The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1929, Page 1

(THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-class maticr at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥ Vol. VI., No. 76 Published daily except Sunday by The Cor Company, Inc 26 prodaily Publishing Union Square, New York City, N, X- NATIONAL TEXTILE UNION CALL NE Huge Demonstration of Furriers Endorses General Strike Call WALKOUT | iS NOW ‘Statement of Central Committee! MATTER OF DAYS: 2 Se SPIRIT I$ HIGH Gold, Hyman.< and Other Leaders Speak at Rousing Meet Denounce Police Terror Strike Machinery Being Perfected The final mobilization mass mect- ing prior to the calling of the gen- eral strike of the furriers was held last night at Cooper Union, 8th St. and Astor Pl. The strike call is now a matter of days. Occupying every seat in the hall and filling the aisles and the spa- cious platform, 2,000 workers an- swered the call of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to attend this demonstration, and show there- by their determination to mobilize for the coming struggle. Strike Committees Picked. With 75 strike captains and picket and organization committees select- ed at a meeting of the active mem- bers on Monday, the leaders of the Industrial Union last night let it be known that the strike call will be issued shortly. Pass Strike Resolution. In a ringing resolution, passed unanimously at the meeting, the workers authorized the Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union to “declare.a general, istrike in the fur trade as soon as it | is possible and practicable.” At the same time the workers pledged themselves “to‘carry on this strike until we have secured a complete and decisive victory against all our enemies and have won our justified demands.” | is| Communist Party on the oval of Comrade Miller To the Membership of the Party. Dear Comrades: On May 29 the District Bureau of our Party of District Number Two (New York) adopted a resolution removing Comrade Bert Miller from the post of Organization Secretary of the Communist Party in the District. The action was taken on the recommendation and request of the Secre- tariat of the Central Committee of the Party. Later, on June 1, the Political Committee of the Party by unanim- ous vote sustained the actions of the Secretariat which had brought the matter before the Bureau of the District, and sustained also the action of the Bureau of the District in removing Comrade Miller. Further, the Political Committee unanimously decided to hand over to the Central Control Commission of the Party all questions related to Comrade Mil- ler’s conduct in relation to the Address of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the membership of the Communist under the act of March 3, FINAL CITY EDITION 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, Hadid per year. RAYON STRIKE “REPUDIATE THE SELLOUT; SMASH THE SLACKLIST”, IS SLOGAN IN ELIZABETHTON. Refusing to pay fines of $250 each imposed by a bosses’ for defying injunction court he T : 4 n . . Bee ating T. W. Applies Tennessee Betrayal Tactics in cafeteria workers of | Carolina; N. T. W. Strikes Spreading New York, Michael Obermeier, organ- izer, and Samuel New Developments in Southern Textile Strikes. Kramberg, secretary 1.—Organizer Bill Dunne of National Textile Union and local of the Hotel, Cafe- strike committee calls meeting to renew strike in Elizabethton. teria and Bostccront 2.—5,000 leaflets containing expose of United Textile Workers : precate betrayal of rayon strike distributed today, announce ma eeting Workers Union were Hes obi sent to jail. Ober- Bemberg, Glanzstoff workers will demand 50 per cent in meier (in leghorn | in wages and eight-hour workday, with recognition of N.T.W. hat) and Kramberg 4.—U. T. W. tells Mills mills workers to go back to jobs and (without hat) are “arbitrate” all their demands; state “conciliator” comes on scene to shown above on the | 40 same work Weinstock did in Elizabethton. { way to prison, 5.—Thousands out in new strikes in Carolina. { | Workers International Relief calls for more funds to provide | for new-born babies of strikes, and to repair donated shoes. 7—Gastonia strikers build bridge to connect tent colony ang M'DONALO CALLED BY KING GEORGE TO SAVE EMPIRE Nobility and Traitors for New Cabinet (Wireless Party of the U. S. and the decisions contained'in it.—and Dehittag | the Control Commission’s decision to suspend him from all Party work. At the same time the Political Committee decided to issue this statement to the membership of the Party making clear the reasons for the action in the case of Comrade Miller and the lessons to be drawn from it. The basis for the removal of Comrade Miller from all responsible posts in the Party is the effort of Comrade Miller to utilize the positions which he held as Organization Secretary and member of the District Committee and District Bureau for the purpose of mobilizing opposition | to the decisions of the Communist International. The facts are as follows: | | | Immediately after the publication of the Address to the Members Fa Perey) of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. by the Executive Committee of | OsCOW, June 4.—Commenting the Communist International and the unanimous decision of the Political (on results of the British election: Committee of the Party accepting and endorsing the Address and in- Pravda writes in today’s issue “Economic basis of the British im | perialism is crumbling _evermor: ‘and has led to the defeat of the conservatives. The workers are no. yet free from bourgeois influence The workers follow the reformi: labor party, whilst only thin strata class-conscious workers voted fo: the Communist ticket. The elec tions expressed the radicalization 01 the working class which is seeking structing the carrying out of its decisions, Comrade Miller, despite the {act that ae had intended to accept and endorse the Address” himself, wrote and began to circulate in the District and elsewhere a resolution of opposition and rejection ef the Comintern Address which he requested leading comrades to introduce for adoption in the various Party units. This resolution had the following main characteristics: 1, It stated falsely, and in direct contradiction to the statements contained in the Address, that the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International had proposed “organizational measures which would destroy the leadership of the present Central Executive Com- A resolution denouncing the bru-| mittee.” a solution but in a false direction. Sey ate Tenmey Dle 2. It attempted to mobilize the membership of the Party against The influence of imperialist ideo!- also unanimously adopted alter 1’ the Communist International with the false rumor expressed as the out- ogy on the workers is weakening. was read by Irving Potash, chair- man of the meeting. With Irving Potash, of the organi- zation committee of the Industrial Union presiding, the mass meeting ‘heard speaker after speaker relate the treachery of the enemies of the workers—the yellow socialist party, the Jewish Daily Forward, Green, Woll and McGrady—and heard also of the determination to wipe out the present condition of slavery brought about by the betrayers of the com- pany union, the “Joint Council.” Greet Pressers. A tremendous ovation greeted the entrance into the hall of a delega- tion of pressers—members of the Pressers’ Club of the corrupt-ridden Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Horowitz, representing the delegation greeted the forthcoming (Continued on Page Three) TENANTS BACK ~ HARLEM LEAGUE Special Meet Monday | to Discuss Plans The parade staged by Harlem tenants and the campaign in the Communist Party press has driven the old parties to desperation in Harlem. The “Abyssinian Commu- nity Forum” is to try and hold a counter meeting tomorrow night, al- though Sunday is the usual date for its meetings. It is thought that As- semblyman Abraham Grenthal will be there, , S. Harper, publicity director of the Harlem Tenants’ League, yes- terday branded the meeting at the rageous, anti-Communist and demagogic slogan, that “leading comrades who are needed for important Party work are being detained in Moscow, as an additional method of weakening and destroying the present Party leadership,” and attempted to incite the membership “emphatically to protest” against the decisions of the Comintern. 3.. After the Communist International had informed the members of the American party through the Address that the action of the lead- ers of the majority of the delegation which Miller wished to support “vepresents a direct attempt at preparing a condition necessary for paralyzing the decisions of the Comintern and for a split in the Com- munist Party of America,”—the Miller draft resolution declared for “full support of the American delegation in Moscow.” 4. The draft resolution of Miller descended to the level of yellow social-democratic methods in attempting to start an agitation which ob- jectively could only be directed against the revolutionary government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, under the slogan: “We demand the immediate return of the entire American delegation including Com- rade Lovestone,’—a slogan based upon false and malicious rumors to the effect that members of the American party are forcibly detained in Moscow. The permanent political stabili tion of Great Britain is impossib A labor or liberal-labor coalition government would continue the general policy of the conse tive government with small diffe: ‘ences, thus promoting capitalist rationalization and consolidation of the empire, and the suppression of the national revolutionary move- ments in the colonies. The new government might result in small reforms regarding public wor employment support and ta It might pursue a less aggres: policy toward America, re-open re- lations with the Soviet Union and make pseudo-pacifist gestures. The new government, however, will be unable to liquidate the crisis of | British imperialism. The new period Upon learning of the efforts of Miller to induce leaders of the Sections in New York to introduce this anti-Communist resolution in the units of the Communist Party, the Secretariat met on the same day and requested the District Bureau of New York immediately to remove Miller from his post. At the meeting of the District Bureau Comrade Miller appeared with a written statement characterizing his draft resolution as an “error,” which he “repudiated,” and pledging himself.to support fully and to carry out the decisions of the Comintern. The resolution unan- | imously passed by the District Bureau at this meeting—for which Miller | voted—completely and unqualifiedly endorsed and accepted the Com- intern Address and the decisions contained therein. Although Miller refused at this session to vote for a resolution characterizing the con- tent of his repudiated resolution, the representatives of the Party Sec- retariat did not press the District Bureau for an immediate removal of Miller at that session, because of a confusion then existing amongst lk ‘i fon binet. H ill some members of the Bureau in regard to Miller's real stand on the | King” to form a cabine| naeaies Canitntet A daveua see the ane LOS ae the se But, within a few hours after he had voted for the unanimous res- | MacDonald Saul ane yet rae RON olution of the New York District Bureau fully endorsing the Comintern | what his bargain with the Liberal Address and pledging the wholehearted carrying out of its decisions, Party will be. (Continued on Page Two) Stanley Baldwin, prime minister Stirring Call Is Issued to disillusionment of the proletariat. |The labor government is at the mercy of the liberal bourgeoisie and would be overthrown, as in 1924, when it was compelled to make con- cessions to, the working class in or- der to maintain its influence over the workers. The working masses will then realize that the policy of the Communist Party, of ‘class) \the working class.” * | inet will ment that has held control for the last five years, went today to King | George and in an hour’s interview of the labor government means the | |against ‘class,’ is the only policy al LONDON, June 4.—Ramsay Mac it Donald has been “summoned by the | in the conservative party govern-| Hidian Labor Leader Sohan Singh Josh, the ex-pres-| ident of the workers’ and peasants’ conference, held in Calcutta in De- cember of 1928, who is one of the workingelass leaders arrested whole- sale on March 20 of this year by the Anglo-Indian government. He is now awaiting trial in a Meerut jail, with many other leaders of the worke ment. * and anti-imperialist. move- The league Aguinst Imperial- ism has issued a call to all its affili- ated organizations and sympathetic individuals to morally and materially, the ARREST MORE support, Indian | pleated ‘Split Among Bosses is | Growing Continued police brutality could not halt the large picket demonstra- tions of the striking iron and bronze workers of New York yesterda; Over 300 strikers and their ticipated in a huge demonstration in front of the Gainor Iron Work Stagg St., Brooklyn. Police threst: failed to awe these pickets. Three workers were arrested while on the picket line at the Bar- nett-Fisher Iron Works. One of the workers, Max Steinfeld, was bri tally assaulted by police, The cases | |against the three pickets were dis- | missed in 57th St. Court, so flimsy were they. The iron bosses are unable to ob- tain iron workers to scab on the Os IRON PICKETS, newly erected headquarters. BILL TO REGISTER COREIGN-RORN 1S GASTONIA NEEDS AVON STRIKE ASSEDBY HOUSE FUND FOR SHOES MEETING TODAY Exposes UTW, Urges New Struggle (Special to the D Dai ily Worker) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., June 4. Need Clothes, Medicine ILeaflet | for New-Born Babies (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, N. C., June Part or Hoover Drive Against Labor WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4.— Another step in President Hoover's s segation from the Loray mill strik-|—Tomorrow, under the slogan, “Re- new “law enforcement’ program,| os, led by the National Textile|new the S mash the Sell- Eee Beier ene TLL aR | Wrens Union, has come back to|Out, Fight for a 50 Per Cent Wage was the adoption by the House of| ¢ ot: from a trip to South Caro- [Increase and the Eight-Hour Day!” RepréSentatives today in the form Avia, Aeneid nities. of we semadion he 90 work who. have. tenes of a bill to “register all’ aliens in| the United States to determine on what authority they entered the country.” The vote on the bill was 163 to 123. gone on strik nst the Bemberg and Glanzstoff on mills this year will meet in Court House Square here at the call of the National Tex- seale duplicate of the Elizabethton, | Tenn., sell-out by the United Textile Workers Union officialdom. At the Mills mill, at Greenville, 3 eet , 4... 8. Cy 350 workers struck last week. |tile Workers Union and a commit- pareperate listing so aliens when) 7; ‘7’ W. agents immediately rushed tee from the ranks of the striker: the next census is taken was spon- in, and claimed the strike. The United ile | Workers sored by Rep. Bankhead, Dem., Ala., who made the assertion that “be-| tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 aliens now are unlawfully in this country.” \%0nal representative of William Weanon Aghinat Workers: |Green, president of the American This bill if passed by the Senate,| | Federation of Labor, one of the early A : 4 the ground in Greenville, and its passage is considered almost | bitds on . nagar certain—will provide the bosses with |™ade an offer of “settlement” bear- time, is done for in Elizabethton, a dog? effective ailaitister weapon'( me every, distinctive earmark’ of|as' tar as -real: Influence’ over “mg a most effe ster hg :/mill slaves is concerned. ‘ontinued on Page Five) | having come from t sme : ua ss z chamber as the notorious Elizabeth- Want Fighting Union. tor treachery, The rayon workers here demand Union, which neve in Elizabethton, but called off two strikes, two winning strikes, and seld out 5.500 workers in the crass- est and most complete betrayal of labor that has happened for a long called a strike Now Sells Out. Yesterday George L, Googe, per- as Muste Gang Starts on ‘If Mr. Ligon, the president of the © fighting union, « union that can . . Mills mills, will agree not to dis-{lead in the sort of struggles they Its Expulsion Policy criminate against any person or per-|have gone through and expect to Calhoun First Victim sons who affiliate with the Amer-|go through again. They have heard a committee tell how lina, milit frame-up ¢ get what they rea’ of Gastonia rikers v. T. W. U. fights in re ready to face thugs and of this city, to y struck for, not ican Federation of Labor, we will agree to submit the other questions to arbitration,” he said. ¢ And arbitration, here, as in all U. t T. W. strikes, means the the appoint a man, whom the The Muste misleaders have em- barked upon a campaign of expul- sions in true labor faker style. | A meeting of the faculty of Brook- wood Labor College got together boss will strikers yesterday, and with Muste, head of | can ask, in vain, for whatever they vecognition of the as its the school, directly in charge of the | want. officials, Hoffman, and Me- ceremonies recommended the dismis- U. T. W. Disregards Wage. Mabon, state, but better wages and a shorter work day. Five thousand copies of a ieaflet signed by Bill Dunne, organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, and the committee from the strik- ers who are disgusted with the U, sal of Dr. Arthur W. Calhoun, who had expressed disapproval of the anti-left wing character of the Muste movement to support the old union- ism by fake progressivism. Muste announced the decision im- The other questions, which are of no concern to the A. F. L., are just a demand for 20 per cent increas: in wages and abolition of the speed- up system! Two members of the Workers In- mediately, and stated that the execu-| ternational Relief committee, when, 1. W. betrayal, will be distributed | tive committee of the school would found in Greenville, were driven today, announcing the meeting to- meet to act upon it this week. from town by adherents of Googe, morrow, at which speakers from among the local strikers, speakers (Continued en Page Two) A c k from the strike center around Gas- tonia and Lexington, and N. T. W. efficials will tell the workers of the struggle in other centers waged by the N. T. W., will expose the schemes. Dry Sleuths Slaughter Suspect After 80 Shots | USSR State Publishing House Publishes Many | ABINGDON, W. Va., June 4.—It é Ben : ; t cuheatablinhed hoses today int thal ‘Classics and Magazines the employers and of the mis- \trial of Deputy Sheriff Jim Crowe, | leaders of lahor the officials of the |one of three policemen who killed| MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail) —|*- T of 1. and U. iT. Wand wil J. M. Kendrick in a dry raid May! The State Publishing House prints SY ctore {nem ine sion 6, that the officers resorted to a a great amount of books of fiction, Fenew the strike in. full <ores a ; ; Veapaatallestin ks of Russian and, fight it to a victorious conclusion, regular orgy of shooting. Over 80 |e oree ey mesice af wall ae modern With mass picketing and the support shots were fired before they dropped | foreign classics as well as modern Kendrick. They started firing with- | authors, out warning. No liquor was found} The publication of classics is a in Kendrick’s car, “Gosizdat” monopoly. As regards modern literature the “Gosizdat” |together with its sister organization, of all militant workers everywhere. Exposes Betrayers. The leaflet tears the veil off the men who put through the swindling “settlement” a week ago, by which SAS SEEN IOS the undefeated strikers were to go Abyssinian Hall as a fraud, and a last minute attempt of the landlords and the politicians to quiet the protest of the tenants. The tenants of Harlem should come to the Ten- ants’ League meeting, at 8 p. m, and avoid the Abyssinian Hall trap, he said. The Central Republican Club speaks through the Harlem news- papers to advise all tenants in trouble to come to the club for more undoubtedly also “advice not “to follow the Communists” or do inything that. will make the land- lords improve conditions any. The Amsterdam News publishes an editorial in answer to articles in the Daily Worker. But the Harlem enants will not let up, They will for a real militant campaign chee rent hogs. : National Organization Committee Calls for Unity with Needle Workers Union written at this so-called conven- tion, The rank and file delegation, representing the best interest and aspiration of all workers in our trade, were arbitrarily barred from the convention and were physically ejected from the hall. The voice of the rank and file found little expression at this convention against the criminal expulsion policy which has weakened and de- moralized our union. For eleven days the so-called convention | busied itself with white-washing (Continued on Page Five), si) © gt A stirring appeal to the rank and file cap and millinery workers, re- lating the union-destroying activities of the Zaritsky machine in the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ In- ternational, has just been issued by the National Organization and) Propaganda Committee of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers for Unity with the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union. The appeal follows: Brothers and Sisters: The Zaritsky machine-ruled con- vention is over.' The darkest page in the history of our union was | the election, and there is no evidence |strikebreakers w: | that Windsor is under any fear that |due to lack of safety appliances. ‘ing sued for $150,000 by Agnes May with him, broke the news that Mac- a Some of the shops have All Cap, Millinery Workers 3) 20 oe ee esi eeaoel ante is breeches” now, and tas the royal tie, Empire Architectur Tron thand at state functions. The king | Works, the few kebreakers ob- was on his sick bed, suffering a re-| tained, inexperienced men, refused lapse, but this illness came before |to work any longer when one of the viously injured | (Continued on Page Five) | The split among the iron bosses SACRE Si oa jis widening, many of them demand- | ing settlement on the strikers’ terms and threatening to leave the Iron Bosses’ Association if settlement is ‘not made. Woman Sues Senator For Broken Premise Arthur B. Lewis, California gold mine superintendent and former chairman of the Utah senate, is be- ARGENTINE EARTHQUAKE BUENOS AIRES, June 4.— carthquake tremors were felt in the vicinity of Las Malvir today La Razons Mendoza rorrespondent tele- | Martin who charges that he caused her to lose a dress shop by promis- | ing to take up $25,000 of her | busi- | ness if she expanded it. He is the same Senator Lewis who was in- volved i in the Jowan murder in 192 126. | graphed tonight. distinct shocks, No casualties oc- curred, In shocks last week, more than 40 persons were killed,’ en eae There were two| | HARRISON, N. J., June 4.—The|The Land and Factory” Bub- (Continued on Page Five) | Rev. Paul Mezwinniz, former pastor |lishers, publishes the most im-| Ro Nee ee jof the Lithuanian Roman Catholic | portant Works of Soviet and for- church here, died tonight ly a suicide—in the same hospital where doctors were striving to saye!the development of the the life of Miss Helen Halitaite of | schools. Kearney. Evidence indicates the| At the same time “Gosizdat” |priest fired two bullets into the) also the biggest publisher in the| _young woman’s abdomen before! |country of books for children, An- sending a third through his brain, | other field in which ‘“Gosizdat” | ‘holds a place of distinction is the | MOVIE OF MOON SUNRISE | magazine field, in which it publishes PRINCETON, N. J., June 4.—A more than a hundred publications. |50-foot motion picture film showing | sunrise on the moon has beer. taken through a large telescope at Prince- ‘ton University, Prof. John Q. Stew- | art of the astronomy department, | announced, | literary LAVA MENACES PEASANTS NAPLES, June 4—A glow of molten lava, descending the side of Mount Vesuvius stream, continued with abated force the benefits of the Ma, Day demonstrations by getting j into’the Communist Party work- dangered an increasing number of | peasant homes, ~ eng BOBBOraa i-<s ‘ . is | in a slow-moving today, but each hour of its flow en-| | Poe foe CN ~ A Ad especially those which SOViet Labor Unions exert a definite influence in shaping J)\q t New Leadership; sh Secretariat (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., June 4.— The Plenum (full meeting) of the Central Council of Labor Unions of the Soviet Union has removed Tom- ski from the position of chairman and member of the Presidium. With also removed Ugarov, Ginsburg, Korosteloy, Ui darov, lom and Perfiliev. The office of chairman was abolished end a council and secretariat formed. The Communist Party is the po litical leader of the working class” —Stalin, ~