The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1929, Page 1

f, = « ¢ yy * CAPITAL ISTS PREPARE FOR IMPERIALIST WAR - city, new and more deadly chemicals are compounded for use in war- fare, experiments in more efficient and higher powered motors pro- War preparations of the Un blast. © fifteenth anniversary of the out r: see the ruling class of the United Every day sees new and more a ; government are. on in full ious preparations. As the the world war approaches we States, which told us that the last war was the war to end all wars, ppreparing greater forces than were ever dreamed of before 1914. Armaments are piled mountain high. Swarms of airplanes, from hundreds of air fields, sweep through the eced day and night. * * * Eyery day sees the navy, the army and the war department busily awarding contracts for bigger equipment for the armed forces. us take the events of only one day Let as recorded in the capitalist press. Yesterday’s papers record the fact that the navy department has WORKERS MUST PREPARE FOR AUGUST FIRST awarded contracts for 152 airplanes, at a total cost of $4,172,949; an | experimental all-metal flying boat, powered with three large engines | is to be built by a Baltimore concern at a cost of $150,000. same day the announcement was made by F. Trubee Davidson, assis- tant secretary of war for aviation, horse-power engines involving an expenditure of $2,000,000 have been awarded. These engines are specially made for use in pursuit planes. Then came the announcement of the navy department that final “Chester,” which is the third of congress in 1924. completed independently of the through congress last winter. On the that contracts for “wasp” 500- arrangements are complcied for the launching today of the new cruiser, the 8-cruiser program authorized by The eight cruisers authorized in 1924 are to be 16-cruiser program that was put On the same identical day the war department issued new army regulations affecting the chemical warfare service, (Continued on Page Three) to conform with THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Impe For the 40-Hour Week rialist War FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday hy The Comprodaily Publishing 26-28 Union Sauare, New York City, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION #ATES: Outsiae New _ Price r Cents CLOAK BOSSES ADMIT THAT SANDING ON WAY Mil? Workers NO DISARMAMENT Workers! Which Shall It DEMANDS RIGHT PROPOSALS IN Be: $1,000 a Day and 6 10 SEND APPEAL STOPPAGE IS A MANEUVER T0 WORLD ANTI. - TO BUILD COMPANY UNION 'MPERIAL MEET Association Manufacturers mufactarers Tell Workers to Leave Shops and Join Fake “Strike” - Halls of Schlesinger Clique Empty; Industrial ‘Temporarily i in Mexico Union Holds Enthusiastic Meetings Admissions that the fake stoppage of the international Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Company union, which | started yesterday, was called with the complete blessing and America Anti-Imperialist L active cooperation of the cloak manufacturers was contained in yesterday’s issue of the® Women’s Wear, trade journal, of the bosses, which said: “Many of the council shops ex- pected that some workers would show a disinclination to walk out,” Women’s Wear says. Then thi follows: “They (the bosses) w advised at a recent memBe anecuine:: not to encourage workers in many cloak factories sed yesterday—in many cases be- cause the electric current was shut off by the boss, and the workers told to leave, At the same time in the garment distriet, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union was on the offen- sive in the agitation for a real strike. Thousands of leaflets were distributed among the cloakmakers which contained the call of the In- dustrial Union to convert the fake stoppage into a real strike for union conditions under its leadership. Stoppage a Failure. That the fake stoppage is a dis- mal failure is seen not only by the very small attendance in the halls of the company union, but also in ' the depressing atmosphere which prevailed there, according to lead- ers of the Industrial Union. Just before the issuance of the fake “strike” cail, the clique announced that they had engaged 15 halls. Yesterday small, uninspiring gath- erings took place. Practically the only sizeable meeting was held in Bryant ‘Hall, which was attended by about 300. In the afternoon a sur- vey of the other halls hired by the I, L. G. W. sharks revealed the fol- lowing: In Astoria Hall and Annex, 4th St. and Second Ave. 150; Royal / Mansion, 200; Webster Hall, about; 50, In the last-named place, after a small group hung about for an hour, a lesser lieutenant notified them that no meeting would be held. Most of the time at the Bryant Fall meeting was taken up with posing groups of workers for the benefit of the capitalist press. Answering the call of the Indus- trial Union to help convert the fake stoppage into a real strike for con- ditions under its leadership, work- ers filled to overflowing three halls yesterday, Mansion Hall, Aristocrat, Mall and National Palace. leaders of the Industrial Union, after analyzing the conditions of the , Cloakmakers at the present time, exposed in detail the present con- the bosses for a stoppage which | used the workers only as pawns. The Yompany union, they pointed cut, called the stoppage for the puy- pose of bleeding thousands of dol- (Continued on Page Two) Resume Trial of Anti- 1 Soviet Forgers Today BERLIN, July 2.—The trial of Viadimir Orloff and Michael Pavlon- ofsky, Russian monatchists, for trs ing to palm off forged documents directed against the Soviet Union. will be continued tomorrow and throughout -the week. The tris! seeee yesterday and recessed to- lay. At the opening of the trial yester- day the two sorry-looking mon- » archists contradicted themselves re- peatedly and the sordid nature of the forgery was clearly brought out. The | lew York Evening Post had the two | worthies brought to book after its| erlin correspondent discovered that | the “documents,” for which $2,000 was wanted, were too crude for _ American consumption, Here | spiracy between the I. L. G. W. and | TAILORS TO CALL BIE SONFERENCE ON JULY 27, 28 Hillman Gang Suspend , Rochester Local BULLETIN. (Special to the. Daily Worker.) ROCHESTER, N.-Y., July 2— The Italian loca!, which contains a majority of clothing workers in this city, has just been suspended by the Hillman machine in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. At the same time five active tailors were taken off their jobs. “ This action is part of the na- tional terror campaign cf the Amalgamated bureaucrats in the hope of stifling the revolt of the rank and file. * * To Call N. Y. Shop Conference. The decision to call a mass shop conference of Greater New York was endorsed at a mecting of tail- ors of branches and T. U. E. L, es; held at the Workers Cen- 8 Union Square, Monday , as part of the campaign to combat the growing terror against militant workers in the corrupt Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The meeting was called by the Rank and File Committee of | 55. i : | The shop conference is scheduled to be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and 28. Shops are already beginning to send word that they will be repre- sented, it is announced. All shops | |who expect to participate in this | highly . significant Spe are urged to send the names of r sentatives to Anna Fox, lay |of the Rank and File Committee of 35, at Reom 402, 26 Union Square. | Plan National Week. At the same time it will be raade | of the Trade Union Educationel | | League, Amalgamated Section, is ; Sending out 2 cal! to all clothing centers urging them to hold similar | shop cenferences and thus prepare | (Continued on Page Two) | —— PAINTERS GAIN. BRADFORD, Pa, (By Mail).— ganized painters here have ee a tive day week and a wage increase of 10 cents an hour, | Central Committee Calls in All Funds in 'Day’s Wage Drive é ral By instructicns of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States you must collect’ AT ONCE the |Special Day’s Pay Assessntent rom all members you can reach id forward the amount collected |immediately to the National Of- | tice, 43 East 125th St., New York, Do not wait until all members have paid, but send what you have and then collect the rest and sem it. THIS IS AN EMER- GENCY SITUATION AND NO DELAY CAN BE TOLERATED. Sea oe ag Fighter Against Wall St. to Attend Paris Congress J July 20 (Will Continue Str uggle| Statement Declares The National Office of the All- eague, | 799 Broadway, yesterday received a cable from the Executive Commit- | tee of the Anti-Imperialist League in Mexico City stating that General Augustino Sandino, Hoy is on his way to the Anti-Im- perialist World Congress, to be held in Paris July 20. Sandino is now temporarily in Mexico. Does Not Admit Defeat. The cable also transmits a state- \ecane made by General Sandino to the Executive Committee of the All- | ; America Anti-Imperialist League. In |this statement the. heroic fighter jagainst American imperialism de- | clares: | “The Army of Liberation of Nic- aragua is by no means defeated. My co-fighters are continuing the strug- gle against marine rule in Nicara- gua and against the lieutenant of American imperialism, President Moncada. I am temporarily leaving the field of battle in order to' expose | before the world the maneuvers of U. S, imperialism, which is now pro- ceeding with the plan for the con- struction of the Nicaraguan canal. Not For Sale. “My next step is to get together with the world anti-imperialist fight- ers to make our liberation an inter- | national movement and to tell the world the truth that Sandino and his army do not intend to sell themselves , to the American dollar. “I will keep my promise made to Henri Barbusse, that I will continue to fight till I have helped liberate not only Nicaragua, but all the Latin-American peoples.” FORM OREGON FASCISTI. PORTLAND, Ore. (By Mail).—In- | corporation papers have been issued here for the Minute Men, an organi- \zation of business men and politi- | (cians of a fascist character, which will be used against workers in case of strikes, leader | f the Nicaraguan Army of Libera- | vai to Union; ve Tents Up GASTONIA, N. C.,, July 2.— The National Textile Workers Unien here was swamped today with requests for organizers for mills in surrounding country. N. T. W. organizers are much in de- mand and conferences are being held to train new leadership from among the tried and tested Gas- tonia strikers. The strike at Ware Shoals is not yet betrayed, in spite of every | attempt to do so by the United Textile Workers’ officialdom on the ground. The workers refuse to be sold out and are still strik- ing. CROUCH HAS PNEUMONIA. | Paul Crouch, organizer for the N. T. W. and a member of the National Council of the Iuterna- tional Labor Defense, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Crouch has been very active since his arrival in Gastonia some time ago, and has been working long hours on union business, His health was bad during this time, and the overwork is thought to (Continued on Page Three) ANTI-FRAMEUP MEET TONIGHT ON WATERSIDE Marine League Leads Demonstration The Gastonia textile strike frame- ups will be protested at an open air (demonstration lead by the Workers League at the foot of Whitehall St., Battery, at 6 p. m. today. Speakers will include Clarence Miller, who faces charges of “secret Marine | “KING'S SPEECH” Pages -- Or Suspension? THRU POSTOFFICE Promise to Consider U.S.S.R. Recognition; | Make Obstacles Exile Plan for Jobless) Capitalist Press Hails. Lack of “Socialism” LONDON, July The “King’s | | Speech,” written in the MacDonald \cabinet and delivered today in par- liament by Lord Sankey on the fake | plea that the king was too sick to | talk, showed a definite reaction to | the Stimson statement in Washing- | |ton yesterday on war preparations. | It has been previously announced | at Downing Street that the king’s speech, opening the eighth parlia- | ment of his reign, would outline a practical program for a naval re- ductions’ conference. Stimson’s crude j whatever was done tion the United States on “parit; always understood as “su- periority,” of the U. S. navy with the British navy, evidently caused the cabinet to drop that program | and leave everything set for an un- disguised naval Tace. | Only Pious. Hopes. The speech contains only polite reference to the Dawes-MacDonald conference, and a pious hope that navies will be reduced, without a | single measure being outlined lead- ing toward reduction. { The address makes a vague prom- ise to sign the League of Nations resolution advocating “judicial” measures to settle disputes between countries, but this means nothing even if signed. No date or place was suggested tor a resumption cf the negdtiations left unfinished at the so-called “Preparatory Conference on Dis- (Continued on Page Two) statement that assault with a deadly weapon with| intent to kill,” and the Tetherow, Pitman and Hardin. tional Organizer George Mink speak for the Marine League. Daily Editor To Speak. Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, official organ of the In- ternational Labor Defense, and sta- strikers Na- will Workers ‘as will also Charles Hacker, of the (Continued on Page Two) FURRIERS IN SETTLED SHOPS VOTE TO GIVE HALF DAY'S PAY TO STRIKE An enthusiastic meeting of fur- | riers of settled shops, held last \night in Stuyvesant Casino, unani- mously voted to contribute one-half 'day’s wages to the fur strike, which today begins its fourteenth day. | This action wes taken upon the yecommendation. of the General | Strike Committee, whose chairman, | Ben Gold, reported on the progress \of the strike. | Nine More Shops Out. | Workers from nine more shops joined the strike yesterday, Gold re- ported. At the same time settle- | ments are continuing and workers are returning to their jobs after the ! bosses have signed agreements with the Industrial Union. Gold Reports. Gold gave a birds-eye view of the situation. and pointed out the per- spectives in the struggles of the furriers against the bosses and their agents—the company union, the mis- leaders of the A. F. of L. and the police. He said that nobody expected that all the derk, strikebreaking forces could be defeated by one blow, nor that the strike could be a 100 per cent. success. “Never' ection Gold known that the National Committee Gold Reports on Progress of the Struggle; Nine More Shops Join the Strike said, “over 3,500 furriers responded to the strike call, and many: of them | have already returned to work un-, der satisfactory agreements.” for union conditions. “Ti is not a fight of a day or a week,” Gold said, “but it will continue until the Siet- face of the earth, the sweatshop i: destroyed and every single furrier works under union conditions.” 5 Furriers Jailed. Five furriers who were arrested Monday were yesterday arraigned in night court before Magistrate Hy- man Bushel. After giving them ranting talk on © “Americanism, teria strikers to jail, fined the furriers $2 each or two days in the Workhouse, The pickets chose to go to jail, PENN. PLUMBERS GAIN. BRADFORD, Pa. (By Mail).— Over 225 plumbers here have won a 44 hour week, and an increase in wages of 50 cents a day. tioned for some time in Gastonia} after the police raids, will speak,| This strike, he said, is one of the | .| stages in the fight of the furriers sky company union is wiped off the | Bushel who, while being in the hire } of the United Restaurant Owners As- | sociation, continuously sends cafe- | SHNE WORKERS WIN IN STRIKE Expect Bosses to Sign Up with Union Over fifty workers who have been on strike against the firm of Alfred Giantel, Inc., for the past nine weeks yesterday awaited instruc- tions to return to work. Negotiations for the setlement of the strike have been going on be- | tween representatives of the firm and the union during the past sev- eral days and it is expected that the agreement will be signed at any moment. As the negotiations stand ynow the workers have won their ‘principal demands, notably: Recog- nition of the union and the 44-hour jweek. There remain but a few minor items to be adjusted and the ogreements will be ready for the, | final signature. Resist Yellow Dog Contracts. A delegation representing the | workers of the Bernard Shoe Co. of | |200 Tillary St., Brooklyn, appeared before the executive committee of the Independent Shoe Workers Union and asked that the union as- | sume leadership in organizing the | shop. This action was precipitated by | the attempts of the bosses to foist a vicious yellow-cog contract upot the workers, one of the provisions | of which required cach worker to Jace $100 in the hands of the boss as security against his joining the ; union. This was the last straw for these | workers who have been smarting | under unbearable sweatshop condi- | tions. They have therefore pre- pared an ultimatum to the boss de- | manding ‘immediate recognition of the union and the establishment of union conditions. Should the firra | fail to accede to these demands the | workers are determined to strike aos _ enforce them. Struggles of Toilers, Textile Frameup Even while it is delivering what may prove to be its last blows for the working class, the Daily Worker, true to its revolutionary tradi- tion, is struggling fiercely for a return to six pages. That struggle at the moment looks almost hopeless, but the alternative is com- plete suspension. The $5,000 which was needed to tide the crippled four-page paper over the week-end and which should have been in our hands Saturday night is only now trickling in. The slow response to our desperate appeals for imme- diate aid has been due, we are sure to the fact that the in- conceivable catastrophe which is rapidly overtaking the only English language labor daily has not been sufficiently borne in upon the militant workers of the United States. The Daily Worker is face to face with. bankruptcy. Every issue that has come out since Saturday has driven us deeper into debt, making the position of the paper ever more perilous and the prospect of going back to six pages more and more remote. But the choice must lie between six pages or nothing! We cannot go on in our present condition when the working class of America is enduring one of the most vicious on- slaughts of the parasite swine in labor history. There are mass struggles on every front, all of them demanding ade- quate treatment in the columns of our Daily, the one news- paper on which the exploited toilers can bank for faithful reports of their battles, the one newspaper fighting in their interests. The long and heroic strike of the cafeteria workers must go down into the annals of labor history inadequately chronicled because the Daily Worker, cramped for space, is not able to cover it completely. The struggles of the shoe workers in Haverhill, Boston and Philadelphia are suffer- ing the same fate. We have had to minimize the important revolt of the Fisher Body slaves. The strike of the furriers in New York City has not been given its due. The archi- tectural iron and bronze workers have been forced to con- duct their fight against the bosses with insufficient aid of the Daily. In Philadelphia, where the rank and file tailors, acting under the leadership of the T. U. E. L., converted the fake stoppages of the Hillman machine into militant strug- gles, the inability of our paper to throw its full support to the side of the strikers has greatly hampered their cause. Nor is this all. Countless other struggles on a smaller scale but still of vast importance to the working class move- ment of Amevica are not so much as mentioned, and cannot be mentioned adequately in a four-page paper. Even the epoch-making frame-up, the Haymarket of 1929, of the Gastonia textile strikers, fourteen of whom are being rushed to the electric chair by the ferocious mill barons, is not receiving the wide-snvead exnosure it is our duty to make. THINK WHAT IT WILL MEAN TO THESE WORKING CLASS HEROES IF THE DAILY GOES UN- DER IN THE MIDST OF THE FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES! It will be equivalent to turning the workers, bound hand and foot, over to the brutal terror of the bosses and their capi- talist courts. Workers, make your choice. One day’s pay to keep the Daily Worker in the fight or silent acquiescence in the mur- der of fourteen militant strikers. A six-page paper cover- ing all the news vitally involving the workers and farmers of all countries or capitulation before the black forces of re- action. A voice for the oppressed toilers of the land or the hopeless silence of the condemned, The slogan for the remainder of the emergency cam- paign must be: 51,900 A DAY TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER ALIVE! BACK TO SIX PAGES! Bring your contributions in person or send them by tele- graph, special delivery or air mail to the Daily Worker, 26- 28 Union Square, New York City. The business office will be open until 8:30 tonight to receive and tabulate all con- tributions. Wee haa Piank on m Page Les 8 Washington - Solicitor Daily Worker Cannot Go On Minimizing Changes Nature of | Accusation Mail Held Several Days New Speaking. Tours in Preparation The International Labor Defense moving in two ways to crash through the post office censorship on its appeals for the workers to mobilize and defeat the murderous frame-up of the mill owners in Gas- tonia, by which they seek the death of 15 textile workers and organ- Despite the refusal of the post cffice to deliver its mail in enve- lopes labelled “Smash the Murder Frame-up Against the Gastonia | Strikers,” the International Labor Defense will continue to mail these envelopes, it is announced by the National Office of the organization 80 E. Lith St. A batch of these envelopes are now heing sent out addressed to various parts of the country. Postmaster Silent.” Isaac Shorr, attorney for the In- ternational Labor Defense, yester- day interviewed the postal authori- ties in this and was told that they were acting under orders from the solicitor of the postal depart- ment in Washington and had been instructed not to speak on the sub ject. Shorr is now taking up the case with the solicitor in Washing- ton, and, if he refuses to lift the ban, will seck a writ of mandamus in the federal district court to com- pel the post office to deliver the mail. He pointed out that ** nothing libelous in the ¢ the envelope since it does not 7 mention of any person or gro? persons. A sharp discrepancy in of attack of the post ment between its ic w office and its solicitor va ig- ton de g the day. The New Yo er, in his letter to the I. L. D.. referred to Section {71 of the Postai e.aws, which cov- neiling libe'ous and indecent k postr Gets Another Statute. erday a statement Donnelly, solicitor of the e department, appeared in , in which he attempted without explanation to shift the charge. Donnelly says that he in- siructed the New York postmaster the I. L. D. mail, in ac- © with Section 212 of the Penai Code, “which declares it un- (Continuea on Page Two) TO SPREAD FIGHT FORUNIGNIZATION HASTINGS, Pa., July 2.—Deter- mination to fight for 100 per cent organization of local miners was voiced by speakers of the National Miners Union at a mass meeting of Local 3 attended by over 300 workers this afternoon on the muni- cipal grounds, Many enrolled dur- ing the meeting. The constitution and principals of the union were explained by Thomas Rodgers, seceretary-treasurer of the ania Central District, who ‘a fighting policy to meet the mt necessity of organization. National Organizer Vincent Keme- novich reported on organizational work in districts he had covered. “Seventy-five perecent of the min- ers in our district are with the Na- tional Miners Union,” said John No- horski, of Illinois, who told of well- attended mass meetings in his dis- trict. The Gastonia murder frame-up was condemned on record. Support to the Workers International Relief, | the International Labor Defense and | the National Textile Union was ' pledged unanimously.