The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRI Playing the War Game With Sinister Purpose CHILD KILLED BY, SCAB TROLLEY: FIGHT CONTINUES. | New Orleans A.F. of L. | Hits at Strikers (Continued 7 | | m Page One) took Bl char and gh throughout s intention of 2 caused by the= -corpc z inexperi- enced scab m ne charge | \s the / motorman will be | inged t hter, the po! later dec n atempt te pease: public has been tak Part y the com Court Aids Bosses. THEL Steel Trust Head Shoots Same Old Bunk as Schwab | BY ROBERT W. DUNN Ed Fonerett ecutive Board o: { “Bos you vote or you no ggod;” | union, was give : : . on, was giv z ie eridecenae eC Bertie of the steei trusts tense Joe von, a striking. con Johnstone Schwab, Pres. Eugene G. Grace of | Lackawanna plant in Buffalo told aera reese ves. a) etmlae tae Speak Today he Bethlehem Steel Co. in another | inquiring labor reporters about this Giitawolatine the federal injunction | co . ! icity dout shoots the | “industrial democracy plan.” Such | * eee een Z n (Connnued from: Pape One) nk about employ Sal eaery are even less free than the | seer - 7 = i i i ships. res: .|one Anierican marines recently su- |; breaking maneuvers, await trial. and Nels Kjar, which will be fol-| PHA DSss pe Same DEALS : 1 ave been | Pervised with bayonets and gunboats in Nicaragua. One man was given ten days for |lowed by general discus vt | jers did not ‘give’ this | as the Gastonia Gazette, the Char- shouting “scab.” fficials of the American Federa- tion of Labor called on the City Council today, disclaiming all r sponsibility for the militant opposi- tion to the strike-breaking tactics of the company and council, and de- clared that the strikers are violating their orders, dent of Police Theodore utized 200 more men this afternoon, and ordered that every man in uniform must be equipped with a night stick. EFFICIENCY’ IS TRUST'S SLOGAN Insures Destruction of Small Fruit Men ‘Application of “big business effi- ciency” methods to the marketing | of the fruit and vegetable crop was again promised by Arthur R. Rule, wealthy fruit distributor, speaking for the $50,000,000 United Growers of America, newly organized for the purpose of forcing out small proflucers to leave a huge trust in| unchallenged control of the market. | While the Federal Farm Board at Washington tactically “disassociat- ed” itself from the new trust, it is| known that the board backed the| | ’ "| informing the world that Bethlehem | “lauds its workers.” the floor. 3 senting needle trad shops, me trades, factories and railroad shops Pointing out that Bethlehem has | are expected to be in attendance. | been ning for many months at) They will especi y| More than its rated capacity, Boss | in organizing sh Grace congratulates workers who | Bethlehem stock on the fact stock is now—after five 9 recommonce payment of | Gate Meet boug The Trade Unic Educational League is holding a series of open air meetings in front of the fac- tory gates h ES) ful meet- ings already have been held in front | ; Factory achievements are described | ng from “a cooperative re- | ip between employer and em- of the Harvester plant and the Datalie Guttiee : devices—company union, employe | stock ownership, thrift plans—are | passed out, with customary unction was explained, also the importance of the Trade Union Unity Confer- ence. Many ‘kers have joined}: . re the, Trade Union Educational |in the trust’s free advertising blurb. Teengiie’ tiene testing! | Behind the periodical glorification jof these factory handcuff schemes | certain stark facts remain as before: 1, Eugene Grace and Charlie Schwab are still the implacable en- | emies of union labor, and are the | same men who repudiated the Jack- sonville agreemens with the miners | union, * «* «& Hall, Johnson, Speak Today. | Otto Hall, head of the Negro de- partment of the Trade Union Edu- cational League, and Jack John-| stone, national organizer of the T. U, E. L., will speak at a mass meet- | oe ae ree ee Gunmen employed by this com- trict today (Friday). The meet-| pany brutally assaulted its workers ing, which is being held to popular-| ‘when they tried to organize into a ize the forthcoming Trade Union| yea) union. Unity Convention in Cleveland} 3. The plants and mines of this among the thousands of unorganized | company are. trowded’ with labor Negro workers, will be held in’ the} spies and stool pigeons ready to re- West Side auditorium, 110 South} port for discharge any worker who | Racine Ave. | whispers of trade unionism. Thousands of copies of a leaflet,| 4. .Bethlehem’s widely heralded with a special appeal to the Negro| system of employe representation is masses, have been distributed in}, common fraud. “Foremen make preparation for the meeting. | us vote;”—“Got to go to ‘lection;”— A more thoughtful worker wrote recently: “Wages are a thing you never hear discussed under the plan. You cannot bring them up at a gen-| eral body meeting. They are all re-| ferred to a committee and as a rule there or are recommended back impossible.” Another says: “Under this scheme a ‘representative’ has to be careful how he handles a grievance. It makes no difference how sound his | arguments may be—if he causes a minor boss, with whom he comes in a contact, to get angry, he is sure to be in hot water for all time.” Under Bethlehem’s industrial democracy any worker-representa- | tive who shows activity or personal | force is a candidste for discharge. | The men are ridden by fear of los- ing their, jobs,” one of them writes, and adds: e plan, of course, pre- vents the development of all trade | unionism.” An official of the Bethlehem com- pany, in a confidential letter to an empfoyers association, a few months ago wrote: “The plans (company unions and stock ownership) have heen put into practice because they are good business.” It is also good business for the steel trust to announce in the com- mercial newspapers from time to time that its 72,000 workers are “a happy family.” As the broker says, this has a “bracing” and “stimulaw ing” effect on the stock market, and | is favorably reflected in the price of “Bethlehem common.” Imperialist Murder NT.WU, SHOWS UNION VICTORY | IN STRUGGLE 5-Hour Cut Result of Gastonia Struggle (Continued from Page One) and program of the National Textile Workers Union for the Southern tex- | tile indus 's off the working week | —55 hours per week instead of 60— | with no cut in wages. The mill own. voluntarily,’ Reigns in Morocco Photo shows more French troops being rushed to join in the wholesale slaughter of the Moroccan tribesmen, who rose against their oppressors recntly and beat them in a battle. The troops in the autos are mercenaries of the Foreign Legion. Photo taken at Midelt, Morocco. production in 55 hours than they got in 60—fight the stretch-out! “Take the reduction in hours we have won! But—fight for the 8- hour day! lotte News, The Charlotte Observer and other millowners’ papers state. The mill owners were forced to grant duction. They do not dare to cui wages now! | “If they did, it would cause a geh-| , Elect and send delegates to the eral strike in the center of the cotton | Charlotte Convention of Textile spinning industry—Gaston County— | Workers, October 12-18. Take your under the leadership of the National | Place in the great movement for mil- ; Sens HH |itant industrial unionism in the en- tire textile industry. red Beal, Louis McLaughlin, ; ; Ria te aussell_ Knight, Joseph Hartison'| “Join the National Textile Work-| Robert Allen, Clarence Miller and | ¢tS Union. seven other organizers and members| “Defend our fellow-workers who of the N.T.W.U. face the ci@tric | face the electric chair and long terms chair for defending themseltes, their of prison for fighting for us. Up- union headquarters and the right to | hold the right of workers to organ organize and strike. Vera Bush,| ize, to defend themselves and their Sophie Melvin, Amy Schechter and | union against the attacks of the mill- even other workers face long prison | Owners’ armed forces. Free our fel- sentences for organizing and de-| low workers. fending the union, for leading the| «yo; Eat t Me oe vice ee roading the} “Join the International Labor De ©, “or picketing for taking the| fense —the shield of the working d in the fight against the stretch- | olass—. which protects all persecuted out, for the 8-hour day, for the abol- workers regardless of their political ition of night work, for a minimum | affiliation, creed or color. wage of $20 per week, for equal pay “ ; ita Se ‘ for men and women, for the aboli-| ,,, reanize the textile industry — tion of child labor. one Wa ase pee y , | local in every mill. “The mill owners have given nothing but arrests of workers, beat- ings of workers by police, the de-- Petty Swindlers Fall struction f the N.T.W.U. head- 2 s qauetiea oH ABH TE cald on’ the While Big Looters of City Trust Go Free union headquarterse in which Ader- | kold lost his life on June 7, “The mill owners have given $250,-| While many Tammany grand-scale 000 to railroad to the electric chair | swindlers escape scot-free from the and to long terms in prison the work-|consequences of their activities in ing men and women who led the|the looting of the City Trust Com- fight for shorter hours and for high-| pany, petty financial jugglers are e? wages. |falling in the drive against tipster “The textile workers of Gaston | offices instigated by U. S. Attor- County who struck, picketed, went | ney Tuttle. Fifty have gone out of hungry, and went to jail for what! business so far, and about 100 are they knew to be a righteous cause. |to be visited, Tuttle said yesterday. These are the people who gave the Tuttle is a republican and the reduction of hours and stopped a| “clean-up” drive is expected to be wage cut. capitalized by the republican party “Throw the lies of the mill bosses| and Major La Guardia, its self- and their papers back in their teeth! | styled progressive candidate for “The bosses will try to get more mayor. NEW MEXICO IS _ SWEPT BY FLOOD odes Towns, Farms in Ruin, Stock Drowned ALBEQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 15. |— The village of San Acacia has been swept away, the streets of San | Marcel and San Antonio are filling |rapidly with water as the weak- {ened levee gradually gives way; hundreds of acres of crops have ,; been destroyed and countless fami- lies have been driven to higher |ground as a result of the major | floods which are roaring through the fertile Rio Grande valley. The Rio Puerco and the Salada River, ordinarily dry, flinty creek beds, are raging torrents, pouring |their muddy waters into the already joverflowing Rio Grande and crum- bling houses of adobe construction | in which the workers are forced to| live. | Drowned live stock presented a | serious problem and state officials were “making plans” for the dispo- |sal of the carcasses to prevent an epidemic of disease, although the treasury of the state health depart- | ment has been so looted of funds that officials claim they can do no| relief work until the jim crow red| cross arrives on the stene. | FASCISTS IN SWITZERLAND BASLE (By Mail). — The bour-| geois press reports that a great | pro-fascist daily is to be founded in| the canton of Tessin with a special ‘service from Italy. The capital is | said to have been put up by the fa-| mous nationalist German newspaper baron Hugenberg. | BAMBERGER SALE TO CAUSE LAYOFF OF MANY TOILERS Workers Jeer “Gift”; Won’t Go to Them Surreptitious sneers from the 4,000 underpaid workers of the L. H. Bamberger department store in Newark greeted the announcement by the retiring department d that “things will go on just the sSame—they will carry on without making any changes.” “Wage cuts and lay-of! will be the changes,” ” expre: attitude of the Bamberger workers who, with the retirement of the aged exploiter, will be transferred to the management of the R. H. Macy com- pany, notorious for its relent] plication of high-pressure efficiency methods among it: workers. Macy’s bought out Bamberger’s. Many will be thrown on the streets thfough the purchase. Some $35,000,000 of mechandise was sold last year, Bamberger boast- led to the press while reclining on tke couch of his luxurious office, His workers laughed derisively when they mentioned the loudly her- alded $1,000,000 “gift” to be given to a select few of the employes. “We know where those gifts always go,” several of the girls said. “Always to the higher-ups—never to us who do the hard work.” British Tune Up For Air Race, ‘War Tests LONDON, Aug. 15.—British prac- tice for the Schneider Speed Cup races, which will serve the great jingo powers as a test of air strength for the looming imperialist war, has been done chiefly with old planes, although the first of the four new |and more deadly seaplanes delivered |here a week ago has been broken in, | attaining a speed of 330 miies an ap- | hour. 264 YEARS PRISON WARSAW (By Mail). — At the Grodno trial of 71 prisoners ac- cused of being members of the Com- munist Party, one man, Perevanov, was sentenced to 15 years penal ser- vitude, two others to ten years each, three to eight years, nine to five years, twenty-four to four years, and ten to two y-ars’ penal servitude each. Total: 56 persons to 264 years. Only 3 Days Left! organization of United Growers, al-/number of cities in the East and though unofficially. So much was|Middle West, has spoken to thou- admitted by Rule in his declaration |sands of Negro and white workers | Hall, who has already toured a} : 7 Worker Killed Rushing | To Forest Fire; Blazes Flog Negroes in Reign of Terror in Everybody is going to the that “the United Growers was or-|on the tremendous importance of | ganized in compliance with the de-|the Cleveland convention, which will claged policies of the board, after we|build a new, militant trade union ha@ informed Chairman Legge by|center in the United States ¢ lettin in July of the organization |will wind up his tour in Cley plag jand program. The plan was/on the eve of the conference, alsl Giscussed informally with other Nc aa members of the board by former Seeretary Jardine.” Jatdine is a member of the ad- visory council of American ‘Bank- ergiand a consulting director of the American farm bureau. He is one In N. W. Under Control | 4 PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 15.—The q| forest fires raging throughout the Northwest indirectly caused the | death of a worker near here today | | when the car in which he was rush- ing to a blaze was struck by a loco- motive, ill potentially dangerous, the Town of Elton, La. LAKE CHARLES, La. (By Mail). — A reign of terror against Ne- groes in and around the town of Elton has been carzied on by Albert Duplichan, Elton town marshal; C. L. Marcantol, state highway officer, and an official named Joe Ritter. They had several Negro workers flogged, following an altercation at a dance. They had women and chil- Conference in Gary. GARY, Ind. Aug. 15—A sy local conference at which delegates | will be present from Gary, Indiana| situation was considerably improv fe ve eee 8 iy improved Harbor, East Chicago and Whiting |today the United States iB PMN, deiive ‘bask Slehay Gate pe ed ee °c the noe donee | whe uabiaas ala gree aa dren whipped. They have also threa of the active backers o: new | wil e held in Gary on Aug. 25. ; aeee md Fee N i Semi hich: will fleees the consumee| Ab ANis gontorence delegates will bel yLa TT ee es CUMIN aI by getting up monopoly prices and|chosen for the eland conven-| Saver and driving many families farmer by making him accept |tion, and activities mapped out for| ¢rom their homes : J ake or ang. price for his fruit and vege- | intensifying the organization of the] Tn Ranier Notional Park and|~ NED FOR PHOTOING POLICE tables. | unorganized in this section, Chelan National Forest fires were |_.PERLIN (By Mail). —Two young | * * * + P |workers were fined ten marks each | still raging, but under control. Blazes |by the police president for having | al Food Workers Elect. 5. Workers Dead, 1 Dying in Oil Blast Due to Bosses Greed WILMINGTON, Cal., Aug. 15.— The criminal negligence of the Shell Oil Go, resulted in the death of five workers, when a six-inch pipe con- necting two oil stills burst under pressure in a hot room of the re- fining plant here, the gasoline fumes igniting and causing an ex- plosion that wrapped six men in a) The sixth worker | sheet of flame. ‘was so badly burned that physicians said that he would die. GERMAN NAVAL MANEUVER BERLIN (By Mail). — The Ger- man line-of-battle ships “Schlesien” and “Schleswig-Holstein” have left Kiel for sharp shooting practise in the Baltic Sea. “Konigsberg” and “Koln” have left Wilhelmshaven on their trial trips. (ET OR RRA OF Remember This Date Aug. 18! Pleasant Bay Park, the place of the big carnival! Aug. 18, the day of the big carnival! Will it be the biggest affair in years? _If preparations for entertain- ment, athletic features, food, dancing and what not mean any- thing, it will! * For your own sake keep this date open! And watch for further an- nouncements in the press! js Remember Sunday, Aug. 18! CEE The new cruisers | ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 15.—Local food workers elected delegates to} |the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention at a well attended con- |ference held here yesterday, | +Activity is increasing in the shops {and factories in preparation for the | convention to be held Aug. 81 to | Sept. 2. |Many Families Flee | Rising Flood in Texas | SAN MARCIAL, N. M., Aug. "15 —All women and children in three tiny settlements near El] Paso, Tex., |were evacuated today in the face of |the worst flood in the village’s his- tory. All available men were rushed to strengthen the dikes which keep the Rio Grande from overflowing. Two feet of water stood in the |street because of a back flood from \the Elephant Butte reservoir which caused the river to rise to unprece- dented heights. Numerous houses jhave already crumbled. TERROR IN FRANCE PARIS (By Mail). — Up to now 34 Young Communists who had dis- tributed the paper of the Youth or- ganization “Avantgarde” throygh- out France were arrested and infa- mously maltreated by the police. Only two of them, have been re- | leased. RED FLAG COURT MARTIAL PARIS (By Mail)—Four recruits of Toulon are to be tried by court martial for having accepted a red flag presented to them by Cachin, the Communist deputy and having marched to barracks with it, singing the International, in Colville Forest, near the Canadian border, North Plains, Ore., and the Siuslaw National Forest in Tilla- | mook County, Ore., had been mater- | ially checked, reports indicated. Ce Oe SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.—The | forest service today battled the 14th | incendiary fire of the year in the Klamatp, National Forest of North- | ern California. Almost 1,300 acres were fire- swept by two new blazes in the | Western portion of the county. | introducing a Film SPRing 5095-5090-1716 Special Prices—12 to 2 Week Starting Tomorrow — Saturday ==" HER WAY of LOVE Te- markable Soviet . screen artiste A Sovkino Production EMMA A Cee Fs sEreat fim from he s “ “How luminous her wee poe pgp pans =f acting ee directio: ing fi ad —The Berlin Press, Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St. (Rat Lt see Continuous Daily—Noon to Midnite ya—360 nday—12 to 2—50 cents taken snapshots of the brutal con-| duct of police troopers on May Day. | The police took particular care to} capture anybody trying to take pho- | tographs, as they wanted no con-| clusive evidence of the truth’ con- cerning their scandalous and unwar- ranted brutalities, All cameras thus } captured were confiscated and ‘the | films destroyed. Come to the Press Carnival, ad- mission only 35 cents. ... greater than the Village of Sin...” Soccer games between the Scandinavian Workers Athletic Club and the Spartacus Let's Go! PRESS Carniva and First Election Campaign Rally Weinstone, Wicks, Engdahl, Olgin, Gold, Bidenkapp, Rebecca Grecht, Rose Wortis and Others. Will Speak PLEASANT BAY PARK Fifth Avenue Buses will take you from 177th subway station te park FROM NOON TILL DAWN Entertainment — Sports Dancing—Refreshments ? The Finns will be there games, pyramid building We'll All Be There in a program of and other athletics Admission 35c only