The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION { SUBSCRIPTION RA Outsid. or m: 00 per yi Published daily except Sunday by The Compr. 11, $6.00 per_year, Company, Inc. 26-28 Union _ Price 3 Cents - ~NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1929 GREEN AIDS CRUISER LAUNCHING, SHOUTS FOR BIG NAVY from All Industnes at Young Communist League Convention Tonight YOUTH COMING BEAL, GASTONIA | Gree» Blesses New Wallstreet Cruiser AF 1 QFFIGIALS STRIKE LEADER, PLEDGE AID TO FROW STRIKES IN. MANY COUNTRIES BREAKS FRAMEUP | WALLSTREETWAR |Throw Abduction Case Give Banquet at Which Cable from Chinese Young*Communists | Out of Court; Two Jingoists, Labor Foes 7 More Arrested Are Feted Is Received rT Terrible Need for Food | Distribute the “Daily” Southern Mill Workers Decide to Stop Starving For the Boss | Others Send Greetings | | Will Plan for Further |Philadelphia Workers Navy Yard Workers -ranizati | ir Relief William Green, labor faker, president of the A. F. of L, was | Face Big Layoff Or ganization | Hurry Theit R one of the Wall Street lackeys who blessed the launching of the new | a The tremendous interest which GASTONIA, N. C., April 25.—| 10,000 ton war cruiser Pensacola at Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. William Green, president of the aroused by the Fifth Con: of the t League is evidenced t large number of delegates rem: Cvery industry a of the country yesterday. clud st nd other unions, rams e also from been of om the French, Peli German, Bulgarian sh, se Li tasks of Leagues the struggle against united Aw can imperialism and the Natio: hetrayers in China. e: outlines the to. glad to acknowl- edge that your Party under the guidance of the Communist inter- national has corrected its past d it is now proceeding in et lineof Leninism. We are even more happy to know during the last discussion the able to fight strenu- ously against the mistakes to the Right. We hope that heretofyre you will still continue to fight un- 2 direction of the Communist ional and CYI to make the militant leader of n proletarian yout! 2 of the French 1 on Page. Fi Ni ) CONT! OVER DEBENTURE y the House of Repre- sentatives this afternoon by a vote of 367 to 34. Of the oppos- ing votes, only two were republi- cans, the others democrats. WASHINGTON, April —Sen- ate republicans and democrats offi- cially organized in conference today for a stiff fight over the ‘“deben- oe ture” plan of fake farm relief, while | the house was working up to a vote on that and other features of the farm bill preparatory to passing the administration measure. Six senate republican leaders, rep- resenting various groups, decided in conference with Senator James E. Watson, the new floor leader, to follow President Hoover and fight the debenture tariff bounty plan. Senator Robinson said it was im- practical to try to revive the equal- ization fee as proposed yesterday by (Continued on Page Five) Young Workers Gom- the | ety part Those in- delegates from the textile, needle re- Young s in other’ parts Among these are and The cable of the in the Pacifie in Referring to These Gastonia mill workers get more than $12. They have str and a minimum wage of $20. Si have been putting in up to 12 hou uck to compel the Manville Je ‘end. funds to Work day for as low as $9 a week. Few to install the 40 hour five day week No. 1, Union Square, New York. ARREST 16 FOOD “Coliseu STRIKE PIGKETS; - MORE VICTORIES Defy Injunction; Plan) | to Spread Strike enty-six pickets of the Ifa urant and Cafeteria: Work Union were arrested by. police’ and ate detect’ in the strike zone erday. Arraigned before Mo e Hyman Bushel, at Jefferson Market Court, they were ordered to the Tombs, where*they will await ‘ial tomorrow for violation of the Supreme Court injunction forbid- ¢ ng. i Arrest 660 Strikers. Since the strike began in the gar- ment section three weeks ago 666 strikers have been sted. _ Work- in the Western Cafeteria, 13th St. and Third Ave., responded 100 per dent to the union strike-call yes- terday. Eighteen cafeterias have {surrendered to date, giving » 450 workers union conditions. | Sentenced to Workhouse. {trial today, four yesterday were sentenced to the workhouse. Steve Smith, 36, 1937 First Ave., got five days; George Allen, 22, 535 West (185th St., two days rather than pay a fine of $10; Bramlo Riviera, 22,/ \9 E. 118th St. five days; Victor | | Jones, 28, of 311 W. 20th St., five \days. All had been arrested previ- |ously and warned that they would (Continued on Page Five) Down with discrimination against the foreign-born, women and youth workers. Demonstrate your solidarity on May Day, “RED CARTOONS OF 1929” Ellis, Burke Appear in Their Full Power “Red Cartoons of 1929” will be out tomorrow. It will be bound in a red and black cover design in the eceld and powerful strokes of Fred Ellis, one of the leading proletarian cartoonists in the world. It contains 64 cartoons by Ellis and Jacob Burck, whose cartoons have appeared regularly in the Daily Worker. Collected under the editor- ship of Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker staff, and with an introdue-” tion by Joseph Freeman, well-known revolutionary critic, it is one of the best and most attractive on the Red Cartoon books yet published. Collected in it are the best of the tartoons that have appeared in the | Daily Worker during the past year direct power of Ellis’ pencil, how Well he can expose imperialists, la- powerfully he can depict the inti- mate struggles of the American workers. To own such a book means own- ing produced now in this country. “Red Cartoons for 1929” will be sold in large numbers at the May Day Celebration in New York ‘City at the Coliseum, and/at May Day celebrations in other cities, a fitting vich the meaning of Internationa! May Day. Besides the 76 strikers held for, |Everyone knows the simple ard) bor fakers, socialist ministers, how | ing some of the best cartoons be- | illustration of the struggles that en- | Be Reply i m Demonstration to Green Betrayal” | Unions Continue to Respond to Call for May Day Mobilization Federation of Labor, who of the Wall Street war cruiser The action of William Gr | Arrest Distributors | of May 1 Leaflets; | I. L. D. Will Defenc | ete tharamanyo elie |two arrests “crime” of calli Davi of 708 E. 2 t. ber of the Young America, w sted while tributing leaflets in the He was taken to Simpson tion and released in custody his mother. The boy will Jin Children’s Court, 162nd 5 jand Washington Ave., today, | where he will be defeaded by| |Jaeques Buitenkant, attorney for! |the New York District of the In- |ternational Labor Defense. | Julia Miller, 17 E. 107th St., |was arrested yesterday in front} |of the Pennsylvania station, 32nd | |St. and Seventh Ave. while dis-| tributing May Day leafiets. She is charged with violating a city ordinance and is eduled to re- ceive a hearing this mor in Jefferson Market Court. The New York I. L. D, will also de-| fend this case. | SAILOR IN BLAST The supnression of, the news of the death of one ‘sailo: d the s¢ri- ous injury of two others in a blast at sea on the Sun Oil Co. ker Delaware Sun, was yesterday re- vealed by a seaman on the ship on his arrival in New York. The Delaware Sun sailed from Sa- Pionce! with a cargo of gas oil. As the ship a short circuit occurred in an ex- tension light in the pump room, where three of the crew were at work, This caused an explosion~of the gas, which was confined to the |pump room. A second blast fol- (Continued on Page Five) MASS DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT AT OPENING O Friday, April 26, 8 P. M., Central Opera House \ bine, Texas, bound for Philadelphia}, was passing Key West on April 18} een, president of the American) s a still further evidence of the complete subserviency of the official labor reaction to he war plans of American of District 2, Com- y of the U. S. Lif:| that this .spectacle| a further impetus to the} ion of New York labor for] the huge May Day demonstration| at the Coliseum, 170th St. and Bronx River would mobili ations at the ameless fawn- the war mongers brings e workers of New York >t that now, as never before, (Continued on Page Five) SOLD IN DEAL. Members of the five New York | locals of the Bricklayers Union were ‘terday bitter in their denuncia- | tion of the sell-out agreement made with the Mason Builders’ Associa- | tion by John Gill, chairman of the | xecutive committee. a | The new agteement, which goes | into effect on May 1, gives the 12,- 000 bricklayers in New York a wage increase of $1 a day from May 4, to the end of the year, and a further increase of 49 cents a day after that date. It also calls for a five- day weeks, The present agreement, expiring | May 1, calls for a wage of $14 a! day, and a five and one-half-day ek, The new agreement will in- | crease the wages to $15 a day, which | the workers point out as a distinct | betrayal of their demands, which were for putting into effect the $1.40 inerease on May 1. The fact that the $1.40. increase | will not be given the bricklayers un- | til next January will result in the | saving of millions of dollars for the | ss builders. Rank and file brick-! layers stated yesterday that-it was certain that this huge saving in for the employers, at the 's’ expense, was made at the connivance of the union officials | with the bosses. Officials of the — stone-cutters union are also negotiating for a new greement, and a sell-out comprom- ed is rumored, | \ Despite the policy of arrests insti- tuted by the Manyille Jenckes bos- /ses here, the strikers are as deter- mined as ever to win. They have confidence that the workers of the North and West will rally to the call of the Workers International Relief and keep the strike relief | station here filled with food. If they get the food to exist on they have no doubt of winning this strike. Pickot lines continue to form and line the way to the mill gates in spite of the ugly bayonets, rifles, | clubs and revolyers which have been | [seed on strikers many times in the | j last week. Mass meetings are held jevery day, and the union rapidly | grows. | The strike yesterday of the Dra-/| | per mill at Leaksville was a great) encouragement to the strikers, and indicates the spread of the strike wave. | Details of the strike in the Drapp- | er mill had not arrived at a late hour today. Smash Frame up on Beal. When habeus corpus proceedings were started in the Beal case by! | Attorney Jimmison for the Inter- | national labor Defanse, Judge Stack | had to throw the case out of court) | and release Beal, yesterday. | Fred Beal, an organizer for the National Textile Workers Union and | days ago in Charlotte on a warrant | sworn out by the scab, Troy Jones, | to raise relief for the strikers by | speaking at mass meetings. Jones/| charger that Beal and the Union| “abducted her”. Jones attorney in court today was Buluinakle the at- n, by Ben Lifshitz, act-/torney for the Manville Jenckes Co. | Sitchem, which blackens the whole Late yesterday Ellen Dawsen, N.| T. W. U. organizer and Carl Reeve, southern representative of the Inter- national Labor Defense were ar- rested leading the picket line at the, Leray mill, and held on $200 bail. Organizer Beal characterized the huge mass meeting held today as “the best ever,” and stated that the work of organizing the workers now on strike and spreading the strike is going on extremely well, but that relief is desperately needed as the strikers are actually starving. Funds for relief should be rushed to Work- ers International Relief, No. 1 Union Square, New York. The Osage Manufacturing Com- pany at Bessemer City, shut off all power, locked gates and suspended all operations indefinitely foliowing the walkout of all carders and spin- ners. Over 1,000 are on strike there. The American Mill No. 2 in the same city rushed in strikebreakers after the walkout. (ah000 READY TO ‘STRIKE TODAY BERLIN, April 25 (UP).—A strike of 180,000 workers threatened in Frankfurt-Am- Main today. Chemical, metal and railroad workers joined in| demanding higher wages. i * * * While Green was showing his fait the Navy Yard eagerly accepted 1000 of which were distributed. Long Hour Latin-American Workers Toil hfulne copi to the bosses, workers of of the Daily Worker, over s to Pay High Rents: Network of Barbed-wire Fences Carefully| Constructed by Exploiters (This is the 15th of a articles appearing excl the Daily Worker exposing the conditions under which workers in Harlem are forced to live. Pre- | vious articles described conditions in Negro Harlem. The present ar- ticle continues the exposure of conditions in Lower Harlem, where many Latin-American work- ers live: A tenement at 1869 | Third Ave. is now being dis- cussed.) By SOL AUERBACH. LL of the apartments in this building consist of either three or four very small-rooms:- The win- dows open into a narrow courtyard. There is a little more light in the} front if you wish to suffer the in- | strike leader here, was arrested two | C°nVenience of not being able to hear yourself talk when an elevator train rushes by. The front rooms are the | There is electric light which is in- troduced by straight black wires stretching from the ceiling. The only source of heat for warmth and cook- | ing is the single coal stove in the room. In one of these apartments, | i inhabited by Porto Ricans, the coal | stove had burnt the whole apartment until it looked like the, inside of a dead coke furnace. Children abound her There is hardly room enough for them to sleep in many of these flats, let alone play. They must spend their | waking hours in the street. ~“ * @ A BEAUTIFUL little Cuban girl of | no more than 12 years, cheerfully told me about her family over the pots and pans. “T hate to let you in,” she ex- cused herself. “I have just come | from school and I hate to see the/ place diriy. I got to get the supper j ready for my mother is in the hospi- tal and my sister is soon coming home from work.” She is one of three children. A Cuban Family. The ned in the launching who said his wife was abducted| My ones which get sunlight—sun-| young brother was playing around acola,” was characterized | because she Had gone to the North | '&ht poisoned with noise and dirt, | on the floor. Her sister is a laundry worker, who toils 12 hours a day and makes $2.68 a day. Her mother has been in the hospital for a few weeks. The girl swirled the pots around in a business fashion, rattling them | politely to let us know that she was (Continued cn Page Two) GUN PLANTED ON BAYONNE GABLE FRENCH WORKER WORKERS STRIKE Had Been Active in |200 Men Demanding Cafeteria Strike | Louis Perier, French food worker, is being framed up on a a against carrying concealed weapons. Without warning police entered | his room last Friday and “foud” a| revolver which Perier says was! never in his possession. Perier was | taken to the Tombs and the exorbit- | ant bail of ‘$2,000 was fixed. The} New York District of the Interna- (Continued on Page Five) | PIONEERS RALLY INT'L MAY DAY The New York district of the} Young Pioneers of America has is- | sued a statement to mobilize the! »children of the workers to demon-| strate on May Day against child labor, against preparations for war against the Soviet Union, in support of striking workers, and for ob- The German employers have been hiding behind the Dawes plan exactions and under this excuse cut- | ting wages and rationalizing their | shops. The speed of work has been quietly increased, and many men thrown out of work. | The social democratic leaders of | the German trade unions hays | | steadily consented to these exactions, | and counselled the members to ac-| cept them, “for the good of the {i Fatherland.” servance of the slogan— School\on May Day.” The call is in part as follows: ‘A May Day is the day when the workers in all lands lay down their! tools and demonstrate against the miserable * conditions under which they are forced to live. May Day is the day of international workers’ solidarity. ‘ May Day in 1929. | Throughout the country we find |that the workers are carrying on a shop committee and sp Wage Increase BAYON: More than N. J. April 25.—| (0 workers in nine de- went on strike yesterday demand- ing an increase in wages. The workers of the wire and cable departments are almost all on strike and are urging the carpenters and others who are still at work to join them. The carpenters were given a raise of a few cents recently in an attempt to prevent them from adopting a militant attitude. Demand Minimum Wage. The operators who have been ri ceiving $25 for a 471-2 hour week, jare demanding a minimum wage of | $33 and the 48-hour week, At present, the workers claim, they are compelled to work overtime to make enough money on which to live. The helpers whose wages have been $20 | weekly are demanding $29 while the workers on the lead presses are de- manding $35 weekly. The shipping clerks have put forth $30 weekly as their wage demand. George E. Powers, of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union addressed “Out ot the strikers yesterday and suggested | that lines. He urged that they buiid a shop committee organization as the first step towards the formation cf a cable and wire workers’ union. The importance of the June first trade union unity conference to be held in Cleveland, was stressed by Powers. “Build strong picket line,” he continued. “Mass picket- ing will win tho strike. Organize read the they organize large picket A left wing movement has be- | StTuggles against the bosses to im- strike until the factory is closed come so strong lately the leaders can not stop it. Down Tools on May Day! prove their conditions. In particular the strike that is going on in the| South shows the revolt of the most, (Continued on Page Two) tight.” The strikers are now organized in a local. organization known as the Social Safety Club. F THE FIFTH COMMUNIST YOUTH CONVE —Mass Recitation—Sports Exhibition—Hawaiian Communist League Reunion—Speakers ‘of the American Revolutio American Federation of Labor, yes: terday gave the official blessing of the labor officials to the coming imperialist war, when he laid the of the new 10,000-ton war cruiser, sister ship of the war cruise} It Lake City, launched two weeks ago, and the second of a series of eight warships planned by. the U. S. Navy. keel ollowing his benediction of the warship, a “Harmony Banquet,’ given by the A. F. of L. Metal Trades Jept., was held in the Brook-. lyn Elks Hall, at which Green, flanked by Secretary of Labor Davis, and by several admirals’ and other notorious jingoists told the audience of workers, who were vir- tually compelled to attend on pain of losing their jobs, that he was so happy that he could hardly express | his feelings at being given the privi- {lege of helping in launching the Pensacola, designed fot the slaugh- ter of workers. Workers Get “Daiiy.” Over 1,000 copies of The Daily Worker, in which the part played by Green was exposed, and the-con- ditions of the Navy Yard workers were described, were distributed to the Navy Yard workers, immedi- ately following the launching, which occurred at 10.15 a.m. The Duily Workers were eagerly accepted by the workers. Besides Green, there were pres- ent at the launching a host of other loyal servants of the Wall Street Government. Among them were included: Charles Frances Adams, secretary of the navy and exploiter of thous sands of Massachusetts textile work- ecretary of Labor James J. Davis; Joseph Ryan, president of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council; John Sullivan, presi- dent of the New York State Federa- tion 6f Labor; Frank Morrison, sec- retary of the A. F. of L.; James O'Connell, president of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades Department; Peter J. Brady, president of the Federa- tion Bank and Trust Co., a “labor” bank, and many admirals and naval “dignitaries.” Wall Street Lies Exposed. The launching of the huge 10,000 charge of violating the Sullivan law | Partments of the Safety Cable Co, ton cruiser gave the lie to the shout- ing of the Wall Street ambassador at the Geneva arms conference for reduced armaments. American pre- tensions towards wishing to reduce armaments were also proved to be hypoerisies by the demand for a huge imperialist navy made by the government officials at the “Har- mony Banquet.” The exploited Navy Yard work- ers were given a “holiday”—that is after 10 a, m—for the oceasion of the launching, in order that* they might be subjected to the jingoist speeches and exercises which were part of the launching of the Pensa- cola. The yards were flag-bedecked, and the scene carefully arranged to arouse the workers to a pitch” of “patriotism.” § Wall Street’s latest instrument of slaughter for the workers took (Continued on Page Two) Show D. A. R. Behind | Dennett Conviction; Sentence on Monday The De s of the American Revolution revealed yesterday as the complainant in the case of ary Ware Dannett who was convicted on the charge cf circulat- ing ceene” literature to the young. Her appeal for a new trial was denied yesterday by Federal Judge Burrows who overruled a mo- tion to sot aside the vedict, She will be sentenced on Monday. Assistant United States Attorney Wilkinson said yesterday that the complaint to the post office had been made by a chapter of the Daughters NTION