The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized | ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Daily Entered as second-clans m ter at the Post Office at New York. N.Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION SOVIET WO SLOAKMAKERS AT MASS MEET ee Ee Pr ae 7 ex 7 7 ME Th as ae B " iii New York, hy mall, $8.00 per year. 2 = aaa ay 75 ae tae ol. VI., No. 112 Gianiub tae: eae Ue bec Rae EO NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY,, JULY 17, 1929 _SPBSCRGutsiae New York. 87 mally 80.00" per Fen __Price 3 Cents RKERS IN HUGE DEFENSE DEMONSTRATIONS: SPONTANEOUSLY OFFER OVERTIME, WAGES, SERVICE ‘MANY THOUSANDS IN BERLIN ATTACK THE CONSULATE OF ‘All Revolutionary Forces MILITANT UNION Serebriakov REPUDIATE FAKE AGREEMENT; Must Be Mobilized for ORGANIZER HITS 29! //a7ty ‘0 ARE DETERMINED TO STRUGGLE Defense of Working Class JJ. T, W Call for Organized Fight Against Betrayers Under Industrial Union Leadership Resolution Denounces Anti-USSR War Plots, Pledges Solidarity with Soviet Workers Gathering in St. Nicholas Rink (Lincoln Arena), 59 W- 66th St., thousands of cloakmakers last night expressed their determination to repudiate the fake agreement imposed on them by the scab International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ “Union” and to fight on under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union until they have wrested union conditions from the bosses. Called by the Rank and File Action Committee of 25, the meeting showed that despite the band playing, speeches and hallelujahs -of the companys jcakmakers not to contribute a union agents, thousands of {single penny in dues or taxes to the jeloakmakers realize that the! company union. hole farce of the fake stop-| “We call upon the workers to or- Ipage, the conference with Tam-|ganize shop committees, to rally », around the Needle Trades Workers’ ence eee neevels Industrial Union, and with united ranks carry on a struggle against hearsed in advance, and repudiate with disgust and contempt these shameless antics that capped the climax to one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the American labor movement. Adopt Declaration of Struggle. A unanimous aye answered the reading of a declaration which calls upon .the- cloakmakers to “unite their ranks in the struggle against their arch enemies—the company union and the bosses—and to con- tinue the struggle for week work, the sweat-shop, piece w long hours, against the company union, and for union conditions and a pow- jerful union of the rank and file. | Speaker after speaker exposed thé swindle of the “socialist” agents of ne employers and emphasized the | necessity of struggle despite the | great difficulties in the way. What ‘the "great miasses of the cloakmak-/ ers think about the fake settlement | (though many are so terrorized that they dare not speak) was lacon- | ically expressed by a rank and filer the 40-hour five-day week and other union conditions under the leader- ship of the Needle Trades, Worke! Industrial Union.” The declaration continues: “We call upon the workers of our \trade to organize their ranks and resist with all their might all at- tempts of the company union to ex- tort money from them for strike- breaking activities. We call upon) New York Workers Rallv to Block Imperialist War Plot Communist Party New York District Statement Is Ringing Call to Down Tools August 1 | from “Sure- the company union gave us mething; they gave us a jead on eur shou s which we'll have a hell of a time carrying!” Boss Press Jubilant. “All the capitalist paper: overjoyed that the cloakmak ‘paralyzed’ the industry,’ i Continued on Page Three) | The workers of America are rousing to the task of defend- ing the first Workers’ Republic against-a carefully worked out imperialist plot to start a world war against the Soviet Union, by first provoking it under an advance attack by Chinese and White Guard Russian mercenary troops in. Manchuria. “Defend the Soviet Union, fatherland of the world’s work- ing class! Organize anti-imperialist war committees in your shops! Join the world workers’ demonstrations against im- the audience when he said: | A Plain Talk to Communists Not since the eve of the last world war that broke forth fifteen years ago has the situation facing the working class before great, decisive’ world-shaking events. A hundred thousand armed mercenaries are mobilized in Manchuria on the borders of the Soviet Union preparatory to launching a fierce drive against the Socialist Fatherland. Fascist Poland is armed to the teeth, Finland continues its persecution of | the working class and arms against the Soviet Union, the British are throwing ever greater forces into India. The war clouds grow ever darker. Here in America we face terrific struggles. Less than two weeks remain before the opening day of the Gastonia trials that involve the question of life or death for 15 strikers and organizers of the National Textile Workers Union. The ruling class of this country will try to repeat on a larger scale the monstrous cruelty that preceded and accompanied the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Already’ the precedent is established that the ruling’class will torture and murder those defiant workers they cannot bribe or intimidate. Mur- dering union leaders and strikers and smashing labor unions is a part of the war preparations of American imperialism. The Cleveland conference of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, that will create a unifying center for the new | militant unions and the left forces of the old unions is a few weeks ahead of-us. -Every effort must be made to assure | its unqualified success. The organization of the unorgan- ized workers in the basic industries of the country—the war industries—will meet: with increasing resistance and terror on the part of the capitalist class. All these things we must face. The iron ring that en- closes the Soviet’ Union must be broken by the determined action of the working class of the world. The Gastonia pris- oners must not only be saved from the electric chair, but must he liberated to again take their places in the ranks of the labor movement. The organization of the unorganized must proceed a thousand fold. In all these drives the one indispensable force is the Communist Party. Our best weapon for agitation and or- ganization is the Daily Worker. Yet, at this most critical time the Daily constantly faces the danger of suspension be- cause of lack of funds and the Party is prevented from util- izing to the full the opportunities for initiating and leading new mass struggles of the working class. This great handi- cap must be overcome at once. EVERY PARTY MEMBER WHO DESERVES THE NAME WILL, IN THIS CRITICAL WORLD SITUATION NOT EVADE HIS OR HER PLAIN DUTY TO PAY AT ONCE THE ONE DAY WAGE AS- SESSMENT. Revolutionists are judged precisely by the | degree of loyalty they show to their-Party in just such sit- uations as this, EVERY MEMBER WILL BE JUDGED BY THIS STANDARD. - ; There is no room in a revolutionary Party for those who shirk at such a time. ‘i If you cannot’ meet this test, what can be expected of you when you are called upon to face the fury of a war-mad . FAKERY Oehler, in "Gastonia Tells of Increasing NTW Membership ’ , of every country been so’sharp. The working class stands Prepare for Conference mee lei »p ‘Strong Union Best Aid to Frameup Victims’ By LISTON OAK. 4 STONIA, N. C.; July 16.—The al here of Hugo Oehler, organ- izer for the National Textile Wo: ers Union, and additional forces from the national office of the union has given new impetus to the work of building the N..T. W. I inter. wed Oehler, after he had visited for a ronference on the urfion He said: are bright for )uild- ing a powerful industrial union. The workers are much discontented | and realize the necessity of organ- ization. They know the treacherous 1 racter of the United Textile Workers, having had bitter experi- e with them in 1921, when the U. T. W. betrayed them. | Best Defense Is Unior. “The best defense for the 15 class war prisoners is a strong uniort.” | “In the first place the U. T. W. jhas a record which pleces it in the ¢ |eategory of ‘company unions,’” de- | jclared Oehler. At Passaic, at New| |Bedford, at Elizabethton and at |various other places where this A. | |F. of L. union has had the oppor- tunity, 1t has betrayed the work ers, collaborating with the mill own- jers to send the workers back to the |same or worse conditions with no (Continued on Page Three) DEFEAT FRAMING OF LIFSHITZ BY TAMMANY HALL : Hiding Sun’ is Charge; Negro Worker Freed Efforts to make Ben Lifshitz, sec- jretary of the’ New York District of | the »Trade Union Educational | League, serve another term in jail | failed yesterday when Magistrate Louis Brodsky was forced to dis- miss the case against him. | Lifshitz was arrested May 18 | when parading police, infuriated by Reinstate Him Leonid Sere bri ‘ Soviet envoy who is now on his way ov» the special to China to negotiate an amicable settlement, if possvie, of the crit ical uation ising frota the provocative seizure by the Manchu rian n ts of the Chinese East- ern Railway, is another of the for-| lers of the expelled Trotsky position who has recognized his errors and repudiated Trotskyism. | “In a statement printed in Pravda, | June 28 of the present year, Sere- | briakov declares: | ‘I abandoned the Opposition early | in 1928 and have no connecticn with it, A number of circumstances, however, prevented me from mak- -|ing a formal request for reinstate- ment in the Party. During my} (Continued on Page Three} GOVT. LEADS TO BREAK ORLEANS PUPPETS OF IMPERIALISTS World-Wide Protest of Labor Against War Plot On August First, International Red Day Troop Movement Continue in Manchuria Tho Report is Nanking Sends Conciliatory’ Note (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 16.—The situation created by the attack of the Chang Hsueh-liang government on the Soviet Union administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the de- pertation of over 200 Soviet workers and officials and the men- acing concentration of troops for invasion of Siberia, remains unchanged today, except that there is constant news of more of Chang’s mercenaries being rushed to the border. Meanwhile, giving the lie to all those counter-revolution- ary and imperialist critics in other countries, who claim that a section of the Soviet Union peasantry and workers would “carry the imperial flag in procession if a white guard army . WORKERS DEMONSTRATE IN BERLIN. (Wireless By Inprecorr.) . * |of loyalty to the workers’ government continue in all large and Union Officials Cringe | fore the.Chinese*embassy. The workers and students of the NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—Heav- | terests and declare that the workers and peasants are pre- fort to restart the car service yes-| |ever enters the country, the most tremendous demonstrations CARMEN STRIKE small cities of the U.S. S. R. a Tremendous demonstrations in Moscow have been held be- Chinese colony in Moscow hedded the procession. The work- Before Bosses ers unanimously demand energetic action to protect Soviet in- ily guarded by armed deputies and| pared to take up arms immediately to defend the Soviet Union. police who helped them in an ef-| terday, for the first time ‘in two weeks, scabs today continued run- | ning the cars while large numbers of the 2.000 strikers lined the streets. The company was able to run nor- mal car service on only two trunk lines, running an occasional car over other routes. Still Crippled by Strike. “No efforts will be made to oper- ate cars at night till the situation is a little more settled,” company | officials said, mindful of the at- tacks made on the scab cars when they had tried to run them earlier ne time, U. S. Marshal 1 emphasized the ex- tent to which the government en- tered the strike and the measures} they are prepared to adopt when he boasted in c ent on i attacks th ere then up police and rikebreakers only, but now “they have the entire force of the federal | government against any efforts at violence.” Taking advantage of the humble attitude adopted by the union offi- cials, the company still refuses to confer. May Militarize Strike Area. BERLIN, July 16.—An enormous demonstration of work- ers protesting against the war plot on the Soviet Union took place yesterday. The crowd indignantly smashed the windows of the Chinese consulate, to give emphasis to their demand on the agent of Chiang Kai-shek shivering within, ay should notify his government the workers of Germany af opposed to the actions of the imperialist tools, Chiang and Chang now trying to provoke a war against the U.S. S. R. + 8 . CHINESE RED ARMY ADVANCES, AMOY, China, July 16.—Troops of the Chinese Red Army advanced again last week and occupied the territory fifty miles southwest of Amoy. Their headquarters are now in the main buildings of the Talmage U. S. Christian mission, which they have taken. The Communist movement is spreading through southern Fukien province, and with the undoubted dislike of the Chinese workers for their war lords involving them in a conflict with the Soviet Unjon, is expected to make the militarists think twice before raiding into Siberia. The American consul at Amoy addressed a note on Tal- mage mission to the Pukien minister of foreign affairs, but said the reply was “not encouraging.” * NANKING FEARS COMMUNISM. NANKING, China, July 16.—The foreign office of the a_sign on the Workers Center:| Possibility of martial law was ex-| Chiang Kai-shek government announced today that at mid- “Down With Walker's Police Bru-| Pressed by spokesmen of the graft-| night tonight it was cabling to the Chinese Charge d’ Affairs tality,” raided the Center and at-|ing Governor Huey P. Long in the} 4 y,). at Chae Hee ‘i ‘ ‘a Itacked a dinbunttation. of workers (event of) “doting and’ pillaging.” | 8% Moscow that a Chinese envoy would leave Nanking for Mos: imperialist government? Surely you can give a few dollars at once when thou- sands of (the very flower of the Russian revolution, the Red perialist war on International Red Day, August 1” these are thé slogans of meetings taking place in several cities, with more to come. There will be seven great mass meetings Friday night in New York City, at which workers will take action in defense of the Soviet Union. ‘As announced by District 2 of the | Communist Party, these meetings ‘ will be held at 8 p. m., at: 10th St. and Second Ave.; 110th Street and Fifth Ave.; Intervale and Wilkins Ave., Bronx; Grand Street Exten- sion, Brooklyn Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn; 18th Ave. and 43rd St., Brooklyn; Steinway and Jamai- ca, Astoria, Long Island. Many Speakers. Well known working class speak- ers, including the nominees of the Communist Party selected at the City Nominating Convention Sunday, will address the demonstrators Fri- day night. Among those scheduled to speak are William W. Weinstone, H. M. Wicks, Otto Hall, J. Louis Engdahl, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Fred Biedenkapp, George Powers, William Z. Foster, Charles Zimmerman, Max Bedacht, Ben Lifshitz, George Persh- ing, Richard B. Moore, Rebecca Grecht, Sam Darcy, Ben Gold, Jack Stachel, M. J. Olgin, Harold Williams and Abraham Markoff. | An anti-war mass meeting of the Russian fractions of the Communist Party will be held at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East Fourth St., at 7 p. m., | Friday. | District 2 (New York) of the |Communist Party has issued the |following instructions to the Party | membership: | Statement of the Communist Party of U.S.A. New York District | Committee. | Stand by the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union against all Continued on Page Three) | | | | Army forces guarding the border, the shock troops of the revolution may at this very moment be giving their lives! Do not delay another hour! Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Unién Square, New York. Pay your assessment at once to your proper Party func- tionary! VOLUNTEER WORKERS ARE | WANTED BY THE I. L. D. The National Office of the In- ternational Labor Defense is pre- paring its new drive for the de- fense of the Gastonia strikers who go to trial on July 29. Gom- | | rades are wanted to help. The of- | | fice is open from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. every day, including Sun- days. Comrades should apply to Room 402, 80 E. 11th St. Meet to Discuss Shop Papers Tonight At: Workers Center All comrades connected with the issuance of shop papers will meet tonight at the Workers School at 7:30 p.m. in order to co-ordinate the work for the various campaigns of the Party. <A discussion will also take place criticizing the contents and make-up of the various shop papers and plans for improvements. Joutside. He was. sentenced to 30/ duct and served his sentence. An- lother eharge was brought against {him of violating a city ordinance | | forbidding the blocking of windows with signs. At the hearing yester- day on this charge, Lifshitz was de- | fended by Jacaues Buitenkant, rep- resenting the New York District of | the International Labor Defense. | The New York I. L. D. also se-| cured the dismissal yesterday of the case against another worker. I. Dun- | jee, a Negro worker, was ‘arrested July 11 for talking to a seab in front of the B. Wood Shoe Company, Til- lory and Prince Sts., Brooklyn, | where the Independent Shoe Work- | ers Union was conducting® a strike. The charge of, disorderly conduct was dismissed when he received a hearing yesterday. Buitenkant was the defending attorney. Long, recently impeached (Continued on Page Three) See Page Two For Letters From the 15 Gastonia Prisoners Page Two of this issue of the Daily Worket is devoted entirely to the 15 Gastonia strikers who the textile mill barons and their lackeys in the courts. Letters | from the-imprisoned workers and from workers thruout the country are printed, demanding the re- lease of the framed up workers. Workers, continue to send in letters expressing your support of the Gastonia strikers and the 15 prisoners. & on 19|cow to discuss the Manchurian situation. days on a charge of disorderly con- | counts, which included charges of | that the Chiang government is friendly to the people of the face electrocution at the hands of | The cable claims Z | Soviet Union, but at the same time repeats the stock argument ;|of militarist rulers*who need an excuse for an infringement || upon the rights of the U. S. S. Rs, it says: “Soviet Russian | agents in Chinese territory have been spreading Communist propaganda, endangering the Chinese government and its so- |cial system.” | This argument, coming in the midst of news of advancing Red Armies in south China, led by the rapidly growing and | efficient Chinese Communist Party, causes a smile on all faces. | The Chinese workers are turning Communist, it is not neces- | sary to import agitators. ‘ * * NANKING BECOMES CONCILIATORY. The United Press in a Moscow dispatch declared that, “The Chinese Nanking government tonight (July 16) sent a preliminary and conciliatory reply to the Soviet dgclaration de- manding a conference for settlement of the controversy arising (Continued on Page Three) Workers! Your Fatherland, the Socialist Fatherland of All Workers, Is in Danger! | Mass Demonstrations Against the Imperialist War Plot Directed Against ) the Union of Soviet Republics Have Already Been Arranged in New York | City, Pittsburgh, Chicago and on to the Pacific Coast for This Week. Join 1 These Demonstrations Preparing the Way for the Mighty Internationa] e Red Day Against Imperialist War! Down With the Imperialist War! Militant workers, revolutionists, must now do|here! their duty! The momeni for real preparedness to fight against the imperialist war danger is Forward to August First! I Into the shops and trade unions! Organ-|the word and raise the banner of struggle! Let ize anti-war committees in the shops! Arouse|the demonstrations this week be the forerun- your fellow workers in the trade unions! Spread|ners of great strikes and demonstrations on International Red Day Against Imperialist War, August First! Tell your shopmates and friends to mobilize for the demonstrations! 4 he