The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized aily Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol, VI., No. 128 = —=> = = Published daily excep¢ Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, inc. 6-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, 88.00 per y Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per yea SONFERENCE IN CHICAGO AUGUST 18T0 EVERY COMMUNIST! FOR CLEVELAND CONVENTION; WILL SEND 120 DELEGATES TO BIG MEET Chicago Center of Vast Industries; Scene of } Many Labor Struggles } a bemands of Working Youth Given in Call For , Cleveland Convention, Aug. 31 - Sept. 2 A city-wide conference for the purpose of selecting dele- gates to the forthcoming Trade Union Unity Convention to oe held in Cleveland Aug. 31-Sept. 2, will be held in Chicago Aug. 18. This information was received Saturday by the {rade Union Educational League, 2 West 15th St. | The organization of the unorganized, the fight against | mperialist war, defense of the?—-—-———— : | HARLEM TENANT soviet Union, and the fight to} lefeat the attempt to elec- ‘rocute or imprison for long terms the 16 Gastonia strikers — all these Now, after August First, the capitalist press, that was in a conspiracy to create peace illusions regarding the imperial- ist drive against the Soviet Union on the Manchurian border, admits that the danger of war is still great. The one paper in the English language that exposed the lies about the mythical Berlin “peace” conference between the representa- tives of China and the Soviet Do you want to continue ing the world situation? Union, was the Daily Worker. to be able to get facts regard- Do you want t oknow what workers everywhere are doing in the struggle against imperialist war? Do you want to know about the struggles here in Amer- ica? The conspiracies and intrigues of the Hoover government in Latin-America, the facts regarding the Gastonia trial that will be on in a few days? Do you want the Southern mill workers to have the benefit of the Daily Worker to help them in their great movement in the textile industry in the South and to help workers in other paigns? If you do YOU MUST A DAILY WORKER. industries launch similar cam- CT AT ONCE TO SAVE THE Price 3 Cents DEMAND FREEING WORKERS MEET OF MILL VICTIMS OVER SATURDAY Caribbean and Canada| Workers Add Voice to Those of U.S. ‘Centralia Prisoners Aid | Charlotte Conference Getting Good Start In Carolinas Barnett Denounces Lie Against the I.L.D. The entire continent is ringing with the story of Gastonia, as tele- grams from Canadian, Latin-Amer- jidan and West Coast working class organizations testify, the Interna- tional Labor Defense yesterday stated. | The telegrams, coming on the |heels of thousands upon thousands Rex Mill Boss Retreats on Evictions By LISTON OAK. GASTONIA, N.C., Aug. 4.—There was a total attendance of over 20,000 at the Saturday afternoon meetings of the National Textile Workers Union, held in Belmont, Bessemer City, Kings Mountain and Gastonia. WORLD WORKERS ' 20,000 TEXTILE REPORT MORE RED DAY DEMONSTRATIONS; STERN RESISTANCE TO ATTACKS Many Arrests; Crowds Fight Hard in Chicago, Waukegan, Milwaukee and Other Cities Bailed Women at Rally yyacg Meeting in Montreal; Gastonia Case Seen As Part of Bosses’ Preparations for War MONTREAL HAS MASS MEETING (Special to the Daily Worker) | MONTREAL, Canada, Aug. 4. — struggles will be dealt with in the leveland convention. To Send 120 Delegates. About 120 delegates are expected ‘o be sent to the Cleveland conven- ion from the Chicago district, it is mnounced. At the preliminary city sonference representatives will be oresent from all the major industri m Chicago, and from many second- iry industries. The center of meat packing, iron, iteel, railroad, chemicals and the ‘ome of the Westinghouse Electric, ‘phicago, has seen many labor strug- 3, and was the center of the dra- jnatic cight-hour fight of 1886. One of the major tasks of the sew trade union center will formed in Cleveland and is to be the organization of the millions of un- organized workers, thousards of whom are found in Chicago. 50 Textile Delegates. News of the city conference in Chicago comes on the heels of the announcement that the recent South- j:rn Textile Conference held in Bes- |somer City, N. C., will send no less | es to the Cleveland | han 50 dele; meet. At the same time plans are’ pro- zvessing for a large number of con- \ferences of various trades in prepa- ration for the Convention. Included jamong these are conferences of shoe, clothing, metal mining and marine workers. : Speakers in Many Cities. The Trade Union Educational weague is sending speakers to a Bixee number of their groups thru- out the country. A special appeal is being made to the thousands of Negro workers to select shop com- mittees who, in turn, will pick dele- (Continued on Page Five) HAND WORK EDICT IN GIGAR STRIKE Latest Move of New Brunswick Plant By N. B. HARDY. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Aug. 4,—The General Cigar Company has} decided to institute “emergency” ra-| tionalization as a means of breaking} the strike of its girl and women) workers now in its eighth week. This was made known when the be | LEAGUE FIGHTS | | LANDLORD GREED /Conference Wednesday | at St. Luke’s Hall | The masses of. Harlem, compelled to exist in ill-ventilated, disease breeding, unsanitary buildings and endure the most horrible crowding conditions because of the exorbitant rents of the landlords are preparing to immediately open a_ militant fight against housing and_ rent abominations. Will Discuss Tenant’s Strike. A conference of the Harlem Ten- ants’ League called to meet Wednes- day evening in St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., will discuss the hous- | ing condition, with especial refer- ence to the living conditions of the} Negro and Latin Americar popula- tion and will raise the question of the advisability of a rent strike. have been through great labor conflicts, to place the Daily on RECTLY OR INDIRECTLY most critical time. York. If you were to ask any worker on the picket line facing the clubs of the police, the terror of the gangsters, or in the | of signatures on the mass protest |petition, attest to the fact that the national and international working tent colony at Gastonia was very | perialist war and for the defense of successful. It was under the joint | the Soviet Union was celebrated by auspices of the union, the Interna- |the workers of Montreal, who packed tional Labor Defense and the Work- | the hall selected from top to bottom jails of capitalism, he would tell you that the Daily must be kept alive to help fight the battles of the working class. There are enough workers in the struggle, enough who fights and preparing for future a solid foundation if they would only realize that its existence depends upon them. IF EVERY WORKER WHO HAS BENEFITED DI- FROM THE ACTIVITY OF THE DAILY WORKER WILL HELP TO THE LIMIT OF HIS ABILITY WE CAN SAVE THE DAILY. frankly tell you we face the danger of suspension at this Every Communist will recognize the necessity of sending to his unit at once his day’s pay assess- ment and seeing that it is rushed to the National Office of the Party, 42 East 125th St. Rush other funds as QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New If not we This is of special significance now because of the approach of winter, | when suffering is intense and the) death rate mounts rapidiy. At the same time the greedy and avaricious, landlords have taken advantage of! the abolition of the emergency rent} Jaws to boost prices up $10, $20, $30) and even as high as 852 above the price formerly paid. MILL WORKERS DETERMINED IN Organize Block Committees. Block committees will b2 organ- ized to direct the mobilization of the thousands that er each block. They will be the units in the mass movement against the rent hogs. Calvary Gravediggers I Sympathy Walkout A sympathetic walkout of 3,000 members of the Cemetery Workers | Union looms in Brooklyn and Queens as attempts failed to “arbitrate” | the strike of the 350 grave diggers of Calvary cemetery. Joseph Di Fiore, vice-president of | the union said yesterday this walk- | workers’ demands for a wage scale of $42 for a six-day week were met. | Meanwhile, funerals at Cavalry | cemetery yesterday brought the number of unburied to about 250. Through a special dispensation from | BRITISH STRIKE \Officials Cautious in Approaching Sellout NCE TER, England, Aug. 4. ive hundred thousand textile workers in the cotton mills of Lan- cashire are continuing their tremen-| dous walk-out today with no sign of readiness to return to the mills un- less the manufacturers retract their wage-cut of twelve and a half cents, the immediate abuse which sent the workers on strike. Despite efforts of the Labor Par- ty government in the guise of me- diators, to break the big walk-out in the interests of the manufactur- ers and “general industrial welfare,” jout would come soon unless the/|the strike is continuing unabated. Reactionary officials of some of the unions, notably the cotton spin- ners, show signs of willingness to compromise and it is believed that for this purpose a meeting of that union will take place Monday. The the Board of Health coffins here-| spirit of the strikers, however, is company announced the abolition of | after will be interred temporarily in| making the officials proceed with the hand work in the plant and ordered new machines. Over eight weeks ago some 700, to 800 cigar workers went on strike | against a wage cut and for improv-| ed conditions. Both the American) ‘ederation of Labor and the Young ‘omen’s Christian Association step- ed in and were instrumental in mis- | leading the struggle. Conferences) were held between the bosses and the) labor fakers and soon the machine workers went back to work, break- ‘ing the ranks of the strike, and leav- ing the hand workers to continue the struggle alone. A. F. L., Bosses Agree. . Instead of answering the latest move of the company with renewed struggle and re-enforcing the strike front with the machine workers, the | A, F. of L. misleaders are accepting what they call “the inevitable.” The, |two large trenches dug by strike- | greatest caution in presenting sell- breakers for the emergency. | out proposals. The Seamen’s Institute -The ‘Holy Flop House, Scab Agent. 'Zeppelin Flies Ocean to ‘Boost German Jingoism LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 4.—The Graf Zeppelin, German dirigible which will be used to make air raids on the workers when the impending imperialist war breaks, completed its transatlantic flight, calculated to stir up interest in the German im- perialist air forces, late this after- noon. The Atlantic successfully ne- gotiated, Hugo Eckner, commander of the war bag, planned to take his 20 parasite passengers on a trip over Washington, Philadelphia and New York, but strong head winds spoiled this grandstand play, and after reaching the Virginia capes, it was decided to head straight for Lake- hurst, via New York. PLAN T0 HOG-TIE BUILDING. UNIONS Class “Peace” Scheme As Lockout Looms | BUILDING& —& —& The creation of an _ economic | straitjacket—in the form of so- called machinery for settling dis- | putes in the building trades—this is! |proposed in a preliminary report! |made publie today by the Conference | Committee of the Buiiding Industry. | This apparatus would be com- | posed of representatives of the “in- _vestors, employers and labor,” and |is compared with the apparatus in |the cloak industry by which the manufacturers have just about their ‘own way by the existence of com- | class are rapidly being aroused, re- | fusing to allow another Saczo-Van- |zetti murder to be perpetrated. | Protest From Caribbean Countries. | The following message was re- | ceived from the Socorro Roje, Inter- national Del Caribe, the I. L. D. of the Caribbean countries: “As soon as we heard about the | Gastonia terror we sent to all our National sections and locals an ap- | peal for the support of the impris- oned comrades. The last number of our magazine is reproducing the ap- peal. We are sure that our com-/| rades cf these countries will give | | moral as well as the financial sup- | |port they gave during the Sacco- | Vanzetti trial. “The fight of the heroic fighters jis our fight, is the fight of all the enemies of Yankee imperialism. The | Caribbean secretariat and the Mex- | ican section of the Red International | |are sending to the imprisoned com- jrades of Gastonia its fraternal | greeting and best encouragement, in | jorder to defeat, with the help of | | the international solidarity, the ter- |ror fabricated by Wall Street im- | perialism in order to crush the Gas- | (Continued on Page Five) FAIL TO BREAK UP |1ay mill, Gastonia. ers International Relief. Amy Schechter, Vera Bush and Sophie Melvin, recently released on bail and still charged with murder in the second degree, appeared and were given a great reception at this, as at the other meetings they at- tended. The carfipaign for a huge repre- | sentation at the General Southern | Textile Conference at Charlotte Oc- tober 12 goes on during the drive | of the union for larger membershi Headquarters of the N. T. W. are now established in Kings Mountain | and at Belmont, where a clearing in the center of the woods has been leased. The owner stated he would not be intimidated into refusing the union the use of the land. Organizing is revived at the Ark- In South Gas- tonia the union leased a lot near five mills owned by Mayor Rankin, |one of the largest enemies of the union and of the 23 scheduled for electrocution or penitentiary by the mill bosses. Rex Boss Checked. The boss at the Rex mill has backed down in the face of the or- ganized opposition to his eviction policy, and has workers out of his company houses because of membership in the union. stopped turning | The workers will go back Monday | and adopted a strong resolution con- | demning British and all other imper- ialist attacks on the “Workers’ Fatherland, the Union of Socialist | Soviet Republics.” The Gastonia case was referred to as an example of the lengths to which bosses are going to prepare for war. There were large signs: “Join the Canadian Labor Defense,” “Remember Sacco and Vanzetti.” H. Sydney was chairman: speakers were Norman Free, city organizer of the Young Communist League of Montreal; L. Vaselvsky, of the In- dustrial Union of Needle Trades Workers, and Comrade Krupp, a 15- year-old girl of the Young Pioneers. ASSAULT VICTIM OF LLL.G.W, THUGS NOW NEAR DEATH Schlesinger is Guilty, Says N. T. W.I. U. Responsibility for the inurderous assault upon Jack Jacobs, a cloak keh S| HARLEM MEETS “Ministers Urge Police Terror” -- Williams Increased activity of the police in breaking up open air meetings ih| Harlem is due to a petition recently drawn up by a group of influential Negro ministers, according to Har- old Williams, head of the District Negro Department of the Commu-| nist Party, District 2. i “This has, however, not succeeded | \in halting our meetings,” Williams} said. “On the contrary, it has in-) tensified the activities of the com- rades and increased their determin- ation to push the work of the Com- munist Party.” Williams told of the clashes with) the Harlem police both on Red Day,| August 1, and the night preceding | it when a large number cf mobiliza- | tion meetings were taking place all over the city, On both nights big meetings were held at 138th St. and Seventh Ave. Each time’attempts of the police to break up the meetings and arrest the speakers was prevented by the militancy of the big crowds and by! the insistence of those in charge of | the meeting upon the right of the) Communist Party, as a legal poli- tical party which is participating in | j2etive member of the union’ were (The following article by a ma- rine worker on the Seamen's Church Institute is illuminating now, particularly following the re- cent murderous attack on two sea- men. Following the attack upon | them, they were led, bleeding, to jail. policy of the A. F. of L. in cases of machine displacement of labor | has been that the workers must look (Continued on Page Three) | 3 Accidents Imperil | Excursionists in Bay Three excursion steamers, over-| jaded, and in bad condition as usual, imperiled the lives of several hun- red in New York harbor yesterday, The port paddle wheel of the Po- cahontas ran into a floating log and smashed, The boat drifted until it anchored. From the Little Silver, 180 had to be rescued. It ran aground. The Albertina lost 15 feet of sid- After being held two days | they were freed with suspended | sentences. They were defended by the New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense. The is- sues mentioned in the following article, together with a large num- ber of others of importance to the marine workers, will be taken up at the forthcoming Atlantic Coast Conference to be held at the In- ternational Seamen’s Club, 28 South St., Aug. 17. Additional de- tails can be gotten at the Marine Workers League, 28 South St.) * * * By F. HAIGENEY “A home, hotel and club for sea- men of all ratings” —- such is the explanatory caption on all of the in a collision with a schooner, “literature” put out by the Seamen’s Seaman Disrobes the “Club” Gives Demands of Marine Workers Lists Some Facts; ’ | Church institute, 25 South St. Is it a home? Bells, gongs, uni- |formed thugs and innumerable “do |nots” are never associated with a true home. If it is a “home,” then \the seamen-guests are its “family.” | Do we seamen have any voice in the management or policies of our sup- posed “home”? Is it a “club”? We answer this | question affirmatively, but we must qualify our answer. It is a “club” of decided economic oppression. The literal “clubs” of the institute’s man- agement, in the hands of its police, have been repeatedly wielded upon the heads of seamen, without cause or justification. Continued on Page Three) a municipal election, open air me2tings. |pany unions, impartial chairmen to conduct | who pull down 25,000 a year, and | the gracious services of Governors’ | Commissions who, at periodic inter- ivals, strip the workers of whatever cancessioas they may have won over | long years of struggle. Say Subway Builders Paying Carpenters Far | Below the Union Scale Lockout Looms. | The present proposal is made on| Contractors building subways for the heels of the announcement by|the City of New York are paying , | the Building Trades Employers’ As-| many of their carpenters far below | |sociation that they have called offgthe union scale of $1.50 an hour, | | the five-hour day ostensibly granted | many of them are hiring men for as | |the building trades workers in May low as 75 cents an hour, | just before the threat of a lockout! This evidence will be placed before | | hung for nearly two weeks over the Industrial Commissioner Perkins | heads of 75,000 workers in the trade. this morning by la-vyers for the Dis- | pin 4 injunction proceedings on| trict Council of Carpenters who the part of one of the building claim that the contractors are violat- trades unions, the builders agreed | ing the state labor law which says to “arbitration” on the part of Jus-| that the men on public jobs shall | tice Crain—proceedings which looked | be paid at “prevailing rates,” suspiciously staged. Just now the lockout looms once WE ARE SAILING at the Rex mill with a stronger and better organized union. The at- cutter, on Friday was laid squarely at the door of the International La- tempt of the management to precipi- dies Garment Workers Company tate a premature strike and create, Union of the manufacturers, in a dissension has failed. | statement issued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Jacobs, now at the point of death in Bellevue Hospital, suffering from a fracture of the skull and lacera- ‘tions of the face and scalp, was set MORGAN SLIDING SOAP INTO TRUST Proctor & Gamble Sells Block to Food Merger | jacks. The fact that they have to jvesort to these methods only ex- Centralization goes on, with Mor-| poses the fraud of their statements gan, arch imperialist and pioneer at that the workers are flocking to the game, holding control, His latest |their ranks and that they control acquisition is $20,000,000 worth of | all the workers in the industry.” Proctor & Gamble stock. The P. &| The statement follows: G. Co, is the larges! soap and glycer-| “The murderous attack on one of ine manufacturer in the world. |our members, Jack Jacobs, near the Glycerine is a necessary ingredi-| firm of Schwartz & Saltzberg, 131 ent for nitro glycerine and dynamite. | W. 35th St., where he is at present The soap company seems fated to be | employed, is but one of the repeated a part of Mofgan’s food trust,|gangster attacks, organized by launched a short time ago, as a mer- | Schlesinger & Dubinsky of the In- ger of Fleischman’s (yeast, etc.), | ternational Ladies Garment Work- Royal Baking Powder, and its sub-|ers on the members of the Needle sidiaries, Chase & Sanborn (coffee, | Trades Workers Industrial Urion. tea, etc.) and its Canadian auxiliary, | Settled With N. T. W. I. U. Gillette & Co, “The above firm had settled with od the Industrial Union during the WOMEN’S ORGANIZERS ‘recent fake strike in the cloak in- A conference of women’s work or- | dustry and* several attempts have John Fortnell, local organizer of the N. T. W. at Dallas, and another discharged and evicted Friday. The (Continued on Page Five) G. W., two of whom were later ar- rested and held without bail. Blackjack Rule. “The cold-blooded assault cn an innocent worker,” the statement says, “will bring to further light the entire conspiracy of the Schlesinger- Dubinsky and the A. F. of L. clique to force their rule on the workers at the point of guns and black- ganizers will take place Aug. 7, at | been’ made by the International to | 8 .» m. at 26-28 Union Square} induce the workers to break their (Workers’ Center). Important ques- | affiliations with the Industrial tions will be discussed. | Union and register with the Inter- jnational. On Thursday afternoon a | BE WISE! GET YOUR TICKETS committee visited the shop, threat- IN ADVANCE FOR THE MOONLITE CRUISE. (Continued on Page Five) Moonlite Cruise Friday Nigh Will Be Rip-Roaving Red Romp Workers Offered Chance to Get Moonstruck, But Should Buy Tickets in Advance “Get out and get under the moon!” upon by hired thugs of the I. 1.) ening to cripple the workers should | MEET AGAINST POLIGE ATTACKS (Special to the Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 4—A great The Saturday night meeting inthe International Red Day, against im-| protest meeting of Chicago work- ers will be held in Ashland Audi- torium Ang. 9. Workers are highly indignant over the bloody attack at the Union Park Aug. 1 meetings against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The meeting Aug: 9 is to denounce the police brutality, arrest of 18 work- ers and demand dismissal of all charges against,the defendants, el eae 1 1,500 Parade in Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 4.—Big demonstrations in Seattle, Portland, and Aberdeen, Wash., denounced the imperialist attack on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Over 1,500 workers paraded in Washing- ton St., Seattle, through the “skid- road” and into court house square, singing the International and led by \the Young Communist League. A |resolution was adopted with great jenthusiasm pledging the defense of ‘the Soviet Union and against im- | perialist war. | Frisco Factory Demonstrations. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 4.— - With several open air factory dem- onstrations, including one at the | waterfront at noon, and distribution of ten thousand special leaflets and three shop bulletins at the San Fran- cisco and Oakland Southern Pacific shops and Chevrolet factory, work- ers in the bay region prepared for | the defense of the Soviet Union and | protested the proposed imperialist war. | In the evening a huge crowd packed California hall. The Wednes- day waterfront meeting was broken up by the police. Daniels and Va- sil were arrested. Their case comes up together. The trial of workers arrested for demonstrating in front of the Chi- jang Kai-Shek consulate a few days |ago, a felony case, will be Mon- day. Speakers at most of the recent meetings have included District Or- ganizer Gardos, of the Communist Party, and Anita Whiteney, two of the defendants in the felony case. * * * Legion Fails at Waukegan. (Special to the Daily Worker.) WAUKEGAN, Ill., August 4. — A successful demonstration against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union was held here ‘in spite/of the efforts of the Ameri- (Continued on Page Five) CONTINUE FARGE OVER CRUISERS ‘Hoover Quiet While Senate Advises More WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Presi- dent Hoover, having made his grand stand play about reducing the navy, and having reaped the plaudits of | the pacifists, now watches cynically while the senate and house naval committees proceed to demonstrate how he will “not be allowed” to re- duce the navy any. Nobody who knew that this peace offensive was but a prelude to organization of a more efficient war machine ever ex- pected the reduction to take place, though some of the money appropsw ‘ated might be shifted from cruiser® |to the more modern and more de- structive airplanes. To Build Cruisers, Too. But no official interferes either | with the naval committees’ propa- | ganda for bigger and better cruiser | fleets. The ranking democrat on the sen- ate naval committee, Swanson of pe eat chairman of that powerful committee during the war, has join- 100 OPPOSITIONISTS RECANT.|/™More. With the building season FRIDAY, AUG, 9TH, AT 8 P. M. What with the heat waves that ley rhymes moon with spoon, Here’s ed the republican chairmen of the MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail).— The “Pravda” publishes the names | their agreement with the declara- | tion’ of Comrades Radek. | henski and Smilga, |waning, and with thousands of | workers unemployed, the revival of of about 100 former members of the lockout threat is quite possible. forma’ ion of shop and build! the opposition who have declared The building trades section of the| mittees to prevent the possibility of ‘Trade Union Educational League! »braz-|has repeatedly warned of this pos-| by the cfficialdom of the Building sibility, and yas urged the immediate have been soaking us (in both senses of the word) of iate, the workers have been close to getting sunstruck often enough. It’s high ‘'me. we went in for getting moonstyuck. Here’s a prime chance to learn FROM 42ND ST. PIER. com- a sell-out of the workers’ interests Trad+s Council, ¢.amaumiiraeaun. | Why the lycic genius of Tin Pan Al | a ripe opportunity to get in five hours of rip-roaring, rib-racking, risibility-rousing romping with the liveliest crew of rollicking Reds you ever set eyes on. We mean the Daily Worker's moonlite cruise and costume ball and (Continued on Page Five) at house and senate naval committees in opposing the President’s order on the ground that he has “exceeded his authori | HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COSTUME READY FOR THE MOONLITE adit. CRUISE? .. bal