The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a‘Workers-Farmers Government Te Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week a x mprodaily Publishing ew York City, N. N Outside N GE TRIES TO EVADE SACCO ISSUE AT HOOVERPREPARES A. F. L. AGAIN BETRAYS STRIKE AT ELIZABETHTON Pickets Demand Repudiation of United Textile Union Order to Go Back to Work Montevideo Congress Hails Southern Strikers: Boss Tries to Bribe Leaders; “Probe” Flops Latest Southern Strike Developments « U. T. W. chief orders Elizabethton strikers to he go back if “ngt discriminated against.” No demand for better conditions or wages. vs denounce second attempt of A.d’. L. to destroy —Rayon s i ce them to accept speed-up and starvation wages. strike and fo 3.—Secretary of War Good approves use of militia for strike break- ing purposes, after farcical investigation. 4— ifty-two pickets on trial in Elizabethton for violation of ine junction issued during previcus strike. _ 5—Montevideo Congress forming new revolutionary Latin ican trade union center sends greetings to heroic southern strikers. 6.—Manville Jenckes bosses offer free rent to strike leaders if they will desert Gastonia strike is denounced by men who were approached. ?.—Workers International Relief establishing children’s play ground at Gastonia, appeals for funds for food, medicine, clothing and. tents. 8.—Senatorial investigation of starvation in southern textile mis shunted off to federal trade commission, BLAME STRIKERS RAIN DRENCHES BILLS TODRAF MEN, FACTORIES Crime BoardWorks Out Plans for Spy Army Needed by Despot To Punish Vote Expose ° Senators Want Secrecy ‘for Lenroot Friends | Bills giving the president wide powers to draft industry in time of war will be ready for submi ‘to congress within 90 days, S |tary of War Good said today. A bill to enable the president to conscript man-power for army serv- ‘ice in time of emergency Bier troduced in congress earlier this | month. | There was a reaction against it throughout the country. The pres- ent bill makes a pretense that cap jtal is to be as badly treated as la- bor, and Good frankly admits, is intended to flush through the man power conscription, though he gives even that admission a_ peculiarly militarist twist: “Tt would be unjust,” he said to- day, “to pass a law to draft man | Power without provision for draft-| ecre | | 1 Machado, U.S. Tool, Puts Ban on “Fretheit” Since May 7 ” Jewish “Frei- , in eaders of the communist da ana, Cuba, have not received heir paper, The move against the Freiheit comes on the crest of a new wave of reaction by the puppet govern- ment of “Butcher” Machado, agent of Cuba of Wall Street imperialism. Deport Communists. At'the same time word is received from Havana that the members of the Executive Committee of the Polish section of the Communist Party have been deported by Ma- chado’s agent. These latest acts of suppression, which came just before his preten- (Continued on Page Five) WORKERS TO HIT POLICE TERROR IN MEET TOMORROW Lifshitz, Obermeier and Engdahl to Speak EW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929- NIP ANTI-SOVIET |. ®tlost orontes SABOTAGE PLOT; - SHOOT LEADERS Former Czar Officials‘ Worked in 3 Big Industries Discovered by OGPU Foreign Intervention; Was Planned (Wireless by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., May The State Political Administration announced of ations 2 the discover counter-revolutionary organ working in the railways and in the| gold and platinum industries. today The organizations aimed at the overthrow of the Soviet power and | the restoration of capitalism with! the assistance of foreign interven-| antine by the Cri: hell hole for the seamen. SCRIPTION RATE: Hell- ED per rk, by mail, y mail, $6.00 per year. ew Hole for Seamen Photo shows the S. S. River Orontes, recently rammed off Quar- tobal Colon, being repaired. This freighter was a tion. The head of the railway sabotage organization is Von Meck, form director and shareholder of the p F Moscow-Kasan Rail- way, and Velitchko, former czarist transport director. Both held high| positions in the People’s Transport | COMMUNISTS IN CUBA DEPORTED | Commissariat. CHANGE DATE OF UNITY CONGRESS FINAL CITY ITION year, ANTER TRIAL RULES OUT FACTS ON THE MURDER OF TWO WORKERS Attorney for Sacco and | Vanzetti Reveals | Startling Details \Fuller to Take Stand I.L.D. Fights to Reopen Entire Case 1 (Special to the Di Worker) : BOSTON, May 23.—With defense attorneys clashing sharply with the prosecution on the issue of reopen- jing the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the trial of Harry J, Canter, active Bos- |ton Communist, for criminal libel |began at 10.30 this morning in the |Suffolk superior criminal court. The indictment of Canter resulted from the fact that he carried a place Bee “Fuller, Murderer of Sacco and ; Vanzetti,” at an e ion campaign | deme tion of Communist Judge Backs Prosecution. Judge Robert Raymond showed himself a loyal servant of the open- shop interests of this state who are trying to railroad Canter by grant- ing the request of Assistant District FOR THUG'S ACTS GASTONIA WOMEN i2 | Big Wie: tesneteiell group) which will}, Wenders of leit Wing, anions Vint The HMC Co orgenize-| Machado Begins New Great Response; New Attorney Daniel J. Gillen to rule * : 5 5 produce materials the, soldiers will| have been rade the objects of brutal! tion is Paltchinski, the commander abs 7 oe . t all evidence relating to thi Elizabethton Pickets, West Allis Labor Hitg | ise.” Be ar acuutiy hecimetmanyfpolleeiillat the. Winter. Palace (derienuce| « Denrncof error Delegates Need Time (oti 2). sudence zeleting -to tae More Centralization. The world war proved that the Union Educational | "eally class conscious capitalist Before Chancellor ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 23. we United sexe . | Union Unity Congress has been en-)# g00d stiff profit of course, to the nion, of the American Federation | j.ceq by the National Textile| War department in time of “emer- of Labor, which has always played Workers’ Union, has received the/Sency.” But the present bill further a strikebreaking role in textile [following cablegram from the ¢entralizes and controls these plants strikes, today made a strenuous ef- fort to smash the splendid struggle of the 6,000 rayon’ workers who on Thugs Brutality | The Trade revolutionary trade union center. April 15 walked out of the mills |The congress is now in session, The here of the American Bemberg and | cablegram extends: (Continued on Page Five) Workers | League, whose call for a Trade| turns over his factory product, at/| Montevidio, Uruguay, congress for @Md makes it possible to force into the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | _ Hegium of | t the formation of a Latin American|!ine any small concerns who fin” | Workers Union, will describe the ef-|tical Administration investigated the be among the speakers at the big mass meeting to be held tomorrow at 1p. m. in Unioh Square to protest against the police attack on workers October Revolution in the Kerenski government, former minister for| Members of the Executive Com- commerce and industry, and recertly | mittee of the Polish section of the a professor in the Leningrad Mining |Cuban Communist Party were ar- demonstrating outsitle 26 Union| Institute. |rested in Havana, Cuba, and de- Square last Saturday. | Both organizations aimed at dam- | Ported to Poland, as a part of the | Gbernieibe 18: Shenk, laging and disorganizing the indus-|accentuation of President Machado’s terror drive preceding his i into gura- cond , as puppet m in Cuba. tries, The Collegium of the State Poli- Michael Obermeier, organizer of ean last, Monday hie cae |term, now of six for Yarkee impe A letter from a worker in Havana, received yeste says that the chairman and vice-chairman of the forts of the police to crush the food |activities of both organizations, and workers’ strike during which hun-|at its session yesterday sentenced dreds of pickets have been beaten | Von Meck, Velitchko and Paltchinski Committee of the Educational League has made the following announce- The National Trade Union nient in postponing the Cleveland | Convention to August 31: IMPORTANT NOTICE! “The date ofthe Trade Union Unity Convention at Cleveland, orig- inally set for June 1, has been pos to’ August 31 the poned by American Glanzstoff corporations. “Greetings th’ the lieroic ‘textile William F. Kelley, vice-president of the U. T. W., the official who was put in charge of the strike by that organization, yesterday told the strikers and everybody else: “If the plants will take our work- ers back and not discriminate the strike is ended.” ‘NEEDLE UNION IN strikers! For the unity of the work- ers of the Western Hemisphere!” | It is signed “Congreso Sindica. o. 6 @ Offer Leaders Bribe. GASTONIA, N. ©. May 23.— - Agents of the Manville-Jenckes Co. Workers Called to Vital ~ FOOD STRIKE PLEA and arrested. Rose Wortis, of the to execution as counter-revolutionary Needle Trades . Workers Industrial|sabotagers and irreconcilable ene-} mies of the Soviet power. The sen- tences have been executed. Others found guilty of complicity were sen- dressmakers’ strike. it % Racine loedimarigen s : : ed to various terms 3 The meeting will also voice a fenced : vigorous protest at the aircraft man- euvers that will be held in Ohio to-| Union, will tell of the experiences of the needle workers during the FASGISTI TALK “MORALS.” |tional Committee of the Trade Union morrow as part of the war “games” ROME, May 22 (UP).—The gov- | Executive Committee were arrested }on the streets, May 5, their rooms raided and searched and all papers |and books confiscated. On the next day, evidently working on 2 pre- | (Continued on Page Three) 'Call All Communists | | tremendous response received from |? all parts of the country, indicating | a need for more time of preparation and organization, and for the zather- ing of more funds to handle tiie ex- penses of the big event. Sacco-Vanzetti case. Heated argu- ments developed between Gillen and Arthur Garfield Hays Hoffman, representing the International Labor Defense, which is defending Canter. Hays and Hoffman exposed the absurdity of the prosecution’s effort to make it appear that the placard carried by Canter meant that ex-Gov. Fuller |actually murdered the two Italian |workers with his own hands. | The jury was selected in 15 min- utes and the government produced two police sergeants, who testified |Fducational League because of the | that Canter carried the placard. The lacard was introduced as evidence, but the government objected to all other evidence concerning Fuller’s part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The defense took exception for appeal on this vicious ruling of the court and produced its first witness, William are attempting to split thewanks of | : the strikers by offering some of | Meetings them free rent. They are also at-| tending strike meetings to see what| |. ~ soa K effect their approach to the strikers| Union, which itself is now making Repudiate U. T. W. Great indignation was expressed by the strikers, and many among them declare that the next mass The Needle Workers Industria! | Intense Indignation Among Workers |that are helping to brush up the imperialist war machinery. |ernment campaign against beauty Intense indignation has been|ed up today when the minister of contests and short skirts was speed- | G. Thompson, who was attorney for Sacco and Vanzetti. Jury Ordered Out. Acting in accordance with the I Hi ; | “Many hundreds of delegates have for Picket Line Mon. |already been elected, several very | in Cafeteria Strike successful district conferences have | | jalready been held, and the success |aroused among workers of this city|the interior issued a circular to all} Communist Party members work-|cf the National Convention is as- final preparations for a general meeting will denounce the U. T. W. order to go back and scab on them- selves in the language that it serves. Many of the strikers insist that they will continue the strike and wil! look to the fighting Na- tional Textile Workers Union for leadership, after being twice be- trayed by the A. F. of L. organiza- tion. The mill owners two days ago is- sued a proclamation of the usual had. Elbert Tutherow, an active strik- er, has been offered two weeks’ free | rent if he will desert the strikers. | Attorney Bullwinkle, lawyer for the | mill, made the. offer to Tutherow, with the alternative of eviction. Tutherow’s grandmother is paralyzed and very ill. The mill company |agents state that the old woman will | be carried out of the gompany shack \if her grandson does not return to strike in the fur industry, last night issued an eloquent appeal to its | membership in connection with the | heroic struggle of the cafeteria | workers. | Themselves the victims of «the brutality of the Tammany police and strikebreaking injanctions, during | their struggles with the bosses, the needle workers are urged to join with the cafeteria workers to fri over the onslaught of the police last | prefects ordering them to keep Saturday when workers were beaten | special vigilance at bathing resorts and 27 men, women and children ar- | to prevent any demonstrations which (Continued on Page Five) | might result in “grave inconvenien- District Organizers, Members of the Central Committee, Language Bureau Secretaries and Editors of Party Papers Endorse Address of the Comintern, |ing in the needle trades territory are instructed by the New York| |district of the Communist Party, | |through Bert Miller, organization secretary, to appear for picket line |duty in connection with the cafe-| teria strike between 11:30 and 12 at |131 W. 28th St. Monday, May 27. Comrades working nearer to 4 W.| 37th St. may report at that address. “The coming weeks are the most jcritical in the entire strike. The blustering sort, resorted to in every |the mill. Tutherow, who is a mem- strike, that “if the workers do not|ber of the W.I.R. committee, has | return to their jobs before Monday | turned down the strikebreaking of-| they will be refused work there- |fer of the mill. after.” . The tent colony is going up but Kelley thereupon abandoned at|there are not enough tents for all one swoop everything the strikers |the strikers. The rainy season is) have been demanding, in the way of |continuing with its terrible effect | (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) 19-Year Old Food Picket Gets 6-Month Workhouse Term Hyman Blumberg, Who Violated Injunction, Was Murderously Slugged by Policeman Hyman Blumberg, a cafeteria defiance of the injunction. worker, will have to spend the next} Blumberg, who is 19 years old, six months in the workhouse for the; was arrested while participating “crime” of fighting against the| Monday’s mass picketing demonstra- bosses, for carrying on the strike de-| tion in froat of the Consolidated spite the injunction, and because he| Cafeteria at 37th St. and 7th Ave. yefused to submit meekly to being| He was severely beaten by the po- ‘beaten by a Tammany policeman.| liceman making the arrest. He wi This savage sentence, the second six knocked down on the sidewalk wil months’ sentence within three days,| his head bleeding, according to ‘was imposed yesterday by Magis-| three witnesses who reported the trate Edward Weil in Jefferson} cop’s number to the union. It was Market Court. On Monday Weil sen-| a particularly atrocious example of tenced John Taylor to six months} the police brutality that has charac- in the workhouse for picketing in I. (Continued on Page Five) trate the plans to break their strike | by joining in mass picketing, and | in, other ways. Broke Their Chains. | “The cafeteria workers,” the | statement declares, “not being or- | ganized in a strong union, were long the victims of the most terrible ex- ploitation, They were compelled to work from 14 to 16 hours a day for rom $12 to $14 a week. There came a time, however, when they decided | (Continued on Page Five) TEXTILE UNION CONVENES MAY 26 PASSAIC, N. J., May 23.—Thirty- five delegates from Paterson and) 19 delegates from Passaic silk and |dye works, with many more from) | other centers will assemble Sunday, | May 26, in the regular convention | of District Five of the National Tex- | tile Workers Union. The conven-| | tion will be held in Ukrainian Hall, 221 President Street, Passaic. It will | | start the first day at 10 A. M., and| jis expected to last two full days. | Martin Russak, secretary and or- (Continued on Page Two) | | 1 bosses are concentrating their at- tacks upon the workers in a desper-| ate effort to stem the onward march | of the union, The courts and the} police are seeking by the most ruth-| less methods of fines and violence} to break the resistance of the work-| ers. We must rally the workers in} the biggest mass demonstration yet | seen to meet the campaign of ter- | ror and show that the workers can- not and will not be subdued by such methods,” a statement urging. mass attendance at the picket demonstra- tion declares. DEATH BLOW TO FACTIONALISM, SAYS MOREAU. |Dietzel Quartet at the ‘Coliseum Concerts to |Aid Jobless Musicians | The famous Dietzel Brass Quar- tet will perform at the two gala band concerts, arranged for the | benefit of unemployed musicians, to} be held at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th | St. and Bronx River, Sunday, May 26. Under the direction of S. L. Roth- afel (“Roxy”) and Professor A.| Parisi, over 600 musicians will par- ticipate in the mass concerts, to be given at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and at 8:30 p.m. Besides the quar- | tet other distinguished soloists will | | appear, l ‘Additional statements received from district organizers of the Communist Party, members of the Central Committee, Language Bureau secretaries and editors of Party publications accepting and endorsing the Address of the Communist International to the Com- munist Party of the United States follow: FROM HUNGARIAN BUREAU SECRETARY. I fully and unreservedly endorse and accept the Comintern letter and the Poleom’s unanimous decisions. I pledge my full support to the Central Committee fighting against all factionalism, for build- ing the mass Communist Party jin the United States. I will do all in my power to mobilize members to support the Comintern letter | and the unanimous decisions of the Central Committee.—J. Peter, Secretary, Hungary Bureau, Communist Party. | The Comintern Address which proposes to deal a death blow to factionalism in our Party, will now enable us to carry out the political line indicated in the Open Letter. I approve, accept and pledge my support to all the decisions referred to in the Address. I urge the Central Committee, after its unanimous decisions on the Address, to energetically continue its campaign for the full support of the deci- sions of the Comintern especially concentrating on the best elements in the Party, the proletarian, and all sincere hard workers for our movement. For a unified Communist Party. Long Live the €om- munist Jnternational_—Albert Moreau, Secretary, Spanish Bureau, Communist Party. HINDRANCE TO PARTY GROWTH ELIMINATED, I fully acépt and endorse the Address of the Communist Inter- national to the membership of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. I am confident ev@ry comrade will agree on the necessity for elim- inating the unprincipled factionalism which has hindered the growth (Continued on Page Two) sured.” Negro,WestIndia Anti- Imperial Meet Tonight The Negro and West Indian anti-imperial conference, called by the All-America Anti-Imper- ialist League, will take place to- night, at 8 p. m., et 100 W. 116th Negro and West Indian organizations are invited to send delegates. Workers are invited to attend and join the fight for freedom from imperialist oppression. St. American | prearranged plan to “get” Canter | (Continued on Paye Two) ‘Urge CommunistYoutly jin Needle Trades to |! Attend CenterSaturday Members Youth I of the Communist i working in the needle |trades are urged by the League to attend the needle trades workers’ {meeting at the Workers Center, 26 {Union Square, at 2 p. m. tomorrow., | A leading member of the Needle !Traders Workers Industrial- Union will report. .) $8 Cooks’ Local 719 Will Send Delegate to Cleveland Meet The Story of Its Support of Food Strike and Struggle With Reactionaries By HARRY ANNIS, (Organizer Local 719). Local 719, of the Hotel & Res- taurant Employes International Al- liance, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has expelled three of its leaders as delegates to th Joint Board for supporting morally and financially the strike of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers. These expulsions prove the strikebreaking role of President Flores and Lehman who were pres- lent at the Joint Board meeting held| on Monday, May 20. The delegates vigorously protested against the bureaucratic and unprin- cipled expulsions and corrupt meth- ods. But these labor fakers pro- ceeded with their dirty work, dis- cussing their recently organized Food Council together with the Uni- ted Hebrew Trades, the yellow For- ward and Central Trades and Labor Council for the purpose of smashing the militant fight the cafeteria strikers are waging. | The membership of Local 719, and |their leaders who have for many years suffered from the misleader- ship of those fakers have nothing to lose by this unprincipled expul- sion. At the same time, they will never forget the expulsion of the (Continued on Page Five) Strengthen the Fight Against Walker’s Police Brutality Against Labor! COME IN THOUSANDS TO PROTEST AGAINST THE MASS ARRESTS AND IMPRISONMENT OF STRIKING CAFETERIA WORKERS, THE JAILING OF BEN LIFSHITZ AND YOUN WALKER’S REIGN OF POLICE TERROR! SPEAKERS: Ben Lifshitz, Robert Minor, Fred Biedenkapp, Louis Engdahl, Harold Williams, George Powers, Henry C. Rosemond, Michael Obermeier, and others. GAINST Mae pind G PIONEERS AND A ¢ Saturday, May 25 at 1:30 p. m. AT UNION SQUARE