The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1929, Page 1

NEW YORK WORKERS! DOWN. TOOLS MAY 1! COME TO THE GREAT MAY DAY R Against Police Terror and In Against the treachery of the and A. F. of L. Bureaucrat: Against Imperialist War; LLY AT THE COLISEUM, 177th ST., B ‘. f Against Discrimination for Union Activity; For the Organization of the Unorgani : For New, Fighting, Industrial Unions; For the Defense of the Soviet Unior junctio: socialist party THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS . For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party ae Ai YX —FIDY Cowats ome ed daily except Si Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Vol. VI, No. 45 iay by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N.-¥s SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New Yor ADOPT FIVE-Y JOIN GREAT MAY 1 PARADE; MASS MEETING WILL FOLLOW Mass Pressure of N. Y. Workers Forces Police Dep’t to Grant Permit for Parade Trade Union Educational League Calls Upon Workers to Down Tools on May Day 1—Paris: Huge May Day meetings will celebrate In- ternational Labor Day here, and there will be a one-day strike, despite the announced intention of the police to fight all demonstrations. 2.—Warsaw, Poland: Workers here are defying the Pilsudski terror and plan May 1st demonstrations. 3.—Moscow: The greatest May 1 parade and many meetings are scheduled. The present session of the con- ference of the All Union Communist Party brings noted leaders and many other workers from all parts of the U. S. S. R. to Moscow, and these will participate. There will also be celebrations thruout the country. 4.—Meetings will be held in New York, Chicago, De- troit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and in many other large industrial cities in the United States. In New York the Coliseum, the largest hall in the U. S., will be the scene of the celebration. 5.—The Communist Party and the Trade Union Edu- cational League have called on all workers to stop work on May Day and take part in demonstrations and meetings. * - Yielding to the pressure from labor delegations represent- ing over 25,000 New York workers, + Police Commissioner4 “\flooded with British soldiers and EAR SWEEPS BOMBAY ; Textile Workers Defy Treacherous Leaders and Join Struggle | Up at Street Corners | BOMBAY, India, April 26—Once| more a strike sweeps Bombay. One| hundred thousand workers walked {out today in response to a call for ;}@ general strike. The chief indus-| | try here is textiles and its workers | ‘are just back from a strike in which the government imported thousands jof Mohammedan strikebreakers to, try and turn a labor struggle into! j@ religious war by attacks on the} | Hindu strikers. Misleaders Try To Stop It. The Textile Union reactionary jleaders tried to sabotage the gen- jeral strike by stating that the union | opposed it, but only a handful of | the mill hands paid any attention to |this treacherous appeal. In the last strike the town was hundreds were shot by them. This time armed mounted police are al-| ready patrolling the mill area and foot police with machine guns, bombs and poison gas are already! stationed at strategic points, The strike was called by thé Kan- igar union. U, ete ce eet | “British Rivalry | Is Only “Possible” LONDON, April 26.—“Possible | rivalry and differences of opinion” between England and the United States were admitted by the Mar- }quess of Reading, who presided at the dinner of British official mis sions to the United States last night. PLAN FOR VAST U jova0e NOW OUT; |Mounted Police Patrol ‘Machine Gun Nests Set | 6 Bos . YOUTH CONGRESS OPENS HERE WITH DEMONSTRATION PledgeFight onComing: | War; Increases Anti- Militarist Work Cheer Cafeteria Strike Mexico, Canada YCL’s Bring Greetings An enthusiastic mass demonstra- | tion opened the Fifth Annual Con-| vention of the Young Workers) (Communist) League last night at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. A parade around the hall by hundreds of striking cafe-| |teria workers, and greetings from| the Mexican and Canadian Young featured the Blessed By Green Communist Leagues | meeting. Robert Minor, acting secretary of |the Communist Party of the U.S.A.,! | greeted the convention in the name | of the Party, Jack Rubenstein for) |the Youth Section of the Trade ‘ ee |Union Educational League, John } | Williamson for the National Execu- = a ~ tive Committee of the League, A. Photo shows new war cruiser |Golod spoke for the Mexican League, Pensacola, whose eel was laid by|Joe Smith for the Canadian League, William Green, president of the|Albert Resine for the cafeteria American Federation of Labor.!strikers and Joe Tashinsky for the Green pledged his aid to Wall Street; Youth Section of the National in the coming imperialist war, and| Miners Union. attacked the Soviet Union. Zam Chairman. ‘ The Convention was opened by) MORE STRIKE AT Jonas Schiffman, who gretted the} Bate § | This is the Gastonia Howit Co.'s Loray mill at. Gastowked strikers,’ but’ most’ of the militia enough by the bosses, and their 1 gunmen and thi i” bert Zam, national secretary of the| League. | Greet Cafeteria Strikers. ‘They are all ready to shoot at the gs deputized as sheriffs and led by the sheriff. DEMONSTRATE YOUR CLASS SOLIDARITY! FINAL CITY EDITION oa = per year. Price 3 Cents PRODUCTION PARTY CONGRESS STATES SUCCESS REQUIRES UNITY Treble Engineering, Quadruple Production of Farm Machinery Extend Communication More Employment and Shorter Work Day (Wireless By MOSCOW, U. S. nprecorr™) R., April 26.— The enth Conference of the All-Union Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics heard speeches today by Rykov, and Kuibchev on the five-year for the development | of the Soviet economic system into a producing mechanism that will tically double the present out- put in most industries, increase it | fourfold in the agricultural machin- | ery industry and threefold in the engineering industry. The capital investments will be proportioned at 78 per cent in the heavy industry and 22 per cent in the light industr | Electrical power production will be increased from 5,000,000 kilowatt hours, at present, to 22,000,000. Great Metal Product. Metallurgical products will be in- creased to 10,000,000 tons annually, The production of arti jal fertil- izers for agriculture will go jfrom 175,000 tons © annually | 9,000,000 tons, The plan also provides for an in- crease in the productivity of labor jand a decrease in the cost of pro- |duction. Contrary to the situation Co. before the Manville Jenckes were not considered bloodthirsty laces were later taken by hired The Pioneers Orchestra played the } International amidst the enthusias- tic singing of the delegates and vis- itors, and then “Solidarity Forever,” the militant strike song was sung. In the midst of the singing several hundred men and women cafeteria strikers, wearing white cooks’ hats, delegates in the name of the New| DEFY GUN MEN £ York district of the League, and) then introduced the chairman, Her-| Cafeteria Aids Relief; Donate May Day Labor Expressing complete con The mayquess, in keeping with Legion Relies on A.F.of L. | For Its Strike-Breaking in capitalist countries, the increased productivity of a worker in the Soviet Union does not increase un- ent, it only makes the of living higher, and shortens the work day. It reported that 17,000 kilo- (about 11,000 miles) of new railroad track are being built, and that communications are being still mbled labor lieutenants Workers’ children, come to the ‘| Coliseum on May First. | DEMONSTRATE MAY Ist. Workers Everywhere Will Down Tools That the workers throughout the country are mobilizing enthusias- tically for the celebration of their revolutionary holiday, International | May Day, can be seen by the steady increase each day in the list of cities where May Day parades, factory gate meetings, outdoor demon- strations, and hall meetings are being arranged. . Down tools on May Day, is the slogan of the demonstrations, and they will be militant mobilizations against the war danger and attacks upon ploitation and rationalization, against yellow so: A. F. of L. reaction. Workers! Gather by whole shops for these meetings and show your sd with the revolutionary proletariat throughout the rest of the world, i t reformism and CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 8 p. m., Eagle Hall, 273 Golden Gate Ave. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, D. Ettlinger, Negro, Mexican and YWL Oakland, Apri 5 30, Fraternity Hall, 708 Peralta St. Speakers: E. Gardos, A, Whitney, Chaplick, M. Martin. nani Eureka, April 27. Speaker: E. Gardos. Fort Bragg, April 28. Speaker: E. Gardos. GASTONIA, N. C., April 26.—| Which bore the Soviet hammer and that the American Federa-|¢f. capitalism have always given With continued additions to their se Si ae aaa ee _| tion OF Labor bureaucracy ean be S*Cat 4pP pase eee neeercene ranks from the few still at work| ; w mS | odes ebro ae icra Orme horace Ae cheers, which redoubled in volume | *elied upon to do all the strikebreak In the last A. F. of L. con-| or enticed back to work, in the Lo- ray mill of, the Manville-Jenckes Co. here, the Gastonia strikers are hold- ing enthusiastic mass meetings, and continuing their effective picketing. A group of.a hundred walked out of the mills late yesterday and were received with tumultuous — cheers. The mill guards the gunmen who have taken the place of the militia, stood glumly leaning on their guns and watched the men they were boasting that they “protect” walk over to their fellow strikers and| join forces, * Grand Jury Protects Boss. The grand jury “investigation” of | the chopping to pieces of the strike! national | headquarters a week ago, and the) Paris; what is going on behind the looting and wrecking of the food station of the Workers’ International Relief, drags along, with plenty of and the militia, The militia commander, Adjutant General Metts pleads that his sol- diers were calmly asleep three blocks away, and didn’t know a thing about what was happening until it was all over. Then they arrested the (Continued on Page Five) when those in the hall saw that they bore a banner emblem with the slo- gan, “Defend the Soviet Union.” Anti-War Activity. In geeting the Convention Her- bert Zam characterized it as the most significant in the history of the League. He said it would de- (Continued on Page Five) Nearing to Talk on ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ Tomorrow at School | What is happening at the Inter- Bankers Conference in 'scenes at the so-called Disarmament | Conference in Geneva; what is the | significance of Hoover’s latest move- the Soviet Union and the rising colonial peoples, against capitalist ex-| Whitewash slopped out for the bosses in the military diplomatic maneu- vering between the various imperial- \ist powers, are but a few of the questions that will be discussed by | Seott Nearing in the lecture to be given by him tomorrow at 8 p. m., at the Workers School Forum, 28 Union Square, on the subject, “Dol- lar Diplomacy.” Porto Rican Negroes Burn ing that any bo American Le; | cial statement that | participate in such know t Legion w touching r murder | gang on the Green-Woll crowd is of interest. The American Legion, in its state- ment, refers particularly to its as- surance that the “union men and | womén concerned” (the A. F. of L. misleaders) will “deal properly and promptly” with any “charge of Com-| munist leadership in a strike.” can require, the Paul V. McNutt, com- of the American Legion, : “The Legion and the Amer- deration of Labor stand to- her to expose and combat all subversive clement LONDON WORKERS DENOUNCE SIMON Police Attack Meeting | ‘Greeting’ Imperialist ed an offi- er | | Professional Scab-Herders. In the past the Legion has raided {meeting halls, lynched militant workers, assisted in frame-ups dur- jing strikes, and held its men ready to be deputized as scab herders. American Legionnaires are at the present time functioning as hired gunmen for the employers in the | southern textile strike. The official statement issued for publication in labor papers by James F. Barton, adjutant of the Legion, says: “The attitude of the American Legion on the question of interven-| tion or non-intervention in industrial | disputes is one of strict neutrality. (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LONDON, April 26—The Simon Commission arrived from India to- day and received two welcomes. One was a small reception from the au- thorities under heavy police guard inside of Victoria Station, and the other was a tremendous demonstra- tion of protest by the Indian Na- tional Congress committee, the Wel-} fare League of India, the League Against Imperialism, and other or-' ganizations. | This last meeting took place out- |side of the station. The police further improved by a ship canal trom the Don River to the Volga. An automobile factory with an annual production of a hundred thousand autos is in the plan. All of this construction will itself di- rectly provide work for many more men who have not found a place in industry yet. During the discussion the speak- ers approved the plan, but pointed cut that it could be carried to a successful conclusion only with the maximum unity of the Communist Party and determination. As a preliminary condition for carrying out this gigantic program, therefore, it was pointed out by those discussing it, is a merciless struggle against Right wing and other deviations. Kryjanovski made the closing speech, and the theses presented by the plenary session of the central committee of the Party was unani- mously adopted. ae RESIST A. F.OF STRIKEBREAKERS The scheme of the corrupt bu- reaucracy of the A. F. of L. and the socialist officials $f the United He- in the Torch of “Liberty” “Shoulder to Shoulder.’ jcharged it, broke it up, confiscated brew Trades entrenched in the Gen- Sacramento, May 5, n-air vege » Ope: Los Angeles. Details to be announced. CONNECTICUT. Hartford, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 2003 Main St. (Park). Speakers: M. Daniels, E. “The American Federation of La- bor and the American Legion stand | shoulder to shoulder for the same ‘high ideals of good citizenship. jthere is a charge of Commu! (This is the fifteenth of a series of articles exposing the con- ditions under which workers are forced to live. The first part of this series, which is running exclusively in The Daily Worker, de- scribed the conditions in Negro Harlem. In the two .previous articles was begun the exposure of conditions in Lower Harlem, If ‘it. flags, banners, posters and leaflets tral Trades and Labor Council to but thousands of leaflets were dis-|wreck the cafeteria workers’ strike tributed, nevertheless, and thousands } js already meeting with vigorous op- of workers took part in or watched | position from militant rank and. file members of the locals, Local 719 The secretary of the International of the Cooks and Broilers’ Union is Whalen last night let it. be known that a permit would be granted for parade here on® g hes N.Y. CHILDREN Thousands To Demonstrate. WWa Ta After dropping tools -thou- sands of workers are expected T0 Al STRIKE to participate in the parade, fol- lowed by a giant May Day vi BASS stration to be held next Wednesday i at 4 o'clock at the Coliseum, East Tag Days for Textile 177th St. and Bronx River. Workers, May 2-10 Whalen Evasive. | | The Children’s Section of the es vee ee ae ae Workers International Relief will line of march originally planned, re-| Open the relief drive for the South- |the spirit of the dinner, politely ap-| sorting to the usual subterfuge that| ¢™ strikers’ children with # tag proved of Ambassador Gibson’s pro-| it would “interfere with traffic.” He | day starting May second, and which pogals at Geneva, carefully evading | announced, however, that the “po. Will ast till May 10, the Children’s | the diplomatic anxiety which Gib-| lice department would work out a| Section of the W. I. R. announces. |son’s armament proposals actually suitable line of march.” “We want every worker’s child | aroused. Whalen’s reply follows three to raise money. Get your boxes at weeks of consistent dodging of the| 799 Broadway at the local we orkers demands put forth by the National) International Relief office. Textile May Day Labor Conference of Unions and Fraternal Organiza- tions, in which are included the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union, the Amalgamated Food Workers, who are now waging an heroic struggle ir. the face of brutal Tammany police terrorism; the In- dependent Shoe Workers’ Union and other militant labor organizations, At the same time a May Day Manifesto was issued by the Trade Union Educational League, calling on all workers to celebrate interna- tional labor day and is expected here to concentrate attention also on the Trade Union Unity Convention, called by the T. U, E. L, to meet in Cleveland one month later. Many of the May Day meetings already arranged for important industrial cities are in the centers from which heavy delegations from the most im- portant industries in the country are expected at the Cleveland conference to build a new militant trade union center and to lay plans for the or- ganization of the unorganized. Call On All Workers. Labor Unity, organ of the Trade Union Educational League, carries in its April 27 edition the “First of May Manifesto” of the T. U. E. L., calling cn the organized and unor- \ ganized workers of the United PG tage to “lay down their tools, leave the factories, mills, mines and shops and demonstrate their work- ing class solidarity and loyalty to their class in celebration of Labor's International Holiday.” Struggle Increases, The manifesto continues: “May 1, 1929, the 40th anniversary of May Day, is of special signific- ance to the working class through- out the world in this epoch of im- perialism’ and the increasing pre- parations for war by the imperial- ist governments, the threatening at- tack upon the first workers’ and farmers’ government, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the in- treasing rationalization of industry, (Continued on Page Two) Mee Be petit ? \leadership in a strike, the American | Legion is fully confident that it will |be dealt with properly by the union men and women concerned. The union labor attitude on this question has been pronounced in no uncertain Port Chester, 7:30 p. m., Finnish Workers Hall, 42 Water St. New Haven, 7 p. m., Central Green (Open air meeting). Stamford, 7:30 p. m., Workmen Circle Center, 49 Pacific St. Waterbury, 7:30 p. m., Workers Hall, 103 Green St. Norwalk, 7:30 P.*m., corner Washington and Railroad Streets. where many Latin-American workers live. The present article deals with the Porto Rican workers.) * op “By SOL-AUERBACH xv. ry DELAWARE. | c is hard to find a more stinging condemnation of Yankee imperialism terms by the national conventions of Wilmington, 8 p. m. Speakers: F. Mozer, L. Meldin. | baa went of the Porto Rican workers, exploited in both the hunting the A. F. of 5 ILLINOIS. roa pli ¢ imperialist robbers and in the home country of these “The' records. of speeches” and resolutions made at national con- ventions of both the American Legion and the A. F. of L. leave no doubt in the mind of any informed person of the close co-operation and friendship between these two or- ganizations on every fundamental principle of our organizations.” Chicago, 7:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren & Marshfield | When Porto Rica became the property of the Yankee robbers after Ave. Speakers: J. L. Engdahl, Sklar, Griffin. Open-air demon-|the imperialist Spanish-American® stration at 6 p. m. at Union Park, Ashland & Washington; then | War, the American “enlightment” parade to Auditorium. Also 20 noon-day factory gate meetings, | immediately set in with the expro- Chicago, April 28, 8 p. m., Polish Workers Club, 1555 W. Division | priation of the land by large Yankee Street. Speaker: Masoth. corporations. Those who owned Waukegan, 8 p. m., Workers Hall, 617 Helmholtz. Speaker: Childs. [small strips of land were dispos- Rockford, 7:30 p, m., Lyran Hall, 7th St. and 4th Ave. Speakers: sessed and swelled the army of large numbers, as a mute testimony of the carnage of imperialism. They ran away from the fields on which they were not even given the privi-| lege to slave in search for something better. Kruse, Amis. agricultural laborers. They left their cup of rice a day,| Against “Subversive Elements.” West Frankford, April 28, 7 p. m., Rex Theatre, Speakers: Kruse,| By 1920 the Porto Rican peons,.a| °F their luxurious meal of fried ba-! ho heads of the American Legion Rice, ais. i. {tagged army of starving toilers, he- 94S, for the central point of Yan-|)..¥0 in all recent conventions of the | (Continued on Page Two) gan to come to the United States in! (Continued on Page Two) _ A. F, of L. been honored speakers, (Continued on Page Five) Chart of Strikes to Appear in May Day Issue of “Worker” In addition to the other special features announced for the special May Day edition of the Daily Worker, there will be an unusual feature, which the “Daily” hopes to make a regular monthly fea- ture—a strike chart, detailing the strikes occurring during the past half month throughout the country. The chart, which will be accompanied by an analysis and a survey article, has been especially. prepared by Vy I, the first to go on record in con- demnation of the scab tactics planned by the Council. Condemn Official Sabotage. “We know of the courageous fight the striking members of your union are putting up for the recog= nition of the union and better con- | ditions,” Local 719 wrote in reply — to the appeal for aid from *Sam |Kramberg, secretary of the Hotel, |Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union. “We feel that you are doing a great service to the labor moye- ment. We also know that it would jbe a conscious sabotage on the part jot any labor organization that did not respond to your call, regardless \of their affiliations.” A sum of $50 | was donated to the strike funds iafter a resolution endorsing the strike was passed, | # ~~ - Ei