The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1929, Page 1

| rests” yesterday and deported 26 4 ing from Moscow.” DOWN TOOLS! 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 the treachery of the socialist party and A. F, of L. Bureaucrats; Against Imperialist War; Against Discrimination for Union Activity; For the Organization of the Unorganizeu; JOIN PA For New, Fighting, Industrial Unions; For the Defense of the Soviet Union! commerce - THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week } For a Labor Party aily Worker of March 3, 1879. FINAL CI] EDITION 8.00 per year. ar. MAY | MARCH, UNION S aed ‘MILLIONS DEMONSTRATE ON MAY 1 | IN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ‘Hold Over Banded} Meets (s Throughout U. Ss i Half Million te Parade in Moscow ‘Berlin, Paris, Warsaw Workers Fight Police to Protect Meetings; Uruguayan Strike BULLETIN. MEXICO CITY, April 30.—The workers here will observe May Day by a general stoppage of work, and par- ades throughout the city. The left wing trade unions have announced that their speakers will speak before the U. S. Consulate. All street cars, taxis, restaurants, papers, et will be paralyzed. The Mexican Communist Party organ, El Machete, attacks General Calles and President Gil, showing that it is not they who govern Mexico, but Ambassador Morrow. It issues the slogan, “Down With U. S. Imperialism.” VIENNA, April 30.—The white terror in Budapest will be in full swing tomorrow against any attempts of | the workers to demonstrate their May Day solidarity with the workers of the rest of the world. The entire police reserves have been called out, both foot and mounted police, and they will patrol the streets from early morning till evening. Horthy detectives will aid in rounding up all Communists and left wing workers. er MOSCOW, April 30.—The entire Soviet Union will start ! g great celebration of May Day tomorrow. Legal holidays will close ‘Niel, factories and shops on | May 1 and May 2. Innumerable mass meetings, parades and, lectures will attract millions of workers and peasants through- out Soviet territories, A gigantic parade through the Red Square will be held here. It is expected that more than 500,000 will file past the | reviewing stands against the Kremlin walls and Lenin’s maus- oleum, where Soviet leaders will watch the parade. As the workers of America march to their hundred or more International Labor Day meetings today, news arrives that their comrades in Europe and South America are resor ' or hold street celebrations. _ on hand, but the workers will defy | ing in some cases to actual st | demonstrations and challenge capitalism by an exhibition of| ance in the race of their bosses to , the might of its opponents. A wireless to the Daily Worker | by International Press Cor- respondence from Berlin yesterday states: | “May Day preparations are pro. | ceeding everywhere here. The work- ers intend to demonstrate in the streets in spite of the prohibition | of the social-democratic police. Po- lice Chief Zoergibel threatens to prevent demonstrations ‘with all | possible means.’ To Carry Clubs, Pistols. “Police will carry no carbines on | May Day, but bludgeons and pzs- | tols, which are more useful for their | purpose of assaulting masses of, | workers, Demonstrations are per- ; mitted everywhere in Germany ex-| cept Berlin. ; “The streets are already taking on a May Day character, red flags , flying everywhere in the workers’) , quarters, “Workers demonstrated before the | Potsdamer Platz yesterday. In the collisions with the police several ,Were wounded.” Deport French Workers. . The ruling class in Paris, Warsaw and other cities have prepared aug- mented police forces to try and , break up the workers’ demonstra- | tions._ Poison gas, machine guns and | tanks are provided with which to | assault workingmen, | Paris police have threatened. to | arrest all who attempted to parade Police there made 27 “precautionary ar- workers whom they accused of “com- In Warsaw, 2,000 extra police are them. A general holiday is proclaimed} in Argentina. The Montevideo, Uruguay, chauffeurs plan a one-day | strike. Workers in Bolivia plan fes- tivities, including dances and pag- | eants, all through the country. ' In Spain, labor is demanding an leight-hour day, measures to relieve ‘unemployment, and other matters affecting labor. | For New Union Center. | With over a huntired May Day | meetings actually arranged, and news of others being prepared at the ‘last minute in many industrial cities reet fighting to preserve their qe ica are ready to celebrate the great holiday of International Labor this year on a grand scale. Hundreds of thousands of work- mg men and women will meet in. all the great industrial centers, to hear} working class speakers, to celebrate with fest the approaching day | of emancipation, and to prepare for the Trade Union Unity Convention | (Continued on Pa on Page ge Two) YOUTH CONGRESS, ENDS DISCUSSION ‘ON ¢. P. REPORT ‘Reports Show Growing | Militaney of Youth discussion on the report of the Cen- | tral Committee of the Communist |Party of the U. S. Av at the third | session. of. the convention of the Young Workers Communist League dealt in great detail with the ques- tions of white chauvinism and the | revolutionary perspectives during this period of the development of world economy.. He again stressed the necessity for stern unity in the ranks of the Communist youth and pledged the support of the Party for its achievement, Fifth World Congress of the Com- munist Youth International and the work since the congress, pointed out that the Fifth Congress of the C.-Y. I. is especially significant as it marks the new turn for the Com- munist Youth International and the Communist Youth Leagues in order to take advantage of the growing |: favorable situation for transforming the Leagues into Mass Leagues. deals critically with the weaknesses of the American League and with steps necessary for more direct ap- proach to the American workers. All the events since the congress where the companies own the towns | !and do their best to prohibit them, | | the class-conscious workers of Amer- ‘4 have ,proven the correctness of its decisions and have already shown (Continued on Page Five) Robert’ Minor, summarizing the| John Harvey, reporting on the} These tasks were applied to the)! American League in concrete form | in the open letter of the CYI which | Gastonia Strikers Lead Parade Today These fighting pill strikers from i inion will lead the great . May Day para i a militant 4] York ean ped iday. They are ] here to aid the re- lief drive for the southern mill strikers, conduci- ETN Relief. In the picture are, left; to right, Kermit) Hardin, Raymond Clar k, Vioca, Bledsoe, and C. F.\ Holloway speak-| ing to Sylvan| Pollack of the We Tk. COMMUNIST CALL TO WORKING WOMEN TO JOIN STRUGGLE MAY 1 Discrimination, Bad Shop Conditions Increase | Woman Workers’ Need for Revolt American Women Will Stand With Working Masses Abroad, Against Imperialism The Women'gat (bartment®a® the forts of their corrupt officials to | Communist Party. of the Uy 'S. A.|destroy their union. has issued the following statement: May Day, 1929, finds the wotk-|Women of the working throes of a great struggle with the and capitalist reaction. forces of capitalist imperialism.| Millions of workers are walking the streets without a Job, with starva- tion staring them in the face. Toiling under the lash of the cap-/ jitalist speed-up, the workers of} Ameri and other capitalist {countries are driven beyond endur- imperialist powers are rapidly mob- | ilizing for another great war. | preparations are being carried all (Continued on Page Two) R.LL.U. Bureau Urges |World-wide Support of Bombay Textile Men (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., April 30.— The executive bureau of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions today publishes an appeal urging the work- ers of ‘the world to support the Bombay textile paneere |eapture the world market. Wage- cuts, lengthering of hours, intensifi-| cation of labor, the open-shop drive of the bosses to smash every attempt to organize and strike, police terror against militant workers, so. the) |employers- are conducting a bitter war of repression against the work- |ing class which today in America is taking up the struggle against | come rationalization. Women in Thick of Struggle. ; Women. workers . are in the fore- front of these struggles. Today in ke: Southern ; textile strike, ‘as ‘in New Bedford and Passaic, they. are} fighting in the front ranks, braving police . brutality and soldiers’: bay- |onets, enduring starvation rather (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) ‘than the slavery of the mills, strug- | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., April 30. gling against the speed-up and cap-|__Thirty-eight former Trotskyists litalist rationalization. sent a declaration to the Presidium The needle trades workers are of the Sixteenth Communist Party | building a new militant union in the |conference here abandoning frac- face of the attacks of the bosses, tionalism and condemning Trotsky’s \allied with the police and the Right | writings in the bourgeois press. wing bureaucracy. The women mil-|They requested readmission to the linery PORE have resisted the ef- |Party. MAY DAY PARADE! Notice to All Working Class Organizations, | Fraternal Organizations, Clubs, House- wives’ Councils, Communist Party Units and Units of the Young Workers (Communist) League 1. All organizations are instructed to mobilize their memberships at their headquarters or some other convenient point and report at the || starting point of the parade, Union Square, today at 10:30 a.m, The | parade starts at 1 p. m. 2, Appropriate banners designating the character of the organiza- || tion, ‘its slogans, etc., should be carried by the membership. | 3. Members of all organizations are to mobilize behind their ban- || ners in Union Square in ranks of four with marshalls, captains, etc., i headed by leaders of the union and a brass band if possible. All divi- | sions are expeeted to show the strictest proletarian discipline. . 4. Costumes should be predominantly RED, hats, ties, dresses, ' sashes, etc. Organizations should try to have special costumes indi- cating their character, occupations, etc. The Official May Day But- tons can be secured in Room 202, 26-28 Union Square, also throwaways, banners, etc. 5. Utilize automobiles to display banners, slogans, etc. 5. Remember the parade proceeds, RAIN OR SHINE, Fraternally yours, BERT MILLER, Secretary, Ways and Means Committee, May Day Labor Conference, \ 38° Former " 'Protskyites | Ask: Readmittance ed by the Work-} ers International | DEPUTIES STAB, |, |down, Everywhere in} Hazeldean, the mines and factory districts the! Lloyd, age 16, class aré them fighting side by side with the men| hastily passed “anti-parading” ing class of America deép in the workers against the open shop drive |dinance which the mill owners had} \children, child slaves SLUG GASTONIA | PICKETS AGAIN, BayonetCharge by Boss Gunmen Injures Many, Three Are 4 Arrested Strikers Keep Up Fight | Hampton, W. M.| Victorious in One Mill; Great Need for Food CASTONIA, jstrikers are in are suffering s they hold their pi the Loray mill. ae the evening picketing yester- y the deputies armed with rifles, April jail te re s, as cet lines around leinces clubs and ___ revolvers \charged into the line of massed | pickets, clubbed, stabbed, swore and jarrested, then drove half of the | pickets one way and half the other |way, threatening at every step to open fire and mow the Slug, Jail Children. Two of the strikers arrested are of Manville-| Jenckes before they began to fight | se.men against starvation pay and the 12 hour day. They are Everett | age 15, and typed The charge against violation of the Teper | or- created . overnight as a weapon Today on May Day, 1929, the great against the strike. Another arrested striker is Mrs. War | Callie Martin, who tried to save her | on 15-year-old striker son from a ter- on a gigantic scale in all capitalist |rible beating, and was heartily slug-| |countries, feverish construction oi ged and thrown in an automobile by | deputies. Win Another Strike. Habeus corpus proceedings were held up until Thursday, leaving the} three arrested workers in the jai until then, the jail, where other strikers have been slugged and beaten. The workers at Forest City have | won; the stretch out em is abol- ished and the “efficiency” discharged. Need Food. The four mills at Bessemer are still struck solid, and four other | mills in North Carolina are so badly crippled by strikes they may have to to, close down any time. There is a great need for food to} USSR CommunistParty | feed the thousands of © strikers. | | Funds should be sent to Workers In- ternational Relief, which has offices | at One Union Hee New York. FOOD WILL WIN GASTONIA STRIKE 'Pickets Rely on Fellow Workers to Send It GASTONIA, N. C., April 29.—The | responsibilities of the Workers In-| ternational Relief increase daily as| additional textile strikers apply for | relief at the three food distribution centers established in Gastonia, Pineville and Lexington, Amy Schechter, WIR relief director, | stated today. ‘over 550 families in Gastonia,” “We are now supplying food to she declared. “The families average from seven up, many contain 13 to | 22, including boarders. This means |more than 2,000 men, women and ‘children are being fed in Gastonia alone. The exact figures on Gas- tonia, Bessemer City, Lexington and | Pineville will be issued shortly, More Mouths To. Feed. “Many of the strikers were able | | to scrape through the first days of | the strike somehow without relief, but they are now utterly cleaned out and must be fed. tional families are constantly being added to the list of those who must |be fed. \ “Tf on any day we do not give the | | strikers food, that means they have | to starve that day. That is why it (Continued on Page Two) workers expert is Scores of addi- | THOUSANDS OF WORKERS TO PAR: WITH BANNERS, SLOGANS; GIANT NASS MEETING FOLLOWS IN THE COLISEUM Communist Party, Militant Unions, Labor Defense, Workers’ Relief, » T. U. E. L. and Many Others to Follow Negro Band in Parade “ Immediate Objectives Are: suild the Communist Party,” “ Build Shop Committees and Support Trade Union Unity Convention” 1—First May Day Parade since 1916 starts from Union Square at 1 p. with * massed banners, placards with slogans, and red badges. 2.—Negro band leads and provides march music; strikers from Gastonia 3 picket lines participate, ae 38.—Communist Party organizations supported by unions, relief, defense, T.U.E.L.; % anti-fascist, workers sports, Working Class Housewives, workers’ clubs and other labor ors #i ganizations. mm! 4.—Coliseum meeting will be enormous demonstration of workers’ determination to increase struggle against capitalism to build new union center and start union organs %i ization campaigns, and to build the Communist Party. ‘ 5.—Chief slogans are: “Organize the “Fight the. Imperialist.War Danger.” BALL GENERAL | woxers gathering In Union Svare, vl a | STRIKE OF THE Unorganized,” “Defend the Soviet Union,” the 916: ners earing: the slogans of revolutionary struggle, with red sashes, arm-bands, roses—red in ever P waving in the air, New York's workers, led by f | textile strikers fresh from the Gastonia picket lines, will dem- i we ) onstrate their solidarity with militant labor thruout the world Celebrate May Day by m one of the greatest May Day celebrations ever held in this Spreading Walkout city. | Leading the parade will be a Neto br: band—the New York cafeteria workers will celebrate May Day by declaring a |general strike throughout the city.| |Tremendous enthusiasm greeted the | time that mu uate led a parade in New York City. Parti iting in the pa- will r LINE OF MARCH rade be mar working announesment of the extension of] mn. detegation of striking textile| class orgat | of whom the strike, which began three’ weks| tere from Gastonia, N.C. who| have been a : jago in the garment section, at an)1.1. teen brought North by: the sections in th joverflow meeting at Irving Plaza Workers International Relief to col- Many Organizatio Hall, 16th St. and Irving Pl. last lect funds for the strikers, will lead; Among the \night. the May Day parade this afternoon. | the Commun “Over 1500 workers in 60 shops Next will be John S. Smith’s Negro ers Commur are now picketing,” Dr. Goertz of 8M" Bly Pione Tr \the strike committee of the Hotel,! The striking cafeteria workers of 1 In Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers New York will follow. Members of fense, Workers I |Union, which is leading th ike, the New York District Executive | Needle ldeclared. “In three weeks ; Committee of the Communist Party, | U lunion has: settled with 20 shops, then’ the downtown section of the where 400 men and women have Communist Party; International f gained the eight hour day and Seamen’s Club; Independent Shoe | Union, every demand of the union. To- Workers Union; Amalgamated | Wor morrow we will concentrate on the Clothing Workers Section Labor |downtown section, gradually extend- Trade Union Eeducational L Workers ing till we cover every restaurant |Printers Section, Trade Union E of North America, from the East River to the Hudson, |Cational League. will come | Union, United V |from the Battery to Yonkers.” workers of unorgan factor’ nity Coop needle trades workers. Tells of Thugs. Irving Rosenberg, of the strike committee, told of the stubborn re- (Continued on Page Five) | Communist Part workers, Section 3, Genta ty; Needle Trades Worker t Union; cap and millin ers; sutcase and bagmakers section, Workers Wor Retail On May Day—long. live the |T- U. E. L.; workers from unorgan- and Dairy’ Clerks Communist International! Join |ized shops; Harlem section, Com-| Union, Cooks and Broilers Union of the ranks of the Communist Party! |munist Party; American Negro La-| N, Y., Local 719, Harlem Progres: Hail the world revolution. (Continued on Page Five) | Youth Club, Br 3 candinavian Workers Club, New York Worki W n’s Federation, Anti-Impe: ist League, Freiheit Gesang Verein, 3akers Local 164, A. F. W., Prolet- Swedish Workers Club, Workers ‘Find Latin-American Tenants : ‘Receptive to May Day Ideas ,,mey.cins ant and Cafeteria Workers Union, and other organizations. To reach the Coliseum take the Bronx Park east or west side sub- (This is the nineteenth of a series of articles exposing the conditions under which workers are forced to live in New York City. The first part of the exposure described conditions in Negro Harlem. The Daily Worker is now engaged in exposing the conditions in Latin. | Way and get off at E. 177th St. American Harlem. The present article deals with the workers from | station. oe various Latin-American countries.) Two Major Tasks. Sees | The celebration of labor's inter- By SOL AUERBACH. national holiday today is more than XIX the observation of an annual work- (Continued on Page Five) AY DAY, 1929, finds thousands of Latin-American workers in New York City, suffering all the evils of exploitation, exploitation first of all because they are workers, then added to that because they are for- eigners, on top of that because many of them are colored. ® As the cafeteria workers proceed REST AFTER ARDUOUS LABORS) with their organ they WASHINGTON, April. 80 (UP)— | will find that Latin-American work The Supreme Court today recessed| ers make vp a great percentage of | after a short decision session until| cafeteria workers employed by the Monday, May 13. No decision was| large corporations. That the orga |announced in the O'Fallon railroad) zation of the automats will make valuation case. necessary the organization of many Porto Rican workers, to whom or-| ganization has never been talked} (Continued on Page Two) No Daily Worker to Be Issued Tomorrow There will be no edition of the Daily Worker tomorrow because of the fact that all employes of the central organ of the Com- munist Party will today join with their fellow-workers throughout the world in celebrating Interna- tional May Day. Don’t forget. May First at the | Coliseum, bis