The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1929, Page 1

COME TO THE GREAT MAY DAY PARADE STARTING AT UNION SQUARE AT 1 P. M. SHARP! FINAL RALLY AT THE COLISEUM, 177TH ST., BRONX RIVER Against Police Terror and Injunctions; Against Discrimination for Union Activity; Against the treachery of the socialist party For the Organization of the Unorganized; and A. F. of L. Bureaucrats; For New, Fighting, Industrial Unions; Against Imperialist War; For the Defense of the Soviet Union! Baily = rker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1929 NEW YORK WORKERS! DOWN TOOLS MAY 1! DEMONSTRATE YOUR CLASS SOLIDARITY! 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 ORIPTION RATES: In New York. by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. a Price = Cents a Vol. VI., No. 46 SOUTHERN STRIKERS LEAD MAY 1 PARADE TOMORROW Gastonia Strikers Will Lead Parade 4 Fy Reem MN MESSER ERAN MAE NE BONN LES ID Fe ‘Slogans Will Be Carried; Program of Huge | ‘ ?. Union of N. Y. and the N. Y. Work- | i A A ° Workers’ Struggle 22'Vronevs Federation Of tne 40, Mass Meeting Mass Meeting in Coliseum Announced - or so shops that are under the con- 4 | ee ‘New Strikes Favor It’ trol of the union about 15 were Senate Motion to Probe Communist Party Issues Special Appeal to the represented. According to state-| ments made by Pres. S. Alexander- | | 3 | son and General Sec. F, Biedenkapp Pretend Ignorance at Pe 4 ‘ : s | BaP. haps A es | of the Independent Shoe Workers’) Starvation Wages pore ee oe eS oe Five southern textile strikers will lead the big May Day | parade of thousands of New York workers that w art to- Meeting Will Organize Women Workers; Unions Participate New Movement | Union, the response of the women | A cablegram from A. Lozovsky. engaged in shoe industry was un-| BULLETIN. ae secretary of the Red International) usually good in spite of this. being GASTONIA, N. C., April 29.— These strikers, fresh from the battle front in Gastonia, North Carolina, will lead the May Day | morrow at 1 p. m. at Union Square. These worke who have of Labor Unions, bearing greetings | the first of such meetings in this) An attempt by police and special Parade in New York tomorrow and appear at mass meetings to collect relief for the Southern Te. -— ®withstood the terror of. th to ‘the Cleveland Convention for industry. | deputies to break up a picket pa- | tile strike. They are, left to right: W.M. Bledsoe, Kermit Hardin, Viola Hampton, Raymond Clark, 5 initia and ar i Trade Union Unity Convention of | Among the speakers were Juliet! rade of striking members of the and C.F. Holloway. Funds for the relief of the North Carolina strikes should be sent to Workers In- j AN T0 EXTEND militia and armed thugs of the June 1-2, has just been received | Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of| National Textile Workers’ Union | ternational Relief, One Union Square, New York. mill owners, have been sent by the ade Union Educational | the I. L. D. and Paulin Rogers, man-| at the Loray mills tonight injured _ here by the National Textile Work- League, which called the convention. | ager of the monthly “Working Wo-| many strikers. At least one woman | 7° c ers’ Union to assist the Workers In- The chblégrai states: men.” | was seriously beaten by-deputies, M hi tan t Ha t i ternational R in gathering “The development of the strug- Elect to Shop Conference. | SC eee ; 1 a the fe funds for the starving mill strikers. gle of the workers in the South- | The meeting elected delegates to} GASTONIA, N. C., April ot * 5 . , The strik who will lead the ern textile mills and the increas- | the Shop Delegate Conference of! an attempt to use propaganda Workers Will TONIGHT S MEET parade are Carl Hollaway, who is ing number of cases in which | Women Workers to be held in Irving | against the Manville-Jenckes mill COLLISION 1 COMPANY iS GUILTY now out on $50 bail fter being ar- dispute the employers’ exploita- P!@2a Hall May 4, for the purpose) strikers was made by the mill bar-| 4 | rested for picketing, Kermit Hardin, tion in other parts of the country |of preparing for representation of ons here during the week end, but | eman 1 nity’ * 5 f Viola Hampton, an 18-year-old |New York women workers to the SS a ae Arrest 98 in Picket striker, Raymond Clark, 19 years is a favorable factor for the de- velopment of the new unions and it failed. An imported speaker, one: Cleveland Trade Union Unity Con-| Chappel, from Boston, was hired by | Transit Commission Admits Employers Force Demonstration old, and W. M. Bledsoe. soati *, ference, June 1-2, where a new, mili- ‘ Millinery and cap workers of New | for the organization of a solid rep- ” ize feat) the bosses to get up at a meeting . y | egro Band. i i tant trade union center will be es- ie Men to Run Past Block Si nals York k i @ s The rg vill als $< resentation to the forthcoming T. | tablished. - and ask the textile workers to go 2 York and rank and file delegates to Diate aining ab, ihe exisusion/ot The parade will also be dis U. E. L. Convention at Cleveland from new districts and industries involyed in the struggle. “It is a fundamental task to mobilize all-active workers of the Trade Union Educational League, the Communist Party and the new unions for organizational and po- | litical work among sections of the workers drawn into the struggle.” Represents All Industries. The Cleveland Convention will have representation, says the Trade Union Educational League national (Continued on Page Five) Workers! Join huge May Day demonstration at Bronx Coliseum, back to work—at the same starva- tion wages ranging around $10 a |also lay plans for the further or-| week ‘of 60 hours, But this poor | ganization of shop committees in| confusionist was talking to men and| | New York, | women who couldn’t be fooled, they had been through’ this particular | mill, and they so embarrassed the speaker with their pertinent ques- tions that he lost his imagination and his argument collapsed. The strikers then held a success- ful and enthusiastic meeting. | Grand Jury Ruminates. i ARMS CuT PLAN: The grand jury called to “en- | | quire” into the masked mob wreck- | ing of the strike headquarters and| | station here of the International The shop delegate conference will} Workers’ children, come to the Coliseum on May First. Four men were killed and more! motorman of the subway train; an- than 40 were injured Mesterday other I. R. T. motorman on his way when a southbound Lexington Ave./to work; William Schultz, 17-year- subway express crashed into the! old student; and an unidentified vear of a Ninth Ave. elevated ex-|man, press of seven wooden cars, near, The accident occurred when the 167th St. station of the Jerome Ave.| switch failed to throw, stopping the division, where the Interborouzh| elevated train short and causing the Rapid Transit has tried to economize! subway express to crash into its by running both lines on the same) rear. elevated tracks, So great was the confusion The accident occurred at 8:10 a. created among the passengers m., when the trains were jammed crowded neck to neck on the trains with workers on their way to work,| by the I. R.: T. when the wooden the total number estimated to be coaches burst into flame that an about 3,300 on the trains. The con- | hour elapsed before the last passen- | The ele- Militarists Shocked at | Workers Relief continues its ses-| fusion was doubled when the wood- ger could escape the scene. the convention of the right wing union, the Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ International, will | protest NWorker ; against the disruptive expulsion tac. | throughout the city will be dis- ties of the Zaritzky leadership in| ®ussed at ‘the mass meeting called the” union, at a mass meeting at|b¥.the union at 8-o'clock_tonight.at Webster Hall, 11th St. and 3rd Ave.,| I*ving Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and on Thursday, May 2 at 6 p. m. past: Bt The speakers at the mecting will, Ten thousand needle trades work- be the members of Local 43, Left|€?S and many others of the “Wo- wing delegates to the convention, en's Battalion” of the United Coun- and Ben Gold, who will speak for ,¢il of Working Women loudly the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus-| cheered while participating in the trial Union, on the necessity for the | demonstration of the cafeteria strik- International affiliating with the|¢"s in the garment section yester- NTIWIU. day, and booed the policemen who eae | arrested 93. The strikers were re- Mtg ae ta Heer Ge: inforced by members of the Young the strike of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union tinguished by the fact that for the first time in the history of New York a Negro brass band, John C. Smith’s Band, will lead the line of march, The workers will.march with ban- ners bgaring the militant slogans of | interngtional labor solidarity. The line of march will be from Union Square south on Fourth Ave. to As- tor Place, west on Astor Place to Broadway, south on Broadw: to Waverly Place, north on University Place to Broadway and 14th Street, north on Broadway to 17th St. and Union Square. Program of Coliseum Meet. In the afternoon at 4 o'clock a i7gth St aha Bromx Wiver: 1s ‘ en cars burst into flame. vated tracks resembled a battlefield 4 Workers Communist League, who bi, ss celebr: vill be held sions. Many strikers have appeared ‘ | i eapmakers for the reinstatement of 8 gue, who! big mass celebration will be held New USSR Program hefore it, telling of the evidence| 2 Motormen Killed. with rows of stretchers carrying off ay aig ae , are holding .a national convention/at the Bronx Coliseum, E. 177th q ie Those killed are James Cullen,' (Continued on Page Five) Sheobery wing Local 23, expelled bY ii cre, “ands ‘by. sympathizers from|Stredk” ‘Tha programy. annduneed MAY 1ST CALL OF NEGRO CONGRESS GENEVA, April 29—The Diplo- mats and militarists at the prepara- | tory arms conferences of the League of Nations today again mobilized | against the danger that some cut | might be voted in the armies and | they have that the mill owners were back of the wreckers’ tools of the) Manville-Jenckes corporation, kept} in the mills where only company of- ficials, deputies or scabs could have obtained them were found where the ‘raiders dropped them; some of the SOCIALISTS GILD VIENNA POVERTY who didn’t sit back in the Kremlin and whine how the world was against them, performed a real im- provement in housing for the work- ngman.” Feigenbaum, of course, did. not the Right wing and “amalgamated” | with the Right wing Local 24 against the wishes of its members. Local 43 invites all workers in the industry to attend the mass meeting to express their sentiments for unity, and to bring pressure to bear other organizations. Fully 3,000 took part in the parade. Bearing placards and _ singing “Solidarity Forever,” they demon- (Continued on Page Five) yesterday by the Ways and Means Committee of the May Day Labor Conference, is one of the most var- ied and interesting ever presented at a labor ion. The Dancers’ Guild under the di- © gery 1 yy navies being accumulated for the| (Comtmued om Page Five) | mention the fact that the social- in this direction upon the convention Demonstrate for world labor ection of Miss Gertrude Prokosch, Full Appeal in “Daily” | coming world war. | si eae democrats of Vienna had sold out of the International, ‘which opens , solidarity May First at the Colis- Will appear in two original dances Tomorrow A new proposal of the Union “ YOUTH CONGRES Like High Rents Better (Continued on Page Two) May 1. ' eum. enittled, yi ne een Socialist Soviet Republics to force ‘ 4 Fy PE as aR War to War.” The music has The American Negro Labor Con- | the commission to agree that its dis- Than Workers’ Rule Labor Sports Groups jpeen es} ly composed for these gress has issued a May First appeai, which the Daily Worker will pub- lish in its special May Day edition tomorrow. The call, which is ad- dressed to the revolutionary work- ers of the world, greets the Negro proletariat, which it characterizes | president of the commission, ruled, as slowly but surely wresting from the hands of the Negro professional and business class the leadership of the Negro masses. It analyzes the causes of the op- pression of the Negro as a race and class, and the basic inadequacy of its present leadership, which does not understand these economic and | armament convention should provide | for actual reduction of forces rather | than mere limitation was denounced today. After strong opposition was expressed by England, France, Bel- i gium and Chile, Dr. J. Loudon, | that the question of reduction can ‘only be established by a disarma- | ment conference when it fixes the | figures for each country. | British Tories Win. | That Great Britain has finally suc- | ceeded in evading discussion of dis- !armament pfoposals until after her GREETS SOUTH MILL STRIKERS CarolinaWorkersSpeak | at Convention The delegation of striking Caro- ‘lina textile workers led by Paul Crouch was greeted by thunderous By SOL AUERBACH. Some fifty or sixty people gath- ered in the Rand School yesteday afternoon in a session of the Munici- pal Affairs Institute, arranged by the socialist party and the Rand School, and listened to two hours of the most insipid parlor talk and pub- lic speaking tricks of prominent “socialists” on the housing condi- tions in New York City. William M. Feigenbaum, forme: “socialist” member of the New York state legislature, speaking of the so. cialist “victories” in housing abroad, to Report for Parade The Eastern District of the Labor Sports Union calls upon all its mem- | bers to stop work and participate in | the May Day parade and mass meet- ing tomorrow. Ali members of the Labor Sports Union are to report at 28 Union Square at 12 o'clock and bring their full uniforms with them. The Metropolitan Workers Soccer “Teague calls upon all its members ‘o participate in the parade afd the mass meeting and to report at 28 Union Square at 12 o'clock with full WORKERS, CELEBRATE ~MAY DAY TOMORROW! Tomorrow is the First of May. It is a day of workers’ demon- strations the world over. Workers international solidarity, workers’ protest against capitalist oppression, workers’ readiness to fight and overthrow capitalism are being manifested on May First. We appeal to all the workers to get ready for May First. Our May Day parade and mass meeting are one link in the great chain of working class manifestations extending from New York to Bombay, from Rio de Janeiro to Rome and Shanghai. Our part in the May Day protests must be worthy of the American work- dances. Among the principles who | will participate in these dances will be Harold Hecht, who was one of the soloists in the production of Stravinsky’s “Les Noces” and who also has appeared with Fokine and Kosloff; Bernard Day, who directed the dancing in the Theatre Guild Production of F Betty Woodruff, for a The Dix singers will sing popular Negro la- ‘bor songs. Among the be “Wat Boy,” A | elections is evident fi te- | applause, cheers and the singing of : ik geal ing class. “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel” and many ace eceal iy uke Nt eat nde in hone ascites | Solidarity at the second aarti of ie the bt on ae aaa ie Eatigyn Rising Revolutionary Wave. others. e appeal ends with a call to) : a | ‘i ji ® ‘ack upon the Soviet Union. At- See ae ts! F 2 ? ‘Tasnes. Phillips 3 baste; ae ' ili inst | day that the question of naval dis- the Youth Convention, being held 2) 7) ‘i ; This is a time of revolutionary movements among the working James Phillips, noted basso, wi nee ps Adpeesenebapicl arrears (Continued on Page Two) |the New York Workers Center. peas aera bd Pee dad Workers Bookshop at class in various countries. The wave of revolution is once more — S!& “The Pilgrim’s Sen the to overthow capitalism in the U. S. mater |, Raymond Clark, speaking for t’ ats in Vienna by contrast, he lied | Coliseum Meeting = =rsing in.China. A revolutionary upheaval is rapidly spreading in iste Wis beberle hE: and throughout the world. Be at the Coliseum May First. On May Day—we hail the Chi- (‘elegation, expressed appreciati ost brazenly about housing condi- nese revolution! Long live the Indian revolution! Young Communist Int’] Greets NationalConventionofLeagu \, The fifth National Convention of, re Young Workers (Communist) A vague has received the following cable of greetings from the Com- munist Youth International: “American Party now reports about its activities and will correct | its past mistakes under leadership of CI with help of the rank and file of Communist Party and your League. Events have proven cor- rectness of decisions and relations ' between Party and your League ( given by Fifth Congress YCI. YCI greets your convention and is firmly convinced it will take stand on CI and YCI line and considerably help carry out historical task. Amer- in bourgeoisie plays at pacifism in sparation for new human slaugh- ter. It suppressed with arms revo- lutionary movement in Latin Amer- ica and used troops in own country against growing workers’ movement. | CYI. th i Haye Fret “League must mobilize millions of masses of young workers for strug- |gle against war, defense of Soviet | Union, colonial revolution, for deci- | sive struggle against American im- perialism and its reformist lackeys. This can be done only thru liquida- tion of factional struggle and Right deviations and extermination of non-Communist corruption methods, through real Bolshevisation of League. Only on this basis will the League be able to grow up and not lag behind growing activisation of young workers.” Greetings were also read at the opening of the convention from the Executive Committee of the French Communist Youth League, the Young Communist League of China, the YCL of Poland and Bulgaria the Executive Committee of the and from the German delegation to for the work being done in behr lof the strikers an” paid special tr’ jute to the work of George Pershin \representative of the League in t’ /South. He was glad of the oppo tunity to participate in the Conver ‘tion and stated that in the futur the Southern and Northern workers \will fight side by side. Crouch pointed out that the pres- ‘ence of this delegation from the South was an event of great sig- nificance for the League. He de-| scribed the extreme exploitation of | ithe Southern workers and pointed lout that until a few months ago they knew little of united class struggle. Today these workers are fighting as militantly. as any workers in the North ever fought. Not less than) fifty per cent of the strikers are young workers, as are also the large majority of the Southern textile workers. There is a great field for the organization of the young South-| ern workers, he said, and the League must be alive for the task. The work in the South is the task that demands complete unity in the ‘League and unified concentration ‘for the great tasks ahead, Figuretto, one of the leaders cf) the New Bedford textile strike, re- (Continued on Page Two) ons in the Soviet Union. Accord- | y to him, the houses in all the ies in the Soviet Union are fall- 3 apart, due to the fact that “a ndful of people had erected what sey called a dictatorship of the pro- .tariat with which to oppress the saasces in Russia.” They Wouldn’t Be There. “On the other hand,” Feigenbaum continued, “the socialists in Vienna, 5 More Gastonia Strikers - The Workers Book Shop, which 4) just moved to new quarters a’ 30 Union Square, has assume? tharge of literature sales and dis. tribution at the Coliseum meeting. |All those qualified to act on the literature committee are asked to |register at the book shop which is {open until 9 p, m, Long Live International May {| ' payt £ i To Tour Cities for Relief Five more Gastonia strikers ar-,Loray mill at Gastonia. They are rived in New York yesterday, fresh | Viola Hampton, 18 years old, a from the picket lines of the great spooler, who has given Manville-| North Carolina textile strike, They | Jenckes four years of her labor, and are sent by the National Textile | Workers’ Union, to assist the Work-| perienced hand; Kermit Harden, in| | ers’ International Relief to carry out the carding department, paid $10.8 | its great program of mass meetings a week by Manville-Jenckes; Carl and tag days all over the country for the purpose of raising funds to buy food for the strikers, These strikers are all active unionists, from various departments | in the Manville-Jenckes company’s |is paid about $10 a week as an ex- Holloway, a frame fixer, who has | been in the mills for nearly 17 years, and as a highly skilled worker draws | $21.20 a week; W. M. Bledsoe, an- other skilled worker, an oiler, who (Continued on Page Three) i ‘ndia where 100,000 workers have just walked out in a general strike .sainst capitalism and British imperialism. Great dissatisfaction is srousing the workers of Germany, England, and France, We workers of the most ruthless imperialist country in the verld must contribute to the strength and unity of May First. We, he workers of America, have been engaged in mass struggles in he mining industry, in the textile industry, in the garment industry, in the food industry, and are now waging one of the most heroic struggles in the South, where we are defying injunctions, police, militia and all the powers of the capitalist state. Let us then close our ranks on May First. Let us make this May First a red letter day in the history of the American working class. Let us put down our tools on May First and join in a huge mass protest demonstration against the exploiters, against their state and all our capitalist foes. Let us demonstrate the unity of all the working class, white, yellow or black, in America and in the colonies on this side or on the other side of the ocean, and let us make May Day a day of real struggle, real revolutionary unity, real revolutionary protest. Let us not heed the call of the scab “socialists” who also are organizing a mass meeting. Let us tell the workers that this is a meeting of has-beens who have long joined the enemy’s camp. Let us warn the workers against a gathering that is out to lull the workers to sleep. Let the workers not allow the yellow socialists to take the soul out of May First. We want a May Day all aflame with revolutionary international spirit, all astir with workers’ fighting energy, all enthusiastic with the hopes and strivings of the world proletariat. Long live the international solidarity of the working class! Long live May First! We ¢! + en Union Square, before 1 p. m. and at the fin-) rally in 1! York Coliscum at four p. m. DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. He will also sing “Hats Off to the Stoker,” by Claude Arundale. The Labor Sports Union will pre- sent an interesting athletic program, Among the speakers will be na- tionally known leaders of the work- ing class, such as Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense; Ben Gold and Louis Hyman, of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; Fred Biedenkapp, of the Independent Shoe Workers Industrial Union; Ben Lifshitz, acting district organizer of the New York district of the Com- munist Party, Jessie Taft, of the Young Pion: and others, * * Conmmunist Women’s Call. The District Women’s Committee of the Communist Party of New York yesterday issued the following call to the working women to rally to the great parade of the first of May and to the mass meeting in the Coliseum: Working women of New York: Women workers in tho dress, fur, millinery industri in the textile industries, in the restaurants and in the food factories, in all the fac- fone and shops of New York, Long Island, and New Jersey! Working | ,, (Continued on Page Five) :