The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmes To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week — Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL cCrt®: EDITION ( Vol. VI, No. 84 <p>, Pudlishea daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. "NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929 6,00 per year. New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Price 3 Centg CHARGE THIRTEEN WITH MURDER IN GASTONIA FRA mo SIL FORMS PACT WITH CHURCH: T0 ‘IGHT MASSES Jpium Factories Will Open June 29; Pope to Rule Wall St. Is Go-Between Drive on Workers and Peasants Continues MEXICO CITY, June 13.—Latest reports indicate that the deal by which the Portes Gil government will form an alliance with the re- actionary catholic church in accord- ance with the wishes of the U. S. government, has been practically sompleted. On June 29, St. Peter’s Day, the reports state, religious ser- vices will be resumed thruout Mex- co, putting the finishing touch on she capitulation of the Portes Gil government to the organized catho- ie counter-revolution. The formal secret negotiations be-| sween Gil and Archbishop Leopold | Ruiz y Flores, emissary of the pope, and Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco vegan yesterday, tho negotiations aave been informally in progress or some time with Dwight W. Mor- ow, the House of Morgan’s am- assador to Mexico, acting as go- retween. All the negotiations were wrapped in secrecy out of fear for he indignation of the masses who ave been kept in the dark as to the steps by which one of the most im- sortant achievements of the Mex- can revolution was being betrayed. The new pact between the church ind state now awaits formal ratifi- “sation by the pope who thus be-/ somes one of the real rulers of | Mexico. | Catholic religious services were| ierminated in this country when the thurch withdrew its priests because of the religious laws passed in Au- gust, 1926, by the government of General Calles, providing for the registering of all priests and en-| ‘oreing other measures to check the active counter-revolutionary work of the church. The reactionary char- acter of the present government and s complete capitulation to Yankee nperialism are evident from the act that the new pact with the church, which the once-progressive Jalles is also supporting, is being signed simultaneous with the bloody suppression of militant organiza- sions of workers and peasants and she arrest and murder of their lead- ars, |Lifshitz Is Released from Welfare Island; Denounces Boss Terror Ben Lifshitz, who, as acting dis- ict organizer of Dist. 2, Commu- nist Party, was arrested May 18 fol- lowing a police raid on the Workers Center, was released yesterday from Welfare Island after serving 25 days of a 30 day sentence imposed upon him by Magistrate Goodman. Lifshitz was jailed when he chal- lenged the right of the police to invade the Center, and after he had lrefused to take down a large sign |which hung over the building: “Down {with Whalen’s Cossacks and Police Brutality” during the police parade. | During the raid 27 other workers | were arrested and a large number | brutally slugged. One was so badly | beaten that he was taken to the hos- | pital. Among those arrested were | neers of America. | _ Upon his release, Lifshitz told the | Daily Worker: “Viewed with the vicious frame- up now being plotted against the Gastonia strikers, my arrest and conviction pales into insignificance. However, it shows the sharpened | drive of the capitalist class to stifle | the growing protest and resistance of the workers against police terror- ism. | “The Tammany city administra- tion, which is bound hand and foot to the traction trust and other com- binations of capital in this city, is | using the administrative powers of | the magistrates to crush the work- ers’ resistance. “Police brutality against work- ers will be only one of the issues | that the Communist Party of this | oe nae | municipal election. | THREE MORE IRON BOSSES SIGN UP New Injunction Order Is Threatened Three more bosses yesterday sign- ed up with the striking architec- tural iron and bronze workers, J. Rosenfeld, secretary-tredsurer of the union announced last night. On the previous day five companies had capitulated and signed an agree- ment granting all union demands. e New Injunction Looms. The threat of a new injunction is now being made. Yesterday it was learned that the Grossman Iron Works, 82 Willow St., Bronx had ap- plied for an injunction to bar pick- several members of the Young Pio-}| district will take up in the coming | eting. Hearing on the application | will take place before Judge Tierney |in the supreme court, 161st St. and me time the possibility rame-up is being hatch- | officers of the union by District At- | what the purpose of this move is, is not definitely known, but the ANTI-IMPERIAL aes Ave., Bronx on Monday. inst the strikers arose with | torney McGeehan of the Bronx. Just union officials have been ordered to Sonference at Irving Plaza at 2 row morning. Picketing Today. A mass picketing demonstration will take place this morning before the General Bronze Company in Long Island City, and plans for a strike mass meeting on next Tues- day have been announced. According to London dispatches, Prime Minister MacDonald of the new British labor government an- vounced that Captain Wedgewood 8enn, the new secretary of state for (ndia, will have “a hard time.” There is considerable indignation in he India press about this announce- nent. Leading Calcutta and Bom- report in McGeehan’s office tomor-| HIT CONCILIATORS AT CONGRESS OF GERMAN PARTY Show Hypocrisy and Opportunist Line of Evert Group ‘Many Delegates Speak Semard Talks in Name of Comintern (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | BERLIN, June 13.—The session | jon Tuesday afternoon of the Con-| | gress of the Communist Party of | Germany commenced with Fiischer’s |speech, representing the youth. Dah- lem, speaking for the Organization Department of the Central Commit tee, declared that a lack of propor- tion still existed between Commu- nist Party influence and Party or- ganization. He called for the sharp-} est struggle agairist reformist dis-| |ruption and the use of varying | methods. Where the reformists expel large masses from the old organizations, | said Dahlem, those expelled must be held in new organizations, and gave | las an instance the sport and free | | thinkers’ organizations. Conciliator Speaks. Evert spoke for the conciliators, | saying that the Communist Party | ‘pursues false tactics in the trade junion question, rendering difficult | the mobilization of the masses against reformist disruption and the development of Party influence in|} labor struggles. The same mistake was made in the May Day events, he said. He admitted the decision to demonstrate was correct, but claimed the boycott of trade ysion meetings was wrong, The struggle against the bour- geois democratic republic as the present form of the dictatorship cf finance capital was hindered by the false tactics of the Party, according to Evert. He stated that all bour- geois democracies use terroristic methods, but this does not make them f: ist. The conciliators, Evert said, oppose the theory and practice of the Brandler group, and also oppose the inner party course jof the Party which reflects 2 false policy toward the masses. Evert declared the conciliators would main- tain discipline and carry out the decisions of the Communist Party end the Communist International while defending their own opinions within limits permitted in the pro- |gram and statutes. Winterich, a delegate from Col- | ogne, declared that the conciliators | were the executive organ of the |vight wingers within the Communist |Party. The conciliators’ program is simply Brandlerism dressed up for party acceptance, particularly re- garding Evert’s analysis of fascism. Social Fascism. Today it is not possible to draw the dividing line between social-fas- |cism and fascism. The speaker pro- duced documents proving that the conciliators built a fraction in Leip- | zig. Winterich concluded, declaring | that the Communist Party Congress | (Continued on Page Two) | | bay papers are pointing out that Japtain Wedgewood Benn will cer- ainly have a hard job in case the ibor government intends to con- nue the policy of merciless oppres- sion which the Baldwin government ised in India. The announcement, “however, is| Support of the annual picnic ct the Yiddish Communist ‘learly indicating that the prime minister of the labor government is zbsolutely determined to continue all, the black traditions of British imperialism in the Indian question. [t will be absolutely inevitablo, says the Calcutta Forward, that every sincere fighter for the complete in- Aependence of India should be aware of this situation. According to their Jispatehes, labor organizations are sxpressing deep, dissatisfaction and resentment toward the provocative yeginning of the labor government’s idministration toward India. Mass neetings and demonstrations have veen organized in Bombay to de- nask the already obvious imperial- st designs of the new British cab- net, The attitude of the labor gov- anment is of course subjecting the ‘ndian labor movement to the worst expectations, in view of the fact that the Second International which letermined its policies toward India \eeording to the needs of the pros- pective premiership of MacDonald rn its Brussels Congress last year. jm the resolution of the Second In- vernational, India was denied inde- (Continued on Page Five) ie | Freiheit, daily, is urged by the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party in a statement issued last night urging mass attendance at the event to aid the “mass propagandist, mass or- ganizer and mass leader” of the New York Jewish working class. The call states: “Comrades! The Freiheit, Com- munist mass paper, is to have its annual excurson this Saturday aft- ernoon. The Freiheit has been in the forefront of the workers’ strug- gles in New York and in other cities where there are masses of the Jew- ish workers. The Freiheit has been one of the strongest weapons of the Communist Party in its struggles against the bosses, against the labor bureaucracy, against the poison gas of nationalism, against imperialist Zionism, for the unity of the work- ers of all nationalities, for proletar- ian internationalism and for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat. “In the peculiar surroundings in which the Jewish workers find them- selves, surroundings where the in- fiuence of the yellow socialist trait- “Support Fretheit Outing,” Says Communist Partv CEC ers is particularly strong, due to} the pernicious activities of the scab Jewish Daily Forward, organ of the most treacherous socialist and labor bureaucrats, the Freiheit is a! staunch defender of the interests off the workers and a true proletarian paper, i, e., a mass propagandist, inass organizer and mass leader. “The excursions of the Freiheit re, therefore, an expression of the orkers’ solidarity, workers’ fight- ing spirit and workers’ readiness to help the Freiheit in every possible | jway. The excursions are more than | |mere entertainments. They are un- dertakings of political significance. “The Central Committee, there- fore, appeals to Party members and to all workers to join the excursion |and to bend every effort to make it a success, “Long live international workers’ solidarity! “Long live the Freiheit! “CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COM- | MUNIST PARTY, U. S. A.” | The excursion will start at 2 p. im. Saturday, June 15, from Fier A, Battery Park. Steamships Clare- mont and Ontejora, a | [Militant Slaves 14-Hr. |carrying a placard — Strikers Getting Relief in Tent Colony | astonia tent colony with strikers from the Manville- Scene in th | Jenckes Loray «ill getting provisions from the W. I. R. The relief | tent has been destroyed, and all the food taken away by Gastonia | police to starve the workers into submission. Many of the workers | shown here are in prisan being framed for murder. Defend them by ng contributions to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th New York City. ‘ { ewe (Hor iB | 5 Women’s Meetings Tonight Will Mobilize for Fur Strike Shop Chairmen Hear Reports; Joint Board | Reveals Nature of, Cloak “Stoppage” Tonight in five different parts of | VICTIMS, URGES CANTER IN JAIL the general strike of the furriers. These meetings, called jointly by the women’s department of the) Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and the United Council of Working Women, will take definite steps for active work in the coming struggle, Leaders of the union and | the Council will speak at the meet-| ings which will be held in the fol-| lowing places: Manhattan, Workers Center, 26-| By KARL REEVE. |28 Union Square; Bronx, 1330 Wil-| BOSTON, Mass., June 13.—Mas-|kins Ave.; Williamsburgh, 56 Man sachusetts “justice” and North/hattan Ave.; Brownsville, 154 Wat-| Carolina “justice” are the same,| kins St.; for Bath Beach, Boro Park | that is capitalist “justice,” Harry |@nd Coney Island, 48 Bay 28th St. Canter, now serving a term of cne| Important Meetings Monday. year in Deer Island Penitentiary for| At the same time announcement which said, | Was made of the meeting of all ac- Murderer of | tive members for the General Strike Sacco-Vanzetti,” told me when I| Committee to be held Monday eve- visited him in prison. Twenty|ning at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. minutes of the hour which Canter |4th St. On the same night and at and I spent together was devoted to|the same place a meeting of the the dictation by Canter of a state-;General Crganization Committee ment for the Daily Worker, ad-| Will also be held. dressed to the workers of America.| On the same night, also, in Man- Canter is now working 13 and 14/hattan Lyceum, will be held a sepa- hours a day in the prison kitchen, | rate meeting of all women members mopping floors, peeling vegetables, | of the Industrial Union. and cleaning kettles. | Shop Chairmen Meet. “Massachusetts cannot abolish or! Last night an important Shop suppress the working class point of Chairmen’s Conference—the last be- view on the Sacco-Vanzetti case by |f0re the general strike call—was putting me or any other worker in (Continued on Page five) Day in Prison “Governor Fuller, RELEASED STRIKERS JOIN THE DEFENSE MEU 4 COMMITTEE: APPEAL TO ALL WORKERS TO RUSH iUNDS TO SMASH FRAME-UP 24 Freed and 58 Charged with Assault with Intent to Commit Murder; ~ No Strike Leaders or Union Organizers Released Tag Day in New York Saturday and Sunday f Call All Workers to I. L. D., 799 Broa BULLETIN. (Special to the Daily Worker.) GASTONIA, N. C., June 13.—The amended complain ities now charge the following union members and organ N. F. Gibson, Russel Knight. Those charged with assault with intent to kill are: Drew, Clarence Miller, Sophie Melvin, Edith Sanders, and total of 71 held for trial. rests is now ascertained at 95. * * * (Special To The Daily Worker.) GASTONIA City Solicitor George Mason is charging 13 of those arrested der. Twenty-four were released yesterday, but none of the sti among the 24. Among those charged with murder, and threatened wi International Labor Defense — Appeals to Workers to Save Victims of Gastonia Frameup Issues Half Million Leaflets to Be Distributed Thruout the Country One-half million leaflets are now being issued by the Interna- tional Labor Defense to be distributed among workers thruout the country, telling the graphic story of the frameup of about 70 Gas- tonia textile and leaders and appealing to all workers and sympathizers to send funds at once to save them. The leaflet, which is heade “Smash the Murderous Frameup Against the Gastonia | Strikers—Fred Beal Shall Not Die!” follows in part: © More than sixty organizers and _________ , !leading strikers, members of the Gastonia Strike Tag) National Textile Workers’ Union in Gastonia, N. C., have been jailed, Days Open Tomorrow | |charged with complicity to murder. istrikers are in grave danger. Beal, Vera Bush, Joseph Harrison, H. George Carter, Wm. McGinnis, J. J. C. Gardner, Robert Alien, B. C. Passmore, K. Y. Handricks, Louis McLaughlin, With the 24 released yesterday. or Defense of Victims} dway, to Assist ts of the Gastonia author- izers with murder: Fred C. Hafler, Amy Shechter, Caroline 52 others. This makes a , the total number of ar- . C., June 13.—The International Labor Defense announces that Gastonia in the Manville-Jenckes cam- paign of terror and frame-up with murder, and 58 with assault with intent to commit mur- rike leaders or organizers were th death in the electric chair are Fred Beal, southern organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union; Vera Bush, N. T. W. organizer; Robert Allen, secretary of the Workers’ In- ternational Relief Committee of Gastonia; and K. Y. Hen- dricks, relief store manager. Among those charged with as- sault are Amy Shechter, Gastonia representative of the W. I. R., and Caroline Drew, relief worker. The case ‘of Beal and 17 others was to have come up in Charlotte on habeas corpus terday, but has been postponed to Saturday, by con- sent of the attorneys. It is to save thi workers from electrocution or from long prison sentences that the I. L, D. has an- nounced t coming Saturday and Sunday as tag days all over the country. The New York workers must show their class-consciousness, once more by rallying to the call of the I. L, D.; getting their supplies from the New York branch of the I. L. D, at 799 Broadway and col- lecting as much money as possible for the expenses of such a trial as prisonment will neither break my it or make the workers forget at Sacco and Vanzetti were inno- cent and v murdered by the capi- s hecause they were work- aged in the struggle against | pitalist My imprison- | ment is not the Canter case, it is the Sacco-Vanzetti case, brought once more to the attention of the workers of the world.” | Canter heard from me for the first time of the arrest of Fred Beal organizer for the National Textile Workers Union and the 60 leading | Gastonia, North Carolina strikers on | a charge of murder. ‘Fred Beal and | I are in jail for the same cause,” | Canter told me, as I wrote his re-; remarks verbatim.” Massachusetts has its Fullers and Thayers, and North Carolina has its Aderholts and Bulwinkles. Both Fuller and Ader- holt are and were good servants of the capitalist class. Both are paid to suppress workers. Both are and were instruments of the capitalist | class which use the courts, the gov- | ernment institutions in violent at-| tacks on the workers, struggling in | their unions for better conditions, and in the Communist Party for the jail,” Canter told me. “This "LOOT ASSETS OF | DEAD SWINDLER Stall Arrests of City Trust Grafters BULLETIN. Frank H. Warder, Banker Fer- rari’s good friend while Warder served as state banking superin- tendent, was arrested yesterday charged with a felony on five counts and two misdemeanors. He is held on $12,000 bail for a hear- ing on June 24. The most im- portant specific charge against him is that of accepting “gifts” from Ferrari, head of the now defunct City Trust Co, * At least $25,000 in negotiable se- curities were robbed from the as- sets of the dead bank swindler Fran- cesco M. Ferrari from their safety oe » The lives of these heroic textile in Greater NewYork Workers aiding in the tag days called by the New York Section of the International Labor De- fense to aid the Gastonia textile | strikers are instructed to report Jat. stations as follows: Bronx Co-operati Park st; Bronx Wor 1472 Boston Rd.; Lower Bronx, 715 East 138th St.; Co-operative, 1800 Seventh Ave.; Non-Partisan Schools, 143 E. 103rd St.; York- ville Czecho-Slovak Home, 347 E. 72nd St.; Workers Center, Union Square; Williamsburgh, 56 Man- hattan Av Brownsville, 154 Watkins St.; Boro Park, 1373 48rd St.; Coney Island, 2901 Mer- maid Ave.; Bath Beach, 48 Bay 28th St. The main station at the Work- ers Center, 28 Union Square, will be open Saturday and Sunday un- | til 12 p. m. to take settlements. © The mill owners of North Caro- lina, in the attempt to break the Manville-Jenck textile workers’ strike in Gastonia and to drive the N. T. W. U. out of the South, after a long series of persecutio po- lice brutality, bayoneting of strikers, wholesale ar and mob violence, have now arrested all of the organ- strikers on the murder charge, have |outlawed the union in Gastonia, have driven the workers from their ‘tent colony, wounding one organizer and have unmercifully beaten those arrested. Mill Owners’ Orders. The city policemen of Gastonia, upon the direct orders of the mill owners, attacked the workers’ head- quarters and their tent colony, fired hots into the tents, where women and children were sleeping and be- gan shooting at the strikers and \beating them with their guns. In | the confusion which followed, Chief (Continued on Page Two) of the union and the leading |~’* stares the Gastonia workers in the face will be heavy. Attorney Jimison, of the Interna- tional or Defense, was able for the first time yesterday to interview the prisoners in Gastonia jail. He found them cheerful, determined to *\ continue the fight, and happy that the I. L. D., the . R. and the T. W. organizers were on the ground and that the work was going forward, and their families being |taken care of. Major Bulwinkle, the attorney for the Manville-Jenckes Co., is in come plete charge of the prosecution, H@® has had a number of the prisoners brought to his office for questioning. The prisoners released immediate- |ly added themselves to the Inter- national Labor Defense local de- |fense committee which has been or- ganized. The I. L. D. has so far been prevented from securing an of- fice in Gastonia, but has opened headquarters in Charlotte, nearby, and will insist on its right to have (Continued on Page Two) W. Another Cafeteria Boss Bows CITY ENGINE ERS | deposit boxes of his brother Frederic overthrow of the capitalist system | 3 * and the establishment of a workers | Ferrari at the main office of the de- state. I appeal to the workers of funet City Trust Company, it was America to aid in every way, with | disclosed yesterday. es funds, with their organized protest,| The “loss” may be introduced at the struggle of the International | the expected trial of ex-State Bank- Labor Defense, to free not only my-| ing Superintendent Frank H. War- (Continued on Page Two) jder, through whose corrupt admin- So jistration of the State Banking De- French “Yellow Bird” | Above Atlantic; U. S. ‘Green Flash’ Crashes | | OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me.,| June 13—The “Yellow Bird,” ’ the French-owned and piloted plane, is out at sea on its attempt to fly the Atlantic. Nothing has been heard about it since the first hour of its flight and the weather is foggy. The French imperialists got away at a little after 10 a. m. Their | flight, if it succeeds, will stimulate French military aviation. Their U. | . tivals, flying for the sake of mili- tary aviation in the United States, got stuck in the sand again. Their | “Green Flash” broke its landing | gear. partment Ferrari had been able to steal thousands of dollars from the bank funds before the crash ruined hundreds of poor depositors and forced the State Banking .Depart- ment to institute the Moreland probe. A Tammany-fascist alliance shared the loot. Its supporters are suffi- ciently strong in the city to extend their policy of blocking the probe, campaigning against the proposed arrests and if necessary to take care to see that the “right people” are not inconvenienced by jail sentences. Our own age, the bourgeois age, is distinguished by this—that has simplified clase antagoniams, More and more, society is splitting up into two great hostile camps, to Strike, Signs with Union “Homeplate” Last to Cave In; Total of 32 Have | Surrendered Since Strike | In the face of continued militancy Cafeteria on West 25th St, yester- on the part of the cafeteria strikers day four strikers were arrested. who are determined to win union | They were released in $500 bail for conditions in spite of conjunctions |trial today. Twenty more strikers police brutality, wholesale arrests | were tried in Special Sessions yes and jailing of hundreds of the strik- | terday for violation of the injunc- ers, the cafeteria owners are weak-/tion. Three were found ening daily. The D, & H. Cafeteria Sentence will be passed today, to- signed up with the union a few days? gether with 24 found guilty earlier ago and yesterday the Homeplate, |in the week. One was discharged £17 Eighth Ave., surrendered and/and the rest were adjourned. accepted the demands of the union. . : Both of these places, as well as the cane former Unity Waiters Aaso- Arlene and several others which | Ciation became amalgamated with have signed the union agreement, the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Nite ate ee, ee the | Workers Union last night at a meet- Jnited Restaurant Owners’ Associa- | ; ; tion. This makes a total of 82 who /& iat the members Ce sone have signed up since the strike be- | Organization, in accordance with Davi into two great and directly cont posed classes: bourgeoisie and p letariat.—M: \ gan, ‘decision reached last week. of the} At a successful mass picketing Siegal, former president demonstration at the Traymore] (Continued on Page Fived a PLANNING STRIKE Charging that John H. Delaney, chairman of the Board of Transpor- tation, instructed division engineers “guilty.” | jprentnce of stool-pigeons, the mee’ i *s in his employ to act as spies at a mass meeting of Grade “C” engi- jneers held last night at the Labor Temple, Marcel E. Sherer, or- ganizer of the Union of Technical Men, cailed the meeting off. The meeting was a sequel to a demonstration of 1,000 engineers held yesterday on the steps of the |City Hall, at which representatives |tried to see Mayor Walker and pre- sent their slavery grievances. The mayor refused to see them, A peti- jtion was circulated at the City Hall meeting asking for the removal of Delaney. This petition, the union leaders say, enraged Mr. Delaney so |that he called upon his employes and forbade them Inight’s meeting. Because of thi i to attend last, «J =