The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as second Pub! Vol. VI., No. 69 Company, Inc., lished daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 6-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. FULLER'S JURY CONVICTS CANTER 0 Elizabethton Strikers, Bet rayed by the A: F. of t. Call t the Post Office at Ne w York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929. SUBSCRIPTION RAT Q Outside New York, by m FINAL CITY EDITION few York, by mail, $8.00 per year, il, '$6,00 per year. Price 3 Cents “CRIMINAL LIBEL” tor New Walkout; LABOR DEFENSE Organizers of the National Textile Workers’ Union Arrive in Tennessee ‘ANGHES DRE {5 MORE JAILED: SCABS KEPT ON STRIKERS’ JOBS Weisbord Says U.T.W. Commits Clearest Act of Treachery Prosecutions Continue Groups Call for Nat'l Textile Union BULLETIN. (Special to the Daily Worker) SLIZABETHTON, Tenn., May —Fred E. Beal and Vera Buch, astonia strike organizers, were refused the floor when they tried to speak at the mass meeting called by the United Textile Work- ers’ Union misleaders this morn- ing to complete the sell-out of the rayon strike here. Beal and Buch wanted to warn the strikers of the treason practiced upon them, and tell them how the Gas- tonia strikers, under leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union were fighting to a victory. | oe The militancy of the Gastonia mill strikers Gastonia Workers Form Defense Corps was shown in their formation of q defense corps against the bosses’ thugs. Photo shows they are determined to defend a police. PROVINGE REVOLT 2,000 Men Oust Foreign Exploiters AMOY, Fukien, May 27.—A dem- onstration, led by revolutionary Gastonia strikers’ guards before the new hall of the strikers, w ich gainst the mill bosses’ thugs and TROOPS IN FUKIEN YOUNG TEXTILE ~ WORKERS UNITE ‘Join National Textile | Union in South By CLARENCE MILLER. The strike of the textile workers 10,000 WORKERS IN RALLY FOR FOOD STRIKERS Police Arrest 44; Club Young Boy with Sign; Jail 10 Pioneers Machine Guns on Roofs ‘Irish Transport Union Greets Strikers The largest and most successful }mass picketing demonstration that has yet been held by the cafeteria strikers and sympathizers during the seven weeks strike, took place \yesterday in the earment district. The demonstration centered around two cafeterias in particular, attract- ing a crowd of about 5,000 at each place. Forty-four of the strikers and workers from the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union and other organizations participating, were arrested. They were arraigned be- fore Magistrate John Flood in Jef- ferson Market Court charged with | disorderly conduct. Twenty were arrested at the Princeton Cafeteria run thru the crowd, in an atte Tammany Fails to Break Thousands of New York wor Tammany police brutality against Tammany officials placed every obstacle in its way to break it up. Photo shows a steam roller being r “Up Anti-Police s held a mass meeting in Union rikers, and the meeting was a g mpt to halt the meeting. ~ TO EREE WORKER Will Appeal to Supreme Court on Basis of Sacco Testimony Brutality Meeting Climax of Farce Trial Canter May Get 2-Year Jail Term (Special to Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 27.—Massa- chusetts “justice” today ran true to form. Harry J. Can- ter, militant Boston worker, was found guilty this morning of “criminal libel” for having carried ja poster: “Fuller—Murderer of Saceo and zetti,” at an election Square Saturday, to protest the reat success despite the fact that s | campaign demonstration of the Com- Party Nov. 8. The aled ver which was munist last t of the ju ached Friday afternoon after less than two hours of deliberation, was opened before Judge Robert Ray- GRAFT CHARGED TO LEHMAN, FOE Troops Refuse to Act as Strikebreakers in Czech Farm Strike (Wirele PRAGUE, by Inprecorr.) Czechoslovakia, When the government attemp' May t- mond in Suffolk superior criminal court, LEATHER GOODS RIGHT WINGERS Judge Raymond will impose sen- tence on Canter on Wednesday. The maximum penalty is two years in jail and $1,000 fine, L. D. To Appeal. The International Labor Defense, |troops, against imperialist penetra-|in the South is a strike against the| Seventh The temper of the strikers here was such that the fakers dared not throw the Gastonia strikers out, but in the afternoon, Vice | President Kelley of the United Textile Workers, called a closed meeting this afternoon, in which | he assailed Beal, saying he “was. | -in the pay of the Soviet.” Wilcox, supposed kidnapper of Alfved Hoffman, is helping to register the workers for return to the mills. Edward McGrady, A. F. of L. organizer, who declares himself | the personal representative of President Green, today offered his es to the bosses and business committee of Elizabethton ride Beal and the Communists out of town.” | Porter, supposed to be a repre- | sentative of the Socialist Emer- gency Committee for “strike re- lief” and a member of the social- tion in China and the betrayal of | most intensive exploitation resulting the revolution by Chiang Kai-shek,|from the terrific speed-up’ system, is reported to have taken place in| or the “stretch out” system as the Lungyenschow, west of here. Two thousand troops are said to have ousted foreign missionaries and other foreign exploiters from the city. ee Amoy is on the coast opposite the island of Formosa, at the lower end of the province of Fukien, * # © Body of Sun Starts for Nanking. PEKING, May 27.—With martial law enforced, the streets lined with soldiers with bared bayonets, ma- chine guns mounted at street inter- sections, and soldiers and artillery on the roofs, the body of Sun Yat- sen started on its transfer from the Peking temple to the masoleum in Nanking, where it will be entombed by Chiang Kai-shek, who betrayed | workers here call it. Of all the ex- |ploited workers in the South the | young workers are among the most exploited. From the registration of about 100 young strikers from the {Manville-Jencks Co. (Loray Mill) jtaken by the Youth Section of the National Textile Workers’ Union local we find the following wages lreceived by the young workers: | 58 per cent receive from $6 to $11 per week, 30 per cent receive from $11 to $15 per week. 10 per cent receive from 15 to $20 per week. 2 per cent receive above $20 per week, The average wage for these young workers is $11.57 per week. The | standard week is 60 hours. Some |of the young workers worked more lat 27th St. and 6th Ave., and twenty- |four at the Consolidated, 36th St. jand 7th Ave, Many strikers received minor injuries. Blackjack Young Boy. | Those arrested included about 10 |young boys and girls, members of the Young Pioneers, who were Very |militant in the demonstration, wav- | ing banners and placards, and sing- jing revolutionary songs. Several were hit by the policemen, including Joe Goldfield, 11-year-old boy of 1481 Washington Ave., Bronx, who was carrying a placard calling for |the defeat of the injunction, and |who was hit over the wrist with a blackjack to make him drop the placard. There were fully 100 policemen guarding the garment district when the demonstration began and they were reenforced by about 50 mount- ed and motorcycle policemen when | the trouble started. Associate Says Waiters Union Officer Bribed Three leading officials of the Lo- cal 1, Waiters and Waitresses, af- filiated with the A. F. of L., were openly accused of accepting a bribe of $1,200 from the owner of a Bronx restaurant at the last meeting of |the organization. Rank and file members of the organization are |now carefully investigating the | charges. | The charge directed against Wil- |liam Lehman, secretary, Jack Lash- er, president and Motel Turtel, busi- |ness agent, was made by another |business agent of the local, Meyer | Orgel, who declared that he himself was tendered 00 of the graft yeSterday to use the as strikebreak- ers against the farm workers, the soldiers refused to obey orders and the regiment was withdrawn, The strikers are distributing leaf- lets to the soldiers, calling upon them to shew solidarity with the workers. The leaflets were distri- buted throughout the barracks, The military authorities are now confining all troops to the barracks and trying to stop the “demoraliza- tion” amongst them. Leaflets are also being distributed to the gendarmes. WARDER DODGED ~ OWN BANK LAWS HELP LOCK OUT which is defending Canter, is tak- ing immediate steps for an appeal to the state supreme court and will ask time for filing ex torneys Arthur Garfield Ha Let Boss Pick Men to | Finish Up Orders Harry Hoffman are representing the ri D. Arrangements are also The right wing administration of | being made to provide bonds to se- the Fancy Leather Goods Union has | Cure Canter’s release after sentence | clearly demonstrated in the case of |}5 imposed and while the appeal is the Margolin Leather Goods shop| Pending. He is scheduled to speak | that its plan is to sell out the work-| Thursday (Decoration Day) at an ers, in the present negotiations with|1-L.D. picnic at Caledonian Grove, the manufacturers. West Roxbury, Ma The above nientioned firm, at 30th) The conviction of Canter brings to St. and 6th Ave., under the pretense |# ‘limax the legal machinations that that it is moving out of town, fired) 4*Ked his indictment and_ trial. its entire force of 75 and drove|Ftom the first it was evident that them from the shop with four de-|Pehind the puppet grand jury that brought in the indictment of “crim- ; tectives, al libel” | The administration instead of de-|i7#! libel” were massed all the claring this shop on strike imme- res of capitalist reaction in this state with former Gov. Fuller as diately, complied with the request of the firm for “a few mechanics to finish out the orders.” | the probable moving spirit. Farce Trial. |the revolution that was first led by) than 60 hours a week. There were also | money, as he, together with the other ist party, acts as an informer to the fakers. There were no strikers repre- sented on the settlement deal, just the A. F. of L. misleaders and business men. Real opposition to the sell out is developing among the workers. They are glad to see the National Textile Workers’ Union in the field, and are responding to it. Many copies of the Labor De- fender have been distributed. Ne. eae (Special to the Daily Worker) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 27. Thousands of rayon strikers here, convinced that they have been cheat- ed and swindled by the United Tex- tile Workers officials and govern- ment agents who worked secretly with the employers for a surrender of the strike without a single point gained and without any guarantee Sun. Many of these young workers who Representatives of the imperialist | have registered have been working governments are now gathering in|several years. The registration Nanking to participate in the burial | showed that: of the body next Tuesday as a token | 48 per cent started working on or of imperialist support to the Nank-| before their 14th birthday. ing regime. The railroad line be-| 30 per cent started working on tween Peking and Nanking is guard-| their 15th birthday. ed by 30,000 troops, and Nanking is! 14 per cent started working on in a state of military siege. | their 16th birthday. In the meantime the troops of) 8 t Chiang Kai-shek are being moved| their 16th birthday. to take up positions against the| This | is not an exact picture of threatened attack on Nanking and/ the child labor in this mill because Peking by the forces of Feng Yu- (Continued on Page Two) hsiang. The car bearing the body of Sun Yat-sen is preceded and followed by 8 per cent started working after| heavily manned armored cars. Communists, Autonomists Gain whatever against the penalizing of Belgium General Poll militant strikers, are demanding that the U. T. W. be repudiated and the strike carried to a victorious finish. 15 More Arrested. | Arrest of 15 strikers last night by city police because they were demonstrating against the selling out and betrayal of the strike by the U. T. W. policy, was aided in that treachery by Anna Weinstock, department of labor agent, and the sudden flaring out of resentment on the part of the strikers who tried to return to work showed the depth of strike sentiment here today. The strike may be resumed in full force fin violation of the orders of the U. “T, W. at any moment. The strikers arrested have a for- mal frame-up charge against them of “carrying firearms.” The strikers who went back to work, after registering according to the first article of the terms of sur- render, which was voted through a small, packed meeting assembled Saturday by Vice-Presiden€ Kelley of the U. T. W. and the department of labor agent, found that the bosses were already breaking their own agreemcat, which was bad enough _ already. | Already Change Contract. The agreement specified that | strikers were to be taken back with- | out discriminaticn, Many of the | Strikers fo-nd thoir places filled al- ready by imported scabs. These scabs had been called to a meeting (Continued | on Page Two) BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 27.— The results of yesterday’s general elections indicate great gains for the Communists and the Flemish autonomists at the expense of. the “socialists” and catholics, The socialists lost ground in most constituencies, mostly to the Com- munists, who during the campaign exposed the treachery of the “so- cialist” government leader, Vandor- velde, ard others. In Flanders many catholic votes were transferred to the Flemish autonomists, The government parties, especi- ally the liberals, made slight gains, the liberals winning back five of their ten seats which they lost in 1925. The ful returns are not yet available. Flemish | in| HARLEM PRESS GAGS TENANTS at City Hall Saturday While Negro and white tenants of Harlem and other parts of the city are preparing for a mass dem- onstration before City Hall next Saturday afternoon to protest the repeal of the Emergency Rent Laws and the even harsher rent raises and dispossessions which are being prepared, the bourgeois Negro press of Harlem either remains silent on the whole issue or openly takes the side of the landlords, The New York Age, the organ of Fred Moore, city republican alder- man, who is seeking re-election in the coming municipal elections on the basis of his ability to “repre- (Continued on, Page Five) Feng Supporters Thrown Out. : (Wireless by” Inprecorr.) SHANGHAI, China, May \27.—Not only is Feng Yu-hsiang ex- pelled from the Kuomintang, but the executive committee threw out all his supporters and gave Chiang Kai-shek authority to use all pos- sible military measures against him. COMMUNIST ORGAN SUPPRESSED, (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BERLIN, May 27.—While the Communist Party newspaper Rote Fahne was prohibited by governmental order for four weeks more because of articles published attacking the police, the social-democrats and the capitalist government for the Berlin blood bath, the Com- munist Party organ, Klassenkampf, published in Halle, was sup- pressed, . cians | police on the roofs of the buildings near the Consolidated Cafeteria, |with machine guns ready. The only | disorder was when the police charg- | and put an end to the demonstration, At one point the crowd of onlookers interfered to take a woman picket |away from a policeman who was [hitting her. Thereupon the police jall took out their blackjacks and began slugging right and left in- | discriminately. Greete1 by Irish Union. The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- teria Workers Union today received a letter from the Irish Transport Workers Union with headquarters in Dublin, who sent their revolutionary greetings, good wishes for a suc- cessful conclusion of the struggle and a contribution of $10. ed the line to tear up the placards | three, constituted the committee that went to negotiate with the res- taurant owner. Think It’s Time. Although the charge against Leh- man was made by Orgel, a lieuten- ant of Louis Rubinfeld, the former secretary, for obvious political pur- po! the rank and file of the or- ganization, judging the general an- ti-workingclass record of the of- ficials, are inclined to give full cred- ence to the charge. The bribe was given, according to the accuser, to prevent a threat- ened strike in the restaurant from | materializing. Circumstantial evi- dence for the charge is found in the fact that the seven waiters employ- jed in the restaurant had organized (Continued on Page Five) Says; Final Cooper “Mass mobilization!” This was the keynote of last night’s joint meeting of the Execu- tive Committees of the cloak, fur and dress locals of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Many Join Discussion. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the union, sounded this keynote early in the meeting, which was called primarily for the purpose of outlining the final organizational steps for the coming general strike in the fur industry, the calling of ‘Committee of 100’ of Furriers Meet Tonite furriers, elected by the Trade Conference, will hold an unusual- ly important meeting tonight, immediately after work, at the office of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St, it was announced last night, But They Will Protest Mass Mobilization” Is Call At Needle Executive Meeting “We Are Ready for the Fur Struggle,” Gold * Union Rally June 4 which, as Gold declared, “is now a mere matter of days.” <A _ large number participated in the discus sion which followed. After declaring that the Needle pared to “wage a fight, no matter how long it may last, until the scab | Joint Council is destroyed and the furriers win the conditions they |want,” Gold outlined the various steps that are necessary to put the | finishing touches on the final work | before the strike. Tells of Agitatior He said that enthusiastic buuaing ‘and shop meetings are being held thruout the fur market, and urged that these be continued and extend- ed. He also told of the work of the propaganda committee in the Workers’ Industrial Union was pre- | Probe Reveals More | Corruption One more “violation of the law” was charged against Frank H. War- der when it v revealed at the | 'Moreland act inquiry yesterday that ke had owned stock in the Harlem Bank of Commerce while acting in | his capacity as state banking super- | intendent. He later pushed the merger of the Harlem Bank with the unstable City Trust Company. | State laws, which he had treated |during his administration with jlight-hearted indifference, provide } that he could not be interested fi- nancially in any bank over which} he had supervision, | He had made, altogether, $30,000 in graft before being forced to re- \sign by the scandal. More light on the precise nature jof the “examination” which Warder- |appointed auditors made of the bankrupt, Ferrari-owned City Trust Company books was shed with the admission by Samuel Rauch, state bank examiner, that in the course his examination of the books he (Continued on Page Five) COMMUNIST VOTE IN PARIS GROWING | PARIS, France, May 27.—A thou- sand striking furniture workers yes- |terday held a spontaneous demon- stration in the Place de la Bastile, | ployers and their agents. The police were powerless to cope | with the demonstration. In the elections for the general council of the Seine department, the vote of the Communists increased. |The Communists have won five | seats, so far as the count has gone, _and may have gained more. ‘The annual demonstration for the General Pol This policy of non-resistance and| actual cooperation with the employ- ers on the part of the union ad- ministration is a general practice. Since the agreement with the manufacturers has expired (May 1) the bosses have declared a virtual lockout. All of the association shops such as Morris White, Wolf Bros., Rob- bins & Prokesch, Blum & Mitten- thal, Bernstein Bros., etc., told their workers to stay out of the shops until further notice. | Assists Bosses. The union administration instea of fighting this lockout, permit: The trial, which began Thursday and ended Friday, was a master- piece of legalistic chicanery and evasion. All efforts of the defense to reopen the Sacco-Vanzetti case in order to prove that ex-Gov. Fulier was morally responsible for the murder of the two Italian workers were quashed by the rulings of the viciously biased judge. The testi- mony of William G. Thompson, at- torney for Sacco and Vanzetti, and other important defense witnesses was given with the jury ordered out of the room and was excluded from the record. This testimony will form the basis for the appeal. Determined to shield Fuller at all costs and prevent him from being making speeches denouncing the em- | each firm to choose a few workers, °T0SS-examined, the court and oe so as to keep the shops running,|Pvosecution connived to keep him Some 90 per cent of the workers in|! the stand by a “legal” trick the association shops are expected) (Continued on Page Two) to be locked out at the end of this| week, The cry for action among the) workers is spreading thruout the en- tire trade. Their fighting spirit is in good shape. AMANULLAH IN INDIA. BOMBAY, India, May 27—A huge crowd of workers gathered here to welcome Amanullah and his brother Inayatullah, who had been displaced |from the Afghan throne by a Brit- , , 4 | ish-maneuvered revolt. The welcom- Join the American section of |ing workers gathered in front of the Communist International, the | the station, but police barricades Communist Party of the U. S. A. | kept them at a distance, Socialist Chief Attempted to Swindle the Jobless Musicians Reveal How G. August Gerber Tried to Put Over Slick Contract for Benefit Concerts (By a Worker Correspondent) | thousands of them have been thrown | A brazen attempt on the part of|out of their jobs, unfit to do any |G. August Gerber to swindle several | other kind of work, thanks to the hundred unemployed musicians who | introduction of hanical music, | arranged a benefit for relief pur-|the Movietone and the Vitaphone. poses, has just been revealed. Ger-| Needless to say, the officials of the ber Was secretary of the Joint Ac-|union, particularly those in New tion Committee of the socialist party | York who are appointed by the na- The Committee of 100 of the | || market, and of the great success in’ martyred Communards, held at the | mobilizing sentiment for the fur) Wall of the Federals, in Pere La |strike thru the well-attended open! Chaise Cemetery was carried out |forums, in which thousands of| with great success. The police were workers have participated during the| present in great force, and contin- | past few weeks. | ually attacked the workers, who re- ) Calling attention to the open air| sisted, and released several prison- |forum arranged by the Industrial| ers seized by the police, | Union at Rutgers Square, “right in} Thousands of workers were mob- the face of the yellow Forward,” | ilized for this ceremony by the call \ (Continued on Page. Five)», of the Communist Party of France, |and campaign manager for Norman |tional executive instead of being Thomas in the last election. |elected by the membership, have no This story involves members of | answer to the assaults of the big | Local 802, American Federation of | corporations, who control the amuse» | Musicicns of New York, ment industry, Thousands Jobless. Not getting any tangible assist- It is a well-known fact that the} ance from the union, a number of most helpless victims of all skilled|more or less active musicians are trades affected by the introduction| making attempt at cooperative en- jof new machinery and the rationali- | terprises, sch as symphonies (with ition process is the musician. Many y Continued on Page Two) 4 Pe: a