The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS lor a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialsti War For the 40-Hour Week ~) Vol. VL, N. 62 Union Square, Ne: Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc. 26-28 w York City, N. ¥- NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Ogtside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yea FINAL CITY EDITION MILITANT CENTER FOR NEW YORK LABOR ESTABLISHED Workers Center Raided by Tammany Cops While Police March 28 UNIONS HAIL WEAPON POLICE JEERED AS THEY CUT DOWN BIG SIGN “DOWN WITH POLICE BRUTALITY” '17 Workers, 9 Pioneers Beaten and Jailed When | | They Protest Raid and Demonstrate } | | Lifshitz, Sentenced to 30 Days, Declares the} Communist Party Will Fight Vigorously “We will make an issue of the police brutality against Join the Party While in Jail Negro week, set aside by the Com- munist Party as part of its drive to attract more Negro workers to its program of class struggle as the only solution of the vicious race and class exploitation to. which mil- lions of Negroes are subjected, was | observed at the 51st St. Court, be- tween Eighth and Ninth Aves., Sat- urday. The work was done by Louts A. Baum, secretary of the Photo- graphic Workers Union, who was |“among those arrested” in the po- lice raid on the Workers Center at Union Square, Saturday afternoon. HEADQUARTERS FROM NEW ATTACK Militia Again Charge Elizabethton Picketing | with Bayonets; Girl Stabbed | Summary of Latest Developments: 1.—Gastonia strikers notify governor they will forcibly resist at- tempts of mill owners’ thugs to wreck their new headquarters as masked mob destroyed previous headquarters; battle expected, 2.—Deputies continue evictions in Gastonia, driving sick children out; some families move back and defy deputies. 38.—Masked mill owners’ gunmen threaten strike leader, tell him to leave town; he refuses. 4.—Another bayonet charge on Elizabethton strikers; girls stabbed. 5.—Tennessee governor's advisor tells him he should declare martial law. 6.—Secretary of War Good refuses to stop use of militia as armed Negro Workers MASS TO DEFEND GASTONIA STRIKE New Center Organized on Broad Basis The Metropolitan Area Confer- ence of the Trade Union Educational League resolution creating the Metropolitan Trade Union Center states the purpose and or- ganizational make-up of this new central body to be as follows: “The purpose of the Metropolitan Trade Union Unity Center shall be the creation of one common trade union center for all class struggle organizations which shall unite class struggle unions, revolutionary min- orities in the reactionary unions and all movements for organizing the unorganized, shop committees, etc., Unity | | | | Resolutions Call for St Industries, Defend U Many Delegates Repre - OF CLASS STRUGGLE AT GREAT 2-DAY MEETING ruggle to Organize All 5.S.R., Fight Bosses sent Shop Committees; to Be Basis of New Unions; Strikes Coming The Metropolitan Trade Greater New York area and vicinity, as < U niza- strikebreakers at rayon mills. 7.—Nine strikers held over fo’ still held out of 120 arrested in E! * MAY DECLARE MARTIAL LAW Two Negro workers were proposee for membership in the Communist) Party. Their example was followec | for four white workers, who listened | intently to Baum’s explanation of} the Party platform. “Tt was a wonderful experience,” Baum told the Daily Worker directiy | | after his released yesterday after- noon. “Naturally, the interest of| the Negro workers was aroused} when they heard the Party’s demand under a single direction. It must work out the concrete forms of the movement for the united front from below among the workers in the shop for joint struggles, for common aims on the basis of industrial unionism and shop committees. “All economic organizations of workers, standing upon the basis of the class struggle, and agreeing with the objects of this conference, r trial after day of hearings of 87 lizabethton, ; ¢ MORE EVICTIONS OF MILL STRIKERS tion of all left wing, and militant union s formal- ly organized by the Metrovolitan Area Conference at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, yesterday. ee ae ee This co) rence Was called FO 0 D p I K ETS by the Union Education- al L nd was endorsed by nrese n from 28 hose ‘MASS TODAY; T0 DEFY INJUNCTION Thousands Expected in nal Independent cafeteria strikers and of the police raid on the Workers Center in the coming municipal elections. We will bring this issue before organizer, District 2 of the Communist Party, at the Fourth | Magistrate's Court, yesterday? waiting to be taken to “ PIONEERS MEET workhouse to serve a 30-day Lifshitz Sentenced. Following Lifshitz’s statement furtively at signs seized by the Tam- many police in their provocative raid | afternoon, especially at the frag- ments of the huge slogan “Dewn which covered the front of the build- ing within sight of 5,000 fully armed the workers of New York City,” declared Ben Lifshitz, acting ‘ morning, repeating this while} — DESPITE POLICE Judge Henry M. Goodman, glancing on the Workers Center Saturday with Walker’s Police | police parading up Broadway, sen- Brutality” | TERRORIZATION ‘Discuss Past Work and Anti-War Tasks | By I. TRAUBER. Seventy-five delegates and alter- | for full economic, social and political equality between black and white workers.” lWankea! Stadium Panic | ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 19.| ‘Kills 2, Injures Many; ‘Negroes Aid Helpless In a cloudburst which created a | tenced Ben Lifshitz to 30 days in’ nates participated in the opening of Panic among thousands of spec- | jail on the charges of “inciting to the first business session of the thira tators at the Yankee Stadium Sun- | riot” and “disorderly conduct.” | Jacques Buitenkamp, attorney for the New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense, defending the 17 workers and nine children | arrested on Saturday, brought evi- | dence before Goodman's court” show- ing that police brutality was a fact ! which could be sworn to by hundreds of cafeteria strikers and needle | trades workers and by the very ones who were arrested for protesting against the police brutality. Party Will Speak. “What is there to prevent the Communist Party from stating what is known to thousands of workers and protesting against it?” he wanted to know. In his speech in court Lifshitz told how the police, without war- rants, entered the Workers Center, ' demanded that the sign be torn off | the building and then arrested him and proceeded to tear down the sign themselves. Upon the filing of a certificate of reasonable doubt in Special Sessions, Lifshitz will be released on bail and the case will be appealed. The International Labor Defense, ). through Rose Baron, its district sec- } retary, has announced that it will « call a mass protest meeting against «the police brutality in the strikes, _-and in its provocative raid on the Workers Center. Judge Open-Shopper. During the course of the trial yesterday morning, Judge Goodman, who is related to many open-shop bosses in the needle industry and who is a declared enemy of labor, demonstrated his real character. He said that he felt that he should sneer at the defendant (Lifshitz), and stated that the police of New Yorw City are the “best and finest” and that he is “proud” of them. When Lifshitz declared that the court was an agent\of the capital- ists, Goodman stated that the “de- ) fendant is defiant and real punish- ment should be meted out to him.” Last night in the same court be- fore Judge Louis Brodsky, Harry Milton, Herbert Morten, Herman Bindler, Joe Shendler, Jacob Tobb, Lydia Oken, Louis Baum, Edward Shaffenburg, and Jack Brownstein | were sentenced to two days or a $5 ; fine., They all served the jail sen- } tence and were released at 1 p. m. \ yesterday. Nick Zicardo, Nathan Strauss, Mack Cooperman and Lil- lian Cramer were sentenced to one /day in jail or $2 fine. They also served tke prison sentence and were released last night. Sylvia Goodis- man and Anna Levy received sus- | pended sentences while Sara Eley was dismissed. Herman Abel, brutally beaten by a plainclothes policeman Saturday | afternoon, is still in Bellevue Hos- | pital, seriously sick. Sergeant Patrick Hickey, who brought charges against the work- ers, showed his profundity by de- claring falsely that they all spoke Russian as proof that they were “Bolsheviks.” When asked by the defense attorney if he understood (Continued on Page Three) Build Up the United Front of rking Class From the Bot- BUR cc iterpisest | District Convention of the Young Pioneers, which started here on Sat- | urday morning. | The-session was. well under way | when a gang of policemen invaded the hall in order to tear down a huge |sign hanging on the front of the building, which denounced the police brutality. In protest against this | disruption of their meeting, the Pto- |meers sang songs and hissed and booed the police. Then they filea down into the street in front of the Workers Center, and staged a pro- | test against the action of the police. A huge crowd had gathered to watch the demonstration of the Pio- \neers. Immediately, the police began |to arrest and terrorize the children | who marched in the demonstration. |The Pioneers were pushed into the | street, and a cordon of policemen | were set up to see that they would |not get upon the sidewalk again. As a result of this demonstration, 9 Pioneers were arrested and taken together with 17 other workers who were arrested, to the 8th precinct police station. There, they were booked and searched. They were de- nied the right to call up the Inter- | (Continued cn Page Five) |day afternoon, one woman and a man were trampled to death and |scores were hurt. The identity of the dead woman is unknown, al- |though she is believed to be Eleanor | Price, 30, 1848 Loring Place, Bronx. |The dead man is said to be Joseph | Carter, chauffeur, whose address is unknown. Twenty others, several of them severely injured, were taken for temporary treatment to the Yankee Club quarters. While white baseball fans stam- peded their way to the exits with “sporting” disregard for the safety of others less able to force through, Nezro boys fought to restore order and gave valuable aid to the injured. The panic followed the call of the game due to rain in the fifth inning of the first of the two games to be | played ty the Boston Red Sox and the Yankees. As the 59,00€ spectators pushed |over the diamord to the exits, the nm came in a terrific downpour. The crowd broke into a run, and within a few mozicnts panic disor- | ganized the rush to the exits. Spend $350,000 on New Military Uniforms for) LL.D. Asks Support of Defense GASTONIA, N. C., May 19. — The strikers from the Loray mill, massed around the headquarters building which they have erected for their union, strike committee and the local branch of the Workers In- ‘Charge Pickets with) | Murder Indictment --Nine Bemberg-Glantztoff strik- ers, three of them girls, were bound | over to Circuit Court yesterday on charges of “intimidation and con-.| | spiracy” in connection with an at-| ternational Relief, are waiting to- |tempt Thursday to prevent strike-|M&ht to see whether there will be | 5 an attempt, as announced by mill jbreakers from going to work at | owners’ thugs, to attack and wreck tayon plants here. this building as a masked mob Charges of incitement to mufder wrecked the other headquarters. The | jare held against some of the 87/relief committee has been three | strikers held out of the 24 aireste@ times evicted from other buildings, | |during the last two days. This is | and is now ‘distributing food to the jan attempt of the sheriffs and pickets from the new headquarters. jmilitia to excuse themselves for Will Defend Headquarters. their brutal assaults on the strikers. | Roy Stroud, chairman of the strike | The assaults continue, with two more companies of militia present, jand the whole strike area an armed camp, machine guns on houses and trucks and tear gas bombs and bay- |onets in evidence, Charge With Bayonets. Another clash came | when a deputy sheriff, sweating un- |der the well-merited criticism of the |pickets for previous rough work, threatened to come into the crowd | This was in front | |and make arrests. |of the court house, where hundreds of workers gathered, being kept out | of the courtroom by 2 line of militia | with fixed bayonets and hand | grenades. “Who the hell are you?” shouted |a striker. A bayonet charge followed. and |the deputy, following in its wake, Saturday, | committee of the National Textile | Workers Union here, has signed a letter warning Max Gardner, gover- nor of the state of North Carolina, | that the strikers would defend their newly erected headquarters against | anyone attacking it. The letter says: | “The textile strikers of Gastonia are building with their own hands new union headquarters to take the place of the one demolished by thugs while the state militiamen were looking on. “It is rumored around Gastonia that enemies of the workers, inspir- ed,by the mill owners, are plotting to wreck our new _ headquarters within three days after completion. “The strike committee took the matter up today and decided that| it is useless to expect the one-sided Manville-Jenckes law to protect the life and property of the many strik- ing textile workers (Continued on Page Five) of Gastonia. are eligible to affiliation with the Metropolitan Trade Union Unity Conference. Broad Local Council. “There shall be a broad local council of representatives of the in- dustries of the metropolitan district including unions, left wing minori-! ties and shop committees and to in- (Continued on Page Five) POWER CO.LOAN TO DAILY NEWS ‘Tabloid Under Contract | for $5,000,000 A dispute over the alleged swindling of the Daily News by means of an overcharge for news print paper bought from the power trust has revealed that this New York tabloid has been under con- tract to receive a loan of $5,000,000 and has had other organic connec- tions with the power trust since 1924. The International Power and Paper Companies, who are now un- der charges of extensive purchases amounting to at least 30 newspapers in important cities of the United States, aro thus hooked up with one | of the widest circulated New York dailies, Contract in 1924. The relations between the Daily | News and the power trust were close and binding, a suit just filed by*the News Syndicate Co., the owner | Garment Section Althovgh the striking cafeteria workers are now faced with one of the most drastic injunctions in the history of American labor, which | Lnon Educ makes illegal even individual pick- and there were eting, several thousand workers will ent from shop anized Shops. luding 418 dele- when the nter were decided upon. o the mil “It will be mobilized at noon today in a giant present mass picketing demonstration inthe be one of t imme- garment district. diate tasks of t ization The latest order, aimed to cr to transform > shop committees the strike, was obtained by the V and others th are constantly | low. Cafeterias, Inc., from the labor- | springing into ex into new hating Judge Henry L. Sherman on industrial unions, or e them in- Friday. This corporation owns 22 s of already organized, cafeterias in different parts of the city. To Defy Order. Demonstrating to the bosses and | their faithful Tammany poli ting unions, A resolution we no injunction, however dras| |far-reaching, will break their s the s of the | (Continued on Page Five) e invited to join, | made for its in- ion, and representa- al council of unions, nions, the un- , Negroes and ANTI-FASGISTS - TOCONSOLIDATE ‘Meeting in New York Friday Evening zed, the worke wom All s olutions ie of vention < complish ¢ the A mass meeting, which will m |the consolidation of all anti organizations into the Anti- Federation of the -United will be held in Irving Plaza on day, May 24. Delegates who tended the International Anti |ecist Congress, held. in Berlin last resolu- the war danger and especially. gnition and de- ‘Announce Third Huge Whalen Strikebreakers Merger of Air Firms| On the heels of General Motors | Corporation’s acquisition of Fokker Aircraft and Aviation Corporation’s acquisition of Universal Aviation, Increasing militarization of “pub- lic” forces is expressed in the new uniforms introduced by Commis- |sioner Whalen for the police de- partment. Every striker is determined to de- fend the new union headquarters at | all costs.” | * Police Terror. GASTONIA, May 19.—Police ter- rorism against the striking textile | workers of the Loray mill is con- * * BOSS THUGS SLUG IRON STRIKERS, paper, against A. R. Graustein, as | March, will report, and there will president of the International Paper | be speakers representing the vari- Co., shows that in 1924 a contract |cus organizations which have joined between the Daily News ard the |to form the new federation. paper company, owned by the power| The meeting will be the first of a trust, was made to buy all paper |series of meetings and demonstra- from the power trust at the lowest | tions to be held in various cities, it rates it gave other papers. This was announced. The federation will contract was continued and ex- of the Soviet Union. reetings to the revolution- of India, China, Germany and Italy. the sending of a chil- gation to the U. S.S. R. Organization of the unor- workers another huge airplane consolidation has been announced here. Porterfield Aviation Interests, Inc., has been formed as a holding com- jpany for several aircraft accessory concerns with value in excess of $25,000,000. The accessory con- cerns will be operated in conjunc- tion with the American Eagle Air- craft Corporation of Kansas City. IRISH CHILD LABOR DUBLIN (By Mail).—Over half a million children between 6 and 16 are employed in Irish industries. The fraudulent maneuvers in the staged “conferences” between the I. L. G. W. company union and the American Cloak Manufacturers As- sociation were yesterday exposed in a statement issued by the Joint Board of the Needle Workers Indus- trial Union. A Staged “Comedy.” Pointing out that so-called dead- lock between the representatives of the prostitute “union” and the manufacturers on the issue of piece work were framed up in an effort to delude the workers in the indus- try, the statement declares that the “demands” put forth by the asso-( With the dashing windbreaker cap, Sam Browne belt and shining pistol belt, 5,000 police paraded at ‘noon yesterday from Bowling Green to Broadway and along Fifth Ave. A sum of $350,000 financed the new equipment, which is part of Whalen’s campaign of ballykoo to lull public interest in the Rothstein case, which he was calied in to “solve.” Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party. Needle Union Bares Fake in Cloak “Negotiations” Company Union and Manufacturers Exchange Gentle Love Taps to Delude Workers ciation is part of the pre-arranged comedy. “Tt is well known,” the statement says, “that it is not necessary for the association to demand piece work, inasmuch as in all shops where the bosses desire it, the piece-work system prevails. Worse Than Open Shops. “The conditions under which the workers in the shops of the Amer- ican Association must work are, as a matter of fact even worse than many of the open shops. “All workers know that in the shops of the association the rates ‘(Continued on Page Five) cee aa 36 Pickets Are Jailed; Strike Spreads \strike of nearly 4,000 iron and | bronze workers, the bosses have be- |gun to call upon their reserve force lof hired thugs and gangsters in an effort to break the strike. Jail Strikers. assistance of the police. Following a murderous attack with clubs and hammers on a group of pickets be- fore the Reliance Fireproof and Sash and Doom Company and the Exasperated by the success of the | These gentry obtained the ready | tinuing. Two carloads of police head- | ed by Deputy Sheriff Tom Gilbert invaded the house from which the Lynches were evicted from yester- day and demanded to know why they |had re-entered the house. Mrs.) Lynch answered: “Nobody will let little children sleep in the street.” The police threatened to assault | a striker that was guarding the| Lynch’s furniture and refused to} leave the house. Deputy Gilbert} summoned High Sheriff Linberger, claiming that the strikers were plot- ting to blow up the Loray mill. Un- able to intimidate the strikers, Lin-| berger, Gilbert and their associates | left after threatening the strikers. This is looked upon by many of the striking workers as an attempt to lay the basis for a bomb plot frame- up. Penn Brass and Bronze Workers, 36 pickets were jailed and held on a charge of “disorderly conduct.” Officials of the company who en- gineered the arrests informed vee police that the strikers, by picket- ng interfered with their abd en- | Captain Sedell and demanded that tering the plants. The inability of | he leave Gastonia at once. At last the bosses to run their shops is|Might’s mass meeting Sedell defied proved by the hysterical telegrams | them and dared them to take off sent out by W. H. Jackson & Co., a| their masks and show who they are. | Brooklyn firm, where the workers | He stated emphatically he would/ are out 100 per cent. This com- | stay in Gastonia and continue to | pany wired all its employes on Fri- | Picket the Loray mill in spite of | day, guaranteeing them “police pro- | all the threats of the mill owners | tection” if they would return to and their flunkies. work, The Workers International Relief | Unorganized Join Strike. is continuing to distridute relief) Hundreds of unorganized workers | regularly to the striking workers. have joined the strike, which is be-| The need for food is acute. All ling led by the Architectural Iron | those who want to help purchase and Bronze Workers, and the walk- | food should send a contribution to| out movement is spreading cach day.| the Workers International Relief, Enthusiastic strike meetings | (Continued on Page Three) held each day in halls in various parts of the city, and all plants are | being continuously picketed, .-+* | Young Workers! *- Masked Men Threaten. Two masked men stopped Picket For a Four Weeks’ Holi pull iday for | tended year by year. On October 19, 1928, a clause was added that the International Paper Co. should joan the Daily News $5,000,000, take a mortgage on its 42nd St, building, then under con- {struction for it, and agree to rent ten stories of the building at a good price, $2.64 a square foot. This | placed the paper completely in the grip of the power trust, as the loan was to come in stallments, The Daily News exposed its own prostitution when it finally revolted against what it says is an over- charge amounting sometimes to $10 a ton for print paper, and filed suits for the recovery of $780,000, Soldiers at “Frisco” Anticipate World War; 1 Dead, 1 Wounded SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.—Pri- vate Joc Morgan was killed and Pri- vate Harold Mellin wounded, per- haps fatally, in a battle at the Presidio yesterday. First Sergeant William Karcher was so badly beaten that his condition was crit- ical. Morgan and Mellin were shot by Frank Russo, acting non-commis- sioned officer, after they resisted efforts to place them under arrest. The men had been listening to of- ficers’ imstructions intended to pre- pare them psychologically for the coming war, and had been instructed |to be ruthless, They then’got drunk and forgot who to be, jup- the enemy was s ~ |co-ordinate all those forces which ed. can struggle against the increasing Organization of the Negro manifestations of fascism in this | workers, women workers and lcountry. and will participate ac- young w. S | tively in the struggle. It will be 7 reetings and solidarity for |part of an international organiza- tion, the basis for which was laid |down by the congress. The organizations which have united to form the federation are the International Labor Defense, the Workers’ International Relief, the Italian Anti-Fascist Alliance, the Trade Union Educational League, the Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Imperialist League, Trade vrions, fraternal organizations and other groups will be asked to join the Southern textile strikers, and (Continued on Page Five) ‘All in the Day’s Work,’ Air Militarist Says of Death in War “Games” FAIRFIELD, Ohio, May 19.— “The accident will cause no change in tl maneuver plans, which will end support the federation. Speakers at the meeting on Fri- day will include A. Markoff and L. | Kovess, delegates to the congress; |Robert Minor, acting secretary of (the Communist Party; Robert lw. Dunn, of the American Civil Lib- erties Union; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, of the International Labor Defense; Ben Gold, representing the new \trade unions, and others. Carl Hacker of the International Labor | Defense will be chairman. Plans for a campaign on a na- tiona! scale will be announced at the meeting. There will be no admis- sion fee charged. HUGE TOLL OF WORKERS BERLIN (By Mail).—The num- | ber of accidents reported rose from | 1,819,594 in 1927, to 1,428,966 in | 1928, or by 8.3 per cent. The largo |inerease in the number of s 18 accidents is particularly disquict- ing. These rose from 136,273 to % 15.6 ae _h 1157,5085 or by. Rer cen! be carried out as scheduled,” was the announcement of General Fou- lois after being told of the death of Second Lieutenant Edward b Meadow, killed in a er between his plane and another squadron in the army war air maneuvers at Fairfield Field here. Foulois re- ferred to the death of the airman as “an unfortunate aff which is deeply regrettable.” board will be appointed to inv gate the ac- cident, he stated. | Meadow was killed in the mock eir war practice (“all in the day’s work of the air corps, as the mili- tarists directing the battles de- clared) through which the war de king still further im- ¢ war technique of n and military provements in use in bombing bombing plane night raid on New York tomorrow. It will be accome panied by a Douglas re-fuelling iplane. r i pabaine DR. eA ae ¢