The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ily cy FINAL CIT'rx EDITION AEA it OF IET oe Entered as second-clasy matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1878, a Vol. VI., No. 83 Company, Inc., Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing. 8 Union Square, New York City, — NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929 BEAL CHARGED WITH MURDER: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. BERLIN MEET IN DISCUSSION OF COMMUNIST TASK Thaelman Reports on War Danger, May Day Events Party Line - Outlined | Demonstrate Against) Visiting Monarch |Imperialists Spread Many Diseases Among Colonial Subjects The appalling effect of imperial- ist exploitation upon the health of colonial peoples is shown by an in- vestigation of the conditions in the French colonies, published in the French imperialist journal, “La Le- peche Colonial.” In all French col- onies the native population is de- creasing, amounting in Madagascar and French West Africa to 14 to 20 per thousand per annum. The birth rate is high, ranging from 40 to 70 per thousand. But the rate of in- fantile mortality is 300 per thou- sand in Indo-China; 870 per thou- sand in West Africa, and 400 per thousand in Madagascar. The na- tives are dwindling in numbers and Chief Aderholt and Major Planning Attack BROOKHART SAYS. WILL START NEW POLITICAL PARTY Threat Obviously Nil; Brookhart Old Faker ‘Stops Workers Books = ° Allows Tariff Bill! to Bar Militant Papers | UABOR DEFENSE HOLDS . MANY MASS MEETINGS ORGANIZES WORKERS 10 SHIELD GASTONIA STRIKE WIR Cables Support to Gastonia Strikers able.) June 12.—The} BERL Jin strength. Eleven per cent of the }men offering themselves for mili- | tary service are rejected as too weak BULLETIN. Ten workers arrested for de- WASHINGTON, June 12. threat to organize a third parts if | | Central i} Committee of the Workers International Relief | | (world organization) sends A fending themselves against the | police who attacked them during | the May Day demonstrations were today sentenced to from three to twelve months by judges in con- niyance with the social democrats. 3) ees te BERLIN, June 12. — Thaelman yesterday concluded his report of the present Party line with special | reference to the estimate of the May Day events, and their relation | to the war danger. | He enumerated the factors show- | ing the increase of the war danger. | He declared the defense of the Sov- iet Union must be the axis of the revolutionary movement of all coun- tries. The first of August must be| a great mobilization of toilers! against war for the defense of the| Soviet Union, The radicalization of the working masses has been ac-| companied by the Bolshevization of | the Communist Parties. The Bol-| shevization was expressed in the expulsion of the liquidators and the conquering of the conciliators. The struggle against the right wing and| conciliators must be continued en-| ergetically; Thaelmann described the economic situation in Germany. Reparations meant that the German proletariat provides profits for for- eign as well as their.own.capitalist; The social democracy is doing every- thing’to assist the bourgeoisie to extort reparations from the workers. The Communist Party adopts the Brest-Litovsk attitude of the Bol- sheviks; after the destruction of the bourgeoisie and social fascists, the Communists will tear up the Young | (Continued on Page Two) | MOOR TRIBESMEN IN NEW REVOLT Kill 13, Wound Many! Imperial Troups | RABAT, Morocco, June 12.—The | growing discontent of the mountain | tribesmen against oppression by French imper: m broke out into open rebellion when Moorish tribe: men from the Atlas mountains tacked the French forces in a s| mish in which 13 French soldiers | were killed and ten wounded. The skirmish resulted when the tribesmen attacked a regiment of French and colonial troops which were on a so-called “punitive” expe- dition, as the marauding attacks are | called by the French imperialist of- ficials. Had the tribesmen not at- tacked the imperialist troops when they did, a massacre of defenceless women and children by the French troops would have occurred. The French detachment consisted of several hundred Senegalese troops, under command of French (Continued on Page Two) “MELBA” SEAMEN WIN NEW VICTORY Marine Worker League Pushes Drive Word has just been received from Christobal, Panama, by the Marine Workers League, 28 South St., New York, that. a ship’s committee has been formed aboard the S. S, “Lake Melba.” The first victory achieved by the ship’s committee is the addition of three more to the “black gang,” thus creating four watches instead of three, with a consequent reduction of hours from eight to six. Before the move by the ship’s committee there were six firemen and three coal-passers in the “black gang.” Part of World Drive. The “Lake Melba” is now on its way to Vladivostok, Siberia. The formation of the ship’s com- mittee on the “Melba” is part of the organization drive that the Ma- Ge" warvich, | the debenture provision of the farm i Sm |velief bill fails of enactment was The colonial peoples under the | raised in the senate today by Sen- pies tan: of Fre= Seppastlitens atot Brookhart, republican, lows. are becoming increasingly revolu-| -p., 5 ees a tionary. Pina almost every large |, cag ators na pate of | French colony, delegates will be sent |T°ducing the debenture clause into al) s ialist |{2¢ Hoover tariff Dill, if the house | to the Second Anti-Imperialist | 2 rag aa - . |refuses to allow it in the farm bill, | World Congress in Paris, July 20th |° pian feel to 31st 2 and for “organizing” and placing a| eR 8 3 +,:., |“progressive” candidate in all con- The All-America Anti-Imperialist | pressional districts this fall if League will also send delegates to | Hoover vetoes the debentures. | this Internatio-al Congress, both To. Biss Wee from the U. S. section and various o-Riop Watker. Papers. Latin-American sections. An anti-| The tariff hearings opened in the imperialist ¢-nference will be held |Senate finance committee today, in New York on June 15th; in Chi-| With the American valuation plan cago on J~~> 16th, and in San Fran- | discussed. The hearings will last cisco on June 30th. The primary |until July 10. purpose is to send delegates to the} Nobody is saying anything about Paris Congress. |the clause in the tariff bill which |prohibits the importation of work- ling class literature, books or draw- ? HINDU REBELS democratic and “progressive,” are | | willing to let it quietly slip through GET LIFE TERM vhile they argue about relatively a ings. All congressmen, republican, trivial matters. House Vote Tomorrow. | While a hurry call was Deing sent | DAWES HONORED cut to 118 absent representatives, | ithe house made plans ,today for al vote tomorrow on the debenture in | 2, taken while ihe militia was in Gastonia, shows Police Chief Alderholt (with the badge) plotting with Major L. B. Dolley, commander of the 120th Infantry, National Guard of North Carolina, (in uniform) better ways to bayonet, beat up, abuse and kill the rebellious slaves of the Manville-Jenckes Textile mill com- pany. Afier the militia became anreliable because of appeals to them by the strikers, they were withdrawn, armed gunmen of the mill company took their places, and were led by the chief of police in LEADERS FROM FRAME-UP in the name of 15,000,000 - - , Le Ss yh 1 this . *. . 7 eeee reer ad ars |Manville-Jenckes Compels City Council to Hire lagainst the police raid on| | Company Lawyers to Electrocute Workers the Workers International] | = | Relief station and tent col-|/ Fake Hearing in Gastonia Tries to Evade Writ Bathe EC srk | of Habeas Corpus for Trial in Charlotte members and friends for the} | BULLETIN. Gastonia textile strikers. | | Central Committee of the GASTONIA, N. C., June 12.—Alfred Wagenknecht, | Workers International Re- executive secretary of the Workers International Relief, | lief, Ledebour, Muenzenberg, was arrested today by Gastonia police and held for a long | Misiano. time, also menaced with lynching, as part of the plan of 5 the mill-owned public officials here to prevent the dis- “as a tribution of relief to the Loray mill strikers driven from 2 | RST MESSAGE their tent colony. After a long detention in the police headquarters, Wagenknecht was curtly informed that the city solicitor did not want to see him at this time. Meanwhile all the police had given him close scrutiny for “recognition pur- WIRED FROM JAIL", | 3 Wagenknecht on release visited the offices of the vi- | Ben ths ciously anti-union Gastonia Gazette to renew the W. I. R. | subscription to the paper. The paper called up the police, |Gastonia Paper Again and three of them came down, but did not again arrest Noel,.Baldwin Expert, to Advise MacDonald LONDON, June 12.—While Ram- say MacDonald was preparing to receive “strikebreaker” Charles G. Dawes, news was received here that two Indian revolutionists were sen- tenced to life imprisonment in the New Delhi, India, district court, by the henchmen of the British govern- ment. As sentence was pronounced the prisoners, Bhagat Singh and Buteshkwara Dutt shouted, “Long live the revolutionary movement of the proletariat.” The men were ac- cused of having participated in ex- treme forms in the fighting against the Simon Commission, which was appointed by Baldwin, endorsed by the leaders of the British Labor Party and vigorously attacked by the Indian masses. Ramsay MacDonald has been made a private advisor to the King, (Continued on Page Two) BIL IN SECRET CHURCH PARLEY Student Strikers Seize University | MEXICO CITY, June 12.—Secret | negotiations, by which a new reac- | tionary alliance between the Mexi- can government and the catholic church will be formed, began at noon | today when President Portes Gil re- | ceived Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz Y. Flores, papal emissary, and Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco. While Portes Gil is bargaining away one of the cardinal principles of the Mexican Revolution—struggle against the counter-revolutionary catholic church—the great mass of the workers and peasants of the} country are being kept in ignorance of the new plans for their enslave- ment, That these plans are of the most reactionary is attested by the new series of persecutions and bloody suppressions instituted by the Portes Gil government since the crushing of the feudal-clerical up- rising. These suppressions include the murder of the Communist and peasant leader, Rodriguez, the raid- (Continued on Page Two) | Meeting Against War, Irving Plaza, June 15, to Pick Paris Delegates For the purpose of electing a strong delegation to the World Con- gress Against Imperialism, ‘to be held in Paris this summer, the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, New York branch, is holding an Anti-Imperialist Congress, June 15, (Continued on Page Two) 1 at 2 p. m. in Iring Plaza Hall, New York City, . i \ | Frederico Ferrari, |the farm bill. e The farm “bilf Was Iaid on “thé | desk today, and the house adjourned jat noon. Polls indicated the tariff bounty plan would be defeated by 50 to 75 votes, By a vote of 43 against and 40 for it, the senate yesterday rejected (Continued on Page Two) ‘BANKERS’ FAKED $110,006 PROFIT City Trust Swindlers ForgedForeignEntries A sum of $288,043 representing the assets of the defunct City Trust Company in bonds, notes, deeds and mortgages was found yesterday in the City Trust safe deposit boxes of brother of the dead bank swindler, by an estate executor appointed by the Moreland Commission. Letters in the boxes indicate fur- ther “assets” which may be more , valuable than the fictitious entries | Sttikebreaking machine which will | 192 | which decorated the books of the | Undoubtedly be erected. City Trust and similar Ferrari con- cerns utilized to obtain systematic loot which supported the grafting alliance compgsed of ex-State Bank- ing Superintendent Frank H. Ward- er, Tammany leaders and New York |. many bloody assaults on the strikg pickets. In one of these Aderholt was killed, lost Friday. é Shop Chairmen’s Meet Tonigh Is Last Before the Fur Strike \Name Strike Committee; Women Mobilize for | Strike; Help Fight Gastonia Frame-up Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third lation to the Cloak Situation.” | Ave., tonight at 7 o’clock, will be| In a sharp, incisive speech, he |the scene of the last Shop Chair- compared the cringing and anti- men’s Conference prior to the issu- ance of the call for a general strike in the fur industry—a strike which will silence every machine in the fur market. oufit that goes under the pret |tious name of the “Joint Council with the fighting tactics followed by the Industrial Union. union tactics pursued by the shabby | | Incites to Lynch Wagenknecht when he waited | By WALTER TRUMBULL. | but it is"not known whether | GASTONIA, N. C., June 12.—The |first direct word from the strikers jin Gastonia jail was received yester- |day in a telegram sent out by Caro- line Drew, local representative of | the Workers International Relief | jand in charge of the tent colony until she was arrested Saturday jwith all other relief work Na- {tional Textile Workers’ Union offi- jeials in Gastonia and about 60 kers, The telegram was Hens executive secretary of the W. I.| Company. kers’ attorney in It was reported here today Treads: Fred Erwin Beal, southern org: * * frame-up of the strikers and N | the |R., care of the str | Charlotte. “City council and others ask our We understand Rice Me der,” which in North Carolina We re- | tence to the electric chair. permission to remove tents. refuse. | standing by the agreement. |member paying two months’ rent. © him. A crowd gathered at the bus station and scrutinized there for a bus to Charlotte, it was merely from curiosity or the attempt to form a lynching party. Wagenknecht reports the police station resembles an | arsenal, with bayonetted guns standing in every corner. * By BILL DUNNE. GASTONIA, N. C., June 12.—Complete machinery for the ational Textile Workers Union sent to| Officials is being rapidly completed by the Manville-Jenckes that the formal charge against anizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union, has been changed from “complicity” to “mur- involves, on conviction, a sen- | The meeting tonight will hear of-| 'ficially that the composition of the Strike Committee was decided upon at the last meeting of the Joint Board, and that in countless halls in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn plans for mobilization for the com- ing strike are being perfected. For the previous struggles of the fu | rie | their minds, and all preparations are | being made to beat back the vicious } To Hear Report. Ben Gold will report on the final | strike preparations, tasks in connec- | tion with the s | the shop chairmen. Rose Wor are still sharp and bitter in| The company union advises its so-called members to remain on the job even while they are going thru the motions of “negotiations” for a fake stoppage, whereas the Indus- trial Union, he pointed out, is call- ing out the workers even in the set- tied shops for the coming general strike, Gold, secretary-treasurer of th Industrial Union and leader of the furriers in the victorious strike of will be chairman of the Gen- ike Committee which will cor of all members of the Joint Board, of the Executive Board and j all officers of the Industrial Union, | eral "ill be assigned | together with the Committee of 100, | Rose Wortis on| elected at the Trade Conference. Inj |behalf of the Joint Board, will re- | addition, representatives from the} fascist organizations. The swindle! port on the activities of the union|™0st important shops in the indus- was covered by the corrupt admin- istration of Warder ani his Tam- | many aides who even now are fight- ing hard to block the probe insti- tuted to save the face of the state and city administration. Gambling on the stock exchange was a favorite method of playing with the depositors money, it was learned yesterday. Previous evidence had disclosed that foreign exchange juggling had enabled the ring to fake a profit of $110,000, FOOD STRIKERS PICKET TODAY Five Jailed in Garment Area Yesterday Five workers were arrested in the mass picketing demonstrations held at noon yesterday before the Bruns- wick Cafeteria, 237 E. 37th St. and the New-Way Cafeteria, 27th St. and Sixth Ave. Hailed to Jefferson Market Court, the legal department of the Restaurant Owners Associa- tion, the cases of the workers were postponed until next week, The New-Way Cafeteria has just re-opened after many weeks, thanks for the past two months. | try will be drawn in. The Manville-Jenckes offi-| ones telk us they are removing cials, superintendent and} guards from the property and that 5 =) : the ‘welfare committee’ is offering | Posses, last night invaded the city council chamber and SE forced the council to put the com- pany’s attorney, Major A. L, Bul- winkle, a former congressman, on the city payroll as special prose- SHOTGUN SQUADS = | In the last few days, the com- | § | tically every attorney of any stand- | ing in Gastonia county to assist in | the railroading of some of these | strikers to death. They ‘have also | | retained Clyde Hoey, of Shelby, con- os sidered the best known lawyer in LL.D. Head Tells City the state and a brother-in-law of ‘ . the governor. Today they are ne- Chiefs Fight Is On | GASTONIA, N. C., June 12— BEAL DECLARES WORKERS ARMED TO SAVE LIVES CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 12,— After the issuance of habeas corpus writs had caused the authorities to admit they were concealing Fred E. Beal, Southern organi: | tional “Textile.Workers Union, in Monroe County Jail, Attorney Jimi- son from the International Labor | Defense and local reporters were al« lowed to see him for a short time. Immediately after the interview, the sheriff's deputies took him away (Continued on Page Two) gotiating for the services of E. T. |Cansler, of Charlotte, considered the leader of the state bar. To Welcome Local 43. | Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secre- | Workers Crowd Court. Gold spoke to more than 1,500 | workers yesterday afternoon in | Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd | St. on “The Fur Strike and its Re- Aaron Gross, head of the fur de-|t@tY of the International Labor De- | partment of the Industrial Union, | £¢2Se, James P. Reid, national presi- | (Continued on Page five) *\dent of the National Textile Work- lers’ Ynion, and Ellen Dawson, or- A large crowa ot strikers and | mill workers were on hand for the hearing this morning here, but De- Ben Gold, Biedenkapp, A group of shoe workers were yesterday brutually slugged by hired gangsters of the Rubin Bros., Moore |St., Long Island City, while they were distributing circulars an- nouncing the mass meeting called by |the Independent Shoe Workers Union for tonight at Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey St. This reveals the panicky fear of the bosses in the face of the in- Extend Fight on Open Shop at Shoe Mass Meet. Tonight Plan Organization Drive |fense Attorney Jimison, standing! on the writ of habeas corpus, which the authorities are trying to ignore, | waived examination on behalf of the prisoners. An I. L. D. defense mass meet- \ing will be held Saturday in Gas-, tonia with the cooperation of the National Textile Workers’ Union. | (Continued on Page Two) IRON STRIKERS ganizer for the union, were arrest- ed by deputies armed with shotguns when they attempted to enter the tent colony grounds. The deputies boasted that their shotguns made them the “state, county, and city and any other authorities you want to name.” and Others to Speak; | Reid Demands Tents. | The arrested three were taken to |the city hall, where Reid demanded workers, which, undoubtedly, will f the city manager the tents and lbe fought bitterly by the bosses or- | Control of the grounds in the name |ganized in the Board of Trade and |! the union, The city manager the Shoe Manufacturers Associa- | ‘tied to say that the baRe eeu tne | grounds were seized by the city in . | “ 9 ji Speakers at the meeting will in-|°Pder to “protect” them, but Reid clude Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer | Will come back tomorrow and insist of the Needle ‘Trades Workers In-|0M having them. Poyntz, Reid and ill Gr ivi dustrial Union, who will tell the |D&wson were then released. | Wil Grant Individual ? : 7 Previously Poyntz had sewn the| Settlements story of the detailed preparations of | Gastonia Gazette, and given thant | the furriers for their general strike an interview in which she fixed the again to an unknown destination, and he is now again being concealed from his friends in some North Caro- lina prison. Newspaper reporters say they asked Beal why armed guards were kept at the tent colony and he re- plied: “Because our headquarters had been destroyed when deputies and national guardsmen were within hearing distance and civil authori=* ties have never pretonded to offer us proper protection. I never knew when we were going to be attacked our headqua’ -+ were against as before.” The reporters say Beal told of (Continued on Page Two) “Freiheit” Excursion to Atlantic Beach Is Due for This Saturday The great excursion of “T%- 7 +#- heit,” Yiddi Communist daily, | which was originally to be have held creased onslaught on the open-shops for which the union will make plans at tonight’s meeting. To Invade Open Shops. This meeting is of* prime im- portance to thousands of organized and unorganized shoe workers throughout the city. It is» being jcalled primarily for the purpose of mobil zing for a new extensive drive ta, (Continued on Page Five)... among thousands of unorganized| .. (Cor soon; Fred Biedenkapp, general manager of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, who will report on the spectacular victories of the junion in its three months’ campaign of organization, and Joseph Maglia- cono, organizer of the union. Pickets Released. The last meeting of this kin |May 10, was attended by m ued on Page Five) d, held than 4 Having practically tied up the | last Saturday, will positively be held trade in this city by a successful | this coming Saturday, June 15, it is strike of 4,000 architectural iron | announced. a and bronze workers, which began on Thousands of militant workers May 15, the strikers at a mass meet- | will join this gala affair, which ise ing held in Irving Plaza, 15th St. | looked forward to eagerly each yeams and Irving Place, decided to begin | Two boats, the “Claremont” and responsibility for Friday’s shooting on the police, and told of the long |period of police and deputy terror- | ism and provocation. Acting Chief of Police Hord, the jcity officials, including the mayor, |and a crowd of hangers-on of the granting individual settlements, The “Ontereora” have been city administration listened to! union office has been flooded with and will leave Pier Poyntz, when she went into the city/applications for settlements from Park between 12 noon and 2 p, i (Continued on Page Five) i (Continued on Page Five) ‘Saturday, \