The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 1

oe TOMORROW IS MOONLITE CRUISE NIGHT; THERE ARE ONLY TWELVE HOURS LEFT TO TO BUY, TICKETS Baily =2 Entered as secona- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ans matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y EW YORK, THUR SDAY, AUGUST | 8, 1929 pecekeg eee under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily e Company, Inc., % <a n New York. by mall, $5.00 per year. side New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. Rat Vol. Vol. VI. D No. STIMSON STAYS IN HIDING WHEN WAR PLOT IS EXPOSED Bosses, Press Turn to A; E.L.1n Effort to Kill Charlotte Conference WON'T BE QUESTIONED ON SCORES OF MASS AND LOCAL MEETIN AND UNION GS PREPARING ‘Right Wing Betrayers ~NEW NATIONAL RUMANIA MINERS SECRET NOTE TO POWERS . _ Watch Struggle of Daily: yytq yun TO HOLD ELECTRIC TO INTERVENE IN U.S.S.R. READER who sends in a contribution tells us the right wing leaders watch closely the fight that is being waged | FOR CHARLOTTE 6 by the Daily Worker to keep alive. They held a conversation | Conference Inaugurates Great Drive to Fight | Slave-like Conditions, Raise Wages | Hundred Thousand Leaflets and Ten Thousand | Stickers Distrib (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. uted Broadeast 7.—Organizer Hugo Oehler| pointed out today to a conference of the local Youth Section) of the National Textile Workers’ Union that a concerted ef-| fort was being made in the Southern press to divert the union movement and rising wave of activity among the textile workers | to put an end to the slave-like conditions and increase ‘wages, away from the left wing union* atid towards the A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers. the same time there is an made to obscure all issues ane ty the Bessemer Conference-by blam- ing the republican administration for bad conditions and “inhuman! and archaic” practices of the mill owners. Speeches praising the “American ideals of democracy and christian- ity” of the A. F. of L. and appealing for cla8s collaboration, made by Jett Lauck before the Institute of Public Affairs now in.session at the University of Virginia, are featured at_gréat length in the Gastonia Gazette and the other Southern papers. Oehler pointed out that the mit owners and the capitalist class gen- erally are turning to the A. F. of L. to save them from the militant} left wing unionism which threatens to organize all the textile workers in the South in a strong movement to abolish present conditions. * Organizers On Tour. William Murdock, together with | the local organizers, Stevens, Phifer, Rich and three others, left tuday to | tour South Carolina and Georgia. They will do the pioneer work in many mill towns, organize locals and secure delegations to the con- ference to be keld in -Charlotte, N.! C., Oct. 12 and 13. They will mobilize the mill work- | ers in these states for the general movement of struggle which will be launched at the Charlotte confer- ence. At the same time they are Sel ing the textile workers to the port of the defense of the 23 . bers of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union, warning the workers that a change of venue does not mean a fair trial, but is merely a gesture (Continued on Page Three) <8 KILLED WHEN INDIA STRIKERS BATTLE POLICE Latiaahive e Str ike | Spread to Woolen Mills | CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 7.—In| a fierce battle between mass pickets | 7 numbering thousands and the British ‘police and jute mill company watch- men at Naihati, near Calcutta, eight were killed and several score wound- The strike of 200,000 jute mill |workers is growing. The workers are fighting the 60 hour week and reduction of wages. MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 7./ —The s of the half million | | British cotton mill-operatives is still] |solid, with nearly 2,000 “mills tied} |up, and the reactionary officials of | the Amalgamation of Cotton Spin- ners and Operatives (the union) balked in their plan to accept a five per cent wage cut instead of the twelve and a half per cent ordered | by the bosses. The workers stand (Continued on Page Three) BERGER DIES OF ACCIDENT INJURY Famous Right Winger | In Socialist Party MILWAUKEE, Wis., August 7.— Victor Berger, recently defeated when he ran for Congress on the socialist ticket, died today as the result of injuries received in a car} pean three weeks ago, Berger was born in 1860 in Aus- HARLEM HOUSING CONFERENCE ON Many Delegates Speak Budapest, came to America and be-| at Tenant League Meet. jcame a store keeper. After the so- | (Continued on Page Five) | 50th St. and four others at the on the subject that was overheard by our reader. They are preparing to raise funds to start a daily, an official organ of treachery and betrayal of the working class, the moment we suspend. Thus far we have been able to defeat their hopes. We will not leave the field free to these agents of the employers | if it is at all possible to avoid it. But we must admit that results yesterday were not of a nature to assure our continuation of the Daily. Only $100 came in when at least $500 must come in daily to meet the present difficulties. We are perfectly frank with our readers and supporters. We would consider it a crime not to tell you the actual facts. Over-optimism, the illusion that the Daily can pull through some how, caused our suspension once. Another such sus- pension will be fatal to the paper and will give the enemy the opportunity they are waiting for. We know that many of you have contributed your share. Those of you who have given all you can should get others to do likewise. Those of you who have not done so should contribute at once. Aid at this critical time is more helpful than when we are in better condition. Act today because we tell you plainly that tomorrow may be too late. . Wire or send your contribution special delivery at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. Young Communist International Assails Right) The following cable has been received from the Young Com- munist Internatioral by the Young Communist League of | | the United States, dealing with | TO REAL FIGHT the anti-Comintern opposition in the League and the anti- Party and League statement presented by Rubenstein, Silvis, | Lurye and Welsh on the C. I. | Address and Lovestone’s expul- | sion: “We consider the intolerable struggle against Comintern de- | cisions and will aid new meas- | ures carrying them out. We | propose NEC put categorically question to supporters docu- ment signed Rubenstein, etc., because support of document | | incompataible with League membership.” GRAVEDIGGERS T0 PICKET CHURCHES: As the strike of the taxi drivers | | which started in the Bronx Mon- | day night spread yesterday, the Taxi Chauffeurs’ Union of Greater New York issued a call to the men warn- |ing them that the aim of their leaders, working with the small taxi| |owners, was to form a company union. At the same time, they urged mittees for a real struggle against grievances ‘of the call said, |so-called union were attempting to utilize the fighting temper men for the purpose of preventing the building up of a militant organ- lization. taxi drivers, Tie up 500 Cabs. The strike which yesterday had| tied up over 500 cabs, particularly in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, “Picket committees were selected |has affected the Paramount Cab Co. at a meeting of Calvary cemetery | garage, at 1341 Garrison Ave.; the strikers held yesterday afternoon in (Continued on Page Five) McGarry’s hall, Queens. enemy eerie ee Four will picket in front of St.| Patrick’s* cathedral, Fifth Ave. and Calvary executive offices, Park Ave. and 52nd St. The cemetery’ is un- of the| WILL BUILD NAT'L | the German dirigible Graf Zep- Three hundred and forty delegates | representing the Communist Party, the American Negro Labor Labor Congress, the United Councils of Working Class Women and many other labor and fraternal organiza- tions last night opened the confer- ence on rent and housing called by the Harlem Tenants’ League at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. The response to the conference call was such that the enthusiastic meeting determined to call a mon- ster mass meeting at the same place at. 7:30 o'clock tonight. At the same time the conference issued an urgent plea for volunteers to distribute papers and handbills to broadcast the announcement and purpose of tonight’s mass meeting. Resentment of thousands of Ne- gro and white working class tenants of Harlem against boss greed, in the form of grinding rents and mis- erable treatment in overcrowding * (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) Moonlite Cruise Tomorrow to. Swell $50,000 Campaign Fund Pleasant Duty of Every Revolutionary Worker To Buy Tickets, Help Save the Daily One day to go! While in the publicity given to the Daily Worker’s moonlite cruise and costume ball we have played up the hilarious time which will be had by the workers who board the ‘steamer Peter Stuyvesant at the foot of West 42nd St. tomorrow night, there is a serious side to the affair that should ‘not be overlooked, It is almost two months since the Daily, suddenly brought up against a financial cris’-, began waging a joint campaign with the Communist Party for a $50,000 emergency fund. Of this sum less than $14,000, one- half of which goes to the Party, has been collected to date, Instead of the $1,000 daily set as the minimum figure required to save the life of the only English language labor newspaper, we have been forced to scrape along on $1,- 000 a week, or not enough to meet the ordinary expenses of the paper, eee on Page Five) Big Conference Here) Saturday, Sunday Delegates from shoe factories in | Buffalo, Binghamton, | Rochester, ern cities and from many shops in Greater New York will be present at the conference of shoe and leather workers, to be held this Saturday and Sunday in Irving Plaza, 15th St. jand Irving Pl. | heing called by the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New | York and vicinity, in co-operation | with the Trade Union Educational League. Build Industrial Union. This conference will lay the basis for the building up of a fighting, industrial union in the United States, (Continued on Pave Five) ‘SHOE UNION SOON | way—the -scheduled path of the | Philadelphia, Boston and other east- | EP FLIGHT IS BLOW AT BRITAIN The conference is | | | HAGKMEN CALLED. hag Chauffeurs Union that the automobile industry is one | Warns of Boss Outfit . the drivers to organize garage com-| | |the small as well as the large fleet | ing advantage of the genuine | the | the sponsors of the new| | _ BEFORMED SOON PLANT ALL NIGHT: ‘Detroit Conference to/Shut Off ‘Liehits; Stop, Send Delegates to Pumps, Cut Power Cleveland Meet To Mine ine Cages |“Speed- -up, W: ; Wane Cuts” | ‘More Troops I Rushed In Workers Are Resisting 4,000 Strike Against Boss Offensive Wage Reductions (Special to the Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich. Avg. 7.—The call for the preliminary conference for the organization of a National Auto Workers’ culated by the thousands by the Auto Workers’ Union, Local 127, Union is being cir- | (Wireless By “Inprecorr’”) BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 7. —Reports from the Lubeny mining |district show that the movement} there was very militant. Over 4,- |000 miners struck on Aug. 5 agai ‘Proposal Was to Seize Chinese Eastern, and Then “Investigate” as Excuse for War | Underlings Admit Secret Note Handed to Five Ambassadors: Isvestia Scores Scheme | = | WASHINGTON, iit 7 ecretary of State Stimson con- tinued to remain in hiding today. Newspaper correspondents | wished to question him about the note he sent to England, Ger- many, France, Italy and Japan, suggesting joint action to in- tervene in Manchuria, place a direct representative of foreign [ipo ae in control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and US.S.R, WORKERS DONATE WAGES * conduct an inquiry into the dis- pute between China and the Soviet Union basis for propaganda against the U. S. S. R. and a preliminary to armed assault upon that coun- as a la large |the new scale of wages, which in- volve a reduction. They occupied the electrical station all night, and |held the district without lights. ‘They | stopped all the‘pumps and the cages | in the shafts by cuttine off the power. Troops sent from outside the dis- lire: eseutieds ae padtertay! aad Be a series of aggressions provoked the collisions during which many miners | were killed and wounded. | and the Trade Union Educational |League. This conference, which |will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, at | |1_p. m. in the Auto Workers’ Hall, | 3782 Woodward Ave., Detroit. will lelect delegates to the Trade Union Unity Convention in Cleveland Aug. |81 to Sept. 3. The Detroit conference is one of number being arranged throughout the United States. Oth- include conferences of metal | miners, marine transport, textile | and workers in various other indus- | Fa THOUSANDS WILL Destroys Workers. j Pointing out that a fierce com- PROTEST ATTACK : petitive struggle between the giant automobile corporations for the con- Great Mass Me Meeting at |; Ashland Auditorium i} trol of the auto market brings about a merciless onslaught on the conditions of the workers, with speed-up, wage cuts and lahe |placing devices, the call declar CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Thousands | of workers will attend a huge mass |meeting of Chicago workers Fri-| |day ‘which will be .held to pro- \test against the police brutality shown at the anti-war, meetings here last week. The meeting will be! | held at Ashland Auditorium, Ash- |land and Van Buren. ard work- SOVIET FLIERS Fascists Slander Crew; |t¢ Working Women's ss, Saleem Lies Nailed |have called on their members to at- tend the meeting. Speakers will in- \clude Jack Johnstone, organizer for (Continued on Page Five) BUL TIN. Bees : . |the ‘Trade ion Educational MOSCOW, Aug. 8—The big |League, who was arrested in West two-motored airplane “Land of | Frankfort, Ill, on Aug. 1 while Soviets” departed early today for |speaking at an anti-war meeting, |and Clarence Hathaway, also of the |T. U. EB. L. The workers in shops and’ fac- tories are discussing the brutal at- tack against the workers at Union Park on August 1st demonstration. This second attac’ in the last few Omsk, en route to New York by way of Alaska. ‘ The plane, manned by four S iet fliers, left the military f field at 2:50 a. m. (7:50 p. m. Wednesday, est.). The departure for Omsk,*on the TO 5-YEAR PLAN ‘Use try. But Stimson’s subordinate state department offices r solutely to say where he was. admitted they were under orders Gravel. Holiday | conceal his whereabouts. For Industrialization | one serene, | The under officers left at th department insisted they had n ing to say, officially, but uno ly, they admitted: that a note sug- gesting joint action in the Man- churian situation was given the (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. |Yesterday was Industrialization Day, in accordance with the decision of the Soviet Union labor unions, baenndoresct th t which decided to make this church | 44¢ se - Hi Clie holiday into a useful demonstration | minister, : the Five Year, Plan of Indus- |trialization. ae when they were called to- | gether at the office of the secretary jof state, July.25. They stated, of Work was carried on in all fac-|course, that the exposure of it | tories, shops, mines, and transpor- | printed in Moscow papers was tation systems throughout the coun- | “garbled.” y, and the workers donated their ie ’s wages to the industrialization of the country. All reports show that the work was conducted everywhere with the areas greatest enthus Only in very isolated cases was the labor disci- At the time of the conference with Stimson, the press took notice of the |delivery of a secret note, calling it an “aide memgire.” Isvestia Scores Intervention. pline infringed, |_ uOsCOW, 1 R., Aug. 7.— |In addition to the exposure of the In the evening meetings were held See : e at which the speakers described the (Continued on Page Five) significance of the Five Year Plan, pointing out’ that its purpose is to make the Workers Socialist Father- land a really industrial country, to make possible the reduction of hours PORTER WRITES of work still farther, and to in- } of goods needed by workers and | peasants. ane Hails Gaston Pri isoners MEXIGAN SENATE "Fm tasvnon in Leavenworth Prison pane young soldier who fought in the Irtish River at the confluence of the Om River in Akmolinsk proy- ince, was delayed 50 minutes past the scheduled starting time due to last-minute preparations of the | fliers. As it happened, the four Soviet aviators got away on .their pro- jected trip of some 12,400 miles only some four hours earlier than pelin was due to depart from Lakehurst, N. J., on its imperialist flight around the world. The dir- igible will follow—in a general “Land of Soviets” across Siberia | and the Pacific Ocean to America. The scheduled route for the flight calls for a trip of some 12,- (Continued on Page Five) Preparations for the dirigible Graf Zeppelin’s round the world ad- vertising flight include active ‘par- ticipation of the U. S. navy, it was made known yesterday, just before the ship was to take off from Lake- hurst for Friedrichshafen. The ship will be moored in Los Angeles at a Oona on Page Five) weeks, was arranged by the Chicago police against the workers. The Chi- cago police are determined to break up ever: street meeting and demon- stration arranged by the Commu- (Continued on Page Five) CATHOLIC DUTCH GOVT. AMTERDAM, (By Mail).—The Catholic leader Ruys has formed a! | government based upon a coalition of the confessional bourgeois parties. Active members of the Needle} Trades Workers Industrial Union will meet tonight in Webster Hall, plans for the forthcoming’ organiza- | tion drive among the dressmakers | and also to take steps to meet the| the “International,” the company union of the manufacturers, against workers enrolled in the Industrial | Union. The latest victim of Schlesinger- have not been able to dim the | fighting spirit of John Porter, the Pass Gil’s Amendment | To Centralize Power MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7—The na- tional senate yesterday passed the veious centralization bill for the Portes Gil government, giving it the jright to form a labor code that | would supersede and nullify the state laws, many of which are rather liberal. The Mexican constitution at pres- | vanguard of the New Bedford tex- / tile strike last year. The follow- } ing is a letter from him: Cay wer 3 |Dear Comrades: My long silence was due to the fact that I have been carefully |watched and, therefore, was unable to write. By no means does this long silence constitute the right for jyou all to think that this was due jto lack of militancy, for it was not, Active Members of Industrial Union Hold Meeting Tonight \Assault on Jacobs, Organization Drive of ‘0 the demonstrations held in Wash- | Dressmakers Will Be Taken Up ith St. and Third Ave., to map fut hims last Friday. gangster attacks being, launched by | doubtful whether he would live. ; - Will Never Desert Workers. (Continued on Page Five) | Dear comrades, forever I shall | maintain class solidarity. I would rather face a firing squad than to \give up my fight for the emancipa- tion of the toiling masses. The first attempt of the authorities here to compel me to yield was to club me | but realizing this brutality was con- tested by the working class and due ington, D. C., they decided that it would be advisable for them to dise | continue brutal efforts to foree me ‘Dubinsky gangsterism is Jack Ja-| © become a capitalistic patriot. |eobs, the cutter whose skull was | _ Brutality in Jail. leracked following an attack upon | Their second , attempt was ta At Bellevue hos- | fame charges against me and inju- |pital yesterda Jacobs: was w the day before, and that it was still | it was reported that |iciously take away 10 days of my vse than he had been {200d conduct time, Seeing that this s brutal attempt failed, on Feb, they framed more charges and Continued on Page Four 21 Hearing Today. The two thugs who were arrested| | : following the attack upon Jacobs | HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COSTUME will come up for hearing in Jeffer- | READY FOR THE MOONLITE (Continued on Page Five) CRUISE? LABOR TO GREET 3 GASTONIA DEFENDANTS MONDAY; FOSTER, ENGDAHL, .William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union’ Educational League, who has just returned from Gastonia, will ‘be one of the speakers who will greet Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin, the three women defendants in the’ Gastonia case, at the big welcome ‘being arranged for them in Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., -Monday night, The welcome will be held under the auspices of | \ the New York District of the International Labor Defense, the Workers. International Relief’and the National Textile Workers Union. The three women, who were originally charged with first degree | murder, have now been released on $5,000 bail each, the charge against them having been changed to second degree murder. Thy are coming north for a tour of various cities in behalf of the national defense oo Paign of the IL. Dy Qther cities in which they will } Washington, Friday, Aug. 9; Philadelphia, Saturday, Aug. 10; New | Bedford Sunday, Aug."11; Lawrence, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 13; Pater- son, N. J., and Providence, RI, Wednesday, Aug. 14; Passaic, N. J, and Allentown, Pa,, Thursday, ‘Aug. 15. Other speakers at the big demonstration in New York, in addition REID, HYMAN TO. SPEAK Textile Workers Union; Louis Hyman, president of the Needle Workers Industrial Union; Ludwig Landy, national organizer of the Workers International Relief; Charles Alexander, Negro director of the Young Communist League; and a member of the Young Pioneers. The meeting will also protest against the imprisonment of Harry to Foster and the three defengants, will be J. Louis Engdahl, national Ji it i Eisman, 14-year-old Pioncer, in a reformatory because he participated “ bean 2 oo i