The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 1

i i | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION New York City, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Ine., 26-28 Union Square, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mati, Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. .00 per year, Vol. VI., No. 71 "NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929 CANTER SENTENCED TO YEAR AT DEER ISLAND PRISON Gastonia Strike Spreads; Dixon Textile Mill Workers Walk Out N.T.W, UNION T LEAD PICKETING; RELIEF TO HELP Boss Assaults Worker; Others Quit to Show Solidarity Working 75 Hour Week Loray Scabs ( Get Their Wages Reduced GASTONIA, , May 29.—The Gastonia strike has spread to an- other mill. The workers| of the Dixon mill went on strike yesterday demanding the reinstatement of all workers discharged for protesting against the speed-up conditions in the mill, also demanding the re- moval of Second Hand Brady Wilson, demanding shorter hours, increase in wages ar.’ abolition of the speed- up. The strike committee of seven, including two women, elected by the workers of the mill wil! present their demands to the superintendent at 6 a.m. te” The strike is a result of the ac- tion of Brady Wilson, who has been the most severe slave driver in the plant. He has constantly been at- tempting to terrorize the -vorkers, firing whomever he so desired. This time his victim was W. F. Smith, who has worked i the sill for the last three years without any fault being found with his work. Wilson (Continued en Page Two) 3RD MASS FOOD PICKET IN WEEK Brunswick Boss, Cops Fail in Their Attack Democratic Grafters Call Walker to Settle Queens Loot Quarrel | The blandest smiles backed by the, weightiest “political” arguments are being used by Mayor James J. Walker in attempts to pacify in- surgent groups among democratic organizations at a party conference in Queens next week. The gathering was announced by John Theofel, | local party leader. The conference follows a diplo- matic chat between Theofel and John | Curry, Tammany leader, last night, concerning methods of settling party | strife over division of graft, which HALL NAILED UP IN ELIZABETHTON TO STOP MEETING 'Masses Demand Nat’l Sheriff Gives Jail Key Textile Union Lead Renewed Struggle \Threat to Jail Leaders Magistrate Is Involved | ‘Senators Reverse Probe Gov. Who Sent Troops} Because Green Blares Forth for Huge Army LYNGH NEGRO FARM LABORER IN TENNESSEE to Mob; Dragged from Cell and Is Hung Following out the policy of turning the A. F. of L. into a movement for support of the war plans of the Wall Street imperialists, William Green, president, accompanied by the entire Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor visited the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. After reviewing the cadets, Green made a jingo imperialist army recruiting speech, demanding a huge army and denouncing | swung many votes to the republican, - . . : [group at the primary elections last| VOte; Hear of Strike | to Elizabethton, Quiet fall. bey | ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 29.) ALAMO, Tenn., May 29.—Urged The United’ Textile Workers officials|0n and led by the blackly reaction- |who sold 6,000 rayon strikers here 2*Y business forces of Tennessee, = 4 the same ones who sent the mili- |back into slavery to the American | tia, thugs and police against the Bemberg and Glanzstoff corpor-'textile strikers of Happy Valley, | ations have lost so much influence|a mob of about 100 crashed into the SOVIET CONSULS |that it can be said the workers are| Alamo jail early today, grabbed Joe -year- y | | through with them. More and more Boney oto veae oa Negro Lorn |worker, and lynched him, by hang-| BY IMPERIALISTS workers are calling for leadership|ing him toate, MORE RAIDS ON The teeth of the exploiters were The fear of the business men who| bared and sunk into the neck of the the Red Army of the Soviet Union. Woll Has Heart-to-Heart Talk POISON KILLED With Daily Worker Reporter FERRARI HINTED Unaware, Wily Labor Faker Discourses AT B ANK INQUIRY Many Things on Train from West Point By SENDER GARLIN . “It’s pretty warm, isn’t i ing him to a tree. from the National Miners Union. | Aim at Seizing Chinese- | Eastern Railway (Wireless by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 29.— |Fravda, commenting on the strug- | \gles in China, declares that the | fight against the Kwangsi group is | the fight of the bourgeoisie repre- \sented by Chiang Kai-shek and the landowners. The militarist, Feng |Yu-hsiang, is now utilizing the dis- content of the petty bourgeois wing of the Kuomintang. | | Chiang executed -the orders of the | American imperialists, while the Kwangsi group and Feng are the} tools of the Japanese-British imper- | ialism, states Pravda. | Recent happenings in China, it/ says, represent the intensification cf imperialist antagonisms and the col- lapse of the reactionary united front that accompanied and followed the |suppression of the Commune of |ers from Gastonia. For the third time this week, a | Canton (estabbished for a few days mass picketing demonstration was held yesterday noon by the striking cafeteria workers. A demonstration which proves that the strikers are not being driven back to the 12-hour open-shop slavery by the injunction, was centered around the Brunswick | Cafeteria, 237 West 37th St. The large usually at hand to break up the demonstration was not in evidence when mass picketing started, but the boss quickly turned in a call and the riot squad and _ several mounted police soon arrived and went into action, tearing up the pla- (Continued on Page Five) DECORATE TODAY; PLAN NEW WARS Regular army soldiers, marines, naval militia detachments, blue jack- ets, and New York militia will turn out today under orders to celebrate Decoration Day by escorting 50 sur- vivors of the Grand Army of the Re- public, survivors of the war between wage slavery and chattel slavery, in a parade up Fifth Ave., and other streets to Riverside Drive. The millionaire colony there, will feast its eyes on past, present and future raw material for imperialist wars, which will assemble around (Continued cn Page Five) Workers Relief in Campaign tor Workers Children Camps The Workers International Relief, One Union Square, New York City, is opening a national campaign to raise funds for the establishment of camps for workers children thruout the United States. The drive is being conducted by the Department of Camps for Work- ers’ Children, W. I. R., Rose Pastor Stokes, director. An appeal to work- ing class organizations throughout the country has been issued by the W. I. R., appealing for funds for the establishment of the camps. “The summer is coming,” reads the appeal. “School will soon be over. The capitalist state, which spends billions on preparing for im- perialist war, leaves our children to the heat, the dirt and the crowded sity streets. 7 “We are building W. I. R. Camps | Square, New York City. , ~ squad of policemen | |during the insurrection of the work- lers under the leadership of the Chi- nese Communist Party a year and a half ago). At the same time, Pravda points | cut, the workers’ and peasants’ |movement is strengthening and the | revolution is on the upgrade. | * * 8 HARBIN, Manchuria, May 29.—| The raids on the Soviet consulates | in northern Manchuria, ordered by Chiang Kai-shek who in turn gets his orders from the predatory Yan-| |kee imperialists who are attempting | to provoke war against the Soviet | Union, are still continuing. The |North Manchurian war lord had raid- |ed the Soviet consulates at Tstsihar, ;Manchouli and Suifenho, all in /northern Manchuria, besides the con- |sulate at Harbin, it was learned to- | day. Raids Premeditated. The Nanking regime had ordered the raids, which were carried out by the officials of Chang Hseuh-liang, dictator of Manchuria. That these raids had been contemplated for (Continued on Page Two) U. S. 8. R. ELECTIONS UNANIMOUS MOSCOW, May 29. — The new central executive of the Soviet Un- ion, at its first meeting today, re- elected the entire council of Peo- ple’s Commissars, with Alexey I. Rykov again at its head. His posi- tion is tantamount to that of pre- mier of the Soviet Union. for Workers Children. We are win- ning our children away from the various bourgeois charity organiza- tions where hatred against our class is fostered and encouraged; where capitalism takes advantage of the workers’ need to turn our children into beggers unfit for the class struggle. “Through workers’ solidarity our children may be sent to a W. I. R. camp without any cost if unable to pay a few dollars for board, W. I. R. relief scouts are being or- ganized nationally by the childrens’ section of the W. I. R., which will raise funds for the camps, also for the striking textile workers, All contributions for the camps run this town, and of the misleaders of the U. T. W., is so great that to-| day they nailed shut the doors and windows of the city owned “Taber-| nacle” to prevent the rayon workers | from holding a mass meeting which| would be addressed by the commit-| tee of National Textile Union strik-) Threaten Arrest. ‘ The city officials have told Vera, Bush and Fred Beal of the Gastonia delegation that they will be arrested. | William Kelley, vice-president of the United Textile Workers Union, and a chief agent in the arrangement of the surrender of the strike against | the wishes of the workers, has fol- lowed the example of A. F. L, Rep- resentative McGrady and offered his services to the lynching gang, the “citizen’s committee” which threat-| ens to “take the Communists for a ride.” | Due to the pressure from the| (Continued on Page Two) FRAMEUP BOARD PROBES CHICAGO End Debenture Farce; Speed Draft Laws | WASHINGTON, May 29. — Pres. ident Hoover’s “law enforcement commission,” a body of corporation lawyers, big business men and deans in kept colleges, really an organiza-| tion to make propaganda for a more centralized and numerically larger secret police, as well as for easier convictions or frame-up cases against labor leaders, today decid-| ed to hold a number of “sectional investigations,” covering the main industrial cities of the country. Chi- cago is to be the first, and the real reason, the heavy industry centered | around that metropolis, with its swarm of industrial workers grad- ually awakening to the need of a (Continued on Page Two) HITINVASION OF HORTHY IN U.S, Hungarian .Fascisti in Anti-“Red” Drive BUFFALO, N. Y., May 29.—Hun- garian workers, gathered in Liberty Hall here today, protested strenu- ously against the invasion of the Hungarian fascisti, who are meeting here in their “Horthy Parliament” to promote fascism in this country, launch an intensive drive against Communists in this country and seek to deport Hungarian Commu- nists for slaughter by the Horthy regime. Louis Kovess, of the Anti-Horthy (Continued on Page Two) AL SMITH, BANKER. Alfred E. Smith, fo-s.er governor of New York, has been elected di- rector of the National Surety Com- pany of New York. Smith always was a big business | man, but camouflaged it until after he was out of office. His relatives | are entangled in the City Trust should be sent to the Camp Depart- ment, W. I. R. Room 604, One Union ~“ Bank scandal, and Smith feels evi-| dently that he might as well throw off the mask now, icf 1 jof the south in order to keep them| Negro worker on the “suspicion” | that he had attacked the wife of a! Crockett County magistrate. Box-| ley was working in a nearby field| when the woman claimed that she! had been attacked and he was im- mediately siezed. With the purpose! of intimidating the Negro workers| from organizing and forcing them to scab against workers on strike, Boxley was immediately thrust into jail, without trial and without any evidence, all of which invited the lynching. Magistrate Probably in It. | It is not underestimating capital-| ist justice to-say that this same| magistrate, together with his po- litical hangers-on and __ business friends, were the ones who drove up in automobiles at the home of Sher- iff Carl Emmerson, who turned over the key of the jail to them, and then entered the cell and lynched Joe Boxley. Be Bared Saturday ers of America will be opened at the mass teeting called by the Amalgamated Pressers Club at Cooper Union for Saturday at 1 o'clock. Pointing to the increasing rank and file sentiment against the Hill- man gang the Amalgamated, sponsers of the meeting have an- nounced that they expect a record in Boxley had been arrested in Gib- response to the call for the meeting. MASS MEETING TO EXPOSE HILLMAN Anti-Labor Policies to tic». said Fascist Grafter Used the Daily Worker reporter to. Mat- 4 Dummy Corporation thew Woll, vice-president of the | American Federation of Labor, pres- — ident of the Union Life Insurance| Was the peculiarly sudden death Co, and acting president of the \of Francisco M. Ferrari, grand scale cpen-shop National Civic Federa-|£windler and president of the de- funct City Trust Company, due to It was in front of the railroad |"atural causes? Was he poisoned— station at West Point, home of the Cither by his own hand or by others United States Military Academy to | Who considered his incriminating ac- | A new phase of the struggle which President Green of the A. F.|tivities in the huge swindle as men- | against the corrupt Hillman machitie | of L., Woll and the other members |#¢ing to their safety? lin the Amalgamated Clothing Work-!of the Executive Council had just| Thievery and More Thievery. paid a thumping visit. It wasthere,| These are questions asked at the following a review by the Council |cffices at 302 Broadway yesterday, of the 1,200 dapper cadets, future | where the bank probe reveals even officers in the next imperialist war, /Mor2 damning evidence against the that Green blared for a huge army. Rain Raye alliance which ‘ : - aided in the looting of the bank, in Ee The Friendship ‘Starts. >.||the, tallute. af. which ‘thousantls. of | dreaned ina trim gray. Brisinsaa gult;| or Guenter ee rane ; less suit, H. Warder, central figure in the his customary black flowing tie,| hearing, pocketed at least $30,000 | Walked over to buy three Corona-|hefore hurriedly resigning from of- Coronas—one dollar for the lot. He | tice when an incriminating network | Warnes aritenae exploitation’ ta the |!00ked like a medicine faker in a|of eyidence closed in on him a few son County and placed in jail in e Trenton. The mob of vicious chau-|Shops, the wage cuts, reorganiza- vinists broke down the front door |tions, and speed-up that the work- of the jail, but the Negro worker/|ers have to suffer because of the was transferred to the Alamo jail | holy alliance between the bosses and before they could reach him. He had|the Amalgamated leadership must only been there about one-half hour, |come to an end,” declares a call is- when 15 or 20 automobiles, drew) up before the sheriff's house where |the tens of thousands of clothing they procured the key. Boxley was | workers. The policy of expulsions then taken from jail by the expo-|of militant workers and discrimina- circus, days after the death of his fascist Several men in working clothes |friend, Ferrari. were in front of the station, wait-| Atthou op y ; ; i | ough Ferrari's doctor had ing for the 5:15 to Weehauker. 'tried to testify before Moses that But what would Matt Woll want | death was due to a burst appendix h working men? What's more,/end general septicoemia, reliable sued last night. “This is the cry of one or two were obviously “foreign-| medical opinion scouts the story, | (Continued on Page Two) pointing out that sudden deaths in such cases are exceptional. Four or five days is the usual limit be- fore death from a ruptured appen- dix, it was repeated at the scene of the probe yesterday, Yet Ferrari, considered physically fit, died within 48 hours. Now a Tradition. nents of the open-shop, lynching-|tion against the rank and file by (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) PROTEST RAIDS Urge Unity of Party on Basis ONUSSR TODAY | of Address trom Comintern ronor shanghai Labor 2" sibistedtetires. The nar : ing death of Warder’s wife, who | at Mass Meeting = Price 8 Cents of Slavery TRIES TO SPEAK, DRAGGED FROM THE COURT ROOM Frame-up Artists Fear | Demonstrations by the Workers : Viciously Unfair Trial Jailed Worker Scores Fuller, the Murderer BOSTON, May )—A year at hard labor at Deer Island, the prison with the most severe conditions in the state, as the sentence given Harry militant Boston printing by Judge Robert uffolk Su- perior Court this afternoon. Canter, when brought up for sen- tence, began making his statement cn the case, pointing out the class character of the trial and verdict, and exposing Governor Fuiler as the agent of capitalism and the ac- tual murderer of Sacco and Van- zetti. As soon as he started speaking he was interrupted by the court and snatched out of the room by the sheriffs who dragged him physically to the door, from which he was rushed to Deer Island. | Fear Workers’ Demonstrations. | The defense charges that Canter was sent so hurriedly to this prison |to prevent him from obtaining bail for release during appeal, which is being made immediately by the In- ternational Labor Defense, and for fear of wor s’ demonstrations, (Continued on Page Two) WATT CONVICTED “IN HERRIN GASE Men Enraged at UMW; Frame-up of Leader | HERRIN, Ill, May 29. — John |Watt, president of the National Min- Union, was convicted today in s second trial in Herrin, on a charge framed against him after he was arrested by Lewis-Fishwick deputies and gunmen when he tried to speak here in an advertised meet- ing on the National Miners Union. The gangsters tried to provoke him into a fight and kill him, then jailed him. | The trial which convicted him was before a packed jury, in an unfair court, dominated by the coal oper- rae and the officialdom of the (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) Additional Endorsements Received from Party | Organizations and Functionaries A mass meeting to commemorate | the fourth anniversary of the Shang- hai Massacre of May 30, 1925, which | was the beginning of not only the Chinese anti-imperialist revolution but also of an historical wave of workers’ and peasants’ movements | lin the Far East, and at the same| |time to protest against the covert and outrageous raid on the Soviet }consulates in Manchuria by the toolseof the British and Japanese imperialists, is called for this after- noon by the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League, together with all Far Eastern organizations of Chi- nese, Korean, Japanese and East In- dians in this city. The meeting will be held this afternoon, 1 p. m., at the Chinese Theatre, 48 Bowery, and all revolu- | tionary workers as well as all op- ponents of imperialism are urged to come, The raid on the Soviet consulates, | in the opinion of the Far Eastern Additional statements received from 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: ITALIAN COMMISSION ACCEPTS UNANIMOUSLY. The meeting of the Italian commission has approved unanimously the following points: 1. The Italian commission of the Central Committee accepts un- conditionally the Address of the Comintern to the membership of our Party and pledges itself to follow unreservedly the Comintern line worked out in the Sixth World Congress, expressed in its Open Letter to the Sixth Convention of our Party and emphasized more strongly in the Address. 2. Endorses and supports wholeheartedly the decisign of the Central Committee which appeared in the Daily Worker of May 20, 1929. 3. Pledge to fight relentlessly against any possible attempt of splitting the ranks of the Party by organizing an open or covered opposition to the Comintern Address, no matter from what comrade or group of comrades should it come. 4, The Italian commission condemns the splitting policy of com- rades Lovestone and Gitlow who refuse to accept and carry on the organizations, is the commencement decision of the Comintern as expressed in its Address. ,of a new anti-Soviet campaign, 5. The commission calls upon all the Italian comrades to rally | scheduled to complete the encircle- around the Comintern, to do away with any group affiliation, to fight | ment of the Soviet Union and start energetically against the Right danger and Trotskyism, to carry on, as |the imperialist war against that true Bolsheviks, their work in the spirit of the Comintern Letter to the | country. Sixth Party Convention and of its Address to the Party membership. | To carry on honestly and sincerely the line of the Comintern is the only guarantee to stop factionalism of both groups. —L. CANDELA, Secretary of the Italian Commission of Central Committee, Communist Party. * * * | Breslau clique of the company union |known as_ the International Ladies Garment Workers, and urged the | workers “to understand clearly the |present situation and to act like | class-conscious wotkers.” The call, |contained in a printed circular, ap- peared over the signature of Joseph Boruchowitz, general manager © of the Joint Board, and was distributed | trict yesterday. Fake Fight is Noise. The call Article on “Shanghai Massacre,” P. 3 Today An extremely stirring article on “The Shanghai Massacre and the |Harbin Raid” will be found on page | 3 of today’s issue. Thru an unfor-| tunate error the name of the author, | T. H. Li, of the Chinese Students’ | Alliance, was omitted. | sumably, are carrying terrible and bloody battle. PARTY FORCES MUST BE UNITED. I Wholeheartedly accept Comintern Letter and support cessation factional striggle. I have already made clear my stand in editorial article published on May 23rd in Eteenpain. Will not support any ap- peals on stand of Comintern. All factions must be abolished and fac- tional strife stopped. Party forces must be united in support of Comin- tern Letter. Entire editorial staff solidly supports same stand. RICHARD PESOLA, Editor, Eteenpain, Finnish Communist Daily, Worcester, Mass, wide, Two), are trying to “convince” the cloak- makers that they, the fakers, are cent discharge clause, against piece- work, and against what not, Commun! immediate the working cl present moveme: it on behalf of the d_ interests of The Industrial Union, has there- fore, spread a message of warning and a manual of arms to the thousands of workers in the market. Ail but in their hey are also de~ jing the future of the move- - & (Continued on Page ae ise ——— me by the thousands in the garment dis- | pointed out that the) 4, turmoil in connection with the fake ||ijshed in the | “‘strike” is growing louder each day period when the company union was in the headquarters of the corrupt, | officially recognized by the Associa- |right wing clique. The manufactur- tions, |ers and their agents in the company| 9» ‘are playing to the galleries, and pre- on a most Schles-| |inger, Dubinsky, Breslau and the| rest of the leeches on the cloak trade | actually battling against the 10 per| Industrial Union Calls Upon ‘Workers to Organize in Shops Aim Is to Thwart Fake Cloak Stoppage; Big Furriers’ Cooper Union Meet Tuesday In a call addressed to the cloakmakers, the Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, yesterday warned the workers of the impending fake “stoppage” being planned by the Schlesinger-Dubinsky- OO | TODAY IS A LEGAL HOLIDAY | The Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union | urges all needle trades workers to | remain away from the shops to- | day, as this is a legal holiday ac- | cording to the union agreement. | , The cloakmakers are urged to con- sider the following important facts: Refuting the Lies of the Clique. That piece-work was re-estab- cloak trade during the 2. That according to the agree- jment the company union had with the associations, the cloakmakers were supposed to work week work; |but with the consent of the com- pany union the bosses re-established the piece-work system which has be- come wide-spread in the cloak trade during the past two years. 3. That the 10 per cent re-organ- ization clause was given to the boss« es by the International clique thru |its Governor’s Commission, and that you, the workers, fought against + (Continued om Page Five) ae