The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION aily — Vol. VI., No. 67 New York City, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Sau N. ¥- CONGRESS OPENS WAY FOR HOOVER CONSCRIPT ACTS Allow No “Amendments on Tariff; Vote Soon; Opposition Smashed War Bills to Come Next No Support for Motion | to Probe Mergers WASHINGTON, May 24.—Con- Rion Mussolini Prepares for Coming Imperialist War (OE Photo shows the Undine flying field in Italy, scene of recent air maneuvers of the Italian fascist air | Traitor Who Promised | to Lead 20 Back Is | Laughing Stock More Evicted Need Aid Senators in New Move Avoid Hearing Facts (Special to the Daily Worker) A000 BUILDING WORKERS 10 GET ° TUEL STATEMENT "Lifshitz, ‘Held. in Jail | GASTONIA BOSS RUSH THROUGH CANTER CRIMINAL LIBEL gj PLAN TO BRIBE TRIAL, RULING OUT ALL SACCO-VANZETTI STRIKERS FAILS” EVIDENCE; JURY GIVES VERDICT MONDAY KEEP FULLER OFF WITNESS STAND BY ‘LEGAL’ TRICK ee eee up ie legislation) aaa ta aranaration for the coming imperialist war. GASTONIA, N. C., May 24.—The Program ‘Calls for a Judge Again Aids the to get recess during the month of sdateiabiionls soe |Manville-Jenckes Co. drive to break General Strike | Prosecution: © 1S Jone, and leave everything open fo liiteenlassa thor Lore) Mil iy Esai ae mows e rushing through of President drawing back some of the leading Riv $6 buildi iclous Frejuaice / Hoover's inspired legislation for WORKERS DEMONSTRATE. TODAY IN UNION SQUARE istrkers. has proven a flat. failure. SUG MORE EG) JON Ss j complete conscription of man power he mill had promised a select |trades workers will today re- and centralization of industries dur- ing the coming imperialist war, By a vote of 234 to 188, over- AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY AND MASS ARRESTS! Vee of strikers their old jobs back, better houses and a slight increase 8 /in pay. ‘The strikers’ answer to the zeive a statement issued by the Building Trades Section of the LL.D. Prepares Appeal ; : : Defense Testimony Is riding Bio a of Garey anc ees ae : | mill bribes was that if the Manville-/Trade Union Educational Beeladed 2 nts, who need their op- | Jenckes Co. was willing to increase | ro shicl ; pre on record becatise of the “Struggle Continues,” Thousands of New York workers |e ea a ane other temas to |e eeene which exposes the new “at temper of the voters at home, the 1 ae have felt the heavy night stick a te -eeseenes ie Bett S bitration” conspiracy between the (Spach te the Daily Worker) house of representatives today by HeOte Fahne Blazes as) MOEN of the Tammany Hall police will fer) it should be referred to the \posses and the building trades| & vote of 234 to 138 ruled that no | amendments to the tariff bill other than these of the ways and means committee would be allowed, and the ‘It Resumes Publication (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BERLIN, May 24:—The “Rote _ STRIKEBREAKING | strike committee of the National gather in Union Square today at) 1:30 to protest the brutality in strikes of Walker and Whalen’s “cossacks,” the police assault on| A traitor to the workers, who had promised to deliver the 20 most in- |union misleaders. It develops a program of organ- ization and a course of activity lead- ing to a general strike in the near Benjamin Lifshitz, acting district BOSTON, Mass., May 24.—With the trial rushed through and with Judge Robert Raymon using every device to hamstring he defense, the eC d |fluential strikers to the mill, has 2 organizer of District 2 of the Com-|case of Harry J. Canter, Boston tinal vote on the bill would be taken Fahne,” official organ of the Com- cy snd eee ca ae ay: been refused a job by the Manville |" ' munist Party was given a $0-day| printer and active Communist, who May 28 at 3 p. m. munist Party of Germany, appear- F'0Od Workers to Join es ey wey te eee ae te ting |Jenckes Co. following the complete | Warns Workers. sentence after being arrested for @ is charged with criminally libelling Another hopeless deadlock over ed today after three weeks’ pro- ID tr tion Toda workers chi Laeger ier ROIGUNe of his glans He da howe Pointing out that “the workers |sign on headquarters exposing |former Governor Alvan T. Fuller, the debenture clause of the farm re- hibition with the leading article e€MOnStra Y | of aauneaone strike breaking |jaughing stock among the workers, |have always been sold out when ar-| Walker and Whalen’s police brutal-| went to the jury in Suffolk Superioe Lief bill was reached today by the on the front page entitled, “Strug- aoe AWS REQnS | ino ine) CAretene) |who are more determined than ever |hitration has been resorted to by ity. Tammany officials are putting Criminal Court at 12:40 p. m. to- committees of theghouse and senate gle Continues.” hes Teas Uaioe wie Gles alae a ter eres Commu-|to continue on strike. Many of them the unicn officials,” the statement ,every obstacle in the way of bond-\qay. At 3 o'clock the jury was still when they held their fourth meet- The article declared that the League group in Local Ea le noone munnice. 2 gage UOT state that if the mill is willing to |declares that “principles cannot be |ing him out in time to speak at the|oyt and the court adjourned until : 4 aa ¥ H ry Bakers’ Union yesterday announced |nist Party issued a statement thor- i [ce ” S e |great mass meeting today in Union| 5 ing en the plan which is strongly effort of Zorgiebel, social-demo- ear h 1 fa oli hly exposing Commissioner of |imcrease the wages of some of the |arbitrated.” As evidence of the |g mass ing today in {Monday morning when a sealed ver- opposed by President Hoover and | cratic police president of Berlin, (‘hey have passed a strong resolu: | oughly exposing |workers in an attempt to break the |‘reachery of the union officials, the Square, New York, where masses of ‘dict is expected, The International Wiad tion of condemnation of the reac-| Police Whalen for his weasel-like , : i : guts ‘di workers will demonstrate against the house. to gag the workers by prohibiting oa ; * ing |Strike, it can raise the wages of all |statement charges that the building Ke D 9 Labor Defense, which is defending . « ” tionary officials of the American/}declaration to the press, following " ie Ks ‘i é h the. Tammany police brutality in| . It is well known here that the the “Rote Fahne,” was unsuccess- é és zt Swe ‘ . ,.|the workers. trades “leaders” have submitted the Y Pp Canter, is being represented by Federation of Labor for their strike-|a visit from a committee of law- : - Lifsh deadlock is very welcome to most ful because the workers immedi- | fi eae a Rac, * 4 5 | More Evictions. | question of the sympathetic strike, ikes, the arrest of Lifshitz, and) aythur Garfield Hays and Harry 3 z t% a «| breaking activities in the cafeteria}yers, in which Whalen blandly de-| " : _ i ixture the arrest and beating of Young} of the congressmen, who otherwise | ately published the illegal substi- | °°” ‘kers’ strike and demanded a stop|nied that the police wantonly beat| The eviction campaign has again |the use of non-union made fixtures, th A i] Hoffman. would have to take immediate re-| tute organ “Rote Sturmfahne” | Ons! © ah (alles ae tie eee tae reneees LRSue the day by day |Started. Vicious tactics are being | etc, to arbitration, following the ie Shion pratestedl thei temounl em arr: s1oenta openediventarn a sponsibility before their farmer) (Red Storm Flag). Despite Zor- 7 Pood" expulsions of progressive |evidence recks with their bloody as-(Ued against the strikers being |lockout threat of the hosses. Te ee after many delays, has attracted voters for perpetrating farm legis- | gicbel and the social democrats | ior, ae support the food | saults on pickets in the present food |¢Victed. During the absence of J.| This sell-out must be resisted by! ~ |wide attention and aroused great lation which, with or without de- the workers are rallying more and [01 0°75, We eas held at strike Whelan wae tyne be this |C: Dorsey his door jwas broken in|the building trades workers, the | indignation among thousands of beuties/ sau only hers winds (on'| More te she nea the Workers Club, 154 Watkins St.,| slippery tactic to head off the mass |9Nd his furniture removed. He has |statement urges. “Vote against ar- workers in this section. Canter is the dirt farm and of “The Rote Fahne will continue Wednesday. xs | demonstration today. In no knowledge whcre it was taken. |bitration in your local union! The being charged with criminal libel only to landlords, commission mer- the struggle as the mouthpiece of x é : hee The Workers International Relief |decision of the Building Trades for having carried a placard: “Ful- '.~ chants ond exporters of grain, the revolutionary proletariat until, These workers, and others, includ- Lifshitz Still Jailed. |tent: colony is near completion. The | Council should be rejected!” ler—Murderer of Sacco and Van- 2 Whake! “Conte Want Tt: capitalism and social democracy i" t cking preparations to parti,|,.And Benjamin Lifshitz, acting |floors are being laid and the strikers | Gacetal’ Abalvais zetti,” in an election campaign dem- t Sab & | will be finally defeated,” the Rote #™ Making prepi Ly district organizer of District 2 of|are expected to move in shortly. One | : rigs % : nstration of the Communist Party 3 tands 4 t cA C the demonst i r lysis of y be, Reuse committee stands * to.) Fahne declares, cipate tomorrow in the demonstra-the Communist Party, arrested in|of the streets has been named| After presenting an analysis 0 = cutalde/Ahe’ Boston grate Hause ake Hee D the hose fora vote, while | The article coneluded with an | sion asainst police brutality and in |the attack on the Workers Center,|“Uhion St.” and the other “Workers | the industry, especially as it affects yy efyReactionaryUnion November 3. , igen cata Teles pre , d rage ta still lies in jail, deprived by artifi-|International Relief St.” jthousands of unorganized workers, ; athe senate committee stands 3 to 2, appeal to recruit new readers. | GF the Workers. Center last Satur-|°:) Yégal ‘technicalities, put- up’ by| Proof of Solidarity. |and following a complete recital of Order to Surrender Fuller Shielded. 3 oe i on agreeing to recede from the de- day, with its accompanying beat-|p.many, of his right to be released| The construction of the tent col-|the repeated betrayals of the union Aided by every conceivable “legal benture plan, provided house oon SCORES BONEHEAD SCHOOL | ing and arrest of | ea alese Adina during appeal of the case./ony has deeply impressed the tex- bureaucrats, the statement presents NASHVILLE, enn May 24.— device, Fuller succeeded in dodging Sereed aero wo veeee it iced ttn) BOARDS. and arrest of Benjamin Lifshitz, or-) particularly the workers of the|tile workers in the other mills in| (Continued on Page Three) | Girl strikers from the Elizabethton |the efforts of the defense to put him - _ house, where it faces certain defeat. | >. vam N. J, May 24-—Thom-| £2mizer of District 2 of the Commu-| ititant unions, whose members| this region who see that the work- | rayon mills will picket the gover.|0® the stand despite the fact that BE Bia chet ractites Leanes Hoane |a8 A, Edizontafloudly enuigunted in| ose have faced the police terror in many|ing class solidarity expressed| | yy aqyypg HIT IN EPIDEMIC. | nor's mansion here tomorrow in the |e had been subpoenaed. According 4 the secret mectings because house ee pau ee tie belahitant bow Cable From Moscow Union. hard fought strikes, the food,| Oi ese ted Ty on Page Two) LONDON, May 24—Joh b interests of their strike. to reports Fuller is resting at his conferses want to avoid a direct vote | © Thi » i in The following cablé was today re-/ needle trades, shoe and other unions | Oa ataeee st te AltuoughiGavernoe Haxtoniemiled (Chea ye Beeck, N--H,, andiis a (Continued ov. Page Two) in the United States,” is a dud, in) ! - dispatches to the London Daily thoug! (Continued on Page Five) ee esses the opinion of Harold §, Laity,| ceived from the headquarters of the and such workers organizations as | Telegraph today said 14 Europeans /and said he “would not object to} Is ¥ * : psychologist and member of the Catering Workers’ Union in Mos-|the International Labor Defense, | | out of a total of 73 at Komatipoort, | orderly and lawful picketing at his See ap Show Race Solidarity fscuity of Carteret Academy. cow? Fete Union, eae Ges) Mozambigue frontier, died of mal. residence,” Horton’s attitude towards ity, j +, said) “Amalgamated Food Workers, 799 | Anti-Imperialist League, and others i black water fever recently | the strike can be seen from his con- e at New Harlem Labor Let y sis Savavatnere Eye en Y sity. will protest the assault last Satu jatia ‘end: black: water Z h by th ill . he believed the school boards of the Broadway, New York City. Le ate 7 : : and that practically every inhabitant | Sent to the use by the mill owners : Center Dance Tonight |\arisus states were incompetent to| “On behalf of 320,000 organized C2¥ When police of Whalen’s new lwas stricken. It was reported also of several companies of state ———_—— select the 49 boys under their juris- catering workers of the Union of Umiformed gunmen broke ranks and) that a widespread epidemic was Militia, deputized as sheriffs, but VEN SENTENCE t White and Negro workers ba diction most likely to have true Socialist Soviet Republics, please |e ie eee een sweeping Zululand. ' (Continued on Page Five) foe eae eeianze which | ree Sty. (Continued on Fage Five) | wWatker’s Police Brutality.” ‘The|Clubbed for ‘or Protesting s ‘I ‘ci = + Harl ting will denounce the beating : th Harlem meeting imination . , will officially open, the new Harle S tse te wenn ele ng Race Discrim e nion ares ypocri y ‘Three Others Freed on mB cathe’ event will be the: fist ate arty Unctionaries Support vue Toner, “win soliowed| parppson Nod, May 24 Mage Peessate @ © regular Saturday night series of jwhen the Pioneers demonstrated Seventeen ‘workers, including women hl “Ot a a” ere face a the new cme. The Hare (7 tern Address Fully omen 23 set tian wer tony fn of Schlesinger on “Stoppage” lem Labor Center has “secured a omin ern y and against un arrest of Lifshitz cack at the local police station on —— ae ee BERLIN, May 24.—The Berlin- Piano, and will have a professiona loeeae eee re a charge of “blocking the sidewal : > . Neukoelln cour terday acquitte: _orehestra_on hand ever Saturday ‘Additional statements received from district organizers of the [8% 8 | in connection with a demonstration | Real Strike to Be Workers’ Reply; Union Urges jee oie workers whe were ac- night. The up-to-date kitchen 0m Communist Party, members of the Central Committee, Language | Commaniet Brstement: outside the Rivoli Theatre, Main) Members to Join Union Sq. Protest Today cused of participating in the May the premises will be used to prepare Fs veay secretaries and editors of Party publications accepting and In the statement oie any 3 zeae eee Cretan SEREERC| |Day disturbances, refreshments. \ ri h f th ist International to the Com- | the Communist Party of the discrimination practiced against Ne- Sighdl thsi ; ; peme ' LE Whe: evidanes showed: thatsthe r Every effort will be made to make | Siloesing thes taeeas oft ie eld |Commissioner Grover Whalen’s hypo-| gro workers by the theatre manage- BULLETIN. ‘ enforee two points—the right of dis- ates sotitend ee honed thai k the new headquarters a real work- if |critical excuse regarding his present! ment, The original management’s| Rose Wortis of the Needle charge and of piece-work.” =| Be saaeiiies: snd calves sawed ers center by having as many work-| RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE SECTION campaign of police terror against) charge of “disorderly conduct” was) Workers Union and L. Smith, a | Surveying quickly Schlesinger’s "NV" Tolle teat abi the Guanes , \ing class organizations meet there BUREAU OF SECTION ONE, NEW YORK CITY. workers, is openly exposed. { dismissed— presumably in order to) dressmaker, were arrested late weasel” history in the struggles of |r peauissd Foe 4ue douse ga . y 7 tate } 5 “wh cket 1 th le trad kers, the Joint | “2@ W Pp as possible. At present, the follow- | The New York District Commu-! make conviction on the more spe-| yesterday ‘while on a picket line |the needle trades workers, the Joint | 7 aad nity gis 3 Py P istri v i | | Pp vented the prosecutor from present. iH ing organizations have agreed to use | The Section Bureau of Section One, District 2, New York City, | pist Party statement is in part as | cific charge easier. | before the shop of Weslau and Board Needle Workers Industrial Naslees aes pe wiandinie ue pis 10 | it: the National Office and Har- Communist Party of America, unreservedly endorses and accepts the — fojJows: | Stes pat aE Negro Wook | Jablonsky, 39 W. 35th St. Wortis Union statement exposes his hypoc- faeaniaie the’ acquittal of theewe ‘d lem branch of the American Negro! Comintern Address, and all decisions which may flow from it, printed “In the face of the fact that thous- as Pa Neg! he was held on a charge of “assault.” |cused without further proceadingn: Labor Congress, the Negro Workers | in the Daily Worker of May 20th, 1929. ~ (Continued cn Page Five) | Led by members of the Com-| Smith, who was cut in the neck | “In 1926,” the statement says, Fi i é: id Relief Committee, the Harlem Unit | The Section Bureau, while accepting the line contained in this munist Party, the Communist Youth by one of the gorillas of the I. L. “when the cloakmakers were cam: | a ac Ue trial, viene a ® of the Communist Youth League, Address, calls particular attention to the parts in the letter which League and the Young Pioneers as| G. W., was released after counter- ducting an heroic struggte against jeer Ww owas accused ol st npn Units A and 3 of Section Four, Dis- seyerely criticises both the former majority and minority groups and Conference of Muste part of the “Negro Week” campaign) charges were made against the the ‘ten per cent discharge’ that a ramway zm 2 eoioe hy oa is a trict Two, Communist Party, the | demands from the Party the immediate cessation of all factional ac- Fake “Pro ressives” launched by tie three organizations, | thug. Governor Smith’s Commission had | Vay, was sen' ced ‘d i = d r Crusader News Service, the Negro | tivities, Z 4 over 50 pickets had paraded the scl given to the manufacturers, Schles- (ape roar Fi beaten Wi Late i Champion and the Harlem Tenants | ‘The Bureau interprets this to mean that the basis is laid for the Begins Here Today theatre | at 8 o’clock last night car-| A statement exposing the brazen inger was connected with the Inter- \that the police had beaten Vierkorn. f, League. 1. Paeeeetn tinea ania unitied Party, with a unified leadership, made rying signs protesting against race|hypocrisy of the recent bombastic national Bank.” At that time, the | MUSICIA. NS CONCERT SUNDAY les; se the best and most proletarian ‘conitades in our Party. 4 A group of “progressive trade and class discrimination and calling |fake “appeal” addressed to aoe ao Board reminds the workers, | apaeaicn c pegeiecs pravigi ssi 10 ’t, Ce t r . isi i unionists” consisting for the most for solidarity between black and cloakmakers by Benjamin Schlesin- | Schlesinger argued that it was not; Many prominent soloists and ac- War Dep't, Cemen The Section Bureau accepts all decisions of our Central Commit’ | part of white-collared jobholders in| white workers, ger, president of the business firm | worth while to continue the strike |complished musicians will perform Firm Combine in War | ‘sc om ‘he Comintern Address. We pledge our utmost support to || nt wing organizations, will meet| In a few moments the demon-|which, goes under the name of the|“for that point.” at the gala concerts, arranged for d the Central Committee to uphold and carry out the Comintern line a4 ” O eh * ian La yi at a tw ference beginnin; were viciously attacked by | International Ladies Garment Work-| “He even tried to prove,” the the benefit of unemployed musicians, “J P ti Contest contained in the Addr a two-day con 3 i strators were ly : : d reparation baageucigstona bast ae , )this morning at the Labor Temple,| police, who swung their clubs sav-|crs Union, was issued last night by |statement continues, “that the point | to be held tomorrow, at 3 p. m. and Behe ‘ The Section Bureau urges all comrades of Section One to take 14th St. and Second Ave. (Continued on Page Two) the Joint Board of the Needle Work- sbout ‘right to discharge’ would at 8:30 p. m., at the Coliseum, E. a Commercial airports will have the action on the Address, to accept it wholeheartedly, to’ endorse the 1.14 tor th Sparey | ers Industrial Union. cven be useless for the workers and | 177th St., Bronx. The entire profits same military importance in the unanimous Central Committee decisions, to endorse the decisions of So URUSe Bae: auspices « OF ane “ 5 “ 7 nea 2h eoethe ant are to be turned over to the unem- 7 id i Age,” the conference is part of the + M | The “appeal” concerned the threat- for the union. rT United States as forts did in the the Section Bureau and help it carry them out. And we are con- 8°" | D Anti-Fascis' ass “ ” % ‘ Work ployed musicians who compose the +3 RE ona h i: activities of the Muste group, a fake ened fake “stoppage” of the I. fe As to Piece Work. 1a «19th century, in the event of war, fident that the whole membership of our Party will accept whole- 2’ A ; , phe ‘ G. W., being hatched by the com-| As to piece-work, the Joint Board | orchestra. hacnt a 3 ; i 5; liberal” outfit which, hiding behind eeting Postpone 3 in F. Trubee Davison, assis‘ aie th heartedly the Comintern Address and its decisions. Hiegte alo gatin 4a abeain tine to | pany union with the assistance of |points out that week work was ea a, tery of war for Raps eaes ie he The Bureau warns the comrades against interpreting this Ad- respectabilize tis reactionary A. F. For various reasons it was neces- the bosses in whose obvious interest established in the trade in 1919 un-| CZECHS TO TEACH ENGLISH. BA hee ee eee dress, either as a whole or any part of it, in a factional manner. Hels iakowemovertent? |sary to postpone the anti-fascist |it is to maintain this serviceable or-|der pressure of the workers and) PRAGUE, May 24.—The Czecho- ihe. competition is sponsored by The Section Bureau calls upon all comrades to get to work. With Speakers at the conferences will, mass meeting called for last night. ganization, against the will of Schlesinger and |slovakian ministry of education ze the Lehigh Portland Cement Com- | a unified Party, under the guidance of the Comintern and our Cen- include Norman Thomas, Louis Bu-|The Anti-Fascist Federation an- | Schlesinger’s Weasel Record. his clique. Until 1926 the cloak- | soon will order compulsory instrue- is vt oheh posted $10, 000 in prizes | tral Committee, we will march forward to new victories for our Party | denz, editor of “Labor Age,” and|nounces that it will hold its mass| In his “appeal,” Schlesinger, with makers worked by the week. Imme- | | tion in English in all secondary and od bi Y rotaats engineers and city| and the labor movement as a whole, and will build a strong mass |A. J. Muste, dean of Brookwood| meeting in the near future, date to|much show of tie irae We eH ae a ateike i henere [higher sehoc: 's, it was learned re- ke i | (Continued on Page Two) College. be announced, workers to “mobilize for a strike to ‘ontinued on Page Five, iably today. planners. ce = 2 ‘4 @ e er : Strengthen the Fight Against Walker’s Police Brutality Against Labor! ve w I t CO THOUSANDS TO PROTEST AGAINST THE MASS ARRESTS AND IMPRISONMENT OF STRIKING S Weert wonnens, turd May 25 at 1:30 m : CAFETERIA WORKERS, THE JAILING OF BEN LIFSHITZ AND YOUNG PIONEERS AND AGAINST atu ay, . p. ° WALKER’S REIGN OF POLICE TERROR! ame PRRIEE HNN A ‘ ads SPEAKERS: Ben Lifshitz, Robert Minor, Fred adios Louis . Engidakl, Harold Williams, ‘George Powers, § : A . Henry C. Rosemond, Michael Obermeier, and others, ~ , \ ) 4 ta.