The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 3

“Tey DAILY *VORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 bees INDUSTRIAL UNION Rehearse for Militarist Maneuvers at € Governor’s Island ORGANIZED; FIGHT Workers Force Right} to Picket ABERDEEN, Wash., June sal mass meeting in protest of police | brutality used against strikers of. the General Package’ Manufacturing | Company here will be held tomor-| row night at strike headquarters. The wave of working class protest | which will be voiced at the meeting | follows the savage manhandling of lumber workers who picketed the| company Wednesday in connection | with the strike to enforce the de-| mands of the new industrial Inter- national Woodworkers’ Union form- ed in the heat of the struggle. Inj the meantime, the strike is rapidly | spreading. | Form Industrial Union. | Fighting under the leadership of | the new union, the workers seek to} enforce a three dollar a day mini- mum for women and young workers, | a fifty cents per day increase all] 4;,, NEW HAVEN WORKERS INVADE CITY COUNCIL: CHARGE MURDER (Continued from Page One) jlack of safety and unhealthy con- ] Photo shows stage | being set for the . coming military tournament at Gov- ernor's Island, } where a_ re-enact- ment of the battle of Cantigny in the last imperialist world war will be staged, to stir up the in- terest of the public in Wall Street war plans military ser- vices, as part of the preparation for the coming imperialist war. This is part of @ series of such maneuvers, among which were the re- cent sham air battles in various parts of the country. . |US.S.R. Nails Lie of Japanese Imperialists About Burning Vessel TOKIO, June 5.—A group of Jap- anese capitalists who were defeated in their attempts to seize the fish- ing waters adjacent to Soviet terri- AIR GOSSACKS SMASH WINDOWS ‘Emperor Héover’s Men Sneer on Victim By OSMORE BATON. WASHINGTON, D, C., June 4. The story of how a poor " keeping boarders ven protested because an airplane, practicing for the next war, broke windows in her house, was told with sardonic humor the other cay by an officer in the Air Corp: “The nigit before Hoover's in- atfuration,’ said the officer, “you know we had several planes over the Capitol, taking photographs to test how weil aerial photography at night | could be carried on during darkness. “in one instance something went wrong when a pilot. circling ov North Capitol and other streets near the Capito], made a miscue. He was experimenting with bombs that were supposed to produce no noise and not to jar anything. However, one af them went off with an explos' and shook a number of buildings so |much that the window panes were broken, | have to follow the policy of the Nis- round, a clean lunch room, abolition! tusheq until the of the speed-up and union recogni-| trom the District Executive Commit- tion. |tee of the Communist Party was re- Flimsy police evidence used) ported by City Clerk J. S. Blinn. against the pickets on police charges | The word “Communist” immediately of “blocking traffic” and “vagrancy” | awoke the 32 aldermen. “Received,” caused the judge to release the ar-|said President H. B. Kennedy, as- rested on their own recognition. In} suming that’s the end of the Com-| the meantime, the judge and police | munists’ demand. were forced to admit the strikers} “We demand the communication ni of the aldermen was undis-|ditions, are the primary contributing | communication |factors to this intolerable system of £ | killing and maiming hundreds o: |New Haven workers. Communist Demands. | “OQ. the basis of these findings the Communist Party demands the fol-| 1; lowing immediate actions: “1.—A special investigation com mittee including the representatives |of the Communist Party to be ap- | tory circulated today rumors to the/| Gets Evidence. effect that a Japanese vessel, Ogu “We heard nothing about it and Maru was helpless and afire off| Very few were aware of what was |the coast of Kamchatka. This was| being tried out that night, anyway. | done in an attempt to undermine the | Some weeks later an ofticer here re- increasing coffidence that the|ceived a telephone call from a S.S.R., is well able to handle the} Woman. She asked if this was the ituation in these waters. Air Corps office. The officer said, | + * * ‘Yes.’ She then asked if there were LONDON, June 5.—An Exchange |@ny planes over the Capitol the |Telegraph dispatch from Tokio to-|night before the inauguration. ‘the right to picket. |be read and you comply with its| pointed to investigate the existing The decision to organize lumber |demands,” commanded Peter Chaunt,| conditions in the plant of the Win- workers in the camps and mills into) district organizer of the Communist chester Repeating Arms Company; a “militant, fighting industrial; Party speaking from the crowd of| “2.—Immediate provisions for ab- union to include all workers em-|workers who attended the meeting | solute safety and improved health ployed in the lumber industry” had| at the call of the Party, “the intol- | conditions in the plant; been greeted enthusiastically by|erable condition of thousands of| “3.—The employers be compelled over 200 workers at Croatian Hall | Winchester workers needs immediate} to abolish the speed-up, to intro- here. remedy, and we workers are out to| duce 40-hour week of labor, and to ‘The aim of the new union, the get it.” The meeting was thrown| increase the wages of the workers night said Soviet official sources |there had denied reports of the |burning gf the vessel Ogu Maru, | charging that the report was pro- | paganda in behalf of interests which | were disappointed in a controversy jover the fisheries, The dispatch said that there were 00 persons—Japanese and Russians officer, not suspecting ‘what was coming, replied, ‘Oh yes, we had some circling over the Capitol tor test purposes.’ The woman then said that she thought so and that she | wanted to file a damage claim with the proper government @epartment because a number of window panes in her house were broken by the ex- resolution carried unanimously de-| into a panicky confusion of the al- clared, should include a fight “to dermen. combat the disastrous effects of ra-| President Kennedy hammered the in the Winchester plant; “4.—Complete pension and com- pensation for families of the in- —aboard the vessel. About half of | plosion caused by one of the planes. the passengers were women, the | Her boarders and roomers got mad, cargo included naphtha destined for she declared, and some of them tionalization which is fast displac-| table in vain as the workers present | jured and deceased to be provided ing workers with machinery, mak-| applauded their speakers who in-|by a city and state fund to be es- ing unemployment a serious gienace sisted the demands to be complied| tablished by direct taxation of the to the welfare of the lumber work- | With. The aldermen jumped to their | employers; ers.” |feet scared stiff from the “revolu-| “5.—Guaranty of the workers’ y staval a + Tnity tion.” They finally yielded and right to organize. Geen Sa eae Grant | moved the communication to be| “In addition to the above we re- read. |quest the board of aldermen to ex- speaker at the meeting as a means Communists Demand Improvements. The communication of the Commu- nist Party to the board of alder-| men stated: | | “The recent explosion in the} powder house of the Winchester} Arms Co. resulting in the death of} to centralize the fight against race | prejudice against Negro workers and take advantage of the wave of| class struggles under the leadership of the new industrial unions. City Wireless Station Refused to Technical Patrick Doherty, and serious injuries | of John W. Coogan and Fred Koe- ger, employes, is by no means an} accident. The many similar explo-| Men’s Union Statement « milar \sions, great number of injuries per-| Commissioner Albert Goodman of |manently or temporarily disabling | the Department of Plant and Struc-| hundreds’ of ‘workers’ in the plant, | tend the courtesy to the representa- tives of the Communist Party at your meeting and listen to their ver: bal statements supplementing the above demands.” Factory Meeting. At the instructions of President! Kennedy the workers were finally foraibly ejected from the meeting. A permit was granted on Wednes- day by the board of education tc the party to hold meeting in the school | on the explosion but was cancelled | late yesterday by R. B. Hall,.secre- the Canaries, TENANTS LEAGUE FIGHTS FAKERS ‘Socialist and Tammany | Vote Grabbing Exposed Tremendous interest in the plat- |is expressed by the Negro workers of |Harlem following the successful pa- rade against exorbitant rents and against the expiration of the emer- gency rent laws lead by the League last Saturday, form of the Harlem Tenants League | tures has refused to allow repre- @7¢ constituting a permanent men-|tary of the board of education, who sentatives of the Union of Technical 2ce- Neithgr the employers nor the|in a letter to the party states “the Men to state their grievances over |Yespective city or state officials|subject matter of the meeting is Station WNYC. The union is trying | Made any satisfactory attempt here-| highly controversial as appears by to secure a minimum salary of | tofore to overcome these conditions. |the circular entitled “Winchester $3,120 for all Grade C engineers in| “An investigation conducted by| Worker’.” (This is the Communist the Board of Transportation, | the Winchester Nucleus of the Com-| Nucleus shop paper), Following the refusal’ of John H.| ™unist Party clearly reveals the/ A meeting addressed by' Peter Delaney, commissioner of the Board flowing: f Chaunt, district organizex of the of Transportation to listen to the), 1——The criminal negligence of Communist Party was held at Win- grievances of the city engineers, the| the employers and not carelessness | chester gate at which circulars were men applied for the right to use the|0f the victims caused the recent distributed to 500 listeners. city broadcasting station in an ef- ‘#tal explosion; | te fort to call public attention to their|, “2—Similar deadly — explosions dea take place in the shop frequently, N.Y. Workers to Honor Bee Se Ts ‘ . without any subsequent provisions ss ae cree Cae ee niwuatio™ by the employers to prevent their Matteotti’s Memory at | Webster Manor Sunday Marcel E. peers rae cata recurrence, “3.—The powder house where Militant workers of this city will gather Sunday at 2 p. m., at New Somm mer Goldman’s action ,, ' : seems to indicate that there is a con- ‘es explosions occurred, was of spiracy between the Board of Esti-|Yo0cen structure with no air-proof me chambers cssential for places where | Webster Manor, 125 E. 11th St. to do honor to the memory of Giacomo 'Matteotti, who was murdered by the mate, the Board of Transportation DET ete and the Department of Plant and|SUnpowder, fomite or other explo- es are mixed; ‘4—Explosions occur daily in the \Ttalian fascist regime on June 10, cartridge, gun and loading depart-| i904, structure to gag the legitimate com- | ments of the plant resulting in in-| “Matteotti was a socialist member = Thomas Note Snatching. Norman Thomas, of the socialist |party, Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvi jleir and Alderman Charles MeGil- lick of Harlem are among those who jare issuing “statements” to the local press with obvious vote-snatching in- tentions. Cuvillier and McGillick ‘both claim to have 10,000 tenants ready to march on City Hall next Monday. A call for a mass meeting in Harlem was also issued by the Central Republican Club through the Amsterdam News, reactionary Negro Paper. The publicity of each group fs de- nounced by the Harlem Tenants League, which has issued copies of its official resolution on housing for | distribution at the meeting. The League asks tenants anxious for further information on its program* to communicate with it at the Har- lem Workers Center, 235 W. 129th St., or phone Bradhurst 7584. The organization anticipates tremendous growth as a result cf its | moved out.” | The officer laughed heartily. | “Of course, the man who answered the telephone would never have ad- mitted anything of the kind if he ‘had known what the woman was seeking the information for,’ he added. And then he chuckled some more. It was a good joke, he thought, Destruction a Joke. | The attitude of the narrator of | the incident is characteristic of the | attitude of military, bureaucrats un- | der capitalism. | What. does it matter to imperial- |ism under Emperor Hoover if the | window panes of a poor woman’s house are broken and she loses her |roomers and means of livelihood? To them, it is all-important to prepare for the next war. In the midst of | such preparations the rights ®f poor | women cannot be bothered with. | ee eee | Bigots “Want to Form New Party for Wall St. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 5.— Stating that “the people everywhere | recognize the corrupt character of | both the dominant parties,” the pro- | hibition state committee of Pennsyl- vania called today for “ail patriots in these corrupt parties to forsake their bad company and band them- | selves together into one great politi- | cal party for the accomplishment of | governmental reform.” | The committee passed resolutions for “political reform, revision of the | jugicial code, more rigid censorship of* motion pictures, enactment of | legislation making the buyer of} liquor equally guilty with the seller in the eyes of the law, removal from office of public officials who ob- struct measures necessary for the | Cook’s Pal STRIKE WAVE IN. | JAPAN TEXTILES Second Largest Mill on Strike; Other Yield YOKOHOMA, Japan, June 5.— The second largest spinning mill in Japan is on strike. It is the Kan- saki mill of the Osaka Codo Spin- | ‘ning Co., running 156,000 spindles. | Workerg are demanding that there |be mo wage cuts because of the | abolition of night work. Most of |the mills in Japan have stopped the | night work, because of a reduction | of the market. All except the Nis- |shin Spinning Co. have cut the wages | | correspondingly. Reports are that strike sentiment is spreading so rapidly through the other mills, that “some of them will | | | shin Co., although this means @ re- | duction in dividends.” SAVE FISH BUT The funny looking fellow above, besides falling off horses, is known | as a pal of Arthur Cook, British | Mine Union official who has stabbed | ene the miners in the back by deserting | . , them and joining the misleaders wf Senate Has Nothing for ine"Levor Party, Cook recently de. Jobless; Much for Sport scribed the Prince of Wales, above in the shako hat, as a “friend of By OSMORE EATON | the workingclass,” and dined with WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—| the prince, conveniently forgetting The profound question of when the | that the British royalty’s money fish in the Great Lakes do most of | comes from the workers’ slavery. their spawning is now occupying the are attention of scientists from the ” bureau of fisheries of the capitalist| Wall Street Gets the Control of Telephone Service in §. America government of the United States. Thousands of dollars that might relieve unemployment, poverty and | other evils of the present social or- Spars der are being spent by well-salaried| A nip and tuck struggle for com- officials who are cruising comfort-|municatigns rights in Colombia and aby in the Great Lakes this summer.| Peru, between an American firm The “Spearwater,” after months| and British companies, was won by of repairs at Samdusky, Ohio, re- the Americans, when the Interna- Jcently started out on trips to 10/ tional Telephone and Telegraph Cor- jtowns and cities—three of them in| poration acquired wireless, telephone |Canada—to study all about fish.| and telegraph rights in those coun- Cleveland; *Rondeaux Harbor, On-| tries, it was revealed here by the tario; Fairport, 0.; Ashtabula, 0.;| I. T. and T. concern, The American Fort Stanley, Ont.; Erie, Pa.; Port) capitalists will begin immediate ex- Dover, Ont.; Dunkirk and Buffalo,| ploitation of the workers here in N. Y., are the stopping places.| this industry. Scientists from the fisheries bureau in Washington, the Buffalo museum | % sa Page Three * BiG LABOR SPORT MEET ON SUNDAY Noted Worker Athletes | to Participate e of Norwood, Mass. > Cathedral Young ion 10-mile run ir | Boston, has filed his entry in the 00 meter run to take place thi: | Sunday at College Point, L. I. The meet is being run under the auspice: lof the Eastern District of the Le bor Sports Union of America. Be |sides He there will be a dozer jother w s athletes from Massachusetts to take part in the extensive program of track and fielé events, tern District of the Lal on, little active in tyack and field sports last year, has ar k and field program s year. Besides this meet it is arranging a track and field meet for June 15 to take place at Pelhaw Bay Park, another meet on June 3¢ at College Point, an inter-district meet with the New England Dis trict at Norwood, Mass., a swimming meet at Washington Baths, Coney. Island on July 20 and a track ané field meet at Ulmer Park on Au gust 3. The following is the program for this Sunday’s men’s events: running broad jump, running high jump, 12 Ib, shots put, discuss throw, 12 Ib mmer throw, javelin throw, 60- meter dash, 110-meter hurdles, 800- jmeter run, 5,000-meter run, 4x406 relay. Women’s nts: 60-meter, run. running high jump, 8 Ib. shot put. Junior even meter run, run- ning high jump, 8 Ib. shot put, Three Construction | Workers Hurt in Crash- Laid te Co. Negligence | PITTSBURGH, June 5.—Three workers were injured today when ® portion of the Sears-Roebuck build- ing under construction in the east, end section of Pittsburgh collapsed. A number of men were caught in the falling conerete and steel. The injured are: J. E. Johnston, 29; James Gore, 22, Negro, and John Fonman, 48, Negro. of science, Coast and Geodetic Sur- commission are enjoying this well- financed junket. Save the Fish’s Babies. The government in manifesting vey and the Ohio fish and game} RESERVE BOARD JUGGLED MARKET. WASHINGTON, June 5—Sen- ators Glass and Couzens today at- | structure which collapsed. tacked on the floor of the senate the| A part of the third floor on which federal reserve board for permitting | concrete was being poured crash@d | Over 275 men were employed in the construction of the building, but | only a few were near the part of the |the funds of the banks to be used | for stock gambling on the New York exchange, and for influencing the market by sudden rulings on the dis- keen solicitude over the spawning season of fish so it can establish uniform open and closed seasons in the states bordering in Great Lakes doing little property damage, the ; construction company officials said. Workers stated that the company’s | negligence in its hurry to complete |the job fast was the cause of the and so it can negotiate with Canada count rate, jof the fish. to agree on the same period. All of this will save trouble for wealthy \ collapse. Babbitts who want to go fishing giur- | ing the hot summer months while} the workers remain at their benches | in the factories. The Babbitts some-| times have trouble with local con- stables and sheriffs over the fact that the closed season is at one time| in one state and at a different time | in another. While they can usually buy their way out of jail and pay ‘ines or bribes, still, they prefer to avoid being disturbed. Unity “Very Important.” CF Before establishing a uniform Friendly closed season the government wants Atmosphere 0 be quite sure that the season is identical with the spawning season | The fish will be able! to reproduce themselves in vast num- bers while the fishermen leave them alone. The sport of the Babbitts will, therefore, not seriously reduce the population of the fish in the lakes. Plenty of fish for future pleasure parties will thus be assured. This is a matter of vast moment to the executive committee of the} bourgeoisie. At great cost, the gov- Fresh Food Bathing Rowing, Fishing Sports Entertainment Cultural Activities Hiking Cooperative Summer Home for Workers WINGDALE, N. Y. — TEL. WINGDALE 51 New York Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE Telephone MONument: 0111 and 0112 Camp plaints of this union. We warn the juries never made public; of the chamber of deputies, but he Successful agitation. | defense of the United States consti- officials involved that gag tactics | will not prevent us from exposing | °“5.—After each major explosion the employers order a_ hurried this act of high*handedness.” Labor Faker’s Widow iean-up in the entire factory re- Leses in Race to Get moving all evidence of their negli- ll St. Congress | Fake Investigations. Eto Wel sh Congres | “6.—The investigations conducted | gence; WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 5 (U.| by the company, city and state of- P).—Mrs. Sarah Casey, Dem., widow | ficials at all times. acquitted the em- of the late labor faker and president | Ployers, blaming the workers for of the State Federation of Labor, the accidents, and never resulted in apparently had been defeated today |improved safety conditions; in her race to succeed her hushand| “7.—The occasional inspections | the late John Casey, as representa-| conducted by the department of la- tive in Congress from the 12th,|bor are superficial; | Luzerne County District of Pennsyl- | “8.—Relatives of the deceased or| vania, on the face of practically| injured workers are intimidated to| complete returns from yesterday’s | prevent any public information that special election. | might convict the company officials; With only two of the districts, 396| ‘“9—Compensation and pension »recincts missing, C. Murray Turpin,| provided by the company and the Rep., was leading Mrs. Casey by|state for the families of the victims more than 400 votes. Casey was/are entirely insufficient; sent to congress by the bosses whom| “10.—Terrific speed-up, long hours |was one of the few socialists who did not capitulate to fascism and for |this reason he was murdered. The memorial meeting is being or- ganized by the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, a united front or- |ganization of revolutionary workers, |left wing unions, workers’ clubs and |fraternal organizations. In an effort to split the forces actively fighting fascism, an opposi- |tion meeting has been arranged by |by experienced investigators for the the yellow socialist party which in| Italy, as well as in other countries, | is a tool of fascism. The Anti-Fas- cist Alliance of North America calls | on all workers not to be deceived by this fake “anti-fascist” meeting and to attend the real Matteotti memor- ial meeting at New Webster Manor. Among all the classes that con- front the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is really revolu- he had aided. of labor, low wages and piece-work, tlonary—Marx. Walker Joins Thomas. As a sop to the rising mass pro- |test against housing conditions, Mayor Walker is expected to present | |@ bill to the board of estimates to- the landlords, who are holding or- jganization conferences throughout |the city and have established an ela-| | borate and reactionary “Tax Pay-| ers Association”. The methods of this organization are being exposed Tenants League. Cristero” Chieftain | in Mexico Is Killed. MEXICO CITY, June 5.—General E. Goroztieta, chief of the Catholic Church rebels in the state of Ja- lisco, was killed yesterday by fed- cral troops after advising his fol- lowers to disperse as the United States had arranged for the church 77 | tution and the constitutions of their} respective states, and enactment of legislation against the drug habit.” The clause about removal of offi- |cials who “obstruct measures neces- |sary for the defense of the Consti- tution” reveals those in back of this plan as foes of the workers as well as bigots. It would mean the re- moval of any workers’ representa- tives should they be elected to office. Colombia Government) Sends Troops. Against | the Revolting Peasants | | BOGOTA, Colombia, June 5.—The government was mobilizing detach- ments of troops today to send to the southeastern frontier to combat gangs of “bandits” as ‘the Wall Street puppet government calls ernment intends to find out all about | fish and to make the amusement of the fishermen just as well-protected | as possible. Slaves in the miners and mills are of no consequence. The perpetuity | of the fish supply and the protection of the recreation of the parasites take priority over the interests of the masses. | for children from 5 BLAST KILLS WORKER, | BUENOS AIRES,—June 5.—One | worker was killed and four wounded | when a ventilating pump exploded in| a local moving picture theatre last | night. geoin society had fin: them. They are in reality revolting ally 07 formed into a ins ft $17.00 PER WEEK Our busses leave every Wednesday at 2 p. m. Friday—6:30 p. m. 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