The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 1

AGAINST THE BRUTAL POLICE TERROR IN THE CAFETERIA STRIKE | PR 11 at 1:30 p. m,, THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered a® second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Mar. ch 3, 1879. jon Square, N iny by The Comprodaily blishing ew York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 OTEST AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY ‘AGAINST sing THE ATTACK | AND MURDER OF GERMAN WORKERS ON MAY DAY FINAL CITY EDITION \ Price GASTONIA DELEGATION TO EXPOSE FAKE SENATE QUIZ WORKERS P AR ADE Berlin Police oie IN MANNHEIM FOR : DEAD OF BERLIN Break Up the House of | Burgesses in Hamburg | Defending Red Front | ‘Revenge’ Cry at Grave Moscow Workers Make Solidarity Pledge BERLIN, May 9.—Demonstrations in Mannheim (attacked by the pol- | ice), in Hamburg and other large | cities of Germany accompanied the | mass funeral yesterday of the vic- tims of the Berlin police, who were; sent out by the “socialist” chief of police, Zoergiebel, with orders to} shoot up the workers’ May Day meetings. The smashing of the meetings caused four days’ fighting in the! streets, for the Red Front Fighters | and the Communists came to the aid| of the attacked workers, and fought back the police from behind barri-| cedes. 29 workers were killed. | Two of the brutal police of B The police refused to release the | bodies of most of them for the mass| onstrations and calling on worker: funeral yesterday, but relatives were | the mass funeral of the victims. Sper Dine Foes! HANY TASKS FOR had been denouncing the assault against the workers’ May Day dem- U.S. NEGRO WEEK, STARTING TODAY | Philadelphia Arranges} Demonstration and Other Activities Special “Daily” Edition Tieup Week with Trade : Union Unity Meet National Negro Week, set aside the Communist Party, as a period of intensifying the drive for drawing new Negro workers into the Party, into the American Negro Labor Congress and the new left, wing unions, and mobilizing white and Negro workers in the fight against the exploiters’ barriers of race prejudice, begins today. It is expected to reach an organizational climax by May 19, the end of the week, The District Negro Committees of the Party thruout the country are mobilizing the entire Party} membership to concentrate on the Negro workers, especially in pro- ceeding with the various organiza- tion campaigns. | Important Tasks. by erlin dragging along a speaker who by deputised thugs and gunmen o 8s to strike for half an hour during u i i : out because he is secretary of the able to secure three of the slain! heroes, and these were honored as representatives of all the victims of the blood bath and mass terror of capitalist extorters' and socialist lackeys of German fascism. Masses Follow Coffins. There were red shrouds on the. coffins and red ribbons on funeral} wreaths born in procession to the cemetery by workers in working clothes and their shirt sleeves. The masses of workeers following the| | slowly carried coffins wore red arm ‘bands and bore red banners. A great scroll, with the words: “Revenge for the Heroes of the Lhreaten to. Jail State Bloody May Day of 1929,” was on} Bank Superintendent the leading coffin as it was et ot up A from the working class district of| fyidence in the bankruptcy hear- Berlin to Friedrichsfelde cemetery, Goa ae outside the city. able Sreve,| sidiary concern of President Fer- rrounded by workers in overalls |yari, of the now bankrupt City Trust and women wearing gingham dresses | qo implicated two state superin- and aprons, Ernst Thaelmann, lead- | tendents of banks, a municipal judge er of the Communist fraction in the | und several prominent citizens in the Reichstag, delivered the funeral ora-| mess surrounding the wrecking of On, SA : a bank with loss of over $3,000,000 On these graves of our dead we|foy stockholders and depositors. swear to carry through the revolu- | Joseph A. Broderick, the present tion not only in Germany but in the | state superintendent of banks, was whole world. We will destroy caP-| ordered by Harry K. Davis, Lancia italist governments, defy ‘socialist’ | hankruptey referee, to produce the laws and set up dictatorships of the! examination records of the City proletariat. : |Trust within half an hour or go to Many Demonstrations. | jail for contempt of federal court. The masses responded by singing | Broderick had refused to hand over The Internationale. eny evidence that Warder knew of In addition to the half-hour strike $1,500,000 forged and otherwise TESTIFY JUDGE HID BANK FRAUD sa of most of the factory workers of |fraudulent securities in the vaults | Berlin and the taxi and bus drivers, of the City Trust. during which the police arrested Tried to Sell Dead Horse. nearly 30 speakers who addressed! A. H. Giannini, to whom an at- the striking workers, there were! (Continued on Page Five) Unions, Negroes, 1 b D. Will Be at Union Square Tomorrow |ing for the Lancia Motors Co., a sub- | | The most important tasks of the} International Relief, 1 Union Sq week are to intensify the Party- a Thrown Out of Their House by Mill Deputies textile mill. T ational Textil of the Manville Jenc Loray local of the strikers must have food and tents; they are suffering starvation and sickness, uare, New York é William Truitt and family, who were evicted from their hoise along with 61 other striker families Pruitt was one of the first to be put Union. The Rush funds to Workers Wor le evicted Building drive among the Negro workers, organize the Negro work- ers in the factories into shop com- mittees together with the white | workers, assure good representa- : : , a tion based on shop committees at oneteatian fa Une Seana, Satay, |the local Trade Union Educational S Rive League conferences and at the day, May 11, at 1:30 p. m., against y CORtEea pees the police brutality in Berlin, where | 7. te qos eh wanes Conference, to 29 a eee Me Oe most complete cooperation will be giebel's police during the May Yay | piven in the creation of new locals meetings.and the fighting provoked [f the American Negro Labor Con. by the police attack, is meeting with | gress and the building of the circu- great response from the militant ‘Continued cn Pc rT workers of New York. Shoe and| (Conteaned. on ane Ame food unions, the Negro Labor Con- gress and the International Labor BIG FETE TONITE FOR ‘CHAMPION’ Defense endorse it. Gibarti, Minor, Owens UNION EXPOSES FAKE ‘STOPPAGE Show Threat as Bluff to Aid LL.G.\V. Gang The representativ.s of the cloak manufacturers and the agents of the zight wing International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Unicn have during the past few days been shcoting blank cartridges regarding the pos- sibi of a so-called “strike” in the The workers of New York have been up against police terror them- selves. They know what it means. Workers like these striking cafe-| teria workers know what it means! to face the police terror. Shoe Workers Too. | So do the shoe workers. They, Others to Speak industry. |have some strikes too. The Inde- Exposing the threat of the I. L. pendent Shoe Workers’ Union of The dinner for the “Negro Cham- |G. W. company union as another Greater New York, in a huge mass pion,” taking place tonight at the scheme te mulct several thousand meeting last night in Union Square, Workers Center, under the auspices adopted a ringing resolution de- of the District Executive Commit- nouncing the police terror in Berlin, tee of the Communist Party, will and declaring their solidarity both jisten to an address by one of the with the German workers and the outstanding figures in the world striking cafeteria workers, and anti-imperialist._ movement, when calling on all shoe workers to be|Louis Gibarti speaks on “The Role at Saturday’s demonstration dollars from the workers in the form of assessments and to “tighten the yoke-of slavery around the necks of the ¢loakmakers,” Joseph Borucho- witz,-genéral manager of the Joint + | dustrial’ Untony,yesterday issued the Gain & in of the Negro in Fighting Imperialist |fcllewing statement: | ite -onteteed an | Aeetession” The ‘statement of Mr. Grossman The cafeteria workers, who will In addition to Gibarti, Robett} Yq the “Women’s Wear” of iMag |be at the Saturday demonstration incr, Grace Campbell, John Owens, | 3 fast,in which’ hesdeclared that (Continued on Page Five) Harold Williams, Henry Rosemon@ thé-Industrial Council will not be huge demonstrations in other Ger-| With available seat occupied in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, and hundreds standing in the aisles and | scores of others forced to leave be- every cause they were unable to gain en- trance into the hall last night, the first membership mass meeting of Independent Workers’ Union since the opening of the or- ganization of its drive of twelve weeks was the most enthusiastic in the history of the organization. the Shoe a | Tell of Strike Progress. Nearly 2,000 workers jcmmed the hall to hear reports of the progress 4 of * of six strikes in various parts the city, now being conducted under the militant leadership of the union,| and to outline plans for attracting still more thousands to th: organiza- tion, Fred Biedenkapp, general organ- izer of the unior#™ reported that the union had grown from 300 mem- |Board, Negdle Trades Workers In-» bers on the first of the year to over 4,000 at the present, with new mem- bers being taken in daily. A total of 43 ships have signed satisfac- tory agreements with the union since the commencement of the or- ganization of the drive. Bieden-| 2,000 Attend Enthusiastic. A WRIT DEFIED BY Shoe Workers Mass Meeting FOOD STRIKERS Ignore Terror; Keep Picketing Holding that the drastic injune- tion awarded the 22-restaurant Wil- low Cafeteria chain is another wea- pon of the United Restaurant Own- ers’ Association used against the Hotel, Restaur and Cafeteria Workers Union as an attempt to break the strike for improved con- ditions, cafeteria strikers yesterday refused to submit to the move to drive them back to the ur day and the open shop. The 22 arrests yesterday brought the number of ested since the strike began 1 4 to 1,114. Sweeping Injunction. By the writ, union members forbidden to “distribute strike lite are ture,” picket struck restaurants, or “to congregate at or near any of the trons. ad- or ” restaurants, accosting yf Magistrate Adolph Stern journed 14 cases till next week Jefferson Market Court in the fail- muster Fit- a ure of owners’ agents cnough evidence against them, teen previously ested wer tinued on parole till today in E: Market Court. One receive: pended sentence. to LORAY PICKETS man cities. In Mannheim, in south- ern Germany, a street parade was | assaulted by the police, and the un- | armed workers fought briskly for | the right to show their solidarity with the fighters of Berlin. | The House of Burgesses in Ham-| burg was broken up when Commu- nist members of it demanded that the so-called “Free City of Ham- (Continued on Page Two) URGE “LIBERAL” and others will speak. An excellent t catight ~nappingy by the strike Communist Party Urges Fight Against Right Wing Splitters Against Levine, Glickson, Manus The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the | U.S. A. publishes herewith a letter which was sent out by the | District Executive Committee of the Party in California, deal-| ing with the situation in that district, where certain members| of the Party are engaged in a vicious fight against the Party, | ‘musical program is alsé’ arfanged. There are still some places avail. urged not to miss this impor event. IC E.C. Supports California District Committee ‘Negro Week’ Edition of “Daily” Thursday A special “National Negro Week” edition of the Daily Work- | er will be issued Thursday, May ering various phases of the strug- gle of the Negro workers. able for comrades who have not yet gotten tickets, All ora) It 16, which will contain articles cov- | planning by the “International”; } aswell as the statement made by Mr’ Nagler, ¥ ent of the com- ‘tiiion,, in the«‘Times” of y isgue, it which he.declares ee ‘Qmion’ wilt elect “heads \¥ 14 f e committees because ses ‘will nét consider a mod- “ifieation"of “the re-organization clause in thé agreement—all these statements are nothing but a de- liberate maneuver on the part of the bosses and the company union in order to carry thru successfully the conspiracy to tighten the yoke of slavery round the necks of the cloakmakers. (Continued on Page Five) At the 54th St. Court, Magistrate Simpson sentenced seven strikers to Kow-tow to Queen jail. They were arrested Wednes- in City of Jobless day while picketing the Marion Cafe- | (Continued on Page Five) TARITSKY TERROR Whitewash Destruction LONDON, May 9.—Twelve Amer- icans who are among those slated to make the privileged bow before the British Queen Mary tonight be- gan elaborate toilet preparations for the regal introduction this morning. The delicate finger tips of some 700 women will touch the hand of the queen of the city whose unem- ployed, now suffering from the most chronic unemployment since the end AKE MEET OK’S FOR GOP TICKET nent split. The letter of the California apparently aiming at a perma-% Bundle orders for special dis- tribution should be rushed imme- diately to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. Bundles of 1,000 The associations as well as the together with some rank and file (Continued on Page Five) members, have persisted in the establishment and maintenance of a of the war, joined with the march of the miners along Whitehall to Down- ing St. recently. of Local 48 A complete whitewashing of three of the major crimes of the reaction- Hylan or LaGuardia to Run; Reported The republican party is trying to discover whether Hylan, with the aid of his machine, or LaGuardia with the additional help of a semi- liberal smoke screen, would have more chance against the Tammany candidate, Walker, in the coming municipal elections. Republican party politicians in Manhattan and Brooklyn have an- nounced that either Hylan or La- Guardia would be the candidate, “provided the organizations can be swung to one or the other.” Hylan has got ° ‘personal clique, the (Continued on Page Five) District Executive Committee has the full endorsement of the Central C., under instructions of the Cen- tral Committee, has made every ef- fort to unify the Party in California and has gone td the extreme limit of patience in trying to induce cer- tain members to give up their tactics dual headquarters at 1212 Market can be obtained at $6. Committee of the Party. The D. E.| St. in San Francisco, at which they | SS EEEUEEEe operate under the unauthorized; FASCISTS GREET FASCIST name of the Party. On May first. SOFIA (By Moil).—Bulgarian these elements defied the Party dis-| fascists enthusiastically greeted cipline and engaged in a dual May | Wen-lin Chen, Kuomintang fffer, Day demonstration which attempted here on a European flight to boost to rival the Party May Day demon- the bloody white terror in China. stration. They did so in spite of the | He received a similar welcome from By DUNJEE. ‘Negro Week --What Does It Mean? What Are We to Do? ary officialdom of the International ‘Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- Jers Union was effected by mittee on Officers’ Reports terday’s session of the |packed convention now meeting Beethoven Hall, Local 43 Crime. The destruction by the Interna- at machine- at jin America during recent months. Why the necessity for stressing, Let us bring sharply to the atten- of defiance of the Party authority. On three different occasions the leaders of this group after defying the Party discipline, have been given warning that the continuation of such Party wrecking tactics’ would be dealt with by the exercise of the Party’s disciplinary power. Certain former members of the Party and of the District Executive Commit ‘ee, ch warnings and of every effort to dis- suade them. Certain expulsions and suspensions of the guilty persons have been made by the District Exec- | utive Committee of California. The | Central Committee of the Party, after giving the guilty persons every | opportunity to state their case, has sustained the actions of the District (Continued on Page Two), + . |Horthy terrorists in Budapest a few days ago, MALARIA KILLS SEAMEN SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. (By Mail) —In an epidemic on the luxurious ‘liner Duchess of Atholl, which ‘cruised the Mediterranean, four members of the crew died of ma- laria. E eens cents the mobilization of all class con- scious workers, Negro and white, for Negro week—a week that will be devoted to rallying the Negro workers on the basis of their suf- ferings and trials, It is almost needless to do so. But in this connection, it is well to point out a number of the outstand- ing outrages against Negro workers Mb a , tional Genoral Executive Board of Local 43, the New York organiza- tion of hand milliners, because of its militant and fighting qualities, un- der the guisgtof a fake “amalgama- \tion” scheme, was “heartily ap- proved” by the committee. The treacherous part of President Zaritsky in instigating the lockout (Continued on Page Five) tion of the Negro workers that ra- cial oppression is being used now more than ever. The lynching “bees,” recorded and unrecorded, are persisting in the South. The un- recorded number of these crimes are increasing, and these facts are becoming known to Negro workers. | They are also known to such mili- | (Continued on Page Five) int A AN A NN a ARES Nee ONO RN SS a CAN TESTIFY T0 EVICTION HORROR Epidemics Sweep Over | Strikers Sleeping in | Open Road Boy Defends Ill Mother Boston Relief Tag Day: Saturday, Sunday Ss GASTONIA, N. C., May 9.—Whilé the strikers fighti the mill owners’ and way the are deputi th from their belongings stacked i open road after,eviction, and trying gs to prevent their sick from molesta- tion, a union delegation is speeding in a truck to Washington to appear before the Senatorial Investigation Committee and testify in their de- fense. They will arrive in Wash- ington about four o’clock this after- noon, Testimony began today before the senatorial committee on manufac- tures which took up the Elizabethton strike first. The motion for investigation was introduced by Senator Wheeler, with the advice and consent of William Green, President ‘of the American Federation of Labor, and the offi- cials of the United Textile Workers. These misleaders of Jabor have in mind something like the notorious investigation -ef.the, great -mine~ strike last year, when a senatorial committee came to the fields, con- ferred with the bureaucrats of the United Mine Workers of America, and came back with a strike break- ing report, which also proposed plans for retaining the control or the Lewis machine over the militant miners who were trying to throw it off. Send Child Pickets. | The Gastonia strikers, realizing that the bosses propose through this investigation to force the strikers back to work, and that the strike breaking United Textile Workers of- ficialdom hope by means of sen- atorial pressure to get them into the power of the U. T. W., have come | up to tell the world their own story. The delegation includes among others: Binnie Green, a striker aged 14; Henry Tethorn, aged 16; Myrtle Stroud, K. Hendricks, Ella May, Robert Litolff, Lewis McLaughli Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Robinson, James Smith, Cecil Johnson and Carl Reeve, organizer for the National Textile Workers Union. Describe Attacks. The strikers’ delegation will tes- tify to the $8 a starvation wages and the ten-hour da nd still longer work days at times. They will describe the violence of the mill owners’ deputized thugs, many of them convict guards in the indescrib- able horrors of the southern prisons and prison camps before they were given bayonets, rifles, revolvers and clubs with which they have on many occasions brutally assaulted the rikers and charged the picket lines, | They will tell how a masked mob ‘of mill owners’ gunmen raided their relief store and strike headquarters and chopped to bits the building in (Continued on Page Two) week Ist of Foster Series on Unity Convention. to Appear Tomorrow Beginning tomorrow the Daily Worker will print a series of four articles ot tasks and aims of the fo coming Trade Union Unit: Convention which will meet in Cleveland, June 1-2. Fos- ter is National Secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, which issued the call for the unity convention, at which a new trade union center will be built, and a co- ordinating center for left wing groups inside the reac- tionary trade unions. Watch for this series of articles! |