The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 2

Page Two ‘ 5800 STRIKE IN CAROLINA; UTW TRIES TO BETRAY &¥. L. Officials Busy JUNE 6, 1929 DAILY WORKER, NEW Killing Five Workers PICKETING GROWS BANANA STRIKE THO FOOD STRIKE PICKETS STAND LEADERS JAILED TRIAL JUNE 14 Furriers Send Greeting Philadelphia Workers) Ordering Men Back (Continued from: Page One) ate the Anderson mill, 1,800, where 1,5 mills at Whitmire, ott to enforce the * Striker Blackjacked, GASTONIA, Cc. June 5. “Red” Hendricks, a s' Loray mill, was blackj riously injured after s last night Although badly hurt, of being niurdered, Hendrick declared that he would be back speaking for the stri soon. An enormou meeting at the mill gates Inst r heard h to"tome out on strike, and not to hélp take bread out of the mouths of their fellow-workers. Ambushed by Police. ap- | peal to those working in the mills | (Continued from Page One) shops, This has been the policy of Lehman since the beginning of the strike, After an hour and one-half of the demonstration, Lehman finally dared to emerge, but only after calling a strong police guard to escort him | through the ranks of the indignant cafeteria strikers who booed him as he took a taxi and retreated as rapidly as possible out of sight. Furriers Greet Jailed Leaders. A telegram of greeting to Michael Obermeier, organizer, and Sam | Kramberg, tary, of the Cafe- teria Wor Union, who are now in jail following their refusal to pay a fine for violating an anti-picketing injunction, was sent by thousands of fur workers who jammed Cooper Union Tuesday night at the last | mobilization meeting prior to the |calling of the general strike in the to Men in Prison | Defended by I.L.D. tion as uftorganized workers in open| Charges against picket leaders ar- PHILADELPHIA, June 5.— rested at the United Fruit Com- pany’s wharves during a demonstra- tion voicing solidarity with the re- cent Columbia banana plantation workers’ strike will be heard in court Friday, June 14. The cases will be defended by the local International | Labor Defense. “Inciting to riot” was the charge on which the William Lawrence, Frank Mozer and other pickets were held on $600 bail. Fifty had been arrested in the first instance, 46 of | them being held five or six days in | jail, to which they were sentence by the women Judge Fahnestock, notori- |ous for her anti-working class pre- judices. Ignoring the evidence sub- mitted by pickets who proved that the protest had been conducted in orderly fashion, Fahnestock had ac- cepted the testimony of police lieu- tenants and captains who had broken As Hendricks was on & house where an import niteting was b | laid by Tom Gilbert, a cast-out po- | liceman whose anti-union violence | had been notorious, and who had| been warned away from the strik- | err’ tent colony several times in the | Igst week along with other prowlers seyt there by the mill companies. With Gilbert were other mill own- ers’ thugs. They caught Hendricks at a dark corner of the road and called to him to come over to their car. Hendricks said: arrest me?” “No,” replied Gilbe: you, I want to kill you Gilbert then jumped out of the car and seized hold of Hendricks, while some of the thugs black- a way to nt_union “Do you want to of the workers was killed. Botton at right, workers at scene of the “God damn A farce “investigation” by North Bergen 0 Stone Co. of blame in the explosion Tuesday whieh’ killed five workers. Wor guards caused the explosion of 400 pounds of dynamite. Top photo shows a wrec the Belmont-Gurnes state improper safe- ed truck in which one at left, windows in workers’ homes, shattered by the blast, Bottom, t ' ed ials yesterday whitewa Prepare for Imperial industry. Signed by I man of the « of the Needle dustrial Union, w |man at the ent tion of the fu: up the demonstration. Lawrence faces the second court | hearing in three days. On Tuesday, ss Workers’ In- June 11, he stands trial on charges | acted as chair-| of sedition arising from his arrest in| iastic demonstra-| 9 political campaign speech in which , the telegram | he had denounced the then president follows: | Coolidge as “an errand boy of Wall | “The thousands of fur workers as-| Street.” This charge will also be sembled in mass meeting at Cooper| defended by the International Labor Union to make their final decision | pefense, on the general strike send their . |heartiest greetings to you comrades} who have been imprisoned for your militant struggles against the vi- cious injunction practices and for the right of the workers to strike | she SCHOOL CONTROL | I. L. D. Hits Jailing. | | At the same time the New York section of the International Labor | Defense issued a statement denounc- Power Trust Plots in | ing sharply the imprisonment of ing Potash, chair- nization committee jacked him and others kicked him. #3 Tried to Kidnap. FERRARI SLIPPED © Transatlantic Flights WHITEWASH C0. Obermeier and Kramberg. Signed | Convention “Then they attempted to drag him into their car, accompanying their attions with threats to commit mur- der upon him. “People coming down the street frightened them off, however, and Gilbert dropped Hendricks in the road and left in his car. ‘Hendricks has been spitting blood WARDER $5.00 Bank Probe Reveals More Graft OLD ORCHARD, Me., June 5: ‘iter reports of “rapidly clearing” weather over the. North .Atlantic, four trans-Atlantic aviators plan- ning flights to boost -iniperialist , ] aviation. Today - made tentative Four Workers Dead in plans for starting their-long-delayed | Explosion flights overseas tomorrow. Both the Green Flash and Yel-| { by Rose Baron, secretary of the | ATLANTIC CITY, June 5.—Fur. Lira Shecptatement BYE) ther plans for the control of “public i nable to break the heroic strike pinion! We sewae leben tae of the cafeteria workers. by the var- Fed ae ibaa es of the Na-| |ious devices used thus far, including ae 1 Blesteie Llaht “Assootation | police terror and the most drastic in-| te sah as ae as Be rttiad Seger junction in the history o: American | hs : ed th Soncerseamene ee | labor, the employers’ courts have de- | C98 iB | pri ier; ‘ tef| Measures aiming at free publicity. prived the atrikers of thett two chlet| soma “educational adminiatrators of frém internal injuries all night, After the beating, he returned to the’ union lot and rested, then went on to the meeting to which he had been going when attacked. Need More Relief. A membership meeting of the Gastonia Workers International Re- lief Committee is scheduled for to- miprrow in the relief tent. £Funds are needed more than ever, ith the spread of the strike in the rolinas and the necessity for car- itig for many sick, also for purchas- itig more clothing and shoes for the sfrikers, who have had no chance tg buy any since they left the mills. mney for the textile strikers should be serit to Workers International Re- lief, 1 Union Square, New York y: = ens ae | ry 8-Way Split on Probe. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.— rther delays in the “investiga- tien” of southern textile conditions eared likely when the senate com- ittee on manufactures submitted tWo reports on it. SThe ‘majority report, six mem- bers, calls for the investigation to b@ conducted by the federal trade edmmission and the tariff commis- sipn, on the far-fetched and mani- festly ebsurd grounds that some of Carolina strikes might have been started by northern manufac- Ts, .e minority report, of five mem- bérs, calls for the senate to make the investigation. = ° «Can Easily Stop. bd large section of the senate will se any investigation, and the il and nearly equal division of tBe committee opens the way for péstponements that can kill it alto- gfther. The investigation, like the ite probe of the mining strike, is-intended to afford an opportunity for-praising the employers and con- ining militant action by the sere But some senators doubt th advisability of even this tac- and would disregard starvation insthe south altogether, £ o Wonabdatal Pope Pius Is Sore at ussolini; Wants to Bar Free Discussion * OME, June 5.—Pope Pius XI issue today with recent decla- rations of Premier Mussolini in con- neetion with the position of the church and state under the T.ateran treatic characterizing the pre- miér’s statements as a “painful set- batk” to “world-wide rejoicing” ovér settlement of the Roman ques- ur expectations are completely disappointed,” said the pope in a lished letter to Cardinal Gas- i, his secretary of state, “We t of all expected heretica! state- ts and even worse than heretical ments on the essence of Chris- and Catholicism.” specifically, the statements which Ietter answered were in regard athe government’s attitude. This d lom of religious speech and did not favor church of education of children. not admissable that there J eee (Continued from Page One) den death just before the collapse of the bank led expert medical men to voice the op m that the death was not entirely due to “natural causes.” More light on Warder’s plans to cross to Europe were revealed by the banking department clerk, who said she had seen Warder’s passport low Bird were tuned for their long grinds towards Rome and Paris, re- spectively, and their crews were ready to start within a few hours | after receiving “word that the weather was right. The former will make a flight to boost fascism, the latter to boost French imperialism, NORTH BERGEN, N. J., June 5,| leaders in the hope that this would North Bergen’ officials today | break their spirit, Thus the courts whitewashed the Belmont -Gurnee|add one more strikebreaking act to of all blame” in the explosion of 440 | that they are owned body and soul pounds of dynamite which. killed| by the bosses. Stone Co., declaring the bosses ‘free | their record, one more act showing| four workers and wounded a fifth] “But the fond hopes of the cafe-| in the Belmont quarry here Tues-| teria bosses and their faithful tools | day. jare doomed once again to. disap-} “Investigation of the -explosion|Pointment, This will only steel the| revealed no criminal negli-| determination of the strikers to| } eS tars! | shortly before he resigned as bank- Fl T R 2 is etective William J. Char.|fight on until they win their de-| ing superintendent when confronted prepeiablne ate Hudson County |mands. The New York District of| with an. incriminating network of evidence. “It might make trouble,” Warder had said when the clerk told him that Paola had planned to make a “clean breast of things to the dis- trict attorney,” Prominent Tammany Yeaders and tke editor and publisher of the fas- | cist newspaper, “Ill Progressc,”. are already implicated in the swindle, while new developments dragging in ethers high up in the city adminis- tration may leak out in spite of the protection of certain leaders behind |j, the probe. CAPPELLINI ON UWA BALLOT ‘Court Judges Between Two Corrupt Gangs | ° | (Continued from Page One) tape provided for handling ballots | and election reports by the U. M,| |W. A, constitution, the nominations are not void. Cappellini’s name will go on the ballot as a nominee for district president, running against Boylan.’ Thomas Lavelle goes ‘on for secretary-treasurer. No such ruling as this was ever possible when the Lewis administra- tion or its district subordinates ruled progressive opponents off the ballots. | But when it is only a fight be- | tween two reactionary groups, either }of which will equally well sell out the members to the employers, the courts can afford to indulge in a certain amount of common sense. Cappellini and the Boylan gang \fight each other with hired gunmen, |the sort they have both used against \the membership when in power, ‘Actors Equity Moves to Organize Talkies An attempt to apply the union shop policy of the legitimate stage ito the field of sound and talking |motion pictures will be started by the Actors Equity Association, the labor union of theatrical perform- ers, Frank Gillmore, president of the Council of Equity, announced yes- terday that a new policy of the council, which goes into effect im- mediately, is that Equity members will sigh talkie contracts only on Equity contract blank forms and will prohibit members of the organ- ization from appearing in.sound and | talking voice productic™> ~~'er3 all members of the ¢~ 13 to, Equity, © 1 DAIRY INJUNCTION Workers of Pittsburgh Hit Picket’s Murder (Continued from Page One) of the Communist Party; William Albertson, of the Communist Youth League; James Otis, of the Machin- s Union, and E, P. Cush, state secretary of the labor party. Showing a copy of the injuncti Jakira declared that the Commun Party will continue’ to defy ‘this scrap of paper. Michael Rockford, the murdered picket, was attacked in the early morning of May 24 by Deputy Sheriff Christ Vierling, ‘a gunman employed by’the company in its bit. ter fight ‘against ‘the strikers “wh have completely tied up’ their busi. s. ‘Several others were’ wounded in clashes with armed scabs. Every speaker denounced the American Federation of Labor and its open attempts to form « com- pany union, i In the meantime, the strikers are continuing to picket the company. “We refuse to be terrorized by gun- men and other agents of the bosses,” they say, “and we'll keep up the stvike till they are forced.to sur- render,” TO HIT BILLS FOR STRIKEBREAKING Communists Hold Meet in Chicago Tomorrow CHICAGO, IIl., June 5.—Iilinois state legislature bills authorizing the formation of state police and re- pealing the eight-hour law for women in industry will be protested at a mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the Communist Par- ty at the Northwestern Hall, North and Western Ave., at 8 p, m. Friday. “William F, Kruse, district organ- izer of the Party, and N. Green will be among the speakers who will analyze the bills as instruments of the Manufacturers Association used in its fight for wage cuts under the plea of “simplification of produc- tion in industry,” Strikebreaking and all forms of anti-working class repression are provided for in the State Police Bill, which gives additional help to the industrial interests here in their campaign to defeat the st-yggles of| the workers for short>; hours and| -‘ For. better conditions, n, | quantity of dynamite. | the country had been making deals Prosecutor John F. Drewen, said|the International Labor Defense, today, and asserted that determina-|Which is giving the cafeteria strik- tion of the cause of the blast is “im-|€™S every possible aid in their fight possible inasmuch as all those near | #gainst the capitalist courts, pledges enough to have known what hap-| to continue this support and calls on pened were killed,” | the workers to ans-°> the jailing of : i | their leaders by it asifying their Attempting to whitewash the Your fight {s bosses by stating that all witnesses | courageous struggle. ofthe chlaiaare dead : wan ike the fight of all workers and neither course chosen by the police officials. court injunctions nor police and thug sah th)? Other workers near the scene of the | TTF can crush it, explosion stated that lack of proper |safety precautions, on the part of| the Belmont-Gurnée Co., caused a| premature explosion of the huge| Peter, both of this. city, were two of the workers killed by the blast. While tamping dynamite into a drill hole, the brothers were blown a dis-| Try to Frame Consuls tance away and killed instantly. in Manchuria Cities John Cicati, another worker on the job, was so badly injured that he , § Young Workers! ied a few hours later, The bodies jof the Palmisano brothers were bad- ly mangled. z In the North Hudson Hospital Ja- |cob Quodora, thirty-three, 64 Ber- |genline Avenue, Guttenberg, died |from injuries, The police. of this city accepted | the version of John Denato, the fore- man, and of company officials, on the cause of the blast, and an- | nounced the quarry company “biame- less.” The Bell-Gurnee Co, is one of the largest erushed stone manu- facturing firms in New Jersey, and | the quarries are extensive. Over 75 workers were close by at work when | the blast occurred, The workers are |all unorganized, and receive miser- able wages, ‘Court Nullifies Law Prohibiting Negroes Voting; Prefers Rope RICHMOND, Va., June 5.—The Virginia ‘primary law, which bars Negroes from voting in. democratic primary elections, was ruled uncon- stitutional by Federal Judge D. Law- venea Groner today. Judge Groner held the law was contrary to both the 14th and 15th amendments to the federal constitu- tion, The regular way to prevent Ne- groes voting in the south is to let them know that they will be lynched if they try it, or to use some round- about way like literacy tests, grand- father clauses, ete. No republican administration, with tariff rates in its power, will allow such a tactless statute as the legis- lature passed, The federal courts have seen the need for using cam- ouflaged measures against Negroes, while the republican perty is build. ing 2 machine amon thom, Four Wee |” Qo frontier before the arrest, iis (Continued from Page One) perialist puppet government of Manchuria. The arrests were di- rectly ordered by General Chang | Ching-hui, commanding the special Harbin district, The Chinese Eastern Railway is jointly owned by the Chinese and Soviet Union governments, Imperi- alist powers would look with favor on its seizure by the Manchurian reactionaries, “Massing Troops.” Rumors emanating from London are, current here and are used as propaganda to excuse the arrests and encroachments of the Chang clique on the U.S.S.R., and the war- like attitude against it. The latest of hese, which has no foundation whatever, is that the U.S.S.R. is massing troops on the Manchurian border, and interfering with the “flight of Chinese from Russian territory.” It was persistently reported when the first arrests were made that “documents showing the connection between Feng Yu-hsiang and the U.S.S.R.” were expected to be found in the Mukden and Harbin con- sulates of the Soviet Union. These hopes are now admittedly ill-found- ed, as nothing ot this nature was discovered at all. Try to Frame Consul. After the attack on the consul-| ates, the Soviet Union consul-gen- | , Kuznetzoff, was allowed to de- part for the frontier. Just as he reached it, he was seized by Chang’s troops, and a careful search made. This attempt to plant evidence of connections with Feng failed through the vigilance of Kuznetzoff, who not only watched all his baggage close- ly, but telephoned strong protests to Mukden, The best the Chang officials could do was to set another rumor on foot, that they could not fiad incriminat- ing documents because one automo- bile of the consulate passed over the | national prominence and standing,” jand the approval of “guiding prin- | ciples to control future cooperative activities involving educational in- stitutions,” The program aimed to meet the “criticisms leveled at the electric in- dustry during the last year.” The criticism referred to emanated from the Federal Power Trust Commis- sion, where it was disclosed that power trust representatives thruout | with newspaper publishers which the | power trust tried to pass off as “a |means of ensuring an outlet for newsprint.” The International Pow- er and: Paper Company had secretly {bought controlling interest in many | newspapers and it had been admitted | that at least one editorjal attacking | public ownership in a Boston news- | paper had been written by a power trust publicity man. Other measures planning for closer control of educational insti- tutions under the plea of “coopera- | tion” were urged by delegates. Even while greater control of the channels was being planned by the power interests, the Senate today |passed a weak resolution transmit- |ting to the attorney general for “such action as may be appropriate”’ |the ownership statements filed by |18 newspapers mentioned in the | Federal Trade Commission’s inves- tigation. Eyen the mild resolution was passed to quiet the rising tide of protest against the activities of the trust, No concrete suggestion is ad- vanced in the resolution, which vaguely requests “appropriate ac- tion” and asks “what legislation, if any, is necessary to make complete- ly effective the provisions of the postal law requiring the newspapers to file statements revealing their owners.” CREW LOST IN SHIP. TOKIO, June 5—It was reported without confirmation today that the steamer Ugo Maru, carrying a group of fishermen, was burned while on a voyage to Kamchatka, with great loss of. life. society—Marx, Visit Russia LOWEST PRICE 325 ee and up inel. all expenses First time since the re- volution that you do not need previous visa ap- plications, June 29—Levinthan July 24—G: ‘Wash: om July a7—Leviathan ne complete tour New York-Mos- Another Clinic Blast Victim Dies; Militarists Still Exploit Disaster CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 5.— Victims of the Clinic explosion, for which the hospital officials were criminally responsible, continue to die even while experts from the Chemical Warfare Service of the | war department are busy on re- search work in an aim to get the deadly secret of the gas for use in the next imperialist war. The death of Barbara Merwin, a clinic secre- tary, brings the total death toll to 126. She had been discharged after two weeks’ treatment at Massillon City Hospital, but was forced to return to the hospital several days ago for further treatment, COMPROMISE IN CHICAGO STRIKE Iron Workers Obtain $1 Day Raise CHICAGO, Ill, June 5.—Follow- ing a compromise with the bosses, 2,200 structural iron workers re- turned to work today after a strike which lasted four days, The bosses have agreed to grant an increase of $1 over the old scale of $12, the workers’ original demand having called for an increase from $1.50 to $1.62 an hour. The strike started Saturday, on which the wage scale contracts expired. The labor faker chiefs in the |Building Trades Council raised no demands for the unorganized. Thus the compromise is gotten at the ex- nized workers in the industry. At the same time, however, 1,200 architectural workers who walked out at the same time as the struc- tural workers remained out. The lat- ter struck Saturday despite the ex-| istence of an injunction issued by the! notorious Judge Dennis (“Injunc- tion Denny”) Sullivan. During the four days of the strike the air was filled with fulminations and threats |from the bosses who announced that they would break the strike with court orders if the workers failed to return to the jobs. The strike temporarily tied up construction of $237,000,000 worth of | building. | OWL BLAST KILLS 1, INJURES 20 New Orleans Workers Blame Company NEW ORLEANS, June 5.—One worker was killed and more than 20 others injured today in an explo- sion and fire which wrecked the plant of the Gulf and Valley Oil Company, in the Gretna surburb. Many of the injured were reported near death from severe burns in- curred in the blast. Workers Blame Company. Had the company maintained an efficient system of tank inspection the survivors of the explosion say, the accident, excused by the com- pany as due to “unknown causes,” could have been averted. The explosion occurred in the de- odorization plant department where large quantities of acid are stored in open vats. Sprayed with the burn- ing caustic acid, several workers were blinded for life. Many are still unaccounted for. Seriously injured include the Ne- gro workers, Leon Francois, Henry Smith and Dave Vavillier, and Alex Larsen, William Novell, Charles In- nersety and William Horrell, mystery masterpiece — Starting This Saturday THE CINEMA EVENT OF THE YEAR! em, JANNINGS REPERTOIRE WEEKS JUNE 8 to JUNE 28 3 weeks whe. the Quo American - Russian TRAVEL AGENCY, INC. 100-5th Av. Chel. 4477-5124, N.Y¥.C. pense of the thousands of unorga-| FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! “NOSFERATU the VAMPIRE” Inspired by “DRACULA” ® psychopathic drama of blood-lust — a thrilling a symphony in sadism F. W. MURNAU AND A DISTINCTIVE SURROUNDING PROGRAM ‘The Last Laugh’ ‘eatest screen artist in his finest characterizations FIRST WEEK June §-0——T' 10-11-—— , be A1——FA US! with Pol Friday, June 14th————-STREET OF SIN. SECOND WEEK—The Rast Lames Tartuffe, The WE! it, Lov va, Sh THIRD mooning? bE aa ag of Pharaoh, Variety, Sins 52 W. Sth St. (Jost west) NEWUSSR-FORD PACT WILL SPUR SOVIET INDUSTRY {Many New Factories Are Planned In connection with the contract | signed at Dearborn, Mich., between |the Ford Motor Company and the | Supreme Economie Council of the Soviet Union and the Amtorg Trad- }ing Corporation of N. Y, Valery I. Meshlauk, vice-chairman of the | Supreme Economic Council, and Saul |G. Bron, chairman of the Board of | Directors of the Amtorg, stated yes- terday: “This contract is a result of the recent decision of the Soviet Govern= | ment to build an automobile factory in the U. S. S, R. to produce 100,000 cars per annum, The type of car to be turned out in this plant will be the Ford pasesnger car Model A and the truck Model AA, The Ford |Motor Company will supply us with jall the plans and other technical |data required in order to organize | the factory and to carry on produc- |tion in the most efficient manner.” For Nine-Year Term, “The contract is for a term of nine |years and therefore provides for | technical cooperation between the Ford Motor Company and the Soviet Automobile Trust for five years after the completion of the factory, which is expected to be put in opera- |tion within four years. Ford en- jgineers will visit the Soviet Union |from time to time as the need for | their assistance may arise. The So- | viet automobile workers will be low |cated at Nizhni-Novgorod on the | Volga River and will produce more trucks than passenger cars. “Until this plant is completed the | demand for cars in the Soviet Union | will be supplied by the domestic pro- | duction and chiefly by imports from |abroad. In particular, we shall pur- jchase from the Ford Motor Company |during the next four years about $30,000,000 worth of cars and parts. Ushers in New Era. “This contract ushers in a new jera in the automobile and in the {general industrial development of | the Soviet Union. The insufficiency |of transportation means has been lone of the greatest handicaps to the | growth of industry in our country. |In this connection it need only be ;stated that the Soviet Union, with its rapidly growing industries, pos- sesses only 20,000 cars, and is prob- ably the least advanced in this re- spect of any of the large European countries, However, an indication that the problem is receiving ade. quate attention is the fact that this years $150,000,000 has been appro- priated for road construction by fed- eral and local authorities. “Even with the production of the new plant and the imports con- |templated during the coming years, jthe supply of cars in the Soviet | Union will fall far short of the de- jmand, For instance, to serve |adequately the 40,000 tractors now |in operation in the country would re- | quire 200,000 cars alone. To Push New Industries. “The constuction of the new auto- | mobile plant is a part of the general | Soviet program for the inauguration of many new industries in the coun- jtry. A tractor factory with a |eapacity of 40,000 machines per year was started last year at Stalingrad, jand construction of another tractor | factory with a similar capacity is to be commenced shortly. The tractor }plants at Leningrad and Kharkov are being re-equipped for larger capacities, “Several large power plants are under construction as well as many factories for the production of fer- tilizers, paper, electrical equipment and other products, he State power stands out in bolder and bolder reliet—Marx. LAST 2 DAYS! Directed by director of > > > > > » BR WAY OR ALL ETERS > > 'ASSION—-AS LOUIS THE X1V ia Negri as DuBarry j—a stark drama of London ‘siumtife « Command, Spring 5095 of Gth Av.) CONTINUOUS 2 P. M, TO MIDNIGHT POPULAR PRICES