The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 2

Page Two “BATTLE POLIGE IN PRENTI AU Order Two “Qo ¢ej Papers Suppressed f ex- > th er fay Day were tra- ur- the demor ie Commu then sang the walked out in a press Papers. department of the um has announced as rm F (Storm Flag) the paper issued as a substitute for the alread; Rote Fahni (Red Fla ppre iss the presses, and the owne’ printing works w Chief of Police arrested. ergiebel has so a the wor ers’ pape g,” June 10, on account of May articles condemning police brutal- ities. Ele in Saxony. The elections to the diet in Sax- ony took place in a strained atmos- phere resulting from the Berlin slaughter by the police. The bour- geois parties propagated a govern- ment by a bourgeois bloc. The left wing social democrats put to the lead of their campaign a piece of quasi-radical demogogy advocating a “Red Workers’ Government.” The Communists declared the workers can hope for nothing from a parlia- mentary government and advocated a clear-cut proletarian dictatorship. The result was 345,000 votes for a + pure program of social revolution. The Commu: vote appears as 36,000 less than in the last election, because the clear-cut revolutionary program scared the labor aristo- crats and caused them to campaign against it. The social-democrats lost 77,000 votes in spite of the radical demagogy. The Brandler right | wing splitters filed their own list, } and got 22,000 votes, and no seat in the diet. Anti-Red Conspiracy. The newspaper, “Berlin Am Mor- gen,” exposes the existence of sec ret anti-Bolshevist organization ? named “Antira” (Anti - Radical } League), which was nded by the | nationalist fascist naval captain, Von Pustau. This organization re- } ceives 40,000 marks, (nearly $10,000) annual sub om Berlin employ- ers alone, in on to heavy sub- sidies from government of the Reich. The organi on’s aims are “a united anti- struggle on a national scele, and to maintain connections with similar organiza- tions in other countries.” cialists Join Fascists. In a circular dated March of this year, the leaders of the “Antira” de- clare that many social-democratic officials have joined with the fas- cists in this new anti-Bolshevik or- ganization, including members of the shop councils of the General Electric Co. and the Siemens Cor- poration, The “Antira” holds evening speak- ers’ cow with exclusively anti- Bolshevik themes. Nationalists, fas- cists and social-democrats speak, in- cluding prominent figures like the social-democratic Reich minister of|what we are wearing and fear they | labor, Wissell, and Naphatli, the economic expert of the A. D. G. B, (German General Federation of La-|houses. Our few things stand inthe | L. in America.) bor—like the A, F. ee ee Hindenburg Not to Run Again. BERLIN, May 14.=-Paul Von Hindenburg, imperialist general and president of the republic, who is supported 'y the social-democrats, has decided not to accept re-election to the presidency at the expiration of his term of office. His term will expire in 1982. LATHERS STRIKE. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., (By Mail).—Thirty-five union men won a strike here for an increase in wages, of $1 a day. ENCDAV STRIKE. SAN FRANCISCO, (By <Iail Over 200 vngravers in this district are on strike for shorter working hours. They are all organized. FILM OPERATORS STRIKE. HARRISBURG, Pa., (By Mail).— whole working class movement. We | for examination Tuesda; | Film theatre operators of the State shall repay the workers who are | Theatre are st” ditions, Giant Dirigible Will F a TO AID GASTONIA TEXTILE STRIKE Baltimore WIR to Hold Meet Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) was driven into his house by three deputies who threatened him with drawn bayonets. Funds to purchase, food, tents and medicine for the striking workers should be sent to the Workers In- ternational Relief, Room 604, One Union Square, New York City. Appeal for Food. The Gastonia strikers have writ- n an appeal, signed by Roy Strout, rman of the Strike Committee, Russel Knight, its secretary, and so by Will Truett, secretary of t astonia local of the National Tex- tile Workers Union, by Fred E. Beal, district organizer of the union; by Bertha Crawford, chairman and Robert Allen, secretary of the W. I. R. in Gastonia, and by J. L. Murray, chairman, and Pearl Barnett, sec- retary of the W. I. R. in Bessemer City. The is appeal written to “all workers, labor unions and other ympathetic organizations in the United States, and is as follows: The south textile strikers in Loray, Pineville, Bessemer City, Lexington, North Carolina, want to thank you folks for the relief and support you have sent us and tell you something about our strike, We | yecken you have sent us support to help us fight our mill bosges. With- out your extended hand we would have been starved back. Some of our people have ~been working for as low as $6 a week. The average wage is $8 to $12 a week. We work 10 to 12 hours a day under the rottenest condi- tions. Men, women and children toil 12 hours a day or 12 hours a night. Mest families have from two to five, some families as many as eight. in. the mill. The company does not let a family have a house unless at least two will work in the mill, Where the husband and wife worked should the wife nave to stay home the husband is discharged and they have to leave the company house. Sometimes as many as three fam- ilies of five members each, live in a fiyo-room house. Bad Houses. We pay 50 cents a room rent and more for light and gas. Most houses are in very poor shape. The plumbing is broken and the company won't fix anything. Some houses have big cracks in the wall, through which the wind blows. There are electric lights in the house, but we have to pay $5 deposit to have the lights turned on. Many families never save up that much money, so they have to use lamps. | We don’t have but a bed and some \stools and some tables. You can hardly call the little we have furni- ture. Most everything has to be bought on installments, even our shoes and clothes. It takes us as long as four weeks to buy even a peir of shoes. Most of us owe on will be called for, | We are being thrown out of our lyards and streets, There have been jas many as three femilies thrown Jout of one house, Rations. Now, about relief. We got busy end elected our committees. We got a store committee, housing commit- tee, fuel committee, sick committee, collecting committee. We buy all cur rations in bulk at the cheapest prices. We give small rations to the small families and larger ones where there are many children, Some of our strikers board. They lived in scab houses when the strike came on, so we moved them to union boarding houses, A mill-hand boards down here for $6 a week. As many las six are put in one room, The rations are of the simplest kind. |Many times a family must keep boarders in order to stay in a com- \pany house. | We want to build Workers Inter- national Relief branches all over the south. We want to be part of the ‘ng for better con- | supporting us now when next they | of the orgai jare on strike. Northern folks ought to know that The Communist Party is the |we have been clubbed, stabbed and on campaigns against miliiant work-, highest form of the class organi- jailed. Our families right now are|ing class organizations, was the gation of the proletariat.—Stalin. levieted, sleeping outside and eating DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESD Y, MAY 15, 1928 —E Be Bes hoto shows the finishing touches being put on the new giant British dirigible, the R-100, one of the craft British imperialism is planning for the coming war. t Bet of British Imperialists ‘in War LO C A L wo R K f R We 7. S CORRESPONDENCE MEETS PLANNED Prepare for National Conference May 31 Local conferences, for the purpose of choosing delegates to Fi Na- tional Conference of Worker Corre- | spondents in the United States are planned in many industrial centers. The call for the conference, which will be held in Cleveland on Friday, May 31, will reach thousands of worker co! pondents of the Com- munist Party press, in which the call will be published. This call, pub- lished several days ago in the Daily x, has been enthusiastically ‘received by many worker corre- spondents, who are looking forward to the local conferences and are tak- jin the roads, We will fight to the last for our union, the National Tex- tile Workers Union. The whole south must organize to beat the rob- hing bosses, who starve us, work us t« death and cause all the sicknesses we suffer from. Meal a Day. Workers all over the United States, and workers’ organizations should help us give the bosses a good licking. We can do it if we have a little to eat. We don't ask much, just a meal a day, We appeal to all workers, north, south, east and west, to join the Workers International Relief, to col- jlect money everywhere, so a little food, tents and medicine can be given us. If all workers will show their solidarity with us now we will pay back in solidarity as soon as cur fight is won. | * We send greetings to ali workers and workers’ organizations ever where. We want to hear from yo Address either Workers Interna- nal Relief, 1 Union Square, New |York City, or Strike Relief Commit- tee of the Work nternational Re- lief, 512 West Airline Ave,, Gas- tonia, N.C. F BETRAY BUILDING TRADES WORKERS Broach Leads Sellout; Calls Off Strikes (Continued from Page One) contractors, non-union labor will ul- timately be used on all construc- tion.” Cleveland conference, | The worker correspondents’ con- |ference will precede the history-mak- ing Trade Union Unity Conference, ich will be held under the aus- pices of the Trade Union Educa- | tional League, also in Cleveland, on fJune 1 and 2. Delegates to the cor- _-DEBENTURE BILL | respondents’ conference will include not only worker correspondents of Tariff Duties Rise in the Communist newspapers, but also ORNS 7 of the many shop papers which have Bargaining Spr ee sprung up in the various industries, ae. agp ‘ under Communist leadership. i (Continued on Page Five) great display of all shop papers will Dill, with or without debentures, is | he a feature at the conference. jsimply a swindle on them, will be} The purpose of the conference 1s \¥ peevish about the breaking cf | to lay plans for the formation of a jrepublicen campaign promises to | solid and powerful army of worker give farm relief. | correspondents in the United States, In ihe house, which has already |so that the influence of the worker passed its farm bill, without deben- | correspondents can be most effee- tures, Hoover's policy of a prac-| tively used. All information regara- tically unchanged tariff, such as/|ing the holding of local conferencee the greater interests of the highest | should be mailed to the worker cor- finance capital requires, is meeting | respondence department of the Daily \with trouble. In the bargaining be- | Worker, 26 Union Sq., New York, > |, |tween groups, the tariff duties are | and requests for information on the naturally being raised, the bargain | Cleveland conference should also be Sparrows Point met here to discuss | junior basebal tournaments usually being, “you give me a duty | sent to that address. and we'll give you your duty.” | Republican “farm bloc” leaders in the house are asking the house ways and means committee for a tariff of jseven cents a pound on long staple cotton, now on the free list; a rate of 70 cents a bushel on flax, which | what a powerful force against their the president today ordered to 56|strangehold the workers are de- cents from the 40-cent rate in the | veloping. In order to attack these present law, and a tate of eight |class-conscious workers with a view cents a pound on casein. of dividing them, they have hit upon | “Egypt has a 242 per cent export | # scheme of dividing and rule, by | duty on cotton and if we put a tariff putting fear into the hearts 6f the cn it the country undoubtedly will | workers, remove its duty in order to get our| Realizing that the white workers | markets,” Swing said. are better organized than the Ne- | Representative Hickey, republican, | groes, the company has deliberately Indiana, asked the committee for a| worked out a scheme for putting higher tariff on onions and mint. feat into the Negro dining car work- He urged that wool used in felt| ers by issuing an order from the Negro R. R. Waiters (Continued from Page One) ing part in the preparations for the | | “{ was nine years old when the) great 1913 silk strike in Paterson started. My father wes a weaver and explained to my e!¢or brother and myself the strike as it pro- gressed. | “I well remember the picket lines | and marched in the children’s sec- {tion during the May 1st parade.) Some one would shout “What do you think of Haywood?’ The kids would shout ‘Hurray,’ | | “Then they would ask ‘What do you think of Chief Binson?’ (the) police chief). We would then ‘boo,’ | as loud as we could, Them would come ‘Hurrays’ for Gurley Flynn, Pat Quinlin and ‘Buffalo Bill,’ as |we called Carlo Tresca. Childrens’ Meetings. | | “On Thursdays we had children’s meetings in the Turn Hall, ‘Big Bill’ | himself would talk to us. We had children speakers and we planned @ strike in the schools unless the police | terror stopped. | “Haywood writes that there was not a park in the workers’ district. This is true, but we had the river, | the dirty, stinking Passaic River, |into which the sewers emptied and| the dye houses dumped their refuse. It runs right through the workers’ section, In all my life in Paterson, {I never lived away from the stink) of the Passaic River, | “Working conditions were horrible | (as they still are). The mills were! rker Tells How Big Bill _ Haywood Came to Paterson 'ARREST 250 IN ELIZABETHTON Scab Slashes Girl with Knife; “Bomb” Fake (Continued from Page One) highways leading into the city, routes over which “The Loyal Work- ers of Bemberg,” as the company union is called, went to work. City and county jails were packed and some of those arrested were taken to the Carter county court house, where they were locked in the auditorium. Charge “Intimidation.” Twenty-nine strike pickets arrest- ed yesterday were brought into court today, and charges of intimidation were filed against them. A rocket placed in a local non- union chair factory was made the excuse for a “bomb scare” today by the employers and the local press, but subsided when the nature of the “explosive” was made known, Strikers Win. The strikers continue determined to win, in spite of every effort of the United Textile Workers Union officialdom to surrender the strike and send them back to the mills. ; . Major Berry, the autocrat of the P. S.—Were Haywood alive today, | printing Pressmen’s Union and a Tam sure “e would now be down in} strikebreaker of note, was appointed the Carolinas, leading the southern |}. the governor of Tennessee to textile slaves in their first organized | «.pitrate” the strike, but has sent battle against capitalism. : without ventilation. My father con-| tracted tuberculosis from which he died after much suffering. Got TB Too. “As soon as I became old enough, I was also forced to work in the} silk mills. It was my mother’s dream that I would be able to get) away from the mills. It will give you consumption like your father got, she would always say. Her prophesy was only too true, as I now also have tuberculosis and am at a sanitorium. | “The last time I saw Haywood was when he was touring the coun- try for funds to aid the war prison- ers, At that time I was a member | of the Young Peoples’ Socialist League (Yipsels). Our headquarters | were in the Institute Hall where Haywood spoke. He looked worn out, but despite this he held the packed hall in the hollow of his | hand, the minute he began to speak, How he could sway a crowd! “It is only natural that the for- mation of a militant workers’ party should find me in the ranks along with my boyhood hero, I am now a member of the Communist Party. | “Comradely, “IRVING S. KREITZBERG.” in his resignation as arbitor in view ‘STEEL WORKERS ‘of the determined resistance of the strikers, and the intensifying of the struggle. ae _ PICK DELEGATES Hold TUEL Conference At Baltimore | BALTIMORE, Md., May 13. (By \ing American Legion has taken the! the Mail)—Many workers from | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | plans for participation tn the Cleve- A o. “6 = | land Trade Unity Congress called by Discriminate Against _ | the Trade Union Educational League. It was agreed to call the local con- ference of the League for Thursday, |May 23, at 8 p, m, at the Workers | Cooperative Centre, 1206 East Balti- more St, | After a long discussion by the} who stressed the importance of organ-| izing the unorganized wor‘ers in the steel plant, the group elected three | delegates for the local conference. peetaleher Steel workers, | | Basic Industries Represented. Labor Sports co | | Wire to War Secretary. Baseball, one of the most popular | KNOXVILLE, Tenn. May 14 sports, is well exploited, not only | (UP).—The Tennessee Federation of |for the dollars and cents that the | Labor telegraphed the secretary of ‘promoters are able to rake in, but| War asking him if he had given per- |also for its propaganda value for Mission to Governor Horton of Ten- |the master class. Recognizing the | nessee to let state militia use equip- | latter value, the fascist, strikebreak-| ent of the war department. “Such use is being made by Gov- initiative in the promotion of this | ernor Horton of Tennessee in an ef- sport among the youth of the coun- fort to break a strike,” the telegraph at try thru the formation of national | said. | labor movement in general should | give a good deal more attention to The real purpose of these tourn- sports, At the present time baseball aments can be easily understood by| is not so well organized in the Labor ireading the following quotation from) Syorts Union. This is due to the Jan article by Dan Sowers, the Le- | lack of funds to carry on this work. | gion’s director of “Americanization.” | Resides the organization of baseball He states: “The Legion’s purpose in| ;, every L, S. U. club and district, promoting junior baseball is to give| cach working class — organization the boys of America an cuportunity to learn the good lessons in Amer-/tiye) should be represented on the icanism.” Tt is well known what | many baseball fields of the country. | the Legion’s brand of American- | phig would not only help to build ism” is. ; |labor sports, but it would strengthen v The American Legion is not algne| and give more publicity to the labor in this national junior baseball! movement as a whole. And, above Purpose of Boss Sports. (trade union, fraternal and coopera- The conference, which is expected | tournament. It has the moral andj all, it would serve to hold and at- Ke be one of the largest ever held in, financial support of the bosses and/ tract the working youth to their the city will be represented by work- | particularly the baseball magnates. | class organizations. \ers from many basic industries in-| For this year’s tournament they | textile, | have contributed to date over $50,- L. S. U. has inaugurated and the |cluding the steel, metal, free. Representative Selvig, republican, | Minnesota, asked that the 2% cents a pound tariff on casein be increased | to 8 cents a pound. He recom- mended that compensatory rates be | levied on other dairy products. | SUMMON FULLER IN CANTER TRIAL Seek Injunction. A short time after Broach and the | building union betrayers had fawn- ingly surrendered, and offered to) permit scab work, the United Ce-) jment and Concrete Workers’ Union, | a member of the Building Trades/ Council, obtained from Supreme! Court Justice Gavegan a temporary injunction against the Building! Trades Employers’ Association -re- straining it from calling the lockout of the building industry today. The temporary injunction includes an order, returnable Friday, calling on the bosses’ association to show cause at that time why “it should not be) |permanently enjoined from calling a lockout.” To become effective, technically, the order must be served on either Walter S. Faddis, president of the) Building Trades Association of Em- ployers, and Norman, chairman of the executive committee of that or-| gAnization. Up to a late hour last | night the order had not been served. Withdraw Fake Offer. (Continued from Page One) | postponed several times because | Fuller, with the aid of the author!-| ties, succeeded in dodging the sub-| poena, even going to Europe to do so. Now he will be compelled to testify and submit to a crossfire of questions that will brand him un-| mistakably as the murderer for the| capitalist class of-the two Italian| maztyrs. In line with its policy of reopen- | It is now clear that the “promise” ing the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the In- of a five-day week and a ten per ternational Labor Defense is now] ‘cent increase made by the bosses on| conducting negotiations to secure |May 4, was the bait offered to the William G. Thompson, defender of building fakers to call off the strike.| Sacco and Vanzetti, as one of the) The new schedule was to become ef-| attorneys in the case. Important ‘fective on August 24, a time of the | Witnesses whose evidence was either \ year when the entire industry is| ignored or deliberately withheld dur- ‘normally in a serious state of un-| ing the cases will also be placed on \employment. Whether the bosses had| the stand, provided the moral and jany real intention of granting the financial support of the workers of ‘new schedule is quite doubtful, but this country is sufficient and quick it is clear that the present victory| enough to enable the present plans will be utilized by the essociation| to be carried out in full, to cut short all discussion of the, Canter has been active in the new schedule. working class movement of this city Urge Building Committees. for years and was the Communist | Militants in the orgenization are| Party candidate for secretary, of | pointi ‘i tate during the last elections, A | ting out that the present situa- * GUFINS 8 rections. ye Me long jail term awaits him should he be convicted. Funds to save him must be rushed at once to Robert Zelms, New England I. L. D. see-} retary, 113 Dudley St., room 6, Bos- | ton. | i Visit Russia LOWEST PRICE @ aaaeye incl. all expenses First time since the re- volution that you do not need previous. visa ap- plications. s tion has again proved the traitorous | role of the corrupt A. F. of L. bu-| reaucracy in the building trades, | |whose policy even of fawning in- |gratiation before the bosses has re- |sulted in a complete defeat. | They urge that shop committees | ‘be formed at once and a Workers’ | \Council organized to prevent the} ‘further destruction of the union ‘standards in the industry and fur- ther betrayals by the boss-owned Building Trades Council officials, ‘Patriotic Legionnaire | Steals Comrades’ Cas! complete tour New York-Mos- “Misappropriation” of $301.7. ‘from the American Legion Brown:- j ville Post No, 82 was charg jagainst former treasurer, Max Grad- man, 425 Herzl St., yesterday when, \arraigned and held in $1,000 bail! 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A workers’ team in found infected run the risk of being | tees in several shops have already | Venture their full support, since be-| every factory and mine under work- fired outright or work for a long period. The need for organization among these Negro workers is great and every effort should be made to bring them into an organization that would | ods of the company. These Negroes | are being reminded that they are going to be supplanted by Filipinos unless they make a better health showing. This act against Negro workers is but a step toward hit- ting white workers. | ence. JOBLESS THRU MERGER. LONDON, (By Mail).—Over 300 Reap the benefits of the May Day demonstrations by getting into the Communist Party work- ers who participated. Corp. and the African and Eastern Trade Corporation, companies ex- ploiting the African natives. 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