The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS Vor a Workers-Farmers Governmex! To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. hy ‘The Co! Square, Published daily except Su Company, Inc., 26-28 Union New York City, mprodaily Publishing Nex: Outsid "SUBSCRIPTION RAT Ne’ In New York, by mail, $8.00 per Vol. VI., No. 68 MUSTE GROUP AS’ AF. OF L. AIDS TO. FIGHT NEW UNIONS: Lore and Salutsky Also | Link Up with Front Against Left Wing Communists Attacked, ae Air Liner Bursts Into Flames in Midair Bes N EW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1929 _ percemateeatic: | Nine passengers and the pilot had a narrow escape when their plane burst into flames in midair at Elko, Nev. Photo shows wreck of planc. is Socialist Traitors Seize Most Jobs | so-called Progressive Labor Action} adjourned yesterday evening at the| Ave., the original so-called “pro-| gressives” of $he Labor Age group! had practically liquidated cio DEBT CONFERENCE meager forces and turned over all Is socialist party, upholder of the poli- cies of the American Federation of As the con“erence came to a close, the namcs on the newly formed ex RE K cutive committee, indicated clearly the yellow socialist complexion of Real Militaney Attacked. Reich Wants Political This has clarified the ultimate weapon *~ainst the left wing work- PARIS, May 26.—The delega-, ers in their attempt to destroy the tion of German bankers and indus- in the American labor movement. ence continugd to refuse acceptance The conference which opened Sat- of the plan submitted by Owen D. porters were admitted, the Daily eleventh-hour opportunity to accept Worker representative was barred. the plan for shylocking the German wistful chidings of the A. F. of L.|clared a failure. and bitter denunciations of the ac-| Although some delegates have de- tional League and of the Communist /an agreement, are still continuing. Party of the U.S. A. There was no indication, however, The: siswyesecative committee lied imperialists would yield further composed ~f the following: on their terms. of the New Leader and socialist | Said to be the points of dispute: party candidate for ident in the! 1. Belgium’s separate claim for cialist candidate for president; |gian franc, caused by German de- James Oneal, editor of the New|flation of her currency during the of the socialist party in New Eng-| 2 The date on which the new land; Danci=, of the Young People’s reparations plans shall take effect. waithe, crganizer for the United last April, while the allies want the Colored Socialists of America; Leon- Present full Dawes plan payments ness manager of Labor Age; L: There was some talk of a two-year F, D-denz, editor of Labor Age, | moratorium being granted the al- When the two-day Conference for | Labor Temple, 14th St, and Second | their assets and liabilities to the| cer FACING COMPLETE the “new movement.” purpose of this group—to act as a Concessions power of the reactionary misleaders trialists to the reparations confer- urday morning, which capitalist re- Young tonight, but will have an The conference occupied itself with workers before the conference is de- tivities of *he Trade Union Educa- clared for a break, efforts to reach Socialists Rule Executive. that the delegates of the former al- Norman Thomas, associate editor, The following three points are last election; James H. Maurer, so-|indemnity for the slump in the Bel- Leader; Frank Manning, organizer) war. Socialist League; Frank Germany wants it retroactive to ard Bright, active social‘:t and bus:-|to continue until January 1, 1930. J. B. S. Hardman (Salutsky), lies: (Zoergiebel Again Bans ‘Rote Fahne in Attempt to Gag Reich Workers BERLIN, May 26.—The “Rote Fahne,” central organ of the Com- munist Party of Germany, has | again Been banned by Zoergiebel, | the social-democratic police presi- dent of Berlin, for denouncing the brutality of the police and the so- cial-democrat leaders against the workers in the May Dey demon- | strations. The Rote Fahne resumed pub- | lication under its own name on | Friday, after a 3-week prohibi- tion, and carried a leading article on the front page entitled, “The Struggle Continues,” in which i was stated that Zoergiebel’s tempt to gag the workers was un- successful, because the workers | immediately published the illegal substitute organ “Rote Sturm- fahne.” It further stated that the Rote Fahne would continue the struggle as the mouthpiece of the | revolutionary proletariat until | capitalism and social democraey will be finally defeated. Zoergiebel, evidently enraged at the ineffectiveness of his gag- ging attempt, tried gagging again yesterday with the ban against the Rote Fahne. The workers will again know how to answer Zoer- | giehel’s attack. NANKING PLEADS “RED DANGER | ‘Transfer Body of Sun editor of “The Advance,” of.|. 3- The amount of reparations aug ficial organ of the Amalga- from succession states, such as | 7 mated Clothing Workers of mania, Jugo-Slavia_ and others) eapeen cielo UE Is ae ul an | seauired: former Geren ‘|. SHANGHAT) “May _26-—Calling archo-syndicalist I. W. W., who help- Feng Yu-hsiang, powerful rival war a split the organization in 1924, | ; a | lord, a “dangerous radical supported y joining a new mov-:aent which || AxecutiveCommittees | by Moscow,” Chiang Kai-shek, head | was led ly government stool-pigeons, and now editor of the “ithograph- ers’ Journal; A. 7. Muste, dean of Brookwood Labor College, Carl Holderman, of the Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Abr: ham Lefkowitz ar‘ Henry R. Lin- ville of the Teacehrs’ Union; Isreal Mufson of the Philadelphia Labor College; A. J, Kennedy, A. Vance, Nathaniel Spector, Walter Wilson, L. Morris, Leonard Czsig, former ec ‘onal directc> of the Pennsyl- vania State Federation of Labor, and J. Schwartz. Professionals Vote Selves Labor. | The most significant aspect of the “membership basis,” adopted substantiates the view that the so- ‘cialists had taken over the confer- ence is seen in-the fact that a de-| cision was made “that the socialist | of Needle Union in, Vital Meet Tonight One of the most important meetings called by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union in many weeks will be held to- night when the Executive Com- mittees of all cloak, dress and fur locals gather at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., imme- diately after work. .The meeting is called for the purpose of mob- ilizing for the general strike in the fur trade. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer, and Louis Hyman, president of the Industrial Union, will speak. . Another highly important meet- ing will be held tomorrow night, , also at Manhattan Lyceum, when | a general membership meeting of of the Nanking regime, published what are purported to be documents showing that the Soviet Government was supporting Feng. The raising of the cry of “Red” is aimed at in- |suring greater imperialist support. These documents broadcast by the Kuomintang news service, are sup- posed to give Feng’s plan of at- tack which is to be on two fronts, | one against Peking and Tientsin and the other against Nanking. They are supposed to show, according to |Chiang, that Michael Borodin, for- |mer adviser to the forces of the | Chinese revolution before it was be- trayed by Chiang, was to return to |China to advise Feng, that “Mos- cow” will supply ammunition and lother supplies. According to the Nanking release, these documents were kept secret’until the split had become inevitable. party is a labor organization.” | dressmakers is held, The work- ers will hear a report of the dress department, and also help in the mobilization drive of the furriers. In view of the fact that the so-| cialist party ~* present is clearly a} middle-class organization, it is ob- vious thet the new group will by no (Continued on Page Five) Bedacht, Foster, Bittleman Urge Support of Address Additional statements received from Comrades Bedacht, Foster and Bittleman as well as from additional district organizers of the Com- .munist 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 Communist Party of the | United States follow: EXECUTE DECISIONS LOYALLY, SAYS BEDACHT. “The decision of the Communist International has been made. Although some memberrs of the United States delegation have opposed the decisions of the Comintern, 1 emphatically believe that the de- cisions of the Communist International must be executed loyally. The address to the membership Party from the Communist International must be published fortwhith.”—Max Bedacht. APPEAL BY FOSTER AND BITTLEMAN. The full text of the appeal issued by Comrades Foster and Bittel- man follows: ‘ “To Comrades of the Minority: To All Members of the United States Section of the Comintern: , “We, Minority Party Delegation have declared before the Com- munist International our unreserved acceptance of the Comintern decision on the American question and have pledged unconditional execution of the decisions. We now appeal to you to do likewise. “All Party delegates have had sufficient opportunity to present and defend their points of view before the Communist International. The decision was finally rendered after an exhaustive study of the question. The decision constitutes a powerful instrument for struggle against the Continued cn Page Five) \ While Feng is reported to be mob- ilizing his troops and Chiang send- | (Continued on Page Two) ALF. L COUNCIL -ATWAR ACADEMY bees to Lead Labor | Fakers’ Review WEST POINT, N. Y., May 26.— William Green, president of the American ‘Federation of Labor, and |his whole executive council will re- | view the cadets of the United States | Military Academy Tuesday, as fur- ‘ther token of the energetic support (of American imperialism. Green and the other labor fakers, after their christening of the Amer- ‘ican warship Pensacola last month seeking for an opportunity to again |praise Wall St. imperialism, have |accepted the invitation extended to |them by Maj. General William R. Smith. It will be the first time that an executive council of any labor or- ganization here has paid an official visit to the academy, is an indica- |tion of the close ties between the labor fakers and imperialists. | The labor fakers will inspect the | classrooms, eadet quarters and other | buildings, and then witness drills Jani imperialist war which will involve millions of workers, THOUSANDS DEFY POLICE TERROR IN UNION SQUARE Denounce Injunctions; Jailing of Workers everal thousand New York work- embled in Union Square Sat- ij ternoon in a great mass |demonstration against the brutal- ity and strikebreaking activities of Tammany Hall police, protesting also the drastic and unprecedentedly severe injunction granted by Tam- tuany judges and enforced by Wha- len’s police against the cafeteria workers, and the savage assault against the workers’ children who demonstrated a week ago, when the poli paraders charged into the Wokers’ Center and tore down a sign exposing them. They demanded the release of Ben Lifshitz, New York organizer of the Communist Party, and all working class prisoners, Try to Break It Up. The cemonstration was hindered end interfered with in every way that could be devised.. Police, mounted and on foot, were packed around the crowd, driving it into the smallest possible compass. Negro policemen were paraded on the side of the massed workers, in evident but entirely vain hopes of creating race feeling and breaking the soli- (Continued on Page Three) PLAYGROUND FOR Ss STRIKE CHILDREN The Children Section of the | Workers International Relief, 1 | Union Square, has announced a plan for the opening of a children’s play- ground in Gastonia, N. C. This playground, modeled after the Vic- tory Playground in Passaic a few ars ago, will be known as the Union Playground. Here the children of the strikers will be taken care of by young | strikers and adults, who will see to it that they get the best care. Field Kitchen. Hundreds of children will come each morning to the playground and stay there until evening. The | (Continued on Page Two) TENANTS PLAN WATER SUPPLY A ‘ork, by mail, $6.00 p FINAL CITY EDITION year. T GASTONIA POISONED: DEMONSTRATION PICKETS NAB MANVILLE-JENCKES THUG; AT CITY HALL A. F. OF L. COMPLETES RAYON SELLOUT Huge Protest Meeting | Demands Extension of Rent Laws Pledge ‘Daily’ Support ‘Communists to Make Housing Big Issue STILL AIM GUNS gency Rent Laws and the wholesale i - rent raises and dispossesses, at City, No Appeal from Ruling of Personnel Boss Hall for Saturday afternoon, June 1, was decided upon yesterday ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May —The U. S. Department of Labor ternoon at a mass meeting of ten-} ants, held under the auspices of the Harlem Tenants’ League at Mother Zion Community House, 151 West | 186th Streets. The hall was crowded with Negro and white tenants of Harlem who had gathered to protest the expira- tion of the laws and the wholesale robbery by landlords. tile Workers Union in cooperation have finally succeeded in selling out the Elizabethton strike. The heroic struggle of 6,000 rayon workers, | which has defied deputized militia, mill owners’ thugs, dynamite at- | Grace P, Campbell, vice president | tacks and incendiary fires that cut) of the Harlem Tenants League, in| off drinking water, bayonet charges, her speech declared that the land-| tear gas attacks, mass arrests and lords had already notified the ten-| mass trials, has been stabbed in the jants of rent raises, in some cases back by a treasonable agreement, en- as high as 50 and 60 per cent, to be | gineered by the officials of the U. effective June 1. T. W. and an agent of the depart- | Elizabeth Hendrickson, secretary ment of labor, one Anna Weinstock. of the League and Rey. Wm. Lloyd U.S. Spy Arranged Terms. Imes both described the unsanitary} At a hastily worked-up meeting of conditions and the vicious exploita- |tion of the tenants. Pledges “Daily” Aid. J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, said that the | (Continued on Page Five) | i FOOD WORKERS TO DEMONSTRATE ‘Mass Picketing at Noon Today Thousands of the militant work- ers of New York, especially the needle trades and shoe workers who | | have had much experience with the | brutality of the Tammany police who are directly serving the em- \ployers by beating up and jailing pickets, will mobilize at noon today for mass picketing in the food strike and will demonstrate what they think of the drastic injunction granted by Tammany judges, which | prohibits the cafeteria workers|W4S from picketing and which tries the , power of police clubs and prison} jcells to starve them back to the) eront the bourgeoisie today, the slavery of the twelve hour day. proletariat alone is really revolu- The cafeteria strikers find against | tlonars—Marx. them the united forces of the bu-| reaucrats in the Trades and Labor Td GIVE CANTER Council of the American Federation Fear Conviction; Urge |of Labor, the police, the socialist party and its organ, and the judges. Mass Protest (Special to the Daily Worker) was revealed that the federal spy, Weinstock, operating secretly as far as the strikers were concerned, with the knowledge and help of the U. T, W. and the bosses, had arranged a |surrender| for the workers on strike, and under the hammering of the U. T. W. officials and the open sabotage by A. F, of L. president Green, who accused the strikers of committing violence, the meeting voted by a small majority to return to work and submit to the wishes of the American Bemberg and Ameri- can Glanzstoff companies. The terms of the agreement, born jin treachery and secrecy, have rarely | been equaled in the details of sub- servience which the workers are to | accept. The companies promise absolutely nothing. ‘he union takes refuge in the statement that |the jemployers garnt “no discrimination,” the only jopen demand of the _ strikers. | Neither half of the U. T. W. state- ment is true. The strikers are still demanding the conditions promised when they went back to work after their strike three months ago. It the failure of the companies to (Continued on Page Two) Among all the classes that con- But they are confident of their own| strergth, and of the solidarity of all} | the fighting workers of the city, as well as those of every part of the! | country and every other land. 320,000 Send Greetings. They have just received a radio- gram of solidarity and greetings| |from 320,000 food workers in the Union of Socialist Soviet Berube) BOSTON, y 26.—At 9:30 a. m. (Continued on Page Five) | tomorrow morning the sealed verdict of the jury in the “criminal libel” nist printer, will be opened and read in Suffolk superior criminal court. ‘and the strikebreaking United Tex- | 1,500 of the strikers yesterday, it} | trial of Harry Canter, local Commu- | The trial, \.hich resulted from the d exercises in preparation for an} CARPENTERS SUFFER . |“Fuller—muzterer of Sacco and Union Standards Totter; Many Jobless reir: oe ection temonstee, ‘tion of the Communist Party last Nov. 8, opened Friday and was con- cluded Saturday. The speed with | which the trial was rushed thru, the | rigid exclusion of all evidence relat- ing to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the |shamelessly biased rulings of the |eourt and the fact that the jury ar- \rived at its decisions after being port (Bulletin 420 of the U. S. de- | out less than two hours all point to | ARTICLE Il. partment of labor) gives their num-'a conviction, wor! >rs here declare, | ber as only 376,400. and an attemt to railroad Canter to The carpenters’ trade is one of | . a ‘the largest in the United States, in| The convention of the Carpenters |@ long jail term. I. L. D. to “ ppeal. regard to the invested capital, the | Union of 1926 gives a still smaller ) |number of workers employed and in | figure, 350,391. At present thetr ac-| The Internationa! Labor Defense, lother respects. It is the largest | tual number is decreasing steadily, | which is defending Cantcr is taking trade in the building industry. | There are no accurate figures on \the number of carpenters in this | eeu {t has been, however, ap- | |proximately estimated that their * : A . ‘number is close to 1,000,000. The more than ofee been caught “fix-/ in University Strike leconomic conditions of the vast ma-|i8” figures. It is, of course, not} |jority of this number are now stead- pleasant for them to reveal to the MEXICO CITY, May 26.—Portes lily growing worse. The reasons for |ntire world the steady downward | Gil intervened in the university stu- ‘this are as follows: 1. The speed- |tvend of their organization. ‘dent strike which resulted in the seri- up system. 2. New technological| ‘The number of the organized and | out.wounding of a number of stu- ‘developments, 3. Trustification of |of the employed is decreasing at the|dents by the police and ordered the building industry as a whole. | very time when new, unskilled work- | police guards withdrawn due to the 4, The corruption and betrayal of |ers are coming in. This is the re- |opposition aroused by their brutality. the union bureaucrats, together with |sult of the technological develop-| The president invited the students their persecution of all militant ele-|ments and the sub-contracting sys-|to an “arbitration conference.” All iments. tem which prevails in the carpen- the students in the university struck Organized Carpenters. ters’ trade. One cannot, in the|when the law students walked out | The number of organized carpen- |course of a brief article, enumerate |against a change in the examina- all the technical innovations that| tions. It was denied that two post- (This is the third in a series of articles by a rank and file building trades worker or the conditions of the workers in that in- dustry. It is particularly timely at the present time when the open- chop drive of the bosses, the introduction of rationalization schemes and the betrayal tactics of the corrupt’ officials of the building trades unions ‘are attempting to beat down the standards of the | workers.) * * * | By JOSEPH COHEN, enough reasons to suspect that the | present figures of the union -are | greatly exaggerated. Our pious American labor misleaders have! | (Continued on Page Two) Gil Tries Arbitration jters in 1920 were more than 400,000, according to the report of the gen-|have been introduced. It is enough joffice clerks, beaten by the police to mention that the electric hand-| who mistook them for students, had jeral secretary of the union to the convention of that year. A later re- Continued on Page Four, died, i a —- ns 7 ~ jIt must be admitted that there are |all necessary steps, thra its attor-| Keeps Off Stand | | | | | | | The trial of Harry Cant | Communist printer for “criminal | libel” of ex-Gov. Fuller of Mass., | was rushed thru by the prosecution co-Vanzetti case, A sealed verdict is expected today. Canter is charged with criminally libelling Fuller for having carrier a placard, “Fulle Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti in an election campaign demonstration of the Communist Party last Novem- ber in Boston. Fuller, above, aided by “legal” devices, succeeded in keeping off the stand. HOOVERDRY SHAM BARED IN. HOUSE Accident Shows Menace to Labor in Probe - WASHINGTON, May 26..—Fur- ther evidence that the Hoover so- | called “law | enforcement commis- | sion” is not merely for the- purpose | of improving prohibition investiga- tion, but must be primarily intended | to increase, under the camouflage | |of a stricter dry law the ease of framing up workers and the estab- lishment of a huge army of labor spies working under Hoover’s cen- tralized authority, was provided by congress in its last sessica, Satur- day. The administration steam roller | smache: + without a qualm the only provision in the tariff act now under consideration by the house of | representatives that would in any way assist prohibition enforcement. And that’s all the Hoover clique {cares for the dry law. They use ity a smoke screen for anti-labor leg- | lation, but will do noting to in- |terfere with the profits from the) moonshining business, the biggest | |whiskey distilleries of which have |been long believed to be owned by | Andrew Mellon, Hoover's right hand man in his cabinet. Save Moonshine Profits. The duty on blackstrap molasses, originally set at 2.19 cents a gallon, |was maintained in the face of the | demand of certain western represen- (Continued on Page Two) For a Six-Hour Day for Under- ground Work, in Dangerous Occu- | pations, and for the Youth Under | 18! | | || Postpone Last Article jon U.S.S.R. Economy Due to Lack of Space |: | Publication of the concluding || article on “How the Soviet Econ- omy Functions” has been post~ poned till tomorrow's issue due to lack of space. -, Boston| to prevent the reopening of the Sac-| Department of Labor Agent and United Textile Workers Co-operate; | Swindle Workers into Going Back with Nothing Gained RED CROSS TRIES THREAT ON WAR, Unites with Police to Terrorize Speaker GASTONIA, N C., May 26.—An ttempt to poison the strikers’ water |supply has been discovered, pickets re. Strikers guarding the National Textile Workers Union and Workers International Relief tent colony yesterday afternoon seized a jcompany spy found prowling in the | woods in the direction of the spring near the tent sites. He has been run off the union grounds the last three |nights. A blackjack was found on |the Manville-. es Co. flunky. | He was identified as the same man who sought to enter the home }of Mrs. Ellen May, militant Besse- | mer City strike speaker, at midnight on the pretext of wishing to join |the union. The water in Mrs. May’s |house was found poisoned in an janalysis -just made. It is believed | that the company agent had planned to poison the water used by the tent colony. To Open Tent Colony. Ten thousand leaflets are being ributed throughout the county in- viting the workers to attend the here dec! opening of the tent colony built by the Workers International Relief. An extensive program has been ar- ranged. More tents are needed to enlarge the colony, the W. I. R. committee stated today Funds to purchase them, also food and _ medicine, should be sent to the Workers In- ternational Relief, Room 304,» Union Sq., New York City. f ae ae Red Cross Would Hinder Relief * How the American Red Cross! _? Portsmouth, Va., attempted to pt ® vent Mrs. Inez Rowland, Gastor textile striker, and ‘her three-ye; old child, Thomas, from proceedin,) to New York to participate in the* relief activities of the Workers In- ternational Relief, was told Satur- day, by Mrs. Rowland in the na- tional office of the W. I. R. Mrs. Rowland left Gastonia last Saturday for Portsmouth, where a picnic for the strikers’ relief was being held. After speaking at the picnic she was to proceed to New York. After she had been in Ports- mouth a short time, a policeman approached her and inquired what she was doing in the town. “IT am a textile striker of the Lo- ray mill, Gastonia,” was her reply. (Continued on Page Two) RESUME ‘INQUIRY’ ON BANK SWINDLE Moreland act hearings on the acti vities of the State Banking Depart- ment under the administration of ex-Superintendent Frank H. Ward- er, key figure in the investigations, will be re: sumed today at 302 Broad- way under supervision of Moreland Commissioner Robert Moses. Bank- ruptecy hearings on the Lancia Motors, Inc., which precipitated the City Trust inquiry, will be continued Wednesday before Referee Henry K. Davis. No investigations under the More land Act were conducted Saturday, though it is reported that various agencies were at work collecting material on specific phases of the hearing in which prominent Tam- (Continued on Page Five) | “Forward’s”’ Nearly 1,500 at Enthus Under the guise of an attack jagainst the recent Metropolitan Area Conference which launched a new, militant trade union center for New York and vicinity, the Jewish Daily Forward, yellow organ of the corrupt socialist officialdom, in an editorial yesterday, made a vicious, underhand attack against the suc cessful strike of nearly 4,000 wo: ers under the leadership of the Ar chitectural Iron, Bronze and Struc- tural Workers Union. Expose Lies. Denouncing the editorial as “both lying and hypocritical,” A. Rosen- fald, secretary-treasurer of the Iron Workers Expose Yellow Strikebreaking iastic Meeting Hear | Report on Progress of Strike junion, issued last night a statement declating “that “the editorial fol- lowed the strikebreaking traditions of the Forward and would be inter- preted as such by the rank and file of the iron workers.” Rosenfeld’s statement follows: “Much is made in the editorial of the fact that one of the delegates at the Metropolitan Conference " was Geor; Powers, organizer of the iron workers union. The lying-Fore ward tries to create the impression that Powers’ presence was Unau- thorized by the union. As @ matter |of fact, both Powers and Zael ; (Continued on Page Five) —