The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS Por a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized . Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FIGHT ON LANDLORD SHOWER SCABS WITH LEAFLETS IN GASTONIA Loray Boss Hits Man Half His Size; Police Arrest the Striker Coal Miners Pledge Aid Local Unions, Workers Groups Send Funds GASTONIA, N. C., June 2.—Led by the Gastonia local of the Na- tional Textile Work Union, a mass picket demonstration was held in front of the Loray mill yesterday by the striking textile workers who distributed hundreds of leaflets to the scabs. The leaflets describe the plans of the Manvyille-Jenckes Co., cwners of the Loray mill to organ- | ize a company union in the plant. They end by appealing to the scabs to join the strike and fight shoulder to shoulder with the striking work- ers for more wages, less hours and abolition of the speed-up system and other demands of the National Tex- tile Workers Union. Horace Lloyd, one of the pickets handed a leaflet to a scab who took it with him into the mill. A short time later, the scab came outside with an overseer, who jumped on Lloyd and started to beat hi In spite of the fact that Lloyd is a small fellow, he defended himself so well that the mill owners’ flunky will not attempt to get rough with | Although Lloyd | any strikers again. was attacked by the overseer, he was arrested, while the straw boss was not molested by tbe police. The Workers International Relief brought Lloyd food in jail, also a message of solidarity from the othe strikers. said “He did not get me,” Lloyd when interviewed in jail, “un- til I had distributed all my leaflets.” Lloyd,..who is 29 years of age, has | been a worker all his life. Although he has been picketing regularly since the beginning of the strike, this is the first time he has been ar- rested. A large distribution of clothing and shoes took place today at the W. I. R. relief distribution center. The workers’ guard, who watch the W. I. R. tent colony 24 hours a day to prevent an attack by the agents | of the mill owners, were given first | There were not, The W. choice in the shoes. enough shoes to go around. I. R. yesterday gave baby clothes)| to Mrs. Ledford, whose baby is ex- pected shortly. At least 50 more pairs of shoes are needed at @ce, according to the W. I. R, relief com- | mittee, Miners Piedge Help. ZIEGLER, Ill, June 2—The Il- Jnois District Convention of the Na-|| tional Miners Union pledged their solidarity with the striking textile! workers of the South and promised Entered as second-: aily = class FINAL CITY EDITION New York City, N x. NEW YORK, MO) NDAY, JUNE 3, 1929 “$8.00 per year. year. “SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Outside Ne Says Canter Trial Fixed In Advance The trial of Harry J. Canter was owed up before it started.” Such was the statement made yes- cerday to a representative of the Daily Worker by “L. G.,” a person close to the defense in the Canter trial. Canter, a printer by trade and| for many years an active Commu- nist, was convicted last Monday by, a jury in Suffolk superior criminal court, Boston, Mass., on a charge of MacDONALD HAS | ‘SMOKE SCREEN’ READY FOR WAR \Follows Hoover Tactic| of Fake Naval Cut Invitations \Baldwin May Hang par “criminal libel” for having carried a Wealthy Nobility Hold. placard: “Fuller—Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti? in an election demonstration of the Communist Party last Nov. | Lavish Orgies LONDON, June 2—Tonight the| The trial was conducted in the|Teports of all but a handful of the most s| efforts of the attorneys for the In- ternational Labor Defense, which de- | fended Canter, to introduce evidence | relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti case being quashed by the judge. Canter; (Continued on Page Three) U.S. $. R. WARNS CHIANG KAI-SHEK ON PROVOCATION 'Feng, Result of Intrigues | MOSCOW, U.S, S. R., June 2.— Following closely Pravda’s denun- ciation of Feng Yu-hsiang as a tool of Anglo-Japanese imperial- ism, the Soviet Government today warned Chiang Kai-shek, the tool of American imperialism, that its patience with his provocative acts is being exhausted and that it will be necessary for the U.S.S.R. to sharply assert itself should he continue to carry on as he has been. The warning was the result of a whole series of provocations car- ried through by Chiang at the in- stigation of his American advis- ors, which culminated in. the raids on the Soviet embassies in North- ern Manchuria, along the Chinese eastern Railway, which is partly owned by the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S. R. is also provoked by the misuse of the Nanking embassy in Mos- cow. Travellers desiring visas to trayel in China are often forced to get “recommendations” from the representatives of American trad- ing corporations in the U.S.S.R., issue vis: Pravda, i in a stinging editorial, supports the government’s de- nunciation of Chiang Kai-Shek. * amelessly biased manner, all! Voting districts show that the Mac- Donald “labor” party is in position | to either form a government with the consent of the liberals, to form | a coalition government with the lib-| erals, or to force & new election. | lIt has the largest representation in| | parliament, but it does not have a} majority. The vote is roughly, tories, 8,656,- 000; labor party, 8,383,000; liberals 5,217,000, Communists 50,000, and others about 100,000. The Commu-| nist vote represents the first elec-| tion campaign on a national scale! the party has conducted, and with) only 26 candidates. The voting} strength in the house of commons, | }as reported with 9 districts yet to| Chiang Await world centers | | Britain, with many other countries | come, is labor, 287; conservative, | 253; liberals 57, and others 8. No} Communists were elected. | A Disguise for War. | Interest in every capital in the n the effect of the probable MacDonald ministry on the | clearly seen approaching imperialist war between the U. S. and Great dragged in. MacDonald’s statements through- out the campaign, the repudiation | by Philip Snowden (labor party) of ‘of navalismt and empire building | levery patriotic Britisher expects of | support and more allies, by a smoke | | with hypocritical | about before the Nanking embassy will | | the debt arrangement with the U. S., | because “the Baldwin debt policy | does not leave England free to force’ France and other countries to repay | if the U. S. permits easier terms to/| England,” and MacDonald’s history | during his former brief regime, in- dicate that the chiefs of the labor party understand very well their po- sition, Their work, the thing that them, is to provide ammunition for | the diplomats, bidding for neutral screen of pacifist illusions, coupled | announcements | limitation of naval arma- ments, and the usual procesion of “disarmament meetings” at which | |the various governments discover | more causes for war, and attempt | |each of them, to throw the blame| |for provoking the war on the other | | country. PEKING, June 2—Pending the out- | of list intrigue in come imperi Follows Hoover Line. MacDonald has already begun to stify the criticism of the Commu- a, the tools of the rival imper-| nist Party of Great Britain, that he faite Chiang Kai-shek on the one | will build a facade of “peaceful en- i to raise funds for the strikers im/}4nq and Feng Yu-hsiang on the|deavors” behind which the war ma- co-operation with the Workers In-|) other, are delaying the outbreak of/chinery can operate full blast. | _ ternational Relief, which is in charge open warfare between their forces. | | of the relief activities of the strik- |Feng goes as far as offering to; memorial day speech, which took ex- | ers. | The resolution of the W, 1 .R. and | the Southern strike, adopted by the | | convention, reads in full as follows: ; a “We delegates assembled at the a Tilinois District Convention of’ the | National Miners Union laud the | | withdraw from China if Chiang, the | Nanking warlord, will do likewise. In a telegram that Feng is re- | ported to have sent to the Nanking [fe and his b he proposes that both he and his brother warlord, Yen His- shan leave China for a few years, work of the National Miners Reliefs provided what he calls the “Soong Committee, working in conjunction with the Workers International Re- in the historic miners’ strike. While (Continued on Page Two) After every revolution marking « progressive phase in the class strug- «le, the purely repressive character of the State power stands out in bolder and bolder relief.—Marx. lief for the splendid role they played | Dynasty” also go into voluntary ex- lile. By the “Soong dynasty” he means Chinag Kai-shek, T. V. Soong, finance minister and H. H. Kung, minister of commerce, all related by |marriage with members of the Soong family. Chiang, had previously offered to (Continued on Page Five) Big Tailor Meet Backs Plans for Fight on A.C.W. Machine Thousands Demonstrate Against the Hillman Clique; May Call Huge Rally in “Garden” The mass resentment of thousands of workers in the men’s garment in- dustry against the betrayal policies of the Hillman machine in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union took concrete form on Sat- urday afternoon when a great crowd of several thousand workers, filling Cooper Union, demonstrated their determination to start an immedi- ate struggle against the ruthless | oe wage-cuts, long hovrs and her opeh-shop conditions foisted on them by the bosses in connivance with the Hillman machine. The meeting was called by the Pressers Club of the Amalgamated and endorsed by the Amalgamated Section of the Trade Union Educa- Monal League. ¥ Cheer General Strike. Tremendous applause greeted the declaration by J. Hourwitz, of the Pressers Club, who was chairman of the meeting, that, if necessary, a general strike will be called to en- foree union conditions despite the opposition of the union job-holders. Hourwitz urged that the next step should be the calling of a huge meeting of all men’s clothing work- ers in Madison Square Garden to consider the question of a general strike or any other methods of struggle that may be found advis- able, Hourwitz, in opening the meet- ing, gave a vivid resume of the sit- uation in the trade, describing the . (Continued on Page Two) | Partly in answer to Hoover's | actly the same line and used exact-| ly the camouflage that the British | | labor party leaders have become ex- pert in using, MacDonald has signi- fied that he is ready for another naval limitations conference. In order to get started as rapidly as possible on his task as advocate for British finance imperialism, (Continued on Page Two) For a Six-Hour Day for Under- ground Work, in Dangerous Occu- pations, and for the Youth Under 18! Call Communists for Picket Duty in Food Demonstration Mon. Communist Party members working in the needle trades ter- ritory and those unemployed are instructed by the New York Dis- |) trict of the Communist Party, through William W. Weinstone, district organizer, to appear for picket line duty in connection with the cafeteria strike between 11:30 and 12, Monday, June 3. “The coming weeks are the most critical in the entire strike,” says the call. “The bosses are concentrating their attacks on the workers in a desperate effort to stem the onward march of the union, The courts and police are seeking by the most ruthless methods of fines and violence to break the resistance of the work- ers. We must rally the workers in the biggest mass demonstra- tion yet seen to meet the cam- paign of terror and show that the workers cannot and will not be subdued by such methods.” SAT JUNE gal 1G Tens of thousands of Negro workers cheered the parade of tenants last Saturday afternoon in Harlem. the Harlem Tenants’ League, the paraders demanded an end to the and discrimination against Negro tenants, no evictions, the erection 0 adequate free housing for unemployed. ISM GROWS As RENTS INC “Negro bad White Tenants of Harlem Protest Rent Slavery Hh Meck 4 ti 4 THOUSANDS. HAIL MASS PROTEST OF HARLEM TENANTS Parade, Slogans Are Cheered During March Thru Center Now a #7 THE GREEDY jLANDLORD j OPPRESSION 1 : cave SOE Is). pC E ; Mask GAIA Orne Down 4 mudi SEGREGATION j Scan BUILD: HARLEM EN. “M ass Organization” Resolution Passed at Big Demonstration In a parade h made its way thru the ce Harlem, witn d and cheered by tens of thousands of Negro workers, and in a mass dem- onstration at the end of the line of march in Brooks Square, white and Negro tenants of Harlem, in a mass voice demanded an end of rent rob- bery and expressed their determin- ation to continue the tenants, under the leadership of the working cl H m Tenants League, w hich | its mass power will be able to refuse to pay rent s and procure wholesome living conditions for work In this first of tenants’ parades in Harlem, which is but the begin- ning of a se could be seen the growing power of the Harlem Ten- ants’ League, and the growing re- sponse to the Communist Party housing slogans which have been Under the leadership of advanced for the municipal elections. egation stem of rent robb for the worl A protest meeting followed the parade at Brooks Sq. wholesome houses for workers, no se, ; Negro Workers Join In. by the state to be rented without p wctic wi “Down with Rent Slavery!” “Down with Greedy Landlord Op- DECLARE BOSSES “BLAMELESS” IN CAISSON MURDER: Union Fakers - Ignore “Daily” Demands JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 2- | While scenes of tragedy ‘marked the | funerals held yesterday of five of | the six compr' essed air workers who were killed in a blast on the Hack- ensack Lzidge Wednesday, the Foun- dation Company was declared | “blameless” in the caisson blast, by the Jersey City police officials who declared their “investigation” closed yesterday. Whitewashing Begins. The whitewashing of the power- ful and wealthy Foundation Com-} | pany was expected by ‘ |as the compressed air workers are known, and predicted by the Daily Worker, altho men who were work- ing on the job stated that the con- struction company was absolutely and solely to blame for the murder of the six workers and injury of eight others, Ignore “Daily” Demands. While placing themselves behind the fake investigations being con- |ducted by the lackeys of the con- struction bor-cs, and tho one of these farce probes has already declared the company “blameless,” the of- ficials of the Compressed Air Work- ers’ Union have ignored the de- mands of the Daily Worker, made on behalf of the “sandhogs” immedl- ately on receipt of news of the blast. These demands are: for life-time support of the dependents of the slaughtered caisson workers, the de- mand for an investigation by the union, the central labor body of the city, and the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Congress, the demands for better wages and shorter shifts for the “sandhogs” so that they can better take care of themselves because of less exhaus tion, and the demand for a workers’ | (Continued on Page Two) ‘To Start Construction Of Many NewMachine Plants in Soviet Union MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).—The plans for 1929-30 provide for the construction in the U.S. S. R. of 34 great machine- building factories, including a new tractor plant (the first is al- ready in the process of construc- tion in Stalingrad), a second auto-. mobile factory to produce three- ton trucks (the first big automo- bile works with a capacity of 100,000 cars per year is to be built this year) and a number of ether factories for the preduction of motor cycles, steam turbines, typewriters, watches, ete. The sum of 380 million rubles has been appropriated for the con- struction of these factories. pression!” “Down with Segregation ] a D at it N The Harlem Press Gags the DENOUNCE MUSTE iss. 2c os Jefend the Soviet Union!” he C i P Mass Protest of Tenants yr pp apes, ioe maa ea carried by the paraders, in their By SOLOMON HARPER In connection with securing the per-| ha’ mit for the parade of tenants in Har- | robb 30-years. y of the landlords, None of these ministers aid anything against the rent- except STUDENT MEET march starting from 126th St. and Fifth Avenue, and awakening en- thusiastic response all along the line “sandhogs,” | lem to protest rent slavery the Rev.| Imes, who did admit that his mem- especially in the worst housing see- | minister Loyd Imes was the only bers are the poorest in comparison tions. The parade was greeted with minister to sign the Tenants’ League | with the big five. cheers, and all along, i lapalitition aga iitste The Ray'l! J/aebuvssadner of MerAmater}OUUCENUS ‘Fight Sharp Fiawehs aie Negeo corkers ee Jame Brown of Mother Zion Church |dam News, admitted to the writer, Policy Against Left | in ; |signed as “James Brown,” and his|that he could sign the permit ap- ie aegpesially, alotig. Fifth ‘A church is said to have cost the work-| plication only as J. A. Davis. The ‘ - yas gals f apse: ere’over $500,000) and ia only ona of |aditor* of the West ‘Indian Review |jqo tte in ire rns coe | Nore are to be found soma catia , ae : : lege, which is controlled by the fak the five half-million churches in| and American News signed the per-|; "0. Wuign “pcomm ot Mache ae! Tea, ae the Gerede aaa ae ‘ i Si pases . eT ROS . zs , s de s' ot |Harlem, not counting the various| mit, but did not give the League|nounced the administration in ayswer to the leree banner carried fa sects which have cost the workers| one line about the parade. Neither|ttovmy mesting “at which, Muste | fren which wea: Peete | more than $2,500,000 during the past| (Continued on Page Three) raed aver the keys‘ qf Brbokwoed | Against High Binks qeisk em the decadent socialist party. Contbaied da bagent “50 : on Page Fiv nes Maurer, socialist party can i tnd ES resident and chair- nan. of the meeting, refused to let the students guide their own policy. |Imstead Muste delivered an harangue during which he spoke about intro- Imperial Explorer IRON STRIKERS | | PICKET TODAY FOOD STRIKERS cueing the “new pol This new policy, contained in a memorandum | \Bosses Still 1 Can't Get by Muste, made clear that no stu- Gents who support the left wing will _—_— Scabs | be admitted. Only “militant, realis-| Demonstrate Against ¥ students will be which is meant those who « members of or who support the srous yellow socialists. | Majority Rejects “New Policy.” | A majority of the student body tis b; ailings and Injunction | e tenth we of the cafeteria ers’ strike f union conditions begin with mass picketing Mass picketin 4,000 strikers Jof the Architect Iron, Bronze and Structural s Unien will today demonstrate the solidarity of | ie union’s attack on the open-shop | wi will a standards of the bosses, who a | demonstration in the garment sec- still unable to get to Peete aan Hae tion today at noon. Besides: the break the strike. Thi | ee strikers, it is expected that hundreds |said, among other things: of members of the Needle Trades We wish to point out that for | Workers Industrial Union, the Uni- the first time in its history Brook- | ted Council of Working Women, the wood, in a written statement, has |Communist Youth League and the come out openly in condemnation /Communist Party will participate. of the left wing. This demonstration will nut only | In contrast with this we draw imed against the injunction [{ tention to the conciliatory atti- h forbids picketing and all other tude adopted toward the A. F. of ike activities, but also a protest L., avowed enemy of Brookwood. |against the jailing of the strike Time and again protestations of |leaders, Sam Kramberg and Michael | loyalty are made; apologies are |Obermeier, who will be taken to jail made for criticism; the criticism |today for refusing to pay the $250 (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) cision hailed enthusiastically packed mass meeting at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The sole survivor of an expedi-| |tion which explored the interior of | Among representatives from sym- | the Congo 19: took the ground over) pathetic organizations who pledged |/o" imperialist exploitation, ie Dr. Eine t6 the struggle were J. Louis | Daniel Davenport, above Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily 2 Sei ea E Worker; Tom De Faccio, of the| Will Try Mexican Anti-Fascist League, and a delegate) Clerical Deputies for Part in Revolt | from the Uj Elore, Hungarian Com- | munist paper, MEXICO CITY,| June 2.—Fifty-| Denounce Police Terror. Urging the strikers to keep their | ene members of the Mexican Cham- r of Commerce who were expelled ranks united till every shop si: anion terms, Engdahl denounced WhO 'Wi tampaign of police. ‘terror _ ui alleged participation in the against strikers from the Iron an rch 3 clerical revolt will be placed Bronze Workers Union and ev n trial on civil and penal charges other union which challenges b hortly. jrule. Although the men were impeached and removed from the Chamber, the | government announced they would} | Today’s picketing will be central- jized at the Klaff shop, referred to be tried as a final step towards engl- ing the rebellion on a civilian as w ell in a letter sent by the company Iron as military front. be | | q | for Furriers Score ‘Forward’; Final Strike Rally Tomorrow Denounce Yellow Sheet at Big Rutgers Square Meet; Mobilize for General Walkout drown out the cries of denuneiation League of Brooklyn and Long Island to its members Saturday as scab headquarters, Bosses Try Seab Herding. The yellow Jewish Daily Forwar “At a joint meeting between the Executive Board and Committee of the Iron Mas: the Strike | rs of | |Brooklyn and Long Island, Inc., the | following action was decided upon | |regarding the present strike situa- tion,” the letter stated: | “It is recommended that you start jmen working in your shop on Mon- day, June 8, Should you require |any men you can procure same by | petting in touch with Mr. Louis; |Klaff, at Greenpoint 8404, |the secretary of the League.” ey meeting | wives of union membe: with a view ito consolidating pickets around the in failing to properly post E. | signs and have safety covineay on the [struck shops will be held at 7 15th St. tonight, Town’ s Negligence Drowned 11; Must Pay Huge Damages : clique that has plowed a path of ruin in the needle trades unions got a foretaste of the sort of struggle hat the new, militant Needle Trades Workers Industria! Union means to BRANT, N. Y.,"June 2.—The town | conduct in the coming general fur of Brant yzepared to settled out of strike when a great crowd of fur court nine suits pending in Supreme Court against the town, aggregating | thousands of dollars, Saturday after- e the ers gathered noon in Rutges Square, opp growing out/Forward building, and demonstrated t surged through the erowd of workers, practically every one of whom had gone through untold suf- fering as a result of the terror cam- paigns initiated by the Forward and the McGrady-A. F. of L, clique in the once-powerful International Fur | Workers Union. Call for Real Struggle. Speaker after speaker called upon of the drowning of 11 persons at/their hatred of the bloated right the workers to attend the final mob- Brant Beach in August, 1926. As a|wing union wreckers and ‘their de- or with |result of a special election, the town | terminetion to carry on a real strug- ilization meeting in Cooper Union tomorrow night and to make the | voted to settle the suits for a total gle to establish union conditions in coming general strike of the furriers aiming to organize of $15,750. The town had been held v beach w \ - r ing of fur trade, Surreunded by the trusted friend: Whaler ing police | a Fon the prostitute writers of the Forward” found it difficult to real struggle against the intoler- le slavery into which the union- wreekers had driven them, Among: those who spoke were Louis Cohen, — | (Continued on Page Two) vey ly