The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1929, Page 1

TENSION GROWS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-class mi er at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by __Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. The Comprodaily Publishing SU IPTION BATES: Outside New York, in New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. by mal 5 Price 3 Cents Vol. VE, No. 101_ LATEST GASTONIA WALKER OFFERS TO “ARBITRATE” FAKE CLOAK STRIKE; SCHLESINGER ASSISTS TAMMANY HALL GESTURE Co:Union Chiefs Had Exchanged Numerous “Favors”; Received $50,000 From Lehman Bosses’ Organs Make Some More Confessions; | “Pickets!” Cry of Company Union The close, affectionate connection between the “so-| cialist” chiefs of the International Ladies’ Garment Work-| ers, the company union of the cloak manufacturers and | Tammany Hall was again shown yesterday when Mayor James J. Walker offered his services as an “arbitrator” on the second day of the fake stop-| HUNGARY, CZECHS s2tsci.tts Seek te, Bes STOP RAILWAYS jis supported by the right wing of- ficials who are quite willing that Walker exploit the present situation ¥ for political capital. Fights Strikers. Walker, under whose administra- tion thousands of fur, cafeteria, iron | and other strikers have been clubbed, | | jailed and terrorized, invited the I. War Talk Rife Because |1. G. w. chieftains and representa-| At the same time, 50 workers who ‘ tives of the bosses to meet with him| have been ‘striking in the Alfred Horty Jails Agent _ tives of the bosses |Giantel, Inc, for the past nine SRAGUN Giedlodiovalia, July'8|| Whe leaders of.the:present falie| weeks under. the leadership ot the —Tension between Czecho-Slovakia | stoppage of the cloakmakers have and Hungary, over the arrest of a|for many years been on the most Czecho-Slovakian railway ticket|cordial of terms with the corrupt,| agent on a charge of espionage, | labor-hating Tammany Hall gang| grew today with reprisals threatened | which only recently fired 300 city on both sides, jengineers because they demanded a The ticket agent, Wenzel Pecha. | wage increase. | was seized at the border station of | Supported Tammany. | Hidasnemeti. The Prague govern-| During the last election campaign) ment “understands that Hungary | it was revealed that the I. L. G. W.| plans to cut railway traffic at three | wlique had received $50,000 from Col. | other border points besides Hidas- | porhert Lehman, banker and pres-| nemeti, where traffic already has | Qo lieutenant-governor on the un- been suspended by Czechoslovakian iderstanding that votes of cloak- order.” If Hungary carried -out| makers would be “delivered” to the such a threat, only one railway con- ‘Tammany candidates. In 1919 nection would be left between the | Schlesinger, the president of the I. two countries. |L. G. W., on the official. stationery Ultimatum Given. |of the organization, enthusiastically The newspaper “Creske Slovo,| endorsed the candidacy for state which is close to the foreign minis-| senator of Irwin Untermyer, son of ter, published a report that Hungary| the corporation lawyer, Samuel had been given an ultimatum to re-! Untermyer. lease Pecha before noon on Friday,| On the second day of the stop-| otherwise Czecho-Slovakia would cut page, the clique found a convenient all railway traffic with Hungary.| excuse for the miserable response in The foreign office refused to con- their halls by-the alibi that large firm or deny the report. numbers of the cloakmakers had Pecha was arrested by two Horthy gone to beaches and other nearby gendarmes who pounced upon him | resorts for the July 4¢h holiday. with drawn revolvers while he was| The capitalist press, contrary to} eating a meal in the railway station. | its handling of genuine labor strug-| The Hungarian government states | gles, yesterday continued to carry| that he was found to have received | columns of phoney publicity, giving for transmission to Czecho-Slovakia | fantastic figures in connection with| | Workers Union. | ef the fight.” | workers called the frame-up one of documents containing military infor- the stoppage, some of them report- mation. LAUNCH ANOTHER BIG WAR CRUISER Hoover Battle Fleet. Building Ten More ing twice as many workers “out” | as actually work in the New York} trade. Women’s Wear, the trade organ} of the manufacturers, which on the} | day of the fake stoppage admitted | that the move was primarily aimed to build the company union of the bosses, yesterday again spilled the beans. “Finishing Garments.” Substantiating the charge made by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- WASHINGTON, July 3.—The eve of the Fourth of July was cele- brated by the naval department by increases in its war fleet and ac- tive preparations for the Hoover world war, not far off. At Camden, N. J., today, the/| cruiser Chester, one of the 10,000- ton warships of the cight under construction when the last 15 were voted by congress, was launched. The mayor’s niece went through the | formality of breaking a bottle of ginger ale over the nose of the fighting machine. The ship will cost over $11,000,000 when com- ‘pletely furnished. It is the third of the eight to be launched. Meanwhile, the navy department _ gave contracts to the New York Shipbuilding Co, of Camden, and | the Philadelphia navy yerd to build | two more cruisers for something | ever $10,000,000 each. | The contracts let today, added to | hose awarded the Bethlehem Ship- | ‘huilding Co. and the Puget Sound navy yard last Week, will provide ' for immediate construction of the | _ first five of the navy’s 15 cruiser program. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! a | dustrial Union last week that the) stoppage had been postponed be- cause many bosses had not provided themselves with sufficient samples, | Women’s Wear in yesterday’s issue baldly states: “In both Council shops and in shops. of the submanufacturers’ group, it was reported that a ma- jority of the relatively few work- ers who remained were finishers | engaged in putting garments thru the last processes of manufacture. | Some employers cited the fact that the finishers were allowed to re- main, while other workers struck as proof of good will existing be- tween themselves (the bosses) and their workers.” And at another point: “The firms expressed no surprise’over the walk- out. They point out that Council officials (the boss association) ad- vised that no employes be retained in instances in which it appeared that a majority would respect the strike call.” Cloakmakers, members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, yesterday continued to dis- tribute the eall of the union urging the workers to convert the fake stoppage of the Schlesinger-Dubin- sky clique into a real strike for (Continued on Page Two) | the old lady. Sirtke Against ‘Yellow Pot Thirty-five workers employed in the Bernard Shoe Company, 200 Til- ‘lary St., Brooklyn, resisted the at- tempt of the company to foist a |yellow-dog agreem@nt upon them and struck yesterday, under the leadership of the Independent Shoe V One of its pro- visions required that each worker place $100 in the hands of the boss es security against his joining the union. Those on strike now are from the cutting and sitting departments, | and the lasters are expected to go | out soon. These workers are now staging a fight to recover $200 se- | curity which each was compelled to | put up with the company. | One worker, Sidney Rafal, who! had to go to the hospital for a seri- ous operation just before the strike started, was refused his security by the company, but he finally obtained it. He sent a message to the strik- ers yesterday, saying: “Sorry I can- not be with you now, but just as soon as I get out of the hospital Vl be with you in the front line trenches union, yesterday returned to work following the signing of an agree- ment granting all union demands. This includes recognition of the | union and a 44-hour week. | SEAMEN PLEDGE AID TO GASTONIA STRIKE VICTIMS To Report on Frameup | in World Ports Over 700 seamen pledged them- selves to carry the story of the Gastonia murder frame-up to all the | ports of the world last night at the | cpen-air mass meeting called by the Marine Workers League at the foot of Whitehall St. In a resolution unanimously accepted the marine the most outrageous in American | labor histery and hailed the militant | struggle of the newly-awakened workers of the South gainst the tex- tile barons. J. R. Pittman, the first of the | Gastonia strikers to be arrested on | the charge of murder, told of the terrible conditions under which the | workers live and work. When heckled by a_ half-drunk soldier, Pittman revealed that he had been a soldier in the American forces in Russia. There he saw jor himself that the Russian workers were fight- ing for real freedom and that the slogans of the American bourgeoisie had been lies. He had more experi- ence with bourgeois patriotism when jhe came back to Gastonia and was allowed to walk the streets for months without a job, in spite of |the fact that when he enlisted he was promised his old job back again. Police Choke Women. Pittman told of the brutality of the police from the very beginning of the strike. At one time when police met Vera Busch and old Mrs. Howard, who was not even 2 striker, they choked Busch until she was half dead and struck and knocked down J. L. Brewer, another striker from | Gastonia, told the story of the raids, | first on the headquarters, then on the tent colony. | Political Struggle. | Wells, an organizer of the Na-| tional Textile Workers Union, told how what had started as a fight for economic demands was turned into a political struggle with the bring- ing in of troops and machine guns. He told how the propaganda of the strikers calling on the soldiers not to fire on their brother workers was so effective that the troops were withdrawn and an out-of-town divi- sion brought in. He pointed out the different functions .of the Workers International Relief, which is sup- plying food and clothing and the tent (Continued on Page Two) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929 @ ‘Shoe Workers ‘Members Must Complete PEONS WHIPPED the One Day’s Pay Fund Drive By End i of the Week ‘Emergency Must Be Overcome in Order Lash and Gun Used by, to Meet Tasks Facing Party and Daily Worker Two weeks have passed since the Central Committee issued the call to the Party mem- bership and the working class for a $50,000 Communist Party-Daily Worker Emergency Fund. The word “emergency” was not used as an empty term. It indicated the situation of the Party and its chief organ, The Daily Worker. The emergency exists primarily be- cause of the heavy burdens placed upon the Party in this period of developing class strug- gles, characterized by the working class go- ing over to the offensive against the capitalist class. We face a real emergency inasmuch as shortage of funds deprive us of the resources with which to wage the fight. And when the Party of the working class is handicapped in carrying out its tasks the whole working class suffers. In line with the policy of self-criticism, we must say emphatically that thus far the membership of the Party has not responded as quickly as it ought to have done to the decision that each Party member be assessed One Day’s Pay. There has been ample time to respond to this decision, but in spite of admirable response from most sections of the Party, there are still units and individual members who have not yet met their obligation. THIS CONDITION MUST BE REMEDIED AT ONCE! If you haven’t had a pay. day since the issuance of the call for the emergency fund, you should borrow the equivalent of one day’s pay or raise ‘it among friends and place it in the hands of the Party functionary designated to handle the fund. Many workers who are not members of the Party, and who realize the necessity of strengthening our whole fight- ing apparatus, have donated a day’s pay, and some of them have donated as much as half a week’s pay, while still others have sent in a week’s pay to help the Daily in the present difficult situation. Other workers, not members of ‘the Party, have taken up the question of the $50,000 Emergency Fund in their unions and workmen’s fraternal societies and obtained donations to the Fund. Certainly there is some- thing sadly lacking in the Party member who does not do equally as much to strengthen his own Party and the non- Party workers. Such results prove one thing—that there ure workers outside the Party who feel more deeply. the ele- mentary needs of the working class than some of the Party members, Comrades! We have tremendous campaigns on foot— the defense of the Gastonia strike victims who are in the shadow of the electric chair; the campaign for International Day Against Imperialist War; the drive for a successful con- ference of the Trade Union Educational League in order to consolidate the militant trade union forces of the country; the elemental campaign of enlightenment in the ranks of our Party so that we will be able to meet the problems of today in a revolutionary manner. ONCE YOUR ONE DAY’S WAGE TO THE EMERGENCY FUND IS TO INJURE THE PARTY WORK, TO ENDAN- GER THE DAILY WORKER AND INDIRECTLY AID THE REACTION. These are plain words, and blunt words, but when we face such tremendous tasks we would not be doing our duty to the working class and to our Party unless we pointed out such facts. LET EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY MEET HIS OBLIGATION TO PAY THE ONE DAY’S WAGE BEFORE THIS WEEK ENDS! FUNDS TRICKLING IN To Save “Daily” Workers Must Aid The following are the meagre contributions received up to and including last night. In order to save the Daily Workr and go back to a six-page paper it is absolutely imperative that our work- ing class readers contribute a minimum total of $1,000 a day for the duration of the campaign, which otherwise will come to an un- timely end. The contribution shows the income for the day’s pay and the direct contributions. Only half this figure goes to the main- tenance of the Daily. Branch 225, W. C., City....$ 5.00 i | M. Lazase, Bronx, N. Y.... 3.00| given in honor of Sylvia Group of workers of B, Fur- |_ Schwartz, City . ++ 6.30 man, City ... . 200). Le P.,. City... 1.00 H. Leff, City 2,00 |S. Rylicken, City.. 2.50 Collected at birthday party (Continued on Page Three) BY RICH OWNER OF PLANTATION Boss on Helpless Georgia Slaves VICTIM BEFORE COURT IN CHARLOTTE LABOR DEFENSE APPEALS TO WORKERS TO HURRY; LETTERS ARE CENSORED Neal, of Scopes Case, and Judge Carter Added to Defense of Framed ill Strikers Negro Worker Unpaid Enthusiastic Organization Meetings Held by Court Not Expected to | Convict Textile Workers in Surrounding Towns ther stories illustrative of the bru tal methods whereby wealthy white plantation owners maintain white jsupremacy by vicious use of the shotgun and lash against their Ne- gro slaves were told by John Vano- jver, a Negro worker, and Claude | King, a white farm hand, to the Federal Court today. The two ac- cused their employer, W. D. Ar- nold, of keeping them in servitude for two years. When the trial entered its final | phases the planter still fought hard | to deny the charges by trying to | tell the jury they were maneuvered by “unfriendly neighbors.” Lashed on Bare Skin. | In his testimony King showed | that Arnold had forced the two to work on his Sumner County planta- | tion under conditions of feudal | slavery. “I tried to escape,” King said, “but Arnold had me recaptured and kad his men lash me on the bare! skin with a leather strap.” To make sure the lashing was hard | enough, Arnold supervised proceed- |ings with a shotgun. Sometimes | Arnold gave King a week “for | myself and family. While the-evidence of the Negro and ‘white worker proves indict- | |ments charging peonage and servi- | (Continued on Page Two) | 8 FUR PICKETS GET JAIL TERMS \14 Others Released; Picketing Goes on | Nine fur strike pickets were ar- |rested yesterday morning. Ar- raigned in Jefferson Market Court, | their cases were postponed until DON'T WAIT FOR Postoffice Holds Back Literature for Week BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, July 3.—The post office solicitor, Horace J. Donnelly, when interviewed today by an attorney representing the International Labor Defense, re- fused to withdraw his ban on I. L. D. envelopes carrying the slo- gan, “Smash the Murder Frame- up Against the Gastonia Strik- ers.” It is threatened that the post office department may start criminal action against the I. L. D. I. L. D. officials declare that they will nevertheless stand on their right to have the envelopes sent through the mail, will con- tinue to mail them and wil! start court proceedings against the postal authorities. eh The National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense has issued an appeal to the workers and sym- pathizers with the struggles of la- bor throughout the country to. de- feat the federal government’s at- tack on the Gastonia defense cam- paign in the banning of I. L. D. mail by increasing contributions and intensifying efforts to raise funds. The appeal, which is signed by Carl Hacker, assistant national secretary, states: “The federal government has joined with the state government of North Carolina in a conspiracy to send 15 working men and women, members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, to the electric + MILLS ON FALSE MAIL, SAYS LD, ARREST, ATTACKS Bosses’ Press Slanders Dead Unionist l to the Daily Worker.) GASTONIA, N. C., —The International Labor Defense has se- July cured a writ of habeas corpus for Delmar Hampton, the striker arrested in Gaffney, S. C., and kidnapped mill deputies acoss the state line to be framed Gastonia by | for murder. | The writ instructed the Gastonia authorities to bring Hampton to a hearing before Judge Harding in Charlotte today. | Neal and Carter for Defense. | Appearing for the defense are Attorneys John Randolph Neal, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Judge Carter, of | Asheville, and Frank Flowers of | Charlotte. Neal is the attorney of record for the defense in the fa- | mous Scopes case, the test of the Tennessee anti-evolution law. Cart- ter.is a well-known former supreme court judge, who receritly declined being one of the defense staff on account of pressure of other work, Lut stated that he feared the tac- | (Continued on Page Three) MILLION REFUND GOES 10 MELLON .U. S. Treasurer Gives | July 9. | chair and eight others to long terms] Eight other strikers arrested last! j, jail. By barring from the mails! His Firm Big Percent —The re- TO NEGLECT TO PAY AT | | week when they entered a shop for the purpose of urging wor to join the general str each sentenced to five days in the Workhouse on the charge of ‘“dis- jorderly .conduct.” These workers jare Sam Lederman, Nikolas Van | Vaukes, Antonio Zulas, Robert Waf- lyodes, Ben Goldberg, Harry Green- berg, Thomas Gotfikas, and Sam Gotkind. Yesterday, also, five other pickets | |arrested on the same charge were | released by Magistrate Smith in Jef- ferson Market Court. These were Harry Goldstein, Frank Brown, |Harry Fischer, Morris Gordon and} Sam Gotkind. The last-named, tho) freed in this case, was convicted with the other eight and sentenced to five |days in the Workhouse, | | Picketing continues in the fur mar- |ket, and settlements are being con- | cluded with individual bosses by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. A meeting of the Executive of the} General Strike Committee will be held tomorrow night at 7 o’clock at | 16 West 2ist St., it is announced. FASCISTS DEPORT DOCTOR. ROME (By. Mail).—According to la report from Bozena the deportation commission for the South Tirol has | decided to deport the German Doctor jof Medicine Josef Kiener for a period of 3 years on account of the fact) |that Kiener is a person dangerous to the National Order, i.e., a danger to \fascism. Kiener is one of those Germans forcibly made Italian by the peace treaties. The island to which he will be sent is not yet known. the appeals for funds sent out by the International Labor Defense be- cause our envelopes bear the cap- tion: ‘Smash the Murder Frame- the federal government hopes to ef- fectively cripple our big nation-wide defense campaign so that the framed strikers in Gastonia can be rail- roaded to the electric chair or to} prison before the workers of this country are aware of the danger and rally to their defense. WASHINGTON, July 3. port made public today of the joint commission on internal revenue taxation shows that Andrew Mellon |Up against the Gastonia strikers, &@Vve back to the largest corpora- tion $106,569,893 counting only the amounts over $75,000 each, in “tax- ation refunds” during the last six months of 1928. | Mellon gave his own Aluminum | Company of America the neat little present of $1,2 26 during this same period, on the excuse of “in- F . ventory adjustment.” : Still Holds Mail. = =| Other big concerns, some of them ‘For about a week our mail has/ operated by Mellon’s relatives and been held up and much of it is still) some by his friend : P. Lol- in possession of the post office, Jard & Co., $ 231,00 . S. Steel which means that our appeals and/(o,, $15,756,595; American Woolen colféction lists have failed to reach Company, $1,214,580.62; Louis B. thousands of workers. Though we Kolb, et al, $1,580,573.50; Prudential are fighting out this case with all) Insuranc Company of America, $1,- the means at our command and | 503,219.02; Standard Oil Company though we are going ahead with) of New York and subsidiaries, $1)« the mailing of our letters, our cam-| 117,328; Vacuum Oil Company, $4,- (Continued on Page Two) | 120,381. Pittsburgh Mobilizes for Drive Against War Threat Practical Steps to be Taken at Conference to Reach Big War Industries PITTSBURGH, Pa, July Measures to mobilize the working class for the assault on the grow- ing preparations against imperial- ist war will be taken at a-meeting of district functionaries of aa Discuss Practical Work. Communist Party, to be held next! Pittsburgh is the center of highly Sunday at 12 noon at the Labor concentrated heavy industry and is Lyceum, 35 Miller St. of the utmost importance to the Specifically, the conference will (Continued on Page Two) 3.— | discuss means whereby workers from every basic industry in the section will be drawn into. the anti- war demonstration on International Red Day, Aug. 1. } ANSWER JULY 4 WAR MEETINGS WITH HUGE ANTI-WAR DAY AND CITY NOMINATING CONVENTION Official announcements emanating from Tammany controlled city hal indicate that the flood of oratory today will chiefly concern itself with arousing jingo sentiment for war purposes, and will attack the | + growing militancy of the labor movement and atiempt ‘to strengthen | Tammany: Hall especially for the coming election campaign. , Programs, parades, and olier ¢.calar pro-imporialist war celebra- Mons have been arranged in all Loroughs with the cooperation of the darkest forces of reaction, the church, the American Legion, police, etc. The New York Sun announces that “the patriotic youth has been warned to go between King George an’ the early colonials in a decorous manner.” In this veiled manner the traditions of revolutionary struggle are being suppressed while the brutal attacks on the working class are increased. Gatherings are taking place on the battlefields of 1776, near war monuments, and at city hall park, where Jimmy Walker will harangue the “first yoters,” in an attempt to get their votes in the coming elec- ‘ 5 on explosives and to express its zeal over the split | tion campaign. The speeches generally will attempt to use the tradi- | tions of the struggles of 1776 against the present day working class. The Communist Party, District Two, yesterday denounced the demonstrations that are taking place and urged all workers to use this day and every day following until the fourteenth of July for the pur- pose of mobilizing all working class organizations to send” fraternal delegates to the Communist Party City Nominating Convention to be | held on July 14, at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, to | nominate working class;andidates in the coming election campaign. | . Wherever workers gather on this day, the purpose of the capi- talist pro-imperialist war demonstrations must be exposed and agitation for a real present day revolutionary struggle against imperialist war and for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govenment must take place. Special attention must be called to the Anti-War Day to be held thruout the world by the revolutionary masses on August 1. A great New York Nominating Convention to start a whirlwind election campaign will be an excellent contribution to the struggle against the militarist- , jingoist meetings being held todgy. : : ‘ E