The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1929, Page 1

grain, _ most it will make a little more ~TERRORIZE NEGRO | forth smoke and soot. Steamship STRIKING FOOD WORKERS BACK MAY DEMONSTRATION AT COLISEUM; URGE LABOR TO MOBILIZE The striking cafeteria workers of this city, fighting courageously against the brutality of the Tam- many police and boss injunctions, have set an example for all work- ers of the city to follow. In a resolution just adopted by them they urge that thousands of work- | ers be mobilized for the giant May | Day demonstration at the New York Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River, The workers point to the service of the Communist Party in their present struggle: The resolution follows: “The striking cafeteria and res- taurant workers, members of the | | Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | Workers’ Union, greet the prompt | and militant action of the Com- | munist Party, New York District, | in supporting our fight for union co} It is the only political party that has fearlessly de- nounced the ‘city authorities for the regime of police terrorism and injunctions directed against the | strikers. “We greet with gratification and full appreciation the real in- terest and active assistance given us in our struggle against the 12- | hour day, miserable wages, and intolerable conditions prevailing | in the open shops. We have in- variably found that the Commu- nist press has been the only press that bas given full and truthful accounts of what has taken place in this fight. The Communist pa- pers haye been of invaluable as- sistance to us in mobilizing all other class-conscious workers to a demonstration of class solidar- | ity. Your Party has responded to | every call for help and we are | the call of the Communist Party confident that you will continue to | and various unions and labor lead- render us assistance in this fight | ers, for a mass demonstration on against the bosses and their gang- | the historic holiday of the work- sters, police and courts. ing class, May Day, to celebrate “In view of these facts we wish | the victories of labor during the to officially voice our appreciation | past year and to prepare for the of your prompt and militant ac- | struggles of the year to come. We tion in our support. pledge ourselves to mobilize the “We wish further to endorse | masses of exploited food workers for this May Day demonstration against police terrorism, against the injunction up, wage cuts. ploitation and against the grow- ing war d We pledge our union to coc to make this th celebrations of tional holiday.” e in every way t of all interna- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered an second-cina: Vol. VI, No. 40 y by The National Daily Worker ing Association, Ime. 76-28 Unies Sq.. New York, N. ¥. $8.00 per year. enr, Oatside New Yo by mail, $6.00 pe: FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 ‘Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1929 2 GASTONIA STRIKERS DEFY TERROR HOOVER SMASHES AN OPEN LETTER Says Direct Subsidy to Farmers Will Not Be Allowed Fight Over Fake Relief Tariff Bounty Aid to Middlemen. Only i WASHINGTON, April 21.—Presi- | dent Hoover denounced the export Mobilization Manifesto For of America: (a= Communist Party of tive demonstration of your lo International May Day, 1929. To the Workers and Exploited Farmers of the United States the United States of America, *Section of the Communist International, calls upon you to mobilize on International May Day, May First, for effec- yalty to the struggles for free- dom against capitalist exploitation and rule. The Communist Party calls upon you to prepare to dém- onstrate on May Day the strength of the growing forces of the workers in the class struggle—to demonstrate the grow- ing might and unity of the proletarian revolutionary move- debenture farm relief:plan, now the| Ment in the land of the most ruthless exploiters. center of senaté controversy, as “a direct subsidy from the United States treasury” in‘a letter to Chairman MeNary of the senate ag- | riculture committee, made public at the White House tonight. Hoover makes it plain that no | matter how much the farmer may be suffering, no “direct subsidies” | are going to be given to him. Such useful assistance is only for big business, the . trusts. The committee has already draft-| ed a bill which includes the deben- ture plan, and the house of repre- sentatives has a motion on the floor to introduce this plan into the agri-| cultural bill now before it. The debenture plan is not actually a subsidy to the farmers, all au- thorities on the matter agree.- At mohey for the middleman and brok- ers who handle the export trade in grain, and possibly reduce the tariff a little on imports. It is a scheme for granting certificates to export- ers of grain, giving them or their assignees the right to import duty free half the value of the export of Celebrate Revolutionary Mayday at the Coliseum. RECOGNITION OF USSR UP AGAIN ChamberCommerce for It; Borah’s Motion Recognition of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics is being urged again by certain sections of American industry. Senator Borah has once more moved inthe senate for the passage of his bill for com- plete recognition of the Soviet Union. His motion to put the senate on record as demanding of the state de- partment full de jure “and de facto recognition was submitted on the opening day of the special session of congress, and may come up as so 1 as the farm bill is out of the way. Banker for Recognition. Some of the reasons for the re- sumption of: talk about the recog- nition of the U. S. S. R. is seen in the cabled interviews with Samuel Reading Bertron, president of the in- ternational banking house of Ber- tron Griscom and Co. of New York, and president of the board of direc- tors of the Russian-American Cham- (Continued on Page Five) Workers! Join Lad oh Day demohstration at x Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River. Staten Island is a part of New York City, less thickly populated than all other sections. Class dis- ‘tinetions stand out sharply in Staten Island. Contrests are apparent— workers with dinner pails-—-mag- nates and plutocrats in Rolls-Royces. Large industria! plants rear their ugly heads toward the sky, belching ding plants dot the waterfront. Born in Fight for brought in its wake the mur of the five workers known to | ie i AT NOON TODAY Food Workers : Force More Settlements Hundreds of workers will join in the mass picketing demonstration to be conducted at noon tomorrow | by the Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union and the New York | District of the Communist Party in New York, in the garment section, where the Hotel, Restaurant an Cafeteria Workers* Union is leading a strike for abolition of the open shop. The demonstrators will ex- press the determination of the cafe- teria workers to resist court injunc- tions through which strong effort: jare being made to re-enforce open shop conditions, Charging that city authorities are cooperating with the employers to break the strike, union organizers instance the number of arrested— 455—since the walk-out was de- clared, More. Settlements. A settlement with the Royal Cafe- teria, 27th St. and Sixth Ave., is the latest. victory announced by the union. The Royal accepts. full union (Continued ‘on Page Five) YWL CONVENTION WILL OPEN FRIDAY of ‘the Fifth National Convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League Friday evening, April 26, at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 8rd Ave. On the program will be national speakers, a mass recitation, Michael Gold’s “Strike,” by ‘the Young Pioneers, and a sports ex- hibition by the Labor Sports: Union. held their. conventions and their delegates are on their way to the League. In spite of the many difficulties in getting .to the con- vention, particularly for the western districts, all delegates are expected to arrive in time for the opening night of the convention. A mass demonstration and welcome will be held for these: delegates, many of jto these great monsters stream processions. of. workers. whom have crossed the continent in A mass demonstration will’ wel- come the delegates to the opening Six districts of the Young Work-| ors, Communist League have already | Fifth National Convention of the| Shorter Workday. May 1, 1929, is the fortieth anniversary of May Day as the international revolutionary Labor Day. May Day as the International Labor Day originated in the United States with the struggle of our.class in 1886 for the eight-hour working day in resistance to the increasingly intolerable exploitation of American capitalism; and this der on the gallows in Chicago proletarian history as the Hay- market Martyrs. Even then the American working class was learning the ‘lessons of the modern class struggle, of martyr- dom and of betrayal from within the labor movement. The first International May Day in 1889 saw the greed ‘Asks Workers to Rally Workers. of All Countries, Op- pressed Peoples of the World! The Communist International, at} a recent meeting of its Executive! Committee, adopted the following manifesto on fhe liberation of India from the yoke of imperialism. After analyzing the revolutionary crisis * India and its causes, the manifesto | takes up the role of the agrarian | | revolution, the treacherous actions | of the British socialists and of the |Indian bourgeois nationalists, and the use of India by the imperialists Ss a base for an attack upon the USSR. In appeals to the workers and peasants of India, of England and of the world to militantly or- ganize for the defense and support The soil of India is rising in flames under the feet of British im- perialism. The flow of the, strike | wave surpasses the highest tide of the labor. movement in the earliest phase of the revolution—1921. The rapidly growing Left wing unions | enjoy the fighting support of broad masses. Thousands of workers in | Bombay and Calcutta are marching |and demonstrating under the . ban- | ner of struggle for the Soviets. The | working masses are ahead even of |the Left wing leaders in all their actions. The ruthlessly crushed lo- cal peasant revolts, the participa- tion of thousands of peasants at con- ferences of the worker and peasant parties, ‘indicate that the peasant reserves are beginning to be drawn into the struggle. The sharpening Negro Boy’s Murder to Be Protested at Mass Meet Tonight New York workers will protest the| |murder of the Negro Henry Clarke | | by his white schoolmates at a meet- ing to be held under the auspices of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, and the New York districts of the Communist Party and the Young Workers Communist League, at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W, 180th St. at 8 o'clock tonight. Speakers will include Harold Wil- liams, chairman; Odessa Clarke, mother of ‘the murdered boy; Wil- liana: Burroughes, American Negro Labor Congress; Leo Grant, Harlem | Liberation from: Yoke of Imperialism For the Liberation of India From the Yoke of Imperialism. Manifesto of the Communist International. Mobilization Manifesto for International May Day DEBENTURES IN To the Workers and Exploited Farmers of the United States of America: q oe TS ee of the American capitalist class already entering upon the world arena with the seizure of the Hawaiian Islands and early imperialist aggressions against Latin-American na- tions. In 1898 the Wall Street Empire plunged with full force into the epoch of imperialist wars with the war against Spain, the seizure of the Philippines, also supplanting Spanish with Yankee imperialist aggression in Cuba and Porto Rico. The rapid concentra- tion of wealth in the hands of powerful trusts through the looting and | exploitation of weaker peoples and the intensified exploitation of Amer- | i¢an workers and farmers led to the consolidation of the still more pow- erful finance-capitalist monopoly as the absolute ruler of this country, which in 1917 plunged into the imperialist world war to make itself the dominant imperialist power of the world. A. F. of L, Ally of Employers. The first May Day in 1889 already saw the American Federation of Labor frozen into definite craft-union forms, checking the struggle against the capitalist exploiters on industrial lines, and leading the | masses of the workers into political support of the rule of the enemy | class. The A .F. of L. bureaucracy prospered as the ally of the employing class, but the workers whom they have betrayed for more than forty years are still without the satisfaction of even the elementary demands of those struggles of 1889—the eight-hour day and the right. to or- ganize. After more than two-score years the struggle for the shorter work-day continues with unabated energy. In extremely industrialized America the long work-day, especially in the basic industries, still pre- vails. The 60 and 72-hour work-day prevails in some sections of the textile industry, while in the metropolis, New York, the richest city in the world, workers in some sections of the food industry put forward the demand for the 57 and 60-hour week. The long work-day of nine, ten and twelve hours still torments the workers of this country. (Continued on Page Two) MASS PICKETING Comintern Appeals for Aid to SHOE ORGANIZERS Indian Revolutionary Masses BEATEN BY THUGS to Struggle for India’s ‘Police Slug Ivanoff, | Biedenkapp | of the Indian revolution, concludes | | with the slogans of the struggle. | Fred Biedenkapp, general organ- | With the great number of May jizer and manager of the Independent | Day. meetings and demonstraticns Shoe Workers Union, Alexander | the Communist Party and its sym-|Ivanoff, member of the council, and pathetic organizations, are arrang-|several other militant members of ing, a focal point is provided for|ihe union were badiy beaten up in crystallizing the revolutionary. senti-| Washington Square Park early Sat- ment aroused at these demonstra-|urday morning when thugs and po- tions in support of the proletarian |!icemen attacked a group of workers and peasant masse: of India. who were trying to dissuade scabs These meetings will rally the|in the Alter Bender Co., 692 Broad- American working masses to the de-| way, Brooklyn, from continuing fense of the Soviet Union and of the | their anti-strike activities, | revolutionary Indian masses, as well) Paid to Scab. | against rationalization and the| ee | danger of war; in addition to other, Last Wednesday this group of struggles confronting labor. The °¢abs had decided to return to work, manifesto is as follows: j breaking with the rest of the strik. ing crew. It comprised 24 of the 17: workers on strike. The arrangement | called for Bender to “compensate” | |them to the tune of $50 each for | revolutionary crisis fosters the fer-| their scabbery. They were to come ment amongst the urban poor and (Continued on Page Five) other petty bourgeois sections re-| AT RR hala | duced by imperialism to the last stages of poverty and despair. i P, DENOUNGES | Imperialism is intensifying its physical extermination of insurgent | peasants was followed by the ae exampled provocation of a_ bitter communal religious feud in the of throwing the proletarian ranks} reactionary militarist “Daughters into disarray and breaking down the of the American Revolution” for a ever-growing general strike through- | larger navy, more severe immigra- out the country. tion restrictions against Latin terror. The shooting of strikers, the streets of Bombay, with the object} Denouncing the resolutions of the The provocation failed. The prto-| Americans, and oaths of allegiance letariat replied by declaring a gen-/ by school teachers, the Women’s De- | MAY DAY GREETINGS eral strike in the town, by a mili-| partment of the Communist Party of tant demonstration in the streets cf ihe U.S, A. has issued a statement, (Continued on Page Two) which reads in part as follows: a > | “This and other reactionary wom- Richard B. Moore, Communist Party, | on’s societies are urging ae avail- and Harry Kisman, of the Young) able means of propaganda to poison Pioneers. | the minds, of women workers and “Action must be taken on the case/ to prepare them for participation in| by the organized might cf the Negro | the war industries and in the com- and white workers towards prevent- ‘ing imperialist war. The radio, the ing such terrible crimes in the! press, the churches, the schools, the| future,” an A. N. L. C. statement! movies, have been put at their dis- urging mass attendance at the nicet-' posal, and they have lost no time | ing declares. } to use them to good advantage.” | The statement goes on to con- Day | trast with the condition of working Mweum, ' women in the U. S., their treatment | \in the Soviet Union, where they ‘have full social, political and eco- | nomic freedom with men, special | health protective measures, ete. It} | denounced the war measures the fas- | eee women advocate. be Join huge stration at Bronx - and Bronx River, Ask Unemployed Report at D.O. Today Unemployed Communist Party Continuing, the statement says: members. are instructed by. Ben || “Hand in hand with the militarist oS | proposals of the Soviet Government. | | workers and workingclass women, send WITHDRAW FROM ARMS MEETING To Continue to Expose the Hypocrisy of Imperialists IN DEMONSTRATION (SSR WILL NOT CITY RUSHES THRU BAN ON PARADE: WORKERS’ RELIEF OPENS SECOND FOOD STORE Workers Stop Scab from Throwing Bomb; Defend Organizer from Thugs Litvinoff Makes Reply Woman Striker, Raising Relief in North, Hits Delegates Again Find Truth Embarrassing GASTONIA, N.- ©, Maxim Litvinoff, Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs, yes- terday told the disarmament com- mission that the Soviet delegates, tho they have every reason, will not withdraw from further meetings of the League. He declared that they would stay to “expose to public opinion all attempts to. impede dis- armament” and so as to give the im- perialist delegates “no excuse for| attributing failure” to lack of co-| operation on the part of the Soviet Miner, Auto and Rail Correspondents Win Prizes in Contest Among the worker correspond- ents who responded in the first week of the worker correspond- ence contest were many workers in the great basic industries of delegation. the country. Many of these | Litvinoff made ‘ormal reply | workers wrote fine letters on to the rejection in writing, rehears-|| shop conditions in their shops, ing the past efforts of the imperial-|| and thus enabled the Daily ists to evade the direct disarmament || Worker to reach thousands of workers in these important in- | dustries. Many letters were sub- mitted by workers in the lighter industries, also. But basic in- dustry workers captured last He drew attention to the speed with which the commission threw out the, Soviet government’s complete dis- armament plan a year ago, to- gether with its refusal to discuss|| week’s prizes. the partial disarmament until the|] We art unable to publish the present. Now this, too, has been |! names of the winners of the con- rejected by the imperialist powers.|| test for last week, for the sake He pointed out that only seven|| of protecting these workers. delegates had taken part in the dis- The 5 th Beate cussion during the week, and chargec k " edi ee je worker the commission with depriving the|| ¥hO ape re e letter on con- others of a chance to discuss the|| ditions of the miners of Cherry }| Valley, Pa. His letter appeared Soviet proposals. ete peed Pp Litvinoff further declared that the | Thursday, describing the wage itwinott further declared thatthe ||! cut that followed for the Cherry ‘preparatory disarmament commis- ; || Valley miners after John L. sion is a sort of screen for the re-|! Lewis had conferred with the betas Sy dese ce! bosses. This miner will. receive a copy of Bill Haywood’s book. The second prize, “Labor and Automobiles,” by Robert Dunn, goes, appropriately enough, to the worker in the Nash auto sponsibility.” | The larger part of Saturday’s ses- sion was occupied by Lord Cushen- dun, the reactionary British delegate, who expounded his views on chemi- armaments, relieving them of the | cal warfare, At the end of the im-|j Plant in Kenosha, Wis whose perialist’s soliloquy, Litvinoff'| letter in Tuesday's paper des- pointed out that three of the four|| ‘Tibed conditions in this auto proposed clauses on chemical war-|| Plant. The third prize, a copy of “Labor and Silk,” goes to the railroad worker in Minneapolis whose letter appeared in Tues- day’s issue. Due to the fact that many workers have expressed their eagerness to win these books, the same prizes will. be ,givew this week. Enter the‘contest now, fare were identical with the League’s anti-gas protocol of 1925, while the | new clause was ambiguous. | When Litvinoff’s remarks became too embarrassing, President Louden | again decided that the delegates) needed “time for reflection” and the commission would be adjourned till Monday. | FIRE MAKES 50 JOBLESS. SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail). ays —Over 50 workers were made job-|_, YONPON, (By Mail)—Shop as. less when fire destroyed the West | ‘istants, or department store. work- Australia State Sawmills at Holy-|¢ts, are demanding a 48-hour week. oak, |The Home Secretary has turned a | deaf ear to requests for a hearing. DEMAND 48-HOUR WEEK. KANSAS BAKERS GAIN. TOPEKA, Kansas, (By Mail).—| ae Bakers in ‘Kansas have succeeded | one Bats lt ; eg le in organizing all bakeries in this | struggle against imperialist war! city, and will fight for better con- | All to the defense of the Soviet ditions. Union! Let Workers Hear of Your Organization Thousands of workers thruout the United States will read the | special May Day issue of hte Daily Worker. Among the many wili- tant workers’ organizations that are sending in their May Day greet- ings for this issue, will the many thousands of new workers whom this issue will reach find the name of your organization? It is planned to distribute the 1929 May Day edition of the Daily Worker among a greater number of workers than ever before. Many thousands of these workers will be reading the Daily Worker for the first time. Reading the “Daily,” and inspired by the fact that they have found a paper of and for theworkers, they will seek to make con- nections with militant organizations. They will more easily be enabled to make these connections, if they find your organization represented with a May Day greeting. With the thousands of copies broadcast among the workers will go the name of your organization, if represented by a May Day greet- ting. Communist Party units, union locals, organizations of militant your May Day greetings in now! Many fino features will be made possible for the May Day issue acpmetead '- || preparations of capitalist govern- of the Daily if workers’ organizations, and individual workers respond with their, Day greetings.. Put your o tion on the woe by. a 7 i > s V \ May April GENEVA, April 21.—Replying-to gathered here yesterday and today from all surrounding te: the League of Nation’s rejection of towns for a gigantic demonstration for the union the Soviet disarmament proposals, the mill owners, for the strikers and agair Peoples the s Seab Husband’s Plan to Sue Union 21.—Thousands of strikers hour day, -up system and low | The picket line yesterday morning ¥ larger even than the enormous picket-line Friday, which was an answer to the vandalism and answer to a call from the strike com- and militia on the strike and relief headquart The m sympathising workers from outside of the city were greeted with the official announcement of the Work- ers International Relief that it had cpened a new food station in Pine- ville, N. C., where the workers of the Chadwick-Hoskins mill are bat- tling the “stretch-out” (speed-up) and wage cutting systems of the em- ployers. The strikers are militantly guarding the first relief station on Henry St., Gasto which was re- established immediately after its de- struction last week by the thugs of the mill owners, ; | Get Injunction. The textile workers assembled in Gastonia yesterday and today in | answer ot a call from the strike com- mittee for a great parade through the streets of t extile town. An injunction was served on Secretary Truett of the National Textile Work- ers Union yesterday morning, pro- hibiting the parade.. The city coun- cil of Gastonia had met the night be- fore in a hurriedly-called special ses- sion to pass a city ordinance against by holding en here afternoon meeting: in the and one in the evening. Scab T Murder. Troy Jones, the scab husband of the militant striking textile worker, Violet Jones, came into the after- noon meeting and attempted to throw a dynamite bomb at the speakers? stand while the father of his wife was sneaki for the vigorous con- tinuation o. him, and he escaped by jumping over the fence. He was arrested when he came to the evening meet- ing, apparently to attempt another act of violence. Violet Jones is on speaking tour with three other G-stonia strikers through the North and West, col- lecting relief for the textile strik- ers. Troy Jones, acting in the inter- ests of the company, has sued the union for $5,000 for “depriving him ‘of the services of his wife,” because of her tour in the North, and has sworn out a warrant for Organizers Fred Beal and George Pershing, charging abduction. The warrant not yet been served. | Striker Denounces Scab. A telegram has been received sent by Violet Jones to the ing: tion frame-up against union organ- izers Beal and Pershing. I came here of my own free will and am of age. No scoundrel scab husband can | break this strike. Tell the workers everything is fine. We all are work- |ing hard for relief. Clean out all the scabs. The Northern workers are behind us. Give this publicity — | VIOLET JONES, striker.” | Strikers Speak. The mass meetings in Gastonia were addressed yesterday and today by many local Strikers, by Karl Reeve and Paul Crouch, represent- ling the International Labor De- |fense; Organizer George Pershing, |and the union women organizers, Vera Bush and Ellen Dawson, Ellen Dawson was given a gi ovation by the strikers wh local of the N. T. W. U., stat- “T strongly protest against abduc-