The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1929, Page 2

Page Tw vu ATL Y WORKER NEV! / YORK WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 1929 Southern 1 Railway Shoperaft Workers Get Reduced Conditions, Road Gets Richer |‘“‘Release ee TAILORS TO MEET ‘Shop Delegates Conference of Shoe Workers Tonight ¢ WILITANGY IS PREVENTED BY Beet lg ae Cro Amalgamation Is Only Hope (By a Wor Correspond SPENCER, N. C. (By ail). — Itho the capital of the Southern ailway has more than doubled rom $55,000,000 in 1921 to $112,- 00,000 now, and thi: driving ailroad has increased the volume f traffic handled many times, the rorkers on this railroad are terribly slave driven and are paid low wages. This is especially true of the shop eraft workers on the Southern. Workers. ¢ volume has in- lave While the tra creased, they have creased traffic w ployes, and are steadily 1 more and more men each week, lay- ing off several thousand last year. The shop craft wo belong to the Federated Shop (¢ , whose leaders are all fakers who state they believe in “friendly arbitration” with the Southern road. The blacksmiths, whose president is the labor mis- leader, Roy Horn, who has often stated he was against all “Bolshe- viks and Bolshevik tactics,” are down to 83% cents an hour on the Southern. / Wages Are Cut. The sheet metal workers, whose ‘ yice-president is the labor misleader, Louis Wicklein, have dropped from §5 cents to 75 cents an hour. The work of the sheet metal workers has become many times harder with the } many changes in locomotive equip- ment. As an example, where an old type locomotive carried 140 pounds steam pressure, the new giant loco- motives carry 250 pounds. The pipe work.on the engines jn the cabs is more exacting than ever, and the speedup is greater. Yet despite the inereased difficulty of the worker, wages have gone down for the sheet metal slaves. « Frequently Laid Off. Thirty per cent and more of the shop craft workers on the Southern Railway are only temporarily em- ployed, and are laid off from time to time, and if they care to wait for the beck and call of the rail bosses are given temporary jobs every once in a while. » Most of the Southern Railway shops have been shutting down for long periods at a time, laying off the whole force. This happens on the average of five times a year for most shops, for periods of two weeks oF more, Laid Off Old Workers. In the shops here they laid off a man with 16%4 years seniority. The railroad will not hire a man over 40 years of age, so that if a man loses his job after 16 years seniority he is out of luck. Misleaders Do Nothing. What have the misleaders of the Federated Shop Crafts been doing? Nothin, but begging the rail bosses for conferences, to plead that “bet- ter cooperation” be had between the bésses and union misleaders. They have opposed all strikes at the time of wage cuts and would eutlaw any locals that declared for strikes. So naturally, the bosses had an easy time cutting shop craft wages. We must get rid of these fake craft railway unions, and declare for amalgamation of all unions on the railroads from locomotive engineers down to track laborers. stkes s, its evictions of sick oe starving women and children from homes, its smashing of the tent col- ony, its beating up of workers on the picket line is bent upon repeat- ing its actions in the Sacco-Vanzetti and Centralia cases and on mur- dering the militant leaders of the Gastonia strike. Try To Stifle Union. “This frame-up against the Gas- tonia prisoners is an attempt the part of the capitalist forces to ifle the campaign for the organ- ization of the unorganized and the struggle against capitalist ra- ary of the A, . and of the United | 4), Textile Workers, the fake surogres: ‘ ” Muste movement and the so-| + cialist party have betra tile workers. of Eli bethton Gastonia and are working hand in hand with the bosses against wor! “American capitalism hopes this way to prevent the grow’ solidarity of Negro and white work- ers, to stop the fight against child labor, to put an end to all obstacles standing in the way of its prepara- 1] tions for the war. “The struggle of the southern tex- tile workers is a struggle of th entire American working class and that only through working class solidarity can be won the strike now being led by the National Textile Workers’ Union, therefore Be It Pledge Support. Resolved that we, thousands workers gathered in mass demon- stration in Union Square on Tues- day, June under the auspices of the New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, the Workers International Relief, New York local, the National Textile Workers’ Union, the TUEL, and the Communist Party, New York Dis. trict, greet the Gastonia prisoner and strikers and demand freedom for the victims of,the Gastonia con- spiracy and pledge our full working class solidarity and support to the Gastonia prisoners and strikers until the strike is won and so that the murderous capitalist class of the United States will not dare carry out its bloody plans, and “That we endorse the campaign of the I. L. D, to smash the murder frame-up and the campaign of the W. I. R. for relief to the striking textile workers and that we pledge full support to the struggle being waged by the National Textile Workers’ Union against the com- bined forces of the bosses, the state, the reactionary bureaucracy and the socialist party, and “That we will intensify our strug- gle for the organization of the un- organized, against capitalist re- tionalization, for equality for the Negro race, for the right of work- ers to defend themselves, against the imperialist war and for the over- throw of bloody American imperial- ism, executioners of Sacco and Van- zetti, and for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment in the United States, LL.D, Needs Help in Gastonia Work Volunteers are needed ‘at once by the International Labor Defense for} work in connection with the fight | on the Gastonia frame-up. Report to the I. L. D., Room 402, 80 E. coming imperialist —SOUTHERN RAILWAY SLAVE. | lith Street. Communist Activities [MANHATTAN 1); Unit R2 (International Branch). ‘A meeting will be held today at 7.30 p.m. at 27 8. 4th St. Negro Dressmakers’ Meeting. Plans for the mobilization of Negro workers for the fur strike will be discussed at the meeting of Negro dressmakers and furriers at the Har- jem Labor Center, 235 W. 129th St., today. hoe 4 Night Workers Branch. A meeting of the Night Workers Unit of Section 1, will be held to- morrow at 3 p. m., at the Workers Center, 28 Union Square, 6th floor. Enlightenment campaign discussion will be continued, and other impor-/ tant business will be taken up. Section 2 Functinaries Conference.| W. W. Weinstone, district organizer Section 2, will address the ‘jonaries’ conference of section 2 at the Workers Center, 28 Union at 6 p. m., Frida: * * Section 2 Daily Agents. Daily Worker agents of all unit of section 2 will meet at 7.30 p. m, todey at 101 W. 27th St. Morning Branch Discusses Address. The C. I. Address will be discussed at the m ing of the Morning Inter- »ational neh at 10 p.m. today at the Work: Center, 26 Union Sq. a 4 # Unit 2F, Section 2. Abrams will lead discussion on the ©. 1, Address at the unit meeting at 50 Union Square at 6 p, m. tomorrow. | TD Unit 3, Section 5. Sng of the British elections, — 1 events in Germany and the if AML be ae oe -lehaled fune- | Myrtle Ave., corner Lawrence St., at Pp. m., today, and at Grand Street Extension, corner Havermeyer St., at 8 >. meleay, Coney Island Unit. A representative of the district will | be present at the unit mecting at | 8:30 p. m, today at 2901 Mermaid Aye United Council Working Women. A general membership meeting will be held at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. The conference will be discussed. on} of} - TOMORROW, FIGHT HILLMAN POGROM Workers are Called to Stuyvesant Casino ed from Pa. One) two Spectc were taken down. The following shop ing under the protec on of the In- man, Kap- pell Litt and Schimit: Wo n Passes. t of the pi s given out by yor Bureau (the unemploy. au) are be brought to a ABs have stopped work in protest against the Hillman pogrom, some of the frankel and Salipu- 01 E, Houston St., where had stopped work as a protest st the taking down of active wo: This shop is also actor for the Friedman shop. told the few workers red together that they “forget about week-work,” and ad- mitted that he was out to break the | better Membe: ie Meet Monday. A gener: meeting of all T. 1 Pressers ll _be hela h Holzman, an old member of Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and a fighter in the labor movemer: °2 many >-crs, has been expelled by machine, without even the formality of a “trial.” action was taken by Pepper- , the local lieutenant of Hill- because she had repeatedly pointed out that the leadership of the union was working hand in hand with the bos: that there is no i 5 anizational wor! that ‘the membership is continually falling off. Sarah Holzman has appealed the action of the local bureaucrats to the General Executive Board in a sharp letter giving the details in connec- tion with her expulsion. How the Hillman machine will act one can easily predict, for its bootlicking lackey in Cleveland is unquestionably merely carrying out the policy of the national machine to expel every militant. WIR CONFERENCE OPENSTOMORROW The New York City Shop Delegate Conference of the Workers Interna- tional Relief will be held tomorrow at 7 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. at which the prob- lem of feeding and housing the Gas- tonia strikers, also discussion of the furriers, cafeteria, shoe and iron and |b trikes will be on the or Plans for tag days for the Gastonia strikers | relief to be held June 29 and 30 will be acted upon. | The feature of the conference will | be the first showing of the W. I. R. film “Glimpses of the Gastonia | Strike” in which the Workers Guard is shown on duty. Strike leaders, union and relief activities are brought to the screen for the first | time. This is the only film of the | strike that has been filmed. The conference will be addressed by Alfred Wagenknecht, L, Landay, A. Markoff, Harriet Silverman and |Sylvan A. Pollack Trade unions, shop committees, | fraternal organizations that want to | be represented at the conference and| |also participate in the tag days | should communicate with Local New York, W. I. R., Room 221, 799 Broad: way. Stuyvesant 8881, the and | Meeting Will Take U Organization of 25, A shop Delegates Conference, con- sisting of delegates from all shoe shops in New York, organized by the Independent Shoe Workers Union, will be held tonight at the Workers Cent: 26-28 Union Square, 5th floor. This conference is of special sig- nificance to the Independent Shoe Workers Union in its efforts to or- the 25,000 and more un- c d shoe workers in Greater New York. It will mark the be- sinning, of a new concerted organi- 1 drive to unionize the open ps in the shoe industry. series of suceesses achieved by Independent Shoe Workers p Stank for Extending 5,000 Unorganized on has given a new impetus to |the union in this work. Outstand- ing among these is the fact that the tenacity cf the pickets of the shop of Arthur Bender on 4th St. and Broadway in which about 150 workers are on strike under the leadership of the Independent has forced the Board of Trade to with- dvaw their thugs as well as the other suppart which they have been giving to this firm. This was one of the bitterest struggles between the Independent {Shoe Workers Union and the labor hating, » herding Board of Trade | of the shoe industry and thus far the union has come off with flying | colors “ THRONG DEFIES RAIN T0 HEAR GASTONIA STORY |Resolution Demands | Release of Prisoners (Continued from Page One) assault in Gasténia was adopted un- animously. Two chairmen introduced a long list of speakers, representing many different labor organizations. Karl Reeve, editor of Labor Defender, organ of the International Labor) Defense, was chairman at one end of the crowd, and Morris Taft acted} as chairman at the other. Greetings From Chicago. J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor of | the Daily Worker, brought the New York workers and the Gastonia strikers the greetings of the great demonstration in Chicago, and told how the 27 imprisoned for taking part in it inscribed on their cell walls a hammer and sickle with slogans against the frame-up in Gastonia. They were denounced for this in a long harangue by the judge when they appeared in court. Engdahl pointed out that this shows the capitalists everywhere identify their interests with the prosecution and mill owners in Gastonia, and called for the workers to show the same solidarity, and to advance against | the frame-up, “not under the banner of the A. F. of L., nor the white} standard of treason of the socialist | party, but under the scarlet banner of revolutionary workers and the leadership of the Communist Party.” Weinstone, Communist Party Speaker. W. W. Weinstone, district organ-) izer of District 2 of the Communist | Party delivered the address of the Party, hailing the heroic defense of ‘the Gastonia strikers against a sec-| ond Ludlow, and pledging every re- source of the Party to their de- fense. D. Benjamin, Workers School; Otto Hall, Negro director of the, GRAFTER HAGUE |S ARRESTED BY HIS COMPETITORS s)Served 10 Warrants, But Is Paroled JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 25.-~ The race for graft privileges was in- tensified today when Mayor Frank | Hague, of Jersey City, a democrat, was arrested ten times on as many warrants tonight and then, under formal arrest, paroled in his at- \torney’s custody after his citation for | | contempt by the republican legisla- {ture because he refused to answer | questions regarding his financial af- fairs and those of his wife and rela- | tives. connection with that of the million- aire oil swindler Harry Sinclair, now | serving a soft “term” in the District of Columbia Jail for contempt of the United States Senate. The anti-Hague fight is lead by a republican opposition which seeks control of the municipal machine through which Hague and his clique grafted thousands of dollars. The appointment had been men- tioned in the state senate today of Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia as lone of the attorneys for the legis- lative committee investigating |Hague’s finances. Roberts was on! |the government staff of lawyers | | during the Teapot Dome case and in | the prosecution of Sinclair. Sinclair’s name was brought into the debate, and Senator Simpson of | Hudson County, a Hague supporter, Hague’s name was mentioned inj STORES SEIZING STOVES; COOKING ‘ON GUTDOOR FIRE, Gardner, ‘Tube ercular, Denied Treatment (Continued from Page One) \Klan. Photographs have been taken of the charred cross, which is now in possession of the strikers at the tent colony. As part of a campaign of har aul ing the strikers, and to break ap | | the new tent colony if possible, sani- tary officials today visited the | jtents. Their main attack centered around the cabbage, which claimed was “too near the stables,” | and “might kill 50 strikers.” The «strikers in the colony replied: | “Yor aggravating, and if the hilled 50 strikers, you’d not mind.” Find Furniture Broken. The strikers’ insistent demand for their furniture back, which had been | taken from the first tent colony and stored by the Gastonia city govern- ment, has resulted in a victory. The city today agreed to send it back, and pay the expenses of moving it to any part of the city. Tomorrow some of it will be taken to the! new tent colony. The credit companies, however, are confiscating some of the strik- ers’ cooking ‘stoves which were} |bought on the installment plan. The strikers are cooking over open fires | |and fireplaces. Much of the recovered furniture is found to have been broken, and clothes and bedding missing, Alfred Wagenknecht, national secretary of | the Workers International Relief, demanded of the city authorities the yeturn of the organization’s truck | and other property confiscated by the police during the raids on the tent colony, and got it. He also to- duy recuested pogsession of the lot {where the National Textile Workers Union and Relief Headquarters were \ocated, and the city manager asked for a conference with the defense at- |torneys on the matter. |shouted: “If it took five years to get Harry Sinclair, it will take three ‘times five years to get Frank Hague.” Hague’s ten arrests followed each other at intervals of a few seconds las ten warrants were served on him | after both Houses of the Legislature | had cited him for contempt. He is paroled for 24 hours, during which he must decide whether to answer | the questions asked him. During this time he is expected to seek a writ of | habeus corpus. If the writ is not granted, Hague is to surrender at] |the State House tomorrow night. they | all are visiting us only to be | cabbage Fight i in Bois Wars | or Go Without ut Citizenship NEW HAVEN, Gon Conn., June 25. — A Yale birchman, Prof. Douglas Mac- Intosh was refused citiz enship today by the federal district court because in taking the oath of allegiance he said he would not feel obliged to shoulder a rifle when Wall S' brings on its next imperialist w: MacIntosh, who is a Canadian by birth, put in three years in the trenches in the last mass murder fee aS he has had enough. iN FUR BOSSES FOR SETTLEMENT COME TO UNION | Picket Demonstration Tomorrow Morning cot (Continued from Page One) ing in the fur market, is being called for tomorrow morning by the ‘ien- eral Strike Committee. Not only furries. but all workers who want the furiers to win their struggie, ere expected to participate. | Deflates “Investigation.” Gold yesterday challenged the statement published yesterday in the, ; press, regarding the so-called in- | vestigation made \by reporters to- gether with Chszles Statsky, head | of the company-union “Joint Coun- cil.” “The reporters were taken by | Statsky'to only ten shops of the As- {sociated Fur Manufacturers, under {contract with the company union with which thé employers are work- jing hand-in-hand,” Gold said. “Of course, these employers were able to get plenty of scabs to fill the places of the strikers. But those scabs are not skilled mechanics. They did not ‘investigate’ the shops of the Fur Trimming Association 50 members jof which have applied to us for settlement. This fact shows that Stetsky succeeded in misleading the lreporters, and it proves our case. Thus far in the strike, most of the | shops struck are independents and jsociation. The strike is just be- ginning to spread and the Associated Fur Manufacturers shops will be taken out on strike very soon. The fact that in addition to the two hun- | dred independent shops, ©) members lof the Fur Trimming Association have applied to the union for settle- | ment, proves that the strike is effec- tive and that the ranks of the em- |ployers are breaking. This is the | first significant victory of the left will be followed by further victories sociations to sign an agreement with | ‘the N. T. WIL U.” | members of the Fur Trimming As-| wing in splitting the Association and | in forcing the employers in both as- | “ANOTHER ROTE FAKNE EDITOR iS ARRESTED Aequit Communist for Killing Fascist | (Wireless by Imprecorr.) BERLIN, June 25.—Fritz Hampel, |the “feuilleton” editor of the Rote Fahne, whose pseudonym is “Slang” ees been arrested and charged with Binsin ah of high treagon.” After seven weeks of prohibition with a two-day break, the Rote ae appeared Sunday with a lead- ing article declaring that the bloody Zoergiebel is giving the workers’ newspaper no breathing space. The day before the appearance two editors were arrested in order to hinder the appearance of the paper. The other editor was flooded | with official invitations to appear |before the magistrate. Zocrgeibel, the paper states, feels that the Com- munist Party is winning new masses | away from reformism. He is there- fore preparing new repressions, Always for Workers. Legal or illegal, the article says, the Rote Fahne remains the deadly enemy of bourgeois society and the advocate of the oppressed disinher- jited. As Karl Marx wrote 80 years {ago when the Neue Rheinische Zei- |tung was prohibited by the royal government with literally the same argumerit used by the present Ger- man “republican” government against the Rote Fahne, the Rote Fahne says: “Prohibited or permit- ted, we fight for the emancipation of the working class.” Militants Winning. In the shop councils elections in the state shipyard at Minden, the militant opposition won five seats and the reformists only one. This was after the reformist right wing had expelled the opposition leader from the union. After a trial of six days, the young Communist, Herbert Meyer, has been acquitted of the murder of the German fascist. Schaffer, who | was killed on December 9, in Karls- horst at Berlin, during an anti-fas- cist demonstration. Zoergiebel used the killing of Schaffer as his pretext for imposing the prohibition of the May Day dem- onstrations. The bourgeois and so- cial-democratic press campaign | against the Communist Party and |the Red Front Fighters League on account of the killing of Schaffer now collapses. TYPO FAKERS MEET. RALEIGH, N. C. (By Mail). — No action to organize the unor- ganized printers is planned at the convention of the Virginia-Carolinas | Typographical Union, July 14. organizer; Richard B. Moore, presi-| dent of the American Negro Labor} Congress; George Pershing, organ- izer of District 2 of the Communist| Youth League; Fred Biedenkapp, organizer of the Independent Shoe) Workers’ Union of Greater New York; Harriet Silverman, secretary | of the New York local of the Work- lers International Relief; Bertha Crawford, chairman of the National Textile Workers Relief Committee in Gastonia, and member of the W. I, R. committee there; Helen Lodge, |a Gastonia striker; Kermit Harden, Gastonia striker and speaker at this | meeting for the International Labor Defense; and William Murdoch, |speaker for the National Textile | Workers’ Union, were among those | who) evoked cheers from the great | thrang. as they denounced Sq., | | | Telephone Be SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAM 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER JACOB MASTEL THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York 731 Director of Dramatics 14 W orkers Members of the National Textile Workers Union 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS ight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from the electric not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a | cee With Murder! sc a a Charged With Murder! | : . | he The fi, i pay, and is a part of the preparation of frame-up and pledged the aid of i i n i the capitalist government for a new | their organizations to the Gastonia chair is bloody imperialist world war. | strikers, ‘ Long Live the Revolationary struggle for the right of the workers of ANOTHER SACCO-V. ANZETTI |-| Struggle cf the Oppressed Colo- the entire South to organize and strug- FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! nial Peoples! iti ; The Struggle of the Southern Tex- Rally to the Support of the Interna- tile 28 sl the Concern of / ; “ f Work- if The members of the National Textile The Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and ENTIRELY REBUILT i evicted from their homes because they . . Once. i er conditions : : Pe He against mill owners, the government This " | authorities and against the strike- Director of Sports, Athletics ‘ breaking activities of the American Fed- and Dancing tit ing class. It goes EDITH SEGAL on the entire working gi 3 Rush All Funds to ; ‘ e ' se keKE AOE ABS: Telephone Esterbrook 1400 beat ; 80 East 11th Street Room 402 PERL ees : : New York, N. Y. ' gle for better conditions. tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union. 14 Southern Textile Workers Must Not Die. The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours and for low the International Labor Defense the Entire American ing Class. dared to fight for better eration of Labor, Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Hercic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. paces ese eeeees biden. I hereby enclose $.......++5+ Gastonia Defense. ADDRESS ......ccecseeeccsseeeeseeeeecem CITY AND STATE. .....scss0eeeseeeeeee ve RS EE ee ee ae ae