The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 2

Page Two | RAIN DRENCHES GASTONIA WOMEN r Hit Ity Field Day West Allis Labc ) } Lal fect on x <== for Militarism on the Campus; Prepare Students for War DAILY WORKER, perialist war, knowir them vert semer City to vipers. had been gt tains by had paid he then she h over again workers many TEXTILE UNION CONVENES MAY 26 em all Meets During Pay Cut Drive and Strike Wave (Continued from Page One} | iizer of Paterson locals of the N. . U. stated today: | Fighting Wage Cuts. | “This convention comes at a most portune time. A new ike wave spreading chrough the silk mills and siye works cf this important extile district. A series of sub- ial wage cuts during Decem- It is the f The Need Funds at Once. A children’s playgro planned, w “Union Play International eae and. January were checked: by pee. a rapid organization of the Na. Swings, 1 Textile Workers Union and its sports ap: istance to the lowered for the u of living dictated by the constructic cM e Yj a committee of The need food, tents vital questic bought at or should be sen “However, since then there has been a severe rationalization of the industry. Speed-up and new ma- chinery have thrown man workers out of their jobs. In the dye shops the introduction of a new mangle e. Ail contributions the Workers In- Relief, Roc 604, 1). cae Maar York: € that lets one man do the work ten . ‘c . : were *doing before is one cause of Sidetéack “Investigation.” joblessness. The silk mills of Pater- ee ON Wee on mpe $08 are cutting out the night shift. In the dye shops, things are even worse, because not only is the two shift system being changed to one shift, but the speed-up is almost beyond endurance, and workers lose their jobs because the others have committee the proposed conditions in o the federal The vote was six senate manufa voted today to refe investigation o be the textile indus trade commission. ae . to work so fast they do the tasks Osis wilt meet again without the use of as many men as tomorrow to 1 minor changes formerly. = in the wording the resolution. Chairman La Follette said the reso- lution probably will be reported to! the senate at that time. The manufactures committee heard officials of the strikebreaking National Textile Workers Union, and officials of the employer cor- porations but when a delegation of Gastonia strikers arrived two weeks ago to testify as to the actual con- “The employers are taking ad- vantage of the vated thousand un- employed, and have started a drastic} wage cutting campaign. Reductions of from 15 to 20 per cent are com- | mon. workers by this menacing attack by the employers upon their wages and jobs will be carefully considered at! the convention Sunday, and plans Committee, Languag ‘District Organizers, Members of the Central e Bureau Secretaries and Editors of Party Papers Endorse Address of the Comintern, (Continued fr of the Party and made it impo: fectively its revolutionary tasks. whatsoever the leadership and a' rom Page One) le for the Party to carry out ef- I accept without any reservation uthority of the Communist Inter- national.—Cyril Briggs, New York City. URGES AN END T [0 FACTION ALISM. The “Arbeiter” welcomes wholeheartedly the Comintern letter and pledges its unreserved help in carrying out the policies outlined in the letter. very beginning must cease. Our spite of its shortcomings. She w all Party members will cast awa Factionalism which has pervaded our Party from its Party has done splendid work in ill achieve much greater results if y their factional way of thinking, and united in a real Bolshevik spirit work to make our Party a political mass-party of the Amer! instrument in our fight against ican working class as an effective all counter-revolutionist tendencies of the opportunists and pseudo-radical demagogues, against the im- perialist war danger, and for the protection of the Soviet Union against capitalists’ attacks, Down with factionalism for all time! For a political mass- party of the working class by working on the line of the Comintern letter.—Theodore Berner, editor o' f the “Arbeiter,” New York. MILLER URGES CARRYING OUT OF LETTER. As a loyal member of the Communist International, I accept and will support fully the decisions o! of our international party. dorse and carry out full f the ECCI, the highest authority I urge every loyal Party member to en- the letter of the ECCI. Let us bend every effort to correct our errors, to eliminate factionalism, to unite our Party and lay the basis for a m: ass Communist Party in America under the leadership of the Communist International.—Bert Miller, Organization Secretary, District 2 (Note: Ben Lifshitz, Acting (New York). District Organizer, now in prison, has already voted as a member of the Political Committee for the unanimous decision to accept and endorse the Comintern Letter.) SENATE TABLES POWER CHARGE to Attorney General WASHINGTON, May 23. — The ditions in the southern textile mills, the committee hurriedly adjourned, and did not resume sessions until over a week later, after the strikers for organization and struggle worked senate tabled a resolution introduced out to meet the bosses’ assault.” jtcday that the attorney general be To Elect Officials. given evidence of the widespread CANTER LIBEL TRIAL OPENS All of the problems raised for the| Won’tSendInformation Judge Tries to Evade Sacco Issue (Continued from Page One) by confining the case to purely tech- nical grounds, Judge Raymond or- dered the jury out during Thomp- SW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929 BLAME STRIKERS | FOR THUG’S ACTS Members of the Reserve Officers Before Chancellor Corps —- a military (Continued from Page One) jay at Ford- wage incres i better condi- lege military field This is the second time the U. '. | days are part of |W. has struck a dastardly blow ut the preparations |the Elizabethton strikers, In, the for the coming im- previous strike, over two months ago, U. T. W. officials stepped into a spontaneous strike situation, told the workers they would fix every-| thing up with the bosse cured a compromise by which the employes were to start work, and| the cmployers made some promises | to stop the speed-up and improve wages and conditions in the future, which were never carried oui. The workers again went out spontaneous strike, The U. 1 tried to postpone the second str’ and, when it started, made ceaseless efforts to sell it out. The U, T. W’s latest grand stand play was to invite Senators Burton, Wheeler and LaFollette to address the strikers and tell them to behave and go back to work. The U. T. W. persisted in these tactics, but got scant results from the workers, who were m in W. | tantly mass picketing against a most severe terror, in which sev- eral companies of militia were bombing and bayonetting them, and in which many arrests were made. | il owners’ gunmen were terroriz- g strikers and blowing up their houses. They blew up the water mains and deprived the strikers of water for 24 hours. | Finally Kelley has seized the op-! portunity to officially declare the ke over, .The militant groups among the textile strikers here are agitating for the repudiation of the U. T. W., and the continuance of an active strike. Green Also Betrayed Them. President Green of the American Federation of Labor several days ago stabbed the Elizabethton strik- ers in the back with a statement to the press that they were resorting to violence, and disassociating him- self from their tactics. The only volence done in Elizabethton was by the militia, deputies and bosses’ gunmen. Fifty-two sjrikers are on trial for | violation, in the present strike, of the injunction granted against pick cling during the previous strike. Evidence was heard in the case of 13 of them last week, and 39 more | are being lied about and slandered | by scabs and mill bosses today, One boss, Adam Groghanz, of the Glanz- off spinning plant, after giving | his direct testimony, evaded answer- ing questicns on cross-examination | by pretending not to understand English, and the court let him get away with it. The hearing is before Chanceilor S. F. Miller. * * | * Good Approves Militia. | jin various re Walker “Investi 1 For many years the Long Isla Tam grade crossings. tigate”, but the Mayor Walk de crossing. grade crossings g gates” Grade y and the republicans alike to murde Periodically the city officials pretend to - making a bluff at such an But the grade crossings will remain. FIGHT DRIVE ON "FOREIGN-BORN LL.D. Starts Campaign for Funds To gather funds for its fight againét the government’s drive on the foreignborn, the International Labor Defense has issued coupon books containing $4 in 10 cent and 25 cent coupons. The campaign for \ funds is also being conducted in con- |nection with the campaign for the Southern textile workers. | One of the most outstanding cases lof the persecution of foreign-born workers now being handled by the |. L. D, is that of John Tapolesanyi, a Hungarian worker of Herminie, |Pa., who after being a citizen for |nine years, has had his citizenship |papers revoked because of member- ship in the Communist Party. The I. L. D. is fighting to prevent Tapol- esanyi’s deportation to fascist Hun- gary. In Arizona the authorities have started a series of Red raids and five foreign-born workers, guilty of no crime except devotion to their class, are now in danger of being de- ported to fascist European countries, Crossings nd Railway has been permitted by people thru its open “inves- Photo shows Tammany “investigation” at a Queens remai. HOLD “FRISCO” T.ULEL. MEET Right Wing Splitters Rebuffed N FRANCISCO, Calif. May 23,—Sixty delegates, representing new unions, groups of unorganized workers, and left wing minorities | participated at the. Trade Union Educational League Conference held last Sunday, where delegates were elected to the Trade Union Unity Convention in Cleveland, O. and also a State Committee for the further carrying on of the work in this im-| portant industrial state of the West. Shop Committees and groups of| unorganized workers from large fac- tories elected delegates, including | the Columbia steel-mill of Pitts- burgh, employing over 4000 workers, the shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad, employing 2000 and 1500 and the large Pullman shop | of Richmond. The local of the Auto Workers Union organized in the Oakland Chevrolet factory sent three | delegates, also the Japonese Printers | Union, the Oakland Newsboys Union and the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union of San Francisco, | Negro, Foreign-Born Workers. Twenty Trade Union Educational League or left wing minority groups actionary unions were | represented, also three committees | of agricultural workers and a group of Chinese workers employed in a packing house. A real cross-section of the state’s population, coming from about ten different cities, there | worke} that California, All workers and sympathizers are urged to secure the I. L. D. coupon books and to collect funds for the defense of the foreign-born. They may be secured from I. L, D. locals thruout the country or from the na- tional office, 80 E. 11th St, Room 402, New York City. less than 50 people. It is certain, an important in- dustrial state, will have a good left wing movement, with especial at- tention to the organization of the unorganized. The group of splitters, headed by the right wingers Levin, Glikson and | Manus, who after vainly trying to! organize a dual T. U. E. L., attended | Injunction Against the Conference and tried to disrupt Mill Strikers in Ill it, to break it up, displaying a mili- tancy they have never shown yet at! ROCKFORD, Ill, (By Mail).— any A. F. of L. meeting or conven- Striking milk wagon drivers in tion. They were repudiated how-| Rockford are enjoined from “mol- ever by the large majority of dele-| esting or interfering” with strike- gates, who made it clear to these dis-| breakers under a drastic injunction credited people that no sabotage,| granted the dairy bosses. The no splitting tactics will be tolerated | strikers demand better wages and and any obstacle which may be in| conditions, The court is made the the way of the building of the left| sole judge of what constitutes “in- wing movement will be removed, | terference” under the injunction, “LAST DAY! He —“A picture one should not fail to see.” —DAILY WORKER Dynamic! Vivid! Realistic! AS GOOD AS A TRIP TO RUSSIA! FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! OSCOW Nl TODAY A SOVKINO FILM A Penetrating Close-Up of the Seething Soviet Capital 2 comprehensive film-reecord of RE the D CAPITAL intimate aspects of life in Mos- cow, giving a vivid idea of conditions under which workers live conduct of official life of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics be- hind Kremlin Walls EMIL JANNINGS as HENRY the VIII A Brilliant Characterization. —and on the same program— WASHINGTON, May 23.—Seere- were Negro, Mexican, Japanese and tary of War Good stamped his of-| Chinese deelgates, together with ficial approval on the use of the | several women and young workers. in “DECEPTION” -Directed by Ernst Lubitsch FILM GUILD CINEMA son’s testimony. Thompson testified | National Guard of T-r~essee by the | Besides the four. main reports on The reports to the convention will | Corruption of the press by the power be by Albert Weisbord, for the Na- |tional Textile Workers Union of which he is national secretary; by Martin Russak, for the Paterson ter- ritory; and by Gus Deak for Pas- saic. had returned to the pic lines away. n is no where shunted | it will not bother the senate which is going to take a month’s r beginning June 1, then reconvene for a short session and adjourn. * te delegates to the Trade Union Unity) Convention in Cleveland. The Pater-| son locals are holding a mass meet-| Assail Brutality. WEST ALLIS, V @ mass meeting of t West Allis, Wis., the following reso- lution was adopted: “Whereas, it is reported by the press, that great ma of textile ‘workers in the s of North Caro- lina, went out on ike for better pay, shorter hours, better working conditions and it also has been re- ported, that masked bands, aided by WITH ARCHBISHOP: local authorities, have denied them free speech and assemblage, and | otherwise terrorized and~ beaten | helpless men, women and children,|10 Agree with Fascist so be it resolved: that we protest | Church Shortly most vigorously against these out-| Tages, and call upon the governor MEXICO CITL, May 23. rent bishop Leopold Ruiz E Flores of gates will be chosen to go to Cleve-| land, | of North Carolina to punish every individual gdilty of misconduct, re- gardless of his or her social stand- ing.” In Bank Scandal Mexico City, on the invitation of | Portes Gil, provisional president, to hold negotiations for an agreement | | Press. trust. Senator Fess saved the at- torney general, at least temporarily, from the embarrassment of going through even a fake attack on the Inull and Mellon interests by mov- ing that action be postponed until tcmorrow. This gives the leaders The textile workers are sending|, chance to confer with the right; the stand. people and work out a policy. The hearings on the control of ‘3 jcertain newspafiers by the power | murder, but t! ing next week from which 3 dele-| combines will be reopened tomor- | Tesponsible” row, One case brought up is ex- pected to be that of the Utica Daily A letter was read in the senate stating that “William E. Lewis, a director of the Mohawk Hudson Power Corporation, is a large stockholder in the Utica Daily Press.” C. B. Rodgers, another di- rector, is executor of the will of an- other large stockholder in the paper, according to Norris’ in- formant. This informant attributed to | Lewis “a large bearing on the man- |will be difficulties in getting Ful-| agement” of the paper. There were also read reports of change of ownership of the Mexico, who was deported in 1927|Ranger (Tex.) Times, and the al-| “Public o jon the pressure brought to bear by |leged holding of a stock interest in |rallied to the local capitalist press|Mine Workers of America have is-| the workers, will soon return to|this paper by the general manager |to shield Fuller who is believed to|sued a bulletin to the rank and file) of the Oil Belt Company, serving West Texas, for three hours, reopening the ehtire |American Bemberg cad American |the problems of the Trade Union | Sacco-Vanzetti case. He described Glanzstoff corporations of Eliza-| Educational League, the Interna- | his dealings with Fuller and revealed |bethton to bayonet, gas, beat up, tional relations, the organization of many startling facts, all of which shoot at and arrest the pickets there, | the unorgani d and the left wing will go on the records as a basis ard to scour the country to recruit | work, there were about 20 delegates for an appeal. scabs for the mills. |taking the floor, discussing and | Following Thompson, Canter took! He did this after one of the weak- | supplementing the reports in the He declared that the/est gestures in the way of an in- light of their special problems. Nine | placard he carried indicated, not that | vestigation ever made, saying to- | delegates were elected to the Cleve- | |Fuller had actually performed, the day that “Volunteer information \land Convention, together with a| hat he was “morally from an unofficial source has satis- ; State Committee of 25 members. | for this monstrous fied me that the Tennessee National This Conference is a great accom- | crime against the working class. \Guard is not being unlawfully em-|plishment for tho left wing, es- Other defense witnesses who took|Ployed in the Elizabethton strike | pecially because nothing was done | the stand today were Robert L.|@rea. | during the past years for the build- O’Brien, former editor of the Bos-| “I am told the National Guard | ing of the T. U. E. L. with the pos- ton Herald, and John Moors. was called out in the regular way | sible exception of a dance held on The defense argument will be con. and that whatever duties it has per- | New Year's Eve, called in the name tinued tomorrow when. additional |formed have been under the direc- of the T. U. E. L., but attended by witnesses will be called, including |tion of the governor,” Good said. | = Albert Bosco, editor of “Lanotizia,”|“My information is that the guard May Frame Him Up James Mede, who engineered the activities are legal.” Bridgewater holdup for which Van- | | zetti was given 15 years, and Fuller 1 i | himself. It is expected that there SUE Bete oe... | ’ Meetings Forbidden | Dy arctan z WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 23.—| pinion” is already being | Officials of District 1 of the United) ‘ler, who for so many months dodged the defense subpoena, to appear on | the stand, have. been the real instigator of the members of the union warning them \ecriminal libel trial. The Interna- against holding meetings expressing |tional Labor Defense is replying to|their general grievances. | 52 W. 8th St. Gustwes) Spring 5095 Cont, Daily, incl. Sat. & Sun. Noon to Midnite SPECIAL PRICES Saturday and Sunday ... 12 to 2---35 cents Weekdays oo... esc eeeees 12 to 2---35 cents age mam Starting Tomorrow (Sat.): “PAWNS OF DESTINY”—a tense, poignant drama of a woman caught in the web of the Russian Revolution; featuring OLGA CHEICOVA, the noted emotional artiate ‘directios Symon SEND the Daily Worker ¥ to a Striker ® HOUSANDS of workers on strike desire to receive the DAILY WorkKER, but we are not in a financial position to send it Although we send thou- sands daily—it is insuf- ficient to cover the de- with the fascist vatican. The newspaper Excelsior, sup- Van Sweringens and pressed at one time for its clerical) Rivals to Take Fight and anti-government _ tendencies, | \this by launching a mass campaign \that will force the reopening of the entire Sacco-Vanzetti case and the ‘smashing of the attempts to railroad mand. Even these bund- les we will be compelled to discontinue less publishes this announcement in a} prominent place. The same newspaper says thet! Ruiz had been conducting negotia-| tions in the name of the pope with Gil. The “good offices” offered by | the Yankee state department and its ambassador Morrow, have been made use of. ] Ruiz, who has been conferring ‘with a delegate from the vatican in| Washington, is due in Mexico City) shortly. | * * # MEXICO CITY, May 23. — Four thousand were killed and 11,000 wounded in the Mexican rebellion starting March 4, according to war| department figures made public to- day. ‘Newmarket, N. H., Mill fay in which his name figured Strikers Stay Solid prominently in the Moreland Act) NEW MARKET, N. H,, (By} “investigation” into the recent fail-| Mail).—Only 30 workers returned ure of the City Trust Co., Frank|to work out of 800 who struck some H. Warder (akove), former N. Y.\time ago, when the Newmarket | State Supt. of Banks, refused to|Manufacturing Co.’s cotton and silk After listening to testimony Mon- to LC.C. on June 5 WASHINGTON, May 23.—The battle between the Van Sweringens and C. F, Taplin for control of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad will be renewed June 5 before the Interstate Commerce Commission. On that date, the commission will hear arguments supporting and op- posing petitions of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, a Van Sweringen road, for permission to acquire control of the Wheeling and Lake Erie. A rival petition has been filed by the Pittsburgh and West Virginia, a Taplin property. The Van Sweringens have been repeatedly refused the right to form mergers by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Other and rival rail- road companies, with more influ- ence, evidently, in Washington go ahead with the most widespread combinations of theoretically com- peting roads with the blessings of the commission on their work. There is a rumor on the New York market that the Van Sweringens have re- cently come to an agreement with testify. He is charged with irregu-| mills were reopened. ‘The strike larities in connection with the bank|was called 10 weeks ago against wash, 15 per cent cut in wages. ~~ — the Morgan-Mellon group, and this ‘is said to be what they are now! relying on to get their plans across, | Photo shows the steam-fitter, B.! | Boggs, who had repaired a steam pipe before the disaster which killed For a Six-Hour Day for Under- | 125 in the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. ground Work, in Dangerous Occu- | In whitewashing the hospital and pations, and for the Youth Under | city officials, a hint has been made 18! that Boggs may be made the goat. The Same Address Over 75 Years 1929 K amg 185? ETROPOLITAN SAVINGS BAN ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits made on or before the 3rd day of the month will draw interest from Ist day of the mt Last Quarterly Dividend pai 1 on all amounts from $5.00, Vf, Y to $7,500.00, at the rate of 2 0 ical Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Banking by Mail, Society Accounts Accepted We Sell A. B. A. Travelers Certified Checks AVE. Co iit This does not mean that this is the first time rank and files have | been forbidden to hold grievance | meetings, for such action was taken | | Canter. by the misleaders long ago. The| | "Ait ee cane present action of the Lewis ideal | Hi \comes as a result of the fight be-| |Workers Hit White |tween, the ruling Boylan gang and| Terror in Japan at — Rinaldo Cappellini, also a reaction- | < lary. The latter and his henchmen) San Fr ‘ancisco Meet have been calling ‘general grievance’ | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (By Mail) (pera: to foster their own ambi- | Many Japanese workers were among | y the hundreds who attended a meet- ing called by the International La- bor Defense here at Kimmon Hall to protest against the white terror workers’ organizations in Japan. An |interesting feature of the evening |was the exhibition of revolutionary posters drawn by Japanese Commu- | nists. Kanamatsu Miura, (a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904), and E. Gardos, district organizer of |the Communist Party, expressed the solidarity of workers of imperialist countries and called for a united struggle against the common im- perialist enemy, They urged work for a successful anti-imperialist con- ference to be held here in the near future, “Build a powerful move- ment among the Oriental workers” was the message stressed by every ‘speaker, aig be, aid is forthcoming. The DAILY WORKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. In addition to re- lief send them the or- gan of class struggle. VVVGVVVVVVVVY DAILY WORKER 26 UNION SQUARE New York CITY Enclosed find §...........to0 be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers in various sections of the country. oo Fiat cas Name ....... Address . City Lik LOO gtats cei eee hl ll tle i 4