The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government + To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered ax second-cla: matter at the Post Office at New FINAL CITY EDITION York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. VL, No. 129 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Ines, 8 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per ye: Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per yenr. TEXTILE EMPLOYE RS ENDORSE UNITED TEXTILE WORKERS AS USEFUL IN PREVENTING STRIKE Conference of Bosses, Anxious for Low Wages Lauds “Hundred Pere ent American A.F.L.” Workers Themselves See Difference; Joining Comrades: We have been appealing to you to help the Daily Worker live through the summer months. seven weeks old. The total thus far collected is slightly over Half of this sum has been assigned to Party work. $13,000. About $7,000 has been used by The campaign is now the Daily Worker. This $1,000 a week does not even cover our normal de- | ficit. But now we are in the midst of the summer. Our in- | come is half of normal. Our advertising is even less. Our | N.T.W.; Conference Soon to Map Struggle By LISTON M. OAK. - | At a conference of southern mill owners, held at Blue| Ridge, Va., on August 3rd, Charles R. Towson, of the Textile | Institute, a bosses’ association, delivered himself of a ringing message to the mill barons on “how to avoid strikes.” After a lot of the usual bunkum about “the human touch,” and “human relations in industry,” Towson got to the main theme of his advice. tinction should be made,” he said, “between the destructive, America - destroying, God - denying (Communists and the hundred per cent American, constructive and in- creasingly cooperative American Federation of Labor.” In the Raleigh News and Observer of August Ist, T. A. Wilson, presi- dent of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, is reported as saying that “The Communists’ ac- | tivity in Gastonia is one of the most fortunate things that has happened to the A. F. of L. For years people that are opposed to organized labor | have been calling us ‘reds’ and ‘Com- | munists’ but now they have had an| opportunity to see the difference. I) believe we will have less opposition | Outbreaks in El Libano. from certain manufacturers now that they have had an opportunity to see what we save them from.” A Durham cotton manufacturer is quoted in a recent issue of th Daily News Record of New York, reprinted in the Gastonia Gazette, as saying that he has no objection to a union in itself, but southern mill owners do object to the union’s trying to dictate the policies of the management, If the union leaders (of the A. F. of L. of course) and cotton mill officials could get to- gether, as have printers, carpenters, ete, in various A F. of L. unions in the north, and reach a “‘satisfac- tory’ agreement for co-operation, there would be an end to labor troubles in North Carolina cotton mills. Bosses Use U. T. W. It is apparent that the A. F. o L. is getting on very well with it: campaign to prove to the southern cotton manufacturers that they need the United Textile Workers to help them in their fight against the Communists and militant left-wing unionism. McGrady, MacMahon, Hoffman, Wilson, et al, apostles of industrial peace, are succeeding in persuading an ever larger number of southern mill barons that some kind of unionism is inevitable, and they must choose between the U. T. W. brand of company unionism, which is loud in its advocacy of class collaboration and has a splen- did record of betrayal to recom- mend it to the bosses—and the Na- tional Textile Workers with its basis of class war, its Communist leader- ship, its record of militancy, clearly | a union that would give the bosses endless trouble. There is no doubt that the A. F. of L. leaders have eloquent arguments calculated :to make a strong appeal to the en- (Continued on Page Five) Workers to Welcome | Bush, Schechter and} Melvin Next Monday The workers of New York are preparing a great welcome for Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin, the three women workers who are charged with murder in the Gastonia trial and who have been released on $5,000 bail cach. The three frame-up victims are coming to New York 'to aid in the defense campaign of the International Labor Defense, and on Monday night a big wel- come has heen arranged for them by the New York District of the, 1. L. DB. and the Workers Inter- | mational Relief. The welcome will be held in the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. The welcome for the three Gas- tonia prisoners will also be a pro- test against the sentencing of Harry Eisman, 15-year-old mem- ber of the Young Pioneers. to a {reform institution because he took .|part in a demonstration against | ‘|the Boy Scouts. In addition to Bush, Schechter and Melvin, there will be a num- ber of other well-known speakers at the Monday night meeting. > fendants will also speak under | auspices of the joint campaign of | the I. L. D., W. I. R. and N. T. W. U. in Washington, Friday, | August 9; Philadelphia, Saturday, | August 10,*and New Bedford, | Sunday, August 11, | The three released women de- | “A dis-* RUMOR COLOMBIA WORKERS FIGHT ON; 250 JAILED Government Censors Conceal Facts BOGOTA, Colombia, August 5- The newspaper El Tiempo today re- ports that eighty Communists have been jailed in connection with the One hun- |dred and seventy more are said to | have been jailed at Bucaramanga. The stringent censorship, with) | which the Colombian government has sought from the beginning of the uutbreak to conceal the successes of |the armed workers and peons, pre- jvents the Tiempo from publishing |details of the jailings. It is presumed, however, that among the prisoners are armed | workers seized during the first day’s [fighting and held on a gunboat on |the Magdalena River. The continued government censor- | ship suggests that the outbreak, | which involved three Colombian de-| partments, has not yet been con- | jtrolled by the troops. | | |that the revolt is continuing in the |forest regions where defense is com- |paratively easy and guerilla war- ‘are keeps the government forces at bay. GRAVE CONDITION Left Wing Worker May Die, Doctors Say Lying all day unconscious in his cot in the Bellevue Hospital, Jack Jacobs, a clothing cutter who on Friday was murderously assaulted \by hired thugs of the International | Ladies Garment Workers, yesterday | hovered between life and death. Hundreds of needle trades work- ers have visited the hospital during the last few days in order to learn | Jacob’s condition. His wife and two little children have been in the in- stitution almost continuously since the Schlesinger thugs, armed with blackjacks and knives, made the jmurderous assault on the young | worker. “The biood of this worker,” a statement of the Needle Trades (Continued on Page Three) WOMEN DIRECTORS All unit and section women’s work organizers must attend a meeting tonight 8 p. m., at 26 Union Square. Prepare for Bi Thousands of tenants in Harlem are organizing house and block com- mittees in preparation for the Con- ference on Rent and Housing called by Harlem Tenants League at St. |Lukes hall, 125 West 130th Street, jtomorrow and Thursday. The ses- sions will begin at 8 p, m. Big empetus was given the confer- \ence movement last night when sev- eral hundred members of the League | met in the public library, 103 West | 135th Street, and volunteered to help the League in conducting the con- ‘ference and also to help with office |work and distribution of the call for |the conference. The league has is- sued an invitation to potential or- ganizers of tenement leagues in all working glass districts to visit the Harlem Tenant League offices all paper bills, printers’ bills and bills for engravers remain sta- tionary. We cannot reduce the size of the paper because that would necessitate the throwing out of important stories. Rumors from the interior intimate | CUTTER STILL IN: We are now at the parting of the ways. The life of the Daily Worker is at stake. to suspend again. the life of the paper. the form of wages. But what Have you done your share? Don’t wait until tomorrow. Today you can still save the battles. Tomorrow may neve’ | Do not wait until we are forced | We do not want to do it because it means | The staff is contributing its share in are you doing? Daily and help it fight your | r come. We talk to you very | intimately because the situation is really very serious, Send your donation by special delive ry, air mail letter, or telegraph to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. Judge Lyle, Red - Batter, Makes Stage CHICAGO, Ill, August 5. — The Honorable Judge Lyle of the Municipal Court, who has distin- guished himself by his venomous cution and futile attempts to railroad Communist speakers and demonstrators brought before him, has been making such an all round spectacle of himself that he has at- tained the questionable fame of “honorable mention”—on the vaude- ville stage. The headliners on a current bill at | the biggest theatre in Chicago, Ol- sen and Johnson, devote about five rainutes of their review to him and the audience is kept in a constant howl. Dressed as keepers and |guards of an insane asylum they search through the audience loudly demanding Judge Lyle, who they claim has escaped. Only regretfully do they abandon the search, saying, “After the bunch of forget-me-nots he handed Judge Comerford, he certainly belongs with ”’-referring to one of Lyle’s many childish set-to’s with judges of higher courts who intervene to take prisoners out of his clutches when |his antics go allogether too far be- yend what is allowed even by the most elastic limits of capitalist jus- The Comerford incident involved a (Continued on Page Five) “SYNDICALISM” CHARGE ON THREE Arrested at August 1 Meeting at Hancock HANCOCK, Mich., Aug. 5. — Au- |gust ninth is the date set for the \first hearing of three young work- ‘ers, Sam Reed, George Powers, and |Velma Stark, charged with criminal |syndicalism. They were arrested at ‘a street corner meeting August 1, jand the evidence against them is that they denounced Hoover's pro- posed world war, and the imperialist | attack on the Soviet Union. They were arraigned Friday be- |fore Judge Rouleau, and are held on $5,000 bonds each. The International Labor Defense has an attorney on the case and will |defend them. Criminal syndicalism carries a long prison term penalty. g Conference on Rent, Housing Tomorrow Urgently Request Volunteers to Report at Tenant League Today and Tomorrow day today and secure information on the fundamental problems of its or- ganizational work. The publicity committee of the League issued the following statement: “To make the landlords reduce rents, the tenants in all working class sections must organize by tens of thousands and refuse to pay the oppressive high rents. In Harlem today rents are not only oppressive, they are outrageous and have re- duced a majority of the people to a state of starvation. Unemployment is increasing and the rent robbery is driving thousands of people fur- ther into the jaws of crime. The courts are clogged with rent raise cases of tenants who are unable to pay the raises. There are over 3,- (Continued on Page Five) id SAIL MOONL I I ni lk UNION CHIEFS IN. - BUILDERS’ GAME Misleaders Silent on! | Offensive Threat |. The epparent apathy shown yes- |terday by chiefs of the Building Trades Council toward the an- jnouncement by the Building Trades |Employers Association on Friday that the latter had called off the five-day week technically granted | Jast May is further evidence that the union fakers will not resist the | offensive planned against union standards. % At the office of Local 3, Electrical | Workers, it was said that H. H. Broach, president of the local and vice-president of the International, | | was away, and that no action would | | be taken until his return. John Hal- | jkett, president of the Building | Trades Council, was also reported | out of the city by Roswell D. Tomp- | lkins, secretary of the Council. 1 | Nor was any word available yes- | | terday concerning the new “arbitra- | | tion” scheme just proposed by the Conference Committee of the Build- ing Industry, a creature of the building trades bosses. It is now becoming increasingly | clear that a vigorous offensive on | union standards is being planned by the building bosses in collaboration | with the officialdom of the Building Trades officialdom. » Toward this end the lockout threat made last | May was deferred until the building ; season would be less active. militant building trades workers de- clare, and warn that the rank and file must organize to resist this at- tack. GRAF READY FOR WORLD FLIGHT Stowaway in Shackles; | To Be Deported | LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 5— The Graf Zeppelin, which is part of | the German empire’s armament and will be used to blow up workers in the impending imperialist war, was | | fueled this afternoon for a flight |around the world. Hugo Eckener, | commander of the war bag. plans to circling the globe in 22 days. While the parasite passengers of |the dirigible, which completed its third transatlantic trip yesterday, were being wined and dined in the Welfare House, a young German worker, Albert Buschkla, who stowed away on the air liner be- cause he wanted to come to Amer- ica, about whose “prosperity” he jhad heard so much, was being hustled to Gloucester, preparatory to deportation. | When he was discovered, he said through an interpreter, Eckener had thrown him in an inside cabin and kept him there with his hands shackled throughout the flight. Upon the ship’s arrival in Lake- burst he was taken to Gloucester | for a hearing and ordered sent back | to Germany. It was learned today that the | owners of the Graf are proceeding with plans for the construction of four new Zeppelins twice the size of the Graf and able to carry three times the load of that war bag. These Zeppelins are to be built at |once. They will be used to help re- store Germany’s place as a com- mercial power in the world markets. | HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COSTUME READY FOR THE MOONLITE |leave Lakehurst Wednesday night, | To Pick Delegates to) Big Cleveland Conference Scrap Craft Unionism Marine Conference to Meet Soon Also Delegates to the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland Aug. 31-Sept. 2 will be elected at the conference of shoe, hide and leather workers called by the Independent Shoe Workers Union in conjunction with the Trade Union Educational League. The conference, to be held this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10 and 11 at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, will take the first step in replacing craft unionism in the shoe industry with militant indus- trial unionism. The conference will also be one of many to be held thru- out the United States in preparation for the formation of a fighting, in- dustrial union of shoe, leather and hide workers, Unity vs, Division. “To be organized on the basis of industrial unionism,” the official call for the conference reads, “means to put an end to the craft form of unionism that divides and pits one worker against the other. “To establish the shop delegate system under the direction of the workers in the shops,” it continues, “means to put an end to the rule of Continued on Page Three) YOUNG PLAN MEET IN PRIOR CLASH 8 Plans of Procedure Show Divided Aims THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. 5— Official representatives of the gov- jernments of England, France, Bel- |gium, Italy, Germany, and unoffici representatives of United States are | here to participate in the battle over | the German war loot, or as it is eu- phemistically stated, to discuss the final adoption of the Young plan. Clash of Empires. Even the question of procedure shows some of the clashing inter- ests. The French delegation, headed by The |Premier Aristide Briand, will insist |the National Textile Workers Union, first blow may be expected soon,|that the conference follow agree-|which gave permission to hold the ment at Geneva last September, which provided that the powers would first accept the Young plan and then take up the question of military evacuation of the Rhineland and establishment of a commission of investigation and conciliation for control of the previously occupied area. The British delegation, of which Philip Snowden, chancellor of the | exchequer, and Arthur Henderson, is said to be willing to agree to evac. uation of the Rhine Valley immedi ately, but unwilling to accept the} Young plan without adjustments. The principal British objection to the plan is that it cuts British repa- long a period for payment of repa- rations by “deliveries in kind.” head of the German delegation, is disposed to accept the Young plan integrally, but only on the condition that the conference first provides |for evacuation and for limitation of the existence of the investigation commission. Funera } Chauffeurs |May Join Walkout of Calvary Gravediggers A strong possibility of a sym- pathetic strike of members of the Funeral Chauffeurs’ Union, who would refuse to take mourners be- yond the cemetery gate, was seen jyesterday following a meeting of striking grave-diggers at. McGarry’s Hall, 69 Greenpoint Ave., Queens. At the same time A. F. of L. of- ficials, disturbed by the persistence and militancy of the 600 or 700 workers on strike at the Calvary Cemetery, were striving to arrange a conference with the trustees of the cemetery for this morning. The men want an increase from an aver- age of $24.20 a week to $7 a day, with double time for overtime. Thanks to a sympathetic health commissioner of the Roman Cath- olic Tammany Hall, the cemetery authorities have been permitted co piace over 40 bodies in temporary twenches. Health Commissioner Wynne stated that this “did not con- CRUISE? stitute a menace to health.” TO EVERY COMMUNIST ! SHOE MEET HERE OFFICIAL USSR COMMUNIST PARTY ORG TOLAY BASIS FOR DECLARES WORLDWIDE SWEEP OF RED DAY INDUSTRIALUNION DEMONSTRATIONS GUARANTEE OF REVOLT | Published in Peki foreign secretary, are the leaders, | ration percentages and provides a meetore | Dr. Gustav Stresemann, at the} AN Says Workers Will Go on From This to Eventual Overthrow of Capital in All Countries; Applauds Militancy Shown in Every Land Demonstrators in American Cities Defy Thugs, Police, Arrests, Gas}; Capitalist Press Outside Immediate Vicinity Suppresses News Chiang Suppresses PRAVDA HAILS AUGUST FIRST MOSCOW, U.S. NEWS OF MORE Chiang Kai-shek has ordered sup- pressed two more newspapers in R., Aug, 2WSs a emonstra- . 7 °. ge News (ob omany |cemonet ~. | |this city, due to his need for con-| | 5" byavda. official orean of \tions, not reported generally in |cealing in the present crisis into th ee pas f Ee t brs t a ties y . : ie a ent has fallen 1e Communist Party of the e capitalist press, continues’ | Which his governmen ate oan SI ay ey I through its subservience to for-, Soviet Union, in an editorial to come to the office of the Daily Worker. Below are re- ports by eye witnesses in many | cities about the country, sent in by mail, and therefore a few) days late, but news, neverthe- eign imperialism, and attack on the U. S. S. R., and the wide- spread work nd peasants’ movement against it. Neither of the papers was a radical, or even a labor paper. Unfortunately for them, they oc- yesterday, draws the lessons of the unprecedented demonstra- tions of workers throughout the world, on August 1, a: perialist war and for the Soviet Union, 1 2 article is en- less, as it has not been reported | |casionally printed facts Chiang puede se Summa a points in the capitalist newspapers trying to hide from the world. eeae nae He ree i a ne te we p . ip neat Shang Chen, Chiang’s| |***@tions, th lass nature o’ : outside of the immediate vicin- ce ene che ids demonstrators, the militancy uni+ ity of the happenings. ing under instructions from| |¢‘Sally shown by the workers par- OF as g, has placed a Chinese| | ticipating, and hails them as a pre- ‘lude to “new international struggles that will lead the proletarian masses to the last great fight of all,” the overthrow of capitalism in all capi- talist countries, The Pravda editorial states: “Tt is already clear that the gust demonstration of the int tional proletariat far surpassed the First of May demonstrations of re- cent y Its salient feature was that it was not limited to capital cities, but spread out into the pro- sor in the office of the Amer- ican owned Peking Leader, to read every scrap of news that in, and stop what isn’t good| politics for Chiang. The French owned Le Journal de Peking is |suppressed outright, and its of- fice occupied by soldiers. At Worcester, Gardner, Fitchburg. WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. 2. (By, Mail). — A meeting was held in Gardner July 30 with two speakers | from the Y. C. L, and Evald Ande son from the Communist Party in Worcester. Five hundred workers attended the meeting. There was no interference from the police. 2 ¢ A meeting was held in Worcester, | Mass., on the corner of Water and Harrison Sts, About 400 workers at- tended the meeting, with no inter- vinces. ference from the police. TARIFF ON SUGAR “The second point is the organized | The meeting in Fitchburg was | character of the movement. It was broken up by the police after it had been going on for a little over an hour and one young Communist was arrested. There was also a demon- stration from the meeting place to the police station, but no arrests. the first serious effort made by the Communist Parties of the world to Smoot Declares Sliding | test their hold on the masses. The Seale ise, pproved Ist of August proved that we Com- munists are the best-organized, best (Continued on Page Five) WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — Sena- tor Reed Smoot of Utah today de- | Another meeting was held here in | Worcester Sunday night, Aug. 4, in clared President Hoover was sup- back of the city hall with Commu-| porting his plan for a “sliding | nist Party and Young Communist 'scale,” a scheme for sliding the League speakers. prices of sugar upward, so that the cost of living will rise a little and the sugar barons, of which Smoot is one, will profit. Police Offer Bribes. FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 2. (By | Mail). — An International Red Day |meeting was held here Friday, Aug. 2 on Liberty Lot which is ow The senate finance committee is ae ssion, rewriting the house) Wicks, Harper Discuss bill on tariff, and Smoot was before them today. in secret s The committee is believed favora- | ; a ‘ Ae 3 PATERSON, August 5 The meeting. ‘The meeting was under ble to the Smoot plan. Poteraon local of the National © jthe auspices of the Communist Party | Fixes High Prices. tile Workers Union held its first pie~ jand the Young Communist League. | | About 600 workers and 50 police and |plain clothes men attended. Before nie yesterday na Roost Park. In spite of bad weather there was good attendance. The Paterson silk The democrats, speaking through Senator Connolly, point out that the 4 4 Smoo s a price fixing meas- ithe meeting started the police were S™0° ea oe Ene ae ees | workers are beginnin: to the [ined Op. in’ frontof thet Job trying |e bY Jecr Ss a DOVSE & ANEONSIE | a tack ota. nablonel intone ikearsanbial a tency as he fought “price fixing” in| 4 dey downed ae eres to intimidate the workers not to go feney as he f stead of the local ot tion they jin, but without success, The meeting | the farm debate . | heretofore had ; |was’ opened by Peter Hagelias, chair- The republicans are reported split Wicks and Harper Speak. nan, who said, “This lot is private on the Smoot plan, Borah and other ‘The speakers were H. M. Wicks, property and only workers are in- former supporters saying sadly they | editor of the Daily We ited to the meeting and not, the cannot see how Mr. Hoover, who| was the leader of the victor bosses’ police.” Immediately Chief Feeny said, Now you keep the police out of this, (Continued on Page Five) | said he was ‘for only moderate | strike of 1924, and Solomon Hare changes, can be in favor of such an! per of the American Negro Labor unpopular thing as higher sugar Congress. Wicks dealt with the re= prices. cent textile struggles and the Gas« tonia murder conspiracy in relation to the imperialist prepar’tions for DON’T FORGET THE MOON- Released; LITE CRUISE FOR THE Nes Bare with the problems of AILY WORKER AUG. 9th. _ the textile industry with special ref- Hand Broken 2 Places ? ene ey cee. | ereneestontner rola oF the Negro BENTON, Il, A _ ante masses. Both ‘speeches met with 2} iS , Aug. 5.—Jael Another Florida Bank reat enthusiasm. Johnstone, whose hand was broken Conditions i Pater: i | c h nd we A ‘onditions in the Paterson mills by police during their raid on the “Fails to Open Doors” are getting worse and there is no August 1 meeting in West Frank- es question that that famous scene of fort, has been released. His right] ‘TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 5.—_| labor struggles will soon |hand was broken in two places, and | : coe The first state bank and trust com-| “4 hak the other hand is swollen. legs pbs he i Tust com-| tion campaign is being conducted | Johnstone was speaking as na-|Pany of Orlando failed to open its) preparatory to insisting upon the tional organizer of the Trade Union | doors today, state banking officials | demands of the union. ° | | Educational League. announced, ; ‘Workers All Set “or Daily's HOOVER PICKS 2 | Moonlite Sail Friday Night TO LEAD PARTY to the fore. An intensive organiza- Affair Will Come Off Rain: or Moonshine; Both Millionaires and Decks of Peter Stuyvesant Covered Exploiters of Labor The fabulous monkeyshines of sea-|drade’s Negro Renaissance Orches-, WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Hoover |men ashore will be put in the shade | tra is guaranteed to titilate the most has summoned the republican party by the landlubbers who take to the tone-deaf ear, even if the dancing | national committee to meet Sept. 9 Hudson this Friday night on the | days of the feet that go with it have | here and accept his choice for chair= Hudson River Day Line steamer, the |long been put behind. jman, to supplant Dr. Work. Re- Peter Stuyvesant, for the Daily | Then there will be an opportunity | ports are that he has selected Worker's moonlite cruise, costume |for those workers who enjoy swim-| Claudius Huston, of Tenn head ball and all-around Red Rout. ming to beat the Saturday night bath|of the Transcontinental Oil Co., of This proletarian affair promises | by taking a plungy in the cool, moon-|the Associated Bond & Share Cor- to afford more gargantuan euioy-|lit waters of the river. And a bath- | poration, owner of three big fac- ment per minute than all of the|ing suit makes as good a costume as | tories in other lines in Chattanooga, current parlor parties, Coney Island | the next. | two Chattanooga banks, president of side shows and high priced musical As the decks of the Peter Stuyve-' the Chattanooga chamber of com- comedies rolled into one, sant are well covered, giving ample | merce, Chattanooga manufacturers’ The costume ball will be a show | protection from inclement weather, | association, and an official in the in itself, while the jazz music con-|the cruise will come off rain or | Lee Highway Association, and Dixie |jured out of the air by Vernon An- (Continued on Page Five) Highway Association, ITE CRUISE UP HUDSON, FRIDAY, AUG. 9; ARRANGED BY DAILY WORKER