The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1929, Page 1

Bed BIS CONFERENCE - TONIGHT TO AID THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS "or a Workers-Farmers Governme::* To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week mntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at "New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 105 __Company, Ine. 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing JULY 9, 1929 in New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. w York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘Price 3 Cents ew York City, N. ¥- UNION BUREAUCRACY SELLING OUT BIG SHOP MEET TODAY TO PLAN New Orleans Street Fights pouoaK sTruesLE Rising Mi To Elect Rank and File Committee to Lead Real Strike Six Pickets Arrested Bosses, I.L.G.W. Chiefs Continue Love-Fest While paeans of mutual praise continue to be sung by the cloak employers and their “socialist” agents who operate a scab racket known as the In-, ternational Ladies Garment Work- his messenger boy, David Dubinsky, vice-president of the company union, grow lyrical in the columns of the | capitalist press about the confer-|{hat they are; afraid to show ence with Tammany’s Governor | r i oe gerded, wacninery tas | ne ees already been set in motion to con-| sands of ruthlessly exploited cloak- makers. iM This afternoon at 1 o'clock, at the tor Workers Industrial Union, a con- tg the operation of the street sentatives will be held in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. at W@yS serves the interests of the employers and not the work- growth of capitalism, but that the very growth of capitalism .in the South, as elsewhere throughout the world, generated it is in such a situation that the workers are in dire need an opposing force, the struggle of the working class against | of effective leadership; a leadership that will expose the the oppression of the bosses and the state power which the tricks of the labor officials and the government agents. in such a situation that the capitalist press, with its deceptive | erikele. At this conference de- | talk about the impartiality of the government, becomes one of ailed plans will be formed for con-| the most effective strikebreaking agencies. In a word, in such that symbolized the new re which the sordid conspiracy of the €FS. bosses, the “union” chiefs and Tam- , many politicans will be discussed) and a rank and file strike commit- tee organized to take over the ac- tive leadership of the cloakmakers’ | verting the fake stoppage into a| mighty struggle for real union con- ditions that will defeat the shame- (Continued on Page Three) It is in such a situation that organizer.” | NEEDLE. STRIKES To Rally All Militant Labor Organizations All sections of the progres- sive labor movement will be rallied in support of the fur- riers’ and cloak strikes being) conducted by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union at a conference of representatives of working class organizations to be held tonight in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th street, Of Utmost Importance. The conference is considered of the utmost importance as it will take definite steps to consolidate all| the progressive elements in the la-| bor movement 100 per cent behind | the needle strikers and against | of six! efforts of the Schlesingers, Stets- kys, McGradys and other faithful servitors of the bosses to deliver) over the needle trades workers com- pletely into the hands of their ex- ploiters. | _ The fur strike continues unabated, with picketing of the shops daily. It is announced that the Joint Board of the Industrial Union is planning to call a big mass meeting of all fur- riers for sometime this week. The! exact date and place will be an- nounced later. Eleven Pickets Arrested. | Eleven fur strikers were arrested during yesterday’s picketing. - Nine were given suspended sentences, one was fined $5 and one $2. | Before Magistrate Rosenbluth! there also came up the cases of three | fur pickets who were arrested in the | early part of the strike and charged | with assault. All were dismissed. Newberry ‘Unit, Newberry, Mich. ..... +» $15.00 Newark Unit, Newark, N. J.. 50.50 against their capitalist exploiters and defied t street railway strikers of New Orleans and the other wor them have paralyzed street traffic by their own power of numbers. I have shown, in a spontaneous struggle against the combined power of the street railway com- an example of class solidarity that is magnificent. So rapid etermined was the action of the masses in the streets that not even merican Federation of Labor dared openly denounce the de- the destruction of trucks sent to rescue the cars. In face of the fury of the workers who filled the streets | ers Union, while Schlesinger and g¢ New Orleans the imported scabs and gunmen recruited from Mitten’s gangs in Philadelphia and Buffalo remain locked in railway coaches outside the city, cowering like the yellow dogs panies and the city police, movement develop and so d the reactionary officials of the A | mélishing and burning of trolley cars, In spite of the labor officials not daring openly to oppose vert the I. L. G. W. fake stoppage the strikers, the Central Labor Council has shown its true into a real struggle of the thou-| character by appealing behind the backs of the strikers to the United States labor department at Washington for a “media- | to come into the situation. THE DAILY WORKER WILL DO ITS DUTY. We were forced three weeks ago to suspend publication sponse of a number of workers enabled us to exist! Again the workers of the South have, with elemental force, delivered heavy blows he armed force of the state. For four days the kers of the city who sympathize with The working population strugg’ their faces to the strikers and gans against the tricks strike. This is an attempt to de- It is Today it is New Orleans, the Daily Worker should enter for a We are still crippled because of being forced to confine our paper to four pages instead | Z | Unit B, Sec. 4 ,N. Y. City.... 57.50 | Miami Unit, Miami, Fla 10.00 | (Continued on Page Two) litancy of American Workers sves inretus able to meet our financial obligations so that we may apsear the day after tomorrow, we will TODAY do our duty to the ng workers of New Orleans and see that they are sup- plied with as many copies of our paper as we can get into the city, so that they may be equipped with arguments and slo- | of the employers and the labor fakers, and so they will be better able to combat the police and the ; other organized gangs that are trying by force to crush the New Orleans is further proof of the correctness of the line of the Communist Party that the working class is be- call of the left wing Needle Trades |ceive the workers into giving up the struggle and returning ginning to take the offensive against the capitalist class. It i bs cars, while their demands are also confirms the position of the Party that the industrializa- feence of rank and file shop repre-| pouted and denied by the agent of the government who al- tion of the South is not to be viewed as evidence only of the employers use to hold the workers in subjection. Day before yesterday it was Elizabethton, Tennessee, volt of the masses of the South.! a situation, the workers of New Orleans need the advice and Yesterday the conflict in Gastonia, North Carolina, burst forth, view grudgingly gave consent. ‘the guidance of the Communist Party and the Communist) press so that they may avoid the pitfalls that are set for them. | ot | Certainly tomorrow will bring forth still greater strug- \and play its revolutionary role in the best Leninist sense of the gles, indicating the rising tide of revolt on the part of the/damn furriners ain't got word, as “not only the collective agitator but the collective passes. What is true of the South is also true of the North.| sneaking in here taking picture | Tempestuous forces will be let loose as the masses rise in ever the National Textile Workers Union, larger numbers against capitalist rationalization; the struggle In spite of our difficult financial condition; in spite of will assume ever more bitter forms and more and more come the fact that we do not know tomorrow whether we will be into open conflict with the state power. IN SUCH A SITUATION EVERY REVOLUTIONIST KNOWS THE INDISPENSIBLE ROLE THAT IS PLAYED BY A REVOLUTIONARY DAILY PAPER. But it is in precisely this situation that we are forced to appeal to our readers to come to the rescue of the DAILY WORKER. Unless the response to our appeals for funds meet with better response than thus far we will not be able to survive. WIT “THE DAILY” SURVIVE? Send in Your Answer! The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker 1 am sending you the enclosed amount, $ Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without RLEANS STRIKERS UNION GROWING:| Evidence of GASTONIA STRIKE Mill Town Police Would Prevent Taking Victims Photos | Evicting More Families WIR Providing Tents; More Will be Needed (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, N. C., July 8.—| Mass meetings of strikers, and| active organization work for the National Textile Workers| Union and the International Labor Defense and Workers In-| ternational Relief featured the) week-end in Gastonia did the facing a) | frame-up trial on death ty ch keep up their s ton count} workers are rapidly viving and reorganizing the work they started before they were arrested. Try To Stop Taking Pictures. The city authorities of Gastonia tried yesterday to prevent the pho- tographing of the textile striker de- fendants in the county jail when! Liston Oak of the International Labor Defense came with photog- \raphers from Charlotte. Officer Rankin took Oak and the photog- raphers into custody and haled them to the city hall. The city manager could find no legitimate objection to the photo- graphing, and after a lengthy inter- Hord Curses. After leaving the city hall, the ° photographers and Oak met Police- man Adam Hord who said, “You 0 right Es Hord expressed opinions re (Continued cn Page Two) GET DELEGATES FOR COMMUNIST NY CONVENTION | : lHold Pier Meetings day; only the quick re | Today week from every industry in Gr New York, the success of the City Nominating Convention of the Ne lYork District of the Communis' ater Funds are needed TODAY to enable us te continue even our four pages and more money |Party_is assured. Commencing at rec must be forthcoming every day until we get bak to six pages! Collect funds everywhere possible and rush to the office of THE DAILY WORKER, 26. Union Square, New York City. Save THE DAILY WORKER as the fighting organ and consolidating force of: the, | class struggles that are developing throughout the whole country. QUOTA A THIRD SHORT Only $600 Received Over Week-End The week-end brought in $600.25, or only two-thirds of the sum we should have had on hand before going to press today. As it is the Daily is getting through with difficulty, and is no nearer safe ground today than it was at the beginning of the emergency campaign. Workers, go out after those contributions from your shop-mates, and rush them in today. Only when we make the quota of $1,000 a day we can begin to breathe a little easier, |10 this Sunday morning, the conven- tion will be held at Irving Plaza |Hall, Irving place and 15th street. The great gathering will throb with the same spirit of militant | working class solidarity which has marked the bitterly-fought strikes of food, shoe and needle trades work- ers throughout New York. These workers, who in their fight against long hours, low wages and nerve- wracking speed-up have found that the Communist Party is the only po- litical party which has consistently lfought for their interests against |the conscious sabotage of the re- |publican, democratic and ecialist | parties, will be among those who are| ‘expected to follow the leadership of the Communist Party on the politi- cal field. Unions Represented. Trade union lc who have been active in the increasing wave of local strikes and who will voice the support of their organizations to the | political program of the Party will pues) Michael Obermeier, organ-) izer of the Hotel, Restaurant and! (Continued on Page Three) i} perialism and meet \ish-American and opp | organizations to celebrate the anti- | party. Sandino Sends Message to Anti-Imperialists Entertainment Tonight All anti-imperialists of New York will meet today in the Mandarin Res- taurant, 30 Bowery, New York City near Canal Street and the Manhat- tan Bridge at 8:00 p. m. The departure of the U. S. dele- gation to Europe to attend th Second World Congress Against I Sandino there r all Span- ssed colonial will be an opportunity f imperialist struggle of the liberation movement of the Latin-American countries against Wall Street im- perialism. A special message of Augusto Sandino will be read to the dinner Michael Gold, Scott Nearing, ck Ballam, Robert W. Dunn, Louis barti, Albert Moreau and the Mexican anti-imperialist delegation will speak. The Chinese Alliance and other Far-Eastern organizations are pro- viding for original Chinese mu: and singing choruses. Latin-Ameri- can banjo presentations and Negro orchestras will be further features of the entertainment. The few tic- kets still available can be secured at 9 Broadway, Room 221 or ional Office of the Wo ternational Relief, 1 Uni | Room 604. POLICE TERROR AGAINST NEGRO TOILERS IN BKK Smash Up Home, Shoot at Worker paign of pol tion against Brownsville ice brutality and extor- Negro workers in the section of Brooklyn were rday made to the Daily Worker by Negro workers who live in this section. Of the many cases of recent bru- tality ‘ainst the Negro workers in Brownsville by the Tammany po- lice, the worst case is revealed in the story told by Mrs. Louis Noel, e of a Negro worker, of 365 Os- borne St., Brownsville. On Tuesday, July 2, Mrs. Noel re- vealed, two detectives, who showed their badges, broke into her home at 7:20 a. m. by smashing in the door and immediately instituted a search of her home, the object of ich they refused to reveal. When Mrs. Noel objected to this high- (Continued on Page Two) Restaurant Gives Part of Profits to Save the Daily ss-conscious workers who unable to aid the Daily Wo: campaign fund more di- ing it a point to eat s at the Rational an Restaurant, 199 Second Av petween 12th and 13th Sts. The management of this 1 rant, noted for its continental at- mosphere as well as. its. larder, ha pledged itself to give a percentage of the gross income received thi week to the Daily. Workers who take this method of | furthering the drive to save their | Daily, with both pleasure and profit to themselves, should not fail to ask for the Spegigle Daily Worker couro! vhen paying their checks. These are to be turned in at the busii office of the Daily, 26-28 Union Sq., so that an accurate ac- count of the vegetarian tecruits brought in by us can be kept. COTTON ACREAGE INCREASES. WASHINGTON, July 8. — The acreage of cotton in cultivation on July 1, 1929 was 103.2' per cent., compared with last year or a total of 48,457,000 acres, the Agriculture Department announced today. bor |building trades council /the shoe bos SOUTHERN LABOR VOTES ON STRIKE TO AID GARMEN Faker Asks Federal Mediation, Prepares ‘to Sell Out Strike S U. S. Court Injunction N. Y. Banks Sue as Holders of Co. Bonds NEW ORLEANS, A “fight to the fin! f 2,009 street railw La,, Julysts in the strike employes of ew Orleans Pu vice Com- any was f t in statements is- 1ed here today by company and union officials. But the plo tant strike b: union offi e b Ss and the United rtment of la- g on. and went into conference with W. W. Tuttle, commissioner of immi- gration. Another labor department representative, Harry B. Lines, was en route from South Bend, Ind. Union and bosses’ officials agreed to meet the government representa- tives. se Solidarity and Treason. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 8— Solidarity and treason to the strik- ing carmen both developed among the other labor organizations in New Orleans yesterday. The solidarity came from several unions which met jand denounced the Public Service Co. for importing strikebreakers, The members of the building trades unions forced their delegates to the to hold a meeting and vote on the motion of a sympathetic strike. After a five hour secret meeting, the council re- fused to annuonce the result, The open treachery came from Dave Marcussy, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council when he wired through W. W. Tuttle, Commissioner of Immigra- tion a request to the Federal depart- ment to “mediate” and thus laid the basis for another such betrayal of labor by its reactionary officials and (Continued on Page Three) SHOE WORKERS WIN BIG. STRIKE Gain Brooklyn Victory in 7-Week Struggle The wor! of the Radelyffe Shoe Company 5 Park Ave., Brooklyn, a seven weeks of militant strike, yesterday succeeded in breaking down the ,esistance of : and gaining a sig- for the Independent Shoe » vietor s i When the 65 workers employed in tactory wore locked out by the ven weeks ago a permanent injunction was secured against them. In spite of this, however, the workers continued their picketing activities, facing the combined at- tacks of police and hired scabs and gangsters of the company. Arrests were frequent, but the strikers con- tinued picketing until their victory was assured yesterday. The company now agrees to union yecognition, the 44-hour week and a substantial wage increase. Under the settlement a stipulation has been made that a definite wage scale will be made by the union after March 1, 1930. In five other strikes now in prog- | vess the Independent Shoe Workers Union is confident that the mili+ tancy of the workers will"force set- | Ulements ‘in a’ short while. LENIN’S THESIS AGAINST WAR IN 19 (The following draft theses represents the original draft of the historical theses of the Russian Bolsheviki on the world war, the so-called “October Theses” of 1914. The draft was drawn up by Comrade Lenin in August, 1914, under the tile, “Theses on the Present War.” It should be an inspiration and an urge to the whole working class for a tremendous mass response for the demonstra- tions planned under the leadership of the Communist International for International Anti-War Day, August First, the 15th Anniver- sary of the opening of the World War.) Bee By N. LENIN 1. The European and world war bears the clearly defined char- acter of a bourgeois-imperialist-d war. The struggle for mar- kets and for the plundering of csantzics, tho cadeavor to stupify the proletariat of all countries, to disracmber and to shatter the proletariat, | to incite the wage slaves of one nation for the advantage of the bour- | geoisie against the wage slaves of the other nation—that is the only real content and the only real meaning of the war. 2. The attitude of the leaders of the German social-democratic party of the Second International (1889-1914), who have voted for the war credits, and who are repeating the bourgeois-chauvinist phrases of | the Prussian junkers and of the bourgeoisie, constitutes a direct be- trayal of Socialism. Under no circumstances, even if one admits the absolute weakness of the party and the necessity of submitting to the will of the bourgeois majority of the nation can the behavior of the leaders of the German social-democratic party be excused. As a matter of fact this party is at present conducting a national-liberal policy. 3. democratic parties who have betrayed Socialism by entering the bour- | geois governments, deserve the same condemnation, The behavior of the leaders of the Belgian and French social- 14 URGE FOR INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR 4. The betrayal of Socialism by the majority of the leaders of the Second International means a partial ideological collapse of this International. The chief reason for.this collapse lies in the fact that in this International petty-bourgeois opportunism predominates, the bourgeois character and dangerousness of which has been pointed out hy the best representatives of all countries. The opportunists long ago prepared the collapse of the Second International: they repudiated the socialist revolution and replaced it by reformism; they denied the class struggle and its necessary transformation at certain times into civil war, and preached collaboration of the classes; they preached bourgeois | | chauvinism in the form of patriotism and defense of the native country, and ignored or denied the A. B, C. truth of Socialism already laid down in the Communist Manifesto, that the workers have no country. In the | fight against militarism they confined themselves to a sentimental | petty bourgeois standpoint, instead of recognizing the necessity of the v revolutionary fight of the proletarians of all countries. ‘They converte the necessity taking advantage of bourgeois parliamentarism and bout geois legality into making a fetish of legality, and forgot the obliga- tion in times of crises to employ the illegal forms of organization and agitation. An organ of international opportunism, the Socialist Monthly Review which has long since adopted a national-liberal standpoint, 1ightly celebrates the victory of opportunism over European Socialism. The so-called Centre of the German social-democracy and other sociale demecratic parties cowardly capitulate in practice to the opportunists, ‘The future International will have the task of energetically freeing it- self, ence and for all, from the bourgeois tendency of Socialism. 5. Among these bourgeois and chauvinist sophisms with which the bourgeois parties and governments of’ the two competing chief nations of the Continent—Germany and France—specially dope the masses, and (Continued on Page Two)