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Page Two) IGLESIAS, PORTO RIGAN TRAITOR HELPS WALL ST, Want $100,.000,( from U. Would Enslave Iglesi demog: Hoover of the (for 1 wh ed The i the large number where exploiter working just as vici- elementary the propon 1 with Hoover hing else, we believe, would ate the building of a sound- whose i sure a con with ever, profits fo TAMMANY HELPS LOCKOUT MOVE Fakers’ Cringing Pleas Show Conspiracy (Continued from Page One) grant, but 1 that Hilly would be ullowed sufficient time to frame any motions he desired, and would have status of meaning in simple English th he would be given the oppor to examine records in the case and to “guard the interests” ‘ it ation had formally former pleading th d be made per- manent that it should be vaca Love Taps. both les were both looking 18, 1929 DAILY WORKER ( d City Negligence eveian f Scores in Hospital Horror Led to Death « Photo shows the dead being removed from the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where over 120 patients and ployes were killed in a fire and blast which liberated poisonous gases from X-Ray films. Failure by sity to properly inspect the hospital, and improper precautions by the hospital authorities caused = STRIKEIN BIG PRINTING SHOP Unorganized Workers Fight Slavery (Continued from Page One) More Relief to the Gastonia Strikers! The very interesting chart published several days ago in the Daily Worker showed that during the first half of April there were 17,000 textile workers on strike in the South. These centered in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and in Gas- Pamee! F ; tiers up, shute workers, box boys tonia, North Carolina. In Elizabethton the workers struck | 2nq mailers, make from $16 to $20 against the speed-up and “‘stretch-out” systems. The United |2 week. The young workers en- gaged in feeding the casting ma- chines on the night side are paid or the same work for which or- 1 girls on the day shift re- .50 a week. Other workers, and night shifts, receive $18 a k, and sometimes $16, seldom working a full week at a time. A shop committee was formed by the young workers, determined to end the unbearable speed-up and the |starvation wages, On Monday came harge of Speranza and Sil- Textile Workers under the direction of the A. F. of L. sent the workers back to work on a promise that the systems would be done away with. The workers went back, but the promise was not carried out. They struck again in militant fashion without the U. T. W. But the U. T. W. came into the situation again and is now making a pretense of leading the strike in an effort to regain the confidence of the workers. In Gastonia the workers went on strike under the leader- ship of the new, militant National Textile Workers Union. They have been courageously fighting for many weeks and despite the greatest terror and persecution show no let-up in the militancy of their spirit. Such proletarian militancy is unprecedented in the South. The bosses have announced will- ingness to deal with the A. F. of L. as an excuse for violent attacks on the strikers and N. T. W. U. The experiences of both the workers and the bosses with the A. F. of L. in Passaic in similar circumstances makes the former very an- tagonistic to calling in the A. F. of L, and the latter very friendly to the idea. That the corrupt U. T. W. helps the bosses against militant workers has been established on more than one occasion previously. s the straw which broke the: camel’s back. The e is being led by the Communist Youth League, which several strikers have joined, end the Trade Union Educational League. Included among the strikers are 15 Negro workers. Strikers’ Demands. The demands of the strikers are: 1, recognition of the shop commit- tee as representative of the unor- ganized workers in the shop; 2, a niinimum wage of $22; 3, equal pay for equal work; 4, against the speed- up system; 5, Speranza and Silvesty must be taken back on their job. An appeal to all young workers to aid the strikers cn the picket line was made by the strikers. Strikers pointed out that the fore- men who dismissed Speranza and Silvesty were members of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor pressmen’s typographical unions. George , general foreman, a member of the A. F, of L. operators’ union, has been carrying out the inhuman speed-up at the plant. MILITIA MASSED IN RAYON TRIAL The entering of the Southern workers onto the scene of militant class struggle is of tremendous importance to the working class as a whole. Every effort must be made to help them win. Many are already living in tents, many don’t even yet have tents. The police are attacking them. The A. F. of L. is carrying on propaganda to undermine the struggle. The militant workers throughout the country can ‘help defeat this combination by sending funds for relief. Food, clothing, and tents are needed. Send your contributions to Workers Internationa] Relief, 1 Union Square, New York City. Atter 7 Weeks: The Strike | | | | EW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY CHARGE HAGUE. “FIXED” VOTES Rivals /tre Sore; Urge Another “Inquiry” JER e Clr Continued opr elected Mayor expressed by the defe cpposit which threats of a new ing on the corrupt p: clection. Of course, it no mention of its own corrupt methods, Several thousand were disfran- chised by the meneuvering of the Hague machine, it was charged by John Ferguson, Hudson coun perintendent of elections, When voters presented at the polling booths transfer slips show- ing they had moved in the district since last year, they weve prevented from voting because duplicate car nad not been filed with the district election officials, it was charged. Widespread Corruption. The Hague opposition had man- euvered appointment of the McAl- lister Commission to inquire into widespread graft in the districts in NTS ion to fou rank Hague may be which the Hague machine en- trenched, It was proved from tes- timony from 300 witnesses, re- ported in thousands of pages, that Hague and his henchmen had ac- quired fortunes in graft ranging from casual sums of $25 to thou- sands of dollars “wasted” in payroll redding. Many workers, it was foreed to pay weekly graft to hold down the pettiest job. Failure to “tip the right people” brought dis- ;missal. Mildly corrective remedies suggested by the commission, w adonted a motion “recommending the passage of legislation to make ‘waste’ in payrolls more difficult.” Thus, even if superficial tampering with the municipal apparatus was completed, the same “misappropria- tion” would be made available for Hague’s rivals, if successful. Effigies, bon-fires, parades and rowdyism marked the elections, in keeping with the policy of the demo- cratic grafter to “forget politics.” MASS MEETINGS FOR TOUSSAINT Negro, White Workers at Two Memorials The life and work of Toussaint L’Ouverture will be commemorated by white and Negro revolutionary s in New York City in two niajor mass meetings. As a part of National Negro Week, set aside by the Communist Party, the Brownsville Branch of the American Negro Labor Congress will hold an inter-racial memorial and dance Saturday, May 18, at 8 p. m., at Brownsville Workers Cen- ter, 154 Watkins St, Besides prom- inent speakers there will be a gala concert and dance, The climax of the week will be marked by the Toussaint L’Ouver- ture memorial mass meeting, Tues- day evening, May 21, at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St. The speak- crs will be C. H. Hathaway, editor of Labor Unity; Jean G. Lamothe, general secretary of the Haitian Pa- triotic Union; Albert Moreau, of the Anti-Imperialist “League; Williana Burroughs, of the Teachers’ Union; George Pershing, of the Communist shown, were | , Wall St. Ei poceeinrne ee Photo shows Wall Street's ne ing the final instructions of Wall in the White House, Hoover. nvoy to England Ge ts Instructions STRIKERS GUARD “GASTONIA OFFICE \Mill Thugs Threaten | to Attack Soon &% (Continued from Page One) on the lumber of the unfinished hall, also on the grass. One of the evicted workers, it |was learned today, was a textile worker from another state, who read an advertisement for help and came here without knowing that a strike was taking place. He joined the union and is now working in a mill in South Gastonia. Tricked, Work for Relief. A committee of three strikers, | Russell Knight, B. G. McAllister and Sailers, have gone on a 75-mile trip to take up relief collections, They left with two South Carolina textile workers who came here upon read- ing an advertisement in a South Carolina newspaper, which stated that a new mill had been opened and workers were needed. They joined the union and became strikers as ew ambassador to England, receiv- NEGRO WORKERS IN PHILADELPHIA Live in Worst Slums of City (Continued from Page One) | the south has changed the character of the street. All day long heavy trucks noisily rumble over the cobblestones on their | way to the piers. When it rains the mud betwen the cobblestones of this supposedly “paved” street is thick |and it requires several days after a storm for the mud to become dust All the houses in this block a small, two stories high and ve very aged, so aged they are apt to totter over at any moment. Wants a Union. Entering the home of Mr. B. G., ;a Negro stevedore, the purpose of the Daily Worker and the housing campaign were discussed. After be- ing seated Mr. B. G. talked freely, but he was very much disappointed. He had misunderstood our visit. He had thought we were there for the purpose of organizing the stevedores, and Mr. B. G. had very serious griev- ances, which he thought could be righted only by the organization of an aggressive union amongst the stevedores. Yes, the house was bad, Only 5 very small rooms for a family of 4 and 2 lodgers who had been taken in to help pay the way. The rent was not so high, considering the fact that there were five rooms. The rent is “only” $28.00 per month. How- ever lighting costs $3 a month, heat- ing costs, anything that’s done in the nature of an improvement, Mr. | B. G. had to pay. Said Mr. G. “It’s not the price of the rent nor the house I’m against, but its against the expenses to keep the house, and the high cost of everything. $28 if I make only $25 a week full time, and most of the time I’m only | working taree days a week.” Speed-Up. He went on to tell that the freight loading concern he was working for had increased the size of the trays 4 feet, and that the new trays con- tained two-thirds additional tonnage. | He also told how sore he and all the | other stevedores were for being com- pelled to do this very hard work for no additional wages, and he hoped that the Daily Worker would do How can I pay even! Street thru Wall Street's servant soon as they found out that a strike was taking place. A site for the tents has been se- cured at Pine Forest on high ground | TECHNICAL MEN opposite the union and W, I. R. in HOUR STRIKE headquarters. The first shipment of | tents is expected to arrive here soon and will immediately be set up. Funds to purchase food, tents and medicine for the striking textile | workers should be sent to the Work- ers International Relief, Room 604, 1 Union Square, New York City. ee Vay 450 Walk in on Board | and Demand Pay Four hundred and fifty of the ap- | proximately 500 junior engineers | fs itbaneeitne:, affected by the refusal of the beard| pj rxPert.on Strikebreaking. of transportation to carry out the} torial staff of the Manufacturers jlaw and py ibe ae C engineers Record, writing in the Wall Street | their wage of $3,120, went on a one-| Journal, the publication of big busi- jhour strike yesterday and demon. |J0Urmals the Pavitt ee te |strated in a body in the office of growing supply of tenant farmers. |the commission. _ which he relies on for strikebreaking The bosses heard thvough their purposes in the south. agents of the proposed demonstra-|" «ty 4 series of articles that 1 tion, and distributed notices that| ote for the Barron publications | anybody leaving work would | be| about three years ago, following an brought up on “serious charges. intensive study of textile labor con- Defy ‘Threat. ditions in the south,” says Edmonds, In the face of this threat, prac- | “I showed from U. S. census reports tically every man came out, and |that while the employes in southern after attending the meeting at 11:30j|cotton mills had increased from a. m. called by the Union of Tech-/| 101,000 in 1900 to 241,000 in 1920, nical Men, walked in on the commis- the number of white tenant farmers sion, to ask about their pay. enly—this being the class most Commissioner John Delaney, chair- | largely drawn upon for green help— man of the board of transportation, |had increased from 547,000 to 670,- |saw them coming and sneaked out | 000. While these figures take no | the back door, leaving Robert Ridge-| account of the thousands of owners way, chief engineer, and other of-|of small mountain farms, another \ficers to explain he wasn’t there. | source of mill help, nor of the farm- The chief engineer tried to seold owning class of lowlands, from |them for leaving their posts without | Which a smaller number are drawn, |permission, but on seeing the dem-| they are sufficient to show the im- onstration of the employes, agreed mense reserve of labor available in |to arrange a meeting with his chief, |the south, not only for textiles but | ———— for other industries.” i . Although he gloats over the 3 Young Communists crushing down of the farmers, mak- en ing them into proletarians who may Severely Beat Up by be forced to work in the mills for School Militarists gio a week, Hamonds blithely closes a % |his eyes to the fact that such a (Coatinued from Page One) | crushed farmer, ousted from his land against the Communist Party andjend starved into industry, may, nev- Youth League, and for the strength-| ertheless, feel that something is ening of jingo sentiment against) wrong with the system, and be them, But the militant workers of|ready, as thousands of them have the ci‘y have announced that they|rroved themselves ready in Gasto- |will cppose the militarists andjnia and other Carolina mill centers, |strengthen their own ranks for ‘0 organize when the National Tex- |fight against capitalist militarism!tile Workers Union comes to him and intimidation. with its message, Qnd BIG. WEEK! Dynamic! Vivid! Realistic! AS GOOD AS A TRIP TO RUSSIA! FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! —“A picture one should not fail to | | —DAILY WORKER both tall rs Youth League; Richard B. Moore, adhisthing towarde bihpibg hack the| & comprehenaive i a of the Harlem Tenants’ League, and Someth beads! morecor sant! — OF Lhe Boston Shoe Workers| ccomsuaijron Pree one) _ (ie Hupem Teunte League, and Site ete aes te tell Seite, he cap- before the main was blasted with same they had been, and do away| the Communist Party. The Arthur dynamite. Gaines Kentucky Choir will supply ‘Thugs also blew up yesterday the!the music, SHOE PICKETS the strikers, and burned the auto-| mobile of Sam Hall, another striker. | \Seabs Herded in Plant; | | Strikers Fight On (Continued from Page Onc) jately arrested on complaint J | intimate aspects of Mfe in Mos- cow, giving a vivid idea of conditions under which workers live with this sort of speed-up on the| | pier he was working on, loading ves- sels, as well as other piers, I told him the Daily Worker al- | ways works for the bettering of the conditions of the workers, and he was much interested in the copies I left him. Clean House. | His wife kept the house spick and | span. It is no exaggeration to say, that even the floor of the house is clean enough to eat from. I mar- velled at the cleanliness displayed ‘amid such sordid surroundings as 8rd land Noble Streets, amidst such | moldly atmospheric conditions as the prevail along the damp river front. earned as high as $50 a week, for a five-day, nine-hour week. This “paradise” lasted but a few years, until the officialdom of the unions! learned the facile trick of getting rich—both off the union and in graft from the bosses. The Most Corrupt of All. The Boot and Shoe Union distinguished itself above all in variety and extent of its grafting operations, in its ability to sell out/ organization today, by declaring: the shoe workers, and in its system- | “The striking mill workers of Eliza- atic campaign of crushing militancy |bethton, Tenn., have been incited to in the union. To the shoe workers | futile and ill-advised destruction of \they advocated the policy of no pro- | Property.” test, no strikes, no “high” demands,| Since Green’s usefulness as a la- , attorney for the union, re- (A Letter From a Striker.) wed the history of the recent ne-| It is now seven weeks since the gotiations with the bosses and told, strike of over 12,000 shoe workers among other things, how after the of Boston, Chelsea and Stoneham builders had “promised” the five- |began. day week they suddenly announced As was to be expected, all the that the “cont were so much forces of reaction joined to crush! seraps of 1 and declared open |the strike—the corrupt American Building Trades | Federation of Labor bureaucracy, the capitalist press and their hench- Bureaucrats Crawl. men. As usual, the bosses’ courts The aitorney read from numerous |came through with their accommo- communication 4 to the dating injunctions making picketing bosses during past few days, “illegal.” But the greatest assist- each one more cringing that the ance given to the bosses comes from other, and all assuring the bosses the corrupt, mildewed Boot and Shoe that they, the building trades offi- Workers Union. 2 TODAY A SOVKINO FILM A Penetrating Close-Up of the Seething Soviet Capital —and on the same program— conduct of official life of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics he- hind Kremlin Walls EMIL JANNINGS as HENRY the VIII A Brilliant Characterization. in “DECEPTION” -Directed by Ernst Lubitsch FILM GUILD CINEMA WASHINGTON, May 17.—Presi-| jdent Killiam Green of the A. F. of L. did his bit towards the breaking Workers j0f the rayon strike at Elizabethton with one of his characteristic rear attacks on the workers in his own the Council. cialdom, is “eager to continue the friendly relations with the employ- ers.” The Losses’ lawyer spoke briefly, urging that tne injunction against the lockout order be vacated, At the conclusion of the session Judge Crain announced that the pro- ceedings would be continued next Wednesday at 4 p. m. Philadelphia, Rival Gang’s Town, Gives Capone a Jail Term PHILADELPHIA, May 17.—:| “Scarface Al” Capone, the gangland ruler who roams Chicago’s streets with the freedom and deference ac-| corded a gold coast millionaire, fell) victim today to an unfortunate acci-| dent. The gangs in Philadelphia, | where half the police fores is ex- posed as taking money from under- world sources, are not his gangs. So|° Many Unions Formed. A short resume of recent organ- izations to which shoe workers were affiliated will illuminate the pres- ent situation: The shoe industry in During the past two years the| bor lieutenant of the employers de- | group of militants fighting this cor-| pends on his ability to pose as a la-| rupt clique has grown, but in the|bor leader, he added: ‘They were meantime the standards of the shoe goaded to desperation by the op- workers fell lower and lower. A/Pressive dictatorial methods of the this region is by no means an in-jreign of terror was established by | mill owners.” fant; as far back as 25 years it the bosses, in which the labor fak-| Helps Frame-Up. was already a lusty youngster. /ers heartily joined. Any worker, Apparently fearing that this was Then, as now, the workers suffered who raised his yoice was driven from |an error on the side of militancy, indescribably not only from miser-|the shop. | Green amended it by saying, “This | able conditions in the shop, but from} The campaign against the labor |does not mean that I approve the! the petty tyrannies of their foremen |bureaucrats became intensified, with | violence of the strikers. The use of | and superintendents. Wages were |the result that a new union, the | force will hurt rather than help their low. Organization became the only | United Shoe Workers Union, came cause. There is another horrible} weapon available for the workers jinto being. fight like that in Homestead in) in order to improve their status and | Respond to Strike. | preparation.” | working conditions. * | So miserable were the conditions Textile mill owners here state that | In the course of a score of years of the workers that on the first day they are very well satisfied with the Boot and Shoe, the old United of the general strike call over 10,000 |Green’s statements, which should Shoe and a number of others were | workers walked out of the shops, Sive the governor of Tennessee all organized. There were formed a|and, in the face of police terror, in- | the excuse he requires for declaring variety of unions of various crafts | junctions and all the attacks of the Martial law, and will greatly help in the industry and also unions |reactionary A. F, of L., are putting the proposed criminal prosecution of which took in many crafts, such as up a strong fight. strikers, stitchers, cutters, lasters, finishers, | A Fighting Union. | Bah ol The lessons that the striking work-- REFUSE CANADIAN OFFER. bosses. Charges of disorderly conduct and lobstructing traffic were | against William Murdoch, arrested | while peacefully picketing, Mur- | doch and Bennett were kept in jail for several hours. They were finally released on bail, and were scheduled to be tried this morning. The local I. L. D, will defend them. When asked by International La- bor Defense representatives for cop- ies of the charge, the police ser- geant asked: “Who sent you down?” “Cooper, I. L. D. secre- tary,” was the reply, “You tell the I. L. D, secretary that she’s a bum and that she had better keep out of this place, and everybody else connected with the I. L. D.,” the sergeant growled. Strikers Determined. The strikers are now more deter- mined to win the strike than ever. The fighting spirit of the strikers is bound to make for victory, the local Shoe Workers Industrial Union Mr. G, also, whenever it is possible sends some spare money “to his made | mother and step-father in the south. | His step-father cannot work because | of a broken leg. ALLOW CHANDLER TO HIDE BACKER WASHINGTON, May 17.—Harry | Chandler, owner of the notorious la- |bor-hating Los Angeles Times, and |a string of similar papers over the! | | | | |South today admitted before the | Federal Trade Commission's inves- | tigating commission on control of the press by the power trust, that he had been given $100,000 for fur- ther purchases, but refused point} blank to say who was providing the | | money. % (Just Wert) i 52 W. 8th St. eee. Spring 5095 Cont, Dally, ine! iat. & SPECIAL nd Sunday . Sun. Noon to Midnite PRICES 12 to | Saturday direction: Weekda Symon Gould WE URGE ATTENDANCE AT MATINEE PERFORMANCES IF POSSIBLE, FOR YOUR COMFORT AND GOOD SEATS! V Sito000eeeeeeee Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW © All these unions came with the an- ers have learned from the boss| OTTAWA, Ontario, May 17.—The nouncement that they had arrived to |courts, police and the press during | United States has refused the Cana- |save us poor shoe slaves, The mili- the past few weeks have caused them dian government’s offer to permit |tancy of the rank and file of the |to look toward the Independent Shoe |U. S. officers to operate in Canada junion did, however, succeed in im- Workers Union for a fighting, mili- in order to obtain and transmit in- proving the condition of the work-/tant, clear-cut policy, and many of formation in respect to liquor ship- ers considerably after the course of |them express a desire for one strong, ments, it was made known here to- several years. ‘industrial union, where all the fight- day in the House of Commons. The There were times, ten or more ing qualities of the shoe workers will U. S. government expressed appre- iyears ago, when a shoe worker be utilized to the full, iciation of the offer, when he came into town with his usual “gat” on him, he was arrested and sentenced to a year in jail. It is not expected that he will ac- tually serve the sentence. Edgar A. McCullough, presiding | at the hearing, always agreeable when big business interests are ask- ing privileges, consented to let! | Chandler name his backer in secret. Chandler expressed resentment when Healy, another investigator, | repeated a question asking whether | any money was supplied him b; power company, declares, TOURS FROM $385. Sailings very Month INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AVENUE (Flatiron Bldg.) NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 CHICAGO—See us for your steamship accommodations—MOSCOW Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Prepare for the big struggles | that are coming by building the _Lommunist Party. Struggle Against Imperialist War! Get Ready to Turn an Im- perialist War Into a Class War}