The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40- For a Labor Party Hour Week Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. NS — SRV = Sines tS ‘<g — Wal Pai Vol. VI., No, 38 Publishing Association, Inc., 76-28 ional Daily Worker 1m Sq., New York, N. ¥. blished daily except Sunday by NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929 _ ander the act of March 3, 1879. MASKED THUGS 0 F GASTONIA BOSSE N KATES: In New York, by ma Outside New York, by mai FINAL CITY EDITION $8.00 per year, yenr. Price 3 Cents $6.00 p: § WRECK OFFICES OF UNION AND RELIEF WITH AXES; STRIKERS ARE FIRM MOST POPULAR NOVEL THE SOVIET UNION ‘Cement Fuil Page Installment in Special Edition for MAY DAY! While tens of thousands of copies of “Cement” were being sold throughout the Soviet Union last year, dramatic versions of the famous Gladkoy novel were run- ning at the Moscow Trade Union Theatre and at the Fourth Mos- cow Art Theatre, playing to crowded houses of workers. At the same time a cinema version of the story was screened by the Ukrainian Kino Trust. Writers, such as Gorky and Serafimovitch, Party leaders, like Bukharin, and rank and file work- ers were thrilled by the tremen- dous power of the novel, its thought-provoking treatment of the great problems in socialist re- construction facing the Soviet pro- letariat. The first book to come to one’s mind when a foreigner ask- ed for a good, and a typical Soviet novel, was generally “Cement.” A full page of “Cement” will appear in the Daily’s special May Day edition, with pictures illus- trating some of the problems dis- cussed in the book. Tell your shopmates and friends of the appearance of this great story in the Special May Day Edi- tion of the Daily Worker. Excerpts from “Cement.” Gleb and Dasha walked: on. in silence; they wished to speak but could not. Mysterious lights flashed and disappeared among the mountains behind the town and in the sum- mits above the sea. They blazed out, turned round to darkness and then blazed again. Dasha touched Gleb’s hand. “Do you see those fire-signals? Those are the signals of the White-Green forces. There'll be a lot of trouble with them yet. They will give us a lot of work and considerable blood will be shed.” Thus she spoke, but in her words there was ano‘her spirit, ly not that which looked for protection and a caress from his masculine strength. They were not the words which Gleb wanted. What kind of life had Dasha led without him? What force had given her a distinct personality? This force had crushed the for- mer Dasha, and the present Dasha was bigger and finer than the old. And it was this force which lay immovable and impregnable be- tween them. Dasha walked with a firm quick step. Although the path could not be seen, she could see clear in the night like a cat. Blue-Stocking Boston Jury Finds Dreiser’s Book ‘Bad for Youth’ BOSTON, April 18.—A test case, involving the sale of Theodore Dreiser's “An American Tragedy” in this state, ended in victory for the proponents of book censorship today when a jury, after an hour and a_ half deliberation, found Donald S, Friede, New York, guilty ¢orcing members of the commission | 7reater numbers, the strikers con- 02 selling a book tending to cor-| to move rapidly throughout the ses-|tinue to paralyze trade in many rupt the ‘morals of youth,” precisely | sion to avoid going on record. The| Shops, in open defiance of the in- the same charge on which Socrates was executed. Friede had sold the book t oa Massachusetts police officer to es- tablish basis for a test case. Later the motion of Attorney Thomas Lavelie, counsel for Friede, for a new trial on the grounds of prejudice, was denied by Judge George Hayes. ¢ Coliseum Celebrate Red Mayday at IN NORTH oa Ne He pet ‘ BS Delegation Presents Demand for Demonstration Before Commissioner of Police; Action Taken After Long Delay |Grocery Clerks and Butcher Workers Amalgamated Union Will March | in a Body to Communist Celebration After Own Meeting Plans for the great May Day parade of the New York District of the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations are going ahead | at full steam. On May 1 the new amalgamated union will be organized and will appear at the May Daye ~ | meeting. junion and fraternal organizations. The May~Day Labor Conference) We demand the right of labor to for the right to hold the parade had | parade on its international holiday, an. interview. with. R.._Flynn,-secre:; May 1st,” the delegation announced. tary to Police Commissioner Whalen.| “The right to use the strets is “We represent 25,000 workers in, being granted to the American | 153 labor organizations included in| Legion, the Ku Klux Klan and the the May Day Labor Conference of| Military Order of the World War Two photos of the class war denounced the brutality of the Ta York Times, in its report of this ) for its jingo April 6 parade. We de-| |mand the right to use the streets} |for labor, to demonstrate its soli- |darity and power, to parade past its headquarters on this internation- al labor holiday.” | In reply to the labor delegation} | Elyn was compelled to admit when pressed further by the labor repre-} | sentatives: “We can see no reason | why you cannot have your parade. (Continued on Page Five) of just what proportion of the tru On the right is a picture of of ten. Hive thousund workers betrayal of the United Textile Wor power to break the strike. On the left is a demonstration held by hundreds of striking cafeteria workers and other sympathetic workers before City Hall, where they DELEGATES TO ~ LEAGUE EVADE SOVIET TERMS \Litvinoff Forces Them to Vote on Each Principle NEVA, April 18.—The League preparatory disarmament ion spent its time today try- |ing to side-step the demand of M. M. Litvinoff, acting Soviet’ foreign minister, that the delegates say | whether they favor actual reduction of world armaments or mere limi- tation. The commission finally decided to ask its steering committee for an advisory opinion on the extent of the commission’s competency to pass on the Soviet proposals. A vote was postponed until tomorrow, the dele- themselves to act at this session. Litvinoff, head of the Soviet dele- gation and sponsor of the proposal to reduce all armaments by 50 per | cent, saved the Soviet project from | quick defeat yesterday when he de- |manded that a vote be taken on | each of the three principles involved, | despite the fact that virtually the \ertire commission opposed him. | He-continued his assault today, | little entente supperted by - Japan, finally urged that the steering com- mittee be asked for an opinion in view of the League of Nations coun- cil’s instructions to the disarmament commission and the session was ad- journed for the day. Litvinoff vigorously protested the decision, saying he wanted a decla- | ration from the commission itself [on the principle of disarmament, not (Continued on Page Five) Duncan Dancers Greeted with Great Enthusiasm at Recital Enthusiastically welcomed, and recalled time and again after each number to acknowledge the applause of the many workers present, the Isadora Duncan Dancers last night gave the opening performance of their farewell at Manhattan Opera House, 34th St. and Eighth Ave, Under the direction of Irma Dun-! can, head of the Isadora Duncan! School in Moscow, this troupe of re- markable young Soviet dancers pre- sented a program of unusual variety. The first part of the program con- sisted entirely of Chopin numbers; the second part included Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Mozart; and the program concluded with the in- comparable “Impressions of Revo- (Continued on Page Five) = IN FOOD STRIKE gates being too alarmed to trust! |Call Anti-War Meet | in Brooklyn Tonight | | “Marching Guns” will be produced |by the Workers Laboratory Theatre |at the meeting called in protest against preparations for imperialist war, at the Brownsville Workers Center, 154 Watkins St., Brooklyn, | tonight. | Speakers will include I.. Zimmer- jman, Fred Biedenkapp, of the Shoe Workers’ Union; Harold Williams, of the Negro Department of the |Communist Party, and Walter Trum- bull. ? LABOR DEFENSE DENOUNCES RAID Wires Governor,Mayor, Defends All in Jail The International Labor Defense, national office at 799 Broadway, stated yesterday that it would sup- port the latest arrested workers in Gastonia, 2s it has those jailed in MORE WALK-OUTS. ' ‘Men Defy Writs: Six. | Shops Settled Fifty workers joined the strike of | \the Hotel. Restaurant and Cafeteria | Workers Union today when those in the Pennsylvania Cafeteria, 257 W. 54th St., and the Globe Cafeteria, 14th St., and Irving Pl., walked out. Mass sentiment in favor of a city wide fight for union conditions is eradually pushing the strike outside the garment district. the original | strike zone in which the union con- |cantrated its activities. Rallying to \the picket lines in increasingly, | ivnetions served against them. The \strikers realize thoroughly that the |restraining orders secured by their |hogses have nothing of justice about | them and are only schemes to starve them back to the 12-hour day. Win At Six Shops. The minimum wage scale demand- the past, and will continue to sup- port all arrested in the future. A nation-wide appeal is being sent from the national office of the I. L. D. to all its local branches throughout the country, calling for extraordinary efforts to raise funds to defend the heroic southern mill strikers facing frame-up. The I. L. D. will arrange mass protest meetings in all large cities soon, at which an organized effort will be made to bring the facts of the ruthless campaign of terror waged on the southern textile strik- ers before the whole working class of America, and to create a huge mass protest against such terrorism. Condemns Outrage. The I. L. D. today issued a state- ment condemning in unequivocal Coolidge, Dawes, Taft on Geographical Board | WASHINGTON, April 18.—Cal- | vin Coolidge has accepted member- ship on the board of trustees of the| National Geographic Society, pr.| Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the society, announced today. The formal election of the former | president to the board, which already | Pershing and Charles G. Dawes, will take place this month. WAR DEBT MEET GOES ON ROCKS Germans Hold Out PARIS, April 18—End of the reparations conference tomorrow was forecast as last minute negotia- tions between Dr. Schacht, German delegate, Lord Revelstoke and Owen D. Young, American Morgan dele- gate, failed to accomplish anything. Schacht made it clear that Ger- man capitalism would not admit its akility to meet reparations terms terms the outrage perpetrated by with axes the National Textile | (Continued cn Page Two) ed by the union, the eight hour day. and union recognition were agreed |to in settlements negotiated today jonad yesterday with the Pearl, 94 Fifth Ave., the Rialto, 558 Seventh Ave., the New Gold. 556 Eighth Ave. the H, and P., 26th St, near Sixth Ave., the Roman, 119 W. 26th St.. and the Original. 5 W. 21st St. Cafeterias. The 150 workers in! these restaurants accordingly re- tarned te work. The union. however, is continuing its policy of spreading the strike. Freperations are being made for a general city strike call, involving at least, it is believed, 20,000 workers. Of the 16 strikers arrested on the disorderly conduct, 12 men, em- ployes of the Glohe house. were re- (Continued on Page Five) ' of an investigation carried on by tions under which the Negro workers in Harlem are forced to live. The series started in the Daily Woricer of April 8 and exposed un- sanitary conditions, crowding, the Negro and white landlords and mi tenants are organizing to fight the landlords. deals with rent parties, buffet flats and “numbers.” * * thet official reports of government ¢ fair to omit at least a reference to the slums “as breeding places of of 1863, with the moral that crowded those “criminal elements” which are a and “society.” unless it received the Saare Valley, masked agents of the mill owners in| @7d the Dantzig Corridor, Upper | their Gastonia who attacked and smashed) Silesia and the restitution of cer-| heroic tain German colonies. All Out May First to the Coliseum. The Criminals of Harlem Do Not Live in’ the Tenements After Slaving for Meagre Wages, Tenants |‘sttis! center! Must Scheme to Pay Robber-Landlord By SOL AUERBACH xr. (This is the eleventh of a series of articles giving the results the Daily Worker into the condi- robbery of landlords—politicians, inisters—and described how some The present article * commissions on housing almost never) AND SOUTH STRIKERS FACE THE SAME ENEMIES in different parts of the country. MILITIA AND DEPUTIES JAIL 15 TO PREPARE FOR RAID: MEETING STRIKERS’ REPLY \Gangsters Destroy All Food in Relief Store; Ww National Guard and Sheri h Outrage Strike Continues; Defense Being Arranged; Great Parade Scheduled Saturday BULLETIN. GASTONIA, N. C., April 18—A tonia of the Workers International Re the scene of the raid on the strike and re leased today on her own recognizance. arrested are also released. The largest mass meeting so far in tonia was held with speak- ers addressing a determined and enthu wd from the ruins of the strike headquarters. Speakers were Schechter 1 Reeves, Ellen Dawson, Stiller (a striker) and Atty. J len Dawson was arrested on a federal charge of obtaining nship papers illegally as soon as she finished spe g, and is held on $2,000 bonds with her trial date set for Sept. 22 in Trenton, N. J. eke chechter, director in Gas- rrested this morning at headqua elve strikers similarly , Was re- mmany police. They asked to see Mayor Walker, but he was, of course, officially “not in.” The New demonstration, said that “nearly 100” workers took part. A glance at the picture will give you an idea th the New York Times considers “fit to print.” Juliet Stuart Poyntz is speaking. the destitute family of a rayon worker in Elizabethton, Tenn., who was paid $14 to support a family of the Glanzstoff and Bemberg plants have again gone on.strike in Blizabethton, repudiating the kers fakers. Here too the hirelings of the state, the National Guard, are doing everything in their TULEL, PLEDGES STRIKE SUPPORT Mass Meets, Protests) and Organization The Trade Union Educational GASTONIA, N. C., April 18.—Mass terrorism against the striking textile workers took a new form when today at 1 a. m. more than 50 men with masks, supported by the local police and deputies, invaded the headquarters of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union on Franklin Ave. and the headquarters of | the Workers’ International Relief nearby. The union headquarters was demolished, after the 15 strikers who were guarding it were placed under arrest. The |masked men used axes and hamm to demolish the union headquarters, which was completely smashed. The mill owners’ agents then broke into the Workers In- ternational Relief store. They broke the windows-of. the store, climbed in and confiscated the food, part of a large shipment sent by the National Office of the W. I. R. in New York. They streets. scattered the food into the neighborir Amy Schechter, W. I. R. representative in Gastonia, direct- ing the distribution of food to the str aryested this morning while on activities. She is being held strike leader, is thought to be ng textile workers, was her way to supervise the relief without bail. Ellen Dawson, in jail. Apparently the plot to demolish the union and relief headquarters was carefully pre- pared yesterday. The union organizers, Fred out of town, doing organization The situation is unusually hing, are Beal and George Pe strike centers, n work in other | but are expected to be arrested as soon as they return here. tense, the open attack against includes Chief Justice Taft, General |T cone, national office at 2 West | the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Workers’ Interna- 1E St. New York City, which has | tional Relief being an indication of the lengths to which the been vigorously supporting North Carolina textile strikers throughout their strike, and whose convention in Cleveland for the form- ation of a new militant labor union | center the National Textile Workers | Union actively endorses, issued yes- terday the follcwing statement on the sacking and destruction cf the! N. T. W. U. and Workers Interna- | To End Tomorrow as tional Relief headquarters in Gas- tonia. ail, a} “Workers ail over the country must be aroused at this brazen at- tempt to drive these heroic Southern | textile strik back into slavery. Organized labor everywhere must protest against the violence of the reactionary blood-hounds of the labor-hating Southern capitalists. “Workers in the mines, mills and factories organized and unorgan- ized must rally to the defense of brothers and sisters, the textile strikers who are fighting with their backs against the wall against all the forces of |black reaction in the South. Hold Mass Meetings! ‘The Trade Union Educational. ague calls upon the whole left wing to raily to the defense of the victims of the bosses’ rapacity in the Southern Textile mills. “Hold mass meetings in every in- “Send telegrams of encouragement and support to the Gastonia strikers: “Raise money immediately to help the W, I. R. to carry on its work to feed the starving textile strikers. “Help the National Textile Union te rebuild its headquarters, destroy- ed by the vicious, labor-hating Klu KJux Klanners cf the South. “The T. U. E. L. calls upon the working class and all friends of the Iahor movement everywhere to rally to the defense of the Gastonia tex- tile workers. Will Mobilize. “The T. U. E. L. pledges itself to, mobilize every class conscious ele- vieket line today and charged with crime.” More than one report has pointed with alarm to the Draft Riots|nient in the labor movement thruout districts housing poor give birth to constant danger to “public welfare” (Continued on Page Two) the country to defeat this attempt New Headquarters. The National Textile Worktrs’ Union and the Workers’ Intern: tional Relief will continue their ai tivities here in spite of all the fa: cist activities of the mill owners; and their agents. The International Labor Defense and the Trade Union Educational League have sent tele- grams promising their complete sup- port. Denied Bands. | The fifteen arrested, Carl Reeve, | the | mill owners will go to stop the constantly growing and success- ful strike of the textile workers. - 11 panies have re ign bonds ite of the fact that yesterday eed to do so at a premium rate of $5 per $100, The I. L. D to perfect ai by v is now endeavoring nents of bonds which will be ‘an of secur (Continued on Page Two) Workers Internationa! Relief Speeds Mobiliz Southern Strikers Commenting on the wrecking of the National Textile Workers Union headquarters and the Workers Inter- national Relief store at Gastonia, N. C., early yesterday, Alfred Wag- enknecht, national secretary, Work- ers International Relief, One Union Square, New York City, stated: “The Workers’ International Relief will fight to the last ditch for the right to feed the striking textile workers of the Carolinas. “The game of the textile barons | , is only emphasized by this mob ac: tion undoubtedly instigated by them. Before the W. I. R. station was opened in Gastonia, the textile bar- ons brazenly told the strikers that |, the promises of relief by the North- ern workers was a myth, that the National Textile Workers Union would leave the workers to starve, therefore they should come back to work at once or they would soon be walking skeletons. “One leaflet distributed by the | mill owner read: ‘Where is the daily meal of roast chicken prom- ised you?’ Sending Food. “However, in spite of all the en the part ef the mill owners and (Continued on Page Two) strike-breaking talk of the mill ation of Forces \Call for Nation-wide Campaign to Supply the With More Food {the strikers showed greater mili- tancy and picket lines grew in strength. Because of this, the mill- barons are resorting to mob vio» jience in an attempt to compel strik- jing workers to go back to work without any gains. Rally To Aid. “Working cle izations and all sympath’ the strikers throughout th must now idarity unpar- The wreck- ing of the un store is an ir e the So and relief tion to what an rn mill owners on triking workers ved in their mills and company owned tow) “The Wo is taking steps t distribution in ional Relief c lish relief Gastonia. We call upon all workers and sympathizers, as well as all sympathetic organ- ations to stand behind the W, I. R. |so that adequate relief shipments may be made to the strike region and in this way encourage the tex- tile strikers to fight on for their union and their strike demands. | “Answer the mass terrorism of \the mill owners by sending in relief owners, relief did come and at once jcontributions at once.” v7 oe