The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1929, Page 3

| | DAILY WOR General Strike in Rosario and Northern FASCISTS AIDED BY “SOCIALISTS” IN WIS. TERROR Work Hand in Hand Against Militants MILWAUKEE, Aug. 19.—A fas- cist united front against the Com- munists rages in Milwaukee and vicinity. From Socialist Milwaukee, thru La Follette’s Racine and Ken- osha, to American Legion Wauke- gan, Ill. the iron heel of fascism grinds, trying to stamp out the|* “reds” and save the “flag and coun- | try” for the bosses. In Milwaukee, stronghold of so- cialists, arrests for “handbill distri- bution” by Communists has become a daily affair, Communist open-air meetings are broken up—‘dispersed” by socialist-controlled police and the speakers arrested for “disorderly conduct” or “blocking traffic.” At the A. O. Smith plant, (“the plant without human labor” Mr, Smith calls his brand of rationali- | zation) after numerous arrests for | Daily Worker in front of the shop. bulletins, they hit upon the scheme of trying to intimidate and terrorize J. Schneider, a Pioneer with news- boy’s license, in the vain hope of + preventing him from selling the Daily Worker in front of the shop When he continued selling it and the workers buying it, the word is now passed in the shop, that any- one caught buying the Daily Worker would be fired. The break-up of the Aug. 1 demonstration and the ar- rests are ancient history by now. The highest expression of fas “democracy” was given by Police Chicf Baker of Racine and his co- horts. They broke up the Aug. demonstration, of course, arresting Sawyer of the Communist Youth League and driving two other Com- munist speakers from town, vigil- ante fashion, because “no « pérmit was obtained for the meeting.” When ‘the local ILD asked for a permit for an open-air meeting to | protest against this police brutal the chief refused it, because “y the same bunch of Communists and we don’t want you agitators in this peace-lovin’ community and you'd better clear outa town dam-double- quick before we ship you outa here.” | This to old residents of Racine. The attorney who defended Saw- yer in court was brow-beaten by the judge and is being bullied and inti- midated by his “colleagues.” When finally. an indoor, meeting was. ar- ranged in 12th St. Hall for Aug. 13. Chief Baker sent a motorcycle cop to warn the hallkeeper not to open the hall or to turn on the lights. Kenosha goes Racine one better. No literature can be distributed in Kenosha, no open-air meeting held } | | "a Where Scores of Workers Narrowly Escaped Death in Roof A eh gs Absolute disregard of workers lives by greedy employcrs nearly resulted in the death of scores of workers when the roof of the Faitoute Iron and Stcel Co. warehouse worker was pinned under wreckage and may dic. n Newark, N. J. collapsed. One WALL ST, LOAN |To Send “Propaganda” | Mission Here 9.—Bankrupt ially, the Irish State Government is com- arrangements for a mission United States in the near to be headed by Defense r Desmond Fitzgerald. The |securing of U. S. financial aid is | believed to be the real purpose of | what has been announced as a “pro- paganda” tour. political |e” pleting \to the At the same time, since it fears the effects of its anti-working clas pclicies on the Irish workers and peasants at home and the repercus- sion of the consequent discontent on the other side of the Atlantic, the government delegation will aim to “clear away the smoke screen of janti- | paganda.” | High American discount rates | may forbid a new Wall Street Ican, but at any rate the Free State rulers are expected to strive to pave the way for a deal. Stringent em- | government power to veto in case a |dominion legislature alters any | stock to the injury of stockholders, | from approaching London, arostat (anti-government) pro- pire laws, which give the British | strongly discourage the Free State | without a batch of arrests, without | being broken up by the Legion. Be- | tween Allen-A Hosiery, Simmons RS MOVE 710 Bed, Nash Motors and American |f § C Brass they own the town, mayor | police, judge and juries; the town and the courts. The Pioneer Camp, located at Bristol, Kenosha County, is under siege by the Legion for the past two weeks, because they wouldn’t tolerate a “red” colony in Kenosha County. The County Sher- iff hypocritieally offers protection against the Legion, but “advises” in a 48-hour ultimatum to get out of ithe camp to avoid trouble and in general command of the Legionaires, spying for them, signalling to them, organizing their forces and generally preparing the attack. They haven’t yet dared attack because a| ° workers’ defense is organized and has prepared for the Legionaires a hot reception, of which the sheriff informed them, Waukegan cops the fascist prize, tho. In Waukegan the police are so -“friendly” to Communists as to re- tire to the background modestly and leave the “preserving of law and order” entirely in the hands of the American Legion, reinforced by soldiers, sailors and marines—petty- officers from nearby Fort Sheridan and the Great Lakes Naval Train- ing Station. And the Legion does maintain “law and order” for the bosses. Tear-bombs, _gas-bombs, fire-crackers, black-jacks, motor- eycles, “taking for a ride,”—every- thing is pressed into service against the Communists. Aug. Ist demon- stration was broken-up and a tear- gas bomb was thrown at Crouch by Legionaires. The police brutality protest meeting, Aug. 10th was broken up by them. Recently a Communist Youth League member, 14 years old, was beaten up and! “taken for a ride” into the country and abandoned at night .a million miles from nowhere, because he dis- tributed anti-CMTC leaflets. But all this does not stop us from carrying on our work. On the con- trary, we only become more steeled in the struggle. The effect upon the masses of workers is to expose the socialists, reformists and their fascist allies in all naked rotteness, to make the workers come to our defense and to resist the attacks of the police and the Legion At the Milwaukee police bruality protest jJemonstration on Aug. 10 hundreds of workers responded to the plea of Marks, the YCL organizer, to defend ‘he meeting against the police by tallying around the speaker until ‘he police found it better wisdom not ‘0 molest the speakers, ‘ In industrial West Allis hundreds ‘f workers followed the police wagon ‘0 police headquarters, protesting igainst the arrest of the speaker at |Ask Haverhill Strikers Give Up Demands HAVERHILL, Mass., Au Another att to eut shox atte shoe strike here in its eleventh v will be made tomorrow when the cfficialdom of the cutters’ local will ask the members to relinquish their ands and go back to work. Sim- ilar attempts are being made in other | locals to make ‘the strikers give up the struggle for a 10 per cent in- | crease and 44-hour week, and meekly accept the wages and hours the boss- es are willing to grant. The Independent Shoe Workers Union has consistently warned their fellow-workers that only defeat {would result from following the j which consistently opposes militant struggles and supports class colla- boration and retreat. The left wing union will invite the Haverhill shoe strikers to participate in their cam- paign to establish one national union for all shoe and leather workers to struggle together for better condi- tions under militant leadership. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! * our open-air meeting. In Simmons Bed Co. and in Nash Motors Co. in Kenosha the unrest of the workers is assuming definite shape in a movement for organizing \themselves and in spontaneous strikes. (An organization here is \needed badly than anywhere else, perhaps, in this country, because, under the influence and guidance of the social-reformists, there are practically no unions worth speak- ing of in Wisconsin—only some 23,- 000 out of 248,000 workers are or- | ganized.) The intensified rationalization, speed-up, wage cuts, (hours can’t be lengthened: with overtime at no ex- tra pay.and regular hours being 55 and 60 per week; regular hours of work do not exist in Wisconsin; you work as long as you're told to) and fascist terror defends—all this has the effect of the more rapidly radi- influence of the opcnly-fascist so- END SHOE STRIKE |leadership of the reactionary union | periodic shut-downs — which the |" calizing the workers, breaking the | \Brutally Beat Up Czech Communist Farm Strike Leaders PRAGUE (By Mail).—During the strike of agricultural laborers Slovakia frantic persecution of Communist Party officials and revo- |lutionary trade union officials set Jin. The secretary of the trade unions Lipa w sted in Dratis- lava, charged with distribution of and taken to police h s where he was savagely up with efists and rubber batons. A special room with padded doors is provided for these “examin- ations” of prisoners, LAUNDRY UNION DRIVE NEEDE Among Most Exploited Workers Represent: of exploited laun- ‘éry worke’ e expected to be at ;the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Conference to’ be held Tues- day Aug. 20 at 7.30 p. m. ae i to a statement issued yeste the Laundry Workers Section, Trade | Union Educational League, 25 West 129th St. The statement urges the workers | of the hundreds of laundries of New York to elect delegates to the con ference. It states that every laundry entitled to one delegate for every 25 workers. “We laundry workers of greater New York,” reads the statement, “are victims of the bos: with their nercilcss, ever incre: speed-up tem and the horible conditions oreed upon us. The tens of thou- sands of unorganized laundry wor! ers are faci attack of the or- z zed bosses “The 30,000 men, women, young, black and white workers employed in the laundry industry are working under horrible conditions, Long hours, low wages, speed-up system, uns condition are forced upon us by the bosses. “Only 500 workers are organized in this industry, and even these |workers are kept divided into sepa- jrate craft locals by the officials of |the American Federation of Labor. | These locals play no role in the laun- dry industry, in which over 30,000 workers are employed. The offi- cials of the locals of the American | Federation of Labor are mere agents |of the bosses. : “The officials of the American | Federation of Labor are helping the | bosses to force the ever growing ‘speed-up system upon our backs. | The betrayals of the strikes in three | steam laundries by Local 290, which were conducted by Boss Schnider- man, who is an official of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and the recent strikes of the laundry driv- ers betrayed by Rosenzweig and Schechter has opened the eyes of the workers in the laundry industry to the necessity of an organization |of a new laundry workers industrial union. “The Negro workers, who are the _most oppressed and exploited in the laundry industry, constitute an im- portant section of the workers, and they are ready for organization. These thousands of Negro workers, together with all workers in the laundry industry, must be organized into one powerful industrial union of laundry workers., “The laundry workers’ section of the Trade Union Educational League is waging a campaign to organize all the laundry workers into one powerful industrial union. The laun- dry workers section of the Trade Union Educational League is an or- ganization of progressive and mili- tant workers within the laundry in- dustry.” iv ! Our own age, the bourxeoin age. is distinguished by this—that ft Ns ociety ix xp into two great hostile jo two grent and directly cialists and social-reformists, ‘ posed classes: bourgevinie letariat—Mars, x « LIBERIA POST Negro Politicians Serve Wall Street D. C., Aug. 19.— is going on among ‘s in this coun- post of wall r to Liberia, the U y in Africa dom- \inated by the Firestone rubber in- terests, The vacancy was caused by the the amba death of William T. Francis, a Negro republican politician re- ded by Wall Street for his ser- in misleading the Negro work He died six we: t t is an “unwritten law” that the post be given to some Negro {politician who has rendered ser- vices to the existing administration, Liberia is on the southwest coast of | Afr and extends about 200 miles inland. | Harv Firestone, rubber mag- nate, announced in 1925 that the | Firestone Company had leased from the Liberian government a million |acres of land for an elaborate plan- tation for raising rubber. All the officials of Liberia are tools of Firestone. President King of Liberia has been recently accused of receiving $25 for each Liberian tribesman captured and put under forced labor for Firestone, and also |of importing slaves from the Span- ish island of Fernando Po and re- | |ceiving pay for each slave im- ported. : Among the Negro politicians men- tioned for the post of ambassador and for whom Negro political cliques are fighting are Walter |Cohen, tormer collector of the port of New Orleans, to which President | Coolidge appointed him, and Walter Quinn, a Negro minister and mis leader from New Jersey ITH SEDITION Released After Dispute on I. L. D. Bail WILKES-BARRE, Aug. 19.— |A hearing in which no witnesses ap- ‘peared, no bail allowed, for which no , Warrants were issued and no defi- nite charges were presented, took place in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., today when David Gorman, district organ- |izer of the Communist Party, was brought before “he city magistrate. Gorman was arrested Aug. 1 when he appeared in court to inquire con- cerning his wife, taken in custody |for distributing leaflets. He was held at that time under $1,000 bail although no charges were preferred against him. When Gorman’s attorney, provid- ed by the International Labor De- |fense, asked for a copy of the | charges, the chief of police declared “Since he’s going to leave town, we (will drop the charges.” When Gorman denied he planned to leave the city, the police grew | apoplectic with rage and talked vio- |lently of increasing the charges to “sedition.” Magistrate Brennan thereupon doubled the bail, holding Gorman under $2,000, although no witnesses om en rs his arrest was made, The magis- | trate at first refused to accept the | property bail of a worker, but when | Attorney Levinson, on behalf of |Gorman, complained to Assistant | District Attorney Smith, Gorman | Was finally rele--ed on $2,000 bail. He will be tried for sedition when j his case comes up at the next term |of court. As evidence, the police will use the leaflets distributed the eve of August 1. The International |Labor Defense is defending Gor- |man, Wilkes-Barre, 1n the heart of |Pennsylvania’s hard coal district, [has a history of extreme terrorism °° lin labor disputes, arity KER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929 ™ CBRTISH | RULERS GRAF ZEPPELIN | “REACHES TOKIO; MAMY BE SOLD Jap Jineaes May Buy | Bag for USSR War | TOKIO, Aug. 19. — Favored by} r r and pushed on by strong winds which enabled it to maintain an average speed of 65 miles an hour, the Graf Zeppelin ar- rived at what may be its future home early this morning, complet-| ing the second stage of its Wall) Street backed world to the 6,600 mile jump from Friedrichshafen, in approximately 100 hour Shout for Larger Navy for Canada British Vice-Admiral Turner, right, visits the government house at Toronto where he maintained that Canada needs « larger navy. He is shown with Lieutenant-Governor Ross. British jingoists demand a larger navy for Canada as the rivalry between U. S. and British imperialism sharpens. The potential bomber of wor! ended its long cruise over the vast |territories of the Soviet Union in |Europe and Asia when it emerged jon the eastern coast at the Port of | Ajan, off the sea of Okhotsk, at 2 a. m., E. S. T., Sunday. Kasumigaura naval air about 40 miles northeast of Tc will house the Zeepelin until it, ready to depart on its transpacific flight, It is noteworthy that high officials of the Japanese navy were out in force to greet the war bag jon its arrival here. Reports per that imperial Japan is dickering for lits purchase and that the Zeppelin rs Latin American Briefs NEW LABOR CODE IN MEXICO. “peaceful” in Mexico, that Mr. succeeded in estab! act between the church and the federal government of Mexico, American imperialism is faced with the problem of how to kill the revolutionary organizations of the workers and P . It isnot enough to buy off Mr. Morones and other traitors of the CROM. While under its orders, assassinations of the best lead- ers of the proletariat are taking place every day, while the peasants THE Now that ever Morrow ; Works is willing to sell if its price,’ are being forcibly disarmed, the enactment of the new labor code is | 31,500,000, is met. Body is given to rec y for the national bourg as well as for its masters. This | the reports by the presence of. three | js t the national parliament is now discusine. The orieinal proposal Japanese, one of them a highly, of President Portes Gil in placing this new bill before the parliament |placed jingo, among the 20 parasite has been withdrawn because of the general, widespread protest that the | passengers. publication*of the bill produced in all the militant workers c . He The Japanese imperialists would| is now submitting it to the state parliaments. The bill ma ra- find the Graf ‘a deadly addition to| tion compulsory; the insurance for the employes must be ained their air armament in the concerted| by assessments of five per cent against employes’ salaries; the estab- jimperialist attack on the Soviet Un-| lishment of a stem of labo: ourts to work hand in hand with the |ion that is already taking the f employ to conduct the latter’s business; every able-bodied citizen of open re on the Manchu: must place himself at the disposal of the nation when the nation’s in- , border. terests demand it. The adoptation of these reactionary laws is an indication of the | desperate efforts of American imperialism to maintain its power and LABOR OVT A nS further oppress and exploit the masses of Latin-America. It sharpens | the class struggle and brings the proletariat into direct conflict with | the power of the state. It is a struggle against the bourgeois state and against imperialism. The Communist Parties of Latin-America are called upon to lead the volutionary proletariat and peasantry in this struggle. The fight gainst the labor laws is the fight against imperialism and for the establishment of a confederation of Soviet republics in Latin-America. SIGN OF GROSS 4 NEGROES DIE FOR FASCISM IN NEWARK FIRE ‘Plan Orgies for Pope- Family Suffccated in Mussolini Pact | Cheap Tenements “Can Govern Empire,” Politician Says WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. |19, — Further assurance that the \British labor government, the ruling |class, has a valuable executive, was given by George Young, British par- |lamentary candidate, in a speech at the Institute of Politics. Declaring that the labor imperi- alist J. H. Thomas was not “the sort of man rebels are made of,” Young told his,audience that after his be- |trayal of the general strike on! |Black Monday Thomas was forced to flee to the United States to es- ROME, Aug. 18.—The recently completed alliance between the two most reactionary forces in the world, An oil lamp explosion, causing a fire which spread rapidly through the crude tenement dwellings im- rgentine Will Be Sacco : Vanzetti ‘SPREAD T0 OTHER: BiG CITIES THRU COUNTRY IS SEEN Street Car System Is Tied Up ROSARIO, Argentine, Aug. 19.— The leaders of the militant unions here have decided to set Friday, Au- gust 23, as the date for the begin- |ning of the general-strike which will |tie up not only the port of Rosario,. }but all of northern Argentine as |well. This date has been chosen, as a date on which the beginning of | the general strike can be made a memorial for Sacco and Vanzetti, The longshoremen, who tied up all shipping in the north of Argentine in July, have voted.to strike again, ympathy with the tramway strikers, who have remained out since the last general strike. The dockers, led by the Communists, ve called on all workers to strike iday and remain out until all the demands of the car workers are met. | The capitalist press here is he- wailing the “serious losses caused to business interests by Communist agi- tators who lead the strike,” as the capitalist papers phrase it. The strike will spread to Buenos Aires in a short while after Friday, it is admitted by the capitalist press. Other important interior cities will also be tied up, it is expected. S. At present only a very few scab manned street S are operating here, under heavy guard by federal troops. The police have been armed with Mauser rifles, and mounted police with rifles patrol the streets. In addition, there is a heavy force of federal troops here, who have never left the city since the July general strike. President Irigoyen has indicated that he will send fur- | ther huge reinforcements of federal troops to shoot the strikers. \British Liner, Strains \Every Screw to Beat |German Bremen Mark The British Cunard liner Maure- tania yesterday hung up another |new record for a single day’s run in jher effort to regain transatlantic crossing laurels from the new Ger- man Bremen and yindicate the im- perialistic slogan, “Britannia rules the waves.” From noon Sunday to noon yes- terday the Mauretania, 26-year-old ocean greyhound, steamed 634 miles at an average speed of 27.56 knots |an hour, breaking her best previous record when she made 626 miles from Saturday to Sunday noon. The race for oceanic laurels’ is only* one of the outward manifesta- posed on Newark’s Negro colony, | tions of the bitter rivalry between hastened the death by suffocation of | the British empire and Wall Street, a Negro family at 102-104 Barclay | Which is inveigling Germafy into its Ee a ¥ eee in preparation for the inevit- The dead are James Chappen, 46,| able great clash fetween the two cape the resentment of the strik- ers. “He has broken up more at- tempts at direct action than any leader I know,” Young said. In a eulogy of other labor rulers, fascismo and the papa under the terms of which the church of Rome ‘becomes a world-wide propaganda agency for the Mussolini terror, is to be theatrically signalized this fall were present, and no warrant for| jhe characterized Foreign Secreta: Henderson as a “typical Engl man, trained in liberal politics — the sort of man who carries the church plate on Sunday and. be- comes a pillar of society as it ex- ists.” | Aristocrats like Sir Oswald Mos- jley, Arthur Ponsonby and Sir Chas. Trevelyan, he said came-from the when the pope crowns King Victor Emanuel, figure-head of Italy, with the iron crown of Monza, the chief ornament of which is a rusty nail mythically salvaged from the cr whereon Christ was crucified. i The “holy fathers,” previous to the ascendancy of the Italian ruling house, had placed this headgear on the pates of no less than 34 kings his mother, Mrs. Gloria Chappen, and her two grandchildren, Freder- equipment. | manufacturer, |chief imperialist powers, It also {marks the ascendancy of Germany and Thelnta Jackson. Thirty-six | #8 @ leading factor in the world’s families managed to escape. | markets, thanks to American capi- The victims had tried to get away | tal. rough antiquated fire escape The working class cannot simply lay jhold of | the ready-made sf , and wield it for its own the shopkeeper, the |Commune) breaks the modern state artisan, the peasant, all these fight | power.—Marx. ruling class — the sort of men “who of Lombardy; it is the same crown| against the bourgeoisie, to save | have hitherto governed the British | Which Napoleon sat on his ownhead|trom extinction their existence as| , Build Up the United Front-of empire and that not without suc-|in Notre Dame Cathedral in 1805.| fractions of the middle class. They! y le Impeach Miss. State Attorney - General For Graft on Taxes, JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 19.—At- torney General Rush H. Knox of Mississippi, in office since 1924, | stood impeached by the State House lof Representatives today by a vote of 97 to 40. The vote came late yesterday on) the first of 12 articles of impeach- | ment that charge “high crimes, mis- demeanors, corrfiption and malfea- sance in office.” The House ad- | journed until Monday after its vote, The specific count voted against the attorney-general related to legality of commissions allegedly collected by Knox in settlement of inheritance taxes from an estate. Knox refused ‘to discuss the im-| peachment today. . On Monday the House will con- | qsider the second article, which al- general of nearly $6,000 from the | state treasury. On conclusion of | the House impeachment trial, the state senate, acting as a court of impeachment, will bring Knox ‘be- Until the Roman religious dope trust sold out to Mussolini, Victor was not “recognized” by the pope. | It is also’understood that the pope will personally perform the marriage} ceremony for Prince Humbert, heir-| apparent to the Italian throne, whose engagement to Princess Jose of Bel- gium is now taken for granted, al-| though not yet" officially announced. | Although the anti-working class character of the catholic church has} |long been recognized, with these two gestures it will openly line up with| \the reaction, making the sign of the| cross over its bloody rule and bra- zenly participating in its crimes, BOSTON POLITICIANS FIGHT BOSTON, Aug. 19.—James M. Curley, former democratic mayor, and probable candidate for re-elec- tion, today sought to appear before the Suffolk county grand jury to seek an indictment charging crimi- nal libel against Louis K. 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