The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1929, Page 1

ee ee ieee ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized ~ Vol. VI., No. 118 my, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. 00 per year, year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LEAGUE | Unions, Fraternal Bodies in Irving FOOD, SHOE, NEE DLE WORKERS PASS RESOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT MEET; UNIONS ELECT DELEGATES Mass Meetings Wednesday Night on Larger Scale Than Vast Friday Demonstrations Special Edition of Daily Out on Eve of Con- ference; Torchlight Processions Three more militant trade unions have elected delegates to the Anti-War Conference called by the New York District of the Communist Party for tomorrow night at Irving Plaza to make final preparations for the general strike and the huge anti-war demonstration in Union Square August 1, Interna- tional Red Day, the Anti-Imperialist War Day Committee an- nounced today. These unions, which bring the number of working class | TO EVERY COMMUNIST: FOR THE DEFENSE OF UNION. FROM THE PARTY YOUR Less than 2,000 members given their day’s pay to the It means that the Party country the real meaning of Union. It means that the Party VIET UNION. THE WORKERS OF THE SOVIET UNION ARE PLEDGING THEIR WAGES ARE YOU GOING TO WITHHOLD Are you one of the 2,000? If not just think for a moment what your failure to give your day’s pay means. the millions of leaflets that it must issue to bring to the masses of the workers of this the Chinese hirelings of American, British and Japanese imperialism against the Soviet | quately organize the struggle against the | IMPERIALIST WAR AGAINST THE SO- | It means that the Party can not organize | the millions of American workers FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION. Follow the Lead of the Workers of the Soviet Union! Give Your Day’s Pay in Party-‘Daily’ Drive It means that the Party can not organize THE SOVIET the struggle for the defeat of American im- perialism in its war against the Soviet Union. It means that we can not realize the slogan, DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION, DAY’S PAY? have thus far Party. It means which in this masses WILL can not print PARTY. the attack by Send your your nucleus can not ade- America, 43 E, THE FATHERLAND OF THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD. that the DAILY WORKER, situation should increase its circulation and bring our message to the SUSPEND publication. IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE WEAKEN- ING THE FIGHTING CAPACITY OF THE THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER YOU MUST GIVE TO THIS. full DAY’S PAY at once thru to the Communist Party of . 125th St., New York City. See that the DAY’S PAY is not kept for a week by the nucleus but is mailed im- mediately. See that e nucleus does t! very other comrade in your he same. ISSUE REPORT ON C.1. PLENUM . Take Action Against Lovestone, Gitlow (Wireless By Inprecorr.) 'Try to Cover | Real Cause of Prison Revolt ALBANY, N. Y., July 23.—In an attempt to cover up the frightful |conditions which drove 1,300 de- |fenseless prisoners of the Clinton | organizations pledged to take part in the conference up to 14, are the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Food Workers, and the Needle Trades Workers’ "ndust'al WORKERS GAIN IN Union. ; The committee also received t&® day the credentials for ten confer- ence delegates elected by the Har-| lem Tenants’ League at its last| regular Monday meeting, which was attended by 750 workers. D ETRO IT PLANT Units Represented. | The ranks of the delegates will be| swollen by representatives from) : every unit of the Communist Party| DETROIT, July 23.—Three thou- in New York City, the District, sand strikers of the Murray Body Executive Committee having abro-| plant prepared to resume werk to- gated its former decision to send’ day, when the company formally [tats delegates to the con-| .ithdrew its 20 per cent wage cut aye previous instructions to the| NOtce ANd sgrecd: to many. af the section organizers are to be ig- | demands of the Auto Workers Union nored,” Sam Darcy, director of the | which led the strike. Anti-Imperialist War Day Commit- | The proposal to call off the strike tee, said. “All units must | cleet | because of the company proposals headquarters of the committee, 26-| TS at a mass meeting, although the 28 Union Square, as soon as pos-| strike committee voted against go- sible.” | ing back to work. One hundred thousand copies of - the final strike call will be ready| a Sacer Tuesday to be distributed broadcast throughout the city. Great quan- tities of stickers are being printed and will be on sale at the district office Monday; units are required to elect committees for their distribu- tion. Mass Meetings Wednesday. As a final mobilization for the August 1 strike and demonstration, the district is arranging another series of outdoor mass meetings, to be on an even scale than those of last Friday, which mus- tered 25,000 workers against the imperialist plot to wage war on the Soviet Union. These are to take, Foremen unsatisfactory to the workers will be removed, the terms provide, and no discrimination will be practised against the strikers. Other minor concessions are stip- ulated. vo “Bosses Compelled to Concede” “The fact that the bosses were | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 23.—/ prison at Dannemora to face certain The political secretariat’s report on | death in a desperate revolt, Dr. Ray- |the tenth plenum of the Executive | mond C. Kieb, state commissioner Committee of the Communist Inter- | of correction, today tried to pass off that in addition to discussing the|New York racketeers.” These, he Soviet Union Defense Day and In-| said, were anxious to permit the es- ternational Anti-Imperialist War) cape of some of their number who | Day, August 1, the E. C. C. I. heard | were soon to testify in the trial of |and discussed reports on the inter-|an accomplice, |mational, issued yesterday, states|the insurrection as the “work of | compelled to grant these concessions | national situation and the tasks of shows the strength of the movement | the Communist Parties by Kuusinen for or,anization among the workers | and Manuilsky. The report on the and the widespread discontent in| economic situation and Communist Detroit,” C. A. Hathaway, editor of | Party tasks was by Thaelmann and Labor Unity, fficial organ of the Trade Union }‘ucational League, which is calling t:> Cleveland con- | Losovsky. | The Tenth Plenum resolved to re- |lease from duties as members of place Wednesday night, the eve of Vention, told the Dai:, Worker yes- | the E. C. C. I. and the presidium: International Red Day. | On Thursday, between 11 and terday. “The company, after the en go | Bucharin, Gitlow, Serra and Hum- bert Droz. The plenum excluded 4:80, meetings will be held before | back to work, will try to disc.‘min-|from the E. C. C. I, Pinlek of every large factory and in every| ete against strikers. It is alre dy | Czecho-Slovakia, Lovestone of Amer- factory district of the city, at which| laying the basis for this by no. ‘ica, and Spector of Canada. the workers will be mobilized for the general strike scheduled for 4 o'clock. All class conscious work- ers will then down tools and march to Union Square, where a gigantic demonstration, to be addressed by strike leaders, representative mem- bers of the working class and mili- tants who have engaged in anti-war struggles in Europe, the Philippines and Manchuria, will serve to regis- ter the solidarity of New York toilers with workers the world over for the defense of the Soviet Union. Torch-Light Processions. At 8 o'clock torch-light proces- | sions will be formed in all sections | of the city, at the same points where the Wednesday night mass meetings are to be held, and will converge centrally for further dem- onstrations. The Daily Worker will issue a special anti-war edition of 60,000 copies Friday, ready in time for | the Anti-War Conference tomorrow. All Party units must subscribe for bundles, which will sell at $7 per thousand, for special distribution and must collect the money for these Dailies today or tomorrow, turning it in to the business office of the Daily Worker not later than (Continued on Page Five) bringing all the workers back simultaneously, but in groups The only real guarantee for the realiza- tion of the concessions and getting more from the bosses lies in the Luilding up of a powerful union.” | The plenum reconstituted the | pre idium with Garlandi of the Ital- ian Communist Party, Goodtwald of the Czecho-Slovakian, Randolph of the Communist Party of America, |and Gussev of the Soviet Union. Negro Labor Congress Calls For Solidarity with the USSR The provocative actions. of the Chinese war lords against the First Workers’ Republic, Soviet Russia, are not representative of the Chin- ese masses who, in the words of the Chinese workers in the United States, “know that in their hour of need, when they were beset by the armed hordes of the imperialist powers, the one government on earth that stood by us was the gov- ernment of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” Chiang Kai-shek, who now main- tains power by mass slaughter and terrorism against the Chinese work- ers and their labor unions, is the traitor whose counter-revolutionary coup d’etat in 1927 revealed him as an agent of the foreign imperialist enemies of his country and robbed the Chinese masses of the fruits of the revolution, leaving the imperial- ists in control of vast areas and re- sources of China. Chiang is the leader of the treacherous Chinese bourgeoisie (merchants, landlords, bankers, etc.) who, preferring to share with the foreign imperialists in the exploitation and oppression of the Chinese masses to seeing |these masses liberated and in con- trol of state power betrayed the ul- timate aims of the revolution, which were to drive the imperialist oppres- sors out of China. This act of be- | trayal of the Chinese masses to the imperialists is typical not only of the Chinese bourgeoisie but of thé (Continued on Page Five) Lame Excuse. | The weakness of Kieb’s story was emphasized when he failed to give names of the supposed rackes- teers. He admitted, however, that at least six protest movements had been crushed by prison guards “‘be- fore they assumed serious propor- tions.” teering—a trade largely controlled |by Tammany—dismiss the story. “The racketeers join with Tammany | conditions which periodically drive jthe men to revolt,” they say. Bad Conditions Caused Revolt Rotten food, slop-pail sanitation, disease-breeding cells and _ wide- spread overcrowding in the prison, which was built in 1845 and still re- tains its antiquated equipment have (Continued on Page Three) ‘SOVIET PLANE TO VISIT U. S. WASHINGTON, July 23. — Five Soviet fliers are t oleave Moscow August 1 in a large plane, the “Land of Soviets,” for a flight across | Asia and North America to the | United States. The “Land of Soviets” is a large amphibian plane equipped with two 600-horsepower equipment both for sending and re- | ceiving. Permission to land at American flying fields has been obtained from the Commerce Department. Those closer to New York racke- | |in maintaining fearfully repressive | motors and radio} SOUTHERN MILL ~ MEET JULY 25TH Pick Delegates to the Cleveand Conference The official call for the Southern | Textile Workers’. Conference to be |held in Bessemer City, No. Caro- |lina, July 28, has just been issued |by the National Textile Workers Union. This conference, which is one of a large number of prelimin- ary conference being arranged in various parts of the United States, will chose delegates to the great |Trade Union Unity convention in Cleveland August 31. |. The call for the conference states: | “The conditions of the southern textile workers are growing worse trom. day to day speed-up, stretch out system, wage cuts and rent raises. Working ten with increased to twelve hours a day for an aver- Conduct.” They were brought to/strike against miserable conditions | age of from 7 to 14 dollars a week} the 57th St. Court where Magis-/and fought for a real wor { Continued on Page Four Signature Campaign For City Elections | To Begin on Sunday The campaign for’ 25,000 signa- tures to place Communist candidates | or the ballot in the municipal elec- headquarters throughout the city for nominating petitions. “This is the most important im- mediate task in the election cam- paign. More candidates have been nominated for office this year than | at any previous time, doubling the |number of signatures required in the elections of 1928. Already ac- | tive steps have been taken by the | Sections to mobilize the Communist Party membership and sympathizers and it is expected that several thou- | sand signatures will be obtained on | the first day of the drive. Workers must call at the follow- jing headquarters, beginning at 9 a. m. Downtown Manhattan, Section 1, 27 East 4th Street; Sections, Har- jlem, 43 East 102rd Street; Section |5, Bronx, 1330 Wilkins Avenue, and “15 East 130th Street; Section 6, Williamsburg. 56 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn; Section 7, Boro Park, | 1373 48rd Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; | Section 8, Brownsville, 154 Watkins ‘Avenue, Brooklyn. QF NATIONS OFFICIALS TALK INTERVE STRIKERS CALL WORKERS TO AID, Only read Working Class Will Save From Electric Chair sisi petiee Eoeeaed | Belgian Workers Demo Subpoena Governor to Prove Right to Shoot | GASTONIA, N. C., Dec. 23.—To- | day, six days before the Gastonia trial opens with its tremendous im- plications for the entire American | working-class, comes a message | from the 15 textile strikers whose lives will be in the balance next week, Their message is addressed to the American proletariat. The strikers say: “Only the working class aroused to the realization of our danger and Jof the importance and significance | lof the Gastonia case can we be saved | from electrocution or the peniten- |tiary. T he militant workers |throughout the nation must imme-| diately voice their protest and re- double their determination that we | members of the National Textile Workers Union shall be freed.” The legal staff of the Interna- jtional Labor Defense is redoubling lits efforts to obtain a change of |venue, and a delay in the trial, in |order to more completely expose | |the ruthless, unscrupulous legal | methods of the prosecution with its frameup evidence, The legal staff also points out | that the real defense must come | from mass pressure of the workers militantly demanding the |uncondi- tional freedom of the strikers. The |recent remarkable growth of the} NTWU the aggressiveness of the (Continued on Page Five) (Wireless B: GENEVA, Switzerland, Ju officials are eagerly discussing vention into the Manchurian to sanction intervention by th League commission of other PIONEER GROUP LEAVES TODAY FOR THE USSR C.Y.L. Statement Tells of War Danger An enthusiastic meeting at the Manhattan Lyceum gave the send- eff to the delegation of 7 Pioneers who will leave for the Soviet Union tomorrow. As the Daily Worker goes to press the meeting is still in session. Greeting the Pioneers in the name of the Communist Youth League George Pershing, organizer of the League in New York, addressed the meeting. The vital importance of the Embassy; French Police Make Many Arrests | tions will open Sunday morning, | when workers will report to section | | Children Delegation to the Soviet |Full Crew of Cafeteria |Union as an answer to the w 3 : preparations against the Soviet |Strikes; Being Led By Union by the imperialist powers is Food Workers’ Union stressed in a statement issued last night by the National ‘ecutive The entire crew of the ; Cafeteria, 113 E, 28rd St., struck| League a-d the National Buro of yesterday under the leadership of | the Young Pioneers of America. | the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria; Children of Exploited Workers. Workers’ Union, which has been con-| “In the delegation are represented ducting a vigorous struggle for the some of the most exploited sections past few months. of the American working cla A picket line was formed at once | From Gastonia, where in a week and three strikers were arrested on| Workers will go on trial (15 for the usual charge of “disorderly|their lives) because they dared to rs | trate Simpson remanded them in the | union, comes a textile worker’s child. |custody of the union’s attorney,|From Detroit, where 3,000 auto | Jacques Buitenkant, for a hearing workers have just concluded a strike on Thursday. against a wage cut and vicious The union is continuing its organ- speed-up, we have an auto work- ization drive and fight for the eight- ers’ child. One represents the hour day and other conditions for New York needle trades workers. A jthe exploited cafeteria workers,|miner’s child and a young Negro, | Michael Obermeier, organizer, said|formerly a Boy Scout, who with yesterday in commenting on the|hundreds of other Negro Scouts strike. (Continued on Page Three) Terminate Furriers’ Strike; Continue Building of Union General Strike Committee Issues Statement; Tell of Gains, Shortcomings, Present Tasks In a statement issued last nightjing the plans of the union for suc |by the Furriers’ General Strike! cessfully continuing the struggle Committee of the Needle Trades |for better living conditions for the Workers’ Industrial Union, the gen-|workets, and for a real union of eral strike as the first phase of|the rank and file, able to defend jthe struggle in the fur trade con-| the economic interests of the work- ducted by the Industrial Union ers. |against the bosses and the company Call For Drive. |union, was officially terminated. | ‘The statement concludes with a | Signed by Ben Gold, chairman of |call to the fur workers to imme- |the General Strike Committee, the diately begin an intensive campaign | statement gives a clear analysis of|to unite the ranks of the workers |the strike, its shortcomings, its ac-|and to rally around the Industrial |complishments, the present situation| Union. It ends with the following |in the fur trade and the conditions | slogans: Join your Industrial Union. of the futriers, as well as present-| (Continued on Page Five) Ideal Committee of the Communist Youth | NTION Plaza Anti -War Conterence Tomorrow Night JAILED GASTONIA WAR PLOT AGAINST USSR CONTINUES WHILE LABOR EVERYWHERE RALLIES AID |World Anti-Imperialist Congress, Baltic and Vienna Conferences Pledge Defense of USSR nstrate Before Chiang’s y Inprecorr.) ily 23.—The League of Nations the possibility of League inter- situation. They are quoting Article 17 of the Statutes of the League of Nations, which rules that if a non-member state, such as U. S. R., refu ute with e League in a di a League member, such as China, the regulations provide for a states to start military inter- | * * * Intrigues Continue. While the war plot contir against the Soviet Union, which the seizure of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway:by Chir militarist governments at the ins tence of foreign imperialist pow was but an exc’ capitalist ne service reports of another develc ment began today. Re opean capitalist news that the Japanese |chief in Manchuria has forbidden the transport of Chinese troops or war materials over the South Man- churian railway, which runs Port Arthur to a station near bin, connecting with the | Eastern. ! Meanwhile the same service ports the Japanese foreign office in Tokio to be much disgruntled at the slight from Stimson, who tart- ing an indirect offensive against the |U. S. S. R. to compel it, if pc to submit to arbitratio: perialist power or “c arranged under imperi: The Japanese government plaint is said to be that on took this action without consulting Japan. The Nanking Government is stated by press representatives to be sending another note to the U.S.S.R., offering to arbitrate. The Soviet Government y stated flatly that no scheme was porsi tion could be undert Chinese commander-in- re- by on” E was returned to joint control, was before the Chang Hsue g government at | Mukden se’ | merous | road. ed it, and arrested nu- Soviet employees on the “+e # Anti-Imperialists Hit War Plot FRANKFORT, Germany, July 23. —The World Anti-Imperialist Con- gress yesterday, with representa- tion from millions of workers, ap- plauded speeches denouncing the |imperalist plot against the Soviet Union, and the use by the imperia- lists of the Chinese war lords as tools for an attack on the U. S. S. R. (Wireless By “Inprecorr’”) Vienna Conference Scores Nanking | VIENNA, Austria, July .—The great Proletarian Action Committee Conference Sunday was held with many delegates from the factories and trade unions and other prole- tarian organizations, including #a® Anti-Fascist Alliance, A strong resolut’ protesting the imperialist raid on thé Soviet Union through the use of Chinese war lords, :nd appealing to the workers of Austria to join in masses the demonstrations on August 1, Soviet Union Defense Day, and Anti-Im- perialist War Day, was passed, | se Ki | (Wireless by Imprecorr.) BR E.C.C.I. Statement 4 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R, July 23— |The political secretarist of the Exe r Continued on Page Three) ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE, TOMORROW NIGHT, AT 8 P.M. AT IRVING PLAZA, 15TH ST. AND IRVING PL. DEMONSTRATE! Now is the time for all workers to enlist in the struggle against imperialist war. The open provocations of the Chinese nationalist gov. Pp) ernment on the Manchurian border and of the imperialists throughout |. is Preparing to intervene a; Enlist under the banner of Defense of the Soviet Union! Send delegates from your workers’ organizations, from shops, cooperatives, etc. Make it a monster United Front Against the Imperialist War-Mongers. the world, emphasize the immediate danger and the outbreak of war ! against the Soviet Union, The American capitalist press is screaming its hate against the USSR; the American bourgeoisie are calling for the destruction of the Russian Revolution. The American government ! inst our Socialist Fatherland, FORWARD TO All workers must immediately elect their delegates to the mass | anti-war conference to be held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Iffyour union is controlled by right wingers who won't permit you to elect delegates, send delegates in the name of shop groups, left wing songs, ete, Act immediately and make it an AUGUST FIRST! effective mobilization. Your help now against imperialist w: k ay strengthen the revolutionary forces throughout the Were so pera defense of the USSR can be effectively carried thru. Come to the mass Down tools 4 o'clock Thursday, A demonstration in Union Square. meet “