The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 1

AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, UNION SQUARE, 130P.M J ‘PROTEST! AGAINST BAYONETS AND MACHINE | GUNS TURNED ON TEXTILE WORKERS! | Daily Entered as SHOOTING OF MURDER OF BERLIN LABOR’S MAY DAY! AGAINST THE WORKERS ON AGAINST CLUBBING AND JAIL TRIKING N. Y. CAFETERIA WORKERS! AGAINST THE GARRY THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION | Price 3 Ce its nday hy The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. SUBSCRIPTION RA by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Ne UNITED STATES WORKERS OLICE TERROR FACING CLUBS OF N.Y. COPS DENOUNCE APPEAL TO ‘OBS’ TO COMBAT WAR Circulate Leaflets to Sailors on Many Battleships Navy Officers Worried Expose Imperial Aims for New Slaughter Considerable intez much of which was very favorable. was aroused on board of a number of battleships floating in the Huds let directed to the “Sailors of the Navy” and published by the New York District of the Communist ; ‘| River, due to the fact that a Icaf-| — BLOOD BATH IN BERLIN Communist Party, Many Unions, TUEL, ILD, Workers Relief Show International Solidarity Bronx Laborer Shot by Tammany Police Proves The latest brutal crime of partment, the shooting of Ger tees its ef: tem the tide o Sq UNION “KNIFES” Agents of Boss Murderous Everywhere the New York City Police De- rry Smith, the striking Bronx inmber laborer, has filled to overflowing the cup of indignation in the ranks of the local labor movement against the campaign of police terrorism instituted by the Wa cer administration in militancy and will to organize and struggle on the part of the workers. Every indication Party of the U. S. A., and the Com-| shows Union Square will be munist Youth League, -has been jammed at 1:30 today with thou- widely distributed throughout the FRAM N STRIKER sands upon thousands of workers fleet. who have been roused to the utmost Hurried meetings of the men on = by the fascist tactics employed by hoard have been called by the of- the city government, loyal to em- ficers seeking to counteract the ef- : SHOT BY POLICE ploy: and anxious to visit every fects of the propaganda in the : brutality upon workers who defy leaflet. Jn the case of the cruiser ; ; ; : : them. Naw Voue all bldtowuaye Gen ae. One photo shows Berlin police standing over body of worker they have killed while breaking up the ons in Berlin. They were sent by the social- pees TEikeh anae Wee eae eee tained on board and have been sub- ist chief of police, Zoergiebel with orders to shoot without warning at every worker seen at a window and th xg this victim lying in the doorway of a restaurant 2 a alen, and thei jected to a severe cross-examination and search. The following war ves- sels. have been reached: Florida, Concord, Cincinnati, Marblehead New York, and a number of othe The leaflet runs in part as follows: “Sailors of the Navy! “Fellow Workers! “Todsy Arwrican marines are in to see whether he has life enough left in him to require another dum dum bullet. The other photo shows Fall River police also , to cl to death Peter Hegelias, a textile mill committee organizer during the strike there. The demonstrations today in Union Square will hear about the reign of terror initiated by the police against the worke Senate Probers Refuse to Hear the Gasionia Strikers rs. doing their Teamsters’ Chief Will Not Aid Dying Worker While Garry Smith, 45, lies at the, point of death in the Dineoln Hos- pital and the police frame-up net| is being drawn more closely about him, it is revealed that the masters’ bidding, trying to choke bee union predecessors who Were just as bad, have taught the New York workers what Hindenburg and Zoergiebel are like, Know the Socialists. The socia chiefs in the needle trades unions sent their gangsters and gunmen with blackjacks, knives and revolvers against the militant “ Hociets | Sey aes - — 6, —- ‘ . . i eft wingers in eve recent strike Nicaragua fighting against the| z : with which he fought in the strike oak anee ay 3 Nicaraguan workers and mewn EXPOSE A F OF L Myers Can’t sn el|» ANTON LIKELY Minor, Crouch, George 5 rLEe ATI N AD of the’ George L: Storm Lamber| New york fect a den bro saaae A i * * . i 2 Bae m* ~ * * *. ere ae 4 22 bs ee Giiha” theeeang tie Chtooke City Trust Documents; Pershing Speak at Big JELLY ! Company in the Bronx is taking|darity with the workers of Berlin, ‘Workers sand ‘Paseents’ Rev steps to disavow all connection with when they hear that the socialist ion with another blood bath, The navy is the police force abroad for the same gang of imperialist robbers who are fighting the workers at home. _ “Sailors! Fellow-workers! You must organize your ship committees on every ship in the fleet. Do as STRIKERS AKERS IN FOOD STRIKE Keeping Dirt Private The dirt which has smudged sev- eral “prominent” citizens in the City Trust Bank swindle will not be com- pletely exhumed yet, it was decided at yesterday’s hearing, Saul S.) Myers, attorney in bankruptcy hear- | Anti-War Meet Today Robert TO FALL BEFORE ‘™* "2 St., two blocks from North River, STO the worker, RY OF MILL Smith was shot in the side by a policeman late Wednesday being trapped defenseless in a tene- (Continued on Page Two) after Zoergiebel sends his uniformed gun- men with rifles, bayonets and hand grenades against them. Coming as it does on the heels of the recent outrage in Berlin, where scores of workers have been shot down in cold blood by the minions of the Socialist Police Chief Zoer- : the sailors of the Soviet Union «id Food Workers Appeal 1Syo, taied to get the city Trust Chiang Unable to Aid |"nere Part of the Wat Street TY) Cold Rain Drenches All MEL! N PROFITS ee eae on Uae } Remember the Black Sea Muiny of tO Rank and File — sccords, from Moreland Commis-) for Fear of Feng abers of the Communist! Evicted Strikers | — tional protest movement on the part Pe ere sr ana Mee ne bite: ay sey jomed at Monday’s hearing. teckore are ithin 25 miles of the} will be erican Imperiali dvertised hee == : ue 8 of ie s ommunist Party of the ph eee aR estaet ab Meare WORE ay spake cafes taiin’| eae toreee funtbes ‘colsyeoting (Hoge cel Wests, Only. tbe Tw to|™ pats eee ete, [Big Gains. in: Horeign tenes, tua) Needle, Worker! aga |was denounced by the Hotel, Re: missions from ex-State Banking Hongkong, on the South, is open | and some reports state that the ) iz |Canton-Hongkong railroad has been Trade, Unemployment tion of the ion in the textile} trial Union, National Textile Work- : |taurant and Cafeteria Warkers | Superintendent Frank .H. Warder, aes fA hee sat Gs ers’ it nion, Independent Shoe Work- {Union in an open letter seri last | whoysanctioned loans for $300,000 regions ae paee Ss PUI SY o. | WASHINGTON, May 10.—Alum-|¢?s’_ Union, Hotel Workers’ Union, ; jnight to the members of A. Fyof L.|for the City Trust Company while |cut. Other Kwangsi troops are said conditions with a strikebreaking re-inum production in U prac-| Anti-F cist Alliance and many |Locals 1, 2, 16, 500 and 7i9, |that company was controlled three|to be advancing southwest from port eventually, did not remain in| tically half of which comes from other working class organizations. ‘s $y “The American Federation bf La-|months ago by his friend, Ferrari. |Swatow. | SPLIT ON T AXE § session long enough today. to hear Massena, N. Y., had a value in 1928| Among tho speakers will be Robe bor officials made no effort to or-| Myers brought in state troopers Panic Prevails. | Reeder Caco janne nea cre ce (08 SAnBOR O00, an increase OE 22) Deb) Te aeme an at oe Ole ae | ganize these workers,” the letter | fd revonda at his office at ats y" They heard United Textile Work-|cent over the previous year, the U. kapp, - Olgin, Far ; ee Y ee ater to: guard records at his office at) the city is under martial law, ers officials on the Elizabethton!S, Bureau of Mines states. Browder, Jack Johnstone, Harold 5 says in’ commenting on the indiffer- | Broadway. He declares that police| +n a heavy censorship on all news.) WASHINGTOD eg str vhich the U. T. W. is try-| “The record production of auto-) Williams, Richard B. Moore, | Julia F . ence of the A. F, of L. bureaucrats | who were officially supposed to. be ‘A state: of panic. prevails, iad the a dasinidsa ie aniche seuatentiie 8 which the U. T. W. is try The record production of auto- Btiaih Bigie Puck GaueRee Nearly 1,000 White and to the exploitation of the cafeteria | he job. 14. ® Pane ; Neon the farm issue in the senate, the’ ing to surrender to the employers,| mobiles in 1928 and the wider adop- Stuart Poyntz, Paul Crouch, George B sie aaa on duty were removed from the job. Central Bank has suspended speci¢ | tw ths’ old administration of |S ©: prey 4 ‘ Durahinie Lishes Ounheisant Ni k Th | workers, who, “for eleven and twelve ‘ | wo months’ a z tion | 224 adjourned as soon as the G tion of aluminum pistons and con- ig, John Owens and many : egro Workers CLG! Houtad of <alavery a retiounisarabled payment. : etal hey Ske Seba tonia delegation came into town. necting rods in the manufacture thers. og Oe “ é ; | wages.” Four gunboats of the Cantonese in the house today on the tarift| pre Gastonia delegation is demand: thereof combined to greatly increase - I. R. Endorses. Se pe pestee WH CeOPL CES SUS!) ay ta tstnny -will be yourivictory,” | navy, which revolted, were. subdued question. | ve yay ing its right to be heard, but no/the consumption of aluminum by| The Workers International Re- : forming a more solid bond for the sce aha ie y edad lby the batteries and machine guns| Hoover's forces got the tariff bill| vewer has been given so far today.'the automotive industry in 1928, lief, 1 Union Square, New York Cit i: i fall the letter states in a concluding ap- | g y: vy > 1 struggle against imperialism and isha necleds gs ap: lof the Macao and Honan Islands,| out of the ways and means commit- Aluminum furniture has come into|yesterday endorsed the demonstras the overthrow of the capitalist sys- peal for “raoral support and imme- diate financial aid.” The text fol- across the harbor from the city, and | tee to the floor of the house by a Child Slaves Arrive. a position of ‘prominence rapidly, tion against the German police, to | ‘ an ante A denderstp oe ene eras LOCAL 43 WORK lan airplane ee ess ri ae partisan committee vote of] ‘The delegation came in a truck) and many railroads have adopted|be held this afternoon in Union ommunist Party is the significance 4 These batteries have done consider-) 0 9. provided by the Workers Interna- i chairs as standard ip- Square, and called upon all its - J of this gathering,” declared Ben| Fellow Workers: : —_—_— Cordell Hull, democrat, Tenn., : j 7 apuiniaums chairs 95) eeerdard) eqitip ; ets to ae Lifshitz, acting organizer of District 2 of the Communist Party, in open- ing the “Negro Champion Dinner” | last night at the ‘Workers’ Center. In a large room, especially deco- rated with legicns bearing the names cf the Negro revolutionary leaders of America in the past, nearly 1,000 Negro and white work- ers filled the room to overflowing in the opening affair in New York Gity of National Negro Week. A rousing welcome greeted John MH. Owens, Negro tenant farmer from California, who although stat- ing that he suffered from the short- coming cf being a poet as well as a Communist, gave a stirring account of the historic repression of the Ne- gro toilers and of the leaders who led the sporadic revolts of the slaves, How the landlords, Negro and white, exploit the Negro workers to You already know about the de- (Continued on Page Five) BOMB TEXTILE STRIKER HOUSE ELIZABETH, Tenn., May 10.— Seabs or mill owners’ provocateurs today dynamited the home of Mack Elliot, a mechanic in the Bemberg rayon plant here, but out on strike with the rest of the 5,500 workers in Bemberg and Glanzstoff plants. The bomb, which seems to have con- tained either nitroglycerine or dyna- mite, was placed under the floor of the living room while Elliott was at a strike meeting and his wife and children were visiting a neighbor “Left” Meet Success; Banquet Tonight A symphony of downright lies, | misrepresentations and slander | against the best, fighting workers in | Local 438, marked yesterday’s ses-| sion of the machine-packed conven- | | tion of the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, | which is meeting at Beethoven Hall. The “convention” which opened on May 1, has thus far consisted for, the most part in the hand-picked administration committee white- washing the union-wrecking activi- ties of the bureaucrats in the or-| ganization during the two years) which have elapsed since the last convention. | Refuse Floor to Local 43. | A total of two and one half hours | was consumed in the discussion as | | able damage to the city, especially | (Continued on Page Five) Call for First Congress of Worker Correspondents Cleveland, O., Friday, May 31, 1929 The announcement of the plan to hold the First National Worker Correspondents’ Conference in Cleveland on May 31 has met with great enthusiasm by many worker, farmer, soldier and sailor correspondents. The Committee for the Organization of the st National Worker Correspondents’ Conference yesterday issued the call for the conference. The names of the members of the committee are not published, in order to protect these workers from persecution by their employers. The call follows: TO ALL WORKER, FARMER, SOLDIER AND SAILOR CORRE- SPONDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, (Continued on Page Two) |tional Relief, and was accompanied! ment in their dining cars, and in- | by Karl Reeves, organizer for the| stallations have also been made in | National Textile Workers Union,| offices and libraries,” says the state- Bertha Crawford, W. I. R. chairman) ment. {and K. Y. Hendricks, W. I. R. re-|_ The American Aluminum Trust is jlief agent in Gastonia. They were)/owned by the »Secretary of the iveady to testify to st-rvation wages! Treasury Mellon. !and speed-up before the strike, to | starvation and epidemic among the strikers, to the brutal bayonetting of pickets by the deputized mill Commerce More Profitable. The Department of states that the value of imports and tion of strikers from their homes|°f 1929 is larger than the values | by orders of the mill bosses. Among! f0" the same period in 1928. | the strikers in the group were two| The value of imports for the three LCORHIMAL His Page Hive) months was listed at $1,122,107,980, one compared with $1,069,388,337 for the same period in 1928, while expor' for 1929 were placed at $1,419,503,- 982, against $1,202,842,190, Wages Worse. The wages paid workers in these industries in which greater profits |are now being made than ever be- fore have not gone up anywhere, Pershing Talks on | Textile Strike at | School Tomorrow George Pershing, one of the Commerce | s thugs, and the horrors of the evic-|¢xports for the first three months | bers and supporters to attend the demonstration. “We urge all members of the W. I. R.,” reads the statement, “also all other workers to be present at the demonstration and voice their |disapproval of the murdering of the | militant German workers by the so- cialist butchers. Make the demon- ation a real manifestation of working class solidarity, Needle Workers Call! The Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union at a meeting last night, in a vig orous resolution, denounced police terror both in the “socialist” ruled city of Berlin and the’ Tammany- ruled city of New York, and called upon the thousands of New York needle trades workers to join the demonstration at Union Square to- day. Shoe Workers Also Called. A resolution similar in spirit was the bone in Harlem—made all the | The house is badly wrecked. P A d sail spondents, as the artic- leaders of the present strike of A wey by et ie . to whether representatives from Lo- | The worker, farmer, soldier and sailor correspondents, as. eta ns have decreased in many plants, and passed by the Independent Shoe more possible by the system of seg-| 4 week ago some dynamite was| cal 43, KIC Was expelled by the) ulate voice of the exploited toiling masses of the United States, are || the Carolina textile workers, who |), v6 heen accompanied by speed-up Workers’ Union and the Window regation—was explained by Richard B. Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants League, “The Daily Worker was the only metropolitan newspaper which really exposed the frightful conditions existing in Harlem,” he said. 8 8 (A. detailed report of this event | thrown into Elliot’s car, but it failed | to explode. The strikers are standing firm, j ang this is only one of the acts of terrorism practiced upon them. The town is full of militia, with machine guns. ‘The officials of the United Textile Workers are busy trying to sell out the strike, as they did the administration when it came under left wing leadership, should be al- lowed to speak, The result of the hocus-pocus was that Local 43 spokesmen did not get the floor. Czar Zaritsky of the union, who is presiding at the “convention, fearing that even his own han picked committee would ps imal fighting in the vanguard of the class struggle. Through the worker correspondents, the workers’ press has become a powerful weapon of labor in the struggle against rationalization, the lowering of the shop and living conditions of the workers and for the organization of the unorganized, ; aes Through thelr correspondence to the press of the Communist Party ”| of the United States, the organs of the class-conscious workers, and through their letters to the shop papers, great masses of the workers have been awakened to the necessity of joining in the class struggle, recently came to New York with nittee of the striking tex- tile workers, will speak tomorrow evening at 8 p. m, at the Work- and unemployment. Foster Articles Start Monday Due to lack of space we are forced to postpone until Monday’s issue the printing of the first of William Z. ers School Forum, 26-28 Union Square, on the “Southern Tex. 4| tile Strike.” A committee of the |] southern textile strikers will also be on hand at the forum. | Washers’ Union, both organizations at present conducting strikes in var- Jious parts of the city, and both hav- ing on repeated 0} ns been the victims of the ruthless terror of the Tammany police department, Long Live Struggle of the Oppressed Colo- the Revolutionary nig Nerro Week will appear in ty * A ; { Monday's Daily Worker.) w previous walkout in March, (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) ‘ Foster’s series of articles, nial Peeples! wt em i