The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929 RIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yea Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, In S Union Square, New York City, N. ¥- Vol. VI., No. 63 ALL-UNION SOVIET CONGRESS OPENS Arresi 27 Food. Strike Pickets Demonstrating | 0 DNEWORKERIS }=Tammany Hali Hooked HGHT CASE OF Geiges Swaps CRIMINAL LIBEL SENTENCED TO wath City Trust Swindle \ESHITL ON COP oe ied TRIAL OF CANTER 6 MONTHS’ TERRI BRUTALITY ISSUE | pie | SESSIONS IN MOSCOW Despite Injunction Ba ‘Political Committee Endorsed Comintern AddressUnanimously yy DISCUSS 5-YEAR AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY PLAN } 1,500 Delegates from Every Part of the ISSR Present The Daily Worker yesterday published the Address of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the membership of the Communist Party of the United States of Yesterday’s session before the! were not enough, Pasquale Mancus- Moreland Law investigation dragged| co, father of Judge Mancuso, got a out evidence tending to show that) similar loan of $7,200. Tammany Hall headliners were part-| An unsecured loan of $6,200 had TO START TODAY SENDER GARLIN. | Geiges, who on May 1 as president of the Amer- | Striker Is Viciously ners of the Rothstein dope ring, the| been made to Edward Glynn, nephew Young Pioneers m Federation of Full Fashioned fascist newspapers of New York! of former Governor Smith, and a and various private grafters in the| law partner of John J. Curtin, who favor of the City Trust Co., which! managed Mayor Walker’s campaign! Slugged During the Court Dismissed 1 y Workers Union, knew even at that time that he would not have Try to Railroad Worker Who Called Fuller Murderer America, together with the de- cisions of the Central Commit- Rykov to Make Report Many Womer: Among Demonstration failed for $7,000,000 and Judge Abuses Strikers! Try to Bully Workers in Court In the face of a vicious in- junction forbidding even in- dividual picketing, several hun- dred workers joined in a mass picketing demonstration in the gar- ment section yesterday noon in sup- port of the food workers’ strike. Defying both the court order issued last Friday by the labor- hating Supreme Court Judge, Henry L. Sherman, and the studied bru- tality of the Tammany police, the workers met at three points in the needle trades section, carrying pla- cards urging support of the strike. Savage Sentence. Twenty-seven of the demonstra- tors were jailed following the dem- enstration. Angered by the per- | sistency of the pickets, police swung their clubs freely. The most savage sentence yet im- posed on any of the 1,277 strikers arrested since the strike began six weeks ago was yesterday meted out | to John Taylor, 23-year-old cafe- teria worker. He was sentenced to serve’ six months in jail by Magis- trate Edward Weil in Jefferson Market Court on the usual charge of “disorderly conduct.” Taylor was arrested, with four others, at the Consolidated Cafeteria, at 27th St. and Seventh Ave, Two of those ar- | rested, 18-year-old girl members of | the Communist Youth League, were | fingerprinted and given suspended | (Continued on Page Five) MINERICH ENDS PRISON SENTENCE. District Att’y Tries to| Bribe Militant PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 20,—An- thousands of poor Italian depositors and small stockholders in its crash. State Banking Superintendent Warder, who resigned when the City Trust affair became hot, tefused to waive immunity, and therefore did not take the stand. But examina- tion of one of his men, George W. Egbert, chief examiner of the Bank-| ing Department, revealed that $7,000 a year “sslary” was paid to Gen-| eral Sessions Judge Francis X. Mancusco as chairman of the board of dirsctors, and that an attempt had been made to erase this item from the books of the bank. Judge Got Illegal Loan. In addition to this, an absolutely unsecured loan of $2,000 had been made to Judge Mancusco on his per- sonal note, in direct violation of the state banking laws. And as if that Exposure of Secret Vote Nips Wheeler WASHINGTON, May 20.—The secret vote by which the senate con-|it was unabashed, was performed | | firmed, 42 to 27, the nomination of yesterday by the Yonkers court |Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, no-| when five workers appeared there | torious power trust henchman, as a for a hearing on charges in connec- | | member of the United States Court /tion with the breaking up of two | of Customs Appeal was exposed to-| open-air meetings of the Commu-| day by United Press. The case is similar to the exposure made by the same news service of the secret vote on West, which resulted in a tur- moil in the senate, and loud wails and exhibitions of wrath by the senators who had hoped to conceal their support of this other famous Insull agent. The secret vote for Lenroot in- cluded many of the big figures of the senate; Jones of the 5 and 10 law, Wheeler, who likes to be con- | sidered as does Walsh, who also) voted for the power trust hireling; liberal, McNary of the farm bill, and Capper the self-styled messiah of the farmers. The vote is as follows, according | to thesU: FB: For Lenroot, 42: Herbert, thony Minerich, just released from Allen, a 45-day sentence in Licking County | Gillett, | ton, Goff, Kean, Shortridge, Capper, ould, McNary, Smoot, Dale, Greene, Metcalf, Steiwer, Deneen, Benson Hough of Ohio for callin: for mass violation of a federal in junction against picketing Ohio mines, tells of an attempt made by Allen, | Reed, Bingham, | Jail, given him by Federal Judge | Glenn, Jones, Robinson, (Ind.), Bur- | Hale, | | Moses, Townsend, Edge, Hastings, | ruined} in Brooklyn in 1925, and has also) as a partner the son of Governor | Smith, Alfred E. Smith, Jr. | Glynn had overdrawn his bank ac- jcount $49.42 when he got the big loan from the City Trust Co. Tammany Boss Gets His. An overdraught of $112.87 was taken, in violation of the state bank- ing laws, by H. Warren Hubbard, at | present a Tammany district leader, | and former sheriff of New York Co., whose appointment as Deputy Com- missioner of Public Works was one of the first acts of the new Tam- many chief, Curry. The officers and directors of the | bank seemed able to draw on it for | any sums they saw fit. Egbert’s | records showed a loan of $65,000 to Francis S. Paterno, an officer, in connection with the Park Avenue (Continued on Page Five) FAKE LIBERALS FORCED TO QUASH OK.” LENROOT YONKERS GASES Five Workers Freed After I..L. D. Fight | | A brazen about-face, ludicrous as |nist Party in Yonkers. While the puppet district attor- iney, Witmer, stormed and fumed |and demanded that the five work- lers, Max Shalkin, Henrietta Cooper, \Charles Cooper, Edward Wright and \I. Zimmerman, be drawn and quar- \tered or given some similar severe penalty, a puppet Thomas Broderick, played his role to’ the hilt in an entirely different | (Continued on Page Two) 'Mass Meeting of Bronx |Laundry Men Thursday Progress of the |Bronx laundry drivers will be re- ported at a mass meeting to be held this Thursday at 8 p. m. at the Royal Mansion, 1315 Boston Road. Thousands -of circulars telling of the strike and the mass meeting are being distributed among Bronx workers, it is announced. is all with Lecture to join the thousands of unemployed tee of the Party accepting and +” magistrate, | strike of the | LL.D. Leads Struggle, ‘Force Lifshitz Release | Pending Appeal |_ The cases | Pioneers, |Tammany police in their raid on jthe Workers Center Saturday after- | noon for protesting the raid and the | | destruction of the huge sign, “Down | With Walker’s Police Brutality” on} the front of the building, were dis- {missed by Judge George R. Keese with a lecture to the children and praise for the police in the Chil- |dren’s Court, East 22nd Street, yes- terday afternoon. | | The Pioneers, defended by Jacques | Buitenkamp of the International| |Labor Defense, all spoke in court,| ‘disproving the statements of Lieut. Hickey who arrested them, and tell- jing of the brutality displayed by| the police in front of the Center. | The Evidence. | Harry Eisman, Young Pioneer, took the witness stand six times to testify to brutal handling by the | police, He said that he and the \ether eight Pioneers had been shoved into the crowd by the po- lice, then deliberately kicked and | |stepped on. He pulled down his stockings to show. the bruises on his shins. Jessie Taft, district organizer of | the Young Pioneers, was equally | poignant in her testimony against |the Tammany police. She said that | |she had been brutally shoved about, | shoved into the patrol wagon and then threatened by a police black- jeck when she insisted on her right | to sing. She was finally gagged by | a patrolman. | sLieut. Hickey, who charged the children with juvenile delinauency, said that the Pioneers were parties to the sign “Down With Police Bru- tality” because they knew what was on it. That was too much even for the judge, who wanted to know if the lieutenant should also be held \because he knew what was on the sign. | Lifshitz in Workhouse. A certificate of reasonable doubt of the nine Young} beaten and arrested by! | | | vote | Brandeis, hosiery workers in various pacts of the United States. For, simply exchanging one com- fortable, high-salaried job for an- other, Geiges has just become the “personal director” of the Gotham Silk Hosiery Company, Union Work “Too Strenuous.” The announcement was proudly made yesterday by S. E. Summer- 1d, president of the company, who tated that the appointment of “Mr. Geiges was for the purpose of bring- (Continued on Page Five) COURT DECIDES O’FALLON CASE Decides Roads Must Be Given More Profits WASHINGTON, May 20.—The | Supreme Court of the United States |today announced its decision in the famous O’Fallon rate case, By a of five to three, Justices Holmes and Stone dis- senting from the majority, and Burke teking no part whatever, the | “Holy Nine” granted the railroads of America a ruling that amounts to a gift of incalculable millions of dollars extra profits for them, and a higher freight rate in almost every section of the United States, | with corresponding lower prices to the farmers for their product and higher costs for food for the work- ers in the cities. Road Prices Up. Immediately on receipt of news cf the decision, there began in the New York and other exchanges che strongest and most active railroad k buying this year. Gains of from one to ten points we1e re- corded in the principal carriers and prices jumped one or two points at a time, coming out in long strings on the tape. Bleeds Farmers, Workers. This decision, enormous new and involuntary sub- ly to the roads from the farmers amounting to an! was obtained at special sessions yes- and workers, comes at a time when terday by the attorney for the I.L.D.,| millions of farmers are being driven and Ben Lifshitz, acting organizer|into tenancy because they cannot of the Communist Party, District 2,/pay their mortgages, and workers who was arrested without a war- are suffering a reduced standard of rant in the office of the Daily Work-|living because of “rationalization,” er on Saturday afternoon and sen-| wage cuts and unemployment. The |tenced by the openly anti-labor |<peed-up system and unemployment | Oddie, Vandenberg, Fess, Hatfield,, Picketing continuing at |Phipps, Waterman, Watson, Ashurst,|struck shops and efforts are being King, Steck, Blease, Overman,|made to spread the strike. | Stephens, Hayden, Ransdell, mace | (Mass.). Against Lenroot 27: Blaine, How- ell, McMaster, Nye, Cutting, John- (Continued on Page Five) the district attorney of Licking County to corrupt him with an of- fer to speak to a club of business men along lines to be laid down pretty much by the district attor- ney, Soon after Minerich was incar- cerated, the district attorney came | to the jail and held a conference with him. The district attorney proposed that Minerich come ont and address a meeting of the club, (Continued on Page Two) POLICE BRUTALITY | Tammany police brutality. Yesterday’s record: Tammany police swinging their clubs, attacked cafeteria workers on the picket line and then arrest- ed 17.) One worker, after being clubbed to unconsciousness, was lifted by a Tammany policeman, punched full in the face, and then taken to the police station. | Every member an active mem- ber. Get a new member. Celebrate | the Red month of May by building the Communist Party. Fake Building “Peace” Scheme The basis for a fake arbitration scheme in the building trades is now being laid with the hearings now being conducted by a com- mittee of architects, engineers and investors formed last week by Robert D. Kohn of the American Institute of Architects. The-com- mittee yesterday heard representatives of the Electrical Contractors’ Association. C. G. Norman, head of the Building Trades Employers’ Association, will appear before the committee today. MILLIONAIRE’S ORDERS KILL PILOT. Albert H. Harris, wealthy real estate man, was ‘being taught to fly yesterday by Pilot Arthur Argles. Harris ordered Argles to show him a tail spin, Argles’ was killed in the ensuing crash, and Harris injured. : HOOVER NAMES COMMITTEE TO AID FRAME-UP SYSTEM. WASHINGTON, May 20.—President Hoover today announced the rest of the “crime probers” who will work with George W. Wicker- sham, chairman of the committee and bring in a report asking law changes to make frame-ups easier and more secret police to spy on the labor movement. They are practically all lawyers or judges and include: Newton D. Baker, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School; Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliff College, and various federal judges and others, There are no workers or farmers, not cyen any union officials. Tammany police brutality! A cafeteria worker, arrested for no other reason than for walking by a cafeteria on strike was ar- | rested and sentenced to 6 months’ in jail. Item, AUBURN, N. Y., May 20 (UP). —Auburn Prison set a new high record for population today when the count reached 1,706.| At pres- ent there are 423 more prisoners than there are cells.) Part of the surplus is accounted for in the prison hospital and at the prison WHALEN CALLS WORKERS “CRIMINALS.” Police Commissioner Whalen, whose police raided the Workers Center Saturday afternoon and maltreated and arrested 17 workers and 9 children, forced to speak on this evident police brutality, said yesterday: “I am not interested in the constitutional rights of criminals.” He said that the police had a “tough” job and had been “very | Judge Goodman Sunday to serve a (Continued on Page Two) TOLD T0 QUIT BY BANKERS , POLICE KANSAS CITY, May 18 (By |Mail)—A demand for immediate | vacation of the offices rented by the Communist Party here was made by _ bankers who rent the offices yester- | day afternoon, Three detectives ac- companied them to enforce the notice to quit. | “We want no more rent money ‘from you—we don’t want such an outfit in the building” the “dele- gation” told Roy Stepehens, district \organizer of the Communist Party, who advises that new offices have been obtained for the Communist Party and the Communist Youth League at 524 E, 15th Street. Stephens believes that the order to get out is the result of Communist activity among the Negroes and |packing house workers, ‘Police at |the packing houses,” he states, “have been ordering us away and | threatening us with arrest for dis- tributing Trade Union Educational League leaflets and copies of the | Daily Worker. No doubt they have used pressure to oust us from our | headquarters, | “SMELL-FILMS.” PARIS, May 20.—The next devel- have been particularly severe on the roads, the great companies im- mediately and directly benefited by | the supreme court’s permission to | go out and loot “all the traffic will | bear.” | Test Case. | The forn:al order cf the court ma- jority was that the decision of the lower three-judge St. Louis Federal ‘Court, upholding the Interstate |Commerce Commission, should be vacated and the other reversed. | The Interstate Commerce Com- imission purposely made this a test case, the government’s decision di- rvecting the nine-mile St. Louis and O'Fallon road in Southern Illinois to pay over $226,000 as excess profits |for the period 1920-24, this being calculated on the commission’s valu- (Continued on Page Two) Bad Road Wrecks Bus; | 2 Are Badly Injured » | PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 20.—A | crowded Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh bus | skidded and overturned at a curve on the Necastle Road today, injurin: 21 of its occupants. The accident was due to the bad conditions of the road, * t Two of the passengers, Mrs. Lita | | Volz, 37, of Cleveland, and Louis | | Ashford, 24, a Negro of Baltimore, |Md., were injured seriously. The | others were treated at Butler County | Hospital and dismissed, | | } \CLERICALS BECOME FASCIST ROME, May 20.—The Holy See Seek to Quash Defense LL.D. Fights to Reopen Sacco-Vanzetti Case | (Special to the Daily Worker) endorsing the Address of the! Comintern. | These decisions of the Cen- tral Committee were adopted unanimously at a special ses- sion of the Political Committee Saturday, May 18. By a tech- BOSTON, May 20.—The trial of nical error the fact that the de- Harry J. Canter, well-known local militant, which has been postponed | several times, will definitely start tomorrow morning, all signs indicate. | Canter is being charged with crim- | inal libel for having carried a pla- card: “Fuller, Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti,” at an election cam- |paign demonstration of the Com- munist Party last Nov. 3 Try to Dodge Main Issue. From reliable sources it has beer learned that the prosecution, after considering ways of thwarting the plan of the International Labor De- fense, which is defending Canter, to! }reopen the entire Sacco-Vanzetti case, is now ready to start the trial. The prosecution’s plans, which have |in all probability been worked out with the aid of ex-Governor Fuller, call for the saving of Fuller’s face by ruling out all efforts to bring the Sacco-Vanzetti case intd the trial. The prosecution will refuse to allow Fuller to be quizzed on his part in the murder of the two Italian workers and will attempt to confine the case to technicalities such as whether ov not Canter actually carried the pla- card, Against this effort to shield Fuller | and to railroad Canter to a long jail term on a technical charge, the In. ternational Labor Defense is mobili- zing all its forces. It is planned to jcall in witnesses who were either ignored or not permitted to testify during the Sacco-Vanzetti case in order to prove that ex-Governor Fuller was the agent of the capital- ist class in the murder of the two workers. Among the witnesses will be William G. Thompson, attorney for Sacco and Vanzetti, and Frank Silva and Big Chief Mede, who have confessed to having engineered the Bridgewater holdup for which Van- zetti was sentenced to 15 years. Arthur Garfield Hays, who has figured in many prominent labor cases, has just been secured to head the defense counsel and will appear when the trial opens tomorrow. De- fense activities are in charge of Rob- ert Zelms, New England secretary of the I. L. D. Immediate defense funds are needed. They should be rushed to the New England I. L. D. 113 Dudley Street, Room 6, Boston. Claim Invention of Machine to Take Place of Linotypers A device which transforms spoken | words into neat columns of type, eading for printing, may be demon- strated within the next few months, it was learned today. Robert M. Werblow, secretary- treasurer of the Polygraphic Cor- poration of America, confirmed re- ports that his company was work- | ing on an invention known as the | “talkie-typesetter,” which adapts the principles of the talking motion pic- tures to use with the linotype and metal for setting type. IRISH CHILD LABOR DUBLIN (By Mail).—Over half a million children between 6 and 16 are employed in Irish industries. cision was by a unanimous vote of the Political Committee was omitted. IN IRON STRIKE “Blind Ads” Fail to Aid Bosses Seventy unorganized workers of the Superb Bronze Company, 3064 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, are the \latest recruits to the strike led by the Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers Union, which began last week. This brings the total out up to 3,900, with a little over 4,000 in the trade in New York City. At the Superb Bronze Company, 30 workers had walked out in res- ponse to the original strike call, Advertise for Scabs. | Desperate because of the solid front of the workers who are picket- ing all struck plants thruout the city, the bosses are beginning to ad- vertise for high-priced strikebreak- ers. They are inserting “blind ads” in the capitalist press, not revealing the fact that a strike exists. In most cases, however, workers reporting to |the plants turn back when they dis- | cover that they are wanted for! strikebreaking duty. A large num-} ber of these men have instead come | to the office of the union, Old Stunt Fails. The Tiffany Company of the Bronx yesterday tried the same “gag” as the William H. Jackson Company attempted on Friday in an effort to get the workers to re- turn to the jobs. They sent out tele- (Continued on Page Five) Ship’s Crew Donates $20 to Support of the Gastonia Mill Strikers | The crew of the steamship Lake Flua made a collection aboard the | ship of $20 for the Gastonia strik- | ers. A representative of the Ma-| rine Workers’ League took up the collection while the ship lay in har- | bor in New York. | The marine workers realize the | solidarity of labor needed, and know | that while their fellow-workers are en strike in the southern textile mills, tt is the duty of all workers } to assist. | The money is to be turned cover by the Marine Workers League to | the Workers International Relief for | forwarding to Gastonia. | TO FLY TO ROME. | | TETERBORO AIRPORT, N. J., |May 20.—Roger Q. Williams and, | Lewis A. Yancey hopped off in their! [plane “The Green Flash” for Old Orchard, Me., today, preparatory to making a flight from the Maine re- sort to Rome, New, Significant Victory Won’ By Striking Shoe Workers | Lipp Firm Surrenders to the Independent Shoe Workers Union, Agrees to All Demands Following a hard-fought strike lasting more than seven weeks, the Lipp Shoe Company, at 82 W. 17th St., finally surrendered yesterday to the Independent Shoe Workers Union and signed up an agreement cant, according to Fred Biedenkapp, general manager of the union, be- cause this is the dull period of the shoe trade and because the company had put up an especially stubborn fight against the union. In this » litical leader of the working class. farm but the majority of the over- flow is housed on cots placed in the cell corridors, The Communist Party is the po- Stalin. . tolerant.” JAPANESE CITY DESTROYED, TOKIO, May 20.—Twelve hundred houses, almost the entire city of Funateu, near the Japanese Alps, were destroyed by fire this morning. Several persons were reported killed, { i t | opment in the motion picture indus- has compiled a list of slightly more try may be “smell-films” capable of ‘han 400 citizens of the new Vatican | reproducing the fragrance of a rose State, including 25 cardinals. The |garden or the scent of a perfume, new state will be known as Vatican according to the well-known French City after the Lateran Treaty with critic, Georgts Chaperot, writing in|the Italian government hasbeen the weekly magazine, “Pour Vous.” aie "cane Sees ‘ nting all demands of the work- crs, including union recognition. As a result, 95 workers in this shop will return to their jobs this morning. Is Defeat for All Bosses. is especially signifi, they had the full support of the Board of Trade and the Shoe Manu- facturers’ Association, which, ac- cording to its own admissions, has |spent over $100,000 in fighting the |Independent Shoe Workers Uni Conti ued on Rage Delegatds (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 20.—The supreme authority of the Soviet Union, the All-Union Congress of Soviets, was con- vened here today in the Grand Opera House with about 1,500 dele- gates present from all sections of Europe and Asia now under the banners of the Soviet power. Premier Alexis Rykov, president of the Council of People’s Commis- 's, will make the report on the achievements of Soviet rule since the last congress. Rykov Ridicules League. Premier _Rykov, add ing the congress tonight, sat lly de scribed the League of ns ef- forts toward world disarmament, the total results of which he said were 14,000 printed pages and increased arms. He said that, while capitalist gov- ernments rejected the Soviet plan for 50 per cent reduction of all arms, the prop won the sympathy of workers and real paci through- out the world. Peace is the basis of the Soviet foreign policy, he said, but the gov- ernment would surely be the first victim in case of a war and, there- fore, must be prepared, Discuss Five-Year Plan. The Five-Year Plan for the rapid development of industry with spe- cial stress on the basic industries, and for the socialization of agricul- ture, will be the outstanding sub- ject for discussion by the congress. Under the Soviet Constitution, the congress is the highest authority in the land and meets once a year. Progress of Industrialization. Since the last congress the Soviet Union has made tremendous strides for’ 1 in the rapid development of industrialization, the creation of huge Soviet farms and the growth of collective farming. With the beginning of the present fiscal year, the balance of trade has turned in favor of the Soviet Union, T Congre therefore, meets under many rable circumstances, th me time, it faces uge problems, To Be in Session For 2 Weeks. The Congress will probably be in The dele- are .elected for but one con- by city, town and provincial Soviets, by national republics and autonomous districts. The congress chooses the Central Executive Com- mittee which holds sessions between congresses. The delegates of many races, na- Honalities and cultures, living to- gether under the Red Flag of the letarian ‘o.orship, presens a ng picture, many appearing ia native costumes characteristic of their various peoples. Many of the delegates re wowen, ce Articles on Soviet Economy. In amplifying the news of the All-Union Soviet Congress now in session in Moscow, the Daily Worker will publish a series of five articles on “How Soviet Econ- omy Functions.” The first of these articles will appear in tomorrow's issue and takes up the various phases of the structure of the economy of the U.S.S.R.| These articles should be spread among as many workers as possible, HYMAN TO SPEAK -AT FORUM TODAY Two thousand workers are ex- pected to join the open forum called by the Needle Trades Workers In- \dustrial Union for 1 o’clock today at Bryant Hall, 42d St. and Sixth Ave., where Louis Hyman, president of the organization, will speak. | To Expose Clique. Hyman, who was scheduled to speak at the open forum called last _week, was unable to be present due to the fact that he was called to the ‘eonvention of the Canadian Needle rkers Union at Toronto. Today, (Continued on Page Fi ‘