The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 2

PRODUCTION IN USSRFOR MARCH SHOWS BIG GAIN State Industries Over Last Year’s Record MOSCOW, U According to of the State of the U. of S.R million rubles rubles in Ff against March, 1928. e output of the big first half of 1 was 5,786 million rv with 4,913 million rut responding period The output b; as follow 3,094,000 990,000. te capitalist syster and ruary. Pig iron, Wall in Disrepair, Collapses, Inj rkers on 1246 ures Worker’s Wife the sort of housing the wo FIRST TENTS 60 ~ UPIN GASTONIA Senators Go to Cajole | Elizabethton Strikers (Continued from Page One) enable the workers from the adjoin- ing mill towns and the farmers to see the tent colony. Clothes Distributed. A shipment of clothes and shoes received from the national office of the Workers International Relief in | New York has been received and was immediately distributed. However | there were not enough shoes to go | around. Many of the strikers, es- pecially children, are still walking around with their toes coming out, | while others are still going around barefooted. The strikers’ children are being or- | ganized to help win the strike. They are learning the strike songs. ‘“Soli- | darity Forever” is being sung every- | where. | ° Bar Strike Films. | The motion picture theatres of | Gastonia and Loray have refused to Bronx, collapsed and get under the Clay Ave., 1,000 tons 302,000 tons re: vely. Re metal, 330,000 tor respective Cotton, meters an The total amount circulation on April 1,998 million ruble ‘SACCO KILLERS. March was 1.70 as regards agricul. LOWell and Stratton in 216 million meters, of in , was com ed with mon » 19) tural produce and 1 as regards in- Bite dustrial products compared with Courtroom oy (Continued from Page One) expected to be reached late today or tomorrow morning. Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Daniel Gilen will be the prosecutor. Arthur Garfield Hays, nationally prominent as the defender in many labor cases, is heading the corps of attorneys se- cured by the International Labor Defense, which is defending Canter. Bars All Worker News: Together with the two elegant : > hangmen-college presidents were Scheme for Spy Army other witnesses summoned by the : “defense which is fighting to reopen the entire Sacco-Vanzetti case. Jas. (“Big Chief”) Mede, who engineer- RESISTANCE TO ~ HOOVER TARIFF (Continued from Page One) ing only its camouflage of being = Sa PS ae iakinly directed towards an investi- |¢t the Bridgewater holdup fos which + ae a eae Vanzetti was framed and given 15 books, newspapers and news se N bees ay Sint aoe: Nas Spee ee ween completely The attorney for the chief mur- nored in the congress. a - iicilae chee aed 18 ae But the “clastic provisions” be- “ere", Fuller, has promised to pro cause the profits of conflict! duce his client as soon as the trial groups of industrialists and import- OPENS, but, so far Fuller, who for ers are involved, met with some re- months dodged foe PE Sota ju sistance today. defense, is keeping in the back- “ PENNE ae ground. f Attack Flexibility. The local kept press has already A plea for house leaders to ex- started propaganda to create sym- punge from the new tariff bill the pathy for Fuller to blacken the de- flexible provision delegating strong | fense and its thousands of working- powers to the president was made class sympathizers in the eyes of from the floor today by Rep. Jas. | “the public.” The Boston Herald M, Beck, Republican, Pa. He point-| prints a front page story telling of ed out that the constitution dele- special police guarding Fuller's gates to congress the power of con- home. There are indications that trolling revenue legislation, argued that giving the president au- the program. TERROR AT MEET ernment. Chairman Hawley of the house Workers to Welcome Lifshitz Saturday ig- ways and means committee indicated today he hoped to have the repub- lican party pledged at caucus to) vote for the new tariff bill in its entirety. ae | “No Amendments.” . Such a move would prevent any amendments and would permit only adoption of committee changes) which would be agreed on at the ‘The brutal onslaughts by police copra aad on workers demonstrating outside of Oil Monopoly. the Workers Center, 26 Union Senators and representatives com- Square, |; Saturday, during which mented in private with some amaze- many were beaten, one being sent ment on the rapidity with which 'to the hospital, and 27 were ar- Hoover draws to himself all possi- rested, will be given a vigorous re- ble powers, the very latest being his |p) en New York workers gather sudden order today for another oil|in Union Square this Saturday at commission meeting whose real pur-'1 p,m, and demonstrate in unmis- pose is to reinforce the monopoly takeable terms their condemnation power of the Standard Oil and oth-| of this and other recent examples er Rockefeller interests. of police brutality. President Hoover today issued 1 invitations to the governors of oil York District of the International producing states to meet with rep- Labor Defense, District 2, Commu- resentatives of the federal govern- nist Party, and left wing trade ment at Colorado Springs, Colo, unions, the protest meeting Satur- June 10, to map out a national pro-| Gay will mobilize the workers for a gram for the “control of drilling nilitant fight against the growing and elimination of waste in oil pro- tenor being used by Tammany duction” = i Hall's uniformed _ strikebreakers hae resident's) proposal contem against the working class. The slug- tem comprising representatives of ging of striking cafeteria workers all oil producing states to have per- ; # tory to a strikebreaking manent relations with the federal °"C Prepara : * (7 a ‘orgy being planned, in co-operation oil conservation board. Secretary of | ith the bousee: aha te right wink tuan of the federal il conservation fficialiom, for the coming fur board, will head the federal gov- |Sttike, it is pointed ae ernment’s delegation to the prelim- The meeting will also be in the inary conference if the governors of ature of a mass welcome to Ben the oil states approve the project Lifshitz, acting district organizer of in the president's invitation, [iby Commnnale ashe ne | i among the 27 arrested and is now See ae nero sone, the workhouse at 600 E, B5th St. o - ‘ 30. : firmation of the appointment “by |New Cork Ppl nae eghealat Hoover of the power ie hireling lthe sentence and Lifshitz is expected “atid plan neahicige eines |to be released today or tomorrow on court, today started @ searching. in, (bail. In a letter to Rose Baron, sec- ae eclont who x punish |yetary of the I. L, D., Lifshitz de- / er caeint: Conoen, Wainhy aad [Sze that he has been cut off from BEd who like to be called liberal, |‘, World and is not. permitted to A ‘vead newspapers. He will be the ee atime of sapporting,. the jchief speaker at the meeting. whi ‘ ey Sane ee ee Other speakers will include rep- Paul R. Mallon the “Dnitea | resentatives of the Communist fi Party, of trade unions and other De ee heaue bee ihe working class organizations, names of the senators voting for Lenroot. It also decided to call the| wa SMnton ae Che Mail) reporter before it in secret session Barthes Ne engeeige and try and force him to disclose | Over 750 bankers, members of the Ge source of information | A. F. of L. Bakery and Confection- a) ‘ary Workers Union, were betrayed into an agreement which does not. MINER KILLED. | give an inerease in the old wages, Nace pened Fay (BY Hall). and are tied up for two years, : or —_———_- Hudson Coal Co., Loree Colliery, TAXI STRIKE. was killed by a premature blast} McKEBS ROCKS, Pa., (By Mail). while at work: He is married and /—All taxi drivers in McKees Rocks and a “Red bomb scare” will be next on | Under the auspices of the New jand the vicious sentences imposed | | Fights Diptheria Hi ; a | | Photo shows Dr. Ramon of Paris, discoverer of the famous antitoxin for diphtheria, and a member of the Pasteur Institute. As long as bad housing and starvation are imposed lon the workers, diphtheria will rage among the workers’ children. Only in the Soviet Union is the health of the workingclass made one of the chief objects of care. TEL. PARLEY IN WILKES-BARRE Textile-Miner Section in Unity Meet Sunday WILKES-BARRE, Pa. May ion Educat cite-textile | ‘region of Pennsylvania, in prepa |tion for the Trade Union Un Conference in Cleveland, and to ganize a new, militant trade union center in this district, is to meet |Sunday at 206 S, Main St., Wilkes- Barre, Anthracite coal miners will be well represented at this conference \by many delegates from local unions jof the National Miners Union. Tex- tile workers will be there, represent- ing the rapidly growing National Textile Workers Union locals in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre. Many other industries will be represented through delegations, either from lo- cals or rom newly organized shop or mill committees. Mine commit- | tees in the unorganized mines and | | mill committees in unorganized tex- |tile mills will have their delegations, j too. | | Negroes Meet. | Negro workers ‘are holding a | meeting tomorrow, from which dele- |gates will be elected to the confer- jence. Left wing groups in the reaction- lary unions, where workers are facing ‘a united front of bosses, the state and their misleader union officials, are taking a great interest in the forthcoming conference, and will have representation there. ‘Open Ballots But Don’t ‘Look,’ Judge Orders in TRENTON, N. J., May 22.—John Ferguson, superintendent of elec- tions in Hudson county, may open the ballot boxes used in the May 14 Jersey City elections, but he must not so much as sniff at the con- tents. Democratic Mayor Hague’s repub- tlican rivals charge he “fixed” the jballots in the elections. The order ‘authorizing the opening of the bal- lot boxes was signed today by Su- !preme Court Justice Samuel Kal- isch, “The order does not formally %au- thorize him to do anything more,” Kalisch, Hague’s fellow-democrat, said in “cxplanation” of his order, The agitation for the examination of the boxes was launched by the defeated opposition in the same spirit in which they contested the election—under pleas of “public in- terest,” but actually to secure con- trol of the apparatus with which Hague had made such fortunes in graft, +“ _ ROOFERS STRIKE. INDIANAPOLIS, (By Mail).— Over 60 building roofers, organized, are striking here for an increase in rh sae ; Netetiuer-ate strlicing dor = wage. increase.” wakes. snd Mayor Hague ‘Inquiry’ |arrange with the Workers Interna- tional Relief for a showing of the film, “The Passaic Strike.” They are lined up with the mill owners who undoubtedly have a great in- fluence on their action. The W. I. R. is arranging to show the film in the open air. Dewey Martin, who recently re- turned from New York and Chicago, where he participated in relief ac- tivity for the W.I. R., and R. D. Say- _lors started at four this morning on a trip to collect funds and organize W. I. R. branches in the surrounding sections. It is planned to build W. I, R. branches in all of the mill towns in the state of North Carolina. To purchase more tents, food and medicine for the striking workers, funds are needed at once. Send all CONVICT MORGAN, SEA ORGANIZER Framed by Standard Oil of New Jersey (Continued from Page One) “felonious assault,” the grand jury was later compelled to change the charge to simple assault because of the feebleness of the evidence against the defendant. | Defended by I. L. D. Represented by Jacques Buiten- kant of the New York District of the International Labor Defense, told a simple and straight- d Story. He boarded the steamer on April) 11, he related, went to the seamen’s forecastle and began to distribute! GASTONIA, N. N., May 22.—At copies of the Labor Defender and a meeting of the strike committee the Marine Workers Voice, organ of | thorough consideration io the prob- the Marine Workers League. \lems of child laborers has been “Then a guard with a big badge given and it was decided to call sep- came and shouted, ‘Get out of here, 2vate meetings of the children to you damned agitator.’ Without re-|form a children’s section of she plying I picked up my papers and/|Union. This section will consist of walked out of the forecastle, but as |the child laborers as weil 2s the soon as I got out to the door in/children of the union members, who the dark passage I was punched on are too young to work. Plans are the back of the ear and the neck. I | being drawn to involve the children stumbled and thought I was being into strike activity side by side with attacked by more than one man. |their parents. I struck out with my hands to de-| At the same meeting of the strike fend myself.” committee it was decided to call a Morgan beat off his assailant and meeting of the young workers to then walked up to the deck. Here form a youth section of the union. the ship's officers and white collar| This meeting will elect a special company men handcuffed his wrists youth executive committee that will to a stanchion for over an hour|work under the strike committee. while the officers sought a police- The youth section will take imme- man to make a formal arrest, diately the formation of regular Mink Hits Conviction. |defense squads to help guard the George Mink, secretary of the urion headquarters from the thugs Marine Workers League, last night hd gangsters of the mill owners. national Relief, Room 604, One Union Square, New York City. ee Organize Children. - denounced the conviction of Morgan. | The youth section will take up imme- | “The Standard Oil Company lawyers | ll kinds of activity to involve the took an active part in pushing the young workers more into the union prosecution of Morgan,” he said. | Work. “They fear the growing influence of | Communist Youth Speaker. the Marine Workers League among | At a well attended mass meeting the unorganized and exploited sea-|0f the Gastonia strikers Clarence nfen, The frame-up of Morgan is Miller, a representative of the Na- part of the campaign to prevent the tional Executive Committee of the organization of their men.” Communist Youth League of the pe Cee United States, who is hcre to or- CALL CAP RALLY genize units of the League, greeted the strikers, He showed up the ef- forts of the bosses, who are the ones |to attack the Communists, who are the best and most militant of the working class. The remarks of Miller about or- MilitantsArrange Mass Meet for Monday workers, was also well received by , \the workers. (Continued from Page One) | Young Pioneer Organizer. speakers, will expose the actions of | Edith Saunders, a representative | the eke PREDEY ANON at valet the Young Pioneers, who is here convention which formally approve: lto organize the Young Pioneers ganizing the Negro workers in or- der to fight side by side against the all the anti-union activities of hiss, . amongst the child laborers of oppression of the bosses and against the discrimination of the Negro General Board during the two years ‘the southern textile mills, gave the | since the last international conven- greetings of her orgenization to the | tion. | A capacity attendance is expected | at the meeting next Monday, due to| |the growing bitterness against the International autocrats and increas- ing sentiment for the building of a | strong cap and millinery workers’ | organization, whose first task will! 41, ultimatum has been served on be the organization of thousands of 1), 6,000 Bemberg-Glanzstoff strik- | Taesere one trade <theneat the ers to the effect that none of them United Biante | will be accepted back at the plants Bo any ae NE jafter Monday. For a Four Weeks’ Holiday for | William F. Kelley, vice-president Young Workers: ‘of the United Textile Workers of | BP | America, said that Senator Burton Rationalization Makes kK. Wheeler, of Montana, has been 5 invited to speak at a mass meet- “Board Boys” Jobless ing of strikers Thursday, as has The |Senator Robert La Follette of Wis- “teleregister,” invented by consin. ‘Robert L. Daine, which flashes fig-| The U. T. W. has been trying from ures on the boards in brokers’ of- | the beginning to persuade the strik- |fices and does any number of “board boys” out of their jobs, has been in- ers that the bosses are “good fel- lows” and that the strikers should stalled in the office of Sutro & Co., and will be put into other offices as go back, pending arbitration and ne- | gotiation, ete. This tactic has be- soon as possible, it is said. come difficult due to the brutality The “teleregister” works in con- | of the mill owners’ thugs, who dyna- junction with the stock ticker and mite the strikers’ water supply, does not make it obsolete, said its | houses and, because of the tear gas inventor yesterday. It does not givé|and bayonet charges of the militia. the chronological record the ticker provides, but puts the current prices Now the senators are to try, on the board, It is directed simply PAINTERS SOLD OUT. and solely* toward allowing the MOLINE, Ill, (By Mail),—Over broker td take for himself the 1,850 painters and decorators in wages of the board boys, Moline and Rock Island, Ill, and Davenport, Iowa, have been betray- PLASTERERS GAIN. ed by misleaders into renewing last INDIANAPOLIS, (By Mail).— Terazzo workers helpers here won year’s contract, without any gain whatever, till April 30, 1930, an increase in wages from 80 to 90 -_ cents an hour and to $1 an hour Prepare for the big struggles in the first class of helpers, This| that are coming by building the S.shert sada, Communlet Parte i) Sin. strikers. She pointed out how the Young Pioneers are fighting against child labor, especially the kind that is found in the south. * * * Bring In Senators. 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929 contributions to the Workers Inter- | —" , Reviewing Murderers of Rumanian Workers Photo shows Michael, king of Rumania, in whose name the fas- cist government jails, tortures, and murders hundreds of Rumanian class-conscious workers. in the inciting to murder of | manian fascist army of mur With him is Marie, former queen, who led They are reviewing the Ru- WATT FRAMEUP MANY TASKS FOR GETS HUNG JURY CHILDREN'S WEEK Strikers in New Union; Recruit New Members Big Mass Meetings (Continued from Page One) | healer in the Illinois district and a state senator, also vice, president of Lewis’ District 12, took the lead in | browbeating, abusing and question- | | ing all the arrested men, | | eae | Strikers Join Union. | BENTON, Ill, May 2 At a meeting held here Saturday, the/ striking miners of the Franklin| County Mining Company’s mine | pledged their support to the Na-| | tional Miners’ Union and to the Ii | ternational Labor Defense in its | fight against the frame-up of John | J Watt, president of the N.M.U., | held fer trial in Herrin. | This was the first open meeting of the National Miners’ Union ever held in Benton, and the first meet- ing of a left wing character held in many years. Exposes Sneed. William Matheson, the first speak- er, told of the frame-up attempted against Watt in Herrin, where W. J. Sneed, state senator and vice president of the Illinois district of, the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, has apparently taken over the! duties of mayor, justice and prose- cuting attorney. | Matheson also spoke on the Trade! |Union Unity Congress. coming in Cleveland, and the Benton miners | will be strongly represented at that} congress. Women Organizing. Henry Corbishley, recently re- leased from prison where he was) jsent in the “Zeigler frame-up, on a charge of murder, told of the for- ward march of the N.M.U. and |sketched its program and_ tactics. When describing the democratic constitution of the new union, so much at variance with machine rule in the U.M.W.A., the miners gave jhim cheer after cheer. | Women in miners’ families, who | were present in large numbers, were ‘especially interested, and a meeting at which Minnie Lurye will speak and which will result in the organ- ization of a women’s auxiliary of the N.M.U,, is being arranged. The! secretary and president of the N. M. U. local in Benton are being kept | | busy signing up new members, ee © Meeting Defies Fakers. | ELDORADO, Ill., May 22,—“Peg-| gy” Davis and other sub-district of- | ficials of the U.M.W.A. boasted that, they would spend $500 to prevent. the holding of a National Mi el Union meeting here, but they faile? to stop the meeting. | | L. C. Rice, local organizer cf the} |N.M.U., presided over an enthusias- | |tic open air meeting at 2 p.m. Sat-| lurday. Anong the speakers were: Ccrbishley, Matheson, Lurye and ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 22,/John Lynn. A women’s auxiliary | \of the N.M.U. is already organized. Thirty Victims of Gas | in Cleveland Clinic in | Danger, Need ‘Tents’ send oxygen “tents” here to save lof the Cleveland clinic disaster. A “tent” fits about a patient’s head to assist giving of oxygen. Among the patients in most scri- Lustig. Lustig was in the building last Wednesday when the Cisaster cecurred. He aided in the rescue work, but did not become ill until 18 hours after the explosions, jin death to 125 persons, remained nical reports. SILK WEAVERS STRIKE. CATASAUQUA, Pa., (By Mail). —Silk weavers, about 250 in num- ber, of the General Mills, Inc., here, have struck for better wages and conditions. We have seen above that the first atep in the revolution hy the work- proletarint, class, to to | win the battle ot a ‘the Daily. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 22.— | |Thirty cities today were asked to the lives of remaining gas victims | cus condition today was Henry lL. | So-called investigations into the | cause of the disaster, which resulted | fata standstill today pending tech- | Into Pioneers May 19th to 26th is International Children’s Week. During this week it is the duty of the workers to pay | special attention to the problems of their children. During International | Children’s Week our Pioneer move- ment is carying on a special cam- |paign against the miserable condi- tions of the workers’ children which are growing continually worse with the worsening of the conditions of the workers as a whole. During International Children’s Week the struggle will be taken up against the exploitation of about 3,000,000 children in the mines, fac- | toress and on the streets of this country—the richest country in the world. But especially must this In-| ternational Childrens’ Week mark the real beginning of a struggle} against the militarization of the | children, as part of the preparations for imperialist wars, and for the at- tack on the Soviet Union. During “International Childrens’ Week, it is the duty of all class con- scious workers to help build and re- cruit the workers’ children for the Young Pioneers of America, the only organization of workers’ children! that fights for the interests of the | working class and takes up the struggle for the defense of the in- terests of the workers children. The Daily Worker will carry special material on the children’s movement and International Chil- dren’s Week this coming Friday. | Make sure you secure your copy of Spread it among the | workers in your shop. Do your duty | to recruit the workers’ children for the Young Pioneers. LABORERS ORGANIZED. | DENVER, Colo., (By Mail) —Paid wretchedly low wages, building la-| borers in Denver have organized into a union in order to seek better wages and conditions. | ‘SOCIALIST’ BOSS GETS INJUNCTION Tries to Break Boston Shoe Strike (Continued from Page One) sea, Where more than 2,000 striking shoe workers are receiving rations i More than 12,000 shoe work- ave been conducting a militant ke for the last seven weeks un- the leadership of the United shoe Workers Union. The workers have ceasistently defied injunctions hibiting picketing. When Bonchi Friedman, field or- ganizer of the W. I. R. and secre- tary of the Shoe Workers’ Section f the organization, announced that £1,000 has been assigned by the ;W. I. R. to maintain the food" kit- chens, he was cheered by big strike meetings in Boston and Chelsea, A W.I. R. conference will be held Chelsea tomorrow, where the question of raising additional funds for the striking shoe workers and the building of a permanent W. I. R. organization wili be acted upon. A well represented attendance of working class organizations is ex- pected, in Strikers Hold Firm. “The striking workers are firm,” Vriedman stated today, “and are de- termined to continue on strike until they win. The injunction issued by the boss courts will not interfere with the militant struggle being conducted by the workers. How- ever, the need for relief is urgent and must be given serious consid- eration by all those who want “the shoe workers to win.” The striking workers are organ- ized jn 12 local unions located in Boston, Chelsea and Stoneham. Each local has elected three dele- gates to the Shoe Workers Section of the W. I. R., which also has rep- resentatives of the Boston W. I. R. as members. Cravitt is chairman of the shoe workers’ W. I. R. or- ganization, King is treasurer and Friedman is ‘secretary. Union Endorses W. I. R. The United Shoe Workers Union has officially endorsed the Workers International Relief and has desig- nated it as the relief organization of the sirike, A campaign for funds is being started in all the shoe manufactur- ing centers of the country. Shee centers in New England are urged to send their funds to the New Eng- land office of the W. I. R., 5 Lowell St. Boston, All other shoe centers should send their donations to the national office of the W. I. R., Room 604, 1 Union Square, New York City, from where it will be forwarded direct to the shoe strik- ers’ W. J. R. committee. “Insiders” Gain When Reserve Board Hits the High Rate Stocks A fall in stocks on the New York exchange followed the announce- ent of the federal reserve board sory committee that the redis- count rate should be raised to ham- per speculation. 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