughout the country. The national office of the W. I. R. has sent out’ instructions to its branches throughout the country telling them to immediately organ- ize W. I. R. relief committees. It calls upon them to secure the sup- port ofall local trade unions, Work- men Circles, workers’ clubs and other fraternal organizations in their ze your forces at once,” state. the instructions, “for a tag day, a house to house collection, col- lections in front of factory gates, collections at all dances and other affairs«held by workers’ organiza- tions.” A Man Who Knows. The national office of the W: 1. R. yesterday made public the following letter received from R. Brano Wil- son, Berkeley, Cal. “Enclosed please find check for $5 for relief of miners and textile workers. “IT was child slave at eight in a Southern cotton mill in 1901 and have been hoping and praying (not to god) for just such a coming out of the slaves ever since. “Stay by those noble workers in the mines and mills as I know they are made of good figthing metal if given a chance.” Contributions for the relief fund should be sent to the national office of the W. I. R., Room 604, 1 Union Sq., New York City. upon the lands will be S t } | Monday on the ‘ arraigned in : Minister Finds Reaction Tries Members o and nurses in the Birth Cont ical Research Burea lied by @ woman stool. ket Court. ‘mati on Ma in a vaid by Tam- shows the arrested a “Social | Vision” tor Exploitation (Continued frow Page One) tenements owned by his church. But Father Bishop is a clever man. “Well,” though St. Nich some Place, 858 by the “Oh, the church owns property? it own n , it owns t ¢ whole block on 35th S$ eption of the library are in as we throw s the clever Father are pretty bad. They are kept in bad condition.” A “Social Vision.” “How is that? One would think that property owned by the church would be ‘somewhat better.” We did not think so, but we said it only to draw the Father out more. “Well, you see, I am not the rec- tor of the church, my father is. And the vestry board actually runs the proper The trouble with the vestry board is that they are not accustomed to look at the problem with a social vision. They have to be educated up to it.” “What do you m vision, Father Bishop A 5 Per Cent Investment. “Well, looking at the problem from both sides. You will agree with me, won't you, that anybody is entitled to 5 per cent on their investments? We try to give all we can for the money we get.” We could not grasp the profunity of this “social vision” on the part of the minister of a church which tries to get all it can out of tenants liv- ing in its property, while refusing to spend a cent for repairs and | renovations. About all the tenants , get from their clerical landlord for their rent is good rat meat for their cats. y a social A Spiritual Return. But let the minister himself en- large upon this “social vision:” “What we make in profits out of the property we own we return to the people in some form or other. Besides our spiritual help we have a home for the aged, a camp for children and a playroom for boys. If it were not for the apartments we would not be able to take care of the boys who come to play here, who also come from poor families. Nor | could we distribute a few hundred | Christmas baskets, as we did last Christmas.” i “But do you not feel it to be tory for a church to own a tenement block where conditions are at their worse and from the pulpit of that church preach the creed of ‘good will’ “Why so? We are just like the owner of a factory who returns to its employees, in some form or an- other, all its profits.” ea Vision of a Parasite. HAT is the of a minister for landlord church! His app ce: not so deceiving after all, for he-is certainly a good busines n. To him the suffering of tenants living on a block in Harlem is a matter of dollars and cents. If the church can get 5 per cent on its in- vestment—the vestry board sees to! it that it gets more—then the ten- ants can go without renovations and have all the rats they want. If necessary, the tenants must take rent raises and be served with dis- possesion notices. The Bishops, father and son, will continue preach- ing from their pulpit, assured that their income is certain and that the vestry board feels safe. But the ministers play a more double-faced role than that. Out of the profits they grind from their tenants living in the rat cages on 135th Street, they take a small frac- tion and make up Christmas bas- kets. Then they go to the homes of the workers, smiling in Christmas fashion, with Christmas basket in hand, and sa: ow, see how good we are.” Trick of Charity. It is certainly a charitable insti- tution! They grant asylum to a few old women whom members of the church and other exploiters in Harlem have worked to death at a starvation wage and diseased in tenements. How kind they must be to allow some thirty boys to play in a room in their parish—under the supervision of the Boy Scouts— while thousands of other children, victims of church exploitation, make the best playgrounds they can out (of. dirty streets and cubby-holes, sleeping two or three in a bed in some unventilated room. That is the “social vision” of the church. It is a business vision, which means that it looks upon the great mass of Negro workers as | so much material from which to make money an! at whose ex- pense clergymen and other “re- spectable citizens” can live in ease and luxury. Segregated Segregation. Not only do they believe in segre- ‘gation for the Negroes—for it |burned to death means that they have reserved a whole p of workers to them- se whom they hold the vileged position of parasites—but they also believe in splitting the Negro workers among themselves so that they can exploit t all the better. church—St. Philips— are instructed to re- the first few rows for lighter- skinned Negroes! This is social vision for the para- both Negro and white—for exploiters and the robbers of gro workers, ‘sae * Tomorrow the Daily Worker in- vestigator will take you to a “mo- del apartment” which has been heralded as a solution for the housing conditions. Come along, and we shall see. Tenants, write in to the Daily Worker, describing the conditions of your apartment and treatment | at the hands of landlords. Steel Trust Sells New Stock; Dodges Tax; See $1,500,000,000 in Sales The United States Steel Corpora- tion will sell additional stock to holders of record May 1 at $140 per share in the ratio of one new share! for each seven held, directors de- cided at their meeting here yester- day Directors simultaneously called the 50-year bond issue of the cor-} poration for payment September 1. No action has yet been taken on calling the 10 to 60 year issue. The r debt amounts to $184,830,- 000, The new common stock to be is- sued will amount to 1,016,605 shares. President Farrell told the stockhold- ers’ meeting the plants were operat- ing at 96 per cent capacity and sales in 1929 would probably amount to $1,500,006,000. In 1928 they were $1,374,000,000. This bond redemption program is the largest the corporation has ever undertaken, but is largely a paper transaction, as the inner ring con- trolling the steel trust, mainly the group around J. Pierpont Morgan, owns most of the bonds too. The purchase of the bonds out of profits | Who set the prices of farm products | pel Tabernacle at Los Angeles, and jat the farms would not be thereby | forced to pay the farmer any more. | of the company is one way to avoid paying income tax and to avoid the appearance of granting big divi- dends. BOY, 12, BURNED TO DEATH COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 16.— (U.P.)—James Harris, 12, died here, the third Harris Home night. Mrs. Wanda Harris, 32, was so ‘badly burned she died this morning. For the New Line of the C. |. and C.Y. J. in the Building of a Mass Communist Youth League and Its Unification This is the fifth installment of statement introduced April 5th, by Comrades Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak, which was re- jected by the National Executive Committee. The convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League will open on April 26. * * * Break Factional Ties With Party Groups. One of the prerequisites for successful struggle against the Right danger and the establishment of a new line and for the build- ing of a mass CYI, is the abolition of factionalism and group life both in League and Party. The unification of the League can proceed at a faster tempo than in the Party, providing the League membership carry out the line of the CYI. The CYI in its Open Leter states: “The direct cause of the renewed factional struggle in the Executive of the League is the revival of the struggle in the American Party. The American League made progress in re- ®ards to unity, and the successes in its work corresponded exactly ith this period. But this unity was marred by the uncritical ttitude of the Executive of the League to the Right errors of e Party. The NEC actually rors of the Party by its tacit condoned and shared the Right agreement with them.” + The League leadership did not heed the warning of the CYI and thr its factional alignment with the Party leading group, intensified the factional situation in the League. The League must at all times, tain a critical attitude towards the Party activities and take the initiative in fighting for the new line given to the Party by the Comin- te * The CI in its Open Letter to ct the League and Party.” We recognize as a the Party leadership and thei and take the initiative against factionalism, the Party correctly points the way for the elimination of factionalism in the League. It says, “The YWL must not be led by any of the factional groups in the Party. Its mem- must fight on the basis of the decisions of the Comintern and the for the liquidation of factionalism and factional groupings both in stake, in conflict with the line of the CYI Letter, tho absolutely uncritical attitude of the League Majority to complete factional unification with it. ‘The NEC Minority, while basically following a critical attitude to both Party groups and their mistak in making its stand clear on political questions, did not at all times sufficiently differentiate itself fac- ly from the Party Minority. ‘development of the League. life and practices. One of In the present period, the CYI contention, that the League must led by any Party groups and must at all times assume a crit- ttitude towards Party mistakes and groupings, from whichever they come, is more necessary then ever before, and must be led out energetically and honestly by the League. The continued nce of factionalism in the League contains grave dangers for The League must do away with the crassest manifestations of fac- or CYI and CI loyalty. Substitute Self Critic! League. and in building up the League. Tasks in the Build League for the following tasks: 1, tional and methods, especially with zations, to improve the function! participation of the members and ing shop nuclei and daily directives and national centers. improved character of the Leogue leadership. tionalism in the League is the placing of group loyalty above League | A step in the direction of laying the basis for unifying the League, based on the CI and CYI lines and in breaking factional ties with the Party groupings, is the joint declaration of Comrades Wil- | liamson and Kaplan which we heartily endorse. ism for Factionalism. Self criticism and normal life must substitute factionalism in the The entire League leadership and membership must be in- volved thru self criticism in correcting the present line of the League Self-criticism, firm iron discipline and democratic centralism must become the basis for healthy normal development of healthy inner League. ing of the League. The Convention, basing itself on the CYI line, must prepare the Understanding and preparation of the League to successfully participate in and to give leadership in the present wave of struggles against rationalization and to mobilize the working youth against the growing war danger. All our activities must aim at freeing the work- ing class youth from the influences of bourgeois and social reformism and to politicalize the struggles of the working youth. 2. A complete overhauling and strengthening of the organiza- regard to local and district organi- jing of the League thru broader to fit it for the tremendous tasks and responsibilities in the coming period. Especial attention to build- to this end must come from district 3. The planning and perspective in all our work—both thru in- tensified participation in the struggle of the young workers and thru work and organizational function- ing of a decisive change in the present, poor social composition of the League and its leadership. The League membership, thru deliberate efforts and guidance from the NEC of the District activities, must in- crease the number of industrial workers so that they constitute the overwhelming majority of the membership. j The present situation, where a majority of the League member- ship are non-proletarians, must be overcome by energetic work in the economic struggles—actually in the shops and mines, of recruiting young industrial Americanized workers. In order to sink the roots of the League in the class struggle and give leadership to the struggle of the young workers, we must build up a young American proletarian (To Be Continued) 4 HOOVER MESSAGE OF ALL PROMISES Wants More Patro on Tariff Machine (Continued from Page One) ge we were befere. The American people when tl elected Hoover | did it under the impression that he Some of us and ef agriculture. it There Is No Remedy.” | He then makes a sweeping state- ment that “there is no single plan or principle that can be generally applied” (for farm relief) but, “Some of the forces working to the detriment of agriculture can be gated by improving cur nsportation; some of them by readjustment of the tariff; some by better understanding and adjustment of production _ needs, and some by improvement in the methods of marketing.” “There should be no fee or tax imposed upon the f: er. No gov. lernmental agency should engage it the buying and selling and _price- fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and domination. Government funds should not be loaned or facilities du- plicated where other services of eredit and facilities are available at reasonable rates. No activities should be set in motion that will re- sult in increasing the surplus pro- duction, as such will defeat any plans of relief,” Tariff Board Plums. Hoover is very chary in his mes- =ge about definite tariff changes, also, and in no manner suggests any reduction. His single. definite con- ltributior is only one in favor of more patronage for the president. He says: “The Tariff Commission should be reorganized and placed upon a basis of higher salaries in order that we may at all times command men of the broadest attainments. Limits Session. And finally he smashes at those who hope to use the present special session for some other purpose than fake farm relief and technical tar- iff changes with the. remark: “It is my understanding that it is the purpose of the leaders of congress to confine the deliberations tions of farm relief and tariff. In ‘this policy I concur.” There is in the whole message not one statement of a practical ap- plication of any of these sketchily suggested “remedies” except a few paragraphs in favor of higher tariff on agricultural products, which all economists agree would have the| single effect of raising food prices for city workers, as the middleman Let Banks Hyndle Loan. Hoover's outline of the duties of the proposed Federal Farm Board jare simply a paraphrase of the | Wording in the bill before the house. His attack on the equalization pro- victim of a fire at the | visions of the old McNary-Haughen; charged with claiming to be kid- at Harrisburg, last! bill and his implied attack on even|napped in Mexico when she was | the $500,000,000 revolving fund for practical suggestion of the present bill, is stated as follows: | pita eae Senate Bill Tomorrow. WASHINGTON, April 16 (UP). —tThe senate agricultural committee will report a farm bill tomorrow, eration on the floor of the senate the committee told the senate today | after the reading of President Hoo- | ver’s special messaze. He did not indicate the nature of the bill. ‘ The committee held a two-hour executive session this forenoon and expected to reach a vote later. The committee may tack the de- posed federal farm board. ee . Whtat Prices Fall. CHICAGO, April 16 (UP).— | President Hoover’s farm relief mes- sage to congress today was inter- preted pessimistically by grain traders here, May wheat dropping nearly five cents a bushel during the board of trade session. Foreign markets were the first to weaken after the president’s mes- sage had been made public but Chi- cago soon followed, 4t the close today May wheat sold at $1.18 1-8 compared with a Corn and oats fell. | MAY DAY This year will carry the slogans: —“Organize the Unorganized!” —‘Defend the Soviet Union!” —‘Fight Imperialist War” AMPLE SUPPLIES OF THESE BUTTONS SHOULD BE OR- DERED FROM THE DISTRICi' OFFICES OF THE PARTY! PLACE YOUR : PRI 10c each to individuals 7c each to Units on orders up to 100 buttons 6c each to Units on orders over 100 buttons COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A—NATIONAL OFFICE. were | ‘of the session mainly to the ques-| expecting to bring it up for consid- | next Monday, Chairman McNary of | benture plan on as an amendment} to be used optionally by the pro-, price of $1.23 at the close Monday. | FORM NEW STEEL | WORKE To Be One of Biggest) Corporations | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 16.— A. $30,000,009 syndicate, believed the | first step of a plan to organize the | |ecountry’s third great steel corpora- | tion, was under development here | today. Organized to acquire steel stocks, | the syndicate was reported to be) part of a plan to strengthen the, | holdings of its sponsors preliminary | | to an attempt to merge the Youngs- | town Sheet and Tube Co. of Youngs- town; the Inland Steel Co. of Chi- cago, and Republic Iron and Steel Company of Youngstown and Mas- | sillion, Ohio. | One of the main objects of the | steel trust will be to combat the ef- forts of the workers in the mills to) organize their union. Only recently the workers at the Massillion mill, | of the Republic Iron and Steel Co., one of the firms involved in the merger, struck. Workers in one of the plants of the Central Alloy | Steel Corporation, also involved in| the trust, struck a short time ago. The dominating figure in the move |was said to be Cyrus S, Eaton,| | Cleveland investment broker and | partner of Otis and Co. reports said. The new corporation would become one of the three greates’ steel cor- | porations, surpassed in size only by | | the United States Steel and Bethle- | | hem Steel. The ultimate consolidation may | | strive to include Central Alloy Steel | | Corporation, adding upwards of $88,- 000,000 in assets and plants with a) 1,400,000 ton annual capacity to’ the | new combine. ~ BETRAYS GRAFT Says Judge Got Check | for “Legal Service” | SACRAMENTO, April 16, Preachers in California are begin-| |ning to see a new meaning in the) tacties ascribed to Jesus by the bible, where it says he eschewed family re- lationships. Mrs. Kennedy, the mother of Rev. Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson, has an affidavit before the | Senate, which is trying Judge Car- los Harvey for taking graft in the} “kidnapping case” of her preacher daughter, which badly injures the | judge’s, and the lady preacher’s de- | fense. Mrs. Kennedy quarreled with) |Aimee ‘over the division of the, profits from their Four Square Gos- now the mother swears the $2,500) check given the judge by her daugh- |ter was “for legal services.” Suborned Perjury. x The prosecution says this “legal| service” could have been nothing else than the corrupting of ‘justice while the female preacher was | really enjoying the society of a man w at Carmel, Calif. The defense | f Aimee and Judge Hardy is that |the $2,500 was merely a little token of friendship, Mrs. Wiseman-Sielaff continued her testimony against Hardy today, | and said that he conspired with her! to produce a perjured affidavit} which would declare that “Miss X” was Ormiston’s companion in the beach bungalow and not Rev. Aimee McPherson. The woman who posed as “Miss X,” the witness said, was a certain Rachel Wells of San Fran- cisco. Mrs, Wiseman-Seiliff stated to the senate that both the judge! and the Rev. Aimee admitted that | Ormiston had Aimee with him. PLUMBERS STRIKE SHAMOKIN, Pa., (By Mail).— Over 100 plumbers and steamfitters in Shamokin are on strike for a five day week and an increase in wages. : Visit Russia Complete Tour and Return $375 * Visas — ileges — covered by irance with- — weekly sall- ings — Welays American - Russian TRAVEL AGENCY, INC, 100-5th Ave, Chelnen 4477-5124 New York City BUTTONS ORDERS Now! CES: | W, 139th Street. District 4 Redoubles Drive CYNICAL BREACH TRUST TO FIGHT |for the “Daily;” All Sections ANION |Must Push Drive Over Top ae entire Party membership of District 4, the important industrial district whose center is Buffalo, will respond to the call of the Daily Worker in its challenge to the jingo propaganda against the Soviet Union. This is the message sent the Daily Worker by the mili- tant workers and the Party membership in this district. “This call and challenge will be heeded with redoubled energy to double the subscribers of the Daily Worker in this district,” the message reads. “Every member of the Party, every other class conscious worker in District 4, is fully aware of the poisonous and mali- cious propaganda against the Soviet Union, the only working class government in the world, fascist magazine ‘Liberty,’ Napoleon.’ that is being conducted by the featuring the so-called ‘Red “The membership in District 4 stands as one man behind the challenge cf the Daily to the anti-Soviet propagandists. “The District Executive Committee has apportioned the quoto for each unit and section as follows: “Buffalo, 80; Rochester, 60; Syracuse, 30; Utica, 15; Schenectady, 15; Troy, 15; Binghamton, 25; Jamestown, 15; Erie, Pa., 30; Niagara Falls, 15; Lackawanna, 10; Tonawanda, 10, and Spencer 15. All other individual members in isolated sections, 5 each.” Today, a general membership meeting in Cleveland will adopt ways and means of achieving the quota of 400 sub- scribers to the Daily Worker. Class-conscious workers in all districts, redouble the cam- paign to bring your district over the top in the drive to double the number of subscribers to the Daily Worker. LETTERS FROM TENANTS The campaign exposing the hous- ing conditions in Harlem now being carried on by the Daily Worker has awakened great interest among the Negro workers, who, as they are invited to do, are sending in letters on housing conditions to the Daily Worker. received from Lula Grant, a tenant in Harlem: 509 Lenox Ave. Dear Editor: I am constant reader of your won- derful paper and am very glad to read of your campaign in the “Negro district.” My sister lives at the above address and I can assure you she would be pleased to have you go through her apartment and see the deplorable state of same. Refuses Toilet Seat. She lived there a number of years and the landlord réfused even to give her a toilet seat regardless of the old one falling apart. Her dumb- waiter is in the apartment and they refuse to call for garbage. So you can imagine the smell and noise that comes from it. He wants her to vacate so he can raise the rent. She cannot leave just now for she is without work and can only afford to pay for the present apartment. Had to Re-Paper Herself. There is another house I hope ‘ : ly n't ‘look and that is 56 The lad’s brother, Harold, 4, was | loans to farm landlords and their|named Ormiston in a beach bunga-| yo" fel Pu carpal ie and his mother, “co-operatives” which is the single | In order to live ers Fight for the Building Unions Soviet Union 4. [s. COLLECTED BY Name The following is a letter | New Revolutionary For a Workers and Farmers Government AIMEE’S MOTHER Landlord Tries to Evict Jobless Worker in that house a cousin of mine had |to re-paper her apartment and do jmany other things too numerous to {mention. Garbage is also thrown down the dumbwaiter and some of jthe bells haven’t rung for ten or jeleven years. I wish you success in your under- taking. LULU GRANT.” ‘Suicide Because of Fear of Punishment in Prohibition Case BROOKLYN, April 16 (.P).— | Worry over the Jones law was given today as the probable cause of the death of 52-year-old Arthur Hagan, of 980 Bergen St. when his case was called before U, 3. Commis- sioner Martin C. Epstein. “Hagan was afraid he'd get a few years in prison nnder the Jones law,” the bondsman told the com- missioner. “A lot of people kidded him, telling him he’d get at least |two years. He worried himself to (death, I guess.” | WOULD KILL COMPENSATION NASHVILLE, Tenn., (By Mail).— ‘The mining committee of the state legislature, which is all pro-oper- jator, has recommended a bill to do |away with workmen’s compensation ‘for coal miners. WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! FIGHT for the Work- AGAINST the Bosses Against Social Reform- of ism Against Company Union- ism For the Defense of the Against Race Discrimi- nation Against Capitalism May Day Is A Day of Proletarian Struggle! Have your name and the names of your shop- mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition, —_—_—— Eee NAME AMOUNT