The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmen! To Organize the Unorganized Fer the 40-Hour Week ‘¢,, For a Labor Party aily FINAL CITY EDITION Entered ax second-class matter atthe Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sun Company, f hy 7 Square, N Vol. VI., No. 58 Somprodaily Publishing ew York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1929 =e $8.00 per yen’ 10 per yea: SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by ma Outside New York, by mail, $ Price 3 Cent A. F. OF L. CHIEFS SELL OUT BUI 4,000 Iron and BIG OPEN-SHOP CORPORATIONS MIT BY WALKOUT Mobilization Meeting of Over 1,000 Held Last Night For the 44-Hour Week Demand Higher Pay, Union Recognition Over 1,000 members of the Iron and Bronze Workers Union, enthu- siastically crowding Webster Hall last night, voted unanimously that the general strike involving over 4,000 iron and bronze workers in Greater New York City go into ef- fect today. The general strike, which had heen voted by the union member- ship a few weeks ago, was called for today, when the workers heard the report last night of the committee to the effect that the union bosses had refused to concede any of their demands. Strike Machinery Organized. The strike machinery was_per- fected and the various committees appointed at the mobilization meet- ing. The strike chairman is Alex- ander Korin: George Powers, or- ganizer of the union, is chairman of the picket committee, and Leo Hoff- made chairman of the hall commit- tee. The largest plants which will be struck this morning are the three plants of the General Bronze Cor- poration on Long Island, employing over 1,500 men. The corporation is the result of the combine of three companies with a total capitaliza- tion of about $7,000,000. Special attention will be given by the union to the plants of the Allied Building Metal Industries, a notori- ous open-shop association which per- mits none of its members to negoti- ate with the union. The association makes a specialty of exploiting young German workers recently ar- rived in this country, taking advan- | tage of their newness by paying them low wages and making them work long hours. The union demands are recogni- tion of the union, the 44-hour week in all shops and a minimum wage scale of $40 per week for helpers, $50 for finishers and bronze fitters and $60 for layout men and bronze finishers, The present scale is $36 a week for helpers and $46 for finishers in organized shops, and in non-union shops $25 to $30 a week for helpers and $40 to $44 a week for finish- ers, on a $48 a week basis. During the strike all workers walking out will be recruited into the union. The following strike headquarters have been designated: For all iron end bronze workers who live in New York, Laurel Garden, 75 E. 116th St., N. Y. C.; for all those who work in Brooklyn and East New York, Polizzi Mansion, 780-800 Flushing Ave., near Broadway, Brooklyn; for all those who work in Long Island and Greenpoint, 1041 Eighth St., near Vernon Ave., Long Island. Custom Dressmakers Elect Delegates to Cleveland Meeting A conference of the custom dress- makers, including many important shops, such as Vorzimer, was held yesterday in Bryant Hall under the auspices of the Working Wcemen’s Shop Delegates Conference for the purpose of electing delegates to the Cleveland convention on June 1. Julia Stuart Poyntz, former or- ganizer for the union, outlined the purposes of the Cleveland confer- ance. Six delegates were elected, including Grace Stewart, Rose Schurman and Eva Cohen, A col- lection was taken of over $25. A decision was taken to hold meetings regularly hereafter. ‘Negro Week’ Edition of “Daily” Tomorrow A special National Negro Week edition of the Daily Worker will appear tomorrow, containing ar- ticles dealing withthe struggles and problems of the Negro workers, Special bundles shonid be or- dered immediately for distribu- tion from the Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., sec:.nd floor. LDING TRADES WORKERS Bronze Workers Will Go Out on General Strike Today OAH CALS |® { of Many Battles; Sh Provisions already made guaran- tee at least 300 delegates for the Metropolitan Area Conference of the |Trade Union Educational League, {Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving | Place, to plan organization drives in |New York, and prepare for the |Trade Union Unity Conference in |Cleveland, June 1-2. Many of the |delegates are to come from newly | organized shop committees, and will jbe the beginnings of union organiza- |tion there, but the already organized janes are sending some, too. Around a thousand shop delegates |from the Needle Trades Workers’ | Industrial Union shops in New York | will gather at Webster Hall, 11th | St. and Second Aye., tonight, and from this conference will be elected |55 delegates to the Metropolitan | Area Conference. Want New Union Center. |. The needle trades’ workers realize ‘in the midst of their all important |preparations for the great furriers’ strike and their necessity of defense (Continued on Page Five) Birth Control Case Is Thrown Out of Court; Spy Is Caught Lying All charges were dismissed yes- |terday against two women physi- cians and three nurses arrested April 15 in a raid on the Birth Con- trol Research Clinical Bureau, The decision not only cleared the defendants and ended the case but admonished Anna K.' McNamara, police woman, by attributing to her bad faith in her harassing of the birth controllers. Priests Fail. The attempt of the Catholic ad- |visors of th in New York, and the big employers interested in having a huge poverty- stricken population of child slaves, to stop the Birth Control Clinic is a |failure, largely because of the na- \tion-wide mass protest that devel- joped after the illegal attempt at | suppression, Magistrate Rosenbluth was com- pelled to admit in his decision that the law allows doctors to use their judgment in granting contraceptive information, and throws the burden of proof of ill faith on the prosecu- tion. It is not required that the pa- tient be a married woman, INDIANA PLUMBERS STRIKE. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., (By Mail) —A strike of organized plumbers and steamfitters has broken out here, A wage increase is demanded. Call Fuller in Start Put Off (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., May 14,—Ex- Gov. Alvan T. Fuller, murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti, was last night served with a subpoena to appear as a material witness in the trial of Harry J. Canter, militant worker, who is being charged with criminal libel for carrying a placard branding Fuller as the murderer of the two Italian workers. The open-shop ex- governor was ‘served with the sub- Tammany government | 10,000 In Huge Cafeteria Picket Demonstration area, at West 36th St. Police stration. Over 300 Delegates at the | Metropolitan Area Meeting Needle, Shoe, Food Un ions Choosing Veterans op Groups Forming 2 MORE FOOD bauer, president of the union, was which will open Saturday in Irving| SHOPS STRUCK 1 Dental Workers Union Endorses Struggle Workers in two more cafeterias walked out on strike yesterday: the Home Plate, at Eighth Avenue and |54th St. and Herman’s, at 10 W. | 32nd St., showing the determination | of the strikers to continue to spread | the strike in spite of the injunction. The Dental Laboratory Workers | Union lined up with the striking cafeteria workers yesterday, the | following letter having been sent to | the cafeteria workers’ strike com- | mittee and the labor press, by M. Shalkin, organizer: “Your communication of April 25th received and read at our Exe- cutive Board meeting held May 7th. The following action was taken unanimously, “That we hereby endorse fully | your militant struggle to better the conditions of the workers in the food industry. We also join you in your | protest against the mass arrests and police brutality practiced on your | pickets. |to our general membership to pa- |tronize other restaurants. And we |heartily endorse your open letter to the mayor against the tactics of the police department. “A motion was also passed that we contribute $10 which is herewith enclosed.” Three Given 10 Days. Three striking cafeteria workers were sentenced to 10 days in the workhouse yesterday by Magistrate August Dreyer in Je n Market (Continued on Page Five) \Carnegie Hall Concert with ‘Walpurgis Night’ and ‘Twelve’ Rendition The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will appear in an exclusive new program of songs and fragments of “Twelve” and “Walpurgis Night” on the occa- sion of their Sixth Jubilee Concert, Saturday, May 18, at Carnegie Hall. For the first time in the history of the chorus, it will appear in full force with all sections combined— over 300 voices. Canter Tnal; Till Tomorrow The trial was’ scheduled to open today, but the International Labor Defense, which is defending Canter, succeeded in having it postponed till Thursday in order that all neces- sary arrangements for conducting a vigorous defense might be made. With the subpoenaing of Fuller, preparations for reopening the en- tire Sacco-Vanzetti'case in the Can- ter trial are going forward with in- creased speed. The trial had to be Over 10,000 work- ers took part in one) of the greatest pic- keting demonstra- Thousands of |, needle trades work-| erst olted oe the) 345,000 Vote for Revolt di ion. Ph 4s . . omonstration. Photo Socialists Join in New shows part of the| huge demonstration| marked the demon- “We also pledge to communicate | BATTLE POLICE ARRESTING RED _ FRONT FIGHTERS tions yet held by the| cafeteria strikers in “Socialists” Order the New York's garment) Suppression. of Two Workers’ Papers Fascist Conspiracy (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BERLIN, May 14.—Demonsira- brutally|tions against the police brutalities \continue. A hot fight took place when police attacked a workers dem- |onstration in Prenzlau and attempted jto arrest Red Front Fighters who were participating, dressed in their \uniforms. the social-democratic minister of the interior of the Reich, has decided |the whole country. Shout ‘Murderer.” Yesterday’s sessions of the Prus- sian Diet developed stormy scenes, |The Prussian minister of the inte- \rior, Grzesinski, was greeted by |Communist deputies with shouts of “Murderer!” when he appeared. He \found it impossible to continue his speech, and had to yield the floor who demanded the dismissal of Zoer- giebel, the socialist chief of police of Berlin who ordered the blood jbath on May 1-4. Kasper also de- (Continued on Page Two) SENATE ADOPTS ~-DEBENTURE BILL Tariff Duties Rise in Bargaining Spree WASHINGTON, May 14.—The |senate late today passed by 2 vote of 54 to 33 its farm bill, containing |the debenture clause, opposed by the |majority in the house of represen- tatives and by President Hoover. The debentures are a form of fake |farm “relief” designed to fool the farmers by promoting export of grain. Exporters will get credit slips, “debentures,” which can be used to pay tariff dues, on any- thing, for one half of the amount of the tariff duty on the grain ex- ported, had the grain been imported instead of exported. The farmers get nothing from the debentures, the exporters profit, and probably the price of food in the cities will go up. Senator Brookhart and several others vigorously condemned the preposal of the house republican leaders to simply declare the deben- ture clause unconstitutional and re- fuse to consider ‘t, on the grounds that it was a revenue measure, and must originate in the house, not the senate. _A meeting of the ministers of} interior of all German states, under | the chairmanship of Karl Severing, | jto issue an order prohibiting the | |Red Front Fighters organizations in| |to the Communist deputy, Kasper, | |manded the withdrawal of orders| prohibiting demonstrations by the | Berlin Workers Resisted “Socialist” Police Brutality On Barricades OFF ELECTRICAL ; UNION STRIKES Bosses Defer Lockout | in Exchange for Fakers’ Betrayal Job Trust to Continue } “Building Committees Workers’ Weapon” | ee, A complete betrayal of the interests of thousands of build- ing trades workers is seen in the annouycement last night by H. H. Broach, international vice president of the Brother- | hood of etrical Wor! , and the “little ” of New York Local 3 of the lectrical Workers’ Union, that he would call off the strikes of three large building concerns in Piers se se ee PCO si a oo - conformity with the Photo shows the Berlin police chasing and clubbing workers who walked the streets in the working |Building Trades Emp class districts of Berlin on May Day. Under orders of the “socialist” police chief Zoergicbel, the pe iation that issued ar stop pedestrians indiscriminately, and their attempt to suppress the Berlin workers’ May Day demon- lockout o 2 workers to go stration caus | at 5p, m. ist on the barricades of Berlin. urn for Shop Delegates Conference ARREST 250 IN syns as ys oe vice of a temporar by injunction issued Supreme Court Justice Gavegan, ning it from making the or- res’ of Needle Union Tonight FL i7ABETHTON : : : der ued Monday afternoon effec- Will Discuss Coming Fur Struggle and Fake ele i \ Stoppage; 1,000 Attend Open Forum Seab Slashes Girl With wancuverion the part of the BHI aa ae . Knife; “Bomb” Fake | ixg Trad iation | Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third to ca’ out order, new | Ave., will be the scene of one of| ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 14. that they have won all along the { the most momentous meetings of —The state militia of Tennessee serene A ha Si rae hart : ant ‘ ,/tan amuck here, on orders of the |Mnounce that they are doing so in needle trades workers in many Audlesi SDarlers and: (Athet deference to the law. months when the regular 4 monthly | Gianzstoff corporations, and arrest-| ©- G. Norman, chairman of the Shop Delegates. Conference of the ed 250 strikers, charging the break governing hoard of the association, atte Needle Trades Workers Industrial |ing of an injunction against picket-/™ade haste to explain that the lock Laud Needle Union at union is opened at 7 o'clock tonight. ing. Act ist ine Ravan eat ietd os Ree | ans,” he said, “that it is o Enthusiastic Meet | Issue Call. The arrests followed a sharp clash | until the order of Justice Gavegan, i The conference will discuss two | between the scabs, organized into @!which is returnable Friday, is dis- | A series of decisions of the great-|things of the utmost importance: C°™Pany union, who were riding in) hosed of, If the injunction is va- jest importance to thousands of cap (1) the forthcoming strike of the|Pusses to work in the mills this cited, the lockout order will stand.” and millinery workers have just been |fur workers in an effort to re-estab- | ™0™ing, and the strikers, who hail- he issue is not sufficiently im- made public by the Conference of |lish union standards destroyed by|¢d them on the roads, leading to portant to warrant the lockout,” Representatives of Organized andthe conspiracy of the Woll-McGrady | the factories, and tried to dissuade proach explained when he made the | Unorganized Cap and Millinery gang; and (2) the fake stoppage them from strikebreaking. f ; | announcement of the decision to call Workers which yesterday concluded | threatened by the right wing I. L.| off the electrical strikes at a meet- Several Hurt. a four-day session in New York. |G, W. U., the faithfal mistress of| Several were injured in the clash, ing of the m of the Building | Choose National Committee. the manufacturers. Jone perhaps fatally. Trades Council at 154 Third Ave., | Just before the conference closed| In a call for the Shop Delegates} As fast as arrests were made the Yesterday afternoon. |a National Committee of 9 was Conference tonight, the Joint Board | pickets were hurried into busses and “Job Trust” Continues. elected, which included one youth declares: ‘driven to jails, which filled quickly.| ‘phis means that the “job trust” | member. The committee is expected! “The general strike in the fur The busses were manned by guards | <y. to act on the group of decisions made} industry is approaching. Soon | equipped \.ith bayonets, tear gas the at the conference, | thousands of fur workers will en- | bombs and gas ma: | First and foremost of the de-| ter into a struggle, at the call of One girl was badly em prevailing in Local 3 and in ntire {nternational by which the large masses of the electrical work- V/ers are shut out from organ cut on the hanc |cisions is a call to all expelled cap| the Needle Workers Industrial | by a scab in a bus, who drew a knife | will be continued. Broach |and millinery locals urging them to| (Continued on Page Five) and slashed her when she shouted making his pe with those build- affiliate at once with the growing, to him. . ing employ E | The arrests. occurred three | (Continued on Page Two) on Tre aplo Union. Square! Come-on timel | LSS Teeter? ae Oe OS ae “Anarchy.” Brookhart stated that such ac-} tion by the house would lead to “anarchy in legislation,” but the most of the senators simply smiled | cynically. They know that such ac- | tion by the house will wut the farm | bill into conference for a good long | time, and perhaps relieve them of | responsibility in the eyes of their | farmer constituents. And everybody | can see now that the farmers, when they wake up to the fact that the (Continued on Page Two) toes to the W. I. R. The searching party pretended they were looking for liquor but had no warrant. Wright has been active in organ- izing the farmers to aid the striking | workers, Auto, Machine Shop, Bldg. Workers, Are Winners in Contest Due to technical reasons, the || will Keep Hauling. announcement of the winners of || “I am hauling potatoes,” declared the worker correspondence con- || Wright, “to feed the strikers and .test last week was delayed sev- | will continue to do so until the strike eral days. | is won.” y The first prize, a copy of the || TWo strikers were arrested on the great Soviet novel, “Cement,” by || ¢Vening picket line. Carl Holloway Feodor Gladkov, was won’ by (Continued on Page Two) é w i — o left the Building fighting Needle Workers Industrial Association. i Union, At the same time a call is rengthen his addressed to all members of the the hui'ding emplo F millinery International urging them | known that Broach is ali wi to begin an energetic campaign | To Present New Plan the mite clique a Higicperte pasa pu ae pareaang ne EVICTED AGAIN for Shylocking Reich | Contractors’ Association. Se EO eee. Wien wid | Defeat For Workers. eg | | Workers cor ae os |Labor Secretly Today THe: guchendae’ bic ace | pone, Of the decisions also called) GASTONIA, N. C., May 14—For} parts, May 14—The new plan|with “great satisfaction” by. the |for an immediate appeal to all un-|the third time, the Workers Inter-|¢or the reparations which Germany|fakers of the Building Trades Coun- organized cap and millinery workers national Relief store has been | must pay to the allied imperialists, |cil now opens the way for further urging them to begin at once the | evicted, being driven out of its dis-|thought not to differ essentially|attacks against the building unions | formation of shop committees, which | tribution center at 1252 West Frank-! from Young’s scheme of an inter-|and for continuous inroads into the | Eogethen with’ ie: Nauenal Commiv | irtAve:) ‘Tha elandlord® dananded bn tonal bank bas riot ye been tom | cdrinaratively high ‘eae’ ntaiaeal tee; begin ‘immediately, ney ocaeul | tat the Wa. R. immediately vacate | niotad iit davennouiced, and may belof the thoukunde of favored aroeles | zaion of the ehousende of Unbrgan-/ ihe: shack, but ib did not leave until | Sesented (By |Sic Josiah Stamp, \ers. | zed workers thruout the U- s a.| it had dispensed the daily rations to/ British banker, to a closed session| At the same time, Christian G. HieEL Cotnietne La RaHOERGh the| strikers. |of the committee tomorrow. Norman, president of the bosses’ as- Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial), Police yesterday searched the) He is now busy seeing everyone|S0ciation, arrogantly announced yes- Union with the proposal that it es-| truck and boarding house of D. H.' of the delegates separately to make terday that _the 80 employers who (Continued on Page Five) | Wright, a farmer living 150 miles | sure that everything that can pos- belong to his organization “would from here who has been selling pota-| sihly be obtaincd from the German|not only use non-union labor now workers is included. There has been|to complete construction jobs, but no report yet on the proposition ofthat if the Building Trades Council the German gcvernment that con-| did not come to terms and correct its cessions be given in return for) Stave abuses against owners and |“turning its back” on the Soviet (Continued on Page Two) Union. | ee MARBLE HELPERS STRIKE. MOVIE STRIKE IN PA. CLEVELAND, ((By Mail).—Or- LEBANON, Pa., (By Mail)—The ganized marble setters’ helpers are 12 projectionists of the film theatres on strike here for better wages. here plan to strike in sympathy with) |the organized musicians, who are fighting against a violation of thelr agreement, PA, BUILDING STRIKE. BRADFORD, Pa., (By Mail).— | Bradford building workers are on “Chevrolet Worker,” the Detroit worker correspondent, whose let- ter describing the killing speed- up in the Chevrolet plant in De- troit appeared last Tuesday. The second prize, “Bill Hay- wood’s Book,” went to the “Crane 2 Slave,” who described conditions By A. BUSCH. in the Crane Plumbing Supply Noe the early construction of the plants in Chicago. This letter Southern Pacific Railway System appeared Thursday. in California almost fifty years ago, “Red Cartoons for 1929,” the || Negroes have been employed in the third prize, was won by the build- || dining car service as cooks and wait- ing trades worker, “J. J. S.,” who || ers. Like the traditional Negro ser- described the dangers in this || vant in the South, the Negro has |] work in a letter published last || become an institution on this rail- Tuesday. i |way system. Many Negroes now The same prizes will be awarded |;employed by the company wear for this week. |honor stripes on their sleeves, and PROGRESSIVE BARBERS MEET. A general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League, Barbers Section, will be held on | Wednesday, May 15, at 26-28 Union Square at 9 p.m. All Journeymen Barbers of Greater New York are cordially invited to attend. All barbers should come to the meeting this Wednesday night and take part in the general discussion of the conditions in the barber trade and take up the question of organ- izing the unorganized, improvement of our conditions and the ousting from our union of the present offi- cials who are betraying us daily. Come and voice your opinion Wednesday night at 9 p.m. 26-28 fone y aa A Discriminate Against Negro R. R. Waiters in California =~ until recently have looked forward | strike for a five-day week. They | are organized. ‘ Volunteers—Today! 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. either to spending the remainder of their lives in the service of the com- pany or being retired. by this so- called benevolent organization. With the coming of hundreds of thousands of white workers from every section of the country to Cali-| fornia and the growing »nderstand- jing of mutual interest of both white jand Negro workers in the class | struggle, the powers that direct the company policy are beginning to sce} Continued on Page Two) ! beni ne SE al ALSO— Volunteers to help the Southern textile strikers win should report any day between 9 a. m. anc 7 p.m. at the headquarters of the Workers. International Relief, Room 604, 1 Union Sq.