The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 2

~ ——s WINSLOW EXPOSE MAY FORCE PROBE BY GRAND JURY Congress Committee Tries Hard to Quit Al That Is at of Wore’ Home Ais aes Sirs REOPEW BIRTH N.Y, EMBLOVERS living: New Daily Bontyres “GONTROL GLINIG. URGE SOUTHERN’ to Workers In All the Shops; DESPITE POLICE WAGES IN NORTH Over Top In Big Sub Drive O E reason why the Daily Worker has become part of the lives of thousands of American workers is the fact that the Daily is the voice of the workers, that it prints news con- cerning the workers and their struggles against slavery, | which the capitalist and yellow socialist press suppresses, | Then too, the workers have found the Daily Worker a paper thru which they can express themselves, in the worker correspondence section, the section in which the workers of F ome TETPR YY iConfidential Records|W.I.R. Shows Need for Are Seized Textile Relief | t of its medi-| That the present strike of the! ant and three | Southern textile workers is the vital} s, who will have a hearing in|concern of all workers, can be seen \Jefferson Market Court tomorrow, by the discussion at the meeting of |the Birth Control Clinic Research|the New York State-Wide Econ- Following the arr uttle yes- forced the Jud |Bureau, at 46 W. 15th St., which omie Congress held at the Hotel) the United States daily tell of the class struggle in their cities, |was raided by police Monday, has|Astor on Tuesday. Representatives | in their shops and factories. | been reopened. if sat Geant) hese sep SaEe he It is thru the worker correspondence section that the : : state charge Ve : | Protective measures against the ;". tier! paid. tn the South has| Workers tell of the conditions of slavery which they must un- : Te z i methods of the police in seizing con- A worker's family looking over what is left of their shack after a terrible storm struck Arkansas, |fidential ease records may be taken | ng more than 60 persons and injuring 200. The flimsy huts of workers and tenant-farmers were the |by the institution, dergo. Needless to say, worker correspondence is not printed in the capitalist papers, nor does the yellow socialist press resulted in the moving of many in-| dustries to that section of the coun-| gatic first to give way. opport “Gentlemen ot Color” Only | workers, Pug A Good Return. A statement issued by attorneys | print the workers’ letters on their conditions. further rob the mass of Negro /f in connection gh Rapid Fu subway cents were r in conne charges peachment I Judge F to whether Ss against dropped, since his “yetirement. considered that some show of “investigation,” at least, t be made as a result of the expose of Winslow’s connection with the bankruptcy ring of lawy in. New York. However, Congress- man Sirovich of New York, who re- of the champions for cf Winslow’s con- y that he “could useful pur by continuing the In the additional facts brought out today, Winslow's connection with t Interborough Rapid Tran- s jompany was statement, Cor said that the r exposed. In a an LaGuardia ignation of Winslow was not sufficient ig the charges, in- main reason e made is one of instead “in and of itself’ against Winslow ot only did he grant on to the I. R. T. because per and unlawful consid- hat he even neglected such formalities as being in the jurisdiction of his distriet when signing the official pape Gale Brings Up-Sailor WhoseLossWas Hidden The body of a_ sailor washed ashore near Point Pleasant, N. J., during the gale that swept the At- Igntic coast Tuesday had not been identified yesterday. It is supposed this sailor is one lost overboard dur- ing a previous storm, and not re- ported in the news. The present gale wrecked the barge Fred E. Hasler with 1,700 tons of whale oil aboard, the tug Perth Amboy III, and another barge in New York harbor, all without loss of life. The first step in the revolution In Rocketeller (Continued from Page One) » do not fool one single workingclass | in an apartment where you pay $40 for four rooms in a dilapidated house and your imagina- tion is struck by the description of the odel” Dunbar apartments, you will throw the advertisement down the dumbwaiter shaft as soon as you read that Dunbar apartments are available at $77.50 per month and $90 per month, You will tear ‘t up in fury when that a deposit of $50 per st be paid before you move in towards the sale price of the apartment and that it will take you 22 years to “own” it. In this block of 511 apartments in 2 which live about 2,000 people, the rage monthly payment—call it rent or installments towards the buying of the apartment, it is about the same—is $14.50 per room per month. The apartments rent for from $60 to over $100. No lodgers are allowed. No rent parties. “Charity” Not for U: means that the mas: s in Harlem are definitely ex- The average earnings of the tenants living in this “model apart- ment” is from $40 to $50 per month, They are all of “good Christian character,” chosen from a long list of applicants, their lives well looked into. Negro The average earnings of the mass | of workers living in Harlem is about $20 per week. Figure it out your- self. The mass of tenants cannot pay even $10 per room per month. We are definitely out of the circle of Rockefeller’s “charity.” But what idea, anyhow? x * «@ “Too Respectable.” fA and Mrs, Bruce, the managers of thé apartments, are highly “respectable people.” “You know, this development, is; not tax-exempt,” said Mrs. Bruce. | And then bristling like a society lady on show, “We are too respect- able to ask for tax exemption. We feel that as citizens we should bear the duties of the state.” over the place. The kind of respect- | ability that Mr. Rockefeller likes to | see — respectability that means ““Model’’ House supremacy over Negro workers. Police System. Mr. Bruce himself—you must con- sider that a compliment—took us| over the place. It is all well kept. Dumbwaiters are working and are fumigated every day. Special guards who have been made members of the | police force, patrol the building and} see to it that the house rules are kept. If you want to be a respect- Ty is a model scheme for you. Notice that while Rockefeller | helps the Negro bourgeoisie along as | puts them under a prison system, be-|gated by the medical trust so that | cause they are Negroes. Notice also |they will have a monopoly on birth/ ‘or Mrs. Margaret Sanger, head of he clinic, declared that the police \had made ry effort to treat the medical director and nurses “with the greatest possible severity and lack of respect.” The raid is believed to be insti vy: | Henry K. Smith, president of the |Art Metal Construction Co., said that New York was virtually with- | out any textile mills, all of them moving South where the wages are lower and the hours of work long- | It was also charged by speak- | rs at the conference that other industries are leaving New York State because the wages paid | that this upper class in Harlem will |control information and stop Mrs. | higher here. submit to all sorts of in-ults for agents of Rockefeller. As far as we, the Negro and white conducting a workers are concerned, that “model | against Mrs, Sanger. scheme” in Harlem is not meant for | us. It is, in fact, an enemy of ours, | for it serves as a focusing point for Sanger’s efforts to make such in-| the sake of shaking hands with the formation accessible to the workers.|the Hotel The catholic church also has been vicious campaign Commenting on this discussion at Astor meeting, Alfred | Wagenknecht, national secretary of | \the Workers International Relief,) |yesterday said, “The importance of | |the Southern strike to workers all| over the United States can be seen| ‘China Workers’ Court 5; examining the implications be-| able Negro bourgeois under the | the development of a group of Negro|Igs Established in Far jhind the statement of Smith and| wing of Mr. Rockefeller you must submit to a virtual prison system of restraints, and a spy system. The Bruces, both trained in capitalist universities, are fine police captains. Going through the cellar—which is also well kept, we found Mr. Wood at his furnace. “Now, Mr. Wood,” said Mr. Bruce, “will you please explain to this gentleman how the heating system on works? Tutoring. “This heating system supplies heat for this’one’ apartment. It i: built ...,”° stammers Wood. He is stuck. He cannot remember his lines. Bruce saves him. “Thank you very-much, Mr. Wood. Now we will go on.” That is just an example of how awful it must be to live in this model apartment—even if you are located in the upper class and can pay the price, * a8 The “Real Thing.” ROCESFELIER does not allow any oportunity for making money to escape him. He started a bank, known as the Dunbar National Bank on the premises. . The ‘purpose of this bank as ex- pressed in its official literature is also the purpose of the whole “model scheme.” It is meant for “the real thing—the middle class groups.” “Gentlemen of Color” It appeals to the “gentlemen of color,” in the name of a board of directors, only one or two of whom are Negroes bankers, but all of whom are big Wall Street financiers, | to build a powerful middle class In fact “respectability” bristles all| 8TOup in Harlem. It is meant for | consent of the senate, and will re- Negro store-keepers, builders, real estate men. It is another institution created by ministration was slavery to white masters. And these | Rockefeller for the exploitation of |friends hope by this maneuver to Negro bourgeoisie, who have sold | Negro workers with the aid of “ze. | bosses and exploiters, taken under | the wing of Wall Street, who are to | get some returns on the exploitation | of Negro workers, the greater bene- ‘East of Soviet Union MOSCOW, (By Mail).—A court | fit of which, however, is to go to/has been instituted in Vladivostok, | Rockefeller himself. oe ce Tomorrow follow the Daily | Worker investigator further in the exposure of housing conditions in Harlem. Tenants are invited to write in freely to the Daily Worker on their housing conditions. | Siberia, | |Chinese population there. especially for the large The en- |tire work is in the hands of Chinese jworkers, and Chinese is the official language, {nationality principal of the Soviet in accordance with the Union, WORKER KILLED. LONDON, (By Mail).—Herbert is | | ,Sewell, a street car repair worker, | | was killed in a fall from a repair, tower at Uxbridge while repairing RAISE FOOD COST | (Continued from Page One) | American labor nullify the effect of |@ protective tariff? | “Is not the proposed reparations | bank a creation of and sponsored by | the League of Nations? | “Have not arrangements already | been made to have the Federal Re- serve System of the United States | become an agent of this interna- | tional super bank, which will there- |by of necessity force the United | States to become affiliated with the | World Court and the League of Na- |tions in order to protect Amecican |money poured into Continental Eu- |rope through the action of the Fed- | | eral Reserve Board? Protect Mellon “Refunds.” The senate judiciary committee | | put its official seal on the appoint- | |mient of Mellon to be secretary of \the treasury without asking for the |port to that body that his holding \cver in office from the Coolidge ad- legal. Mellon’s revent a threatened investigation wires, | MOBILIZE FOR MAY DAY| yHe following is a partial list of International May Day meetings | arranged by the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations. The) various districts are urged to send cities, halls, and speakers of their May Day meetings. | New York, May 1, Coliscum, E. Pittsburgh, May 1, 7:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. New Bedford, May 1, Bristol Arena. Newark, May 1, 93 Mercer St. Union City, May 1, 418 21st St. Jersey City, May 1, 116 Mercer New Brunswick, May 1, 11 Plum St. Perth Amboy, May 1, Workers Elizabeth, May 1. Yonkers, May 5, Cooperative Cs Detroit, May 1, 7:30 p. m., Danceland Auditorium, Woodward, near| Forest. Speakers: N. H. Tallentire, Cleveland, May 1, 7:30 p. m., Public Hall (Ball Room), Boston, May 1, 8 p. m., address Providence, R. I., May 1, 8 p. della. Gardner, Mass., May 5, 1 p. m. Pontiac, Mich., } 1, 7:30 p. Flint, Mich., } :30 p. m, Saginaw Mich., May 1. 7:31 Grand Rapids, Mich., May Muskegon, Mich., May 1, 7:30 p. m. Philadelphia Pa, May 1, 8 p. . m. Speaker, Alfred Goetz. §) . mM, 0 \others. If the manufacturers of the | United States are able to success- fully pay low wages to the South- | ern workers, they will attempt to} reduce the wages of the workers in| | the other parts of the country to the same level. “To stem the rationalization pro- jgram of the employing class, the |maximum support must be given to jthe striking textile workers. A vic- tury for the Southern textile strik- ers will be a victory for all work- ers, for it will stop the wage-cutting jpolicy of the manufacturers of the United States.” Contributions to aid the striking workers should be sent to the WIR, Room 604, 1 Union Square, New |York City. in immediately for listing the dates, | 177th St. and Bronx River. Speaker, Pershing. | St. | Home, 308 Elm St. enter, 252 Warburton Ave. ete. and speakers to be announced later. m. Speakers, Jas. P, Reid, L. Nar-| peaker, A. Gerlach. | Speaker, Arnold Zeigler. p. m. Speaker, John Schmeis. m. Speaker, Philip Raymond. Speakers, Robert Minor, H. Ben- Bi WORLD Workers, are you in the contest now going on, for the best worker correspondence of the week? Join it now. Three prizes are awarded; this week the first prize is “Bill Hap wood’s Book,” for the second best letter, “Labor and Autos mobiles,” by Robert Dunn, and the third prize, “Labor an@ Silk,” by Grace Hutchins. Many features in the Daily Worker are making and will make it attractive to the thou: sands of new workers who will be reached in the campaign to double the number of readers of the Daily. There are the short stories of the new Russia, for in- stance. will appear in the special M: Worker, A great feature will be the famous “Cement,” by Feodor Gladkov, Sovet novel the first installment of which ay Day Edition of the Daily Spread the Daily among the workers. Put your district over the top in the drive to double the number of readers of the Daily. VOTE TO DELAY | LITVINOFF PLAN Japan Leads Attack on Soviet Proposals (Continued from Page One) tons are to reduce by one half, those with less by c~e fourth. Nations with land forces exceeding 200,000 are to be cut in half, those with more than 40,000 by one third, those with less than 40,000 by one fourth. The plan further provides a per- manent control commission of equal representation of trade unions and other workers’ organizations and leg- islative bodies instantly to inves- tigate any breach of the treaty. Be Describing the “Soviet plan,” Gen- eral Longovoy, Soviet delegate, said it “is inspired by three prin- ciples. First, reduction and not limi- tation of armaments; second, great- er reduction by the great powers capable of becoming more militar- istic than the small powers; third, abolition first of offensive arma- ments, leaving only purely defen- sive arms. “Our project insists on the most radical reduction of trained reserves, abolition of all offensive armaments and radical reduction of armament budgets. Relative to naval disarm- | ament we provide for abolition of all |ships for aggressive warfare, such as airplane carriers, and the gradual limitation of all capital chips. Abolish Military Aviation. “Relative to aerial armaments we | provide for abolitio~ of all offensive | weapons such as bombarding planes land dirigibles and disarmament of | all lighter-than-air craft. The proj- ect also limits industries capable of producing gas for war use. Fi- | nally, we provide for international control to establish that all abide by the convention.” Litvinoff then spoke briefly, in- | sisting that the commission decide | upon’ the three fundamental prin- |eiples of the project first. Japan Attacks Soviet Plan. M. Sato of Japan led the attack | on the Soviet plan, insisting that it | provided fo: a mathematical and im- personal reduction which deprived each country of the right to decide | for itself what armaments were nec- | essary in view of its special condi- tions. Count Bernstorff of Germany | supported Sato’s contention, Rene Massigli of France, who suce ceeded Paul Boncour on the commis- sion, asserted that the Soviet proj- ect was inacceptable because it pro- vides four separate conventions cov- ering effectives, material, onnage | and air forces. No nation, he said, would ever sign a general convention without first knowing the terms for special ones. WORKERS OF THE UNITE! | jamin and Negro speaker. s ” themselves body and soul to the| spectable people” of their own race. Baltimore Md., May i, 8 p. m. Speakers, Bill Murdoch, and YWCL |iato his granting millions as “tax white master, take up his tune for | In this way he buys over and helps | refunds” from the treasury to com- y the working class is to raise © position of tne vattle of | the sake of getting a position of| the exploiters and the landlords to|panies he owns. Peale Te MGA 8 Bcuit “Bpeabte: Beane Miiec Twat FIGHT for the Work- AGAINST the Bosses PRE SASL Trenton, N. J., May 1, 8'p. m. Speakers, Bill Lawrence and YWCL. ers HA Against Social Reform- Chester, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. Speakers, Ben Thomas and YWCL. Fight for the Building of ism Allentown, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. Speakers, L, P, Lemley and YWCL.| tionar Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. New Revolu y Against Company Union- For the New Line of the C. I and CY. 1 in the Building Unions Scranton, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. ism Minersville, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. For the Defense of the : ra Sa { M ¢ 2 t Yy th L d It U if ti Easton & Bethlehem, Pa., May 1, 8 p. m. Soviet Union Against Race Discrimi- San Francisco, May 1, 8 p. m., Eagle Hall, 273 Golden Gate Ave. nation 0 a ass oOmmunis ou eague ani $ Ca on Speakers: E. Gards, and others, For a Workers and ~—% This is the concluding installment of the statement introduced April 5th by Comrades Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak, which was rejected by the National Executive Committee. The convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League will open on April 26. * * * 4. To cope with the increased economic struggles and radicaliza- tion processes means a decisive extension and strengthening of our economic trade union activity. With the policy inaugurated of build- ing up new revolutionary class industrial unions and economic youth associations, every worker must find his or her place in one of these as an active member and builder and leader in the everyday struggles of the young workers. of the young workers. Especial attention must be given actually giving organizational flesh to the existing Youth Section skeletons. dn all of this activity the League must renew and broaden its activities in organizing working youth conferences—individual agitation in ‘sshop—issuance of shop papers, etc. The establishment of regular dunctioning YWL fractions is a necessary prerequisite to successful TU work. i 5. With the intensification of our work in the armed forces, we Must plan our work in such a way as to start movements of discontent round specific issues and to strengthen our apparatus. In connec- ‘tion with the increasing wave of strikes, attention must be given to National Guard which will result in their demonstratively refusing to do strike duty. In connection with our anti-militarist work, while “observing all the necessary precautions, we must beware of burocratic Aendencies of simple commandeering. It is especially necessary that dn connection with this work we broaden our general agitation, ‘especially against the social reformist role of the A. F. of L., against the pacifists, and link up the struggle against the war danger with our everyday struggles in the factory, 5. Placing Negro work in the forefront of our activities, instead of merely paying lip service to it. Preparing the League membership . ideologically for the new line given our Party and League on Negro work at the CI and CYI congresses, Our Negro work must be put on ‘a mass basis, linking it up with all the activities of the League. While ‘the League has made certain formal decisions about carrying on work the North, no attempts whatsoever have been made to take even e most elementary stops to initiate our Negro work in its most im- portant sector—the South. We must carry on a struggle against ped chauvinism in the ranks of the working class youth and eradicate strongly prevalent influences in our League. This must immediately be put into application. 7. The League must put an end to the present situation in our rts activities, which are confined only to the top and in which the ie membership is not involved at all. Within the LSU the policy the League must be to give it an American labor base, instead of ; leadership, the present predominantly foreign base, with the Finns in the oe “ ae sie 8. The Pioneers must become a real mass organization of working class children. This can be accomplished by making a really serious beginning in the external activities of the Pioneer League and by basing it on the economic and social conditions of the working class children. One of the most serious shortcomings is its failure to carry on work amongst child laborers. A hindrance to Pioneer developments is the poor social composition of the membership in the large cities and of the League leadership in the Pioneers. While the Pioneers have participated and succeeded in organizing Pioneer groups in the heat of mass struggles, as soon as these were concluded they generally completely collapsed. 9, In all our activities the League must develop and make use of all forms of bridge organizations (economic organizations, sports, etc.) and conduct Communist agitation within these, and draw them into all the working class struggles, 10. The League must make a real beginning in developing new methods of work. So far the new methods of work had a character of isolated activities here and there, and were really not linked up with the class struggle, social life, and needs of these young workers. In the American League, which lacks the revolutionary traditions of the European working class youth movements, ideological training assumes special importance.’ The training of the League membership up to now, did not have a systematic character. This is reflected in the great fluctuation of the membership and the total lack of develop- ment of a young American proletarian cadre of functionaries, 11. Good wishes and resolutions alone can no longer be tolerated in regards to the agrarian problem, The incoming NEC must set up a department which will function and work out the first elementary plan of work in this field and actually carry these out, 12, The liquidation of factionalism is closely knit up with the development of collective leadership and unity in the League. The crying need of the League is unity, which the Convention should establish on the complete acceptance, understanding, and carrying thru in a thoroughgoing manner of the line, criticisms and decisions of the CYI. On this basis, with a real effort by all comrades and especially thru the determined will of the membership, plus the active assistance of the CYI, we can and must liquidate the ruinous factional struggle. In accomplishing this we must be guided by the CYI letter which states: “The line of the CYI given to the League 1% years ago (1927) is still applicable today and this is the only real line of unity which can be followed in the League. There can be no conception that the leadership of the League is the monopoly of any one group, The monopoly of leadership belongs only to the proletarian membership of the League.” The League membership must be guided in all their actions by the line of the CYI in its directives to the American League. Aa ll ane oe liens ; Se i | schools may use against us, we CHILDREN BACK MAY 1 HOLIDAY (Continued frow Page One) in the mills, on the streets as newsboys, ‘and bootblacks and on the farms. The conditions of the children in the schools is another phase of the general, growing worse conditions of the workers’ children, On May Day we must raise our voices in protest against the ter- rible conditions of the workers’ children. We can do nothing un- less we are united. May Day must become the holiday of all workers’ children. Therefore be it resolved, at this conference called of workers’ chil- dren’s organizations, that we go on record in favor of calling on all workers’ children in the schools to celebrate with us on May Day. That our slogan will be: Out of school on May Day—the holiday of all workers and workers’ chil- dren. That we all come together to take part in the demonstration and parade, together with the adult organizations of workers, and attend the celebration at the Coliseum, Oppose Religious Holidays. Since the second of May is a re- ligious holiday, we hereby resolve that all workers’ children must at- tend school on May second to show that May First is the In- ternational Workers’ Holiday and no other, Be it further resolved that in spite of all persecutions that the will stand ready with all the other workers on May Day, | Workers’ children! Down books and pencils on May Day! Out of school on May Day! Show your solidarity with the revolutionary workers of the world! j At the conference, the following |resolution on Child Health Day and May Day was adopted: President Hoover has declared Day. On this day the workers’ children will be told how wonder- ful are the conditions of the chil- dren for the building up of their health. But have the workers’ children got a chance to have good healthy bodies when they live in dark cold homes, have poor food to eat, and when three and a half million children are forced to work in factories, farms, streets and -nines, eid when thay have to go to schools without sunlight? Te workers’ chillsan present ot this conference condemn the Health Day of President Hoover. Instead they call on all children with whcm thev are connected to come w:th them to celebraté the veal workers’ holiday, that is May First, This cenference gs oti record .§ denouncing the fake child health day. We believe that the only hojiday that the workers and workers’ children should cele- brate on May First is May Day. Workers’ children. Fight against the fake health day. Workers’ children, Come to the May Day demonstration in the Bronx Coliseum, Let us show our colidarity by a general strike of all workers’ children on May Day as our pro- test aguinst the/ bad conditions of j workers’ childrem, issmieis busniit May 1 as National Child Health | | Farmers Government 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. : : La atid la ahd Ls Le | 4 ed Us fF 3 | COLLECTED BY NAMe orcccccescevevssccesssesssereecs Address City vccccsccvcveccccvescesvees SACs revevevcervsce Daily 3A Worker 26 UNION SQUARE, ‘NEW YORK CITY. ————