The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1929, Page 1

-| COMMUNIST ) ’ ‘ sued the following protest and mo- lization eall: Workers of New York! Protest against the reign of in- On the eve of preparations for | bi he May Day parade and the giant aeeting at the Coliseum, East 177th t. and Bronx River, the increase! junction and mass _ arrests! ,£ police terrorism and the flood Make the May Day demonstra- if injunctions against labor organi-| tion a real demonstration against hations, the District Executive Com-| police brutality and capitalist ter- ‘nittee of the Communist Party has! rorism! t The workers of New York are facing today one of the worst re- gimes of terror and ruthless yet known in its history. The ploited cafeteria workers who are conducting a brilliant struggle against the sweatshop and the 12- hour day and against the united power of the cafeteria owners who are aided by powerful banks, find themselves confronted with a sweepingy injunction against their right to picket and organize the | open shops in the industry. | “Silk-Hatted” Terror. | Silk-hat Jimmie Walker and | | frock-coated Grover Whalen, who | are so ready to extend the glad THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorgan For the 40-Hour Wee. For a Labor Party hand to the agents of the bloody Mussolini and Horthy, are just as ready with the clubs of the police iking down peaceful pickets with the most unexampled bru- tality and vic in their ef- forts to enforce the edict of the labor-hating judges of the city administration, | PARTY DENOUNCES INJUNCTION RULE; URGES MASS MOBILIZATION FOR MAY DAY The streets of the garment cen- ter, where the cafeteria workers have begun their splendid organi- zation campaign, are red with the blood of pickets struck down by the brutal arm of Tammany’s po- lice force or Cossacks. Men and women are trampled under foot without mercy by the mounted po- ing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Vol. VI, No. 39 Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker E>: Sq., New York, N. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929 LARGEST PICKET ill be an even more FEODOR GLADKOV published. A full page instaliment of “Cement” will appear in the special May Day edition of the “Daily.” Watch for it, and spread the news. WORKERS EVERYWHERE ARD SIFIED CLASS STRUGGLE BY “CEMENT” (INSPECIALEDITION FOR WIN IN ? MORE | MAY DAY! | - PLACES THOUGH Phenomenal success than was that other famous story of the Week,” which the “Daily” pub- See Restaurant Bosses lished in serial form a few years & Nis : Association Losing Its reception Gladkov’s wonderful novel has received throughout the it has been Strike Spreads Further | MoreWorkersComeOut | The cafeteria strikers yesterday continued to picket and spread their junctions issued against them, and because of this two more owners owners’ association and “or union conditions. esterday, the strikers are ignoring he ruling of Judge Henry Sherman | the final arguments on the injunc- tion proceedings of the Wil-low Cafe- | rant Owners’ Association next Wed- ‘nesday. Judge Sherman ruled that lines must be taken off and no more cafeterias taken out on strike, In has been continued, interrupted only | by the frequent arrests. The union ang “ » (taneous protest of the strikers SAME abe against the injunction, and indicates | 7 fight the employers for higher wages | foe Teens) eum aR 8 WAY | nd the eight-hour day in spite of splendid story of revolutionary | Socialist construction. BEING INSPIRED TO INTEN- FULL PAGE INSTALLMENT sh 105 ARE JAILED Russian Revolution, Libedinski’s “go. This we can expect from the Hold on Firms | Soviet Union, ‘many, in Eng- Against 12-Hour Day strike in defiance of the three in- have left the crumbling r Though there were 105 arrests | f the Supreme Court, who will hear terias, Inc., and the United Restau- pending the final hearing, the picket | spite of the injunction the picketing officials declared, “this is a spon- azine, “Liberty,” is printing “The 2 determination of the workers to will see the real greatness of this | *!! obstacles. | * + w Contributors are coming in for the special May Day edition of the | “Daily,” but we want more short articles and correspondence from workers who have taken part or are now participating in strikes and mass struggles. Correspondence from poor farmers and from laborers, white and Neg: young workers, soldiers and militiamen, is also needed. This year's will be one of the best May Day editions eyer issued, breathing mass strug- gle against rationalization, war preparations, and betrayals of the socialists and A. F. of L. reform- jarrests would be made of the strik- General Arre: | Sam Kramberg, secretary of the union, characterized as “the most | outrageous procedure in the history of labor disputes,” the action of Mor- timer Hays, attorney for the United Restaurant Owners’ Association, who stated openly in Jefferson Mar- | ket Court that he had consulted Police Commissioner Whalen and the corporation counsel of the city and they advised him that wholesale ing cafeteria workers for violation of the injunction order signed by Judge Henry Sherman of the Su- (Continued on Page Five) [¥ at Boys of A. F. L, “Seeking Justice” The two business men types above arc, left, William G president of the American Federation of Labor, and right, J. H 1 n South off. man, A. F. of L. organizer. They are greatly worked up over the ingratitude of capital and labor alike. in Elizabethton, Tenn., had persuaded the 5,000 rayon strike back to work and be good to their employers, the local capt chiefs to ge : of After the A, F. of L industry had Hoffman and Vice-President McGrady kidnapped, after which the workers again came~out on strike, and ure still striking. Hoffman has told Green, “There ain't no justice no more.” ‘Negro Workers Must Slave Every Ounce of Labor Power In Family to Fill the Money Bags of Exploiters (Thi in the Daily Wo: are forced to liv the twelfth of a seri er exposing the conditio Previous articles dealt with conditions in Harlem, of articles appearing exclusively under which workers exposing the extreme exploitation of the Negro workers by both white and Negro landlor investigation in Negro Harlem. in lower Harlem, mostly inhabite begin Monday.) * By SOL AUERBACH. XII. 'HE Negro population in greater over 300,000, Of this population about 250,000 live in Harlem. These are mostly workers, of whom the greater part are unskilled, | working at extremely low wages, subject to partial and complete un-| WINSLOW'S PAL KILLS HIMSELF ists. PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UP). | |—Excusing himself a few minutes | after he met Assistant U. S. District | Attorney George J. Mintzer today, David Steinhardt, a fugitive New York bankrupt attorney, swallowed part of a bottle of poison and died a short time later, the coroner’s office announced. Public exposure of Steinhardt’s bankruptcy frauds months ago led Smith Beaten by Walker Gang in Tammany BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 18.— President Hoover today announced to the press that no farm bill would be approved unless it fol- lowed the line of the Republican party plank in the last campaign. This is taken as a blow at deben- tures. He attempted to shift the blame for lack of farm relief to the farmers, saying divisions to his flight from New York. Be- cause the ring he was operating seemed to have unusual connections with Federal Judge Winslow, public scandal forced an investigation by congress and a New York grand jury of Winslow also. Winslow resigned before the con- gressional committee began its work. The grand jury stopped its probe on the excuse that it did not want to conflict with the congres- sional committee. The congressional committee stopped its investigation “because Winslow resigned.” May Day—the day which began with a general strike for the S- hour day in the U. 8. Former Governor Al Smith yesterday announced that he would among them were the cause of delay. not try to name the next head of Tammany Hall. This is considered to leave the Walker forces in control. ee eee J WASHINGTON, April 19.—Three of President Hoover's cabinet of- ficers dispatched to the senate agri- cultural committee a series of re- ports deprecating the “debenture” ‘plan which the senate farm bloc in- tended te adopt. Despite the reports, farm bloc members said they intended to leave tiple dwellings’ bill, applying only ments with more crowding. Governor Signs Multiple Dwellings Bill. ALBANY, April 19—Governor Roosevelt today signed the mul- to New York. It limits the size of apartment houses to 19 stories, and provides for smaller apart- Says Electrocution Was Political Murder. A. M. Blattman, a finger-print expert, yesterday submitted an The present article sums up the results of the The exposure of housing conditions d by Latin American work will 3, * * New York City is estimated to be employment. Unskilled Workers. The Negro workers are employed | for the most part in manual labor | of the most unskilled type. Out of | a total of 1,762 cases reported by the Urban League, it was found that | 589 were employed as porters, 403 | jas laborers, 202 as elevator opera- | tors, and the other groups, of which | the largest is 60, are scattered thru various trades, more or less skilled. | This survey was carried out in West | Harlem, where the tenements are of a little better type than on the east side. If all of Harlem were taken into consideration, it is probable | \that the largest group would be! | laborers and longshoremen, Among the workers reported by | | the Urban League, ranging from | such low-paid categories as laborers | to post office employees and clerks | and including the large group of porters whose tips make up the greatest part of their wages, the |average wage was found to be | $24.32. The average wage is prob- |ably closer to $20 per week if the | wide mass of Negro workers in Har- ‘lem are take into account. | This includes only those workers who work. Laborers do not find | steady employment and are subject to the wiles c? wer'l:cr and build- | | LINE IN GASTONIA Workers Defy Mass Arrest / } Admits Lying UNION IN LARGE NUMBERS; AGAIN DODGE - VOTE ON USSR PEACE. PLANS Imperialist Delegates Plan to Shelve Proposals Pres. Louden to Resign Wind Litvinoff’s Three Points Too Painful GENEVA, Switzerland, April 19.! —The imperialist delegates to the preparatory disarmament commis- sion succeeded again today in @ ing any definite vote on the Soviet disarmament proposals, but the powers are alarmed to such an ex- tent by the happenings here that it ig understood the Soviet plan is to be declared definitely outside the scope of the conference, while President Louden, who permitted the Soviet delegates to bring their issues squarely before the meeting, is to resign. The decision of the commi: | wait until its bureau advised whether the scope of the comi sion’s program and its delegates it in- | structions. permit it to consider the three Soviet points, enabled the ion to, "SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York. to organize and for bet- ter conditions. Injunction City. lice and-herded by hundreds in pa- zgle trol wagons to the courts where | they are treated in the most in- human manner, subjected to the most humiliating degradation like criminals, and sentenced to pay long simple hts In Bro Shoe W a similar pro junction proce started by the bosses in an at- (Continued on Page Five) terms for the f exercising labor FINAL CITY ' EDITION New York, by mail, §8.00 per year. Pric by mail, $6.00 per yenr. Policy to Trap Birth Control Clinic While more than 500 men and Market women crowded Jefferson Court, Policewoman Anna Mc- Namara yesterday described the stoolpigeoning methods by which she had gained alleged evidence that led to the police raid on the Birth Con- trol Clinical Research Bureau last Monday. The raid is believed to have been instigated by various re- actionary agencies including the medical interests, who want a ‘monopoly on the lucrative birth con-| striking textile workers in days w trol trade. Policewoman McNamara stated she had told the doctors at the clinic a story about three imaginary small children and a truck driver husband who was spending most of his wages on liquor (might as well take a smash at workers while you're at it). Given Careful Examination. The policewoman admitted, how- ever, that she had been given the (Continued on Page Two) REPORT GERMANY VIELDS AT PARIS delegates to save their face another Big Powers Hold Secret for Bosses and Landlords)** vino seve run | The three points, as presented by Acting People’s Commis: ‘eign Affairs Litvinoff, are: “1, To base its draft convention |upon the principle of an appreciable Session With Morgan S, April 19.—A final attempt to save the reparations conference was believed to be in progress here today when delegates from the prin- | Thousands of workers about the padueti i See armed ©ipal powers met secretly in a room reduction in the existing armed of the Hotel: Geergs 7. To embody in the draft con-| oe D. Young, chairman of the vention methods of reducing arma-| Conference, and Thomas W. Lamont, ments based upon proportional prin-| #lternate for J. P. Morgan, sum- ciples or a similar impartial criter-| Moned Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, leader | ion to be applied equally to all|°f the German delegation to the; states, with certain deviations in| T0m- Shortly thereafter Sir Josiah favor of smaller and insufficiently | Stamp, of England, M. Quesnay of | protected states only. France, and Alberto Pirelli, of Italy eR dla tapinda dh tin were summoned. |vention numerical coefficients Utmost Secrecy. ‘hie aa gHAnE GE amc aciinic?! The assembling of these delegates Only Italian Delegate Replies. was accomplished with the grea The Italian delegate alone chose Secrecy, many of the delegates from to answer directly on the three ™inor powers not being aware of Soviet points today, and answering ‘he meeting. | yes on the question of willingness to| . The sudden secret conference of reduce armament to the lowest fig-| ‘he experts followed an apparent ure given, Certainly the fascists “hange in Dr. Schacht’s attitude are not motivated by any liking for, Which many believed was due to in- the Soviet proposals and it is sup- structions from his social democratic posed that they desired to make the, £0Vernment. Whereas on Thursday unwilling attitude of the French im-| evening the German delegates at a perialists, their rivals in North| PYess conference insisted that their Africa, all the more apparent by| offer was final, Schacht said today: this vote. “I didn’t mean my offer as an The effect of the Italian vote was wtimatum, as many interpret it. 1 to bring out even more strongly the consider it only as a figure provid- hostile attitude of all the other | ing a basis for negotiations. I see powers, | no reason why the conference can- | not continue.” WORKERS BEAT Mariott to Speak on | at the Workers School, at the School | Forum at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Attack on the Local 24) In his lecture the speaker will| Milliners Fails quote historical incidents to prove); forces. ANSWERS ATTACK TEXTILE STRIKERS JOIN THE RELIEF STORE AGAIN OPEN Identify Tools Used by Mob Wrecking Offices as Property of Textile Company Beat Up Striker in Jail; Threats to Lynch the Organizers; Funds Badly Needed GASTONIA, N. C., April 19. -The best picket line by the s on duty here this morning. It was their first answer to the company thugs who wrecked the office of the National Tex-® tile Workers’ Union and the Workers. International Relief! early yesterday morning. The, picketing was directed from the temporary union office, located in the already re-established W. I. R. relief station. open the station, deputies were guarding the store. They refused me admission. I went to the sher- iff’s office, insisting on my right to enter the store we rented, and demanded that the sheriff send a man to order the deputies to admit me and the strikers. “The sheriff finally consented and the relief committee entered. A few minutes later soldiers, who were substituted for the deputies, cleared the committee out of the building. I demanded entrance, and was re- ferred to Major Dolley. When I de- manded to see him, I was thrown into an automobile by plain clothes men by force. These thugs were drunk. They rushed me at top speed in the car, keeping up a stream of abuse all the time. area discuss’ ng angrily the at- tack on the e and relief head- quarters. The strikers of South Carolina have sent word that they will help in any way possible. The strikers in Gastonia and _ other towns are joining the union inj throngs. Not Intimidated. If the deputies and militia who arrested and carried off to jail the relief director and 13 strikers found : , at the headquarters thought that| , Opens Station Again. {would intimidate the strikers, the! “The organizers and myself were |picket line and the growing ranks| taken to jail. When we were re- of the union are their answer, (Continued on Page Two) of the Manville Jenckes company who litter the streets with handbills saying to the workers, “You'll starve, there is no relief!” felt that destruction of the supplies -in the store would convince the strikers, | ; they can come down now and look! at the new store, shelves straight-| ened out, and a new supply of food MULL “FASCISM” Defense Secretary Hits laid on them, food distribution to n ° striking mill hands going on as| Mass Terrorism usual, —_— Relief Director's Story. Comparing the raiding and destruc- Amy Schechter, director of relief|tion of strike headquarters and re- here for the Workers International | lief stations of the Gastonia textile Relief, describes the incidents of |workers with the expeditions of Mus- yesterday as follows: | solini’s club-swinging blackshirts in “A hundred and fifty men raided | Italy, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, secre- the union office and the relief store | tary of the International Labor De- yesterday morning and wrecked the | fense stated yesterday: whole building in which the strike | “Fascism is rampant in the south- headquarters were loc. '2d_ with ern textile strike. The naked class axes, crowbars and hammers. These struggle of the starving textile tools were later found in the woods, | slaves against the mill owners and yand identified as company property. the state is raging triumphant in “In spite of gun firing, no deputy the textile districts. Ten mill own- or guardsman appeared to stop the ers are using foree and violence looting and destruction until the everywhere against the strikers, attack was over, The gangsters} “The city and state governments, raided the store, wrecking windows |the militia, the American Legion and throwing flour, cornmeal, lard,|and the millionaires and the A. F. potatoes, milk for babies into the!of L. have combined to defeat the street. They drew a gun on the/struggle to organize the unorgan- |single guard before he was able to| ized by all means, including murder reach his own gun, ordering him to |and lynch law. The advance of the ‘stick up your hands or we'll kill/new union in the South is a battle | youl’ against capitalist oppression and “You Won't Need oes, fascism, against the dark forces of “When our guard stooped to put/superstitious bigotry, greed and | on his shoes, the thugs stopped him, |capitalism which makes up the | saying, ‘You won’t need any shoes | (Continued on Page Two) | after a, little while.’ ; “When the national guards ap- |peared, the gangsters left their prisoners to them, including the W. | ‘New York Workers Down Tools on May Day. | Hired thugs of Zaritzky, head of the fake International Mi inery | Union, tho armed with knives, got | the worst of the fight they started | against 32. striking girl m inery workers of left wing local 43 in} front of the Princeton Hat Co., 57 | W. 38 St., yesterday afternoon. The fight began when the scabs, his contention that anarchism is not |I. R. guard and ten strikers who a revolutionary movement, and that | Were there. Collusion between the because it is utopian and reaction-| gangsters and the troops is obvious. ary, it is detrimental to organized | The militia took the strikers to jail. labor. | “When I arrived in the morning to Will Protest Murder of Negro Boy Athlete DUNCANS DANCE AGAIN The Negro and white workers of \this city will hold a mass protest meeting against the murder of Hen- |ry Clarke, school boy athlete who | won a race and was killed as a re- |sult, at a meeting at St. Luke’s Hall, the debenture scheme in the farm bill when it is reported to the sen- ate.. They admit, however, the re- ports can be used effectively against affidavit charging that in 1921 New Jersey electrocuted George Bran- don on the basis of forged fingerprints. He charges that the person who really did the murder was “formerly an organizer in the Hudson County Democratic Party,” and that Brandon was framed to hide the politician’s crime. | which Local 24, the right wing, had sent into the millinery shop came down from work and strikers at- | tempted to persuade them not to \ing booms. Longshoremen must | rustle for a job every day. Although we do not know the number of un- Last 3 Performances Today, Tomorrow The Isadora Duncan Dancers | 125 W. 130th St., Monday at 8 p. m. The speakers will be Odessa Clarke, mother of the murdered The last three performances of boy, Williana Burroughs, of the .them when the bill gets to the sen- ate flocr next week, Their decision to retain the plan will mean that the matter will come | out in the open on the senate floor: | ‘The house bill, as it stands, is with- | out hope for the farmers, and is. so reactionary it will hardly fool many of them. Some of its advocates think | debentures would make it seem more | reasonable. They would reduce | tariffs, and there is a fight over this. aig: Now ‘onder dissolved the Rigdag today he held July 1. ning into the streets. weeks in this region, % Finn Parliament Dissolved. HELSINGFORS, Finland, April 19 (U.P).—President L. K. Re- and ordered a general election to Earthquake in Italy. BOLOGNA, Italy, April 19 (U,P).—Strong earthquake shocks this morning toppled many chimneys here and sent the population run- A number of houses here and at Ponte Ronca were damased. There have been several quakes during the last few | employed workers in Harlem, we can safely say that the number is large, |and that the percentage of unem- ployment is greater than in any other racial group. These unskilled worke~s, who just as they are forced to live in segre- | gated districts are segregated in the industrial field as well to the lower paid jobs, are the subject of the most (Continued on Page Two) May Day—the day which began return to the scab job. were again warmly received at their | the Duncan troupe will be given this| American Negro Labor Congress, J. One of the thug outfit, which man- ager Spector of Local 24 had on hand for the occasion, began to browbeat one of the girl pickets, while his thugs threatened the others, Workers going home from work were aroused at the attack of thugs and came to the aid of the girls, | One worker took the part of the girl who was being bullied and with a general strike for the eight hour day in the U, 8, ' second appearance at Manhattan Opera House, 34th St. and Eighth Ave., last night. This was the sec- ond in their series of five farewell performances, The large number of workers present were delighted with the re- markably expressive dancing of these children of the Soviet Union. For the second time the largest ovation was reserved for the famous started to fight to defend her. The (Continued on Page Five) 4 : “Impressions of Revolutionary Rus- sia,” * é afternoon and evening and tomor- Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the row afternoon. “Impressions of|Daily Worker, Richard B. Moore, of Revolutionary Russia” will be in-| the Communist Party, Charles Alex- cluded in each program. Following ander, of the Young Workers (Com- tomorrow’s performance the dancers|munist) League, Leo Grant, presi- will return to Moscow. dent of the Harlem Inter-racial Tickets for the last three per-/Club, Harry Eisman, of the Young formances can still be bought at the) Pioneers, John Owens, recently re- office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union| turned from the North Carolina |the “Ds Buy your tickets only from| strike region, and others. Harold | the “Daily” as your fighting prole-| Williams, of the New York District of the Communist Party, will be S tarian paper gets a percentage on all those it sells, he ease