The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Impe: For the 40-Hour Week rialist War Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N . under the act of March 3, 1879. FINA Vol. Ni, No. 65. Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing ew York E_Otey, N.Y. NEW YORK, THUR DAY, MAY 23, 1929 : In New York, by m “York, by” niall, $6.00 p L. CEYY EDITION Price 3 Cents VOICE RESISTANCE TO HOOVER’S GROWING DESPOTISM Feng Announces War Against Chiang Kai-shek IN NOTES SENT TO IMPERIALISTS Promises to Protect Their Property; Dis- owns Nanking Chiang Sends Troops! Imperialist Forces Now | Occupy Canton SHANGHAI, May 22.—Feng Yu- hsiang, powerful war lord, today in- formed all the foreign ministers and consular representatives of the im- perialist powers that he planned military activities against Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nanking gov- ernment. Pledging the imperialist powers that he would protect “foreign life | and property,” he expressed the | hope that the imperialists would re- main “neutral” and not interfere with his attempt to crush Chiang. The imperialists have thus far given their support to the war lords wof the Nanking government. Feng also announces that he had| been elected commander of his “party” and that he was determin- cc to give the “people of China sal- rmination was impending. Chiang Sends Treop:. s, contracts and agreements unition made between the powers and the Nanking government of Chiang Kai-shek will | not be recognized by him, he said. In the meantime the*Nanking war lords have dispatched 000 troops towards. Honan province where Feng’s troops are entrenched/Fight- ing was already reported along the Peging railway in Southern Honan. Imperialists in Canton. Feng is reported to have placed his 200,000 men along the Lunghi railway, the south bank of the Yel- low River and in Southern Shensi. British and American troops and sailors are stationed in Shameen, the foreign concession of Canton, and have built fortifications. British, Japanese, French and American bat- tleships are in the harbor, while the Kwangsi clique is reported to be drawing closer to the Bees 2SACCO KILLERS IN CANTER TRIAL Lowell and Stratton in Courtroom (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 22.—President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Uni- versity, and President Samuel Strat- ton, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two of the members of the fake “advisory committee” that helped murder Sacco and Vanzetti, appeared in the criminal superior court this morning in response to subpoenas summoning them, as wit- nesses in the trial of Harry J. Can- ter, militant local worker. Canter is being charged with criminal libel for having carried a placard in an election demonstration of the Com- munist Party last Nov. 3 which branded ex-Gov. Fuller as the mur- derer of Sacco and Vanzetti. Canter is being tried before Judge Robert F. Raymond and his case is (Continued on Page Two) CONVICT MORGAN, SHIP ORGANIZER Framed by Standard Oil of New Jersey Begause he brought the message | of organization and working class solidarity to the exploited seamen of the S. S. William R. Archbold, oil | tanker of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, John S. Morgan, or- | ganizer of the Marine Workers League, will soon begin a jail term. In special sessions in Brooklyn | yesterday he was convicted of “as- sault” by Judges Salmon, Healey and Herbert, and sent to the Raymond ' Street Jail pending sentence tomor- vow morning. The court refused to grant bail. | Originally held on a charge of (Continued on Page Two) athlete tll b | ! | | | of depositors were rendered penniless into admitting more evidence. graft are Edward J. Glynn, nephew of former Gov. Smith, Mi! and ex-State Banking: Superintendent Frank H. Warder, who resigned when the affair State troopers on guard rep'ace police taken away by Commissioner Whalen Progresso,” got too hot for him. for the more important duty of breaking the cafe'eria strike. the editor Tammany Dragged Into Dirt Spilled by Chee. Trust Inquiry “Respectable” Tammany leaders continue to be drawn into the mess of corruption and wide- spread graft exposed in the hearings on the defunct City Trust Company. é “investigators” who are trying to coax leading figures of the swindle in which thousands of poor Shown here are a group Among thase implicated in the of the fascist newspaper “IL KALININ OPENS He warned that Chiang’s | SOVIET MEET Rykov Makes Report for Government MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 22.— The Fifth «All-Union Soviet. Con- gress opened here yestentay with 2.500 delegates representing work- .ers and peasants throughout the | country. | Michail Kalinin, President of the |Soviet Union, declared that the for- eign political situation of the Soviet Union had improved considerably as compared with the immediate. past. ince the last Congress the Soviet gcvernment had worked out a plan | for general disarmament for all countries to relieve the people’s bur- den of militarism and save them creasing the credit of the Soviet | Union in the eyes of the workers, | Kalinin said. . Alexei Rykov, chairman of the |made the report for the Soviet gov- |ernment, CALL GAP RALLY IN CHICAGO SOON MilitantsArrange Mass Meet for Monday (Special to the Daily Workér) CHICAGO, May 22.—The first |, and unorganized cap and millinery workers since the ending of the ma- chine-packed “convention” of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers International, will be held here | next Monday, May 27, at 8 p. m. at Northwest Hall, North Ave., near Western, + I. Feingold, nationally-known cap the speakers. He, as well as other | (Continued on Page Two) “CANNIBALISM” CHARGED. women, charged with cannibalism, was underway here today. Cafeteria strikers yesterday con- tinued to picket before the cafe- terias of the Consumers’ Coopera- tive Service, a middle-class, pseudo- “liberal” organization that has no connection or sympathy with the ‘workers cooperative or labor move- ment. The Board of Directors of this reactionary cooperative organ- ization have refused for several years to recognize the union, or to employ any workers who belong to Workers Union. When approached several weeks ago by. | the union, the management |Committee of People’s Commissars, | large mass meeting of organized) |the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | ‘USSR Gives Concession | on $40,000,000 Water Works to New Yorker MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 22.— The Soviet government has signed a concession contract with Samuci Rosoff, New York subway con- structor, for the building of a $40,- 000,000 water works in Moscow, it is reported. ‘3 Under the terms of *the “agree: ment the work is to be co mpleted i in | three years." The Soviet govern- ment is also reported to be negotiaz- ing for the construction of a sub- way in Moscow with the same con- cessionaire, SENTENCE MORE IN FOOD STRIKE 'Pickets Refuse to Be | Terrorized One striking cafeteria worker was sentenced to 10 days in the work- house yesterday, three to 5 days, 24 to two days and 11 given suspended sentences, by Magistrate Edward vey in Jefferson Market Court. yeorge Manners, of 2700 Bronx nae East, got the 10-day sentence. John Syllivan, of 117 W. Idth St.; {poser Winslow, of 302 W. 30th St., jand Tessie Krawitz, of 1314 Park |Ave., the mother of a 5-year-old | child, were the three who will go to jail for five days, for picketing in snite of the injunction, All of | these strikers have been arrested | from five to ten times previously | \for the same “crime.” The 11 who got a suspended sentence and one who was discharged are all in jail | jnow for terms ranging from 3 at Be days. Denounces Sentences. There was no evidence against | jeny of these strikers except that they were on the picket line, accord- ling to Jacques Buitenkant, attorney | from the horrors of war, thus in- | sentences, In the West 54th St. Court, Magis- | | rate Louis Brodsky discharged \three strikers yesterday for lack of |sistant_ to Hyman Bushel, demanded ' (Continued on Page Five) Strikers Picket Eight Cafeterias of Pseudo-Liberal Cooperative . attempted again to postpone the question by promising to take it up at the next meeting of the Board of Directors. But nothing has been done. The recent convention of the Eastern States Cooperative League, of which the Consumers League is a member, appointed,a committee with Cedric Long, secretary, as chairman, to “bring the two organizations to- gether.” The committee reported to the union the anti-labor attitude of the Consumers League and Long stated that nothing could be done, apologizing for, and sharing the at- (Continued on Page Five) aad WANTS SUPREME COURT “INQUIRY” City Trust “Assets? Are Entirely Worthless | BULL: ALBANY, N, N. ney for depositors in the Trust Co. that a grand jury be called’ to consider the criminal as- pects ef the case. hee ee Viciously incriminating evidence given in the defunct City Trust Company inquiry concerning the re- lations between the bankrupt com- pany and the State Banking De- partment whi under Frank H.! Warder’s admi: ration has led to! the demand for another inquiry— this time by Leon Leighton, counsel to certain depositors hit by the crash. The request, made in the in- terest of wealthy stockholders of the bank rather than of the thous- ands of poor Italian depositors ruined by the state-aided swindle, +was sent by letter Lehman yesterday. It supreme court hearing. Meanwhile it was revealed by one close to the Mor d act hearing that $1,225,000, the “capital” of the City Trust Company may never have had more than paper value, | even though the state law requires capital be fully paid in for protec- | (Continued on Page Five) ‘SOCIALIST’ BOSS: -GETS INJUNCTION. pes WLR. Kitchens | in Boston BOSTON, May 22.—Two active asks for a and millinery militant, will be among | for the union, who denounced the ;members of the Workmen’s Circle, a socialist “fraternal” order under |the complete domination of the yel- low Jewish Daily Forward, have just been revealed as leaders in the PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May 22|any evidence against them, There- |C2mpaign to crush by injunction the (UP).—After a delay of two years,/upon the attorney for the United | Strike ,of the 12,000 shoe workers | the trial of 19 gypsies, including two|Restaurant Owners’ Association, as- |! Boston, Chelsea and Stoneham. | These worthies are A. Cohen and | 3. Etkin, owners of the Boston Nov- elty Shoe Company. After some |time they succeeded in obtaining a |eperations in their shop. In an ef- fort to halt picketing, they appeared in court here recently and sought | an injunction, Their request was granted, of course, by the accommo- dating courts, but this by no means made an end to the picketing. Victory for the shoe workers is now nearer than it has be&n since the strike began over seven weeks ago, leaders declare. The regular shoe season opens on June 1, and the manufacturers not only have an insufficient stock for their trade, | distribute, * 8 BOSTON, May 22.—The Workers |International Relief has established food kitghens in Boston and Chel- C tinued on Page Two) , to Acting Goy.| |few scabs in an attempt to continue | but do not even have samples to | JUDGE REVEALS BUILDING TRUCE; LOCKOUT IS OFF, ys Both Sides Have ieee Ke) ‘Arbitrate’ | 84 Strikes Called Off Boss- Union Deal Now | Complete | The lockout order, wielded over 75,000 building trades workers by the Building Trades Employers’ Association during the past ten days has been withdrawn, it was announced last night by Su- preme Court Justice Crain before whom was argued the injunction directed against the order. , Both the bosses’ association and the Building Trades Council, Crain announced, have agreed to arbitra- tion, and will meet with an “impar- tial committee,” of which he him- Cc self is a member, in his own cham- bers June 20, Meanwhile, his announcement said sympathetic kes in support of the fight of Electrical Workers, Lo- cal 3, against three contractors of the Building Trades Employers’ As- sociation, have been called off. his is one of the principal de- mands which the bosses made from the unién bureaucrats as a price for temporary “peace.” Labor-Hater. Just how “impartial” in a real labor struggle Judge Crain himself is, that.on the very day that he was | hearing arguments on the building ‘trades lockout, he fined Michael Obermeier and Sam Kramberg, or- | (COMA HEE con on ists Five) REICH DELEGATES REJECT BANKERS DEBT PROPOSALS: Final Word Breaks Up Wall St. Parley BULLETIN. PARIS, May 22.—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, chief spokesman for the German capitalists at the repara- tion conference in Paris, will not approve the draft of the report em- | hodying a final settlement of the | |reparations claimed from Germany by the allies, a German spokesman “\declared today at Hotel Royal} Monceau. Pcie will inform Owefi D. ung, chairman, tomorrow morn- a to this effect. It will be refused on the follow- ing basis: It leaves the regular | Dawes payment for this year stand; \it does not grant the German capi- | talists the right to cease payments in the event of an economic or so- | {cial eri it keeps the German rail- | roads vii foreign control for the | |mext 37 years; finally, it increases |the annuities proposed by Schacht. BERLIN, May 22.—Albert Voeg- ler, head of the German Steel Trust and alternate chief German dele- HUNG JURY IN WATT FRAMEUP HERRIN, Ill., May 22.—The jury trying John Watt, president of the National Miners’ Union, disagreed yesterday, with a majority in favor of acquittal. The case was immediately reset for May 28. Murder Plot. Watt was arrested when he went to Herrin, May 12, to speak at an advertised mass meeting, He had been threatened with degth by An-| derson, the sub-district pregident in- stalled by the Lewis-Fishwick ma- | chine of the United Mine Workers if he dared to come to Herrin. Two N.M.U. men, William Mattie- son and Bernard, were arrested and held some time in jail when they went to get Watt out on bonds.| William Sneed, Lewis’ personal ward a! - (Continu can be gleaned from the fact, (Continued en Page Five) | Cable from Young Communist International to the Communist Youth League (U. S. A.) on the Address of the Communist International The cablegram of the Young Communist International (May 20) to the Communist Youth League of the United States, and the mo- | tions adopted by the Buro of the National Executive Committee of the League are as follows: CABLEGRAM FROM THE Y. C. I. “We démand from the Communist Youth League of the U.S.A Unreserved carrying out of the Comintern Letter in the Party and in the League as well, uniting all for loyalty not in words but in deeds, All comrades must mercilessly fight against Lovestone’s and Gitlow’s splitting policy and for the Comintern and for Party unity — Young Communist International.” MOTIONS ADOPTED BY THE C.Y.L. BURO. The Buro of the NEC of the Communist Youth League unani- mously adopted the following motions in connection with the Open Letter (May 20th) of the Communist International to.the American Communist Party, and the cable of the Y.C.J. to the Communist Youth League of the U.S.A. 1. The Buro of the NEC endorses and will energetically sup- port the Open Letter of the Communist International to the Amer- ican Party Membership (May 20th) and will mobilize the entire membership of the League to fight together with the membership of the Party for a full understanding and application of its line. 2. {he NEC Buro greets the unanimous decisions of the Party Polcom accepting and endorsing the letter of the ECCI to the CP, USA. 8. The Buro of the NEC pledges unconditionally and unre- servedly to carry into effect the decisions contained in this letter and “to hecome one of the best interpreters of the policy of the Comin- tern on the American question.” 4. The Buro of the NEC condemns the Opposition on the part of comrades Lovestone and Gitlow to the letter and decisions of the Comintern and calls upon all League and Party members to fight against this position. 5. Thé Buro of the NEC endorses the cable from the YCI (May 20th) and instructs its publication in the next issue of the Young Worker. 6. The Buro of the NEC instructs all districts of the Com- munist Youth League to organize a thorough discusSion of the Open Letter of the Comintern, the Sixth Congress decisions, together with the discussion of the th and resolutions of the League's Fifth National’ Convention. This discussion must take place ‘in all units and at membership meetings and the Secretariat is instructed im- mediately to issue detailed plans for this discussion, * * * and Supports Decisions of the Central Committee The* Finnish Bureau of the Communist Party of the United States in its meeting Sunday, May 19, after reading the new Open Letter of the Communist International to the membership of the American Party and after hearing the decision of the Central Com- mittee of the Party explained by Comrade Puro, adopted following motions: 1. That the Finnish Bureau fully and unconditionally accepts and endorses the Open Letter of the Communist International. 2. That we endorse the decision of the Central Committee of the.Party in regard to the Open Letter and give our whole-hearted support to the Central Committee in carrying out the decisions of the Open Letter and mobilizing the membership behind it, 3. That we write to all fractions explaining the means of carrying out the Open Letter. After receiving cable appeal from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland, the’ Bureau with the advice of the Party Secretariat decided to publish it immediately and also to cable to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland that the Bureau has already endorsed and promised to fully and uncon- ditionally carry out the Open Letter of the Communist Interna- tional.—Finnish Bureau, Communist Party of the United States, H. Puro, Secretary, + 8 * TELEGRAM FROM PAT DEVINE, MINNESOTA DISTRICT ORGANIZER. “Wholeheartedly endorse and pledge unswerved support,to the Comintern address as concrete progress towards the liquidation of unprincipled factionalism. The rigid enforcement of the address to- gether with serious application to the many important tasks facing us will double Party efficiency —Pat Devine.” The Story of a Strike and Treachery by Right Wing Needle Workers Industrial Union Calling Many Intportant Meets; Cooper Union Rally Soon A strike in a cloak shop has just] I. L. G. W., joined with the three {been called by the Needle Workers| right wing pressers in a sympathy Industrial Union which reveals in)strike. The strike lasted for two all its hideousness the unspeakable| weeks under right wing direction corruption and treachery of the com-| with the following climax: pany union known as the Interna- ., tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ eee | Union. The strike, called in the firm of Goldberg, Manley & Co., 266 W. 87th St., gesulted from the following cir- cumstances: A Sordid Tale. The firm for a long time had had “difficulties” with the I. L. G. We] whereby the latter paid the sum of $330, this money to be turned over to the three pressers, who were to waive all right to return to the shop. But the most significant part a promise from the boss that the | six militants would be fired. To this eae Bureau Endorses Comintern’s ‘Address | Breslau made a deal with the boss | arranging a of the deal involved the exacting of | “tg Extermination” ADMINISTRATION MEN TO PROHIBIT ANY AMENDMENT “ Congress. Fights Rule President Shall Fix ‘Flexible’ Duties For Bar on Labor News | Accepts Scheme for Spy Army as Dry Measure W. ASHINGTON Mar 22.—Debate in the house of representatives the new tariff bill dictated t ver brought out the fact today that part of Hoover’s many phased drive for absolute y_ ers agains’ worke is hidden in the “flexible provisions” E law. of the proposed en some the congressmen, because of pressure from their cap- italist associates are taking offense at the crudity and grasping nature of Hoover’s centralization policy. The aspect of it which irritates the congressmen is mainly that which enlarges Hoover's power to decide tariff duties. Giving Hoover More Power. According to these provisions, a \large class of goods can be given by jmere presidential order a variation of duties amounting to fifty per | cent. . This is but one of the several general measures which Hoover has been quietly working out to make |the U. S. government more central- lized, and more despotic. | He has demanded the right to fix | salaries of a large number of com- missioners newly provided for, thus giving him an extended patronage list which can be used in a form of |legalized bribery. | More Police. His “law enforcement” commis- sion hard at work, already, de- veloping propaganda for a huge se- cret spy system, -centering in and controlled from the presidential |cabinet, for an extension of the ru- |ral gendarmerie, now known as state troopers, for a larger and more completely armed coast guard |service, and more federal marshals jand prohibition officers who can be lused against workers at any time. He has indicated in speeches and {in his statement creating the “law enforcement” commission that he ex- | pects recommendations that will lay jthe b for new laws practically {destroying what few safeguards the | worker in a frame-up case now has from trial by jury. | Bars Workers’ Papers. | Hoover's tariff bill contains pro- | visions barring from the country all |revolutionary literature printed abroad, in whatever form it comes, jwriting, printing, drawings, ete. The “law enforcement” trick has met with nothing but commendation \by capitalist editors, speakers, and | congressmen, who persist in regard- (Continued on Page Two) FIRST TENTS 60. UP IN GASTONIA ‘Senators Go to Cajole | Elizabethton Strikers GASTONIA, N. C., May 22.—The | field for the Workers International | Relief tent colony, which will house the striking textile workers of the Loray mill, is now being staked off and the floors are being lai Men, {women and children are participating in the work, | Two tents were pitched yesterday jand are being used as the W. I, R, distribution center. One large one is next to the National Textile Work- ers’ Union headquarters which was opened last Saturday. | The rest of the first shipment of | tents is expected to arrive before the end of the week and will im- mediately be pitched. The W. I. R. is mass celebration for Saturday afternoon and evening to (Continued on Page Two) af! Suspe nd pel Be \Order to Expel Be ™ Reporter of “Prava! refusing to pay dues to the “union” in spite of the fact that it formally was registered. Several stoppages | were called by the I. L. G. W. on) various occasions, but apparently in| vain, Finally, they “pulled down” three pressers who were affiliated with their outfit, and specifically in that part of the racket supervised by the notorious Breslau. In this shop were three left wing | workers, and these, contrary to the | he agreed, As an answer to this piece of treachery, the Needle Workers In- rs dustrial Workers Union has called | expulsion issued by the democratic. a strike against the firm and picket- police president of Berlin, Zorgiebel, ing will continue until a victory is | against Grossman, the Berlin corres achieved. spondent of the Moscow “Pravda” Vital M t, because of his reports on the May r ialoMest tones 3 Day events, has been suspended for Tonight at 7 @ mass meeting of cix months by the Prussian nfinis~ all Hungarian, Slovak and German try, needle workers will be held at the| Grossman had (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, May 22.—The order of Page Twp), ne anti-working class practises of the em (Continued on Page Five) ant ii ss Mest