The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 1

THE/DAILY. WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week Fe atte 4 Labor Party 2 Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ey Vol. VIL, No. 50 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Squa: New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION | Outside ew ork, by mail $6.00 per year. , by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents: EVICT GASTONIA STRIKERS AND RELIEF ST/ (10N TODAY Good Picket Lines, Big Mass Meetings Every | Day, But Only More Food Will Win Strike Weisbord, Wagenknecht.Tell of Tent Colony Planned for Strikers; Arrests Continue GASTONIA, N. C., May 5.—Mass eviction of the striking textile workers will take place tomorrow, it was learned here today. The Workers International Relief store, which is located at 1222 W. Franklin Ave. since¢—-——_———— the beginning of the strike, will also be evicted tomorrow. WSON IN COURT Wall Street Sends | More Troops to China and Colonial Lands PICKETS BATTLE BERLIN POLICE INDICT 213 SCABS INBOMBAY WORKERS FOR HEROIC ~ GENERAL STRIKE British Arrest 300 and as Aid to Bosses 20 Killed in Three-Day| Fight; Rush Troops | BOMBAY, India, May 5.—An of- ficial announcement said 20 persons | DA | Alfred Wagenknecht, national sec-| retary of the Workers International Relief, arrived here yesterday from New York and spoke at the strikers’ The U. S. war department's often-repeated statement that it was gradually removing troops from China and Nicaragua was again proved a lie with the sailing of over 500 recruits on the army transport Somme Friday from Brooklyn, bound for China, by way of Panama and the Philippines. Wall Street had been killed and more than 200 injured in the street fighting which started last Friday when British government officials rushed Pathan, THOUSANDS WILL DEFENSE AGAINST TERROR | Incite War of Creeds Frustrated Government Plans Trials, But Labor So Aroused New Fight Is Expected Import Strikebreakers Socialist Capitalist Combination Assails USSR a in Press to Hide Mortification BERLIN, May 5.—The socialist police chief, Zoergibel, has arrested over 2,000 workers up to yesterday and has arre with the public prosecutor to bring charges against 2 “these tonight. This is the at- tempt of the brutal officialdom mass meeting in the evening. | “We are preparing to pitch tents in which to house the strikers,” | Wagenknecht stated in an interview, “and need funds with which to buy | them. All workers should immedi- ately send in a contribution to the W. I, BR.” The strikers are still militantly picketings the Loray mill here. A good mass meeting was held yester- day afternoon, at which the speak- ers were Albert Weisbord, secretary of the National Textile Workers Union, and Wagenknecht. Wagen- knecht spoke again in the evening, and will probably speak today. Weis- bord spoke yesterday evening in Bessemer City, where there are strikes in the American No. 1 and American No. 2 mills, and in the Osage mill, with a walkout also in he Proctor and Gamble mill. Three workers were arrested on he picket line Friday, and several more since. All are charged with ‘parading without a permit.” * * * Dawson Tells of Need. Ellen Dawson, organizer National Textile Workers Union, Gastonia, N. C., who arrived here yesterday to face framed up charges in connec- sion with her naturalization papers, made an appeal for funds to’ feed che striking textile workers so the strike can continue. “A critical period in the strike has seen reached,” said Dawson, “and yuicker response to the Workers In- vernational Relief. appeal for funds so feed the striking workers and heir families must be made at once ‘o win this strike. “Not only is money needed to feed he workers, but it is needed at once! Five dollars today, is more impor- ‘ant than $10 in a week from now, recause the immediate need for food S very serious and must be met xy quick action. IN NEWARK TODAY Textile Strike Leader Faces Federal Frameup NEWARK, N, May 5.—Ellen |Dawson, Gastonia strike leader and |erganizer, will appear in the Fed- jeral District Court at 10:15 tomor- |row, on the federal charge of irre- gularities in» her naturalization papers. In an interview with a Daily Worker representative today Dawson characterized the proceed- ings as a crude frame-up, in which she had not even been notified of the specific accusation against her. But it appears to be, from state- ments by the prosecution, to be the same naturalization paper charge on which she was arrested while Jactive in the New Bedford textile | strike. }ene week | charge was dismissed by a federal | At that time she was held in jail, and then the judge. How the case can now be re- opened, just when she becomes ac- tive in another strike, at Gastonia, is one of the mysteries of United States capitalist law. Dawson was re-arrested by fed- jeral officers at a huge mass meet- ing in Gastonia, on the day that the masked mob wrecked with axes the strike and _ relief headquarters. After being held in Charlotte jail |for four days she was released on | $2,000 bonds obtained by the Inter- \national Labor Defense, whose at- torney, Isaac Shorr, will defend her tomorrow. FENG MANEUVERS | | total of 18 in this city, and more are; stands always ready to slaughter NEW MEMBERS IN COMMUNIST DRIVE OrganizationCampaign in Industrial Cities CLEVELAND, May 5.—In sponse to the call of the Central Executive Committee of the Com- munist Party for intensive organ- ization efforts, the Cleveland organ- ization has already established six | new shop nuclei, This makes a| re- in process of formation. | Ten shop bulletins for as many different shops are coming’ out this | week. Shop bulletins have been! started in Warren and Canton, Ohio, big steel and iron centers. In the} near future there will be one in the Willys-Overland automobile works. ee Negro Workers Join. CHICAGO, May 5.—Nucleus 27 of Section 6 here, of the Commu-) nist Party of America, has had con-| siderable success in gaining mem- bers among’ the Negro workers. A { Chinese workers and peasants to protect its investment. . PLANS LAID FOR Mohammedan scabs into the city to take the places of Hindu strikers in the textile mills. Over 100,000 have quit work in rotest “Socialist” Murder of Berlin answer to the call of left wing unions Labor Tomorrow ] for a general strike to stop victimi- : zation of workers who took part. in A mass meeting to protest the |the great textile strikes. of this “socialist” police brutality toward; hapeng. , gainst ten cafeterias in the down-| to revenge itself for the Com- nunists’ successful defense of work- rs’ right to demonstrate on May 1, The |; t count of the casualties JOIN FOOD STRIKE *: showed that at least 27 persons were n killed and abou 70 injured in the the attacks of the police on the eB workers. The police announce that 2 86 of their number were wounded, Mass Demonstration at and 29 of these remain in hospitals, Firing Continues. Heavy police details are guarding Strikers of the Hotel, Restaurant the district from behind barbed and Cafeteria Workers’ Union will | Wite fences thrown across the Her- again rally thousands of New York ™4nn Strasse and adjoining strects. workers to support the food strike | Under rifle guard they have begun at the mass picketing demonstra-|t® "emove the barricades which the tion in the garment section at noon| Workers had constructed to detend today. Expressing solidarity with | themselves. Cn, : the strikers will be members of the! Communist deputies in the Reich- Needle Trades Workers Industrial |5t@% introduced an interpellation de- Union, the United Council of Work-(™anding the removal of Police Chief ing Women, the New York Districts Zoergibel, the punishment of the of- of the Communist Party and the ficers who ordered the shooting of Young Workers (Communist) |the workers and the withdrawal of League, and a large number of other|the orders forbidding demonstra- sympathetic organizations, Strikes | tions. «1 at the same time be declared Noon Workers Aroused. The indignation against the bru- the Berlin workers in connection] Wha Paactionaty. obficiala. of ‘the with the celebration of May Day, Shop Delegates Cheer|..ci. union are opposing the gen will be held at noon tomorrow at} Gastonia Workers 3 oy ‘5 e ment has followed its traditional Sp Hundreds of shop delegates, rep-| Policy of attempting to change a resenting thousands of fur workers | ‘lass w ®nto a religious war. Brit- \day at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., under the direction 8750 000 MEXIC | 5 TUEL UNITY MEET #2 | The conference laid plans for the coming general strike in the fur in-| ri 4 G unionize the fur shops of New ae Sree to Mill Strike ais, | es + : Oty |American Officials Aid Support for the Trade Union Ricikete ete near. | Unity Conference to be held in| One of the high points of the con-| southern textile workers, was voted |hall of two textile strikers from! by over 200 delegates, representing |Gastonia, N. C., Viola Hampton and zbout 160 shops, who Saturday at-|Raymor Clark, accompanied by called by the Women’s Department |the Workers International Relief. | of the Trade League. the International Seamen's Club, 28 | TEE ET THCCAICIE Goel in union and non-union shops, were (Continued on Page Two) the Needle Trades Workers Indus- Conference PledgesAid custry which will be called soon to “Rebel” Chieftains Cleveland, June 1, and the striking |ference was the entrance into the | tended a shop delegates conference, |Jeannette Pearl, field organizer for | Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St, \from _ the delegates. Hampton, The “wide representation of shops \Clark and Pearl addressed-the dele- | after which a collection of | : 74 included women from the dress, mil- | ates, linery, fur, shoe, knitgoods, men’s |town section, the union reports. 25 Shops Unionized. With 600 members working under improved conditions in 25 restaur- ants because of the strike, the union is meeting with weaker resistance What is said to be only part of the millions stolen from Mexico by the reactionary clerical insurrec- tionary chiefs, who were furthering their nests by looting banks while |tality of the police is spreading to every quarter. Several thousand workers joined the general strike movement in sympathy with those who fought on the barricades. These include Neukoelln subway construc- Union Educational | Their appearance was a signal for It was held at Irving | thunderous applause and cheering $100 was taken up for the striking | SINCLAIR GETS (Continued on Page Five) \clothing, umbrella, handkerchief, un- derwear, hosiery shops, also domes- tie dayw hemstitchers, cafe- 's and many others. Rose Wortis, one of the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers In-| textile workers, which will be used | to purchase food for the Workers | International Relief store at Gas- |tonia, N. C, A basket of flowers was presented to Miss Hampton. The conference was opened by | their Indian soldiers were being slaughtered by machine guns and | airplane bombs at La Reforma and other battles, was found today. It| was in the custody of the “rebel” | ; general Escobar’s financial agent, Salvator Ateca, and his secretary,} Antonio Maquero, who had the com- pany of Russell B, Mathews, assist- ant U. S. director of emigration at El! Paso, and W. H. Frayer, former assistant U. S. attorney, and con- sisted of -1erchandise and money in its program of extending the/|tion gangs, steel plants, and shoe walkout to the entire downtown sec-| workers. The liberal press is excus- tion. Within one hour after picket |ing the murders by declaring that lines were organized -outside the|the police “lost” their heads. The Morsel, 67 E. 8th St. and the U. S./|social-democratic press has rallied Cafeteria 63 E. 8th St., the owners |to the defense of the police chief, were forced to sign union agree-|Zoergibel, who is one of the leaders (Continued on Page Five) POSTPONE 5-DAY dustrial Union, was chairman. She |Aaron Gross, manager of the fur opened the conference by pointing department of the New York Joint) cut the significance of the Trade Board of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. After a brief amounting to $750,000. The four men with their quantity of valuables were arrested in the TO TAKE PEKING S-MONTH REST |Union Unity Conference, to be held | Hotel McAlpin, as they came thru Must House Them. “The responsibility of the Workers ‘nternational Relief is increasing laily. Not only must the strikers be ‘ed, but now, they must also be roused. Today hundreds of strikers, heir wives and children will be svicted from the company owned iouses. The W. I, R. is planning to rive these evicted workers tents that ire being rushed to Gastonia. Hun- lreds of others will undovbtedly be svieted before the week is over. “This purchasing of tents means hat the W. I. R. needs even more noney than in the past, and unless he workers of America respond quickly, some of the strikers may ot have any place to sleep. Then 0 cap it all, the W. I. R. relief store s also being evicted today. A Vital Strike. “The present strike of the South- mn workers is a turning point in he history of the American labor novement. The hillmen of the Caro- inas are striking under the leader- hip of the militant National Textile Vorkers Union. They must not be eft alone. Their strike is not a Iccal natter, but concerns the entire American labor movement. A defeat n North Carolina would be a de- eat for the militant forces through- vut the country. A victory in Gas- onia would be a great victory, a ong step forward for the workers f the entire country. “No time must be lost. Money to ecd the striking workers should be -ushed to the Workers International telief, 1 Union Square, New York Jity.” Cee a J By GEORGE PERSHING. In 1927 the introduction of effi- ney experts from the northern .extile mills was begun in the south- mm mills. These “speed-up” ex- (Continued on Page Two) Oppose Arbitration! Press For- ward the Revolutionary Class Struggie! ‘War Near, Chiang for | Anti-USSR Hatred SHANGHAI, May 5. — The rift \between General Feng Yu-hsiang jand the Nanking clique has reached |the stage of open war. |Shek, fearing that further delay will | give Feng the opportunity of en- Chiang Kai trenching, and realizing that his own position is becoming daily |weaker, hopes through precipitating the situation to achieve the double purpose of uniting his own forces and defeating Feng. It is expected that in view of the fact that postponement of hostili- ties is now impossible Feng will march his troops toward Peking via Shansi. Shansi is now under nation- alist control, but is poorly defended. The Peking defenses have been weakened recently by the removal of 40,000 troops, who were sent to Shantung against possible oceupa- tion by Feng. In both these areas there is great mass opposition to the nationalist government, which Feng undoubtedly hopes to capital- ize. It is not unlikely, therefore, that Feng will complete the first phase of his. military program against Chiang successfully. Unconfirmed rumors have it that (Continued on Page Five) Food and Shelter for N. C. Strikers Need Action Now All readers of the Daily Work- er are urged to immediately rush funds to~-the Workers Interna- tional Relief, Room 604, 1 Union Square, New York, to meet the critical situation in the Gastonia, N, C,, textile strike. The need to shelter the evicted workers and to furnish focd, demands action at once, “The Dirty Dozen”--Episode In Housing for the Workers (The following is a letter from a worker living in New Haven de- scribing a little episode in capitalist housing for the workers. Tenants are invited to write in freely to the Daily Worker describ- ing the conditions under which they live. XXxI. This is the story of an incident] into the city from the northeast, it hat happened here in New Haven in be year 1915. As the automobile traffic comes * i breaks off at Middletown Ave. into State St. and passes into the center ‘aie. (Continued on Page Two). § Court Directs the Oil Grafter to Serve WASHINGTON, May 5.—Harry Sinclair, New York oil grafter, will have to spend three months in jail after all. The gentle tap on the backside given the man who got away with millions for refusing to answer embarrassing questions put to him by an indiscreet senate com- mittee has been upheld by the Su- preme Court and a mandate to this effect was issued late yesterday. The official charge is contempt of the senate, | The mandate declaring Sinclair must serve will be officially in the hands of Associate Justice Hitz of the Supreme Court of the District | of Columbia tomorrow. | Sinclair’s attorney has anneunced | that there is no “moral turpitude” | involved; he has rented an expen- sive house in a fashionable neigh- borhood for his family; he will re- main head of all his companies, and, when he actually takes up his abode | in the Washington jail, early this week, he is expected to have as much consideration as any other business man who retires to a sanitarium for a few months’ rest from the hard | night life, MAY DAY BOOSTS: MINNEAPOLIS 6. Workers Demonstrate. Despite Ban | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (By Mail) | —Organizational gains are expected | by District 9 of the Communist) Party because of the successful | May Day demonstration held at Bridge Square in defiance of police | and detectives who attempted to!| break up the meeting. Later a suc- | cessful indoor mass mecting was held in a hall at Glenwood and | Humboldt Aves., at which Pat De-/ vine, district organizer, spoke. | Fighting for the right to parade, | the Party opened negotiations with | the mayor one week earlier, When | the mayor and chief or police issued edicts declaring there would be no | meeting, a counter statement was | issued by the Communist Party, | which declared that May Day cele- wwe (Continued on Page Two), rss. \ | in Cleveland on June 1. Juliet Stuart Poyntz spoke on thi exploitation of women worke especially Negro women, of the sea- sonal nature of their work, of the rationalization system and of the gate conferences 2s a means of or- ~ BUILDING WEEK Trades Council, Bosses Put It Off to Aug. 24 the talk he introduced Ben Gold, secre-| New york on their way to Spain. tary-treasurer of the union. | Ateca and Maquero were formally Gold pointed out the changes in| charged with being fugitives from |the conditions of the fur workers | justice, and the two U. S. officials during the last two years and stated | with assisting them. Ateca and Ma- that decisive action to better the con- | quero are under indictment and on Progressives in building |importance of the women’s dele-|dition of the fur workers is how} bai] in Kansas City for breach of |ttades unions pointed out last night | |necessary. |the neutrality laws, charged with|that the loudly heralded “five-day ganizing v n workers to fight! An important meeting of all against their inhuman conditions of | needle trades workers will be held work, after work today, at Webster Hall. | Tells of Struggle. All furriers, dressmakers and cloak- Gladys Schechter, of the Millinery | makers are urged to be present, Workers Union, gave an account of | SES the militant struggle of Local “* MajorityThreatens Gag of the betrayal of the right wing the millinely Iandworkene ftow tye Ule in House to Jam inery hi < kers Irom : 3 ‘Hoover Tariff Thru union because of their militancy. Jeannette Pearl, field organizer, (Continued on Page Three) WASHINGTON, May 5.—An at- FEAL CaN ES tempt will be made either tomorrow | . or soon thereafter, according to Rep- | Volunteers to Aid resentative Longworth, speaker ot) in Textile Strike | the house of representatives, to es-| A | tablish the gag rule on tariff dis-| Relief Needed cussion and rush through the senate | | bill. Democratic members who have Volunteers to fold circulars and|a policy opposed to that of the re- address envelopes in connection with publican party on certain schedules | the Workers International Relief | only, especially textiles, metal and| campaign for the southern textile | chemical products, have declared strikers are urged to report at the! that an attempt to apply the clo- national office of the W. I. R., Room | ture to discussion of tariff rates on 604, 1 Union Square, these materials will provoke a rough and tumble fight on the floor of the) Reformists are Expelling Mili- | house. tant Workers from the Unions. | The senate bill raises the tariff Strengthen the Revolutionary kon a few products, but leaves it Trade Union Opposition! otherwise substantially unchanged. CEMEN Translated by A. S. Arthur and C, Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y. By FEODOR| GLADKOV] | | | | | Gleb Chumaloy, Red Army commander, returns to his native village after three years absence to find the great cement works desolate as a graye, and village overgrown with misery and sloth. His wife, Dasha, forgets herself in a momentary joyful greeting, but quickly controls herself and acts with a reserve that bowls him over. His friends, Savehuk and his wife, Motia, he finds tearing each other to pieces in bitter hopelessness. The cement factory, where he had worked as mechanic, he found a tomb, the watchman wandering around like a ghost. The doors and locks were torn off, the whole work mildewed cobwebbed. Gleb curses the workers, as well as the white guards, for the devastation that had come over the works, . * ’ PASSING down Jong black tunnels, Gleb came to the engine-room, The peaceful light, filtered from the sky, revealed the austere tem- ple of the engines. The floor is of chess-board tiles. And the Diesel engines stand like black marble idols, bedecked with gold and silver, Firmly and solidly they stood in long regular rows, ready for work— just a touch, and their polished metal limbs would start dancing. The fly-wheels appeared to be alive in flight: Gleb almost felt the hot waves of air, laden with greast and sulphur, rushing to meet him, The r van (Continued on Page Two) transporting military weapons to|Week with ten per cent increase in the clerical insurrection in Mexico. granted by the Building They are held without bail, while|Trades Employers Association after Mathews and Fryer are free on|4 friendly meeting with the Building $2,000 bail each. Trades Council, does not accomplish much yet. Negro Family Slaves to _,,,.” the first place it comes six onths late. Last year, while many az ‘Southern Land Owner, more buildings were going up, a course ef negotiations was entered State Hushes Case Up upon by the Building ‘Trades Coun- cil, under rank and file pressure, to MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 5.—/get the five-day week. Negotia- The case of a land owner who al-|tions dragged along comfortably for legedly paid the debts of a Negro |well-paid and happily situated heads family and in return became virtual |of the Building Trades Council. owner of the nine members of the Injunctions. group will come before the Federal! Internal intrigue soon split their Grand Jury which convenes here|forces to the extent that Secretary next week. |Broach of the Electrical Workers Authorities would reveal no names | (Continued on Page Five) but intimated more than a dozen Negroes have been summoned to, testify in the case. They said the family was lodged at the Mont- gomery county jail for protection, yesterday, after a conference between | Judge Henry D. Clayton and officers | from the district attorney’s office. | FORM U.S.LABOR SOCCER GROUP Support Relief for the. Southern Strikers A Workers’ Soccer Association Glanzstoff mills here as the pla run with strikebreakers. gates. The strikers number 6,000. 2,000 Killed in Pe lages have been wiped out. So: Machine guns are posted around the mill jof the social-democratie party. | The bourgeois press is raising the jery of “Russian instigation.” To |substantiate this they have manu- |factured a story, out of the whole |cloth, that the U. S. S. R. sent three well known “Cheka” organizers and three members of the Red Army general staff to Berlin to organize the demonstrations. democratic press is giving every support to this fable in the hope jthat it will turn attention from the | villainy of the police. | ‘For this same purpose an attempt is made to “forget” the massacre of the workers and to center attention on the death of Mackay, a reporter from New Zealand, who was ‘shot by the police while he was sing the street. Even in this connection some bourgeois papers asserted at jfirst that he was shot by Commu- (Contihued on Page Two) The social- MINER HURT IN BLAST MIDVALE, Pa. (By Mail).—Tony Tolinski, a miner, was seriously in- jured when burned in the head and face by a gas explosion in the Le- high Valley Coal Co. Prospect mine. CARPENTER HURT. | WILKES-BARRE (By Mail).— | Clifford Edwards, a carpenter, was badly injured when he fell while at work on a building here. Piant Machine Guns as Rayon Mills Re-open. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 5.—Company D, a machine gun unit, is drawn up around the American Bemberg and American nts re-open today and attempt to rsian Earthquakes. TEHERAN, Persia, May 5.—Earthquakes still continuing after three days of shocks in the Khorassan district, northeast Persia, have killed 2,000, telegraphic despatches today state. Seven vyil- | me houses were destroyed on the U.S. S. R. side of the line, it is said. |was organized yesterday at a na- jtional conference which was held in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving |Place. The conference was called | |by the former National Soccer De- ‘partment of the Labor Sports Union. | Thirty-five delegates took part in| | the conference, representing soccer | teams and leagues throughout the, country. An executive committee of |17 members was elected and plans were laid out for the organization of workers’ soccer teams in New Bedford, Fall River and in other parts of the country. Greetings were received from the New England district of the Labor | Sports Union, Pittsburgh, Chicago | and Detroit. A cable from the Red Anglo-Indian Government Retains Women Miners. GENEVA, May 5.—The International Labor Office and the Anglo-Indian government have agreed that 32,000 Indien women coal miners shall be retained as underground workers this year, and the numbers depleted at the rate of only ten per cent per year there- after. Conditions are very bad for them, but the government retains them because of their cheap labor. 300 Soldiers Guard Murderous Nun. MEXICO CITY, May 5.—Two hundred soldiers will be assigned to guard “Mother Superior Maria Conception,” a Catholic nun, con- | victed and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in connection with the assassination of President-elect Alvaro Obregon, when she leaves », (Continued on Page Three), sai Tu for Tres Marias Island. DORIA tants Sottais late caeee care oa a