The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929 i Page Three ™ ams mn soviet Central Executive Com mittee, in Its First Session, Elects Directing Offi CEYS ORCED T0 DROP Labor Defender Is Militant BUILDING TRADE USE JIM GROW Boston Open Shoppers Raise REELECT COUNCIL JEPORTATION OF © aber Read by Mill Strikers PROGRESSIVES ‘UNION’ TO SPLIT Fund to Fight Shoe Strike of COMMISSARS; 2 COMMUNISTS anadian Communists Released from Jail TORONTO, Ont., (By Mail).— iss pressure and the campaign led the Canadian Labor Defense ague in conjunction with the Com- inist Party has forced the Dom- on Immigration Authorities here drop deportation proceedings ainst Sam Langley and Joe Farby, mbers of the Communist Party. Jailed on charges of “vagrancy” ising out of their arrest for speak- zg at street meetings under the spices of the Communist Party, rby and Langley were released onday—although four days late. Writing in reply to the protest of inters’ Union 1014, Deputy Min- er of Immigration Egan had ated that his department had al- ady decided to drop charges ainst the two workers. The nadian Labor Defense is there- re pushing its victory and pro- sting against the deli‘>rately de- ved release, The case has drawn renewed at- A telegram from Fred Beal from Elizabethton, Tenn. announcing the first appearance of the National | Textile Workers Union in the textile field in Tennessee, declared: “Many Labor Defenders distributed.” Thru- | out the textile region of North and South Carolina and Tennessee, thou- sands of copies of the special strike edition of the Labor Defender were distributed. The Labor Defender in Gastonia, Lexington, Bessemer, City, Charlotte, Pineville and Hliza- | Lethton has been in the vanguard of the fight of the N. T. W U, to or- ganize the mill slaves of the South. The June issue of the Labor De- fender carries on the tradition of struggle exemplified in the Southern | strike issue which appeared in May. On Gastonia. | Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, again contributes an ar- ticle on the Southern strike, “Gas- tonia Sees and Learns,” in which the treacherous role of the American Federation of Labor, is brought out, and the numerous lessons that the |Gastonia strikers have learned | through bitter struggle. | | The June issue of the Labor De- jfender is one that deals primarily | | with anti-fascism. A Markoff, the} | American deiegate to the first Inter- | |national Anti-Fascist Congress that | from about 40 countries attended. Food Strike. BOSTON, May 30.—Fearing the) imminent surrender of individuay In “Food Strikers Smash Injunc- | tions” by Rose Baron, secretary of the New York District of the Inter- FORUNITY MEET bosses as the strike of the 10,000 shoe workers of Boston, Chelsea ana Stoneham enters its eighth week, the LONGSHOREMEN national Labor Defense, we read how fascism is working in New York City under the guise of law and order. “The year 1928 witnessed a more intensive drive against radicals than any year since 1922-1923, Federal, State and local authorities united ia campaigns against Communists and radical labor groups says Robert Dunn in “Record of Fascism in the United States in 1928,” All the vicious terror and bru- tality typical of the American Le- gion, also known as the fascists of | America, is revealed in “Castor Oil and Super Patriotism” by Elizabeth Cabot. History now records two large Capitals “on the barricades.” We can no longer speak of “Paris on the Barricades” only. We must now add “Berlin on the Barricades.” The bloody fascist attack by the Berlin police under the leadership of Zor- \giebel, the social democrat police president for Berlin, is told in a revo- lutionary manner by J. Louis Eng- dahl. Other contributors are T. DeFazio, ation to the flexible Immigration | ¥@8 recently held in Berlin, writes} who writes on “Fascist Terror in +t under which power of detention |? the political significance of this Italy,” J. Brodsky, ‘“Deportations, d examination of workers indicted | Congress, at which 240 delegatesi 1929 Style,” and book reviews. v any offense by police is placed the hands of Dominion agents roughout the country. The League plans to organize a cht based on the loose provisions orkers have been jailed or de- rted. At the same time the ague is cooperating with working iss organizations throughout the GENERAL MOTORS URGE SUPPORT OF HARLEM TENANTS minion to intensify the fight for Speed-up Causes Loss Communists to Join the e release of Arvo Vaara, editor of ‘apaus,” Finnish Communist paper r writing a “seditious” editorial. ara was sentenced to six months jail, and a $1,000 fine, or in de- ult, extension of the prison term two years. ANTER EXPOSES FULLER'S UILT of Eyes and Hands | DETROIT, Mich. (LRA) —Five | lost eyes, the loss of four whole hands, 16 fingers, two thumbs and jfive toes is the official accident rec- ord of only one month at General Motors Corporation plants. mobile workers, driven at the high- est notch of speed, are expdsed to the worst kind of accident hazards. | One worker lost an eye when a starting crank from a gas-electric shop truck flew out of the opening. | Another worker lost an eye from a | Tenants’ Parade A call for mass support of the Harlem Tenants’ League in its \U. Chicago Group Elects Four to Cleveland | CHICAGO, May 30.—Four dele- gates. to the Trade Union Unity Convention, to meet Aug. 31 in Cleveland, were elected by the Pro- gressive Building Trades Workers of Chicago, in their meeting Friday. There were over a hundred progres- sive members of the building trades | unions of this city. The meeting aiso elected a new executive committee for the P. B. T. W., and ten delegates to a city convention. Kjar Reports. The meeting spent much time hearing and discussing the report of Trade Union Educational League representative Kjar, who described the situation here and outlined a policy for the future. Kjar de- scribed the organization of the T. E. L., and the three periods through which American industry went after the war, the corruption during the visit of Samuel Gompers of the pink progressives in the Chi- cago labor movement to a deep yel- low, and the present situation. He reviewed briefly the forma- tions and struggles of the three new unions already existing, the miners, Fighting Programs. He pictured conditions obtaining in the building trades in Chicago. To meet the worsening conditions we have the building trades section textile and needle trades unions. | lof the T. U. E. L. and as a last resort new unions. “For the present our task,” said Kjar, “is to widen our sphere of in- |fluence among the rank and file, ig develop programs for betterment ond fight for those programs, se- struggle against exhorbitant rents |(ure greater ideological leadership York District Office of the Com- Weinstone, District Organizer. wel “The District Executive Commit- tee of District two, calls upon the sections to mobilize their forces in support of the Harlem Tenants’ League, against the expiration of the emergency rent laws June 1, | was last night issued by the New! over the rank and file, alienate the influence of the bureaucracy with Auto-|munist Party through William W. 4, membership.” A city convention of the progres- sive groups and the new unions is called to credte a militant city cen- tral body, The Cleveland conven- tion is to create a national central body. These central bodies are necessary to co-ordinate the work Farm Negroes Become Company’s Prey GULFPORT, Miss, May 30. — White and Negro longshoremen are taught to hate each other by the Standard Exporting Company in this backwoods seaport through a Jim Crow company union which under other conditions for cash. | They are sold rotten corn whiskey | and fed stinking meat. The white workers are forced to| slave at other jobs. They are de- manding that the Jim Crow “union” be broken up, and an organization which admits both white and Negro workers be formed. So far the American Federation of Labor has neglected to organize the union. i TO AiD STRIKERS "IN PITTSBURGH Form New W. I. R.| Section PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 30.—The | Pittsburgh Section of the Workers bosses’ association is making efforts to keep its forces in line. Those who seek to break ranks and settle with the union, it has just been learned, are “persuaded” to stay in the fight against the union by |means of an open-shop fund started by the big anti-union con- cerns, Bosses on Defensive. of the boss who holds out the long- est. Strikers declare that this bribe, held out to prevent bosse: tling, shows that the workers have the open-shop bosses on the run. Nearly a half of the 10,000 strikers Rykov Elec {out are from factories which were : open-shop before the walkout began. Spreading of the strike to more} distant towns is foreshadowed in a from set- OTHER LEADERS ted Chair- man of Commissars Reed first 30.—The walkout of workers from a factory Session 0 in Lowell, 25 miles north of Boston. | ecutive At the call of the Lowell strikers, | Union, organizers from strike headquarters | Soviet Congress this week, held its were rushed to the new battle zone. | first session yesterday. der of the banking departmert. “Just a spontaneous act of good judgment,” Buckley declared in an attempt to explain the remarkable coincidence. Broke Own Bank Laws. Asked to explain a loan of $375,- 000 made by Ferrari in violation of state banking laws, which forbid the floating of loans to officers of a bank, Isidore Siegeltuch, of the firm cf Siegeltuch, Butler and Kraft, a |practicing lawyer for 20 years and for two years a City Trust director, | told the hearing he “did not know” that such loans were forbidden. Of the millions of dollars “miss- ing” from the bank, none has been traced in the Ferrari estate, which amounts to only $13,841.19. Thus the thousands of poor depositors ruined in the crash are offered no hope of redress, especially with the “assets” of the bank proved more worthless at each hearing. Office Help Did Dirty Work. takes in only Negroes. Into this fund each contributing| New arrests of pickets who are| Alexei I. Rykoff was re-elected They have placed at the head ot shoe boss has put from $10,000 to | repeatedly violating the injunction! president of, the Council of People’s the company three “good Negroes,” $180,000, depending on his capitali- are continuing daily. __ | Commissar Y. E. Rudzutak, V. who are instructed to charge husky | zation or prosperity. Used now as| The Workers International Relief, | V. Schmidt K. G. Ordjonikidze farm Negroes who come to town a strikebreaking chest, the remaind- | which established kitchens here re- were re-elected vic seeking work a fee of $1 per month jer of this “kitty,” in the event of aj cently, is feeding thousands of strik- The All-Union al Executive and as much graft the men can pay| union victory, is to be the reward ers. Committee takes its directives from | out of their first pay, which is less the All-Union Soviet Congress which than 61 cents per hour for loading ! meets once a year and formulates creosoted railroad ties from cess- HOW CITY AIDED RAISE FUNDS FOR the poliey. and progtam.of theta pools of water where they are ernment for the ensuing year. The dumped by the thousands from Executive Committee in turn elects freight flats. Each man is forced 5 the Council of People’s Commissar, to carry up on the ship gangplank BANK SWINDLERS CHILDR whose members are heads of the a heavy tie of 200 or more pounds various departments of the govern- if he expects to stay on the job. If | oes ment. he leaves before the job is finished! ,__. : Heoricp eae Soree. ‘Teh ax pecalen he is subjected to arrest for vag- Withdrew $175,000 Just |Chicago Organizations , Score: Tenitenerin was re-elected pcan ute cciet accel saolk) of the Before Crash | Cooperate eign Affairs; Clemence Vorishilov iclidea _—_— as Commissar of defens: Y. E. These men are forced to eat at| (Continued from Page One) | CHICAGO, May 25, (By Mail).— Rudzutak for transport; A. Mikoyan a company store and pay twice or pefore the bank was closed by or- The Chicago Section of the Workers for trade; N rukhanov for fi- three times more than they would : International Relief, in cooperation nance gy for posts and with the Communist Youth League telegraphs; and N. A. Uglanov for and the Young Pioneers of America, labor. is this year building and conducting, ‘The presidents of the various a workers’ children’s camp which soviet Republics, which make up the promises to be the finest ever main- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, tained in the middle west. werelrecelacted’ as the ale carasemnee | The Czecho-Slovak W. I. R. Com-| of the Central Executive Committee. | mittee, under the leadership of Karl| They are M. I. Kalinin, representing |Kratochvil, is assisting in raising’the Federated Russian Socialist funds for the equipment of the) Soviet Republics; G. I. Petrovsky, camp by running a working class/ representing the Ukrainian Repub- movie and entertainment on Satur- lic; A. G. Chervizk representing day, June 1, at the Slovak Workers the White Russian Soviet Republic; Hall, 3037 W. 51st St. The entire! V, G. Mussavekoy, representing the proceeds of the event, which will be Trans-Caucasian Republics; Faisula shown onc: only here, will go to Khodzh: representing Uzbek, | the camp. and I. Aitakov, representing Turk- | The camp committee submits, menistan. through Ethel Beran, 1929 camp, V. Y. Kutbyskey was re-elected [pee the following list of needs | president of the Supreme Economic for the camp. Workers having any | Council, which directs the economic of this material stored away unused | growth of the Union, and V. P. Mili- lare asked by the W. I. R. to send utin was re-elected director of the it to the Chicago W. I. R. head-|Central Statistical Department, |quarters, 23 South Lincoln Street, which plays an important part in |for the camp: laying the plans for industrial and The dirty work of every dummy| Sheets, towels, clothesline, fla agricultural development. lohi 7 1929,” the statement begins. 5 ; chip of wood thrown out by a wood corporation, through which the lights, blankets, kitchen towels, pul- Wa lcfe.toogunnont ‘tiie Lesmue tn of organizing the unorganized (a/| International Relief was formed here 7" “The International Labor Defense ells of Frame-up of Sacco-Vanzetti (Continued from Page One) tti case, and to relieve him from tribution for his crime, that same iller, who was, along with the role capitalist system, the mur- rer of Sacco and Vanzetti. Excluded Sacco Evidence. “The capitalist courts contrived to clude from the record the evidence ainst Fuller which proved again e innocence of Sacco and Van- tti, and the guilt of the capitalist stem in putting them to death, e courts even had the effrontery excuse Fuller from attending as witness when he had been sub- enaed in the case, and carefully stponed opening the case until he ts safely out of Massachusetts sisdiction at a pleasure resort just er the state border. This action s of a piece with the brutal cyn- sm that marked the actions of the urts and the authorities in the cco-Vanzetti case from beginning end. ‘And upon Canter, the champion | ‘the working class and of Sacco d Vanzetti the capitalist system s wreaked its full vengeance. nter is a leader of the Communist rty of Massachusetts, which is zanizing the struggles of the ex- vited workers in the shoe and tex- 2 industries against the employ- ‘s of Massachusetts. Back I. L, D. Fight. ‘The International Labor Defense aducted the defense of Canter as part of the defense of Saceo and nzetti. Now that all the liberal atimentalists have long since pt their last tears and buried the smory of Sacco and Vanzetti for- or, the working class is still fight- x for them and for the principles : which they lived and died. The ternational Labor Defense will ter an appeal against the condem- tion of Canter for telling the truth out Fuller, not because he has any pes of “justice” in a higher court, t because the appeal will make ssible another attempt to break ‘rough the conspiracy of suppres- m of the Sacco-Vanzetti case and I bring out in the open the hide- s srecord of frame-up and brutal- - Af the American ruling class in % case. Is upon the American workers to ly again to the defense of Sacco d Vanzetti and their defender, irry Canter. Mobilize! Organ- ! Demonstrate! Demand the re- se of Canter! Demand the opon- + up of the truth about Sacco and nzetti in the Canter appeal! Or- nize for the defense of labor’s in- ‘ests--to defend the fighters on » picket line, the victims of cap- list frame-ups, the martyrs of cism and white terror in all cap- list countries! Build the Interna- nal Labor Defense!” BRICKLAYERS GAIN. | 3RE}INSBORO, N. C. (By Mail). | Irganized bricklayers here have | n an increase in wages from $1.25 \hog or pulverizing machine. Other | workers’ eyes were destroyed by | pieces from shattered drills, flying sheet metal and chips of steel. | | Machine Unprotected. A worker lost his hand under the blades of an electric fan. A press | hand under the dies of a press op- erated on the “catch-stroke” method. Another press operator lost his | hand while working on a die be-| hind a press when another operator, | |not knowing he was there, tripped | |the press. A punch press operator was removing material from a die when the press repeated and cut off his hand. Managers were directly to blame | jfor these terrible accidents, the| company admits, “because condi-| jtiong existed and men were work-| ling in a manner that should not be | | permitted under careful instruction and training.” In a drive to set aj} jrecord for high production, the su- |perintendents in one month threw out on to the industrial scrap heap | 52 men, maimed for life. Tremendous Speed-Up. The fierce drive for production in| the plants of General Motors and all the other automobile plants, de- seribed in Durn’s “Labor and Auto- mobiles,” is resulting in increasing speed-up in all departments. A committee of the American Engi- neering Council is quoted in that! book as stating that “the increased | |seriousness of accidents during the last few years has been the direct | result of the increased intensity of industrial activity during that | | period.” This report also states that| “forces inherent in mechanization | itself and in the consequent specd- ing up of industry have a direct tendency to increase the seriousness of accidents.” The official confidential reports of the General Motors Corporation, | as well as those of Ford, Chrysler, Packard, Nash and other companies | as much Soviet oil has been imported its lerying need, with 30,000,000 wage struggle will be to underesti-|“' ry mate the role of the Party among | Workers in the country and less than the Negro masses, who are strug- three million in any kind of trade gling against the exhorbitant rents|Uion). Central bodies will be able which are being charged by the to bring the aid and resources of all landlords. . | to each and each to all. It is the duty of the Communist | movements which tend to mobilize| were an integral part of the Red the Negro and white workers to the International of Labor Unions. He need of fighting to better their con- Pictured the role and function of the ditions. |W. I. R. and International Labor The membership in general is Defence in present and future urged to turn out en masse between Struggies, He linked up struggles 12 and 1 p. m,, at 15 W. 126th St.,|in the Chicago building trades | to join the Harlem Tenants’ League |tnions with the international situa- procession which will march from 15|tion and the fast approaching next |W. 126th St. North on Fifth Ave.,| world war and what our position to 135th St.; West on 135th St. to|should be when that comes. Lenox Ave.; North on Lenox to| 145th St.; West on 145th St. to 3,000 Ship Workers in Liverpool May Join in Seventh Ave.; South on Seventh to 135th St.; West to St. Nicholas, Strike of Belfast Men LIVERPOOL, Eng. (By Mail).— ending with a big protest mee | The Merseyside District of the Min- meeting. ority Movement has issued a call to All Left-Wing trade unions and sympathetic organizations are urged joiners in the ship-building industry to follow the lead given by the 1000 to support the Harlem Tenants’ League by joining the mass protest demonstration with banners of their | neem eauoney Dlenging thbic sup Belfast shipyard workers who have struck for an increase in wages. The Liverpool strike may affect over 3000 workers, | | port with the tenants of Harlem. The Harlem Tenants’ League is a working class organization which! fights for the interests not only of | Negro tenants, but for all workin; class tenants.—District Organizer,| Dist. 2, William W. Weinstone. After every revolution marking a progressive phase in the class stru; gle, the purely repressive of the State power stands out in holder and bolder reliet-—M¢rz. Te The District Negro Committee of) |at a conference of labor organiza- | tions, trade unions, fraternal organi- | zations, the Communist Party and| |Communist Youth League, Tammany alliance of Warder and Ferrari was enriched, was done by telephone clerks and office boys whese wages ranged from $14 to An Executive Committee, consist-/$25 a week. The Hortla Realty ing of E. P. Cush, chairman; Fran-|Corporation is the latest dummy Kjar told of how the Progressive |ces Plotkin, secretary; M. R. Davis; | proved to be organized for the sole | saws, shovels, carving knives, nails, operator slipped and caught his |Party to support all working class | Building Trades Workers of Chicago |Z. Getzels; M. Jenkins; V. Kemeno- | purpose of “borrowing” money from | soft wood, electrical wires, tin sheet- vich and M. A. Seares, was selected|the City Trust for Fertari’s bene- | to carry out the work and was au-/fit. Part of the loot went to sup- thorized to begin an immediate| port New York fascist organiza- drive to raise funds for the striking | tions and the fascist newspaper “II | textile workers of the South and the| Progresso,” owned by the million- unemployed and striking miners of} aire contractor, G. Pope, also prom- Western Pennsylvania and West Vir-|inent in the scandal. Other leaders ginia. of the “new Tammany” who prof- There is great need for relief in ited by the wholesale looting include this part of the country, the new| Edward Glynn, nephew of former have not yet secured work since the | Mancuso, who, it is charged, tipped strike which lasted more than a year, | Off the city to withdraw its deposits Unemployment is rife throughout | Six days after Ferrari’s death; his the mining fields. Small strikes father, Pasquale Mancuso, and War- against wage-cuts and discrimina-|t€" C. Hubbard, City Trust direc- tion, which are taking place in many | tor and Tammany leader of the 18th localities, demand immediate relier, district. the Workers International Relief of | A Fy Pittsburgh states. It. will. make Spread graft were spilled only in the special efforts to help the un-| Course of the inquiry, which, in or- employed and striking miners. Funds | 4er to give the banking department should be sent to the Workers Inter-|#, clean bill of health and protect | higher rulers of the Tammany wig- wam, is “sacrificing” the reputations of certain minor leaders, At the |same time, wealthy stockholders, hurt by the crash—some of whom are kncwn to be connected with the republican party—are pushing the investigation. national Relief, Room 411, 119 Federal St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Communists fight on behalf of the immediate aim: d interests of the working c but in their present movement they are also de- fending the future of the move- ment.—Marx. District 2 calls upon all unemployed comrades to report at the District Office, Room 202, today to carry out important Party work of the Dis- trict. —DISTRICT NEGRO DEP’T. NO. 2; Harold Williams, Secretary. Big Growth in British Import of Russian Oil LONDON (By Mail).—Six times by England from Novorossisk in the first 10 days of May as during the THE PROLETARIAN CO-OPERATIVE CAMP Nitgedaiget alized mass production to increase |the new oil agreement between the dents. }Oil Products, Visiteeeeceoecees Soviet Russia VIA LONDUN—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $385. Sailings Every Month INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AVENUE (Flatiron Bldg.) | NEW YORK, Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 CHICAGO—Sce us for your steamship accommodations—MOSCOW $1.37% an hour. The agreement ns & year. pi » make clear this tendency for ration- | whole of April, due, it is’ said, to) the number and seriousness of acci- | Anglo-American Oil Co, and Russian | 17 a week VvvVvVv OPEN CAMP & & & Ay .-c2lls you to lay the corner stone for the NEW Physical and Mental Recreation — — — Proletarian Atmosphere New York Central Railroad to Beacon By Boat 75¢ with the Hudson River Day Line — Twice a Day Camp Address: NITGEDAIGET Beacon, New York Telenhone: BEAcon 862 60-ROOM HOTEL in the Decoration Day Week-End—A Special Program Is Arranged — Entertainment. THE ENTIRE YEAR New York Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET 2800 Bronx Park East Telephone: ESTabrook 1400 The sordid details of the wide-| ley, brooms, clocks water-hose, \ mirrors, small trunks, victrola, radio, |oilcloth, books, kitchenware and |table dishes, hatchets, hammers, | chisels, screw drivers, screws, drills, pliers, wire-clippers, wrenches, coping Strike May Tie Up Huge Plant Making Airplanes for War LONDON (By Mail).—Discontent is rife among the workers at the ing, tacks, bolts, locks, sand paper, | huge Handley-Page airplane factory, |clay for modeling, paints, brushes, | engaged in making war planes, The |colored paper, tissue paper, crepe | plant is a Hendon. Shop stewards, paper, needles, scissors, colored | seeking to discuss with the manage- goods for costumes, rafia, hemp,|ment the grading system and pre- | colored cord, balls, (indoor, medicine, ! mium bonus prices, were refused an jrolley, basket, junior league, rugby, | interview. The chairman of the |soccer) bats, masks, chest protector, | works committee was then dismissed |mitts, gloves, water wings, air pump, | without a reason, and the workers | boxing gloves, Indian clubs, dumb-| became disgusted with any further Hlocal reports. Many of the miners | Governor Smith; Judge Francis X. | hells, checker sets, fishing rods, etc. attempts to see the bosses. Urged by the minority movement of the London metal workers, the strikers are planning a strike. For a Four Weeks’ Holiday for Young Workers! SEND the Daily Worker 3 to a Striker ® rv VVVVVVVV VS HOUSANDS of workers on strike desire to receive the DAILY WorKER, but we are not in a financial position to send it Although we send thou- sands daily—it is insuf- ficient to cover the de- mand. Even these bund- les we will be compelled to discontinue unless aid is forthcoming. The DAILY WoRKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and/ directing force. In addition to re- lief send them the or- gan of class struggle. VVVVVVVVVYS DAILY WORKER 26 UNION SQUARE NEw YorK CITY Enclosed find ...........t0 be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers in various sections of the country. Name #11, (9-1). Moke anon oeeMmOne (OMAR TE SRM