The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1929, Page 1

TENANTS’ PROTEST PARADE IN HARLEM TODAY 1 P. M., STARTS AT 126TH ST. NEAR FIFTH AVE. 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 New York, ‘. Y. under the act of Mar Vol. VL, No. 73 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTIO NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929 _ BALDWIN GOVERNMENT LABOR DEFENSE’ WIRES SUPPORT TO ELIZABETHTON Few Sign Pact; Militia Remains; “Watches Communists” Workers Join N.T.W.U. Trial of 52° Strikers) Nears End The International Labor Defense has sent a telegram of solidarity to| the Elizabethton strikers, signed by Karl Reeve, southern representative of the I. L. D. The wire is as fol-/| lows: “The International Labor De- fense greets the striking textile workers of the Bemberg-Glanz- | stoff plants. We condemn vigor- ously the treachery of the United Textile Workers officials in sell- ing out to the mill owners. We | promise the support of our or- ganization in your continued struggle for better conditions and will exert all our resources in fighting against police brutality and all forms of terror, as we have | supported the workers of the Gas- tonia strike under the banner ef the National Textile Workers Union, which has heroically fought | against the mill owners and the treachery of the U. T. W. in North Carolina, and is now in the field in Tennessee fighting against the sell-out which was carried out by the U. T. W. leaders.” Only Few Sign. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 31. -—Only 1,500 rayon workers of the 6,000 who went on strike April 15 against the American Bemberg and | American Glanzstoff companies have | signed up in the companies’ man trap, the employment offices estab- | lished after the United Textile| Workers Union officials and the de- | partment of labor spies had worked | out terms of surrender for the strik- ers, The continued presence of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union com- | mittee from its Gastonia strike and the rapid organization of the Eliza-| bethton local of the N. T. W. U. is! (Continued on Page Two) HOOVER SELECTS ANTLLABOR MAN Stimson in Weasel Talk Agitates for Navy WASHINGTON, May 31—The “national law enforcement commis- sion” recently appointed by Presi- ient Hoover, has announced the elec- tion of Max Lowenthal, of New York, as secretary. His duties will | include making statistical examina: ‘ions and reports for the commis. ‘sion, now in session here. The commission went into session again today, after spending the holi- | ‘day getting close to the lobbyists of | jemployers in Washington, and is) ‘how ready to begin a division of the jaroblem of studying the best meth- ods of smashing labor organizations fand framing up strike leaders and| ‘organizers. It announced two days ‘ago that it would split the country into typical districts, which on ex- lamination turned out to be the chief \industrial centers. These districts [rs have separate and intensive studies made of them. The first up Vis Chicago (steel, stockyards and ‘heavy industry). Secretary of State Stimson today issued a statement intended to pre- ee the way for an overwhelmingly ‘large appropriation for navy build- jing, and to lay the blame on U. S. imperialism’s rivals, following the | (Continued on Page Two) Five Doomed Radium 'Workers Nearing End; Two Shut in Hospital ) One year after the discovery that they were doomed to a lingering jeath by radium poisoning imbibed while following instructions given {hem by the bosses of the United States Radium ‘Corporation finds ie radium workers sicker and hearer the end. All of these workers were forced ‘4y the imposing orray of legal tal- ‘nt and the influence of the com- Dany to settle their claims for a pittance. Ee ¥ |For a Broad, Enlightenment Campaign | The Address of the Comintern to the American Party members was received 14 days ago. The Political Committee immediately, by unanimous vote, accepted, endorsed, and pledged to carry it into effect and to fight against any op- | position to it, open or concealed. The Address was published in the Daily Worker of May 20, the first issue after receipt of the document. Every member of the Party has had the | opportunity to study it. Promptly and decisively the Party has responded to the Comintern Address. By mail and telegraph a constant stream of messages has poured into the Party office, from district organizers, district bureaus, language bureaus and news- paper staffs, and from leading workers, all accepting, en- dorsing and pledging to struggle for the line of the Address | and against all opposition to it. : Especially important to note is the fact, that the response of the proletarian membership, the workers in the shops, mills, and mines, has been the most prompt and unhesitating, the most determined to stand with the Communist International against all who oppose it. The Party membership, especially its proletarian core, has accepted the Address with the enthusiasm that springs from conviction, and from the knowledge that it means a new period of advance and achievement for our Party. a Especially decisive has been the membership’s understanding of the | fact that this Address liquidates once and for all the myth that the Comintern is trying to transfer the leadership of the Party from one group to another. The Party already understands that the Address is intended—and is achieving its end—to really liquidate all the old group- ings which have been a barrier to the healthy development of the Party, and which have prevented an effective struggle against opportunist tendencies within the Party. The editorial article in the Daily Worker | of May 27, which dealt with this point among others, has been over- whelmingly approved by the membership. Full Enlightenment Now Required Another stage is now reached in the acceptance and application of the line of the Comintern Address. Now that the Party has decisively entered upon the path pointed out by the Comintern, it is necessary that the whole Party membership enter upon an organized discussion, to make clear to each and every one the full meaning of the Address, and its application to the daily life of the Party. Such a discussion, demanded by the Address itself, must now begin throughout the Party, from bottom to top. What does the Party's acceptance of the Address mean? What will he achieved by the Party Enlightenment Campaign now opening? The following objectives must be set for this campaign, toward which every member must strive: (1) Implanting a deep understanding of the Comintern line, broad- ening and deepening the ties between our Party and the World Party, the Comintern, already demonstrated by the endorsement of the Ad- dress, and making this line an intimate guiding force in all our activity. (2) Solidifying the ranks of the Party, obliterating all the old group lines and factional formations, in a great mobilization of ALL THOSE WHO ARE FOR THE COMINTERN. (3) Disclose who is against the Comintern, make clear to the Party as a whole just what such opposition means, and break com- pletely its influence in the Party ranks. Who Is Against the Comintern? It is clear from the Address itself that opposition existed in the Party delegation to the Communist International., Comrades Loyestone and Gitlow in their declaration of May 14, refused to accept the Ad- dress, or to carry it out, and even went to the length of stating they would actively oppose it. They are thus entering upon a course lead- ing toward an attempt to split the Party, a course in violation of the 21 Conditions and the Statutes of the Comintern. In this splitting course they do not in any way represent the true proletariat spirit of the American Party, and will find the Party membership solidly lined up against them. Comrades Lovestone and Gitlow, on attempts to re- new the faction struggle on the basis of opposition to the Communist International, will quickly feel the solid determination of the Party, which will tolerate no further faction activities of any kind. But let there, be no mere mechanical acceptance of the Commun- ist International Address. Such formal acceptance, without application in life of the line of policy laid down in it, would be barren. The Party discussion now opening must take the form of basic self- criticism, of development of inner-party proletarian democracy, which will eliminate all elements of factionalism and mobilize the Party for its really basic tasks—internally, to combat all traces of opportunism, to struggle against the Right danger; and externally, to mobilize the awakening sections of the working class who are more and more engaging in strug- gle against capitalist rationalization and, against the danger of war. The Party discussion must be made into a keen weapon against all remnants of factionalism, as the first steps in a real drive against op- portunism which has been deeply imbedded in the American party and which must be burned out in the fires of merciless criticism, and to concentrate the full energies of the Party on the practical tasks em- phasized in the Address, Therefore, it is necessary for all Party Units forthwith to begin a full, thorough, honest, self-critical, Bolshevist discussion of the Address of the Comintern, and of the tasks of the Party in the light of this Address. . The next two weeks the Party press will especially concentrate upon this discussion, which means a new stage in the forward march of the Communist Party of the United States of America toward becom- ing a mass Party, the leader of the American working class in the strug- gle against American capitalism. FORM UP THE RANKS OF THE PARTY, FOR THE COMINT- ERN, AGAINST THE SPLITTERS OR SPLITTING TENDENCIES, NO MATTER FROM WHAT QUARTER! THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IS FOR THE COMINTERN! REJECT AND CONDEMN ALL OPPOSITION WHATSOEVER TO THE COMINTERN! FOR A COMPLETE BOLSHEVIST APPLICATION THE COMINTERN LINE, AND COMPLETELY UNIFY ITS RANKS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM ON THE REVOLUTIONARY LINE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL! FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FACTIONALISM, AGAINST OPPORTUNISM, AND FOR THE PRACTICAL WORK THAT WILL BUILD 4 MASS COMMUNIST PARTY) % |to join them. |the line to keep moving, reaching|Part of Hits Working Class Hardest ‘ARMED DEPUTIES: AGAIN ASSAULT F Of over 100 peo- ple who died from the heat and in auto TEXTILE PICKETS accidents on Mem- orial Day, at least = 175 were workers or i i embers of their Solid in Gastonia mated. Workers could not leave the When Guns Menace esa sweltering cities, in Li hts Guar at r most cases, an cS xi d Wate when they did they . | ld L 0 to in Muslin Sacking such as Coney Is- GASTONIA, N. C.,"May 31—The | das | Bee Non picket line in front’ of the Loray | CUETO EO Gs; mill of the Manville-Jenckes Co. | affected, Photo was smashed yesterday by armed | shows a worker, deputies and detectives. The lead- | Joseph Kosber, be- ers of the children’s section of Sugussuneds after of pickets were arrested. \ od 2 # collapsing due to the | The children’s section of the Na- > heat. tional Textile Workers Union| marched with banners telling who | children to disperse, threatening was grabbed by a deputy, told the | Deputy Sheriff Bill Whitlow told | they are and appealing to the scabs ‘ : ttaoe oftmzee,ze FURRIERS MEET UNION ALLOWS mill bosses’ flunky to “leave go of” | |the two strikers who were leading The deputies told the strikers’ children stood fast, singing strike | songs. One of the children, who| AT RUTGERS § FAKE PROBES IN a his hand. | recssge erste TODAY AT1P.M, CAISSON HORROR members of the strike committee. | a REE eect, e Mobilization Workers Back ‘Daily’s’ for General Strike Demands the deputy sheriffs. Arrests fol-| hhowed. | The final mobilization plans for) JERSEY CITY, N. J. May 31— | Company Union. | the coming general strike of the fur) Although officials of the Com- for his gun as he gave his order. | The strikers ignored the threats of | es Fi ‘ | workers will be carried out today,| ‘ ‘ - The sabe Mi the mill celebrated ai cdultatel"tnendiby bythe: Needle pressed Air, Foundation, Subway. |Memorial Day by working 12 hours. | 7) \Ges Workers Industrial Union, and Construction Workers Union The Manville-Jenckes Co. is formin; ie a cubic aulod/in the Letae mate Today, at 1 o'clock at Rutgers | have declared the company at fault It has calied a meeting of 100 scabs | Sq., will be held a giant open forum for rushing the work without regard who will form the basis for the|demonstration of fur workers. The to the safety of the men and caus- company union. The National Tex- |meeting will be held directly oppo-| ing the death on Wednesday, of six tile Workers Union has issued a|site the headquarters of the yellow andhogs” working in the Hacken- leafl& denouncing the company | “Forward” where sinister schemes! sack River job, workers severely union, pointing cut that it does not| are now being worked out as part | criticize them for permitting to pass (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) | the opportunity for a real investiga- tion fixing company guilt openly and preventing such accidents in the future. Daily Worker Demands. The demand published yesterday in the Daily Worker for life-time support of the dependents of the slaughtered caisson workers, the demand for an investigation by the union, the central labor body of the “New Leader”, Cringing for Ads, Admits That It shorter shifts for the “sand hogs’ Boasts of the Prosperity of Its Readers in a y mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION OUSTED IN BRITISH POLL LABOR PARTY LARGEST: CHIEF AID TO CAPITAL: COMMUNIST VOTE GOOD \No Majority in New Parliamen MacDonald to Be Premier, Use Old Excuse for Treachery |Communists Hail Leftward Swing of Workers; | Confident They Will See Thru Misleaderg TENANTS PARADE TODAY AGAINST RENT SLAVERY [Meet at 126th Near 5th | Ave, at 1p. m. The big protest parade of the ten- (Wireless by Inprecorr.) LONDON, May 31.—General elec- results arc ill incomplete, but all seats contested by Communist canidates are now returned. The best results were obtained by Willie Gal- acher, Arthur Horner, Genddes, Robert § art and Satklatvala. The aggregate votes given the la- hor party are 5,000,000; conserva- ti 4,000,000; liberals, 3,000,000, and Communists, 50,000. eo iac eS LONDON, May 31.—Reports from 597 electoral districts in the British general elections, with only 18 still ants will take place today. In re-|to be heard from, indicate that a sponse to a call issued by the Har- lem Tenants’ League, Negro and {white tenants will gather at 126th | St. near Fifth Ave., at 1 p. m., to march thru the streets of Harlem | raises, segregation, unsanitary hous- |ing conditions which make the home | life of a worker almost unbearable. Fully conscious of the fact thav only by mass organization and ac- tion can they win their demands, the working class tenants will join the parade. Among the organizations |participating are the Harlem Ten- jants’ League, the American Negro |Labor Congress, wor Communist Party, union locais and other working class groups all bear- ing their banners and slogans. The parade will be led by John C. Smith’s Jazz Band. The line of march will be north on 5th Ave. to 135th St., west to Lenox Ave., north on Lenox Ave. to 145th St. west on 145th St. to 7th Ave., south on 7th Ave. to 135th one block to Brooks Sq., at 136th | St., and St. Nicholas Ave., where an (Continued on Page Five) COMRADES WANTED | Comrades are asked to report to- jday at 9 a. m. to the office of the |Negro Committee, 26 Union Square, |2nd floor, for special v Is Backed by Explotters ssc ‘stints “te demands for better wages and SHIP ORGANIZER St., west to St. Nicholas Ave., north | tremendous protest vote against the smashing of the general strike, the starvation of the miners, the reduc- tion of unemployment relief, and the imperialistic tactics of the Baldwin in protest against the wholesale rent | conservative government has brought it down to defeat. Of the 597 re- ported, the labor party hos 289 seats, the liberals 48, with the con- servatives running second with 254 and due to gain most of the rest. The labor party is the largest, but has no majority, and the liberals, although almost wiped out, still hold the balance of power. The Communist Party, running 26 ing women’s|.candidates and appearing for the jcouncils, units and sections of the|first time on a national scale in the British elections, has polled a good/ vote. Its member of parliament, the Indian, Saklatvala, lost his seat, This does not signify a loss of pres- tige with the workers, for he was clected in 1924 because at that time the Communist Party had not yet grown strong enough to put up its own candidates and was more or less involved with the labor party, which, (Continued on Page Two) FOOD ORGANIZERS WON'T PAY FINES Picket Demonstration Monday Noon themselves because of less exhaust-| ion, and the demand for a workers’ Circular Soliciting Advertisemerits 2 | the unions, trips to Europe and are generally | liberal in all their vacation ex- | 2 4 penditures. Most of them go away | While compressed air workers who for the entire summer.” witnessed the burial alive of six of| Advertising is urgent to maintain | their fellow workers in the mud at) the scurvy shect during the coming the bottom of Hackensack River, de-| summer months, inasmuch as many | clared that the Foundation Company | was solely to blame in the air pres-| sure line blast, the Jersey City and| (THE GREAT SOCIALIST AND LABOR WEEKLY) party, has again displayed its real colors. Although it parades as an “organ of labor,” its latest perform- ance brands it cleagly for what it is—an organ of small shopkeepers, shyster lawyers, and other parasites, The “New Leader” is now mailing Fake Probes Start. | Hudson County authorities yester-| | day swung the apparatus of the law! |into action on the side of the con-| | tractor bosses, announcing that they| would begin an “investigation,” | which workers say will as usual (Continued on Page Two) | REICH ALLIANCE WITH WALL ST, Morgan Wins Points as | Parley Nears*End | PARIS, May centage of NEW LEADER readers ene! seal inal eyes vac entire, The average income of the readers of The NEW . DER is perhaps, on the whole, higher than the in- : come of the readers of other newspapers. The NEW ¥ LEADER appeals to'people, who either because of their i { profession or their association in Unions of skilled work. { ers are usually well paid. : - The NEW. LEAD ces i financial Peaster al ee cae Y —With the pres- Sam Kramberg and Michael Ober= meier, officials of the Hotel, Restaur- so that they can better take care of | inspector to watch the apparatus ant and Cafeteria Workers Union, e . 2 used, on which the lives of the men| who were fined $250 each by Su- = By og ya GARLIN. . | “A large mereentage of News (acnendi: have cattased: the reralee preme Court Justice Thomas C. T. e “New Leader,” yellow strike-| Leader readers own their own | hut have not been followed up by| hr Crain on May 18, today refused to breaking organ of the socialist) homes, have automobiles, make p by| Fir ame Morgan, of the pay the fines which would have been a loss to the union and help for the exploiting boss. They prefer to go to prison. The fines were to be paid to the Wil-low Cafeterias, Inc., against whose cafeterias the union has de- clared strikes, before May 28th. Justice Crain found them guilty on May 18 of violation of the in- junction which was granted to the Wil-low cafeterias by Supreme Court Convicted about five weeks ago! Justices Levy and Sherman, on a charge of “assault,” Morgan| A tremendous picketing demon- fad in the meantime been confined (Continued on Page five) to the Raymond St. jail, the court | Rs A PTET Se having flatly refused to grant bail. | 4 DIE IN BLAST Work of Ship Bosses. | SANTANDER, Spain (By Mail). The frame-up of Morgan was in-|Four workers were killed and itiated and pushed by officials of |seven critically injured as the result |the Standard Oil Company of New |of the partial collapse of a blast Jersey, whose oil tanker, the “S. S./ furnace, molten slag being hurled William Archbold,” Morgan had | in all directions to a distance of 150 boarded on April 11 in order to dis: dis, The injured workers sus | (Continued™on Page Five) \tained severe burns. Marine League Six months in prison for working to organize the miserably exploited seamen! This is the vicious sentence im- posed yesterday upon John S. Mor- gan, organizer of the Marine Work- | ers League, who was tried before the judges in Special Sessions in Brooklyn. e Amalgamated TUEL Backs Cooper Union Meet Today and labor “The backbone of the NEW LEADER circulation profession, a surprising number of ve sure of the British elections and the Qess men, aut ts, doctors OF i agreement of the German. social- . ind terested |democrats to participate in the Ger- ian imperialist government playing a great part in the conclusion of the In Stirring Statement It Calls for a Vigorous OF THE | ADDRESS, WHICH SHALL INFUSE THE WHOLE PARTY WITH | debts parley here, the end of the conference is seen tomorrow be- tween J. P, Morgan and Owen D Young, representing Yankee imper- jalism, and the German capitalists. It was agreed to lift the lien on the German railroads and it was elso agreed to suspend internal pay- ments in event the German govern- ment is threatened by a’ crisis. is found amongst the highly paid well organized skilled laborers. These men and women realize that the NEW LEADER exists for their benefit and not to make money. The paper therefore enjoys unusual reader interest. The readers feel that they owe it to their paper to patronize its advertisers — giving them the preference in vevery case. out a circular soliciting advertising, ,of the “New Leader” readers will and its contents remove the last “go away for the entire summer.” | hypocritical claim of this sheet to So, read on: sian capitalists in their demand The difficulty set up by the Bel- | significant working |ings in years, when several thousand ‘rank and file clothing workers will demonstrate against the vicious |anti-labor policies of the Hillman |machine in the Amalgamated Cloth- \ing Workers of America, Called by the Pressers’ Club of |the Amalgamated, and endorsed by | Fight on Hillman’s Union-Wrecking Cooper Union at 1 o'clock today |the meeting is expected to take im will be the scene of one of the most | mediate and decisive steps to com- class gather-|bat the ruinous class-collaboration tactics being followed in the Amal- gamated. They will expose the murderous speed-up, wage cuts, and summary discharges against which the Hillman machine is ‘not lifting a finger. Urges Record Attendance, Denouncing the treachery and ters speak in the name of the working “The average income of the | ‘hat they be reimbursed for the Ger- Continued on Page Two) ., (Continued on Page Two) ~ linn tian canna ai * the Amalgamated Section of the|ror of the administration in the Trade Union Educational League,| ... (Continued om Page Five) ,.. ” x asides