The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 1

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Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New | York City, | 26-28 Union Square, N. ~~ SUBSCRIPTION R/ Outside New NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929 _ FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CLEVELAND CITY OFF cals NEGLECT CAUSED DISASTER ‘OMMUNIST SAYS. ‘ARTY IS GIVING ULLEST SUPPORT Tass Picketing Today at Noonin Garment | Section of City | *olice Slug 7 Pickets \ttack Needle Workers Who Try to Rescue At a mass meeting of 1,200 strik- rs and other cafeteria workers from Il sections of the city, held last ight in Manhattan Lyceum, the nion leaders were enthusiastically | heered when they emphatically de- lared that the strike for the 8-hour ay and higher wages will go on espite all obstacles and difficulties. “The injunction, police brutality nd treachery of American Federa- on of Labor bureaucrats cannot tive the cafeteria workers back ito the 12-hour, open-shop slavery,” eclared Michael Obermier, organ-| zer for the Hotel, Restaurant and ‘afeteria Workers’ Union. Carl Brodsky, one of the speak- ts, representing the Communist ‘arty, stated that “the injunction obs the workers of the most ele- ientary rights. It must be-fought y all possible means at our com- aand. The Communist Party ledges its energetic support of the sruggle of the cafeteria workers or unionism, and will give uncon-| itional aid to the courageous battle | gainst this injunction, | Unite Against Injunction. Hernian Gund, editor of the Free | ‘oice, organ of the Amalgamated | ood Workers, denounced the in-| inction as “the most sweeping, rastic injunction ever granted the osses by their lackeys on the bench. ; outlaws all strike activities, pro- ibiting not only peaceful picket- ig, but distribution of literature, nd everything that ‘interferes with 1e business of the cafeteria own- rs.” In other words, it is a com-! (Gpiues oni EeCe on Page Five) ‘ELD TO FULLER IN CANTER TRIAL -ut Off at His Request Till Tuesday (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 16.—At the re-| uest of the attorney for ex-Gov. Ivan T. Fuller, the trial of Harry . Canter, militant worker of this ty, which was scheduled to start is morning, has been postponed till ext Tuesday. Canter is charged) ith criminal libel for having car- ied a placard: “Fuller, Murderer | £ Sacco and Vanzetti,” in an elec-! on campaign demonstration of the | jommunist Party last Nov. 3. _The postponement of the trial at} luller’s request is seen as a move > help him squirm out of appear- ig on the witness stand in the| rial. The open-shop ex-governor | as already been szbpoenaed by the efense. The International Labor jefense, which is conducting the de- ense of Canter, is also planning to lace many other important wit- esses on the stand in a mass cam- aign that will reopen the entire facco-Vanzetti case. Among the wit- rn who will appear are William | Thompson, attorney for Sacco ind Vanzetti, Frank Silva, confessed jarticipant in the Bridgewater hold- ip for which Vanzetti was given 15 rears, and Big Chief Mede, who Ingineered the Bridgewater holdup. \Literature Agents of District 2, Communist Party, Meet Tonight Plans of literature distribution ill be taken up at the meeting f literature agents of every sec- ‘ion and unit of District 2 of the ‘ommunist Party at Room 603, Workers Center, 26 Union Sq., lat 8 o’clock tonight. Detailed reports will be given yy Sem Myron, in charge of lit- rature distribution. Agents are rgec to attend the meeting by District Literature Depart- ent of the Communist Party. Boss ‘Police S around food striker after he had man while picketing. Cafeteria Workers’ Meeting Pledges se Won't Drive Them Backt k lugs Striker Neither court injunction nor Tammany police brutality can crush the heroic strike of the food workers. Photo shows crowd gathered been brutally slugged by a police- New York City, from the ‘Tomb: Comrades and Fellow Worker I am writing this letter to con- gratulate you for the spirit you have shown, fighting the bosses, since the Is e began. It is a fact, fellow- workers, that any eell is about not much worse than the room I used | to pay $5.00 a week for. By the way, do you know why the bosses are so busy with the police and courts, | with their judges? Simply because © | the picket line is in front of their! stores. ‘And do you know what’s |going to make them sign with the junion? The picket line! I wish I was on the picket line now, laughing at the boss getting blue in the face. Please don’t worry about me. I'll be back on the picket line with you all in a few days, But there is one thing that I miss. That is the |“Daily Worker”. Believe it or not. 1 used to read the “Daily News”,| the “Graphic”, and other bosses boo But you know what they tell you about. Either some big patriot gave a dinner at the Wal- dorf Astoria or some chorus girl sued a millionaire banker, etc. But what does the “Daily Worker” write (Continued on sed OnE a0e Five) 500 MORE JOIN IRON WALK-OUT canara Workers Come Out Nearly 500 workers yesterday | | joined in the general walkout of the iron and bronze workers in the New | York district, bringing the Be fae out on strike to over 3,500, a total of little more than 44000 i in the industry. The iron and bronze workers, led | |by the militant Architectural Tron | and Bronze Workers Union, struck | Wednesday for an increase in wages and a reduction in working hours. Thousands of unorganized workers joined the strike. Unorganized workers continued to | join the strike yesterday. Militant picketing took place at all the struck | shops. Among the larger shops tied up by the strike yesterday were the Jackson Iron and Bronze Co., at 335 | Carrol St., Brooklyn, with over 400 men out; Sexauer and Lemcke, in Astoria, where nearly 100 men went out, and the North American and |Iron Companies in Brooklyn, Tammany police continued to ter- (Continued on Page Vive) Jailed Food Pickets Write to Comrades from Prison |water supply, the militia already on| CENTRAL TRADES DIRECTS ATTACK ON FOOD STBIKE Stab Workers Fighting Boss Injunctions | A venomous attack against the | cafeteria strike and a demand that no financial support be given the striking workers, was made last night at a meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council at Bee- thoven Hall, 5th St., between Second and Third Ave. While over 1,200 food workers were gathered at Manhattan Ly- ceum, a stone’s throw from the scene of the Labor Council meeting, and planning new steps to fight the boss injunctions and the brutality of the Tammany Hall police, the labor bur- eaucrats staged a against them. Sneaky Unwilling for reasons of their | own to have the attack come direct- ly from the officialdom, a_ sly “stunt” was arranged whereby the question of the cafeteria workers’ strike should come from the floor. Hardly had the secretary finished the minutes of the Executive Com- mittee of the Council, when Walter, a delegate of the postal clerks took the floor, ment, and referred to a communica- | corel en ones on Page Five) BUILDING COURT BATTLE ON TODAY, | Expect Shadow Boxing | at Hearing Today The sham battle between the Building Trades Employers eaieell tion and the Building Trades Cow cil in the form of arguments on the | | injunction proceedings which osten-! sibly was responsible for the post- |ponement of the lockout of 75,000 | building trades workers, will come up before Justice Crain in Part 1, | Supreme Court at 2 o'clock today. |. The suit was on the calendar for 10 o'clock, but by agreement of Harry Smith, of counsel of the asso- ciation and James Smith for the Building Trades Council and the (Continued on Page Five) Tactics. By BEN LIFSHITZ. (Acting District Organizer of Com- munist Party). ‘We are now again entering onto a period of great struggles. The workers of New York and New Jer- sey in common with the whole work- ing class are victims of capitalist | “efficiency” with its merciless, ever | | increasing speed-up and the unbear- able conditions imposed upon the working masses, The great masses Form a Strong Cadre Among Negro Workers of semi-skilled and unskilled workers in the basic and highly mechanized industries are unorganized while facing huge monopoly organizations and the powerful employers associa- tions, | Many Strikes. The workers are beginning to mens | sist. In additién to the militant bat-| |tles carried on by the new class struggle unions and the valiant fights by the left wing against the (Continued on Page Two) covert attack | obviously by pre-arrange- | Say City Officials to a Bisine In Clinic Blast That Killed N early 100 MILL THUGS CUT RAYON STRIKERS’ | WATER SUPPLIES Green Helps Bosses by Charging Violence to Elizabethton Pickets | Militia Hurls Tear Gas, Arrest 100; Scab Rides | | Down Girls with Car ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 16.! —The water main supplying the mill strikers’ part of the town here was | blown up with dynamite today, pre- sumably by mill owners’ thugs an- xious to visit the horrors of a water famine and epidemic to the har- assed 6,500 strikers still defying the American Bemberg and Glanz- stoff corporations and the additional} [companies of state militia being| jrushed to this region, The mills] have a separate water supply. | Following the shutting off of the) |the ground drenched strikers with! tear gas, menaced them with deadly hand grenades and machine guns,| and arrested, 100. Fortify Buildings. Buildings on the road to the mills} and the mills themselves are turned | into mill company fortresses, with| Failure of city authorities to inspect the premises of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, and order proper storage of highly inflammible X-Ray films, is said to have been the indirect cause of the blast and fire, releasing poison gases from X-Ray films, caused the death of nearly 100 patients and hos- pital employees. Photo shows the scene of the blast. GASTONIA UNION ‘JOne Greek Dictator Jails Another Ore! artillery and machine guns mounted faanary in them. Busses carrying scabs to ATHENS, Greece, May 16.—Ge ! svorll have) wien Gyvtehieeifles sperched eral Theodore Pangalos, former dic- q jon the roofs. tator of Greece, was arrested today, accused of being responsible for | One scab in a car charged directly | into a crewd cf pickets and tried to ride them down. various scandalous contracts signed during his dictatorship. He will be Rain Hinders Cooking; Terror Fails to Hinder His name is Ed-| . Rote = 7 © ward Calhoun. ‘Those injured by his| More Relief Needed_...‘ried before the Greek senate in Convention Plans |car included Evelyn Heaton, S. 1. ay: . | ate : e Fowler, and J, Hi. Brooks. They| GASTONIA, N. C., May 16.—The Pangalos was deposed in August, HERRIN, 16.—Ignatz were cut and bruised and brought to| striking textile workers of the Loray |1926, when his dictatorship was |Simmich, a militant member of the overthrown by a military coalition | ing the new union center which wili |headed by General George Kondylis. National Miners Union, owes his life to his coolness and presence of mind. A conspiracy against him was form- ed by William Hogan, one of those engaged several years ago in fram- ing up Simmich, Corbishley others on a murder charge gro an Elizabethton hospital. * * | Governor Horton will be asked to- |night to authorize the sending of [amore troops to the rayon strike area, | Adjutant General W. C. Boyd of | | Knoxville said tuba eae POWER BRIBES OF $10,000,000 | mill are working in the rain build- * Klan on left wing miners, the Z ler local of the United Mine Work- ers of Ameri Ns house the National Textile Workers | Admiral ul Koundouriotis became | Union and the Workers Interna- | the new dictator. own hammers and are participating in the construction. They are en- thusiastic over the work and plan |opened. The dedication will be cele- | | Hogan, armed, and with a squad I brated with speeches, refreshments | — of armed Lewis-Fishwick thug: i} z t t augh and dancing. Needle Union Shows Up at his back, caught Simmich on the Lies of Herskovitz street here, seized him by the throat and tried to force him into a quarrel. close tional Relief. Scores of men and) women strikers are bringing their EXPQSE BLUSTER to have the building completed by 5 | Saturday when it will be officially | i} Mrs. Lynch, an active striker, has | tacked a note outside of her com- | ee : gags OTE Mard| - Simmich is a real fighter and built WASHINGTON, May 16.—An ex- Uae gta Geer iseL my furni-| The Joint Board of the Needle |like a giant, but he knew that if he penditure of $2,500,000 for invest-| |) things out, don’t they dare take | Workers Industrial Union, in a state. | lifted a finger, one of Hogan’s men BO GEA TRG he them to storage, just set them as ment ued last night, attacked the vue ae nin and the whole U. M. an official of the firm, told the Fed. ca! example of the attitude of the| itz, president of the Associated Fur POET aiea Una tos eae lech BEANE Cattaniagion endays red | workers, who refuse the mill men's|Manufacturers, Inc, who _hyster-| used to free the murderer, for “self : : : offer to store the furniture, which | ically urged the bosses to discharge | defense,” as the murderer of Moran, Se eae eee show, | is a plot to break the strike. all workers who “are discovered sneer militant, was freed in Penn- as in excess ,000,000. fi os talking strike.” sylvania. While Head was on the witness Rain Stops Fires. The statement of the Joint Board | Taken to Jail. ! stand, it was learned that only three! A large shipment of cabbages, | follows: | After the assault, Simmich was]! lof the 13 newspapers in which the International Power and Paper Co. | jheld financial investments showed jsuch interests in their ownership semen filed with the post of- turnips and greens was brought from the country yesterday by the W. I. R. for today’s distribution to the strikers. taken to jail by deputized agents of the operators. John Watt, of the National Miners Union, who had come to Herrin to speak at an | “The statement of Mr. Hirshkow- itz, president of the Associated Fur| Manufacturers, printed in the \*Women’s Wear’ of May 14th, and Heavy showers are falling day|the contents of the letter circular-' advertised meeting was jailed with SOR LAOG avo ab and night and put out the fires of |ized by the Associated among its another militant, Tillindus, along Newspapers Scared. the evicted workers, and greatly add| members with regard to the fur With Simmich. I, Testimony yesterday showed the ower trust in negotiations to buy |bo southern papers, including those {founded by Bryan and owned by his (Continued on Page Two) SWATOW JOINS strike, coming close upon the heels Senator Sneed, who is John of the statement issued by the A.|L. particular agent in Illi- F. of L. Committee with regard: to) nois, and was Lew ward heeler the same matter, show clearly that! even in the old days when Lewis and some of the strikebreakers will heed the rising revolt of the fur workers | District President Farrington fought the call of the National Textile against the miserable conditions, the| (Continued on Page Two) Workers Union and join in the |Sweat-shop, unemployment, and the| struggle for more wages, less hours SPeed-up system, and their increas- | es ae abolition of the speed-up ing sentiment for the general strike, | \has aroused the fears of the manu- to their discomfort. Groups of strikers were at the mill gate today persuading the scabs to go on strike. It is hoped that OIL IN GUIANA, SKELDON, British Guiana, Mail).—Petroleum has been (By struck | Delegation Reports. sedeatery and the company union, |i, this region on the Corentyne , The strikers who were in the|‘*Towing them into a panic. — (River. British oil magnates have delegation to Washington, D. C.,|,, cheit hysterical letter warning) rushed here to start the workings. their members against the propa- pre ae cae eth ane Sud IDBECN | “Butta Up, the Untted: Rrent of ing them to discharge all workers | del : who show any inclination to strike,| the Working Class From the Bot- , tom Up—at the Enterprises! (Continued on Page Five) Negro Women In Industry Are Facing Many Tasks By GRACE LAMB. West Virginia. RIOR to the World War, Negro| Women Drafted in Industry. | where they were refused a hearing | | (Continued on pec T nes Two) MANY CITIES TO SEE SOVIET FILM Will Aid ‘Steers and. Workers Relief BULLET! SHANGHAI, China, May 16.— Japanese dispatches say that Mar- shall Feng Yu-Hsiang, whose alle-| giance to the Nanking clique has been in the balance for some time, | has opened hostilities with Chiang’ |Kai-shek. His troops are reported, ito have blown up three bridges near | the Honan-Hupeh border, and Chiang Kai-shek is said to have decided to ‘send troops against him. War Otis | HONGKONG, May 16.—The inter- | | Warlord warfare in China was widen- |* women were employed but little} With the coming of the World | ed today to what may prove a break-| Showings of the official motion as factory workers. Their largest|War and the virtual secession of ing point for the Kuomintang gov- picture of the Tenth Anniversary field of occupation was that of do-| European immigration and at the personal service and same time with the increased de- home and laundry work. for goods and ernment, when the Swatow, Kwang-|of the Bolshevik Revolution have mestic and tung province, warlords joined the been arranged by the Workers In- | Kwangsi clique against the group ternational Relief for the entire In the agricultural districts of the) war munitions for use in Europe, headed by Chiang Kai-shek. country, to take place in various | South, they were largely engaged in, the then existing factories were en- The Swatow warlords announced cities from coast to coast during the | cotton picking and many assisted |larged and new plants sprung up, that their “revolt” was against the next few weeks. . their husbands in independent farm- | | especially in th authority of the Kuomintang (mean-| In California, where workers have | ing, share cropping and tenant | period, ing Chiang Kai-shek) at Canton and peen for a long time anxious to see | farming. But as factory workers | w jat Nanking, the capital. this film epic of the new Russia, | they were almost entirely limited to. the army and navy b; This addition to the Kwangsi|depicting the tremendous growth of | the tobacco industry, with the ex- the th s. Th t of mi ar nar government all the more industry and the new life under the | ception of women working in can- power s9on beeame acute and ats (Continied on Page Two) _ Continued on Page Four, ,» \neries in coe states and in| _ m., (Comttaned on Page Two) South. During tht young men, both Negro ¢ ite, wi being drafted into ° and ing out of the attack of the Ku Klux president EXPLOSIVE FILM PILED IN X-RAY ROOM; BAD DOOR visor Found Indicate War Gas Inventors Using Laboratory lp ns MoreDeat hsk iveryHour y Sunposedly Safe ‘op Dead Later CLEVELAND laughter of n Di Dy Ohic patient fter an- 1S gas eland Clinic can 1 as murder directly to the Cleveland and the hospital identified as of tored in de now e product lations in qu ities in “the X-Ray room near electric machinery likely to go wrong at any ment anc send out sp d flame. In ac to this death trap, which in any event would have killed worker X-R room, a safe- door. and » which should have swung automatically to hut off the room from the rest of the-hospital, was blocked half way by a badly installed ion this morning a gas pipe, iny howed. | Criminal Negligence. A insy ny tion sponsible and unbribed city would have found and changed th two dangerous condi- tions long ago. But the city offi- cials of Cleveland are vas more ping o son gas bombs in the mimic war rs” between Cleveland and Pitts to pay at- tention to the present gas danger in their midst “Or said one victim, just bef “the government wants us to understand just what the next war will be like. Perhaps it wants us to learn how to dodge (Continued on Page Two) GRAF ZEPPELIN * ABANDONS FIGHT naxy Rena FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, d 16.—The Graf ndoned her trip to se of ining nounced to Hugo cirigible, passe’ at 6:5 standard time), the aire ship reported by radio. It was de= ed that, in view of the trouble, it i be too risky to attempt to cross the Atlantic. rers tern abandoned after the 1 developed while the dirigible had safely crossed the borders of Switzerland, France, and was progressing along the Meditere ranean coast of Spain. s* © Militarists Hail Tri *RIEDRICHSHAF May 16.—The (Continued on Page Two) motor trouble | in Harlem Mass Meeting Laundry Workers Laundry workers, at a mass meet= ing held in Harlem, described the miserable working conditions which are causing many of them to cons tract tuberculosis and other diseases. Work, are forced to work in filthy rooms end the bosses bid the workers to open windows, it was pointed out. Workers are subjected to the “old late time fine system,” practiced on workers oiled work, up in the morning and in the evening. Other workers related that they had to work from 8 o’clock in the morning until 9 p. m,, six days @ week, for less than $18 per week. The workers crowded the meeting jand formed into committees to or- ganize the workers in the slave-driv- jing laundry industry. docking is for so-called clocks set back HOUSING STORY DELAYED The second installment of the rtic depicting the miserable living conditions of workers in Philadelphia will appear in to- issue of the Daily les morrow's Worker. | SCR URRRONTMNCRE IU Ter nu EUS |