The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 1

POQOract e ‘- t is iS ll ey = e- d. 7 il i 1s ly id rd od THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For’ the 40-Hour Week aily Vol. VI, No B S$ Union [BSCE Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York Grey, Ne ¥s. RIPTION RA Outside N FINAL CITY EDITION n New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. $6.00 per year: Price 3 Cents rk, by mail e |FOOD ORGANIZERS DEFY INJUNCT ON FINE; GO T0 JAIL ‘| Fur Workers Mobilize Tonight at Big Cooper Union Rally for Strik WEETING 7 TO BE ‘Chicago District Bureau ‘BALDWIN LIKELY 3,000 MEET AT GASTONIA . (LAST BEFORE THE | CALL FOR STRIKE. Action Is Appeal to the Workers Tells of the Company Union Treachery Ready for Struggle” Active Members Hold Important Meet The final mass _ mobiliza- sion of the furfiers just orior to the calling of he general strike in the industry | vill be held tonight at Cooper Union, Astor Pl. and Eighth St., immedi- tely after work. The meeting will yegin promptly at i: The mass demonstration tonight, vhich is the climax of a series of ypen forums, building meeting: ther gatherings, will take f teps for the great struggle to li rate the fur workers from the lavery into which the “Joint Cou il,” the bosses’ company union, has nized and ed fur worker: A h Fight. “unusually important meetin ‘e members of the Indu Jnion was held last night at aattan Lyceum, 66 EH. Fourth St.. Her2 a large t of the Pi “ommittee and its captains were se- ected for the coming struggle. It yas arrenged that the captains are 9 pick more members for the picket An et ‘ommittee from the shops, all to re- vert at a meeting at the Industrial 28th St., today at Onion, 131 W. * o'clock. In an: im Gold, secretary iustrial Union and leader of the vie- orious furriers’ strike of 1926, de- clared that the comi: general strike would be ‘ ive battle.” He emphasized the great hardships -o be encountered in the strike, and irged that all workers take their share of the responsibility for ob- aining a speedy victory. In a call distributed hy the thou- sands in the garment center yester- lay, and signed by J. Boruchowitz, general manager of the Joint Board of the Industrial Union, 3ross, manager of the Fur Depart- and A.) Accepts Comintern Address Taken Unanimously by Bureau Members and Candidates the following statement of the Chicago District Bureau on the Address of the Communist International was introduced by the Dis- trict Organizer, William F. Kruse, and passed unanimously as amended by vote of all members and candidates of the bureau, STATEMENT OF THE CHICAGO DISTRICT BUREAU 1) The Chicago District Bureau expresses its unqualified support of the Unification Address of the Comintern to its American Section, | and greets the prompt unanimous action of the Central Committee to carry it out without reservations. 2) The District Buro accepts the criticism of the Party contained TO QUIT TODAY; MacDONALDIS IN Lloyd Geseee’ Suggests He Will Support the MacDonald Party ‘Line Up Social Fakers | New Cabinet to Be a} Den of Traitors LONDON, June 3.—Stanley Bald- in this Address and views it as the most far-reaching step yet taken | win, prime minister of the conserva- towards the smashing of those factional group lines which, as has been | tive government, will probably hand repeatedly pointed out by the Comintern, constituted the most serious obstacle to the unification of the Party and the mobilization of all our forces for the building of a mass Communist Party in this country. The placing of factional group interests above the welfare of the Party as a whole, of which all former groups were guilty, prevented an adequate struggle against the right danger in the American Party, gave rise to unelear conceptions regarding Trotskyism, hindered the development of new proletarian elements in our leadership, prevented the exercise of | Bolshevik self-criticism, and in every way interfered with normal | head of the government, The unification of the Party ean only proceed along | MacDonald, healthy Party life. the line of the unconditional acceptance and loyal execution of all Com- intern decisions, political and organizational. 3) The District Bureau cit which there was voiced the unanimous op the recent action of the DEC at | ion that every member, with- | out exception, would accept the CI decision when made, regardless of what position may have been taken previously on questions at issue. The time has now come to translate this opinion into action. All mem- bers must give full support to the decisions, without any reservations, | whether tacit or zvowed, and must disas socigte themselves from all jresult of the defeat of the tories) He confer- |in his resignation tomorrow, as a in the general elections. |red with Austen Chamberlain, for- jeign secretary and Winston Church- | ill, chancellor of the exchequer this afternoon. On the resignation of Baldwin as Ramsay leader of the labor | party, will be called upon to form | the new cabinet, and will deliver the | | king’s address at the first meeting | of the new parliament on June 25. Financial circles in London are quite happy at the election of the labor- ites and announce that they expect no radical change in the policy of the new government, should it form former group ties. Anyone who refuses to acc the final decision of | cabinet. the Comintern, and who thereby gives aid to any splitting tendencies that may manifest themselves anywhere, has no place in the American Cofamunist Party and must be removed from its rolls regardless of | 3) prominent position he may have occupied. The District Bureau pledge: ‘to secure the acceptance of the decisions by our whole membership, and to mobilize the whole Party to carry them out unconditionally. self to do everything in its power The Ruro warns all comrades against attempts, as in former times, to “in- terpret” the de ion in terms of “victory” for one group or another. All former groups, together with their group platforms, are condemned in the sharpest language; any attempt at factional exploitation and “interpretation” of the decision will be considered by the Buro to be a yiclation of the CI Letter and of Party discipline, and will be dealt with as such, 4) meetings on the de: Unification Addr The District will send speakers to lead the discussion in unit cisions of the VI Congress, Open Letter and latest Only comrades defending the line of the CI are io be sent out as speakers. Efforts must be. made to have general mem- bership meeti the DEC. speakers outline, gs in all parts of the District as soon as authorized by The District Agit-Prop Dept. is instructed to work out 5) The District Buro emphasizes the utter impermissibility of any speculation on the course of évents in the CPSU, and reaffirms its un- swerving support of the Bolshevik leadership of the CPSU and of the CI, and endorses the decisions of the XVI Party Congress and this struggle against the Right wing danger in the Soviet Union, 6) The Di execution of tl pressing mass rict Bureau points out that both the discussion and the decision cannot be separated from the immediate work and the tasks confronting our Party—unemploy- eonteser on Page Two) | ment, social insurance, strikes, work in building new unions and also | ARREST 47 IRON STRIKERS IN DAY Fail to Reopen Shops with Seabs | Stung by their inability to lure the iron and bronze strikers of (Greater New York back to work by ‘uses, the ‘-on and bronze bosses esterday again called on their | enchmen, the Tammany police, for | id in their attempt to break the trike. In a day marked by extensive Po- | lice brutality against the strike ickets, a total of 47 pickets were arrested. Among those arrested! lwere three wives of strikers, who| iwere on the picket line at the Madi- son Iron Works, on Longwood Ave., ‘he Bronx. Taken to 161st St. Court, (Continued on Page Five) inside existing unions, struggle against the war danger, against op- portunism, and against any and all who want to fight the Comintern. FORWARD TO PARTY WORK. EVERY MEMBER AN ACTIVE MEMBER. FORWARD TO FACTIONALISM! LONG AMERICAN SECTION! A LIVE NITED PARTY! DOWN WITH THE COMINTERN AND ITS 800 STRIKE IN PORTAGE MINE PORTAGE, Pa. June 3.—The mine of the Sonman Shaft Coal | Company was completely closed down Saturday when the 800 miners | employed there walked out on strike |against a 16 per cent wage-cut. National Miners Ur‘on and has the unanimous support or every miner. When the wage cut was announced the National Miners Union local to determine what action was to be taken. At this mass meeting the (Continued on Page Two) | and Ther strike in being led by 'the|ont oe ahadbesmbee masts ons May: 81 |gent coalition over the question of 31, TO BREAK FARM BILL DEADLOCK | WASHINGTON, June 3. — The joint conference of the house and | senate committees on the farm bill reported today that a formula had been found to break the ‘deadlock it would be announced Thursday, | The finance committee of the sen-! ate, faced with a fight between re- | publicans and a democratic-insur- | secrecy, today adopted a resolution | for open hearings. This is against the administration policy, but to |save time, the standpat republican \chairman, Smoot, inimediately | International George May Support MacDonald. The London press today predicted, claiming good authority, that David! Lloyd George, head of the liberal | |party, would not support the con- |servatives should they attempt to} i remain in office. This is clearly a prelude to an agreement with} MacDonald. With the labor party in office, British imperialism has nothing to fear, for both in home and foreign | policies the laborites are staunch ex-| ponents of British imperialism. The Rogues’ Gallery. Just a glance at the “big five” of the labor party, among whom cabinet posts will be divided, is (Continued on Page Two) CLOAK STOPPAGE AGAIN DEFERRED ILGW Fakers Talk of) “Referendum” The fake stoppage planned by the Ladies’ Garment} TO UNIONIZE THE YOUTH; o KRAMBERG AND OBERMEIER ARE cee eooo TMKENTOCELE Copies Issued State They, Will Never — Fine to Wil- ‘low MOSCOW (By Mail).—The pub monopoly of the State Publishing {de faerie House which constitutes a part of 1 Duteageby s Injunctfort . - 4 . the People’s Commissariat of Edu- = Nat’] Textile Workers han Spreads Strikes |cstion. ‘Text books for the various {ab Anraiened ia Geng °, : * 5 schools and colleges and literature | 100 4 é 2¢ J United Textile Union Betrays One for purposes of self-education con-| for Daring to Picket ; | TO stitute very nearly half of the total} ~~ aN ke ss Latest Developments in Southern Textile Strikes. PEC UE On af Ses ene tput of/ Sam Krambe secretary, | 1.—8,000 workers attend sports meeting in strike town; many | «cgosizdat” is held by the literature |And Michael Obermeier, organ- | doin N. T. W. U. and its young workers section after hearing speakers. | oing to educate the broad masses |izer, of the Hotel, Restaurant | 2—1,000 mill workers meet in Cranmerton, form strong local (Continued .on Page Five) land Cafeteria Workers Union, of new union. by were taken into custody by Louis 3.—Gastonia Gazette, emplojers’ organ, threatens that if Boal Kluger and John P. Murphy, deputy speaks, he will be thrown out of town, but crowd protects him. 7 00 LEAT sheriffs from the County Sheree 4.—Elizabethton workers lose all confidence in United Textile | dQ office, yesterday at 4 o’clock at the | Workers’ Union; only 200 out of 5,500 attend its meetings. | headquarters of the union at 133 E Blacklist of rayon militants being perfected; 125 registered | KER West 5ist St. y were taken to ' | workers refused jobs; mill passes taken away from some. | 1 the West 3 il for refusal to | | | pay the fine of 0 each imposed | | on May 8 by Supreme Court Justice | N W LOCKED OUT Thomas p. Crain. These fines 5 May 28th to cs Wil- ee Cafeterias, Inc., which has an injunction grant- ABLE ORGANIZER LEAVING U.T _ Militants Raise Call for |ea by spree Justis Shorea tm : i April 13, the union and its naa General Strike officials enjoining them from pick- | | As dea 7 A eting or other strike activities. x eae ‘ r eclaration was last night is-) ‘The union officials refused t YoungCommunistsHail |5,500 in Elizabethton |suea by the Progressive Group in| the tines as a grateat ante BAY P sys ali |the International Pocketbook Work- Textile Militants Realize Betrayal jers Union sharply attacking the (CO TEE, PO Lae Reece) eta at iy Worker) (Present inaction of the administra- rs ATS | (Special to the Daily Worker) | (Special to the Daily Worker) Peer i nivation in the face GASTONIA, N. C., June 3—| ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, June 3.) ot cont noliey of the bosses, Nearly 3,000 mill workers met here|—The National Textile Workers’ |e oe ee ey en the warn’) at the open air meeting and enter-| Ution committee from the Gastonia |and Pointing ont that all the warn- call ee \strike has received plenty of evidence |!"8S_ 0% i et | Sepa Re iene Abr during the last two days to back up | taaen had pen aden tee ' 4 as oe Union. The youth are an|its declaration to the nearly 6,000| , Ta ping ene 0! Seaton mortant factor in. the southern| betrayed rayon workers here that ton Mi aetilae td nie eal eae a ease #2) the mill owners rob the|the American Bemberg and Glanz- | 4nd 45 eee ed BENE. DaNGy +o poate ere oot ahele big profits, and a| tof companies are mevely utilizing /!6cof!,. general manager ofthe Gold Plated Cafe Openwuc#é blag sf <Seaaet hake ae the mill| their elaborate registration | fancy Leather Goods Union, a ion for Rich Diners Only bs = large ae eae aay 5 machine! o form a blacklist of the |nUmber of manufacturers have put Ss |workers are between the age of | sativa mtriltern: |into practice what actually amounts — |and 20. The young strikers in Gas- Das betows (rsterday. Lab" who (Gontinled on-Poge on Page Five) Just as ceremonies are completed tonia have formed picket lines also. y ch L pees in the opening of the millionaire’s registered were refused work, and several girls to whom the companies had already issued mill passes had (Comagien cn Foue on Page Two) HOOVER AIDS THE | A program of boxing, races and dancing was carried out. Among the speakers were Elbert Tetherow, Eula Carson, Kermit Hardin, Laie an semore, Russel Knight, all workers, and Binney Green, a Sieur, teen year old child laborer. Binney | Green spoke in the name of the chil- restaurant in Central Park tonight, a group made up mostly of workers TENANTS FORM goes on trial for trying to use the city park too. The 69 who were arrested last will get their sentences today. An- other 60 who were arrested on the Harlem Tenant League dren’s section of the union. same charges yesterday will be Tells of Soviet Union Youth. NANKING CLI UE Outlines Program mane M0 DEY fines or 50. to eee Clarence Miller, southern organ- (Continued on Page Five) | would meet ‘ Workers’ Union, the company union of the manufacturers, and due to} have come off today, was again de- layed as announcement was made | that officials of the organization} ‘in conference” eer | Continue Fraud. A sharp struggle between the The meeting, which will take place workers in Finishers Local 8 and in the Pennsylvania Hotel, will con-| Trimmers Local 7, United Hatters | tinue the shadow-boxing started) | of America, and the bosses is ex- some time ago when the company| pected soon, following the expira-| union decided on the plan to put tion, on June 1, of the agreement (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) Elizabethton Rayon Workers Disgusted with A.F.L. Union “Monied Men from the North” Are Modern Gods of K. K. K. But Not of Workers communication from Dr. C. T. Wang, foreign minister of the Nanking (Continued on Page Five) MOVE TO WORK SHOALS FOR WAR WASHINGTO. June 3,—The senate agricultural committee to- day recommended favorably the Nor: ris resolution for government opera ‘tion of Muscle Shoals water power and nitrate plants, largely as a war izer of the Communist Youth fh | The organization of house com- seth eed St League greeted the me.ting. He! WASHINGTON, June 3.—Further | mittees in the tenements of Harlem, Sinclair Gets Six More spoke on the difference between con- support of Chiang Kai-shek and the|as a basis for the development of ditions for young workers ne Nanking regime, calculated to|the Harlem Tenants’ League into a Months, But Can Use It Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | strengthen it in the face of op-|yeal gass organization, was put well ins i and in the United States. He/ position by Marshall Feng Yu-| underway last night at the eee to Finish Present Term stressed the necessity of race equal-|hsiang and the Anglo-Japanese im-| meeting of the Harlem Tenants’ | WASHINGTON, June 2 jity. His speech was well received. | perialists, will bé given by the|League, in the Public Library at 103 ee ae : June te Meeps | | Fred Beal and Vera Bush, organ- Yankee imperialists when the note] W, 135th St. ae See ie eer ne et 1 } (Congated 6 on eee Two) oriality, now being} Richard B. Moore, president of the Sinclair, Tea rae D ig = i at ae Nae } ared by president Hoover and/League and chairman at the meet-/jirine the Burne detotine cree secretary of state Stimson, is dis-/ing, outlined the program of action |;> ehadow the jurore when he ani ING patched. |sponsored by the organization. By |s omer Secretary of the Interio The note is the reply to a recent |crganizing the tenants of every tene- | j,1) ore on oF ne ee Fall were on trial for getting away with some millions of dollars worth of oil land. { ment into house committees which will be empowered to deal with the (Continued on Page Five) Shorten Sentence. 3 This new sentence gives him the Body of Dr. Capse, i legal right to demand that his pres- Veteran Rebel, Lies [ont three months’ sentence for con- * ‘6 {tempt of court be “committed” so in State at ‘Center’ 2 cin serve the part still remaining Hundreds of militant workers |at the same time as the six months are expected today to view the hody|mow given him. Then, with five of Dr. Abraham Caspe, active Com-|days a month off for good behavior munist, who died suddenly of heart /on each month, he will easily finish trouble on Saturday while he was|before Christmas his vacation in his visiting a patient at 459 Lincoln|special and luxuriously appointed t., Palisade Park, N. J. Caspe’s| ell, where he is spending part of the jbody will lie in state on the fourth day renewing his acquaintance with floor of the Workers Center, 26 |pharmacy and part of the day run- measure, The resolution was passed by the senate last year, but vetoed by Cool- | 530, 000,000 Contract Is_ | (Continued on Page Two) | | agreed to the abandonment of sec- irecy, when Senator Simmons of RELIGION IN THE USSR Rykov Shows Meaning of New Statute |Spokesman’’ today announced that MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail). -—Alexes Rykov, chairman of the ‘ouncil of Commissars, reporting to he Congress of Soviets of the Rus- ian Socialist Federated Soviet Re- ublic, referred to the status of re- ‘igion in the country in the follow- ing terms: “At this Congress you will be asked to approve a proposed amend- ment to the constitution, which veads: ‘For the purpose of assuring he toiler of real freedom of con- cience the church is separated from e state and the school from the vhurch, and every citizen is free to ‘ollow any religion or carry on anti- ligious propaganda.’ This means it we who believe in combatting } i polagn not a. do not intend to apply against religion compulsory administrative measures, but recognize in our constitution the freedom of religious pursuit, “The struggle against the re- ligious dope can be successful only if it is connected with an uplift of the mass forces and a change of the cultural existence. At the present time we are witnessing precisely such a mass phenomenon, which is a result of the penetration of scien- tific knowledge into the midst of the pepulation where hitherto ruled superstition and darkness, “The same circumstances enable up to overcome other relics of the tsarist system such as anti-Semi- tism, manifestations of which are|has been to lament it, but to say Hel Phe elena met wath to this | that England and other countries aia | |while preparations are being made | voted for uncer Coolidge, “Hell and North Carolina prop--cd it, Dawes to Threaten London. The now resurrected “White House to start construction on 15 cruisers Maria” Dawes would be sent to Lon- don to tell the British there must be “no nonsense” about America having a clearly equal (which means a superior) f!:et, or still more cruis- ers would be built. This trip of Dawes is euphoniously called a “move for peace.” * . * WASHINGTON, June 8.—Presi- dent Hoover called off his fishing trip yesterday for a confab with Sec- retary of the Navy Adams over the next move to make in the pre-war game with Ramsay MacDonald. Hoover's diplomacy in the naval race By BILL DUNNE. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. May 30 (By Mail)—A gracious, green and smiling valley—much like an English countryside. Little boxlike houses | nestle on the hillsides, half hidden in the fruit trees which surrond them. There is an atmosphere of peace as one comes in either from Bristol or from Johnson City. A False Calm. The peaceful atmosphere is de- ceptive. The class struggle raged fiercely_here until a few days ago for near Elizabethton, in the green heart of the valley lie two gigantic rayon mills—mills that can be changed into TNT factories in 24) hours, The struggle is due to break out again—and soon, Modern capitalist industry, war in- dustry, invaded this region some five years ago. Part of the international chemical trust, the American Bem-| berg and Glanzstoff companies, seeking “the cheapest and most docile labor in the world,”—as the southern chambers of commerce ad- factories employing more than 5000 | workers, + | Into Bondage. | Men, women and children flocked \from their valley and mountain} Details of the contract granted by | {homes into the mills. People who | the Soviet government to the Ford had never breathed anything but the | Motor Company, for the erection of | pure air of outdoors learned tola huge motor factory in the Soviet tolerate the poisonous smell of nitric | | Union and the purchase of $30,000,- and sulphuric acid compounds. Ac-|000 worth of Ford cars, was made customed to living on and from the, | public yesterday by Valery I. Mesh- soil, seeing but little actual money jlauk, vice-chairman of the Supreme |from one year’s end to another, the | Council of the Soviet Union, at the miserable wages at first seemed | offices of the Amtorg Trading Cor- generous. Disillusionment was not/ poration, long in coming. The contract calls for the pur- Without a union, with no experi- chase of $30,000,000 worth of Ford ence in even. elementary forms Of} cars within the next nine years by | class organization, they were at the| the Soviet government and provides mercy of compai.ies. By the middle| for the erection of a factory at class, merchants, lawyers, real es-|Nizhni-Novgorod, on the Volga \tate sharks, etc., which developed| River, of a factory that will pro- around the mills, the Bemberg and | duce 100,000 cars and trucks an- Glanzstoff companies were hailed as | nually. The factory, according to public benefactors. They dinned | the five-year plan for econotnic de- into the ears of the workers the re- | velopment, is to be completed in frain that “the south was coming |four years and the plan also pro- into its own,” that “‘monied men’ | vides for the construction of high- 1 ‘oni P i |ways which will cost $150,000, Signed by USSR, Ford; to Build Nijhni Plant Union Square, until tomorrow ning his Sinclair Oil Co., of which |when the funeral will take place he is still president. Sinclair made |from there. ‘millions from the Teapot Dome deal, Long active in the revolutionary |Six months altogether as a pharma- |movement in ezarist Russia and the| cist is not very costly payment. United States, Dr. Caspe was a} The supreme court nullified the |member ae the Communist Party of |sentence of William J. Burns, who |the U. S. A. and a loyal supporter | owns the detective agency used by of the workingelass movement thru-| Sinclair, but ruled that W. Sherman i out the world. pany, books on natural science. Dr. Caspe was also the author of | Burns must pay a $1,000 fine, and Sinclaiy’s aid, Henry Mason Day, ‘serve four months. BUCHARIN AND KAME MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., June 3. stead of Kameney. Kamenev was Concessions Commission instead of * munist Re Special Cables from Inprecorr. N ber of the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Collegium Scientific Technical Bureau in- SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISTS HALTED BY WORKERS BERLIN, June 3.—The Berlin social democratic Police President Zoergiebel withdrew his prohibition of open air meetings and demon- ‘strations yesterday. Demonstrations are taking place everywhere tod: The anti-Communist newspaper “Montamorgen” writes: pity Herr Zoergiebel didn’t withdraw prohibition one month ago when the bloody happenings in Berlin would probably never have occurred. After prohibition of the “Rote Fahne,” the Reichstag issued the “Red Elector” as its fraction organ. prohibited it. The fraction protested with success and the paper is now being issued with the more formal title “Information Bulletin, —— . i ay EV GET APPOINTMENTS ™ . Bucharin was appointed a mem- appointed chairman of the Supreme Ksandroy, 8 iy It is a the Communist fraction in Police