The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 1

| ) AGAINST THE BRUTAL POLICE | TERROR IN THE CAFETERIA STRIKE OTEST AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY Saturday, May 11 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governme st \ To Organize the Unorganized i For the 40-Hour Week i For a Labor Party Entered as sec aily ss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. at 1:30 p. m., U nion Square tA TE ATTACK AND MURDER OF GERMAN WORKERS ON MAY DAY ¢ — Published 4. Company, 1 ly except jay by 26-28 Union Square, New . 53 BERLIN WORKERS Big Gain in FIRST WORKER DRIVE THRUOUT S=¥-Yorke= 0s MASS AT GRAVE OF DEAD HEROES — Pants Vote of Communists (Vkireless By “Inprecorr”) | PARIS, May 8.—The municipal elections give the Communists five CORRESPONDENT \Socialist Police Chief 'seats in the Paris municipal council Cleveland Conference Loses Nerve; Halts Order to Attack | Many Strike Half Hour ‘Post Mortem Shows | Slain Were Unarmed - BERLIN, May 8.—Huge demon- strations at the cemetery where the vietims of the police terror carried en against May Day paraders in Berlin were buried today testified to the hatred of militant German work- | ers toward the capitalist govern- } ment and jts, social democratic of- ficials. the last moment, the social demeoer against two in 1925. The elections show a growth in Communist votes of ten per cent while the socialist vote was considerably less. LABOR FIGHTING BOSS INJUNCTION Food Strikers Uncowed | by Terror An injunction restraining the Ho- tel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Work- ers’ Union from picketing “or dis- tributing strike literature” in front Precedes Trade Union Unity Meet Workers Enthusiastic Call To Be Issued In A Few Days Preparations are proceeding rapidly for the First National Work- er Correspondents’ conference ever held in the United States, to take | place in Cleveland on May 31, im- mediately preceding the Trade Union Unity Conference called by the Trade Union Educational League in Cleve- land on June 1 and 2. A call for the workers corre- ratic chief of police, Zoergie- of restaurants which have not yet sponds’ conference is in preparation, bel, lost his nerve and with his mem- surrendered to the union in its fight and will be issued shortly. ory fresh of the four days’ fighting on the barricades, when the Red Front Fighters and workers of Ber- iin drove back the well-equipped po- lice and shock troops of this city, he averted similar battles today by x to the demonstrations. rkers Come in Masses. An attempt to save the prestige cf the government and of the social i tic party by a strict order inst parades to the cemetery ied ther nothing. Workers (Continuea on Page Five) CHAMPION’ FETE TOMORROW EVE Workers of All Races Will Assemble An_ international cf solidarity with the Negro work- ers of America is indicated in the response to the announcement of the “Champion Dinner” this Friday evening at 6:30 at the Workers Cen- ter, which is being held by the Com- munist Party, District 2, and ‘the Negro Champion. Many racial groups will be offi- cially represented at the dinner, as well as trade unions and party groups. Five delegates have been appointed to represent the Haitian Patriotic League, and the Porto Rican, Chinese and Japanese work- ers will also be represented. The international character of the din- ner will be emphasized by one of the speakers, Louis Gibarti, interna- tional representative of the Anti- Imperialist League, who will speak on the “International Role of the Negro in Defying mee Ag- gression.” Build “Champion.” The announcement of the dinner as the beginning of an intensive campaign to build the “Negro Cham- (Continued on Page Five) SENATE ADOPTS ava | FARM DEBENTURE CompleteDeadlockNow Most Probable WASHINGTON, May 8 (UR).— . Efforts of President Hoover’s sup- , porters to strike the debenture plan from the farm relief bill failed in the Senate today when the adminis- tration amendment proposed by floor leader Watson was rejected. The debenture clause provides that whenever the order is issued by the farm board, a bounty may be paid by the treasury on any ex- ported farm commodity, the amount of the bounty to be equal to one- half the import duty on that pro- duct. In the case of wheat, the tar- iff is 42 cents a bushel so that the debenture certificate would have a face value of 21 cents. 4 Se The debenture plan does not in any manner assist the actual farm- ors, and at most raises the price of (Gontinued on Page Five) demonstration for the eight-hour day was issued by Supreme Court Justice Henry L. Sherman yesterday. That the injunction, through which the Wil-low Corporation “legalized” its campaign of mass terror and arrests as part of its attempt to | break the strike will fail completely is indicated in the courageous at- titude of the strikers. They cannot let the writ of a judge who speaks ‘for the bosses drive them back to the 12-hour slavery. Can't Break Strike. Since the strike first began in the garment district the pickets have been relentlessly slugged, brow- beaten and intimidated by uniformed and private thugs in the pay of the cafeteria owners, and the courts as- sist by jailing the victims. Many strikers are now so well known to the police that their arrival in the strike zone is the signal for a con- certed attack even before they have (Continued cn Page Five) 4 MORE SHOPS JOIN FOOD STRIKE (Frequent Arrests Fail to Stop Pickets Four more cafeterias were tied up yesterday when the Hotel, Res- taurant and Cafeteria Workers Union declared strikes against the Marion, 946 Sixth Ave.; the Strand, |254 W. 28rd St.; the Belmore, 543 Broadway, and the New Light, 101 East 14th St. 100 Per Cent Strike. The strike at the Marion was 100 per cent effective. Most of the workers walked out of the other shops. Inside organizational work at the New Light shop proved effec- tive when nearly every worker stood solid behind the appeal of the strike committee. The earlier strike at the New Light, called before the union completely extended the walkout to the downtown section, had been only partially successful. So frequent have been the arrests | since the strike began, April 4, that many of the pickets, known as pre- vious “offenders” to police and their auxiliaries, the private thugs and detectives, were prevented from carrying the union “Strike!” sign before they reached the strike zone Police brutality in the cafeteria strike and in the Berlin May Day demonstrations will be protested at a mass demonstration in Union Square Saturday afternoon. Strik- ers will be active in the demonstra- lon, Protest Injunction. The injunction obtained by the Wil-low Cafeterias, Inc., through its ex-A. F. of L. lawyer, former Magistrate Hyman Bushel, wil be denounced at a mass meeting of (Continued on Page Five) Begin Building Zine Distillery in USSR ARTEMOVSK, U. S. 8. R. (By | Mail).—In the Donetz Basin, near Konstantinovka, the construction has been started of a zinc pipe distillery with an annual turnover of 10,000 ie en 2 Strength of Movement Grows. Due to the growing power of the worker correspondents, in serving as a medium of expression for the ! workers, both in the Communist press and in the many shop papers issued by the workers in the various industries, it has become a necessity to coordinate the work of the work- ler correspondents, and to organize them into a powerful army of worker corespondents, which will enable their power to be utilized in the most effective way. The conference in Cleveland is in line with the recent Fourth World Congress of Worke: and Peasant Correspondents in Moscow, which was attended by over 500 delegates from the Soviet Union, as well as delegates from foreign countries. The plans for the conference have been met with great enthusiasm by | workers in such industrial centers as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, CI cago, and Detroit, where the work- Jers were informed of the plans for | the conference by J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, |= who spoke in these centers on his trip to Chicago to participate in the May Day celebrations there. The workers in these cities pledged to cooperate in every way in preparing ‘or the conference and in choosing delegates. A great army of workers corre- spondents has been developed in such | (Continued on Page Five) SHOE WORKERS TO MEET THIS EVE | Hear Strike Progress at Irving Plaza jactivity and progress of strikes |throughcut the city will be made at |the general membership meeting of |the Independent Shoe Workers |Union tonight at 6 o’clock at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- ving Pl. Fred Biedenkapp, general man- jager of the union, will report on the general situation, and J. Magliacano, organizer, will tell of the series of |militant strikes in various parts of the city. At this meeting details will also be told of the plan for each shop to send delegates te the May 18 Metropolitan Area Conference for the June 1 Cleveland Trade Union Convention. Ten shops have already chosen delegates, Yesterday the bosses of the Lipp Shoe Company, 23 W. 70th St., where 55 workers have been on strike for union recognition, wage increases and the 44-hour week for nearly two months, called for a con- ference with the union. The bosses finally surrendered to the demands for the union and 44-hour week, but balked on the wage increase. As a result the strike continues. Workers in the Gintell Shoe Co., 188 W. 25th St., yesterday, discov- ering that they were working on scab material, walked out. Sixty ere now on strike under the leader- \ship of the Independent Shoe Work- (ers Union. The same situation pre- vails at the Ettina Shoe Co., 397 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, where a strike occurred yet)erday, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929 lI. $. FOR NEGRO MEET ON MAY 31 WEEK MAY 10-19 | Build Labor Congress, ‘Champion,’ Organize Shop Committees Work for Unity Meet New Members for C. P. One of Chief Aims Inder the direction of the Na- tional Negro Department of the communist Party of the U. S. A. preparations are in full swing thru- out the country for an intensive campaign, bringing new Negro workers into the Party, building the Negro membership in the unions and extending the circulation of the Negro Champion, organ of the American Negro Labor Congress during the week from May 10 to 9, designated as Negro Week. The membership of the Commu- nist Party is being mobilized to carry on the campaign, which will be directed locally by the District Negro Committees of the Party. For Cleveland Conference. Special effort is being made to tie up the work during this week with the organization of Negro workers into shop committees with white workers, assuring good repre- sertation at the local Trade Union | (Continued on Page Five) l L. 6, MACHINE WRECKS MEET Right Wing Follows ‘Rule or Ruin’ Policy The right wing machine of Local | 88 of the yellow International La- dies Garment Workers Union broke up a general membership meeting ef the !ocal in order to prevent the membership from censuring the ex- ceutive board for defending its mons | | | | | FINAL CITY EDITION aa RGRICIDG AT . by mail, $8.00 per year. ri SG SUBSCRIPTION RATE Ne cones seat Price 3 Cents Outside “SHOOT IF YOU DARE,” MILL STRIKERS WARN DEPUTIES. German Red Fronters darity With trate Soli Carrying banners d nouncing the bloody at- tack on the German May Day demonstration Berlin by the police, and pledging their socialist solidarity with the prole- tarian Red Front Fight- ers, who fought heroical- Berlin, New York workers dem- onstrated before the Ger- man Consulate Tuesday. Photo shows the workers at the German Consulate, ly on the barricades of | several hundred SICK EVIGTED; - PICKET LINES THRU STREETS Leave All Furniture on Company Land; Drive From It County Refuses Relief Chicago Workers Hold Tag Days, Meetings | Deputie where they marched —_— from the Internafional| GASTONIA, May 8.— Seannni’s CLik Deputies set te k by the Man- ee y ‘ * Seamen's Chi. ville-Jenckes Ti Co. are busy he 2 A ¥ ; : again today throwing strikers out —— —— a a is sade ii of their house 1 the strikers con- seaman care ae cau ae 427 eS ea re S tinue to defy the e refusing to leave compa There STEEL TRUST IN Unzon Square Demonstration 2 oi Ru _ WORKERS TRIAL Gives Orders; Frameup Saturday on Berlin Murders ZARITSKY GANG Following up the successful dem- ration held before the German ulate on Tuesday, the New York c District of the Communist Party is streets of the company town. Depu- ties have pointed guns at the strik- ers, threatening to shoot them down, and the strikers and their families shout back them, “Shoot if you dare.” So far none has dared, but a ma: re is not impossible at any momen’ Imminent pushing forward with ail speed the Eviet Sick Children. ’ es preparations for the giant open-air Etta McClure, a mother of five (Special to the Daily Worker) | protest demonstration on Saturday, | small children and pregnant, was BETHLEHEM, Pa., May The;May 11, at 1:30 p. m. in Union ae evicted while h band col- drama of the class war unfolded it- | Square, *] rush |lecting strike relief in Ashville. The jself._ with unusual vividness when 17; In commenting upon the effects of New Scheme to Crush six-year-old daughter of J. A. Val- workers, arrested when police at- |tacked a May Day meeting here last Saturday, ¢ame up for a hearing in| the local court held at Alderman Greenstein’s office. On one side were officials of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the chief of the com- pany police, foremen, consulting with and instructing the district at- torney while the puppet judge went thru the motions of administering “justice.” | On the other side, filling the courtroom, was a crowd of 1,000) workers, the majority steei slav eager to learn the fate of their com- rades. | Two Still Held. Of the 17 workers arrested, all but two were released on $1,000 bail, four on the unusually high bail of $5,000 and two, Morris Birnbaum and William T. Murdoch, Philadel- phia district organizer of the Trade Militant Locals As though to add the cloak of “constitutionality” to their campaign of destruction against its militant locals, and to crush all opposition, the administration “constitutional committee” at the machine-packed convention of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International jyesterday, proposed an amendment Tuesday’s demonstration, the Di: trict, Executive Committee of Di trict 2 (New York) points io the fact that first of all the capitalist press tried in every possible way to hide the demonstration Tuesday before the German consulate and its significance for obvious diplo- matic reasons, and, secondly, that (Continued on Page Five) entine, member of the strike com- mittee, was thrown into the road by deputies, although the girl has small pox. The company doctor gave his official consent to this. Chief picket captain Cox, and his four children were evicted, although the youngest child, a baby of eighteen months, has influenza. Such general resistance to these evictions has been aroused that in . to the constitution giving the G several cases the deputies failed. Office Workers AOA 22 1 eecaitiva Ween fallaciuscic| One was ‘al thes hous vat eerie Key Position, Powers, Crawford, chairman of the local to revoke charters of any local for | sion” or branch of the Workers International d beying a “dec an “or- Grecht, Tell Reporter (2. ct the General Executive Board, |Relief. Bertha Crawford and her convention, which opened on|husband held their house so vig- By an Office Worker. May 1, is meeting at Beethoven |orously that the deputies had to iOitieeds wasliere choldavarwvery| Hall: leave. The Robinson and Carrol strategie position in the commercial) At the same time a minority |{@Milies locked their doors. The would; aris iit taxesot strikes ‘or tac \deputies secured reinforcements, report was introduced by which re- vocation of charters would be taken out of the hands of the G.E.B. en- tirely and placed in the hands of bor struggles,-can give very valu- able information to workers in the ries,” said George Powers of crashed down the door and pointed , threatening to shoot, and de- to shoot by the family. gangster manager, Luigi Rea, whose | Union Educational League and vice- resignation the board had accepted with regret, The motion of censure, which would have been passed by a large majority, was kept from a_ vote when the machine put out the lights and broke up the meeting. It pr posed to accept the resignation of Rea, condemning him for his bloody assault upon an old Left wing mem- ber, B, Chaganow, at a membership meeting in Bryant Hall last Septem- ber, as well as censuring the ex- ecutive board for its attempt to con- done the assaulter. The Right wing manager pre- tended to be ill and sent his min- | Left wing member made the motion jof condemnation, the chairman jthreatened to close the meeting. ;When most of the other members present showed that they would de- fend his right to make the motion, the machine broke up the meeting. ASAIN JAM MEET ~ ATTILING PLANT Tell of 100% Dividend; Bosses Booed PERTH AMBOY, N. J., May 8.— Aided by the whole-hearted support of the workers, who attended er masse, the Trade Union Educational League held another noonday mass Encaustie Tiling Company plant here today, The girl workers were in the vanguard, coming out first and in the greatest numbers. Speakers were Veronica Kovacs, John Marshall, of the Trade Union Educational League, and James Szepesy, a worker in the plant who (Continued on Page Two) We have seen above that the fi step in the revolution by the w: | Marx (Communint Manifesto) meeting in front of the American | to “a president of the National Textile DELEGATE MEET ON WEDNESDAY ‘Needle Workers Back | Cleveland Convention | The monthly Shop Delegate Con- | ference of the Needle Trades Work- Stirring reports of organization | utes with another member. When a] ers Industrial Union will be held in | Webster Hall, 11th St. and Thing | Ave., next Wednesday, immediately | after work, the Joint Board an- | nounced last night. Due to the general situation in the fur and cloak industries, the forthcoming conference is of vital | \importance. Among the immediate | | and important problems to be taken! | up at the conference are the follow-| ing: | The forthcoming gener‘al strike in| |the fur industry; the fake lockout |and the fake stoppage which the) \cloak manufacturers, together with | the treacherous International gang are planning to foist upon the work- | ‘ers. With their new fake maneuvers, | | the right wing gang is striving to! | make the miserable conditions of the | workers even worse than they are _at present, One of the most important points on the agenda of the Shop Delegates | Conference will include the selection of delegates to the Metropolitan Area Conference which the Local N. Y. Trade Union Educational League is calling for the purpose of mobil- izing for the Trade Union Unity Convention in Cleveland on June 1 and 2nd. The Metropolitan Area Conference will be held in New York on May 18 and 19, and delegates rep- resenting thousands of workers are expected to attend. Strengthen International Prole- | tarian Ties Over the Heads of Amsterdam Diarupterst hitectural, Iron and Bronze |ecnventions of the International. “Stick To The Union.” Union, and one of the M Kilacked There are c speakers at tonight's mass meeting, | Be ae the loomibe TaD. MLE ORLY he pointed out the key position! Delegates speaking for the minor- meds a as casi ia ie gee ais h office workers hold in_ the |ity proposal attacked the administra-|@Ge_@ Speech amongst she ture in the road, waying: . business and industrial world. Asked what role the office work- ers take in strikes, he replied: | “They have the power to make: a strike or break a strike. They can help the industrial workers through their knowledge of the bosses’ maneuvers and schemes to {thwart active protests; or, if they| (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) ook what the dirty dogs are | doing! Stick to the union! I am willing to give my life for it. Fight it out, and continue living TRUCK DRIVER KILLED WAKEFIELD, R. I. (By Mail).— Rufus Gardner, a truck driver for . for| right here in the road ever the Holley Transportation Co.,| night.” is Providence, was killed when a train| "4 gang of mill owner thugs, struck the truck he was driving. clatming:to be deputy, sheriffarexme —_——_—— upon Roy Stroud, a striker, at mid- Equal Pay for Equal Work! Communist Housing Program for Workingclass Tenants No Segregation; State Houses for Worke Low Rents; No Evictions; Good Houses (This is the conluding article in the series which has appexied exclusively in the Daily Worker exposing the conditions under wh workers are forced to live in New York City. Previous articles described in great detail conditions in Upper and Lower Harlem, where segrega- tion aggravates the unsanitary conditions which also exist in other workingclass districts, and, is used by the landlords in a vicious rent- raising scheme. After the conclusion of this series the Daily Worker will continue with the publication of exposures of housing conditions in other cities and letters received from workingclass tenants.) _ * 8 By SOL AUERBACH. XXIV. ee municipal election in New York City is approaching, the most intimate phase of the workers’ lives, will be used by the | capitalist parties and the reformist socialist party for their own purposes | Worker will run a series in the election campaign. As in the past, the three parties of and for the capitalist system, will approach the workers for votes either on what they pretend they have done to relieve the housing@— Housing, | night, where he was sleeping in the road amongst his furniture. He drove them away at the point of a gun, claiming and enforcing his right to self defense. Parents Jailed; Children Evicted. | Seven children of the Byers fam- ily slept amongst the furniture of their house after it was thrown into the street. Their parents were ar- rested because one little child kicked }a deputy who was throwing the fur+ niture into the road, Need More Tents. evicted families yesterday decided to let the furniture stay where it was thrown. No matter how many are evicted, the policy is not to take the belongings from the company property, and put the next | (Continued on Page Two) | ae The Series of Articles on | Conditions inBuilding | Trades StartsMonday, the Daily of articles en the building industry, written by |Joseph Cohen. Now, with the builds ing boom on the downgrade, with junion bureaucracies expelling mili+ Beginning Monday, ‘situation or with promises of what! good done for the tenants, whatever tants who want to put up a real | they will do when they get into of- they say will be a lie, for there has | fight against the open-shop drive fice. never been a more brazen housing that is coming, and when the five~ Prepare Fake Screen. fake law put across than this one. The Tammany speakers will point} Mayor Walker is now busy con- to the Multiple Dwellings Bill,) structing a mask of housing fakes passed by the New York State legis-| which will be worn by the landlords lature and signed by Governor/and their soap-boxers during the Roosevelt with almost the unani-|campaign. He is now preparing mous support of the realtors and|what he calls a model housing land sharks, as a “progressive”|scheme for Forsythe and Chrystie ste; in “restrictive” housing legis-| Streets in the lower Hast Side. He speak, of the on Page Two) tins, i abt dt. (Conti on itn TS |day week and the unemployment ‘problem are simultaneously occupy ing the attention of the workers, this es will be particularly in+ teresting and timely, The articles will be on the general situation, ac cidents and special trades, such as carpenters, painters, plumbers, elec- tricians, bricklayers, plasterers and ders,