The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized FINAL CITY ; For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, . Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. EDITION ompany, Inc., Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing _New York City, N.Y. MAY 3, 1929 ork, In New York, by ma b 36.00 $8.00 per year. year, 26-28 Union Square, NEW YORK, _ FRIDAY, COMMUNISTS ON BARRICADES REPULSE BERLIN POLICE IN FURIOUS FIGHTING; HOLD ‘NEU KOELIN’ DISTRICT 40,000 LED BY COMMUNIST PARTY DEMONSTRATE HERE ON MAY 1; 0,000 IN NEW YORK COLISEUM | Mass Parade With Banners, Slogans of Militant| ” Labor Most Powerful Ever in City | ® | Textile Strikers Lead May Day Parade of 25,000 in New York “GASTONIA MILL SAY GENERAL STRIKE IS OWNERS BEGIN QNLY MATTER OF HOURS: _ MASSEVIGTIONS, SOCIALISTS LEAD POLICE , Workers ees | for Tents to House Attack on May fiay Domonkiea Demonstration Brings Two Nights of Battle; Je; Many Killed, Wounded Heroic St Strikers | |Farmers Donate Space One Day Strikes; Demonstrations; Arrests of Textile and Cafeteria Strikers Participate and | Pledge War on Imperialism; for Defense USSR From 40,000 to 50,000 work-| ers, under the leadership of the Communist Party and left wing unions, took possession of the streets in New York City in a mass May Day parade that was one of the most powerful demonstrations of revolutionary la- bor that New York City has ever seen. A drizzle and oecasional down- pours were entirely unnoticed a: some twenty-five thousand workers gathered at the north end of Union Square, bearing the banners of revolutionary labor, and fell into line. About another 15,000 workers, massed at the starting point and along the line of march, gave division after division rousing send-oft Union Square at 1 p. m. was seething mass of workers, contin- ually being swelled by battalions ng in from other parts of the From the four corners of the square the red banners preceded lines of red-bedecked marchers, add- ing them to the mass of workers and sea of banners and slogans at the starting. point. Textile Strikers Lead. While the “socialists” in Madison Square Garden were engaged in singing the Star Spangled Banner in token of their solidarity with the exploiters, five striking textile workers from North Carolina ad- vanced down Fourth Avenue, lead- ing the thousands of enthusiastic we massed here at the call of the Communist Party and militant labor o: zations Four bands in the line of march played the “International,” “The Red Flag” and “Solidarity.” A Ne- gro band led the march, symbolizing the solidarity of Negro and white workers, while bands engaged by the Independent Shoe Union, the V indow Cleaners. Union flab iiad the fevinue at ietene: feteria Strikers. Close nm the heels of the tex- tile strike representatives followed the District Executive Committee of the Communist Party, the inspir- ing leader of the working class, Cheers mounted when, led by a band playing the “International,” the fighting shoe workers, who had organized themselves into the strong Independent Shoe Workers’ Union! of 4,000 workers in a few months’ time, joined the ranks of the march- ers. |songs, The great mass May Day demonstration of more than| ~ 20,000 at the New York Coli-| seum Wednesday afternoon and} evening was one of the most) enthusiastic and militant dem-| onstrations the workers of this eity | have ever held. | The massed thousands, who had | © in the great parade | = participated earlier in the afternoon, listened to eakers representing the Commu- Party, the Young Workers ni (Communist) League, the Interna- slogans andjtional Labor Defense, the new left wing needle, miners, textile and shoe unions, a South Carolina textile | striker, and an excellent musical, dance and sports program. Militant Speakers. Ben Lifshitz, acting New York district organizer of the Communist | Party, ovened the huge meeting with | a brief introductory address and then introduced the permanent chairman, John Ballam, acting na- tional secretary of the Trade Union Educational League. Robert Minor, acting executive | secretary of the Party, spoke in the name of the Party, following him, | the Freiheit Gesangs Verein sang) some splendid songs, and _ then| Harold Williams, head of the Negro | department of the New York district of the Party, svoke, and James Phillips, basso, sang a number of which were received with! jacclaim. Workers’ | The five textile strikers from Gastonia, N ‘orth Carolina, who have come to New York City to help the Workers International Relief raise urgently necded relief for the strikers, led the parade of 25,000 workers on May Day in New York City. The huge banner headed the demonstration which was participated in by another 15,000 mond Clark. C. E. Halloway. Viola Hampton, Kermit Harden spoke for the Southern textile strikers, followed by Juliet Stewart Poyntz, for the International Labor Defense; Kred Biedenkapp, for the Independent Shoe Workers Union; Louis Hyman for the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union; Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, and Pat Too- hey of the National Miners Union. The Dixie Negro Choir sang a WalkoutSpreads ;Shops Continue to Surrender jnumber of spirituals, the Dance) = ; Guild danced two revolutionary, Following out the policy adopted numbers and the Labor Sports at the mass meeting Tuesday night, Union did some gymnastics. Minor Speaks for C. P. Robert Minor, speaking for to spread the strike to other sections of te city outside the garment sec- the | tion, the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- | Communist Party, reviewed the 7, = present “third period” sinee the teria Workers Union called out the cafeterias on world war, which is marked by the Workers elevation of the level of producticn| strike yesterday. These were the over the pre-war level of capitalist | Paramount, 126 Delancey St., the development, with the increasing in- | | Melrose, 109 Delancey St., the Tow- tensity of its contradictions and the | jer, 154 Delancey St., the Capitol, decay of stabilization and at the | 18th St. and Fifth Ave. and Her- same time the growth of Socialist | mand’s, 749 Broadway, 14 workers | forces in the Soviet Union. He spoke | were arrested while picketing at! of capitalist rationalization and the Delancey St. They were bailed out from five All along the line of march flut-|wave of radicalization and of strug-| at $500 each by the union. In three tered high the slogans of the mili- gle against the increased exploita-| shops the workers came out 100 per tant class struggle: “Fight the War |tion evidenced by the textile and|cent, and a majority in the other Danger!” “Defend the Union!” “Fight for the 40-Hour| Week and Week Work!” “Fight | Speed-up!” “Against Police Terror | and Injunctions!” “Against the Soviet other strikes, and the preparations | two. The workers from several more places will be called out today. The | strike will continue to spread daily throughout the city. The response to the call for an (Continued on Page Five) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail) —| Jack Allison, a carpenter helper, | Treachery of the Socialist Party and | wag killed in a scaffold fall in Santa |extension of the strike to the down- | the A. F. of L. Bureaucrats!” “Against Imperialist War!” ‘For | “Keep Quiet” Is Slogan of the Organization of the Unorgan- ized!” “For New, Fighting Industrial Unions!” were some of the slogans | inscribed on thousands of placards | that made the line of march look like an advancing tide of red on white. At least 1,000 Young Pioneers, who had downed their pencils on May Day, sang and cheered their way over the line of march, adding their youthful voices to the more husky shouts and singing of the workers. Behind a huge banner bearing Chinese slogans, hailing the Chinese (Continued on Page Two) 00,000 MOSCOW WORKERS MARCH (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 2.— A great demonstration took place here on International Labor Day, yesterday, in spite of the bad weather, The enthusiasm centered around the socialist constructive work. | Monica. (Continued on Page Five) A Porto Rican Exploiter Head of Beneficial League Would Let Race Barriers Stand for His Own Benefit * 5 (This is the twentieth in a series of articles exposing the conditions under which workers are forced to live. The first part dealt with con- ditions in Negro Harlem and told of the activities of the Harlem Ten- ants League, 169 W. 133rd Street, in the fight against the landlords. During the last week the Daily Worker exposed conditions in Latin- American Harlem. The present article deals with a Porto Rican or- ganization which does all it can to :nislead its members.) i a ae ga Off” to any other petty exploiter of By SOL. AUERBACH. another race who attempts to steal XX. some of their privileges. Ensconsing themselves, like petty kings, they pose as philanthropists, humani- tarians, liberals or what not. They Want it So. They, of course, are ctrongly op- posed to any plan of action which would change the existing state of affairs, wipe out the artificial racial barriers, and free the slaves of capi- talist exploitation. For any change (Continued on Page Two) Wena there are exploited segregated groups of workers you will find a group of parasites, of the same race or nationality, who take to themselves the privilege of a special concession for exploitation of this group. Using the barrier of segregation as a protection, they suck the blood from the workers imprisonzd behind those barriers. They say, “Hands workers on tne sidelines. W. May Dav Meet By A. B, MAGIL, Madison Square Garden, May | Day. The socialist party is cele-| brating the holiday of international labor. As the sentative enter: Daily Worker repre- the top gallery of huge Madison Square Garden, the strains of the opening anthem S. through the air. No, impossible! My ears must be playing me a trick, The “Star Spangled Ban- ner,” the hymn cf American im- perialism? | And then my eyes were fiooded with the great red and white stripes of the American flag, fluttering from the ceiling and extending over the walls, while from the great cen- tral light hung the flags of the other imperial states. Far down below one could see pieces of red bunting shrinking timidly into the | corners, overwhelmed by the great, (Continued on Page Five) “OCD DECISIVE” SAYS PERSHING. | Gastonia Strike Leader | Asks Aid for Pickets | “Food will win the strike.” Those ¢ | Were the concluding words of | George Pershing, organizer of the | National Textile Workers’ Union in| | for several days, in ending an in- | terview with a representative of the | day. “The need of feeding the strik- ers,” said Pershing, “is one of the| most important phases of strike ac- tivity. It goes hand in hand with| our daily picket line. If the Work-| ers International Relief is able to! doubt that the strike will be won. |t “In Gastonia, the Workers Inter- | national Relief is feeding 500 fam- | ilies, while in Bessemer City, where (Continued cn Page Two) On With the Fight Against Longer Hours! Long Live a Sey- en-Hour Working Day! | The strikers are M. Bledsoe, and Keri h lof Local 43, as visitors. | coramittee m left to right: Ray- mit Har CAFETERIA UNION Singer Draws ADMIT LOCAL 43 STRIKES 5 SHOPS Crowd ai Fake TQ Cqp CONFAB Allowed to 10 Enter faa as Visitors Under. great pressure from the rank and file the national convention of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Wor! International Union, in session at. Beethoven Hall, yester- day voted to admit the 10 delegate: The ex pelled members from Chicago and Boston, however, were barred, at the insistence. of the Zaritsky chine. Similar treatment was meted out to the rank and file members of Eocal 43, who wanted to visit the convention, The report of the credentials stated that since question of Local 43 would have to be discussed by the convention, the members of the local would be con- j union The re- sidered expelled from the until other action is taken. port of the was accepted by 42 to 12. The efforts of some aaa on Page Five) DEMONSTRATE THRUOUT U. S, The most militant and larg- est International Labor Day demonstrations ever seen in’ America signalizes May 1 in all| | Gastonia, N. C., who is in New York Jarge industrial cities through-| out the United States. In every case Workers International Relief yester- the demonstrators showed enthusi- | asm and determination to build the | Communist Party and to organize | immediately and tirelessly for the |June 1 Trade Union Unity Conven-| tion to build a new trade union) movement, In every case the masses were furnish enough food, there is no there from the shops and the mili-| tant new unions took a leading part in the parades and occupied pro- | minent places at the meetings. * # 6 Gigantic Chicago Meetings. CHICAGO, Ill, May 2.--Chicago celebrated one of the most signifi. (Continued on Page Two) Beer “Dawson to Face Frame-up in N. Y. GASTONIA, May 2. tion of the st Co. has been started by the mill cwners in an attempt to break the many and the s social democrati strike and drive the workers back to the mill. Many thrown on the streets last night. Armed deputies | homes of the strikers and throwing | their furniture into the roads. They | are smashing the dishes, and break- were already The real estate corporation, ap- parently part of the Manville- |Jenckes Company, is preparing for (mass evictions. It was announced that wholesale evictions of those who live in the company houses will take place today. An appeal for tents to ho.se the workers was issued today by Bertha Crawford, chairman of Gastonia lo- {eal of the Workers International |Relief and Jessie Lynch, chairman of the Housing Committee. statement, “otherwise the Manyille- Jenckes Co, will succeed in dri the strikers out of town or back to work. Many farmers have prom- R are entering the | ing up the beds, tables and chairs.) “We need tents at once,” says the 3 Soldiers Die, Eight as | fighting Hurt in Explosion of | “an inhabitants of the district Gun Near Honolulu were warned by the police to keep in ide ised us the use of land where we} can pitch tents. The situation is —Three Thousands Feature International Labor Day BERLIN, May 2.—Armed workers, massed behind the Red Front Fighters, led by the Communist Party of Germany, Mass evie- manned barricades in Herman Strasse and the Neu Koelln prole- king workers of the tarian district of Berlin tonight and at midnight had repulsed |Loray mill of the Manville-Jenckes| the last of several vicious attacks by the police and shock he capitalist government of Ger- ic chief of police, Zoergiebel. i Camenenicios Youur i The workers held a large ee d }|and important portion of the Pledge Solidarity to city, and the police had with- drawn to recover from their Workers of Berlin | losses. The Young Workers (Commu-| | This is the second night of fight- nist) League Convention in New| | ing. After the blood bath the po- York, on hearing of the renewal | | lice visited upon the workers in the of fighting in Berlin between | | May Day celebrations yesterday, the workers led by the Communist | | capitalist press howled for further Party and the police, voted for || repressive measures, and the Com- jand immediately sent the follow- | munist Party called for general pro- jing cable to the Communist Party | | test meetings and strikes as an ex- of Germany: | pression of the workers’ hatred of “The Convention of the Amer-| | the murderous government that had ican Young Communists greets | | attacked them. the Berlin revolutionary fighters. | Avenge the murder of our com- roops hastily summoned by t ! New Fighting Starts. rades! We pledge solidarity.~On- Reinforcements, including three |ward towards the Proletarian | | detachnierits-of shock troops, sup- | Revolution! ported by armored cars, motor- ©|trucks with searchlights, and hand | grenades, were sent to the scene of their ‘homes, with blinds Police said anyone seen at a window was likely to be shot. HONOLULU, (By Mail).} artillerymen were Hawaii, three | ma- |} the | credentials committee | delegates i very serious and demands imme- diate action.” and eight others injured in the ex killed | By midnight persons had been killed and 26 injured at Neu The need for food is also grow-|Plosion of a 155-miilimeter gun at/Koelln. ing more acute every day. The lo- Fort Kamehamha. The dead cal merchants will not give the|Sergeant Webb, of Faxon, W. V: strikers credit in Gastonia because|and Private Wood, Lacona, N. (Continued on Page Two) |and Private Parks, Red Bird, K CEMEN All Rights Reser By FIODOR GLADKOV ved—Internaticnal Publishers, ¥; The first installment of “Cement,” which appeared in the May 1 issue of the Daily Worker, told of the homecoming from the civil war of Gleb, former worker in the local cement factory, and now Red Army commander. He is greeted by his wife with an outburst of affection, which is soon followed by a reserve and independence which bewilders and hurts Gleb. She goes away to her Communist Party work, leaving him to reflect upon her experiences during the three years of his absence, upon dreary village and lifeless factory. | Gleb visits his friend, Savchuk, and his wife, Moti them fighting, their clothes torn to tatters. Their life empty, just like the factory and the rest of the village. Now read on! , and finds bitter and * Moe still crouching like a hedgehog, still wept, still | pulling her skirt down to her feet. Gleb laughed at her like a merry old friend. | “Well, Motia, Savchuk didn’t show himself stronger than you. Don’t worry now. You're a free woman and know how to defend your rights. Stop now—and then begin all over again!” It was as though these words had pierced Motia’s naked | heart. Like a lizard she slid on her knees towards Gleb and her eyes bored into his like flames. “Clear out, and don’t come near me! There are too many fellows like you around, you damned torturers!” She crawled over to the spots of sunlight on the floor, and glowed like fire in the blue ray$ and rainbow-colored dust. Her straggling hair fell over her bare shoulders and mingled with the rags of her blouse. “T shan’t go away, Motia. I want to be your guest. Won't you treat me to cakes; roast meat and tea with sugar? You deal in it, don’t you?” Gleb went on laughing, caught hold of her hands caress- ingly, submitting smilingly to her blows. “Motia, remember what a prime girl you were? I wanted to marry you, but Savchuk got away with you, the damned old cooper.” Savchuk roared, gnashing his teeth. “She’s not a woman, she’s a toad. If you're a friend of | mine, train a machine-gun on her. My life is no longer worth living, and she’s given everything up to her hoarding. Why does she worry me about the house and all her troubles when I haven’t any home of my own and no one wants my work? This is no proper life, Gleb. I don’t exist, Comrade. And the works are dead, too, God damn it!” UDDENLY Motia stood up, and appared quite changed. She was transformed; beaten, worn out and ill. “Yes, Savchuk, just look at me! My strength is gone. (Continued on Page Two) * | | are Yes} Street lamps were smashed, which ,|Plunged the district into darkness. Heavy police forces surrounded {the district and finally all of the armed workers concentrated behind | barricades in the Neu Koelln district. Resistance there was so vigorous that not even armored cars could pierce the workers’ defense. Police finally withdrew, deciding they could not overcome the barri- caded rioters without heavy losses. | The Reichstag, the German im- perial parliament, came to a sudden halt today when Communist depu- ties vigorously sang “The Interna» tional” as a protest to the govern- ment’s cynical refusal to recognize motions condemning the slaughter of workers when May Day demon- strators were fired upon with rifles, ~ revolvers, machine guns and artillery jat the orders of the social democra- |tic chief of police Zoergiebel. | Barricades! Yesterday, after a day in which open air demonstrations of thous- ‘ ands were repeatedly charged= by the alist police chief’s 15,000 i extra policemen, clubbed, drenched |with water from fire hoses, ridden down with horses and armored tanks, the workers, following the lead the armed Red Front fighters, {erected barricades in North Berlin and in Koeslinger Strasse, built of {torn up gas mains and bricks and |so strongly constructed that they — | withstood the fire of machine guns © and rapid fire one pounder artillery directed against them, : A. battle in the dark raged for three hours, with about 3,000 shots” hanged. The Red Front fighters — |defended house tops, swathed in red bunting and flying red flags, while | wave after wave of the Berlin police jadvancing in military order behind |tanks and armored cars spitting fire: |from machine guns was broken up |and retreated. ‘® | Disperse Undefeated. Only when the workers’ ammuni- tion gave out and there were no more missles to throw, did the May, Pa demonstrators disperse. # Ten workers were killed and 300 not so much during the fighting ‘as during the police attacks on the unarmed, densely packed crowds before the’ barricades were | erected. | The police made indiscriminate: larrests, dragging prominent work= ta form, and continued the search @ arrests all through’ this mo. after the demonstrations were (Continued on Page Two,