The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 1

' F ‘COMMUNIST PARTY AN The following statement, setting aside the period of May 10 to 20th as National Negro Week, in which to dramatize the struggles of the Negro Workers and Farmers, and calling upon the whole Party to mobilize for the Negro work, has been issued by the National Negro Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the U. S. A., over the signature of Cyril Briggs, acting director. The Negro workers and farmers in the United States constitute the most exploited *section of the American working class. Victims of | white ruling class terrorism, lynch- murder, race hatred, police brutality and a system of bold-faced robbery on the part of the white planters of the south, coupled with a humil status, they are leaving the iating social, political and economic southern agrarian districts in increasing numbers for the cities and industrial employment. With this movement there is developing a numerous Negro. proletariat, capable of giving leadership to the oppressed Negroe: s of the world. These millions of workers, unorganized and bitterly exploited, are herded into filthy segregated distri icts at extortionate rents. They are allowed only the lowest paid and most menial jobs under the capitalist system. They are being constantly discriminated against in industry, in the courts, in government departments, in every phase of capitalist society. They suffer from all the i lls inflicted upon the working class, {| and, in addition, are oppressed as suffering a double exploitation. Negroes, as a racial minority, thus Communist Party Champion of Oppressed. The Communist Party of the U. S. A., as the Party equally of the black and white workers, as the historic champion of the most oppressed sections of the working class, has the Negro workers and farmers. | their own bourgeois leaders to thei by white mobs of planters and busi pledged itself to fight the battle of Tricked by politicians, betrayed by class enemies, burned and tortu ness men, fed with soft meaningles phrases by liberals and the yellow socialists, both black and white, double-crossed by the American Federation of Labor, which has refused NOUNCES SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FOR NATIONAL NEGRO WEEK MAY 10-20 workers and farmers must be organized as pa f revolutionary army which will overthrow the (Continued on Page Two) he great in the CONFERENCE FRIDAY. The District Negro Department of the Communist Party urges upon the Section Negro Directors and unit representatives as well as union fraction secretaries to be present at the conference to take up immediate tasks confronting the Party in mobilizing the Negro work- ers. The conference will take place on Friday evening, 8 o'clock at 26-28 Union Square. ; to organize them or segregates them into Jim-Crow unions, these Negro |-— THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party “y mae f Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Vol. VI., No. 42 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Z New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION R/ Outside New Y¥ In New Yerk, by mail, $8.00 per year. ork, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price, 3 Cents : JUDGE FIXES TRIAL OF ‘DAILY “IN JUN E 10 SUIT HILLOUIT ‘Socialist’? United Hebrew Trades and A. F. of L. __ Chiefs Join to Break Strike of the Cafeteria Workers COMMUNISTS IN U.S. JOIN IN WORLD PLANS FOR HUGE MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS Socialists Sabotaging May First; Second Inter- | national for Capitalist “Peace” | Ss ' | Southern Mill Strikers. ganizations cooperating with them, will celebrate this year’s unified support of the militant Southern textile strikers, on} trade union center in this country. enthusiastically, and each day WOMEN WORKERS these demonstrations and the The capitalist press will soon be- the names of millionaires and capi-| to Conference from “anarchists and terrorists” on Left wing, militant unions have leagues ‘in Europe, with threats /in great numbers, textile, needle the country will follow suit soon. | miners have already in the short threats and provocations, however,| unions in the textile and needle revolutionary holiday. that of the men workers, be a memorable one for the masses Information already at| ence of shop delegates in New York other countries indicates that the 2 p, m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th their respective governments to| workers right in the shéps to clect ’ fs Young Workers’ League Convention | Revolutionary Labor Rallies for Solidarity With | Hundreds of mass demonstrations, arranged by the Com- munist Party and the left wing unions and other workers’ or-, May Day in militant manner. The meetings will be demonstrations centering around the the one hand, and mobilizations for the Cleveland Trade Union | Unity Convention, which will launch, the new revolutionary Left wing unions and other workers’ organizations are lining up behind the slogans of the May Day demonstrations sees more thousands of work- ers pledging their support to h struggles they symbolize. READY T0 M F F T Police Threats Expected. Ls gin its campaign of slander against ee th. May Day celebrations, detailing lect Shop Delegate talist officials whom the police and] dicks | will ostentatiously protect} phe earnestness with which the May Day. The police in Cleveland heen: Ook b a rar * : : Ate en going about organizing the in- have started as early as their col-| qustries where women are employed against the organizers of the demon- trad shoe workers feteria and strations, and those of the rest of| sooq ‘well ae Aha. wives’ at: Aba The militant workers of the mills, period of their efforts, produced liv- mines and shops will disregard these|jng results in the new industrial and will go ahead with their prepa-| trade industries which have mass rations for the observance of their} women memberships together with »Memorable May Day For Europe. | The Department for Work Among May Day this year is destined to} Women of the Trade Union Educa- in Europe. hand from Poland, France, Italy and| which is to take place on May 4, social-democrats and, of course, the| St. and Irving Pl., for the express fascists, are cooperating fully with) purpose of mobilizing the women (Continued on Page Five) { (Continued on Page Five) Communist Party Urges Support of Tee Communist Party of the United States of America appeals to all workers to actively assist the Young Workers (Communist) League of America in carrying through a successful convention. In view of the rapidly increasing danger of war the work among the youth is ever more important. The Young Workers form the great bulk of the armed forces. The Communist Party must organize the youth under its banner for work among armed forces. The rationalization of industries makes the youth an increasingly important factor in the struggles of the workers. The youth in the Southern Textile Strikes constitute one of the most militant leading forcés in the strike. In the past struggles of the new unions, needle, textile and miners, the youth has played an important part and will play a still more important role in the future. The Fifth National Convention of the Communist Youth will adopt measures for organizing the Young Workers for the struggle against capitalism. The adult workers should do all in their power to help the development of the Communist Youth Movement so that it can lead the millions of young workers in their struggles against rationaliza- tion, against war, against the capitalist system, for Communism. The Fifth National Convention of the Young Workers (Commu- nist) Teague will open with a mass demonstration and concert at the Cen‘sal Opera House, on Friday, April 26th, at 8 p.m. The Commu- nist Party of the United States of America calls upon all workers to demonstrate their solidarity with our Communist Youth League. 8 tional League has called a confer-| STRIKE DRAPER TEXTILE MILL; PICKET LORAY Strikers Guarding Beal in Gastonia Jail From Lynchers Dawson Arrested atMill Workers Rallied to Get More Funds for Food CHARLOTTE, > April 24. —The Osage Mill and the American Mill No. 2 were struck here today, bringing the total on strike in the Piedmont section to 7,000. ae ee | GASTONIA, N, C., April 24.—Al- |though the Manville-Jenckes armed scabs and gunmen still occupy the \mills, the strikers still picket them. 'The picket line last night was once |more broken up by a_ bayonet jcharge of the thugs, but is reformed | today. | Ellen Dawson, organizer for the National Textile Workers’ Union, was arrested last night for leading the picket line. She had been out of jail only a day since her release on heavy bonds after arrest on a framed-up federal charge of ir- | regularities in her naturalization. She has already been released a sec- ond time on $50 bail. The bail in both cases was furnished by the In- ternational Labor Defense. | Beal Arrested. | Fred Beal, N.T.W.U. organizer,| |was brought to the Gagtonia jail last night after being arrested in Charlotte at the office of the attor- ney for the union, Tom Jimmison. Constant rumors of plans by the mill owners’ thugs to lynch Beal on} | arrival here led to great throngs of| strikers surrounding the jail to protect him and the organization of an armed guard of strikers to watch the jail during the night. Beal is in jail on a warrant sworn jout by the scab, Troy Jones, who is charging abduction because his wife, Violet Jones, a striker, went with ‘a delegation of three other strikers lt tour the industrial cities of the |North and West to speak at mass meetings and raise money for strike relief. Jones also sues the union |for $5,000, for the same “offense” and the local authorities pretend to | take these charges seriously al- | though Violet Jones has repudiated lentirely the statement that she was led away from her husband by Beal |or the union, and has denounced him |in vigorous terms in a telegram to | the N.T.W.U. local here. A large strike meeting yesterday afternoon was addressed by the women pickets who had been ar- |rested and released, Chairman Hol- |loway, Strike Committee Chairman Stroud, Organizers Vera Bush and Ellen Dawson, and Representatives of the International Labor Defense Paul Crouch and Carl Reeve. Wea aah By GEORGE PERSHING GASTONIA, N. C., April 24.— One of the union demands of the Loray mill local of the National Textile Workers Union is the aboli- tion of the present “hank-clock” system of determining the wages of the weavers and spinners, The hank-clock” works similar to an automobile speedometer and can be adjusted to measure more | For Widow of _ Crash Victim Yesterday, four days after the Western Union building tragedy |which hurled four workers to their deaths from a scaffold on the 22nd floor of its skyscraper, under con- struction, not a single move had been made by the bureaucratic of- ficials of the unions to which the killed workers belonged to obtain compensation for their stricken and destitute families. Ralph Stabile, official in charge jof Local No. 749 of the Building Helpers’ Union, to which Antonio Coiro belonged, evaded all questions put to him on the subject yester- |day, claiming a sudden excessive piling up of work. Meanwhile, Coiro’s wife and eight-year-old son | wait bitterly for news. Only Flowers From. Union. And Mrs. Sigrid Ronning, widow of Otte Ronning, a bricklayer killed together with Coiro and the two others, revealed yesterday that the interest of the union officials in the murder of her husband had swayed them to send a bouquet of flowers to his funeral, accompanied with a short stereotyped Western Union telegram, This is true irony, that the same company which, through insistence on a vicious speed-up, |murdered Otte Ronning, should be the medium through which the union jreaetion should send a_ consola- |tory message to his widow! But |compensation? Mrs. Ronning, a woman of forty, knew no more than had Mrs. Coiro. Advance company agents had been to her little apart- ment at 648 72nd St., Brooklyn, to ease the way for a cheap “settle- jment.” But not a word from Local No. 1 of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union, (Continued on Page Five) Down with discrimination against the foreign-born, women and youth workers. Demonstrate your solidarity on May Day. STRIKERS FIG HT SHOE INJUNCTION Stop Griffen Trick to Keep Temporary Writ The injunction of the Griffen & White Shoe Company against the Independent Shoe Workers was ar- gued yesterday before Judge Mit- chell May in the Brooklyn Supreme Court. Decision was reserved until today, The Union’s attorney was Jacques Buitenkap. The union presented 20 affidavits, proving that there was no disturbances and the pickets kept within the law. The company attorney asked for a postponement of the case on the ground that they had not served the union officially, but the union frus- trated this attempt to perpetuate the temporary injunction by having (Continued on Page Five) Workers! Join huge May Day demonstration at Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River. SEAMAN KILLED NORFOLK, Va. (By Mai!).— Luis Porier, a Chilean seaman was killed in a fall down the hatch of the freighter Condor, while on the than the standard “hank” of 840 (Continued on Page Five) ' high sea, it was learned when the Condor docked here. Only Flowers RIGHT WINGERS IN BAKERS LOCAL 500 RAISE FAKE ISSUE \Use Boss Tactics, Bring in “Red” Charge Two More Shops Fall 18 Cafeterias Are Now Unionized The Socialist Party officialdom, aroused by the progress being made |by the Hotel, Restaurant and | Cafeteria Union strikers, called a hurried conference yesterday of the lofficials of the United Hebrew | Trades, the Central Trades and Labor Council and some local bodies for the purpose of considering ways and means of smashing the strike. An indication of the re-actione | character of the plans adopted at the conference is contained in ‘tate- ment signed by the officials of Bakers’ Local No. 500 which is affil- jiated with the United Hebrew | Trades and which was a participant in the conference, | Rights Would Break Strike. The right wing officialdom of this local tries to excuse its partici- pation in this shameful conference (Continued on Page Five) REALTORS WAR IN MODEL” HOUSING | it) Chrystie-Forsyth Plan | Is a Fake The real estate deal which some property owners are trying to make | with the city under the cover of |“model” housing scheme on Chrys- tie and Forsyth Sts., was pushed |further when this group of real estate speculators parading under |the name of the Chrystie-Forsyth Property Owners’ Association pro- duced 130 signatures of those will- |ing to sell the property at 25 per |cent above the assessment value. The project was first proposed two years ago, but was dropped when a group headed by Libby, large property owners in that section and owner of the Libby Hotel at Forsyth and Delancy Sts., held out for higher prices. This group, represented by the East Side Chamber of Com- merce, is interested primarily in cashing in on the project for further widening Allen St., where it owns much property which it would like to get rid of. Money Sharks. When Peter Cappel, one of the directors of the Chamber of Com- Green, Head of A. F of L., “SOCIALIST” GETS Invited to Bless Launching TAMMANY PALS Among the agents of Wall Street who are scheduled to of New Wall Street Cruiser 10 SPEED CASE “Harmony Banquet” Arranged to Softsoap Ex- “Daily” and Freiheit ploitation of Navy Yard Workers. | Exposed Hillquit’s $150,000 Swindle be on hand to bless the launching of the newest of Wall Street’s war cruisers, the Pensacola, at Brooklyn Navy. Yard at 10:30 a. m. today, will be William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. @ |Davis, Mayor Walker, and other| | Over $16,000,000 was spent) Tammany and republican politicians| |to build the Pensacola, the) will attend the launching at the in- second of the series of eight | vitation of the Navy Department. “treaty” cruisers being constructed “Harmony Banquet.” : by the Navy Department in its| Immediately after the launching haste to prepare the coming imper- of the cruiser, a “harmony banquet” ialist war. Among the death-dealing Will be giver. by the Metal Trades equipment on the Pensacola will be | Council, for which the exploited, low ten 8-inch guns, two airplane cata-/paid workers at the Navy Yard) pults, and an airplane crane. have been virtually intimidated into The launching of the Pennsacola paying 33 apiece to attend. ma follows the launching of the 10,000| Navy yard workers state that this | ton cruiser, Salt Lake City, by only|is done, with the connivance of the two weeks. It comes at the same labor misleaders of the A. F. of L. time that Hugh Gibson, American|and its Metal Trades Department, in ambassador at the Geneva arms con-|order to make it appear that the ference, pretends to shout for “re-| workers “take pride” in the launch- | duced armaments.” jing of the war vessel. Minor, Olgin in Court Rosalsky in Attack on Daily Worker Yielding to the request of Morris Hillquit, corporation lawyer and soeialist party boss, that the crim- inal libel trial of the editors of the Daily Worker and the Freiheit start promptly in order to permit him to leave for Europe, June 10, Judge Otto Rosalsky, sitting in Part 9, General S ons of the Criminal Court yesterday, set the trial for June 3. The decision of the judge, who is notorious for his anti-labor activi ties, particularly in the big cloak- makers’ strike in 1926, came after private conferences between him, Hillquit and the district attorney. merce, pushed the Forsyth-Chrystie | | Besides the labor-betrayer, Green,| |Secretary of the Navy, Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of Labor} Landlords Make Workers Pay Because of Th Foster Racial Prejudice to Better Exploit Cubans, Porto Ricans and Negroes | (This is the.Fourteenth of a ively in the Daily Worker exposing the conditions under which work- ers are forced to live. Previous ar Harlem. The present article continues the exposure of conditions in As is usual at these banquets, an array of government officials, no- | (Continued on Page Two) |The district attornry, thru whose office Hillquit originally secured the jgrand jury indictments against the |editors of the two militant dailies, was ticularly solicitous about |not “inconveniencing” the well- known shareholder in the Burns Coal | Company and member of the execu- tive of the Second (Yellow) Inter- national. eir Dark Skins Minor, Olgin in Court. Both Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Wor! and | gin, editor of the Freihe , appeared : w 3 |in court yesterday, where they were series of articles appearing exclus- | represented by Attorny Louis B. ti er which w Boudin. The call to appear in court ticles described conditions in Negro | came ~~ithout warning, Hillquit evi- dently hoping to rush the trial thru Lower Harlem, where many Latin-American workers live.) heftre the defence cattsmeen’ Katee By SOL AUERBACE | chance to prepare their case. Though he did not quite succeed in this, XIV. Judge Rosalsky showed his usual OU cannot definitely set off Lower Harlem as a section exclusively in-/Congecrapon for enemias of | the habited by Latin-Americans. From 100th Street up as far as 115th,| wit ‘Hillquit’s convenience | from First Avenue to Seventh Avent Latin-American workers. HOUSE REJECTS FARM “CO-0PS” WASHINGTON, April 24,—Ad- |ministration forces defeated, with machine-like precision, proposed amendments to the administration farm bill as voting started in the House today. The first four amendments of- |fered by democrats and opponents of the measure were shouted down viva voce. One test vote showed | 101 to 31 against the Larsen amend- | the President of breaking his cam- |paign pledges to the farmers. Throughout the debate the con- gressmen showed a strong disincli- nation for record votes, All con- cerned know that the farm bill un- der discussion is a fraud against the farmers, and a breach of all You will also find the homes of many Negro, Italian, Jewish and East Indian workers. ue, you will find the homes of many| “Rosalsky also launched a tirade ’ against the Daily Worker and pulled out carefully-preserved clippings in It is a section in which, speak-| which the “Daily” had exposed him ing in the terms of the artificial as a vicious tool of the bosses. barriers set up by landlords, work- Hillquit and Tammany. | ers of all races have been allowed to} The indictment of the editors of mingle, to the advantage of the) the two fighting labor dailies on landlord, before the city plunges into | charges of criminal libels was se- | the purely white belt to the south.| cured by Hillquit after the Daily Baseball Here, Too! Worker and the Freiheit had reveal- : : __|ed that he and several “socialist” Walk thru the east side of this | associates had swindled the cloak section and you will see the children | and dressmakers out of $150,000. of many nationalities and races,| Because of his influence with the crowded out of their dingy and office of the Tammany Distriet At- small apartments, scampering over | torney, Hillquit was able to secure the streets in search for sunlight and | g secret grand jury indictment with- play. It is spring and the baseball} out a public hearing—an unprece- Thomas, Philippine, Jewish, and! pete E ST Italian children are swinging at balls TRY T0 THROTTLE between a poor workingclass district | and a more well-to-do section by the} games of the children alone, even | MOONEY MEETING you do not notice the house-fronts. | season is on. Porto Rican, Cuban, | dented procedure in criminal libel Negro, East Indian, Barbadoes, St.) cases, with chopped-off broomsticks. | ‘You can always tell the difference | | In some sections of the city children (Continued on Page Two) PITTSBURGH, (By Mail).—When proposition last Thursday against | Promises for farm relief made by | the will of the other group in the the republican party leaders, includ- chamber, he was “fired.” Cappel is | in& Hoover, during the election cam- | large real estate dealer and heads |Paign, and therefor dislike to have | the jewelry exchange at 72 Bowery. | themselves in a position where the The East Side Chamber of Com- farmer voters at home can see how merce, which has its headquarters | they voted. |in the Libby Hotel, won the first| Senator Smith W. Brookhart, of battle in the drive to make as much | Iowa, leading campaigner for Hert money as possible out of “model” |12rt Hoover in the farm belt, broke housing by having the Allen St.|with the President in a speech to proposition put on the calendar of the City Board of Estimates. Allen gress disregard Hoover and prepare St. the filthy and dark alley of | to pass “a real farm bill’ over his ene known as one of the worst| expected veto. Brookhart accused slum streets in the world, has long ‘onti1 ceased to be profitable to the land- geen en eas, Tih) (Continued on Page Five) Celebrate Red Mayday at the Coliseum | the senate today, urging that Con-| Show your solidarity with Inter- | national Labor. Join huge May Day Demonstration at Bronx Coliseum | May 1, | ‘nmappeeninpmecetlietaatin | Convention of Y.W.C.L. | \Opens Tomorrow Night League re-union will be features of the opening sessions of the Fifth Communist Youth Convention at! Central Opera House, 67th St. and! Third Ave. at 8 o'clock tomorrow | night. students of the University of Pitts- burgh gathered for a meeting called by the Liberal Club to demand the unconditional release of Mooney and Billings, they found Wm. Dafaun- baugh, assistant to the dean of men, posted at the door and refusing them admission, When Dafaunbaugh stated that Mass recitations, sports exhitifl administration had ordered him tions and a Hawaiian Communist! (0 stop the meeting, William Albert- son, chairman of the student club, flashed a regular permit for the room but the assistant dean stated that the permit had been revoked. Students Hold Meeting. The large crowd of students then (Continued cn Page Five) { MASS DEMONSTRATION TOMORROW NIGHT; OPEN ING FIFTH COMMUNIST YOUTH CONVENTION Friday, April 26, 8 P. M., Central Opera House—Mass Recitation—Sports Exhibition—Hawaiian Communist League Reunion—Speakers ‘ ~ wy