The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-. Hour Week For a Labor Party . Published daily ex: Company, Ine., 2 -28 Union Square, cept Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing w York City, N. Y. ‘ol. VI, No. 51 POLICE MAKE ATTACK ON FOOD STRIKERS ' Crowd Attempts to De Driven Off by Guns, Blackjacks Strikes Declared Against Three East Side Cafeterias; Wor Exasperated by continual MURDEROUS fond Strike Committee; kers Answer Call failure to break the strike of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union, police Says Conference Took Step Backward lence against the strikers which onlookers who defended them out- A strike committee of 50 had at-| and private detectives, working in the interests of the cafeteria proved to be the most vicious since the walk-out was declared a month ago. Revolver butts, clubs and side the Paramount Cafeteria, vat AT FINAL SESSION lancey and Essex Sts. When the! sympathetic crowd was forced to re-| eo tempted to call out the workers at the Paramount. Police Slug Freely. bosses, yesterday opened a¢ blackjacks of the police swung sav- treat before the menacing guns of} Nearly every striker on the picket widespread campaign of “ TTVINOV SCORES agely into a crowd of strikers and the police, 20 strikers were arrested. | line yesterday was attacked. Few , Were allowed to picket longer than five minutes before they were ar- rested or driven from the strike zone ; by squads of police, who slugged freely even at bystanders. With mass arrests failing to keep strikers off the picket line, employers’ agents are apparently relying more on renewed violence than on arrests only, as the lower number of ar- rests yesterday, 35, indicates. spond to Strike Call. Strikes were declared against the Sagamore, 9th St. and Ave. B, the Sunrise, 15 Ave. B. and the Walgol cafeterias yesterday. The strike committee in each case was attack- ed by private detectives who awaited their arrival. Yet most of the work- ers in the three shops responded to the strike call. When the entire crew of the Wal- gol went to the cellar to change be- tore they joined the strikers, they were locked in and kept prisoners for several hours. Chairs, dishes and sugar-bowls were hurled at members of the strike committee as they entered the Sagamore. The owner then locked the doors and summoned the police. Workers Jailed. Of the 35 strikers arrested, 27 were arraigned in Essex Market Court before Magistrate Alexander Brough, who adjourned all cases to Friday in bail from $100 to $500. Higher bail was placed on those who had been arrested several times previously. In Jefferson Market by Magistrate Adolf Stern. | GENEVA, May 6.—The Disarma- | TRY 16 WORKERS ment Preparatory Commissicn to- |day adjourned without adopting a single proposal which actually lim- \its armaments. Maxim Litvinov, \for the U. S, S. R. delegation, in a closing speech just before adjourn- ing, denounced the conference, stat- ing that the entire work of the pres; ent session constituted a step back- wards. He showed that the actions of the conference fully justified the predictions of the Soviet delegation when their project for general dis- | armament was rejected. This session concerned _ itself. chiefly with the speeches of the rep- resentatives of the various delega- | tions, the burden of which were that nothing should be done on the ques- | —From Moscow Youth “Pravda.” Berlin’s chief of police; the s |who sent his men out to kill as many workers as they could during the May Day demonstrations. He or- jdered them to fire without warn- ing on everybody who came to a window in working class districts, jand killed 24 that way and during \the fighting that followed. The workers defended themselves heroic- ally. JAILED MAY DAY Another Arrested Faces Sedition Charge (Special to the Daily Worker) BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 6.—Six- teen workers are scheduled to face trial tomorrow for the heinous crime of having attended a May Day meeting in this steel -trust- owned town. The meeting, which was arranged by the Communist Party, was raided by the ‘police be- | tion of naval armaments befcre it, | fore it even started. | but that the sessions should adjourn so that the various powers might |“study” the project submitted by | Gibson which contains the formula jot “equivalent values.” | Count Sato, of Japan, indicated |with polite but firm words that the | American proposal will not be the {only ene considered when the next |session meets. Lord’ Cushendun, {speaking for the British delegation, |said that he does not consider that \the American scheme “contained any definite proposals.” He believes \that it is only a “method” for arriv- ling at some agreement. In adjourning the commission, (Nicolas Politis, of Greece, who acted as chairman, announced that it will be reconvened as soon as the prog- |ress of direct negotiations between the powers justifies a new meeting. |This is indefinite enough to mean jexactly nothing. The next session, the final convocation of a general The 16 workers, on being arrested, were treated like the worst crim- inals. They were taken to police headquarters handcuffed and one of them, named Brown, was put thru the brutal third degree in an effort to extort a+ “confession.” Litera- ture was also seized by the police and considerable furniture in the meeting hall smashed up. They are charged with holding an “unlawful meeting.” Among those arrested was Wil- liam T.,. Murdoch, industrial organ- izer of the Philadelphia district, Communist Party. All the others, (Continued on Page Five) WILL UNIONIZE | Court eight were held in $25 bail| Politis said, will be the last before | 10,000 DYE MEN Of those previously arrested five were held in Essex Market Court for special sessions charged with viola-| tion of the injunction. Two were found guilty of disorderly conduct in Jefferson Market Court. Sentence was postponed to May 11. Three were sentenced to two days in the Tombs, which they chose rather than pay a fine of $10. They are Espiro Periotis, Andrew Papachut, and Sam Picolo, Jack Ashan went to jail for one day rather than pay a fine of $2. Two were discharged and three cases adjourned to next week. Twenty-five strikers were arrest- ed Sunday at the East Side cafe- terias. Their cases were adjourned at night court. |disarmament conference, x ee GENEVA, May 6.—The disarma- ment preparatory commission yester- (Continued cn Page Two) TENNESSEE FAKERS MEET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail). —On May. 15 the misleaders of the Tennessee State Federation of La- bor, who have been prominent in be- traying the rayon strikers at Eliza- bethton and Johnson City, will hold their annual convention here., Prepare for International Red Day—a Day to Mobilize All Who | ‘Are Really Fighting War! 2,000 Millionaires Live In Three Miles of Palaces In New York How Fortunes Have Béen Squeezed Out of Workers In the Tenements (This is, the 22nd in a-series of articles exposing the conditions under which workers are forced to live in New York City. The Dagly Worker revealed the conditions in exploited to the bone, and then Harlem, where Negro workers are described the conditions in Lower Harlem, where the, discrimination against Porto Rican Negroes is even greater, The concluding articles this week will deal with the housing and rent legislation of New York State, and conclude with the program of the Communist Party on housing for the approaching municipal. « Re ARSE a AE NEE MINS elections.) * * . By SOL AUERBACH. XXII. “PVEN as George Washington blazed a trail, even as Abraham Lincoln vindicated a cause and as Moses set a standard, so has Park Avenue achieved a status,” is writ- ten in blazing letters in “The Park | Avenue Social Review,” published monthly free of charge for the mil- lionaires on Park Avenue. Park Avenue is a street of two tlasses. In the three miles from \ Grand Central Station to 96th St. tives the most vicious clique of ex- ploiters the world has ever seen. Two hundred feet from the last palatial residence of the rich on Park Ave. vise the dilapidated tenements of Latin-American and Negro workers. The Status. What is this status that the Park _Avenue Review boasts? One third , of one per cent of the population of New York City live in these three miles, in unfurnished apartments (Continued un Page Two) Paterson Textile Union Defies District Att’y PATERSON, N. J., May 6.—A campaign to organize the 10,000 silk dying workers in this city is under way by the Paterson Local of the National Textile Workers Union which is actively preparing for a strike of these workers. As 4 re- sult of the drive a mill local will be established in one of the biggest dye houses very soon, and before the drive is over, most of these workers will probably be organized into shop committees and mill. lo- cals. District Attorney Defied. F The, Paterson district*attorney is on the job trying to check the drive by threatening to prosecute those distributing the campaign leaflets, but it is going on with full activity. Workers are coming to the union daily and in large numbers, and (Continued on Page Five) KENOSHA STRIKER FRAMED. KENOSHA, Wis., May 6.—Elmer Hackbart, 24, was convicted in a frame up here on charges brought by a scab, and sentenced to 5 years in the state reformatory. He had been active in the Allen-A knitting strike, , RASKOB HAS NEW TRICK. John J. Raskob, chairman of the democratic party national commit- tee and the man who as head of General Motors made the workers pay dues in a company union, yes- terday announced his latest trick to get the workers’ wages. Hé invites them to join an investment company. " REPORT SINCLAIR TO JAIL. WASHINGTON, May 6.—It was stated here by friends of Harry F. Sinclair that he would enter the jail at midnight, and that photographers would be barred, Whatever few minutes * Sinclair serves tonight counts as one day on his sentence. , UNION IN NEW - OFFICE IN SOUTH ‘Charlotte to Be Center | of Continuous Fight | for Better Wages Boss Starts Evictions | Ges RFB ial- | democratic leader, Karl Zoergicbet, |* Expose Gazette ‘Relief’ | as Aid to Seabs Only AST in; ‘nar Moske ONIA, ¥ attempt at terror rs here by evictions from their homes, which begin today, Al- bert Weisbord, national secretary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, announced in a speech to a great mass meeting here that the National Textile Union had come to the South to stay, and would open {southern headquarters in Charlotte jfrom which the entire movement in the South to organize the workers fund of the Red Front Fighters socialist fatherland of all class cor with rifles on the bar Geschenk! and to win livable working condi- jtions and real wages would be con- ducted. The program of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, as explained by Weisbord, is for a con- tinuous struggle. | * * | The Workers International Relief, | National Office at 1 Union Square, |New York, answered the evictions yesterday of the Gastonia strikers with a call for funds to buy tents |to house them. The Workers Inter- | national Relief Gastonia office was closed by the evicters, but will be im- mediately re-established. The state- ment says: “The North Carolina textile strike is entering a new period of struggle. Unable to drive the striking workers back to the mills by the use of the National Guard, armed deputies and thugs, by the bayoneting of pickets. (Continued on Page Two) OIL BARONS GET FALL'S RANCH Sinclair, Doheny, Will “Bid In” Secretary * LOS ANGELES, May 6.—E. L. |Doheny, millionaire oil magnate, |bid in the Three Rivers, N. M., ranch of Albert B. Fall, former sec- retary of the interior, when it was \sold at auction at Alamagordo, N. M., today, representatives of the oil {man said. It is believed that Sin- jclair and Doheny are in partnership to save Fall’s property for him in |substance if not in form, because leach member in the oil lease swin- |dle knows so much about the others, they have to stand together. Doheny’s action was taken to | protect a second morlgage he holds jon the property, it was said, The mortgage results from the famous | $100,000 “little black bag” loan | which figured in the Elk Hills oil | scandal. After making the loan, |Doheny got from Secretary Fall a nice government oil reserve lease. The estate of M. D, Thacher, of Pueblo, Col., son-in-law holds a mortgage on the ranch for $170,000, and Henry F. Sinclair, who | Teapot Dome to Sinclair. DAWSON TRIAL DATE TOBE SET NEWARK, N. J., May 6.—The ease of Ellen Dawson, ‘charged with violation of Section 3 of the Na- turalization Act of 1906 and ar- rested and held for trial whenever she becomes known as active in tex- tile strikes, came up in the U. S. District Court for New Jersey this morning, The prosecutor did not appear and the trial was postponed. Dawson was released on another $2,000 bond. Her case is being de- fended by Isaac Shorr, representing the New York Distriet of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Dawson was arrested and held a week for trial, then dismissed, in the New Bedford strike. When she was organizing workers in the Gas- tonia strike recently, she was again arrested on a framed up charge, held four days in Charlotte jail, and sent to Newark for trial, the date being moved up for that purpose from September to May 6. She was never informed until to- day of the specific law that she is charged with violating, the German bourgec UNION TEAMSTER ‘Wage Increase and No |More Company Union | | The House Wreckers’ Union Lo- cal 95 announced a complete victory {in its strike, with the signing of a |two years’ contract with the con tractors’ association yesterday.| |Something over a thousand men have been on strike. Wages of bar- men, which were $1.25 an hour, raised five cents this year and Buto-| matically rise five cents more at the end of the first year. Wages of helpers, which were $1.15, will be $1.20 an hour the first year and $1.25 next year. In addition to this, only union teamsters and chauffeurs will be al-| lowed to work on house wrecking jobs. The teamsters’ union International Brotherhood of Te: | (Continued on Page Five) ORE SOLDIERS THAN MILL SCABS Rayon Plants Re-open | With Machine Guns ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 6. | —With 6,000 on strike and only a couple of hundred scabs, heavily guarded by six companies of state | militia, one of which is a machine | gun company, the American Glanz- stoff Rayon Company here opened lits doors this morning. Machine guns were mounted on top of the rayon factories and the of Fall, S¢ldiers and deputies kept a patrol processions marched ‘through the |to encourage the strikebreakers. | i Harry Schults, employment man- | featured with Fall in the Teapot |&er for the two plants, said the toy and Paviak prisons celebrated | Dome oil scandal, owns a one-third | Yorkers who had been asked to re- | May interest in the property. Fall gave |turm were members of the “Loyal | Hundreds of workers collected be- Workers Organization.” This is a small company union recently or- ganized, The present strike is the second this spring in these plants. The tirst ended with a compromise se- | ‘cured by the United Textile Work- ‘ers’ officialdom, who interjected | themselves into a spontaneous strike | jand persuaded the workers that the | ‘employers were “good fellows.” | The company broke its promise, and the men walked out a few weeks | later, with U. T. W. officials try- ing to compromise ever since. Office Workers Union \in Mass Meet Thursday George Powers, of the Architec- | tural, Iron and Bronze Workers | Union; Rebecca Grecht, of Millinery Local 43, and Robert Dunn, of the | Labor Research Association, and | others will speak at the mass meet- (Union at the Labor Temple, 14th | St. and Second Ave., at 6:30 p. m. | Thursday. The meeting is part of the inten- | sive organizational campaign which | the union is now conducting. Office workers are urged to at- tend an open air meeting today at | 26th St. and Madison Ave., at 12:30 p. m. Prominent speakers will ad- idress the meeting, 9" ue A \W.LR. Meet Tomorrow ing to be held by the Office Workers | PTION RATES: In Red Front Fighters Demonstrate Internationa! Un © nich Ros Klassengenossen! Unterstiitzt die Solidarifatsaktion des RFB.! In allen Betrieben, proletarischen Organisationen und Arbeiterverkehrslokalen, bei Sympathisierenden, Freunden und Bekannten sammelt fiir das Komintern- Zeichnet Betrage auf das Postscheckkonto Ernst Thalmann, Internationales Treffen der Roten Frontkampferorgani- sationen, 5. Reichstreffen, Hamburg, Pfingsten 1929, Konto Nr. 43093, Postscheckamt Berlin Photo of a placard posted in German cities, calling on all workers’ organizations to contribute to the Kha arkov and Rostov “to support the ‘omintern Gift of the Red Front to send motor trucks to Moscow nscious workers.” They go as the “C Fighters.” This is only one of the activities of the fine proletarian defense organization which defended icades the ight to a May Day celebration, and helps to explain the intense hatred feels for it. Useless to Boss, Starvi ng Dan Edwards, who emerged from the world war as one of the “heroes in | the American expeditionary forces,” | is in the hospital, Brooklyn, jobless and suffering from a nervous break- down, | Several weeks ago Dan pounded | the sidewalks of New York for any kind of a job to provide himself with the simplest necessities of life. For several weeks he searched un- successfully. Finally, the combined strain on his search and his need of |food overcame him and he collapsed | in the street. MAY 1 BATTLES IN MANY CITIES: Only in Moscow Are Parades Encouraged (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 6.— Besides the impressive May Day demonstration with a parade of £00,000 in this city, the other cities of the Soviet Union held: imposing ceremon In Vladivostok the eign seamen from ships in the har- bor participated. Many new factories and cultural over the kestan-Siberian line, was opened. © a te Thousands in Warsaw Parade. | WARSAW, May 6.—The Commu- nist and left wing soc! i ~demon- stration of 10,000 participating was | brutally attacked by the police and many were injured. Communist workers’ part of the city. The political prisoners in Moko- First with demonstrations. fore the Paviak prison and joined |in singing the International, which | could be heard from the prison cells. The police broke up the workers’ | groups. x o* * 50,000 Strike in Shanghai. SHANGHAI, China, May Fifty thousand workers struck and (Continued on Page Five) 6— Will Hear Pershing, | ‘Five Textile Strikers. George Pershing, Gastonia, N. C., |strike leader, and five Gastonia |strikers will speak tomorrow at 8 Pp. m. at 1800 Seventh Ave., at a |mass meeting arrangéd by the Har- lem Section of the Workers Inter- |national Relief, at which the latest | developments gf the southern textile | strike will be related. Other speakers will include Har- niet Silverman, secretary, Local New | York W. I. R., and A. Fishman, or- \ganizer, Harlem Section, W. I. R. The strikers who will address the | meeting are Viola Hampton, Ray- mond Clark, W. M. Bledsoe, Kermit Hardin and C, E. Hallaway. The five strikers came north to assist the W. I. R. raise funds for the | striking workers. | A Harlem Section of the W. I. R.| will be organized at the meeting, Outside New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. ALL BUILDING, TOBACCO WORKERS JOIN BERLIN STRIKE Chief her | 5 ; cm ov utuy Das Komintern-Geschenk zur Unterstiitzung des sozialistischen a Aufsaus des proletarischen Vateriandes WORKERS OF CITY 70 DEMONSTRATE ATMASS FUNERAL Declare Red Front Illegal; Raid It New Fighting Likely N. Y. Workers to Meet Today in Solidarity (Wir nprecorm™y BERLIN, May 6.—All the Berlin building trades work- ers are out on strike as a protest against the police brutality during the May Day demonstrations, and all tobacco workers have joined them, with the workers of the three largest factories: Manoli, Massary, and Josetti fou, Howkasien. ) | ritsky. Our officials were uncon- HOUSE WRECKERS U.S. War Hero, LOGAL 43 ASKS WIN STRIKE AND Vou Uj. §. WORKERS TO AID ITS STRUGGLE Millinery Local Backs) Cleveland Unity Meet ued to the In an appeal just i entire American work Local 43, a: ers in its fight against the corrupt Zaritsky machine of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Interna- tional Union. The appeal describes the struggles of Local 43 and its growth from an organization of 300 worke: to one uniting 4,000. It urges heip in its struggle to unite all the cap and millinery workers with the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union and endorses the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland June 1. | Fellow Workers: | | In behalf of the thousands of or- ganized women workers of the Mil- linery Hand Workers Union Local 43, and in the interest of the thou- sands of unorganized women work- ers employed in the millinery trade, we appeal to you for support and ance against the unheard of criminal and bloody attack made against us by the few paid dicta- tors of our International. . We Build the Local—They Are Out to Smash It. The Millinery Hand Workers’ Union: Local 43, consisting exclu-| sively of women, was composed of only three hundred members when the left wing undertook the task of | organizing the milliners. Our of- ficials were neither interested nor able to organize the thousands of unorganized women workers em- ployed in the millinery trade. After the geperal strike of 1919, this local was on the verge of ruin. The strike of 1919, called for the purpose of establishing the week work sys- tem and for the organization of the | unorganized, was betrayed by Za-| cerned about the deplorable ecor omic conditions of the thousands of un-| organized trimmers who slaved long hours for starvation wages. This sad | state of affairs existed from 1919 until 1926 when our executive board assumed the responsibility of reviv- ing the demoralized and half ruined local. Our International officials (Continued on Page Two) DRIVERS STRIKE. PITTSBURGH, (By Mail).—Over 150 drivers of the Allis-Chalmers |Co. have gone on strike against a| | Fighte at their head. Many metal workers are striking at the Siemens, Kali, Chrysler, Stock, Loewe factories, and othe! The strikes are spreading rapidly, and have already involved factories in Hamburg and Halle. * BERLIN, May 6.—Intense indig- nation sw proletarian dis- tricts of many over the murder of workers holding May Day dem- onstrations in Berlin and the raids ordered today on the Red Front s and Communist Party of- s by the two “socialist” officials who are acting as the main props of the oppr ive capitalist government here. Mass Funeral and Strike. A great funeral, with a one-day strike starting in the afternoon to- morrow, will honor 21 workers, vic- tims of the police terror. They were | Shot down while demonstrating May Day, or during the fighting that fol- lowed the workers’ resistance on the barricades of the attack upon them. They will be buried, under the aus- pices of the Communist Party, in one great, red draped grave, and if the Berlin police carry out their threat to break up the funeral pro- cessions or shoot into the masses gathered at the grave, there is no doubt but that the barricades will go up, the Red Front Fighters will be out with rifles and revolvers again, and another desperate bat- tle in the streets will follow. Declare Red Front Illegal. The social democrat, Albert Grze- sinski, nister of the interior of ued an order late yes- y ring the Red Front Fighters dissolved, a so the Red Youth Front and the Red Marines. A police communique this morn- ing, 1 by the “socialist” chief of police of Berlin, Zoergiebel, with- drawing the state of siege, declared: “In consequence of orders of the Prussian minister of the interior suppressing the Red Front organi- zations, the police today seized the inventories, offices, equipment and (Continued on Page Five) Seamen’s Club Meet) Today Will Protest Berlin Police Terror is: ® A demonstration protesting po- lice brutality following the Ber- lin May Day demonstration will be held under the auspices of the |: New York District of the Com- munist Party at the Seamen’s Club, 28 South St., near South Ferry, at noon toda: “Aided by its socialist chief of police,” a call urging mass at- tendance at the meeting declares, “the German social democracy is ifying its campaign of mass against the militant SS, whose rise to pow- | wage cut from 66 cents to 60 cents an hour, hg 30 YEARS FOR FARRUGIO Father of 11 Taunted by Rich Youth TRENTON, N. J., May 6.—Jo-| judges, if the young man concerned seph Farrugio knows now that such were a ditch digger, as is Farrugio. fanciful defenses in an American| ‘en 30 Years. murder trial as “the unwritten law” | Farrugio was sentenced today to are for rich men only. Farrugio,| the maximum term for second de- a poor laborer, with a large family,| gree murder—t y years in the now knows that when a rich young | Trenton pri He leaves a wife man deigns to seduce a daughter of and eleven children, the youngest @ the lower classes, the father of this month old baby to exist as best they. girl must not take any such revenge |can while he lies in prison. as a rich father would be lauded| Justice Bodine heard the attorney, for taking, by all businessmen and (Continued on Page Five), “ Ae *