The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 1

ae ee ee SF, ll THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Toe Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Laber Party aily Entered as second-class matter at the Pont Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 2, 1870. FINAL CITY EDITION Baie ne ia ae itise — ———— | Vol. VI, No. 56 Company. Ine ie-i0\ Union Squares New York City, Ne Te NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 13,1929 ; ___Price 3 Cents A. F. OF L. WOMEN’S CONVENTION BARS MILL STRIKER NEW YORK LABOR JOINS Shot si WORLD STRUGGLE AGAINS] “8 2a” Shot Striker’s breakers from the Phoenix Protec- ZARITSKY THUGS, POLICE, EJECT GROWING POLICE TERROK Berlin May Day Murders, Tammany Police Brutalities Denounced at Demonstration | Part of World Campaign; Cheer Textile and Food Strikers; Urge Defense of U.S.S.R. 1,—Karl Severing, minister of the interior of the “socialist”-fas- cist government of Germany, to urge meqsures today for outlawing the Red Front Fighters. 2,—Rote Fahne, fighting organ of the Communist Party of Ger- many still under ban, following its suppression during the May Day Communist demonstrations. - 3.—Demonstrations protesting against murder by Berlin “social- ist” police in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and many other large cities of the Soviet Union; Paris, Basle, Switzerland; Kovno, Shanghai, and a large number of other cities. The demonstration. in Shanghai was accompanied by a strike of 50,000. workers in a large number of trades. 4.—New York workers hold stirring demonstration at Union Square; protest murder of Berlin workers, the brutality of Tammany Hall police against striking food workers, and growing capitalist oppression thruout the world. 5.—Communist Party to enter municipal election campaign in New York City and expose responsibility of republican, democratic and socialist parties for anti-working class activity. 6.—Portes Gil-Wall Street government of Mexico continues to orientate itself toward the reactionary clericals and land owners by pushing its campaign of disarming the workers and peasants and in further oppressive measures against the working class. * 6 * The growing world struggle against capitalist terrorism and oppression was further strengthened by a stirring demon- stration of 5,000 workers in Union Square, New York, on Saturday afternoon. tive Agency, downtown.” phone). | It was in the main office of the George L. Storm Lumber Co., which private’ Roused at Demands for Floor to Expose Called by the Communist Party of New York to protest specifically against the wanton murder of 27 heroic Berlin PROTEST BERLIN | MAY 1 MURDERS USSR Workers Angry; Mourn; Raise Funds (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 12.— The bloody happenings in Berlin have caused bitter indignation among the workers of the Soviet Union. Everywhere protest meetings are held and messages of solidarity are being sent, Pravda declares the workers’ blood shed in the May Day demonstrations will show the real face of social democracy. The bar- ricades in Berlin are a sign of the correctness of the Communist In- ternational’s estimation of the pres- ent world situation and the uncer- tainty of capitalist. stabilization. ree oon Kharkov Stops Work. KHARKOV, U.S.S.R., May 12. —On the day of the burial of the German workers slain by police un- der orders of the social democrat, Zoergiebel, work was stopped here one minute and flags were lowered to half mast, while sirens sounded. The workers commenced the collec- tion of funds to support the fam- ilies of the killed and relieve the dis- tress of the jailed and wounded workers. * * * Red Front Demonstration, DUISBURG, Prussia, May 12.— great Red Front Fighters’ demon- stration took place here yesterday in spite of the government order prohibiting it. Many thousands of workers protested against the bloody slaughter in Berlin on the First of May and against the prohibition of the Red Front organizations. The Red Front Fighters appeared, wearing their uniforms, and declare the organization will exist despite the prohibition of the goverfiment. REICH TO ISSUE - RED FRONT BAN “Socialist” Minister Is Forcing Premiers BERLIN, May 12.—Karl Sever- ing, social-democratic minister of the interior of the Reich, at a meet- ing of all the premiers’ of the Ger- man states, forced through the measure dear to the heart of the social-democrats and got a promise that they would prohibit the Red Front Fighters, the defense organ- ization which has put an end to successful fascist attacks on work- ers’ meetings in this country, and which led the resistance to the bloody assault of the Berlin police from May 1 to May-4. Defy the Order. workers by the “socialist” led police and against the increas- \ing brutality of the New York police, especially directed at this time against the striking cafe- teria workers, speakers at the dem- onstrations pointed out that this protest was just a part of the in- ternational offensive of the work- ing class against capitalist oppres- sion everywhere. | They deciared that the fight is | growing thruout the world against the reaction in China, against fag- cism in Italy, against the brutal ter- ror of the Japanese bourgeoisie, against white terror in all lands. The demonstration joined in a vigorous protest against the mur- der of 24 workers by the “socialist” administration in Berlin following the great Communist demonstrations there, and against the unleashed brutality of the Tammany Hall po- lice in New York City, especially toward the courageous cafeteria strikers. The demonstration was ar- ranged by the New York districts of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. From two platforms erected in the center of the North Side of the Square, 25 speakers pointed out that violence against the working class is an organic part of capitalism. Over 100 police, ten sergeants and about a dozen mounted police were stationed in the square. Poorly con- (Continued on Page Two) FOREST FIRE RAGES LOS ANGELES, May 12.—More than 100 men battled a forest fire that raged over a five-mile front nestles comfortably amidst piles of | stacked-up timber. A short distance from there on Thursday afternoon, Garry Smith, a laborer who was on strike against this firm, was shot down ih cold blood by a Bronx po- liceman, | The Daily Worker reporter had| approached the inner office and was | beckoned in. | The gentlemen didn’t distinctly hear the name of the paper which} (Continued on Page Five) CHECK KWANGSI WAR LORDS; U.S. MARINES LANDED Imperialist Guns Point at Canton Workers HONGKONG, May 12. — With Yankee and British marines sta- tioned in the foreign concession in Canton, the battleships of the im- perialist powers pointing their guns from the harbor, the advance troops of the Kwangsi clique, which is en- gaged in a war with the Nanking war lords, are reported to have been captured during their advance on the city. Withdraw Troops. The failure of the “rebel” navy to continue the attack, which caused some damage in Shameen, the for- eign concession quarter Friday, and | the sudden appearance of the Hunan troops of Chiang Kai-shek has forced the Kwangsi clique to withdraw and consolidate their position west of Samshui. Two Cantonese army aviators were executed yesterday because of | alleged treachery, having wrecked their planes rather than bomb the) navy units. British Warships on River. | LONDON, May 12 (UP).—An Ex- | change Telegraph dispatch from| Hongkong today said the Cantonese authorities had announced that they | could not accept responsibility for) the safety of ships on the river above Samshui. British gunboats will escort ships to Wuchow Mon- (Continued on Page Two) War Gas Escaping From Japanese Army Base Hurts Workers TOKIO (By Mail).—A leakage of poison gas from an army munitions factory has spread to the drainage system of Oji, a suburb of Tokio. Serious sickness has occurred among the workers here, and 2000 near Colomas in the heavily tim- bered Patagonia Mountain region, workers’ dwellings had to be evacua- ted due to leakage thru the sewers. ‘Gives Boss Cha (The following is the first of It is timely because of the growing skyscrapers.) By JOSEPH COHEN. As man’s accomplishments and desires have increased, the building industry has involved more and more branch industries—plumbing, steam engineering, decorating, elec- tricity, the telephone, the elovator, the oil-burner and the like; so that putting up a building has now be- come an entirely new process that utilizes the most modern achieve- ments of science and practice. The modern building represents the joint product of some fifty-odd crafts of various industries, all of which the contractor must bring to- gether. He “amalgamates” them, so to speak. How, then, does the capitalists’ commercial amalgamation affect the development of the industry and the condition of the 4,000,000 and more workers employed (keeping in mind the employer's sole interest in huge profits)? In answering this ques- & far only Prussia, Saxony and ja of the large German states (Continued on Page Two) Tighe ecak mae epatcath tion we shall consider the alarming. increase in the number of industrial Changing Building Technique rank and file worker in the building trades on the present situation. agitation, and the changes in technique recently worked out by the bosses. Future articles will deal with industrial accidents, and such | specific trades as the carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians bricklayers, plasterers, and with the newest type of construction, the nce to Cut Pay @ series of articles written by a unemployment, the five-day week ° | accidents, the growth of unemploy- ment, the insecurity of the worker’s job, the decreased purchasing power of the worker, etc, What part does the American trade union movement play in con- nection with this question? What are the logical, the inevitable con- clusions that we are to draw? Building Worker, Past and Present. The American building industry is reputed to be a well-paid trade. This is due to the fact that some years ago the building workers suc- ceeded in their fight for somewhat higher wages, in comparison with other industries. But even the “happy” lot of the building worker was to a great extent exaggerated. It was a sort of trick on the part of the employers to attract new hands |< to the industry and thus effect a wage reduction. Another step in this direction on the part of the employers was the foundation and \lice and the cossack tactics of the His Clique | Labor Fakers Scared Left Wing Mass Meet Tomorrow Eve Delegates of Local 43, the fight- | ing millinery organization, were vio- lently ejected from Beethoven Hall by police and henchmen of the Za- ritsky clique during Saturday’s ses- ion of the packed convention of the | Cloth Hat, Millinery Workers Union, which opened on May 1. The delegation had never been | seated in the fake convention, but | had sat through the sessions of the | meet cailed to approve the activi- | ties of the reactionary clique since the last convention two years ago. Resented Exposure. | Zaritsky’s action on Saturday was | | caused by his resentment against the | |continued exposure of the adminis- | tration’s anti-union methods by a handful of the left wing delegates from other locals who were given | the floor—ten minutes at the time. None of the actions of the con- vention come with any feeling of surprise to the militants in the or- | ganization, and even before the fake | conclave had formally closed had | planned for mobilizing the active | elements for a move which would | save the workers of the entire in- dustry from the destructive and union-wrecking activities of the cor- rupt administration. Mass Meet Tomorrow. beginning Friday evening, of dele- |gates from expelled locals, unorgan- lized and partly organized cap and: milliners at Webster Hall, (Continued on Page Five) IN 25 CAFETERIAS Food WorkersDefyWrit Mass Picketing Today Strikes against at least 25 more cafeterias in the lower east side will be declared early this week, accord- jing to Michael Obermeier, organizer of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- teria Workers Union, which is ex- tending its fight for unionizing the shops throughout the city. The demonstration in the garment zone at noon today, where the strike firs’ began by the cafeteria strikers. Hundreds of workers from militant working class organizations will join | in solidarity. | The joint board of the Needle) Trades Union passed a resolution at | its last meeting urging its members especially to support today’s picket | demonstration. The union instructs its members who are working to} join the demonstration in the Junch | hour. Unemployed members should | report at union offices at 131 W.) 28th St., where they will march to the strike zone. Several hundred strikers packed the New York Communist Party demonstration against the brutality | of the Berlin social democratic po- local Whalen police force at Union Square Saturday. Support of the strike was pledged by many Iabor crganizations, “in spite of the i junctions of the capitalist courts, who cheered enthusiastically reports of the strike given by Obermeier. Continuance of the strike in de- fiance cf the injunction of the Wil- low Cafeterias was urged by J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the Daily Worker, Union secretary, Sam Kramberg, and Jacques Buitenkamp, attorney for the union, denounced the sén- tences inflicted on strikers by Magistrate Gittlieb and Simpson “capitalist justice.” At the 57th St. Court, four strik- ers were sent to the workhouse for 15 days. Peaceful picketing was the only evidence used against them. Another striker was fined $10. St. Court chose a jail sentence of ten days each rather than put up| maintenance of a system of build- (Continued on Page Two) ») Following a three-day conference, | an an-| | Bosses’ Police Jail Venucagie Rayon Strikers; A. F. L. Plans Sell-out The rayon strikers of the Glanzstoff and Bemberg Corporations are standing solid, and continue mili- tant while behind their backs the officials of the United Textile Workers and the State Federation of La- The police are terrorizing the rayon pickets. Some of the bor confer with the bosses, prepa jailed pickets are shown above. “Sandino to Attend Paris World Congress AS DELEGATE OF AMERICAN ANTI- IMPERIALISTS May Attend Meetings in New York City General Augustino Sandino, jhead of the Nicaraguan Army of In- dependence which has been fight- | ing heroically for two years against the intervention of the army of the United States in that country, is now | in Mexico. | He is preparing to attend the Sec- ond World Congress of the League Against Imperialism and for Inde- pendence, to “be held in Paris from |July 20 to 31. gate of the Nicaraguan branch of |the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, whose headquarters are at ;799 Broadway, New “York, accord- jing to an announcement from the \League, Invited to New York. The national office of the All- League, S. section, has extended an invi- tation to Sandino to attend a con- ference in New York on June 3 and 9, There will be at least two other such conferences in the United |States for a similar purpose, a mid- dle western conference at Chicago, and, at San Francisco, a western conference. These three confer- jences will each elect delegates from (Continued cn Page Two) BOMB MYSTERY’—INSURANCE! WOODBRIDGE, N. J., May 12.— |The “mystery” surrounding the sup- jposed bomb explosion which wreixed a building here last Monday, broke windows and suspended service for 24 hours was solved to- |sweeping injunction recently secured | day, according to a police announce- jby the 22 Wil-low Cafeterias chain|ment. Two men confessed to an at- will be protested at a mass picket |tempt to burn the wrecked building | |to collect the insurance and that the explosion occurred when the place saturated compound which exploded. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterpri: the | ELPA ring a sell-out. ERS “BET OUT,” SAYS. OFFICIAL, “WE WANTTODANCE” Senate Body Adjourns Probe on A. F. L. Tip to Avoid Delegates ~® Evictions in Bessemer Thugs Assault Pickets Again; Arrest 3 WASHINGTON, May-12.— When the delegation of starv- ing textile workers from Gas- tonia arrived at the Women’s | German Bosses’ Man |! ek | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trade Union League Convention here yesterday, asking the right to tell of the disease and misery ac- companying evictions, and the bay- onet attacks on their picket line by the Manville-Jenckes deputies, they were told by Miss Gertrude Mc- Nally, an official of the convention and in the past a member of var- ious congressional committees, to get out and not bother the Amer- ican Federation of Labor festivities. “I’m sorry, you'll have to get out,” ee she said. must clear the floor National Miners’ Head fer « dance.” 3 Threatened with Death | Delegates: Auplind. : | Delegates to the convention rose HERRIN, Ill, May 12—John/and applauded as the ragged band Watt, president of the National Min-|0f strikers filed in carrying a sign ers’ Union, and several other mili-|saying: “Gastonia textile strikers WATT ARRESTED oy jtant miners from Zeigler are in jail | delegation to Washington.” in Herrin, at the orders of the Pea-} Women hurried to get chairs for body Coal Co. and the Illinois dis-|the tired looking members of the | trict machine of the Lewis gang in He will go as a dele-| telephone | |. The American Negro Labor Con- 3 ‘3 4 3 \ | Dr. Hialmar Schacht, leading | German delegate to the»reparations | conference in Paris. Schacht repre- | senis..the. German industrial. .mag- jnates and bankers at the confer- ence, | DRIVE FULLY ON "FOR NEGRO WEEK I. L. D. Pledges Full, Support, Defense | “National Negro Week,” set aside | for the purpose of intensifying the |drive to gain more Negro workers | for the Communist Party, the new left wing unions and the new revo- lutionary labor union center, is now | proceeding in full for in District 12 (New Yo after having been! opened by a large Negro Champion | dinner in New York City. the New York sections of the Party have been called for the week ‘to| alten and plan the work for ex-| | workers. At the same time the units | of the Party are to take up special | tasks assigned to them. (Continued on Page Five) “Comedy of Liberty” Enacted | by Stupid Cops in Bethlehem The Great American Comedy of “Liberty” was enacted in Bethle- hem, Pa., the town lying in the| maws of the infamous steel mills of that name, when seventeen workers | were arrested last Saturday. They were thrown into jail, two of | them severely beaten, because the| cent in the examination. police had received a red-hot tip| | uted circulars against capitalism and | imperialism.” “What’s that?” he was asked. Passes Test. “Why, capitalism and imperialism |is the American government,” he \ exclaimed, getting one hundred per admitted that Schweitzer the the strikebreaking United Mine) Workers of America. | They were arrested as soon as| they got out of cdrs to address a} mass meeting called by the National} Miners’ Union in Rome Club at Herrin. | Threat To Shoot. John Anderson, the: Lewis-Fish-) wick agent who was ppt in sos el as sub-district president of the} Zeigler sub-district of the U. M. W.| the U. M. W. A., threatened to| shoot Watt and others distributing, leaflets for this meeting last Tues-| day. He was backed up in his gang-| officials of the U. M. W. A. sub- district. They declared that they| would kill Watt if he came to ad- dress the mass meeting. Watt re- plied that he would be there. The shooting did not take place, but the arrest did. Big Meetings. Watt and the other officials of the National Miners’ Union have been holding great meetings all Franklin County, A strong mem- |over the big coal mining district of | bership of the National Miners’ Union has been obtained for Frank- field. The sub-district officials of the U. M. W. A. are trying their best to prevent N. M. U. organiza- t | was filled with fumes from a highly tending influence among the Negro|tion in Williamson County (Herrin field). ‘A great unemployment demon- stration was held in Zeigler yester- day, attended by many miners made jobless by the introduction of ma- chines for cutting and loading coal, which the United Mine Workers have allowed without asking any provision for the miners thus ra- tionalized out of a chance to earn a living. - Mooney, With Incurable Disease, Sees Governor | Take Time Over Pardon SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, Calif., May 12.—The freedom which Tom Mooney believes at last is within his grasp, after 13 years im- strikers delegation, but Miss Rose Schneiderman, president, called the meeting to order and proceeded with the business of passing resolutions. Deny Right To Speak. In a few minutes, the business of tke convention was completed. Some one moved to adjourn. Karl Reeve, National Textile Workers’. Union organizer, asked that the convention listen to the stories of the strikers. “I’m sorry,” Miss Schneiderman replied, “the cons | A. by the reactionary ‘machine in| vention stands adjourned.” “But some of these strikers are women,” Reeve stated. “The convention stands ad- journed,” Miss Schneiderman re- | ster threat by three other machine | peated. Reeve Speaks. Reeve took the floor and spoke janyway. He pointed out that the | officials of the W. T. U. League | were not interested in women work- {ers, He denounced the ‘strike- jbreaking activities of the United |Textile Workers’ Union. The con- |vention broke up in disorder, and {a free for all argument developed, between the members of the W. T. |U. L. and the strikers, The strikers’ delegation was |thrown out to make way for the |dance, on orders of the highest of |lin County, and the organization is|ficials of the Women’s Trade Union Special membership meetings of|beginning to penetrate the Herrin| League. The strikers all through the argu- ment militantly supported the Ni (Continued on Page Two) ei BIG COMMUNIST & VOTE IN NEWARK Shown by Straw Ballot, , Masses at Meetings 4 |. NEWARK, N. J.. May 12 | Nineteen candidates are running in the Newark City commission elec- |tion, Tuesday. Of these, there are jthree Communist candidates, Frank |Fischer, Anna Drenkowski, and |Samuel D. Levine, Fy | The workers of Newark have res« |ponded well to the Communist plat. that “some kind of a red meeting! meeting, if there was to be one, was going to be held at 1163 had not started when he and his Saturday as glaring examples of | Two pickets arraigned at the 54th | | Mechanic Street.” Most Stupid Cop. The police were marshalled by | County Detective Schweitzer, newly elected “ealot, the usual big, red- |faced fat man. The workers hove | unanimously accorded him the palm as the most stupid police official yet | encountered. He is the man who explained, “They had signs up in the hall of of Russia.” “Soviet of Russia.” “Soviet of Russia?” he was asked. “Yes. The Soviet of Russia like the Czar. He turned over the Rus- sian government and now he wants to turn our government over.” One of the workers asked him, with serious mien, if Lenin was still jalive. Schweitzer was uncertain. The fat detective suburban edition a peace bond of $1,000 to keep off of the red-baiter, Palmer, exclaimed the picket line, nae a with frightened eyes, “They distrib- a a | brave policemen arrived. There had been no speechmaking or any sort | of demonstration, A 14-year-old boy,'a woman and the remainder of the group were ar- \rested because they “carried sedi- | tious pamphlets in their pockets and | there was Communist banners on | the walls.” | I. L. D. Defends. As a result of that evidence the Lenin—you know, Lenin, the Soviet | women, and three of the men are | pardon which I deserve is granted.” | under $5,000 bail each and the rest | ‘are under $1,000 bail each, charged | | with sedition and unlawful assembly. | | All are out on bail now procured | | through the I. L. D. | Several of the men arrested, for- | eign workers unable to talk English, were entirely ignorant of the meet- ing and had come to pay their “building and loan” in a downstairs | floor of the building. | prisonment, may be short-lived, form and up to now, have given to” The man who was framed up, with | ur candidates close to 19,000 in the Billings for the San Francisco pre- straw vote, or nearly one-half as paredness day bombing in 1916, is|Many as those cast for the leading suffering from an incurable stomach | capitalist candidates, and 2,000 more ailment. es are nts capitalist candidate 5 |James M. Reilly, who is running on ea pada gearbbaaey in San th® Socialist ticket. As usual, the Quentin than accept a_ parole,” (Conmgiuscl ons: Pane iiey Mooney said. “My friends have urged again and again that I avail myself of parole privileges, but I'll stay here until the unconditional Volunteers Needed! New York workers are urged to sacrifice their lunch on Wed- nesday to help the Southern tex- tile strikers win. Report’ at Room 402, 28 Union Sq., at 11:30 a.m. Bring your friends with you. Governor C. C. Young is expected to review the 3,000 word appeal for, pardon within the next few days.) He has had it for weeks but de-| clared he would not touch it until his vacation was over. The Interna- tional Labor Defense has been fight- ing for the release of Mooney and Billings. ALSO— Volunteers to help the Southern textile strikers win should report any day between 9 a. m. and 7 p.m. at the headquarters of the Join the Party of your class. Workers International Relief,” Albert Beerbaum and William) Join the Communist Party of the i | (Continued on Page Two) | U.S. Ae 2 iste a Yi os i RES Na a at PNR BU mT Te ey A