The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1929, Page 1

i! COMMUNIST PARTY ELECTION CONFERENCE TOMORROW TO NOMINATE MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as secund-clays matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Yo orker under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VL, No. 109 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Comsanz: Inc., 26-28 Union _Savare, New York City, N. ¥. N=W YORK, SATURDAY, ‘JULY 13, 1929 "SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per Outside New York, by 00 year. Price 3 Cents NEWS BLOCKADE AGAINST SOVIET UNION IN MANCHUR Communist Convention Calls Workers to Defend USSR Against War Plot MOScow ceTTING DELEGATES SEE The Daily Worker Must NEI NEW PROOFS OF HUGE ANTI-WAR IMPERIAL PLAN TO USE CHINA Rally Workers for Big Struggles, Political and Industrial Fight Rationalization Score Socialist Needle Strike Betrayal “Fight the anti-Soviet War cam- paign in China, defeat the sell-outs | and betrayals of the socialist bu-| reaucracy in the needle trades, | struggle against the strike-breaking Tammany machine and their repub- lican and socialist allies—these will be outstanding slogans of the New York Communist election convention which begins tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th street and Irving place,” says the statement issued yesterday by Dis- | trict 2 of the Communist Party. “Events in Manchuria, where hun- dreds of Soviet, officials have been jailed, and attempts made to destroy Soviet Union control in the Far Eastern Railway in a plot plainly instigated by the imperialist powers, prove the threat of new imperialist wars which menace the working class. In this year’s election cam- paign, the workers of New York) will be called upon to organize for) resistance against the growing war | danger and for defense of the Soviet Union, under the, ueererothn of the Communist Party. Fight Rationalization. “At the same time, the program to be adopted at Sunday’s confer-} ence will be a battle-cry to mobilize the workers to fight the rationaliza. tion schemes of the capitalist class, | which has manifested itself in New York in intensive speeding up in every industry, jn wage-cuts, in union-smashing drives, in brutal ter- rorism against striking workers. | “Resolutions will be introduced urging the cloakmakers to reject the sell-out of the scab International La- dies’ Garment Workers Union and strike for better conditions under we leadership of the needle work- ers industrial union. This fs contrast to the treachery the Socialist Party, which in New York and Brooklyn conferences has pledged its support to the company union in its betrayals. Thus, the Socialist Party stands again exposed | as an agent’ of the bosses, and the militant» needle workers, who have found in the Communist Party a staunch defender of their interests, will rally their forces for active par- ticipation in the Communist elec- tion drive. “The election conference Sunday will inaugurate a campaign that will reach every working class district, every factory and militant workers’ | organization, under the slogan of | class against class. Candidates will | «be chosen for city and local offices. Every sympathetic workers’ organi- zation may send fraternal dele- gates.” Reid Tells of New Drive on ~- Mills in South “The National Textile Workers | Union is sending a battery of sea- | soned organizers into the Southern | textile field,” said its national presi- | dent, James P. Reid, yesterday. | Reid told of the departure for the Carolina region of Vice-President | William T. Murdoch, Benn Wells | and Hugo Oehler. “It is the intention of the national | office of the N. T. W. U. to put on an intensive drive to consolidate the locals it has now in more than 80 mills there,” said Reid, and con- tinued: e | “A Southern conference of Bae gates from all these mi uled fos 7 Tan crue Wie WO Lae. workers in the many mill | towns | throughout North and South Caro- lina discloses the fact that they (Continued on Page Two) ATTEND BIG 4 and Can Be Saved! By ISRAEL AMTER Organizer, Cleveland District, Communist Party Vie COMRADES think that the crisis in the Daily Worker is an accidental matter. This is not true. The crisis in the Daily Worker is the result of the political and economic situation, The capitalist class, intent on exploiting the workers in order to beat international competition, is rationalizing in- dustry to the extent that the workers are facing harder and harder conditions. This international competition—which is being accentuated on all hands, by all the imperialist powers —is driving the world closer to international war. The rising power of the Soviet Union, the existence of a new form of state, in which the workers have control, is a menace to the entire capitalist system. The continual strength- ening of Soviet economy as against the lowering of the con- ditions of the workers in the capitalist countries, is endanger- ing capitalist stabilization—this in addition to the internal and external factors in the economy of each industrial coun- try. Rationalization leading to international struggle—the approaching struggle tightening up on the relations between the capitalist and the working class in each imperialist coun- try. In order to meet the coming war, the capitalist class is determined to destroy every militant working class organiza- tion. Why the drive on the foreign-born workers? Why the institution of the registration system? Why the intensifica- tion of the spy system in the factories? Why the blacklist system in a broader form than ever before? Why the attacks on the militant workers who are fighting for organization? The reason is clear: rationalization and the danger of war—the danger of war and the concomitant rationalization. Although the workers are aware of the rationalization process—speed-up, cutting of wages, lengthening of hours, substitution of women and young workers for adult male workers; although the workers know what the scourge of unemployment is (about which even the government is show- ing some concern), nevertheless they do not see the connec- tion between this and war. Perhaps the statement of Mr. Urquart, the British bank- er, who had investments in Russia during the time of the ezars, will convince the workers, viz., that the contemplated visit of Ramsay MacDonald to this country (now postponed) would be an occasion for a “unity of effort to restore the Russian market.” In other words, unity of the imperialist world against the Soviet Union! In these preparations for war, the capitalist class of this country makes its first attack on the most militant section— and that is the revolutionary Communist Party of the U. S. A. In the struggles in the south, in the west, in New York, the Party is playing a prominent part, and the Daily Worker is to the forefront. Therefore the capitalist class is doing everything possible to destroy the Daily Worker. BUT THE DAILY WORKER CAN AND MUST BE SAVED. It must be saved for- the Party—and for the work- ing class of this country. It can be saved, for the struggling workers who realize the importance of the Daily Worker in their struggles, will not allow it to go under. The members of the Communist Party and Communist Youth League who recognize that the Daily Worker is the most potent weapon in the hands of the revolutionary work- ing class, and its leader, the Communist Party, will fight to keep the Daily Worker. Our answer to the capitalist class and all its agents, whether former members of our Party, who lend themselves fb the schemes of the capitalists, or th¢ir open agents who will do everything to put an end to our Party and its organs— is that the $50,000 FUND WILL BE RAISED AND THE DAILY WORKER WILL BE'SAVED! The Daily Worker will continue to appear. It will be strengthened. The work of the Party will go on with re- newed energy. The drives of the Party against the war danger, for organization of the unorganized, the Trade Union Educational League Convention, the organization of the Negro workers, of women and young workers, will be pushed, and the Daily Worker will be at the front, blazoning the way for the masses of the workers of this country. EVERY COMRADE ON THE JOB! A DAY’S PAY FROM EACH MEMBER! ALL SYMPATHIZERS MUST COME FORWARD IN THIS CRISIS! LET THERE BE ONE UNITED: ANSWER TO THE CAPITALIST CLASS AND THE CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT: YOU CANNOT DESTROY'THE COMMUNIST PARTY! YOU CANNOT DESTROY THE DAILY WORKER! OUR PARTY, OUR PRESS ARE DESTINED TO LEAD THE WORKERS IN THE REVOLUTION AGAINST YOU AND YOUR SYSTEM, FOR THE PROLETARIAN REV- OLUTION, FOR A SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN THE U. S.! (Use the Blank on Page Two) PLAN TO ATTACK GASTONIA TENTS [Find Canvass Slashed by Deputies During | Raid, June 7 | Union Fights Wage Cut | Leeksville Mill Buys| U. T. W. Labels (Special to the Daily Worker.) GASTONIA,.\N.. C.,. July 12.— Evidence accumulates of a seriously intended raid to destroy the new Gastonia tent colony a few days ago, and of the destructiveness of the raids which were made by Manville! | Jenckes thugs on the night of Ader- holt’s attack, June 7. Tents Show Bayonet Cuts. When the tents of the first tent colony were finally pried loose from) the Gastonia city authorities and) were unpacked some of them were found to have long slits cut in them. Strikers in the raided tent colony identified these as having been made by the bayonets of the Loray mill deputies with their bayonets when they raided the colony, June 7. A meeting of Gastonia strikers’ children here recently resulted in each child being made a member of the guard, to keep clean the spring from which the water comes. Planned Raid. The Workers International Relief | correspondent has been reliably in- formed by workers who were in al position to know that several days | ago the Manville-Jenckes “Commit-| tee of One Hundred” thugs and gun- men had decided to raid the new tent colony, but that those in charge of the prosecution told them that it should not be done now, as it would have a bad effect on the case of the prosecution. There is no tel- DEMONSTRATION FOR AUGUST 1ST General Strike Called; Great Union Sq. Rally Special Press Issues City-Wide Conference July 25 Plans for the varticipation, on a mass scale, of New York workers in the huge demonstrations against the impending imperialist attack on the Soviet Union, demonstrations which will be held throughout the world on International August 1, are going forward sac increasing momentum. The Anti-Imperialist War Day | Committee announces that many working class organizations have | already signalized their intention of | throwing their support to the city- | wide conference called by the Party for July 25, at which final prepara- tions for the local demonstration will be worked out. Women Rally. Women workers, under the jen. | ership of the United Council of Working Women, are making a dis- tribution of special leaflets expos- | ing the war-mongers and urging | every militant working class wom- en’s organization to send two dele- gates apiece to this conference. The Council itself will have five dele- gates representing it. A great number of class struggle trade unions have issued or are making ready to issue calls for their members to join the general strike scheduled for the afternoon of Au- gust 1. The exact time set for the walkout will be .made public later. The candidates who are. to be (Continued on Page Three) ling, however, when the authorities might change their minds and per- mit the raid to take place. Joe Gardner, who lost 12 pounds! while confined in Gastonia jail after the June 7 raid (he has tuberculosis as a result of working in cotton mills) has been elected secretary for the local of the National Textile Workers Union at the Gastonia tent colony. Caan ee. | | Report Wage Cuts. | CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 12—/ |A group of workers ‘from the Leeks- | ville Woolen Mills 2, at Homestead, | |near Charlotte, N. C., came in to the junion office to report progress yes-| \terday. They are the officials and/ organizers of the local branch of} the National Textile Workers Union, but must remain nameless at pres- ent as to give their names would result in their losing their jobs and | being evicted from their homes. “At one time,” said the secretary (Continued on Page Two) MILLION-DOLLAR SUIT | NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 12.— | Sylvester Z. Poli, retired theatrical | magnate, for $1,300,000 brokerage | i commissions in connection with sale | of the defendants chain of motion | picture and vaudeville houses to the | Fox Theatres Corporation. ORLEANS STRIKE RESTS ON POWER OF MEMBERSHIP ‘Judge Menaces Pickets *! Try Out Scabs Soon NEW ORLEANS, La., July 12.— |The street car strikers are confer- ring on their own, over the heads | * of their leaders, with the rank and| file of the building trades workers today as to how the treacherous of- ficialdom of both handel can be overcome. Yesterday the building trades | council, after calling under pressure | from the men a general strike meet- ing for the evening, arbitrarily pro- | hibited it. Arrange Sell-out. The reason for calling off the! Three Springfield, Mass., real estate general strike, which would have in| 4° pi brokers today brought ‘suit in the | volved 45,000 men, it is seen today, | zre made, United States District Court against |is to permit a committee appointed | | trade union by the mayor, to arrange for sell-| ing out the strike. The sticking point is over recogni- tion of the union. The company in- sist on the open shop. The Mahon (Continued on Page Two) TUEL Backs Children’s Trip to USSR; Urges Mass Support Red Day,) 1 Statement Denounces Boy Scout Meet; Says. T.U.E.L., Fights Against Child Labor The National Committee of the|tion to the Soviet Union, and calls| | Trade Union Educational Leagie upon all militant workers in the last night issued the following state- | country to give the delegation full ~“The National Committee of the | struggles of the workers is exempli- Trade Union Educational League |fied by the part that they are tak- heartily endorses the campaign be-| ing in the struggle of the textile ing conducted by the Young Pion-| workers in Gastonia, the participa-| eers of America for the sending of tion of the children in the miners’ the first workers children’s delega- (Continued on mink Three) | ment: | support, “To all workers of the United! The ever-increasing role played States: | by the working-class children in the| Seeub of New War Attack on Soviet Union 55 aa Se NN | The above map shows the route of the Chinese Eastern Railway, with Harbin, the central point, where hundreds of Soviet workers and officials have been arrested and removed from their positions in the last few days. The route of the Chinese Eastern, which can be seen plainly on the map, is the most strategic in the Far East, with its outlet on the Russian port of Vladivostok. U.N.LA. Factions to Clash at Convention in August |Garvey’s Vaccilating Policies Offer No Danger “ to Imperialism By HAROLD WILLIAMS. | such white On August 1, while the revolu- tionary workers and farmers of Eu- | rope, Africa, Asia and America will |assemble in gigantic protest-demun- people. The Negro should keep shy of Communism or the Communist Party in America. them bring about their own reforms and show us how different they are \strations against the danger of a t¢ others. new imperialist war, Marcus Gar- False Messiah. vey, the self-appointed president We are not surprised at such general of Africa and leader of | S!@Mderous attacks from Garvey, as eh we know it is due to the attack on “four hundred million” Negroes, as | his pseudo-policy by the American he claims the Universal Negro Im-|Communist Party, which exposed provement Association represents 1 and his retreat before throughout the world, will also as- semble on August 1 in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies. This will be the sixth interna- tional convention of the Universal raising the delusion of an emipire as the sal- of the Negro race. No vation egent of the white imperialist class , rsa! | could s a l Negro Improvement ‘ociation. ate re toop Baye ower in ae While Garvey claims it be one | 1° nee Commauniap patty of the greatest conventions ever |® Patty whose members belong to the lyne ats of America. Gar- vey tries to spread such false ideas with the expectations that the Ne gro masses would support his pol cies of giving up the fight equal rights in America under the held by the association, we can ven- ture to say that no tangible results ished by this asso- ing the struggle of rs and peasants in h the revolutionary white workers of Eu- and especially the | the Negro work: co-ordination w class-conscio rope, Ame Soviet Union. nist Party by going back to Africa. realizing its historical ion the champion of the oppressed Negro race, had to expose Garvey us the tovl of British and American imperialism. Attack. | We are too well aware of Gar- vey’s vaccilating policies to bekjeve |that he, the “Negro Moses,” will fight imperialism. We have only to | |quote how viciously he attacked the | |Communist Party and the Trade | a | Union Movement in his book en- titled “The Philosophy and Opinion jef Marcus Garvey.” | On page 70 we find these words: “T am of the opinion that the group | tes, from whom Com:aunists in America, as well as ‘ists and members of the | Communist Party, is more danger- ous to the Negro’s welfare than any cthet group at present. Lynching mobs and wild time parties are (ial erally made up of 99% per cent of Scurrilous Wants Black Capitalism. The policy of Garvey of going ck to Africa to establish a black empire was the militant section of the Negro | workers as an open betrayal of the | most elementary rights of the Negro | | (Continued on Page Two) Poverty; Friends Have i ; i The Depositors Money While the treacherous lead- Two of the Clarke brothers, whose ¢'S of the International Ladies | bank failed for $5,000,000 are in jail|Garment Workers Company ‘because they will not admit posses-! Union go through the final jsion of enough property to raise the nauseating motions of signing bail of $25,000 each, _|agrements with the cloak bosses, Hundreds of depositors, many of! agreements that were formulated them women, continue to file claims | behind the backs of the workers |to life savings, insurance money, | many weeks ago, the cloakmakers ete. They may get as much as five! are already preparing to give their cents on the dollar, perhaps less, | answer. And they are giving this |the auditors say. | answer through their own Rank and The Clarkes are chatged with usu- | File Committee of 25, elected at the ally substituting worthless stock as | shop representatives’ conference last | Security for the good money they | Tuesday. This rank and file com- | drew out of their bank. Much of! mittee yesterday issued a call for what they took is in the name of|a huge mass meeting in St. Nicho- the Lbeoiieiery says. 66th street, next Tuesday at 6 p. m., Since they are so benevolent let | for) leadership of the American Commu- | The Communist Party of Amer-} forcibly rejected by | jother persons, friends and relatives,|las Rink (Lincoln Arena), 69 West! NO INFORMATION FROM THE EAST Washington, London Knew Plans of the Na anking Gov't. Kept All Moves Secret New Terror Campaign On USSR Officials MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July Direet communication with Harbin, Manchuria, where hundreds of So- viet Railway officials were yester- 12.— day removed from their positions by inese officials acting under the instigation of European and Ameri- can imperialist workers, has ap- parently been cut off. The foreign office here has been exerting all efforts to obtain a de- tailed account of the occurrences at Harbin. After this is received, a course of action will be determined upon. According to announcement by Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, diplo- matic relations between China and the Soviet Union have been severed. The Harbin consular body is re- ported about to request mediation between the government of the So- |viet Union and the Manchurian mili- tarist government, over the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by the latter. Trade has stopped, and the Soviet manager and assistant manager and their families have left {for Siberia. The Chang government has forbidden all meetings. It is reported that L. B. Sarehriakov is the U. S. S. R. plenipotentiary on |the way to Harbin. Long Planned Attack. The terror campaign against the Soviet organization still continues. |According to a delayed report to Washington by American Minister MacMurray, 60 Communists have been arrested by July 10, before the wholesale arrests of yesterday and |today became known. Evidence of a long-planned attack on the Soviet Union was seen in the fact that the |news of the big conspiracy was sup- pressed in Washington, and by the British government, who were in command of the facts five days ago, Old Fake Charge. It is significant to note that be- cause of its tremendous possibilities, this region has often been referred to in the past few years, in London, Washington and other imperialist (Continued on Page Two) ' Agitprop Directors to Hold Important Meet Today, 2 p.m. The Department for Agitation and Propaganda for District 2, Com- munist Party, announces a very im- portant meeting of section agitprop directors together with the District Agitprop Committee for today at 2 yp. m. at the office of the Workers | School. The matters to be considered are j International Red Day; Election | Campaign; Workers School Organ- ization Matters; Summer Unit Agit- ‘prop Work. Call Huge Cloak Meet Tues. to Fight I. L.G.W. Treachery Clarke Bankers Plead ‘Rank File Body Leads Workers; Company Union Gives Up Right to Strike where the entire fraud of the fake settlements will be exposed and plans made for combatting the treachery of the company union agents. The call of the Committee of 25, which is signed by L. Levinthal, chairman, and N. Weinman, secre« tary, states: “The treacherous farce staged by the company union is completed. “It is now clear to everyone that the fake strike was called in order to extort money from you workers and to strengthen the bosses’ asso- ciations that are keeping the com- pany union alive, “The conditions under which the company union is ordering you back i (Continued on Page Three) EL: D. OUTING FOR GASTONIA DEFENSE IN PLEASANT BAY PARK ALL DAY TOMORROW