The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1929, Page 1

e — NEEDLE TRADES THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party INDUSTRIAL UNION IS LAT EST TO E NDOR aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. ublished daily except Sunday by Th any, Inc. Lv Vol. VI, No. 41 28 Union Square, ie NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929 E Bll : FAIL TO ACT ON WORKERSDEATHS Officials of the Trades Council, Bricklayers | A | i Remain Silent Lie) nu Charge Murder Say Derrick Overloaded to Double Capacity cil nor the officialdom of the Bricklayers’ Union evidently care | about the fact that four building | Fifty-nine years ago today, April) trades workers were killed last Sat-| 23, 1870, Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin, the urday and 11 injured in the col-| greatest leader of the proletaran lapse of an overloaded cable which| revolution, was born. It was under} dropped ‘three and a half tons of| the leadership of Lemn that the! steel girders down on the workers. | Russian workers and peasants 9 For neither of these organizations, | threw the bourgeoisie and their supposedly representing the inter-! cialist” allies on Nov. 7, 1917, and| ests of the workers, have made any | created the first workers’ and peas- move towards investigating the ants’ government. Tho he has been cause of the disaster, which work-| dead more than five years, Lenin's | ers yesterday called a murder by work and the Party he founded, the the Western Union Co. Communist Party, live on, leading | Dettick Ovatlesaed | the workers of the world to new| Workers on the huge skyscraper) victories. Honor the memory of construction job at Worth, Thomas| Lenin by downing tools on May Day and Church Streets, and’ firemen|“@. celebrating this international from a nearby engine house who an-| “king class holiday. araced Hal Widen! Galleries cat ing up defense organizations to the Papeete phents Ma fight against the strikebreaking | ae ofthe, death ct ther abus attacks of the capitalist courts. | at | as that the derrick which psed was overloaded to nearly| | Western Union Co. had promised] t | the contractors and subcontractors | | on the building a bonus if the job Rae | were completed before the time| Unity House Record Is| on in the contract. | Suddenly Missing workers stated that the told to speed the men to ordered two girders to be| The lawyer for the corrupt Inter- ted instead of one, thus causing national Ladies Garment Workers nap and hit a part, Union, whose president is Benjamin the bricklayers, | Schlesinger, has put his feet in it} again. In court here last week} | Julius Portnoy, of the Furriers’ | Joint Board, was placed on the stand | and quizzed continually about the| | occurrences related in the real min- utes of Unity House, which have been in possession of Louis B. Bou- | din, attorney for the Needle Trades ash for the contractors stern Union was yester- en with the arraigning of of the employees of the con-| tractors on manslaughter charges. Po! ner Whalen ac- cepted es Sex ae eras | Industrial Union. OE the a ster. These minutes are important, for who aided in the res-| Morris Hillquit, and the Right wing | ffed at this statement,|in the attempt to take Workers’) (Continued on Page Two) Unity House away from the workers ae tee | introduced fake minutes in the hear- | ing last month, and had to retract | Hi Ml ne them and admit that the Left wing | Pha UPR RRR, had the real minutes. | ee Se eee . | Schlesinger’s. lawyez, _ pressing | Portnoy for answers on these min- NEGRO YOUTH utes, finally handed him the minute | HUE ade beok which was in evidence in the | court, and asked him to point to ene 5 various passages. Condemn Jim Crowism| t was then discovered for the first time by Boudin that the min- at Harlem Meet Kites of March 671026, werd iniscing | Boudin then stated in court that the Negro and white workers of this minutes were stolen, The Schlesin- city protested against the brutal ger attorney asked who could have murder of the Negro school boys) stolen them. Boudin reminded him | Henry Clarke, at a mass meeting! that he had sent his office girl over | last night at St. Luke’s Hall, 251 to copy the minutes, and that she| W. 130th St. had been in Boudin’s office three The speakers were Charles Alex-! days. He said she could have stolen ander, of the Young Workers | them. League, R. B. Moore, of the Com-| But the Right wing attorney, in- munist Party, Odessa Clarke, moth- | stead of growing angry, merely er of the dead boy, J. L. Engdahl,| grinned and remarked, “Why didn’t editor of the Daily Worker, Wil- you watch her?” Jiana Burroughs and John Owens, of|° Boudin also states that the ele- the American Negro Labor Con-| yator man in his office building gress, Leo Grant, of the Harlem| several timcs recently, once on April Inter-racial Club, and Harry Eis-|11 and once on April 15, observed man, of the Young Pioneers. Harold suspicious characters trying to en- Williams, of the Negro Department! ter or coming out of his empty (Continued on Page Five) office. Eleven Hurt When Brakes Give on Trolley. One crowded trolley car slipped and ran into another standing at 18ist St. and Nicholas Ave., last night. Eleven were injured, two are in the hospital, Tammany Committee Votes On Chief Today. The 70 district and ward bosses who make up Tammany Hall's executive committee will meet today to vote in one of their number 2s head of Tammany Hall, the pol | machine that dispenses pa- tronage and contracts for New York City. John F. Curry of the Fifth District is said to have been decided upon by the moneyed in- terests who pull the strings. Hoover Tells Associated Press More Must Be Jailed. Yesterday Hoover was in town for two hours and spent most of that time laboriously informing the Associated Press annual luncheon that people shouldn’t break the laws the way they do.. His entire address was an appeal for easier convictions, more polide and inter- ference with the rights of defendants. Warder Quits in City Trust Scandal. ‘Frank H. Warder, state superintendent of banking, who has been charged with undue friendliness with the swindler, Ferrari of the City Trust Co. now bankrupt, and who passed Ferrari’s bank as sound just before it failed for $4,000,000, resigned today. He was about to be called as a witness in a grand jury investigation of the collapse. American Bankers Quarrel With German Delegates. PARIS, April 22—The German delegation teday asked for an- other meeting of the Dawes plan board of experts. American dele- gates Perkins and Lamont met with them and scolded them for their remark last week that Germany could not pay because the war victors took all her richest territory. LABOR DEFENSE FORMS BRANCHES IN STRIKE AREA 2 Fined for “Trespass on Public Highway,” Many Other Cases Speakers Assist Strike |Thousands of Dollars Needed for Bonds GASTONIA, N. C., April 22.— Considerable progress has already been made in the formation of the International Labor Defense among the textile strikers here. Karl Reeve southern representative of the LL.D. has addressed several meetings where he impressed upon the workers the necessity of build- Cases on Trial The cases of L. Miller and W. Barrett, two Bessemer City strikers, were tried here today before Magis- trate Craig. Both were fined $10 and costs for “trespassing on the public highway.” They had been picket- ing. The LL.D. has appealed both cases, The case of Panken, and another striker, who has been framed on a bad check charge, is also sched- uled to come up today, as is the case of G. Grahill, who is charged with carrying concealed weap ns. Tom P. Jimison, of Charlotte, is the I.L.D. attorney in all these cases. Defense Funds Needed A bail fund of $6,000 has already arrived here from the national office of the International Labor Defense in New York City. Ellen Dawson, organizer for the National Textile Workers Union, was bailed out on $2,000 out of this fund. An addi- tional $5,000 is reported on the way. Thousands of dollars are, however, necessary. The new wave of terror against the strikers makes immedi- ate defense funds critically urgent. | Silk Co., cut wagés up to 50 perjers, calling on They should be rushed to the na- | Cent in Bridgeport some time ago|darity and de tional office of the LL.D., 80 East 11th St., room 402, New York City. EBENTURES IN SENATE'S BILL Committee Votes Fake Relief Measure WASHINGTON, April 22.—Three republicans, wheat belt senators, bolted the party lines on the deben- ture farm relief plan ‘today, en- abling the senate agricultural com- mittee to include the plan assailed by President Hoover in the admin- istration farm bill to be presented to the senate, Norris of Nebraska, who sup- ported Governor Smith, the demo- cratic presidential candidate, and Frazier of North Dakota with Nor- beck of South Dakota, who has sup- ported Mr. Hoover, cast their votes on the anti-administration side. Their votes made it 8 to 6 in the committee in favor of the debenture scheme. Democrats on the committee split, two voting with Mr. Hoover and four against. In view of the delay encountered in the agriculture committee by Hoover's letter, strongly attacking the debenture plan, the senate held but a brief session today, The house laid aside its adminis- tration farm bill temporarily so Representative Garner, the demo- ‘cratic leader, could make an attack on the republican system of tariff making. Garner asserted there were leaks from the committee. He said he had heard the sugar rate had been set at three cents, and asked if it was true. No one answered him. Thiss is valuable information for those playing the stock market. Representative Jones, democrat, Texas, issued a statement charac- terizing President Hoover’s letter to Senator McNary as “wholly theoret- ical for every objection he made to the debenture plan applies with equal force to any tariff system. “The debenture plan merely com- plements the tariff,” said Jones, |thus admitting the charges made vepeatedly that it is in no wise a farm relief measure, DEPUTIZED THUGS BAYONET PICKETS; FIRE 2 VOLLEYS AT STRIKERS After Raid MASS MEETING - AFTER ATTACK SCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail Outside New York, by mail, 00 per year. $6.00 per year. | Gastonia Mill Owners’ Major and Sheriff; Scene in Front of Strike Headquarters To the left, in uniform, is Maj North Carolina National Guard, i being withdrawn and hired gunmer bayonets are taking their places. the picket line and had his thugs two volleys at the others. To the right is the wreckag: aduarters by a masked ieces for the mill owners in carrying the strike demands whic read: day week. (4) Abolition of all sp Equal pay for equal work for ro of all house. in mills and houses. without extra charge (7) Reductio Rush funds for relief to Work Square, New York. Vational Textile Workers Union—Our Demands. nation of all piece work and standard wage scale. standard weekly wage for all workers of $20. sanitary working and housing conditions. baths in the homes without extra charge to the workers. ior S. B. Dolley, commander of the n Gastonia. His troops are now 2 armed with revolvers, rifles and With the major is Chief of Police 0. F, Alderholt, who today led a vicious attack by these gunmen on bayonet several strikers and fire They are excitedly reading « strike leaf- let, many of which have been issued during the struggle. ¢ made of the National Textile mob with axes. They chopped it the middle of the night. The board h two militiamen are holding up (1) Elimi- (2) A minimum (3) Forty-hour, five- eeding or doubling-up work. (5) men and youth. (6) Decent and Immediate installation of Screening to the wor Repair of toilets | m of rent and light charges. ors, ers International Relief, 1 Union SHELTON, Conn., April 22— | Over 500 strikers inthis city, walk- jing out today in sympathy with 600 on strike against the same company in Bridgeport, won all their demands and established their formerly semi- |company union, “The Club,” as an |independent union in both cities. The employers, the Blumenthal Shelton Workers Respond to Call of National | Textile Workers’ Union and Gain Victory startet ' and the workers there The, the workers in both mills. As a re-| National Textile Workers’ Union is- sued a leaflet to the Shelton wo hem to show end the intere the workers to this appeal, “The ts of 0: |tion as an independent union, and| for the re-establishment of Bridgeport scale before the cut for] today. both towns started today and wa: settled with a victory within a few hours. Es SE HUGE MAY DAY RALLY AT COLISEUM FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents. STRIKE DEFIES TERROR : \Scabs Deputized; Twice Attack Picket Line; Arrest Twenty-two \Relief Key to Victory Prevent Two Lexington Mills’ Reopening BULLETIN GASTONIA, N. C., April 22.— Organizer Vera Bush and Amy Schechter, Workers Internaticnal Relief director here, were arrested today with 20 of the mill strikers. The charge is not known, A gang of thugs, led by depue ties, broke into the relief station this afternoon while food was being distributed to the pickets, and drove everybody out, stopping the distribution. Deputies staged a new assault on the strikers this evening, and gangs of deputies are roaming the streets, slugging and bayo- netting all they meet. While Carl Reeve, of the International Labor Defense, was at the jail bailing out a striker, deputies at- tacked Legett Blythe, a reporter for a Charlotte newspaper who had accompanied Reeve and At- torney Jimison. They blackjacked him and bayonetted him inflicting a cut at the base of the skull and other injuries from which he was still unconscious at a late hour Jast. nights ek 8 GASTONIA, N. C., April 22—A the new wave of terror broke loose here The National Guard was withdrawn and special deputies, con- ting for the most part of profes- ional thugs, with revolvers, rifles and bayonets, were sworn in. The Sentiment runs high for the for-| deputies, wielding bayonets, charged members tional Textile Workers’ Union, ‘Supreme Court Rejects |Sinclair Plea for New \Contempt Case Trial WASHINGTON, April 22 W. | One of Harry Sinclair’s few rer ing chances of evading a three months’ jail sentence for contempt of the Senate faded today when the Supreme Court refused him a re- jhearing of the case in which it de- jcided two weeks ago that he was properly convicted. DAILY WORKER IN COURT TODAY Hillquit Fighting to Cover Swindling Attorneys for the Daily Worker and its editors have been called to court, Part 9, General Sessions of the Criminal Court, this morning, in connection with the libel suit of - Latin-Amer From Peonage to Slavery | Story of Upper Park Ave. n Workers, Trying to Eseape Yankee Imperialism, Meet It Again 1ca is the thirteenth of a series of articles exposing conditions under which workers are forced to live. The first 12 articles ex- posed the robbery of church and politicians as landlords in Harlem, | the unsanitary houses in which Negro workers are forced to live, | and how they are forced to sell most of their lives to the landlord, in the form of mountain-high rents. The present article intro- | duces you to lower Hariem.) + * * By SOL AUERBACH XII. are the largest segregated group in- the ‘ted, practically every workingclass racial The | that of all history—segregation along class lines. ALTHOUGH Negro worker country and the most expl group suffers the effect of the prejudice fostered by the bourgeoisie. first great division in segregation is In the matter of housing, just as Discuss TUEL Meet |in the whole economic and social The Cleveland Trade Union Unity | life of a capitalist country, the work- | Convention will be discussed at ay ingclass is segregated in the base- | meeting of Section Two of the Com-| ment of society. The answer to the |munist Party at the Workers Cen- question: How is the worker housed? |ter, 26 Union Square, at 6 p. m.,|—gives the story of his exploitation, today. For when we visit the worker’s home | BERRY, BETRAYER, IN RAYON STRIKE Pressmen Union Head jhas authority fore Aids Mill Owners [less ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April 22. | —At the request of Governor Henry | named Rhodes was responsible for Horton, of Tennessee, Major George L. Berry, president of the Inter- national Printing Pressmen’s Union, has written to the American Glanzstoff and Bemberg companies here, stating that he is ready to settle the strike of the 5,000 rayon Club” voted to strike for recogni-| cities and to affiliate to the Na- rounds of shot. sult of the enthusiastic response of| mation of a local to include the the picket-line this morning, bayon- . of “The Club” in both etted several strikers and fired two The strikers re- treated across the railroad tracks, but the thug deputies were out for blood. They attacked the defense- strikers with bayonets and clubs, brutally beating many of them, including a woman, Maud Robinson. Carl Holloway was ar- rested after being beaten and pricked with a bayonet. Leading the charge was Chief of Police Adderholt, who declared he ly to prevent all picketing, and will try to do it. Beat Up Children, It was established that a deputy the brutal beating of Maud Robin- son and also of John Robinson. Among other victims were R. Ellis, who was bayonetted, Jack Smith, a 16-year-old striker, and Louis Me- Loughlin, both of whom were beaten and jabbed with bayonets, and workers, which is now in its sec-|Frank Pickelsimer, who was beaten. ond week. During the attack the deputies Major Berry is the man who hired | Shouted insults at and punched and scabs through detective agencies in| prodded women strikers freely. U.S. and Canada and sent them to News has been received that the break a strike in his own union in| mill bosses are holding meetings of New York several years ago. (Continued on Page Five) Correction Tn an article by George Padmore, | | He what scabs they have, and have or- ganized them in squads of twenty. The scabs are being coached to kill the pickets, and are today being sworn in as deputy sheriffs and given weapons, Morris Hilquit against them, for we have the concrete evidence of entitled Negro Masses and Commv- | Huge Mass Meeting. their proving that he was connected with a $150,000 swindle of the needle trades workers. It is not known what maneuver trict attorney’s office that he was able to get the indictment without any preliminary examination, may be trying to carry out. May Day Ral In a ringing appeal to the needle workers of New York City, Joseph | Boruchowitz, general manager of the New York Joint Board of the Needle calls upon the needle workers to demonstrate their working class solidarity at the May Day meeting at the Coliseum, E. 177th St. His statement, issued today, reads in part as follows: “May Day, 1929, will assume par- ticular significance for the needle 4 workers of this city. This will be Hillquit, who is so close to the dis- | Needle Trades Union Endorses Trade Workers Industrial Union, | MORE STOCK GAMBLING. Realization of the expected case-| him, and what sort of a life he can|issue of April 17, it is stated, by ment in the credit situation buoyed | lock forward to after his day of crror: “Green, Woll and John L. up the Stock Market today and trad- | labor. Lewis and other bureaucrats are the ing picked up in volume, with total most open opponents of white Ne f Fi . : sales above 3,500,000 share: eeroreweh Renee chauvinism.” This should The story of the growth of a city like New York, with its network of class and racial fences, gives a part of the story of the development of |capitalism in the United States, from |from its very colonization to im- perialism, its last phase of life, with jall the characteristics of a brutal ~*~ |bourgeoisie. The house-fronts of ly at Coliseum |New York City are actual walls. Walk thru New York City and you | wil immediately know in whose the first day May Day celebrated territory you are walking. It is a by the new Union, matter of a block, in many cases, to “In the past we have celebrated | leave a so: ‘id workingelass district May Day, while still under the heavy (Continued on Page Two) yoke of the Right wing, the Sig- our May Day edition, ‘Instruct C. P. Members | Te Daily Worker, mans, the Schlesingers, the socialist ‘carries on the militant betrayers of labor. ‘the American working class, out of On May Day—Long live the al- liance of the working class and the poor farmers! | chauvinism.” May Day edition of the Daily day editions, but we, the clas scious workers of this country, “This year we will demonstrate to Get May 1 Leaflets on May Day, the fact that we have! once and for all cast aside this | Communist Party members are |yoke, and have built up for our- instructed by the New York District | | selves a new union, which will fight | Office to call immediately for May | |for the interests of the needle work- Day Demonstration leaflets and {stickers at the District Office, (Continued on Page Five) 4 \edition. 4 what his years of toil have brought nism, published in the Daily Worker | read: | “Most open exponents of white the brutal tactics of the deputies Worker! ‘The capitalist press has | its July 4 and Washington’s birth-|the form of huge advertisements. -con- |Morgan, Lamont, Vanderbilt and all have |the leading exploiters of labor send whose struggle for the eight-hour greetings to mak day in 1886 arose the international |tion a success. working class holiday of May Day, | our is the only daily paper in the Eng- | That means workers and worl jlish language which has a May Day class organizations must send | i The strikers, so far from being intimidated, came in great numbers to one of the most enthusiastic mass meetings this afternoon that has | been held yet, and cheered loudly the speakers’ announcement that , | (Continued on Page Two) ‘THE WORKERS’ HOLIDAY Show Solidarity by May Day Greetings The capitalist press gets its greet ings from its capitalist supporters in their greetings to their press, That which today |makes it possible for the cap’ tradition of |press to run spe 1 jingo editiot The Daily Worger must also hay Mts May Day edt. We can only greetings from our suppot (Continued on PROE’Five)