The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929 Ant- Imperialist Congress Denounces Labor Party’s Betrayal of the Indian Masses ~INBOR” SPIES | OFFER TO WRECK MINERS UNION| = The stool-pigeon, industrial spy, | bor. provocatuer activities of the lli¢d “Manufacturers’ League, have | yw been directed against the suc- ssful drive of the militant National | iners’ Union. The N.M.U. national sadquarters has obtained a docu et which was sent out by the eague to coal interests, offering its srvices to curtail the organization | ‘ive of the National Miners’ Union. | his letter was turned over to the -M.U, by a labor research organiza- | on. | Created Yellow Dog acDovald, whese chief bid to fame | his claim that he originated the | ellow dog contract, which binds orkers not to join a union Recent reports indicated MacDon- d and the Allied Manufacturers’ eague had gone out of business. Kicked out of Kenosha MacDonald was chased out of ‘ssful in Indianapolis where he slted a promising organization drive * the Hosiery Workers’ Union in e Real Silk Mills. He has been asso- ated with “Major” C. E. Russell, rikebreaker and stool-pigeon. Ap- atently the “Major” is now in full) arge. The attack has now shifted om silk to the coal industry, and te’ N.M.U, is picked in an effort to iake down a few employers. The tter sent to a large number of coal | rerators, signed by Russell follows: Allied Manufacturers’ League, Inc. 420 Lextington Avenue, New York City Lexington 3543-44 March 27, 1929 Dear Sir: , » Knowing that you are a pro- + jessive force in your organiza- r ‘jon, we are asking you to ar- inge a conference between your labor committee and a repre- sentative of the League. The National Mine Workers’ Union claim that over 60% of the coal miners of this country are now members of their or- re ganization. Membership drives— both undercover and in the open —are driving ahead with full force and are steadily adding new members. Are the coal operators going to sit idly by while this sapping goes on, or do they intend to fight to protect their proper- ties from this radical menace? Believing that the members of your organization do not intend to permit the seizure of their giness the Allied Manufacturers’ League, Inc. ffers them a way 0 eliminate the radicals or Com: unists from the coal industry. he Lag: | through years of ex- lerience in combatting this men- ace, knows the proper method of procedure to accomplish this re- sult for your members. The League works with and through your legal advisors and does not employ undercover men or strikebreakers, The League would appreciate the opportunity of placing this matter before your labor com- mittee-and will gladly send a representative for that purpose. This, of course, without obliga- tion on-the part of the committee. ; The Lague will deeply appre- iate your efforts in arranging such a conference. Yours very truly, \llied Manufacturers’ League, Inc. (Major C. E. Russell, Vice-Pres. |CER:C |Local Unions, officers and field jorkers of the National Miners’ ion have been informed of the at- mpt of the Allied Manufacturers’ | ague to penetrate the mine re-| ‘ons, where in case they arrive, jey may be sure of a hot reception. mmunists Fight More Armaments In the Reichstag IN (By Mail).—The Com- ist proposal to reject the second istalment for armored cruiser “A” is rejected yesterday in the Reichs- ig with the votes of all bourgeois jes and of the four social demo- tic ministers, Build shop committees and draw ke \more militant members into “Communist Party. Yorkmen’s Sick and ORGANIZED 1884—1) ‘AIN OFFICE: 9 Seventh Street TELEPHONE: Reserves on December Repent $4,149,001.77 age of tes y insure their child: Le 18 Death Benefit ct “di Sick Benefit rom the fits 9 and » resp., per week, Pe another forty weeks. enbick Benetita for wom ‘or another forty weeks, For further inform $9 per enohsa, Wis., but was more suc-| per month--Death Be: Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Address to the Commupist Party Ape Polbureau is desirous sible Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Ad- dress and the immediate Party tasks outlined therein. of securing the broadest pos- All || Party members and particularly the comrades active in the | That the disciplinary measures taken by the Central Committee of Jsproct from our ranks both faction- the Communist Party against Jay Lovestone and his agents inside the Party for their anti-Comintern stand | express the will of the entire Par- \line of the Comintern Address and |the organizational measures taken | against those who resist it by the Party. Resolutions which follow were | |passed unanimously or by over- | | whelmingly majorities of the Party and League units in New York and Detroit. “Strengthen the work of the Par- ty!” is the keynote of a resolution endorsing disciplinary action taken by the Central Committee against those who oppose the line of the} j Sixth World Congress in the Amer- | ican Party, passed by the Section Executive Committee and unit func- tionaries of District 2, New York, of the Party. Because this unity is threatened | |by “the destructive activity” of Jay | Lovestone and Comrades Gitlow, | Wolfe and ae the expulsion of workshops in the basic industries are invited to write their | “The Comintern was forced to} |take drastic and severe measures to | alism and the right danger which 'were rendering our Party impotent and unfit to cope with the huge struggles facing us,” the resolution declares, “Its decisions do not con- -te ‘Allied Manufacturers’ League’ |ty membership is proved by resolu- | stitute a victory for any group but she creation of A.R. (Yellow Dog) | tions which continue to endorse the | |restore Party democracy and the full right of the Party to discuss freely all problems within the bounds of Communist discipline,” it) adds, | “The functionars meeting of | Section 3 calls upon all comrades of all groups and factions to renounce their former groupings and to |abolish caucuses so that a real heal- ling and _ bolshevization may be ac- | complished. sion of Jay Lovestone from the | Communist Party of the U. S. A. {and condemns the splitting tactics i Comrades Gitlow, Wolfe and Mil- Lovestone and the organizational | axon taken against those who | |support his platform are endorsed in the resolution, | ler.” It endorses the expul- | also will be printed in this section. ing with this campaign to Comrade Jack Stachel, care Na- tional office, Communist Party, 43 E. 125th St., New York | opinions for the Party Press. City. New York C, Y. L. Fights for Cc- mintern Line. The determination of the New York District of the Communist Youth League to carry out the line of the Communist International and the Communist Youth International is expressed in a resolution endors- ing the expulsion of Jay Lovestone and other disciplinary measures measures taken against his support- ers. “We endorse the line of the Co- mintern and the Communist Youth International and the actions of the Central Committee, National Exec- utive Committee and the District | Executive Committee in carrying it out, including the expulsion of Love- | stone and removals of Gordon and Yablon and the suspension of Silvus |and Rubenstein from the National Bureau of the League, | “We endorse the statement of the N. E. C. on the suspension of Ru- benstein and Silvus which correctly | condemns the anti-Comintern state- ment of Comrades Rubenstein, Sil- {vus, Welsh and Lurys. (Vote 194 |for—9 against—1 abstention. | Another motion demanding the ; Suspension of Comrades Welsh and Lurye from the National Buro of |the League because of their anti- Resolutions of Factory Nuclei Send all material deal- CONTINUE ENDORSING LOVESTONE EXPULSION : Comintern activities was carried by a huge majority, “District 2 has shown that it will | not tolerate any opposition to the line and decisions of the Central Committee,” the resolution add: “The splendid mobiiization ‘and mil- itancy of the League in the demon- strations prove to the opposition that the League can go forward and that the sharp, bitter attacks found in the statements of Rube: stein, Welsh, Lurye and Silvi factional mancuvers intended to moralize the League and win it over jto their own line of internal degen- ‘eration and right wing _ pusillani- mous opportunism, “The League membership of Dis- trict 2 calls upon the militant work- | ing class youth to rally to the de-| fense of the Soviet Union and di |mands the firmest discipline from every League member. To the mas; jes for a mass Communist League Ler * as re Detroit Polcom Condemns Loyestone | A call for the entire Party mem- | bership to mobilize against the split- |ting tactics of Jay Lovestone and jhis agents inside the Party is voic- ed in the resolution, endorsing |Lovestone’s expulsion, adopted | lunanimously by the Detroit Polcom. MINERS BATTL WATER COMPANY Drive Off Men Trying to Stop Water WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 25.— The Scranton-Springbook Water Co, attempted today to shut off service to poverty-stricken, unemployed _ miners in this district and promptly ran into all kinds of opposition. | Some miners stood guard to pre- vent workmen cutting off water. Rising temperatures added to the _inconvenience and danger to the health of workers who have been | unable to pay their water bills, be- | cause of financial straits, or who have refused to pay the increased \tates, put into effect several months |ago, Protests against the higher | water rates now are before the Pub- lice Service Commission. John Nobel, treasurer of the mu- nicipal water ownership league of the Wyoming valley, armed him- self with a baseball bat and stood | | guard over his home today, waiting | for officials of the company to ful- | fill their threat to turn off his wa- | ter supply. | Where valves were screwed shut | by the workmen, consumers turned | them on again as soon as the work- | | men left. Hamburg Police Fire \On Red Front Troops | | BERLIN By Mail).—On Sun- |day the police arrested workers in | Hamburg whom they caught pasting up posters of the illegal Red Front Fighters League. The workers tore themselves away from their captors and fled, whereupon the police im- mediately drew their pistols and commenced to fire at the workers. The noise of the shots drew a large crowd to the scene which took a threatening attitude towards the po-| llice and finally released one worker | who had been arrested: Four work- {ers were wounded by police bullets and two policemen were mauled by the crowd. German Socialist Minister Calls for Fascist Gov’t BERLIN (By Mail).—In a dem- onstration of the Republican Peo- |ple’s League, mm Frankfort am Main, the Prussian minister of the interior, Grzesinski, a social demo- crat, made a speech following the | example of Wels and Severing. ex- pressing approval of a social fas- cist dictatorship, Death Benefit Fund eae OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + INCORPORATED 1899 (Cor. 8rd Ave.), New York, N. Y. 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The in- | structor will be Comrade Grecht. |The course will be iv train Party comrades on the basis of the speci- fic issues involved in the Party cam- | |paigns, especially in the election |campaign. The course will last for | six weeks beginning Thursday, Au- gust 8, All Comrades wishing to register will please do so at the of- fice of the Workers’ School imme- | jdiately. The fee for the entire course will be $1, 00. that all units assign at least one or |two comrades to take this course | | and expenses for which should be covered by the units themselves, | [Fascists Jail 1,000 In New Outburst of Terror in Jugoslavia VIENNA (By Mail). — Acccrd- jing to a report from Zagrob, the military fascist regime of General Vivkovitch is continuing its cam- \paign against all revolutionaries| jand in particular against the Com- |munists. Recently almost a thou-| )sand arrests have been made, in- lcluding 650 in the province of Za- grob alone. | Numerous “corpses of persons un- known” have been found in various parts of the country. According to the authorities it is not possible to discover the identities. In most cases the relatives of the jarrested are not given any informa tion by the police, and they know little or nothing about the fate of their breadwinners. Montreal Toilers Issue Leaflets for Red Day MONTREAL, Que., July 26.—Sev- eral thousand leaflets in English, French and Yiddish have been print- ed in readiness for International Red Day for the Defense of the Soviet Union on August First here. Plans for International Red Day were adopted by committees elected at an International Red Day Con- ference at the Canadian Labor Circle Hall, Rachel St. E. A temporary, | Executive committee agreed on three| indoor mass meetings and shop gate) meetings throughout the city. DEMONSTRATORS’ TRIAL ON JULY 31 Arrested ke Chicago Gastonia Meet CHICAGO, Suly 2¢ 26.—Trial of 27) | workers arrested at last month’s demonstration against the Gastonia frame-up has been set for 9 a. m. next Wednesday before Judge Lyle, it was announced here today. The 27 include J. Louis Engdahl, Com- | munist Party candidate for President, It is urged | of the Borough of Manhattan in the’ paNKS MERGE AFTER CRASE | | New York City elections, The demonstration had been bru-/ tally smashed by police at Grant} Park following a mass meeting at Washington Square at Clarke and Walton Pl. Holding the arrested in $100, 000 |* bond, Lyle had threatened deporta-| tion proceedings against non-citizens, and had summoned immigration au- thorities to that end. The workers will be defended by the International Labor Defense. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Long Sentences of Annamite Workers | By French Officials | PARIS (By Mail).—The excep- | tional Court in Hanoi has sentenced | la number of Annamites to_ severe punishments, The accused were |charged in connection with the as- sassination of Bazin, the Director of the Office for the Compulsory re- |cruiting of Annamite workers, by a young Annamite student. 83 ac- | cused were sentenced to a total of} 155 years of imprisonment. This trial must be regarded as one of the many efforts made by the French to! crush the growing discontent of the population of Annam by terror. { TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 26—| Three St. Augustine banks were \consolidated today after the failure lof the First National Bank, the! ee and largest institution in the | ae First National failed to open for business yesterday after exces- sive withdrawals, it was announced. The Phifer State Bank of Gairec- ville has also closed its doors, ! DETROIT (By Mail). — Organ- lized sign writers, locked out her |April 1 by the Carlson Sign Co., |have won their strike, getting a fiv. day week and $1.20 a day increase. VIA LONDO KIEL TOURS to Soviet Russia CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $385. Sailings Every Month NEXT SAILING —— AQUITANIA —— AUG. 21 175 FIFTH AVENUE Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U.S.S.R. INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bldg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 NEW YORK, N. Y. the Directio ==SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under JACOB SHAEFFER Telephone Beacon 731 Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL n of THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL | other framed-up te: |fraternal organizations met in the ‘ore eF oreign- -born HOUSE 10 weak oe employed for wi FOR eh we be forced on the streets when the ® | Civil Service Commission begins to nh ¥ r Americanize its departments 100 per cent. under terms of a ey . « law to be enforced on 1 N. Bedford rd Mill Hand: More than 300 are affected e ee Denounce Murders 1aw, which prohi their ment on public work. However, Commission, hit: by the discharge of many of the foreign-born engaged in tec cal work for which it is diffi- cult to ob n help, is prepared to exploit ce: s till suffi- ciently qu n citizen: arrive to force them off the job. (Continued from Page One) them of the : 1] them at the wage-cut speed-up is striking e as is proved by G ton, New Orleans, I Bee York and many other inde Anam et n It is hitting your sho f 1 time in their preparations to r it the attack on the Soviet Un- ‘or a strong resolution to con- > the fight for the uncondition- ase of the Gastonia pri Tell the workers 15 brave rs for ve wale w 5 ly is immediate Poop poe ene) Deportation Cases to the chair as they did Sacco and " orcs Siscil bxe ” Rade Radikovitch, of Arizonz < i whose ¢ fascist Jugo- Women Organizers Meet. Slavia h n postponed through The delegates to the conference | the wo f the International Labor of women’s organization depart- | Defense, one of a number of vic- ments of the Independent Shoe!tims of a series of minor “Red Workers Union, embled in New now raging in the west. York July 28, passed a resolution adikovitch was the first of the |calling upon every worker to “join victims to be taken in custody by in the relief and defense work for the Federal authorities, Judge Wil- the Gastonia textile strikers, and to become members of the Workers In- ternational Relief and Internation- al Labor Defense, so that our fel- low workers shall be fully protect- 2d Radilzo- ion until the Federal new pro- liam vitch government can institute ceedings, has stay 's deport r | s now in the hospi- ed. 2 Island, where he is suf- | ; : Ng - |fering from tuberculosis. He was de- | _New Bedford Workers Protest | fended by Isaac Shorr, attorney for | NEW BEDFORD, Ju Ten |thousand New Bedford workers will |fill the Bristol arena in this city Inext Thursday evening in a demonstration demand the release of Fred E. Beal anc workers in Gastonia, | This mass protest demonstration the I. L. L x other cases in the West in which deportation impends, include ithose of Zimmerman, a high school boy, and Zusman Fierstein, a mem- ber of the Communist Party, Fierstein admitted his member- ship in the Party at a hearing before 29 is being arranged under the joint the immigration inspector at Los| auspices of the local International | Angeles. In the Zimmerman case de Labor Defense and the National Portation has been ordered for mem- | Textile Workers Union, New Bed- | bership in the Communist Party, but font local, |the government has agreed to delay The workers of New Bedford re- | deportation until a decision is ren- | member, Beal as one of the leaders dered in the Fierstein of the great strike of textile work- | ——q«~ ers here last year. . METAL STRIKE SOLD OUT. Many labor and fraternal organi-| yy_NNA (By Mail).—It is report- zations have sent their delegates to| oq from Steyr that the leadeve of the committee in charge of the the metal workers trade union have jmeeting. settled the conflict there by nego- *“ * * re z ; ‘ tiating with the directors and that Five hundred delegates from many | the fascists in question been re- unions, Workmen’s Circ Communist branches, instated in another department. The Party units and labor indignation of the workers at thi idefeat is very great. _ DISCUSS INDIA AT ~ FRANKFORT MEET Anti-Imperialists Hit Labor ‘Party ca] sion of the e Against Im- sday Dutt reported tion on behalf of re League. “India ie’s main problem,” he “Both perse of the L lism on Tu on the Indian qu the Wi is the Leagu kers We tion and resis- The great The lows a policy of be- and the labor gov= creased persecution, 2d for new wars; it ase in India. tion progresses. ernm India is a will be s the intensi- e class war. The na- fication 0} tionalist str le is changing to a truggle a t the workers, the ders of the worker: ing long prison terms, and heavy fines, Imperialists Fear League. “The labor party is compromised in the eyes of the Indian workers, but there is a danger that the Eng- lish workers support it. Gupta represents ant perialist forces, but the Indian National Congress contains enemies of the mass move- |ment. The acceptance of the Nehru |report means the sacrifice of the ae: of independence and satis- with the position of a dominion. “It is a good testimonial for the League that the British imperialists fear it and persecute it. The League must become a’ great inter- national anti-imperialist force. The greatest foe of the oppressed is their isolation from other revolu- tionary movements. It is impera- tive that irresolute elements should be eliminated.” | This closed the evening session on Tuesday. | Debate on Dutt’s Report. The sessi opened b ion on Wednesday was dresses from Partemers |and Papas of Greece in behalf of the Balkan Federation. The debate {on Dutt’s report was participated |in by delegates from Egypt, Persia, San Francisco, Haiti} China, Indon- a, the London Department of the n National Congress and the sh Section of the League. Dutt, in his reply, said that the howed a need to overcome isolation and condemned the compromising attitude of the Indian National Congress towards imper- *ialism. Fifth Avenue Buses will go direct to the Park from East 50,000 Workers Will Demonstrate Workers Who Go on Trial in Gasto Speakers: LOUIS HYMAN M. J. OLGIN 2 (From Noon Until Two in the Morning) PLEASANT BAY PARK, THE BRONX 177th St. Subway Station Admission Fifty Cents with the 15 nia Monday WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE FRED BEIDENKAPP. and REBECCA GRECHT Symphony Orchestra of Fift ymphony y Men Formerly of the N. Y. Symphony Orchestra YASCHA FISHBERG, Conductor Motion Pictures—Open-Air Dancing Fireworks, Campfire—Other Features Auspices: Local New York, Workers International Relief N. Y. District, International Labor Defense