The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 1

- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governme::! To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Published daily except Sunday by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Vek VI, Ne: 139 Somprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. Post Office at New York, N. Y. vEW YORK, SATURD AY, AUGUST VM, 1929 ader the act of March 3, 1879. PTION.R Outside 3 = Worker In New York, by mall, $8.00 per York, by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents year, USSR WORKERS DENOUNCE NANKING BORDER OUTRAGES Conference, Opening Here Today, , Will Lay Basis tor Industrial Union tor Seamen* ‘MANY DELEGATES POWERS TRY 10 DEMAND GOVERNMENT ACT RAISE FELIEF FOR MARION STRIKERS LED.BY UTW BETRAYERS IN 15 MEETS CALLED THIS WEEK BY NTW AND ILD Huge Rally in Bessemer Tonight Hears Melvin Repudiate Lies About the ILD Great Support for Defense and Union Member- ship Increase Result of Raleigh Trip | All Day Rally and Afternoon Demonstration Many Events Arranged for Press Picnic and Outing on Sunday BULLETIN. 1 BESSEMER CITY, N. C., Aug. 16—A mass rally of the National | Textile Workers Union for the Charlotte conference and defense dem- onstration will be held tomorrow. Sophie Melvin, one of the de- fendants; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Si Gerson and Carolyn Drew will speak. The newly formed branch of the Labor Sports Union will present a sports’ program. Dancing will follow the meeting. Tomorrow the opening demonstration of the election campaign will be held at Pleasant Bay Park, during the course of the Press Pienic and Carnival. The election campaign this year is of special importance for the working class. As the class struggle sharpens, the police, the courts, the gangsters in New York City and other parts of the state resort to more savage measufes of suppres- sion. Already, in the campaign meetings in various parts of the city, particularly in Harlem, the Tammany police, in alli- ance with the agents of the owners of the rotten tenements, haye conducted wholesale arrests against Communist candi- dates. Fight Cossack System In other parts of the state the constabulary (state cos- sacks) are used to break strikes and terrorize meetings. Throughout the whole state an essential part of the campaign will be the fight against police suppression of meetings and demonstrations and the organization of forces to fight for the right of the working class to use the streets, parks and other public places. Will Expose Other Parties The reeord of the Tammany Hall administration with the cabaret clown, Jimmy Walker, as mayor, will be placed before the workers by Communist candidates on Sunday. La Guar- dia, the chief demagogue of the republican party, who is sup- ported by the blackest reaction, will come in for his share of denunciation as his role is analyzed. The Rey. Norman Thomas and his comrades of the brass knuckles, the club and the black-jack, the gat, who aid Tammany police in their at- tacks against left-wing strikers, will get what is coming to him from those who know his record. A Revolutionary Party A revolutionary Party of the working class, the Com- munist Party, will be explained to those who attend the picnic and carnival by the leading candidates of the Party, all of whom will be present to speak in the afternoon. The demonstration Sunday should be a signal for the SECTION 1 MOBILIZES SUNDAY All members of Section 1 must ap- pear at Section headquarters Sun- day, 9.30 a. m. for Red Sunday mob- ilization. (Saeed. | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 16.—A campaign to raise funds | for the relief of the Marion, N. C., strikers will be conducted | jointly by the Workers International Relief and the National! Textile Workers Union at a series of fifteen meetings next week, it was announced today at union headquarters. The be- | trayal program of the United Textile Workers Union, which has | been leading the strike, was aaa by left wing organizers | who visited Marion last week Reports from organizers in five| states of the South indicate that the’ textile workers are enthusiastically | rallying for the Charlotte Confer-| ence on Oct. 12 and 13, determined CALL IS CHEERED. to launch the struggle, under the) Jeadership of the N. T. W. against the low wages, long bald and stretch-out they are now eel to endure, A huge union rally tonight in Bes-| semer City will hear Sophie Melvin, | Julie}. Stuart Boymise, Senon. Garson OW. England Meeting and Caroline Drew. The newly or- August 25 ganized branch of the Labor Sports Union will present an elaborate| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 16. sports’ program. Dancing will fol-| Ten thousand cheered the announce- | low the meeting. |ment of the New England Cotton Melvin and the other representa~| Workers Conference at a mass meet- tives of the I. L. D. and the N. T.|ing here today. Eli Keller, National W. returned last night from Raleigh,| Textile Workers Union organizer where they effectively exposed the told the huge assemblage of textile tactics of the Federation of Labor) workers that the conference would and its U. T. W. at a huge mass/jink up the work in the Northeast meeting there. Although the con-| with the struggle in the South, co- (Continued on Sma ody Five) ordinating the activities and strug- | gles of every textile center in the | United States, at its session, Aug. IS IT GOING T0 BE | 25, at 215 Sawyer St., New Bedford. | Fred Biedenkapp, an organizer of the Independentt Shoe Workers Un- ion passing through the city was arrested when he attempted to mount | | the platform to greet the coming Sa conference in the name of the union he represented. When the thousands N.Y. Workers to Reply | | of workers demanded that the visit-| At Big Sacco Meet ing labor leader speak, the police finally were forced to give in, but Two years ago it was Sacco and_/| led him to the jail immediately after | Vanzetti, today — shall it be Gas-| he was through. For several hours | tonia? (Continued on Page Five) This is the question that will be ——$———— asked by speaker after speaker at the big Sacco-Vanzetti memorial HUGE GASTONIA demonstration in Union Square, |W next Thursday, Aug. 22, at 5 p. m. And the workers of New York, ral- lying in thousands, are expected to AUG a give their answer in unmistakeable ‘ | terms. The workers of New York od are expected to declare at this me- q morial demonstration that the capi- Sacco Meets to Fight, talist class shall not burn the Gas- tonia prisoners in the electric chair New Boss Plot as they did Sacco and Vanzetti and| « A ‘ iker! that they shall not send them to obit oo see ae | (Continued on Page Five) “syle tinea hve de ane ge eal zetti,” will be the slogan under which tens of millions of workers in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, London, |New York, Chicago, Philadelphia t] Sianc other industrial centers will |commemmorate the second anniver- | MEETIN NDAY sary of the electrocution of the two workers, Aug. 22. The call of the international exec- | utive of the International Red Aid For New Trade Union | for a wave of: working class protest * against the electrocution of the 16 Unity Conference |1esdae of the Gastonia strikers, f |membets of the National Textile| Dye cleaning shop workers of | Workers Union, comes on the heels New York are urged to attend a/ of the intensive preparations of the mass meeting to be held Monday at (Continued Page T 7 p.m, at the Workers Center, 26- oo apet ee) 28 Union Square, in a statement is- sued yesterday by the Progressive Group of Cleaners and Dyers, 780 Prospect Ave., the Bronx. The workers in the dry cleaning plants are also urged in the state- ment to organize shop committees and elect delegates to the Metro- (Continued on Page Five) Come to the Press Carnival, ad- mission only 35 cents. mobilization of all class-conscious workers behind the plat- form and the candidates of the Communist Party. Will Aid Daily Worker The regular picnic and carnival that yearly attracts large crowds because of the big sporting events, the dancing and other forms of amusement, is for the benefit of the Daily Worker. This year it has been combined with the election campaign, which will more than ever make it an event of major importance for the working class. There is no better place to spend a day. All the workers in the revolutionary political and trade union movement will be there. It will be an opportunity for comrades who are busily engaged with their every-day work to get together with others and talk over the experiences of the class strug- gle. It will also aid the Daily Worker live through the sum- mer and coneinue its fight in the interests of the working class, in a situation of sharpening class struggle; where it is needed more than ever. before. Everyone who attends will be sure to have a good time. Go to the 177th St. subway, where a bus will take you directly to Pleasant Bay Park. Admission is only 35, cents. BUILDING RALLY CARPENTERUNION PICKS DELEGATES FAKERS IN COURT Meet Elects. Four to Cry Over Wage Seales Cleveland Meet | They Help Break Four delegates to the Trade Union| Widespread breakdown of State Unity Conference to be held in|labor iaws involving wages and Cleveland, Ohio, August 31, were|hours of United Building Trades elected last night at a meeting of | workers was charged by the District building trades workers held at Irv-| Council of the United Brotherhood ing Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St.,,of Carpenters against a group of under the auspices of the Building | subway contractors at a public hear- Trades Section, Trade Union Edu- (Continued on fae Five) (Continued on eg ae). ing before Deputy Controller Krank | | jconference which opens today. jin the Gastonia trial, will describe |the rising tide of revolt among the | Southern |be organized. | International jence, George Mink, secretary of the Carnival in Pleasant FROMEASTCOAST CONCEAL DEATH) Bay Park Tomorrow WILL BE PRESENT OF YOUNG PLAN Leading Communist Candidates Will Speak at ie ar Danger, Defense| Finance Commission Is of USSR, Gastonia on Agenda | Postponed for | Parleys Wm. Z. Foster to S Speak Break Held Inevitable To Pick Delegates for Pr ench Tariff Struggle Cleveland Meet Finally Settled The basis for a new, militant THE HAGUE, “Aug. 16.—Phillip industrial union of marine transport|}Snowden, chancellor of the ex- workers in the United States will|chequer of the MacDonald “labor be laid at the Atlantic Coast Con-| government,” has agreed to nego- ference to be held today and tomor- | tiate with France, Italy, Belgium} jrow at the International Seamen’ S| and Japan on proposals to break the Club, 28 South Sty New York City. | conference deadlock, according to called by the | announcement of the British delega- | League, will elect delegates to the hate Trade Union Unity Convention to be} held in Cleveland, Aug. 31-Sept. | where a new trade union center will The scheduled meeting of the fi- nancial commission tomorrow has ; been postponed to permit these ne- | gotiations. This move is regarded as a mean-| ingless gesture as far as the final The feverish preparations for im-| perialist war, the defense of the So- viet Union, the forthcoming Cleve-| outcome is concerned. The decision land Trade Union Unity Convention, | Gf this particular conference will the defense of the 16 Gastonia strik-| probably be to adjoutn while com ers and strike leaders — all these missions try to work out proposa pura hota issues will) that will be acceptable to all, which) be taken up by the seamen at the) will give a few months’ time for more solidly consolidating the forces | that support the imperialist plan of (Continued on Page Two) COLOMBIA PEONS Seamen to Parade. A parade and a nass meeting on the waterfront, not far from the Seamen’s Club, will precede the opening of the confer- Marine Workers League, terday in discus for the conference. The parade, in which hundr..s of seamen will par- ticipate, in addition to the delegates, will commence about six p. m. William Z. Foster, national retary, and J-hn Williamson, ant national secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, George : i Mink, secretary of the Marine Work-| BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 16-— ers League, and Amy Schechter will| Atmed detachments of workers, and be among the speakers at the con- | Peons geported to be under the lead- ference. | ership “of Communists, have attacked Schechter, one of the defendants| wealthy ranches and haciendas in Libano and in Santander department, it was announced yesterd: he workers and peons are sa rallying the masses of the country to their struggle for the purpose of partitioning the large landed estates. Reports further state that the government troops have been unable workers who have said yes- ng the program Troops in Hills textile strikers and the role of the National Textile Work- ers Union. She is charged with sec- ond degree murder, together with Vera Bush and Sophie Melvin. Delegates to the conference yes terday began to assemble at the ¢ nae D to cope with the of the Marine Workers League in| taken to the hills and forests and (Continued on Page Two) are carrying on a guerilla warfare ——— virtually beyond the reach of the Game of baseball, at the Press Carnival. official forces which they attack from ambush, retreating immedi- ately afterwards to new strongholds in the hill soccer, ete., Brand Readmission | | Recent arrests of Communists in of M a 810 V |\newo Porto, Upper Magdelera re- Vorwaerts Li e | | veal the work of a provocative agent who planted fifteen bombs denounced leaders of the local Com- munist Party (Social Revolutionary |Party of Colombuia) of the bombs. NJ. CARMEN WILL WIN BY STRIKE By No BL WL ARDY NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 16.—Only a sirike organized through rank and file committees will win the eight- hour day, 25 per cent wage gains anc other demands of the New Jer- |sey street carmen from the Publie Service Coordinated Transport of New Jersey, declares the Trade Un- ion Educational League in an appeal to the 7,400 men today. urges election of delegates to the Second Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Convention to be held Among the many lies that the anti-Comintern agents have in- vented and are peddling is the lie | of the readmission of Maslov into the German Party. The Berlin “Rote Fahne” of July 24 contains| | a statement to the effect that the | report of Maslov’s readmission to | the Communist Party of Germany | | is a lie made out of whole cloth.) This statement of the German! Party is of interest also to the! American Communist Party be-) cause Jay Lovestone, who has, been expelled from the Commu- nist Party of the United States, is using the social-democra “Vorwartz” of Berlin for his in- formation and has, therefore, also peddied the lie of Masloy’s re- admission on the one hand, and Zetkin’s expulsion on the other. It is interesting to note that the same issue of “Rote Fahne” that contained the statement of | the Central Committee declaring | Maslov’s readmission a lie, con- as posses: her position in the German Com- munist Party, vice to arbitrate, expressed by Mat- thew R. Boylan in his letter to the }men, makes it clear that the compa- Come to the Press Carnival, ad- |nies’ demand for lower wages and ion aad 35 cents, (Continued on Page chet TO DIVIDE LAND, nd then | The call) tained a signed statement from| at New York City, Aug. 20, at Irv-| Clara Zet! again accusing the| jing Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving “Vorwartz” of lying by its con-| | Place. tinuous propaganda concerning The decision of the Public Ser- TO RESIST IMPERIALISTS AND DEFEND ITS WORKERS Must End Barbarism of Nanking Generals Is Nation- wide Demand Attacks Genegue Agai Guard BULL MUKDE anchuria, ordered to concentr der General Wang Shin-chen to be Aug. 1 ‘ate on the Sovie More Arrests nst Red Army Frontier ETIN. S —Sixty thousand troops have been et frontier north of here, 30,000 un- e stationed at Manchuli and 30,000 under General Ho Yu-kwan at Pogranitchnaya. MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., has swept over the Soviet Unic reports of recent outrages perpetrated by the ment, acting for the imperialist Accounts of Soviet worke Aug. 16—A burst of intense anger on following publication here of Nanking govern- gainst Soviet citizens. through the streets of powers, led ars Manchurian cities with bleeding faces has raised a storm of MORE TERROR ON COMMUNISTS AT HARLEM RALLY Arrest 4; But Meetings Will Continue Four members of the Coniiunist Party were arrested when Tanimany meeting at 138th St. and Seventh Aye. last night. The police assault was part of a campaign of terror {and arrests organized against the /Armed Wor Torker: § Fight | Communist Party in Harlem to pre-|by the “gr vent the Party from explaining its platform to the Negro workers and exposing the democratic, republican | and socialist parties before them. The arrested were Harold Wil- |liams, Negro director of the New |York Distri of the Communist |Party, Fred Taylor, arrested for the |second time, A. Suskin and B. Lew- lis. They were be”:d out at $100 leach by the New York branch of \the International Labor Defense. | H. M. Wicks, Party candidate for Aldermanic President, was arrested when he defended the prisoners’ right to speak before tHe abuse the police sergeant at the 54th St |Court. As this edition of the Daily | Worker went to press, result of his trial was unavailable. | All the speakers had attacked the fa r administration and the can- didates of all opposing parties when police drew their clubs. The arrested were booked on charges of disorderly conduct at the 135th St. station before bein, for trial at night court at and Sixth Ave. | Will Continue Fight. This is the third meeting at 138th | and Seventh: Ave. to be broken up by police arrests in the last week th St | St. In spite of the arrests, Wicks an- nounced, the fight for the yght to | carry on the Communist campaign in Harlem would continue. Negro }and white workers’ defense organ- izations would protect the meeting | from police assaults, he said. CHANGE CHARGE - | TO “GET” WORKER | Postpone “Case of 18 | YCL Members | If you can’t get a worker on one charge, why, just change the charge jand go to it, seems to be the phi- losophy of capitalist law as exempli- \fied by Magistrate W. Dodge in 6th magistrate’s court, (Continued on Page Five) police tried to break a Party election } taken | 161st St. end Brook Ave., yesterday. Before this worthy minion of Tammany Hall appeared Tillie Te- ®protest and a nationwide de- mand that the Soviet govern- ment protect its citizens and prepare to resist more actively still the impending imperialist offensive. Speaking editorially, the Red Star, organ of the Red Army declares: “The Chinese bandit generals show savage barbarism in the strug- gle inst the Soviet Union. The | Soviet Government within the short- est time will find means to end this barbarism.” | The Red Star also calls attention { “Bestial outrages against Soviet citi- zens” and demands that “they be | curbed.” The Moscow worker declares that “The provocation of the Chinese bandits must be stopped,” adding that the workers of the whole Soviet Un- ion demand action as is evidenced success in subserip- | tions in to airplanes, tanks, armored trains and the formation of volun- |teer divisions. . 8 8 1 (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U. § R., Aug. 16.— Simultaneously with announcement by the director of the Chinese. East- n Railroad t one thousand So- | viet citizens have been arrested, re- ports reached here yesterday that (Continued on Page Five) = HOLD LARGEST NAVAL PARLEY (Stimson ‘Kewux es on | Race With Britain WASHI ON, its ~Secre- tary \that yester fast conference development wa \the subject so Stimson said today white house “break= ’ to push U. S. naval s the largest held-on r. The gathering was attended by Hoover, Stimson, val Secretary Adams, and mem- bers of the navy general board, and alled largely to dispel fears that the navy s nos being ¢on- sulted in the current naval sparring with Great Britain, chief imperialist of the U. S. very dispatch exchanged be- |tween London and Washington on the subject of naval reduetion,” Stimson assured those present, “has been submitted to Secretary ‘of Navy Adams for consideration with his naval advisors.” Hoovers attention centered Le now on the cruiser tonnage ireat Britain is especial- ily Heh g for heavier cruisers to insure fast sea journeys to control its Seattered but rebellious empire. Hoover's chat reveals that the U.S. is just as reluctant about scrapping any ships other than those too an- tiquated to be of service when the imperialist clash brea Ww! is CLAY WORKERS STRIKE PRAGUE (By Mail).—Over 1,000 clay workers are on strike for a 15 | per cent wage increase at Wildstein East Bohemia. Their fighting spirit ‘is excellent. WORKERS! ALL ROADS LEAD TO PLEASANT BAY fourteen hours of eating, drinking and making merry. The picnic be- gins at 10 in the morning and winds up at midnight, The first election rally of the pres- ent campaign will be held in the Workers, all roads lead to the Press Carnival at Pleasant Bay Park tomorrow! “A pleasant day at Pleasant Bay” is in store for you— afternoon, with many of ihe candi-] working class press, as well as its dates on the Communist ticket ad-| Party. dressing the throngs of workers ex-| A stirring athletic program wil! pected. And as the proceeds of the be run off under the able auspices | affair go to the Daily, it will be a lot the Labor Sports Union, one of | Freiheit aggregation to be missed | of the picnice demonstration for the support of the ihe chief events is to be a baseball i by any sports devotee. * PARK AND THE “DAILY” CARNIVAL TOMORROW! game between bang-up teams rep- resenting the Communist Party and the Communist Youth League. Paul Smith's Negro orchestra has been booked to furnish music for Nor | dancing—and the cool, bracing air is the soccer contest featuring the} of the park, the » cnery ke everybody step. { Not to forget the food and the soda pop. The Amalgamated Food Workers will dish it up, at cost, real the jollity | holiday vittles, including great gobs | you dir of the \ shasblik. tongue-tickling Armenian Worke Park! B 177th St for ard to Pleasant Bay will meet you at the subway station and whirl t to the picnic grounds. ‘The admission is hardly worth men- jtioning—35 cents, Ww