The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 1

av "SONNY ae ( THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS o — ee : ‘a. Fora oo Government ie SURE i = FINAL CITY To Organize the Unorganized Cy ) Against Imperialist War if a Oss cs) Raa EDITION For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office see York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. 3 J ig oe vee O° pees oe hie te ee ee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929 So ee ve eee __ Price 3 Cents HOOVER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS DEMANDS MORE SPIES ® REPARATIONS Communist Exposes Secret Imperialist Deal Against U. . ) Morrow, Bishops on the! Same Train to Mexico; GREEN'S AGENT | Maneuvers Mean that Imperialist War is Coming ADMINISTRATION SMASHES AMENDMENT EXPOSING THE DELEGATIONS “vcr. BOASTS | NEGRO DISFRANCHISEMENT These maneuvers | PALESTINE, Texas, June 6, — HE WILL | nt eee catiie \Dwight W. Morrow, U. S. ambassa-| in which Wall Ste of PLOT NEW WAR dor to Mexico, arrived today in his| BETRAY STRIKE La ee % base oh = private car attached to the St. Louis-| military forces wr D. : ) Ai ex Ril, ADRES as ean Beard ates) 1 E resident Orders Congress to Aid Frame-up ase Mexico City. On the same train were — war battle, are part Experts by Sending Committee to Advise Schacht, Kuehlman,! Rechberg and Lippe Participated To Attack Soviet Union| Powers Fix Financial Military Details (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, June 6—The Commu-| nist representative, Deputy Stoecker, | speaking in the foreign affairs com-| mittee of the Reichstag, exposed in| a searching and drastic manner cer-| tain events connected with the Paris | reparations conference. He proved! that the former minister of foreign| affairs, Von Kuehlmann, the anti-| Bolshevik big business man, Von Rechberg, and General Von Lippe| held extra conferences behind the scenes in Paris with numerous re- sponsible agents of the great powers of foreign imperialism, in order to establish a financial, political and military understanding against the Soviet Union. Can't Deny It. Chancellor Mueller and the social| democratic minister of finance, Hil-| ferding, were present at the session) but made no comment, ’ Archbishop Ruiz Y. Flores and Bishop Diaz of Tobasco, who had boarded the “Sunshine Special” at St. Louis. During the morning the church- men had visited Morrow’s private car, which will proceed to San An- tonio and continue on to Mexico City Friday. The prelates however, were to journey to Mexico City with- out any stop-over. \Offers to Sell Out the) 2,000 Ware Shoals Textile Strikers |Flour Sack Underwear | Gastonia Militants Are | Ragged But Active (Special to the Daily Worker) GREENVILLE, S. C., June 6.— George L. Cooge, personal repre- sentative of William Green, presi- dent of the A. F. of L., stated yes- terday that he expected to be able | to call off the strike of 2,000 work- | | | Immediately after the Portes Gil government began to disarm peas- ants and shot the secretary of the National Peasants’ League, it be- came known that Morrow had ar- ranged for the return to power of the reactionary church in Mexico. NATIONS LEAGUE STRIKES AT U.S. ers at the Ware Shoals textile mill here. He said that he could persuade the strikers to go back without get- ting any higher wages or better con- ditions, although they are speeded and work long hours. In return he wants the company not to dis-| criminate against the United Textile | Workers Union, and take back two of its discharged members. Workers at the Ware Shoals plant | NO RENT ACTION are being notified by the National | Labor Party Backs Its | Textile Workers Union, which leads | Native Imperialism |the Gastonia strike, that this sell-| jout scheme is now a fixed policy| of an extensive ser- ies being carried on by the Wall Street military forces to stir up interest in the militar; and thus trap wo ers into joining the Wall Street forces to be used as cannon fodder in the coming imperialist war. TENANTS; TAKES (Wireless by Inprecorr.) PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 6—A full meeting of the central committee of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia has expelled Bolen, Housen, Jilek, Muna, Neur-| Harlem League Wages | ne ce COPY gbaea am EN ; Gi cie guportinisn audi because ’6 Fight; Meets Monday ie their struggle against the Commu-| The widely-advertised plan of nist Party. JAIL 4 BOSTON SHOE STRIKERS FOR ‘CONTEMPT ath, Skalek and Touzel on account! Dyjye for Relief to Be Held Sunday BOSTON, Mass., June 6.—For “Law Enforcement Commi ion’ Meets With | Mellon; Hoover Asks More Centralization WASHINGTON, June 6.—Two of the most despotic as- pects of the Hoover program and arbit Under direct pressure of the‘ jadministration leaders the | house reversed itself on the Tink- |ham census bill amendment passed \day before yesterday to cut down representation from states which |prevent Negroes from voting. The |leader of the Hoover majority, Til- |son, himself introduced another amendment to take out the whole section relating to Negro disfran- chisement and aliens, and permit states to send representation based on total population, no matter how many aliens are included, or how many Negroes are deprived of a vote in violation of the constitution. After this Tilson proposition was voted through, the house passed the whole census bill b 2 to 105. | Hoover Message. | A message from Hoover was read in Congress calling on that body to \involve itself with his “Law En- ion” in the con- of centralization, imperialism, ary rule of big business were developed today. COOK LOCAL JOINS AMALGAMATED; HIT AFL SCABBING Call for Organization of Unorganized Denouncing the policy of the A. *. of L. officialdom in the food in- dustry as me steeped in corrup- tion, sabotage, and conscious strike- breaking,” Local 719 of the Cooks and Broilers Wednesday night unan- imo voted to abandon the A. F. jof L., and affiliate with the Amal- MADRID, June 6.—The League of Stoecker also declared that the|Nations Council met in secret ses- president of the Reichsbank, Schacht, Sion here today to consider the min- the head of the German reparations delegation in Paris, was at these secret conferences against the Union| of Socialist Soviet Republics. Muel-| Jer declared that Schacht’s presence | at such meetings was unknown to the~government but was unable to| give any positive guarantees that) Schacht was not present. 100 FURNITURE = MEN ON STRIKE Brooklyn Workers Are Fighting for Union Over 100 workers employed by the | orities question. |with the U. T. W. U., having been |used at Elizabethton to smash a) |strike that was winning, and that the strikers can look to the N. T. |Mayor Walker to aid tenants who jare being threatened with rent raises jor eviction yesterday collapsed with- | |eut causing the faithful henchmen | IRON STRIKERS violation of the injunction in the | forcement Commiss' gamated Food Workers, which was Boston shoe strike, Judge Louis Cox, | centration and centralization of the characterized as “a fighting, mill in the Equity session of the Su- | prohibition service under a_ single) tant, industrial organization.” perior Court here yesterday ad- | head, responsible directly to Hoover.| ‘The local took this action at a W. U. to conduct a militant struggle tate A hich will be better for them than| lining up completely with the Bald- | : se win administration’s imperialist pol- |merely paying dues to the United icy of using the league as a weapon | Textile Workers Union officialdom. against the imperialism of the} js | United asiP to W Fight Terrorism, | ED ea raee, GASTONIA, N. C., June 6.—The cation of the sharpening conflict be- cian ke hae bend soe ess 4 aera the first center of struggle and tween American and British imper- | |, ee islism. Great Britain’s capitalist leadership in the South. The Gas-| acvemitiehe, ei eiate dnderatiaranc ai ee ers, iar eae their | noying competition of American | P'° et: ea a face of sae ship owners who, aided by the U. S. | pasdecslotilw: Mieiiheit spe? under the : leadership of the union and with the It found the British labor party s + & of Tammany Hall to bat an eyelash. | A meeting of the Board of Esti- mate, which was supposed to con- | sider his “plan” for extending the | emergency rent laws that expired Mey 31, was adjourned by the mayor until September without con- rs sidering the question of rents at all. of Striker Refuse Floor to Tenants. = Not only did the mayor forget; A mass picketing demonstration entirely about the famous “plan,” |of the striking architectural len the Inaderchin of the ‘rates, [und bronze workers will be held at ‘Tenants League, demanded the |six o'clock this morning before the floor, they were promptly refused. |Madison Iron Workers, Tiffany St. 16 PICKET TODAY |Workers Mourn Death iron government in the announced at- tempt to drive the British out of certain trade, and sore at the recent bulldozing of England and France by Morgan and Young in the Dawes plan conference, is using all its power to strike back. There was a double effort under help of the Workers International (Continued on Page Two) WARDER WANTS Meanwhile hundreds of Harlem |tenants are threatened with rent aises on July 1. “Pay or get out!” the slogan of the landlords, who lare being actively aided by politi- cians of all three capitalist parties posing as “friends” of the tenants. (Continued on Page Three) and Randall Ave., Bronx, leaders of the strike announced last night. Today is the beginning of the fourth week of the walkout and the tanks of the strikers are as firm as they were on the day of t Ik- out. In spite of continued arrests and police brutality, picketing con- judged 12 strikers in contempt of Part of his message demanded that) special meeting called by Organizer court and sentenced three of them, | Congress enlarge the army of spies) Harry Annis, and held at Irving Michael Salaggio, Charles ‘churman | and special officers, also the navy) Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. and John Slattery, to jail for 20 days each and one of them, Louis Cortino, to jail for 10 days. The cases of six of the strikers were continued, and orders for ar- rest were issued against two strik- ers who failed to appear for sen- tence, Despite these repeated arrests, the str of the 10,000 shoe work- ers here continuing and picketing demonstrations are held daily. The capitalist press here is contizuing its conspiracy of silence in an ef- fort to break the spirit of the men. The Workers International Relief, which sometime ago established a (Continued on Page Two) jef armed. cutters, at the better dis arrangement, and stated the pur- pose of this new armed force to be. |“unification and strengthening of our border patrols both in connec- tion with prohibition and illegal entry of aliens.” The house had adjourned without | doing any business yesterday be- cause of the noisy demonstration of southern representatives against the amendment. | posal of Hoover under the proposed | | “Teeiendous &ithusiasm prevailed when ‘this action was taken by the local. The members rose on their feet and cheered for nearly 10 min- utes. The members declared that the abandonment of the A. F. of L. was in line with the new and correct policy in the direction of the new Trade Union Center which will be launched at the Cleveland Confer- ence. | Tinkham Everybody . « | (Continued en Page Two) ageless | eee Although the immediate cause of this step is the strikebreaking ac- tivities of the A. F. of L. officialdom against the courageous struggle ot the cafeteria workers, a long period of disgust with the corrupt and anti- French Aristocrat Is Caught; Bought Wine Miller Parlor Frame Co., 340 Mor-' way to place responsibility for the gan Ave. Brooklyn, are now 0M| present dissatisfaction of some 31,- strike to enforce union recognition 000,000 minority people of the and improved conditions. United States. The immediate cause of the walk- | Blame Wilson. out was the increase of the work! ‘phe two efforts, specifically, are: week from 44 to 49 hours. After a| 4 The secret minorities’ report | mass protest on the part of the prepared by the committee under! After utilizing his position as su- workers, the hours were changed si, Austen Chamberlain, former | perintendent of the state banking back to the original 44, but the| British foreign secretary, who is at| department to rifle the funds of | $4,000 PENSION Rifler of the City Trust Asks Reward | bosses proceeded to cut wages on} tinues regularly. BURN LONDON PHONE LINE. George Zaretsky, a striker, was fer Bootlegging Ring STRIKE OAKLAND Considerable flurry has been cre- union policies of the A. F. of L. de- termined the action on Wednesday LONDON, June 6.—The capital’s | entire newspaper district was dis organized tonight by fire in the} underground cables on the Thames | embankment near the Blackfriars | Bridge. News agencies were forced to send messages to newspaper of- fices by messenger at the critical arrested yesterday and fined $5 in st St. Court for picketing the Derles Iorn Works, on 13ist St. Strikers yesterday mourned the death of Alexander Simon, a striker and active member of the union. Simon was in his early forties and the speed-up conditions under which the basis of the earnings of five hours work. The strike then followed, and the | place is now being picketed regu- -larly despite the fact that the boss’s hired thugs are on hand to terrorize | the workers. | The Miller Company was origin- | ally a member of the Furniture Manufacturers’ Association, but left recently when dissension broke out! among the members, and the @r-, ganization disintegrated. The strikers meet regularly at linton Hall, 151 Clinton St. Communists fight on behalf of the immediate aims and interests of e working class, but in their nt movement they are also de~ fending the future of the move- present at the meeting. This report | poor Italian depositors in the de-| conference. The present unsatisfac-| was revealed yesterday that Frank | | Pension Fund for a modest pension Plans Dance Wed. | He resigned shortly after the death | ning a roof garden dance at the/ bank and allied institutions and sur-| ning, June 12, at 8:30 p. m, | While the application for the pen- | ing the past few months by means eral Robert S. Conklin is studying meetings thruout the city. | ment.—Marx. A" Leather Workers Mass Meet resses the responsibility of Presi- |funct City Trust Company to the nt Wilson at the Versailles peace extent of thousands of dollars, it | (Continued on Page Two) | H. Warder had applied, prior to the a City Trust collapse, to the State Office Workers Union fer ei 09 tor life Normally his| {term would have expired July a As part of its organization drive,| of his close friend, Francesco Fer- | the Office Workers’ Union is plan-| rari, brought about the crash of the | Hecksher Foundation, Fifth Ave.| rounded him with a complicated net- and 104th St., next Wednesday eve-| work of incriminating evidence. The union has been carrying onjsion is being considered, it is re- an active agitational campaign dur-| ported that Assistant Attorney Gen- of a series of educational meetings | (Continued on Page Two) and a large number of open air! pe TE TES: MCR | Tag Days for Children’s | \Camps and Strike Aid ‘Saturday and Sunday he was forced to work is held re- sponsible for his untimely death. dead-line hour instead of on the usual ticker machines. Needle Union Wins Important Victory on Eve of Fur Strike Furriers to Mobilize All Labor in Defense of Right to Picket “Whalen’s police cannot make fur ) against gangsterism, police brutal- garments!” lity and police interference with the This was the comment last night |tights of workers.” |by the Joint Board of the Needle | Declaring that the fur manufac- Trades Workers Industrial Union to |turers and their flunkey company the announcement by Tammany Po- |Union fear an exposure of their ac- lice Commissioner Whalen that he tivities in hiring professional thugs, kad detailed 500 extra police for gangsters and sluggers, the Joint duty in the garment district on the |Board declares that they will never eve of the general strike of the fur |dare submit to a genuine investiga- workers. These will be used to club tion, for this would reveal unmis- and terrorize the strikers back to the takably their hiring of these under- ‘Demands General Strike Call “Administration Prepares for Betrayal by Calling In State “Mediator” While rank and file sentiment in e Fancy Leather Workers’ Union demanded the immediate calling of general strike in the trade, A. I. (Shiplacoft, manager of the union, let it be known at a crowded mass meeting held yesterday afternoon in Webster Manor, 11th St. and Third ve., that he is welcoming Miss : Fraicn Perkins, of the State Labor ‘Department, to enter the situation “as_a “mediator.” This individual is rious for her strikebreaking ac- ‘tivities. _ So great was the enthusiasm of the membership for immediate ac- 7 that the workers who turned in response to the call for the| meeting filled Webster Manor to overflowing. When several hundred workers stood for some time in front of the hall, unable to gain ad- mittance, arrangements were made to engage Stuyvesant Casino, on Second Ave. Practically all of the speakers who took the floor at yesterday’s meet- ing demanded immediate strike ac- tion. They criticized the Shiplacoff administration severely for “drag- ging along” since the expiration of the agreement, thus giving the bosses an opportunity for preparing themselves. By this dilly-dallying, the speakers charged, they failed to (Continued on Page Five) The Children’s Section of the Workers International Relief which is building working class Young Pio- neer camps for workers’ children throughout the country this summer is running tag days this Saturday and Sunday, June 8 and 9. The re- ceipts of this tag day are for relief for the Southern strikers and for the camps. All workers’ children must go out on these tag days and collect money! The establishment of our camps will help us win our children away from the bosses Boy Scout camps. Every workers’ child out «vith a box on tag day! The W. I. R. office at 799 Broad- way will be open all day Saturday and Sunday. We call upon all work- ers to mobilize their children for these tag dayg, Long Live the Revolutionary Struggle of the Oppressed Colo- nial Peoples! i movement and shops. Ai the same time the Joint Board challenged the fur manufacturers and their company union, the “Joint Council” to procced with an inves- tigation into gangsterism in the fur strike, following reports that Stet- approached Samuel Untermyer, cor- poration lawyer, with such a re- quest, “Concerning Police Commissioner Whalen’s extraordinary police prep- arations,” the Joint Board state- ment said, “we declare that despite all assurances of police ‘neutrality,’ we are nevertheless aware of the fact that the employers and their company union are planning to use ayd are‘ already using these police preparations as a means for intim- idating and terrorizing the workers who contemplate responding to the strike call. The Joint Board is pre- pared to arouse the entire labor its sympathizers \sky, head of the company union, had | |world characters to murderously as- |sault workers and their repesenta- tives. As proof of this it points to \the brutal and murderous attack in 1927 of Aaron Gross, of the Indus- trial Union. Expose Hypocrisy. By prating of investigations and other pious gestures, it is declared, |the scab Joint Council seeks to con- ceal its mobilization of the under- world against the furriers. At the same time militant furriers in the market discussed contemptu- ously the announcement that Unter- |myer was being asked to make an “impartial” investigation. They pointed out that it is not surpris- ing for Stetsky, Woll and the other misleaders to be clinking glasses jwith this wealthy corporation law- yer who has served the bosses well for many years, Several of them characterized the latest move as a cloak to shield tho murderous, (Continued on Page Five), ws i we. SY saan dents nant dit ated in fashionable circles and in night. and around the French embassy in! Because Local 719 had taken the 0. Washington, it is lead in aiding the fight of the cafe- at the very rit had given moral and Walk Out Protesting Wage Cut; Join Union (Special to the Daily Worker) | OAKLAND, Cal., June 6.—Two hundred and fifty men in the Fisher Body Co. plant in Oakland walked out today against a wage cut of 30 to 50 per cent, coupled with an or- cer from the employers that the work should be speeded and more production obtained with less men, Pickets are defying the anti-pick- eting law here. There have been three arrests. One picket was (Continued on Page Two) ‘Labor Defense Tag Day for Shifrin and Mineola \Cases This Week-end Tag days will be held on June 15 and 16, Saturday and Sunday, in |New York City, by the International |Labor Defense, in order to collect funds for the defense of the Shifrin and Mineola cases. Shifrin now |faces a term of 20 years because he jdefended himself against the attack | ef six gangsters hired and paid by | |the right wing Butchers Union of- ficials, because of his left wing ac- |tivities, Two out of the nine Min- ‘eola defendants are now serving sen- |tences of five years and the seven | others are in danger of going to iprison for like terms. There will be ten stations in the tag days, as follows: Bronx Co-op- erative, 2700 Bronx Park E.; Bronx Workers Club, 1472 Boston Road; Unity Co-operative, 1800 Seventh Ave.; Non-Partisan School, 143 E. 103rd_ St.; Workers Center, 26-28 |Union Square; Williamsburg, 56 Manhattan Ave.; Boro Park Work- ers Club, 43rd St.; Bath Beach, 154 Watkins Ave., Brownsville, Coney Island, 2901 Mermaid Ave. ‘ = al act + andes here of Count F nce to them, and ndant de Polignac, d of a long h them in the picket line of aristocrats, The count was s, three delegates of drawing good wag t a task con- | the loc: the ew York Joint genial to him. He is charged w Board were récent being the taster and buyer for a ring of bootleggers which has smug- gled millions of dollars worth of liqucr—-with police protection, of jcourse. Their operations finally be- jeame so notorious that the govern- ment had to intervene. Thi:ty-two cthers were arrested, and charged with belonging to the ring, loge fie Howard Opens Market. | WASHINGTON, June 6.—Sir Esme Howard, ambassador from Great Britain, has not done muck but open up a new field for boot- leggers, say the ordinary politicians | jhere, when he gives up his peculiar ‘diplomatic right of importing liquor. None ef the other embassies seem \to be inclined to follow his lead. expelled. An- other reason for their expulsion is found in the fact that the gang in the Joint Board, led by the reaction- ary Lehman of Waiters Local 1 fear- ed too many details of the secret strikebreaking schemes that were being hatched at the meetings of the board. Explain Aims of Usion. Lehman himself is now under a cloud, charges having been made at a recent meeting of Waiters Local 1 that he received a bribe of $1,200 from a Bronx restaurant owner for using his “influence” to prevent a strike in the place. | -A delegation from the Amalga- mated Food Workers had been in- (Continued on Page Two) ‘Expose Pious Port Chester i of so many hot facts that it will (Continued on Rage Two) . Priest as Tool of Mussolini Anti-Fascist Alliance Nails Lies of Boss Sheet; Leaflet Makes Reactionaries Froth PORT CHESTER, N. Y., June 6.|probably be too strong for the edi- —While local city officials, police. |tor to stomach—or publish. |capitalists and reactionaries of every Fascists Attacked Worker. |stripe are still frothing at the mouth} The leaflet distributed Monday, over the distribution last Monday entitled “Down with Fascism!” calls evening among the local Italian|on the workers to protest against working class population of a circu-|the arrest in Port Chester on May |lar of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of |5 of Salvatore Arditi, an anti-fas- North America, the Alliance has al-|cist worker of Mamaroneck, N.Y, tace of certain individuals who are | while walking in the street here, It hiding behind the cloak of “impar-|was only by driving off his assail- tiality” in regard to fascism. ants at the point of a gun that he In a letter to the editor of the Was able to save himself. Arditi, |Fort Chester Daily Item, which has though he had a permit for the gun, |made itself the spokesman of the Was immediately arrested, while the |local reactionaries, the Anti-Fascist four fascists who attacked him were | Alliance serves up a dish compound |let free. The leaflet also exposed | ready taken steps to expose the true |Arditi was attacked by four fascists | |