The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Batered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥ Vol. VI, No. 141 Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The ‘Comprodatly Publishing New York City, NEW YORK TUESD AY, AUGUST 20, 1929 N.Y. MARION STRIKERS HOOT HOFFMAN: TROOPS CALLED ‘ -NANKING INVADERS: WARLORDS | Conference Opens First GATHERS iT 1 POLICE FOR HOUR; Session in Vladivostok MEETING TONIGHT THIRTEEN JAILED, : HOLD COUNCIL; MOBILIZE 150400 Troop Mevements dtiase in Manchuria as More Inroads By Nanking Are Announced | All-China Labor Federation Denounces Bandit | Government, Asks Support for R.R. Workers) BULLETIN. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 19.—Another warning to China to | cease attacks on Soviet soil and to curb invasions of white Russians from Manchuria to Siberia was transmitted to Nanking today through | the German embassy. A similar warning was sent to the Manchurian government at Mukden on Sunday, it was announced, The notes cited a long list of invasions and firing across the frontier, as well as attacks on Soviet gunboats. Both civilian and sol- dier casualties were listed. The Foreign Commisariat said that Red soldiers have entered Chinese soil, but stated that the advances across the border were merely in pursuit of Chinese attackers. The note, as published here, emphasized the allegation that China | “is creating a threatening situation on the frontier.” The govern- ment demanded cessation or warned that otherwise “the responsibility | for further complications rest entirely with Mukden and Nanking.” * * * HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 19.—Pursuing an invading} force, which had penetrated some distance into Soviet territory, | a detachment of the Red Army is reported to have engaged a invaders, driving them back into Manchuria with a loss of fifty Chinese killed. The report, however, lacks confirmation and is believed to be exaggerated. At the same time extensive Nanking troop movements to the north have been followed by a general mobilization. order, the pur- pose of which would be to throw one hundred and fifty thousand men along the Manchurian frontier of the | | Soviet Union for immediate invasion | of Siberia. Simultaneously, government offi-| cials have called a conference of war at Mukden tomorrow. CeO Denouncing the seizure of the, —@" Henri Barbusse | | | (Chinese Eastern Railroad by the Nanking government acting for the | imperialist powers, the All-China Federation of Labor has issued the | | following appeal to all the workers The world-famous French Com- | of China to support the fight of | ™munist writer, whose remarkable | the workers on the seized railway to) "@” book, “I Saw It Myself, | retain the rights they possessed | {474,00 Pade © of tne teoue of when the Soviet government had which is fact, not fiction, consists joint jurisdiction of the line. of a series of graphic, unforget- “To all Chinese workers! To the, able sketches dealing with the last trade unions throughout the country!| imperialist war, the white terror “The events on the Chinese East-| *” the Balkans and the counter- cn Railway have shown very clearly | “C0létion during the civil ware to: be len attack eh the Daton et we the Soviet Union. Barbusse, Socialist Soviet Republics by imper- in addition to his literary work, is known throughout. the worla ialism and the Kuomintang militar-| fo, his activity in the anti-fas- ists. The imperialist wants to util-| cist and anti-imperialist move- ize this chance to capture the C. E.! ments. “I Saw It Myself” is be- ing printed serially in this try exclusively in the Worker, R. and to send troops to Manchuria, while the Kuomintang utilizes it to complete its capitulation to imperial-| ism. | “The imperialist and the Kuomin- | tang make false documents as| _ PITTSBURGH, PA 5 i “proof” of the utilization of the C. E. R. for Communist propaganc: Allard Reports Illinois | Miners Active (Continued on Page Two) PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 19.— | ‘LOVING’ CHARGES News of the tremendous movement | among the southern textie strikers | LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.—More charges of forceful lovemaking | drew great applause from the steel, against Alexander Pantages, wealthy |miners and other workers who theatre magnate, were filed at the|crowded the Labor Lyceum in District Attorney’s office today by Pittsbrugh, and heard Vera Bush | young women who were formerly in | tell the story about the Gastonia struggle. Pantages’ employ as ushers. Elaborate evidence against the Linked with the protest against theatre owner is contained in a 136-|the Gastonia police and employers’ page deposition charging how Pan- | terrorism, was the resolution op- tages had tried by force to induce | posing the persecution of local work- ers, six of whom were arrested by (Continued on Page Two) Pittsburgh authorities the afternoon of the meeting. They were Sam Herman, Pat Cush, Mike Hanson, Elbert Luther- an, Fanny Toohey and Carrim, ar- rested for “violating a city ordin- aace.” Although the usual bail is $30 on this charge, these workers (Continued on Page Two) coun- Daily WOMEN WHOOP UP WAR. YUMA, Ariz. Aug. 19.—Emelia Earhart, woman pilot who flew the Atlantic some time agd, finished first at this control in the national women’s air derby, a stunt to lash >. up the war fever among the female | bourgeoisie. | the delegates of only eight countries | were able to be present. fra MV HOUR WEEK TO ‘second to Chicago last week in se- |statement issued today. OPEN CAMPAIGN |Tremendous Demonstration of Workers Greets | Delegates; Browder’s Speech Begins Sessions | in Repr esentatives ee ar eee . From Unorganized Red Army Representatives Hailed; Many Dele- | wa gates Halted by Imperialist Governments |Foster to Report | Arrest Hindu Workers} to Stop Union Growth e in rep- (Wireless By Inprecorr.) said, it had becomt necessary to MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 19.—In ;change the name of the meeting the midst of a tremendous demon-| | from “Congress” to Conference, and stration of workers, the Pan Pacific | limit the agenda accordingly. The considerable incre: Trade Union Congress has opened in| The Confrence then adopted an ap-|yesentation from unorganized shops | Vladivostok. peal against the white terror in the|to the Second Metropolitan Area The sessions were opened by Ear! | Pacific countries. Trade Union Unity Conference which opens tonight at Irving Plaz: hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl., indi- jcates that the Metropolitan District has taken very seriously the laid down at its fi organizing the unorg: "Jers of New York and New Jer: Between four and five hundred delegates from unions, shop com- mittees where no unio ist, and Trade Union Educational League groups, are expected to participate in the conference which yee elect | | Unity Congaution scheduled to open in Cleveland August 31. Delegates elected by the Hindu dye workers of Paterson, N. J., at a Dunne Scores White cues by by General Chauvinism | Strike | general mass meeting of all work- ‘ers employed in the industry called CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 19. — Beginning Aug. 26, the 44-hour by the National Textile Worke Browder who stated the aims of the | Representatives of the Red Army Congress, drawing, atention to the | who addressed the Conference were fact that, owing “to ‘the measures | greeted with a tremendous outburst taken by the bourgeois governments, | of applause. Among the chief speakers at this Hence, he | session were Losovski and Johnson |The first meeting under the aus-| week will be introduced in all shops Union local Sunday evening after a pices of the Communist Party ever] of the Allied Building Metal Indus- S¢ties of raids from immigration of- jheld in. Charlotte, oné of the two | tries, leading New York employers’ ficials and police, will attend the association of the iron and bronze | ¢omerence tonight. Arrest Hindus. About six hours before the workers’ meeting opened, wholesale jvaids upon the homes of pings workers occurred. Ten of the most (Continued on Page Tbe) * FIGHT CHECK - OFF PLAN OF LL. 6. W, Closkmakers: Oppose Day’s Pay Tax | largest cities in the state, took place | Saturday night. William F. Dunne, |industry, shop notices posted yes- Southern organizer of the Commu- | terday announced. jnist Party, the principle speaker, The same wages formerly received | traced the development of the revo- | for the 48-hour week will be main- |lutionary movement setting forth tained. The recent general strike the role of betrayal played by the |of 8,000 iron and bronze workers, | socialist party and the A. F. of L.| directed mainly against these shops, and pointed out the tasks of the forced the reduction. ;Communists in the class struggle.| “The immediate effect of the re- Dunne stressed the necessity for | duction of hours in reducing the un- ‘black and: white workers to join | employment will be greatly offset | hands and fight shoulder to shoulder} by increasing speed- -up and effi- | against the bosses and their agents, | | ciency schemes,” George Powers, or- CCoahoneae iar on Page Five) ‘@ (Continued on eed oe Ree Five) THOUSANDS SIGN 12 NEGROES DIE LL.D, PETITIONS IN TRAIN GRASH Speed Up Signatures Jim Crowism Insures as Trial Approaches Death at Oklahoma to continue the strike aking activi- HENRIETTA, Okla, Aug. 19.— ties 6f the Schlesinger-Dubinsky Twelve Negroes might have escaped clique, when a northbound St. Louis and| San Francisco train jumped the rails en route from Sherman, Tex., |to Tulsa, Okla., today, but jim-crow | segregation insured their deaths. dye Cloakmakers who were recently sold out by the International Ladies’ |Garment Workers’ Union, when the company union ended its so-called stopp on terms satisfactory to the employers, are resisting the at- tempt of the I. L. G. W. to collect a day's wages, which will be used Philadelphia, which ran a close curing signatures for the mass pro- test petition for the Gastonia strik- ers, today forged ahead to the lead- ing position throughout the entire | ere More than 390,000 signatures have The company union decided that ‘all cloakmakers are to contribute a day’s wages, whi are to be taken from the pay of the cloakmakers by r to the lie been received at the Nation- | ea b tad killed by steam when Industrial Council, the iia See jal Office of the Gastonia Joint De- i? ne separate compartment jack- factu ers’ He thy: wT ae urn, |fense and Relief Committee at 80 E, | kni ‘ed beside the engine. will give it to the The only whites who failed to) This method of check-off is being escape were Pete Wolff, the engi-|militantly fought by the nts (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Fii 11th St., room 402, according to al Philadelphia now has 57,000 signa- tures of its quota of 100,000. Chi- (Continued or on n Page Two) MARINE WORKERS Latin American Masses Reuae or oe Immediate Release Organization Drive on a AE West Co Coast An intensive organiz organization drive on} the West Coast was decided upon by | will commemorate the second anni- the national committee of the Ma-| versary date of the Sacco-Vanzetti rine Workers League, which held its| execution Friday, Aug. 23, to protest| The Joint Gastoni& Defense and first session Saturday night at the| against the terrorism at Gastonia, | Relief Committee, ‘with national | International Seamen’s Club, 28) by calling general strikes. | headqifarters at 80 E. 11th St., room South St., after the adjournment of} The longshoremen of Rosario, who | 402, New York City, has receiv the two days’ East Coast conference, | paralyzed the port throughout July,|a petition from the French Inter- attended by 72 delegates. The na- have decided to quit wofk again injnational Labor Defense, stamped tional committee decided to imme-|sympathy with the street car Strikers) with the seals of 18 French trade diately send organizers to Norfolk,| and are insisting that thé other un- | unions, calling for the release of the | Va.; New Orleans, La.; Houston, ions remain out with them until all | Gastonia strikers. Texas; San Francisco, Cal.; San| the pending labor troubles in Rosari io | The strike beginning at Rosario Pedro, Cal., and Seattle, Wash. Plans| have been definitely settled to the| is expected to spread rapidly to (Continued on Page Two) strikers satisfaction, Corer on tht ibe! Rosario, | most Argentina, city of the militant workers in They will also militantly demand South | the immediate release of the G der occur. Call Militantly in Two Big Walkouts for’ | League, were arrested. » Union| | ings h |Considerable Increase ‘Leg ionaires Aid Police in Attack on Racine | Demonstration Sailors Cheer Workers Refuse Bail; Prisoners | Held Incommunicado (Special to the Daily Wor RACINE, Wisc., Aug. 19. tantly defending themselves and their speakers from attack, three thousand workers yesterday battled for an hour with police and mem- | bers of the American Legion who attempted to break up a demonstra- against imperialist war and and outdoor workers’ re. Thirteen workers, bers of the Young meet- mostly Communist The arrest- ed demonstrators were loudly cheer- ed by the workers and a number of sailors. All efforts of the International | Labor Defense to secure the release America, and Montevideo, Par: ‘aguay, | |tonia prisoners, and insist that no| | vepetition of the Sacco-Vanzetti mur- | of the arrested workers on bail have | failed, bail having been refused, The | prisoners are being held incommu- nicado. Despite the police terror, another demonstration is being |planned for the near future. AF, LUNION IN © NEW SCAB ROLE Keeps Cafeteria From Recognizing Union The strikebreaking Food Council of the Amei yesterday ent of the cafeteria bosses when its gangsters prevented the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union from signing a union agr ment with the Ambassador Cafe teria, 313 W. 26th St. which is sched- uled to open for business this morn- ing. The an Federation of Labor again came out as an Ambassador Cafeteria formerly known as the Sun-Ra Cafete and during the 14 ai cafeteria strike which recently a ed bitterly fought the campa the union to organize the wor s As a result of the strike, the Sun Ray was compelled to close due to the loss of patronage and decided to open under a new name. The bosses of the cafeteria re- cently agreed to conduct a union shop and arranged for representa- tives of the Hotel, Restaurant and eee on page Five) POLIGE BREAK UP PICNIC IN PHILA. was Aid Gastonia Prisoners 4 Jailed; Big Gastonia Protest Meet (Special to the Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 19.— Rankled by the growing mass pro- test against the threatened railroad- | ing of the Gastonia defendants, po- | lice yesterday broke up a pienic ar-| ranged by the International Labor] | Defense at Fairmount Park. Four workers, one of whom vial an Indian, were arrested. At a late hour last night the local I. L. D. had ad | not succeeded in freeing the work- ers on bail. They are: Rudolph Sho- hen, district organizer of the Young Communist League; Milton Raffle, Anna Ketnos and Schinchook. Many other workers were roughly han- | | dled. As an excuse for breaking up the (Continued on bina Two) st the police prohibition of all | mem- | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Metropolitan Area mee Tonight 1 Intensifies oe lo Organize Unorganized JEER UTW RETREAT PLEA; FORM IRON PICKET LINE ALL AROUND MARION MILL Sheriff, Hoffman Muste Leader, Urge Strikers Cease to Stop Scabs or Face Troops’ Brutality Recently NTW Organizers Warned Strikers | Against Bet rayal; WIR Relief for Marion | BULLETIN. MARION, N. C., Aug. 19.—Only the protection of police saved Alfred Hoffman’s 300-odd pounds of buly from the assault of the in- furiated strikers after he ordered retreat before the strikebreakers and no “violence” against them. The textile strikers laid effective siege to the Clinchfield mill, and the operators announced late today that the plan for reopening the mill was abandoned for the time being. N. A. Townsend, representative of the governor, who ordered the state troopers who are expected here tonight, has been here since Saturday it learned tod preparatory to the mill’s opening. T. A. Wilson, president of the § tate Federation of Labor, reiter- ated that the militant stand which broke the attempt to run the mill open-shop, was “contrary to our counsel and against our orders.” The strikers declare their determination to fight it through until the operators accede to their demands. + * «@ | MARION, N. C., Aug. 19.—Hooting down Albert Hoff« man, United Textile Workers Union organizer, when he or< dered them to stand by peacefully while Superintendent Hen< | derson tried to bring 400 strikebreakers into the Clinchfield mill, nearly 2,000 strikers, completely disillusioned with the Muste misleaders, picketed militantly, and not a man got thru “= CONTINUES WITH SECRETMEETINGS to. be rushed to’the industrial bat tle- front when it becomes clear that the U. T. W. officials will not be able to stage another sell-out without their help * Several men were hurt when the attempt was made at five o’clock morning to bring the strike- i: kers through the solid picket line. After Sheriff Adkins, speak-| British Say It is Use- ing alongside of Hoffman,’ threat- ieee te Contras ened to call the state troopers un- }less the line dispersed, the strikers | shouted their defiance in unison,) THE HAGUE, Aug. 19. — “Bring on your troops!” Hoffman’s deadlock over the Young p' counsel for retreat was scornfully; tinues it is apparent that t jeered down. ish delegates consider it us to When National Textile Workers | 0 ahead with the conference. Al- Union organi passed through though the French premier, Briand, Marion on their way to South Caro- 2nd Foreign Minister Stressemann (Continued ¢ ch Page: Five) of Germany contend that arrange- praesunees. ments have been made rant 60 per it of the finan nds of Bri Phillip Snowde spokes- nan for British imper' , insists t only 20 per cent | granted, which is a mere tr CUT IN NABISCO ‘Girls Tell ‘Communist Signature-Drivers | Other Issues Involved. Snowden made it hat it is not a question of the $10,000,000 share demanded by Britain that has brought the conference on the rocks, (Coytinued on Page Two) A relentless speed-up whereby one abolition of the 15 minute morping | and afternoon rest period, wid eae introduction of young girls (on the streets- —these are not the | worst of the working conditions meneeines at the National Biscuit tory, Nabisco girls told Commun- | i Party members when approached | |during the signature drive of the Party last “Red Sunday.” “We get $12 3 a week, We are disgusted with conditions, but we realize that they can’t be abolished unless we put up a strong fight. ;But we want direction,” the girls |told Communist workers after they |had willingly put their names to the (OCHRE, Eres on Page Five) Communist Conference to Aid Campaign In a call issued he Communist Party of the United States of Amer- iea, New York District, the work- ing women of this city are called upon to awake to their interests and participate in the coming municipal elections as class-conscious workers and vote for the candidates put up by the only Party which represents | them and leads them in battle aaginst the bo nd the boss gov- ernment of this city. | Conference Next Tuesday. | “To mobilize the working women lof New York to support the Com- munist platform and candidates, the Communist P. of the United States of Ame a, New York Dis- Three hundred men and women jtrict, is calling a conference of all workers, who went on strike three working women’s organizations, Star |trade union representatives and shop Brush Manufacturing Co., Hunters delegates, to be held on Tuesday, Point Ave. and 31st St., Long Island | Aug. 27 (tonight), 3 p.m. at the City, continue their struggle with Workers’ Center, Union Sq.” their lines unbroken. They form | Working women are urged to bring daily picket in front of the plant. |the call before their organ (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page F weekg ago in the plant of the “RALLY AT 12 SECTION MEETS TOMORROW FOR BIG SACCO-GASTONIA DEMONSTRATION THURSDAY With the unforgettable date, Au- gust 22, only two days away, all preparations are being made for the largest and most militant Sacco- Vanzetti demonctret'-1 *'s-0 the reat. working class maityrs were vg ios ome ay og capitalist class two years ago. Final plans for the demonstra- tion, which will be held Thursday at 5 p. m., in Union Square, were work- ed out at a meeting of all function- aries of the New York district of the New York Local of the Work- ers International Relief and of the Committee of Action of 35 of the Gastonia Defense and Relief Con- ference, which was held last night zetti memorial this year will have as its chief purpose the rallying of thousands of workers behind the Joint Gastonia Defense and Relief Campaign now being conducted by Square demonstration, 12 mobiliza- tion meetings will be held in vari- ous sections of the city tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. On Thursday, in addition to the main Union Square in the Workers Center. This meet- | the I. L. D. and W. I. R. demonsiration, there will be three that the Sacca:Van:i Jn prenaration for the big Union section mectipgs in the eveging,| Demonstrations are also being ar- ranged in Military Park, Newark; Ukrainian Workers Home, 140 Mer- cer St., Jersey City; Main and Bank Sts., Paterson, and in Perth Amboy. All these meets will be held at 8 p.m. adhe . SagsoVanzotti Memorial: Gastonia Defense and Relief meet- |Z. Foster, Max Bedacht, William W, ings have been arranged by the New| Weinstone, J. Louis Engdahl, Alfred York I. L, D. and the W. I. R., with | Wagenknecht, James P. Reid, H. M. the cooperation of many militant | Wicks, M. J. Olgin, Ben Gold, Louis working class organizations. Speak- | Hyman, Fred Biedenkapp, Sam Dar+ ers will include such prominent lead-|cy, George Pershing, Kate Gitlow, ers of the working class as William | Rebecea Grecht’ and pier