The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WO: RKER FIGHTS For.a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week ca For a Labor Party =) Vol. VI, No. 61 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 26-28 Union Square, Company, 1 New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929 N.Y. TUEL FORMS CLASS STRUGGLE THREAT 10 BURN OFFICE IN GASTONIA; FRAME-UP MURDER CASE IN TENN. Summary of Today’s Developments: 1.—Strikers guard building they have just erected for union and relief offices because Manville Jenckes announced they will destroy it w 2.—Strik ick children evicted in rain storm; in Gastonia thugs have ithin three days. quarantine notices torn down and house broken into by deputies, 8.—Militia massed around court house where 87 Elizabethton, Tenn., rayon pickets come up for hearing on frame-up charges o; inciting to commit murder, ani other accusations. 4.—Rumor Elizabethton picke orders of militia has died; Genera t ridden down by scab in car ai ul Boyd arrested on strikers’ war- CLINIC VICTIMS STILL DIE; SAY 0 MORE DOOMED ‘City Whitewashes Its Officials Who Let Fire Trap Exist War Gas Chief Arrives Revive Story Inventors Made Poison for Army NEW INJUNCTION ISSUED TO BREAK Strikers Declare $250 Each Strike Leaders THE FOOD STRIKE ‘Injunctions Will Fail, ‘Read “Daily,” Slugged Most Drastie Yet; Fine! SUBSCRIPTION RA Outside New York, by ma FINAL CITY EDITION “Price 3 Cents TE in New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. il, $6.00 per year. ro in Rescue Work at Hospital D saster UNION CENTER TODAY | | Negro Worker Was He ‘SHOP AND UNION DELEGATES MEET AT IRVING PLAZA Will Co-ordinate All | Forces for Militant Organization ¢ Pave Way to Cleveland Congress June 1 | |__ Practically every | Metropolitan Area Trade Union Educational I ue Conference, which opens today at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving 2 CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 17.—} The vicious anti-picketing injunc- Many doctors and physicians, andj|tion granted by Judge Aaron Levy |the health commissioner of Cleve-|against the striking cafeteria work- |land, Harry L. Rockwood, today ex-|ers on April 10 was superseded yes- pressed a fear that at least 80 more rant. 5.—President Green, of American Federation of Labor, aids prosecution by public statement from Washington that strikers have been destroying property in Elizabethton, 6.—Mill thugs make bomb attack on strikers in Tennessee. basie branch of | | | | | | | terday by an even more drastic one WILITIA MASSED STRIKERS GUARD AROUND TRIAL OF NEWLY ERECTED RAYON STRIKERS UNION OFFICES Green Aids Bosses by ‘Gastonia Deputies Put Attacking Strikers Sick Out in Storm ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 17. (Special to the Daily Worker.) —With a line of militia around the GASTONIA, N. C., May 17.— pape vor sles sicaded Bayenets and relief headquarters which will ixed, machine guns placed at handy | pe opened tomorrow are being made sorners, hand grenades and tear gas|cpenly by mill bosses, The building yombs issued, 87 rayon strikers|is to house the National Textile ‘ame up for hearing today, some of| Workers Union and the Workers In- hem on charges of “inciting to mur- | ternational Relief. ler” and others accused of disorder-| The flunkies of the Manville- y conduct. Jenckes Co. are boasting that the These are the strikers held after hall will not be up three days be- vholesale arrests yesterday, in fore it will be torn down. Police of- vhich militia seized over 120 pickets ficials are also threatening the vho were trying to stop scabs being union .and the W. I, R, srought into the mills in busses) The strikers are determined not suarded by militia stationed on top| to allow the building to be razed, as f them, and pointing their rifles at/the union and relief headquarters he masses of strikers. The militia) were a month ago. Heavy guards iad in many cases actually taken) are watching day and night and will he busses out into distant hill coun-| fight to the last to prevent tke de- ies of Tennessee and recruited the|struction of thg union center. cabs from among the farm tenants. | More Evictions. Rumor Scab’s Victim Dead. The evictions of the striking The militia also protected the scab Workers are continuing. Yesterday, ‘oe Calhoun, who was booed and during a terrific thunderstorm, Al- tissed by a crowd of 500 strikers. bert Ledford was evicted, although ‘here is a rumor that Evelyn|his son is ill with whooping cough. Ieaton has died. This picket was| Deputies tore the quarantine sign, ne of those run over by Calhoun’s|dated until May 26, from the house ar, when, at the orders of the mili-|and evicted the entire Ledford fam- ia yesterday, he drove it headlong|ily of eight. : ato a crowd of pickets. The others| When nobody was there, deputies adly injured by Calhoun are §, I.|broke into the home of J. Lynch, ‘owler, who has deep lacerations/head of the housing committee of round the body, and J. H. Brooks,|the W. I. R., and threw his furni- tho was knocked unconscious by the |ture into the road, where it was ex-- ar. Calhoun was spirited away by|posed to the pouring rain. he militia to Bristol as resentment} Although their one-month-old ose higher and higher against him|baby is very sick with whooping of the patients, hospital employes issued by Judge Henry Sherman in Threats to demolish the new union | and rescue workers would die as a result of inhaling poison gas in the fire and explosion in the Cleveland| Clinic Wednesday. The mere fact that they do not feel sick as yet is/ no guarante of their safety. | The gas works by causing the| lungs to secrete and accumulate | quantities of liquid, which gradually drown the victim. The latest to die is Ben Jones, professional football player, who | plea announced that it owned felt so well yesterday that he un-/ $3,000,000 in restaurant properties dertook a 150-mile automobile trip.|and operates 22 cafeterias. _ He collapsed suddenly in the pres- i ¢ “ pres While Louis Boudin and Phillip jence of his family, and died within | Wittenberg, attorneys for the Hotel, | two hours, in great agony. |Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Twenty-five of those known to| Union, announced that they would have been affected are missing. The|take immediate steps to move for a death list now stands at 126. re-argument on the _ injunction, The arrival here today of Major | strikers at once let it be known that General Harry L. Gilchrist, chief of|they would continue to violate the |the chemical warfare service of the|injunctions granted to the bosses, re- U. S. army, revived the suggestions |gardless how drastic the order, already thrown out from numerous Strikers Defiant. sources that some of the hospital) “We will not be forced back to (Continued on Page Five) work by court orders,” they de- | clared. STRIKE iN BIG | Almost at the same time that the [new injunction was granted by Unorganized Workers Judge Sherman, another ‘faithful tool of the bosses, Supreme Court |Judge C. T. Crain fined’ Michael Fight Slavery No longer able to stand the un- bearable conditions, the 150 unor- Obermeier, organizer, and Sam Kramberg, secretary of the food |Workers organization, $250 each for |urging strikers to violate the earlier |injunction, Crain is now hearing |arguments on the building trades in- | junction. ganized printing workers at the huge | econ ee Schweinler Press, at Hudson and | Leroy St., yesterday walked out on ARREST PHILA strike. | a The direct cause of the strike was the dismissal on Monday of’ two SHOE PICKETS Scabs Herded in Plant; Strikers Fight On (Special to the Daily Worker) State Supreme Court. not only mass picketing, but also in- dividual picketing, “loitering” strikers in the vicinity of the struck cafeterias, wearing or carrying ban- ners, talking to customers, or in any wey letting it be known that the cafeterias are struck. Union to Appeal. The order was granted to the Wil- low Cafeterias, Inc., which in its i} | | | A sardonic, cynical aspect of this (Continued on Page Five) militant workers in the plant, Sil- vesty and Speranza, for their activi- ties in organizing the underpaid | Schweinler workers. | About 450 workers are employed | at this plant, 150 of whom are un- organized. The latter responded | solidly to the strike call and began It prohibits by ere, cough, the Kisseler family was also levicted. Many others were evicted yesterday. . The whooping cough epidemic Gen. Boyd Arrested. A warrant was sworn out by | ivelyn Heaton for incitement to to picket the printing works imme- diately. : | Beat Up Strike Leader. One of the leaders of the strike, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 17- DISTRICT MEET AMID CHEERING Commended on Aiding Strikers By I. TRAUBER. (Member of Bronx Section, Young Pioneers.) | The third district convention |the Young Pioneers of Ame jopened here last night with a mass |meeting at the Manhattan Lyceum, {66 E. 4th Street, at 8:30 p. m. One thousand workers and their children filled the hall when Frances |Gordon, Pioneer Director of Di: |2, rose to open the meeting and to introduce the permanent chairman. The chairman was Paul Tabolin- ski, a worker’s child from the South Brooklyn section of the Pioneers. He started the mecting in the name of |the District Executive Committee of New York. A telegram of greetings was re- (Continued on Page Five) TAMMANY HELPS LOCKOUT MOVE _|Fakers’ Cringing Pleas, of | jeting the Laird-Schober Shoe Com- | Anna Maltzer, arrested while pick- | Show Conspiracy pany plant Wednesday, was yester- aurder, against Adjutant General} toyd, in charge of the militia, be-| ause of the militia order to Calhoun 9 ride down the strikers. It was erved today, and Boyd was imme- iately released by a complaisant ourt on low bail. The crowd of strikers, barred rom the court house, jeered the istrict attorney general, Ben Allen, vhen he arrived, and cheered the de- ense attorney. The strikers lived for a day and night without water, except what vas brought in tanks from Johnson ‘ity, after mill thugs blew up the; iain through which the drinking ‘ater supply comes to Elizabethton. | chools were closed yesterday be- ause of the lack of water for pu- ils. The pipe was repaired today. ‘he mills never had any trouble ver water, as their auxiliary water upply plant was put in order just (Continued on Page Two) Ask Correspondents to Write Comments on Cleveland Meet All worker correspondents of the Daily Worker are requested to send in letters giving their opinions on the First National Conference of Worker Correspon- dents in the United States, to be held in Cleveland on Friday, May 31, immediately preceding the Trade Union Unity Conference on June 1 and 2. Tell us what is being done in your city or section to prepare for the conference, how the call for the conference was received among your shopmatesy — ete. Write to the Worker Correspon- dence Department of the Daily Worker. | among the children is spreading and the need for medicine is increasing. The W. I. R. is furnishing medicine to the sick children. Food Piled in Open. Relief today was distributed to the striking workers on the field where the union headquarters is be- ing built. The food was piled high (Continued on Page Two) Recruit members for ‘the Com- munist Party at factory gate meet- ings. Homes of Negro Stevedores on Philadelphia Waterfront Negro Workers Suffer All Evils of Housing and Low Wages, Speed-Up In Plants By C. RABIN. Sentimental and totally misleading articles about the quaint old houses, the quaint old courts and alleys, by- streets and areaways along the riverfront of Philadelphia, the oldest region of the city are published regularly in the capitalistic press of this city. These tales never fail to tell’ of how the houses were built in 1688, 1692 or whatever year of the seven- teenth century they were con- structed, how the bricks were im- ported from England, how architec- turally the houses are a bit of quaint old England now transplanted to the banks of the Delaware. What They Omit. They always do omit the fact that here rodents are the size of cats, that native-born American white and Negro, as well as foreign-born work- ers live in a state of wretchedness, equalled perhaps, but not excelled Joseph Spencer, was attacked and | brutally beaten, while on_ picket duty, by Schweinler, the millionaire owner of the plant. The striker was then arrested and released on $500 | bail. He was defended by the New! |¥York District of the International | Labor Defense. The workers are practically all young. The unorganized workers, consisting of flyboys (press help- ers), press feeders, truck pullers, trimming crew and sheet carriers, (Continued on Page Two) day fined $13.50 by Magistrate Fitzgerald, a tool of the notorious Vare machine. At the same trial Gino Scalabrini chairman of the Shoe Workers In- dustrial Union strike committee, was sentenced to 30 days. Both sentences are being appealed by the local International Labor De- |fense. In spite of the close herding of the scabs, many of whom were ltricked into remaining at work by the company, which, to prevent them \from hearing the message of the \strikers, keeps them prisoners inside ithe plant, under unhealthy condi- tions for 24 hours a day, strike lit- erature is distributed throughcut the shop. Distribute Strike Literature. Helen Bennett succeeded in get- iting inte the shop and distributing jleaflets to the girls living in the -Ipawuy SB ayg “BuIp[ING Axojouy (Continued on Page Two) . elsewhere in the United States, that the houses in the main have not been repaired for generations, that they are so decrepit looking that they at least rival the habitations of Lime- DUNNE JAN!-ED ON {fit for human habitation, yet this is | a congested district, for being on the. riverfront, the army of dock work- ers, longshoremen and_stevedores find it convenient to reside here. | ment in connection with the erim- Philadelphia is the second largest | inal libel suit instituted against the | Port in the United States, and one| naily Worker by Morris Hillquit, of the largest in the world. socialist corporation lawyer. Dunne Noble Street. was assistant editor of the Daily Noble Street is a narrow, old) Worker when it published stories cobblestoned street, and in the typi-| exposing Hillquit’s part in a $150,- cal block visited, between 3rd and |4th Streets, live scores of Negro stevedores and their families. For- merly this street was inhabited by foreign-born workers from various industries, but the migration from (Continued on Page Two) . ih (Continued on Page Five) William F. Dunne was yesterday | arrested at his home by a detective |connected with the police depar York needle trades workers, | For the purpose, apparently, of | permitting the Building Trades m- |ployers’ Association to stall for time and to bolster up its propaganda the New York City government, through its corporation counsei, Ar- |thur J. W. Hilly, yesterday entered |the building trades situation. | He appeared before Justice |Thomas C. T. Crain, sitting in Part \I, Supreme Court, in connection with the arguments on the temporary in- junction “restraining” the Building Trades Employers from putting into \effect its threat to lockout 175,000 building trades workers. Hilly told the judge that he was appearing at the express request of Mayor Wal- ker. This is the same judge who last night fined Michael Obermeier and Sam Kramberg, organizers of the striking cafeteria workers, each $250 for advocating violation of the injunction against picketing. Iron- ically enough, tl judge yesterday biandly offered to help “arbitrate” the building trades dispute. Proves Conspiracy. That the Tammany city govern- ment has officially stepped into the proceedings is additional evidence that the proposed lockout is a con- epiracy between the building bosses and the Building Trades Council, for the relations between the building fakers and the gang that rules in |City Hall are of the most: cordial Inature, The lockout will give the |bosses an excellent opportunity to |begin a drive to crush all unionism in the industry. 00,000 worth of construction—i pitals—would be tied up by the loc i (Continued on Page Two) Robert Chares was the outstanding hero in the rescue work at the scene of the fire and blast which killed 125 at the Cleveland Clinie Hospital. This Negro worker balanced a ladder, which had proved too short, on his shoulders, permitting 20 to escape. PIONEERS OPEN 3 Communists MEXICO PEASANT Ave Beaten by School Jingoes WAUKEGAN, IIL, May 17. — Three Waukegan youths, all mem- bers of the Communist Youth League of this city, were viciously attacked and beaten up by members of the Waukegan High School Re- Training Corps while they were distributing Communist literature to the students of the school, The youths are Philip Boyer, 20 years old, a graduate of the high school; Hugo Kronholm, 18, and Ed- ward Dombrowski, 19. The R.0.T.C. members seized the three young militants while they were distributing handbills to the sl mostly young workers They were taken be- fore Sergeant John Holly, United! States army instructor, who told them he would count five before turning the entire R.O.T.C. troop loose upon them. serve Offic They began to run, but were over- taken and attacked. For a few min- utes they put up a spirited resis- tance, but were outnumbered badly that they were soon beaten up. Holly h not denied the charg of the three ferring to keep open in order to intimidate members the Co aunist and League in the cit so the news in other Party of This vicious attack is seen as the beginning of an open campaign here (Continued on Page Two) young Communists, pre- | ® the |‘ Place, at p.m. This conference will pave the way for the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention of June 1-2, and will alsa do on a local scale what the Cleve- land convention will do on a national seale. It will create here a center for militant trade unions, for the fighting textile and needle trades workers, for the shoe and food work- ers, and all the other centers of the workers’ revolt against inhuman conditions. It will also co-ordinate the activities of the left wing groups in building trades unions, and other reactionary unions under the grip of reactionary machines of the Broach type. The Metropolitan Area Confer- ence will, like the Cleveland Con- vention which follows it, pay atten- tion to the approaching war danger and rally the workers against it. A.E.L. War Mongers. Is Strong While the A.F.L. assists in launch- ing war ships and cooperates in MEXICO CITY, May 17.—Peas-| citizens’ military training camps, the ants throughout Mexico are enraged; new center established at Irving at the execution of Jose Guadalupe | Plaza today and tomorrow will turn Rodriguez, treasurer of the National| its face resolutely against such Peasants League, at Durango, Tues- | schemes to use the workers for can- day on the orders of General Calles. | non fodder, and will muster all pos- Tie execution only became known | sible defense for the Union of So- today upon the publication of a |cialist Soviet Republics, against telegram of protest sent to President which a conspiracy exists in every Portes Gil by the National Peasants | capitalist country to attack and League. The execution of Salvador | destroy it, Gomez, peasant leader, was ordered \ at the same time but it is not yet! , known whether he has yet been| The workers of the great metro- pe politan area around New York have Gil replied to the protest wire |had experiences which make them that Calles had authorized the exe-| fully capable of seeing through the (Oontiniied! of Page Rive) schemes of capitalists and A. F. of SLSR wets L. agents of the employers. The ; call for the conference is issued by Carnegie Hall Concert | tie trade Union Educational League with Walpurgis Night |!?! in New York and signed by and “Twelve” Tonight the Needle Trades W the secretaries and organizers of tr LEADER SHOT BY CALLES' ORDER Protest of “‘Peasantry Know the Struggle. orkers’ Indus- 1 Union, Millinery Hand Work- Union Local 43, i The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will | er: E nppear in an exclusive new program | Workers’ Union, Marine Workers’ of songs and fragments of “Twelve” League, Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- and “Walpurgis Night” on the oc-/teria Workers’ Union, Bakers’ easion of their Sixth Jubilee Concert, | Union Local 164, Retail Grocery, tonight, at Carnegie Hall. Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union, In- For the first time in the history |dependent Shoe Workers’ Union, and of the chorus, it will appear in full /all the sections of the T.U.E.L. or- foree with all sections combined— | ganized in New York. over 300 voices, | T.U.E.L. Leads Fight. Needle Unions Tomorrow on Mobilize for Struggle; | Council and Att For the purpose of mobilizing of, thousands of fur workers in the coming strike in the industry, which | will aim to establish union condi- tions, the Joint Board of the Needle Workers Industrial Union has ar- ranged the first of a series of open forums throughout the city At these meetings the “phoney” | stoppage threatened by the corrupt L.L.G.W will also be discussed. | It has now become apparent that} in addition to the hope that thous- ands of dollars will be mulcted from the workers in the shops, the pur- jpose of the right wing gang in making these threats is to show signs of “militancy.” With the victory of the dressmak- ers, under the leadership of the N. |W. I. U. still haunting them, and |with plans being made for the fur strike, they find it necessary to make some “militant” gestures, it is pointed out. The most serviceable medium for these they have found, is the old and tried reactionary |New York Times. Forms Throughout City. The open forums will be held to- morrow morning at 11 o’ciock in various parts of the city—Bronx Hilly asserted “that sirice $100,-tWorkers Club, 1472 Boston Road, ets, but among the thugs. with B. Kaplan, furrier, and H. 000 stock swindle from the New (cluding schools, subways and hos-|Shiler, cloakmaker, as speakers; H. |Cutler will be chairman. At the Dunne was yesterday freed on out,” the mayor had asked him to | Brownsville Workers Club, 154 Wat- $500 bail furnished by the Interna- Tequest a week’s adjournment to al- kins St., speakers will be Kolov, tional Labor Defense. He was or- !ow the city to examine the records |cloafmaker and L. I. Gohen, furrier. dered to appear in Special District in the case. This Crain dectined to|Coney Island Workers Club, 2901 'Mermaid Ave., speakers will be Kud-! Open Forums Furrier Strike a Story of Scab Joint ack on Strikers Workers in these unions declare: “We have seen the A. F. of L, acting as the agent of the bosses in a whole series of strikes. The furriers, cloakmakers, dressmakers, window cleaners, paper box work- ers ,shoe workers, cap and millinery workers, traction workers, butchers, grocery clerks, painters, oil work- ers, rubber workers, copper work- ers, silk workers, knit goods work- : 2 Wars ss (ers, plumbers’ helpers. In fact in renetski, cloakmaker and L. Sissel-' every struggle of the organized and man, . Z unorganized workers against the All cloakmakers and furriers are) hosses, the A. F. of L. bur oT urged to attend these meetings dtl ibocaaasanclate Rite ee gs. and the traitorous socialists, to- s . gether wit 1 re An important meeting of the Agi-|© with the Muste group, have A 3 Fj united with the police, - of the Joint Board will be held today posses to betray and defeat the at 12 o'clock at the headquarters of the union, 131 W. 28th St. \ workers and to prevent them from + * organizing into unions based upon the class struggle. “In all these struggles the left ing under the guidance of the T. . E. L. has been the stalwart lead- er of the workers registering vic- hose against the bosses, defeating t V the holy alli f : trial Union call a strike at the shop | social a na ae obs of J. dman. The scab Joint Coun-| ism of the bosses |cil immediately arrived with its con- wenn signment of strikebreakers—a num ber of strong-arm characters with criminal records in the underworld On Wednesday these worth armed with knives, attacked * A Story of Strikers and Scabs. Another example.of the strike-| breaking activities of the corrupt) y right wing has again been revealed. The fur department of the Joint Board of the Needle Workers Indus- Their Own’ Unions. “These workers in she unorgan- lized industries must have their own trade union organizations based upon the shop delegate and the shop committee system, controlled by the masses, which can be made per- trary the right wing gentlemen got manent instruments of struggle.” such a reception that they decided| The A. F. of L, policy, shown re- to leave the vicinity withcat cere-|cently by the painters’ union in mony. In addition, the broken|Newark of excluding Negroes, will bones resulted not among the pick-|find no favor at this conference. A jspecial drive to organize the most exploited workers, the Negroes, women, and youth, will be planned. The local office of the T. U. E. L. reports that there will be delega- the union pickets. But the pickets were | by no means frightened. On the con- News! Police Jail Thug. Police, contrary to the traditiona’ practice, arrested a gangster, Man- uel Weissman, who drew a knife against one of the strikers, Sam|tions from almost every important Goldin. Weissman is a lad with a/| industry in New York and vicinity. checkered criminal record behind|to prepare for the epoch-making (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) %