The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS H For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War | For the 40-Hour Week aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. wit FINAL CITY EDITION i Vol. VI., No. 64 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929 HOOVER'S TARIFF T TRIAL OF CANTER, BOSTON LATIN. AM COMMUNIST, OPENS TODAY : CALL FULLER'S RECORDS Plot to Frame Militant Who Called Executioner of Sacco, Vanzetti a Murderer International Labor Defense Issues Statement Exposing Capitalis | (Special to the Daily Worker) | BOSTON, May 21.—Following a long campaign of evasion, ithe trial of Harry J. Canter, active Boston Communist, is ex- ‘pected to begin definitely tomorrow morning. dicted on a “criminal libel” charge for carrying a placard: | Fuller, Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti,” at an election cam- paign demonstration of the \Communist Party last November 3. | Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent attorney, who has appeared in a large number of labor cases in the past few years, formally took charge of the defense today. Demand Fuller Records, Ex-Governor Fuller, millionaire ;auto manufacturer, having been served with a summons to appear at the trial by defense attorneys last Monday, was today notified that he must bring all records, notes and memoranda on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. A similar demand was made of Robert Worthington, clerk of the Dedham Court, where. the Sacco- Vanzetti “trial” was conducted. At the same time defense counsel today planned to serve summonses upon President Lowell of Harvard, Samuel Stratton of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, and Judge Robert Grant. These three re- actionaries ‘served on Fuller’s fake “advisory committee” appointed to lend a veneer of “respectability” to the Massachusetts mill owners’ mur- der crew. Issue Summons. Summonses have also been issued to Albert Basco, the editor of “Lan- otizia,” James Mede and several others, “Big Chief” Mede, together with | Frank Silva, confessed to having engineered the Bridgewater holdup for which Vanzetti was sentenced to , CongressofTradeUnion | Confederation Opens "4 In Montevideo ‘Wide Representation t Frame-up System Reformist Center The congress for the formation of a Latin American Trade Union Con- federation, based upon the class struggle, opened yesterday in Monte- & video, Uruguay, marking another LONG J All TER |step in the advance of the world M |trade union movement toward com- | plete unity of one International of | | class struggle. At the same time, class labor FOR MANY FOOD junion centers are in the process of |construction in the industrial cen- | STRIKE PICKETS |ters of the United States, The Trade Union Educational League has sent two fraternal delegates, including |A. F. of L. Local Expels | 3/'Who Back Strike a Negro worker, to the congress. As it becomes more evident that Cantor was in- UUNIONISM FORMED |Against Pan-American | 0 BAR REVOLUTIONARY FRIGAN Party District Organizers MINERS CENTER OF CLASS Endorse Comintern Address DELEGATE ‘Join with the Unanimous Action Taken by the Political Committee The first four District Organizers of the Party to express them- selves on the address of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the membership of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. are Abram Jakira, district organizer in Pittsburgh; Alex Bail, district organizer in Boston; Herbert Benjamin, district or- ganizer in Philadelphia, and Norman Tallentire, district organizer in Detroit. | JAKIRA’S TELEGRAM FOLLOWS. “TI fully endorse Comintern letter and Polcom decisions and have begun campaign yesterday as soon as decisions become known to win over members for unqualified endorsement. Bureau meets Thursday.—A. Jakir: BAIL’S TELEGRAM FOLLOWS. “Comintern letter indicated clearly and sharply ECCI deter- mination to smash all former factions, eliminate anti-Party and anti-Comintern methods of faction fighting, lays down new and correct line for Party replacing incorrect line both former groups. Am convinced correctness organization measures as necessary pre- requisite broader leadership on non-factional basis. Definitely dis- associate myself former majority to which I belonged since inception. Approve strongest measures against vacillators or opponents Com- intern letter. Will do all in my power to mobilize membership sup- port Comintern letter and unanimous decision Central Committee — Alex Bail.” BENJAMIN’S TELEGRAM FOLLOWS. “As a loyal member of Comintern with full faith in our revo- lutionary international leadership I accept, endorse and pledge full support for the final decision of ECCI. This decision excludes all possibility for confusion as decision supporting one or another of the former groups and provides tor the elimination of all group view- points, lays basis upon which our Party may go forward unham- UNITY CONGRESS 221 Delegates Already Assured; Unorganized | Will Send Additional \Convention Endorses It Mine Youth, Women to | Be Represented PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 21 fighting miners, whose experien of years of struggle against the co: | barons and the labor fakers in their jranks has convinced them of the ‘necessity of establishing a new trade junion center to really represent the linterests of the workers in the mines, mills and factories, are rally- ing to the support of the Trade | Union Unity Congress to be held in Cleveland and will send more than two hundred delegates to Cleveland {to help establish such a center, ac- |cording to an announcement today |by the National Office of the Na- | tional Miners Union, 119 Federal St., Pittsburgh, Pa, New Committees. | All over the country, the miners and ‘organized in the National Miners | $6.00 per year. rk, by mail, $i In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. WRITINGS ELECT PRESIDENT’S CRIME BOARD ® FOR’ PLANS FOR HUGE SPY ARMY AND CHEAPER FRAME-UPS First Steps in Government Drive to Crush All Workers’ Organizatio Anti-Union Campaign ns and Smash Strikes Waged Under Smoke Sereen of “Prohibition” and “Morality” WASHINGTON, May dent Hoover’s appointment yes forcement committee” of investigation is qu SENATORS HEAR TEXTILE BOSSES - BUTNO STRIKERS ‘Seabs in Elizabethton Fake Some Shooting WASHINGTON, May 21.—The et and camouflaged attack on the working clas ay down in his new tariff bill. First Steps Taken. An initial meeting of Latin Amer- ican trade union representatives |took place in Moscow at the tenth janniversary of the October Revolu- the food workers are determined to carry on their strike for union con- |ditions, despite the injunction which prohibits even individual picketing, the courts are becoming even more | severe and is imposing excessive jail |sentences, Eleven strikers were sen- |tenced to 30 days in the workhouse by Magistrate Edward Weil in Jef- |ferson Market Court yesterday. |Fourteen got a sentence of $25 or 2 days; they chose the jail term. Twelve strikers were arrested yes- iterday in a picket demonstration at |the Marvin Cafeteria, 250 W. 39th St. Five of them were released in $500 bail for trial May 27, and 7 were among the 14 who will go to |jail for two days, In the West 54th St. Court, nine who were arrested last night were adjourned to May |27 in $25 bail. A. F. of L. Expels 3. tion, on a larger scale than was pos- sible in any of the Latin American countries. There a common plat- form in the united struggle against Yankee imperialism and its agent in the labor movement, the Pan- American Federation of Labor, dom- inated by the reactionary American A. F. of L. officials and Morones, the Mexican Gompers of the CROM, was decided upon. The common policy was further formulated and organizational steps for the formation of the new center were taken at a later conference in April, 1928, at which a Provisional Committee was formed to issue the call to the Latin American prole- tariat for the formation of the Latin American Trade Union Conference. The Agenda. The following agenda was out- lined for the Montevideo congress: 1. The Report of the Provisional Committee on the work done; 2, the fight against Yankee ‘and British imperialisms and against the in- At the same time, the corrupt and reactionary officialdom of Local 719 jof the Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployes International Alliance of the ternational.—Herbert Benjamin.” the Comintern address. pered by remnants of old factional considerations to the many im- portant tasks which confront our Party in the present period. Long Live Our United Communist Party! Long Live the Communist In- TALLENTIRE’S TELEGRAM FOLLOWS. “I urge that the entire Party both in its leadership and its prole- tarian rank and file elements must unreservedly accept and endorse as I do the decision of our Communist International—both in its organizational and political implications. mobilized in the spirit of this latest decision to concentrate on build- ing a mass Party of Communism without respect to previous fac- tional grouping. As one of the strongest and longest supporters of the previous majority faction in the Patty I pledge my support to the Central Committee in carrying out the‘C.I. line in the Commu- nist Party of America.—Norman H. Tallentire. These comrades show by their telegrams that they support the decisions of the*Central Committee adopted unanimously by the Political Committee on Saturday, May 18, accepting and endorsing The entire Party must be MINE FAKERS NATIONAL MINERS Union are holding meetings jelecting their delegates, direct from the mine. The response to the call upon the |miners to support the Trade Union | Unity Congress may be judged by| the fact that even in localities where | aa |no local unions of the National |°t*: Miners Union are as yet in existence, the unorganized miners are forming organization groups to select repre- sentatives to Cleveland. | |senate committee on manufacturers |which kas been going through the form of taking public testimony on |the Wheeler resolution for a senate investigation of starvation among southern textile workers and strik- concluded its hearings the real strikers at all. It heard representatives of the strikebreak- ing United Textile Workers Union, sas ; : and it gladly gave the floor and This is particularly true in the |sbundance of time to the manufac- previously unorganized territory of | turers. It listened politely to Paul |Pennsylvania—Somerset, Westmore-| mianshard of the new fake liberal |land, Fayette and Greene Counties— | -on of union officials and editors. in West Virginia and in the Southern| Bianshard told them the wages, to mining territory. _,|be sure, were low in the south, but | Information to hand so far, which |the housing was not so bad, better jis not yet complete for the unorgan- | than workers in the north enjoy, ized groups, indicates that the Shut Strikers Out. miners will be represented by 221! the delegation of Gastonia strik- delegates at the Trade Union Unity last | night, without listening to any of | Congress, which will be distributed | as follows: | From local unions and District | Executive Boards, 201; National} ers, which arrived a week ago in Washington to testify to the real conditions, got the door slammed in its face. As soon as it became American Federation of Labor joined |hands with the labor-hating courts 15 years. This conviction was later used as a basis for the murder terior reaction; 3, the attitude to- ward the Pan-American Federation of Labor; 4, the Program of Econ- FIGHT IN COURT WIN IN ZEIGLER = a Hid known that they were in town the | Executive Board of the N. M. U., 5; | committee adjourned and did not re- National Youth Section of the N. M.| sume sessions until after they had frame-up against him and Sacco. The charge is being made that and the brutal police in their efforts |to break the strike of the courage-|°mic Demands; 5, Trade Union the prosecution is making a delib-|cus food workers. They announced erate effort to shield Fuller from | the expulsion from this local, yes- |Unity, National and International; €, Problems of Immigration and Cappelini Injunction Is|'U.M.W.A. Meet Fails; |U., 5; Ladies Auxiliary Section of |the N. M. U., 10. | This number will undoubtedly be |gone back to their North Carolina picket lines. A glaring side light on Presi- terday of his so-called “law en- thrown by another s, concealed committee composed of big corporation owners, their lawyer and college professor 's, meets ostensibly to inves- tigate prohibition, but a ace cording to their written i ructions, which mention prohibiti only in- , to devote their first and ain efforts to propaganda for the id more vi- E e, a strike- ing, labor-hounding gendarm- , erie, and by recommending changes in the laws con of jur ning the selection to do away with as many as possible of the ady flimsy safeguards of workers facing frame- up charges in the courts, thus to make the conviction and jailing, and the deportation of foreign born workers cheaper and more efficient. Prohibits Revolutionary Writings. At the same time this crusade against revolutionary labor and its organizations is ted directly by | Hoover through his newly appointed committee, the new tariff law which was practically written by Hoover, and is now ready to pass, this week or next, the special session called by him for that purpose, contains, suitably misnamed and deeply buried in the text, undebated and hardly noticed, a provision which can easily be interpreted by any of the preju- |diced courts to exclude from the | country every variety of class co: | sciotis news, printed matter or dray ings of the international revolution- ary working class movement. The workers are to be dragooned in America, and as far as the law can be enforced, isolated from the world movement of the Communist Inter- |national and the Red International of Labor Unions. Practically all of |the books and publications of the Against Boylan A é On resumption of hearings, the increased as more unorganized : fe \Emigration; 7, the Problem of the | Fakers Seen Grafting “embarrassing” _cross-examination|terday, of three members—Robert at the Canter trial. Instead, it is| Long, of the executive board; Harry planned to railroad Canter to a long | Annis, organizer, and Harry Fox, on (Continued on Page Two) CAN'T FIX CHARGE ON N. J. GRAFTER Ignore Rivals’ Appeal for “Contempt” TRENTON, N. J., May 21—The Hague machine triumphed again over its republican rivals with the Yuling by ‘Mec-Chancellor John J. Fallon that Freak Hague, demo- cratic mayor of Jersey City, could not be punished for contempt. The appeal arose out of Hague’s ignoring the subpétna of the Case legislative “investigating” commit- tee, now known as the McAllister commission, which at its last ses- sions proved by testimony from over ‘300 witnesses, recorded in thousands of pages of evidence, that Hague and his henchmen fad made thou- (Continued on Page Two) OIL, SOAP COMBINE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 21. —The Proctor and Gamble Soap Co. of Cincinnati has taken over the .refineries of the Chattanooga Cotton il Company. jaccount of their outspoken support jof the struggle of the cafeteria workers. Michael Obermeier, organizer of | the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | Workers Union, characterized this action as further evidence of the re- | actionary character of the A. F, of L. officials, who have “engaged in| (Continued on Page Five) | TRY TO SHIFT ‘BLAME’ ON REICH Announce ‘Agreement’ on Reparations PARIS, May 21.—The interna- | tional bankers indicated that they | reached a momentary agreement to- day on how much they are to get from the German workers in re- parations for the imperialist war, at least far enough to accept some and reject other Reich banker’s reserva- tions to the plan proposed by the leaders of Wall Street, Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan, it was an- nounced today. The bankers are writing their re- ply to the German reservations | (Continued on Page Five) W.1.R. Alone Gives Food in © Gastonia; Sick on the Streets | Mary Heaton Vorse, tells her im- pressions of the evictions of the Gastonia strikers. | Sweet-faced Mrs. Vallentyne sits among her household goods, a sick child in her arms. The little girl’s face is covered with scabs, her eyes, sick-looking eyes, roll upwards so ‘only the whites can be seen. _ “‘No,’ says the red faced, paunchy mill doctor, Lee Johnson, ‘that’s not (Continued on Page Two) GALL MEET TO HIT BRUTALITY Will Protest Raid at Union Sq. Saturday Militant workers of New York City will gather in a demonstration in mass protest against the brutality of the Tammany police against strikers and in the raid on the Workers’ Center last Saturday after- noon. This demonstration, to be held un- der the joint auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the left wing unions and District 2 of the Com- munist Party, whose organizer, Ben Lifshitz, was given a 30-day sen- tence in the workhouse by the anti- labor Judge Goodman, was an- nounced last night by the New York district of the I. L. D. The Brutality. lice, accentuated by the reign of the “gentlemanly” Grover Whalen, has been directed with increasing vio- lence against the cafeteria strikers many of whom are brutally beaten every day and given long jail sen- tences. % Added to this, while Whalen was displaying 5,000 of his best-armed forces in an effort at intimidation, Tammany police raided the Workers’ | Center and arrested Lifshitz in the building without a warrant. With «| Part in many betrayals of the Dis-|tional Miners’ Union in | have been nominated, Judge McLean) ponement of a |at Union Square, Saturday, May 25,| | The brutality of the Tammany po- | |Were nominated by more than 15) \locals for the offices of precident WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 21.— Misleaders of the Workers’ Union, District 1, quarreling among themselves over the nomination for president and | ZEIGLER, Ill., May 21—The sub- United Mine/ district convention here of the United Mine Workers of America, run now practically as a company! union by the Lewis machine na- tionally and the Fishwick machine are secretary-treasurer of the district.|in Illinois, has been indefinitely On petition of Rinaldo Cappellini) postponed. | and Thomas Lavelle, who have taken| The growing strength of the Na-| southern | le for this post-| ng which was | has granted a preliminary injunc-|to have been held June 4. Zeigler tion directing the officers and board| was once the stronghold of Bill members of District 1 to preserve, Hagen, who helped to frame up Cor- the ballots, books and records of the|bishley and the other Zeigler boys nomination, and produce them in|on murder charges several years} court at the hearing to be held|ago, and who led a conspiracy to| Thursday. | murder John Watt, president of the Cappellini and Lavelle claim they N. M. U., in the streets of Herrin (Continued on Page Two) | trict 1 miners, and who claim to| Illiaois is respons and secretary-treasurer respectively, For a Four Weeks’ Holiday for (Continued on Page Two) Final Fur Strike Plans at Cooper Union Meet Soon Joint Board Announces Important Meetings to “geet Plan Vital Struggles Soon A mass meeting of furriers to!clared that only a general strike be held in Cooper Union, 8th St. and soon of the cloakmakers will exterm- Astor Pl. shortly, to make the final | inate both the fake company union preparations for the forthcoming known by the pretentious title “In- general strike of the furriers—this ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- was the principal decision arrived ers’ Union,” and the scores of sweat- at by the Joint Board of the Needle | shops which this scab union breeds, Workers Industrial Union which met Urges General Strike. last night at 16 West 21st St. Denouncing the framed maneuvers This is expected to be one of the|of the right wing clique and the most significant mass meetings in| fake “stoppage” which is being (Continued on Page Two) committee listened to the sort of state printing plants of the workers of the Soviet Union, and the news evidence it really wanted to hear. | services of the Communist Interna- Bosses Talk at Length. | (Continued on Page Two) Young Workers! | Ralph V. Reece, assistant super- intendent of the Bemberg mills at Elizabethton, said the strikers had othing to strike about; A. W. Smith, president of the Brandon mil here there was a spontane- cus ke, said the workers were unjustifiably prejudiced against the speed-up system which the need for profits made necessary for him to jinstall; H. A, Ligon, president of |the Mills No. 2 and Arcadia mills BERLIN WORKERS. IN BIG PROTEST Hold Meet in Spite of Prohibition (Wireless By “Inprecorr’”) 3 BERLIN, May 21.—The workers always good and kind to his work- of Berlin demonstrated against the 'Ts- killing of 27 of their comrades by the police of the social-democratic | Striker Tells Story. police chief Zorgiebel during the; BALTIMORE, Md., May 21—The May Day demonstrations and de- actual state of affairs in the Gas- \manded his removal, despite the gov-|tonia strike and in the mills before ernment ban on the meeting. |the strike was related to a workers’ The demonstration took place in| mass meeting, held under the aus- Frankfurter Allee on Saturday and pices of the National Textile Work- | was marked with severe collisions|ers Union here yesterday and the | with the police. | Workers International Relief. Wil- | The appeal of Gregor Grossman, |liam Bledsoe spoke and appealed for | Berlin correspondent of the Moscow | all workers to rally to the call of |‘Pravda,” against Zorgiebel’s order the Workers International Relief | that he be expelled from Germany|and gather funds for the ieeding | because of his reports of the May |and clothing of the Gastonia strik- eae gee gna carat south have been working their days | BOYD SAYS NEEDS their children an education, Sons | Day events, has not yet been re-|ers and their wives and children. away without getting anywhere. | and daughters go into mills at the jin South Carolina, declared he was | STRIKING CLERKS TELL OF FRAMEUP Held Three Days in the Raymond St. Jail After serving three days in the Raymond Street jail, three striking members of the Retail Grocery, Fruit, Dairy and Butcher Workers” Union were yesterday released. | Immediately upon their release, they came to the office of the Daily Worker and told the story of their arrest, and how it was deliberately engineered by representatives of the corrupt socialist United Hebrew | Trades who is now, as usual, work- {ing hand in glove with the bosses in an effort to break the strike. The arrested workers are Max Rappaport, recording secretary of the union, Louis Bortz, and David Zaroff. They are now free on $500 bail each and will appear for hear- ing in Jersey Ave. Court, Brooklyn, | tomorrow morning. | Describe Frame-Up. | They were picketing at the store of Silverstein Bros., 366 New Lots (Continued on Page Five) plied to. Bledsoe stated: “People in the Parents have been unable to give NO MARTIAL LAW (Continued on Page Two) ‘Senate Comm. Hears Bemberg Bosses the arrest of the 17 workers and nine Pioneers there went the usual brutality, fully testified to by the Pioneers in court Monday. “Criminals.” The only comment that Police Commissioner Whalen made on pro- test from the I. L. D. was to say that the workers were “criminals,” that he was not concerned with them and that his police are fully justified in handling them as they do. “No, this ain't a quarantine state. There’s compulsory vaccina- tion, and that’s a plenty without quarantine. She ain’t really sick. She’s up already. Past the contagi- ous stage an’ tem’ture normal.’ “The ‘well’ child who is recover- ing from smallpox droops her head on her mothers shoulder and closes her eyes. Who is going to take in the little girl with smallpox tonight? weeks, inasmuch as the mobiliza- tion campaign among the fur work- ers will then reach its climax. Many Vital Meetings. The Cooper Union meeting, al- though the largest, will be but one the next few days in preparation for the great struggle of the furriers, which exceed the 1926 general strike in the display of militancy, courage and fighting power on the threatened with the aid and conniv- | ance of the cloak manufacturers, Borochowitz declared that “only a general strike will succeed in giving to all the cloakmakers union condi- tions and improved living stand- of the large number of other sig-/ ards.” nificant meetings to be held within | All the energies of the Needle Workers Industrial Union must flow in this direction from now on, Borochowitz stated. Joint Meeting Soon. The Joint Board will also soon ELIZABETH, Tenn., May 21.—| | Adjutant-General Boyd today an-| |nounced that he was not immediately | applying for declaration of martial |law. He felt that the five companies | |of militia there now, deputized as sheriffs, but using their national guard uniforms, rifles, bayonets, tear | | gas bombs, hand grenades, machine | 'guns and other artillery can club jand shoot the strike to pieces with- out the formal declaration of martial law. YONKERS, N. Y., May 21.— Proof that the awakening of the 2,800 workers at the plant of the Otis Elevator Co. here and their establishment of a fighting shop paper, the Otis Lift, under Com- munist leadership, has struck fear into the Otis bosses, is given in a letter to the Otis Co. from the Eagle Detective Agency. After failing to halt the Otis \the chickenpox. That’s the small-| “The other children cluster around snd gaze at the nondescript pile of Militant workers will not take the Tammany police brutality, decorated the workers. part of e call a meeting of the Joint Execu- J. Borochowitz, general manager | tive Boards of all cloak, dress and workers through using the local po- The cases of more strikers ar- lice to terrorize the May Day meet- ited in the latter part of last week |ing of the workers, the Otis Com- Otis Company Fears Shop Paper; Plans to Hire Spies services of detective agencies notori- ous in work along the lines of spy- ing. The following is the letter to the Otis Co., from the Eagle Agency, located at 1440 Broadway, New York: Superintendent, Otis Elevator Co, Yonkers, New York. Dear Sir:—-There is one question! Are you or the Communists going to run your bus Every manufacturer might just_ as well settle for himself or else pox she’s got. She’s all right, just ‘peelin’ her scabs." (Sa ey __ Continued on Page Two) aii i : (Con tinued on Page Five) a of the Joint Board, in his report de- ," ed on Page Five) (Continued on Page Fg). jae pany evidently begin bidding for the w, (Continued on Page Five) Bun