The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 2

LL.D. TO FIGHT EFFORT TO SEND HIM 79 CANADA Is Contributor to Daily Worker (Special to the Daily Worker) the TUCSON, (By Mail).—Be- cause he went to visit two workers who were thrown into jail on iramed deportation charges, Henry George Weiss, a California we r who is living here | use of ill health, is now faced with possibi back to Ca Weiss is a m has been started in th Sommunists and of depe on e drive that state against her militant workers. This is the section where, during the last election campaign meetings of the Communist Par were broken up and a general terr atmosphere created Ina letter toa f end in California, Paso, and polite lad—paid me the hon f a three hours’ visit in my shack in the desert, taking my icial filing and ation. Of course, I told him that I was born in Can- American parents—my Canadian, becom an by marriage, according to ited States law—and that I imed American citizenship. How- ever, the inspector got the fact of my being a Canadian ex-service man and claims that having taken the oath allegiance to dear old George of English notorie my claim a citizen, which otherwise might hang good, is -null and void.” Weiss’ health reported to be very bad and deportation to Can- ada might prove disastrous. The International Labor Defense has taken up his case, as well as that of the other workers threatened my consider the truth, ada motke Am of of is with deportation, and will wage a] vigorous fight to prevent them from being victimized for loyalty to their Co ort to shows N. J. capitalist | ; ng imperialist Wa Street in ec Henry George Weiss, Militant, in Anti-Alien Drive in Anzona Dedicate New Jersey Airport to Wall Street Imperialism DAILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 Sick DELEGATIO MILL STRIKERS 2 N OF "U.S. Bosses Drive Workers for 1ggest Output | Gain in History WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.—11919, the report states, Compared | The intense speed-up and rationali-| With the speed-up and industrial -—| =, Shecican indestey, while) Slavery before the war, the post-war | . ty We Us zation in American industry, slavery has bled the workers to so reducing the wages of the already underpaid workers to a mere pit- ce, barely fficient to keep keep themselves alive, has resulted since 1920 in the greatest increase in profits for the manufacturers in history. This is revealed in the. re- port of L, P, Alford, vice-president of the American Engineering Coun- cil, who has prepared a chapter on Technical Changes in Manufactur- ing Industries.” great a degree that each man is pro- ducing one and a half times as much at present as he did before the post- war rationalization set in. No mention port of the comparative wages of individual workers, but the cases in the strikes of the Southern textile mills, in the shoe industry and other industries proves that simultaneous- ly with this increase in his produc- tivity, the worker’s wage has been Thru this vicious speed-up, the) reduced to the point where he finds productivity per wage earner has|it almost impossible to exist. ring the past nine years increased| Rationalization has also resulted 58.5 per cent, as compared with a|in the disemployment of thousands gain of 4.7 per cent from 1899 to| of workers. SI Boston Relief Tag Days Saturday, Sunday (Continued from Page One) which the headquarters was located with bars, axes, and tools which were afterwards proved to have come |from the Loray mill. They will de- | scribe the hideous scenes of the ev {tion of strikers, many with si | families, all driven out among their furniture by mill owners’ deputy sheriffs, who aimed their guns and threatened to shoot. The truck which carries the dele- gation was furnished by the Work- ers International Relief. Epidemic In Gastonia. d MANY TASKS FOR U.S. NEGRO WEEK Sections Report Much Activity paign among the Negro workers during the week. In Auto Industry. In District 7, the center of the automobile industry, many street and indoor meetings will be held in Detroit, Flint and other industri: centers during this week. Speakers will be sent to all Communist Party units to speak on the problems and the struggles of the Negro wor! An epidemic of pellagra, influ- enza and whooping cough is spr ing among the ted striking tex- The condition is s scores of work- ers, their wives and children become sick daily ! doctors are giv- ing their services free and are taxed politicians dedicating the new Jersey City airport to the service of war. Against Right mmunist Party Urges to the minimum. More than $100 a ers. Each section will hold an in- The District Committee, following F ig Vad | ine instructions of the CG. made, Week iS needed for medicine atpres-| (Continued fram Page Onc) _ |tr-reclal dance during the week, several efforts to convince these °M, the amount increasing hourly. lation and influence of its organ,|With Toussaint L’Ouverture meet- comrades to cease splitting the|, The Sawyer family was evicted)the Negro Champion. ings winding up the period. In New York district, National |from their company-owned house al- | is made in the re- WORKERS MARCH DURING FUNERAL OF BERLIN’ SLAIN Berlin Burial Raises | Cry for Revolt (Continued from Page One) burg” rescind the governmental or-= der to suppress the Red Front Fight- ers. The chairman refused to put the motion to a vote, and after @ great demonstration by worker meme bers, arbitrarily adjourned the meete ing for a month, The Communists left in a body, cheering for the Red Front Fighte: The governments of Anhalt, Mecklenburg and Hesse have not dared to order the suppres- sion of the Red Froht organization. ae @ Pravda Expresses Solidarity. MOSCOW, May 9.—The Moscow Metal Workers Union and many other unions have passed resolutions and sent telegrams of solidarity to | the German workers on the occasion of the funeral of the victims of po- lice terror. All of the telegrams call |on the German workers to continue their fight for the overthrow.of the capitalist system and the end of the treason to labor of the social demo- erats. Many of them mention as especially worthy of hatred and con- tempt the “socialist,” Zoergiebel, Party, to give up the dual organi- zation and to become part of the recognized leadership. This was all W ing Spli itters C, E. C. Supports California District Committee | without any result. Instead of com- Against Levine, (Continued from Page One) Committee. In the case of Emanuel Levin, who had been suspended from the Party at an earlier time and {later restored on his promise of a correct attitude toward the Party and its policies, the action of Levin on May first in defying the Party and openly appearing at the rival |May Day demonstration after hav-| of past mistakes, weigh upon us, Pelled Gliksohn and Manus, sus- from his house when they attempted | ing been instructed not to do so, has jeading to inactivity, right wing mis- Pended Mabille, Dart and Studevant to evict his sick mother. They have caused the Central Committee to in- |struct the District Executive Com- mittee of California, on the basis of | Levin's defiance of Party discipline, | clear why District 13 must take the | day is the center of dual, splitting road. Daisy McDonald, her mother, jto expel Levin from the Party. In| new line of our Party very seriously, | anti-Party activities. Any meeting,|2ged 62, paralyzed and with five | the case of any other leading figures|why we must’ work towards* the affair, etc. called there under the small children, are the next to be in the dual organization which is | still being maintained against the mittee has been instructed to pursue jthe same policy as in the case of new members, 5 shop-nuclei, 2 shop- strengthening of the bourgeoisie. up. The ill strikers are being moved Party, the District Executive Com-| ing closer to the Party, these com- rades went ahead calling dual meet- ings, arranging a fake united front ment, our Communist Party must/ Cisco, in order to weaken the Com- come forward as the leader, the or- ™unist May Day meeting. They re- ganizer of all the workers. decree every, stoner the DBCwor The Communist Party in District | Unity, carried on for three weeks. |18 is absolutely unprepared for this | When all these efforts failed, the t A poor social composition, the Party had to take disciplinary lack of shop-nuclei, the absence of Measures against the splitters of the Mexicans, Negroes, etc., the result Communist movement. The DEC ex- Glickson, Manus 3 1 jtakes and to factionalism, which | 7d the action of the DEC was sus- | paralyze the work of our Party. If tained by the Central Committee. we add to all this it must become’ The 1212 Market Street place to- | building and the new unification of | name of the Party or its sympathetic | the Party with our utmost energy. organizations is a dual move, which | In order to make good in the Party | leads to the weakening of the Com- | Building Drive, in order to get 200| munist Party and therefore to the Philadelphia Active. The Philadelphia district, includ- ing such important industrial cen- |ters as Chester, Camden, the anthra- cite and the Kensington sector of Philadelphia, reports that it, is ready to participate 100 per cent in the National Negro Week Cam- paign, starting in Philadelphia with an inter-racial concert and dance on May 11, at 1508 Catherine St. Negro Week will be opened with the who ordered the assault on the work- Negro Champion Dinner, and many ers. jof the sections have already held) “Prepare Revolution.” | membership meetings to mobilize} Gregory Zinovieff, writing in \for the week. Street meetings, fac-) Pravda and the Youth Pravda, ex- |tory gate meetings, mass meetings| presses the solidarity of the work- will be held thruout the district,|ers of the Soviet Union with the winding up with a Toussaint| fighters in Berlin, and points out L’Ouverture Memorial Meeting at|that the German capitalists and St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St.,/ their socialist allies ventured to pro- though their children are suffering from whooping cough. The Dixon ‘family has been evicted, suffering irom pellagra, Mrs. Dixon is preg- nant and is expected to give birth shortly, Mrs. McClure is lying in bed in the open road; she is also ex- pected to give birth within a few days. Many other sick women are lying in bed in the open. They have no protection against the rain or| That district is sending two dele-| May 21. _ | hibit this May Day demonstration any other atmospheric conditions| gates to the Negro Champion Din- Special “Daily” Edition. | because of their desperation over the that may arise. ner, to be held tonight in New York| District 1 (Boston) will hold growth of Communist strength in | many street and factory gate meet-| the factory chop committees. lings and has already issued a| The task of the German workers | mimeographed bulletin for distribu-| now is to prepare to do away with tion among the Negro workers. capitalism, writes Zinoviev. . A special “Negro Week” edition) “Organize!” he says. “Organize {of the Daily Worker will appear the masses, and the moment will | Thursday, May 16, containing many come, the moment for direct organi- |articles on the various phases of| zation of the revolution. The Bol- the struggle of the Negro and white| sheviki’s organization of the masses jworkers. Special distributions of|is the organization of revolution.” this edition are being arranged in| Sh. SEDATE | ROOFER HURT FALL MILWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail).— LOW WAGES, HUGE PROFITS | John Gartner, 58 a roofing worker, WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. (By was seriously injured when he felF y, at 26 Union Square, which will tart off the campaign in the New York district. : Shop Committees. A mass demonstration of Negro and white working class tenants of Philadelphia before City Hall is | being planned during the week as a protest against the rotten housing conditions of the workers, particu- larly the Negro workers. A good local of the A. N. L. C. is being steadily built up and mem-| bers of the Congress and of the} Party are at work in shops of the Defends Sick Mother. Dan Tremble, 16, drove deputies eatened to return, but young} remble is determined not to allow s ill mother to be thrown into the evicted. A meeting of the striking work- | ers was held last night when the question of the evictions was taken |the various districts. | class in addition to his other |e, others—that is, those who may| bulletins and 500 Daily Worker sub-| Every sincere Party member, no to tho komes of those strikers who | most important industries in the|Mail)—The average wage in the from a scaffold while at work, + Niche lleeeee eras o wel] | Still continue to refuse to recognize | scribers, every comrade must get! matter how deeply he might be in- have not as yet been evicted. district, forming shop committees.| Reynolds Tabacco Factories, mak- oe . + militant activities, is also well/ti. authority of the Central C ‘ ; ; Haiera aan ' q including th ile,| ing Camel cigarettes, is $11 a week BARBERS STRIKE Sciown as. a: working class writer | ‘5° S0thority of the entral Com- | down to work, under a unified leader- volved in the factional situation,, The picnic and sports committee |The plants, including the textile, * 4 STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (By Mail) and has contributed poetry to the Daily Worker, NAME DELEGATES FOR UNITY MEET Workers of Benld, Il]. |American Section cannot sueceed.| advices every comrade to read the, being made | Demonstrate May 1 BENLD, Ill., (By Mail).—Several delegates have been elected to at- tend the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Conference called by the Trade Union Educational League for June 1 at Cleveland. The election of delegates follows the successful May Day demonstr tion, held by the local. Communist Party, which drew hundreds of sup- porters in spite of the drizzling rain. Speakers were Bill Matheson and Hugo Oehler. The struggle of the German work- ers during and following the May Day demonstrations was hailed by Matheson as the rehearsal to the final conquest of power by the Ger- man working class. Tribute was paid to the workers who led the Save-the-Union picket- ing here last April and who thus laid the basis for the launching of the militant National Miners Union “that sy now striking terror into the heats of the enemy.” Demands were made for similar meetings in Wilsonville, Staunton and Gillespie. Hoover Leaves Towner Despot in Porto Rico WASHINGTON, May 9.—Gover- nor Horace M. Towner, of Porto Rico, has made such an enviable rec- ord in the eyes of President Hoo- ver, who is himself an expert on the exploitation of colonial peoples, having used slave labor in his Bur- ma and Chinese mines, tha‘ he will be left at his post, it became known today. Towner was a Coolidge appointee, and as is the custom, submitted his resignation when presidents changed. Hoover declined to accept it. CITY WORKERS GAIN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (By Mail).—City employes of West Palm Beach have gained the eight- hour day, mittee and of the District Executive |Committee approved by the Central ism, this disease which is destroying break any and all connections with met and decided to hold a county Committee, will be expelled from the Party. However, the Central Committee hopes that the entire rank and file proletarian membership of the Party in California will sufficiently rally i to our Communist Party to make the splitters of the Party in California |vealize that such treason to the {Communist International and its. | Already every effort {to unify the Party throughout the | state. Already a great many of the comrades who for a while engaged ‘in this dual anti-Communist move- ment, have seen the error of such action and have been of real assist- ance to the Party in overcoming the destructive efforts to split the Party. In Los Angeles, Oakland, and other cities, as well as among the bulk of [ine membership in San Francisco, the correct policies of the Central Committee for Party unity, and the correct application of these policies by the District Executive Committee have resulted in a substantial uni- fication of our Party. The Central ommittee calls upon all prolet members who are still misled by the Levin-Glicksohn-Manus 1:zht wing splitters, to abandon these element: and to support the Communist Party of the U. S. A., Section of the Com- munist International. { « To All Party Members in District 13: Dear Comrades: The present Party Building Drive is having as its keynote the part of the Communist International Open | Letter, which points out the in- ‘creasing tendency towards radical- ization in the American working class and to the great class-conflicts which will inevitably arise, but for which our Communist Party is still | obviously unprepar The develop- ment of our Party “in the shortest possible time from a : —merically small propagandist organization into a mass-political party of the Ameri- jcan working class is the chief, funda- mental and decisive task to which all other tasks must be subordinated.” This new line of our Party, given by the Communist International Open Letter has a special. signifi- cance for California, which is be- coming a more and more important industrial center, the state of the open-shop, paying starvation wages to hundreds of thousands of Mexican, Negro and Oriental workers together with the native and foreign-born ex- ploited..masses. In the struggle lagainst imperialist war, against ae ship. The elimination of factional-| must recognize this fact and must | our Party for many years in District 1212 Market Street and the expelled \18, driving out workers, keeping and suspended members, away sympathizers from the Party, | | is the basic condition for the success of this drive. Without this, without the establishment of one authority, jone leadership, the Communist move- ment can not move forward in our district. The District Executive Committee The District Committee is fully aware of the fact that both former groups contain valuable Communist elements. The DEC is anxious to draw in every comrade into Party work. The Party Building Drive can only be made a success if every com- rade is doing his best under one leadership,—and the District Com- mittee, which under the greatest difficulties arranged for the first time in District 18 eight May Day meetings advertised by 30,000 leaf- lets, which organized three units in cities where our Party had no foot- hold in the past (including two im- portant shop nuclei), the District Committee pledges itself to draw in every comrade to work, to eliminate recognition to the authority of the | ‘he airtight factional rule of the past Central Committee which was elected 224 to mobilize all the comrades for at the 6th National Convention of| the unification and the building of our Communist Party, and to carry | CUT Party in District 13. out wholeheartedly all decisions Comrades! The District Commit- made by the Central Committee and tee calls upon you to immediately all Party organs.” sever all connections with the dual The District Committee calls upon | organization, to attend your nucleus every Party memb struction of the C. E. C., endorsed | will be given to you without any dis- by the C. I, Regardless of your| crimination whatsoever. You have stand on any question, you have to to fill out the industrial registration abide by the basic rule of Leninist card because the records of the dis- |Party Organization: the iron dis-) trict are kept and misused by for- cipline, the democratic. centraliza- mer members. tion, ‘the recognition of one au- When you filled out the applica- thority, ee eae ae Me ay oa ‘tion mney our Party, you Thedged panied eae at Vanguard of the! yourself “to submit to the discipline proletariat. This is the instruction of the Party and to engage actively of the Communist International, and in its work.” | The’ Disteiet Gomuntt- Crete, comrade loyal to the Commu- tee hopes that this pledge will not nist International shall carry out 4 violated by any member and that this instruction. Those who violate 41) the Communist fe of District it, those who think that the statutes! +3 Win work harmsbaboetsly for the of the Communist International do building of a unified powerful move- not stand for California, they will | nent in California, under the leader- be dealt with by the Party as split- | ship of the Communist International, ters. No fake issues, no mis-repre- “ scntations can change this fact, (he Central Committee and the Dis- he split In order to put an end to the spli raternally yours, situation in our District, the Cen- ‘tral Executive Committee appointed) —District Executive Committee a District Committee of eight mem- | District 18, Communist Party, bers and the District Organizer to U. S., E. Gardos, Secretary, | be the ninth member. Four of these , members refused to acept this deci-| HUNGER MARCH MILEAGE ion of the CEC and instead of work- LONDON (By Mail).—The total | ing with the Party, instead of carry- \mileage marched by the hunger ing out the CI instructions regarding | marchers in, the recent “hunger the cessation of factionalism and! march” 1o London, led by the Com- t'> recognition of the Party leader-|munists from the mine regions, is ship, they kept on splitting the now issued by the leaders of the . sy, eeerying on dual activities,’ march. It is 196,520 miles. The misusing the name of “District Exec-| total was arrived at by reckoning utive Committee” without the au-|the distance traveled by all groups, \ thority of the C. E. who converged at various poirts, circular letter of the Secretariat, signed by Minor, Browder, and Stachel, countersigned by Frank, the Executive Committee of the Commu- nist International representative, which states, that “...all Party members must cooperate in Com- munist fashion in the practical tasks outlined above. In other words, it is necessary for the entire Party membership to give unconditional to heed this in- | meetings, to pay up dues, and work | chemical, automobile, electric, ship|#"d some workers get only $2.65 a building, needle trades, steel and oil week, The company announces its |—Seventy-eight journeymen bar= industries, employ a great number !net profits for five years as $127,-|bers here are striking for a new? of Negro workers, in many of them |#69,244. scale, which would increase wages. 90 per cent of the workers being! ~~ ORES Negroes. “ Work in Factories. Work is going on in the navy, of the Workers International Relief Workers from the 123 mills itut- ienic. the county will attend, co: ing a huge union demonstration. A large distribution of coffee, potatoes, flour and lard took place | Starting Tomorrow! Dynamic! Vivid! Realistic: AS GOOD AS A TRIP TO RUSSIA! FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! OSCOW TODAY A SOVKINO FILM itoday from the Workers Interna- \diona! Relief store, now located at | yard, as well, where a shop nucleus; a comprehensive film-record of the RED CAPITAL intimate aspects of life in Mon- cow, giving a vivid iden of conditions under which workers live 512 W. Airline Ave. Twenty-five | of the Communist Party has been; strikers are weighing out the food, | organized. Scabs Want to Quit. | During the week Tew shop bul-| f3 a .), |letins will be issued in a large ship- Seabs working in the Loray Mill | yard in Chester and in the Victor] jare visiting the Workers Tuterms-|‘Talking Machine Co. A shop bul-| j store a i} +, ; : : lenton help organize them, as they lez take te Ghastee? “All thbad| 7 | . poemec po leb ye ae Wee go. sa plants employ many Negro workers, sittke. The tense fc-ing against) ‘Reports from Buffalo, N. Y., in- [ihe gies asin df the workes toe ee au preparations have| | ge spirit 2 s e intensi m- ipekomiite wore aroused ae Wie Wiltes = ee eer eee owners continue their campaign| ponts with the notation: against the workers. The strikers | york,” are aroused and are displaying al militant spirit. ‘ .. | “writes F. M, Hadsell, Winchester, Funds to pyrahasy. food, medicine | Va. “and I get $8 per month. You! and tents for the ee sna ay will see why I can spare only $2 for should be sent to the Workers Tn- | the striking textile workers and the ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, | starying miners.” Nex. Negro Worker Gives. ie i A contribution of $1 has been re- Boston Tag Day. veora | S004 from a Negro worker living] BOSTON, May 9.—The Workers jn a small town in Virginia. |aaerna renal Baie will oid tag| “It may interest zen to know,” he jdays for the striking workers on | writes, “that I am a Negro.” \Saturday and Sunday. Hundreds of; He continues by stating that “per- workers mtd exported # participate, |haps oat day ay (the granite) | e collectors are to repert at) will learn that there shoul e | | stations ay Ae be a in various | neither black or white in the ranks | sections of the city. ey are as | of labor.” | follows: Boston, 5 Lowell St.; Rox- | “Having read about the struggles bury, New International Hall; Chel-/ of the textile workers in the South, | on eer ane allie enti hae vee we ee ag letter, nial Hal!; Revere and Winthrop wi! . M. T. Button Pusher, “the strug- establish stations in their own head- gles to obtain a decent living wage | ante nee International Relief | piprpeinck ears | oar ig yesterday appealed to all workers | peings, I feel it my duty to do my | to volunteer as collectors, so ‘ents, pit, Being informed that food will | medicine and food can be rushed to | win their strike, I am enclosing two, \the striking textile workers. dollars. If the traction workers of | ‘sf * = |New York were organized, we would Give Their Pennies be able to send them many thou- | Workers in all parts of the country | sands of dollars, and if needed would | are answering the Workers Inter-/ strike also and cause the capitalist meena nee gempelen foe tunes cae to lose many millions of dol- ‘or the striking tex . | the South. “Down with the textile bosses! | Workers in the shops, factories pales the organizing of the and mills in all sections of the coun- | textile workers! try; farmers in the fields, as well as| “Forward with the |many liberal minded people have | the traction workers! | sent, in contributions to enable the| “Forward with the organizing of | Southern strikers to fight on until | all workers!” | | they win. Have you done your duty towards Many of the contributions received the courageous textile strikers? If | are very small. They were sent at/not, rush your contribution to the a great sacrifice. 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