The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ~ Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week U Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. Worker under the act of March 3, 1879. ED Vol. VI., No. 72 Company, Ine., 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929 ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 85. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. per year, FINAL CITY ITION CANTER EXPOSES FULLER; N.Y.COMMUNISTS vos: = Wort PLEDGES LOYALTY TO CLASS EXPOSE WALL ST. $tatement Which Judge Prevented Him from W A R H 0 L | 0 A y 3 Finishing Reveals Trial’s True Character ‘Sacco-Vanzetti Case Will Not Be Forgotten”; Int'l Labor Defense Scores Conviction Get Leaflets; One Worker Jailed (The following is the statement which Harry J, Canter, Boston |\C, Y. L. Hits Arrest Communist, began to make in the Suffolk superior criminal court yes- terday, but was prevented from finishing when he was stopped by the judge and dragged out of the room by sheriffs. Canter was sentenced to dne year at hard labor on a charge of “criminal libel” for having carried a placard: “Fuller—Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti,” at an election demonstration of the Communist Party last Nov. 3. Canter’s trial was rushed thru in the most openly prejudiced manner, all Sacco- Vanzetti evidence being ruled out dd pains taken to shield ex-Gov. Fuller, who is believed to have been the real instigator of the trial. The International Labor Defense is now appealing the case to the state supreme court and is mobilizing a mass protest movement of thousands of workers.—(Editor.) * * * By HARRY J. CANTER I Lave not had much opportunity to say anything during this trial, , and I want to say a few words now that the sentence has been passed upon me. First, I want to say that the Judge stated in his charge to the jury that I admitted that what I said about ex-Governor Fuller is false; that I now admit that I did not mean that Fuller is the murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti. I make no such admission. I stick to what I said. I say now, as I said then, that Fuller is the murderer of these two innocent Italian workers, and I am not greatly concerned about the interpretation you place upon these words. Fuller is just as much guilty of the mur- der of these two men as if he actually did go out and slay them with his two hands. FULLER AGENT OF CAPITALIST CLASS As a Communist and member of the Communist Party I understand the class forces at work in society. I understand the background of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. I understand that these men were sent to their death because they were enemies of the capitalist system. Fuller was the instrument thru which this was accomplished. It was not neces- sary for Fuller himself to do the job with his own hands. He was the agent of the capitalist class to which he belongs. I did not say anything extraordinary on the placard. I did not even use language that has not been used before. I said what millions of workers believe all over the world. I used the exact language that thousands of workers everywhere used and hundreds of newspaper articles in the Communist and labor press. I do not consider myself as the defendant in this trial. This is a case of the working class against Alvin T. Fuller. True, we are not able to put him on the witness stand. He was able to get all the protec- tion that the courts and the police throw around wealthy citizens, but he will have to answer nevertheless for the crime he committed in send- ing Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. “THE WORKERS DO NOT FORGET” You may send me to jail for saying these things, but that will not stop millions of workers all over the world from recognizing the truth of what I said. The Sacco-Vanzetti case will not be forgotten. The working class _ does not forget and does not forgive. The judge accused me of “arous- ing the people.” But it is the conditions of oppression which the work- ers must face and cases like the Sacco-Vanzetti case that will arouse the working class to action. I, as a Communist, consider it my duty to work to the end that the whole capitalist system which gives rise to Sacco-Vanzetti frameups will be swept from the earth and a Commun- ist society built in its place. © e Ooheg Tame: I. L. D. Hits Conviction. Sweeping denunciation of the con- iction of Canter is contained in a tatement issued last night by the nternational Labor Defense through uliet Stuart Poyntz, national sec- etary. The statement follows: “The savage sentence inflicted \pon Harry Canter by the capitalist ourts of Massachusetts is the last hapter of outrage in the Sacco- Tanzetti case. The Massachusetts USSR EXPOSES _— GHIANG'S LIES Pravda Shows Feng Is | British ' Tool | . | MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., May 30.— The allegations that the Soviet ate save conspired in the trial (Union was in alliance with Marshall \ith Fuller to protect him from the |Feng Yu-hsiang, tool of the British evelation of the terrible injustices @%d Japanese imperialists, in his e@ perpetrated in the Sacco-Van- be Pit Chisne Bese agent * 0! e ankee imperialists, were (Continued on Page Three) {emphatically denied in a statement ig issued by the Sdviet government. Rich Men’s Sons from The statement said that false do- ‘ , ‘cuments against the Soviet Union 3rown University Call vere published by Chiang Kai-shek me ‘iremen, \last week in an effort to connect Stone Them | Feng with Moscow. It branded as a PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 30.— ich men’s sons in Brown Univer- |downright lie the statement made ity here enjoyed themselves at the by Chiang and appearing in the :xpense of hard-working firemen by | German newspaper, “Der Tag,” that a Soviet military mission was con- urning in fire alarms and shower- | nected with Feng. 1 ng the fire fighters with eggs and| Pravda, commenting on the strug- gles in China, declares that the te then they appeared. Thi sempietn) $ Leip SY | Fight against the Kwangsi group is iso broke in the entrance of a dance 4,5 fight of the bourgeoisie repre- iall and committed other depreda- | sented by Chiang Kai-shek and the ions. epee The militarist, Feng About 1,000 students, disguised in| ¥U-hsiang, is now utilizing the dis- r»ajamas and paint, took part in ibaleoee: ot thes petty houngediac wing, . of the Kuomintang. ffair. Several firemen were severly | Chiang executed the orders of the njured. (Continued on Page Two) Clothing Workers to Expose Hillman Rule at Huge Rally Sooper Union Demonstration Tomorrow at 1 Lay Bare Betrayal Policies of Gang a Tomorrow, at 1 o’clock, in Cooper Jnion, all tailors of the Amalgama- ed Clothing Workers will have full pportunity to have their “say” gainst the system of bossism, peed-up, piece-work, graft and cor- uption that chieftain Hillman has atroduced and perpetuated in the rganization, Sponsored by the Amalgamated 'ressers Club, the call to attend the iass demonstration has been issued > all tailors of men’s clothing, cut- 2rs, operators, pressers and all other clothing workers, in order that they might come to join in the mak- ing of plans to end, once and for all, to the present miserable conditions of the workers,—conditions which are becoming worse daily. Resentment Grows. Growing bitterness and resent- ment against the anti-working class policies of the Hillman clique in the Amalgamated is growing, workers declare. The meeting tomorrow is special significance, it is pointed (Continued on Page Five) Negro Troops Refuse to Chase Workers Thousands of leaflets, issued by the Communist Party, and distrib- uted by members of the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers to the soldiers forced to take part in jingoist demonstrations on “Memorial Day” yesterday, ex- posed the hypocrisy of the militarists in pretending to “honor” the victims of the last imperialist world war, while at the same time sh«nting for a new Wall Street war in which millions of workers would be sacri- ficed. Thousands of soldiers, who took part in the military maneuvers along Riverside Drive, Manhattan, gladly received the leaflets, which de- nounced the Wall Street prepara- tions for a new and greater im- perialist war. Among the soldiers receiving the Communist leaflets, were hundreds of Negro soldiers who were forced to march from 92nd St. to 148rd St. along Riverside Drive. Disobey Officers Orders. Not a leaflet was thrown away by the Negro soldiers, and when the soldiers were ordered by army offi- cers to chase after the members of the Communist Youth League and the Pioneers, they refused to do so. Beatrice Weinstein, a member of the Communist Youth League, was (Continued on Page Two) FIRST RETURNS SHOW TORIES OUT Communists Strong; Voting Close BULLETIN. At 3:30 a. m. 212 of the 606 seats contested were reported complete. The labor party candidates had won 116 of the 212 seats, repre- senting a gain at the expense of the other parties of 54 seats. Only three seats held by Jahorites in the last parliament had been lost. The conservative party had won 79 of the 212 seats. The conser- vative candidates had lost 50 seats which they had previously held and had gained but one at the ex- pense of another party. The liberal party had 13 seats of the 212, representing a gain of seven. The gain, however, was offset hy the loss of ten seats which they previously had held. ee le LONDON, May 30.—Election re- ports up to midnight tonight indi cated that the conservative party had lost its majority in the house of bor party had won a majority. The British Communist Party, (Continued on Page Five) SHOW CITY AIDED BANK SWINDLERS |Withdrew $175,000 Just Before Crash So close was the alliance between ex-State Banking Superintendent Frank H, Warder and the late Fran- cisco M, Ferrari, grand-scale swin- dler and president of the defunct City Trust Company, that Ferrari knew just when banking examina- tions were to be held and fixed the records of his tottering bank in preparation for them. This was the evidence revealed at the latest session of the inquiry into the affairs of the City Trust, now being conducted by Moreland Com- missioner Robert Moses at 302 Broadway. Running each of his numerous corporations—real and imaginary— with cemplete disregard for formal Lanking laws, Ferrari and his sys- tem of fictitious bookkeeping were covered by Warder and other Tam- many grafters deeply involved in the gigantic swindle. friendly alliance extended to city authorities is indicated in the testi- mony which showed that city de- posite to the value of $175,000 were withdrawn by order of City Cham- berlain Charles Buckley four days (Continued on Page Three) Thousands of Soldiers, * jan actual present value to ‘the allies commons and that probably the la- | That the | SENATE TO RUSH ‘ON LABOR PAPERS ‘President Says Tariff | Must Pass Before | There Is Vacation Census Bill Hits Farms with Trust Lobbyists WASHINGTON, May 30.—Pro- fessor Z. Chafee, Jr., of Harvard in a published statement yester- day pointed out that Section 305 of the tariff bill, barring revolu- tionary literature was: “An ef- fective censorship over foreign literature.” He predicted this portion of the bill, if enacted*into law, would be “interpreted by unenlightened customs officials to exclude the works of such thinkers as Marx,” and other revolutionists. The bill provides a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine, two years imprisonment, or both, for violat- ing the section prohibiting import- ‘ ation of “obscene or treasonable” | CHIEF SHYLOC K works and customs officials are | given absolute and final authority | | to decide what books come under | SG these classifications. ‘Payments to Stretch| eel he | Over 59 Years | WASHINGTON, May 30.—The | jsenate, heeding President Hoover’s | 5 me an |strict orders to rush through the | PARIS, May 20.—With an accord /¢.ri¢¢ prohibiting importation of |teached between the former alliea),eyolutionary literature, and helping |imperialists and the German capi-|the biggest of big business to more \talists on the matter of annuities|profits by higher duties, will take land schedules—an accord in which|UP the Hawley tariff bill immedi- |the Yankee imperialists, directly |“tel after the week-end. Hoover |represented by J. P. Morgan and Bays there ds Bik no “revolt until {Owen D. Young, played a major Eu pone ni : |role—the dele~ates met again to-| The senate before adjournment day to complete all: the details for |¢ngaged in a fight over the question \weighing and cutting their pounds|°f scerecy in consideration of the of flesh from the German workers, tariff bill passed by the house. La- | «..|Follette moved for open hearings Open Gunes Kenge tue: jon the tariff in the senate finance man of the conference, summoned : 5 committee, which provides for se- i the delegates to a meeting early this | ot sessions and shuts off publicity meal. mndlek = tOsPPePANED the on the section of the bill prohibiting | |the importation of revolutionary | The Terms, |books, newspapers, writings or car- The amount Germany will pay has | toons, ‘ Revolt Called “Immoral.” The references to workers’ litera- ture come under the same clauses prohibiting “immoral” literature, | Sia of these sandhogs were mur- | dered through the contractors’ negligence, when an air pressure | line exploded in a caisson in which | | sandhogs were working on the | construction of a bridge over the Hackensack River from Jersey City to Kearney. The bosses were in a hurry to complete the bridge, speeding uj? the workers and disre- garding the safety of the wor DEBT AGREEMENT MAKES WALL ST, 1 | |of $8,806,000,000. That is, if the |total obligation were discounted and) | paid tomorrow, Germany would turn [over that much cash. d use such general terms of de- | For 59 Years. ription that judges can declare | Figuring interest at 5 per cent,/any publication advocating the class (Continued on Page Two) : (Continued on Page Two) New York Sections of Party For ‘Address of Comintern | Additional Endorsements Received from Party | Organizations and Functionaries 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: ( The Bureau of the Executive Committee of Section 2, District 2, New York,City accepts the Address of the Communist International and pledges itself to mobilize the membership of Section 2 to fully carry out the line of the Communist International expressed in the Address. | We urge all comrades to accept the Address in the spirit intended, and to loyally execute the decisions. The membership should prepare | itself to fully support execute the Comintern line by a thorough under- standing of the nature of the third post war period and the tasks of our Party in this period. We must earnestly strive to correct our errors of the past as pointed out in the Communist International Address. All comrades should vigor- ously struggle against the right danger and against unprincipled fac- | tionalism. This is absolutely necessary in order to effectively fight | against the war danger and capitalist rationalizations—in order to carry | out the Comintern line. Forward to a mass Party under the leadership | of the Communist International. FOR REAL MASS COMMUNIST PARTY. | accepts the Address of the Communist International and pledges itself to carry out all its directions. We wholeheartedly indorse the decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States made on the Address of the Communist International. , | We pledge ourselves to win the membership of Section 6 to accept | the decisions of the Communist International. | We declare that we will help to abolish all factionalism in the | Party and thus lay the basis for a real mass Communist Party in the U.S. A, | FROM SECTION 8, NEW YORK CITY. | The Bureau of Section 8, District 2, New York unconditionally ac- cepts and pledges itself to carry out without any reservations whatso- | ever the Address of the Communist International to our Party. The | Address, which cannot be regarded from the viewpoint of victory for uny previous faction of our Party, lays the basis for the complete liqui- dation of factionalism. | The Bureau of Section 8, District 2, also accepts and joins in soli- darity with the unanimous decisions of the Political Committee of our Party on the Comintern Address. It undertakes to win the entire mem- bership of the section for the support of the Communist International Address. In the present period of the war danger, the Unity of our Party is a prime essential. Forward to a unified Party under Communist International leadership.—Communist Party, District 2, Bureau of Sec- tion 8, J. MANKIN, Section organizer. (Continued om Page Two) WORKERS LABORERS, IN JERSEY CA DEMAND FULL COMPENSATION, ‘HOOVER BARRIER INVESTIGATION BY COMMITTEE OF THE ISSON DEATHS Insist Hereafter Investigator Representing the “Sandhogs” Shall Be Allowed to Inspect Apparatus on Which Men’s Lives Depend The Daily Worker demands that all dependents of the workers killed by the Hackensack River caisson explosion and all killed in caisson accidents in the future be supported for life by Frame-up Artists Fish |the state or the employers, or both, these funds to be under the direction of the workers. | The Daily Worker demands that the alibi of the Foundation Company of New York, the employers, be not accepted. They shall not be whitewashed by a report that the accident’s cause is “unknown.” The Daily Worker demands that there be inspection of al state, and administered through the union. TEXTILE STRIKERS SPEND DAY IN PERFECTING ORGANIZATION Tent Colony; Pian Meet at Elizabethton | Events in Southern Textile Strikes. 1.—Dizxon mill workers fraternize with Loray strikers in Gas- tonia, plan united fight. 2.—Elizabethton committee and many mill slaves from surround- | ing country come to Gastonia for advice and leadership in more | general struggle. | 3.—Armed Gastonia pickets guard water supply from mill thugs’ poisoning, and protect new headquarters from masked mobs. 4.—Threats to jail and lynch National Textile Workers’ Union committee in Elizabethton do not prevent them from arranging meet- | ing of the rayon workers. | 5.—City and business men nail up Elizabethton hall to prevent | new strike meeting. 6.—Organization begins for new Elizabethton local of N.T.W.U. * * * WORKERS RELIEF RAYON WORKERS ASKS TENT FUNDS SEE TREACHERY New N.T.W. Union ‘Strikers Build Their Own Foundations GASTONIA, N. Severat thousand strikers C., May 30.—| in this —Energetie organization Workers from Surrounding Mills Visit Gastonia , ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 30. | is going | There must be an investigation into the blowing out of the air valve that caused these deaths, an investigation by the caisson workers’ union and the Central Labor Coun- cil with full participation of a committee from the Metropolitan Trade Union Unity Center. | apparatus used in caisson work | by a representative of the workers on the job, before every shift, and that the work day be cut in half, to preserve the lives of the workers from caisson disease, (the “bends’’) as well as leave them sufficiently vigorous to look after themselves when accidents occur. The Daily Worker demands that these workers especially, enduring fearful risk and hard- ship, shall be given sickness and unemployment insurance paid for by the employers and the The Daily Worker demands wage increases for all'caisson workers, and other bridge and terminal workers. oe oe BULLETIN, N. J., May 30.— Two more workers are near death as a result of their being buried with the who are now dead in the Hackensack River caisson hor- 49, of Jersey Breslin. 28, of have their legs broken and their lungs full of mud from the river bottom and are not expected to live. | Meanwhile, the first casual in- spection of the di scene has brought out the fact that the com- pany’s speed-up policy is directly résponsible for the accident. A makeshift flange had been welded on the airlock to hold the valve ich blew off under only 24 pounds pressure, in violation of all safety rules and at the orders of the Foun- dation Company of America. Joseph | Wilson, business agent for Com- ,pressed Air Workers Local, No. 67, stated that hereafter union men would refuse to work unless such flanges were bolted or riveted. ae JERSEY CITY, May 30.— |The smothering to death of six | workers in the mud of the river bottom because of the blowing out of an air valve on one of the compression locks of the Hack- ensack River Caisson has aroused c Cc ‘the “sandhogs” up and down the Hudson River territory, | These workers are demanding |city spent Decoration Day, not in! | consideration | of past imperialist wars, or wars between chattel and | wage slavery masters, but in organ- lizing themselves for the present class war against the slavery the/ |Manville-Jenckes Loray mill owners and the bosses of the Dixon mill are trying to force them to come back to and endure. forward here for a big mass meet- ling during the week-end, under the jauspices of the National Textile Workers Union, to plan the next steps in the fight of the rayon |workers against the sellout and sur- |render of the strike by the United |Textile Workers Union. Disregarding the threats of lynch- ing, of being “taken for a 1 jarrest, made equally by I The Executive Committee of Section 6, District Two, New York, In great numbers the mill work- ers of surrounding territosy and the strikers who walked out yester- day at the Dixon mill have been in-/|F. of L. organizer and personal rep- vestigating the Workers Interna-|resentative of William Green in tional Relief tent colony here, and | Elizabethton, and the “citizens’ com- the new héadquarters building, | mittee,” the visiting delegation of erected by the strikers’ own hands, |Gastonia strikers continues its plan after masked mobs had destroyed/for a strong Elizabethton local of cne relief office and one union head-|}the N. T. W. U. to lead the ap- |quarters, and landlords subservient | proaching strike. ‘to the mill owners had evicted them | ‘from other offices. Loray and} Barred From Hall, , (Continued on Page Two) | TENANTS MARCH INMASS PROTEST Parade Starts Saturday 1 p. m., 126th St. the militia office the E | William Kelley, vice-president of the U, T. W.; Edward McGrady, A The rayon strikers were sold into actual slavery by the Kelley, Mc- Grady combination, with the mill bosses and Anna Weinstock, repre- ‘senting the U. S. department of la- ‘bor, lending a hand. They receive no improved wages and conditions, te refuse to take back “unreliable |workers, meaning any who distin- |seem to be natural leaders against |the bosses. ‘| |and the employers reserve the right | © ‘guished themselves in the strike, or full support for life of the depen- dents of the six men killed through company negligence. They demand that there shall be adequate inspec- tion of the air compression appara- tus and all lines and locks, on which caisson worke depend for their very lives, by u n inspectors, for the company and state inspection yield to the profit hunger of the _ |company, and overlook any indica- ‘| tions of nec ary repairs if such repairs would check the work. The men demand that the workers them- selves work shorter shifts. At pre- sent the men labor under 35 pounds p ure to the square inch (normal air pressure is 15 pounds), for an hour and a half at a time before coming up for de-compression. Half of this time is all a man should be forced to stand, as, besides probable \injury from the “bends” or caisson |disease due to air pressure, this long {shift leaves the crew so staggered and exhausted that the men cannot watch out for their own safety. eo e fe | JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 30.— |The death list in the Hackensack |River Caisson explosion was re- checked today and stood at six. The six workers were the victims of the contractors’ greed for profits. John Byrne, 28, of 36 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, hitherto listed as | (Continued on Page Two) | In the face of continued gagging \of the protest of the Harlem ten- {ants ager-+ *i-* rents and unsani- |St., near Fifth Ave., and will ex- | Furriers Are Mobilizing for tary hou hy the bour- e ° gels “ime! General Strike in Industry . |tend the . F Te ER di ti i 4 ‘a . 7 een the Harlem Tenants: fwursex8 Sq. Meeting Tomorrow at 1; Active | League. | Members, Monday; Cooper Union, Tuesday | The parade will start at 126th) enneny s during the past few weeks, tend to Brooks Square, between | (Continued on Page Five) SAYS HOSPITAL MIXED CORPSES. Charges of fatal negligence have | been made against Central ISlip, the |New York. State Hospital for the insane, over a curious autopsy. A patient, Elias Scuzer, disappeared. A body was found, reported after | autopsy by the authorities ‘as that Ite Scuzer a 24 year old man, but | | | now said to have been that of a 55 year old man. | The coming week will be full of;s ‘activity for thousands of furriers the spirit at the building meetings jand cloakmakers. and the open forums—all indicate | With the:time set for threatened that the furriers are prepared for a fake “stoppage” approaching, the courageous fight. Needle Trades Workers Industrial} | Union is warning the workers of ers the maneuver and outlining steps to) of | defeat it, at the same time strength-| corrupt right wingytfie yellow “For- ening, the base of the Industrial) ward,” will be” held a mass open | Union for a general strike at an ap-|forum. It is called by the Joint Board of the Industrial Union as one ization for the Tomorrow, at 1 o'clock, at Rutg- Square, facing the headquarters @ journalistic mistress of the | propriate date. Foremost among the activities, of the steps for mobi however, will be the mobilization for strike. the coming general strike of the. fur-| On Monday night, an active mem- [ENANTS’ PROTEST PARADE IN HARLEM TOMORROW 1 P. M., STARTS AT 126TH ST. AND riers. The success of the uuadewrada (Continued on Page Five) ieee eamorceee 5TH AV, ;