The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1929, Page 1

} rl- i he | ar} nd ny ne ver ble ont — ere | ree was nks ers. tts ileb dis-) her | | t THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS . For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N Vol. VI., No. 70 Published daily except Sunday Company, Ine. 26-28 Union Squzre, prodaily Publishing York City, N. under the act of March 3, 1579. FINAL CITY EDITION 0) per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 192 GREEN CALLS FOR HUGE ARMY IN side New York, by mail, Price. 3 Cents ISIT TO WEST POINT Reveal City Trust Grafters Supported Fascist Organizations in America 'F.0FL COUNGIE FARRARI, CHIEFS District Youth Executive in OFTAMMANY, AND. N- ¥. for ' BLAGKSHIRT PAGT Stolen Money Paid Rent | of Mussolini Men | in New York Supported II Progresso Forged Notes for Huge Sums Read at Hearing Further charges proving that the City Trust swindle was based on a triple alliance of ex-State Banking, Superintendent Frank H, Warder, | Tammany Hall politicians and local | fascist organizations headed by the | late Francis M. Ferrari, owner of | the City Trust and allied interests, | were made at 302 Broadway yester-* day, where the Moreland Act probe | under Commissioner Robert Moses | is being conducted. Complete details of the incriminat-| ing alliance have already been re-| vealed to leading figures in the| probe in private. Formal evidence is expected to be offered by Anthony » Di Paola, Ferrari’s right-hand man, | at later hearings. | Rent for the offices and most of the expenses of the fascist organi- zation had been guaranteed by Fer- rari, who, to cover obvious swindles in every company he controlled, had built a firm alliance with Tammany politicians and with Warder, at that | time state banking superintendent. | Rent for Warder’s expensive apart- | ment on Riverside Drive had been supplied by Ferrari, who regularly gave Warder, his wife and daughter | (Continued on Page Two) | Many Additional Statements Received from Party Organizations and Functionaries The following resolution was unanimously passed by the District Executive Committee of the Communist Youth League of New York District at its meeting last Saturday: RESOLUTION OF DISTRICT NO. . 2, C.Y.L., ON THE C.I. ADDRESS. “The District Executive Committee of District 2 (New York) Communist Youth League of the U.S.A. endorses and will energetically support the Open Letter of the ECCI to the membership of the Com- munist Party of the U.S. A. (May 20) and the cable of the Youth Communist International to the Communist Youth League of the United States of America. In line with this we greet and endorse the unanimous motions of the National Executive Committee Bureau as well as of the Polcom of the Communist Party of the United States of America on the Open Letter and the Youth Communist Interna- tional cable. “The new Open Letter of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International to the membership of the American Party points clearly to the main dangers confronting the Communist Party of the United States of America and shows the way to the consolidation of the whole Party on the basis of the line of the Comintern, by means of a more sharpened struggle agai! inst the Right danger, concentration on the most important questions facing the American workers and the final elimination of unprincipled factionalism which stands in the way of the carrying through of these t: asks. “1.—The greatest danger confronting the American Party is the Right danger, expressed most sharply at the present time in resistance to the line and decisions of the Communist International and to the practical measures proposed as a guarantee for turning the Party into mass activity. The Party must be quick to see the growing class contradictions and the imminent war danger. This means a deter- mined struggle against all tendencies to overestimate the strength of American imperialism, to underestimate the growing radicalization (Continued on Page Two) LYNCHING FOR N.T. W. VISITORS Company Throws Sop MCGRADY URGES UTW, BOSS, TRY SABOTAGE TENT COLONY OPENING at Relief Tent City PITTSBUR GH MINE popeaies Stool Pigeon; Commune Organized WORKERS MEET U.M.W.A. in Ziegler Fast Disintegrating By THOMAS MEYERSCOUGH (District. Secretary-Treasurer, Na- tional Miners Union) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 27.—The miners of Western Pennsylvania, now recovering from the disastrous | betrayal of the Lewis machine in the two-year strike, showed their rising enthusiasm for struggle at the First District Convention of the Western Pennsylvania District of the National Miners Union, where the delegates told of the need for fighting agdinst wage-cuts, against unemployment, against the speed-up: and against the remnants of the Lewis machine, which tries to pre- vent the miners from fighting. There were delegates from 30 lo- cal unions, with reports of more lo- cals in formation, Stabilization of district finances and better relations between local, (Continued on Page Two) HOOVER TARIFF PASSES HOUSE BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, May 28.— Chairman George Wickersham, of the Hoover board to organize ma- , chinery for crushing labor strug- gles and labor organizations, tc- day admitted that prohibition was | not the main issue for the “law enforcement commission,” when he replied to a question whether the commission would recommend any changes in the dry enforce- ment acts, by saying: “That is in- tellectually possible, but highly j iguprobable.” * * , WASHINGTON, May 28—A whole’ series of events reinforcirig the campaign to centralize despotic authority in Hoover, to be used for ‘the biggest of big business in times pf peace and to provide a skeleton for organization of the entire indus- trial and man power of the country in the approaching imperialist world war took place yesterday and to- lay. . The Hoover tariff, the highest iuties ever used, passed the house vy a vote of 264 to 147, with the sdministration steam roller smash- ‘ag all attempts at serious amend- ‘nent, and particularly defeating all } €Continued on Page Two) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 28. GASTONIA, N. C., May 28.—To| | —Dissatisfaction with the sell-out! prevent the mill workers of the | agreement signed between the Amer- | Rankin Mill, in South Carolina, from |ican Bemberg and American Glanz- | attending the celebration held when USES TO FREE LIFSHITZ ON BAIL Fail to Break Steadfast Leader of New York | | Workers Will Fight Tammany | |LL.D. Fights Effort to | | Keep Him in Jail | Giving no reasons for their action, | three judges, sitting in special ses- | sions court yesterday, summarily de-| |nied a certificate of reasonable doubt | jto secure the release on bail of Ben Lifshitz, acting district organizer of the Communist Party, Lifshitz is now in the workhouse, | having been arrested May 18 when| parading police assaulted a demon- stration of workers outside 26 Union | Square, tore down a huge banner | reading: “Down With Walker’s| Police Brutality,” and arrested 27, | including many members of the i SPECIAL SESSION. Police Chase Poor from Central Park Grass—Rich Play Croquet Comintern Address prf Se ee site Ni VIEWS CADETS AT wee Boasts of Loyalty to Imperialism Prais sTraining Camps Denounces Red Army of Soviet Union Daily Worker) v. Y., May 28. sident of the sration of Labor, pledged the lives of the s in the A. F. of L. to the office in the coming im- it war, wh fe behind the will direct the slaughter of ¢ workers. Wants Big Army. and his entire Executive y reviewed the 1,300 S. Military Acad- then later made a ech in which he shouted hiding behind the about defending gression.” g to note in this con- Green Ceep of the gra ers’ families off the gr families lying on the grass ers’ rich. wealthy w days of the election campaign here re marked with an intensified ter- Lower photo shows police rus e playing croquet om the grass. ”, the poor were told by Tammany Hall policemen, who had cha ss, in order that the wealthy could play croquet. , to escape the hot sun; they could ing the workers’ families off the grass. n the last imperialist hter, which took the lives of 10,000,000 workers, there was record of any generals having been killed in the fighting. This is the first time in the his- d many we Photo above shows work- not go to fine beaches, like the At the same time the no Dressmakers’ Meet Tonight, Manhattan Lyceum Hears Report A mass meeting of all dress- makers of the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union will be held tonight at 7:30 at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. An extensive report on the conditions in the trade will be made. Plans will also be worked out for mass mobilization for the forthcoming general strike of the furriers. Tremendous interest has been aroused in the fur market by the announcement that the final mob- ilization mecting of the furriers |stoff rayon manufacturing com- |panies, and the United Textile | Workers’ Union continues today |among the 6,000 former employes of | the plants. | The Gastonia strikers’ delegation here is prchibited f:2m speaking at meetings by the organized terror, in which the militia uses its guns, the A. F. of L. organizer McGrady and William Kelley, Vice-President of the U. T. W. combine with Norman Thomas’ agent, Porter, to spy out Communists and incite the business men of the town to violence against the National Textile Workers’ Union | committee here. Gastonia Strikers Come. Vera Bush, Fred Beal, Dewey Martin and C. D. Saylor, strike lead- jers, and members of the Workers’ International Relief Committee came to Elizabethton, Tenn., yesterday to offer the workers there the solidar- ity of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the aid of the Workers’ International Relief. The Gastonia strikers condemn the sell-out policy of the United Textile Workers in the tent colony was opened here, the mill bosses arranged a barbecue which was held at the same time, in coopera‘ion with the United Textile Workers Union. The barbecue was |held on tke grounds of a church. Speeches were made by organizers of | the United Textile Workers who as-| | sailed the National Textile Workers | Union. This open alliance between | | the mill bosses and the U. T. W. has caused a great sensation among the textile workers of North and South! Carolina. A committee consisting of Fred | Beal, Vera Bush, Dewey Martin and C. D. Saylor, strike leaders here, has | gone to Elizabethton where the U. |T. W. has sold out 6,000 strikers | They will offer the strikers soli- | darity and urge them to disregard | the U. T. W. and continue their} struggle. Shoot at Spies. Ten shots wero “ed last night | when spies of the mill bosses were! found prowling near the spring and) the tent colony, Screams were heard | Elizabethton and have invited them and apparently some of. the bullet: to join the North Carolina workers | took effect. The workers guard aré in a common struggle under the ban-| aking good their promise to shoot jannounced by Gladys ner of the National Textile Workers’ Union. This is intended as a sop to the strikers, for they were particularly (Continued on Page Two) Enthusiastic Meet of L A meeting of Local 43 of the Millinery Workers which crowded Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. last night, greeted with en- thusiasm the announcement that Na- tional Committee elected at the re- cent Left Wing Conference of Or- ganized and Unorganized Cap and Millinery Workers had decided to launch a drive for a $10,000 fund. At the same time a resolution calling for affiliation with the Needle Workers Industrial Union ‘was unanimously adopted after a report was rendered on the recent machine-packed convention of the Zaritsky clique held in this city recently, Begin Organization Drive. The $10,000 fund is needed, it was Schechter, ‘Left Wing Milliners in Drive for $10,000 Unionizing Fund Affiliation with Needle Workers Union any of the bosses’ flunkies who at- |tempt to poizon the wa*er used by | the strikers. Because they were nc’ able to pay (Continued on Page Two) ocal 43 Moves for the organizer of Local 43, and one of the leaders in the new movement, to begin immediate organization among thousands of unorganized cap and millinery workers. The meeting, which was one of the most spirited in many months, heard the details of the sham convention of the corrupt right clique and whole- hearted approval of the move being made to weld the cap and millinery workers into one strong, unified, militant industrial union. Nat'l Committee Officers. Last night also a report was made on the recent meeting of the Na- tional Committee which decided to jlaunch the drive and the names of (Continued on Page Five) Young Pioneers. Though Lifshitz ‘ was inside the Workers Center at the time of the demonstration, he | was charged with disorderly conduct | jand sentenced to 30 days. Since his {arrest the courts have used all) ~_ vie est |sorts of stalling tactics to delay the ~_ jhearing ona certificate of reason- | able doubt, and when the hearing wag finally held yesterday, it was promptly denied by Judges Feather- | stone, Salmon and Di Lorenzo, | I. L. D. Defends. y Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for | |the New York District of the Inter- jnational Labor Defense, which de-| BRITISH Pd LL § | fended all those arrested May 18,| pleaded Lifshitz’s case, but to no} javail. Nevertheless the I. L. D. will| | Eee ooo continue its efforts to secure Lit- Simon’s Militant Indian coe release and is filing an ap- Opponent in Jail In a statement issued last night, @ zs POR re sa | (Continued on Page Five) ;. LONDON, May 28.—The closing Anti-Imperialists Will Hold 3 Conferences In order to elect a widely repre- sentative delegation from the United States to participate in the Second World Congress Against Im- perialism to be held in Paris from July 20 to 31, the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, United States Section, is calling a Conference of all organizations and individuals op- posed to imperialism, to be held in New York C on Saturday, June 15th, at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place. The June 15th Conference will be preceded by two preliminary con- ferences. On May 30 the anniversary of the. Shanghai Massacre which marked the beginning of the Chinese revolution in 1925, a Far Kastern| Conference will be held at the Chi-| nese Theatre, 48 Bowery, at 1 p. m./ The second conference will be a} Latin-American Conference, to be! held June 2, at Lexington Hall, 109 East 116th Street at 2 p. m. The provisional agenda for the New York district conference to be held on June 15 follows: First Session—2 p. m. The Hoover administration, as an expression of the increased war danger and aggressive activities of American impcrialism. a, In Latin-America; b. In the Far East; ec. In Anglo-American Relations. d, Against the Soviet Union. Anti Imperialist forces of America and the Necessity for Their Organization. a, Labor Movement, political and industrial organizations, organizations, youth movement. b. Negro, Latin-American, Phili- pino, Hawaiian and Far-Eastern or- ganizations in the United States, Second Session—7:30 p. m. Organization Problems. a. Creation of local and district crganizations, b. Constitution Sub-Committee to work out policy for affiliation a-a organization of local committees. | ¢, Election of National Commit-| tee. d. National Headquarters, Latin-American struggles against United States imperialism. Election of delegates to the second Anti-Imperialist World Congress, fraternal | rorism against the Communists and | an increased apathy among the |voters, who are more than ever at sea as to the differences among the three capitalist parties. | §S. Usmani, president of the Indian [Trades Union Congress, and oppo- |sing candidate on the Communist slate in Spen Valley, Yorkshire, to Sir John Simon, of the discredited Simon Commission, has been denied his application for release from jail in Meerut, India, The tremendoi opposition that the imperialist wor of the Simon Commission hi roused has made the tories take these severe m ures lest turn of Usmani lend too much strength to the Communist slate, 26 Communist Candidates. | The three capitalist parties, Con- |servative, Liberal and Labor, are in |panic, because it is becoming in- | (Continued on Page Two) CORKY ON USSR CENTRAL BOARD ‘Unanimous Voting Hits | “Dissension” Slander MOSCOW, May 28. Gorky, famous Russian proletarian | writer, was elected a member of the | ZIK (Central Executive Committee) |today by the All-Union Congress of the Soviet Union. Gorky is enroute to Soviet Rus- |sia from Italy where he is com- | pelled to reside because of ill health. |The membership of the Central | Executive Committee was increased member. The ~:‘e on his member- | ship» was unanimous. | When Gorky visited the Soviet | Union he was greeted by tremen- dous demo~-trations from the work- ers and peasants thruout the USSR, proletarian writers and valiant |fighter for the working class. At |the time of his visit he wrote a series of articles replying to the |slanders against the Soviet Union circulated by emigre white guard writers. SPEECH, PICTURES, BY RAYS Transmission of telephotos by vis- ible light rays, ultra violet light rays, and speech by both these rays, was demonstrated yesterday at the Bamberger laboratories, _. prior to the calling of the general tory of the American labor move- ment that such a brazen exhibition of servility to the imperialistic mili- USSR: CONSULATE tary machine of the U. S. Empire has occurred. There is, however, to be recorded the long period of open collaboration between the labor bureaucrats and the military depart- ment of the Wall St. government. Hailed by the commandant at the | Military Academy as a “special jevent,” all the cadets and officers | were attired in the full uniform for dress parade, including all the struts ting plumage. Flanked on either side an officer, in gold braid and epaulets, the mem- (Continued cn Page Five) BY CHIANG CLIQUE Chiang Raises‘Moscow- Feng Alliance’ Cry HARBIN, Manchuria, China, May 28.—The Nanking regime, on the be- hest of the British and American imperialists who have become ARMY ACADEMY ; | In Jingo Speech, He! the re- | alarmed at the steadily rising revo- lutionary sentiment of the Chinese masses and the masses thruout the east, has had the Soviet Consulate here raided, arresting the whole con- sulate staff, and carting away all papers and documents found in the building. No official strike will be held next Tuesday night, June 4, at Cooper Union. WORKERS MASS ~ TOFREEGANTER \LL.D. Leads Fight; to were searched for five hour: | Be Sentenced Today ‘officials of te treacherou regime, which is inventing a BOSTON, M 28—A flood of! munist plot.” indignation is sweeping the workers | of this section at the conviction of | Harry J. Canter, local Communist} Following in the footsteps jprinter, of “criminally libelling” ex-| Chang Tso-lin, late dictator of Man- |Gov. Alvan T. Fuller. The sealed|churia who raided the Soviet con- verdict of the jury was opened here|sulate at Peking in 1927 on the yesterday morning before Judge|charge4of “Communist plotting,” Robert Raymond in Suffolk superior | (Continued on Page Two) criminal court. es The “criminal libel” charge against Canter was brought as a result of his having carried a plac- | charges have been brought against the 70 persons ar- rested during the raid, who are all being held in custody. The premises by the Emulates Chang Tso-lin. of Expel Pro-Hungarian Fascist from Vienna | HARLEM TENANTS IN MASS PARADE 'To Attack Landlordism on Saturday A huge protest parade and dem- onstration is being planned by the Harlem Tenants’ League for next Saturday afternoon to st the repeal of the emergency rent laws, high rents, dispc ions, segreg: tion and unsanite tions, it aS League yesterd, One of the bi lem has ever which tenants councils, the y housing condi- nounced by the est parades Hate een is planned, in leagues, women’s merican Negro Labor and sections of the y and other sympa- thetic organi: ons, besides many other Negro and white tenants, will participate under the auspices of the ard: “Fuller—Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti” in an election dem-| onstration of the Communist Party here last Nov. 3. The high-handed manner in which the trial was con- Harlem Tenants’ League. PRAGUE, May 28-—Already ex-| An application for a permit for pelled from Poland, Professor Franz !the parade has already been made Jehlicka, leader of the Slovakian and a reply from the police com= | autonomists and resident in Vienna, yi ig a being awaited. —— Maxim} |by one to enable Gorky to be aj | who hailed him as the foremost of | ducted, the open prejudice of the faces expulsion from Austria by the (Continued on Page Two) |Czechoslovakian government for his. ae! Ug oe agitation urging Slovaks to “throw WANTED AT ONCE. in their lot with Hungary.” | “The textile strikers need help! As| Jeblick is stated to be working tn | many as possible volunteer workers |conjunction with the fascisti to se- to do clerical and other work in the |cure resumption revival of the pre- | National Textile Workers Union na-|war Trianon treaty, through which jtional office should go at once to|certain Czech territory was largely | the office, 104 Fifth Ave, controlled by Hungary. | | More Mass Food Picketing; Bosses’ Attorney Now Judge | Bushel, Cafeteria Bosses’ Lawyer, Appointed to Bench by Walker; Jails Strikers Another mass picketing demons- and began tearing up the strike tration of the cafeteria strikers oc- | signs, the crowd showed its sym- jeurred today at the Sunray Cafe-| pathy with the strikers by booin; teria, 315 W. 36th St. The police) the police and cheering the strikers. again called for the reserves in or-| Several thousands of leaflets were der to break up the demonstration. | distributed, appealing to “all work- At 12 o'clock the strikers gathered | ers and cafeteria patrons to support | The parade is scheduled to begin at 1 p. m, at 126th St. and Fifth Ave. and proceed in a Winding (Continued on Page Fivey IY GUNMAN KILLS PICKET Injure Many, Jail 13, Applying Injunction PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28. Michael Rockford, aged 24, a dairy picket, was murdered early this {morning by Deputy Sheriff Christ Vierling, a gunman in the employ of the Liberty Dairy Products Co. Sev- eral other strikers were wounded in the mass picketing, and 13 have been arrested. There are continuous clashes be- tween armed scabs, supported by scab herding deputy sheriffs, and the strikers, for picketing goes om and: began parading up and down {with placards calling for a “fight | against the injunction,” and “work- ing class solidarity against the | bosses and their courts.” the strike.” The names of the 28 cafeterias which have signed an agreement with the union were printed on the leaflet. The leaflet denounced the injunction as “the in spite of the injunction against it, which was continued yesterday until next fall by Judge Marshall. Vierling Shoots First. A crowd quickly gathered, filling | most sweeping and drastic one that 36th St. from Eighth to Ninth Aves.| has ever been granted to the bosses | When the police reserves arrived | _. Continued on Page Five) ta Rockford and a number of othet pickets were watching a milk route (Continued on Page Two) |. 4