The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1929, Page 1

} THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. «| FINAL CITY 3 EDITION °. Sixty Soviet Workers on Far Eastern Railroad Jailed at Jarainor | USSR Foreign Legion Moves to Defend Sibe-. rian Border Against Imperialist Onslaught MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 14.—Confirmation of attacks | by white guardists against Red Army patrols on the Man- churian border with the resultant death of several Red Army soldiers has stirred the masses to countrywide indignation | against this latest outrage by the imperialist powers in their | efforts to seize the Chinese Eastern Ralroad and concentrate} for an invasion of the Soviet®— i Union on the Siberian fron-| DENIES POLITICAL \ tier. | The official government news statement reflects the resentment of the masses. It says: “From the v! Chinese Eastern Railway conflict, and with the direct co-operation of MOVE TO DEPRESS beginning of the | Shop For Metropolitan Auto Workers, Miners Area Conference Active in Preparation For Cleveland Unity Conference BULLETIN. Seventy-five delegates to the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Conference, to be held here Aug. 20, were elected at the monthly Shop Delegates’ Conference of the Union, held last night at Irving Pl: * . Expressing working class solidar- ity with the struggle to organize | the seamen of the United States, into a militant, industrial union, the Pan-Pacific Transport Workers con- ference, now meeting in Vladivos- tock, yesterday sent the following cable, greeting the Atlantic Coast | conefernce of the Marine Workers’ League to be held this Saturday and Sunday at the International Sea- men’s Club, 28 South St. Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial aza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. * Coast. The active solidaity of the seamen of all countries regardless of color is the best guarantee for a victorious fight. “Lee, Secretary, Viadivostock.” cf Meet on Eve of War. The Pan-Pacific Transport Work- ers Conference is being held in con- | junction with the meeting of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretar- iat, which is scheduled to open to- Chinese troops, White guards have systematically fired at our outposts and on the civilian population. “In recent days there have been registered at a number of points sev- eral of our killed and wounded. In- solent White bandits and Chi units, not contented with mere fi ing, attempted at places to cross the boundary line. In the vicinity of Blagoveschensk, the mouth of the Sungari and Lake Chanka, White guards, supported by Chinese troor attacked our frontier guard attacking parties were dispersed determined actions by our troops.” Unconfirmed reports from the Si- berian frontier today state that fighting between Red Army out- posts and White guardists contin- ues, though the latter are being driven back, This accords with the telegram from the Nanking commander at Pogranichnaya to the authorities at Mukden and that the situation is critical and requires reinforcements. Incidentally it shows the co-opera- tion between the White guardists and the Nanking authorities. ia Soa) Jail 60 Soviet Workers. HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 14.— Reports from Manchuli today state that the Soviet Foreign Legion, com- posed largely of Chinese, Buriat and Tatar Red soldiers, has been or- dered to proceed from Verkhne- Udinsk to Kerulun, nearer the Man- churian frontier. At the same time another report states that sixty Soviet workers at the colliery of the Chinese Eastern Railroad at Jarainor were arrested Monday. They are charged with having flooded the mines, TRY COMMUNISTS MONDAY, AUG. 19 Victims of Police At- tack on Rally Two members of the Communist Party were arrested at an election rally at 138th St. and Seventh Ave. last hight while distributing leaf- lets attacking police brutality against Communist Party demon- strations. The rally, which was part of the Coramunist fight for the streets, was under the direction of Richard B. Moore, Party candidate for Con- ¥ gress in the 21st District, Queens. The two workers were Irving Dun- jes, active in the Harlem Tenants’ League, and Fred Taylor. They were taken to the 16th precinct sta- tion at 135th St. between 7th and 8th Aves., where they were charged with disorderly conduct and ordered to stand trial at night court, Sen- tence was not pronounced as this edition of the Daily Worker went to press, he Cees, ee Trial of the seven Communists ar- rested im the police attack on the opening municipal campaign rally of (Continued on Page Five) ANTI-FASCISTS TO HOLD MEET To fight against fascist terror in Italy and fascist penetration in the United States, the Anti-Fascist Al- liance of North America has issued a call for a conference to take place Aug, 19 at the Alliance headquar- ters, 108 E. 14th St., at 8 p. m. The call comes at the time when the American representatives of Mussolini’s government are at- tempting to gain control of the Or- der of the Sons of Italy, the rank and file of which consists largely of workers. To further their plans the fascists are fostering the “pil- (Continued on Page Five) “ BRITISH RATE But Gold Shipments! Due From England WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Offi- cial Washington is busy trying to belittle the intimations in the foreign press that the raise in the New York rediscount rate last week was primarily a political move aimed at forcing the British government to cept the Young reparations plan. Such denials are unconvincing, in view of the fact that there is a con-| sistent policy, jointly carried out by the United States and French back- | ers to beat down the pound sterling to the gold point—that is the point | at which it is more profitable to | ship gold than to hold it. Big Shipments to U. S. Sterling yesterday remained be- jow the gold transfer point and un- less a marked improyement occurs very soon it is certain that there | will be a huge movement of British | gold to Wall Street hymds. Already some $5,000,000 is being'| shipped because of the departure of | fast steamers for this country from British ports. The Majestic sailed today and the Bremen will said to- | morrow. These boats and other | five and a half day boats are utilized to carry gold because the loss of interest is much less during trans- portation than on slower boats. In- | surance costs are also less than on} other boats.: - | | Shipment of gold depends on, money remaining below the trans- fer point and the possibility of ob- | taining fast boats. | | Reply to Snowden. | | The beating down of the pound | sterling is regarded as a reply to| Snowden’s fight against the Young | instrument of |plan, which is an Yankee imperialism. ELECTION RALLY _ ATPARK SUNDAY Press Carnival to be} CP Demonstration “The picnic Sunday, as the open- ing gun of the Com: unist campaign in the municipal elections, should |rally tens of thousands in a work- ing class demonstration against the combined capitalist parties, the |democrats, republicans and_social- ‘ists, who in New York within the | past few years have united in their | attacks upon every strike and dem- lonstration against the bosses,” H. M. Wicks, Communist candidate for president of the board of aldermen declared yesterday in commenting on the Press Carnival arranged by the Daily Worker, to be held Aug. 18 at Pleasant Bay Park. Many of the candidates on the Communist ticket, including Wicks, are scheduled to speak at the carni- (Continued on Page Five) A conference of representatives of Negro organizations and unions of which Negroes are members has been called by the New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party for Tuesday, August 27, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, room 202. The conference is being called to rally the Negro workers in the coming municipal election campaign behind the program of the Commu- nist Party, _ Ina call signed by Rebecca Grecht, - and The cable, sent through the na-'day. This conference assumes un- tional office of the Trade Union usual significance coming as it does Educational League, follows: jon the eve of a threatened imperi- “The Pan-Pacific Transport alist attack on the Soviet Union. The seamen’s conference here will lay the basis for a fighting, indus- (Continued on Page Two) Workers Conference sends frater- nal greetings to the conference of American seamen of the Atlantic An Essential Phase of Revolutionary Struggle Against Imperialism ae military expert on earth recognizes the danger involved in revolutionary propaganda against his war aims. In the series of wars immediately following the great French revolution Napoleon recognized the effectiveness of revolutionary propaganda against the European kings. In the last war this art was developed tremendously im- mediately after the Bolshevik revolution. It was far more effective in undermining the kaiser’s forces than the army of Pershing. : In a period such as the eghent: when new imperialist wars are being prepared and war is actually being waged against the Soviet Union, the importance of revolutionary propaganda cannot be overestimated. One of the best means of aiding the valiant Red Army soldiers who face the class enemy on the Manchurian border is to maintain and strength- en the Daily Worker, the only revolutionary daily in the Eng- lish language. The suspension of the Daily would be a heavy blow against the Red Army defenders of the Soviet Union. These splendid working class soldiers who daily risk their lives on the farthermost borders of the Soviet Union go defiantly to their deaths that the revolution may live. They are ready to sacrifice their lives. You are not called upon to make any sacrifice comparable to theirs. You are only asked to donate funds to aid the. Daily in the present difficult period. Surely you will not refuse to give everything you can possibly obtain in order that imperialist country on earth here in the most reactionary there shall cgatinue to exist a daily paper that will carry on the fight in defense of the Sovet Union, the millions of workers and peasants who are | defending the working class of the whole world in their fight | against the imperialist invaders. Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., New York City. Open French Workers’ Center at Fete Tonicht A celebration will be held tonight to mark the opening of a center for French workers, the Club d’Educa- tion Society. The celebration will take place at 143 E. 108rd St. In cluded in the program is a box- ing exhibition, the singing of French revolutionary songs and dancing to French music. Frank Laurentz will speak on the tasks of a French workers’ center in this country, Defend the Revolutionary Press. Come to the Press Carnival. To Hold Election Campaign ‘Meet of Negro Bodies Aug. 27 Conference in New York Will Rally These Workers Behind Communist Program campaign director of the Party, and Harold Williams, Negro director of the New York district, each organ- ization is asked to send three dele- gates to the conference. The call states: “The workers of New York City,| black and white, are again being called upon to participate in the municipal and state elections. It is now the task of every Negro work- ers’ organization to decided which party, which platform, which candi- (Continued on Page Two) ISSUE CALL 10 WORKING WOMEN Urge Elections to 2nd Metropolitan Meet A special call to the women work- ers of New York and New Jersey, |urging them to elect delegates to |the Second Metropolitan Trade Union Center Conference, Aug. 20, at Ir- ving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., has just been issued by the Wom- en’s Department of the Metropolitan Trade Union Center. Fifteen thousand copies of this call have already been distributed to unorganized and organized workers jin many basic industries, shops and | stores. Terrible Conditions. | Calling attention to the unbeliev- able conditions of speed-up, low wages and long hours, the call de- clares that “women in New York and New Jersey toil from 9 to 12 hours a day for an average weekly wage of from $12 to $20, despite our so-called minimum wage and 48- hour week laws in New York.” It declares further: “No govern- mental provision is made for rest periods, for time-off preceding and after childbirth, for unemployment insurance, Poisoned air for silk and chemical workers, wet floors for laundry workers, the ‘stretch-out’ system for textile workers—these ‘are the conditions under which thou- | sands of women work.” More and more women are being (Continued on Page Five) Gate Meets in New York and New Jersey Convince Employers of Iner Value of Arbitration To Break Walkout Chairman “Impartial” MacDonald Hides; An Aide Does Dirty Work rmment again demonstrated its fitness to “run the empire,” when, after feverish caucusing with both employers’ associations its members convinced the textile chiefs that their proposed arbitration terms were the real weapons with which to smash the strike. Their imme- & LONDON, Aug. 14—The labor | eased Police Force Using Guns, Bombs; Fight Continues Stressed in Appeal BS ere eee zs aces aies, anager aac 2 atl e k wie a VG Ws NO TIT (cn, cooks tees Fe re ere realy maining NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1929 Fee ear eas an baiee rae Price 3 Cents = = == = ——a oe = a wn a — San" WAVE OF ANGER SWEEPS OVER THE Pan-Pacific Seamen Heil LABOR RULERS FIVE MORE SHOT SAVE GASTONIA PRISONERS, SOVIET UNION AS WHITE GUARDS Marine Conference Here; PUSH BETRAYAL IN NEW ORLEANS DEMANDS CALL OF RED AID INVADE; SAY FIGHTING CONTINUES lan Meet on West Coast OF MILL STRIKE MASS RALLIES INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE Yo Repetition of Sacco-Vanzetti Murder Is to World’s Workers To Enforce Ordinance Raleigh Convention Adjourns; Many Delegates Hear Melvin Speak at Mass Meeting Attack Police Captain | Who Shot Four NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 14.— Street car tracks were dynamited to- day and the rigorous demonstration | of over 50,000 car strikers and sym- | pathizers, which began yesterday, continued all day, despite the re-| pulses and armed attacks of federal, | state and city forces. Guns, gas | bombs and night sticks were in con- diate object is to get the 500,000) stant use. Five more men were re- workers back to the mills by Fri-| ported shot. day. Members of the City Council Trade union disciples of the Mond | fought their way through a resent- plan for “industrial peace” are zeal- (Wireless B MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 14 ing wave of working class prot y Inprecorr) Declaring that a mount inst the electrocution of est sixteen leaders of the Gastonia textile strikers must stay the national Red Aid today world. | hand of the mill owners’ hangmen, the Executive of the Inter- issued an appeal to the workers of the The appeal cites that the sixteen strike leaders are on trial for their lives for daring to r for which they stand accused There follows a description ist capitalism, that the crime that they led the Gastonia | workers in their struggle for a minimum wage, an eight-hour |day and recognition of the union. of the events in Gastonia. ously cooperating with the govern- ment and the mill owners to work out a constitution for the proposed arbitration, which will lay down the basis for the sell-out. Their main fight will be to trick the workers back to the mills ven before the arbitrators present their first re-| port. At the same time, while he is one of the directing forces of the sell- out, Ramsay MacDonald is discreet | enough to try to keep his strike-| breaking role in the background by | (Continued on Page Two) TORONTO POLICE CHARGE MEETING Seven Arrested in Free | Speech Fight TORONTO... Ont., Aug. 14 Queen’s Park was again the scene of a fierce class battle when mounted police and motorcyclists savagely charged a free speech demenstra- tion led by the Communist Party. Seven workers were arrested, five of whom were later freed on $200 bail each on charges of “disorderly conduct.” One woman was charged with vagrancy. When Jack MacDonald, party lead- er, who recently ran for local office in a free speech campaign, defied police orders and commenced speak- ing to the workers, police madly charged the crowd of several thou- sand. Clubs, fists and feet were used brutally to beat down the stubborn resistance of the workers and even on bystanders who moved too slow- ly for the police. One indignant re- porter for the capitalist press was taken to the station when he tried to “remenstrate” with a plainclothes- man. MacDonald was kicked and struck several times. The demonstration was charged in the same fashion as the Internation- al Red Day gathering on Aug. 1, when 10,000 workers were ‘“dis- persed” by mounted police under the direction of the local loyalist police chief Draper. Draper who has the zealous backing of local orange lodges and the conservative “Mail and Empire,” the self-styled inde- pendent “Globe,” and the jingoist “Telegram,” is largely responsible for the campaign of repression against workers’ organizations which began early this year. Meet Tomorrow Will Hear of Job Trust in The Building Trades The “job trust” in the building trades will be one of the subjects dealt with at the meeting of build- ing trades workers to be held to- morrow night in Irving Plaza hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The close alliance between the misleaders of the Building Trades Council and the Building Trades Employers’ Associa‘ion, whose czar — Norman, reigns supreme, will also be aired at the meeting which is called by the Building Trades Section of the Trade Union Educa- tional League. What is the corrupt building trades officialdom doing about the ever-incre: What is it doing about the ever- increasing speed-up which daily takes its toll of workers in the form of industrial accidents? These will be some of the ques- tions answered at the meeting to- morrow where speakers will point out that only by the creation of building and job committees can the building trades workers take the situation into their own hands, Pleasant Bay Park, Sunday, | streets, that all persons involved in |down the canyons of Wall Street ful crowd on their way from the | City Hall building after they had | strengthened the ordinance desig- | nated as a strike-breaking measure to clear the streets of jitneys for the Public Service, Inc., fleet of busses and street trolleys. Blows | were exchanged freely. Acting Mayor Walmsley hurriedly wtihdrew from a restaurant in a downtown hotel when crowds booed and hissed him, | Courts Aids Employers. | The federal courts in session to- day are co-operating with the coun- cil and the Publie Service Corpora- tion by imposing sentences for viola- | tion of the injunction against inter- ference with the company’s service. Judge Rufus W. Foster dealt out six- | month sentences to William Clay, 20, ; and Emile Messano, and a number | of other sentences of varying | lengths. The City Council ruled that after | roon tomorrow, all jitney drivers post $5,000 bonds or clear the | yesterday’s demonstrations face prosecution, that en investigation of | (Continued on Page Five) | SACCO MEETS TO HELP GASTONIA Murder Anniversary to Aid Defense Workers of American will sound a tremendous warning that will echo | August 22, on the second anni-| versary of Sacco-Vanzetti’s execu- tion, that the crime against labor will not be repeated at Gastonia. Preparations will be made for the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief | Campaign drive, Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 at these meetings. With the message of protest aflame in the minds of the working class, fifty thousand men, women and children will come direct from their shops, factories and homes | Aug. 22 to gather in Union Square | at five o’clock in New York. Many of the workers having heard the eloquent addresses made by the two women defendants in New York (Continued on Page Five) ISSUE 100,000 SACCOLEAFLETS One hundred thousand leaflets will be distributed among the workers of New York during the coming week calling on them to attend the big Sacco-Vanzetti me- morial demonstration that will be held in Union Square next Thurs- day, Aug. 22, at 5 p. m. This dem- onstration, which ::, being arranged by the New York District of the (Continued on Page Five) Pick 75 Needle Delegates to Metropolitan Area Meet Hyman Reports at Shop Delegate Conference; | ‘Back Reception to U.S.S.R Fliers Joining with thousands of other workers in New York and New Jer- sey, the monthly Shop Delegates’ Conference of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, meeting in Irving Plaza hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl., last night elected 75 del- egates to represent the union at the Second Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Conference to be held here next Tuesday evening, Aug. 20, Aug. 18. Fifth Ave. busses will take you The conference, which will be J to the park from the sub. station, held at Irving Plaza hall, will be at-| ae ee et ee az “Two years ago,” the appeal states, “American capitalism. executed Sacco and Vanzetti after seven years of torture. Now the American textile barons want to railroad these sixteen strike leaders to the same electric chair. “The Gastonia case is of tremendous importance, because American capitalism wishes to show the European capitalists how best to defeat the growing tide of working class resist- ance.” “Workers of the world, protest,” the appeal continues, “The protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was not strong enough. The present wave of protest must stop the hand of the hangman. Therefore the Executive of the Inter- national Red Aid appeals to the workers throughout the world to organize a mighty campaign to secure the release of these sixteen American workers. In meetings, demonstrations and through the working class press, the workers must protest this crime.” “Remember Sacco and Vanzetti “Save the Sixteen from Electrocution !”’ ym * . . By LISTON M. OAK. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 14.—Every rank and file delegate of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor Convention received a copy today of the resolution calling for solidarity with the arrested textile lead-* ers and support of their de- fense which Sophie Melvin was not allowed by the bureaucrats to present. Although the convention adjourned this afternoon, many dele- gates are staying over to hear Mel- vin, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Dewey Martin and C. W. Saylors speak at LAND OF SOVIETS FORCED DOWN IN After refusing the floor first to, Melvin and later to Dewey Martin and C, W. Saylors yesterday, the} bureaucrats tried to adjourn for ex-| No News of 4 Fliers Since Sunday ‘rank and file defeated this move and ecutive session in order to exclude} the left-wingers from the hall. The finally forced through a resolution demanding justice for the Gastonia defendants. | Two Negro delegates, represent-| ing the Common Laborers’ Union of Winston-Salem, were Jim-crowed. Although more than 65 per cent of the organized tobacco workers in this state are Negroes, they did not | have a single delegate at the con- |vention. There were no women or young worker delegates present. | | Whenever Negroes were mentioned, it was with contempt, especially by | Hoffman. Invite MacDonald. Ramsay MacDonald was invited to visit North Carolina by the federa-| tion, in case he visits this country, | since a great kinship is felt by the | A. F. of L. for the head of the “la-| | bor” government which is busily en- |gaged at present in breaking the | textile strike there. With every assurance to the cap-| italists and the state of its support, | and after a chaplain elected for the purpose bestowed the blessing of the church upon their efforts to aid the bosses solve their labor problems, the convention adjourned, Leaflets asking — and answer- nig — “Why does the American Federation of Labor refuse to sup- port the 23 Gastonia textile work- | ers whom the cotton mill barons \ (Continued on Page Five) tended by delegates representing thousands of organized and unor- ganized workers, It will, in turn, select representatives to the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, where a new, militant trade union center will be formed. Hyman Speaks. Louis Hyman, president of the In- | dustrial Union, spoke on the pres- lent situation in the industry after MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 14.—~ The world-girdling flight of the monoplane Land of the Soviets, bound for New York from Moscow, has been brought to a halt by a forced landing 170 miles from Ir- kutsk, Siberia. It is not known whether any of the four airmen abroad have been injured, nor whether the all-metal, bi-motored plane has been damaged to such an extent as to prevent continuance of the flight. Tass, official Soviet news agency, said that the Land of the Soviets had come down in a wild, uninhabit- (Continued on Page Two) Workers who can spare an hour lor more to help in the work lof preparing for the reception of | the Soviet flyers now en route | |to New York are requested to’ report after 10 a. m. at 175) | Fifth Ave., Room 30 Meet Monday to Build ‘Strong ILD in Harlem The Inter-Racial Branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a special membership meeting Monday night at 7:30, at 235 W. 129th St. to formulate conerete plans for building a large branch of the I. L. D. in Harlem. During the past month acts of brutality to Negro workers by the |Harlem police and discrimination against Negroes have increased, Several election campaign meetings of the Communist Party have been broken up and speakers arrested. In view of these attacks all Harlem workers are urged to give all possi- ‘ble aid in building up a strong |branch of the International Labor — Defense, which ‘s defending all those arrested. FLYING JINGO ABLAZE MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Aug. 14.— While his plane was burning 5,000 feet in the air and after his clothes ‘had been torn away, Lieut. Barr, of the army air forces, saved his life by a parachute leap at Selfridge Field here late yesterday. A whole day of fun and enter+ | Harry Berlin reported on the plans (Continued on Page Five) pivasanewieg tainment Sunday, Aug. 18, Pleas ant Bay. Park. 4